The night wind in the mountains was very cold, the bonfire was swaying, and Tang Jiuzhou’s shadow on the military tent was stretched very long.
He has not disappeared, and the organization of the three thousand troops under his command is still intact. He has even set up six battalions and four villages in Jingfu Mountain, and he is well hidden in the mountains.
Just as Liu Chengzong expected, Tang Jiuzhou was a veteran general who dominated the world. The generals Zhao Zhu, Zhou Erjing, Ling Yuanji, and Hu Lianghan relied on in the battle formation were all fierce generals. Sending troops to fight was as easy as eating and drinking. How could he
Lost in the land under the Ming Dynasty?
As early as when he was stationed in Huating, he sent people to Jingfu Mountain. This mountain is the Taoist holy land of the Quanzhen Sect. Taoist priests of the Longmen Sect built a hanging Taoist temple in the mountain. Therefore, the first thing Tang Jiuzhou did when he came here was to find out what the Taoists were doing.
Rural guide.
On the one hand, it is to ensure that the army will not get lost when traveling through the mountainous areas when necessary, and on the other hand, it is to prevent these Taoist priests from being used by Liu Chengzong.
After all, there are not many Taoists who spend all day in the Xuankong Temple deep in the mountains, thinking about cultivating immortals. They are self-sufficient on weekdays, and may not be aware of the vigorous rebellion outside. Tang Jiuzhou has never met Liu Chengzong, but he has seen many bandit leaders.
When the time comes, I will trick the old Taoist priests into thinking that Master Wang is passing through, and the Taoist priests will spontaneously lead the way.
He was well prepared. The reason why he did not continue to march was because he froze in the mountains due to command issues.
Deng Qi's death was beyond everyone's expectations. Chen Qiyu received the news of Deng Qi's death earlier than Liu Chengzong, when Liu Shizi was still in Gongchang Mansion.
Chen Qiyu analyzed the time it took for the news to spread and judged that the deadlock would soon be broken by the Longzhou opening on the defense line. It was estimated that Liu Chengzong would receive the news that Deng Qi had fallen to death within three days at the latest, and he would surely make a large-scale advance by then.
At that time, he did not have many options. One was to transfer Zuo Liangyu from Qinzhou to the north and garrison Longzhou. However, if he went to the east of Liupan Mountain, he might not be able to seize Longzhou ahead of Liu Chengzong. If he went to the west of Liupan Mountain, he would be alone on the left.
One force may collide with Liu Chengzong's large army.
What's more, Qinzhou will be lost no matter what.
The second option is to keep the front line unchanged and directly mobilize Ai Wannian from the rear to fill the gap in Longzhou, but it will be too late. When Ai Wannian passes, it may be a siege.
Mobilizing a single battalion to run into the main force of the Marshal's Army was, in Chen Qiyu's eyes, like a meat bun beating up Liu Chengzong.
The third option is to transfer Ai Wannian to Huating to garrison, and directly transfer Huating's guard Tang Jiuzhou down, so as to seize the time gap to garrison in Longzhou. In this way, Qinzhou will not be lost, and the probability of Huating being captured is also very small——
Unless Liu Chengzong’s goal from the beginning was Huating.
Moreover, if we can seize the time difference between the two parties to know the news, we can turn the bad thing of Deng Qi's death and the flawless defense into a good thing.
The army of the Marshal's Mansion was stuck on Liupan Mountain. With the help of the mountains, it was equivalent to forcibly dividing Liu Chengzong's army and creating a half-crossing attack opportunity. When the time comes, Tangbe will defend the city, the left will go north, and Ai will go south, and they will be able to attack west of Liupan Mountain.
Use the superior force to defeat the first part of the Marshal's army.
Chen Qiyu's abacus was very good, but he missed the group of Sichuan soldiers who wanted to go home, so Liu Chengzong learned about Deng Qi's death one day earlier than expected.
On this day, everything was different.
Chen Qiyu's transfer order was sent to Tang Jiuzhou. Tangbu immediately set off that day. In the mountainous area, relying on Taoist priests to guide the way, his hemp shoes were smoking from stepping on them. He ran for eighty miles in one day and rushed to 250 miles in three days.
During the journey, eight pack horses alone fell off the cliff, and they arrived fifty miles north of Longzhou at the expected time.
However, Liu Chengzong's troops set off one day earlier than him. They still walked on the broad official road in the west and climbed Liupan Mountain in three days.
When Tang Jiuzhou led the Changping soldiers to rush out of the old forest in Jingfu Mountain, they looked up and saw the Qinghai vultures flying over Liupan Mountain and circling in the sky. What they bumped into was the Marshal's Mansion drinking tea from an iron cup under a five-color horn flag on a small mountain peak.
Tang Bing.
In fact, Liu Shishi was still lying down on Liupan Mountain at that time, unable to go down the mountain at all, but for the last fifty miles, Tang Jiuzhou did not dare and could not leave.
Do you want to die?
He was not opposed to fighting Liu Chengzong, but leading more than 3,000 people out of the mountains and into the encirclement of tens of thousands of troops was like a fool who was giving away his head.
I just got stuck in the mountains.
He couldn't go back, and Ai Wannian was about to enter Huating with his troops. He couldn't get in, and he didn't know the actual situation on Liupan Mountain, so he felt that Liu Chengzong was squatting on the top of the mountain and watching eagerly.
After a little hesitation and a day's delay, Tang Jiuzhou brought back the information without taking back the information he had sent out. From a distance, he saw two battalions of soldiers and horses camped outside the mountain pass.
"Commander, I humbly went to see that camp. The camp was not organized according to the rules. Two battalions were squatting together. Only one large camp was built, and more than 2,000 people were sleeping in the wild."
The speaker was Zhou Erjing, Tang Jiuzhou's right-hand general, a Shanxi man in his early thirties. His voice was deep and he said: "There are many mules, horses and vehicles, they should be the elite of the Western bandits."
"Many vehicles?"
"Yes, I saw three or four hundred of them alone. I estimate that these two camps have seven or eight hundred carts."
Tang Jiuzhou stared when he heard this, his face was full of murderous aura, and his eyebrows were knitted together. Then he gritted his teeth and paused for a moment before taking a deep breath and shaking his head silently.
Zhou Erjing didn't know why, so he listened to Tang Jiuzhou's silence for a moment and said, "On Liupan Mountain, the road in Longzhou is not easy to pass by."
The tone is full of unwillingness.
He realized that he had a chance.
But at this point, I realized it was useless.
Tang Jiuzhou shook his head and did not say more about this matter. Instead, he issued another order: "Longzhou City is in a dangerous terrain. The Western Bandits may be attacking the city. Pick some good players and bypass the two camps.
Watch them attack the city."
Zhou Erjing immediately responded with clasped fists.
This is risky, but it's not difficult to just keep an eye on them from a distance. Anyway, if they stop the two battalions, they have to keep an eye on them. It won't be a problem to keep an eye on one more city.
Zhou Erjing was about to leave when he was stopped by Tang Jiuzhou and asked: "Erjing, are you thirty...thirty-three this year?"
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"Coming back to the Marshal, I am thirty-three years old in my humble position."
Tang Jiuzhou nodded slowly, thinking that this official position was promoted so quickly.
Zhou Erjing was a hereditary member of Zuosuo, Huai'an Prefecture, Xuan Town. He bound his hair and joined the army, fighting with dogs and horses.
In March of the third year, he captured Da'an, and in May he restored Zunhua; in the fifth year, he trained troops in Changzhen, and in September he assisted Ningjin; in the sixth year, he was ordered to follow him to conquer the bandits from Ji and assist the Henan bandits, bandits from the south to the south, bandits from the north to the north, and Fu from the east.
Looking west, the body does not take off its armor, and the horse does not leave the saddle.
The giant thief Mr. He Qian was beheaded at Jiangjunling, and the thief in Huoshaoshan was beheaded for the first time.
Tang Jiuzhou asked again: "How many battles have been fought? How many heads have been obtained?"
"We have experienced eighty-six battles together, and killed one thousand and one thieves..." When Zhou Erjing said this, he was stunned for a moment. This was the record of his last performance. He added it in his mind, and then said:
"Commander, he has experienced ninety-seven battles and killed one thousand three hundred and fifty-five thieves."
Tang Jiuzhou nodded again. Several generals under his command were like this. They killed less of them. This was mainly because they performed meritorious service and were promoted too quickly, so they had no soldiers.
Ling Yuanji, Hu Lianghan, Zhao Zhu, and Zhou Erjing were all low-level military attachés during King Qin's time. By chance, they would stay in Changping. If it hadn't been for Tan Shang's unlucky move to station in Longzhou, when this battle was over, there would have been four
Join the general.
Tang Jiuzhou encouraged Zhou Erjing and asked him to go down and arrange the orders. He made a decision in his mind and went to see for himself the camp where the Marshal's army had set up at the mountain pass.
If you have the chance, try to penetrate those two battalions.
Of course, he has also made two preparations. If there is really no way to confront him, he will have to write letters of recommendation for his four old subordinates.
It is a crime to delay the war in Dunbing Mountain. If the court punishes you, the generals are still young and have to find a place to go to avoid delaying their future.
But Tang Jiuzhou didn't worry too much about himself. The world was still in chaos and the imperial court was reluctant to kill him... Even now he couldn't resign even if he wanted to. The most he could do was strip him of his official position and let him serve in the army.
What's more, it's not like he has nothing to do.
At the moment, his goal is to lure the enemy into the mountains. The troops and horses in Jingfu Mountain cannot be moved, which can offset the superiority of the Marshal's army... Anyway, he has been fighting the rebellion for several years. Tang Jiuzhou is more familiar with the tactics of Liu Cheng than Liu Chengzong.
Each of the generals counts, and whoever enters the mountain will be beaten.
If the two battalions outside the mountain do not enter the mountain, then wait and see, wait until the Ningxia army in the north is free to move south, or Liu Chengzong takes the initiative to enter Guanzhong.
Kunyangzi, an old Taoist of the Longmen sect who was beside Tang Jiuzhou, said: Chen Junmen's order is to enter Longzhou. Since it is no longer possible to advance to Longzhou before the Western bandits, it is better to enter Longzhou after the Western bandits leave. Before Liu Chengzong left Longzhou, it was not impossible for him to get lost.
Tang Jiuzhou did have high hopes for the Ningxia border troops going south, because before he led his troops to leave Huating, he had just heard that Ningxia had won a beautiful victory against Liu Chengzong, with more than 6,000 heads taken alone.
In fact, this was a misunderstanding. The Ningxia border troops did fight against others, but their opponent was neither Liu Chengzong as Tang Jiuzhou thought, nor Yang Qi as Hong Chengchou thought, but the Three Khans of Mobei who led their troops back north.
The three of them wanted to have a big fight before going home and rob Ningxia before leaving.
Even though Yang Qi was blistering, he didn't stop him, because Sanhan had conducted an investigation in advance and said that the Ningxia border army was now in a difficult period with a shortage of soldiers, armor and horses, so he took the opportunity to destroy this military town and stay in the desert in the future.
The nobles of Mobei in the south can also live a more comfortable life.
When Yang Qi heard this, he simply stopped trying.
He said in his heart: Okay, you really thought I left you here to look after the home to open up territory for you in Mobei Mongolia, right? You can't tell the big king from the big one here, so go ahead and fight.
Let me see how you die!
Ningxia's soldiers are indeed short of everything, they are short of food, horses, and money, but they are not short of knives and soldiers who can use knives.
Then He Huchen is by Yang Qi's side. How can Yang Qi not know what is going on in Ningxia Town?
Not to mention Hong Chengchou, the powerful trilateral governor-general of Ningxia, and his guest generals Cao Wenzhao and Bai Guangen, as well as local generals Shen Guangxian, Tu Shixian, Bu Yingdi and others, all of whom had experienced many battles. Yang Qi was puzzled. I spent a long time to come up with a circle trade to support you. Hey! You have to seek death yourself.
We, the people in the Ming Army system, fight against ourselves. Whoever wins or loses is our superior. You can’t think that just because the Ming Army lost the fight with the Marshal’s Mansion, you think they are cowards, and attacking you is just like playing. p>
The three Khans refused to listen and marched into Ningxia with an army of 70,000 men.
Half a month, just half a month, less than 50,000 yuan came out. Gunbu Khan was hit by a stray bullet and was dragged out in a carriage.
When Shuolei and Subadi came out, they didn't even say hello to Yang Qi, and went back to Mobei in disgrace.
It was quite rude, so Yang Qi had no choice but to wave his hand to the sky and swallow the words "come and play again when you have time".
The most important thing is that Tang Jiuzhou didn't know that Cao Yao was sharpening his sword towards Ningxia and had already rolled up the Jinglu Guard surrender troops to advance towards the Ningxia Central Guard.
Zhou Erjing acted quickly. He sent two teams of sentinels out of the mountain in the dark that night, bypassed the marshal's military camp at the mountain pass and rushed to Longzhou City. As a result, two people came back in a panic in the morning, out of breath and said: "
General, General, Longzhou...the cannons over there are roaring, and the siege has begun!"
The news was reported to the Chinese Army, and Tang Jiuzhou and four generals assessed the situation in the south.
People's minds are spinning rapidly, deducing and judging the next enemy movement, and the results are not good.
Liu Chengzong would not use tens of thousands of troops to attack this small city, otherwise there would be no need to leave only two battalions stationed at the mountain pass to stop them. Therefore, Tang Jiuzhou judged that the bombardment of Longzhou City at this time should be a partial division, and the main force of the Marshal's Mansion should be at this time.
Heading south.
This is not good news for them, because Liu Chengzong may not be going south to invade Guanzhong. At least before entering Guanzhong, he will definitely defeat Zuo Liangyu who is stationed in Qinzhou. Otherwise, they will not bother to attack Long at this time.
State.
After all, both Qinzhou and Longzhou are strategically important places to control Longnan. Either you don't want it or you want it.
When Zuo Liangyu is defeated, I'm afraid they will be next.
But this is also an opportunity.
Siege will definitely distract the enemy's attention, and this is also their opportunity to break out from the front.
Tang Jiuzhou made up his mind and ordered: "The whole army is about to break camp and move towards them. While Longzhou can still contain the enemy troops, break through the obstruction!"
They moved very quickly, but only two hours after they were on the road, they ran into the sentry who had fled back. Behind them, Marshal Jun Tangqi, who was galloping on horseback and wielding swords, chased them. They didn't turn around until they found most of Tang Jiuzhou's troops.
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The sentry who was lucky enough to save his life ignored the arrow stuck in his back, rolled his saddle and fell off his horse, saying: "Commander, Longzhou has been captured!"
"How could the dangerous place of Longzhou be conquered in one day?"
"The rebels destroyed the battlements with artillery, filled the trenches with earth bags, and built earthen hills under the city. They rode up to the city this morning and occupied the four walls. Longzhou was subsequently breached."
Tang Jiuzhou clenched his fists on horseback and thought to himself, no wonder Deng Qi fell to death on that city and actually asked the marshal's army to attack the city on horseback!
"It's bad. The Tang soldiers who were chasing me just now went back to report the news. I'm afraid the situation is not good for me. Hurry up, hurry up and march!"
Tang Jiuzhou thought of the Tang soldiers who had turned their horses back, and quickly ordered an urgent advance. However, this time his target was no longer the army blocking the mountain pass, but Liupan Mountain in the north of Longzhou, the crossing where Liu Chengzong had just come down.
He wanted to occupy it, cooperate with Zuo Liangyu and other friendly forces, and lock Liu Chengzong in Guanzhong.
