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There were nearly 3,000 officers and soldiers trying to recapture Yilingzhou City, but more than 2,000 of them were Yuan soldiers under the jurisdiction of Chen Ruimo, the governor of Pianyuan. Chen Ruimo and Fang Yiren's uncle, Fang Kong, the governor of Huguang, had different opinions.
The relationship was at odds. The two of them accused and attacked each other around the issue of suppressing bandits in western Hubei, without any mutual trust at all.
Previously, Fang Yiren followed his uncle's strategy and made many excuses, such as asking Min Yiqi, the general of Yuan Dynasty, for carriage fares, and asking Yuan Bing to help Chu Fufubiao build barracks. In short, he tried his best to delay Yuan Bing's march.
, lest they compete with the Chu army for battle glory.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. The Chu army rushed into the ambush and was surrounded by Yangjiao Mountain. Fang Yiren had to change his face again and asked his grandma to sue his grandma and give Min Yiqi an additional 8,000 taels of silver and Yin Xianmin 5,000 taels of silver.
It took two days to persuade the two generals who were extremely angry with Chu Fu to send troops to rescue.
Just when they were heading north to the Nanjinkou area, they happened to encounter the rebel army and captured Yiling Prefecture City. Yiling was an important supply point for the Chu army to station military supplies. The fall of Yiling meant that the Chu army's supply line was completely cut off. Even the Chu army's supply line was completely cut off.
The reinforcements that had already gone to Yangjiao Mountain to relieve the siege may have been frightened by the news about the fall of Yiling on the way.
Fang Yiren knew the urgency of the matter, so he resorted to the best of his abilities. When he was studying in Tongcheng and Nanjing, he and his cousin Fang Yizhi learned a lot of relatively cutting-edge mathematical knowledge from Western missionaries. Fang Yiren learned a lot of cutting-edge mathematical knowledge from Western missionaries.
Yiren usually pays attention to the military. In the process of learning from Western missionaries, he also paid special attention to learning technology in the military field.
Under his personal correction, the Fubiao artillery achieved an astonishing hit rate and almost completely destroyed the defenses of Yilingzhou City. But at this critical moment, Min Yiqi ordered the troops to retreat!
Fang Yiren overturned all the late-night snacks on the table to the ground. He walked back and forth in front of the barracks several times, but he really couldn't think of a way.
Tan Yi, the Sichuan Army general who was waiting at the other end of the dinner table, asked cautiously: "Mr. Leshan, what's the plan?"
Tan Yi was the guard at Nanjinkou. During this five-province campaign, Yang Sichang also ordered Sichuan to send troops to participate in the war. However, Sichuan and Fujian went against the will and found four to five thousand guardsmen from nowhere.
, and sent him to western Hubei to participate in the war.
Tan Yi and his two older brothers, Tan Wen and Tan Hong, both rose to prominence as a result of the Battle of Sanjianzhai where they defeated Zhang Xianzhong in the twelfth year of Chongzhen's reign. At this time, Tan Wen led some Sichuan and Gan troops to garrison Nanzhang in the north, and Tan Yi
He was even more unlucky, and could only lead 400 guardsmen, who were better than nothing, to guard Nanjinkou.
The fall of Yiling did not matter to Yuan Bing. But to Tan Yi, as one of the guards of Yiling Prefecture, he would inevitably be punished by the court if he did not regain Yiling. Therefore, Tan Yi had no choice but to hold on to Fang Yiren.
Thighs, hug him for warmth.
Although the combat effectiveness of the Sichuan Guardsmen was worrisome, they still had 400 heads. Coupled with Fang Yiren's 300 rifles and cannons, the two of them finally had some say in front of Min Yiqi.
Fang Yiren replied bitterly: "This group of thieves join the army! These old soldiers dare to humiliate me like this. After the rogue bandits are defeated, I must let my uncle take part in it."
"Haha, don't be angry, Mr. Leshan." Tan Yi laughed twice. He felt that Fang Yiren's words of "a thief with an army" and "an old pawn" had also included him in the scolding.
"The city wall has been blasted open by artillery. Min Yiqi did not seize the opportunity to rush into the city, but instead played with the bandits to respect themselves." Fang Yiren sat back on the chair, gritted his teeth and cursed, "I will join in his plan to play with the bandits, train the bandits to respect themselves, and punish them severely.
Him once!"
"Sir, please calm down and be patient. There is a large amount of military resources stationed in Yilingzhou City, and there are many wealthy households in the city. In my opinion, Yuan Bing will not be uninterested in this."
"Oh?" Fang Yiren glanced at Tan Yi with interest. He knew that the three brothers of the Tan family had fought with Zuo Liangyu and had some bad habits of the Zuo Army killing good people and taking credit for their merits. "What General Tan means is
…Let me promise Yuan’s troops not to seal the sword after breaking the city, but to allow them to launch a massive plunder?”
Tan Yi smiled and said: "Mr. Leshan, I just saw many residents in the city helping the thieves to move the wood. Such scoundrels should be killed. If Yuan soldiers are allowed to enter the city to search for and kill thieves,
Min Yiqi will definitely be greatly moved."
Fang Yiren stood up, put his hands behind his back, and walked twice more. Although he only had the reputation of being a scholar, he was a scholar after all, and he still had some moral bottom line. If he had no other choice, he would never be willing to adopt such a vicious method.
plan.
"Mr. Leshan, please make up your mind quickly. If we are too late to recapture Yiling, the Second General Yang Luo of Yangjiao Mountain will be in danger of being wiped out!"
"Hey, there's no other way!" Fang Yiren gritted his teeth and finally made up his mind, "This is the only way, General Tan, let's go to the Yuan Bing tent together and urge Min Yiqi and Yin Xianmin to send troops as soon as possible!"
He was in a depressed mood and waved his hand to his servants to get a mink fur coat and put it on him. Fang Yiren, like his uncle Fang Kong, was good at military service and did not bring a large number of family members to his posts like ordinary officials.
Generally, when a minister takes office in Fangzhen, he will often bring hundreds of family members and confidants from his hometown to help with chores. These people are often of no practical use, but rely on close relatives, family friendships, or even simple hometown relationships.
, come to seek a small official position.
There are also some feudal officials who come from well-known families and bring a large number of slaves, actors and singers from their homes.
Although Fang Yiren also liked the life of poetry, wine, madness and a cappella singing, he was different from the ordinary bohemian literati. This time he sent out troops with only four servants, an old cook who was used to the taste, and two servants.
It's just a trick. His simple and obedient style is very different from that of ordinary scholars.
"Wait!" Fang Yiren suddenly heard the shouts of some soldiers and horses charging to kill him, and felt very uneasy. He waved his hand and asked Tan Yi to come over and listen quietly to the sounds of fighting outside the camp.
"General Tan...could it be that thieves in the city launched a night attack and came to rob the camp?"
Tan Yi suddenly frowned. He glanced outside the camp and felt that the situation was very strange. "No, it doesn't look like it. The bandits didn't seem to attack our camp. There was no sign of fighting outside... Leshan
Sir, the bandits seem to be heading north."
"How is this going!"
Fang Yiren was confused. He pulled Tan Yi and planned to go to the tent first and ask Min Yiqi. After the two of them put on their mink fur coats to keep out the cold, they ran into Yuan Bing in the snowy night.
In the big tent.
The Yuan soldiers often fought with the Miao army in the western Hunan area. Compared with the Sichuan soldiers under Tan Yi who were purely guards, they were much better at fighting. They didn't even look down on Fang Yiren's Chu Fu Biao, and those guards were also angry with Fang Yiren.
Yiren always goes back on his word, and his eyes are raised above his head, which is very annoying to watch.
Fang Yiren pushed open the door curtain, and the cold wind swept in, blowing up a piece of air-conditioning. He ran directly to Min Yiqi's seat and asked angrily: "General Min, this opportunity must not be missed, it will never come again! Are the rogue bandits attacking the camp at night?
Already? We should take the opportunity to counterattack and directly attack Yiling Prefecture City."
Min Yiqi and Yin Xianmin were both relatively experienced generals in the Hunan Ming army. Both of them looked like they had nothing to do with them. Min Yiqi was even drinking and laughing.
Yin Xianmin took up the position, raised his hand to Fang Yiren and said: "Mr. Leshan, we have already sent out the detective horses to check. The bandits did not come to rob the camp at night. On the contrary, it looks like they abandoned the city and fled to the north.
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"Hahaha," Min Yiqi said with a smile after drinking a glass of wine, "Mr. Leshan, our previous grievances can be wiped out. Your cannon really played a big role. I think the thieves had no intention of resisting at all, so they took advantage of the night.
Escape."
Fang Yiren and Tan Yi looked at each other, frowned and asked: "Then...since the rebel army fled north, why doesn't General Min take the opportunity to send troops to regain the city?"
"Sir, you only know one but not the other. Although most of the thieves have escaped, there are still hundreds of determined thieves who remain in the city. We just tried to attack once, but they were repulsed again." Yin Xianmin replied, "It is dark now.
It is already deep, not to mention the wind, snow, and fog, making the situation complicated. Instead of risking an attack on the city in the middle of the night, we might as well wait until daybreak before entering the city."
"Anyway, most of the thieves have already fled. There are only a few hundred remaining thieves. When it's daytime tomorrow, we can defeat them with one drum!"
"General Min!" Fang Yiren felt that things were not that simple, and he emphasized, "The nights are long and there are many dreams! There are mountains of grain, fodder, and materials in Yilingzhou City, and there are many rich households in the city. I see that during the day today, thieves drove the people up the city wall
The city is full of unruly people, so General Min might as well attack the city at night and enter the city to hunt down and kill all these unruly people!"
He wanted to use the wealth in Yilingzhou City to lure Min Yiqi, but the two generals of Yuanbing still felt that most of the thieves had fled and Yilingzhou City had become a ripe fruit. There was really no need for them to rush.
We have to attack the city in the middle of the night. If the boat capsizes in the gutter, it will be very bad.
What's more, Min Yiqi has other important reasons that can convince Fang Yiren.
"Mr. Leshan, don't you know? The Chu army has broken through Yangjiao Mountain and moved south. We really don't need to rush."
"What!? Is this serious?"
Fang Yiren couldn't believe it. The Chu army actually put their lives on the line and broke out of the Yangjiao Mountain.
"Of course it's true." Min Yiqi said with a smile, "Although Cao Cao cut off the water supply of Yangjiao Mountain, fortunately the weather was snowy, and the Chu army and soldiers ate snow and made water and overcame the difficulty. After that, Sun Fengsheng's troops went north to reinforce more than 2,000 people.
The famous Sichuan soldiers fought another battle with Cao Cao at Shujiazhai near Yangjiao Mountain. The Chu army took the opportunity to make noise and went down the mountain, breaking through the siege of the bandits in one fell swoop. Now they have joined forces with the Sichuan soldiers and are preparing to go south and leave Xiangyouping and return to Yiling.