Chapter 24 Anxiety
Guan Shengyun has been wandering around the south of Luzhou City in the past few days, gathering the defeated troops.
The first to find him were the deputy general Gao Todou and the auxiliary camp's Qian Zongguo Qinglin.
The main attack direction of Luzhou City is the west gate and the south gate, which are the horns of each other. Guan Shengyun himself was in charge of the west gate camp, and Gao Tengdou was in charge of the south gate as a matter of course. He was defeated in a daze, and Takato Dou was protected by his own bodyguards, so it was expected that he would run out. Guoqinglin was a blessing in disguise: all the backbones of the auxiliary troops died in the tunnels when they first took over the battle. Under Guan Shengyun's orders, they selected young men from the cannon fodder teams that blocked various gates to reorganize the team. With great difficulty, they gathered four to five hundred people and walked to Near the south gate, seeing the overwhelming defeat, the cannon fodders naturally dispersed, and Guo Qinglin followed Gao Tengdou all the way down.
Surprisingly, the person the second group found was Gu Baihua.
Jia Lianwang, who led the camp guards, was a famous mountain bandit in northern Shaanxi. He roamed the ravines for more than ten years and repeatedly escaped the encirclement and suppression of the army. He was nicknamed Jia Wanzi. As the saying goes, the names given by parents often don't match people's nicknames, but the nicknames given by others are definitely close to each other. Seeing that the situation was not going well, Jia Wanzi abandoned the soldiers guarding the camp and was the first to flee. He ran straight towards Anqing and found his old superior Gu Baihua in Tongcheng. Gu Baihua slapped Jia Wouzi a dozen times in one breath, and then left a fruit to guard Military Advisor Luo. He first led a dozen cavalry guards all the way north to look for Jia Wouzi, who had been beaten into a pig's head. The remaining troops from the Gangfeng Battalion followed and responded.
Guan Shengyun had already learned about Gu Baisong's death from the defeated soldiers who luckily escaped, and he couldn't help but sigh when he saw Gu Baihua.
After two or three days, Guan Shengyun waited for the guerrillas Gong Derun, General You Futian, and guerrilla Zhang Ding from the Zhenyong Battalion. They collected a total of more than 3,000 defeated soldiers, and of course all the equipment and materials were lost. The two counties of Feixi and Shucheng have been reduced to ruins, and even digging three feet into the ground can't feed thousands of mouths. They have to move closer to Zhang Shisan in Anqing and fill their bellies first. The rest is a matter later. After stumbling all the way to Tongcheng, we finally arrived at Zhang Shisan's advance base here and met with Luo and Luo's military advisors.
Although he is not subordinate to the commander-in-chief, Guan Shengyun is after all a "friendly army" of King Zhang. How can a small grain official have the courage to deny Guan Shuai food? Besides, there are thousands of vicious people who are half-starved to death, and hundreds of food guards How can we stop the old, weak, sick and disabled...
Guan Shengyun dipped the browned flatbread in the broth and brought it to his mouth to chew. Looking at the large group of beggars devouring food in front of him, he once again thought of Guan Jianlin and Guan Yehuo who were definitely gone, as well as the life he had devoted half his life to. A few drops of hot tears fell silently into the soup bowl.
Gu Baihua grew up on the border of Yunnan, and has a very distinct personality of daring to love and hate. The younger brother who had been dependent on him since childhood was gone. He was looking for bad luck all day long. Every soldier saw bad luck, and even the generals avoided him. If Gong Derun, who had the best relationship with him, hadn't been watching at all times, several lives might have been lost. Come.
Tongcheng is a small ration station, which Zhang Shisan set up for his troops besieging Anqingfu North Road - it was impossible for him to imagine that Guan Shengyun, who had brought a lot of rations, would be defeated and go to Tongcheng to "eat"...
According to the scheduled plan, Guan Shengyun attacked Luzhou Prefecture. There were only two to three thousand soldiers there, but everyone knew that Sun Jie was capable of fighting. An annihilation was unlikely, but a defeat would be more than enough. With Chu River in the north and Chao Lake in the south, Sun Jie's remnants could only flee eastward.
To attack Anqing by himself, Guan Shengyun's main force is to the north. The natural chasm of the Yangtze River that winds from the southwest to the northeast will prevent officers and soldiers from escaping south. Li Yuting can only flee to the northeast. As long as he arranges the rhythm of attacks in turns and continues to maintain the front line's offensive The potential energy, the water network along the way is dense, and there are only a few dog officers and soldiers who can finally reach Chaohu alive. After both sides completed their respective tactical objectives, they squeezed the official troops from the northwest and southwest directions. Finally, they surrounded the remaining forces of Sun and Li's troops in the Chaohu area and wiped them out in one go. Then they could go down the river and attack Jiangning!
After receiving a report from Zhou Ning, the general who was sent to stop Guan Shengyun from massacre, he found out that Guan had been maimed. Not only had the Luzhou Prefecture not been captured, Sun Jie might stab him in the back at any time. He said that hundreds of thousands of stones of military rations were all lost!
Hundreds of thousands of stones! Zhang Shisan knew that Guan Shengyun was not short of food, but he really didn’t know that this guy was so rich! Envy and jealousy passed for a moment, and then came hatred: This is so fucking scheming!
Coming down from Shaanxi and Henan, it is estimated that Guan had to dig up all the land to scrape out so much grain, and the number of civilians who were expropriated along the way was astronomical - Zhang Shisan knew very well: in the transportation team Human life is far less valuable than animal life. You have to feed the animals and take care of them; the cattlemen are captured along the way, and they are given a bowl of gruel every day to dig wild vegetables and peel off the bark of the trees. Then they are forced to serve as animals under whips, sticks, swords and guns until they fall to the ground. When you can't even whip the whip, there will be an unknown corpse on the roadside... It is not an exaggeration to say that one stone of food can cost one life for one or two thousand miles - in other words, from Guide Mansion, Xiangcheng, to Fuyang, On this road in Shouxian County, not only the food is gone, but the people are almost dead: within a few years, the army will not be able to leave again - what if the war goes against us and want to run back? Take a new path that is completely unfamiliar to you!
My adoptive father used to fight on the move like locusts, going wherever he wanted, eating up one place and then rushing to another. The advantage is that you are free to do whatever you want: people everywhere would rather die than a poor Taoist to protect themselves. They would never reach out to help the person next door when they see him die, and then pray not to come and harm themselves. The disadvantage is that every time they pass by, two or three It’s best not to look back during the year, otherwise you may go hungry. However, the Ming Dynasty is so big, are you still worried about having nowhere to go?
Since Guan Shengyun came over a few years ago, he has stayed in the Huguang area. Of course, the pressure here is not even a little bit greater than here: no matter how much the court waffles, sooner or later the dog officials will be unable to shirk the blame if they occupy the same place for a long time, and they will always have to mobilize troops to encircle them. However, if you do some business, you can really make a lot of money: the people live and work in peace and contentment, but they just give all their land and property to the people named Guan! Not only that, speaking of it, the person named Guan actually made more money than the court - the court did not accept land tax from the guys with a good reputation, but the person named Guan did! Just this one item, I heard, is three or four times as much as what the local government paid in the past! Of course it doesn't matter to the people. Anyway, it is a matter of course that the farmers and the grain are given to everyone. It is nothing more than a little more and a little less. As long as they can chew the bark of trees to survive, the people of the Ming Dynasty will accept their fate. The rich gentry will be able to pay the money and grain. To avoid disasters, naturally they all accepted it... In this way, the soldiers named Guan were well-equipped, and although they occupied a small area, they fought vigorously against the officers and soldiers who were encircling and suppressing them in various ways over the past few years!
Later, Military Advisor Luo sent someone to contact his adoptive father, and his adoptive father actually adopted his idea: both sides would attack from the north and the south, take root in the richest area of Nanzhili, and cut off the main artery of the bastard court—— For water transportation, first paralyze the capable frontier troops in the north! Then go up the river again, from Huguang to Sichuan to Fujian and Zhejiang, and you will have the world's granary in your pocket. The Dog Court will definitely counterattack... It seems that Guan Shengyun really wants to do this - these military rations are the capital to defend Yingtian Mansion!
Zhang Shisan looked down on Guan Shengyun, the leader of the dog army, and that military advisor Luo from the bottom of his heart: The most important thing in a person's life is to be happy. No one can say where he will die one day, so why do you think so much? How happy it is to have so many sons and daughters roaming the world!
The more Zhang Shisan thought about it, the angrier he became, but he also knew in his heart that his adoptive father valued this dog officer very much. Even though this guy had made such a big deal out of him, he really couldn't do anything to him. Seeing that the Anqing Mansion was within easy reach, he still expected him to block the threat from the north, so he simply transferred some equipment and supplies to let the dog-fighting army take a breath and recover. On the one hand, the adoptive father said that besides staying, They need to take care of each other. Besides, if you get into trouble here and leave him to take the blame, you have to leave some capital for him to take the blame for a while longer. By the time Sun Jie caught him and crushed him to ashes, he would have followed his adoptive father back to Sichuan.
Zhang Shisan also returned all the hundreds of defeated troops that were scattered over to Guan Shengyun. In this era, even though they are all subordinates of King Zhang Hu on the surface, there are many mountains inside, and various factions are fighting overtly and covertly for power, let alone friendly forces. It is not worth it to depopulate a few hundred miscellaneous soldiers. Guan Shengyun, in particular, cannot be said to be on the same level as other leaders, but they are also very different: after all, it is the old foundation of the army. The army kills thieves, and thieves kill the army. Over the years, both sides have the other's blood on their swords. They are friendly forces, and it is impossible for them to smile and forget their grudges. He definitely can't keep his troops, and they can't be used to fill trenches, so he might as well do it as a favor. Let other leaders also see that our surnamed Zhang is unambiguous in our conduct.
Li Yuting was on pins and needles in Anqing Mansion, and Xue Xiaowen, the chief envoy of Jiangning, was living like a year.
When Zhang Hu was rebelling in Shaanxi, he was still serving as the county magistrate in Xianju, Zhejiang. In more than ten years, from the county magistrate to the prefectural magistrate, from the prefecture magistrate to the prefecture magistrate, to the magistrate, to participate in politics, and even to be the chief envoy. The chief envoy, this is the so-called feudal official, one step at a time, the official chair is always spinning on the southeastern half wall. It stands to reason that South Zhili is a treasure of Wuhua, and it is also the place where the holy ancestor Longxing was born. In the end, he became the governor of Jiangning Zuo. Well, I heard that he was called a governor after the restructuring... Under normal circumstances, when the function reaches this position, It's definitely the pinnacle.
At the same time, the thieves also became giant bandits, sometimes in Shaanxi and Henan, sometimes in Guanzhong and Bashu, and at most they occasionally caused harm to Huguang. I thought I was blessed with good luck, so I thought that if I worked for a few more years, I would submit a letter to beg for my body, and if I could return to my roots peacefully as governor of Jiangning, my life would be 100% complete. But suddenly a disaster came, and bandits marched in along the river. The bookworm Li Yuting was dedicated to serving the country, and did not wait for Yingtianfu City. He risked his life and ran to Anqing to stop the thieves. Although he was in charge of Yingtianfu, it was reported that the master of economics had been The gangsters were surrounded by a tight crowd. What if something went wrong - the manager with the Emperor's Sword sacrificed his life for the country, but the chief envoy was safe in the rear? Not to mention your official career, your life may not be saved, so how can you not worry about it?
