Du Wenhuan is in Yanchuan.
After he received the transfer order from Hong Chengchou, the governor of Yansui, he was very angry.
How could he be happy? He was actually more willing to deal with Liu Chengzong than Wang Jiayin.
After all, Liu Chengzong was only a "half-frontier" unit, while Wang Jiayin was a full-frontier unit.
Even on the border it is not clear who belongs to whom.
Du Wenhuan felt very strange, why did Li Zhao provoke him?
Fortunately, Wang Jiayin led his people to Shanxi to rob, and brought back the goods to pay tribute to the border forts. After paying tribute, he stayed in the mountains, eating and drinking.
The thief was safe, the generals at the border fortress were full, and the border soldiers went out for a robbery and returned to camp. It was clearly an industrial chain that everyone was happy with.
This autumn the Taolu invaders invaded again, and after repelling the Taolu, Du Wenhuan was ready to quit his job on the grounds of old age.
After serving the imperial court all his life, all the big problems that had been undercurrent had surfaced. He, Du Wenhuan, could not solve so many problems for the imperial court even if he crushed his flesh and blood and bones and stuck them on the side wall.
It’s better to go directly back to my hometown in Kunshan.
What's good now is that there is Wang Jiayin in the north and Liu Chengzong in the south. Each of them has as many men and horses as the total number of soldiers.
The two men did not have as many troops as the general soldiers on paper, but the general soldiers in the border town had to garrison the border, and they could only have a few thousand troops running around.
Which one can be defeated by thousands of people?
Originally, I wanted to follow He Huchen and let the unlucky guy from Ningxia fuck Liu Shishi in the front, but he blocked it in the back and tried to level one first.
It's good now, I have to go up and deal with Wang Jiayin by myself.
Du Wenhuan didn't want to deal with it, so he marched north very slowly, and even left someone behind to watch. If He Huchen defeated Liu Chengzong from Huanglong Mountain, he would immediately turn his troops back.
Unfortunately, after waiting for several days, Liu Chengzong didn't come out.
For some reason, Du Wenhuan felt that He Huchen might have given Liu Shishi something.
This situation is particularly annoying.
We already have everything we want, so we can just encircle the entire Yan'an Prefecture and starve them to death.
I have to let you calm down the chaos.
What's more, this is no ordinary chaos.
News came from the north that Hong Chengchou sent his lieutenants Yin Tixin and Bai Yiqing to attack. However, Wang Jiayin was not a fool who only knew how to defend. He dared to fight in the field.
Although they didn't get any benefits, they didn't suffer big losses either. There were winners and losers in the field battle, and they returned to Fugu City.
The name Fugu sounds very tough.
The county seat is located in the deep mountains in the easternmost part of Shaanxi, with Gushanchuan, a tributary of the Yellow River, to the west and the Yellow River to the south. The county seat is also on the south side of the mountain, with cliffs on three sides, making it difficult to enter the county seat.
He didn't suffer any losses in field battles, and he was even less afraid of defending battles. What's more, Wang Jiayin had just returned from Shanxi after robbing money and food.
Du Wenhuan thought about it, and there was only one result for his trip. Wang Jiayin ate and drank in the city every day, while his people drank the northwest wind by the Yellow River.
When he ran out of food, he couldn't resist Wang Jiayin's attack.
So I thought about it, but I couldn’t go.
But there must be an excuse not to go. Even a veteran like him who has been fishing for seven or eight years cannot think of a suitable reason to refuse to conquer Wang Jiayin.
Liu Shishi could still refuse, because he was not in the Yansui General Soldier's defense area, but Wang Jiayin was making trouble in the east of Yansui Town, leaving Du Wenhuan unable to think of a reason to refuse.
While the army was stationed in Yanchuan, Du Wenhuan thought hard and came up with two ways.
First, Wang Jiayin took the initiative to run out of the Yansui Town defense area.
Let him cross the river and cross the Yellow River into Shanxi. That is not Yansui Town's business, and Hong Chengchou has nothing to do with it.
Secondly, Du Wenhuan must be dragged away by the matters at hand.
For example, Liu Shizi turned back, or a group of thieves who went to Shanxi came back.
But the latter idea treats the symptoms rather than the root cause, not to mention that Liu Shizi is not much easier to deal with than Wang Jiayin, so he is still the first one.
Finally, Du Wenhuan thought of a trick and called Wang Zuoguan, deliberately asking him to wait outside the tent, where he talked with his generals about attacking Fugu County. When it came to attacking Fugu, he was not afraid of anything but Wang Jiayin. Flee back to Shanxi.
Then he called Wang Zuoguan in and explained a few words about the march, so that the guerrilla general Li Mingfu could relax.
As expected, Wang Zuogao led a dozen people to escape overnight.
Du Wenhuan applauded and was very happy. That night, he divided thousands of Wang Zuoguan's troops among his subordinates.
Bang, kill thousands of bandits for the imperial court.
Theoretically speaking, the escaped Wang Zuoguan would give the news to Wang Jiayin, and then Wang Jiayin would move to Shanxi, and the matter would be over.
But sometimes people want two things. If one thing comes, it will be good. If two things come, it may not be so good.
On the night when Du Wenhuan devoured Wang Zuoguan's men, Yanshuiguan sent a message to General Du: "The thieves who entered Shanxi are coming back!"
Just across the Yellow River.
According to the defenders of Yanshui Pass, tens of thousands of bandits have appeared from the direction of Yonghe County, Shanxi Province in the past few days.
Fu Renxi, the general guarding Yonghe Pass, could not resist and had no choice but to retreat to the pass and sent a message to Yanshui Pass to let them be careful. There were more than tens of thousands of thieves.
What bad intentions could Fu Renxi have?
He just wanted to scare away the Yanshui Pass defenders so that Gao Yingxiang and the Lion Battalion workers' sentry could quickly return to Shaanxi to help Liu Shizi.
But Du Wenhuan was at his side at this moment, and even the defenders of Yanshui Pass did not dare to run away even if they had the courage to do so.
This is great, Du Wenhuan has been recruited.
Gao Yingxiang's troops were planning to cross the river, so Yanshui Pass took the risk and sent people to run into Yonghe Pass to explain to Fu Renxi that Du Wenhuan led his army to Yanshui Pass.
Fu Renxi was so frightened that he quickly contacted Gao Yingxiang: "Wait a minute to cross the river, Yanshui Pass has just sent someone, saying that General Du from Yansui is in the pass, with thousands of soldiers and horses."
Gao Yingxiang thought about it and decided to lead his army across the river.
Fu Renxi was shocked: "Why, Chief Gao, you can't beat Du Wenhuan, he is on guard."
Gao Yingxiang stared at Fu Renxi for a moment, then suddenly laughed: "You said you asked for a suitcase of gold. I don't know how the lion found such a good helper like you. You generously informed me and I will note it down for future reference." I’ll give you another chance.”
"Will this cause you any disadvantage? Since Mr. Du already knew that Gao wanted to cross the river, Yanshuiguan sent someone to tell you that I would not cross the river. Wouldn't it be harmful to you?"
Fu Renxi was stunned, and his affection for Gao Yingxiang greatly increased.
Then Gao Yingxiang continued: "While it's dark, I'll take people across the river to have a look, and I'll also ask Brother Gao to help Gao with a box of gold."
"Well, please tell me, Chief High."
"Brother A Box of Gold is a local from the Yellow River." Gao Yingxiang couldn't help but smile when he talked about this local, and then said seriously: "How wide is the river from this bank to the other bank?"
Fu Renxi thought Gao Yingxiang had some request. When he heard this, he smiled easily and said, "Chief Gao has asked the right person about this. The floating bridge on the river is one hundred and eighty steps long."
Gao Yingxiang nodded, cupped his fists and said, "Thank you very much, I already knew that."
That night, Gao Yingxiang's troops spread out on the east and west banks of the Yellow River. On the east side, they piled up a five-foot earth platform more than a hundred paces long, and on the west side, they pushed out a few scattered low hills.
Fu Renxi, who was shut down by Yonghe, couldn't understand.
But it doesn't matter if you don't understand. Then Gao Yingxiang's troops marched in. The large army stayed on the east bank and ordered Gao Ying'en to lead more than 2,000 strong soldiers under his command to cross the river.
The most elite Yiding soldiers in his hands surrendered and stayed east of the short hill after crossing the river.
In the middle of the night, the defenders at Yonghe Pass came to report to Fu Renxi that Gao Yingxiang's men had pushed several cannons on the earth platform on the east bank.
Fu Renxi was so surprised that he simply got up from the bed and went to the city to have a look.
He thought to himself, can these bandits still use cannons?
In Fu Renxi's mind, among the leaders in Shaanxi, Liu Chengzong was the only one who could use artillery.
After all, the strong men in the Lion Camp were like wolves and tigers, and they did get two red barbarian cannons, and their cannons were more powerful than the official army.
In fact, the leader, Fu Renxi, really never thought about using cannons.
Even if the defenders told him that Gao Yingxiang had pulled a bunch of cannons to the river bank, he was still laughing in his heart. Didn't the Gao leader just ask him how wide the Yellow River was earlier.
He knew that Gao Yingxiang built a long embankment on the east bank, but he never thought about what Gao Yingxiang planned to do with the long embankment.
He didn't even think about the cannon at all.
Light cannons like the Yongzhu and Huquan can't hit people across the Yellow River. What's more, even if Gao Yingxiang had a general cannon, he wouldn't be able to dig a long embankment of hundreds of steps.
But when Fu Renxi stood in Guancheng and took a look, he was dumbfounded.
He quickly opened the door and ran out.
Under the moonlight, on the earth embankment half a man high, there were all two-wheeled artillery carts.
The wheels are large but very narrow, made of iron by Xiangning blacksmiths, the wooden cannon frame in the middle is made by the workman, and the copper cannon fixed on it is cast by the workman Chengwo.
The soldiers standing under the embankment did not light torches. Gao Yingxiang stood on the embankment and looked towards the other side. It was pitch black and he could not see anything.
When Liu Chengzong sent someone to send a message to Shanxi, the newly cast 200-pound lion cannon had been cast and entered the final polishing stage.
A total of forty-seven cannons were cast in the two batches of artillery, but 11 of them were not finished and were re-melted into copper ingots. After Shicheng, I planned to continue casting after joining Liu Chengzong.
The purpose of Liu Chengzong's message was to remind Gao Yingxiang not to return to Shaanxi blindly, so as not to run into the invading army.
But Gao Yingxiang didn't think so. Master Gao thought Liu Chengzong was asking for help, and he had to return to Shaanxi to help anyway.
As soon as these cannons were built, the troops were immediately fired up and the waves swept up from Pingyang Mansion, passing through Xizhou like locusts and heading towards Yonghe County.
By the way, I also helped Liu Chengzong test the status of the two-wheeled gun carriage. The big iron wheels were very easy to use and the weight of the gun was just right.
It happened to be a state where a donkey could pull it all over the ground. A gun crew with four mules and five people could travel hundreds of miles a day on the official road.
In fact, Gao Yingxiang has been a little eager to try it for a long time.
Last month in Shanxi, when the cannons I promised to cast for him were finished, he borrowed a few cannons to go to the Pingyang Flag Guards to practice with them.
To be honest, there are several such things. Gao Yingxiang feels that he is more than 18,000 times better than last year.
In the end, the artillery was not even put on the field. The Pingyang Flag Guards were frightened by their strength alone and did not dare to go out. In the end, they only fired a few artillery pieces when they were fighting Zhuangzi in the suburbs, which was not satisfying at all.
Today, when I heard that Du Wenhuan was on the opposite side, Gao Yingxiang was not in awe. He really wanted to fire a salvo with thirty-six cannons.
Even if I fight just once here.
Gao Yingxiang's plan was very simple. Let Gao Yingen lead his troops to attack Yanshui Pass. He would definitely not be able to defeat them. He would wake up the officers and soldiers, and they might chase them out if they were angry.
The mounds built on the other side were learned when Shicheng and I watched the Loyalty Rebels use artillery in Sanyuan County, and they serve as range indicators.
As long as the officers and soldiers run past those indicators, the artillery can fire.
Seeing how excited he was, Shicheng and I were a little worried and said: "Chief Gao, these cannons can only hit the bank of the river when fired horizontally. Adjust the muzzle, so they are not very powerful."
In the mountainous area of Xianning, I tried the range of these two types of guns, both horizontal and upward.
The Little Lion Cannon shoots 170 steps horizontally and 500 steps upward.
The big lion cannon shoots 190 paces horizontally and 600 paces upward.
The shooting range is not very far, but the power is pretty good. If you can hit it accurately at a distance of a hundred steps, a tree trunk as thick as a bowl will be broken in one sweep.
If you break up the enemies, the range of both cannons is ten steps away and within a hundred steps.
It's just that the big lion cannon is loaded with 160 powders; the small lion cannon is loaded with 100 powders.
Although I did not participate in the battle as a teacher, I ran around with the Lion Battalion and witnessed many artillery battles.
He did not expect Gao Yingxiang's imagined volley of thirty-six artillery pieces to blast the enemy to pieces from a few hundred steps away.
This is not realistic.
He agreed more and looked forward to the way Cao Yao used artillery.
Incorporate this light artillery into the infantry line, face to face with the enemy, and in a large square duel with a width of 200 steps within fifty steps of bow and musket volleys, a single volley will cripple the enemy's formation.
I think this is the destiny of the little lion cannon.
In order to ensure this advantage, when he customized the gun wheel from the blacksmith, he specifically requested that three small handles be made on the side of the gun wheel to facilitate the infantry to push the gun forward.
If we really hope to achieve the effect Gao Yingxiang wants, I think we should use the big guy he cast in Sanyuan County.
The 1,500-kilogram artifact can shoot a seven-kilogram iron ball four hundred steps away. It can penetrate seven or eight people with one shot and create a bloody path wherever it hits.
Twenty of those things are lined up in a row, and they can beat the headquarters to only a few people at a time.
But nowadays, these gadgets are not that powerful. If you can hit three people, you are considered lucky.
Gao Yingxiang didn't care about this. He just had itchy hands. He stood on the embankment and waved his hands: "It's okay. In the worst case, just fire a cannon and run away."
He really thought so. Anyway, if he could hold on to the pontoon bridge, he would be unable to return to Shaanxi.
But the purpose of his coming here is to help Liu Chengzong share the pressure. Since Du Wenhuan is here, dragging Du Wenhuan in Yanshui Pass can also be regarded as relieving Liu Shizi's pressure.
Gao Yingen and Du Wenhuan didn't keep him waiting for long.
Du Wenhuan didn't want to get into trouble with Wang Jiayin and Liu Chengzong, not because he was cowardly, but because it was difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice.
Sufficient troops must be mobilized to fight those two guys, otherwise there will be no food and no pay, and fighting them will be a waste of troops.
But Du Wenhuan only didn't want to touch those two people, and there was nothing to fear from others.
Gao Yingen's troops had just appeared not far east of Yanshui Pass, and Du Wenhuan ordered his troops to leave the city.
Gao Yingen was so frightened that she quickly ran to the shore.
One ran in front and the other chased behind. They ran to the bank of the Yellow River like two fire dragons holding torches.
Gao Yingxiang was happy, clapped his hands and said: "Mr. Shi, let them see our cannon!"
