In fact, Yongchang Guard does not have the conditions to be attacked by force.
It is true that Wang Ziyong is an often-defeated general in the Marshal's Mansion, but those defeats are often the result of active choices rather than due to overwhelming force.
Having fought so many defeated battles and having the richest experience and experience, Wang Ziyong’s military talents are actually not much worse than those of other generals. He basically knows everything there is to know, but sometimes he cannot learn and apply it. He got out of the habit of being defeated in battle and lacked the will to fight hard.
You can’t teach others anything, but once you teach them everything, they will understand everything.
People are cultivated by experience. A very outstanding young man accidentally went into battle with a knife. He was so frightened that he was covered in cold sweat and his legs were weak. When he retreated from the battlefield, he found that he had cut off several heads and was rewarded with a room at home. He was also married, his mother-in-law was married, and he was given the official position of captain.
With positive motivation, this experience will feed back his self-confidence and create an invincible power. Next time he goes into battle, he will risk his own life to kill a centurion and a defender... He will Keep cutting with all your might.
It's just that some people were beheaded before they became centurions, and some were beheaded all the way to the rank of general officer - such as Juniper.
A person's way of death has no meaning to the person himself, and will only affect other people who survive; but a person's way of living has a great impact on that person. A victorious general has the same way of living as a victorious general, and always loses. Generals also have their own ways of defeating generals.
Wang Ziyong traveled from northern Shaanxi to Gansu and lost again and again, but he was still alive and kicking. Among all the rebels in northern Shaanxi, Wang Ziyong was the most special one. Others were just frontier soldiers, but he was the real leader of the peasant army. , all benefiting from useless people in mainstream society.
He was able to recruit an impressively large peasant army on a familiar land. People came in response to the robbery, and with only a few superstitious rituals and no need to consider supplies, they could have extremely high morale and loyalty.
But they have difficulty using muskets and artillery, and they have not received much formal military education. Most importantly, an "expedition" across county borders and a sudden rain from the sky can make many of his soldiers disappear.
This in itself determines that Wang Ziyong can easily lose battles. After finally saving some wealth, he can lose everything in a single defeat.
In Zhenjingmayi in the east of Yongchang County, since receiving Cao Yao's order to garrison here, Wang Ziyong led the banner army of Sanjie Guards and recruited a large number of remaining troops while digging trenches, pits, and building low walls and mounds. , while presiding over the initiation ceremony, building Yongchang Guard into a strong fortress of people's hearts.
Thousands of military remnants, men, women, old and young, went into battle under the call of Mother Wu Sheng, King Maitreya of the Ming Dynasty, and the Generalissimo of Qinghai. The progress of the soil work was extremely fast. In the blink of an eye, three heavy trenches were dug on the flat terrain between the two mountains. , directly dug out the road from Yongchangwei to the east.
After doing this intensively, Wang Ziyong finally relaxed and began to train the Sanjie Battalion and Yongchang Army remnants.
In the final analysis, his defense line is not for defensive operations, but to make it look difficult to attack and create a feeling for the enemy that attacking here is not worth the gain. The purpose is to make the enemy feel intimidated and give up the attack.
At present, Cao Yao has a large army in Ganzhou and Liu Chengzong also has a large army in Gulangxia. Liangzhou City, where Li Hongsi is located, is sandwiched between them. According to Wang Ziyong's idea, as long as the Yongchang Guard front line does not create a feeling of defeat for the enemy with one attack, It was difficult for Li Hongsi to make up his mind to attack him.
But if it comes, Wang Ziyong will have to escape with the remaining soldiers here, so training is necessary.
After all, the Yongchang Guard is considered a border. Although the Yongchang Banner Army is looked down upon by many generals in the Marshal's Mansion as the old, weak, sick and disabled, for Wang Ziyong, even if it is a remnant, it is also a good source of troops.
He thought well. The trench between Yongchang Guard and Liangzhou Guard was indeed a position where the gains outweighed the losses in attacking Li Hongsi, the deputy commander-in-chief of Gansu Province in Liangzhou City.
But before Li Hongsi came out of Liangzhou City, an old acquaintance of Wang Ziyong's, Cao Wenzhao, emerged from the mountains.
Cao Wenzhao was already very careful. First, he used detective cavalry to explore the perimeter of Wang's own position for several days. He drew the defense map of the entire defense line and made sure that there was no ambush between Yongchang and Liangzhou. Lead out from the mountains.
The first thing he did when he came out of the mountain was to send troops to contact Li Hongsi in Liangzhou City and invite him to send troops to recover Yongchang Guard and attack Liu Chengzong's grain road defense line.
Li Hongsi in Liangzhou City was anxious after receiving the news, and quickly wrote a letter inviting him to enter Liangzhou City... He didn't mind sending troops. Most of Gansu in the Ming Dynasty was lost, and every one of Gansu's generals would have to pay for it. Responsible, whenever there is an opportunity to fight to the death, they should give it a try.
But what is the situation outside Liangzhou City? You, Cao Wenzhao, don’t know, and I, Li Hongsi, don’t know?
Liu Chengzong's Marshal's Mansion has been disintegrated. Central Gansu is one part, Hehuang is one part, and Gulang Gorge is one part. There are no grain roads between the three parts. The marshal's army of Yongchang Guards is not building a grain road defense line. , but the front line.
Your three thousand army has a physical body, how can it be possible to slash into nothingness with a sword.
Is it difficult to attack Yongchang? There is a point, but Li Hongsi believes that the difficulty is limited. As long as Liangzhou sends troops, there is a high probability that Yongchang Guard can be taken back.
But does it make sense to attack Yongchang? Li Hongsi thinks not.
The gains and losses in Yongchang are of no significance to the overall situation in Gansu. There is a white land between Yongchang and Liangzhou. The capture of Yongchang did not provide soldiers and civilians with food supplies to survive the entire winter. In addition to thousands more mouths to eat, it was not beneficial to the overall situation in Gansu. The big picture is unhelpful.
It would be better for his troops to go to Liangzhou for a temporary rest and try to fight the marshal's army who came to collect grain under the city of Liangzhou in two months. That would be the battle that could increase their winning chips.
But Cao Wenzhao quickly wrote back, saying that he had no intention of entering Liangzhou City to escape, and would march westward.
Li Hongsi's mood was very complicated. On the one hand, he admired Cao Wenzhao's spirit of returning to the horse and fighting to the death, but on the other hand... he felt that Cao Wenzhao was a bit out of control, as if he was acting out of impulse.
For this reason, he ventured out of the city and went to the front line of Yongchang. Xiaozhi used reason and emotion to persuade Cao Wenzhao to enter Liangzhou City.
Military affairs will definitely bring death, which cannot be avoided by any tactics, weapons, or strategies. However, human life is precious. People can die, but they must die meaningfully.
When you entered the mountain, the situation outside was that Liu Chengzong had a food road. You attacked his food road and caused chaos to the entire army. Even if you lose the lives of three thousand soldiers and horses, it is not impossible. This is called desperate effort.
Fighting is just an adverb. It is not a goal, but working hard for the goal, or working hard to achieve this goal.
It's different to die. It's a verb, it just describes an action.
At this time, people have thrown away the grain road. If you attack the grain road again, you will not be able to achieve the goal of disrupting the enemy's entire defense. If you break through Yongchang and even rush into Ganzhou, even if you are an unparalleled hero and kill through Gansu like a god of war. , going around the Suzhou Pass and back again, it’s not worth it as long as one or two hundred people die on the way.
Li Hongsi said, if you are really willing to fight, I will send you three thousand troops to supply food, grass, and artillery. You can march towards Gulang Gorge to attack Liu Chengzong's retreat.
Cao Wenzhao was almost persuaded.
The reason why he was frozen here was not entirely because he was irritable or overly superstitious about his own force. It was just that he kept encouraging the soldiers along the way and told them the importance of this trip. After talking too much, he became a bit superstitious.
When I came out, I suddenly found that the situation had changed. Deep down, I couldn't accept it and couldn't stand it.
But Li Hongsi persuaded Cao Wenzhao to accept it, and it was not a bad thing to steal Liu Chengzong's ass.
It happened that at this time, Cao Wenzhao's generals came out safely and caused big trouble.
Cao Wenzhao and Li Hongsi were having a secret conversation in the military tent. His subordinate Qian Zongping reported from the outside that he was safe. He came in and saluted Li Hongsi first, and then saluted Cao Wenzhao. When he finished, he gritted his teeth and said: "General, I am here in the enemy trench in Yongchang. In front of me, I saw Wang Ziyong!"
Ping'an was a general brought into the pass by Cao Wenzhao. He was already the capital when he entered the pass. After fighting with him for so many years, his official position has been getting lower and lower because he lost his official position in the battle of Pingliang in the early years. , started from the soldiers again.
As for the Pingliang battle, the most critical reason was that Wang Ziyong and Yang Yanchang, the two forward and rear formations, threw Cao Wenzhao outside and took away all their weapons.
Peace later
I tried suing Yang Yanchang and Wang Ziyong, but to no avail, no one listened.
They are guest generals. In the eyes of the local governor, Yang Yanchang's troops are the model army that Shaanxi can take away, and it is the only model army that can take out. This is unmatched by anyone.
They absolutely abide by the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and they do what the Ming army did thirty years ago. Even when the friendly forces do not abide by the laws of the Ming Dynasty, Yang will take the initiative to stop them... Anyone who serves as a governor must have such subordinates. A facade.
Because the existence of Yang Yanchang's department can prove to the governor that the situation in Shaanxi is not bad.
This emotional value is incomparable to that of any guest or general. The key is that others will take charge. If you rob the people, the governor will not know, or no one will complain. The world is difficult, so he will turn a blind eye.
You robbed the people and were beaten by Yang Yanchang's soldiers. You went to file a complaint. Can the governor help you? You set up a card privately and got beaten up. Can the governor help you?
I can't help even if I want to.
But Wang Ziyong is not that big. He is just a soldier and food transporter. The inability to provide military food is your problem. As a result, Wang Ziyong was dismissed from his official post. Even so, the anger in the hearts of Ping An and others did not go away.
They knew better than anyone that the battle in Pingliang was caused by these two people. They were traitors who were hiding behind their backs and shooting cold arrows.
Cao Wenzhao couldn't bear it anymore. After hearing this, he ignored Li Hongsi and went directly out of his tent to fight horses. He rushed to the front line. Under the guidance of Ping An, he saw through the small glass of the telescope at the edge of the trench a thousand steps away. , saw that familiar figure.
For a moment, the past events were vivid in his mind, and the figures of the fallen soldiers in the Battle of Pingliang flashed through his mind like a marquee, making Cao Wenzhao's blood pressure higher than a horse's head.
Let alone Li Hongsi this time, even if Yang Jiamo crawled out of the graveyard, he would not be able to persuade Cao Wenzhao.
Three thousand soldiers suddenly broke out of camp and mounted their horses in the military music. In a moment, smoke and dust arose on the Gobi desert. The soldiers were divided into five sentries and moved towards Wang Ziyong's defense line in the southeast of Yongchang Guard.
Wang Ziyong had no idea that checking the defense line on a whim would bring undue disaster to the army.
Because his subordinates reported that the army from the east was camped several miles away, he came out from Zhenjingma Post and ran to the edge of the trench defense line to burn incense with the soldiers, do rituals, and boost morale.
Wang Ziyong is actually a very scientific person. Although he is better at burning incense and reciting mantras than anyone else, the reason why he uses these things is that others believe it, but he himself does not believe it at all.
If a person really has magic power, the master who raised him would be much more powerful than him, but he could not produce food and starved to death.
But superstition cannot be said to be useless. According to Wang Ziyong's research, as long as a person truly believes in it, it will have a corresponding effect, but it will not be the same as what others think.
Wang Ziyong has never told anyone about his research. Many superstitious things are complementary to him.
Others believe in him and believe in the San Jie Hui, and others believe in the San Jie Hui and then believe in him, or others lose confidence in the world and believe in him and the San Jie Hui. It is the same. One belief will strengthen another. a belief.
And the believer's belief is his strength.
Zhuyoushu can bring people back to life because this person really believes in Zhuyoushu and Zhuyou doctors, and believes that rituals and spells can bring people back to life.
When a person is injured and sick, the person who truly believes that he will not die may not survive, but the person who truly believes that he will die will definitely not survive.
The function of Zhu Youshu is to strengthen people's faith, and the same is true for Wang Ziyong's ritual practices.
As long as a person truly believes, he can make others invulnerable. If this person truly believes in invulnerability, he is truly fearless, and fearlessness can often bring victory.
This is a frightening spiritual force.
Letting soldiers believe that they are favored by gods can make the front more stable, morale higher, and soldiers stronger.
Wang Ziyong even thought that he could form a group of dead soldiers, and tell them every day that burning incense can make them invulnerable. When the battle situation becomes stalemate, they will go to the battlefield and charge forward to reverse the situation of the battle.
However, this requires too much investment, and it is easy to overturn if you are not careful.
, he hasn’t figured out how to implement it yet.
But it is indeed very feasible... After all, if a true believer was not killed by a musket, it was the Inanimate Mother who made him invulnerable and strengthened this belief; if he was really killed by a musket, it was because his faith was not strong and he was indifferent to the dead. There's nothing to explain.
After a ritual ceremony, Wang Ziyong found that the morale of the soldiers in front of the formation was even higher, which made him feel refreshed. However, just when he was about to ride back to Zhenjing Horse Station, on the earthen base of the trench in front of the formation, Bai Lian from the Three Tribulations Association appeared. The Big Dipper flag swayed crazily, and in the distance, the horse teams were divided into five groups and rushed towards each other, bringing up clouds of smoke and dust.
The troops were divided into five groups, and the three cavalry teams marched forward in a straight line, with the left and right wings spreading toward the mountains without trench protection, a standard outflanking formation.
In an instant, Wang Ziyong's mind quickly flashed through two options. The first was to occupy the trench and defend it. But it was only for a moment. After his death in battle, Liu Chengzong even conferred on him the posthumous title of "Shenjun White Lotus Miaofa, who has repeatedly defeated and fought repeatedly." Think about it.
Wang Ziyong immediately decided to lead his army to retreat. His mage warriors who only existed in his mind and believed they were invulnerable had not yet been trained. He had to first use Liu Chengzong's mortal warriors who believed they were invincible.
He immediately summoned the messenger and said: "Go and tell Gao Yingdeng at the back that the enemy is attacking at the front, and ask him to prepare to defend against the enemy!"
