"Long live my Lord, you are worth a thousand dollars, you can't take such a risk!"
"Yes, long live my Lord, the thieves occupying Fugu are not ordinary mobs. Many of them are veterans of the five towns in Shaanxi, and they are all good at fighting..."
"Long live my Lord, don't get on the boat. Let me go. Although I am a civil servant, I can still kill a few thieves..."
"Long live my Lord, if you don't listen to my advice, I will drown myself and die!"
On the beach of the Yellow River on the other side of Fugu County, two treacherous ministers and two foolish officials were kneeling in front of the young emperor Zhu Youjian of the Ming Dynasty. They were blocking the little emperor from taking the lead with tears in his eyes!
These two treacherous officials were Zhang Honggong, the commander-in-chief of Shanxi Town, and Wu Zimian, the commander-in-chief of Yulin Town. There were also two foolish officials, one was Geng Ruqi, the governor of Shanxi, and the other was Zhang Mengjing, the governor of Yansui.
These four were all summoned by Zhu Youjian with an imperial edict to Baodou on the other side of Fugu... The route Zhu Youjian took to go south to Henan this time was a bit strange. He did not go south along the main road east of Taihang Mountain, but It's walking southwest of the mountain. After leaving Xuanfu, he headed west to Datong. After inspecting Datong Town, which was managed by Chen Qiyu and Mangui, he entered the territory of Taiyuan Prefecture in Shanxi Province from Piantou Pass, and then quickly arrived at Hefugu City, which is only separated by a river. Baoding District on the Yellow River.
The reason why he led an army of less than 3,000 people directly to Baodezhou was to recapture Fugu County and block the Shaanxi peasant uprising army within the province.
Zhu Youjian is not afraid of the peasant uprising army acting as bandits in the separatist state capital of Shaanxi. Just like the Anshe Rebellion in Sichuan and Guizhou, even if he temporarily occupied a large state like Chongqing, he would still be dead until the heavenly soldiers gathered together, and he could not be shaken at all. The foundation of Ming Dynasty.
But the rogue bandits were different. The rogue bandits destroyed wherever they went, and the territory that was originally good was destroyed.
Wasn't the reason why he lost the north in his previous life just because of the destruction of rogue bandits such as Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Gao Yingxiang and the destruction of the five entrance battles of Donglu?
Shandong, Henan, Beizhili, Shaanxi, Shanxi and other provinces were devastated, and the Ming Dynasty lost countless taxes every year. The people in these places also have difficulty making a living, and in the end the only way to survive is to be a thief...
He has learned a lesson in this life and knows how to block the thieves from Shaanxi before they cross the river into Shanxi!
But who can stop it?
The local hungry soldiers in Shaanxi should just stay well! There is a saying in the Art of War: The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers. Now Zhu Youjian cannot feed the soldiers in the five towns of Shaanxi, so he, the emperor, should lead his troops to block it first!
With Zhu Youjian's elite troops of less than 3,000 men, there would be no problem in capturing Fugu County. But Zhu Youjian can't always stay in Fugu County!
He has a lot of things to do when he goes south this time, and blocking the Shaanxi converts in this province is just one of them. Moreover, intercepting the rebels should not only be done in Fugu, but also at the mouths of the Yellow River at the junction of Shaanxi and Shanxi. It is definitely not enough to rely on 3,000 elite soldiers in front of the account.
Therefore, before Zhu Youjian left Datong, he ordered Zhang Honggong, Wu Zimian, Geng Ruqi, and Zhang Mengjing to be summoned to Baodezhou.
But these four people came faster than Zhu Youjian thought, and arrived in Baodou before Zhu Youjian crossed the river to attack Fugu City.
After these four people arrived in Baodezhou, they began to teach Zhu Youjian how to defeat the battle. It made Zhu Youjian frown: What about being cautious, what about gathering a large army, what about dividing troops to encircle, what about focusing on appeasement... What do these people know? With 3,000 troops plus 12 3-pound black cannons, are you afraid that they won't be able to capture Fugu? How else to be cautious?
What else is there to do to gather an army...and the army doesn't want to eat?
As for dividing the troops into encirclement, that’s all. How to encircle? Do we have to mobilize the army to Shaanxi again?
And caressing... I had caressed him in my previous life. If a treacherous son hadn't saved my life, Daming and I would be dead!
Therefore, Zhu Youjian did not listen to the suggestions of these four confused officials at all, and still asked his subordinates to collect several small boats and prepare to cross the river to Dafu Valley in person.
At this time, the army (more than 6,000 people in total, more than 3,000 of them were soldiers brought by Zhang Honggong, Wu Zimian, Geng Ruxi, and Zhang Mengjing) had just moved away, and these four confused officials came to cry and admonish again.
Among them, Zhang Mengjing, the governor of Yansui, is still seeking death and survival...
"Please stop trying to persuade me!" Zhu Youjian waved his hands repeatedly, "I am the best at fighting. A mere mansion cannot stop me..."
The two commanders-in-chief Zhang Honggong and Wu Zimian who spoke such nonsense blushed for the little emperor... Although the little emperor had a record of defeating the northern and eastern captives, he could not be so arrogant and underestimate the enemy because of this!
Fugu is on the other side of the Yellow River! Those bandits were not blind. When they saw the Ming army crossing the river, they would definitely go to the Yellow River to stop them. The little emperor only had 6 boats on hand. Excluding the sailors, they could carry up to 60 fully armed soldiers across the river at a time.
The thieves and bandits can station tens of thousands of people on the banks of the Yellow River!
Can 60 people ashore at one time defeat thousands of enemies? Isn't this crazy?
"Long live the Lord..."
"Your Majesty, no!"
Zhang Honggong and Wu Zimian, the two generals who only deducted military pay and did not know how to fight, stopped talking, while the two confused officers were still crying and persuading.
"Don't cry, and don't think about finding a living... You two come on board with me and see how I defeat the bandits and take back the valley!"
As he spoke, Zhu Youjian waved his hand and mounted a few soldiers in front of the tent. The two of them set up one person, and put the two governors Geng Ruqi and Zhang Mengjing on a larger boat that Zhu Youjian personally rode. wooden boat.
Zhu Youjian turned back to Cao Wenzhao, the military commander in front of the tent who was standing aside, a little dumbfounded, and said: "Cao Zongzhen, you come to command the entire army... I am going to kill the enemy!"
"The last general will receive the order." Cao Wenzhao knew that Zhu Youjian was powerful, so he stopped trying to persuade him and directly received the general's order.
Then Zhu Youjian got on the wooden boat in a grand manner, and then sat cross-legged on the bottom of the boat. The two civil servants, Geng Ruqi and Zhang Mengjing, sat behind the emperor in stunned silence, too surprised to say a word.
The wooden boats were quickly pushed into the water. Each boat had two boatmen at the helm. In addition, all the soldiers in front of the tent were carrying wooden oars. Under the command of the boatman, we paddled together to drive the wooden boat slowly towards the other side of the Yellow River.
However, before these six wooden boats reached the west bank of the Yellow River, the east gate of Fugu City had been opened wide. Countless rebels wearing ordinary people's clothes and holding various crude weapons had already poured out like a tide and spread out on the bank of the Yellow River. A large formation was formed.
Rebel leaders such as Wang Jiayin, Gao Yingxiang and Wang Monk were also among them. They also saw thousands of Ming troops on the other side of the Yellow River, and even saw 6 rickety small wooden boats on the river...each wooden boat There are only about ten people. What does this mean? Want to cross the river? Just the dozens of people on these six small wooden boats still want to forcefully cross the Yellow River?
"Archers, prepare!" Wang Jiayin shouted.
Immediately, hundreds of rebel soldiers standing on the river bank took out their bows and arrows. Most of them were wooden bows, but there were also a few small bows.
The Ming troops on the six small wooden boats on the river seemed to be scared. When the wooden boats were about forty or fifty steps away from the river bank, they began to turn around.
"Hahaha!"
The rebel soldiers on the river bank burst into laughter.
Wang Jiayin and Gao Yingxiang also found it funny. What do these six wooden boats mean? Scared? So what are they driving here for? Can that little emperor really know how to fight?
"Anchor!"
Just when the rebels were laughing at Zhu Youjian, Zhu Youjian suddenly gave the order to drop anchor. At this time, the wooden boat he was on was almost sideways in the river.
"Long live Lord, we are still in the river, why did we anchor?" Zhang Mengjing, the governor of Yansui behind Zhu Youjian, also felt strange, so he asked.
Zhu Youjian laughed and said: "Of course we anchored in the river to fight the bandits on the other side!"
"A battle?" Zhang Mengjing looked at the dark mass of rebels on the other side, "But the bandits are still far away!"
Zhu Youjian shook his head, "The distance is just right... Come here, bring me my Rumi gun... I'm going to kill the thieves!"
