On the 21st of the first lunar month, Gao Jingshi received news from Huang Zhiting, telling him that Lang Son had been conquered and asking him to consider whether to push the headquarters to Lang Son.
At that time, Gao Pangshi was still a little hesitant, not because he was afraid that Lang Son would be unsafe, but because he had no soldiers - he only had Gao Zhang's 300 servants around him, and he did not want to mobilize officers and soldiers. Therefore, going south to Lang Son seemed a bit "strong" Weak."
Gao Zhang was bitten by scrub typhus last time and had to rest for half a month before he recovered. Therefore, he did not go on an expedition with Gao Jue, but stayed with Gao Jingshi. He actually felt that going to Lang Son didn't matter, because even from his perspective, he felt that Huang Zhiting could not have done anything disrespectful towards Gao Pragmatic.
In fact, there is no need for him to say this. Gao Pragmatic himself also knows that he simply does not want to have a situation where the strong support and weak cadres appear. However, after two days of delay, Gao Jingshi felt that he had to move forward, because news came from Cen Ling that he had occupied Gaoping and defeated Gaoping Mo's army, and it was expected that Tonghua would be captured in three days.
According to Cen Ling's plan, after he captured Tonghua, he would not immediately go south to capture Taiyuan, but would first go to the southwest to capture Xuanguang.
It is understandable that this idea is highly pragmatic. This march plan is equivalent to a right hook, squeezing the Mo army in the northwest toward Taiyuan or even Shenglong.
That is to say, after Cen Ling considered squeezing the Mo army to Taiyuan or Shenglong, he and Huang Zhiting - and even Gao Jue - surrounded the main force of the Mo army in the north, and then defeated them in one fell swoop.
Very courageous and full of courage. But Gao Pragmatic likes it very much.
Now the Mok army in the north should not be the elite Mok army. It is a good plan to defeat them in one fell swoop and then wait for the main force of the Mok army to return from the south. Otherwise, before the clearing of the north is completed, the main force of the Mozambican army from the south rushes back. This does not mean that they will not be able to defeat them, but it will definitely be more troublesome.
In particular, Gao Jingshi had been worried about turning Annan into a land full of rebels. After all, "General Lin Dengwan" was no joke. Gao Jingshi's head hurt when he saw such a name.
Previously, only Lang Son had achieved a breakthrough, and Gao Pingshi could still stay in Siming Prefecture to wait and see the situation. But now that Gaoping has also been conquered, there is nothing to say about moving the headquarters forward.
Taking 300 servants with him and joining Huang's first batch of 2,000 reinforcements, Gao pragmatically arrived at Lang Son via Zhennan Pass.
However, Huang Zhiting left at this time - when she sent the message to Gao Pangshi, she had already led her army to attack Changqing Mansion.
Since all the troops of Changqing Mansion were lost in the Battle of Lang Son, Huang Zhiting's battle to capture Changqing was much smoother. To be precise... there was no battle. Changqing's soldiers "transferred" to Jingbei Prefecture after receiving the news that the Ming army was marching south. Huang Zhiting directly captured Changqing.
Cen Ling's second battle report was also sent over. He said two things. One was that Tonghua had been successfully captured, and the other was that on the way to march towards Xuanguang, he had already learned the news. Xuanguang originally had more than 20,000 troops. , but now he directly abandoned Xuanguang and transferred to Taiyuan.
Cen Ling proposed that after he captured Xuanguang, he would take a day's rest before heading east to Taiyuan. He asked Gao Jingshi to order Huang Zhiting's troops to cooperate with the westward march and besiege Taiyuan with him - he believed that by capturing Taiyuan, there would be no resistance in northern Annan. If you have enough strength, then you will be able to attack Shenglong City with the power of Mount Tai.
Gao pragmatic thought for less than half a stick of incense before deciding to continue south and go directly to Changqing Mansion to meet Huang Zhiting.
The smooth development of the battle was somewhat beyond his expectation. Judging from the current battle situation, except for the battle of Lang Son, where the Annan Mo army showed its due tenacity, the rest of the battles were all devastating. The Mo army was not a little bit stronger. If you resist, you will fail. You will simply run away without having the courage to fight.
Although the highly pragmatic people are not on the front line, it is not clear whether this is because the Mo army is too weak or the wolf soldiers are too strong, or it is just because Mo Chao Nanzheng has demobilized all the elite soldiers and generals, but in a word: now Bei Annan has been It is impossible to stop the Cen and Huang coalition forces.
If there is any resistance, it is Taiyuan.
But if we want to fight Taiyuan, Gao Pragmatic must go. Otherwise, Huang Zhiting and Cen Ling have almost the same status, and the strength of their troops is also very different. Who has the final say then?
Gao Pragmatic didn't want the two armies that could have exerted 100% of their combat power to get a failing result, so he couldn't wait any longer. He had to go directly to the front line and take personal command - personal command might not be possible. But you must decide and order it yourself.
On the twenty-fourth of the first lunar month, Gao pragmatically arrived in Changqing. Huang Zhiting led the Guinan chieftains and generals out of the city to greet him.
When they arrived in the city, Huang Zhiting first reported the results of the battle. In this Battle of Lang Son, the East Route Army captured a total of 3,427 Annan Army leaders and captured 5,439 people. It is estimated that there are still 3,400 people left. Thousands of people fled.
There are two main directions for their escape. One is to flee to the north of Beijing and Thanglong, and the other is to flee to the Hailong Mansion in Anbang. In other words, escape all the way to the southwest and all the way to the southeast.
Gao Pingshi came here with a reward of silver, including five taels of silver for each head, a total of 17,135 taels of silver, and two taels of silver for each prisoner, a total of 10,878 taels of silver.
At the same time, since the chieftains would not be rewarded by the court for their merits this time, he also directly rewarded them with silver. However, he did not ask about the specific distribution of the silver rewards. He only gave Huang Zhiting a reward of 20,000 taels of silver and let her judge the merits. Assign and submit to yourself for approval.
This is obviously to continue to improve Huang Zhiting's prestige. Of course Huang Zhiting will not refuse, and no one among the chieftains questions this decision - the chieftains are not stupid. It is obvious that Gao Yuntai trusts Miss Huang. Who is willing to do so? Jump out and sing blackface?
Besides, looking back now, it seems that there is some unusual friendship between the two of them. Reminiscent of the fact that the two of them once traveled thousands of miles alone...these Guinan chieftains originally followed the Siming Mansion. Now I still have to worry about Miss Huang suddenly turning into Mrs. Anitai at some point, and I can't afford to offend her even more.
After settling the issue of the silver reward, Cen Ling's battle report came again. He said that his troops would set out to march eastward on February 23, and asked Huang Zhiting's troops to immediately march west to join him after receiving the news, and encircle Taiyuan. .
Well, he didn’t know that Gao pragmatic had arrived in Changqing.
Gao Pragmatic was not hypocritical. After asking Huang Zhiting what she meant, she also believed that it was feasible to encircle Taiyuan. Maybe once Taiyuan was lost, Shenglong might lose the confidence to resist.
So two thousand soldiers and horses were left to garrison the road behind Changqing Mansion, and the army continued to march towards Taiyuan.
Before arriving in Taiyuan, even more unexpected news came. This time the news came from Gao Jue from Shenglong City. The servants of the Gao family sent by Gao Jue excitedly expressed to Gao Jingshi: Mo Mao wants to open the city. Welcoming Gao Tuanzuo into Shenglong City, he announced in public that the Great Tomorrow Soldiers were here not to punish the Mo family, but to help Mo family wipe out the Li Ni Zheng thief!
Mo Maoqia even stated that "the troops under the Annan Dutong Division" and himself would accept the direct command of the Guangxi patrol, and "we are eagerly looking forward to Gao Gong coming to Shenglong to take command of the overall situation."
Gao Pragmatic was extremely shocked, and Huang Zhiting even opened her beautiful eyes, as if she suspected that her ears were broken.
Mo Maoqia is... surrendering?
Huang Zhiting whispered in Gao Pingshi's ear: "Guess what sentence I thought of? Let me remind you, it is an idiom."
"Uh..." Gao Pingshi tried tentatively: "Yueyang Yujin?"
Huang Zhiting was stunned for a moment and complained: "What? I've never heard of this."
Gao Pingshi smiled and said, "Okay then, what are you thinking of?"
Huang Zhiting said seriously: "Acknowledge the thief as your father!"
The smile on Gao Pingshi's face suddenly froze, and he looked helplessly at Miss Huang, who was snickering.
