"That's why we call those who know current affairs a hero!" Gao Jingshi said angrily, and then asked the servant who sent the letter: "Mo Maoqia obviously has a large army outside, and it's not very far away. He also has Shenglong City. Hold on, why would you surrender to me so easily under such a situation? Has Gao Jue found out the reason?"
The servant said: "Sir, the regiment has checked. It should be mainly because the Mo Dynasty's southern expedition army suffered a huge defeat. It is reported that the main force of the Mo Dynasty's 60,000-strong army in the southern expedition was defeated in Qinghua and Ningping. They lost their troops and generals." Of the more than 30,000, only about 25,000 to 28,000 remnant soldiers were defeated and fled back to Henan. Mo Dunrang, the auxiliary king of the Mo Dynasty, urged him three times a day, hoping that Mo Maoqiu would take Ruan Juan's 15,000 men. and Mo Yulin's 25,000 men were reinforced to him to hold the southern front."
Gao Pangshi and Huang Zhiting looked at each other, became serious, and walked to the map to look at it.
Mo Chao's southern expedition army actually lost, and lost so miserably? More than half of the elite main force was lost, which was a real thorn in the side.
Their situation, if we want to make a rough analogy, is like the defeat of the Ming Army in the Battle of Songjin in history. The nine-sided elite that they devoted all their national strength to build was completely lost, and they no longer have the ability to fight back.
Of course, Mo Chao was slightly stronger this time than in the Battle of Songjin. Losing more than half of them was better than being completely wiped out. Although his spine was broken, at least some seeds were left.
Moreover, no matter what, Mo Chao still has two famous generals, Ruan Juan and Mo Yulin, especially Ruan Juan, who has had brilliant achievements in the past. The combined strength of the two of them is still 40,000. In fact, this is not a small number.
In other words, even without counting the soldiers and horses of Shenglong City, Mo Chao could still muster an army of 60,000 to 70,000. In Gao Pangshi's opinion, if these people can gather together and all obey Ruan Juan's command, there is still a good chance of repelling the Zheng army of the Li Dynasty.
Of course, the premise is that he is not as pragmatic and disruptive.
After understanding the current situation, Gao Pragmatic admired his timing of sending troops this time. Although Mo Chao was defeated this time, he was actually fully capable of stabilizing the overall situation.
Just like in history, the Mo Dynasty was also defeated this year, and it would be defeated again two years later. However, it was not until ten years later that the Zheng army finally defeated the main force of the Mo army, forcing the Mo Dynasty to only a mere Gao Ping. In the Ming Dynasty, Surviving under the protection of
But this time, because of his own interference, Mo was attacked from the north and south, and both the north and the south were defeated - let alone the south, the north would be defeated if it lost Lang Son!
Because Lang Son was lost, Annam was like a flat river to the Ming Dynasty!
Gao Pragmatic couldn't help but think, if he were Mo Maoqia, there wouldn't be any other way out in this situation, right? Apart from "recognizing thieves as fathers", hugging Daming's father's thigh and crying, saying that he is loyal and filial, what else can he do?
Imitate King Zhou and set himself on fire in Lutai?
Mo Maoqia's problem seems to have been solved, but the problem now is that he may become the taker-if he takes over Mo Chao's offer, he will probably have to fight Zheng Jun who takes advantage of the victory and goes north.
But at this time Huang Zhiting said: "Zhizhi, I think the first priority now is to conquer the Mo Yulin tribe in Taiyuan!"
Gao Pragmatic suddenly realized that what Huang Zhiting said made sense!
Although Mo Maoqia is already in his hands, Mo Yulin, Ruan Juan and even Mo Dunrang, the three people who actually have soldiers in their hands, have not stated that they will obey his orders. What if something happens to these three people? manage?
For example, what if you refuse to acknowledge the "order" issued by Mo Maoqia under threat, or even be more decisive and surrender to the Li Dynasty? You must know that defeat and surrender are completely different situations than surrendering with 20,000 troops.
After defeating and surrendering, Zheng Song would kill him if he wanted to; if he led his troops to surrender, it would be hard to kill him even if he wanted to! What's more, why shouldn't we make good use of this available power? Why kill?
Gao pragmatic nodded and said: "Yes, now we have to force Mo Yulin to express his attitude. However... we have to master a balance here, not only to allow Mo Yulin to accept our supervision or even reorganization, but also to ensure that he will not It will force him to rebel."
This degree is difficult to determine, because this kind of thing not only depends on the overall situation, but also the personality of the other party - what kind of personality is Mo Yulin?
Gao Pragmatic is not a god, how could he know!
Huang Zhiting's thinking is much more direct than that of Gao Pragmatic. This may be because the chieftain of Guinan and Guixi doesn't like to find weaknesses in human nature to "break the problem" like Gao Pragmatic, so her plan is straightforward!
"Continue to encircle Taiyuan, deploy all artillery, and blast the gates and walls on one side, and then send someone to tell him Mo Maoqia's decision, and ask him to present the city to fight and accept reorganization!" Huang Zhiting said coldly: "We can clearly Tell him that if he accepts the reorganization, we will take him to defeat Zheng Song; if he does not accept... after the city is broken, no chickens or dogs will be left!"
Gao pragmatic glanced at her in surprise.
Huang Zhiting suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. She suddenly lost her coldness, lowered her head, and whispered: "I just think about you... and the overall situation." It turned out that she thought Gao Pragmatic thought she was too cruel.
Gao pragmatic suddenly laughed and said: "I know, I know, what you said makes sense. You really can't be indecisive at this time... There is a way to be kind but not to control the army, but you taught me a lesson."
Huang Zhiting glanced at him quietly and saw that he didn't look fake. Then she felt relieved and said: "Then I will give the order now. Let's not rest. We must break camp early and rest outside Taiyuan City."
Gao Pragmatic had no objection. He knew that one of the great advantages of the wolf soldiers was that they were very good at walking. It should even be said that they were particularly good at walking. This may have been tempered by walking on mountain roads since childhood, but now that they have passed Lang Son, the terrain has become a flat plain. The Red River Plain, this makes it even less likely that the wolf soldiers would find marching tiring.
It's even possible that the person in the entire army who finds marching tiring the most is his pragmatism - even if he travels on horseback, even if he still has some exercise, a civil servant is a civil servant, and he is not a genius with both civil and military skills.
The army continued westward. Two days later, it had reached less than thirty miles east of Taiyuan City. Cen Ling sent someone over and said that he had arrived at the gate of Taiyuan City. However, Taiyuan City's reaction was very strange. Not only did they hang up the war-free card, they also sent Someone contacted him and said that Shenglong had contacted Gaoyantai and that the two sides were now friendly forces.
Cen Ling didn't know the authenticity for a while, thinking that Huang Zhiting would be arriving soon, so he didn't launch a tentative attack, and planned to wait for Huang Zhiting to arrive to find out the details.
Gao pragmatic asked Cen Ling's detective to go back and report to Cen Ling, saying that he had arrived in person and would discuss the matter after meeting.
The so-called Tanma under Cen Ling actually doesn't even have horses - they do produce dwarf horses in the west and south of Guangxi, but those kinds of horses can be used to carry people and goods, but it is completely unreliable to be a Tanma, so the so-called Tanma under his command It’s all about running.
Not to mention, all of them are good long-distance runners. It is estimated that if they can go to the 21st century, they will all be able to participate in world-class marathons.
The thirty-mile journey was covered in less than half a day. Like Huang Zhiting before, Cen Ling happily led his chieftains and generals to welcome Gao Pragmatic's arrival.
He also made some gains here. Of course, Gao Pingshi had to reward him as usual, but his journey was not as fierce as Huang Zhiting's Battle of Lang Son. The Gaoping garrison itself was not as numerous as Lang Son, and they only obtained more than a thousand heads in total. level and nearly two thousand prisoners.
Gao pragmatism didn't care about this small amount of money, and he gave out the reward as usual with a wave of his hand. However, because the Battle of Gaoping was not as intense as the Battle of Lang Son, Cen Ling's extra bounty was half less than that of Huang Zhiting's tribe, only ten thousand taels. Gao Pragmatic also directly gave it to Cen Ling and asked him to distribute it. Just submit it for your own approval.
Cen Ling didn't have any objections, but he still joked: "Our West Guangxi wolf soldiers will not be able to make it to the Lang Son battle, but if we have to fight the Zheng army of the Li Dynasty next, we must not miss our West Route Army. We in the Western Route Army are extremely poor in terms of work, so we are just waiting to be rewarded based on our merits and earn a living."
Gao Pragmatic laughed and said: "As long as you have solid military exploits, you can be rewarded with silver."
In fact, he knew in his heart that whether it was Huang Zhiting's tribe or Cen Ling's tribe, the seizures after they captured Mo Chao's city were distributed by themselves. Even if Mo Chao was poor, they should still have some treasury accumulation. Now the two divisions should Some valuables were seized.
But Gao Pragmatic doesn't care about these. The biggest difference between the wolf soldiers and the official army is that the wolf soldiers are not paid, and the morale of the expedition mainly depends on looting. After all, no matter how strict the chieftain's rules are, they can only maintain military discipline, but not morale.
Besides, whether they have captured Lang Son, Changqing, Gaoping, or Xuan Quang, they are not considered to be wealthy places. Even if they grab some extravagant wealth, it is estimated to be limited, and most of them will not be able to get into the eyes of someone higher than him. Not to mention that Gao Pragmatic's main coveted areas in Annan are basically at the seaside or some places not far from the seaside. They can just let them take what they capture in the north.
Now that the two sides met and exchanged information, Cen Ling realized that the southern expedition was going so smoothly, especially for Gao Jue's troops. It was as smooth as listening to Dr. Tea's story.
After firing a few random cannons, the whole city of Thang Long City actually surrendered—oh, it should be said that the whole country surrendered.
Cen Ling couldn't help but feel envious, thinking that I had worked extremely hard, fighting from Gaoping to Tonghua, from Tonghua to Tuyen Quang, and from Tuyen Quang to Taiyuan for more than half a month. I thought that even if I didn't get the credit for the Lang Son battle, I would at least The battle in Taiyuan should be dominated by me.
Who would have thought that due to geographical reasons, such a prominent victory as the Battle of Lang Son was missed, and then Gao Jue unexpectedly attacked Thang Long and won the biggest success in pacifying Annam. This... is simply intolerable!
Now seeing that the battle of Taiyuan may also come to nothing, Cen Ling just wants to kick this good-for-nothing Mo Maoqia away - why the hell can't you hold on until I take Taiyuan and then surrender?
The cooked duck can still fly, what a bad luck!
Gao Wuzhi now has no time to take care of Cen Ling's mood. He just concentrated all the artillery at the south gate of Taiyuan according to the original plan, intending to show them a round of fireworks without saying anything...
Unexpectedly, before the artillery was in place, someone came out of Taiyuan City with a white flag. He nodded and bowed and said that he came to see Gao Gongdajia of the Guangxi Inspectorate on behalf of King Dunhou.
Gao pragmatically said: Who is King Dunhou? Why does this account seem a bit funny... Do you still have someone named Honest King?
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