In this Tangyin ambush battle, the two hundred horse bandits in Dongping Water Village were defeated by less than forty cavalrymen from the Beijing Security Team. When the news came out, it can be said that it shocked many surrounding children.
Dongping Water Village has a good reputation. It is not a gang in Henan, but a group of fierce bandits that originally occupied the territory of Dongping Prefecture in Shandong. Dongping Prefecture, this place name may sound unfamiliar to ordinary people, but if this place is said to be Liangshanbo in the Song Dynasty, then everyone would probably have to widen their eyes and say "I have admired it for a long time."
Yes, the most famous place in Dongping Prefecture is Liangshan Park, but the area of Liangshan Park at this time has dropped sharply, and it is no longer as vast as it was in the Song Dynasty.
Regarding the area of Liangshan Lake, there have been many doubts in later generations. It is pure nonsense to think that there is no "eight hundred miles of water park" in Shandong. In particular, Teng Yongzhen, the magistrate of Shouzhang County during the Tatar Qing Dynasty, said this hugely influential statement after conducting research:
"Liangshan belongs to Shouzhi Zhang, and the surrounding area of the mountain can be ten miles. The Water Margin is eight hundred miles around the clouds, that is, Songjiangzhai. There is a small wall on the hill. It is said that Zhang Huang's words are true, so that the stupid people in the world will not come to this place. I believe that However, this is not the case for people who have always been treacherous and treacherous. Because if you bring it out and tell the officials and gentlemen, and let everyone in the world know about it, it is not credible."
According to what Teng Yongzhen said, Liangshan was under the jurisdiction of Shouzhang. The mountain was not big, only about ten miles away. How could such a small mountain accommodate so many Liangshan soldiers and horses? Moreover, Songjiang Village is just a small wall on a hill. From this, it can be seen that the grand and magnificent Liangshan Mountains are all fake and are all compiled by experts.
Teng Yongzhen's words have influenced generations of people, so much so that many people in later generations believe that the Eight Hundred Miles of Liangshan Park does not exist and that it is just a fiction. But is this really the case?
In modern times, due to the development of science and technology, it has become more and more convenient for everyone to access knowledge. The statement that Liangshan Bo is fake has also been questioned more and more. Moreover, through various literature investigations, we also found many doubts.
According to research, there was actually a description of Liangshan Bo during the Song Dynasty. According to "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", from the Five Dynasties period to the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Yellow River had three major breaches. The river water reached the foot of Liangshan Mountain and formed an endless water pool, which was later called the Eight Hundred Mile Water Park. .
Han Qi, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, once wrote a poem titled "Mooring on the Liangshan Mountains". One of the lines is "The vast swamp is boundless, and all the boats can spend the day" - the huge water mooring can't be seen at a glance, which shows that it was indeed There is Liangshan Park.
However, due to the change of course of the Yellow River, the amount of water in Liangshanbo was constantly changing. According to the "Jin History" records, by that time, there was not much water in Liangshanbo. However, in the Yuan Dynasty, the Yellow River changed its course again, so floods came again in Liangshanbo.
Until the reign of Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, Liangshan Park was still eighty miles away. It can be seen that there was still a lot of water in Liangshan Park at that time. Later, during the Jingtai period of the Ming Dynasty, the court renovated the river course, and finally the water in Liangshanbo became less and less, so future generations will never see the eight hundred miles of water in the lake again.
But there is a saying here. Even if the court restructured the river course, Liangshan Lake at this time did not completely dry up to flat ground. It still had a certain range. What is the proof? Do you still remember that the gangster leaders of Dongping Water Village mentioned before that "Anshan Shuiyi" paid them protection fees? Na'an Shanshuiyi is one of the proofs.
The system of horse and water stations established by the Ming Dynasty was specifically mentioned in the previous article of this book, so I won’t repeat it here. To put it simply, since there is a water station in the local area, it means that the waterway is very smooth, at least it is smooth enough to allow long-distance boating.
how long? It runs through Shandong Province from north to south. Just this water post route connecting Anshan Water Post has the following water posts from south to north: Jiagou Water Post, Heqiao Water Post, Nancheng Water Post, Kaihe Water Post, Anshan Water Post, Jingmen Water Post, Chongmen Water Post Wu Shuiyi, Qingyang Shuiyi, Qingyuan Shuiyi, Dukou Shuiyi, Jiamaying Shuiyi, Liangjiazhuang Shuiyi and Ande Shuiyi.
It is precisely because at this time that although the area of Shuibo Liangshan was greatly reduced, it was still a skinny camel, so there were still water bandits until a few years ago.
They are called water bandits, but this is Shandong after all. Therefore, once these water bandits form a scale and become bigger and stronger, they will have entanglements with various horse bandits in Shandong. The result of this entanglement was either a conflagration or an alliance. In short, in the past twenty years, the Dongping Water Village was formed into a large bandit village that could eat both water and land.
But as luck would have it, the past twenty years happened to be a period of extremely rapid development for Jinghua, so the two sides quickly started working together.
To put it bluntly, Jinghua is actually a monopoly group spanning industry and commerce. What do you hate most about such an organization? Of course, I hate the person who makes it impossible to do business well. So there is no doubt that the large water and land gangs like Dongping Shuizhai are a nail that Jinghua must remove in Shandong.
However, in fact, Jinghua's process of pulling out this nail was not very smooth. There are naturally reasons for this. First of all, Jinghua at that time was mainly engaged in foreign trade. The overland routes were Tumut, Ordos, and the Jurchen tribes, and the sea was in the East and Nanyang. These were the main directions of Jinghua’s efforts in the early days. At that time, Shandong was invested Power is very limited.
When Gao Jingshi opened a shipyard in Laizhou, Shandong, Jinghua began to produce inland river ships. At the same time, it also slowly built a fleet of inland river ships and began to eliminate floods.
But this still has a process. In the early days, Jinghua's fleet mainly operated two lines in the Central Plains: the Yellow River line and the canal line. The other tributaries of the Yellow River and the Huaihe River were not taken into account for the time being.
About ten years ago, Jinghua's inland river transportation gradually began to spread on various tributaries, so it directly conflicted with Dongping Water Village. At this time, Jinghua's powerful ships and artillery mobilized more than 400 inland river gunboats for joint suppression, and easily wiped out the Dongping Water Village in one fell swoop. Not only did it severely hit the power of this bandit, but it also forced them to join the water and land gangs. Became a de facto horse bandit.
But something went wrong next. After being beaten with high technology, these people learned a lot and never fought head-on with Jinghua again. From then on, they broke into pieces and established a system similar to that of the Nian Army in the late Qing Dynasty. They seemed to be ordinary people at ordinary times, but at night, as long as they received orders from the leader, they immediately reverted to horse bandits.
Jinghua's business organization alone would not be able to deal with the methods of the horse bandits - it's not that they can't win, it's that they don't know who to fight. Therefore, after Gao Yongshi learned the news, he questioned the Ministry of Punishment as a cabinet minister and asked the Ministry of Punishment and all prefectures and counties in Shandong to conduct strict inspections to distinguish between good and evil, so as to eliminate the gangsters completely.
However, here comes the problem. The Ministry of Punishment is not the sphere of influence of the Real School. It has been controlled by the Heart School for many years. After Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue stepped down, they led the Ministry of Punishment...or to be more precise, the assistant minister who led the work of the Three Law Departments was who? Yes, it was Shen Yiguan.
At this point in the story, everything is connected, and it is easy to know what will happen next. Since Gao Pragmatic criticized Shandong's ineffective anti-bandit work by name and the Ministry of Punishment was partly responsible for it, Shen Yiguan had to do the superficial work regardless of whether he was happy or not, so he personally made arrangements.
After going back and forth, Shen Yiguan soon discovered the bright spot: all gangs in Shandong hated Jinghua and Gao Pragmatic extremely. They all believe that being pragmatic will not only cut off their financial path, but even their livelihood. They really want to eat the flesh of high pragmatism and sleep on its skin.
The enemy of the enemy is an ally. Although Shen Guanyi will naturally not regard "mere bandits" as allies, this is just like the Japanese Empire calling Japan and South Korea allies - it doesn't matter what they are called, as long as they can be used to wipe them out at any time. Butt, that's a good piece of toilet paper.
After Shen Guanyi discovered this, he didn't think about how to use them specifically at first. He just thought of some ways to get in touch with them, and then use them to interfere with Jinghua's trade network in the eastern and northern parts of Shandong and Henan. Just find something to cause trouble for Jinghua.
Not long ago, Gao Pangshi received the emperor's edict and was about to return to Beijing to report on his duties. Shen Yiguan also learned that the Queen was about to give birth. In order to prevent the worst situation from happening, Shen Yiguan, after testing Zhao Zhigao's mind, finally decided: it must be let's move.
Thus, there was this Tangyin ambush. It's just that Shen Guanyi never expected that even after controlling all the variables to a very small error, something so weird would happen that two hundred cavalry-year-old gangsters were completely defeated by less than forty cavalry Beijing security guards.
In fact, to put it bluntly, this is Shen Yiguang's own lack of knowledge, or a big problem that the entire Xin School currently has: they are too amateurish in military affairs.
These gangsters in Dongping Water Village are indeed fierce gangsters left behind by the Daliang Taosha. If you look at each of them individually, they are probably considered "jianghu masters". If they are allowed to compete one-on-one with the Jinghua Cavalry, the Cavalry is likely to Even one of them will fail miserably.
However, battle formations are not martial arts competitions. Battle formation martial arts and Jianghu martial arts are fundamentally two different systems.
"Battle formation martial arts" are divided into horse and dismount, mostly using knives and spears. In fact, cavalry and archery battle formations were often mentioned in the martial arts treatises of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and Yu Long and Qi Hu both discussed them in many ways.
It is characterized by being simple, direct, and easy to perform. In actual combat, it often pays more attention to the coordination of military formations than to individual martial arts, advancing without retreating, attacking directly forward, and less turning or vertical attack movements. Moreover, battle formation martial arts all involve holding weapons, and there is very little bare-handed battle formation martial arts training - except for wrestling, which is a compulsory course.
"Jianghu martial arts" originally originated from Jianghu fights. When it comes to real fights, usually there are enemies who have grudges against each other. When two enemies meet, there will always be death or injury. Needless to say, weapons are more lethal than fists and kicks, so they must be brought with them.
In this case, it is natural to copy the long-hand style instead of the short-hand style. If there is no one with a short face, then use a concealed weapon. If it is not possible, holding a handful of dirt is better than bare hands. In a real fight, you can say that you can do anything.
However, this often leads people to fall into some tricky thinking, always thinking about taking things by surprise, always thinking about defeating the enemy through moves, and ignoring that personal strength under the battle formation is completely insignificant. It seems that you turned sideways to avoid the knife in front of you, but maybe you just stretched your neck to catch the blade of another enemy.
When the results of Tangyin's ambush were reported back to the capital, Shen Yiguan was nervous for a while. Even though it was already the second day of the Lunar New Year, he was still prepared for Gao Pragmatic's violent counterattack.
However, unexpectedly, until the first dynasty of the new year, when Gao pragmatic met him, he was still the same as before. He smiled and showed no anger at all, and there was no such thing as hiding a knife in a joke or criticizing the mulberry tree. He seemed to be right. It was as if Tang Yin had no idea what was going on behind the ambush.
This situation made Shen Yiguan feel a little doubtful, wondering whether he really overestimated pragmatic political methods. Maybe...maybe the reason why Gao Pragmatic has been so successful in these years is really just because of his unparalleled sacred scrolls and achievements, rather than because of his superb political skills?
The reason why Shen Yiguan fell into doubt was of course not just because of Gao Pragmatic's reaction - Gao Pragmatic's reaction was to have no reaction at all.
In fact, Shen has always had such suspicions because he himself had indeed made a lot of preparations in case the incident came to light.
For example, although the people in Dongping Water Village may have known that Shen Yiguan was the person behind them and the person who could give them orders, there had never been any correspondence between the two parties, and there was absolutely no evidence in black and white.
For another example, Shen Yiguan, in order to arrange the "reasonable" appearance of gangsters in Dongping Water Village in eastern Shandong to appear in northern Henan, he deliberately launched a crackdown in eastern Shandong some time ago on the pretext of discovering the Dongping gang's lair.
He used the private letter from the cabinet minister (as mentioned earlier, this is a common practice for ministers to ask local officials to cooperate) and the official document from the Ministry of Justice to order several local governments in Shandong to send troops to carry out a ruthless sweep in that area, thus "running away" for the Dongping gang. "Zuo Eucalyptus" laid reasonable foreshadowing in advance. Even if Gao Pragmatic wants to be held accountable, he can still have an excuse - didn't you say before that the Ministry of Punishment and the Shandong local government were not doing their job well? Why is it wrong to suppress the gangsters now?
It is precisely because of this that Gao Jingshi's complete lack of reaction now makes Shen Yiguan think that Gao Jingshi really didn't see the secret and just thought it was the Dongping gang looking for an opportunity to seek revenge on Jinghua.
Of course, there may be some details here. For example, Gao Wuruo was not the party involved after all. He must have received Gao Wuruo's reward, so it may be that Gao Wuruo did not find out the reason and reported wrong news to Gao Wuruo.
In short, Gao Pingshi showed no reaction, and there was no movement in the Nanning Hou Mansion. Shen Yiguan finally felt relieved.
Now that he was relieved, Shen Yiguan became happy again, because although his purpose of arranging the Tangyin ambush battle seemed not to be achieved, in fact, more than half of it was achieved - it is reported that although the ambush battle ended with the victory of the Jinghua Cavalry, but Gao Wuruo himself was injured and had no choice but to temporarily move to Weihui and stay there to recuperate... It is said that His Highness King Lu sent someone to visit him.
This is success! After all, Shen Yiguan's purpose was to delay Gao Wuruo's move south to Xinzheng. As for killing him, it was just incidental. Now that Gao Wuruo is injured and stranded in Wei Hui, the assassination of Gao Zai and his wife will naturally be much easier to handle.
However, Shen Guanyuan did not expect that just three days before he felt relieved, Gao Wuruo had already disguised himself as an ordinary security team cavalryman, and Shi Shiran entered Longwen Yayuan.
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PS: I have some bad news. Starting from the 27th of this month, I will be very busy for about a week. During that time, I will only be able to update normally, and there is a high probability that I will not be able to make up for the debt. Well, everyone knows the economic situation this year...so I will try to make up for it before the 26th. If it is not finished, I will postpone it.
