Chapter 67 The Duke of Wei enters the state city

Fang Jin's troubles had not yet reached the Jingshi, but Wei Guogong was troubled because of the appointment of the Jingshi.

Xu Xianzong, the Duke of Wei, is now in his twenties, and there are some old ministers and generals around him. But he has never experienced a battle. Although Zhu Qizhen was afraid that he would make a mistake, he specially asked Jinyiwei, who passed on the decree, to explain the matter to him in private, and his biggest task in the past was to coordinate the three provinces to fight.

You can't beggar-thy-neighbor, like enemies with each other.

As long as he can cooperate with the battle, limit Ye Liuzong's range of activities, and trap him in the mountains, even if he can't be wiped out for a while, it's nothing.

The imperial court is ready to transfer the second batch of reinforcements from Beijing, this batch of reinforcements is led by Guo Deng, and it is expected that they will probably be able to reach the battlefield in the second half of the year.

When the time comes, the matter can be handed over to Guo Deng to do.

He's in charge.

But even so, Wei Guogong didn't know what to do. He adopted the advice of the general, the soldiers are fast, no matter what they do, they must reach the battlefield first.

Demonstrate an attitude of diligence in the affairs of the king.

Therefore, Wei Guogong hurriedly ordered 15,000 soldiers from the Nanjing battalion. Starting from Nanjing, go around to Jinhua and go straight to the city of Chuzhou.

And at this moment, Ye Liuzong was under the city of Chuzhou, and he had been besieging it for several days.

It's like Ye Liuzong attacking Jianning Mansion, he can't capture Jianning Mansion, and he can't capture Chuzhou City, in fact, if a county town must be defended, Ye Liuzong can't attack it. The siege ability of Ye Liuzong's department is not something that can be exercised for a while.

It's just that it's not that Ye Liuzong's department has no harvest.

His greatest gain was that he coerced a lot of miners, and the army jumped from more than 10,000 to 20,000.

Even seeing the Wei State Office coming over, Ye Liuzong was not afraid, and fought with the Wei State Office under the city of Chuzhou.

The two sides fought for two hours, and the battle was extremely fierce.

But militarily speaking, the two sides are like two men's football teams, looking like they are running all over the field, but in fact, there is not much effective attack.

Wei Guogong thought that he had 15,000 men under his command, and that was according to the number of soldiers. However, at least one-tenth of the soldiers and horses under his command had a higher body shortage, which Wei Guogong did not know.

This is also the reason why the center of the Ming Dynasty has not thought about transferring troops to the south to quell the chaos.

Therefore, the Wei State Office is actually a little more than 10,000, but Ye Liuzong's department is a real 20,000 people, of which more than 10,000 people are not badly equipped. In addition, along the way, weapons were seized from various prefectures and counties, and at least 10,000 people were armed.

As for the rest, although they are all things with bamboo guns and wooden shields, the shouting and cheering are still good.

So once he gets up, although Wei Guogong will not be able to command, the generals in Wei Guogong's family are still good, and they don't dare

It's said how wonderful the formation is, but after all, there is a rule.

And Ye Liuzong has exercised some skills in actual combat. However, in the face of ineffective command below, the numerical superiority of 20,000 people could not be fully brought into play.

After Ye Liuzong found that he was not capable of winning, he took the initiative to retreat.

Wei Guogong only sought no fault and did not seek merit, and stationed in the city of Chuzhou. For a while, the people of Chuzhou were at ease. have reported to the so-called state victory.

Wei Guogong also remembered his mission, and immediately ordered the Fujian and Jiangxi sides to send people to listen to the order in front of him.

Zhejiang was busy with the plague, Wei Guogong directly controlled the neighboring prefectures and counties, and Jiangxi also sent a Tongzhi from Guangxin Mansion, but Yang Gong from Fujian.

Because after the victory of Jianning Mansion, Yang Gong was rewarded for meritorious deeds, and after Yang Gong was a loyal minister, he made meritorious contributions, and he was reinstated as the Tongzhi of Jianning Mansion to help exterminate Ye Liuzong.

This is a great opportunity for Yang Gong.

The reason is very simple, Yang Gong has no fame, and if he has fame, he will not inherit the Yin Guan. Without fame, even if he has Yang Rong's political legacy, he will not be able to go far in the imperial court.

He originally decided to be a squire in the family for the rest of his life, and to provide his younger brother and son as a jinshi in order to revive the family.

But Ye Liuzong's rebellion gave Yang Gong another way, that is, military merit.

During the Orthodox years, civil officials and nobles were generally balanced. Especially after Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, he intended to maintain this balance.

For Yang Gong, it is okay to become a civil official and a military general.

Yang Rong's connections in military generals are actually more than those in civilian officials.

Not to mention anything else, Yang Xin may not know, but Yang Gong knows that Yang Hong was also Yang Rong's person at the beginning. Even the middle hall enshrined in Yang Hong's house was written by Yang Rong.

This kind of politically meaningful thing, Yang Hong will not know what is going on?

Although Yang Gong has been sealed as a fellow at the moment, as long as he makes meritorious contributions in the future, he may be able to play in the imperial court and replace civil officials with military generals.

You can also get a hereditary commander or something.

This is the wealth of the Yang family.

Therefore, Yang Gong was quite desperate in the matter of exterminating Ye Liuzong.

Wei Guogong gathered all parties in the state government and said: "The government of this country obeys the order of His Majesty to control the three provinces. What are the measures of the provinces? ”

"Bingguogong." Yang Gong said: "Xiaguan has called on all counties to set up cards on the road, from Xianxialing to Tongpan Mountain, there are five thousand soldiers waiting for them, once the thieves return to Fujian, they will be blocked from the provincial border, even if they can't, they can be dragged and waited for the army to suppress." ”

Wei Guogong asked the Tongzhi of Guangxin Mansion and said, "How is Guangxin Mansion preparing?" ”

Tongzhi of Guangxin Mansion immediately got up and said, "Bingguo Gong."

Before coming, the prefect was ready, and he would never let the thieves enter Jiangxi. ”

"Okay." Wei Guogong said: "As long as you are sincere to the country, what is a mere leaf thief?" Then Wei Guogong said: "I have mobilized Jinhua, Quzhou 20,000 people and horses to go south, converge with my own people, a total of 40,000 people, closely behind the thieves, and wait for the front to arrange the copper wall and iron wall, will definitely be able to force the thieves back to the Xianxia Ridge, so that the four sides are surrounded, so that he can not escape." ”

It was more than a hundred miles west of Wei Guogong.

Ye Liuzong was also discussing the change of situation.

One after another news came to Ye Liuzong, Ye Liuzong looked at it, smiled lightly and said, "It seems that this grandfather wants to eat me in one bite." ”

Ye Xiba said: "What about the eldest brother? The imperial court has already used the people of the three provinces? ”

Ye Liuzong said: "Don't be in a hurry, what if he mobilizes 100,000 horses? The only people who can really engage us are more than 10,000 people. ”

Ye Liuzong was not frightened by the people of the imperial court.

After a few battles, Ye Liuzong has already discovered it, no matter how many people there are. In many cases, what really determines the victory or defeat is the victory or defeat between thousands of people.

If you win at such a critical juncture, you don't have to fight the rest.

And as Ye Liuzong said, not to mention, these 50,000 horses did not gather together at all, and there was a chance for him to break through, even if they were all together. Ye Liuzong may not feel that he cannot win.

This is the confidence that the battle of Chuzhou gave him.

The battle of Chuzhou let him know that the original Ming Nanjing battalion was nothing more than that.

Although they are fighting in formation, they may not be the opponents of these horses, but why should they fight with them in a dignified manner, at the junction of Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Fujian provinces, there are many mountains.

Any ravine is a good place for ambush.

As long as the battlefield is chosen, even if 50,000 horses come together, Ye Liuzong will not dare to fight.

Chen Gongshan said: "Big brother, no matter what, we can't stay here anymore. Hurry up and get food. ”

Ye Liuzong sighed lightly, this is Ye Liuzong's biggest problem.

Nothing else, but a growing shortage of soldiers and horses.

When there were a few thousand people, it was enough to eat for a long time to grab a county seat, but now there are 20,000 people, and it is only two or three months to fight a county seat.

This is considered the time to prepare for war, march, and fight. Even if you don't count the front and back interceptions of the official army, there is not much time left for Ye Liuzong.

Ye Liuzong said: "Okay, the army is heading west, and the destination is here." Ye Liuzong's finger pointed to the place in Guangxin Mansion in Jiangxi Province on the map.

Ye Liuzong knew very well that if he didn't hit his body, the government wouldn't know that it hurt, so the official layout that had not been beaten, no matter how strict it was, was like a piece of window paper.