Chapter 289: To each according to his needs

Wang Zuojiao really knows the peasant army, the peasant army seems to be strong, but in fact, several rebel soldiers and horses are kneaded together. The leaders of the various ministries have never given up the opportunity to become bigger, and things like annexation and being swallowed happen from time to time. In the final analysis, the internal strength of the righteous army is respected, if there is really no strength, Wang Ziyong and Zhang Dashou can still value him Zhang Cunmeng as before? Everything is unknown.

Under the sharp reduction in strength, what can resist Zhang Xianzhong? From raising the banner of rebellion to the present, Zhang Cunmeng, who has never encountered too many setbacks, really doesn't want to become a vassal of others, let alone die.

Wang Zuojiao had been paying attention to the change in Zhang Cunmeng's expression, and when he saw that the other party had not spoken for a long time, he knew that his words had played a role. So, he continued: "Zhang Xianzhong will repay this person, he is ruthless, if he gains power, he will not let you live." And staying in Hequ City is also a dead end. Brother Zhang, you have been in northern Shaanxi for more than two years, don't you know how to find a way to live for yourself? ”

Zhang Cunmeng's expression moved, and he said in a deep voice: "The surname is Wang, what do you mean?" ”

Wang Zuohang smiled slightly, "It's very simple, give Brother Zhang another choice, we don't have to fight, our army can let you lead the troops to evacuate the meander, and we will not send troops to pursue." ”

Zhang Cunmeng sneered: "When did the Living Hades King be so kind?" Tell me about your conditions....."

"The previous income from the Hetao and the materials in the city cannot be taken away, and of course, they cannot be deliberately destroyed! In fact, the reason is very simple, Brother Zhang needs to use the family funds accumulated in the past half a year to buy the lives of tens of thousands of brothers in the city, this deal should be very cost-effective, right? ”

"You ....."

Zhang Cunmeng felt a sense of suffocation, his eyes widened, and he couldn't believe his ears.

Blackmail, naked blackmail. Although the matter of Zhenxiwei was very secret, Zhang Cunmeng and others still knew something, but they didn't expect that not long after Zhang Cunmeng was knocked on a bamboo bar, it was his turn Zhang Cunmeng.

Although Wang Zuohang did not continue, Zhang Cunmeng had a feeling that he had been seen through. The trick of the Living Hades King replicated the trick he used in Zhenxiwei before, but he knew this, but he didn't dare to refuse directly. Compared with strength, those materials and money are not so important, as long as you have soldiers and horses in your hands, you can grab them in the future. But if he suffered too many casualties in Hequ City and was almost completely annihilated, his situation in the Northern Shaanxi Righteous Army would be very dangerous.

I can have today's strength, which is the result of annexing other rebel armies. Under the mutual annexation, the people under their hands may not be in any danger to their lives, but the leaders have absolutely no way to live. Zhang Cunmeng hated Wang Zuohang, this person knew too well the situation inside the rebel army. For a while, the two sides fell into silence, Zhang Cunmeng did not express his position, and Su Baisheng did not dare to interject at will.

After a long time, Wang Zuo smiled secretly in his heart, since Zhang Cunmeng couldn't pull his face, he might as well give him another heavy blow, "Brother Zhang, you should be glad that only Wang is the only one who entered the city this time, if a large number of soldiers and horses enter the city, do you think we can still sit here and chat calmly?" In fact, the iron commander, like you, doesn't want to lose too much because of the Hetao. ”

With a buzz, Zhang Cunmeng only felt that his chest was pounded hard, and his face became extremely ugly. I had been entangled in the negotiation before, but I ignored the fact that Wang Zuo was hanging into the city. Now that I think about it, I can't help but be a little afraid. Wang Zuojiao can easily enter the city, which means that there are people in Hequ City, and this person or several people have a high status. What will be the consequences if the other side secretly raises troops and opens the city gates to welcome the officers and soldiers into the city?

Thinking about it, a layer of cold sweat climbed on Zhang Cunmeng's back, and Su Baisheng's face turned even pale, almost blurting out, "Who is that person?" ”

As soon as he finished asking, Su Baisheng was stunned on the spot, and sure enough, Wang Zuo raised his eyebrows, and glanced at Su Baisheng as if he was looking at an idiot. However, Wang Zuojiao ignored Su Baisheng, but said to Zhang Cunmeng: "Brother Zhang, please believe that Wang is here with sincerity." As long as Brother Zhang agrees to this exchange, Wang will leave Brother Zhang's internal troubles behind. Hequ City was broken by the inside and outside, Brother Zhang had no choice but to retreat to Yan'an Mansion, our department because of the previous excessive loss, did not risk the pursuit, in this way, the iron general soldiers had an explanation to the imperial court, and Brother Zhang did not lose anything on the side of Wang Ziyong. ”

Wang Zuohang's words almost disguised as admitting that there was his own old department in Hequ City, and this old department was very strong and could affect the battle situation in Hequ City. Similarly, he also conveyed a signal that as long as Zhang Cunmeng is willing to conclude this deal, he will keep his old department and leave no hidden dangers for Zhang Cunmeng.

So far, Zhang Cunmeng has to agree if he agrees, and he has to agree if he doesn't agree. is really worthy of being one of the three kings of the righteous army, how many old departments are there in Wang Zuohang, who knows? After a few years of development, the rebel army has long been disrupted, especially after Wu Yangui was exterminated by the imperial court, the soldiers and horses of various departments have become more chaotic, and the source has long been lost.

Zhang Cunmeng would not suspect that Wang Zuohang would lie, he didn't have to, and with Wang Zuohang's influence in the righteous army, it was not surprising that there were old troops left.

Wang Zuojiao did not leave Hequ City, but stayed, and as for the matter of transmitting the message, he had someone else to handle it. Wang Zuohang never left the county government from beginning to end, which made Zhang Cunmeng very annoyed, and his desire to use the opportunity to find the internal spy was gone. Similarly, Zhang Cunmeng also understood that there was also Wang Zuohang's eyeliner in the county ya.

The more I think about it, the more scared I become, the more I feel that Hequ City can't stay, Suide is the nest of Wang Zuohang, and now how many people Wang Zuohang has in this place, I really can't say. Looking at this situation, as long as Wang Zuohang is willing, he can send someone to wipe his neck at any time, and the success is not small.

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The next day, the two sides died down, but in the evening the situation changed. Wu Shide, the leader of the peasant army stationed in the southern city, suddenly counterattacked and opened the north gate, and then Wu Shide led more than 3,000 people to act as the leading party, leading the officers and soldiers to quickly occupy the entire northern city of Hequ. For a time, there was a great chaos in Hequ City, Zhang Cunmeng led his troops to flee from Hequ from the east, and retreated south along the hilly area, because the sky was too dark, and the hilly area was not suitable for cavalry, the officers and soldiers gave up the idea of pursuit.

Lonely Mountain Ridge, the stretching hills extend to the northwest of Fugu for twenty miles, and on the long hills, a huge army of soldiers and horses walks slowly. The dawn of dawn broke through the clouds and shone on panicked faces.

Zhang Cunmeng followed at the back of the line, and he glanced back in the direction of Hequ City from time to time. Last night seemed to be lively, but in fact the two sides did not fight, but even so, there were still more than 4,000 fewer soldiers and horses under his command. Where those 4,000 people went, you can imagine with your ass. It is worthy of Wang Zuohang, who took away more than 4,000 brothers as soon as he appeared. I am very glad that the living king of Hades does not want to suffer too many casualties, otherwise, Wang Zuo raised his arms and shouted, these more than 4,000 people suddenly became troubled, and they came to meet with each other, then the fate of his Zhang would be miserable.

Zhang Cunmeng made up his mind, after going back this time, the first thing to do was to break up the existing establishment and prevent the incident in Hequ City from happening again.

"I didn't expect it to be the Flying Tiger Wu Shide, he turned out to be Wang Zuohang's old department" Zhang Cunmeng had the impression that Wang Zuohang didn't like to take power, so the real old department under Wang Zuohang's command was a big thief Miao Mei. However, the Shaanxi thief Wang Miao Mei also followed Wang Zuojiao to vote for the living Hades at that time, who would have thought that in addition to Miao Mei, Wu Shide was also Wang Zuohang's person.

Flying Tiger Wu Shide was born in Mizhi, which can be regarded as Wang Jiayin's big leader, after Wang Jiayin was killed, he took refuge in Wang Ziyong, and later fell under his Zhang Cunmeng. Wu Shide fought bravely and valued love and righteousness, so he was entrusted with a heavy task by Zhang Cunmeng and asked him to guard the southern city wall where the officers and soldiers were assembled. I really didn't expect that Wu Shide would be Wang Zuohang's person.

The matter of Hequ City quickly spread throughout northern Shaanxi, and Wang Ziyong and others did not know the details, so it was difficult to understand the matter. Zhang Cunmeng still has more than 40,000 troops in his hands, guarding a meandering city, how can it be taken down by officers and soldiers in two days? Two days later, Zhang Cunmeng led the defeated army of Hequ City to withdraw to Ansai City, and at this time, the details of Hequ City were only known. When he learned about the incident in Hequ City, Zhang Da was so frightened that he couldn't blame Zhang Cunmeng.

Wu Shide led the crowd to rebel against the water and let go of the city gate, if he didn't evacuate in time, I am afraid that the 40,000 army can be left with 10,000 people. In Yan'an City, Zhang Dashou leaned over, his eyes were shining, "Wang Zuohang, he is really the scum of my generation, if it weren't for him, why would the Hetao Plain be lost so quickly?" ”

Zhang Cunmeng was able to lead the crowd to withdraw in time, Wang Ziyong and Zhang Dashou were naturally relieved, but there was one person who was very unhappy, and this person was Zhang Xianzhong in Mizhi City. Zhang Xianzhong has been looking forward to the officers and soldiers fighting Zhang Cunmeng to the death, and it is best for both sides to lose both, but the result is that the thunder is heavy and the rain is small.

Zhang Xianzhong was very unwilling, in order to save the Hetao and help Zhang Cunmeng, he sent heavy troops to attack Yinzhou Pass, and finally suffered heavy casualties, and even Sun Kewang folded there. Zhang Cunmeng, who suffered heavy injuries and should have been worse than himself, actually pulled most of the soldiers and horses back to Ansai City, is this too unfair?

Who is the Living Hades? That's the master who meets the skin, and he Zhang Cunmeng can easily retreat under the nose of the living Hades? Zhang Xianzhong didn't believe Zhang Cunmeng's nonsense, and the things in Hequ City were a little boring.

With the fall of Hequ City, the situation in northern Shaanxi has also changed dramatically. After learning the news, the officers and soldiers of Shaanxi, who had originally stormed Ganquan City, suddenly retreated, and under the command of Hong Chengchou, the officers and soldiers withdrew again and again, and even took the initiative to abandon Linzhou and retreat to Yuhua Mountain to garrison. At the same time, Chen Qiyu's Xi'an Mansion army also gave up the attack and took the initiative to retreat back to Xianyang City.

The retreat of the officers and soldiers directly disrupted all the deployments of Wang Ziyong. Originally, he wanted to take advantage of Zhang Cunmeng's return and concentrate his forces to defeat the officers and soldiers near Ganquan City first, but who would have thought that the officers and soldiers would take the initiative to withdraw and withdraw from Baili as soon as they withdrew. Heavy troops went to attack Yuhua Mountain, and Wang Ziyong was not stupid to such a point.

Yan'an Mansion, Zhang Dashou, Zhang Cunmeng and others gathered together, all at a loss, Zhang Yichuan said with a dark face: "What the hell are the officers and soldiers doing, they have just laid down the entire Hetao, and their morale is booming, shouldn't they strike while the iron is hot and attack Ganquan City and Ansai City?" How can you say that you will withdraw it? ”

Things were so weird that Zhang Dashou didn't dare to take the opportunity to go out of the city to pursue.

How did Zhang Dashou know that at this time, the border troops of Xuanfu and Datong Mansion were also exhausted, especially the cavalry and artillery under Tiemo, the cavalry was almost spinning, one by one they were tired to death, and the artillery was even more miserable, and there were less than ten shells left in the hands of the Agni Battalion. The logistical supplies couldn't keep up, the accumulated shells were almost empty, and the workshop couldn't replenish them for a while.

The cavalry can't run, the artillery has no shells, to put it bluntly, the border troops in the Hetao can't move, and they need time to rest.

As for Hong Chengchou and others, it is better understood. Wang Ziyong has a peasant army of more than 100,000, and his strength should not be underestimated. Now that the Hetao has been taken down, there is no need to die in Ganquan City. Hong Chengchou and Cao Wenzhao were not yet carried away by the victory in front of them, they knew very well that the forces in their hands were not enough to take the initiative to attack the peasant army.

Even if the border army in the northern Hetao cooperated with the north and south to attack, they still couldn't gnaw the hard bone of the king himself. There is definitely no way to fight, it is better to withdraw as soon as possible, if Zhang Cunmeng is allowed to increase his troops, it will not be easy to withdraw at that time.

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Yuhua Mountain, the breeze is coming, and the sun is warm. Hong Chengchou was dressed in a red robe, looking radiant and radiant.

"Hetao has finally been taken down, and it can be regarded as an explanation to the imperial court, if the imperial court can increase a large number of troops in Shaanxi, it is not impossible to take this opportunity to destroy the bandit used by Wang himself. Pity....... It's a pity ......."

Hong Chengchou seemed a little unwilling, but Cao Wenzhao was very satisfied with the current result, "Lord Hong, in fact, you and I are very clear that it is very rare to have such a situation. You must know that it is not easy for the Iron General Soldier and the Man General Soldier to fight. As for the increase in troops in Shaanxi, it can only be a luxury in a short period of time, and you also know the situation of Xuanfu and Datong Mansion, especially Xuanfu, after a series of fierce battles, there has been no rest, and this time it is also the iron general soldier who gritted his teeth and pulled out his troops and horses to rush over......"

"What's more, the situation in Henan seems to be very bad, and the imperial court must protect Henan's ...... first."

Hong Chengchou frowned, instantly adding a bit of sadness.

Everything is just as Cao Wenzhao said, when the good news from northern Shaanxi arrived in the capital, the entire Ming court became nervous because of another matter. At this moment, the eyes of the imperial court have no time to take care of the erosive land of Shaanxi.

On April 28 of the third year of Chongzhen, Gao Yingxiang of the peasant army, with Li Yangchun as the main general, led an army of 20,000 to besiege Nanyang City, which finally opened the prelude to the peasant army entering Henan.

Almost the day after Nanyang City was besieged, Xiangyang City reacted. Xiangyang garrison Huang Lin led more than 5,000 troops to aid Nanyang, not surprisingly, in Xinye was ambushed by Li Zicheng's department, Huang Lin was defeated, and could only retreat to Xiangyang.

The soldiers and horses of Xiangyang were repulsed, and at this time, the soldiers and horses of other states and counties near Nanyang were a group of rabble, and for a time Nanyang City was in turmoil, and it seemed that it was only a matter of time before it fell.

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