Chapter 147: The Imperial Court Faints

Mizhi City, seeing that the thieves shrank their forces and took the initiative to abandon Qingjian and Suide, Cao Wenzhao and the others naturally sighed with a wry smile.

Originally, I still wanted to fence the clear stream and consume the thieves a little bit, but now this idea can only be stillborn. But if you can win the rice fat, it's a great achievement.

Cao Wenzhao and the three of them jointly expressed their merits to the imperial court, and on the other hand, they began to urge the rear to hurry up and send the supplies. Now Mizhi is simply a dead city, and the grain has long been transported away by Yuan Ma, if there is no food and grass supplement, do you have to learn from Yuan Ma to eat people?

Before coming, Tiemo thought about fighting to nourish the war, and quickly solve the battle. When I really fought, I realized that things were not simple.

Putting aside the matter of showing merit for the time being, Lou Daji still has another thing in mind, "Brother Tie, I heard that your people have laid down the Bai family compound?" ”

Cao Wenzhao didn't know what was boring inside, and glanced at Lou Daji in confusion. But what happened next was a bit unexpected.

At night, as soon as Cao Wenzhao returned to his residence, Cao Bianjiao entered the house and complained.

"Uncle, don't you know that Zhang Bei's ** actually swallowed all the materials looted by the rebellious party, which is extremely hateful....."

Without waiting for Cao Bianjiao to finish speaking, Cao Wenzhao slapped the other party and scolded: "You are quiet, do you think that if you are smart, others will not be able to see it?" The old man asked you, according to your meaning, what should you do with that batch of materials? ”

"Of course, it is to play the imperial court and return the rice fat to the people...."

"Huh..... In this way, the soldiers and horses of the three towns have worked hard and fought bloodily, what should the imperial court do? ”

"The court should be rewarded, and many people will be compensated....."

"Oh, you kid also know, is the court rich?"

"This ......"

Cao Bianjiao stared at each other, and was suddenly dumbfounded. But he just felt awkward, which seemed to be completely contrary to his previous education.

"Hmph, don't you have anything to say? Being a soldier also requires benefits, and if there is no benefit, who wants to run to Shaanxi to work hard? ”

"This ...... Uncle, aren't you? ”

Seeing Cao Wenzhao's strange eyes, Cao Bianjiao suddenly understood a little. Uncle must have participated in the distribution of spoils, so he was still stupidly thinking about being loyal to the monarch and patriotic.

.......

The soldiers and horses of the three towns seized Mizhi and then took control of Jiazhou, which seems to have made a breakthrough, but it will be difficult to make progress in the future. Occupying Qingjian and Suide is actually of little significance, the three towns add up to less than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and they also divide troops to occupy the prefectures and counties.

The most important thing is to destroy the main force of the rebellious party. If you want to make further progress, you must rely on the cooperation of friendly forces from other quarters, and the soldiers and horses of Ningxia and Guyuan towns must advance together and put pressure in the direction of Yan'an Prefecture.

Now tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the rebel party are gathered near Yan'an Mansion, and simply going all the way deep into the hinterland of Yan'an Mansion is likely to be besieged by the rebel party.

The soldiers and horses of the three towns of Xuanfu won a battle in Mizhi, which can be regarded as a good start. However, this victory is still a drop in the bucket for the situation in Shaanxi as a whole, and its effect is limited.

In the second year of Chongzhen, at the beginning of February, the three towns of Xuanfu and the towns of Ningxia and Guyuan divided into two roads and confronted Wu Yangui's rebellious party in the north of Yan'an Prefecture. At this time, Wang Jiayin, who was active in southern Shaanxi, was rapidly expanding his power, Wang Ziyong and Gao Yingxiang divided their troops into two ways, swept around Xi'an, and the chaotic party coerced the displaced people, and the number of people swelled rapidly from more than 40,000 to more than 100,000, and its momentum shocked Xi'an.

In the same month, Wang Daliang, the leader of the Hannan Rebellion Party, finally made a breakthrough after attacking Hanzhong for more than two months, and broke directly into Shangluo Road in southern Shaanxi to the north. At this time, in the whole of Shaanxi, except for a few towns in northern Shaanxi, where the elite of the border army pressed the formation, the situation was quite stable, and other places were already devastated, wailing everywhere.

Only a few days later, after the king of Hannan broke through to Shangluo Dao, the momentum was like a bamboo, and there were many responders, and the strength of the army swelled from more than 3,000 to 20,000. When the guerrilla general Gao Conglong was defeated and retreated to Tongguan, a chaotic party inserted from the rear and blocked the crossing of the Yellow River. Gao Conglong led 2,000 remnants of the army to resist desperately, but after all, he could not stop the progress of the chaotic party.

On February 11 of the second year of Chongzhen, the ice had not yet melted, and a bad news spread all over Shaanxi. King Liang of Hannan went straight to Tongguan along the Shangluo Road, fought hard along the Yellow River for six days, annihilated all the officers and soldiers, in this battle, the officers and soldiers lost more than 4,000 people, the guerrilla general Gao Conglong was killed in battle, and the head was hung on the bank of the Yellow River.

As soon as this incident came out, it shocked Shaanxi, and it also shocked the imperial court. In recent years, although civil unrest has broken out everywhere, most of them have fled in all directions, and often as soon as the officers and men arrive, they will chase after the rebellious parties.

And this time, the officers and soldiers of Shangluodao were completely annihilated, and the guerrilla general Gao Conglong, who led the troops to fight, was also killed on the bank of the Yellow River. It was the first time since the civil unrest that a guerrilla general had died on the battlefield.

This incident fully shows that today's chaotic party has an initial combat effectiveness, and it is no longer the rabble of the past, which will collapse at the touch of a button. Similarly, Gao Conglong's death in battle also told the generals from all walks of life that suppressing bandits is no longer an easy job to earn credit, and if you don't do it, you will be ruined and die on the battlefield.

Gao Conglong died in battle, Wang Daliang became a climate in Shangluo Road, and the pressure on the imperial court increased sharply. Soon, Liu Yingyu, the Shaanxi military garrison, was sent to Shangluo Dao, and at the same time, Wu Guofu, the governor of northern Sichuan, was also sent to Shangluo Dao.

Wu Guofu is a famous general in Sichuan, after three generations of emperors, he participated in the extermination of Yang Yinglong and the war of Liukou, and his military exploits were brilliant. Now that he is old, if it were not for special circumstances, the imperial court would not have mobilized this veteran in Sichuan.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the imperial court is in a hurry this time, hoping that Liu Yingyu and Wu Guofu will work together to annihilate Wang Daliang's chaotic party in Shangluo Road. You must know that now Hanzhong is also in chaos, and southern Shaanxi is even more chaotic. In this case, the imperial court ordered Liu Yingyu and Wu Guofu to attack Shangluodao in the north and south, which shows how much the imperial court hates Wang Daliang.

Although Wang Daliang was unable to advance or retreat and was full of dangers, it was a big trick for the entire battle situation.

As long as it is a general of Shaanxi to suppress bandits, they all know who the real disaster is. It was not Wang Daliang, but Wu Yangui and Wang Jiayin in northern and southern Shaanxi. As long as Wu Yangui and Wang Jiayin can be destroyed, although the civil unrest will not be suppressed, at least the momentum of the expansion of the Shaanxi chaotic party will be suppressed.

Not allowing Shaanxi troops to concentrate their forces to deal with Wang Jiayin, but going to Shangluo Road to exterminate Wang Daliang is purely a sacrifice to the end.

After the imperial court order was issued, Tiemo and others in northern Shaanxi also felt a great pressure. Wang Daliang slapped the court in the face too hard this time, if the court didn't exert its might, it would really become a sick cat.

Tie Mo was not concerned about the battle situation in Shangluodao, what he was afraid of was that the imperial court was eager to regain face and pacify Shaanxi, and would order all troops and horses to launch an attack as soon as possible.