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It was close to the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and it was already about to enter autumn, but the autumn rain was falling in the mountains of western Henan.

The cold rain and autumn wind drifted into the Ming army camp that stretched for dozens of miles, and the atmosphere in the barracks was dull and depressing.

From Sun Chuanting's supervising standard Chinese army camp to Gao Jie, Niu Chenghu and others' military camps in various towns in Shaanxi. Among the tens of thousands of camp tents of the Shaanxi New Army, the camp tents that cannot be seen at a glance, and the people who came and went in and out in the past were all high-spirited, but these days they are depressed, as if they are dead.

A terrible news spread among the battalions and towns at the speed of a plague outbreak, "You know! Our grain channel was cut off by a tiger Li Guo! ”

"Lingbao, Lu's, Lushan and other places have a large stream of elite Kou haunted! Lingbao and Lu's county town were taken away by the rogues, and at present, the thieves everywhere are coercing the good people, rushing to repair the fortifications, digging up the roads, and completely cutting off our road back to Shaanxi! ”

Lingbao, Lushi and other county towns were recaptured by the Liukou, and the back road of the grain road leading to Tongguan by the army of western Henan was cut off by the Liukou, how not to make these people worried? Since ancient times, the army has collapsed without food, which is a famous saying for the ages. What's more, not long ago, there was an example of Liaodong Hong's Inspector.

Gao Jie, Niu Chenghu and others were a little panicked in their hearts.

All the generals couldn't believe it after hearing it at first, didn't they originally say that we came out of Tongguan to copy the back road of the thieves? Isn't it said that several big leaders of the thieves, Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai, Liu Zongmin, Lao Huihui and others are all in Huguang, fighting with Zuo Liangyu and fighting for the territory of the four mansions of De'an and Chengtian, and there is no main force of thieves in Henan? Why did we suddenly have a tiger in our back? And cut off our food routes?

Impossible, impossible! This must be a rumor! It must have been that I drank too much last night and haven't woken up yet!

However, one bad news after another followed.

Zuo Liangyu was defeated from Xiangyang to Wuchang. Yuan Zongdi led tens of thousands of elite horsemen to stab out, and Zuo Liangyu was caught off guard. De'an, Chengtian, Zhongxiang, Jingzhou and other land of fish and rice have all fallen into the hands of the Liukou. Right now, the leaders of the thieves and the rebellious scum Tian Jianxiu, Li Yan, Li Yu, Wu Xing and others are sending thieves and pseudo-officials to various prefectures and cities to manage various cities. extort the good people from the thieves.

Hanshui has become an inland river for thieves! All kinds of food, equipment, soldiers and horses can use the convenience of water transportation to fly back and forth! Allocation is even more convenient!

Such news kept coming, and people had to accept such a cruel reality, "We were originally out of Tongguan to hit others by surprise." But he rushed out of Tongguan, but he fell into the pit dug by others! ”

Right now, it has been proven that the soldiers and horses who are on the edge of this pit are Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai and others!

The camp is getting more and more panicked!

Zuo Liangyu, who has always been known as the general of the army, was beaten and fled by a partial division of the thieves, but we are facing the elite soldiers and horses led by the leaders of the thieves, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai, how can we be opponents? !

In desperation. In order to save morale, Sun Chuanting had to convene the generals to discuss the matter.

Whether to continue to stay in Henan to defeat the thieves, or to return to Shaanxi as soon as possible before the thieves and thieves formed a siege was the purpose of Sun Chuanting's convening of the generals.

However, Sun Chuanting was very disappointed, but unexpectedly got a result.

"Governor, right now our army is lone among the thieves. The whole army only has seven or eight days of food and grass, if it is not killed back to Tongguan as soon as possible. Open up the grain road, I am afraid that the collapse of Liaodong will be repeated in Henan! ”

"That's it! Even if I save the food and grass I carry in the barracks, I can only eat for eight days! This ghost weather, in the past, Henan was in a drought for many years, and it may not rain for a few years, so we got here. The rain is coming! It is difficult to transport grain and grass, so there is no grain and grass in everyone's camp! ”

The generals talked about the problem of lack of food in their camp, hoping that Sun Chuanting could send grain and grass to alleviate it for the time being. If there is no food that can supply the army to defeat Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai, then we should hurry back to Shaanxi as soon as possible, so as not to be made dumplings in Henan.

He commanded the Beijing camp and acted as Sun Chuanting's Tang general who supervised the standard Chinese army. Maintain a detached attitude towards such arguments. If you want to fight, I'm not afraid, I'm the supervising standard of the Chinese army, and I belong to the last team to play. If you want to go, I will accompany you. And I have a lot of horses in my team, so I'm not afraid to go. Even if it's a war, you may not be able to fight better than us!

General Tang also knew the reason why these general soldiers were arguing about the lack of food in the camp and had to leave immediately. According to the regulations of the battalion system of the Ming army, when going out to fight, field rations such as rice and coal frying must be brought for more than seven days. In his camp, he did not like the dry rice that was boiled in water, exposed to the sun, repeated several times, soaked in hot water and cooked until it was cooked, and even more so the hard salt cubes and vinegar cloths. What they kept in the camp were some fried coals, fried rice, and a large amount of dried meat and porcelain jars made with sesame oil. It can be supplied for at least five to ten days for the whole army.

Originally, when Sun Chuanting was in Shaanxi, he also prepared a seven-day edible coal fry for the army as dry food according to the number of people, but after Niu Chenghu, Zheng Jiadong and others' clever minds analyzed, anyway, now that the back road is constantly transporting grain and grass supplies, these general soldiers naturally feel that those coal fried and rice are useless and cumbersome, and disposing of them can not only exchange for a lot of money, but also free up carts and horses to transport the things obtained by the thieves in the future, which is a lot of things in one fell swoop!

As a result, several general soldiers of Shaanxi soldiers and horses sold all the field rations such as coal fried in their respective battalions. As for the buyers! Although it is said that it is said that the squires in western Henan are squires who form villages to protect themselves, how can there be squires in western Henan who speak a northern Shaanxi dialect? Let's not care about this, as long as they give real money!

"Now because of the rain, the roads are muddy and difficult to walk, and it is difficult to carry heavy grain and grass, but the wild wolves bite the sick lambs. In order to preserve the efforts of the adults and keep the last bank of the emperor, the thieves asked the governor to give a decisive order to return to Shaanxi. After the autumn is cool, my sergeant is full of horses. It's not too late to go out and fight to the death with the thieves! ”

Seeing that everyone was unanimously supporting Niu Chenghu's proposition, Sun Chuanting had no choice but to agree.

"General Gao, your cavalry has always been strong, so he ordered your department to be the vanguard to open the way for the army. Be sure to kill the thief Li Guo's department! ”

Gao Jie had a sad face, as a newly promoted chief soldier. Most of the soldiers under his command were the old clan relatives of the original He Maniac He Renlong, and they were polite and respectful to him on the surface, but their thoughts were yang and yin. But to lead such a group of men and horses to fight against a tiger Li on the opposite side? This is obviously sending my Gao Jie to the tiger's mouth!

Sure enough, after walking a short distance in the direction of the Lu clan, news came from the forward scout that he had encountered the rogue sentry!

In the past, He Guoying and others, who were known as brave and brave, also became cowering in front of the thousands of cavalry who silently rushed out of the mountains and forests and behind the mountain roads.

A shout: "Withdraw!" The more than 1,000 elite cavalry of the Shaanxi Ming Army turned their horses' heads together and galloped wildly on the road.

But the cavalry of the rebel army did not wave their troops and pounce, nor did they shout and rush to kill. Just urge the war horse under the crotch and pounce slowly. If there were small groups of Ming cavalry that had fallen behind, or someone who tried to stop the rout and counterattack, they would split up several squads to eat these scattered teams in one bite.

The whole situation is like a wolf pack culling a lamb, not in a hurry, but to create chaos and cowardice before swallowing the stomach in one gulp.

Several small units were wiped out one by one, which further intensified the rout of the more than 1,000 cavalry. If it weren't for Gao Jie's quick opportunity, he would have lined up in the rear as soon as possible. With thousands of soldiers and horses lined up in formation, and more than 1,000 cavalry on both wings cruising back and forth to guard, the pursuing cavalry saw that the Ming army on the opposite side had been prepared, so they had to slowly gather the men and horses, and observed from a distance of several miles, He Guoying and others secretly shouted, "Lao Tzu's life is big!" "Turn the horse's head around Gao Jie's military formation. Only then did he barely catch the defeated army.

However, this is not the end of the matter.

The division was unfavorable and returned in defeat. Naturally, Sun Chuanting wanted to find someone to come down the stairs. However, this step naturally cannot be borne by Gao Jie, the chief soldier. First, he was the person sent by Sun Chuanting to receive the old department of He Renlong. Naturally, it needs to be maintained. In the two, he was not chaotic in the battle, and he commanded and dispatched well, preventing the men and horses from continuing to expand the results of the camp, and also preventing the entire forward from being defeated by the camp, which can be said to be meritorious.

Pulling and pulling, only a few officers in the forward are just the right size, wide and narrow, fat and thin. However, he could only pull out He Guoying, who was defeated first, and beat twenty military sticks to set an example. "If there is a next time, I will definitely kill your head and think that it will be an example for the whole army!"

After fighting He Guoying, Sun Chuanting naturally still had to discuss the current military situation with Zheng Jiadong, Niu Chenghu, Gao Jie and others.

Now that all the scouts have returned, the military situation is quite unfavorable to Sun Chuanting. "To the east is Cao Cao's more than 20,000 cavalry, and the number of infantry is unknown. Due north is Li Zicheng's more than 30,000 cavalry, led by a tiger Li Guo, and several thieves who broke into the camp are in the capital. Li Zicheng held down the position for him in the back. The number of infantry artillery pieces is unknown. To the south, it is said that Liu Zongmin, the general of the thieves, also led Lao Huihui, Ge Liyan and other soldiers and horses to the north in the starry night, and more than 10,000 light horsemen have arrived in Luoyang. ”

"Governor, our hundreds of thousands of people are cramped in two or three counties in the western Henan region, and the soldiers and horses cannot be used, let alone the soldiers, and the soldiers have been here for a long time, and it is difficult to find firewood, grass, oil and salt. Now it's raining for days, there is a lack of firewood and grass, and the soldiers can't even eat a meal, how can they fight a war when they are hungry?! ”

"That's it! Governor, in the end of the general, let's just fight to the east, that area is open, Cao Cao is a slippery ghost, and he will definitely not fight with us! Moreover, to the east, there is food in all the prefectures and counties along the way, and it is very easy to supply the army! ”

"To the east? Our soldiers are all children of Shaanxi Guanzhong! If you take them to the east, will it be possible to lose your hometown in Shaanxi to Li Chuang? If this word spreads, the military heart will be completely destroyed overnight! Only to the west! Kill a way and enter Tongguan! Back to Shaanxi! ”

Gao Jie and several other general soldiers expressed their opinions in front of the superintendent Sun Chuanting, arguing with red faces, all of them were leading soldiers, and they were on the battlefield of life and death, and the bits and pieces that were naturally unclean came out of their mouths, what "you are an ancestor", "donkey ball", "day your sister" and other various swear words jumped out of their mouths again and again, and Sun Chuanting really couldn't listen to it, grabbed the tiger guts on the handsome case, and hit hard.

There was a loud "snap" sound, which suddenly quieted down several of the general soldiers present.

"To the east. Not feasible. Sun Chuanting first rejected the idea of marching eastward.

"Although Cao Cao is a slippery head, Bendu has dealt with him for many years, and this person uses soldiers like a gambling stick on the table. Once he sees the opportunity, he will not hesitate to put all the capital up. You can think about it, all these years. How many generals and ministers in the imperial court were defeated and killed under his Cao Cao? ”

"Not to mention that our army is all the children of Sanqin, and the homesickness is serious, that is, the whole army can go to eastern Henan with one heart. Along the way, in various states and counties, villages and towns, Li Chuang and Cao Cao have been in business for several years, and the people only know that there is a generalissimo of Fengtian advocating righteousness and civil and military affairs and a general of Weide on behalf of the people, when will they know that there is an emperor and a great Ming? I'm afraid that if we don't go far east, the people along the way will attack us. ”

"So, Ben Governor's will. The whole army went west, entered Tongguan, and returned to Shaanxi! ”

"The Governor is wise!"

In a series of praises, Sun Chuanting also showed a smile that he had not seen for a long time.

"Which is the thief army guarding the road to Tongguan? Which thief leader? ”

A Zanhua who was in charge of the military aircraft hurriedly reported to Inspector Sun: "Governor, it is rumored that he is one of the adopted sons of the thief, and his name is Luo Hu. It's just a yellow-mouthed child with a weak crown in his age, and the leader is called the Zhenshan Battalion, with less than 20,000 horses. ”

"It's just a yellow-mouthed child. How can I command 20,000 horses and horses stop my more than 100,000 troops from trying to return home? ~！ ”

"That's it! The so-called poor Kou Mo chased the teacher and did not stop it. Li Chuang actually used this person as the leader to block the road of our army, shouldn't it be ridiculous! ”

There was a burst of joy and laughter in the camp tent, only the corner of the mouth of General Tang Shen, who supervised the bidding of the Chinese army, sneered, hum! A bunch of guys who don't know themselves and don't know each other! If you want to die, die! Don't pull Lao Tzu!

In consideration of keeping the killer weapon in their hands secret, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai did not vigorously spread the combat effectiveness of the Dragon and Tiger Battalion. Instead, they secretly collected good quality guns for them everywhere and supplied horses, mules and donkeys to ensure their mobility. At the same time, a strict order was issued to prohibit the spread of the big mouths of the two high-ranking generals who knew about it.

So. Sun Chuanting only felt familiar with the names Luo Hu and Wang Long. It's no wonder that even if the Four Heavenly Kings, Qiu Zhitao and others secretly told him that there was such a team in the righteous army, I am afraid that he may not believe it. After all, the people of Kaifeng Mansion and Zuo Liangyu's subordinates who have dealt with this team will not say that they were defeated by such two hairy boys.

With Zuo Liangyu's conduct, he would only say that he was coerced by several times or dozens of times the elite of thieves in Zhuxian Town, and the good people kept attacking with crowd tactics, and the soldiers couldn't kill them, and they couldn't bear to kill the good people. After a huge kill with the thief, he turned into the clouds with tears.

would never say that his army of more than 100,000 people was beaten by more than 20,000 people led by two hairy boys. Then I was frightened by someone else's fake tiger with the banner of these two boys and fled for hundreds of miles!

However, General Tang is different. He went to Shandong as a thousand generals, and then because he personally killed more than ten Liao thief heads, his subordinates fought bravely and were promoted to the position of general. He knows better than anyone about the combat effectiveness of this old comrade who has fought Liao thieves together, broken the stockade together, and implemented the new policy of Li Dagongzi together.

"Luo Hu's more than 10,000 people are blocked on the road from the Lu clan to Tongguan, the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, you want to kill the bloody road back to Tongguan from him? Laugh at! How are you better than Abatai? For this group of emotionally charged Shaanxi generals, General Tang Shen sneered in his heart. He just had to think carefully about what he should do.

That's it! General Tang, how much coal frying and meat are there in the barracks in this division? Take them all out! Distribute to the soldiers of each battalion in each town! After a full meal in the coming day, the army will return to Tongguan in the west! ”

Looking at the group of general soldiers and deputy generals around him staring at him with greedy eyes like wolves, General Tang Shen dug up Sun Chuanting's ancestral grave seven times in his heart!

"You donkey ball grandson deaf! If you want to buy the hearts of the soldiers, just buy yourself! Why do you want to beat Lao Tzu's heavy idea!? ”

The so-called Chinese military camp, in fact, most of them are filled by soldiers of the Beijing camp. Sun Chuanting still doesn't trust the newly trained tens of thousands of Shaanxi soldiers and horses and the combat effectiveness and discipline of Niu Chenghu, Zheng Jiadong, Gao Jie and others. Although the soldiers of the Beijing camp are flashy, their combat effectiveness is real, and those hundreds of Liao thieves are not in vain.

After walking around Shandong, I not only learned to run with Luo Hu and others, but also learned how to advance with Liao Dongzhi and others. How to bombard the enemy with platoons, the Beijing camp also learned how to protect their own food level during the march and battle. These sons and brothers were originally people who paid attention to life, but now that they have the conditions, how can they give up?

Therefore, it is good to fry coal in the Chinese military camp, or to eat meat. They were all collected by the soldiers of the Beijing camp, and basically all the meat came from the meat porcelain jars, wind chickens, salted ducks, bacon and other things in Nanzhong.

In order to procure these meats, the wealthy Jingying masters swept almost all the Jin merchants in Xi'an City, relying on the silver dollars in their pockets, so that those bitter Shaanxi soldiers could only drool and be angry.

Now, it's the reversal of the world, and the meat that I bought out of my own pocket, but I have to give it to this group of dicks with both hands? How can this make Tang Shen General swallow this evil breath? However, singles do not suffer immediate losses. There are only a few thousand people in his battalion, how can he turn against the entire Shaanxi army general group? What's more, this is still Sun Chuanting's military order!

In the blink of an eye, the coal fried and meat that the people in Beijing painstakingly collected and purchased were divided up by each town and battalion, just to save some face, leaving enough food for 3,000 people to eat a few meals in Beijing.

"That's it! If we take away these dry food and meat, we can only eat one meal for the whole army, but you can eat several meals! "Several of the heavy officers in the Shaanxi military towns are still there to say some cool things, if according to their nature. I'm afraid that a single sesame seed won't be left for this group of gentlemen who are incompatible with them in Jingying!

"Your grandmother is a grandchild!" Several officers of the Beijing camp looked at the soldiers of several towns who were proudly escorting the carriages and horses away, and gritted their teeth with hatred. "My lord! They are thieves who covet gold and silver. Secretly sold the rations! Now they are coming to snatch our dry food and meat! ”

"That's it! My lord, let's do it with them! ”

Several officers were gearing up to raise troops and horses to rob the towns, no, the soldiers who received dry food and meat fought hard, but they were stopped by General Tang Shen.

"Get the hell out of here! You, you. You, and you, come to my tent for me! Looking at the cars and horses in the rain, General Tang Shen couldn't stop smiling, "Lao Tzu's things are not so easy to eat in vain!" ”

"You want to vent your bad spirits? Want to get back to Beijing early? ”

"That's right! My lord. We don't want to do this place for a long time! ”

"My lord, when I was in Shandong, I was also poor and miserable, but the brothers were happy! It's like these days! All kinds of grievances! ”

"Okay, listen to me." General Tang pointed to a thousand general and asked in a low voice, "Is your brother around here?" ”

"My lord! This......! That Qian was always surprised, his brother was a flag leader under Wang Lung when he was in Shandong.

"Don't be afraid! I also have a brother over there! If he is stationed near here, Lao Tzu still needs to ask you? ”

"What do you mean, I'm going for a trip?"

"That's right, if you want to vent your evil anger and go back to the capital as soon as possible, you have to do it!"

Taking advantage of the cover of the autumn rain that was getting denser and denser, Mr. Qian put on an oilcloth poncho and led several cavalry out of the camp to find his allies in Luo Rucai's army.

Coincidentally.

In the Gaojie camp of the general army, in the outermost camp of the camp, the relatives of the children of the He family shouted and cursed loudly in the big tent in the camp.

On the bed, He Guoying grinned and asked Lang Zhong to medicate the stick sores on his buttocks, and he couldn't stop scolding Gao Jie, a thief who turned over the mountain, for being so vicious.

"Brother Guoying, you tell us all about when our family has suffered this loss! After the second father was killed by them, we became motherless children! Charging into battle to endure hardships and suffer crimes, the mother's back black pot is also ours. But I can't remember us when the rations are paid! ”

This group of relatives of the He family went to Gaojie Zhongjun to get their share of meat and dry food today, but they were sent back by the secretary of the Chinese army with the attitude of sending hundreds of people to ask for food, and dozens of meat porcelain jars that were smashed to pieces.

This was like a powder bag thrown into an oil drum, and the anger of the old group of He Maniacs was immediately ignited.

While everyone was shouting and cursing, the chief flag of the outpost outside the camp led one person into the tent.

"Brothers, do you still know the He family in one of our old days?"

"You!" Someone recognized the visitor, "Didn't you follow the thief?" How did you get here? ”

"Why, don't mention the set of soldiers and thieves, here are all Mizhi people, all surnamed He, this rainy day came to your door, and they didn't give me saliva to drink?"

The people who came looked at this group of He clans with a smile.

"Brother Qi," He Guoying struggled to jump up from the head of the bed and grabbed He Laoqi's hand, "Please sit down, come here, serve tea!" ”

"Tea will be dispensed with first, which brother will work hard, go outside and say hello, and bring in the twenty brothers I brought, as well as the wine, meat, and medicine from those animals!" (To be continued.) )