Chapter 69 [Grain and Grass Robbed]
King Xinshun, who didn't want to put on a good robe, smiled and said, "Hehehe, have you misunderstood Lonely's intentions?" The reason why Lone withdrew from the city was to lure the Ming army into the city, the rain had been falling for seven days, presumably the food of the Ming army had long been empty, if they were allowed to enter the city, it would inevitably be a mess, and when the time came, we were counterattacking, then the Ming army would be defeated! ”
But the king of Xinshun did not want the Ming army to be suspicious, so he left 800 Shun troops to pretend to defend the city, if there was a Ming army to attack, they could immediately abandon the city and flee, after the plan was implemented, the king of Xinshun took the generals to evacuate from the back city to Yuzhou (Shun army said; Junping Mansion) camped, and sent General Zuo Guoyi of the Shun army: Gu Kecheng, to lead the soldiers and horses of the headquarters to explore the movements of the army in order to report at any time.
On the other side, the Ming army department Shangshu faced the food problem is a headache, so he pointed the spearhead at Xiangcheng County, hoping to break through Xiangcheng County to obtain supplies, the Ming army department Shangshu transferred the Ming Shaanxi General Army, the Ming Henan General Army, and the Ming Lintao General Soldier three generals to take the lead, and the rest of the Ming generals will be responsible for the reserve army to pursue the Liukou after breaking the city, so the three general soldiers went out to fight under the city, with the shield hand in front of the archers in the back while covering while shooting arrows, the rogue soldiers patrolling the city saw a large number of arrows shot over, and hurriedly ran to the city tower to beat the drum (bang, bang, Bursts of drums spread around, and the soldiers defending the city quickly evacuated when they heard the sound, which shocked the besieging soldiers!
Among them, the general soldiers of Ming Henan thought; Isn't that right? Ben gave up resisting before he used all his strength to attack this rogue, could it be a deception? But when you think about it, maybe the rogues were frightened by the momentum of our army? Immediately began to climb the tower hungry soldiers rushed to the granary, after the three general soldiers entered the city, the rest of the Ming army also squeezed into the city one after another, before the Mingtong Pass guards counted the food, the generals were already crowded and the scene was very chaotic, Wu Junzhen and Ma Wei were stunned, and the two reported to the Mingtong Pass Guard, and reported to the Ming Soldiers General Guards by the Mingtong Pass Guards, and learned that the news of the chaos of the generals made Sun Inspector very angry, and he immediately took out the "Shang Fang Sword" given by His Majesty.
Then he led the troops to stride to the granary to check the situation, and when he came to the granary, there were a large number of generals surrounding the vicinity, and the soldiers quarreled and shouted, "Where is the grain?" Give me food, why is there no food? Inspector Sun, who was standing at the door of the granary, was very angry when he saw the generals huddled together, and he snatched the bird gun of the accompanying soldier and hit it in the rain (bang).
When the soldiers heard the sound of the gun, they slowly quieted down and calmed down and looked at Inspector Sun behind them, only to see the angry Inspector Sun pushing away the soldiers and stepping forward to grab a bag of wheat, smelling it, feeling that the smell was not right? It's like it's been left for ten years, and it smells like it's smelling! This made Inspector Sun even more angry, he looked around at the generals, and scolded angrily, "You can eat such a thing? My dignified generals of the Ming Empire, do they have to fight for the remaining moldy food eaten by the rogues? Today the Governor will punish you well, come on! on the penal code. ”
As soon as the words fell, the guards of Mingtong Pass hurriedly ran over and shouted, "Master Inspector, Master Inspector is not good!" We seem to have fallen for the tricks of the rogues? Inspector Sun asked very seriously, "What's wrong?" As soon as the guards of Mingtong Pass wanted to speak, they saw the wheat in Inspector Sun's hand, and said, "Master Inspector, don't you already know that there is no food in this city?" But please don't be nervous, the Governor has just found six old horses in the stables in the city, which can be slaughtered as food to solve the urgent need! ”
Hearing this, Inspector Sun's suspenseful heart slowly relaxed, but 6 horses were not enough! At most, it can only solve the urgent need for a while, if you want the whole army to have food and clothing, you still have to rely on the arrival of the grain transport troops of the grain superintendent, Wu Junzhen asked for the order to lead the troops to urge the grain was approved by Inspector Sun.
At this time, the king of Xinshun, who withdrew into Yuzhou, began to implement the second step plan, that is, to send the general of Shun Junquan: Liu Zongmin, led 10,000 light cavalry to take the small road around the rear of the Ming army to transport the grain convoy, walking on the official road lurking on both sides and waiting quietly, until the rain gradually became smaller at noon, there was a team of soldiers pushing the grain cart slowly over, the leader of the grain supervisor stood on a high place and commanded the team to shout, "Hurry up, the commander, the master is still waiting for our food!" As soon as the words fell, the soldiers pushed and pulled the grain cart and walked thirty steps, and the lurking General Shun Junquan signaled everyone to prepare for action with sign language.
So the soldiers of the Shun army pushed a huge stone to roll down the slope of the woods, and suddenly the marching Ming soldiers heard the sound of branches breaking, several soldiers hurriedly looked into the woods on the right, only to see a boulder rolling down, and the soldiers hurriedly shouted, "Everyone be careful of rolling stones!" As soon as he finished speaking, the soldiers began to dodge in a mess, but a few soldiers were still crushed to death by the rolling stones!
Seeing that the soldiers in front of him had stopped marching, the grain governor rode forward and asked, "What is the matter?" Why did you guys stop? The soldiers quickly moved out of the way, looked at the grain overseer, and replied, "Lord Qiyu, there is a boulder in front of you blocking our army's way!" The overseer looked up at the boulder and said to the soldiers, "Send a few men to remove the stones, for it is not surprising that boulders are tumbling down the hillside in such a rainy weather." In this way, a small group of soldiers came over to move the boulder, and watched the Ming army relax their vigilance to transport grain, and General Shun Junquan immediately waved his hand and ordered the Shun army to attack.
Suddenly, many arrows were shot from the woods and stabbed at the Ming soldiers, making the Ming soldiers panic and hide under the grain carts and look around, while the soldiers of the Shun army pulled out their sabers and charged over, and heard a large number of rogue soldiers shouting and killing? The grain overseer was very nervous, he quickly drew his knife and shouted: "Soldiers, don't mess around! Listen to my command and begin to meet the enemy. "But most of the soldiers were cowardly, and all the rogue soldiers who rushed down the hill were slaughtered! Blood flowed all over the place in the rain, and even the grain governor was killed by the rogues during the battle, and General Shun Junquan happily withdrew the troops with this batch of grain to return to his life.
At this moment, Wu Junzhen led the soldiers to advance in the rain on the official road, and he didn't easily find that someone seemed to be lying on the ground at the bend in front of him? Looks like a soldier of our army from the way you dress? The curious Wu Junzhen strode forward, turned the corner, and was surprised to see a group of soldiers' corpses lying in a pool of blood! Blood stained the water on the side of the road red, and there were many arrows stuck in the official road.
This made him very sad, and the soldiers behind him came over to see this tragic situation and exclaimed, "We are late!" The food has been robbed by the enemy! How can Mr. Qian explain to the Inspector when he goes back? I saw Wu Jun calm down and said, "Don't be nervous, in my opinion, Liukou shouldn't go far with the grain truck?" We can follow the footprints on the ground and reclaim the food. ”
On the other side, in order to paralyze the Ming army, the new Shun king deliberately asked the Shun army Zuo Fu to personally write a war letter, which was passed by the soldiers to the Ming army camp. After speaking, the soldier handed over the letter to Inspector Sun to open and check, and he found that it was written (Tomorrow in the first battle in Xiangcheng County), after reading the letter, Inspector Sun hesitated! He thinks that since the rogues dared to send the war letter, they must have prepared it and planned to lead our army out to die?
Therefore, Inspector Sun did not dare to rush into the army! He summoned all the generals into the camp tent to talk and discuss whether to fight, and the general army of Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty first proposed: "Lord Inspector, the last general thinks that our army is short of food and grass at present!" The army is unstable and should not go to war for the time being! And the commander of the Ming Yulin Guard said, "Master Inspector, it's not a matter of war or not war at the moment!" How to get enough food as the first priority? As long as there is food, our army can be guaranteed, and the soldiers have been out of food for a long time, and if they don't solve this problem, the general is worried that it will cause a mutiny? Fortunately, the Zuojia army is not in our barracks, otherwise...! ”
This statement was unanimously agreed by the generals, but when the generals were talking, the soldiers outside the camp had no food to eat and had to patrol in the rain, which caused their emotions to become irritable, and 8 soldiers couldn't help but shout one after another: "Fucking Lao Tzu is not leaving!" If you don't have food to eat, you'll be hungry and patrol in the rain! Kill Lao Tzu! Have a good time. ”
Angry Ming Chunyang General Banner: Zeng Tianfei, pulled out his knife and walked over and scolded, "Presumptuous!" Are you hungry, am I hungry? The Governor has already sent someone to urge food, and maybe he will be able to endure death soon! But the soldiers didn't listen to him at all, and the general banner of Ming Chunyang was forced to raise his saber and prepare to slash the soldiers.
Fortunately, Inspector Sun came out in time and said, "Stop! What are you arguing about? As a Ming soldier, this is the quality? There is this governor who is still hungry and will not die of you, so today I will return to Shaanxi to announce the political secretary to make food. But he was immediately dissuaded by the four generals of the Qin family, but Sun Inspector had already decided to go, he ordered the general army of Ming Henan to stay in the barracks, and he led the troops of the descendant army of Shaanxi Ming Army to return to the division by the way, and opened up the grain road by the way, and sent a letter to Hu Guangcheng to announce the political division, Jiangxi Cheng announced the temporary withdrawal of reinforcements from the political division and other places.
However, the soldiers under the General Army of Ming Henan saw that Inspector Sun led the Ming army of Shaanxi out of the city in a mighty way, but they were left behind to starve and guard the movements of the Liukou! In case the first-class Kou launched an attack, he might be used as a substitute for the dead, which made the Henan Ming army indignant and wanted to evacuate Xiangcheng County.
Therefore, just an hour after Inspector Sun's division left, the Henan Ming army also retreated behind the Shaanxi Ming army, resulting in the chaos of the Ming army in Henan (the front army moved to the rear army) The Ming Henan general army could not control the situation at all! He drew his saber and aimed it at the fleeing general, and when he stepped forward, he slashed him to death! Killed several people one after another and still couldn't stop it! The news of the chaos in the ranks of the Ming army soon spread, and the generals of the Shun army praised the new Shun king's trick is really powerful, and the new Shun king laughed and ordered the whole army to attack the Ming army with lancers and archers in front, after the heavy rain gradually stopped, hundreds of thousands of rogue troops suddenly rushed to the Ming army, and Sun Dushi had not had time to command the generals to fight The situation was already in chaos! The heavy armor of the Shun army and the cavalry of the Shun army were directly slaughtered, causing the collapse of the Ming army on all fronts!