On both sides of the official road leading to the political envoy in Yunnan in the southwest of Guizhou, there are mountains and rocks; The middle avenue was dusty.

If you look from the outside of several miles, you can also see the movement on the main road. The scene was like a big dragon suddenly appearing in the mountains, stirring up a large area of the ground and turning it over! It was like a landslide, and the turbid sand and gravel dust rose up along the mountain.

This army was the vanguard of the Han Dynasty's army, but the number of soldiers and horses was not large. They set out from Guizhou City and were marching along the post road in the direction of the Yunnan Political Envoy. The generals ordered that branches be hung behind the baggage wagons; The branches dragged on the dirt road, and the movement was particularly loud. Looking at the smoke from afar, it looks like a large army.

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Among the mountains in the northeast of Guizhou City, there are several flat places, which are full of military tents, and countless tents are arranged horizontally and vertically, forming a large military camp. This is the main force of the Han Army!

The name of this place is Xiaoba, and there used to be the guard of the Guizhou Metropolitan Division. The mountains on all sides are not high, but they occupy a lot of land and are full of dense forests!

People enter from the official road of the "Lake Wide Road", and they have to pass through two winding valley roads; Then walk more than a mile, only after passing through the mountains and forests, close to the small dam, can you find the people here.

Starting from the small dam and going southwest, there is another road, which can meet on the official road; And take this road to the post road, the distance is nearly three miles.

And Zhu Gaoxu's Chinese army was at this time south of the small dam, near the direction of the official road, in a temple in the mountains and forests.

The temple is surrounded by pine and cypress, and there is a stone path up the hill that leads to the temple gate. As long as the soldiers of the Chinese army go out of the back door of the temple and come to a piece of granite behind the temple, they can clearly see the road leading to the small dam in the mountain.

If Wu Gaojun approached the city of Guizhou along the Guanghu Road, the army passed south of Xiaoba; And if Wu Gaojun was in a hurry, he failed to find the nearly 100,000 troops hidden in the mountains and forests and located in Xiaoba...... Then the main force of the Han Dynasty army will suddenly launch an attack at the right time, divided into two roads, and attack the official road from two mountain and forest roads!

Then, the Han Wangjun will immediately cut Wu Gaojun into three pieces! Wait for the reinforcements of the Han King in the direction of Guizhou to come, and first flank and destroy the westernmost enemy front army; In the end, it will eat at least most of Wu Gaojun's troops!

Such a scene is exactly what the generals of the Han Dynasty are looking forward to!

…… In such a remote temple, there are two monks, an old man and a young monk. The soldiers did not harm them, but kept them under house arrest in a fasting room.

"Du, Du, Du......" The monks were still knocking on the wooden fish, and they seemed to have no interest in the fight in the world. The sound is even, it looks very boring, and when you listen to it, you feel that you are alive and boring.

Zhu Gaoxu was in the monk's room, asking Gu Yong about the situation in Guizhou while listening to the sound of wooden fish. The sound made the mountains and forests seem more quiet. Zhu Gaoxu waited quietly for Wu Gao in such a quiet atmosphere, with a murderous intention.

Zhu Gaoxu sat cross-legged on a futon, and when he raised his head, he could see Gu Yong's hand bandaged with a white cloth, and he asked, "General Gu resents this king?" ”

Gu Yong was stunned for a moment, standing there not knowing how to answer.

Zhu Gaoxu waited for a while, but didn't hear an answer, so he said in an undoubted tone: "This king is very merciful. Chop off only one of your fingers, the injured finger, but not the whole hand, leaving you disabled! General Gu should have understood that I was only doing this for a certain purpose; I will not make people pay for their worthlessness, even if it is against a temporary enemy. ”

When Gu Yong heard this term "temporary enemy", he muttered: "I'm afraid I'm going to offend, I will never let my father be ashamed in order to survive." ”

Zhu Gaoxu nodded, raised his hand and waved it lightly, and said, "General Gu remembers the words of this king." ”

At this time, a military general walked up and said, "General Gu, please." ”

Gu Yong clasped his fists and bowed, turned around and left the monk's room.

Zhu Gaoxu also stood up, pressed his hands on an incense table, and buried his head in looking at the map on the table......

A few days earlier, the Han army had captured the city of Guizhou, but Zhu Gaoxu did not immediately go to Yunnan to rescue the besieged city. Because he soon learned that most of Gu Chengjun's military rations had been burned.

The campaign isn't over yet! What is in front of us is to expand the results of the battle and deal with Wu Gaojun or Zhang Fujun? Of course, Zhu Gaoxu chose Wu Gao in the end, so the army would be deployed between the mountains and forests at this time.

Every decision made by Zhu Gaoxu is, of course, based on a variety of circumstances and judgments. It's rare for one reason or another.

All the maps drawn by the army were inaccurate, but Zhu Gaoxu could easily tell people to find out: the distance from Guizhou to Kunming was much longer than the distance Zhang Fu had traveled from Kunming to the Guangxi Post Road.

At the same time, Zhu Gaoxu believed that Wu Gao should be able to get the news that Guizhou City had been breached, after all, the distance was very close; But Wu Gao may not be able to know about the burning of Gu Chengjun's military rations for a while.

So his final decision was, first, to send the forward army to approach the Dongshan area of Yuezhou; If Zhang Fu did not retreat, the forward part of the Han army would be able to advance one step forward, directly threaten its Guangxi grain route, and wait for the main force of the Han army. The second is to deploy heavy troops, ready to take Wu Gao, who is close in front of him, first!

"Report!" A shout startled the pensive Zhu Gaoxu.

After a while, the soldiers let a military general in. The military general panted and clenched his fists and said: "Lord Wang, the forward army has come to report that the enemy army outside Kunming has withdrawn from the siege and gone to the official road in Guangxi!" ”

Wang Yu, who was standing next to Zhu Gaoxu, walked over and took the report.

"I see." Zhu Gaoxu raised his head, looked away from the map, and immediately responded casually. He had no expression, no surprise in his heart; Because such a situation is one of the expected possibilities.

But after a while, another scout came to report. Wu Gaojun actually stopped his march dozens of miles away and began to build fortifications and deploy troops!

Zhu Gaoxu immediately had a bad premonition: Wu Gao noticed the ambush?

On the back hill of this temple, you can see one of the roads into the mountain, and the road surface is unobstructed; On the other road, there is also a dark whistle watching...... But until now, Zhu Gaoxu had not heard of an enemy scout entering the mountain.

He couldn't help but wonder: How did Wu Gao find the ambush?!

Or maybe Wu Gao didn't notice it at all, but he didn't know why he was wary. Zhu Gaoxu didn't understand what went wrong! But he soon had an intuition, this time he still wanted to let Wu Gaoji, I'm afraid there is not much chance.

Zhu Gaoxu was suddenly a little lost, and inevitably thought: If the decision a few days ago was to go to Yunnan and try to pursue Zhang Fujun, would the results be greater? By now, he could at least conclude that there might be more opportunities to expand the results.

But when I thought of this extremely thrilling battle, I finally won the bet, and I breathed a long sigh of relief. As if comforting himself, he said to himself: "The result is not bad. ”

…… The main force of the Han Wang's army was in Xiaoba, and the army continued to be stationed here without moving, and even the cooking smoke was still forbidden, and everyone was hungry with dry food and spring water.

On the third day, on the winding road between the mountains and forests, several riders appeared in the valley. They rounded a large forest of gentle mountains and soon approached the exit of the small dam. As soon as those people rushed out of the intersection, they would immediately find the army tents lined up on the small dam!

"Bang bang bang......" There was a dense chord sound in the woods, and a cluster of arrows whistled into the air and then covered the road. Neigh......" There was a terrible scream of horses, and the front hooves of the two horses fell to their knees, and the knight on the other horse fell off his horse with a scream of pain. Soon a group of men and horses rushed out of the mountains and forests and rushed towards the fallen officers and soldiers scouts......

When Zhu Gaoxu heard the news, he quickly left the temple and went down the mountain to the camp of Xiaoba.

The generals will come up. Zhu Gaoxu looked back left and right, and couldn't help but open his mouth and immediately said: "Wu Gao is too stable, it is really difficult to take advantage of his loopholes." ”

General Zhao Ping said: "If Wu Gao wasn't that kind of person, he wouldn't have been stable in Maoyunba for more than half a month. ”

Zhu Gaoxu turned his head to look at Liu Ying, and said quietly: "Wu Gao doesn't dare to move, Liu Dudu has made a lot of contributions." ”

After hearing this, Liu Ying immediately bowed to Zhu Gaoxu, and then glanced at Zhao Ping quietly.

The generals surrounded Zhu Gaoxu and others and came to a dilapidated earthen walled and tiled house. This was originally a tuntian of the Guizhou Health Institute, and some houses were built, but they were built small and low, and even the houses in the interior were not as good; However, it is now a temporary office in the barracks.

After Liu Ying entered the house, he hugged his fists and said: "Lord Wang, if we take the main road of Guizhou and Guangxi and go straight south, we may be able to intercept Zhang Fujun from escaping!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu shook his head without hesitation: "You can't be too greedy. ”

Zhao Ping saluted: "What the prince said is extremely true, this is a little too rash. By the time we arrived in Guangxi from a long distance, Zhang Fujun had already entered the border of Guangxi, and perhaps he had already received military food supplies. Guizhou still has Wu Gao's 100,000 troops on the back, and maybe there are reinforcements coming from Zhuhu Guangdao. Our army has just gone through the battle of attacking Jiancheng, and the men and horses are tired, and it is really dangerous to continue to advance into Guangxi. ”

Zhu Gaoxu nodded and said, "General Zhao knows a lot. ”

Zhao Ping hurriedly said: "It's all up to the prince to cultivate!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu exhaled, patted his thigh and said, "Order all departments, prepare to pull out the camp and withdraw the army back to Guizhou!" Then he wrote a military order and sent it to the forward army, asking them to find a way to arrange detailed work, persuade the officers and men of the Guizhou army to surrender, and encourage them to flee and return to their hometowns. ”

The generals clasped their fists and said: "The last general will wait for the order." ”

Liu Ying asked: "What are we going to do with Wu Gaojun?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu frowned and said: "Wu Gao is a calm soldier, and he will not be able to deal with him for a while. He has a defensive posture, and at this time our soldiers are tired, and I don't think we can take much advantage of confronting him, and I can only waste time and the lives of my brothers. ”

He thought for a moment and then said, "The brethren also need to be repaired. Don't bother to pay attention to Wu Gao for the time being, the soldiers of all departments will go back to the city to recuperate first, and then make plans! ”

Liu Ying immediately echoed: "The prince is wise! ”