Chapter 62: The Situation of Gao Yigong

Although Longwu did not kill Hu Xuan, he detained Hu Tang and sent Hu Tang's entourage out of the city to see Zhang Xuan.

Zhang Xuan took a secret letter from Hu Tang's entourage, opened it, and said: "It seems that the people in Changsha City are panicking, but it is a good opportunity. ”

Xu Du said: "General, the last general, please order the first to ascend." ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Don't worry, the army is running back and forth, fighting one after another, and it is already exhausting." Now it's time to trim it for a while. Take a look at the reaction of Gao Yigong. ”

Xu Du said: "Yes." ”

Previously, Xu Dudu strongly advocated the storming of Changsha City. I want to walk the news of Li Guo's defeat to shake the morale of the army in Changsha City.

However, Hu Tang and others also agreed that the order of attacking Gao Yigong first and then attacking Changsha City cannot be changed, but the solution to Gao Yigong does not necessarily require a big war, you can use one hand to be soft and one hand hard, and the hard one naturally does not need much, but the soft hand is to persuade surrender.

Zhang Xuan did not make a decision immediately.

It's about preparing for all kinds of situations.

For example, Hu Tang entered Changsha City as an envoy, and there was another envoy to see Gao Yigong, Zhang Xuan missed Luo Dane a little. Rodain is among the rebels, and he really has a wide range of contacts. Gao Yigong also had a relationship with him, after all, Rodain managed logistics in the army.

Sometimes what is not in the camp after breaking into the camp may not be absent in the camp after Cao Ying.

So Rodain does have a lot of connections.

However, Luo Dain was in Nanjing, but he couldn't fly here, so he could only give this matter to Ma Guangyu.

If you want to come to Ma Guangyu to follow Gao Yigong from the northwest to kill him, he will have a little friendship anyway. Zhang Xuan didn't know what Ma Guangyu was talking about in the high school camp now, but Zhang Xuan's idea of delaying time was real.

Zhang Xuan attaches the most importance to the idea of lower-class soldiers.

He clearly felt that after the Battle of Dongting Lake, the battle of the siege and annihilation of He Tengjiao in the south of the Miluo River, the battle of conquering Xiangyin, the assault on the city of Changsha, the secret return of the army, the battle on the east bank of Dongting Lake, and so on, these military operations were concentrated within half a month, and the interval between them could even be counted by days.

It's just too intensive, too hard.

People are not machines.

Moreover, among Zhang Xuan's southern expeditionary army, although many people are southerners, most of the backbone are from Henan, and it is not a good experience for them to be adrift on the boat several times. There was a feeling of exhaustion up and down the army.

Zhang Xuan certainly thought that the momentum was like a bamboo, and he went down with a knife, and there was a lot of uproar, and he won big victories one after another. But in fact, even a knife for cutting bamboo needs to be maintained after a long time.

One article and one martial arts, one static and one moving. Zhang Xuan was reluctant to break the strings too tightly.

So

Only then did he seize the time, and he was bluffing with Gao Yigong and Changsha City, but he was actually repairing the army. Regardless of whether Gao Yigong can win it or not, Ma Guangyu's arrival in the Gao Yigong camp will definitely disturb Gao Yigong's military heart.

Gao Yigong didn't want to solve this problem, and he had no intention of fighting Zhang Xuan at all. Zhang Xuan's hand is simply a slow move.

And at this moment, Gao Yigong has already determined this trouble.

Gao Yigong's department came from Changde, and it has already fast-advanced along the Xiangjiang River, and dozens of miles to the east is the Xiangjiang River.

But Gao Yigong has set up a big camp here, and he has a posture of sticking to it for a long time.

It's not that Gao Yigong doesn't want to move on, but that the morale of the army in Gao Yigong's army is already chaotic. This kind of chaos is still brought about by Ma Guangyu.

When Ma Guangyu came over, he made a lot of fanfare, and he didn't hide it at all, and Ma Guangyu really had acquaintances under Gao Yigong. It's like when Liu Bang and Xiang Yu were fighting, Zhang Liang and Xiang Bo were still in-laws.

It has only been a few years since the anti-Qin uprising, and between the peasant wars at the end of the Ming Dynasty, they have been divided and combined, no matter from top to bottom, the network of interpersonal relationships has never been cut off.

Ma Guangyu wanted to spread some news, but he couldn't stop it.

The relationship between the generals and the army is complex. Even the best generals may not be able to completely control every corner of the army, and they rely more on the officer body. And the news spread by Ma Guangyu made the group talk a lot.

The news disseminated by Ma Guangyu was none other than the news that Li Guo was defeated and Dang Shousu died in battle.

Everything that follows is said.

Naturally, he wanted to continue fighting and avenge Li Guo and Dang Shousu. But more officers had other ideas, and they didn't want to fight with Xia Jun. There is no other reason, everyone is their own people, a few years ago, maybe they were still stirring horses and spoons in the same pot with some people from Xia Jun.

Even Gao Yigong and Zhang Xuan may not have cooperated with each other.

Why fight for life and death? There is nothing that can not be discussed.

Yes, the death of Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, is the root knot between the two sides, and it cannot be bypassed. But can Gao Yigong bypass Gao Yingxiang's death with the imperial court?

Even if Gao Yigong himself is not necessarily without wavering thoughts.

It was Li Guo who really wanted to fight to the death with Xia Jun and take revenge, not Gao Yigong.

It's just that Gao Yigong was shaken in his heart, but he didn't make up his mind. On the one hand, it is Longwu who treats them with courtesy.

To be honest, Longwu's actions towards Gao Yigong really moved Gao Yigong very much. If he could, Gao Yigong didn't want to betray Longwu, but Gao Yigong also knew that he was certainly the master of an army, but he must do something against the will of the people, and there may not be a mutiny below, but it is likely to vote with his feet, and release water when he fights.

There are too many ways to think of the Yin Master.

So in this regard, Gao Yigong can't be a tough statement.

On the other hand, it is Plug Yinxi.

Among this large army, although Gao Yigong is the main general, there is also an army that is not under Gao Yigong's control, that is, the Changde Army. There are not many Changde troops, but about 10,000 people, but after blocking Yinxi to Changde, after rectification, the remaining army.

It's not very powerful, but the logistics of the whole army are in the hands of Gu Yinxi.

If Gao Yigong defected to Zhang Xuan, then the first thing he had to do was to conquer the Changde army. And Plug Yinxi is actually ready.

Gao Yigong now feels as if he is sitting on a chair that is about to fall apart, and if he is not careful, he will sit on the ground.

"General, Lord Wen asks to see you." Gao Yigong couldn't hide if he wanted to, but after listening to the report outside, he smiled slightly bitterly and said, "Please come in." ”

After Wen Anzhi came in, he didn't say much nonsense, and said, "Master Hou, but you regret it?" ”

Gao Yigong was a little surprised and said, "What do I regret? ”

Wen Anzhi said: "Do you regret going south to Ming? ”

When Gao Yigong heard Wen Anzhi say this, he really had such a thought in his heart, and said secretly: "I knew that the official army was like this, so it was better to defect to the Xia army at the beginning." It's just that he said, "What did Mr. Wen say?" ”

Wen Anzhi said: "Master Hou, if you have any regrets, Wen doesn't know, but Wen regrets it on behalf of Master Hou." After all, if the Hou Ye didn't listen to Li Hou at the beginning, now in the Xia army, he is not the king of the county, but also the prince of the country. Why is it in a dilemma now, but now Hou Ye can't make mistakes again and again. ”

Gao Yigong was a little puzzled when he heard this, and said, "Master Wen, persuade me to join the summer." ”

"Definitely." Wen Anzhi said: "My lord, if you defect to the Xia Dynasty when you are in Yunyang, you will never lose the reward of the prince, and you can even be a heavy general." But now in the summer, from now on, can only be drawn in the Privy Council. Wen is just persuading adults to think twice and not let themselves regret it. ”

Gao Yigong said: "How do you say this? ”

Wen Anzhi said: "General Gao asked himself, how does Your Majesty treat you?" ”

Gao Yigong pondered for a moment and said, "Your Majesty is so gracious, Gao has nothing to repay." ”

Wen Anzhi said: "How does King Chuang treat you? ”

Gao Yigong said: "It is like a nephew." ”

Wen Anzhi said: "If General Gao defected to the Xia Dynasty in Yunyang, but he was just poor, Luo would not look at it differently, and now General Gao defected to the Ming Dynasty in the name of revenge for King Chuang, and he has the great grace of today, and he is extremely rich." Now surrounded by Changsha, day and night looking forward to General Gao's coming, General Gao surrendered to the enemy, until His Majesty died. But I don't know how the people of the world should look at you, and I don't know how Roche should look at you after defecting to Roche. Will anyone call the general, a slave with three surnames. ”

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