Wu Sangui said: "The heavy grain and grass of Gaojun Mountain cross the river, and it must be guarded by heavy soldiers, if our army sneaks up, the chance of victory is not great." I judge that Gao Jun Mountain will go to the mall after crossing the Huai River, there is a Huanggang Mountain, which is the only place to pass through the mall, as long as the ambush is set up in the Huanggang Mountain, Gao Jun Mountain he will not escape. ”

Zu Kuan nodded: "Clever plan!" According to the meaning of the eldest uncle, he opened to Huanggang Mountain. ”

……

Gao Junshan stayed in Lijiagou for two days, and when all the heavy grain and grass had crossed the Huai River, he said goodbye to Mrs. Li, and the troops marched in the direction of the mall.

On this day, when Gao Junshan's team approached Huanggang Mountain, Gao Junshan found an anomaly on the dial. Although the S-generation biosensor can sense the existence of life within ten kilometers, it cannot be divided between civilians and armies, it is all up to you to make your own judgment. After entering Henan, the S generation biosensor of Gao Junshan is not very useful, because Henan has a large population and is located in the plain, so where the red dots are concentrated, it cannot be concluded that there is an army.

In this case, only by going on a trip in person can we analyze whether there is an enemy situation. Gao Junshan ordered to stop advancing, and he led Cao Wenzhao and He Renlong to check.

The so-called Huanggang Mountain is actually an inconspicuous hill, desolate, overgrown with weeds and potholes everywhere.

Gao Junshan came to the foot of Huanggang Mountain, and when he saw the jungle full of mountains, he couldn't help but laugh secretly, the dial showed that there were thousands of lives on the mountain, who would be so bored to hide in the jungle? It was clear that there were ambushes on the mountain, but they couldn't be seen with the naked eye, so he ordered the team to go back.

"King Qin, we didn't see anything, so we went back like this?" He Renlong asked.

Gao Junshan said with a smile: "Don't look at it, you can't see anything, but there are thousands of troops and horses in ambush on the mountain!" ”

When Gao Junshan returned to the base camp, he issued a new order, and the whole army returned the same way and turned south to Dabie Mountain.

The majestic Dabie Mountain stretches for thousands of miles, the peaks are towering, some are tall and precipitous, some are towering, and some are tall and abrupt, magnificent, majestic and magnificent. She lies at the junction of Hubei, Henan and Anhui provinces, the Huai River in the north, the Yangtze River in the south, and the Central Plains.

On April 23, the ninth year of Chongzhen, 100,000 horses and horses of Gao Jun Mountain entered Dabie Mountain safely, since the battle of Ruyang escaped 20,000 hungry people, 50,000 hungry people have joined the team of Gao Jun Mountain, this is the advantage of moving to Henan to fight, the army is sufficient, and a large number of hungry people can be recruited at any time.

In this year, Zhu Youzhen also distributed a total of more than 2,993,790 taels of silver throughout the country, and Henan Province alone distributed 667,421 taels of silver. The heavy taxes weighed down the people. This year coincided with the great drought in Xinyang, and the hungry people were everywhere, so many people who had no way to live came to join the high mountains.

Drawing the lesson of the 20,000 new army fleeing last time, Gao Junshan did not hand over the new barracks to the old-style rebel leaders such as "Mixed 100,000" and "Full of Stars" to run the new barracks, but used his own carefully built team, Chongwen disciples, to manage the new barracks.

The 50,000 recruits were divided into three battalions, and Gao Junshan directly named these three battalions the "Zhou Shichen" battalion, the "Jiang Guorong" battalion, and the "Liu Da" battalion.

These three battalions have truly become the sons and daughters of Gao Junshan.

In the days when Gao Jun Mountain and Dabie Mountain were resting, in early August, he received a secret report from Liu Lishun, which roughly read as follows:

On May 30, the Qing Taizong sent 100,000 soldiers from the Eight Banners of Doluo Wuying, including Azig, the king of the county, to attack Ming. On June 27, the Azig soldiers entered Xifengkou and Dushikou by three routes. Ming patrol pass imperial history Wang Zhaokun refused to fight, defeated and died, the Ming army retreated to Changping, and the Qing soldiers invaded Juyong and Changping North Road again.

Zhu Youzhen received the report from Tang and hurriedly ordered all the governors and towns to go to Beijing to rescue. Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng, who were encircling and suppressing the righteous army in Henan, Yunyang, and northern Anhui, led the general soldiers Zu Kuan and Zu Dale to Beijing to Qinwang, and replaced Lu Xiangsheng with Wang Jiazhen, the left attendant of the military department, and the prime minister of Henan and Huguang provinces.

Gao Junshan burned the secret letter sent by Liu Lishun, and at noon that day, he ate three bowls of rice in a row, and he was in a particularly good mood. The next day, the order was given to leave the mountain.

At this time, he had already received news from Feng Shuangli and Tian Fang about Zhang Xianzhong, who was raising troops to besiege Xiangyang in Hubei.

Gao Junshan had already made up his mind to find Zhang Xianzhong, he couldn't go to Gao Yingxiang, why? Because Gao Yingxiang will die in a few months in history, if he goes to Gao Yingxiang, the final result is likely to be that he and Gao Yingxiang will be executed together, so he must stay away from Gao Yingxiang, or even stay away from Li Zicheng, which is why he wants to find Zhang Xianzhong.

Zhang Xianzhong's troops were divided into three routes: one led by him to set off from Junzhou in the northwest, one led by Lao Huihui to set off from Xinye north of Xiangyang, and one led by Scorpion Block to set off from Tang County east of Xiangyang, and at the same time approached Xiangyang, with a total of more than 200,000 soldiers and horses on the three routes.

In order to cooperate with Zhang Xianzhong's actions, Gao Junshan took the initiative to attack Macheng, Hubei. The team just came out of the Tiger Head Pass, and the pioneer officer He Renlong came to report, saying that a person had been caught in front, and that person claimed to be a messenger sent by Macheng and came to ask for help from Gao Junshan.

Gao Junshan was very strange, so he asked He Renlong to bring people over, and he wanted to ask in person.

Gao Junshan sat down on a big rock on the side of the road, and He Renlong brought people over. This person looked like a scholar, and when he saw Gao Junshan, he knelt down and said: "King Qin, the little one's name is Li Wangcai, a native of Macheng." My master, Li Renhui, will rise up in Macheng, gather righteous people to kill Lu Jinxi, the magistrate of Macheng, who knows that the rural gentry also raised tens of thousands of troops to avenge Lu Jinxi and besiege Macheng. Now the village soldiers are increasing, and the food in the city has been cut off. My master heard that the king of Qin is in Dabie Mountain, so he sent me to ask the king of Qin to send troops, if the king of Qin relieves the siege of Macheng, my master is willing to lead the people to follow the king of Qin. ”

Gao Junshan was overjoyed, and let people entertain Li Wangcai, and then called his Chongwen disciples Zhou Shichen, Jiang Guorong, and Liu Da. Gao Junshan gave the task of rescuing Li Renhui to his disciples.

After Zhou Jiang and Liu accepted the task, they immediately raised troops, under the leadership of Li Wangcai, marched to Macheng, as soon as the army of Gao Junshan arrived, the Xiangyong who besieged Macheng fled in all directions, Gao Junshan relieved the siege of Macheng in this way, and Li Renhui led 7,000 people to take refuge in Gao Junshan.

After entering Macheng, Gao Junshan ordered Cao Wenzhao, He Renlong, and Bai Wenxuan to carry out a fierce blow to the gentry around Macheng, and in this battle, the rebel forces were completely destroyed, more than 10,000 villagers were captured, and their overseer Zhou Wenjiang was captured.

Macheng is an ancient cultural city, attaches great importance to education, there are more than ten academies alone, there are Wansong Academy, Daofeng Academy, Furen Academy in the west of the city, Baigao Academy, Huiche Academy, Jingzheng Academy in the south of the city, Baiyun Academy, Longxi Academy, Zhifo Academy in the north of the city, Dongxi Academy, Mingde Academy, Tiantai Academy in the east of the city, and there is a Shaming Temple Academy in the downtown area.

Among them, Wansong Academy was built in the Northern Song Dynasty by Zhang Yi, the county order; Longxi Academy was built by the gentry Zhou in the Ming Shun period; Dongxi Academy is the Ming Hongzhi period of the Yi gentry bear scripture; Baigao Academy is the Ming Hongzhi period of the Yi gentry Dong Pujian; Daofeng Academy was built by Chen Ziwen of Zhixian County for the hermit Mao Fengqi during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty; Furen Academy was built by Zhou Sijiu, a native of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty; Mingde Academy was built by Mao Fengshao, a native of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty; Baiyun Academy was built by Liu Tianhe, a native of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty; Tiantai Academy was built by Geng in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty; The Huiche Academy was built by the officials and people of Huanggang and Macheng during the Ming Qi period; Jingzheng Academy was built by Jiang Yu of Ming Chongzhen Zhi County.

Gao Junshan handed over the affairs of governing Macheng to his subordinates, and every time they went, they had a specific division of labor, and Gao Junshan just read out the list and was done.

There was no trouble with affairs, so he took a few Chongwen disciples to visit the academy one by one.

There is a saying in China that "literati are inferior to each other", which is actually wrong. If you put down the shelf first and respect the other person, then the other party will not dare to despise you.

Of course, Gao Junshan understands this truth, if you want to be respected by others, you must first respect others, and you can't be the first in the world, and you feel that you are amazing.

Macheng County Ya, Cai Zhishan was interrogating a group of prisoners, and the first one to be brought was Zhou Wenjiang, the largest overseer of the official.

When Zhou Wenjiang saw Cai Zhishan sitting in front of the hall, he couldn't help but shout: "Big brother, I actually met you here today!" ”

Cai Zhishan fixed his eyes and saw that it was his sworn brother Zhou Wenjiang, he hurriedly got up and almost pounced on Zhou Wenjiang: "Second brother, why are you?" ”

Zhou Wenjiang said: "Big brother, why did you forget that I am from Macheng?" ”

"Oh, yes, yes, yes!" Cai Zhishan suddenly remembered, and said while loosening his bonds, "I heard that there is a very powerful overseer, but I didn't expect it to be you." ”

Zhou Wenjiang asked puzzledly: "Big brother, how can you be with thieves?" ”

"Ahem! It's hard to say, I'll talk to you slowly in the future. Cai Zhishan took Zhou Wenjiang's hand and said to the soldiers, "Go and bring a chair and sit on my brother!" ”

After the brothers sat down, Cai Zhishan said: "Since Inspector Yuan was imprisoned, I was demoted to Pingyang as a garrison, and then followed the King of Qin. ”

"King Qin?"

"Oh, that's what you call a thief." Cai Zhishan explained, "King Qin is not an ordinary character, by no means the thieves you have seen who robbed houses and houses, our King Qin is upright and a holy master. ”

Zhou Wenjiang said: "I've heard that Inspector Yuan died a really miserable death, and he was tortured to death. ”

"Yes!" Cai Zhishan said with emotion, "I also heard that every time the executioner cuts a piece of meat, the people pay for it and take it raw. In an instant, the meat has been sold, and then the five organs are disemboweled, and the inchs are cut off and sold. The people bought it, and swallowed it raw with soju, and the blood flowed from their teeth and cheeks. ”

Zhou Wenjiang raised his eyes to look at Cai Zhishan and asked, "I know that you have feelings for Inspector Yuan, this is the reason why you took refuge in the thief?" ”

Cai Zhishan was open-minded and said, "This is just one of the reasons, not the main reason." The most important thing is that the personality charm of King Qin conquered me, his righteousness, his broad mind, and ......"

Zhou Wenjiang interrupted Cai Zhishan's words of praise: "Big brother, I think you want to lift King Qin to the sky!" ”

After saying that, both of them burst out laughing.

After laughing, Cai Zhishan asked, "Second brother, why did you, the Admiral of the Water Division, become my prisoner?" “