Chapter 519: Different Paths to the Same End (2)
The Qiongzhou soldiers were victorious, the Meizhou soldiers were defeated, and the news quickly spread back to the two states of Qiongmei.
Qiongmei was originally a community of destiny that depended on each other, and even more so in the face of the aggressive Shu Wangfu.
When Xu Kongtu, who did not dare to be careless, learned the news, he immediately brought the title of Chengdu avant-garde commander, Zhang Hongbin, who guarded the thousands of households in Qiongzhou, and several well-known gentry to visit Yang Shen, an old cadre who had retired from Beijing.
Everyone discussed secretly for a while, and finally made the decision to continue to increase the number of troops in Pujiang.
Soon, the 2,000 elites of the Qiongzhou battalion gathered and drove to Pujiang County under the personal command of Zhang Hongbin.
With so many soldiers driving to Pujiang, what should be done about the city defense of Qiongzhou City? It doesn't matter, Qiongzhou is safe and Taishan, this is the consensus among the officials and gentry of Qiongzhou.
First of all, Qiongzhou is a thousand-year-old city. In the city of Friday, the city is five feet high, and it is a typical small but strong city. Whoever wants to attack Qiongzhou has to weigh the consequences of the fortified city.
Qiongzhou City has a strong army, in addition to the remaining 1,500 soldiers of the Qiongzhou battalion, there are more than 500 remnants of bandits who have recently been recruited.
These bandits have suffered for a long time in the mountains, and they are grateful to the Qiongzhou government for accepting their recruitment. They killed Chen Huainian and Chen Huaijin, two bandit leaders who stubbornly opposed Zhao'an, and sent their heads, which can be said to leave no way back. All the remaining people have been driven to the northwest of Qiongzhou City to accept the inspection of the Qiongzhou government.
All of the above shows the sincerity of Zhao'an. As long as time goes on and is often entrapped, these heinous bandits will definitely become Gancheng like Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing who are loyal to the imperial court!
Secondly, the current situation in all aspects is extremely beneficial to the political forces of Qiong Mei and his opposition to the Shu Palace.
The angel Huang Song, who was tasked with the mission of secret investigation, had already left Qiongmei and arrived in Jiading with the criminal evidence of Zhu Pingjian, the prince of Shu, and Liao Daheng, the governor of Shu.
According to the report of the subordinates who escorted the angel, Zhou Yi, the governor of Najiading, had already repented and presented a series of criminal evidence such as accepting sacrifices from the Shu Wangfu, privately setting up tax cards, colluding with the toast, and taking people's lives without permission.
In order to prove that first-hand evidence was obtained, Zhou Yi and the angel also pretended to be a merchant in person, and jointly felt the water tariff card set up by the Shu Wangfu at the foot of the Big Buddha.
What's even more exciting is that with the help of Yao Guanren, a huge amount of money from Huguang was put into the Chengdu market, which immediately set off stormy waves in Chengdu Prefecture.
According to the latest news, the Chengdu stock market has collapsed, and Huitong Money Bank has fallen into a run on the bank. It can be expected that as long as Huitong Bank cannot unconditionally accept the silver according to the rules of silver banknotes, then the silver banknotes will become waste paper that everyone spurns like Daming treasure banknotes!
The students of Chengdu Mansion took to the streets to oppose the new policy of Shufu, which was an unexpected addition.
It is well known that the students were nothing more than the spokesmen of the gentry. When the students went to the streets, it was naturally the gentry of the provincial capital who regarded the students as a bird to rush forward.
The gentry in the provincial capital rose up and opposed it, and the Shu Wangfu and the Sichuan government, which were trying their best to launch the new policy, had a headache.
When the angel returns to Beijing, there must be a holy decree coming in half a year at the latest.
What Qiong Mei needs most now is to buy time.
The more trouble Chengdu Mansion has, the more beneficial it is for Qiongmei to gain time!
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Two thousand soldiers from the Qiongzhou battalion drove to Pujiang County, and Master Li of Pujiang was surprised and delighted. He abandoned the distinction between civil and military nobles, personally left the city ten miles, and put on the highest etiquette to greet Lord Zhang, which made Zhang Deaf a little flattered, and felt that he had to do something to be worthy of Lord Li's trust and trust.
Early in the morning of April 4, 2,000 soldiers left the city and crossed the river and began to sweep the bandits in the Changqiu Mountain area.
Two thousand is not a small number, and it is five miles long. It's a pity that these people and horses are thrown into the vast mountains and mountains, and they become a bunch of inconspicuous ants.
What is even more hateful is that the bandits do not fight with officers and soldiers in close combat, but only take advantage of the geographical advantage to hide behind the rocks and trees from afar. In two days, Zhang Deaf's army did not catch a single human hair, but lost more than a dozen lives one after another.
Not long ago, those were farmers
, the soldiers of the street skin are gone:
Lao Tzu sweats hard, cooks, can't eat enough, and has no money, why do they still bleed?
Seeing that the army's heart was shaken, Zhang Deaf had the intention to withdraw the army, but there was no reason to withdraw the army, at this time, a family member of Li Tongzhi came in a hurry, which immediately made Zhang Deaf overjoyed:
Hundreds of Shu Wangfu's guards came from Xinjin County along the Pujiang River by boat, saying that they were ordered by the governor to come to help suppress, and their strikers had arrived in Huilong Town in Qiongzhou!
Help?
Hearing that the royal army interfered with Qiong Mei for this reason, Zhang Deaf immediately became arrogant:
Lao Tzu has a full 2,000 people here, and you still use your royal army to help suppress it? It's obviously uneasy and kind, and he wants to take advantage of the fire to rob!
Zhang Deaf Zi showed his judgment, and Master Li's cronies immediately praised it, saying that Zhang Deaf and Master Li are really heroes, and they see things in common!
Zhang is deaf and pig-like, his heart is bright, and he is smart, and he knows that there is a drama when he hears this.
Sure enough, the family immediately said that Lord Li wanted to discuss with Lord Zhang, and this royal army was afraid that it would not be good. The bandit is just a disease of scabies, but the royal army is a big problem, which is more important between the two? As......
Withdrawal! Chapter Deaf is asking for it! It's just that...... Zhang Deaf said in embarrassment that he came to suppress the thieves on the order of Lord Zhizhou, and if he withdrew at this time......
No problem!
That family Ding immediately patted his chest on behalf of Master Li.
As long as Lord Zhang is willing to lead the army to block the southbound Wangfu army, the silver, food, and the words to Lord Xu will all be taken care of by Lord Li! As for Master Zhang, there is naturally another reward......
With such a boss who understands the suffering of his subordinates, any migrant worker will sincerely praise it. Zhang Deaf didn't say a word, and evacuated the damn Changqiu Mountain with his two thousand sons.
At noon on 6 April, Zhang Hongbin, who was hurrying northward, finally stopped the southbound Wangfu army near the town of Shou'an, near the confluence of the Pujiang River and the Linxi River.
Shou'an Town, which is already the boundary of Qiongzhou.
After sending people to exchange ideas, the generals of the royal army said that since the bandits had been suppressed, they were willing to withdraw their troops. But they were ordered to come to the rescue, and this withdrawal had to wait for the order of the superior. So I had to stay in place for a few days, and asked Master Zhang to wait. Everyone is tired of walking in the past two days, so it is better to take the opportunity to rest.
As soon as Zhang Deaf heard this, he was reasonable, and saw that the Wangfu army was just a group of township soldiers with uneven armor, and the number was less than five hundred, and his heart was suddenly relieved.
Even if the royal army came to Qiongzhou to make trouble under the pretext of something, it would never only send such bad soldiers!
Zhang Deaf was relieved, and he camped and confronted the Wangfu army across the Linxi River where the summer flood began.
However, with such a beautiful riverside scenery, the dedicated and loving General Zhang will not be wasted. He quickly sent his own soldiers to clean up the surrounding bandits, and finally found a good friend with pig feces on his face in the pigsty of a farmhouse.
As a result, the Qiongzhou military camp soon resounded with the unique huge roar full of rhythm and rhythm.
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In Zhu Pingjin's original deployment against Qiongmei, he followed the idea of "relying on the strong to bully the weak" and directly aimed his troops at the two state cities of Qiongmei.
For example, for Meizhou, from Renshou County in the east and Pengshan County in the north, two battalions of the Second Regiment of the National Protector Army, two garrison battalions of Renshou and Pengshan, two garrison battalions of Xinjin and Shuangliu, and the Yajia Garrison Regiment in the south can also come to support at any time, with a total strength of nearly 10,000 people.
As for the small county of Pujiang, Zhu Pingjin initially believed that its strategic significance was greater than its tactical value, so it was only for the purpose of the military intelligence bureau action team to cut off the traffic in Qiongmei, and sent Li Yunyi to make trouble.
However, Liu Jing, the deputy captain of the action team, acted without authorization in Taiqingguan in Changqiu Mountain, and Liao Daheng sent the Xinjin County garrison camp to Pujiang to assist in the suppression, intentionally or unintentionally, the main force of Qiongzhou was transferred to a place sixty miles northeast of the state capital.
With the quality and equipment of the Qiongzhou officers and soldiers, it will take at least a whole day to return to Qiongzhou after walking these 60 miles.
The forces of all parties in the chaos of Qiongmei quickly discovered this fatal sixty miles.
The Ming Dynasty set up Qiongzhou to guard the Thousand Households, with the purpose of defending against the barbarians in the west. Therefore, the competition of the Qiongzhou Thousand Households is naturally located under the root of the city wall in the southwest corner of the city.
In the afternoon of this day, a rainstorm that is common in summer suddenly swept away the entire city of Qiongzhou.
The torrential rain came and went as quickly as it came, and soon the clouds cleared and the fog cleared, leaving large and small puddles in the center of the field.
The soldiers were dressed in uniforms, dirty, washed, and had to stay naked in the house and dare not see anyone.
When the officers saw the appearance of the battle, they were very happy that they couldn't practice, so they asked Lu Benxue, the deputy commander of the Qiongzhou Qianhu Training Institute, the general who guarded the city.
Lord Lu's order soon arrived, and everyone rested and rested in the arena.
The soldiers had nothing to be happy about, and they couldn't leave the camp anyway. The happiest were the officers. Taking advantage of the absence of the main general, they slipped out of the barracks in twos and threes. Eating and drinking, gambling money, visiting green houses, meeting each other, in short, what do you want to do.
For the more than 1,000 soldiers who had recently been captured on the field, the officers were very relieved: they had already ordered the kitchen to cook three stones of brown rice, and those starving ghosts would leave the camp without permission in order to eat?
After dinner that day, the soldiers who had drunk a bowl of dry porridge and still had empty stomachs sat around the arena in twos and threes. While enjoying the cool breeze blowing in the mountains, he opened the gantry array with nothing to do.
Regarding the dispute between the two prefectures of Qiongmei and the provincial capital Chengdu, the soldiers knew about it and did not care too much. Although there are many topics that they are keen to talk about, they all come back to matters that are of interest to them.
"Do you know Wang Da Niu of the Wangfu Army? Do you know where he's from? One of the soldiers foamed at the mouth and frothed around with a little gossip he knew.
"Who doesn't know about this thirty miles around Linqiong City! Wangjiashan in the north of the city! The people around laughed.
"Last year, the prince of the spring passed by Linqiong, and Wang Da Niu was in a lawsuit with Yang Tianguan! The prince saw that he was a man, so he took the brothers of the Wang family to Yazhou, and paid back the rent to the people of Wangjiashan. Wang Jiashan has such a character, and he is really happy...... Later, I heard that Wang Daniu had made great contributions to quelling the chaos in Yazhou, and now he seems to have become a big official......"
"What seems to be a big official! It's to be a big official! Regimental level! β
When the gossip around him was cleared, the stalkers finally fought back and regained their position as the keynote speaker:
"Do you know what a regimental level is? Let me tell you, the generals of the imperial court are at most a regimental level in the world!
Wang Xiang, the general of the main barracks, made a surprise attack on Bazhou, killed the king of the tyrant's family with a cannon, and defended until the great victory of the Protector Army. β
"Isn't that Wang Da Niu bigger than our official Zhang?!"
"Zhang Deaf is a bare-ass commander with a tail - a thing, in the military attachΓ©, he is a big sesame mung bean officer! In my opinion, Wang Da Niu is bigger than Lord Xu's official! β
The presenter expressed contempt for the low level of the responders around him with a look of disdain.
Upon hearing this, many of the respondents quickly conducted a thorough review and resolved to work hard to improve their standards so that they could keep abreast of the latest developments in the forum.
"Counselor? It turns out that the regimental level is a general! Zhengqi aided the fourth battalion, and the staff general was the reinforcement battalion...... "A respondent may have been an officer and soldier before, and he is very familiar with the battalion system of the imperial court. He crossed his fingers and counted the battalion number of the general: "It should be a reinforcement battalion!" It is said that there are at least 3,000 people in the reinforcement battalion, but now there are 1,000 or 2,000 reinforcement battalions that are all Shangguan Qingyan......"
The presenter was still not satisfied with the response:
"You're the old rule of the court! The general also nodded when he saw the magistrate. Why? That's called Yiwen Yuwu...... But now I'm in charge of the prince of Shu......
The new rules of the prince are collective decision-making, and the civil and military systems are combined! Whatever battalion head is, there is a prison army. The general is as big as the prison army, and generally tall, and they do their own things on weekdays. When there is a big event, everyone sits down and discusses it together, which is called a meeting! β
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