Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume VII The Bloody Battle in the Southwest

Chapter 3 Tiger Ben's Bloody War Quells Rebellion

Section 1 Gathering at Nanjin Pass (1)

In the second year of the Apocalypse (the seventh year of the Later Jin Mandate of Heaven), in mid-June, Zitong City.

After Liu Yunwei led the Longxiang Iron Cavalry to gather and annihilate the rebels of the Luxury Sho on the nameless hill, he led his troops all the way south, and joined the main army of the pacesetter battalion, the trapping camp and the Tiger Camp, and tens of thousands of troops marched along the official road all the way, and arrived at the foot of Zitong City a few days later.

At this time, the Zitong City was already silent and empty, and the main force of the rebels in the city had already gone out of the city to the east two days ago, and when they were leaving, they also transported all the food and goods that could be taken away in Zitong City, leaving only a ruined city that had been looted, and thousands of miserable people who had been ruined.

Liu Yunwei was shocked and angry when he saw this, and on the one hand, he sent out Ye Buhui to investigate the whereabouts of Hao Chongming's department, and on the other hand, he led a large army into the city to help the people in the city. A day later, the news came back that the rebels under the command of Hao Chongming had crossed the Xiaozhangshui River to the east and were heading towards Nanjin Pass.

On the same day, Lu Ying also sent an urgent report: The rebels of Guizhou and Guangxi led by An Bangyan have entered Shunqing Mansion, and they will be under the city of Nanjin Pass within a few days, and the troops of Yu Chongming are also killing Nanjin Pass, and the two rebel armies are about to meet!

"The rebels are preparing to encircle Lu Ying's troops at Nanjin Pass!"

Liu Yunwei looked at the map on the table and immediately guessed the intention of the rebels, so he sent an order to the Yulin battalion led by Huang Fuming, ordering his troops to immediately enter Jiange City to replace the soldiers of the Yue cavalry battalion led by Li Tianhao to garrison the rear of the army; At the same time, Li Tianhao was ordered to immediately lead the soldiers of the Yue Cavalry Battalion to rush to Boryeong Fucheng (the capital of Boryeong Province is Boryeong Fucheng) north of Nanjin Pass to cut off the road for the rebels to go north from the Nanjin Pass.

After the arrangement, Liu Yunwei wrote a personal letter to Lu Ying, ordering him to immediately lead the soldiers of the Feiyu Battalion, the Zhichong Battalion, and the Yingyang Battalion to evacuate Nanjin Pass, and cede the Guancheng to the rebels led by Hao Chongming and An Bangyan.

After the letter was sent, Liu Yunwei immediately ordered the main army of the Han Wei army to set off to the east and immediately rushed to Nanjin Pass, preparing to start a final decisive battle with the rebels in the area of Nanjin Pass. As for Zitong City, after the main force of the rebels concentrated in the area of Nanjin Pass, this city had no strategic significance, so it was decisively abandoned by Liu Yunwei.

On the way to the march, Zhou Tianyi and Hu Kun rode horses to find Liu Yunwei, and the two of them told Wen Poyu about the urgent military situation sent by him: "Good news from the town, just a few days ago, Wen Guerrilla led the soldiers of the Changshui Battalion to fight more than 40,000 rebels under the city of Chengdu, and annihilated their troops in the first battle. Now the Wen guerrilla has led the army to the south in several ways, preparing to sweep the rear of the rebellious Tusi in Sichuan and Yunnan. In addition, Wen Guerrilla also deliberately wrote in the war report that the old lady is in good health, please don't worry about it. ”

Liu Yunwei was overjoyed when he heard the news, and immediately asked Zhou Tianyi to send a letter back to Wen Poyu, first briefly explaining the current battle situation, and then ordering Wen Poyu to immediately lead the army into Guizhou and Guangxi after sweeping the nest of the rebel Tusi of the Yu Chongming family in Sichuan and Yunnan, and also cleared the nest of the rebel Tusi of An Bangyan's family one by one, so as to deal a blow to the morale of the rebels to the greatest extent.

After Zhou Tianyi drafted this reply letter, he said to Liu Yunwei with a smile: "The general town first gave up the Nanjin Pass, and let the two rebel armies of Hao Chongming and An Bangyan smoothly join the division, and then ordered Li Guerrilla and Lu Garrison to lead the army to form a flanking attack on the rebels in the south and the north, plus the main army led by the general town, then the rebels can form a three-sided siege situation. ”

Hu Kun also nodded and said: "Circumference three is missing one!" The town is a good strategy, although the strength of the rebels is on par with our Hanwei army, but the combat power is far worse than that of our soldiers! In this battle, in addition to being destroyed in Nanjin Pass, the two traitors of Hao Chongming and An Bangyan had no choice but to defeat Guizhou. When the time comes, my 100,000 Hanwei troops can take advantage of the situation to advance eastward, chase the dead and chase the north, and this southwest rebellion can also be decided in one battle! ”

Liu Yunwei said with a smile: "Governor Zhou and Governor Hu don't wear high hats for me, do your best to obey the destiny of heaven, although I have arranged the strategy for this battle, but the final result will not be known until after the fierce battle." After all, that luxury Chongming and An Bangyan are not idle people, and they will not admit defeat easily. ”

Zhou Tianyi was a little unimpressed, and said: "The general town is not good! The generation of jackals is capable of rivaling the army of dragons and tigers! ”

Two days later, Liu Yunwei led more than 30,000 soldiers from the pacesetter battalion, the trap camp, and the Huben battalion to cross the Xiaozhangshui River and set up camp in a wilderness thirty miles away from Nanjin Pass.

At this time, Lu Ying and Li Tianhao had already sent news one after another, and the two had arrived at the southern city and Baoning Mansion with their own troops and horses, and were actively preparing for the big war. At the same time, Huang Fuming also transported the last batch of baggage before the war to the camp, and told Liu Yunwei: The soldiers of the Yulin Battalion have been stationed in Sword Pavilion City, and the 100,000 army has no worries!

In the evening of that day, Liu Yunwei summoned all the generals and officers of the whole army to discuss the meeting in the big tent of the Chinese army. Wu Xing, Zhao Kaishan, Edward and other more than a dozen generals gathered in the big tent of the Chinese army, Zhou Tianyi and Hu Kun also sat under Liu Yunwei, and Guo Yi stood behind Liu Yunwei in high spirits, like a statue without squinting and staring ahead.

Liu Yunwei looked around at the generals in the tent, and then said: "According to the night's report, the department of Yu Chongming has already joined forces with the department of An Bangyan who rushed to support in Nanjin Pass, and now the two rebel armies have 100,000 troops together, and their strength is very strong. However, my Hanwei soldiers are not muddy! ”

"That's it! None of the Tartars are our opponents, how can these rebels stop the offensive of our Hanwei army? ”

"The town ordered, let's sweep the past and make new contributions!"

The people in the tent shouted loudly, and the morale was very high.

Liu Yunwei also laughed out loud and continued: "Now, Li Tianhao, the guerrilla general of the Yue Cavalry Battalion, has led his army to defend the Baoning Mansion City north of Nanjin Pass, and Lu Ying, the garrison of the Feiyu Battalion, has led more than 30,000 soldiers of the three battalions of the Feiyu Battalion, the Zhichong Battalion, and the Yingyang Battalion to guard the southern city south of Nanjin Pass, and the main army of our three battalions is located just west of Nanjin Pass. In other words, now nearly 90,000 soldiers of our Hanwei Army have formed a situation of encirclement against the rebels! In view of this, I decided to start a decisive battle with the rebels in the area of Nanjin Pass, and completely exterminate the rebels here at all costs! ”

Wu Xing, Zhao Kaishan and other generals only felt their blood boiling when they heard this, and they couldn't help themselves, in this battle, the combined strength of the two sides was nearly 200,000, how many times can ordinary people encounter this kind of epic war in their lives? This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and if you seize it, you can make a shocking achievement!

Liu Yunwei was also excited, full of confidence in the upcoming battle, and said: "Early tomorrow morning, the army will march eastward and set up camp ten miles away from Nanjin Pass. In this battle, our main army was the main attack, the land garrison was the assist, and the Li guerrilla station was the main defense. After the army arrives at the predetermined place tomorrow, it will immediately send out a night to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and be sure to find out the detailed deployment of the rebels. ”

The next day, Liu Yunwei led the main force of more than 30,000 Hanwei troops to continue eastward and set up camp ten miles away from Nanjin Pass. At this time, the officers and men of the Hanwei Army were already able to see scattered rebel scouts appearing from time to time near the main camp. However, those rebel scouts could not get close to the Hanwei army camp within three miles, or even stay for a long time, and it would not be long before they were dispersed by the powerful Hanwei army at night or killed on the spot.

In this way, after Liu Yunwei calmed down and led the army to be stationed in the camp for four days, the soldiers of the main army finally found out the specific deployment of the rebels. However, for this detailed information on the deployment of the rebels, the soldiers did not collect at night and paid a heavy price of hundreds of casualties.

"It is reported that the main force of 30,000 troops of the traitor Yu Chongming is stationed in Nanjin Pass, and the remaining 20,000 troops are stationed five miles north of Nanjin Pass to prevent our army from crossing the cavalry camp; The main force of 30,000 troops of the traitor An Bangyan was stationed fifteen miles south of Nanjin Pass, and set up a large camp on the north bank of the Jialing River, and confronted the land garrison stationed in the southern city across the river; The remnants of the 20,000-strong army of the rebel An Bangyan were stationed at Hexi Pass, east of Nanjin Pass and on the east bank of the Jialing River (the Jialing River generally flows from the northwest to the southeast of Nanjin Pass, but it flows from north to south in the area of Hexi Pass, and it flows from west to east when it reaches the southern city), defending the rebels' retreat to Guizhou. In addition, there are 10,000 rebels stationed in Yilong City, Shunqing Prefecture in Guizhou, which are the mixed soldiers and horses of the two armies of Hao Chongming and An Bangyan, led by the general Hao Donghu under Hao Chongming, who is the elite soldiers and horses in the rebels, guarding the grain and grass of the rebels. ”

After reading this information, Liu Yunwei fell into deep thought: Xuan Chongming and An Bangyan spread out all the more than 100,000 troops and stationed them in important places, and it seemed that they were preparing to fight a protracted war with themselves!

"Extravagant Chongming and An Bangyan are really calculating, and they put their grain storage land in Shunqing Mansion in Guizhou. Now the main army led by me is blocked in the west by Nanjin Pass, and Li Tianhao's troops in the north are insufficient, so it is impossible to defeat Yilong City, which is garrisoned by an elite army, not to mention that there are still 20,000 rebels confronting Li Tianhao's troops. The only one who has the opportunity and strength to cut off the rebels' grain route is Lu Ying's department, but Lu Ying's department is blocked by the Jialing River in front of his department, and there are 30,000 rebels led by An Bangyan to contain it, so he is also powerless. It seems that this battle can only be fought steadily, but in this way, the casualties of the soldiers will inevitably increase greatly, and it will be delayed for a long time, so I don't know if the imperial court can support it. ”

Liu Yunwei looked at the map on the table and thought about it for a while, and couldn't think of a good plan for a while, so he said secretly: "It seems that we can only attack Nanjin Pass first, try to have a few catties and taels of luxury Chongming, maybe the situation will take a turn for the better!" ”