Qingzhou Mansion

Chief soldier Gao Jie is very depressed these days.

He originally followed Li Zicheng, and his fornication with Li Zicheng's wife was discovered, and he became Li Zicheng's sworn enemy.

Then he took refuge in Sun Chuanting, and fought bravely against the peasant army, but the military discipline was also extremely poor, and he had a fight with He Renlong, who was executed that year. Originally, he wanted to find a backer to take refuge in Sun Chuanting, but Sun Chuanting only sent him 10,000 new-style Ming troops, making it clear that he didn't intend to pay attention to his notorious bandits. Sun Chuanting can't be counted on now.

The imperial court in the capital will not accept him, but just wants him to take his bandits to fight with Fang Yuanhuo, and die in battle.

Jiangnan regime, Fang Yuan played the card of 10,000 blood books in front of the whole world, and also hung up the banner of arresting him, even if he surrendered at this moment, he would definitely lose his life. The refuge party is also not working this way at the moment.

Gao Jie suddenly found that he had offended the three most powerful forces south of the Great Wall, like an orphan who was unaccompanied, isolated and helpless, and did not see any light or way out.

When Gao Jie arrived in Qingzhou Mansion, he neither took the initiative to attack the Xuanjia Army, nor did he defend the military towns of Qingzhou Prefecture. He only sent his brother Gao Ze to lead 20,000 soldiers south to station in Yishan Fortress as a barrier to the south of Qingzhou.

He threw half of the sergeant to Gao Ze to defend the Yishan defense line, and he led 5,000 new-style Ming troops to stay in Qingzhou City, holding the idea of being a monk for a day and hitting the clock for a day, and having a drink and getting drunk today, carefully selected a hundred of the women who came to the robbery with a better appearance, and all of them were locked in the mansion.

Gao Jie made these women all strip naked, drank and had sex all day long, and it was common for the eight women to be at night. Before Fang Yuan called, he was desperately relying on women and alcohol to anesthetize. As for what will happen to Fang Yuan's real attack, what should I do!

Yishan is Yimeng Mountain, which is a fortress in Luzhong, and the biggest defensive advantage of Yishan is that it can be used to garrison and defend Gu. The so-called Gu is a steep mountain with a flat summit all around, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, which is conducive to the garrison.

The most famous Gu in the Yimeng Mountains is Menglianggu before the crossing, where there was a famous battle during the civil war, the Battle of Menglianggu.

Gao Ze led an army of 20,000 to the Yimeng Mountains, and after inspecting the terrain, the city of Yishui County was short and small, which was not enough to resist the offensive of the Xuanjia army.

He did not lead the army into Yishui County, but went north for eighty miles and found the best garrison location, the largest place in the Yimeng Mountains - Jiwanggu.

Ji Wanggu was built in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it was the second royal city built by Ji Guo at that time, and it has the reputation of the first Gu in the world.

Ji Wanggu is nearly 200 zhang high, there is drinkable water in the mountains, there are 6,000 acres of fertile land on the top of the mountain, and self-sufficiency can also feed 10,000 soldiers.

Today, there are still hundreds of families living on Ji Wanggu, and Gao Ze immediately forcibly requisitioned the houses of these people as a military camp for the garrison, and drove all these people who have lived here for generations down the mountain.

Of course, all the food and the young women had to be left behind.

Ji Wanggu has the ruins of the capital city of the old age, which can be used as a fortification after a little repair.

Gao Ze did not continue to divide the troops, in case they were broken by the Xuanjia army one by one, and the troops were combined, and the whole army stuck to Ji Wanggu. According to Gao Ze's estimate, with the easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack terrain of Ji Wanggu, it is enough to snipe the Xuanjia army here, and it is impossible to advance north.

Ten days after Gao Ze stationed in Ji Wanggu, the combined forces of Zhang Ying and King Lu also arrived in Yishui County. Because of the high rule, Yishui County was abandoned without a fight, and the county magistrates and other officials of Yishui County naturally opened the city gate to welcome Zhang Ying and King Lu into the city.

Zhang Yingbing entered Yishui County bloodlessly, ordered the whole army to rest for a while, and inquired with the officials in the city, only to learn that Gao Ze led the army to withdraw to Ji Wanggu to garrison.

Zhang Ying had also studied the topography of Qingzhou Mansion before the expedition, but it was limited to various prefectures and counties, and it was the first time he had seen this kind of Gu in the Yimeng Mountains, and he didn't know anything about what kind of defense system Ji Wanggu was.

Unable to know who he was, Zhang Ying decided to temporarily rest the whole army for five days, and he and Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, took a thousand soldiers to go to Ji Wanggu to personally explore the terrain.

When the group walked out of seventy miles, they saw a huge mountain valley rising above a tall mountain peak in the distance, the mountain is steep, and at a glance it is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Zhang Ying led the army to the bottom of the mountain, and ordered King Lu to rest at the bottom of the mountain temporarily, without having to take danger himself, but he personally led more than 100 soldiers along the mountain road to explore the terrain upwards.

Just after two quarters of an hour, a rapid horn sounded on the top of the mountain, and it was Ji Wanggu's spies who found Zhang Ying and others who came to explore the mountain, and immediately blew the horn and sounded the alarm.

Zhang Ying knew that further ahead was the fortification of Gao Ze's department, so he could only lead the crowd to retreat along the mountain road.

Zhang Ying, who retreated to the bottom of the mountain, looked very solemn, and on the way back to the city, he had been thinking about how to break through this Ji Wanggu and annihilate the enemy army at the top of the mountain.

The mountain road to Jiwanggu is not steep, and the army can kill under Jiwanggu, but the terrain of Jiwanggu can be a headache.

The cliff is at least ten zhang high, higher than the wall of any city, and there is only one mountain road to attack Guding.

If you lead an army to attack, you will inevitably suffer heavy losses; Even if a drone is sent to drop white phosphorus bombs, because the enemy occupies the commanding heights of the terrain, the air superiority of the drones is greatly offset, and it is easy to be shot down by arrows after liftoff.

Of course, Zhang Ying also had a choice to cross Ji Wanggu and not fight, leaving some sergeants to guard the high rules at Guding, and then lead the army to continue north and attack other states and counties in Qingzhou Capital.

But Zhang Ying didn't know how many enemy troops there were on this Ji Wanggu. If you bypass and don't fight, once this enemy army cuts off the back road of grain and grass, it will affect the battle situation in the entire Qingzhou.

Zhang Ying thought about it, but couldn't think of a good plan for the time being, and when he returned to Yishui County, he suddenly saw a large group, at least a few hundred people, sitting scattered at the gate of the city, and began to build a simple grass house to shelter from the wind and rain.

When the people saw the soldiers and horses coming, an officer who was sitting right away, and a person in brocade clothes like King Lu, knew that he was a noble man with a high status at first sight.

Hundreds of people rushed up at this time, stopped in front of the horses of Zhu Yihai and Zhang Ying, the king of Lu, kowtowed, muttering something, Zhang Ying couldn't hear it clearly for a while.

When King Lu's personal soldiers saw that these Diao people dared to block the way, they immediately rushed up dozens of people, waved their horsewhips and started fighting.

Zhang Ying frowned slightly when he saw it, these people blocked the road, and they didn't ask for food or money, they made it clear that they were here to avenge their grievances. If it were under Fang Yuan's rule, he would never allow such a large-scale abuse of the people to happen. What's more, Fang Yuan had already set up military regulations before sending troops, and he must have strict military discipline and treat the people of Shandong well, otherwise he will be severely punished after the war.

Zhang Ying opened his mouth and said, "His Royal Highness King Lu, the regent has an order, and these people have not offended us, so don't fight!" ”

These soldiers of the Lu Wangfu are used to being domineering on weekdays, and Zhu Yihai was also quite embarrassed in front of Zhang Ying, and said coldly, "Stop it all!" Don't fight again, just disperse. ”

Only then did the soldiers of King Lu's Mansion collect their horsewhips and began to disperse the people who were blocking the road.

Zhang Ying was about to ride his horse over, but suddenly became curious, stopped his horse, and ordered the sergeant to bring up a common man who was blocking the road, asking them about their identities and any grievances to appeal to the government.

After a local sergeant went to communicate with these people, he came to report to Zhang Ying, these people were originally the people who lived in Ji Wanggu, but now they were forcibly robbed of houses, fertile land, and even young women.

They came to Yishui County to seek revenge from the government and wanted to return to their houses and fertile land. But how could the government manage Gao Ze's group of soldiers, they could only pretend to be deaf and dumb and drive them out of the city.

Zhang Ying was slightly stunned and asked again, "Where are they people?!" ”

The sergeant replied again, "It's the people who originally lived on Ji Wanggu!" ”

Zhang Ying was suddenly overjoyed, he really had nowhere to find it when he stepped on the iron shoes, and it took no effort to get it, and immediately ordered the sergeant to take these people to the barracks for resettlement, give porridge and clothes, and he would personally interrogate him tomorrow.