Chapter 345: The Little Thing, the Big Picture, Nan Zhili

"The sinners Yuan Shizhong, who knew his way back, came to join the imperial court, and hoped that the garrison would take them in for the sake of the sinners' hearts to the court and repentance."

After Yuan Shizhong saw the infantry team appear on the other side of the river, the anxiety and nervousness in his heart were all thrown aside, and the murderous chasing soldiers behind him were also put behind him.

Zhao'an, with his own troops that were mixed with countless sand by King Chuang, could not be used as bargaining capital at all, and the Yuan family's troops totaled less than 2,000 people, and there were only so many left around him, and he couldn't take it out. Yuan Shizhong relied on what he did for the other party.

If Shandong soldiers and horses are really as trustworthy as Jia Dashan said, then everything they have done is worth it, but when they really come to the front, they feel afraid.

Yuan Shizhong also heard about the battle of the whirlpool in the camp, but this battle was a taboo topic in the camp, and those who participated in it were often reluctant to talk about it, and the rest of the people did not understand it comprehensively.

As a result, the news that Yuan Shizhong got was also fragmented, of course, the concept of Shandong soldiers and horses could still be obtained, which was also one of the reasons why he decided to defect.

However, after seeing it with my own eyes, I knew how specific this "Jingqiang" was, the spear was like a forest, the soldiers were like a tiger, and the law was strict, such soldiers and horses, even if Yuan Shizhong had been rampant in Beizhili and Henan for many years, he had never seen it.

When the incident started, Yuan Shizhong once led more than a dozen relatives in his family to kill more than 400 officers and soldiers in Huaxian County, and they scattered and fled.

But these squares in front of him, Yuan Shi had such a feeling, even if his own small Yuan battalion was at its peak, even if it was several times as much, I am afraid that it would not be able to defeat the officers and soldiers in front of him.

Originally, he was relieved, but he became scared again, and Yuan Shizhong was also well-informed. I know some things in Zhao'an, and there are those who have scattered and deployed to join the imperial court. The imperial army will look at it a little unpleasantly, and when an ant is generally said to kill, he will kill it, and the court will not bother to pay attention to it at all.

At this time, Yuan Shizhong regretted it very much, thinking about whether he was taking the right step or the wrong one, and the cronies who followed him were also tired to death, some of them kowtowed, and some of them directly lay on the ground. This desperate run is really tiring.

Shandong's infantry team stopped. Yuan Shizhong knelt down and didn't dare to raise his head, he was about to be frightened, and several officers rode up to them.

When he came to him, several Shandong generals all turned over and dismounted, and Yuan Shizhong was also a hero, but at this time he didn't have any courage at all, and he had the courage to look up, and now it was Jia Dashan, an acquaintance who contacted him, and hurriedly knelt and climbed a few steps forward. Kowtowed again and pleaded:

"Jia Garrison, Lord Jia, General Jia. Sinners, sinners ......"

His voice was hoarse for a while, but he couldn't say a word, these successive titles made Jia Dashan cough, turned his head to look at the few thousand presidents around him, and now everyone looked as usual, so he coughed dryly again, and said:

"Brother Yuan. Jia is now a thousand presidents under Zhang Jiang, the capital of Yanzhou. The title of garrison is absolutely unspeakable. ”

At that time, Yuan Shizhong's status in Henan was far higher than that of Jia Dashan, and there were many people who had not heard of Li Zhenhai. I haven't heard of Xiao Yuanying, but I haven't.

But at this time, the two of them are an official and a thief, and this status is completely reversed, looking at Yuan Shizhong's cautious and trembling appearance, Jia Dashan felt that he had made the right choice that day, but he sighed for a while, but when he saw Yuan Shizhong's thoughtful look, he was thinking that Jia Dashan had been demoted.

This is the contact person in the center to contact himself, is it a bad omen to be demoted, the more Yuan Shizhong thought about it, the more frightened he became, but looking at Jia Dashan's expression was very natural, but it didn't seem to be so bad.

Jia Dashan accepted his emotion, and said with a smile on his face:

"Brother Yuan, stand up quickly, if you kneel like this, won't you let the brothers be killed, get up quickly."

While speaking, he stepped forward and helped Yuan Shizhong up, and after helping him up, everyone took a step back, hugged their fists and bowed, and said in unison:

"Subordinates, see Lord Yuan."

Yuan Shizhong, who was frightened and frightened, stood up, and when he saw these fully armed generals on the opposite side suddenly bowing down and saying such a sentence, he couldn't help but tremble, and almost knelt on the ground again.

An officer on the side said aloud:

"General Zhendong, Governor of Zuodu, and Shandong General Li Meng have an order, Yuan Shizhong abandoned the secret and surrendered to the light, and made great contributions to the imperial court.

"Garrison...... At that time, the conditions for contact were fulfilled? It's actually the most stable and prosperous place in Henan to return to Defu, isn't it this Jia Dashan as a garrison? ”

Yuan Shizhong, who was extremely tired, couldn't accept such a sudden news for a while, and even suspected that he had heard it wrong, shaking his head desperately, those relatives behind him had already begun to cheer, and some people opened their mouths to cheer a few words that they cried loudly, this time they broke up in the middle of the night, and they finally had a reasonable reward for running all the way.

"Robbed Jia Dashan's official position, will he complain......

Suddenly got such a high position, Yuan Shizhong really couldn't react, but began to suffer from gains and losses, but looking at Jia Dashan's smile on the other side, he felt that this official position of the garrison was a little strange, why did he smile so strangely, as if he had taken advantage of it.

The garrison of the external department, let's be a guard in this life, Lao Tzu is this Qianzong, as long as he dares to fight, the future is unlimited, Jia Dashan was a little proud in his heart, and the smile on his face became brighter.

Compared with Yuan Shizhong's apprehension, his personal entourage is full of energy, and it is worth coming, and we will also be powerful and blessed officials in the future.

There were pro-soldier guards who came over with documents and sealed letters and handed them to Yuan Shizhong, and several thousand generals on the side congratulated him in unison, and Yuan Shizhong was led down in a daze.

As soon as Yuan Shizhong and these people left, everyone's faces, including Jia Dashan, turned cold, and there were still a large number of cavalry on the other side, and these four battalions did not come to simply demonstrate martial arts.

This place is the junction of Guide and Kaifeng Mansion, which is already the territory of Guide Mansion, and it was originally agreed that soldiers and horses were not allowed to enter Kaifeng Mansion and Guide Mansion.

But now the soldiers and horses who broke into the camp have entered Kaifeng Mansion and acted unscrupulously. Although this is within the limits of Li Mengdi's tolerance, it is just that the Guide Government resolutely does not allow such a situation to occur.

Today's behavior. Responding to Yuan Shizhong is on the one hand, if he breaks into the camp, he is already carried away, and he enters the Guide Mansion unscrupulously or wanders on the edge. Then the battalions that came over today will give it a resolute blow, but Li Guo on the other side is also a veteran and has not moved. \

As it got darker, a large number of cavalry on the opposite side could be seen leaving in the direction of the road from which they came, while the rest of the cavalry stood still. Confront this side.

Such a situation arises. In line with a kind of deduction made in advance, the response made was also arranged in advance, since the other party did not cross the river, the Shandong soldiers and horses also had a pre-arranged response - and then withdrew to the camp......

From Linying County all the way to the north in the direction of Zhuxian Town, the Li and Luo combined forces were like a broken bamboo and went very smoothly, but the sudden collapse of the forward Xiao Yuan camp caught the Li and Luo combined forces off guard.

The army of Chuang Camp and Cao Cao began to be on alert, and the first class was in a strict state. Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, led his army to defeat the fleeing Xiao Yuan camp troops, and then gathered the Xiao Yuan camp troops, refusing to take a step forward.

Li Guo led the crowd in pursuit. He has always been in contact with the old camp, and he can know the news at any time, and Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, also quickly knew who Yuan Shizhong had defected to in the past and who came to recruit him.

After Chuang Ying and Cao Cao's army got the news, they never took a step forward, and they were always waiting for detailed news from Li Guo's side.

Known as "a tiger", Li Guo did not have a bit of tiger nature, led more than 2,000 cavalry to break into the camp, and waited for a night on the west bank of the Huiji River with great caution.

Until the sun rises the next morning. Seeing the Shandong soldiers and horses on the opposite side, there was no movement. On the other side of the river, there were only a few cavalry sentries looking around, and they breathed a sigh of relief. He knew that with more than 2,000 cavalry, he would not be able to stop the opponent's attack here.

If there is nothing wrong with the horses on the side of the camp, then the Shandong soldiers and horses do not have too many troops in Guide, although these armies cannot be stopped by their own 2,000 cavalry, but the soldiers and horses of the old battalion can be completely stopped.

However, now the whole energy of the Li and Luo combined forces is to be focused on the hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers in Zhu Xianzhen, and if the forces are scattered here, then the Ming army in Zhu Xianzhen will go on the offensive, and it will not be possible for the Li and Luo combined forces to be attacked on both sides, causing a great disaster.

The more he thought about this situation, the more bottomless Li Guo was in his heart, on that day, the secret conversation between Li Zicheng and Niu Jinxing in the camp tent, the cronies and generals who broke into the camp all knew something, but after Yuan Shizhong was born, who would dare to say that Niu Jinxing's judgment was accurate, and the soldiers were dangerous, even if there was a 1 in 10,000 chance to think of it, who would dare to say that the Shandong soldiers and horses would watch Li and Luo Lianjun unscrupulously and the officers and soldiers fight in Zhuxian Town.

After trembling all night, Li Guo also knew that it was useless to stay here, so he left the cavalry as a guard, and then returned with the brigade himself.

Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, who received Li Guo's face-to-face report, temporarily stopped all the actions of breaking into the camp and made a new arrangement.

On the right flank, in the direction where the Shandong soldiers and horses might be killed, the core army led by Liu Fangliang and He Jin to break into the camp was stationed in Pengzudian, and the strikers led by Gao Yi also retreated to Weishi County with Liu Zongmin, Hao Shaoqi and others to garrison, and Luo Rucai brought his own troops and horses to be stationed in Xinzheng County.

And Li Zicheng's army was stationed between Changge and Xuzhou, putting on a posture of stubbornly waiting and waiting, Li and Luo's combined army was nearly a million people, Henan and even the Central Plains, except for the officers and soldiers of Zhuxian Town, there was nothing to threaten their team.

Lao Dangdang, a dragon, and a sky-turning monkey and other teams of similar nature to Xiao Yuanying's camp were all stationed between Xuzhou and Linying, which was the tail of the army, even if there was any change, it could not turn the sky over, like Xiao Yuanying's almost caused irreversible losses.

In the early stage of the preparatory operation, in order to have a long-term confrontation with the officers and soldiers, the Li and Luo combined forces attacked the state capital and county seats, and the forts of large households were attacked everywhere, and the treasury was set up for consumption.

At the same time, the number of spies at the junction with Shandong and Nanzhili has almost doubled. Li Zicheng's decision was very simple, he had to wait until the exact movements of Shandong's soldiers and horses. to act.

However, in early May, there were also very strange things, such as the spies who broke into the camp suddenly appeared, and the former heavily guarded Guide and Xuzhou were actually relaxed, and it was not so difficult to go in to investigate, it turned out that the militia of those local tyrants and landlords were armed. At all intersections, they are strictly investigated and investigated. After Yuan Shizhong fled, he suddenly disappeared without a trace.

From top to bottom, the first judgment was that this was a conspiracy of Shandong soldiers and horses, but some spies were bold enough to sneak in.

Except for the barracks Grange which is a forbidden place, the rest of the places are relatively much freer, and how many soldiers and horses can be stationed in the barracks Grange are counted, and there are traces to follow. *****

The news of the flow price was transmitted back to Li Zicheng's handsome account. There is no sign of Shandong soldiers and horses increasing in Guide Province, and those battalions are still stationed in Guide Province.

At this time, it was already May 12, and the Li and Luo coalition forces still did not dare to move. The caliber of the sentinels in the return of Guide Mansion is the same, and some of the sentinels even go deep into the area of Cao County and Shanxian County in Shandong, and there is no sign of a large-scale mobilization of troops and horses in Shandong.

Li Zicheng breathed a sigh of relief, but he still didn't dare to make too many moves, just let the forward army led by Gao Yi Power tentatively move forward twenty miles, and at the same time, Liu Zongmin and Hao Shaoqi's army was ready to go to the right flank at any time to meet the army led by Liu Fangliang and He Jin.

If it is said that Shandong soldiers and horses want to rescue the officers and soldiers in the south of Kaifeng City. This is the time to go......

But there was still no movement on the side of Guide Mansion. The originally nervous camp finally relaxed a little, and Li Zicheng and the generals finally recovered from their fear.

Everyone admired Niu Jinxing, the mastermind of the army. It seems that the situation is really similar to his judgment.

However, after this sudden incident of Xiao Yuanying's escape in the middle of the night, the generals who broke into the camp, and the people who originally had a good impression of this Cao Cao and Luo Rucai also changed their views.

The vanguard of the coalition army suddenly broke and fled, which was a major event related to the victory or defeat of the two armies, and even life and death, but Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, made a series of arrangements, but Cao Cao's attitude seemed to have nothing to do with him.

Luo Rucai's cavalry team was very fine, but this time he ignored it and completely stayed out of the matter, but everyone was completely cold.

As comrades-in-arms on the battlefield, as allies, they trust each other exquisitely, but Luo Rucai's attitude makes people unable to trust, not to mention, there are still people who escaped from Xiaoyuan's camp, thinking of Luo Rucai's ambiguous relationship with the officials and soldiers in the area of Huguang Junzhou, and he was ready to accept the old affairs of Zhao'andi.

Entrenched in the south of Kaifeng Prefecture, ready to observe the situation, but this Luo Rucai's headquarters soldiers and horses chose the left wing of Xinzheng County, this position is even more resentful, if the Shandong soldiers and horses really kill over, he Luo Rucai is really calm.

If Liu Fangliang and they have the upper hand, they can naturally go over and fight a good fight, if the situation is not good, he can directly flee to the west, whether it is to enter Henan Mansion or go west to Shaanxi.

Since the joint army, Luo Rucai has few soldiers, but he always occupies a large share of the spoils, and when it comes to the current time of such a big war, he is unwilling to come forward.

The resentment accumulated in everyone's hearts became bigger and bigger, and those officers and soldiers who were envious of Cao Cao's camp and enjoyed their freedom also changed their minds, thinking that these people were too unrighteous and not heroic, and they might not have any good prospects for following him.

However, everyone didn't know that Luo Rucai was stationed in Xinzheng County, but it was Li Zicheng's insistence, but it had nothing to do with Luo Rucai.

The Ming army stationed in Zhu Xianzhen turned a blind eye to the short-term confusion of the Li and Luo coalition forces, and this may be their best opportunity to attack.

But Zuo Liangyu never dared to risk attacking, and several other general soldiers were even more passable, as for the supervisor Ding Qirui and Baoding Governor Yang Wenyue, the two of them drank and feasted every day, as if they had the mentality that there was no tomorrow to live, and they wasted a great fighter in vain.

On 15 May, after presumably making the judgment that the Shandong soldiers and horses would not enter Kaifeng Mansion to fight, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai discussed and rearranged the marching route.

Originally, the army went north from Weishi County to Zhuxian Town, but now it was changed to go west to Xinzheng County, which was guarded by Luo Rucai, and then the army went north along the road from Xinzheng County to Zhengzhou, and then moved eastward to Zhengzhou, passing through Zhongmu and Zhuxian Town.

This change disrupted a lot of pre-arrangement, but Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai had no objections, and kept a distance from Shandong as much as possible, so that it would be safer.

If there had not been an episode of Xiao Yuan's camp fleeing in the middle of the night, on the 15th or 18th of May, the combined forces of Li and Luo would have engaged the officers and soldiers who had retreated in Zhuxian Town.

But after this incident, there was a possible threat from the soldiers and horses of Shandong, changing the route and detecting the military situation, and the actions of the Li and Luo coalition forces were stagnant for nearly 20 days.

The twenty days of immobility of the exile army certainly relieved the Ming army on the side of Zhuxian Town, but it made people in other places restless.

In the south of Fengyang Mansion in Nanzhili, the officers and soldiers led by Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo were stationed in the north and south of Xia Cai respectively, and the eunuch Lu Jiude led by the Nanjing town guard was each other's horns.

In the confrontation with Zhang Xianzhong and the five battalions of Gezuo in the Huoqiu and Yingshang areas, Nanzhili is almost the province with the most state capitals in the world, and its mobilization power is relatively strong.

Since the army of displaced people entered Nanzhili, the offensive was stopped in the Yingshang area, and the mobilized soldiers and horses from all over the place began to reinforce this side.

By the beginning of May, the soldiers and horses in the hands of the eunuch Lu Jiude were already close to 60,000, and the situation was becoming more and more stable.

But the sudden stop of the Li and Luo coalition forces in Henan Province stabilized the hearts of the people, and suddenly became panicked again, the army of millions of displaced people was too large, and his every move affected the surrounding situation.

What is the intention of suddenly standing still......

Lu Jiude, the eunuch guarding the town, turned into an ant on a hot pot, and he was burnt out. At present, all the soldiers and horses of Nanzhili are concentrated in the Shouzhou area to stop Zhang Xianzhong and the fifth battalion of Gezuo, if Li Chuang and Cao Cao go all the way to the south and enter Nanzhili in Shenqiu, it will be a great disaster.

The actions of the displaced people are impermanent, but they are all moving towards a rich and peaceful place, Zhuxian Town has a claim of 400,000 officers and soldiers, and Henan is dilapidated, no matter how you look at this Nanzhili, it is a better choice.

When the Wenchen generals of Nanzhili were worried about this, Fengyang Mansion and Luzhou Mansion suddenly appeared in the area of Jiejiao and children's children's songs, but the content is not unfamiliar to everyone, "Looking forward to the king, welcoming the king, the king is not paying food" and "The eighteen sons are the main artifact, and the destiny of heaven should change".

This is clearly a precursor to Li Chuang's imminent entry into Nanzhili, and such things are rather credible, and for a while, the situation in Nanzhili, which had just calmed down, became panicked.

According to Ma Shiying's judgment of having a private banquet with several friends in Nanjing City, "At present, the soldiers who can fight in Jiangnan are all gathered in Shouzhou, if Li Chuang enters the Kou from Shenqiu, the world will be overturned, but this matter is too weird, and there seems to be a hidden ......"

It may be clear to watch, but the authorities do not dare to make such a calm judgment, and it is true that there are no soldiers available.

Maybe it's accident, maybe it's inevitable, maybe it's according to convention, and it can only be such a judgment, and finally a staff member and Nanjing town guard eunuch Lu Jiude suggested:

"Father-in-law Liu, in the land of Lianghuai, there are still nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses in Shandong, it is our help, please send troops to Fengyang Mansion to support!"

On May 15, all 20,000 Qingzhou troops entered Huai'an Mansion in Nanzhili and stationed around Tuntian Grange around Shuyang......

I wrote too late last night, so I will do less today, thank you, and continue to ask for a monthly pass