Chapter 250: The Hui Village in the Qinling Mountains
Ren Zhen was killed by four spears piercing his chest, and the moment he saw Chen De's head, he knew that the general trend had gone, and there was no way to return to heaven.
He wanted to surrender, but before he could drop his weapon, he was stabbed to death by the white-robed soldiers who surrounded him, and at the moment of death, he was still thinking in his mind, when did the Ming army have such a strong army, who was the main general, and why had he never heard of it? Haven't the generals and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty turned into white bones at the foot of Songshan Mountain in Liaodong?
No one gave him an answer, and the cold blade of the spear sliced through his body as easily as tofu, and the column of blood that exuded body heat rushed straight into the sky, dissipating his life force, and the remaining godless skin fell to the ground.
"The old rule, each person carries a bag of grain, and the rest is all burned!" Wang Huan wiped the blood stains on the blade of the spear in his hand and gave an order indifferently.
The Kuizhou army is all soldiers who are accustomed to taking mountain roads, and after being fully armed, they can also cross the mountains and mountains with a bag of dozens of catties of rice grain, but the speed is much slower.
The grain carts scattered on the official road were put on dry wood and lit a fire, and in the blazing fire, just like when it appeared, the Kuizhou army quickly disappeared into the vast mountains.
The Qing army in Fengxian County, when they saw the huge smoke column rising above the valley road, suddenly felt bad, immediately lit up the people and horses, entered the valley to check, and waited until they cautiously rushed to the place where the smoke column rose, only to see the corpses all over the ground and the grain truck burned to ashes, and did not even see the shadow of the Kuizhou army.
Looking at the corpses in a place, the Qing army general was secretly frightened, and Zhang Jing, who led the team, gasped even more, the Han army soldiers and horses of 2,000 people were killed in a short period of time, and asked about the surviving labor, and learned that all this was actually done by a group of Ming troops, and in the Hanzhong region, except for the group of Ming troops who ran from Yinping Road, there will be no more Ming army banner activities, which must be a good thing they do.
Looking at the majestic mountains on both sides of the official road, where the trees are dense, steep and difficult to walk, how did those Ming troops come to and how they went, the laborers said that the Ming army has thousands of people, how can such a large army march on this terrain, could it be that they are all monkeys?
If you don't want to believe in labor, but at both ends of this official road, on one side is Dasanguan, on the other side is Fengxian, both places are guarded by Qing soldiers, and it is impossible for the Ming army to pass, and the words of labor are very credible.
So after collecting the bodies of the war dead, the Qing soldiers immediately sent fast horses and a team to Xi'an, asking Meng Qiaofang to hurry up and send grain and grass again; One team went to Ankang and informed Tan Bai that the food was gone again, so tighten his belt; Then the brigade turned back to Hanzhong and went to report to Malahi.
The Qing soldiers were busy in a mess, but Wang Huan was in a happy mood running on the Qinling mountains, he lived in the stone pillar for more than a year, and his physical fitness improved greatly.
"My lord, it's really fun to fight like this." Zu followed him with a smile, grinning and laughing: "God unknowingly fought a battle, turned around and left after he succeeded, he didn't love the war, so that the Tartars suffered losses and had nowhere to reason, and they couldn't catch up and couldn't find them, so they were angry with those grandsons." ”
Ancestral northerners, not accustomed to walking mountain roads, although physical strength is very good, but can not carry weight over the mountain, he is shirtless at the moment, carrying his ghost head knife, the whole body is relaxed, even the armor is carried by a white pole soldier to help him carry, just like this, he can only follow Wang Huan's ass and follow closely.
Wang Huan smiled and said indifferently: "This is pediatrics, there is a master, he is an old man is a master of guerrilla warfare, there is a sixteen-character mantra spread in the world: the enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy is stationed and disturbs me, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy retreats and I chase." These 16 characters are the great law of war, and if you understand the meaning of it, you can call it a masterpiece of the art of war. ”
Zu Bian, Ma Long, Zhang Jianchun and others listened carefully, silently recited it a few times in their hearts, and their eyes showed a look of surprise, and they all felt that these short sixteen words were easy to understand, but they were profound and difficult to understand, and it would take some time to understand them carefully.
Ma Long admired and said as he walked: "The one who said this must be Daxian, my lord, is it your master?" Only this kind of worldly master can say such good words. ”
Wang Huan sweated in his heart, and said in his heart that it would be great if his old man could be my master, but unfortunately he didn't have that blessing.
hurriedly played two haha, perfunctory, everyone saw him like this, and the more they concluded that this must be the case.
The procession of 6,000 people was in a straight line, with a distance of several miles between the end of the mountains, passing through the shade of the trees, turning over several mountains, and gradually coming to a hidden valley in the Qinling Mountains when the sky was dark.
It is close to Gansu, separated from a mountain by Gongchang Mansion in Longxi, and belongs to the place where the two provinces meet, and there are few people.
However, after turning out of the woods, as soon as you enter the valley, you will be cheerful in front of you, surrounded by mountains, the valley terrain is flat, a clear river flows out from the distant mountain stream, meandering through the entire valley floor, on both sides of the river, the wheat planted in early spring in the field is beginning to take shape and swaying in the wind, dozens of thatched houses are dotted in the fields, some fruit trees and vegetable fields are planted in front of the house and behind the house, with wild flowers in full bloom, cooking smoke bursts, like a peach blossom source like a picture scroll as beautiful.
"This place is really like the Valley of Longevity." Ma Long could almost see it, and sighed sincerely: "When we reclaimed Wanshou Valley, it was also like this. ”
Zu Bian shook his head and said incredulously: "I didn't expect that there is such a valley with abundant water and grass in the loess of Shaanxi, my lord, how did you find it." ”
Wang Huan smiled, shook his head and said, "This place is so secret, how can I find it, it was the people inside who found me." ”
He clapped his hands, and the two soldiers dressed as white-pole soldiers stepped forward in response, bowed respectfully to Wang Huan and said, "My lord, can we go in first and tell Lord Ding, so that we can make preparations?" ”
The clothes and armor worn by these two people are no different from those of ordinary Kuizhou soldiers, but the only difference is that on their heads, after taking off their iron helmets, they do not wear hair in a bun like ordinary people, but are wrapped in a white cloth.
Wang Huan waved his hand and said: "It's okay, you go and report it, so you don't have to see that there are many of us and there is a misunderstanding." ”
The two bowed deeply, then turned and quickly left, running towards the valley.
After the two left, Wang Huan immediately ordered the whole army to stop advancing, and rested in place on the valley mouth, and at the same time put the rice bags carried by each person in front and piled them up into a hill.
Zu Bian and the others were still in the dark, at a loss to know what to say, Zu Bian couldn't hold back, and after a while, he couldn't help but ask: "My lord, you are so cautious and don't rush in, what is the origin of this village, so that you are so courteous?" ”
Wang Huan glared: "You said this, do you mean that I usually don't know how to be polite?" ”
Zu Bian hurriedly waved his hand and said embarrassedly: "Don't dare, don't dare, the last general is just curious, curious." ”
Ma Long hurriedly relieved the siege and said: "My lord, I look at the two people who left just now, their heads are wrapped in white cloth, they are different from ordinary people, could it be that they are Hui people?" ”
Wang Huan turned his head in surprise and asked, "Huh?" Do you know Hui people? ”
Ma Long looked at him strangely and said: "I know, there are many Hui generals in this dynasty, such as Ma Wensheng, the veteran of the Five Dynasties during the Chenghua and Zhengde periods, and Ma Gui, the general of the anti-Japanese war during the Wanli period, etc., which are widely spread. ”
"Oh?" Wang Huan gained knowledge, he originally thought that **** was partial to the northwest, and there was not much participation in the change of the Central Plains dynasty, especially at the end of the Ming Dynasty, except for a major event that would happen next, there should not be many Central Plains people who had contact with ****, but he didn't know that in the history of the Ming Dynasty, **** officials and generals also had a strong stroke.
So Wang Huan coughed, looked at the village in the valley and said: "Yes, they are the Hui people, this valley is also a **** village, we came here, and it is also the road I asked the two **** soldiers in our army to lead." ”
He looked left and right, met the confused eyes of everyone, and continued: "Because we are here, we want to meet two people, and these two people play a very important role in our anti-Qing overall situation. ”