Chapter 0323 - The Apex of King Chuang
Sun Chuanting, whose name is Boya, is a Jinshi in the forty-seventh year of Wanli, and is forty years old this year. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
He is indeed a very strange person, before hearing the news that the thieves were about to besiege Nanjing, he went to Beijing to ask for his life, he was still a flat-headed people, a flat-headed people who had retired to the imperial court, he had been an official, and he became the head of the ministry at the age of thirty, which can be described as a great future, but because he was not used to seeing Wei Zhongxian resolutely resigned and went into hiding, after Wei Zhongxian's death, he still did not reinstate, and lived in his hometown, until now, and as soon as he asked for his life, he wanted to be a military general, before that, he never led a soldier.
But it doesn't matter, there are very peculiar people, civil officials need great courage to join the military, but as long as there is a little goods in the stomach, it is easy to do, and it is precisely because of his peculiarity that he can come out of the turbulent Ming Dynasty, you must know that Hong Chengchou, Lu Xiangsheng, and Yang Sichang, which are all like this, civil officials were born to become military generals, and they are all famous, until now.
When he arrived in the capital, a fierce struggle had already begun in Jiangpu.
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Gao Yingxiang felt that he had encountered some minor troubles, because the resistance of this group of officers and soldiers was extremely fierce, well, it made him feel more and more unhappy.
Zhang Xianzhong followed Gao Yingxiang to this point, his heart was actually full of excitement, the three of them combined a total of 300,000 troops, of which he had 80,000 or 90,000, and there were only 20,000 in Jiangpu City.
Hearing how charming Qinhuai women are, Zhang Xianzhong is already fantasizing about how he will enjoy himself after entering Jinling.
Li Zicheng, who is with him, is not as optimistic as him.
Li Zicheng has always been a very assertive person, poor children are born without enough to eat, everything has to be carefully calculated, unlike Comrade Zhang Xianzhong who sits as a civil servant and does robbery, now he is very worried in his heart, Gao Yingxiang wrote to him and asked him to come here to gather when he already knew what would happen, to be honest, his first reaction was to refuse, but he still came, one is to repay the favor, and the other is to have that little idea in his heart, beating a Fengyang so that he is still benefiting from that halo now, and hit Nanjing, then the day when he really soared will come.
Gao Yingxiang didn't stumble for long, this is Li Zicheng's idea, there is no chance to let it be realized, the days of being the boss have passed for a long time, honest people will have ideas, look at their nicknames, a king, a general, in the eyes of most people, he is Gao Yingxiang's little brother, which Li Zicheng is unwilling.
Fortunately, he is developing well in Shaanxi, and his brother Gao Jie is still holding on there, even if there is an accident here, he has a way out, unlike... These two bastards.
Li Zicheng looks the most naïve and suffers small losses, but he always takes advantage of it, and this is the case when he beat Fengyang.
He knew that the situation of looking at himself and others was very good, but in fact, was the real Nandu of Daming so easy to fight? If you really want to fight, you still have a long way to go.
Facts have proved that Li Zicheng was right.
In just a few days of silence, it was like mushrooms after a rain, and an army of more than 100,000 people suddenly appeared around Jiangpu, as well as heavy artillery.
They are dirt buns, yes, they are turtles, so they have never seen artillery.
They were very afraid, but Gao Yingxiang still had to move forward, because if he retreated, everything would return to the original point, no, it was worse than the original point, thinking that the current northwest was not as easy to mix as before, there were officers and soldiers everywhere, and they were still very hard, and if they didn't work hard, it would be the end.
Gao Yingxiang had never felt so urgent about victory.
When the first cannon sounded, a blood-red air was polluted, and when the second cannon sounded, it was the same scene again, King Gao Chuang had already let go, this one would be killed, and then the cannon did not sound again for a long time.
The anti-thieves don't understand why, but Yang Sichang, the commander-in-chief, can only smile helplessly, the cannons produced by the Ming Dynasty have rarely been put into manufacturing after they are not passed, and no one has mentioned it again after Xu Guangqi is sick, and there has been no money to invest before, and the only twenty bottles of powerful red-clothed cannons are imported from outside, half of them went to the Northeast, and now they bring them out, only two, and they have to be within a certain range, so in general, this thing is limited to 300,000 anti-thieves, killing enemies, Probably it can only play a mental hint effect: we are very strong, you guys run!!
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In fact, the officers and soldiers had the upper hand in terms of momentum and combat strength, not to mention the home war of defending the city, so even without the blessing of artillery, Comrade Gao Yingxiang finally had no choice but to give up the operation against Jiangpu and retreat to Hezhou to defend it.
The battle was fierce, the officers and soldiers were unprecedentedly mighty, and the anti-thieves also showed their other side, but the result made Gao Yingxiang frown.
The death toll reached 20,000, which is the battle damage, most of them fled in the past, but now the few deserters are difficult for him to accept.
Gao Yingxiang is in Hezhou, Yang Sichang is in Jiangpu, ready to catch them all, the officers and soldiers in the northwest are still gathering closely, Yang Sichang, who controls all this, is proud, he is very willing to believe that the end of the anti-thief is coming, no, it has already come.
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Many times before, officers and soldiers have encircled and suppressed the anti-thieves in a large area, and each time the situation is very critical, but as long as you jump out of that encirclement, everything is easy to do, and the sky is high and the birds can fly, but this time it is different, Gao Yingxiang seems to know that he has no way to hide, and can only move forward bravely.
So although the situation this time seems to be much better than the previous times, after all, there is still a city to guard, but all the leaders feel that something is not good, and Comrade Zhang Xianzhong seems to be aware that this time it is a big deal.
Fengyang and Jinling are really not a way to play.
Under such circumstances, King Gao Chuang set his sights on a city around Nanjing.
The whole team of anti-thieves fell into a dull atmosphere, it can be seen that the scale of this war is huge, they want to live, their lives are endless, they will not stop fighting, they used to insist on fleeing, now their persistence is resisting.
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The carriage had been on the road for twenty days straight.
If it weren't for the post station that changed horses many times on the way, it is estimated that more than half of the hundreds of horses under the seat will be tired, and the horses can be changed, but the people can't be replaced, so the team of three or four hundred people is a little sluggish because of the long-term hurry.
This is also something that can't be helped, in order to rush to Liangguang as soon as possible, Ning Zhiyuan's personal soldiers are also out of the way.
Xu Yuya looked out the window with a pair of eyes, some bumpy carriages did not affect her interest at all, for this girl, such idle time is very little, except for now, this is because Ning Daguan does not allow her to play with fire in the carriage, since she was sensible, she has been following Xu Guangqi around a lot of time and listening to her grandfather talk about all kinds of strange things, more time when she grows up, she likes to sit alone and study inexplicably, Because she always felt that there were many magical things looming in her heart waiting for him to realize.
The light bulb is still on, and it has been more than two hundred hours, and the excitement from earlier has long since disappeared, leaving only an unprecedented sense of accomplishment, Xu Yuya squinted her eyes, if she was allowed to use the generator alone for such a long time, it would be estimated that she would be exhausted, so Ning Zhiyuan was right, this thing has never been something that can be done alone, and she has always been alone before.
The group stopped again to change horses, this time only fifty or sixty horses.
Wang Wu frowned a little, "Childe, the further south you go, the smaller the post station becomes, and there are more horses in it, if it weren't for Childe's famous name this time, I wouldn't be able to change horses..."
Ning Daguan nodded, he had already noticed this kind of thing, and from here, he could also see the difference in the control of the Ming Dynasty on the southern border, and now it was only the boundary of Huguang... But he didn't care.
"There is no need to rush at night starting today..."Ning Zhiyuan thought for a while, "The journey will be in a few days, so that the brothers can adjust." ”
He didn't think he would run into trouble as soon as he arrived in Guangdong, and it would be another matter if he did anything out of the ordinary in the future, but it was better to be prepared.
The weather was humid, and the road was narrow and steep along the way, which completely subverted Ning Zhiyuan's impression, he knew that the imperial court's extremely weak control over Liangguang was due to too many toasts, but why the toasts suppressed the imperial court was that he always thought that it was the inaction of the imperial court, perhaps, not just inaction.
Starting from the south of Huguang, it became extremely remote and weird, and the army must have lost money and labor, perhaps, Zhu Baba did not completely conquer these Tusi when he opened the dynasty.
As for why the development is so poor now, through so many days of understanding Ning Daguan, they probably know that the southern region is not peaceful, but it will not be suppressed by the local forces, which is inconceivable in which dynasty and which generation, but during the Apocalypse, the extravagant rebellion caused by the Tusi of Sichuan and Guizhou lasted for more than ten years, bringing huge turmoil to this southern area, and the imperial court spent the troops of the five provinces to suppress it, but the consequence was that the Ming Dynasty, which was originally unable to make ends meet, was even more crumbling. A large amount of arrears of military salaries made the prestige of the Ming court in the south lose everything, the morale of the army, and the hearts of the people......
The power of Tusi was further expanded.
If there are no signs in the north and west of the Ming Dynasty, this south is an obvious sign of the loss of the country.
The carriage continued to walk, Kou Nuxia slept sweetly in Ning Daguanren's arms, her eyes were a little dry after thinking about it for too long, Ning Zhiyuan simply closed her eyes and recuperated, Xu Yuya looked over and looked at the two people who were snuggling and pouted lightly.
Looking at the light bulbs on the board, the brightness seemed to be a little dimmer, and in the dim light, she seemed to see this kind of light in the windows of every house.
I don't know how my grandfather's illness is now......
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Chongzhen is also interesting enough, Sun Chuanting wanted to return to the imperial court after a few years, Chongzhen also reinstated him as an official, and he was still in charge of the ministry, and he happened to be a subordinate of Li Dingfang.
So that's it, the court is interesting enough, it stands to reason that it is a good thing for Sun Chuanting to let him be a civil official, but he is not happy, from the moment he re-stepped out of Shanxi Dai County, his goal is very clear, to lead troops to fight, he has a series of plans in his mind, but he has to wait now.
And the reason why Sun Chuanting can come back after working for so long, on the one hand, it shows that Chongzhen is now thirsty for talent, and on the other hand, Sun Chuanting is one of the few officials who dared to face Wei Zhongxian at that time, Chongzhen has heard of it before he became the emperor, and of course, the more important point is that Chongzhen is in a very happy mood now.
The reason for the happiness is that Yang Sichang did a beautiful job in the Jinling area, and Chongzhen really felt his domineering as a king this time, and a thousand words were gathered into one sentence, it's good to be rich!
But fighting a war is really a time-consuming, laborious and money-consuming job, and he is really distressed to see the money in his treasury being spent like flowing water little by little, and once again, Chongzhen is full of desire for money.
Almost all the anti-thieves gathered in Hezhou, more than a dozen big-name leaders were there, and the officers and soldiers were gradually moving closer here.
Then Gao Yingxiang was ready to attack Chuzhou.
Starting from Hezhou, capturing Chuzhou, and then capturing Nanjing, King Gao Chuang is such a plan, and it is also the same as Zhu Baba more than 200 years ago, he believes that he will also create a century-old foundation like Zhu Baba. All the militia, as many as 400,000 people, were completely commanded by Gao Yingxiang, which he had never had before, and he reached the apex of his life.
In terms of troops, although Gao Yingxiang's 400,000 officers and soldiers seem to be a four-fold gap, four to one, but after all, it is Gao Chuang Wang who suffers, who doesn't know that they were all ten or twenty to fight one before, and Cao Wenzhao even fought fifty to one that time.
But it doesn't matter, the final force gap is still not four to one.
And this time the person he faced was not Yang Sichang.
Unlike the anti-thieves, it is impossible for officers and soldiers to gather together all the time, and it is in such a critical place, the city is close to each other, and the city is prosperous.
Therefore, the more than 100,000 soldiers who confronted in Jiangpu were assigned to Chuzhou, and there were probably zero people.
That's right, just no.
God knows how much Yang Sichang wants to kill Gao Yingxiang, and more than 100,000 troops confront each other and charge, but such anti-thieves can jump anywhere casually, such as Nanjing... That scares people to death! It's too late to come back to help, and as a mature military secretary, his strategy is to defend in an orderly manner.
Nanjing garrison 60,000 soldiers, the surrounding four cities to survive each city 20,000, to a certain extent, Yang Sichang has been invincible, and he also knows that Chuzhou is undoubtedly self-protecting, so he is very relieved.
Chuzhou is also a small city, and the original number of troops in the city was less than 10,000, and the reason why Yang Sichang was confident was because Lu Xiangsheng's station was there at this time.
It's an old friend meeting again, swords and swords.
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......... (To be continued.) )