A circle of hills stood on the horizon, and finally let this flat vision have an undulation, but the great drought still made the colors of heaven and earth unified, and they were all dry and yellow. （）

Yellow land without grass, yellow dusty sky, yellow withered grass.

Sun Yuan rode on his horse and cast his gaze into the distance

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It was May, the sun was fierce, the hot wind was blowing on my body, and I felt like I was in a furnace. Sweat gushes out like a spring, and in an instant it is dried again.

It's never a pleasant thing to go out on a hot day, and just spend a few moments in the sun wearing the armor and the armor will turn into an oven.

The cavalry behind him all took off their armor and wore only a single coat, with their mouths wide open and gasping slightly.

There was no water for a day, and the drinking water carried by the troops had to be supplied to the war horses first, and everyone's lips turned white and cracked.

Since the formation of the Ningxiang Army, it has fought many vicious battles. But those battles were all in the middle of winter, and it was the first time that the battlefield had happened on a hot day. Most of the main forces in the army were northerners, especially the more than 2,000 cavalry.

Northerners are not tolerant of heat, and at this moment, everyone is so hot that they are almost dizzy.

Liu Chao's rebels should have been staring at their new reinforcements from a distance. In the past few days, he has spotted several teams of thief scouts.

However, when he also sent scouts, the enemy's scouts fled quickly with oil on the soles of their feet, obviously not wanting to contact the Ningxiang army too early.

The Yellow River brings a large amount of sediment from the Loess Plateau every year, and after thousands of miles of accumulation, the soil layer here is extremely thick and very fertile. Therefore, it has always been the grain producing area of the Central Plains. But since the bankruptcy of the central government of the Ming Empire, the river construction has been abandoned, and the Yellow River has flooded once every few years, turning this fertile field into a barren land.

Now that there is a major drought and a military disaster, people have fled in large numbers, and its desolation is even more desolate than that of the Gyeonggi area, and it has no economic value at all.

The crux of the matter is that Suzhou is located in the northern part of Anhui, connecting the coast, leaning on the Central Plains, connecting the east and the west, and is the northern gate of Anhui. Except for the hilly area of the mountains in front of you, the rest of the area is a large plain. If Suzhou is lost, the enemy can go south along this Ma Pingchuan, and go to Fengyang, the central capital, at night. There was not even a decent city wall in Fengyang, and during the Cold Weapon War, it was equivalent to a woman who had stripped off her clothes and had no ability to resist.

As soon as Fengyang and Suzhou were lost, the entire northern part of Anhui was controlled by Liu Chao. In the future, Li Zicheng's army, which had his back to Henan, was strategically in an active position, whether it was to go south to Nanjing, or to attack Xuzhou in the north, or perhaps to occupy the Huai'an region to the east

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Now, Sun Yuan is standing in front of this Anhui portal.

Suzhou is the gateway to the south for Liu Chao's rebels, and for Sun Yuan, it is not the gateway to the north into Henan.

Therefore, for both sides, this place is in contention.

After passing Fengyang, Sun Yuan couldn't take a break, day and night, changing people without changing horses, and finally arrived in the Xiangshan area in two days and three nights. At this moment, all the soldiers of the Ningxiang cavalry were tired to death, not only were the manes of the war horses full of dust, but the armor of the soldiers was also covered with a thick layer of mud, and their hair was even more messy and knotted, looking like a wild man who had just been killed from the deep mountains.

When he set out from Fengyang, Sun Yuan sent scout cavalry to contact Ma Shiying, and in the next two days, the troops and Ma Shiying's department were in constant contact.

According to Ma Shiying, Liu Chao immediately led a large army south to attack Suzhou after the Yongcheng rebellion. Ma Shiying's Lufeng army are all recruits, with more than 10,000 people, but the only ones who can really go to the battlefield are more than one or two hundred families under him. With such a meager strength, there is naturally no way to compete with Liu Chao in the field. Therefore, Governor Ma pulled his troops into Suzhou City and defended the city.

Fortunately, Suzhou is the art of war said to rush to the ground, the city wall is very thick, but it can barely hold the city without losing.

In fact, from Suzhou to Yongcheng to Guide Mansion to Kaifeng is the main traffic channel between Henan and Anhui, and several cities along the way are fortified cities, none of which are easy to gnaw.

Originally, Ma Shiying's idea was that he would defend the city first and rely on the city walls of Suzhou to consume Liu Chao's vital strength. When the enemy paid a great price in the tragic siege battle and was demoralized, as soon as the Ningxiang army arrived on the ground, it only needed one battle to completely solve the problem.

It's a pity that this Liu Chao withdrew his troops after attacking the city, and he didn't fall for it, and then waited for the arrival of the Ningxiang army with all his energy.

"This Liu Chao is really cunning, I don't know if I should be happy for the people of Suzhou or should I feel depressed?" After hearing the news, Sun Yuan was happy and worried. After experiencing the tragic offensive and defensive battles in Jinan, he intuitively realized what the concept of siege warfare was in the cold weapon war. Liu Chao does not fight Suzhou, and the people in the city can have fewer casualties, which is indeed a happy thing.

What worries me is that the enemy is waiting for work at leisure, while he has traveled thousands of miles to help, and the drought in this place is severe, and the troops are extremely tired, and the combat effectiveness is much lower than before

。 In such a state of the army, it is not so easy to solve Liu Chao.

"Liu Chao doesn't fight Suzhou, he can't take the military resources and manpower in the city for military use, can he gain a foothold in this Yellow Flood Area?" Sun Yuan couldn't help but smile sarcastically.

"Mr. Sun, if the old man doesn't expect it, the army of Liu thieves will come to provoke tomorrow, and they want to pick up the advantage that the Ningxiang army has not gotten any rest." Next to Sun Yuan, Ma Shiying's big red official bubble had been completely infiltrated by sweat, and it was swept away by the dust and turned dark red.

He didn't expect Sun Yuan to come so quickly, he was overjoyed, and immediately brought the main force of the Lu Feng army to converge.

Sun Yuan said with a smile: "I have never been the only one in Ningxiang who picks someone else's cheap, and I really haven't been calculated." This Liu Chao has rebelled for so long, and he hasn't been able to take Suzhou, and I don't know if he is stupid or incompetent? ”

As he was talking, a gust of wind blew, rolling up the rolling yellow dust, and there was a haze between heaven and earth. Ma Shiying's big sleeves were blown up, and the dirt on his face was washed out of black marks by sweat, looking a little embarrassed, and he didn't have the chic of the two Jinshi and the court officials on the governor's side.

Ma Shiying smiled faintly: "Mr. Sun, you still underestimate that Liu Chao, the old man was originally from Guizhou, and when Liu Chao quelled An Bangyan's rebellion and served as the chief soldier of Zunyi, he also had a relationship with the old man. As far as I can see, this man is quite a cunning man. Back then, in Guizhou, he fought a few commendable battles, and he was indeed a character. It is well said in the art of war, do not defend the city without help. Mr. Sun came to Suzhou this time with only 3,000 soldiers and horses, which seemed thin. He wanted to concentrate all his strength to eat the Ningxiang Army first. As long as the Ningxiang army is defeated, Suzhou will inevitably be terrified. And because foreign aid is cut off, the soldiers and civilians in the city will inevitably flee. In this way, you can go to Suzhou without a fight. Therefore, Sun Zongbing cannot be contemptuous. ”

Since joining forces with Sun Yuan, strictly speaking, Ma Shiying has become the commander of the coalition army.

Sun Yuan naturally knew that the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty led troops to fight without saying anything, and they were all mischievous. Moreover, this Ma Shiying is a well-known traitor in history. When I was studying at university, Kong Shangren's "Peach Blossom Fan" was a must-read. In that book, he Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng were hacked out of Xiang by the author.

To be honest, Sun Yuan didn't have any illusions about him, so he pondered how not to be robbed of military command by Ma Shiying. Otherwise, he will blindly command, and if he can't win this battle, he will have to pay his cavalry into it.

To Sun Yuan's surprise, after the two armies converged, Ma Shiying did not interfere in any military affairs, and handed over all affairs to Sun Yuan to deal with, which made Sun Yuangao glance at the old man.

I still wonder if this future traitor wants to entrap himself, I must, the Ningxiang Army is too capable of fighting, over the years, I don't know how many people have stuck to their own light and robbed them of their military exploits and promoted to make a fortune, Sun Yuan has never been shy about speculating about this famous traitor in history with the greatest malice

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He also expected that Ma Shiying would have a long talk with him and make a lot of wishes.

It is strange to say that Ma Yaocao has maintained a faint estrangement since he joined forces with Sun Yuan, and the two of them have only stayed at the level of official business.

This feeling made Sun Yuan feel very comfortable and comfortable, and he didn't bother to deliberately approach him.

"It's not that Sun underestimated that Liu Chao." Sun Yuan spat and said with a smile: "If I were Liu Chao, even if I was unwilling to spend my strength attacking Suzhou, it would be impossible to spend my days here in vain." I will first divide my troops to sweep Lingbi, Guzhen, Mengcheng and other places, replenish the troops, and loot the grain. Suzhou is barren and poor, and the army gathers here, and the daily consumption is a huge amount. He has amassed troops here, and he has lost strategically. Moreover, at the beginning of the thief army, they were all untrained rebels, and they should rely on the breath in their chests to rob property and boost morale. If you delay for a long time and can't see the actual benefits, how can you win people's hearts. Therefore, Liu Chao is not enough, and he will be defeated! ”

Sun Yuan is now a general of Jinwu, and his grade is the same as Ma Shiying. But the Ming Dynasty was noble and martial, and Sun Yuan was very rude when he said this in front of him.

Several of Ma Shiying's staff members were angry, but Ma Shiying still had a calm face: "General Sun, with Liu Chao's past military exploits, it can be seen that this person is a battlefield general, don't be too careless." It's better to camp and recuperate earlier, maybe tomorrow Liu Thief will kill him. Moreover, this person is good at tricks and likes to raid the most. When the thieves rebelled in Guizhou, they often used night raids to obtain results. The Ningxiang army is all cavalry, which is conducive to field battles, if the formation is set up to fight, Liu Thief's men are all infantry, and they must not be the opponents of our army. If I were a thief, maybe I would have attacked the old camp of the Ningxiang Army tonight. ”

Sun Yuan nodded: "Governor Ma is right. "But I don't think so, what a general. At the beginning, Liu Chao gathered troops in Yongcheng and said that he was going to fight Li Zicheng, but when he was leaving, he saw that the army was strong, but he was afraid, and even rebelled. Is this also called bravery?

Speaking of night raids, hehe, that's a hypothesis.

Our Ningxiang army is strictly disciplined, and the scouting circle of scouts at night is also very open, but it is not possible to sneak attack if you want to.

Seeing Sun Yuan's disapproving look, Ma Shiying no longer persuaded him, and immediately brought his army to find land and camp.

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