Chapter 692: To Xi'an
A few days before and after Zhong Susu came out of the stopper, Gao Shiyin and Wen Fangliang also left the stopper. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Wen Fangliang was from Xuanfu Town, passing through Datong Town, and then from Shanxi Town, and along the Yellow River to Hetao. Gao Shiyin will be more relaxed, from the town to Zhangjiakou, and then out of the plug to Xinghesuo, and then turn to the northeast.
The station of the east town of Mo Nan is located in the former site of Kaipingwei, Kaiping, the capital of Yuan, the second year of Hongwu, often meet the spring to lead the army to conquer the capital. Three years later, Li Wenzhong entered Kaiping again, after which Kaiping became a place where the Ming army and the remnant Yuan fought for each other.
In the twenty-ninth year of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty set up a guard command in Kaiping, vigorously operated, strengthened the garrison, Ming Chengzu went out to Mobei many times, and also stationed in Kaiping.
Five years after Xuande, Ming lost Daning, abolished Xinghe, and Kaiping was lonely. Under the repeated request of Xue Lu, the Marquis of Yangwu and the general soldier of Kaiping, the Kaiping Weizhi Station was relocated to the monolith, which was subordinate to the command of Wanquandu, and abandoned the land for more than 300 miles, so the risk of losing Longgang on the Luanhe River was lost.
From Dushikou to Kaiping, there are four stations of Aining, Ming'an, Weilu and Hengzhou. Near the old post station of Aining and Ming'an, surrounded by Baihaizi and the valley of the Luanhe River, there are quite a lot of Tunpu immigrants who reclaim and graze here.
Kaiping terrain, close to the Great Wall, there are many low mountains and hills, from Wolong Mountain, Hengzhou Yibei to the west, there are many sandy sand dunes, sparse forests and meadows.
When you get here, it seems that the snow is falling, and the crescent-like sand dunes cannot be covered with snow. The sky is vast, and the fierce cold wind comes from the north, whistling and sweeping, rolling up snowflakes and dust, and sometimes the eyes can't be opened without speaking, and accidentally eats a mouth full of sand.
Gao Shiyin said: "Phew, damn it." ”
After the Waiyu Station. As much as the scenery is bleak, the sky is far away, and the wind is particularly cold and fierce, Gao Shiyin has already eaten several mouthfuls of sand, which makes him scold.
The tun official next to him was also worried: "In addition to the Luanhe River valley here, it is difficult to tuntian everywhere, and it is a bitter cold place. ”
Gao Shiyin said: "Although it is a bitter cold place, we must also find ways to be self-sufficient and not to transport grain and straw in Xuanzhen Town." If you can't do it, let's graze. There is a lot of pasture here. ”
A pastor said: "There are many sand dunks here. It is likely that this is due to the overgrazing of the northern captives in the past, and if the grazing is repeated, the fear of desertification will be more serious. ”
Gao Shiyin said disapprerovingly: "Then raise chickens, it's no problem, right?" ”
All the civil affairs officials nodded. Long Kun's contribution to the pasture chicken farming method. It is indeed very useful in this kind of meadow land. Chickens eat insects, ants and grass seeds, which will not destroy the ecology, and chicken manure is discharged. On the contrary, the grass grows more luxuriantly.
It is worrying that there are many eagles, poisonous snakes, foxes, wolves and other things in the grassland, so you need to raise more dogs, and the big white goose is not bad to deal with poisonous snakes.
A merchant said excitedly: "It can develop commerce and trade, and Kaiping is a necessary place for going north and south, and many caravans are ready to go north to trade or hunt for furs." But if Yongning City is the same, Kaiping has become an important place for fur trading. There are many large trees in the Northeast Ridge, and many caravans intend to go to the wood, and this city can also become a place for timber trading. ”
Many of the people who came with Gao Shiyin were elites from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and in a few words, they pointed out the development advantages of Kaipingwei in the future.
Braving the wind, snow and dust, everyone finally arrived at the land of Kaiping City on this day.
The old site of the city is located on the north bank of the Luan River, under the Wolong Mountain, Yuan Hua made great efforts to build the upper capital, the palace is gorgeous, when the Red Turban Uprising, the Red Turban Army Mr. Guan, the broken head Pan and so on broke through the capital in the eighteenth year of Zhizheng, burned down the palace.
When Emperor Yuan Shun withdrew from the capital to the north in the 28th year of Zhizheng, the city was already in tatters. The Ming Dynasty set up the Kaiping Guard Command Envoy, but only repaired the city wall, and built the urn city on the basis of the original seven gates, and the original palace area was ignored.
Gao Shiyin and others stood in the northwest of the city and looked at Aobao, and saw that the city wall had collapsed, and the entire city seemed to be hidden in the wind, snow and sand.
And the rammed earth platform where everyone stands, but it is the original lookout platform of the capital of Gongwei Yuan, because it is difficult to use, during the Yongle period, the Ming army built a new willow forest station, a small hill in the southwest of the sand pile, a small station in Quhe, a small station in the old village, a small station in the southwest of the Hui tomb, and eight chimney piers such as the east mountain of the partial ridge.
Look at the lantern pole base of a long stone on the top of the mountain, a praise painting believes that this hill should be the iron banner pole mountain in the Yuan period, and the small canal under the mountain should be the iron banner pole canal in the Yuan period, and the embankment formed by digging the canal at that time is the "green poplar embankment" described by Yang Yunfu in the "Luanjing Miscellaneous Songs".
At that time, poplars were planted all over the embankment, and many poplars were gone, but if there were survivors, the trees would be embraced.
A group of people enter the city through the ruined city wall gate, the debris and gravel everywhere, is to the front of the palace ruins of the Yuan Dynasty, it is also a barren platform, scattered between the smoke and weeds, a praise painting sighed: "The rise and fall of the past dynasties, this city can be seen." ”
Gao Shiyin said: "Let's not talk about these first, let's sort out a sleeping place first." ”
Everyone around him cleaned up, Gao Shiyin led people to climb the north city wall and look, looking at it, Longgang was in sight, the mountains were very high and wide, and the peaks were towering.
Praise and painting beside him: "Kaiping, Luanshui far south, Longgang Dian North, real cover shape of the place." More Hengzhou, Weilu, Ming'an, Aining four posts to pick up the Dushi Xuanzhen, the giant town faintly screened my mountain, in case of the police, the towns are to help each other, Hu'er horses are not allowed to go south, there is my town in, Xuanfu Town is safe and worry-free. ”
Another praise said: "Can't just think about defending Kaiping City, now there is Yingchang Town on the side of Haizi two hundred miles to the north, Guangwu Town and the remnants of Hu City in the north, and there is Jingyu Town in the northeast, Yu Zhen does not say anything for the time being, Yingchang Town is in his hands, and the defense line of Mo Nandong Town goes straight to the north for hundreds of miles. ”
Gao Shiyin said: "Yes, my old Gao is here, and our Vermilion Bird Army is here, how can we think about defense?" We just have to keep going north, going north! Go north again! Attack as defense! ”
He took out the cloud smoke from his arms, divided one from each of the people around him, and the people around him, and hurriedly took out a fire fold and lit it for him.
Gao Shiyin let out a puff of smoke and asked, "Yingchang Town is two hundred miles north?" ”
Yizan painted: "According to the intelligence department does not collect surveying and mapping at night, two hundred miles north, there is a Haizi, the locals call it the answer to the Haizi, there are many small Haizi rivers around, Li Wenzhong built Yingchang Town here when he went on the northern expedition, as a place to store grain. More than 100 miles to the left of the sea, there is also a long water sea. The sea is quite large. ”
Gao Shiyin snorted: "Don't say it, the walled city must be held in your hand." A village should also be set up by the Changshui Haizi to echo Yingchang Town. ”
Nazan continued: "Yingchang Town is about two or three hundred miles north, and there is Guangwu Town near Jieshenggang and Lingjiquan (now the border of Inner Mongolia, northeast of Chagan Aobao Sumu), which is also said to be the building of Li Wenzhong's office. ”
Gao Shiyin said: "It's farther away, let's set up a sentry post, go north and go south to the merchants, and you can also supplement water and food, right?" ”
He clenched his fist: "If Kaiping City is compared to the rear, Yingchang Town is the middle waist." Guangwu Town is the head. ”
Nazan painted: "When Emperor Chengzu went north. He also built and killed Hucheng (Yuqu River, now the Krulun River in Mongolia) on the bank of the Yinma River, but it was far away from Ping, about more than 1,000 miles. Duke Li Wenzhong also built Jingyu Town (southeast of present-day Bear Lake) in that year. It's also quite far from here. ”
Gao Shiyin said: "...... It's a little farther away. Let's take it slowly. ”
He waved his fist: "Everyone. The general set up Mo Nandong Town in the capital protection mansion, which is the weight of our Suzaku army and the weight of my old high. We must guard this place...... Make...... We ......"
A violent cold wind whistled, carrying snowflakes and sand, and in the blink of an eye, it enveloped Gao Shiyin and others.
After the snowstorm, the cloud smoke in Gao Shiyin's mouth was blown away, and he scolded a little embarrassed: "Fuck ......"
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When Sun Chuanting left Xuanfu Town, he took all the staff, as well as more than 3,000 Jingbian soldiers and horses hired to temporarily serve as the superintendent battalion, all the way through Datong Town, Shanxi Town, and then through Mizhi, Yan'an and other places, and went to Xi'an Mansion.
All the way to the banner is strictly organized, the big banner of Sun Zi is flying high, and the 3,000 Jingbian troops hired by this merit are naturally at the peak of their military appearance. They are first-class soldiers who have horses, and they are second-class soldiers, because they have gained a lot from this trip, and everyone is equipped with horses.
They led the generals of the army, that is, Wu Zhengchun and Gao Xun, before they were the garrison of Baoan Prefecture, and the other was the garrison of Laishui County, stationed in the guerrilla capacity, but this time they were all hung up with the military rank of general, with Wu Zhengchun as the positive, Gao Xun as the deputy, and they were promoted to the official rank of general after the fact, and the rank of captain of the light car.
Wu Zhengchun had fought a rogue in Luoyang before, and there was no dispute between all parties with him as the right. He is still so dark and thin, but his face is full of resolute expression, and he has risen step by step, and he can be regarded as an orthodox soldier of the Jingbian Army.
Gao Xun is still so slender and handsome, he has no other hobbies, but he is eager for his work. He had been stationed in Laishui before, and there was no chance of meritorious service, but now he is aiding Shaanxi and has many opportunities to fight with thieves, so he is naturally happy.
However, in recent years, he has become more and more calm, but there is no expression on his face.
Because the opportunity to make meritorious contributions to the war is what everyone desires, in the previous battle outside the Saiwai, many second-class troops only traveled out of the Saiwai for a tour, and there was no war at all, so many people wanted to go to Shaanxi and fight against the thieves.
The General Staff Department did not favor one over the other, so he selected people from various armies, such as Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku, and Xuanwu.
Zhao Rongsheng was originally the general manager, but at this time, he had already hung up the military post of a thousand generals, leading the first division of the second-class army.
Former friends Luo Liangzuo and Lai Dexiang were also transferred to their own departments, each leading a general number of people.
The other thousand is always named Li Zhengjing, and there are a thousand Yang Hu, but he is a guerrilla military officer, I heard that he was the captain of the general's guard not long ago, and he used to be a member of the night and did not accept it, and he once saved Sun Ge Lao.
Huang Wei, the general manager of Qian, also hung on the guerrilla duty, leading the first-class army cavalry in the battalion.
Chen Sheng made meritorious contributions to the expedition outside the Saiwai this time, and was promoted from team officer to general officer, and transferred to the subordinate of Li Zhengjing, the former veteran commander.
Han Kaihui had already married Fu Yingchong's niece, and the matter was quite sensational at that time, and at this time he was hanging on to the general military position, and he was in Li Zhengjing's ministry together.
Of course, the Jingbian Army is no better than other armies, and it will not reduce its combat strength a little because of this, and it is also a good opportunity for various units to run in on the march.
Their military uniforms are unified, regardless of the army, all of them are wearing bright red long body armor, arms and hands, hats and helmets, cloaks, and holding the banner of Sun characters.
Their weapons are also unified, the guns are one color flintlock pistol, with the sword, they have four generals, already three guns, one spearmen, can give greater play to the advantages of firearms, first-class army cavalry and thick-backed sabers.
In this battalion, the hussars and chasers suggested by the Han Dynasty at that time were still available, the hussars used sabers and handguns, the chassars used riding guns, and according to the guns offered by Zhong Susu, the military factory had made a part of it and handed it over to these soldiers for use, and the two types of troops were combined into one and led by Hu Ye.
This battalion of Jingbian Army soldiers aided Shaanxi, in fact, it also had the meaning of testing weapons and arms.
Wen Shiyan had just returned from Henan and was transferred to the camp as one of the praise paintings to aid Shaanxi.
The group braved the wind and snow and trekked all the way, at this time Sun Chuanting's honor guard had already been beaten, and hundreds of officials greeted him all the way, but Sun Chuanting did not stop and rushed away.
Along the way, there is also the obligation to supply the army of grain and grass, but Sun Chuanting knows that the local accumulation of malpractices, plus he borrowed a large amount of money from Wang Dou, and he has a lot of money, so he just buys from the local people, and there is no crime along the way, which makes the states and counties along the way quite surprised.
You must know that since the Ming Dynasty, the division has no discipline, and the towns that have been collected and looted by the soldiers, called 'beating grain', and the well is in ruins.
But this army ......
The officials and people of Datong Town, which is close to Xuanfu Town, may still speculate, or some people may know, that this army may be pretended to be the Jingbian Army. But after the military horse arrived in Shanxi Town, and even entered the border of Shaanxi, there were different opinions, where did Sun Du bring back a strong army? And so strict military discipline?
People with bright hearts think that the situation in Shaanxi may be very different.
After marching all the way, finally on this day, the group arrived outside Xi'an. (To be continued.) )