Zheng Lang asked: "Can Sun Wei be like Sun Xuan?" ”

The official is the same as the De Yan, and the other grandson is even worse.

Zheng Lang said again: "Xia Gong, be a teacher of Lu Gong." ”

"Duke Lu is old and ......seriously ill," Xia Zhu replied implicitly.

"Monarchs and ministers must have the amount of slaughter and auxiliary."

"I don't want to be a zaifu, Your Majesty asked the ministers to go to Lingnan, and the ministers are willing to die, mainly because I don't want others to splash dirt on me."

When it comes to this, there is no way to talk about it, Zheng Lang doesn't want to say more, don't talk about Xia Zhu, the gentleman's party is in the name of a gentleman, who can he persuade him? So he didn't care about it, but wrote a long letter to Sima Guang in the evening.

I remember that there was a saying in later generations that Chinese intellectuals, professors and political hooligans are just separated by a body of water. Although it is heavy, there are several truths, there were two major political hooligans before and after the Northern Song Dynasty, Ouyang Xiu in the front, and Sima Guang in the back. Both of them have made great achievements in it.

Some people don't understand the difference between capital renewal and capital governance. Writing skills, Tongjian text fluency. Narrative ability, clear priority and priority. Authenticity, Tongjian is loyal to historical facts, dares to speak, and renews the capital to govern Tongjian tampered with at will, for example, Fan Zhongyan was forced by the situation of the imperial court, and he was forced to sell officials, and he continued to be a "gentleman" will not be recorded, and there are many similar cases. It can be said that as a history book, the value of the general knowledge of information and governance is still above the historical records. But when Sima Guang did it, even Xia Zhu couldn't compare.

Sima Guang was the biggest political hooligan of the Song Dynasty.

It's not Cai Jing, Cai Jing has always been a villain, at most he hangs the skin of a new party, and he has never crowned himself with the number one gentleman.

The second is Ouyang Xiu, he is not as harmful as Sima Guang, but he is also a grandmaster in the literary world, but it is precisely because of his deep anger and ignorance that he talks nonsense in the political arena, jumping up and down, not only ruining Fan Zhongyan's Qingli New Deal, but also making a lot of right and wrong behind. This man is also a giant, a political clown.

He couldn't influence Ouyang Xiu, so he could only write to Sima Guang, repeatedly talking about the situation of the political situation, the gains and losses of each person, and let Sima Guang see and think, so as not to go to Ouyang Xiu's old path.

The letter was very long, almost 10,000 words, and it took Zheng Lang nearly three hours to write it until midnight. The next day, he sent someone to Sima Guang to learn from it, and then left Bozhou in a hurry. There was no time to delay, and there was still a lot of business, several peasant uprisings that followed, and peace negotiations with the Tanguts.

Rushing to Suzhou, he ordered the prefect of Yangzhou to lead part of the army to the north, and Fu Yongji led the army to the south, one south and one north, forcing Wang Lun's rebel army to Tianchang.

He led the cavalry army to hurriedly go south, through Suzhou to Sizhou, and came to the Tianchang general army to station.

Then open the information browsing around the place.

Compared with the great drought in the north, after crossing the Huai River, the drought has almost no impact, and the summer harvest has been relatively smooth, and the autumn harvest has not yet arrived, but the grain growth is very vigorous. Tianchang is under the jurisdiction of Yangzhou, and at this time, under the order of Xu Yuan, he is preparing to raise a large amount of grain to go north. However, because of Wang Lun's influence, people were panicked, and the grain requisition was delayed. However, a large amount of grain has already been transported north along the Grand Canal to Beijing by boats. This is relatively good news, this time because of himself, a lot of money has been allocated, plus the original summer tax of the imperial court, including grain, at least more than 10 million stone of grain can be transferred to the north. Time is a little slow, and the grain in Jiangnan is not a bottomless pit, even if there is money, people and boats, it may not be possible to gather so much grain immediately, and the grain can only be raised one by one after autumn. In addition, the imperial court raised grain, which affected grain prices, and grain prices began to rise slightly in some areas.

In the face of such a catastrophe, there are certainly drawbacks, but the key is food. As long as 10 million stone grain can be mobilized, the entire north will be worry-free this year. Either the officials below do not do a good job, which can only harm the local area and will not hinder the operation of the whole country.

Put this information aside and look at the enemy's movements.

Fu Yongji did not lead many soldiers, only two battalions of troops, and the establishment was not complete, most of them were soldiers, so they had been hanging behind and did not dare to fight head-on. Wang Lun didn't dare to turn around and eat this Song army, and there were even fewer people in his hands.

After receiving Zheng Lang's order, Yangzhou officials also did not dare to slack off, and assigned three battalions to command, more than 1,000 people, and slowly forced Gaoyou, but the marching speed was very slow, and the sense of self-preservation was very strong. I was also afraid that Wang Lun would be killed from the encirclement, and it happened that half of Yangzhou's troops were transferred to the north, and the troops stationed in the city were relatively empty, so I was afraid that Wang Lun would enter Yangzhou City. But it played some role, under the fanfare of the two armies, Wang Lun couldn't sit still in Gaoyou, gave up the life of big fish and meat, good wine and good memory, pulled the army out, crossed the Wudang Twelve Lakes to the west, and marched towards Baimatang.

Zheng Lang issued another order, allowing Fu Yongji to continue to follow the officials and troops in Yangzhou, and after the outbreak of war, to assist him in the capture of the rebel army.

As long as Wang Lun is defeated, it is easier to do.

Most of Wang Lun's subordinates are poor people, which is worthy of sympathy, but the word "crown" is mostly outlaws. At the beginning of the uprising, it was worthy of sympathy, but in the past month, the bad ones have tired the good, burning and looting all the way, causing hundreds of people to die tragically under their weapons, and some innocent yellow flower girls have been ruined by them. This point is also not recorded by many brick families in later generations. At the beginning of the uprising, there was a lot of sympathy, but at this point, they were all damned people.

Although they are outlaws, they can be complicit, and a few people see that the situation is not good and sneak away. So Wang Lun came up with an idea and tattooed six big words on their faces: "Heavenly Holy Command". Just like Wang Lun's idea in the later Water Margin, if he wants to go to Liangshan in the water, kill a person first, no matter whether this person is good or bad, he will first bear a life lawsuit, so that he will not worry about returning to the official government, and use this letter of nomination to unite the people.

The tattoo character is a surname, with these six big characters, everywhere is Wang Lun's rebel army, and there is no way to escape if you want to defect. was forced by Wang Lun to a dead end, and he was more brave in battle. But as long as they are defeated, it is easy to capture, and a large area to the west from Gaoyou is an open plain, or some lakes, which is not good for Zheng Lang's subordinates, but Wang Lun's subordinates are also mostly northerners, which is not good. Besides, the arrest was not Zheng Lang's business, it was handed over to the local army to carry out the arrest, and these lake swingers in turn became the protector of the official army.

Then wait.

Wang Lun led more than 200 men all the way to the west, and all the way like locusts, many people were killed.

At first, Zheng Lang was sympathetic, but after receiving the news that one life was killed one by one, this sympathy was finally replaced by anger.

Then he didn't move, but sat and watched the group of people march towards Baimatang, where the Gaoyou army had a long relationship with Tianchang.

The rebel army was gradually approaching, and Zheng Lang set off from the county seat, pulling Jiang Kui of Tianchangzhi County to ride south together. Jiang Kui's riding skills are not perfect, but he can ride a steady horse slowly, faster than walking, riding nearly a hundred miles, not far from Yangzhou Dayi Town, which is the main battlefield that Zheng Lang is about to choose as the battle.

Zheng Lang carefully observed the terrain.

It's not too ideal, there are some small rivers that lead east into the Grand Canal, and some of them are very deep. Agricultural irrigation systems are relatively well developed, which has led to the production of large quantities of irrigation ditches and ponds. In some places, the terrain is low-lying, and although horses can run on it and grow crops, there is a lot of accumulated silt in the low-lying places, which is less than half of the horse's legs, which hinders the speed of the horse's running.

There are also good places, the overall terrain is flat and open, except for crops and village trees, as far as the eye can see. In fact, the terrain is better in Huaiyang Army and Suqian, there are few paddy fields, and the terrain is more flat, or it is a low mulberry field, which is more suitable for cavalry galloping. But that annihilated the rebel army, and the subsequent measures were not convincing. So I chose to fight in the sky.

In addition, there are a slight soil slopes, and the terrain at the soil slopes is relatively high, mostly mulberry fields and dry land, relatively speaking, it is also more conducive to the display of cavalry than a large number of polders to the east and south. I turned around and compared the terrain of the field with the irregular map of Tianchang County. Jiang Zhixian said: "Zheng Xianggong, I must pacify these thieves as soon as possible." ”

Tianchang is the north of the river, not as warm as the south, mostly planting single-cropping rice, this has little impact, but also planted a small amount of double-cropping rice, I heard that Wang Lun's rebel army came, the people of the villages in the south all fled, and did not care about harvesting rice, but there were a few early rice did not have time to harvest, and fell in the field together. Not only that, but if you don't cut it, you can't grow late rice.

Jiang Kui is not a good official, like Zheng Lang's father-in-law Cui Youjie, he is a Song Dynasty official with mixed qualifications, but he is not evil as an official. Seeing that this large area of early rice was about to rot in the field, my heart was also on fire.

"Jiang Zhixian, you don't have to worry, don't say that the bandits will arrive in Tianchang, and it is time to exterminate them. I was dragging it, but I had no choice but to go east, near the Grand Canal, and there were five swings and twelve lakes, the terrain was low-lying, and I had few soldiers under my command, which was not conducive to cavalry combat, so I had to put them in Tianchang for a decisive battle. ”

Jiang Kui was indignant, but he was thinking in his heart, you are a dignified prime minister, even if you travel, you will not only bring two hundred people. Why did you bring about 200 people to suppress the bandits? If you bring 1,200 people, why wait for the opportunity to spread the war to our Tianchang County?

Dare not speak out, the level difference between the two is too far.

The two went back, but there were some slight differences in the plan.

Wang Lun himself is a low-level military general, his rank is not high, if he is an official and has a high salary, he will not be extremely poor and want to rebel. The reason why things are successful is that the soft ones are afraid of the hard, the hard ones are afraid of the horizontal, and the horizontal ones are afraid of not dying.

There are few people, but they are all in vain, one by one, they are extremely vicious, and they don't want to die, just like the group of heroes in Shuibo Liangshan, one doesn't want to die, and the other has a good martial arts, so more than 200 people swept invincible.

When it comes to military command ability, Wang Lun is even worse than ever. What is the use of fleeing south? The south was not affected by the disaster, there were not many followers, and sooner or later they would be destroyed. On the contrary, it was the later Zhang Hai who had a more long-term vision, and brought together Guo Miaoshan, Dang Junzi, Fan San and other righteous troops, and once had a huge momentum. If Wang Lun goes west or north, with the help of Shandong's complex mountain ranges and disaster victims, maybe he can hold on for a while longer. If you flee to the south, you are doomed to doom.

This is also the reason why Zheng Lang did not overestimate him.

It's not that I don't understand anything, otherwise I wouldn't have led the army here and had a good time.

Hearing that Zheng Lang personally led the army to come, Wang Lun was very scared in his heart, this person was a figure who made Xixia Yuanhao suffer many times, and there were all kinds of strange rumors among the people, and he was very scared in his heart. However, I heard that Zheng Lang only brought about 200 people over, and his heart settled down a little, and there were not many people, so there was no need to be afraid. But he was a little jealous, gathered a group of brothers under his command to discuss, and said: "We can't go to Hezhou, but to Chuzhou." ”

"Why did you come to Chuzhou?"

"Chuzhou is mountainous, the Song Dynasty sent a little Xianggong to come, led by more than 200 cavalry, fighting on the plains is not good for us, only into the mountains, we can advance and retreat freely."

In this regard, everyone was at a loss, because they had no previous experience in fighting with cavalry, so they agreed.

Wang Lun said: "But there are still more than 100 miles of road from Baimatang into the Chuzhou mountains, we must put down our baggage, advance lightly, and advance overnight, so that when the morning dawns, we can at least reach the territory of Chuzhou, and wait for the news to be fed back to the ears of that little minister, even if it is a cavalry, there are many ditches along the way, which affects their speed of pursuit, then we can calmly enter the mountains." ”

"What about the food?"

"There are many grain fields in Chuzhou, and large families, as long as they enter the boundary of Chuzhou, what supplies do they have to worry about?" The rebels don't do it, they want to be the king of the mountain.

The others didn't have any good ideas, and after deliberation, they burned their baggage, but brought with them a lot of money and silk, which they could never burn, and ran all the way west under the cover of night.