Xu Renjie, Ma Xiaotian, and Red Lady were all very interested in the topic of the "Five Strong Soldiers", and couldn't help asking: "What are the five strong soldiers?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Liaodong Guanning Iron Cavalry, Zhejiang Yiwu Soldiers (Qijia Army), Fujian Rattan Soldiers, Central Sichuan White Pole Soldiers, Guangxi Wolf Soldiers." Among them, the Guangxi wolf soldiers once shocked the coastal area during the Jiajing period, but now they are not subject to the dispatch of the imperial court. And the Qi family army has been in Chongzhen for four years, and all the troops died in the battle of the Daling River in Liaodong, which is a pity. ”

Although Xu Renjie, Ma Xiaotian, and Red Lady did not know anything about the other armies, they had already heard of the Qi family's army, and the three of them all said "ouch" and said: "It turns out that the famous Qi family's army has been destroyed in Liaodong, is this ...... Are Manchu Tartars so powerful? ”

In the hearts of the people of the Ming Dynasty, the Qi family army is almost invincible, synonymous with invincible, Qi Jiguang is also respected by the people as Grandpa Qi, I didn't expect that the invincible army in the world he left behind would be defeated, Xu Renjie and others couldn't help but change color.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want to talk more about the defeat of the Ming Dynasty, and he only felt that his face was dull when he talked about it, so he ordered 3,000 black pole soldiers to pack up and follow him out of Huanglong Mountain, first went back to Xi'an Mansion, dispatched 20,000 lightly armed infantry, and the total strength of the black pole soldiers was 23,000 people, and then brought Wang Er and Yingshanhong and his wife. Ordered the desperate Saburo to come to Xi'an and sit in the base camp instead of him.

After all this was distributed, the time had come to October of the tenth year of Chongzhen, and Zhu Jun's autumn potatoes were harvested and the army rations were ready. At the same time, the imperial court also received a batch of autumn levies, and there was no shortage of military rations for the time being. Yang Sichang thought that the soldiers and salaries were ready, and formally asked the emperor to issue a general encirclement and suppression order, and the 120,000-strong army poured out of the nest and laid a huge net, which was even more magnificent than that laid by Lu Xiangsheng at the beginning, and the officers and soldiers pressed into Sichuan with overwhelming momentum, and Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong suddenly felt a great increase in pressure.

The temperature began to cool, and the wind carried a sense of depression, and after Zhu Jun set out from Hanzhong Mansion, he marched all the way to the southwest. It didn't take long. I came to a vast mountain range. This is the junction of Sichuan and Shaanxi, the mountains are rugged, tortuous and difficult, and it is more difficult than the Huanglong Mountain.

Wang Er saw the endless mountains to the south. There is also a melancholy in his eyes. sighed: "I have heard that Sichuan is mountainous. I didn't expect ...... That's how much it is. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said, "Hmm...... When Li Bai entered Shu from Chang'an, he walked the mountains in front of us, and he also felt that these mountains were too dangerous. Therefore, composing a poem, the difficulty of Shu Road, it is difficult to go to the blue sky, and this is how it came. ”

The red lady listened to him read the poem, her eyes lit up, and she said happily: "If you have a poem, read a few more words!" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said: "I'm not interested in reading poetry, I just saw that the mountain is dangerous, so I just explained it to Wang Er, you can find Ma Xinyu to read it." ”

The red lady said: "I don't like nerds to read poetry, I like people who know how to fight poetry to read poetry, like Grandpa Yue." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "Yue Fei? A foolish and loyal person will not even resist if he is killed, what is there to admire such a person? If it was me, I would lead the army to kill back, kill Qin Hui first, then abolish Emperor Song, and then establish myself as the emperor, then I would be happy. ”

The red lady opened her mouth wide and was dumb for a long time, and after a long time, she said: "If Grandpa Yue really does this, it will be written into the 'Biography of the Traitorous Minister'...... Where will our descendants respectfully call him Grandpa Yue? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed and said: "If the rebellion fails, of course, it will enter the 'Biography of the Traitorous Minister', but if the rebellion succeeds and the emperor is really seized, who would dare to write the 'Biography of the Traitorous Minister'?" I think what those sub-historians wrote is 'The Biography of Emperor Zhongxing of the Great Song Dynasty'. ”

The red lady was silent, although she no longer refutated, but she couldn't accept Zhu Yuanzhang's statement. She didn't know that the man she was looking for in history, Li Yan, was indeed a Confucian general like Yue Fei, and Li Yan's fate was not much different from Yue Fei's, he was killed by the emperor he was loyal to. It can be seen that people have a certain inertia when choosing a mate, and what type of man you like determines whether you will be tragic in the future.

Zhu Jun slowly entered the mountain, for fear of being ambushed in the mountain, Zhu Jun's scouts spread far away, but it didn't take long for the captain of the scout team to come over and report: "Brother Zhu, the mountain road here is really ...... It's too complicated...... Not long after our scout team entered the mountain, two people fell and died, and two of them have now lost contact, and I don't know if they got lost or died somewhere...... Sentinel work is very difficult. ”

"Even scouts get lost?" Xu Renjie, Wang Er and others were shocked: "Aren't you elite soldiers who have undergone countless trainings?" More than half of them have been hunters before, and they will be stumped by the mountains? ”

The scout captain smiled bitterly, "Mainly...... The mountain ...... here What ...... that's it?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was not as surprised as Xu Renjie and them, he had already been mentally prepared for the mountains in Sichuan, so he waved his hand and said: "Shrink the scout net!" Let everyone take care of each other, and don't go too far forward alone. ”

The scout captain said, "But...... This can be ambushed by enemy forces at any time. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "In such a strange mountain, even if the enemy army is lying in the cave or ravine next to the scout, the scout may not be able to detect it. ”

The scout took the command.

The army marched asceticly in the mountains, and after walking less than a few steps, it got into a dense forest, and out of the dense forest was a stone mountain, and when it crossed the stone mountain, it saw a ravine, and everywhere it was extensive, and many corners could hide soldiers. Wang Er and Yingshanhong are not a foolish person, but Xu Renjie was sweating profusely, and kept looking left and right: "God, if the enemy army really has the intention to ambush, our army has been attacked at least a dozen times, and my head has already moved." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile: "You don't have to worry about this, this kind of strange mountain is difficult for us, and it is also difficult for officers and soldiers, it is impossible for them to accurately grasp our marching route in the mountain, so it is impossible to lay ambushes." There is a small chance that we will be ambushed here, but there is a good chance that we will suddenly collide with an officer and soldier's face. ”

Xu Renjie also smiled when he heard this: "This is also true, I am cowardly." By the way, Brother Zhu, the main reason we entered Sichuan this time was to help the 36th Battalion make a living, so do you have any specific ideas? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously: "The plan is very simple, we will fight in northern Sichuan, fight hard, and the officers and soldiers will be overwhelmed, and we can help the 36th Battalion share some of the pressure by constantly transferring troops over." ”

Xu Renjie said again: "Where to start fighting?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed, stretched out his hand to the south and pointed: "To the south here, there is a famous county seat, which is the hometown of the Tang Dynasty empress Wu Zetian, let's start fighting from there." ”

When Xu Renjie heard this, he immediately understood: "Guangyuan! ”

Guangyuan is Zhu Yuanzhang's must-take place, in fact, Zhu Yuanzhang has long coveted this place, Guangyuan was called Lizhou in ancient times, changed to a county in the Ming Dynasty, located in the northern mountainous area of the Sichuan Basin, the upper reaches of the Jialing River, the junction of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces, it can be said that it is the Sichuan-Shaanxi corridor, the core of the connecting zone. If you want to retreat, you can drill into the mountains in the north, and you can easily throw off the officers and soldiers and return to western Shaanxi.

Zhu Yuanzhang has watched the world for hundreds of years, and he knows that the Red Army of later generations also occupied Guangyuan and used it as an important part of the Sichuan-Shaanxi revolutionary base area.

Zhu Jun walked through the mountains, a few days later, has approached the north of Guangyuan County dozens of miles away, although it is close to the county seat, but the mountain terrain here is still strange, the top of the mountain is sharpened, the slope is extremely large, the soldiers have not seen a flat land since entering the river, and their faces can not help but have a deep color.

Only then did the red lady understand that Zhu Yuanzhang transferred black pole soldiers and light infantry into Sichuan, but there was no reason to transfer cavalry and heavy infantry, it was impossible to use cavalry here, and heavy infantry could not climb mountains and wade through water. In the event of a battle in such a place, it is completely impossible to form a rectangular or square formation, and the soldiers can only fight in a messy formation on the strange hillside, and in most cases can only rely on individual bravery, not on the strength of the team.

On this day, Zhu Jun was walking, and suddenly saw a pillar of smoke rushing up on a hill not far from the side, which was obviously a beacon smoke for reporting news, Zhu Yuanzhang looked sideways and said with a smile: "We were discovered by officers and soldiers...... They lit a beacon smoke to warn ......"

Everyone turned their heads to look over, only to see that the mountain was covered with trees, and they couldn't see anything on the top of the mountain, Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and ordered, and a small leader led a thousand Zhu soldiers to rush over.

After a long time, the soldiers of the Zhu army occupied the top of the hill and sent someone back to report: "Brother Zhu, there is a beacon tower and a stone house on the top of the mountain, and it seems that there are five or six defenders living in the stone house. ”

When everyone heard the news, they were all unhappy, and in this way, the officers and men knew that they were coming, and they could no longer have the effect of a sneak attack, and the sudden appearance of a hidden beacon on the top of a mountain like this was really overwhelming, and it was impossible to even bypass it.

(Note: In Sichuan, there are still many sentry posts or mountain camps left by the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is not uncommon to see beacon towers in lonely mountains like this, and interested friends can know about it when they visit Sichuan. The author once fought the landlord with his friends on the stone table in a cottage, cough cough! ）

Seeing that the generals were unhappy, Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said, "What's there to be depressed about?" Since ancient times, sneak attacks have only been written in books, and they rarely happen in actual combat, do you really think that those names in books will be able to successfully touch the edge of the enemy's base camp with a finger from thousands of miles away? Even if we fight uprightly, can't we win just Guangyuan? (To be continued.) )