Walking out of the Yinping Ancient Road to the south, the mountain gradually slowed down, this night, Xu Renjie led the 8,000 soldiers, finally came to the Yinping Ancient Road, through the heavy mountains and steep tombs, Xu Renjie ordered the whole army to rest here for a night, and then march early the next morning.

The terrain here has been relatively gentle, and Zhu Jun has already stepped on the edge of the Chengdu Plain.

In the rugged, everywhere is full of dangerous mountains in Sichuan, almost can not find a piece of flat land, everywhere there are mountains and mountains, ditches and ditches, after a mountain and a mountain, only near Chengdu, there is such a piece of flat land, this flat land seems to be to compensate for the potholed Sichuan people, a piece of feng shui treasure specially given by God.

After the soldiers of the Zhu army were able to be stationed on the Chengdu Plain, they were all relieved, especially the Shaanxi soldiers, when they arrived here, even if the five thousand white-pole soldiers who followed behind their butts turned their faces and rushed up, they were absolutely sure to compete with them.

This group of Shaanxi soldiers grew up on the Guanzhong Plain, followed Zhu Yuanzhang's southern expedition to the north, and was considered a veteran of ten years, skilled in battle formation, and high morale. I'm afraid of where you come from!

Therefore, today's Zhu army is particularly imposing, and the Shaanxi soldiers will even turn around, whistle violently at the white pole soldiers behind, and make some provocative movements. The white-pole soldiers were naturally unconvinced, and they couldn't help but return the favor with a whistle. Fortunately, the leading generals of the two armies are sensible, and they quickly restrain their subordinates and try not to clash with each other.

Of course, Xu Renjie was thinking about Zhu Yuanzhang's policy of assimilation of ethnic minorities. It is necessary to avoid conflicts with the Tujia family. And Peng Ba was worried that Ma Xianglin would fall into the hands of the enemy, and he didn't dare to make a mistake, but under their constraints, Zhu Jun and the white pole soldiers quieted down.

Under the afterglow of the setting sun, the two army formations each set up a camp, and in the eyes of those who don't know, the two camps are like brother camps together, but only they know that as soon as Ma Xianglin is out of the grasp of the Zhu army, the white pole soldiers will immediately pounce and fight. And the kind that never dies.

At this time. In Cao Wenzhao's tent, there is a wine table with some food on the table and a small pot of rice wine. Cao Wenzhao and Ma Xianglin sat across the table. Looks like an old friend for years. It's just that Cao Wenzhao is masked, and Ma Xianglin is shackled on his hands and feet, which destroys the atmosphere of meeting old friends.

Cao Wenzhao picked up a glass of wine. smiled at Ma Xianglin and said, "Come, have a drink!" ”

Ma Xianglin snorted: "The thief Hugh is here to pretend to be a good person." Although he said this, he still picked up the wine glass, took a sip of it, and then hummed: "I don't want to drink the thief's toast, but I will earn by eating a little more military food from the thief." ”

Cao Wenzhao laughed.

Ma Xianglin continued: "You guy who hides his head and tail, I don't believe that you can still drink with your face covered?" ”

Cao Wenzhao turned half sideways, lifted the masked towel a little, raised his neck, and a glass of wine entered his stomach, he smiled: "Although it is a little troublesome, it is not difficult for me to drink." ”

Ma Xianglin was speechless for a while, although he had shackles on his hands and feet, but it didn't affect his actions very much, he grabbed the wine jug again, poured himself a full glass, and then poured it into his mouth, and said angrily: "You despicable villain, I have thought carefully about it in the past few days, if we can both move our feet, you may not be able to defeat me, fighting on that hillside, I still have an advantage, because you and Ben are not good at mountain warfare." There's a kind of you've fought me again...... This time we can both move our feet! ”

Cao Wenzhao smiled: "What's the use of saying this? You are impulsive and irritable, you can't stand being teased, and you will be fooled when you are teased, which is not the way to do it in the first place. If you use the same method to provoke me, how can I be fooled? ”

Ma Xianglin said indignantly: "But I don't accept it, unless you fight me again, this time you don't let your hands or feet, fight well, and defeat me, I can be convinced." He remembered the fiasco that day, and he really couldn't get along with it, and he always wanted to get back on the field.

Cao Wenzhao shook his head and said, "After you are convinced of me, will you join our army?" ”

This question immediately stumped Ma Xianglin, he was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Of course not!" I just obeyed your martial arts, and it doesn't mean that I want to join Zhu Jun. ”

Cao Wenzhao laughed again: "I want you to serve me to have a fart!" Since you refuse to join our army, I have no reason to let you go and fight again, do you look at me like that kind of impulsive fool? ”

Ma Xianglin was speechless.

Cao Wenzhao drank another glass, then grabbed a corn cob from the plate on the table, put it in his mouth and chewed it, and said vaguely: "Don't just drink, eat something." ”

Ma Xianglin looked at the golden corn cob in Cao Wenzhao's hand, and the corner of his eyes twitched: "This is the corn you have repeatedly mentioned?" That acre of land can grow six or seven hundred catties of new crops? When Xu Renjie talked to him about corn a few days ago, he praised the many benefits of corn, but Ma Xianglin probably didn't believe it at that time, because he didn't want to believe what the thief said. But...... When the real thing appears in front of me, out of human curiosity, I can't help but ask after all.

Cao Wenzhao hummed and said: "That's right, it's corn, and the main food of our army now is this thing...... Eat it. ”

"Huang Bula, it's very unpalatable at first glance." Ma Xianglin refused to show weakness, and out of the good wish of "eating the poor thief army", he grabbed the corn cob and bit it hard.

It's okay not to bite this bite, but when I bite down, I only feel that my mouth is full of fragrance, and the unique fragrance of corn captures his taste cells almost instantly, making his whole person flutter.

Cao Wenzhao said: "Is it delicious? ”

Ma Xianglin said against his will: "Phew! It's unpalatable to death. ”

Cao Wenzhao stretched out his hand to serve the plate on the table: "Since it's unpalatable, don't eat it anymore, I'll leave the rest of the few to the guards at the door to eat, that kid was still saying just now that today's marching food is not enough, and he is not full." ”

Ma Xianglin hurriedly stretched out his hand to block it, and the shackles dragged down from his hand made a loud noise, obviously this blocking action made it more urgent. It's no wonder that he has a hard life, although the life of a leader like Ma Xianglin is much better than that of the Tujia people, but what he usually eats is brown rice, and the Tujia civilians are even more miserable, and most of them usually eat wild vegetables.

The quality of brown rice is much worse than that of rice, and there are a lot of sand grains, chaff and other messy things in between, and of course the miso is not much better. But corn is different, there will be no sand and chaff in the cob, but it will be round and crystalline. It won't be uncomfortable at all to eat.

Plus humans are creatures. Always feel the best when you eat a certain food for the first time. For example, the first time you eat braised pork, you will feel that braised pork is simply the best thing in the world, until you eat it more times and get a little tired of it, you will feel that braised pork is nothing more than that.

Ma Xianglin: This is the first time to eat corn. In particular, I think the corn tastes great. Where is he willing to let Cao Wenzhao take away that plate of corn. So he snorted: "No matter how unpalatable it is, I will eat it all, eat up the military rations of you thieves, and starve you to death!" ”

Cao Wenzhao smiled: "That's really sorry. It's impossible for you to eat up our military rations. I'm not afraid to tell you that corn can really harvest six or seven hundred catties per acre of land, and a small village with only 100 acres of land can harvest sixty or seventy thousand catties, and I, Zhu Jun, will collect three percent of the tax, that is, I can recover 20,000 catties of grain...... If you count how many villages there are in Guangyuan and Bazhou, you will know how much corn we have harvested......"

When he said this, he deliberately stopped and carefully observed Ma Xianglin's expression, only to see that Ma Xianglin's eyes showed a shocked look and his mouth was wide open. He actually didn't know how many villages there were in Guangyuan and Bazhou, but he knew the stone pillars well.

There are about 80,000 or 90,000 Tujia people living in Shizhu, distributed in nearly 300 villages, the smaller ones have 50 or 60 mu of land, and the larger ones have 2 or 300 mu of land...... That......

Ma Xianglin wiped a handful of sweat, and he really couldn't eat so much military food.

Thinking of this, his eyes cleared, and he said angrily: "Don't lie here!" I won't believe you. I see that you didn't bring much food out on this march, and just now you were still saying that the guards couldn't eat enough, if you really had too much food to eat, how could you seem a little stretched down now? ”

Cao Wenzhao said with a smile: "In order to cross the Yinping Ancient Road, we traveled lightly, naturally there is not much military rations, and when the brigade arrives, you will be able to see it, I think...... It won't take a few days, so you'll just have to wait and see the show. ”

"Humph!" Ma Xianglin snorted angrily: "I think, your brigade will never arrive, the crossbow general General Zhang Ling guards the Sword Gate Pass, as long as he keeps guarding there, even if you go around now and attack Zhu Ba outside the pass, you may not be able to take down this Xiongguan." And it is absolutely impossible for your army to take the Yinping Ancient Road, as I said just now, food is a big problem, as long as you can't get the Sword Gate, you will never want to get involved in Chengdu. ”

Cao Wenzhao smiled: "It is impossible for Zhang Ling to guard the Sword Gate, he is about to take the initiative to let the Sword Gate Pass out." ”

Ma Xianglin shook his head and said: "General Zhang Ling is not a fool, he will not even have this bit of strategic vision. ”

Cao Wenzhao's voice froze: "Zhang Ling may have such a vision, but he is just a deputy chief soldier, how can he have a good vision?" Strategy is not made by a deputy commander-in-chief, behind his back, there will always be some pig-like high-ranking officials, give some inexplicable orders, and then ...... Self-destruct the Great Wall! ”

Where is Ma Xianglin willing to believe: "Don't be alarmist here!" ”

Cao Wenzhao's voice was even colder, and even a little sad in it: "Am I alarmist, don't you know?" Why was the Battle of the Hunhe River lost? I'm sure you know better than I do! ”

When Ma Xianglin heard the words of the Battle of the Hunhe River, he was immediately shocked, and the sweat on his face was dripping down in an instant.

It turned out that seventeen years ago, in the battle of the Hunhe River of the Liao army, the Ming Dynasty may not be defeated. At that time, the white pole soldiers in central Sichuan and the Yiwu Qijia army and the Tartar soldiers fought bravely, and the Ming army "fired firearms in the battalion, killed and wounded more, and the gunpowder was exhausted, and the short soldiers were connected, and the Tartars suffered major casualties, and there were more than 3,000 people who fell from their horses".

At this time, Li Bingcheng, the chief soldier of Fengji Fort, and Zhu Wanliang, the chief soldier of Hupiyi, entered Baitapu, and the Ming army urgently sent people to ask for help from these 30,000 people, but unfortunately these 30,000 people stopped marching after defeating the 208 banner scouts led by Yasong.

The passive slackness of these 30,000 people made Huang Taiji breathe. He sent Yue Tuo's main army to besiege the Sichuan and Zhejiang legions, and at the same time divided an army to deal with the Ming army's 30,000 men at Baitafu. These 30,000 people did not want to fight, and began to flee at the slightest touch with Huang Taiji's army.

The Ming army hurriedly asked Yuan Yingtai from another department for help, but he didn't expect Yuan Yingtai to be frightened by the Tartars, refused to send reinforcements, and shrank his eggs in the rear to observe the situation.

As a result, the white pole soldiers in central Sichuan and the Qijia army in Yiwu were isolated and could not get reinforcements from the other side, but the reinforcements of the Tartars kept coming, which eventually led to being outnumbered and blood-stained on the battlefield.

Then. The big officials in the rear just need to show a little courage. Be a little smarter strategically, and maybe the result will be completely different, alas...... A pig-like teammate who finally wants his own life.

Ma Xianglin's breathing became rapid. The battle of the Hunhe River cost him an eye. Makes the Tartar even more proud. Regard the Ming Dynasty as nothing, come when you want, and leave when you want. It can be said that it is the biggest hateful thing in his life. Even the death of his wife Ma Fengyi by the 36th Battalion can only be ranked second.

He had to admit that a deputy commander-in-chief on the front line of the battlefield, no matter how smart and brainy he was, could not afford a stupid order from the person behind the decision-makers. He couldn't help but raise his frightened eyes, and said vigilantly to Cao Wenzhao: "You...... What exactly are you going to do? ”

Cao Wenzhao smiled: "I'm not afraid to tell you!" I wasn't going to go to the fencing gate because I wasn't that stupid...... Even if that Xiongguan is attacked from both sides, relying on the terrain, it can still drag our army there for a year and a half...... Therefore, I plan to attack Mianyang directly. ”

Ma Xianglin snorted and said: "With the grain and grass reserves in your hands now, after capturing Mianyang, you will no longer have the strength to continue to advance towards Chengdu, and the Jianmen Pass is still in the hands of the officers and soldiers...... I had to retract back from the Yinping Ancient Road in a gloomy manner...... Oh no, if you go back, the food won't be able to support it. Because if you want to take a detour back to Guangyuan in Yinping, you need to detour hundreds of miles of rugged mountain roads, and I'll see what you do then. ”

Cao Wenzhao shook his head and said, "Ma Xianglin, you can only wield a knife, not use your brain...... If your mother Qin Liangyu is here, she will definitely ask the boss to fan you over and let you think more carefully. The battlefield is not only about swords and guns, but also about all aspects...... Like what...... You have to think about it, what are the people who play with pens in Chengdu going through their heads? ”

A touch of confusion flashed in Ma Xianglin's eyes: "What's wrong with the people who play with pens in Chengdu?" ”

Cao Wenzhao said with a smile: "I will run out of food after I capture Mianyang, but besides you and me, who else knows that I am going to run out of food?" When the time comes, the King of Shu, the Governor of Sichuan and others who are sitting in Chengdu will hear the news that Mianyang has been captured by our army, what do you think they will do? ”

A look of surprise flashed on Ma Xianglin's face: "Not good! This...... These bastards must have thought you were about to march into Chengdu. ”

Cao Wenzhao smiled: "Exactly, you're not stupid, so guess what they will do when they feel that I am about to attack Chengdu?" ”

Ma Xianglin's face was no longer shocked, but turned into an angry face: "Those faint officials, when they heard that the thief army bypassed the Jianmen Pass through the Yinping Ancient Road and captured Mianyang, they must have thought that the Jianmen Pass was useless and did not need to be defended...... will send someone to send an order to General Zhang Ling, the crossbow general, telling him to abandon the pass and return to Chengdu to help. Oh no...... These idiots are really going to give such orders ......"-

Sichuan, the capital of Chengdu, the governor of Yamen.

At this time, the governor of Sichuan was named Shao Jiechun, who was a jinshi in the forty-seventh year of Wanli, and in the second year of Chongzhen, he participated in politics for the right of Sichuan, and guarded southern Sichuan. Later, he was moved to Zhejiang. In the tenth year of Chongzhen, Shao Jiechun was promoted to the governor of Sichuan and sat in Chengdu.

In fact...... He is a clean official! This person is an official for one term, never oppresses good people, has a clean breeze on his sleeves, is not greedy or ink, and is really a rare good person in the late Ming Dynasty. When he served as the right of Sichuan to participate in politics, he governed Shu with benefits, and later he moved to Zhejiang, and when he left Sichuan, the people cried and sent the road, and the boat could not travel, blocking the river. In the tenth year of Chongzhen, he was transferred back to Sichuan again, and the people of Sichuan were all overjoyed when they heard that he had returned.

But this Qing official is a good hand at governing the government, but he is a complete rookie in war.

Not long ago, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan to make trouble, and it was Governor Shao Jiechun who led troops to intercept them, and the result was ...... As a result, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong went around in a big circle in Sichuan, and they were fine, until the Battle of Onyx Mountain, they were forced out by Zhu Yuanzhang, and they really had nothing to do with Lord Shao Jiechun.

Not only that, but his name was also compiled into a children's song by Zhang Xianzhong, saying that "there was Governor Shao in the past, and he often came to the troupe to dance; Later, Liao joined the army, and he followed me without a fight; It's a good Yang Pavilion Department, three days away from me. (Note: See Chapter 490)

In short, this brother tried his best to stop Zhang Xianzhong, and he was very active, so he was called "often coming", but unfortunately the army he led was soft and had no combat effectiveness, not like fighting but like dancing, so it was called "group turning".

At this time, the governor was frowning, thinking bitterly about the matter of fighting against Zhu Jun. Zhu Jun had already gotten the news about the attack on Jianmen Pass, and Zhang Ling, the most powerful general under him, the "Divine Crossbow General", was also arranged by him to Jianmen Pass, but unfortunately there was more than enough to guard the pass and not enough to drive away thieves, what should I do?

At this moment, a spy flew in, knelt down in front of him, and shouted urgently: "The big thing is not good, the generalissimo of the thief army, led eight thousand thieves, bypassed the Jianmen Pass from Qingchuan County, and attacked Mianyang, and now Mianyang has fallen into the hands of the thief army, and the generalissimo is reorganizing the army, peeking into the ...... of Chengdu" (to be continued.) For mobile phone users, please read it on m.qidian.com. )