Volume 2 Washing Horses and Quicksand Chapter 8 White Pole Soldiers (I)
The entourage of the Four King Kong Leggings King reported to Zhang Bingzhong the news he had just discovered, and this news really made Zhang Bingzhong startled. If you fight against the imperial court, it will be a road to the dark, either success or failure, and most of the final results will be death! Zhang Bingzhong immediately discussed with Du Heng, the owner of the village, and the two of them, let's wait and see what happens, and don't mess with this trip to troubled waters.
Since the fight against Wang Jiayin's uprising, the responders flocked to it, Gao Yingxiang, Wang Ziyong and others led the people to take the initiative to follow Wang Jiayin's call to act together, and for a while the bee fire burned all over Shaanxi, and spread to Jin, Ning, and Gansu provinces, and the uprising team grew to as many as 20,000 people. There was also an uprising by Li Ming, the king of Hun Tian, and he surrendered himself to be Wang Jiayin's subordinate. For a time, Wang Jiayin ordered to govern 36 battalions, with more than 200,000 people, and called the 36 battalion alliance.
Seeing that his own team is getting bigger and bigger, Wang Jiayin is spreading heroes and recruiting heroes from all over the world. In this world, there is no impermeable wall, and the news of Xiao Liuzi and others sneaking up on Liujian Fort has always been spread wildly; the 18 villages of Lijiapo have also received a message from the 36 battalion alliance, asking what the village's idea is? This letter was passed to the owner of the village, Du Heng, like a hot potato, so a meeting was held in the meeting hall, and the leaders everywhere competed to circulate this "hot potato". Seeing such letters, everyone also talked about it and argued. In the middle of the day, there was nothing to fight for. Everyone naturally couldn't help but look at Zhang Bingzhong, the "Eight Kings" recommended by everyone; when Bingzhong saw it, everyone's eyes were looking in their own direction, and it seemed that they were seeking a solution. After thinking about it for a while, he said: If I don't respond to his recruitment, I will be attacked by the 36th Battalion, and maybe we will be occupied. Even if they don't have time to take care of our eighteen villages, the strong fortresses in the Qinling Mountains will take the opportunity to discuss with us. If we respond to his recruitment, this hard-won foundation will inevitably be gone, and it will definitely be occupied by other forces as food for their mouths. So......
Bingzhong deliberately paused with these words and pressed his body forward. Then he said: "Personally, I think that only one leader should lead one or two hundred men to answer the call, and if we treat me as thick as the rumors, then we will stay and take his place, and if we treat me with disdain or indifference, then we can slip back at any time by taking advantage of the opportunity of not being very famous, and the reason that we will not be taken seriously, and he will not be blamed even if he knows about it. What do you all think of my idea?
After Bingzhong finished saying this, the leaders below were talking again. After deliberation among the big guys, it was unanimously agreed that Flower Tongue was the most suitable for the captain of this brigade. How do you know that the flower tongue stood up lazily and said: In this cottage, if you can speak well, it must be my flower tongue. But when it comes to marching and fighting, compared with our eight kings, it is 108,000 miles. This recruitment is like an exam, and if you don't fight well, you will definitely be suspended. Either he was killed by his own people, or he was killed by the troops of the imperial court. If the battle is fought, even if it is not reused, then there is a place for us. ...... Hearing the flower tongue, everyone also nodded, tasting the taste of it, and felt that what they said was still very reasonable. After all, the soldiers who went out to recruit were all their own brothers, and they were also the lives of men, so they couldn't tolerate such rashness. At this point, it was finally decided that Hua Tongue would accompany Bingzhong to lead a team of 100 people to the 36th Battalion Alliance.
A few days later, the team of 100 people who set off with Bingzhong had been selected, and when the two leaders were about to set off, the owner of the village and everyone came to see them off. I saw that Du Heng said: "All the sons and daughters listen to the order, yes! I will take care of my relatives at home one by one. You just have to do a good job and come back safely as soon as possible, and you can .......
Soon, Bingzhong led the team to the 36th Battalion Alliance, but before he came to the door of the camp tent, he saw that Wang Jiayin of the Zijin Liang had been waiting for a long time in the camp tent. At the invitation of everyone, everyone came to the Juyi Hall together. Zhang Bingzhong greeted everyone one by one, and Wang Da reintroduced the recent achievements of Zhang Bingzhong and Eighteen Villages. Everyone appreciated this Zhang Bingzhong's wisdom, and changed the wine for a while, and praised it. After the idle talk, Bingzhong stood up and said: Today, at the invitation of Brother Wang, I came to the 36th battalion and was willing to be a pawn in front of the car. Please also ask all the brothers to see more, the eighteen village villains are few and can only bring out a team of more than 100 people, in the future, we will rely more on the support of Wang Da's family, I hope everyone can be in the same boat, trust each other. As soon as Zijin Liang Wang Jiayin heard that Zhang Bingzhong could say such a thing, he was secretly happy in his heart, thinking that this little guy was quite good, and he would make another arrangement after watching for a few days.
In the past few days, due to the simultaneous increase in troops and harassment by the government offices on both sides of the southwest, the 36th Battalion has been a little hurried to deal with it. Although there are 36 battalions among these 36 battalions, not many of them can actually lead troops to fight. The rest of the battalion was actually the same as the Eighteen, a few idle peasant children and a large number of homeless people. Therefore, Wang Jiayin is most optimistic about the people who will lead the troops to fight at this time, because the war is tight, Wang Jiayin is convenient for Wang to use, Gao Yingxiang and others discussed how to retreat from the enemy. These two people have a certain strength and team in the 36th Battalion, and if they are distributed to resist the enemy in two ways, it will definitely affect the foundation and survival of the base camp. After several people discussed, the expedient measure should be to send a capable cadre to go deep behind the enemy to harass and contain the enemy's encirclement. Zhang Bingzhong is a newcomer and doesn't know where he is. He was cautious in all aspects of his words and deeds, and it was this that pleased the rebellious generals, who unanimously agreed that loyalty was up to the task.
Wang Jiayin found Zhang Bingzhong and said straightforwardly: Now that the war is tight, we want to borrow Mr. Jingxuan's prestige to resist the Sichuan army. When Bingzhong heard that he was going to send troops to attack, he fixed his mind and said: I was originally a pawn of the king's family, but there were not many brothers with me, only one hundred and ten people, and I couldn't play any role at all. Wang Jiayin saw that Zhang Bingzhong answered, nodded and said: Well, you don't need to worry, as long as you are willing to lead troops to block the attack, I will give you enough food and grass here. Zhang Bingzhong saw that he couldn't shirk the matter, so he immediately took a step back and hugged his fists and said: Xie Wang's love is in charge, and I am willing to be a pawn in front of the car. Wang Jiayin stepped forward and picked up Zhang Bingzhong with both hands, and began to look at Zhang Bingzhong carefully, seeing that this person had a yellow face and a brown beard and a great appearance, so he said: "Okay! Okay! In this case, you will be the commander of the first battalion of the 36th Tiger Battalion." Waiting for Wang Jiayin's words, the rest of the generals couldn't help but gasp. Everyone thought in their hearts that they had not won a battle, and they had to be so fierce, and their future prospects were limitless.
The next day, Wang Bingzhong led the general to march into the interior of Xishu, but always brought more than 100 of his brothers with him, and the tiger camp that Wang Jiayin gave him was about 3,000 people, which shows how much Wang Jiayin values Bingzhong, and here he also promised that he could occupy the city and defend the city all the way.
Having said that, this is all the way to the hinterland of Xishu to know that it can be even more difficult. The ancients said: Shu is difficult, and it is difficult to go to the sky. Starting from Guanzhong, not to mention blocking the enemy, there are as many as three roads into Sichuan. The nearest way is to Hanzhong to take the meridian road to cross the Yangba road to get into Sichuan, and the other way is to take the Guangyuan meridian road through the rice cang road to get into the hinterland of Sichuan, which is the fastest. The farthest way is to take Guangyuan, go around Chencang Road, cross Yinping Road, and get into Sichuan and go directly to Chengdu. And from Guanzhong, Hanzhong, Guangyuan, Bazhong to Nanchong area must be divided into two roads, up to Chengdu, down to Chongqing. Among them, the mouth of the valley is the gateway to the river, and once the enemy knows its intentions, it is bound to be strongly blocked. Therefore, judging from the map of Bingzhong Suoji and the current situation, it is possible to complete the task assigned by Wang Da Boss only by taking Micang Road directly.
The difficulty of the Shu Road is difficult to reach the blue sky! The silkworm bushes and fish are at a loss, and the founding of the country is at a loss! It is 48,000 years old, and it is not inhabited by people with Qin Sai. There is a bird road in Xidang Taibai, which can cross the top of Emei. The earth collapsed and the mountain destroyed the strong man to death, and then the ladder stone stacks were hooked together. There is a high standard of six dragons returning to the sun, and there is a return to the river with a wave and a reversal. The flight of the yellow crane is not yet passable, and the ape wants to spend his sorrow and climb. The green mud is a panpan, and a hundred steps and nine folds linger on the rocks. He sat on his back and sighed with his hands. Ask you when will you still travel to the west?
But when I saw the ancient trees of the Sad Bird, the male and the female flew around the forest. I also heard Zigui crying the night moon, and I was sad about the empty mountain.
The difficulty of the Shu Road is difficult to go to the blue sky, so that people listen to this withered face! Even the peaks go to the sky without a foot, and the withered pines hang upside down against the cliff. The flying turbulent waterfall is noisy, and the cliff turns to the stone and thunder. The danger is also like this, people who have come from afar are not here! The Sword Pavilion is magnificent and Cui Wei is a man, and he is a man, and he is not allowed to open it. Guards or bandits, turned into wolves and jackals. Avoid tigers in the morning and long snakes at night; grind their teeth and suck blood, killing people like hemp.
Although Jincheng is cloudy, it is better to return home early.
The difficulty of Shu Road, it is difficult to go to the blue sky, and look sideways to the west!
Li Bai's poem "Shu Road Difficulty" is the land of Sichuan and Shu through the ages, we often think of the difficulty of Shu Road while feeling the heroic poetry, where is the difficulty? Shu refers to the current Sichuan Basin, because Sichuan is surrounded by high mountains, so the road to the outside world is very rugged and difficult to travel. In particular, the road leading to Chang'an in Shu must be dug through the Qinling moat, and the difficult project of digging such a high degree with the manpower and material resources at that time is still unimaginable now, so there is the legend of "Wuding opening the mountain" later. Legend has it that the king of Qin wanted to invade Shu, but the road was impassable, so he thought of a way, he asked someone to make five stone oxen, and put a pile of gold behind the butt of the stone ox every day, lying that the stone ox was a golden ox, and could pull a pile of gold every day, and expressed his willingness to give the golden ox to the king of Shu. The king of Shu was greedy for money, and after hearing the news, he ordered five strong men of Shu to dig a mountain road to meet the golden bull. These five people are extremely large, called five Ding Lux. Wuding Lux finally opened a way to pull back these so-called golden bulls, and returned to Shu only to find that he had been deceived. Sichuan is steep, as the so-called: it is easy to enter Sichuan and difficult to get out of Sichuan, and it is not easy to communicate in the era of cold weapons. It has to be said that the influence of geographical factors on Sichuan is too great, which is not only an advantage in defending against invasion but also a disadvantage in hindering outward expansion. In addition, when resources are abundant, it is difficult for the ancient Sichuan people to have the martial atmosphere of the Qin people in the north. In a word, it is too comfortable, and the spirit of struggle is insufficient. Sichuan's strategic value is not only China's rear, but also a strategic place to stabilize Tibet and consolidate Tibet's territory, and it is also the frontier place for China to further move towards Southeast Asia and South Asia. In a word, the Sichuan people never live up to the country, and the Chinese people never live up to Sichuan. Every time the people of Sichuan change the dynasty, they resist the invasion most fiercely, and the province that has been eating spicy food since childhood is not easy to provoke.
Bingzhong went all the way west, I don't know if the enemy is too weak, or it is better to be far away. There are not many regular teams encountered, and there are too many scattered braves and mountain bandits, and they never love to fight along the way, and in order to gain time, they inform the team that they will either surrender or kill no prisoners wherever they go. For a time, the name of "Yellow Tiger" resounded in Guanzhong. The 36th Battalion Alliance is also a frequent success, and Wang Jiayin said that he has a very good vision and has found a tiger general.
And Bingzhong all the way to the Bazhong area, the team has expanded to 20,000 or 30,000 people. Seeing that it was about to arrive in Sichuan, the 36th Battalion Alliance came with a big bad news. Just as the momentum of the 36th Battalion Alliance was like a rainbow, and the bee fire burned all over Shaanxi for a while, and spread to the three provinces of Jin, Ning, and Gansu, Wang Jiayin died at the hands of the traitorous generals, and the two of them were his brother-in-law Zhang Liwei and his brother Wang Guozhong. Zhang Liwei was in the late Ming Dynasty and the early years of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty to be a soldier under Cao Wenzhao, the general soldier of Gushan on Yansui East Road in the Ming Dynasty. When Cao Wenzhao fought fiercely with Wang Jiayin's rebel army in Yangcheng County, Shanxi, the morale of the rebel army was high, Wang Jiayin commanded well, and the Ming army was defeated repeatedly. Zhang Liwei said that he was Wang Jiayin's brother-in-law, and he could use the method of pretending to join Wang Jiayin's righteous army and wait for the opportunity to murder Wang Jiayin. In this way, Zhang Liwei was sent by Cao Wenzhao to Wang Jiayin, and was named the commander of the tent by Wang Jiayin because of his wife and brother. One day, Wang Jiayin was drunk and asleep at night, and was murdered to death by Zhang Liwei and Wang Guozhong, who sneaked into the tent. Thinking that Wang Guozhong and Wang Jiayin are of the same clan and the same village, when Wang Jiayin's rebel army arrived in Hequ County, Shanxi Province, on the east bank of the Yellow River in Fugu County, he defected to Wang Jiayin's rebel army, and then conspired with Zhang Liwei to kill Wang Jiayin.
After Zhang Liwei killed Wang Jiayin, he was named the deputy general of the Left Guard Association by Emperor Ming. Later, in the battle between the Hukou and the Qing army in Shanxi, Zhang Liwei was seriously wounded and died. After his death, he was posthumously awarded the title of General of the Dragon and Tiger. After Wang Guozhong killed Wang Jiayin, he was named the deputy general of the Puzhou Association by Emperor Ming. Later, he was dismissed by the Ming court after losing the battle with Li Zicheng's righteous army, and did not dare to return to his hometown of Fugu and lived in Suide. After Li Guo broke through Suide, on the orders of Li Zicheng (Zao'er, also called Li Dacheng), one of the murderers who killed Wang Jiayin, the traitor Wang Guozhong of the peasant uprising alliance, was loyal to the law on the spot, of course, this is already a later story.
In the Battle of Yangcheng, Wang Jiayin was killed by spies, and the rest of the troops were all under the command of Wang Ziyong; because Wang Ziyong did not need to call himself Bai Yuzhu, Zhang Bingzhong still carried the banner of the 36th Battalion Alliance all the way west.
When I first came to the mountains on the border of Xishu, I inadvertently found that the mountains and forests on the mountains were stunned and bare, with only some green leaves and branches on the tips of the trees. Puzzled, he ordered the soldiers to find an old local peasant and asked: Old man, why are the forests here stunned and bare? When the old farmer heard the young general ask, he replied with a smile: The young general may not know, but this tree is a treasure in our local area and a treasure in the Sichuan army. Hearing the old farmer's answer, Bingzhong didn't feel even more surprised, so he patiently listened to the old farmer's explanation.
This tree is called ash pole, this ash pole is a natural green shrub tree, it is white as jade, hard but not hard, soft but not broken, the shaft can be bent close to the split without splitting, strong flexibility, its own fiber density is thick, there is a strong natural tensile force, it does not split in a dry place, it is not deformed in a wet place, its elasticity and toughness are incomparable to other woods, it is a green, natural, unique and rare specialty. The ash rod can be used as a variety of tools and weapons, the branches can be used to make various baskets, and the outer skin can also be used for medicine. Its pole is mainly made into the body of a weapon, the handle of an axe and other cold weapons, and so on. At the same time, the ash tree is also the most suitable host for the ash insect. Historically, many private ash orchards stocked ash insects to obtain ash, and the wood of ash trees was tough enough to make furniture, farm tools, vehicles, etc., and the branches could be made into baskets, and the bark was also called "spring bark", which was used in Chinese medicine as a heat-clearing medicine. White wax can be a precious natural medicine raw material, and wax can be a technical job. White wax is also known as wax ointment, the effect is to stop bleeding, muscle, pain and pain Indications Gold sore bleeding, blood in urine, blood in the stool, sores and ulcers for a long time Harvesting and storage Male ash worms begin to secrete wax after ten years, and white wax filaments begin to appear on the surface of wax flowers before and after the summer heat and white dew festival, and wax flowers should be harvested. The best harvest time is before the morning dew is dry, when the wax flowers are wet and easy to peel off. On sunny days, water should be sprayed and moistened before picking. It is best to process the harvested wax flowers on the same day, otherwise it will be heated, smelly and discolored, which will affect the quality of the wax. Before planting more than 10 insects in a small sac with yellow grass cloth, hanging all over the tree, to May, hundreds of insects come out of each seed, as fine as ant midges, leaving white dung between the branches, this is white ash, (insects) are no longer seen. In mid-August, it was recorded and taken, and it was fried in boiling soup to become wax (the method is the same as frying yellow wax). He also left his son among the branches, which was very thin at first, and grew larger in the next spring, and in February and March, he still collected his son as before, and scattered it, or smelled the fine-leaved holly tree can also be used. Its benefits are very broad, and the benefits of silkworm breeding are comparable, and the price of white wax is often several times higher than that of yellow wax. The stunned tree pole is reserved for poles, bare and only a little green leaf on the top of the head, which is the result of the other leaves being eaten by the ash insects.
Bingzhong said, only to see the old farmer take a puff of cigarette and say to himself: These poles are the treasures of our general soldiers. Bingzhong asked intentionally, which general soldier is it? Of course, it is our Chongqing General Soldier Lord Qin Liangyu!
Qin Liangyu .......