Through Xian Hongye's interpretation of the Medicine King's Codex, I quickly learned the truth of the incident and Zhao Gong's life experience. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

On a rainy and snowy night in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, "Zhao Gong", the youngest of the three Zhao brothers, said goodbye to his brother, carried a kitchen knife on his back, and carried the official seal of the imperial court, left the city of Beijing, which was about to be in chaos, and went south to the Southern Ming court.

Different from his eldest brother and second brother, Zhao Gong's life path was the most thorny and bumpy, because at that time the north was all occupied by Li Chuang, the news was not clear, and there were Manchu Qing Dynasty tigers eyeing him.

But even so, Zhao Gong, who wanted to serve the imperial court, still went south without hesitation, relying on his superior kitchen knife kung fu and unpredictable spell eating skills, he fought a bloody road, and finally came to the city of Nanjing.

But at this time, he wanted to cry without tears.

It turned out that because of complex reasons such as news blockage and obstruction of military disasters, when Zhao Gong rushed to the city of Nanjing, it was more than a year later, and Nanjing City at this time was no longer the sacred "imperial capital" in his mind.

In the year of Zhao Gong's difficult advance, the pattern of the world changed again, Li Zicheng defeated Shanhaiguan and retreated to Guanzhong, the Manchu Qing Dynasty took the opportunity to go south to capture Nanjing, the city in front of him has long been lost to the "****" banner, the army of King Qin, the prosperity of the past, but also replaced by the Manchu Eight Banners and the accumulation of white bones.

It's really a big hit.

Seeing that the emperor was captured and the imperial city fell again, Zhao Gong, who was loyal to the Ming court, was heartbroken, he lost his soul, wandered several times, and almost sank.

But Zhao Gong is different from ordinary cooks, because of the background of Lu Caifuzi Temple and the special court background of the Zhao family, this young man regards "ethics and loyalty" more than anything else, and he always thinks that the Zhao family has been able to have more than 100 years of glory and food and clothing since the ancestor Zhao killed the chicken, all of which are the country's favors and rewards, and now the country is in trouble, and he can't sit idly by.

So, with firm confidence and purpose, Zhao Gong re-emerged in decadence and resolutely embarked on the life path of "opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty".

In the continuous war at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhao Gong ran from east to west, and successively defected to Wu Risheng, He Tengjiao and other Ming court righteous soldiers, important ministers, horse leather shrouds, and turned to the north and south. In the end, he settled down with Li Dingguo, a famous anti-Qing general.

At that time, Li Dingguo was a general of the Southern Ming Dynasty, firmly controlled the Yunnan-Guizhou region, and had a stable rear base, and the most important thing was that Li Dingguo admired Zhao Gong very much for such a "loyal man", and specially recommended him to Sun Kewang for training, Zhao Gong also gradually grew up in the war, and gradually grew from a palace chef to a general who could lead troops to fight and be able to take charge of himself.

At that time, Zhao Gong had his own private soldiers, although his core strength was only more than 100 people, but because he dared to fight tough battles and had a strong style, he was very feared by the enemy.

Because Zhao Gong was born as a cook, the army he led was called the "Ku Zhong Battalion", and the soldiers under him were called "Ku Bing".

These soldiers are as strong as their leaders, they play the role of the mainstay of the army, often where there is difficulty, they rush there, the image is a little described, these people are like the fire brigade of the Southern Ming Dynasty, playing the role of mobile change.

At this time, Zhao Gong, after seven or eight years of training and struggle, finally had the stage and foundation to display his ambitions.

However, as the battle of King Qin became more and more protracted, Zhao Gong became more and more disappointed with the "current affairs" of the imperial court and his own future.

It turned out that the government of the Ming Dynasty at this time was very chaotic, Emperor Yongli did not have much real power, and loyal ministers like Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan in the court could not be reused, but it was a mediocre talent like Sun Kewang, and traitorous ministers like Ma Jixiang controlled the military and government.

When the time came, Zhao Gong was a general under the command of Sun Kewang, a powerful minister, and he knew that this person had bad intentions, and Zhao Gong was grateful to Li Dingguo for his kindness, and secondly, he didn't want to dance with a mediocre talent who was powerful, short-sighted, and disregarded the overall situation, so a few years after having a team, Zhao Gong always wanted to find an opportunity to transfer out and get out of Sun Kewang's jurisdiction.

He did this, firstly, because he didn't want to be in the same league with the traitors, and secondly, because he didn't want to be buried with his brothers when Sun Kewang was destroyed.

With such thoughts, Zhao Gong waited for the opportunity in forbearance, and finally found an opportunity to transfer out of the tiger's den and go out to avoid trouble.

At that time, Miao Mantusi in northwest Guizhou launched a rebellion, and Guizhou was Sun Kewang's "logistics base".

Zhao Gong, who saw the opportunity, took the initiative to ask for help, and then took the "Kuzhong Battalion" and 1,000 recruits to the northwest of Guizhou overnight to "quell the rebellion".

Zhao Gong broke away from Sun Kewang's control, on the one hand, he revised the book Li Dingguo, told Sun Kewang about his unauthorized power and spying on the throne, and on the other hand, he seized the time to go to the northwest of Guizhou to quell the Tusi rebellion, and waited for an opportunity to expand his territory.

Years of experience in warfare, let him know that in the troubled times, territory and food are the most important, as long as there is territory, even if he can't hope to oppose Sun, he can also take the northwest of Guizhou as the foundation, imitate Sichuan's "Kuidong Thirteen Families", recuperate, and change the driver's plan.

For the sake of the "great cause" in the future, Zhao Gong understood that he must quell the rebellion of Tusi and establish his own territory.

With the belief of victory, Zhao Gong led his troops out of Guiyang overnight, crossed Qianxi, Jinsha, Renhuai, and then detoured to Zunyi, Xishui, and finally met the rebellious Tusi army near the mountain beam of Furong River in Dalou Mountain.

The two armies intersected, and Zhao Gong looked at the Tusi military flags all over the mountains and fields, and was startled.

The scale of the Miao Man's Tusi rebellion far exceeded Zhao Gong's estimates, and Zhao Gong estimated that the combined forces of Tusi in these places were at least more than 10,000 people, and there were also muskets aided by the Qing army, which exceeded Zhao Gong's army by more than ten times in terms of quantity and ordnance.

At this time, in Zhao Gong's hands, except for the cavalry of the "Ku Zhong" battalion, there were only more than 1,000 newly recruited stragglers, and there was no great combat effectiveness.

But even so, Zhao Gong still did not retreat, and he had no way out.

Zhao Gong must have been a battle-hardened veteran, and after the initial fright, he quickly calmed down and analyzed the situation between friend and foe.

Soon Zhao Gong found that although the Tusi had many soldiers and horses, their formations were scattered and their banners were not neat, and they were obviously not ready for a big battle. Zhao Gong's keen sense of war immediately made him understand that he had to crush the enemy army in one go before the enemy formation was completed, otherwise when the Tusi soldiers and horses lined up on the mountain beam, there would be only a dead end.

In an instant, Zhao Gong didn't have time to repair, so he immediately got on his horse and raised his sword, urged the army, practiced the heart-to-heart tactics, and went straight to the center of the rebels' camp.

A life-and-death gamble has begun!