Hao Zheng'an is by no means an ignorant Tusi who does not know military affairs, on the contrary, he confiscated the current situation, once the Tusi soldiers turn to defense, it will take a big advantage. The land of eastern Chongqing is a mountainous terrain, unlike the side of Wuchang and Yichang, it is a plain terrain, fighting in the mountainous area, the Tusi soldiers are too advantageous, the soldiers recruited from the plain area in Wuchang are not stable in this mountainous area, and they want to discharge the troops in this mountainous area, which is almost impossible, plus this period of rain and rain, the Tusi soldiers actually launched several counterattacks, although they did not win, but also made the officers and soldiers anxious for a while, the other party hit and ran, live in the mountains and drill, you can't see the figure, plus the super long supply line, this battle is called a hard fight。

A barracks in front of it is attacking Hefeng's Rongmei Tusi, this small Tusi is also coerced into the camp of Hao Zheng'an, and now the battle line is pulled to this place, the soldiers and horses of the court are no longer able to attack here, and the military food transported to Hefeng will let the soldiers and horses of the transport eat half, although the battalion soldiers and government soldiers of the court have gathered together to occupy an absolute advantage, but they have not been captured, the grain and grass can not be helped, the siege equipment can not be helped, and there are no local people who have fled into the mountains in large numbers, and want to collect grain locally, which is a dream.

A clerk from the Ministry of Household Affairs came to Zhang Fan and said, "Vice General Zhang, can you take a break, this is really too torturous." Zhang Fan said with a smile: "There are still more than 20 miles, Lord Xu will bear with it, why don't I give the mount to Lord Xu?" This official is called Xu Guoyong, he is the official who came this time, originally Xu Guoyong could sit in a sedan chair at the beginning, but then after a few soldiers fell into the Qingjiang River below, he didn't dare, but the horseback riding hurt and was very dangerous, so he had to walk between the mountain roads.

This into the front of an exclamation, only to hear the "boom" for a while, all the soldiers feel that the mountain road under their feet is moving, many people stopped, look forward, then see that there is no road in front of the road, a big car and muddy water, with two escort soldiers are rolling down, it turns out that there is another section of the mountain road landslide, two soldiers shouted, the voice with panic, below is the roaring Qingjiang, the day before yesterday there are also people falling, this river with muddy mud, fall into it and no longer see people.

The screams of the two soldiers were heard, and they were about to slide into the river below.

Zhang Fan stuffed the stiff rope in his hand into Xu Guoyong's hand, jumped up, like a big bird, jumped through several large workshops, and jumped down when he arrived at the place of the landslide, and the soldiers behind were all exclaimed, the front was already amazing enough, the landslide made these soldiers panic, but behind them, I saw someone flying, and flew towards the river below.

Zhang Fan jumped to the cart that had not yet rolled into the country, at this time a large piece of dirt, on top of which was a grain cart, was rolling into the Qingjiang River, the two soldiers saw Zhang Fan falling from the sky, they were stunned for a while, they all looked at Zhang Fan, Zhang Fan did not say much, his hands were divided, he grabbed the collar of the two soldiers, and jumped up a little on the car that was turning down.

The cart rolled a few times, and finally turned into the rivers and mountains, turned over a few times in the rivers and mountains, soaked in the yellow river water, and was never seen again.

Zhang Fan jumped up the mountain road, threw the two small soldiers aside, and said in his heart: "It seems that the light skill has made a lot of progress, although the internal strength is not as strong as before, but it is long, I think that the Demon Sect Leader will suck my internal strength, but it is beneficial to me." ”

Zhang Fan saw that the mountain road had collapsed, and it really couldn't be transported today, so he jumped into a car and said loudly: "All the soldiers should not get close to the side of the river, and lean inward." The sound spread far away, Zhang Fan finished saying this, he was stunned for a moment, it turned out that unconsciously, his internal strength seemed to have improved, as if he was talking to the broken stone endlessly, the voice was not high, and the sound was very loud.

Zhang Fan didn't have time to care about what was going on, so he planned to go forward, he now wanted to see if the collapsed place could be repaired, and then send the grain truck that had passed the collapse in front of him, and lead the team himself, until the Hefeng military camp in front, and then call someone from the Hefeng military camp to repair it, and transport the grain truck on this side of the collapse as soon as possible.

Zhang Fan and Xu Guoyong said their plans, Xu Guoyong also supported, now this side will definitely not be able to transport, but the first half is still okay, these grain transport soldiers are not good at building roads, Zhang Fan explained some things clearly, then jumped to the section in front of the collapse, commanded the manpower, and continued to move forward.

Gou Yu and Ah Qiu are both behind the collapse, they can't go to Hefeng, they have to stay in this mountain, but they can also rest, as soon as Ah Qiu stopped, a group of soldiers surrounded him and asked nonsense.

"Brother Qiu, did Master Zhang really teach you martial arts?"

"Brother Qiu, let's mess with you in the future, we don't dare to say west when you say east. ”

"Brother Qiu, you should be our eldest brother. ”

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In the evening, Zhang Fan sent the grain cart to Hefeng's camp, and it was Mao Youxing who came to pick him up.

After Zhang Fan explained the situation to Mao Youxing, Mao Youxing promised to send a team of people to help repair the road the next day, Mao Youxing pulled Zhang Fan to drink, it turned out that every time Zhang Fan escorted grain and grass, it would be less than half a percent of the loss, Mao Youxing also knew that this Zhang Deputy General did not drink the blood of the soldiers, and worked seriously.

Mao Youxing pulled Zhang Fan, the two went to the camp tent, several Mao Youxing's cronies, Yu Youde, Zheng Pan, Chen Jitang, Sun Zhongming and others sat down together, in the early years of this dynasty, of course, it was not allowed to drink alcohol in the barracks, but the founding of the country for a long time, especially after the implementation of recruitment, battalion soldiers and military household soldiers, the military generals lost their unified leadership, and there was no longer this provision.

Mao Youxing ordered the pro-soldiers below, and a few pro-soldiers had already served the "bud valley old man" Come forward, Zhang Fan and a few generals do not learn the literati to pay attention to, so one person and one jar, patted the mud seal, and smelled a smell of wine that penetrated into the human head, Zhang Fan smelled it, only felt refreshed, and his face also showed joy, and there were two hams sent by the soldiers below, which were the bacon hams of Ben, which could be eaten raw if they were done well, and there was a smell of hunger, and several of them drew out their knives, and each cut off a piece, and ate it, this thing was extremely hungry, and it could be managed for a long time after eating.

The soldiers outside also shouted, and they were also divided into groups, and ate in the open field, and there was not so much attention to eating in the barracks, and where the soldiers were divided into groups, they sat on the ground, and the wolves swallowed them, and they were very rough, and now the battalion of soldiers was full of soldiers, except for some of the people who were on guard duty, they were all eating.

Zhang Fan said with a smile: "I don't see you in January, Lao Mao, you have become fat, I thought that you would lose weight in the front of the war, for no reason, is it because you have eaten too much ham." ”

Mao Youxing said: "Thanks to you, you are taking grain this month, we have never been much shorter, and the brothers can have enough to eat, more than the grain and grass outside Wuchang City a month ago." ”

Zhang Fan said with a smile: "It's nothing, he is also a fellow Xu Guoyong, he is a kind person, if he doesn't make decisions about many things, I don't know how much shorter you will be, how are you playing now?"

Yu Youde on the side shouted: "Deputy General Zhang, you don't know, those Tusi soldiers just don't fight with us, except for the head-on battle a month ago, they can't shrink at all." ”

Mao Youxing said: "Zeng Meng and Zhou Shixin have been transferred to the front, now this section is Zeng Meng in charge, and after the decisive battle with their main force, Zeng Meng wanted to besiege the city and attack, it was really not easy, that Rongmei Tusi Fort was built by the river, the foundation below is all stones, and the side of this area wants to build a ladder can not be built, the trees here are only a few people high, and the pine trees are short, a few days ago Zeng Meng divided his troops to find trees to build siege equipment, and the Tusi soldiers saw that there was time to drill, so they came out to sneak attack, they were divided into small teams, and killed two sentries of our battalion. ”

Zheng Pan said: "Unless tens of thousands of people are mobilized, we must transfer ladders and trestles from the outside to attack." ”

Zhang Fan said: "If you want to transfer 10,000 siege troops, you have to have 10,000 and 5,000 people to transport grain and grass for you, and you have to transport 50,000 people to eat at a time." ”

Mao Youxing shouted: "It's really boring, my sons and daughters have been fighting for more than half a year, and many of them are homesick and clamoring to go back." "Mao Youxing is a guest soldier, he was transferred from Zhejiang Province, and his soldiers naturally don't want to stay in this mountainous place.

On the other hand, Zheng Pan said: "No, the old lady sent a letter, asking us how the situation is here, urging me to return home early, and the family told me to kiss, just wait for me to return home and get married, but the handsome man above just refused." ”

Yu Youde said: "Don't complain, this is still Zhang Zhonghe's handsome, if you change to other civilian officials to lead the troops, find this reason, they will beat you and take you to the camp, who are you to blame at that time......?"

Zheng Pan also said: "If it weren't for the fact that this time the toast was too hard, the ministers refused to come here, and the eunuchs of the prison army would not come to this difficult place, otherwise they would have to send the eunuchs of the prison army. ”

Zhang Fan said: "Since the founding of the dynasty, the civil officials first took advantage of the rebellion of Chang Guogong and Xu Guogong to defeat a group of martial arts princes who founded the country, and in 30 years, they closed the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion by means of the rebellion case. The governor and other civil officials are in charge, and every time they send troops, the inevitable eunuchs and imperial historians will be in charge, but I didn't expect that there were no civil officials and eunuchs in the Tusi this time, which is really rare. ”

Mao Youxing took a sip of wine and said: "You think they don't want to, now it's just a fart, all the civil officials come over to smell if you have any objections, originally there were many eunuchs who came this time, but because a prison eunuch died in a landslide a few days ago, those eunuchs were so scared that they didn't dare to come, so this time there were no eunuchs to drink the blood of the soldiers." At this time, he drank his mouth, and he was a little taller, and he didn't care a little when he spoke, and he dared to say something that he didn't usually dare to say.

Yu Youde said: "The general should not say this, if the adults behind you know, things will not be easy to do, and they will make a hat with resentment on your head, it will not be easy to do." "I also looked around me as I spoke.

Sun Zhongming was a little disapproving, and said: "It's not up to us to fight, Deputy General Zhang, you don't know, when Sun Changhua, the deputy envoy of the military preparation road in Wuchang, came to our military camp, what gossip array did he want to see, what did Zhuge Wuhou say that he had used this array, and he also took out a picture for us to practice, and the painting was messy, with bells and whistles. The general said to him that the war can't be done like that, if it is really done according to his words, once it is really a match, the other party can crush us as soon as he faces it, this Lord Sun Changhua was angry at the time, so he hated my general, and later lost Lord Zhang Zhongsi said a few words, otherwise my family will be beaten in public. ”

Zhang Fan said: "I also know about Sun Changhua, he watched "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" for a few days and was bent on being a person like Zhuge Liang, but I heard that he saw a lot more battles on the stage of the Qinglou than in the real battle array. ”

Sun Zhongming said: "But isn't it, I heard that he is known as a person who knows soldiers in the court, my God, I heard that Lord Wu Zhangzhang pushed him to lead the troops, if he comes, we will all jump into the river." ”

On the side, Chen Jitang said: "I heard that Shen Dinghua was engaged in that gossip array in his camp, I went to take a look, and it seemed to be like, but it was just a mess, like a big stage, and thousands of people sang together." ”

Zhang Fan smiled silently, Shen Dinghua didn't know that he would definitely not be able to go to the battlefield if he did it like this, but he could get the favor of several ministers in this way, this Sun Changhua was the protégé of Lord Yang Linhe, the old man of the Central Cabinet, this Lord Yang was the big boss of the orthodox faction, Zhang Huaifeng, Wu Shanzhang, and Shui Qun and others were all protégés of Lord Yang Linhe.

On the other hand, Yu Youde said: "Deputy General Zhang, did you offend that Wan Zhichao of the Yamen of the Ministry of Households, I heard that he was looking for trouble, a few days ago, he asked a few battalion officers if there was a situation where the grain and grass were not taken, and induced a few battalion officers to say that you embezzled the grain and grass. With this, the generals of several battalions stopped drinking.

Zhang Fan smiled: "It seems that there is such a thing, but I don't care much about it, it's just a villain, I don't bother to provoke him." ”

Yu Youde said: "It's just that he is close to the son of Lord Lai, you have to be careful, Lai Gongzi is his master." ”

Zhang Fan said with a smile: "Don't talk about these unhappy things, this batch of grain and grass can make the siege last longer, and the Tusi soldiers in the city will definitely not be able to consume you, it is estimated that they have no other way to go except surrender." ”

Several people were also extremely happy when they heard this, raised the wine and drank, Zhang Fan said: "You leave a little bit of ham for Lord Xu Guoyong, if it weren't for him, I would not be able to transport you more grain and grass, and now he is still blowing cold wind twenty miles away, I will bring him some wine and meat, it can be regarded as a small expression of your heart, he is a person born in tribute, he can actually go on this kind of mountain road, I still have a trace of admiration in my heart." ”

Sun Zhongming said: "That's, that's, don't worry." ”

Zhang Fan said: "After drinking, I will take these things back, you should have done it well." ”

At this time, in Wuchang City, in Chunhua Lane, a woman was waiting carefully at the corner of the street. She looked nervous, and looked at the corner of the street from time to time, but there was no one at this time, and there was only dim light in the alley, and she looked around several times, but she didn't see the person she wanted to see.

Seeing a passer-by walking by, the woman carefully hid at the corner of the street, so that no one could see it, she wrapped her fingertips around her nails from time to time, the anxiety in her heart overflowed into words, and she wanted to go back several times, but finally stopped, and muttered: "Just wait a little longer, just wait a little longer......