To the west of Neixiang County, there are three large rivers from east to west.

The easternmost is Junshui (the old Guan River in later generations), Xichuan County is on the east bank of Junshui, and to the west is Danshui, and Junshui is injected into Danshui, and the confluence point is roughly Dangzikou.

Daming set up a guerrilla in Dangzikou, who was subordinate to the Yunyang Division.

After the confluence of the two rivers, it was collectively called the Danjiang River, and the Danjiang River finally flowed into the Han River near Zuoqiying (later Danjiangkou City).

Hanshui is the third great river.

To the north of Dangzikou is under the jurisdiction of Xichuan County, Nanyang Prefecture, Henan Province, and to the south is under the jurisdiction of Junzhou, Yunyang Prefecture.

During the Chenghua period, the mountains in the upper reaches of the Han River (Qinling, Daba Mountain East Vein, Wudang Mountains) broke out in the great uprising of the displaced people, after being pursued by the official army, there were constantly displaced people crossing the Dangzikou into Xichuan County, after quelling the rebellion of the displaced people, the imperial court set up Xichuan County on the one hand, and set up guerrilla generals in the Dangzikou on the other hand.

The original purpose of the guerrilla generals was apparently to prevent the displaced people from the Jingxiang area from entering Henan.

With the passage of time, due to the long period of peace, although the Dangzikou guerrillas still bear this name, they are stationed in the Zuoqiying (Danjiangkou City) with better geographical conditions, and the imperial court finally acquiesced to this situation.

Since there was no battalion in Nanyang Prefecture at this time, the defense area of the Dangzikou guerrilla directly subordinate to the governor of Yunyang actually included Junzhou, Neixiang County, and Xichuan County.

The Left Banner Battalion, where the guerrilla generals were stationed, was less than 100 miles away from Xujiazhai.

After learning that the army of the Xiaoqiang Brigade went south, conquered Yuzhou, and besieged the city of Nanyang, the most anxious was not the governor of Henan, but the governor of Yunyang!

After Li Zhanchun's division of the 3rd Brigade of Xiaoqiang Brigade conquered Xujiazhai, a key chong on the post road from Neixiang County to Xichuan County, Jiang Yunyi, then governor of Yunyang, Yang Wenfu, a general of the sub-guard, and Qi Shangyou, a guerrilla general of Dangzikou, were all keenly aware of what the thieves' next goal was.

Because at this time, the army of thieves mainly composed of Lao Hui Hui Ma Shouying and Ge Liyan has arrived in Xiping Town, which is less than 100 miles west of the Xixiakou Inspection Division, and from here, you can reach Yunyang Mansion in the south, and you can go to the Xixiakou Inspection Division and Neixiang County in the east.

In fact, Long Thirteen could have allowed Ma Shouying's department to take down the Xixiakou Inspection Division, but at this time Ma Shouying met an opponent, Jin Shenghuan, a thief near Lushi County, was extremely strong as a thief, and Ma Shouying and He Yilong's main advantage was cavalry, and since he came to the mountains of western Henan, this advantage was naturally gone.

At this time, Jin Shenghuan's sphere of influence spanned the entire Bears Ears Mountain, including Lushi County in Henan and Shangnan County in Shaanxi (later Shangluo City), and he was particularly good at mountain warfare, so Ma Shouying and others could only fight with Jin Shenghuan undefeated.

Rao is like this, his He Yilong's men have tens of thousands of horses, constantly fighting against Jin Shenghuan's troops in the mountains, this speed slowed down, and when he led the army to Xiping Town, it had been two months since they left Shanxi!

After learning that the Xiaoqiang Brigade continued to advance and occupied Yuzhou, Ma Shouying and He Yilong were ashamed, but it was not easy for them to successfully reach the Xixiakou Inspection Division.

At this time, in the valley between Xiping Town and the Xixiakou Inspection Division, it was the lair of Zhang Youcai, the leader of the "clay pots" who went north from the Jingxiang area, and the road was winding and rugged, and Zhang Youcai would be ambushed if he was not careful.

In addition, Ma and He were always wary of being swallowed up by Long Thirteen, so after arriving in Xiping Town, after they got the surrounding geographical environment from the locals, they got up and completely left Xiaoqianglu and went south to Yunyang Mansion to seek a living.

This section is unknown to the guerrilla Qi Shangyou of the party.

Including Jiang Yunyi, the governor of Yunyang, and Yang Wenfu, the general of the sub-guard, also thought that Ma Bu must have come to join Long Thirteen.

So, Jiang Yunyi immediately issued an order to let Qi Shangyou go north, coerce Xu Jiazhai, and prevent the Xiaoqiang Brigade from peeping into Xichuan County.

As an official army far away from the battlefield in Shanxi, the armies under the command of the governor of Yunyang obviously did not realize the strength of the Xiaoqiang brigade, and Qi Shangyou only had two thousand infantry troops under him, he did have some family members, but only a few dozen horsemen, this is all his cavalry.

What's more, he also has to divide the army to guard the left banner battalion and the party's mouth, so the soldiers and horses that can be dispatched

There were only a thousand.

However, Qi Shangyou didn't think there was anything wrong.

From the left banner camp to the north, until Xujiazhai (Shigang Town), there are endless hills everywhere, and you don't have to think about launching a large-scale cavalry battle.

The soldiers of the armies under the command of the governor of Yunyang are all from the mountain people in the mountains of Jingxiang area, although they are not tall, but they are extremely strong, because they have been on the mountain and down the mountain all the year round, one by one they have trained the iron footboard, not to mention anything else, they are far stronger than the ordinary Ming army on this march.

Even stronger than the border army.

Similar to the general Ming army, Qi Shangyou's pikemen are mainly pikemen, mixed with long knife soldiers and archers, but his long knife is a knife that is very suitable for mountain warfare between the northern Shaanxi sword and the Miao Xinjiang Miao knife used by the mountain people in Jingxiang area.

This kind of knife is wider than the Miao knife, but narrower than the big knife, in fact, it is a shorter Pu knife, during the Chenghua period, the homeless people relied on this kind of knife, plus the self-made rattan card once killed the corpses of the officers and soldiers all over the field.

After suppressing the uprising of the exiles, the imperial court absorbed the long knives and rattan techniques of the exiles of Yunyang Prefecture and incorporated them into the armies under the command of the governor of Yunyang as a new army.

Qi Shangyou himself is a descendant of the exiles, of course, he must be a descendant of the surrendered exiles, he originally held the hereditary position of Zhushan Tu Qianhu (Tusi Qianhu), and later the imperial court changed the land and returned to the stream, in order to win him over, he was promoted to the high position of a guerrilla general.

The mountain people, just by planting a few acres of dry land on the slopes of the mountains can not support a family, must through logging, collecting medicinal herbs, hunting to subsidize their livelihood, no matter what kind of activity, it is very easy to conflict with other mountain people, so over time, including the Jingxiang area, almost all the mountain people have developed the characteristics of being fierce and untamable.

In fact, they are the Jurchens in South China, otherwise they would not have produced such effective troops as "White Pole Soldiers", "Guangxi Wolf Soldiers", "Yunnan Native Soldiers", and "Jingxiang Native Soldiers".

Even in the modern society of later generations, the people on the mountain are far more barbaric than the people under the mountain, there is no way, the environment and habits dictate.

In the Three Kingdoms era, the so-called elite soldiers "Danyang soldiers" were actually Shanyue, and the elite "Wudang Flying Army" of Shu Han was the barbarians in Nanzhong.

If these people are a rabble, the Central Plains official army will naturally be easy to defeat them, but if they are trained and organized like the official army, they will still be quite powerful in a certain period of time.

Li Zhanchun, Yuan Zongdi, Long Xiaohu, and Shang Ziyi, who were in Xujiazhai, all knew these news.

And the news of the North Road Wu Dading Department was also transmitted here by Long Thirteen intentionally or unintentionally.

Xujiazhai.

The four of them were sitting together.

Different from Jutan Town and Chimei Fort, because Xujiazhai is a large village with a civil structure, Li Zhanchun still used the method of using a cart to get close and then using black powder to blow up the door to conquer it in one fell swoop.

For people at this time, when the gate was knocked to the ground by an earth-shattering sound, and the elite near the gate was almost blown away, it was impossible to have strong combat effectiveness.

In later generations, the Taiping Tian *** team repeatedly used the technique of acupuncture to win the city, that was in the nineteenth century, when firearms were highly developed, and hundreds of years ago the natural effect is better.

However, after blowing up the gate, Li Zhanchun accepted Shang Ziyi's suggestion and did not immediately repair the gate, but simply filled the gap with straw bags filled with sand.

"Commander"

It was Shang Ziyi who spoke, compared with Xue Zhiheng, he was born in the old account room and knew how to be flexible, so the relationship with Li Zhanchun, Yuan Zongdi and others was also closer.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that Li Zhanchun and others already have a lot of respect for literati.

"Since the army of Yunyang Mansion has come up, let's just defeat it once with all our might, so that it will not come up at will in the future, our broken Xujiazhai is a bait."

Yuan Zongdi is not so optimistic, after the time comes to this year, Yuan Zongdi is also seventeen years old, you know, in real history, Ai Nengqi can lead a mere twenty-eight horsemen to take Xiangyang City at the age of seventeen, and Li Dingguo can command half of Zhang Xianzhong's army at the age of seventeen.

What's more, following the dragon thirteen

After two years of training, Yuan Zongdi, the original blacksmith in Suidezhou City, has grown into a considerable general.

"Commander," he said, "when I used to be in the north, there were mountains from time to time, but the mountains were never so steep, and there were no such dense woods on the mountains, so we and the pikemen were a little unable to use them."

"There are only 100 men equipped with long knives for each centaur, and there are only 300 men in a battalion, not to mention that the focus of our training is still the spear, and the art of the long knife is only an auxiliary practice......

Li Zhanchun nodded, "Then let that Qi Shangyou come over, and I'll have a big battle with him near this Xujiazhai."

Yuan Zongdi said, "That's naturally good, but they must also know the strength of my little strong brigade, so can they just post it for a decisive battle? I don't think it's good, if they put it up just to contain us and wait, and then sit back and wait for the imperial army to come slowly, it won't be good."

Li Zhanchun looked at Long Xiaohu and said, "Xiaohu means ......."

Long Xiaohu is only seventeen years old this year, but he is a martial artist from Jiexiu County, and compared with Long Xiaoshi, he just pays more attention to martial arts, in fact, the origins of the two are almost identical.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty produced a talented Mao Yuanyi, who was born in Xichuan County, and he compiled almost all the military books and war strategies from ancient times into a huge work "Wubei Zhi", which was favored by the former emperor Sun Chengzong.

After the promulgation of his "Martial Arts Chronicles", it immediately became a must-read list for martial arts students in various prefectures, prefectures, and counties, which included not only a variety of military thoughts, but also a list of battle formations, weapons, city defense facilities, and martial arts (as well as graphics of combat techniques, vivid), which was completely a complete encyclopedia of soldiers.

Under the leadership of Sun Chengzong, a considerable part of the passes and fortress facilities in Liaodong have the credit of Mao Yuanyi, although because of Sun Chengzong's resignation, Mao Yuanyi also took up his post, but this "Wubei Zhi" was spread in the Ming Dynasty after all.

Long Xiaohu happened to read this "Wu Bei Zhi".

"I think it's a little different."