Chapter 56 Ban

Guan Shengyun knew that the battle of Shaanzhou would be the first tough battle he was about to encounter since he became an army, and it was also a real battle for the city, which was a matter of life and death.

First of all, the Yellow River has a huge drop here (the Sanmenxia Hydropower Station is here), and it is impossible for one's own raft to cross it at once, and according to the plan, the army must leave the Yellow River here and take the land route instead. Secondly, the Ming Dynasty set up a guard here - Hongnongwei, if you go around the city, you will leave a huge threat behind you, once the belly and back of the enemy, the consequences are unimaginable. Thirdly, in the early march of the army, most of the baggage can be carried by rafts, and then it is by land, which requires a large number of vehicles, and must be adequately prepared—only the large cities can provide sufficient manpower and material resources for this supplement. In the end, the future is long, and it is bound to encounter the encirclement of the officers and troops, and the thousands of miles of journey, no matter how capable the troops are, they cannot withstand the attrition of one battle after another, so the first battle must be prestigious, forming a huge sense of oppression and fear, so that the officers and soldiers will be frightened and flee without a fight, so as to avoid unnecessary attrition to the greatest extent.

Earlier, at Lingbao's military meeting, Luo Yonghao repeatedly emphasized these four points to the generals of each battalion. Not only that, after weighing it again and again, Luo Junshi finally asked Guan Shengyun a difficult question to face:

If you encounter resolute resistance, do you want to slaughter the city after breaking the city?

In the event of stubborn resistance, the benefits of the massacre are obvious: the determination to destroy resistance with terror. The reason why Genghis Khan's iron cavalry was invincible across thousands of miles was that in addition to direct factors such as combat effectiveness and logistical support capabilities, the huge terror played a greater role. He once issued an order: The surrendered cities are only robbed, and the cities that do not kill and resist are slaughtered! Under the power of the mountains of corpses and the sea of blood, one city after another bowed to Temujin......

Luo Yonghao, who is already trapped in the core of the thief's den, knows very well in his heart: for selfishness, even if he accepts the court's recruitment in the future, even if the court spares everyone, and even Guan Shengyun, his father and son will not escape the fate of death - no matter what, the court will never tolerate the precedent of officials committing to thieves and dying peacefully, no matter what, they will make an example of each other, and their father and son will only have a chance to survive by relying on this army; Yu Gong, the rapid demonization of this army and the spread of terror to the maximum extent through the addition of oil and vinegar by the people will greatly contribute to the realization of the strategic goal of the 3,000-mile march. However, after all, Luo Yonghao was born as a local official in the Ming Dynasty, and the traditional education and inner conscience he received since he was a child are telling him that this is not right.

Luo Yonghao, who was at war with heaven and man, threw the problem to Guan Shengyun, psychologically finding a little excuse for himself to shirk, but at the same time, he also forced Guan Shengyun into a desperate situation. Guan Shengyun and his generals are by no means saints, they rob, they rape, they kill, and when they are so excited, sometimes they even take pleasure in killing. However, the vast majority of them would normally avoid topics such as the slaughter of unarmed women and children - in their hearts, they always imagine themselves as Liangshan heroes who fight violence and peace, and are by no means demons such as Huang Chao who uses "two-legged sheep" as military rations!

For a while, the lobby of the Lingbao County Ya was so quiet that it could be heard that the needles were falling. Gu Baihua, who was anxious, blushed, hesitated and whispered: "Man, kill it, kill it, it's not a man to kill a little baby." Gu can't do it. ”

Gong Derun, who was born as a landlord in Baoding, has studied private school for a few years, except for Guan Shuai and Xiao Luo, who are considered cultural people in this group, and said hesitantly: "The book says that the slaughter of the city is not to kill all the little babies, and those who are less than four feet old are not killed." Ahem, but ......."

Gu Baihua grabbed Bai and said: "What about four feet and one inch?" Can you go to the knife? And you, you, you! As he spoke, he pointed to the generals of each battalion one by one, and the people who were pointed at couldn't help but bow their heads and remain silent.

Guan Shengyun cleared his throat: "Uh-huh, cough cough, let's take the city down first." Let's talk about it then, depending on the situation. ”

Gu Baihua's Gangfeng battalion was good at field fighting, and it was a waste to use it to plane the city wall to fortify the fortified fortifications, and was sent to Shiguan (pronounced "Xia"), fifty miles southeast of Shaanzhou, to help with danger. Gong Derun's Zhenyong battalion stayed in Lingbao, one to protect the rear of the army, and the other to rob and collect supplies. The main attack was led by Gao Tengdou's three Flying Beast Battalions, You Futian's Angry Waves Battalion and Zhang Ding's Thunderbolt Battalion. The Tianyi Battalion continued to be responsible for surface defense, and Guan Shengyun led the Breaking Sky Battalion of his own army as the general strategic reserve.

Ruxiang and Lingbao both went down in one drum, and the horse team successfully blocked the communication line in advance by virtue of the objective conditions of this only road, so far Shaanzhou is unaware of the imminent threat. However, this advantage will cease to exist sooner or later as the large army walks out of the canyon, and the news of the siege of Shaanzhou is bound to be revealed to the world, and Guan Shengyun simply opened the attack formation generously.

From Lingbao to Shaanzhou just a hundred miles, the reconnaissance Tang cavalry routinely went forward 30 miles a day to do intelligence tentacles, because there was Gong Derun's garrison in the rear, the horse team did not need to break the rear pressure formation, followed the Tang cavalry with a brain, and took on the task of catching pedestrians and merchants, and delayed the early warning time of discovering danger in Shaanxi as much as possible.

The army traveled on the road for four days, set off at dawn, and slept on the mountain road in turn at dusk, the narrow mountain road greatly increased the burden of heavy transportation, and then slowed down the speed of the march, and finally at the twilight of the fourth day, the forward troops arrived at twenty miles away from Shaanzhou, and in the afterglow of the setting sun, the outline of the city wall of Shaanzhou could be vaguely discerned.

It was so close that there was no fire to be lit, and this night everyone ate dry food that had been prepared in advance the day before. The soldiers who participated in the battle for the first time were so excited that they couldn't sleep and talked to each other, while the leaders and veterans fell asleep, knowing full well that they needed good physical strength and reflexes to have a better chance of surviving in tomorrow's battle.

Shaanzhou is bordered by the Yellow River in the north, Qinglongjian in the south, Kunling in the east, and Hangu in the west, which is not only the political and economic center at the junction of Henan, Shaanxi and Jin provinces, but also the throat artery in and out of the Central Plains, and belongs to the place where soldiers must fight. Therefore, the central government of all dynasties has attached great importance to it, and most of the officials who can be officials here are capable generals. By the way, the name of Shaanxi Province is also derived from Shaanzhou - "West of Shaanzhou".

Shaanzhou is Zhili Prefecture, and Ma Wensheng, the governor of Dingtao who has just arrived for less than a year, is a recognized ruthless character: he has been the county governor of Dingtao for more than two years, and most of the rich households in Dingtao have been tormented by him and their families are ruined!

There were four famous works in the Ming Dynasty: "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Journey to the West", "Water Margin" and "Golden Plum".

One of them is a banned book. Which one, guess what?

Hey, guessed wrong.

It's "Journey to the West"!

Because Emperor Jiajing is superstitious about Taoism, this book is suspected of referring to Sang and scolding Huai!

The ambitious Ma Wensheng released the magistrate, and he knew that his journey of thousands of miles had taken the first step. If you want to be promoted, you either have money or political achievements. However, Dingtao, located in the southwest of Lu, is not a rich place, and there is only one of the most famous local specialties: bandits.

A magistrate who has no military power, wants to obtain the rank of promotion by exterminating the bandits who come and go like the wind, the difficulty coefficient and risk are too great, the place is too poor, and the road of overcompleting the task by collecting more taxes will not work, let alone paying out of his own pocket - Ma Zhixian understands the truth of being an official for thousands of miles only for money, and he is bent on finding his own way and not taking the ordinary road.

The Ming Dynasty's cultural taboo was actually not too big, and it was not comparable to the Qing Dynasty at all. In order to show their loyalty, some hypocrites insisted that "Journey to the West" was a negative energy with insinuations, and on the surface, the imperial court issued an official document, but governments at all levels did not take it seriously. The folk even joked that as long as they didn't set up a stage opposite the yamen and blatantly called out, the officials didn't bother to toss these - in those days, the officials did not do much about male thieves and female prostitutes behind their backs, but most people still wanted to make such things with great fanfare, for fear of being poked in the back.

Ma Zhixian is a bitter child in the countryside, who has really been cold for more than ten years, and wants to stay up until the day he comes out to go to Beijing to arch cabbage. He knew that in order to achieve this goal, something had to be sacrificed - face, which was the least important.

In order to tie up with the young county master, not only invited him repeatedly, but also sealed two hundred taels of "moist pen", and insisted on asking Mrs. Ma to inscribe the word "longevity". Mrs. Ma, who had just become a magistrate, actually touched this lot of silver for the first time, and while he was happy, he personally congratulated him that day - he was so immortal, and the grass stage team that was temporarily invited to help the fun in the courtyard at that time was "Journey to the West"!

The monkey goblins on the stage were playing lively, and everyone in the audience was fascinated, and they didn't notice the strange expression on Mrs. Ma's face - at this time, there were also two villains fighting in Mrs. Ma's mind.

One said, "Don't, someone just gave you silver!" ”

Another villain said, "What can you buy for two hundred taels?" I can get another 2,000 taels! ”

The first one suddenly realized: "Yes, hurry up and get it!" ”

So on the same day, the whole family was imprisoned.

The clerk really sent two thousand taels. The two little people in Mrs. Ma's mind began to quarrel again.

One said, "Did they really send two thousand taels, let them go?" ”

The other said: "Confused! Neng killed him, 20,000 taels are not all ours! ”

The first one said, "Yes, yes, hurry up and kill him!" ”

As a result, the whole family outside the staff almost died.

Of course, the grass platform team must grasp it even more! This is a cash cow: let's talk about it, where and who have acted!

Copy from house to house!

Really copied out a few households have private forbidden books!

Mrs. Ma's achievements are far more than that - he also cracked a major case of "arguing about Taizu".

Dingtao County is under the rule of Shandong Yan (pronounced "acting") prefecture. In the private notes of a wealthy family, Mrs. Ma actually made a major breakthrough.

According to legend, Zhu Yuanzhang, the grandfather of the emperor, approved Lu Xiong recommended by the ministry to be the governor of Yanzhou, and Lu Xiong issued a proclamation after taking office, and he was dumbfounded with a seal: it was engraved with "Shandong Gon (pronounced "rolling") Prefecture Zhizhou" - and the official seal was engraved according to the text of the edict!

In other words, Grandpa Tai wrote a typo!

Don't talk about the emperor, put it today, you can correct the typos of any level of leadership and try it? It's just that Lu Xiong is a dead eye, not only to point out the mistake, but also to write a chapter for Zhu Yuanzhang - the chapter must go through the political department, that is to say, to publicize this matter to everyone.

Who is Zhu Yuanzhang? There was a monk who wrote a poem kneeling & licking him, which contained the word "then" for "leading by example" - and the pronunciation of the word "then" was the same as "thief" (ancient pronunciation, referring to Peking Opera Nianbai), Lao Zhu pondered: Are you insinuating that I have been a thief? No mercy! After receiving Lu Xiong's recital, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious again: "I have beaten down the whole world, and I will call it whatever I say!" ”

This Lu Xiong didn't do a good job, he couldn't find it by himself, and his head moved......

Copying this record in the rich family's house, Mrs. Ma is like a treasure!

To Xiaoli, this is called "arguing about Taizu's great disrespect", and to Dali, the crime of "great rebellion" can't run away! Based on the seizure of "Journey to the West" alone, it is difficult to say whether the "big plan" can be regarded as a superior grade - officials may also find fault in other places because they despise their own behavior, and this kind of presumptuous discussion of Taizu's principles and major affairs, as long as the chapter is written like a knife, who and how many heads dare to intercede?

Since then, Mazhi County started with the ban on books, and the county and the state have been sentenced again, and the official luck has been prosperous all the way. With this trick, in the past ten years, more than 100 families have been broken, and thousands of people have died. Today, in his thirties, he has become the governor of Zhili Prefecture (the level is about the same as the government), and he is the number one.