One hundred and fifty chapters

Zhang Hu, who fled to Cangxi, gathered the rout and stopped for only one day. They knew that Sun Jie couldn't get out of a lot of messy things such as clearing out the remnants of the enemy, taking over the treasury, and restoring order in the city for two or three days. Moreover, Kefu City is a great achievement, according to common sense, you have to stay for a while - so many goods, whoever leads the army will have to make a lot of money! Anyway, there is no proof of death, and he glared and said that he was taken away by thieves and spoiled, packed and thrown into the river...... No one can do anything about you, can they? This is common practice for all. Until today, Li Zicheng's treasure, Zhang Xianzhong's gold and silver, and the huge wealth of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom...... This kind of news is still flying all over the sky, isn't there still so many people who firmly believe that they are looking for bankruptcy? But despite this, Zhang Hu still didn't dare to stay longer: Sun Jie was a famous general, and if he was bitten, he would be in big trouble.

Thankfully, that's what happened.

After Sun Jie sent away Ma Qiancheng's eldest brother, he left the staff general Shi Jingsheng and his Panshi battalion to guard Baoning and wait for the third division of Sichuan Province to send someone to receive it, and on the third day, he led the main force and pursued the whole army north.

In addition to the massive amount of grain and military supplies, more than 350,000 taels of official silver in Boryeong were neatly piled up in the silver treasury. When he first entered the city, Zhang Hu did stare at the white flowers in the silver vault for a long time, but he had never seen so much money again, and Zhang Hu would not sleep with the silver in his arms, let alone use the silver to build a kang for himself. When the city broke and fled, the soldiers ran away with Zhang Hu after picking up some silver ingots, so these treasury silver are now in the hands of Sun Jie.

In fact, this is only a part of Zhang Hu's entire wealth - the jewelry obtained by plundering thousands of miles, Zhang Hu hid in the Baoning Mansion where he lived, and he also did not have time to take it away. And it is precisely these things that have preserved Sun Jie's future at a critical moment, which is a later story.

The loyal Sun Jie did not keep all his wealth for himself like other generals, and of course, he would not be so stupid as to do nothing - if he relied entirely on the official articles of the imperial court, his soldiers would have to starve to death in less than a year! The old Sun family has been standing for 200 years, and there is absolutely no loss in the big festival, but if you want to survive in this environment, you must know how to be flexible. Food and military supplies, naturally, let the auxiliary team move as much as they want, the war is inseparable from these, the treasury silver has left more than 100,000 taels, so that Master Shang has rules and regulations to make a book, and of course the share he took and Brother Ma will not appear in the booklet - just these hundreds of thousands of taels, it is enough for the new prefect to deal with it gratefully for a while, and if it is replaced by other military towns, it is 100% impossible to leave you with even a copper plate!

In order to save physical strength, three battalions of soldiers and the same number of support auxiliaries carried the necessary supplies to pursue the river by boat, and all the other supplies were handed over to the remaining auxiliaries to slowly follow behind, and the horse team went out to keep in touch and harass at any time.

Contrary to what most people think, the most important thing in pursuit is not speed, but control the rhythm. If you chase too fast, the enemy will fight back desperately knowing that there is no hope of escape, and the battle will become a tough battle between the two sides. At this time, in order to escape, the fleeing enemy will do his best, and the morale of the pursuing party will be inferior to the opponent, and it is really hard to say who will kill the deer. Like the famous "fox and hound" fable, the hound asks, "Why can't I catch up with you when I run faster on weekdays?" The fox replied, "If you can't catch up with me, you're just hungry, and if I don't fight hard, it will become your dinner." "On the contrary, keep in touch at all times, so that you can't run away if you want to, you can't fight if you want to, drag it for a while, and the fleeing side, which is always in high mental tension, will collapse sooner or later, and then the victory of the chasing army will be within reach.

Zhang Hu is miserable. The official road to the north is not far from the Jialing River, that is to say, the road from Langzhong to Zhaohua is nearly 500 miles, and Sun Jie can take a boat to the back unhurriedly, which preserves the physical strength of the troops to the greatest extent. As long as you catch up, you can get off the boat and start fighting! And Zhang Hu's mixed deserters were less than 2,000 people, with no baggage, no food and grass, no matter how tired they were, as long as they stopped, they had to find food by themselves. What's even worse is that the horse team that is biting Sun Jie behind him is not much, only one hundred and forty or fifty horsemen, but it can't be shaken off no matter what! Several times Zhang Hu set up a position to fight hard, but the registered general Shangguan Fei who led the team was not fooled, no matter how Zhang Hu scolded, he only smiled coldly dozens of zhang away, and never rushed into battle, Zhang Hu rushed up, the horse team turned the horse and retreated, anyway, the two legs can never run four legs, but as long as Zhang Hu rests, from time to time he will encounter a stormy charge. Of course, so far it has been a bluff, but Zhang Hu has to get up honestly every time to prepare for the battle, and he knows that as long as he is caught by the other party once, the feint will immediately turn into a one-sided massacre!

Needless to say, the stragglers were angry at first, but soon they turned into helpless fear, and now, they have become numb. Zhang Hu knew that if he continued like this, it wouldn't be long before the army's morale would collapse, and at that time, everything would be over!

The hatred in Zhang Hu's heart: Aren't you an official soldier? Why don't you want first-level work? Each one is worth five taels of silver, right? You don't want to put the silver, throw it over to scare Lao Tzu, it's too fucking lacking in morality! On the fourth day, Zhang Hu finally figured it out: all the money he threw in Boryeong fell into the hands of these guys, and of course they didn't care about the few taels of silver for each head! However, there is nothing that can be done about it. The road is only halfway through, and the second half will be much more dangerous.

In fact, there is another point that Zhang Hu and Shangguan Fei have not figured out: now the defeated soldiers are still running with Zhang Hu, except for a few hardcore brothers, for the vast majority of people, it is not because of any loyalty or illusion, but because of the fear of death - Shangguan Fei can't swallow the breath of being blocked in Nanjin Pass for more than half a year, and all those who have fallen behind, left alone, and surrendered are all killed without leaving a living mouth, and then throw their heads over to hit the morale of the other party and relieve their hatred, so the defeated soldiers can only follow Zhang Hu to run down, if they can see a glimmer of life, There may not be a few people left around Zhang Hu. Later generations of monks Gelinqin, Zeng Guofan, and Li Hongzhang all learned a lesson, and promised not to kill Changmao - what can you do if you regret it in the end?

Not far from Jianzhou, where there is a battalion of Fang Ge. But Zhang Hu wouldn't have the slightest thought to run there.

Because there are no boats.

It is indeed possible to grab three or five small boats nearby. But fifteen or six hundred people would have spent a whole day ferrying back and forth on a few small boats each that could not carry a dozen people—it would have taken a whole day, let alone a whole day, and it would have been impossible for the horse team that had been biting behind them to stare at the excitement honestly, and would have taken turns to make trouble. At that time, those who had not crossed the river were afraid that they would be left behind, so they would rush to the boat and pounce into the water, and those who crossed the river would never wait on the shore for Sun Jie's fleet to catch up...... Once the river is about to be crossed, the troops will completely collapse!

Zhang Hu knows the tactics of the horse team too well.

Thinking of Fang Ge's troops in Jianzhou, Zhang Hu became worried again: I don't know if there is a fight with the official army from Shaanxi - now all hope is on Brother Fang, if he is defeated, everyone will all die in Sichuan!

Master Xiu Weixiu, who is in command and leading the army, is a squire of the Ministry of Works. Prior to this, Master Xiu's life experience had never had anything to do with being a soldier. But whether it is the Holy Lord, the cabinet, the six ministries, or even the officials, they all take it for granted that Wenchen leads the troops: everything is not detached from its roots! What is Ben called? The teachings of the sages, of course. Master Xiu is full of poetry and books, and he is from the right path, and he has also been ordered to Hanlin, and his full stomach naturally includes the strategy of defeating the enemy and reassuring the people. Is there anything to doubt about this? As for the route of the march, the location of the camp, the amount of food consumed each day, how to arrange the scout guards, and the various battlefield communications...... These are all trivial, aren't there masters? What, the master doesn't have any experience? It's okay, isn't this just the experience! All in all, it is not uncommon for people to cultivate the last thing! Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you that Master Xiu has read "The Art of War"!

How's that, scared, right?

Regarding the matter of leading the troops to suppress rebellion, Master Xiu himself is also full of confidence. Why? Not only the cultivators themselves, but in the eyes of all the adults, what do you rely on to fight? Loyalty and bravery! You just say it's right! As long as you are loyal to the imperial court, the rest depends on the courage of the generals. Isn't it just a knife to cut off the skull! Look at General Lu Guangyu, how powerful, such a big bull's head, one by one, and he doesn't have to pant after cutting three of them!

As for the logistics, well, isn't it handed over to Grandpa An? Speaking of Father-in-law An, tsk, you can put a hundred hearts, you can't be wrong! Why? Do you know which prisoner Father-in-law An? Straight Palace! Let me tell you, Grandpa An swept the floor, that's called a clean! Such a careful father-in-law, or the family of the Son of Heaven, you say it yourself, what do you have to worry about!

The rebellious army of the Xiu people drove all the way to Luoyang in Hanzhong Mansion. In the west, the West Han River (also known as the Rhino River), turbid water, Niyang water, and river pond water flow into the Jialing River and flow downstream, and in the east, the Baibadu River joins the Jialing River again in the south of the city. Master Xiu knew at a glance that this was a strategic location, so he set up the command post of the Chinese army here. In order to unify the dispatch of materials, Gonggong An, who supervised the army, also stopped here. Next, it's time to see how General Lu breaks the thieves.

Along the way, General Lu Guangyu, who was arrogant and confident, felt a little weak in his heart at this time. This is not that General Lu is cowardly, General Lu was born at the foot of Phoenix Mountain in Qinzhou, Shaanxi Province (now Tianshui, Gansu) - General Lu's father, Commander Lu Lao, had a large military camp there and the scenery was also very good, so he made his home there. Since he was a child, General Lu knew that he would inherit his father's position and become a glorious Ming general, so although he was not literate, he still asked his master to engrave the private seal of a "Phoenix Guard", always reminding himself not to forget his original intention and not forget his roots...... You say, can General Lu be cowardly?

General Lu has never been on the battlefield, and he is just a little nervous when he sees that he is about to engage the enemy, which is normal. What's more infuriating is this group of soldiers! Along the way, I stole chickens and dogs, rummaged through boxes and cabinets, not to mention, chasing the people who escaped from their husbands, well, especially those village women, who were simply fierce and invincible. But seeing that they were getting closer and closer to Guangyuan, these guys all became depressed, and their legs seemed to be tied with lead, and they all dragged their feet on the ground, wading into the dust on the official road. There are more and more guys trying to escape, and in desperation, General Lu ordered that they all tie their ankles together with hemp rope when camping, and the soldiers fled to kill the small flag officer, the small flag officer escaped to kill the general flag, and the general flag escaped to kill hundreds of households...... Only then did this unhealthy trend stop. General Lu's move won the high praise of Master Xiu, and he personally wrote him the four vigorous and powerful characters of "governing the army in a good way". Although General Lu only knew the two of them in four words, he still thanked his soldiers for their kindness and asked his soldiers to take care of them, and only waited for someone to make a plaque to hang in the command hall after returning to the division after the great victory. Oh, well, it's a big victory, the iron is determined to be the commander, you can't be wrong! Ha ha.

Master Xiu is such a big official in the imperial court, and it is necessary to be wise as a torch. Seeing that General Lu was a little nervous, he passed on three tricks to him based on the fact that he had read and watched the "Art of War" that he could almost recite backwards on the way to come, saying: There is no wisdom and no bravery, so it is impossible to defeat him. Said: First of all, win for the invincible. Said: Better than easy to win.

Seeing Lu Guangyu staring at the two big-eyed beads and waiting to listen to the following, Master Xiu sighed, knowing that this guy didn't understand at all, so he had to tell him the original text: The good fighter in the past is invincible first, and the enemy can be defeated. You can't win against yourself, but you can win against the enemy. Therefore he who fights well can be invincible, and cannot make the enemy invincible. Therefore, victory can be known but not done......

Just as he was about to give him a detailed explanation of the first paragraph, General Lu smiled. Master Xiu is very happy: the child can be taught! You see, a little bit is thorough...... At this time, Lu Guangyu praised: "The old man's tongue twister is really good!" "Got so angry that he almost fainted on the spot.

Forget it, I can't afford to play the piano to the cow, so let's tell him the vernacular: "You are not famous, the thieves will despise you, and the arrogant soldiers will be defeated, so you will definitely be able to win." I am invincible first, and the front is Yangping Pass, since it is called "Guan", it is invincible, hurry up and go over to the old man to guard! When the thief reveals a flaw, that is the 'easy to win', at that time rush over and cut, you will win! Got it? If you understand, hurry up and go to Yangping Pass to break the thief for the old man! Get lost! ”

Don't look at the scolding, General Lu completely understood the three clever plans of Master Xiu, regained his confidence again, scolded and pumped the ground, and brought his gang of "donkey day killing materials" to Yangping Pass.

[Today's paragraph buried half an easter egg, have you found it? ] Half tomorrow, hehe. 】