One hundred and seventy chapters of sweeping

Jishui, also known as Jiahe - in fact, this is a slip of the tongue, its birthplace is in the Zhongnan Mountain in Shaanxi, and the upstream section is called Jiahe. More than 95 percent of the Ming people were illiterate, and coupled with the difference in accent, it was passed around, so it was called Jiahe. However, in the official government's maps and documents, the official title is still written in Jishui. Jishui runs almost straight south from Shangjin in Yunyang Province, Huguang, and flows eastward into the Han River at the mouth of the Baihe River on the border with Shaanxi. At this moment, the river was crowded, and there were hundreds of large and small boats struggling to swim upstream, and the official road on the shore was also crowded with people heading north.

In the south, Gao Tengdou's three battalions are in the "palace queen" for Zhang Hu, and in the north, Gu Baisong's horse team is the leader of the army, leading Niu Youtian's front army to "open the road" and west, Hanzhong Mansion has already received the hint of Yunyang Jian Fuzun, and has turned a blind eye to the flow of people who are helping the old and the young to go straight to Shangnan, and in the east of the far shore, a large camp is so horizontally blocked on the official road leading to Yunxi, and the "Gong" and "You" flags fluttering in the wind are hunting. All this completely put an end to all the illusions of Zhang Hu entering Huguang.

Zhang Hu and Fang Ge said goodbye to the "send-off" Takato Bean in Shangjin. Although there were not a hundred or seventy or eighty reluctances in their hearts, Zhang Hu and the others could only follow Luo Yonghao's plan to go straight to Shangnan at the junction of Shaanxi and Henan, from where they would enter the heart of the Ming Empire.

At first, Guan Shengyun wanted to swallow Zhang Hu's people in one bite, but was dissuaded by Luo Junshi. Luo Yonghao's reason is very forward-looking: now the Guan troops are strong and strong, and they are enough to deal with any contingency for a long time; Zhang Hu's war battalions are almost the same as the general officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and may even be weaker, they are pure chicken ribs - eating them, their own strength will not be substantially improved, on the contrary, it will immediately arouse everyone's vigilance: not only the imperial court, at this time, in addition to the blatant rebellion of the two families of Lu'an, there are several other rising new forces in Shanxi, Yunnan, Henan and other places, and the annexation of "friendly forces" will make them feel guilty, so it is better to let Zhang Hu make trouble everywhere and further distract the attention of the imperial court. Luo Yonghao cited the example of Taizu of this dynasty "building a high wall, accumulating grain, and slowly becoming king", and Guan Shengyun and the generals were convinced, not only that, but Luo Junshi also generously allocated 20,000 stone of grain to Zhang Hu to make a big favor.

I heard that Zhang Hu left more than 1,500 horses, but Gu Baihua was very happy, and pestered Guan Shengyun to form a pure cavalry force. Guan Shengyun told him that the horses had gone around the border of Shaanxi Province for most of the time, and that they had hardly received any rest and recuperation on the way, and that they were now so thin that many of them were sick, and that they probably would not live for a few days. Hearing this, Gu Baihua was distressed to death, and ran directly from the ancient city, not even seeing Gao Tengdou, and went straight to the temporary horse farm. Then he rushed in and didn't come out for a few days and nights, and Gu Baihua's personal team arrested all the veterinarians that could be found in the Yunxi area of Shangjin and carried them all to the horse farm. After more than half a month of recuperation, more than 1,300 horses have completely recovered, of which nearly 500 can be used as war horses, and the remaining 800 or so can also be used as pack horses or riding horses. Huguang is rich, but he does not produce horses, horses are treasures, and all the generals are salivating, so they all take the opportunity to prevent Zhang Hu to come over and talk to each other. But Gu Baihua is more concerned about guarding these horses than about his own daughter-in-law, who is in a hurry with whom, and in the end, Guan Shengyun came forward and acted as a mount or horse guard for the generals to go. Gu Baisong's horse team expanded to more than 600 horsemen, one person and three horses. When Gu Baihua returned to the ancient city, he said stupidly: Next time I get a horse, no one will want to steal a horse, and if you are not convinced, go to him for a discussion. This guy has long had the idea of building a pure cavalry army, preferably five thousand, oh no, ten thousand iron cavalry - he will lead this iron armor torrent and run wild!

Zhang Hu entered Nanyang Mansion in Henan Province from Shangnan, and sure enough, as Gao Tengdou told him, his eyes were full of gloom. Fortunately, a lot of people were captured in that circle of Shaanxi Province, and Zhang Hu was not willing to give out all the 20,000 stone grain given by Guan Shengyun. Guan Shengyun went to Huguang from Henan Mansion (note that it is not Henan Province) and Nanyang Mansion, and these two mansions could not stay, so Zhang Hu went straight to Ruzhou, preparing to go to Kaifeng Mansion, the provincial capital, to grab a handful.

Different from Guan Shengyun's elite route, Zhang Hu still adopted the old method of holding everything under the mud and sand, taking away all the people and property everywhere he went, and putting a fire on the ground that could not be taken to completely burn the ground. It has to be said that this method will certainly cause great damage to society, and even drink to quench thirst - once the momentum is stopped, everyone will immediately lose supplies and reinforcements, or most of them will starve to death in a short time, but it is very effective: after sweeping everything along the way, and by the time Lushan is captured, the team has expanded sharply to more than 300,000, and every time they stop to rest, the camp and shack will stretch for dozens of miles, and the momentum is extremely terrifying.

Zhang Hu didn't understand this, what he saw was his unstoppable momentum like a mudslide. With the lesson of Guan Shengyun before, Yu Province urgently reported to the Beijing Division on the one hand, and mobilized the troops of the state capital guards to resist on the other. However, in the face of hundreds of thousands of surging homeless people, hundreds, at best, two or three thousand guards like Hanako, what can they do? There is almost no suspense in the field, looking at the endless crowd on the opposite side, no matter how brave the general is, he will turn his horse and flee; As for siege warfare, it was also easy: when the enemy attacked, all the gates of the city would be closed, and Zhang Hu would drive the people to besiege the city impenetrable, and then build some ladders and start besieging on all sides. Ning Along's auxiliary battalion continued to be built day and night, and when a batch was built, a batch was delivered, while the people were treated as consumables, the dead and wounded were groaning in the trenches under the city, and those behind were still being driven to the battlefield in a steady stream. Such a blind way of relying on brute force will definitely kill a lot of people, but the last thing King Zhang cares about is human life! The soldiers were all used to suppress the battle and supervise the battle, and the people who climbed the wall were all civilians, and the city was broken the moment the defenders were too weak to hold the knife - and then, not only did all the materials in the city fall into their own hands, but they would also be replenished by a large number of personnel! Relying on many cannon fodder, Baofeng, Jiaxian, Yuzhou, and Xinzheng were captured one after another, Niu Youtian's vanguard had reached Wei's, and the army was directed at Kaifeng Mansion, the center of Henan Province.

Zhang Hu went too smoothly this way, so after the Wei clan and Niu Youtian converged, he immediately allocated 100,000 people to Fang Ge, and ordered him to sweep Chenliu, Qixian and other places, and he led the main force to attack Kaifeng Mansion, which had the momentum of stepping on it in one fell swoop.

[There are a lot of things these days, and I wrote a little intermittently. There will be something tomorrow, and I will try to write ^_^ it well the day after tomorrow]