Two hundred and ten chapters

Wolf smoke curling.

Two hundred miles north of Guiyang, Yanglongkeng is a waterhole several miles wide, sandwiched between the mountains. This area is not only famous for its natural pastures, but also a lively place - legend has it that there is a dragon in the pit, and whenever the crops need rain, the dragon will fly out of the pool to sow rain. Although no one has ever seen it, it is said that there are noses and eyes, and the local people always prepare a lot of fruits and grains to return after harvesting.

The saying of "raising dragons" comes from this.

The firework that carried the news on the various hills within a radius of more than ten miles had been extinguished one after another, and only a few embers remained, occasionally rising into the clear blue sky with a faint wisp of meaningless residual smoke.

These pyrotechnics have fulfilled their mission.

An Bangyan led a total of more than 100,000 Lu'an coalition troops to rise up in Guizhou, in addition to dividing 40,000 or 50,000 troops to attack everywhere, even under Longli, Weng'an, Biqiao, Pu'an, Annan Zhuwei, and then with 20,000 people to surround Guiyang, the rest of the 30,000 elites were all ambushed by him in this mountain.

Led by the father and son of Hao Chongming.

They have been waiting here for three days.

They were waiting for someone: Zhang Fang.

The chief military officer stationed in Zunyi, Zhang Fang.

An Bangyan calculated that Master Li Jingwu would transfer Zhang Fangchi to help as soon as there was a police in Guiyang - Yanglongkeng was the only way from Zunyi to Guiyang.

So he transferred 30,000 horses to Yu Chongming and told him to set up an ambush here.

Sure enough, they waited!

As the supreme military commander who guarded the rebels' lair after the Yang Rebellion in Pingbanzhou, Marshal Zhang Fang looked down on the barbarians around him at all: most of them didn't even have armor, let alone know how to arrange troops, and they just babbled and rushed forward when they fought...... Isn't it just a bunch of monkeys! Monkeys can even climb trees! Oh, well, they can climb trees, and they can't climb slower than monkeys. Hmph, so what? If it is scattered in the mountains, it is really difficult to find, and Zhang Dashuai has no heart to play hide and seek with them, what, field siege? Ha, aren't you looking for death? A few rounds of arrows were fired, and then a large area lay down! Then transfer a few ironclad sonorous infantry teams to form a phalanx to press over and cut, won't this battle be won? Who would dare to rebel? It's obviously a head reward for our Lao Zhang!

So during the days when he was stationed in Zunyi, Zhang Dashuai took matters into his own hands.

Of course, Zhang Fang's disarmament was not for the purpose of paying the military of Daming Province, on the contrary, the Imperial Military Department received all the reports of Zhang Zongzhen's request for military salaries. What barbarians are waiting around, and dangers are lurking...... It's all about incoherent chatter. It is no wonder that the best way out for a scholar is, of course, the right path of the imperial examination, talented but unlucky, which governor to go to, the prefect and the prefect to be a staff member, and then find a magistrate to be a western seat for him - accumulate some contacts and officialdom experience, and you can also find a way out for your nephews in the future. For those who are masters of martial arts, what other good articles can you expect to write? It's good to have a typo throughout. So these reports were thrown aside by the adults, and many of them didn't even look at them.

Zhang Dashuai is like a mirror in his heart, in fact, this is what he wants. Daming officialdom is like this, if you keep asking, although they won't give, but they won't beat your idea to use your brain, if you don't want to, hehe, maybe someone will come over tomorrow to "investigate", and then the food is a knife in the waist!

Therefore, Zhang Dashuai's disarmament is true and true, and it is false: you said that he was cut, there is no one less on the military register of the military department, and from time to time he has to invite more soldiers - it is another thing to be scolded and dismissed, anyway, it is common for military generals to be scolded, and the marshal doesn't care, you say that he has not been cut, there are still three of the eight battalions with swords and armor, and the people of the other five battalions have been collected by the marshal with armor, knives and guns and went to farm with the auxiliaries. After Yang Yinglong was exterminated, there were so many ownerless lands, how could the handsome not make the best use of them?

After receiving Lord Li's order to transfer troops, Zhang Dashuai patted his thigh and was happy: Shuixi is next to Zunyi, as long as An Bangyan is beaten away, his military cantonment can be more than doubled! This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and it is entirely possible to take the opportunity to increase the number of soldiers by two or three times - the army will quell the chaos, and see what reason those civilian officials have to stop it!

Of course, the people who should work in the fields must be left, in addition, Zhang Dashuai pulled up all the other people who could be found, opened the arsenal and fired swords and guns, all the soldiers with knives and sticks were counted as soldiers, and even if there was nothing even if they were auxiliaries, they entangled more than 20,000 people, full of longing and fantasy for a better future, and rushed towards Guiyang with great momentum......

Then, he plunged headlong into the ambush circle of extravagant Chongming.

Zhang Dashuai organized the three remaining battalions into the Chinese army. According to his idea, when he receives the enemy, the fifteen or six thousand cannon fodder of his front army, the left army and the right army, all rush forward, even if they fight with the thieves and soldiers, and wait for the thieves to consume most of their physical strength, these three elite main battalions will go up again, and it will not be a big victory like chopping melons and vegetables!

This method is one of the standard tactics of this era. If you are not facing a very strong enemy, this is the best way to fight. In real history, Li Zicheng always used this way to defeat the Ming army - in front of thousands of displaced people as cannon fodder army, anyway, most of the Ming army on the opposite side was also a rabble hastily put together, although compared with the homeless people who only had wooden sticks in their hands, the combat power was always stronger, but the latter were numerous, so on the whole, the two sides were often evenly matched. When they are exhausted from fighting for half a day, they can then devote elite soldiers to the battlefield, and nine times out of ten, they can be destroyed. However, this method of warfare also has great drawbacks: once encountering the enemy's elite, such as Sun Jie's troops, even if there are only a few thousand people, the battle line of the cannon fodder army will be easily broken.

However, Zhang Dashuai looked down on An Bangyan's Miao soldiers in his heart, and it was natural for him to march in this posture.

It's a pity that this time he met Yu Chongming.

What's even more regrettable is that Zhang Dashuai's so-called "army", although they are also farmers, they are not as good as the cannon fodder that Li Zicheng coerced - the Ming army will be merciless when it encounters the latter, and Li Chuang also has a supervising team after the battle, so they will generally fight desperately, and Zhang Fang's gang has no psychological preparation at all, but the marshal gave an order, put down the hoe and carried a stick and followed the marshal on the road!

However, objectively speaking, there are not too many people killed by the Luan coalition forces in this "battle" - the vast majority of them died by running to death or trampling on each other, well, there are also many who fell and drowned. There are definitely a lot, bringing out 24,500 people, and less than half of them finally followed Zhang Fang back to Zunyi.

Yu Chongming ambushed An Bangyan's Shuixi Army on the hill outside Yanglongkeng, and he brought 5,000 Yongning troops at the bottom of the pocket array, close to Xifeng, where he was responsible for intercepting head-on. According to the expectation of King Luxury, since it was to relieve the siege of Guiyang, the soldiers were noble and fast, and the Ming army was bound to arrange the most elite troops to open the way in front, and several battalions with average combat strength protected the baggage of the Chinese army, and the auxiliary team followed behind. After discovering the ambush, the front army of the Ming army will definitely make a decisive assault and make every effort to open a bloody road for the rear. Extravagant Chongming set up the main battlefield in the Yanglongkeng Valley, and placed the most capable Yongning Army in the area of Xifeng, that is, to fight with the elite and tough of the Ming army. Risking two or three thousand lives, blocking the way of the Ming army, and waiting for the Shuixi Army outside to complete the encirclement, this Ming army will not be able to escape!

Xuan Chongming never expected that after discovering that the Ming army had arrived at the predetermined place and asked people to light the beacon fire, the front team of the Ming army did not immediately form a formation, but crowded together in a panic, and many people ran to the mountains on the east and west sides! Not only that, but seeing the wolf smoke rising from the surrounding mountains one after another, these tens of thousands of Ming troops who were two or three miles away did not join the battle with them at all...... I bombed the camp on the spot!

Extravagant Chongming looked helplessly at the back of the fleeing Ming army, and was puzzled: Sun Jie's troops are not to mention, Chengdu Zhongwei is also not bad, that is still the Weisuo army! This handsome Zhang Fang, who sits in Zunyi and looks down on Sichuan and Qian, is not the legend very powerful? Why don't you run away before we fight—we're miles away!

The extravagant king, who has rich battlefield experience, knows at a glance that this is not a deception, but a real rout: people run in chaos, the armor and soldiers are thrown all over the ground, and by looking at their gait, they know that they do not spare any physical strength, so that they will lose their strength if they can't run far, and there is no more structure - without the system, there is no chain of command, there is no chain of command, and no matter how many people are pigs and sheep to be slaughtered!

Chase.

The Yongning army, which was supposed to be the first to engage the enemy, was the farthest away from the Ming army at this moment, and it was necessary to pay attention to maintaining physical strength when pursuing, so when the father and son arrived, the battle was nearing the end. Well, there was no fighting, the total number of Ming troops who were killed in the real resistance of the Shuixi Army in various villages was less than three or four hundred, and the number of people who died by running and blowing up their lungs was more than ten times that, and there were also trampled to death and fell to death...... The Shuixi army even captured four or five thousand prisoners, but they couldn't run and threw their heads on the ground to resign themselves to fate.

Zhang Fang is fine.

Fortunately, he detained all three barracks in the Chinese army, more than 100 family guards desperately defended the master, and several barracks fought and walked - well, the "war" was all his own people who stood in the way, and finally escorted Zhang Dashuai back to Zunyi without danger. As soon as the marshal closed the city gate, the master was busy again: looking for the imperial court to ask for soldiers and salaries, to tell Master Li about grievances, and to call Tongren's Huang Shen General to come over quickly and join forces, and find Lord Wang Ershan, who is coming to take up his post and now I don't know where he is, said that the traitor is very powerful, you have to help me find the court, ask for money, food, and equipment, what do you say, those guys don't listen to the previous ones, they don't show you so many times, and now this matter is making trouble, I Lao Zhang didn't tell nonsense, right......

Zhang Dashuai was busy asking his master to write letters one after another, and Master Li Jingwu in Guiyang City lived like a year. intercepted 400 town soldiers, and recruited more than 1,000 Ding Zhuang into the garrison, the total strength of the city was less than 5,000, and counting the government and the people, it was barely 8,000 people. These 8,000 people are all the guarding forces of the entire Guiyang City.

At this time, there were as many as 400,000 people in the small city of Guiyang, and most of them were old and weak women and children - in addition to the original residents, An Bangyan took Zhenning, Puding, Anshun, and Pingba Zhuwei, and coerced all Ding Zhuang, but he opened the net and drove all the old and weak to Guiyang.

Before the new Fu arrived, Li Jingwu shouldered the huge responsibility of defending the city. After the unexpected change of the soldiers in Tianbaisheng Town, Beimen, Lord Li pulled the inspector Shi Yongan and Liu Xixuan, the secretary of the imperial history, to set up a three-person leading group in wartime. At the same time, Lord Li also sent a few groups of capable henchmen to sneak out of the city to find Lord Xinfu - Lord Li did not have the idea of throwing hot yams*, he wanted Lord Wang to understand the rebellion as soon as possible, and bring as many people as possible.

The Jingshi also received the military information that Zhang Fang had failed to relieve the siege, so he immediately took the necessary measures......

What? Troop transfers, appropriations? Hehe, you think too much, of course not. The imperial court just sent someone to find Wang Ershan - you are already the governor of Guizhou, and the affairs over there are your business, you can figure it out yourself. Hurry up!

That...... Everyone is looking for it, where is Lord Wang?

*Knowledge points in this chapter:

Yam, formerly known as yam. However, because he wanted to avoid Li Shimin's name (the ancient sound was different from today), he changed his name to "potato medicine". In the Song Dynasty, Yingzong's name was Zhao Shu! Yes, it has to be changed. As a result, the name yam is still used today.