Chapter 217 Reinforcements

The Ming army of the brightly clad brigade lined up on the east bank of the Maha River every day, covering the people with great fanfare, cutting down trees and building pontoon bridges. Although it was clear at a glance that they were doing a very difficult job, Yang Yisi's old man Sa Mabao was still worried when he looked at the pontoon bridge that had reached the center of the river. Although the raid a few days ago was a complete victory, it was just because the news was taken by surprise in advance, and those Han soldiers were in chaos without a fight, if they could resist for a while, there were so few people on their side, and there was almost no chance of victory. At this rate, in two or three days, the pontoon bridge will be built!

There are only seven or eight hundred people who can go into battle in their hands, and there are three battle battalions in armor on the other side, plus auxiliary soldiers, the total strength is almost eight or nine times that of himself! Attacking and harassing will definitely not work - now that the other party is putting up this array, it is obviously not clear about the strength of this side, if the Han general sees through Yang Yisi's reality, he will definitely not bother to build a bridge anymore: build one or two hundred rafts and force the crossing at the same time, and it is impossible for hundreds of people to stop him! As long as a few strands land on the West Bank and outflank them, everyone will be dead. Moreover, this is not all of the Ming army, the head of the Bai Ni Division has sent a letter, and tens of thousands of Ming troops have come from Zhenyuan Mansion one after another, and now they have crossed the partial bridge (now Shibing, Guizhou), and today they can reach Xinglong (now Huangping), and they will arrive in Qingping in two or three days at most!

Although he vaguely knew in his heart that the two guys who came to deliver the letter last time must have a great relationship with the Han general opposite, Sama Bao would never treat him as a friend because of this. There are too many twists and turns in the stomach of the Han people, and they can stab them with a knife under their hands if they smile at you! Not only for the Miao people, but also among themselves, this kind of thing has been seen a lot by the old man. On the one hand, Samabao sent someone to Elder An to deliver a letter, telling him that the main force of the Ming army had come from the north road, and asked him to transfer troops and reinforcements as soon as possible, and on the other hand, he arranged for the old and young of each village to take refuge in the mountains. Sa Mabao knew that if you waited for the Han army to come over, even the nursing doll would not survive, and they wouldn't care if you were with your Elder An - let alone the Miao people, even for the Han people.

However, the old man was a little worried.

After Sa Mabao hid all the old and young Miao women into the mountains, his heart settled down a little, and he sent an observation post, and he and hundreds of Miao soldiers drank wildly in the stockade - everyone's lives have entered the countdown, and the Han army will kill at any time, and then there is only a desperate battle to buy some time for the reinforcements.

After waiting for a few days, the Han army was still building a bridge, only extending the distance of Zhangjiao, and it was still seven or eight zhang away from the west bank. Sa Mabao regretted a little: If he knew this, he shouldn't have wasted so much time, and it would be good to ask these people to dig some traps and set up some traps or something, at least they could block it for a while!

It took a lot longer than expected, until the gang dug up all the places where they could dig traps, until they drank all the rice wine in the stockade to the point that there was not a drop left, and until An Bangyan successively sent 10,000 reinforcements from the Eastern Front to the third day after Yangchang Pass...... The main force of the Ming army only appeared on the other side of the river - and the pontoon bridge still did not hit the west bank!

In the evening, Sama Bao and several leaders who came to help sat around the bonfire to roast taro and eat. The old man felt very embarrassed: people came all the way to help you fight the enemy, and they didn't even have wine, like something! Two days before the arrival of the reinforcements, they drank the wine brought by themselves, and today, their wine has also been drunk, and everyone has to gnaw on the taro - the Ming army on the other side, why can't you come over? If it takes a while, all the bamboo shoots and taro on the surrounding mountains will be eaten!

Samba's fears were fulfilled.

The whole of July has passed, and the pontoon bridge over the Maha River has not yet been completed.

In the middle of August, seeing that the pontoon bridge was still more than a foot away from the west bank, it rained, the river rose a little, and a few waves that were not too big rushed over, and the pontoon bridge was washed away by a small half, and only the section that reached the center of the river remained!

It's October in a few days, and the pontoon bridge hasn't been built yet......

Everyone couldn't sit still.

The first is Ahn Bangyan. Elder An has a lot of eyes and thinks a lot about everything. The Ming army made such a big move on the North Road with great fanfare but did not enter the army for a long time, could it be that the suspicious soldiers suddenly appeared from the East Road or the South Road? So he repeatedly sent people everywhere to inquire about the news, and at the same time stepped up harassing attacks on Guiyang.

The second one who couldn't sit still was Sama Bao. The old and young of several villages have been nesting in the mountains for more than a month in vain, and it is good to say that these more than 10,000 strong men began to eat and sleep in the cool every day, and then became eating and sleeping in the sun.

The same goes for the other heads. If it is a native of the township, only a small number of people need to be left on guard, and everyone else can do what they should do, and there will not be much delay. We have nothing to say about the real war, we can't cut the Ming army and accept their fate, and if they win, they will be able to grab a lot of food and materials. This is good, these strong laborers are consumed with the Ming army in this way, the Ming Dynasty has 60 million ding, and can continuously supply all kinds of materials to the front line.

The most like sitting on pins and needles is, of course, Wang Ershan. A big defeat that was unfavorable for the division broke the deputy general soldier who had just been promoted and the soldiers and horses of the whole guard, and there was no need to think about it in the imperial court, and the officials must have jumped to their feet and scolded themselves: "The entrustment is ineffective, and the grace of heaven is repeated, and the enemy is like a tiger, and he is defeated for thousands of miles...... "I didn't run!" I originally hoped that the promotion of Xie Zhongren to the firing line could boost morale, and then win one or two games in one go, even if it was a small setback to the enemy, at least there was an explanation with the Jingshi, and Xie Zhongren also repeatedly slapped his chest loudly, and after more than a month, Lord Wang understood it, where he was building a bridge to prepare for war, it was simply a riverside vacation!

The imperial court's newspaper chased from Yuanjiang to Zhenyuan, and then from Zhenyuan to Qingping, and the content at the beginning was the same: as soon as possible, there should be peace and reverse, and no excuses should be used. In October, the tone became more and more severe, until Tengteng's murderous aura jumped on the paper: "You should know that the national law of those who shrink their heads and necks and fear war will not be tolerated!" ”

Wang Ershan knew that the court was really anxious.

It's no wonder that at the beginning, there was no food for the soldiers, and there was nothing to be done no matter how anxious you were. But more than ten months have passed, and no matter how useless the soldiers are, the book statistics of the military department have mobilized more than 30,000 people and grain, not to mention how much chaff has been mixed and how much has been falsely reported, there must be a small 100,000 stone, and 70,000 or 80,000 yuan in salary! And here, in order to strengthen the determination of the defenders of Guiyang to hold on and wait for help, he invited Zhang Fang to lead the Guiyang Tuhan officers and soldiers in Yuanjiang when he was in Yuanjiang, and this guy filled his pockets in the wanton invasion and plunder, not to mention a big defeat, he actually used the people as food, and also openly sold human flesh! Later, Xu Shizhen was promoted, and then the imperial court got the news of the annihilation of his whole army, and then he was promoted to Xie Zhongren, this is even more powerful, not to mention receiving the enemy, twenty or thirty zhang of a Maha River, the pontoon bridge has not reached the other side for more than three months......

Thinking of this, Lord Wang felt a slight chill on the back of his neck - Wang Ershan finally understood, don't look at the generals who are respectful to themselves, they are deliberately colluding to gang up to pit the old man in death: the heart thinks together, and the strength is in one place, and it is dragged until the court can't bear to cut himself with a knife, and a new governor comes over-don't you still have to count on these guys? If you can, you can drag it.

Military Discussion!

Wang Ershan didn't care that he hadn't arrived in Longli yet, so he sent someone to find Tian Baisheng and told him to send troops to meet him quickly, and at the same time gather all the generals together to hold a military meeting.

The generals are like in the past, you look at me and put the difficulties in a serious way, talk about the difficulties, don't say a few words, just listen to the sound of "pop", Wang Ershan slapped on a few cases: "Please the sword of the Son of Heaven!" ”

The subordinate respectfully took out the Shang Fang sword wrapped in yellow silk, and everyone knelt down. Wang Ershan bowed, took the sword and pulled it out: "Everyone, according to what you said, the thief is powerful, and if he rushes forward, he will die by the enemy." The old man made his words clear today, if you don't enter, you will die in the law of the country today! Can't solve the siege of Guiyang, the old man should be ambushed, but before the old man was cut down by the imperial court......" said gloomily and swept the kneeling generals, "Everyone has to go one step ahead of the old man!" ”

"Order! The whole army crossed the river in three days, and the old man had to spend the night in Xintian on the first day of November! Whoever is left behind, the old man will personally use this Son of Heaven Sword to take his head! died by the enemy, and was given a wife and a son; Died under the law of the country, and his family members became officials! Think for yourself! ”

Seeing that Wang Ershan played the real thing, all the generals were stupid, and no one would be the first to be the first to touch the head of the monkey to set an example. Later that day, the pontoon bridge was completed, and the army crossed the river overnight, and before noon on the third day, the whole army crossed the Maha River. Sa Mabao took all the clansmen to run into the mountains again, the Ming army did not stop, spent the night in Yang Yisi, and the next day set off a fire to burn the village to the ground, on the first day of November, Wang Ershan really arrived at Xintiansi.

It's not that these guys are really capable of fighting, but because the leaders of An Bangyan sent Yang Yisi to intercept the Ming army couldn't afford it, so they quietly withdrew as early as the end of September.

Wang Ershan supervised the generals to rush to Guiyang, because it was all mountain roads, and the average daily marching speed was less than ten miles, and finally arrived at Longliwei in mid-November. During the period, there was also a camp roar when staying overnight in Pingxudong: in the early hours of the morning, there were soldiers crying at night because of fear, triggering a chain reaction, and everyone who woke up from the dream thought that An Bangyan was attacking at night, especially most of the night blindness, and the black light blinded him couldn't see anything clearly, but fortunately, a guerrilla named Liu Chao reacted quickly, and led more than 20 personal guards to raise fire bombs to suppress them, cut a few mental breakdowns and screamed the loudest, and slightly controlled the situation.

Wang Ershan promoted Liu Chao to a general, but he completely fell into despair: he brought a lot of people, with a total strength of more than 15,000, and claimed 80,000 for the whole army - the so-called number of troops in ancient times, in addition to scaring the opponent, was actually more about emboldening his own soldiers. Because the soldiers were illiterate and illiterate, and when the commander said how many there were, they thought that there were so many of them, and that no one could count them one by one anyway, and that they would naturally grow in courage when they "knew" that there were so many on their side—but they were all things that could scare them into tears, and they could be expected to break the enemy?

The desperate Wang Ershan made up his mind: Regardless of it, he should die here, anyway, it is useless to regret it, die in the former enemy, and he can still find a career for his children and grandchildren.

The army approached Guiyang step by step, and finally met the enemy at the towering pass.

Liu Chao, who had just been promoted, was the leader of the army, and the forward battalion fled in a hurry when the enemy attacked in the col, and Liu Chao of the Chinese army was still on the slope, looking ahead, all the soldiers who fled were their own soldiers, and there was no Miao soldiers chasing behind. The soldiers of the Chinese military battalion also saw clearly that there was no enemy chasing behind the forward battalion, and their courage rose sharply, and they rushed forward with Liu Chao, and only found that the so-called enemy ambush was just more than 100 Miao Yi.

Wang Ershan was very bad, and when he heard the shouts in front of him, the whole army was almost out of control. Wang Ershan, who already had the will to die, handed over the official seal to his subordinates, and put on his sword to pose as if he was out of the way, Xie Zhongren and several other commanders and generals still knew the power of the Son of Heaven's sword, and they didn't dare to run away by themselves, just barely controlled the troops before they had time to form a defensive formation, and there was good news from the front: Liu Chao's troops had broken through the security and conquered the towering pass!

Everyone had just breathed a sigh of relief, when suddenly another scout returned: a large group of thieves appeared behind the army, and they were rushing to here, less than ten miles away from the army!

"Fight to the death!" Wang Ershan shouted loudly, "Either die to the enemy, or die to the law, and the eldest husband dies or dies!" ”

Wang Ershan didn't die.

Because the army behind was a friendly army - Tian Baisheng led his town soldiers to catch up!

From Pingyue to Longli, Lord Wang has been grinding for so long, and he is competing with himself. But the question is: where is An Bangyan's 100,000-strong army?