Chapter 230 Zhenxiong

Because Zhu Xieyuan saw Wang Ershan's recital to the imperial court when he retreated from Dafang after cutting off food: "Wumeng, Mangbu, An Xiaoliang, and Extravagant Chongming are bait by Chief An, and the Tusi of the four provinces are united to resist me, and I am supported in danger by a lone army......"

In this recital, Wang Ershan mentions five forces: Wumeng, Mangbe, An Xiaoliang (Wusa), Luxury Chongming (Yongning), and An Bangyan (Shuixi). However, it is clear that Wang's conclusion is seriously inconsistent with the facts. First of all, this rebellion was a combination of extravagance, and Wang Ershan thought that extravagant Chongming and others were bait by An Bangyan, which was naturally a big mistake. Secondly, in addition to An Xiaoliang, Wumeng and Mangbu did not rebel like An Xiaoliang of Wusa, one or two people from the village followed the rebels, this is very likely, but it can't be said that the entire tribe has rebelled against the Ming Dynasty! Of course, when a catastrophe is coming, it is the consistent practice of Ming officials to exaggerate the enemy to death, and Wang Ershan cannot avoid vulgarity; However, although Lord Wang was also on the front line, he did not fight side by side with Sun Jie and Luo Ganxiang like Zhu Xieyuan, surrounded by people like Zhang Fang, Xie Zhongren, and Chen Qiyu, so his cognition was still floating on the surface, and he did not really take root, and all kinds of miscalculations and defeats were inevitable.

Needless to say, An Bangyan's sworn friend is the number three person in the Lu'an Rebellion. Wumeng Luo Ganxiang introduced that it is Shebai's maiden family, An Xiaoliang's wife An has no children, because An Xiaoliang has a good relationship with An, Shebai and his son An Qijue are always bullied by An's. Zhu Xieyuan asked An Qijue to inherit Wusa Tusi, and the entire Wumeng clan surrendered to the Ming Gang to rob Wusa, and they were already allies at this moment. As for the last mangabe, it ...... Wait, why don't you hear anything about Manbe before?

It's right if you haven't heard of it—because Mangbu has long been divided into a plate of scattered sand, and each village has its own way, and there has been no leader who can command the whole clan for a long time. In a sense, as a tribe, Mangbe can be regarded as a nominal existence.

Mango is a place name and is also used as a tribal name. After the Jiajing year, there was a mansion there, so the tribe was still called Mangbu, and geographically, it became famous - Zhenxiong Mansion!

The reason why it is famous is because of the chaotic battles between the villages, which are chaotic into a pot of porridge - some people say that the Ming court took the name of "Zhenxiong", and it also has the meaning of "intimidating the heroes, you all give me honesty and don't fight again". The hundred-year-long chaotic war cannot be described in detail, otherwise it will be a long article of at least tens of thousands of words and has nothing to do with the main idea. Mainly the two families of the Long family and the Lu family, plus the magistrates of the Ming Dynasty have nothing to do to sow discord, as well as the chaotic mandarin duck spectrum of the imperial court, which has been fought down for more than a hundred years, and the huge Zhenxiong Mansion has been tossed into a borderless land - the people of the two families, even the righteous son who is recognized by distant relatives, are all dead! In the remaining villages, the largest person is less than two thousand, and no one has the ability to command the various departments, so the voice of the chicken and dog hears each other's affairs, but it is clean.

When Zhang Heming Fuchuan, Sun Jie attacked Bijiewei by way of Zhenxiong Mansion. The army crossed the border, and the owners of the village knew that if they fell to Elder An, they would simply think that their lives were long, so they all pretended to be deaf and dumb and no one sent any letter to the An family, so Sun Zhuo was unexpected, and Bi Jiewei went down.

The plan agreed by Zhu Xieyuan, Sun Jie and others in Chengdu Mansion was a complete set of serial schemes: call the two departments of Zhan Yilong and Wumeng to fight Wusa, Lao Shun took half of the men and horses of Chengdu Zhongwei, and requisitioned more than 10,000 people to beat Sun Jie's banner and entered Guizhou with great fanfare (Sun Jie was not at ease, and finally allocated the pro-guard battalion to Lao Shun to escort Lord Zhu), and led the main force to reapply the old tricks to ambush the reinforcements of Hao Chongming through Zhenxiong Mansion again, and Luo Ganxiang ordered to wait for the opportunity to attack Chishuiwei......

Finally, after listening to Luo Ganxiang's introduction to the various ministries, combined with the various information he had about the imperial court, Zhu Xieyuan pondered for a while, and muttered a few words in his mouth: "Zhanyi Long's family, Mangbe Long's family, Lu's ......" Luo Ganxiang just wanted to explain that this Long's clan was not the Long's clan, and was kicked by Sun Jie, so he closed his mouth with interest, Zhu Xieyuan squeezed his eyes at them, smiled slyly, and casually threw out a big carrot - and sent another official letter to the Zhanyi Long's family: Benfu heard that Zhenxiong Mansion was the place where the Long clan attacked and feuded. should have chosen a meritocrat, but the military affairs are busy, you are from the Long family, help find a clansman to inherit!

This huge, hugely sweet carrot knocked the Long family unconscious on the spot! In the past, I always had to worry about my brother-in-law An Xiaoliang killing the orphans and widows to death, which is good, not only climbed to the Ming Dynasty as a backer, but even the Zhenxiong Mansion, which couldn't be beaten by eight poles, let himself find an heir! Could there be a more delicious pie from the sky?!

The Long clan didn't say a word, and immediately sent out five hundred people from the hands that were not abundant, and asked An Yunao to take them straight to Zhenxiong, and contacted the various villages in Mangbu one by one, and even made a wish and scared him for a while. So, when Sun Jie led his troops to cross the border, he was pleasantly surprised to find that An Yunao, who claimed to be the orphan of the Long family, had already led nearly 4,000 local soldiers of the Mangbu to assemble, waiting to join the official army to fight luxury Chongming!

What Sun Jie wants is to borrow a donkey from the slope, of course, he will not break it, but he will not ask these people to participate in any battles. Although everyone is very brave, for a general like Sun Jie, a well-trained army can be commanded handily, and when it really starts, a large group of rabble who can't understand the banner and can't understand the golden drum orders will add to the chaos. Moreover, since it was a surprise attack and ambush, Sun Jie did not plan to have a hard-fought war of attrition with the Yongning army. Still, these people were of great help: transporting heavy equipment over long distances in the mountains, they were much more efficient than the best auxiliary soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. After arriving at the Axe Splitting Gorge, in front of Sun Jie's eyes, these people climbed up the hills like apes, threw down a few thick ropes, and more than 20 brand-new small bronze cannons and gun carriages were all in place in less than a day.

Digging ditches, building fortifications, and building horses to repel these regular field fortifications, of course, it is more reassuring to ask your own auxiliary corps to do it. However, these thousands of friendly troops were not idle, Sun Jie ran a few laps around the front and back of the axe splitting gorge, and was stunned for a while at the exit to the hot construction site, and then laughed again. After summoning An Yunao to explain, the four thousand native soldiers immediately turned into woodcutters, and the fortifications were not finished, and the firewood, grass and branches behind them had already been piled up into hills. By setting up this fire ground, it saves the brothers from forming a formation to block the enemy, and at least it is the price of dozens of casualties.

The next thing is cooking. Yu Chongming didn't know when he would come over, nearly 20,000 big mouths had to eat as much food as a mountain every day, which was not easy. You can't make a fire for cooking in an ambush, so prepare in advance. These thousands of local soldiers of the Mangbu helped a lot, and in less than a few moments, the two pillars of incense used the stones to build thousands of simple stoves, a bluestone slab covered, the saltwater and the mixed noodles were slapped into cakes by hand, and each stone slab could be branded seven or eight sheets at a time, and in a few moments, the burnt yellow cakes were stacked higher than people like water. The soldiers, who should have been so busy, had nothing to do, and they watched with their hands in amazement. Not only that, but they even dug a ditch to bring a stream of water from the spring on the mountain, which was not very wide, but more than enough for the daily drinking of the entire camp.

Several key mountains on the way were watched by An Yunao, and their footsteps over the mountains and mountains were many times stronger than that of the Han soldiers, and even if they were found by the scouts that Hao Chongming might send, the risk was not great, and they would definitely be regarded as aborigines who went into the mountains to hunt.

All that's left is to wait.

In the past few days, Liu Tieniu, an artillery officer who has been awarded the guerrilla command after the First World War in Chengdu, is not ordinarily interested. Although he was a thousand generals with guerrilla titles in the past, Tie Niu's status in Sun Jie's army was really not high, even the general manager of the infantry team didn't buy his account much, and Tie Niu himself knew this. It's no wonder, after all, those officers are all cut out of real knives and guns on the battlefield with bloody faces, not to mention that the marshal here will meet the enemy with white knives at every turn, and often the artillery will win the battle before it is set up, so the artillery team has to brow and brow in the laughter of the triumphant comrades. Even if there is an occasional opportunity to fire a few cannons, the drums will sound behind it - the whole army will rush forward, and there will be no artillery corps! Everyone is secretly laughing at it, Tie Niu can be a thousand presidents, just because the copper cannon is expensive...... The status of the artillery crew is a little higher than that of the auxiliaries.

After the First World War, the situation in Chengdu was completely different. Tie Niu has won everyone's respect from the bottom of his heart with his solid performance and achievements. Sun Jie was forced by Zhang Heming to be pressed in Chengdu Mansion for a while, but he received a lot of rewards, in order to help Luo Ganxiang resist the counterattack that Luxury Chongming would launch sooner or later, Sun Jie thought of casting cannons. Other military leaders turned copper cannons into private money, but Sun Jie used cash to buy copper materials and then cast cannons himself. Sixty or seventy doors are cast in one go, of course, the live yield of this technology will not be too high, which is not entirely due to the sense of responsibility. After the personal inspection of the iron bull, the cast was re-furnaceed, and finally the iron bull looked at a long and brand-new copper cannon and smiled so much that the corners of his mouth were almost grinning at the root of his ears.

Half of it was reserved for General Luo and taught his people to cast it hand in hand, and then Tie Niu scattered all his artillery crews, and the experienced veterans are now all gun commanders. Then Tie Niu went to Sun Jie to ask for gunpowder, at first Sun Jie was a little puzzled: the gunpowder allocated to the artillery team is really not less, but after Tie Niu finished saying the sentence "I feel that the cannon is a weapon rather than a treasure, and the brothers can kill more thieves if they practice more", he immediately called Su Yinghui, the officer of the auxiliary corps, and told him that the gunpowder and iron bullet Tie Niu would give him as much as he wanted, and if it was not enough, he would buy it at any time or ask the auxiliaries to make it themselves. At that time, the brothers in the camp endured the deafening sound of artillery all day long, but when they saw that the artillery crews that returned to the camp every evening were all pulled into pigs' heads by iron bulls, everyone laughed and said that the noise in their ears during the day could be exchanged for watching pigs' heads while sleeping, and it was worth it. Even many people secretly went to see the Iron Bull training artillery crew, and watching him beat people in a fit of rage was also a rare pleasure in the boring army. Later, the number of people who were beaten became noticeably fewer, and the smile gradually crawled all over Tie Niu's face, driving away the anger from earlier without a trace......

After Sun Jie determined the tactics according to the topography of the Axe Splitting Gorge, he specially discussed with Tie Niu in detail, and after listening to the plan of the marshal, Tie Niu was very happy: this time it was the artillery team that took the lead! Forcibly suppressing the ecstasy that was about to erupt in his heart, Tie Niu called all the artillery commanders over, and cursed and threatened them with a loud voice - this time, everyone did not tremble with fear as when they were scolded by Liu Tou'er in the past, but laughed one by one: Countless big-eared scrapers and leather whips that I received in the past, aren't they just for today? Everyone in the artillery team is waiting for this day!

Tie Niu only left an old artillery group on both sides of the entrance to the canyon, his own artillery team guarded the exit, and the other artillery crews arranged in the canyon were all newcomers and new artillery, and the remaining four old artillery groups he left to Sun Jie, who were blocked behind the trench, waiting for the thieves who charged to fill the trench to meet head-on. After the artillery array was arranged, Tie Niu was still a little uneasy, so he asked Shangguan Fei to borrow a horse and ran a few laps along the canyon. Seeing the craggy rocks on both sides, Tie Niu laughed again, laughing so hard that he almost fell off his horse, and then gave the order to each artillery group to bombard the stones.

Finally, Tie Niu climbed to the top of the hill of his artillery group, sighed with satisfaction, lay down comfortably, and took out a salty dough cake from his bosom and tore it without a match. Soon, the military information from the front came back: the main force of the luxury thieves was discovered, and it was expected that they would enter an ambush circle around midnight tomorrow.

At night, Tie Niu couldn't sleep with excitement, so he looked at the stars in the sky. There are so many stars in the sky, can our artillery team kill so many thieves tomorrow?

Yes!

There are almost more than 6,000 stars visible to the naked eye, and tens of thousands of Yongning troops have not escaped the Axe Gorge alive. The commandos who died at the exit were less than one thousand five, and the rest were all the results of the Iron Bull Artillery Team.

How many stars can be seen, of course, Iron Bull doesn't know. The only thing he knew was that when he saw that the vanguard of the Yongning Army had walked to his feet and the west was a large group of thieves with no end in sight, he pressed the torch in his hand on the fire door fiercely, and shouted: "Kill the thief!" ”

Zhenxiong Mansion really lost all the heroes of Mangbu. Luxury Chongming's father and son can indeed be called heroes, and they were given the town by Liu Tieniu in the Axe Splitting Gorge.