Chapter 119: Dragon and Tiger Landscape

Under the rule of Guangxin Mansion in Jiangxi, twenty miles west of Guixi County is the famous Ming Dynasty to coordinate the world's Taoist affairs of Longhu Mountain, the prosperous place of Zhengyi Religion, it is rumored that Zhang Daoling was in Sichuan Qingcheng Mountain before the Taoist home, and then preached all the way to Jiangxi, if according to his era, this place is also the territory of Chu.

Chen Cao and his entourage took a naval warship, carried canned food for four days, and landed on the shore of Poyang Lake, ten miles north of Yugan County, and then took the guard regiment and some Jinyi guards to march on war horses.

Because of the official document signed by Wei Guogong in his hand, Yu Ganzhi County warmly entertained Ding Wubo and gave a lot of ceremonies, which made Chen Cao sigh that there was oil and water to be fished when he was a soldier.

"This kind of atmosphere is not good," Chen Cao rode on his war horse, and his first priority was not to stop in Yugan County, but to go to Guixi as soon as possible.

The county seat of Guixi County is only slightly built in the north, which is five meters high, and the rest of the city wall is symbolically repaired, the highest is only two meters, and the second one is built into a fence with a wooden fence, and a lot of yellow mud is piled up below.

"Zhou Chengming, the magistrate of Guixi, was a fellow jinshi in the twenty-third year of Wanli, was an official in Guangxi at the beginning, and was transferred to Guixi in the forty-second year of Wanli." Zhao Xin rode on a war horse to endorse Chen Cao.

"Staying in one place for so long?" Chen Cao frowned.

"Uncle doesn't know, don't look at Jiangxi's richness, but the rich ones are close to the surroundings of Poyang Lake, but wherever there are Yi people, those civil officials are not willing to come here to be officials, and they can push it, that Zhou Chengming has accumulated experience in Guangxi and can deal with the relationship between Yi people, so he will be kept here, otherwise, he should have been transferred a long time ago." Zhao Xin continued to explain.

"Corrupt officials?"

Zhao Xin shook his head: "It's hard to say, it depends on how much greed there is, there are too many people here in Guixi, and my subordinates think that there shouldn't be much oil and water." ”

"Just go into the city and see the lives of the people."

As soon as Chen Cao's words fell, the Jinyi guard who was exploring the way in front of him came quickly: "Uncle Qiqi, there are no Yi people in Guixi County. ”

Chen Cao instigated the reins and immediately slapped his horse and ran forward.

"Zhou Chengming, the prefect of the county, and Shi Gui, the prefect of Guangxin, are trapped on Longhu Mountain, and there are still more than 1,000 guards in Guangxin Mansion in Fucheng, and the reinforcements from the surrounding provinces heard that they are on the way."

Entering the city, because it was looted by the Yi people before, the surviving families are now cleaning up the mess, and seeing the imperial soldiers and horses entering the city, they have retreated to the side of the road and bowed.

"Uncle Wu of the Ming Dynasty, he was ordered to come to quell the rebellion, but there are still officials in charge of Guixi City?" Zhao Xin stepped forward and stood up and shouted.

From time to time, a group of people came in a panic, led by a group of people wearing ink-colored green robes and official uniforms, with some mud on their bodies, standing in front of Zhao Xinma, bowing and saluting: "Xiaguan Guixi County Cheng Shiquan, I have seen Lord Shangcha." ”

Zhao Xin lifted the horse's head, and then revealed Chen Cao: "This is Ding Wubo, who is here to quell the rebellion." ”

Shi Quan hurriedly saluted Chen Cao again: "Xiaguan has seen Uncle Dingwu. ”

Chen Cao lightly moved his war horse and asked, "Are there any other officials in the city?" ”

Shi Quandao: "There are still envoys and more than a dozen officials who can only maintain law and order. ”

"How many people are still in the city, how many have been killed, tell me carefully." Chen Cao asked again.

Shi Quan gave his hand again: "There are still four or five thousand people, more than 1,000 wounded, and more than 400 dead. ”

Chen Cao looked up and down for a long time, and saw that he was doing things properly, so he didn't want to hold him responsible, so he waved his hand: "This time Benbo came to bring food, you don't need to wait for the food to pay, the county order is not there, you can rest assured to settle the people in the city, Benbo and ask you, where are the She people?" ”

Shi Quan is grateful to Dai De, even if there is money and food in the city, he is not qualified to give Chen Cao a county order, and when he heard this, he hurriedly said: "She people besiege Fuzun and county Zun in Longhu Mountain, Zhang Tianshi's people are also asking for help in various prefectures, if Ding Wubo goes to rescue, you should be cautious." ”

Zhao Xin said coldly: "Uncle needs you to intervene in doing things?" ”

Shi Quan suddenly realized that he had said the wrong thing, and hurriedly said to forgive, Chen Cao didn't want to meet him in general, so he waved his hand: "Send someone to lead the way, and quickly take Ben Bo to Longhu Mountain." ”

"Uncle, there is Yingtan Fang in front, and there are still twenty miles from Longhu Mountain to Yingtan Town." Zhao Xin and the guide were at the front, and after learning the news, they hurriedly came to inform Chen Cao.

"Pass the order, let's take a temporary rest in Yingtan Town, immediately send someone to investigate at the foot of Longhu Mountain, and then send someone to contact Zhang Tianshi."

"Yes..."

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Yingtan Town is only Yingtan Fang in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, it is called Yingtan Town when Emperor Chengzu is the time, the town is not big or small, there are 800 households, all ethnic minorities live together, mainly Han people.

"After Guixi was robbed, there was no official in the town, and there was no security chief, the public security was relatively poor, and the people from the Inspection Department had already run away," Zhao Xin walked back and forth in the town before going to the temporary headquarters to report the situation to Chen Cao.

"Let Huang Degong and Lou Xingye lead people to inspect around, don't miss the spies of the She people, and find the local Han people as guides to identify those She people who are making trouble." Chen Cao instructed seriously, and then took the local map and looked at it carefully.

The main purpose of Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting this time was to test the combat effectiveness of the new army in the first battle, and the training of the guard regiment was stronger than that of other units, so naturally they could not lose face.

After noon, Zhao Xin walked into the headquarters with a man dressed as a Taoist priest, and then said: "Uncle, this is a Taoist priest from Longhu Mountain, and his subordinates found it outside the town. ”

Chen Cao looked up at the person who came, the standard Han look, then relaxed his vigilance and asked, "How is the situation on the mountain?" ”

The Taoist priest pinched his hand and saluted, and then said: "Xiaodao has seen Dingwubo, there are more than four or five hundred She people under the mountain, and the rest are in the mountain village in Luxi, the lord of the mansion and the lord of the county are still in the palace, and the trail was ordered by the master to wait for reinforcements at the foot of the mountain, so as to lead the way to rescue." ”

Chen Cao nodded: "Are there casualties on the mountain?" ”

The Taoist priest took the floating dust and made a salute to the Buddha of Amitayus, and then said: "There are quite a lot of casualties among the officers and soldiers, I have taught here for thousands of years, and I am still in harmony with the local people of all ethnic groups. The trail is not clear. ”

The prestige of Longhu Mountain is very good in the local area, and the Taoist priests in the mountains even often go down the mountain to relieve the people, and the She people also respect them, so they have never gone up the mountain, but only coerced them to hand over the people of the government.

Chen Cao stood up and asked Zhao Xin to send someone to place the Taoist priest first, and then looked at Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting: "Two staff officers, how do you think you should deal with this incident?" ”

Sun Chuanting said: "When Emperor Shenzong was in power, he quelled the rebellion of the Yang clan in Banzhou, and adopted a combination of suppression and appeasement. ”

Lu Xiangsheng also said: "But every time the imperial court quells the rebellion and razes the people, it is to suppress and appease at the same time, but every time it loses a lot of people and wastes money." ”

Chen Cao agreed with the two of them: "What you said is very reasonable, but even if the Xuanfu Division and the Xuanfu Division are set up, those people often rebel, and the columns in Yunnan are ready-made in front of them. ”

Lu Xiangsheng frowned slightly and said: "Uncle doesn't know, the official and military equipment of our court is not as good as that of Taizu Chengzu, and the firearms are seriously damp, plus those Yi people are always in the mountains, and the court wants to successfully quell the rebellion, it has cost a lot of manpower and material resources. ”

Sun Chuanting also nodded after hearing this: "The cavalry has poor combat effect in the mountains, and it is easy to be used as a live target by the bamboo arrows of the Yi people, and these Yi people often like to wipe the venom on the arrows or blades. ”

Being told by Sun Chuanting like this, Chen Cao immediately understood a problem, but fortunately, he thought of something that made him feel that what Sun Chuanting said just made him make a false alarm: "You have forgotten one thing, the flintlock pistol equipped by the new army can shoot at one hundred and fifty steps, and even our best hard bow has a range of only one hundred steps, how far do you think the bamboo arrow in the hand of the Yiren can shoot?" ”

Sun Chuanting suddenly realized, maybe he was frightened by himself, but Chen Cao praised again: "It's good that Boya can think of this, Ben Bo is afraid that you will underestimate the enemy in battle, so it is the easiest to fail." ”

Lu Xiangsheng asked again: "The terrain of Longhu Mountain is dominated by high ground, and our army must also guard against the attack of the Yi people with stones. ”

"Well," Chen Cao nodded: "Benbo is afraid that they will get the fire of the guards troops, if they use it to make explosives and blow up the rocks, it will be dangerous for us." ”

"Uncle..."Huang Degong and Lou Xingye walked into the headquarters together, Huang Degong said: "I checked the surroundings with Xingye, and I didn't find any trace of the Yi people, but there were many Yao people in the mountains and forests on the other side of Yuexi watching. ”

"Ignore them," Chen Cao waved his hand: "Send scouts to investigate the specific location of the She people at the foot of the mountain, and we will set off early tomorrow morning." ”

"Yes..."

The two left, and Chen Cao turned to look at Sun Chuanting and the others: "Do you have a strategy to break the enemy?" ”

Sun Chuanting frowned and thought, while Lu Xiangsheng looked carefully at the map of Longhu Mountain, and after a long time, the two glanced at each other, and said in unison: "Surrounded on three sides, divided into broken..."

Sun Chuanting explained carefully: "The She people are full of 500 people gathered at the foot of the mountain, but they don't know the military methods and tactics of our Han people. ”

"So what do you see?" Chen Cao approached the sand table and looked at the two.

Sun Chuanting planted the red flag at the foot of the mountain: "With Huang Degong and Lou Xingye leading a battalion of troops to outflank left and right, you can open a gap from the right flank and let the She people break through, and then let Jiandou lead a battalion to attack from the center, with the firepower of our 1,800 people, these 500 She people, when it is not a problem, the uncle only needs to sit in the center and watch the success or failure..."