Zhu Ming glanced at Huang Deyu's body, this person had eaten too much before his death, and his death was really a little ugly.

"What were his last words?" Zhu Ming asked.

Gao Jingshan replied: "I buried the sword gate with my wife, and the old servant was buried next to it." ”

Zhu Ming instructed: "It's okay to make the tomb bigger, my military resources are limited, and I have to march in a hurry, so I won't bury it for the time being." ”

"The general is benevolent." Gao Jingshan patted his ass.

Once people break through their bottom line, their style of doing things will often change, and they actually learn to slap horses.

Gao Jingshan has been a judge of Lizhou Road Transport for many years, and the transfer envoy and deputy envoy often ignore mundane affairs, and Hanzhong is actually managed by Gao Jingshan, the third-in-command.

In terms of ability, it is still very strong.

This gentleman surrendered at the Sword Gate, and he didn't explicitly say that he wanted to be a thief, but he always followed Zhu Ming, and fools knew what he wanted to do.

Zhu Ming was very surprised by this, and even a little incredulous.

Gao Jingshan is not an ordinary jinshi, in terms of dispatch, he is the second-in-command of Chengdu Fulu, and in terms of Jilu official, this is a real third-in-command master.

Sanpin master, take refuge in yourself as an anti-thief?

The army slowly advanced along the mountain road, and when they reached Jianzhou, Zhu Ming couldn't help it and asked, "What does Mr. think of the current situation?" ”

Gao Jingshan said: "There are no soldiers to fight in Sichuan, and Bashu is already in the general's pocket. The world is tired, the people are complaining, the forbidden army and the western army are in Hebei again, and it is impossible to return to the division to conquer Hanzhong within this year. Jingxiang is vast and sparsely populated, and has been heavily taxed year after year, and the emperor is likely to let Jingxiang recruit troops to attack. The more you come, the better, you can break it in a war, and you can also consume government money and food, even if the Western Army comes back, there is no food to adjust. ”

Zhu Ming finally understood why Gao Jingshan was willing to take refuge, this old thing recognized that he could divide the place.

Zhu Ming asked again: "After getting Hanzhong Bashu, what advice does Mr. have?" ”

Gao Jingshan said: "Defend the main roads everywhere, and resist the elite of the imperial court with the danger of Xiongguan." If the imperial army is defeated once or twice, it will be difficult to do anything. At that time, you can learn from Li Jiqian of Western Xia, submit to the Song Dynasty court on the table, please seal the Sichuan Gorge to observe the envoy, please seal the Sichuan Gorge by the envoy. It is best to spend three or five years to establish a system, train elite soldiers, and digest the localities. Then move from time to time, go out of Kuimen in the east, go north to Shaanxi, sweep the world, and reach the Qiankun! ”

Zhu Ming smiled and was noncommittal.

The army approached Zitong all the way, the northern mountain of Zitong, also known as the Cuiyun Corridor, and stretched for thirty miles.

Shi Yuangong, Deng Chun, and Li Jinyi garrisoned the walled fort in Qiqu Mountain, and resisted the attack of officers and soldiers with inferior troops.

Gao Jingshan inquired carefully about the situation, and said in surprise: "You didn't attack the officers and soldiers and retreated again and again, and let Wulian and other dangerous places out?" ”

Shi Yuangong said: "It's really weird, the commander of the officers and soldiers is a capable person, and he was orderly when he withdrew his troops in Jianzhou. I still don't understand why he kept retreating, so he didn't dare to pursue it immediately, for fear that it would be a trick to lure the enemy. Each time, he sent someone to investigate, to make sure that there was no ambush, and then occupied the city that he had vacated. The officers and soldiers even withdrew from Zitong for a time, and after I sent someone to investigate, I was preparing to take Zitong down, but who knew that the officers and soldiers came back and reoccupied Zitong City. ”

Gao Jingshan was also confused, and muttered, "What does this Huang Yi want to do?" ”

Shi Yuangong said: "After the officers and soldiers returned to Zitong, they have been standing still, and they don't know what they are doing. ”

Of course, it was training.

Huang Ji distributed all the excellent armor to the soldiers sent by the big clan.

Especially those who have a lot of land at home, those who are the children of the big clans, often bring their own tenants.

The number of tenants ranges from a few to dozens.

The children of the Wang family, the Fan family, and the Yuwen family, the most arrogant among them, directly brought hundreds of tenants, all of whom were powerful young and strong.

Moreover, the Great Clan continues to send troops!

Huang Jian inspected the barracks every day, looking at the troops in the school field, and the whole person was unprecedentedly excited.

What the hell is this a soldier, what the hell were the people who were recruited before?

You don't have to go to the battlefield, you can see the difference when you train.

Soldiers and tenant troops, actively trained, high morale, obey orders.

And the previous box army and village soldiers were lazy throughout the whole process. When a military order was passed out, there was no movement for a long time, and the movement was chaotic, and it was like sleepwalking during the exercise. pulled out to defend the walled fort, and every time he heard the wind and fled, Huang Yi had already had enough.

"Dada-da-da!"

A fast horse came from the south, and the messenger shouted along the way: "Eight hundred miles urgent, eight hundred miles urgent!" ”

Huang Zhi reflexively felt frightened, carefully opened the express delivery, and almost fainted just by looking at the first few lines.

Hezhou is gone!

It is true that Huang Yi is also the Sichuan production and shipping envoy, and he can nominally mobilize Sichuan's soldiers, horses, money, and grain, but the specific work depends on the transfer envoys of various routes.

He can only really control Chengdu Fu Road, and Li Bao's march route, Bazhou belongs to Lizhou Road, Dazhou belongs to Kuizhou Road, Quzhou and Hezhou belong to Zizhou Road.

Huang Yi has ordered all walks of life to recruit troops to recruit food and prepare for war, as for whether the transfer envoys will listen or not, only the ghost knows.

……

Let's say that Li Bao led 5,000 troops and went south on the Micang Road.

The first target is the five counties of Bazhou, which belong to the boundary of Lizhou Road. And the chief officer of Lizhou Road was defeated and captured in Xingyuan Mansion a long time ago.

Bazhou was too guarded to flee when he heard the news.

Of the five prefectures, only the Zengkou Prefecture Commander tried to resist. However, as soon as the rebel army began to attack the city, the township soldiers rebelled, and the county commander was killed by the rebels in a daze.

Li Bao sent hundreds of soldiers and went to take over Tongjiang County.

There were no civilian officials around him, so he directly asked the local officials to take over the prefectures and counties, and then took away the money, grain and armor in the treasury, and recruited 500 young men and strong soldiers in each county to expand the army.

Along the way, there are thieves and robbers, and there are ...... Illicit salt dealers!

Those guys are all big salt lords, and the different tributaries of the Ba River are divided into three forces, each occupying the water transportation channel and not interfering with each other. The smuggler who has been cooperating with Daming Village for a long time is the subordinate distributor of these salt barons.

The three major salt lords alone brought more than 1,000 soldiers to join the gang.

When Li Bao left the border of Bazhou, his troops had increased to 9,000, and the total number of troops reached 13,000, including the people who carried grain with the ships.

They followed the Ba River and passed through the edge of Dazhou.

Dazhou Taishou, who belonged to Kuizhou Road, pretended not to see this, and only sent troops to block the gate of the gorge. There are mountains and rivers to block, only a few thousand soldiers need to be stationed at this pass, and no matter how many thieves there are, they can't threaten Dazhou.

In this way, Li Bao's tens of thousands of troops swaggered through Dazhou, and did not encounter any attacks, but a few bandits and water bandits came to take refuge.

Quzhou, who was further ahead, was too defended, knowing that he could not resist, and led his troops to withdraw to the Guang'an army.

Nominally, the Guang'an Army had a large number of garrisons, and even a small number of forbidden troops existed. However, the combined forces of the Quzhou and Guang'an armies brought the total strength to more than 8,000 people, many of whom were temporarily recruited.

Salt lord Pang Dingzi took the initiative to ask: "General, I'll go recruit officers and soldiers and sailors!" ”

"Let me go, I know them."

"I also recognize it, and I promise to surrender."

The other two salt lords, named Qiu Shanshui and Li Jiang, asked to take over the job.

Li Bao said: "The three of you go together, if you can surrender, you will all be credited." ”

The three salt barons were brought to the boats, and the number of large ships was not large, and the small boats were mainly transporting salt.

They approached with their troops, and the sailors of the government also came to meet them.

Pang Dingzi, Qiu Shanshui and Li Jiang asked their subordinates to wave their flags at the same time, which was a code between smugglers and salt dealers, and they were usually used to convey news to avoid officers and soldiers.

Among the officers and soldiers, there were patrol soldiers who cooperated with smugglers and smugglers who were temporarily recruited.

When they saw the code of the flag, they stopped thinking about the pros and cons.

Do you choose to join the rebels, or continue to be an officer and soldier?

The smugglers quickly made their choice and turned around and rushed to the inspectors.

Qi Gongkui, the commander of the inspection, was shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly shouted: "Don't attack, I am willing to be a thief." Fast...... Hurry up and wave the flag, surrender, surrender! ”

The Zhijun of Guang'an and the Zhizhou of Quzhou, when they saw the battle on the river, all fell into silence.

As soon as the fight began, their water army was gone.

Qi Gongkui, the patrol commander who had just surrendered, took the initiative to offer advice for meritorious service: "There are salt merchants in the city, I am familiar with them, but I can shoot a book and let them do internal response." The government has been raising salt taxes and indiscriminately distributing salt, and these salt merchants usually sell smuggled salt. A lot of the private salt of the Bazhou salt lords was sold by them. ”

"Very well, that's what I do." Li Bao is as good as a stream.

The smugglers carried the upside-down boats all the way to the bottom of the city, and the archers shot letters at the city.

The Zhijun of Guang'an and the Zhizhou of Quzhou were shocked when they opened the letters, and ordered the soldiers to burn all the letters.

Li Bao sent people to cut down trees to make siege equipment, and the next day he continued to shoot letters into the city, and asked the soldiers carrying small boats to defend against arrows shouting: "Kill corrupt officials, eat good rice!" Kill corrupt officials and eat good rice! ”

For several days in a row, shooting books and shouting.

The atmosphere in the city became strange, and the officials looked at everyone and thought there was something wrong.

Li Bao built two leveling cannons, and he couldn't wait to build more, so he directly pulled out and threw stones to cheer.

It didn't do much damage to the walls, but the morale of the defenders plummeted.

The salt merchants in the city moved, raised fires at night, and set fire to the city to create chaos.

Li Bao personally led the troops to attack the city, and climbed the ladder in the dark.

Zhijun, Zhizhou and other officials did not organize resistance, but fled with their families at night. They have been able to defend until now, and they are already worthy of the imperial court, at least they did not flee when they heard the news.

There was chaos in the city of Guang'an, a large number of village soldiers followed suit, and many took advantage of the fire to rob, and even the gangsters in the city robbed everywhere.

Li Bao first occupied the state government, the county government and the treasury, and then sent troops to suppress the chaos, which lasted until dawn.

More than 200 robbers were caught, some of whom were Li Bao's own soldiers.

He expanded his army too quickly along the way, and military discipline was very problematic.

Li Bao ordered: "Cut them all down and hang them at the head of the city to show the public!" ”

More than 200 heads fluttered in the wind, and the scene was extremely spectacular.

The newly attached bandits, water bandits, salt lords, and officers and soldiers were all sweating with fear, because some of them had also participated in the looting last night, but they were not caught.

Li Bao decided to conquer Hezhou, and no matter how well he rectified military discipline, the troops would also be reorganized.

(End of chapter)