Delong

Chapter 211 Walking in the Snow (10)

Things are always like this, plans can never keep up with changes, but if there is no plan, it seems difficult to deal with changes properly.

Zhang Xing brainstormed and formulated a military plan for the troops going south from the Central Palace, but he seized the opportunity temporarily and used a light and resolute surprise attack to easily achieve great success. But after careful calculation, if there is no previous military plan, let alone the follow-up end, Not even a surprise attack.

The same is true for the follow-up coping arrangements in all aspects.

Despite trying to adjust and readjust, trying to quickly cut through the mess in a way that is generally recognized by the gang, when Wang Gonggong came to plead on behalf of a group of desperate Ziwei palace servants, Zhang Xing was still touched and chose a Rationally speaking, it is not such a good final solution for implementation.

After all, the armaments and food for the servants means that the Dragon Gang needs less stuff, and it also means that it will attract internal dissatisfaction; and the surrender of Xiayi City means that the Dragon Gang and Zhang Dalong will face Liang Jun. Officials and Monsanto are destined to lose points diplomatically.

Of course, Youdao is shameless to give face. Mr. Zhang's face is still quite valuable at the end of this year. At present, no one dares not to sell his face.

No one knows what Meng Sangong thinks in his heart, but on the surface he still fully understands Zhang Xing's perfunctory words, and expresses his willingness to wait for Li Longtou to come back before discussing joining the gang. No, but he hoped that when the Dragon Clan returns to the army, he must choose to return from Chuqiu County, so that he can take the opportunity to frighten other small and medium-sized tyrants and local officials in Chuqiu.

Of course Zhang Xing had nothing to say.

All in all, this is indeed a character with some ability, some ideas, some strength, and some vision. It's just a pity that the territory straddles Liangjun and Jiyin, and a little opportunity is lost. I'm afraid it will depend on what happens in the end. It's lucky.

As for the officials of Liang County, Zhang Xing can only say that he has learned a lot... Even though Niu Da suddenly stopped mentioning Xiayi during the negotiations, these people discussed it, and after confirming that Zhang Xing agreed to send the prefect Cao Wang away before leaving Liang County. After returning it, he simply promised everything directly.

This is called Cub Selling Ye Tian's heart does not hurt.

On the morning of the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, Meng Sangong turned back to Yucheng. At the same time, in the name of supply and logistics, the troops stationed in the Rabbit Garden pretended to be confused and began to retreat to the northwest according to the instructions of the local officials, even reaching Chenliu without stopping.

At noon, starting from several counties in the eastern part of Liang County, the officials of Liang County officially opened the treasury to release grain, and the knights of the Dethrone Dragon Gang stepped on the snow to make an announcement. with favor.

At the same time, Songcheng, the county government, began to deliver treasury supplies to Gushu, which was occupied by rebels, in the name of supplying the rabbit garden.

At this time, the northeast of Liang County probably didn't know what happened to the rabbit garden.But in fact, in the Rabbit Garden, with the departure of the garrison troops, riots and looting of supplies have already occurred, including separation and escape, which have also begun to be semi-public.

However, it was also the evening of the same day that the first batch of food, fuel, coarse cloth and ordnance from Gushu were successfully delivered to the servants of the Rabbit Garden along the frozen Huanshui River, and a large number of palace treasures, wealth, and at the same time, many palace people also transferred to Gushu City.

On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, the scope of food distribution was further expanded...but because of the haste, the distrust of the common people, and the weather, the whole process was obviously a bit rough, resulting in huge waste and considerable confusion.

In the end, it was actually Zhang Xing who sent people to guide and guide everywhere.

But this immediately triggered a military conflict in Zhecheng County. Before that, Luo Fang and other people from Jing'antai withdrew to Zhecheng. Under the leadership, he rushed directly into Zhecheng, and had a second conflict with the defeated Jing'antai remnants who had taken a break.

The final result was that, under the cover of the entanglement between Luo Fang and Xiong Bonan, the remnants of Jing'an Terrace were divided into three, scattered westward and escaped from Zhe City, and even left Liang County all the way to dethrone the knights of the Dragon Gang They also focused on pursuing one of the teams, and after strangling four or five people in a concentrated manner, they gave up the pursuit at the border of Liang County.

As soon as the people from Jing'an Terrace escaped, the local officials of Liang County also let go of their last leeway. From this day on, the most sensitive ordnance began to be transferred out of the treasury of Song City on a large scale.The members of the Dragon Clan did not shy away from coming to the outside of Song City to receive them directly, and then used Chuqiu as the route to transfer materials to Jiyin in batches in large quantities.

Before the New Year's Eve, the anti-thief's troops went back and forth between the two counties grandly and non-stop, making deals with the government, which can be regarded as a warm and heart-warming scene in troubled times.

It's like a Christmas truce.

But it's not the warmest, the warmest and most humane thing happened on the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.Because of the large amount of supplies and the difficulty of transshipment in the snow, under the guidance of Zhang Dalong, the Jielong Gang began to take out money and openly recruit local men... But because of the snow, it was difficult to spread the news, and finally these opportunities were taken away by Song Dynasty. The county soldiers of the city and Chuqiu grasped that they didn't even change their clothes, threw down their weapons, and followed the officers out of the city in groups. these live.

In this regard, Zhang Dalongtou also specially instructed that the wages must be settled daily, and must be paid to the county pawns themselves, not to the county pawns and officers.

Thanks to this, on the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, the treasury of Songcheng was finally emptied out by the rebels of the Deposed Dragon Gang and the officials of Liang County.

And the people of the Dethrone Dragon Gang also began to evacuate in large areas with a certain kind of unprecedented excitement.In Gushu City, vehicles and livestock kept coming, and the last large army left the city majestically with the last supplies.

The red banner with the word 拍 was unfurled in the sky, and Zhang Dalongtou personally led some elites to clear the way, and led a huge convoy including captives and seized palace property to start to Jiyin in the northeast.A total of five or six thousand soldiers of the Dragon Gang were divided into two groups, lined up on the left and right, guarding the convoy under the leadership of Xu Shiying and Niu Da.And Xiong Tianwang personally led a team of about twenty or thirty knights who were capable practitioners to travel around for cruising.

This appearance is very similar to the grand scene when the Zhonggong went south.

Even, there were indeed many palace people and servants in the team, as well as the queen, concubines and princesses, and even the prefect Cao Wang Cao who was about to see him off to the border.

Thinking about it carefully, it doesn't make any difference to them. Where is going instead of going?

Of course, it was a little different for the members of the Dragon Gang. After returning home for the first month, or returning to Jiyin to receive rewards, the team was full of energy. It was only in the afternoon that the team entered Yucheng. The monkey and Taoist Wei are already waiting here.

"Zhang Longtou." Meng Sangong, who got off his horse and faced each other, made no secret of his envious eyes towards the huge motorcade, but after recovering, he still maintained his humble posture. "I have brought 2000 people here, please be sure to ask me to be an escort..."

The team didn't intend to stop, but Zhang Xing himself turned around the side of the road and got off his horse, but he said simply: "Everything is easy to say, after we pass, you can take Chuqiu yourself."

Meng Sangong nodded, as if he understood the other party's warning, that is, if the people who dethrone the dragon gang don't go, they are not allowed to take it?

However, now that things are up to now, this trembling is not bad. The local tycoon and former captain of Ji County just bowed his hand slightly, and then went straight back to the team.

Zhang Xing didn't bother to pay attention, and immediately remounted his horse, but stood still.

Sure enough, Wei Xuanding took advantage of the situation and rode forward, eagerly asking: "Where is the queen?"

"The queen is almost fifty years old." Zhang Xing thought about it for a while, and took it seriously. "Wei Gong better care about his reputation."

Daoist Wei froze for a moment, then shook his head again and again: "What are you kidding? I just asked about the location of the empress... Didn't I just ask about your relationship with that concubine in the letter? Why is this?"

"It's in the third car." Zhang Xing pouted forward. "It's in the past."

Daoist Wei was startled, as if he wanted to say something more, but finally suppressed it forcefully: "The matter has already been settled? Just deal with it as you said before?"

"Yes." Zhang Xing was honest. "Let Cao Wang go on the border, and go down to Yicheng to give to those armed servants... There are unexpectedly many rough cloths in the warehouse of Songcheng Mansion. I have sent some more to Wang Zhen in the past few days. I am afraid that these things in Dangshan are more important than gold and silver." It’s worth it, and let him keep some in the city for those servants... For the rest, I’m going to go back and ask those palace people to help make military uniforms, so it’s not a waste of raising them.”

"It's nothing more than a military uniform, but what those servants say is nice." Daoist Wei stared at the car that kept moving forward, and then looked away for a long time, and then couldn't help but sneer. "But I don't know if we can hold the city? I'm afraid that before the spring plowing, the local army or the Meng brothers will take that place away."

"Then it's none of my business." Zhang Xing still spoke calmly. "Before tomorrow, we left Liang County, and they have the final say on what's going on here...Meng Shangong is arrogant and respectful, the officials of Liang County are deceiving themselves, and the servants are desperate to survive. It's all their own business. Life and death are honor and disgrace." Who can rely on others?"

As he said that, Zhang Xing hit the horse directly and went to the front of the team.

Daoist Wei was a little emotional, and seemed to have kept a lot of words, such as whether the Zhang Dharma protector's leg is good, what's the baby... But the person involved is so calm, he can only follow up quickly, and force himself to be calm.

In the evening of that day, the team rested in Chuqiu and camped around a town.

As soon as they camped, the team began to have a warm atmosphere, with laughter and laughter, but the palace people and prisoners at the core of the team seemed a little nervous and fearful, but they were also submerged in the overall atmosphere.

There is no way, although everyone knows that they have not entered Jiyin, and have not returned to the so-called base area, but today is the end of the new year, and people's hearts are inevitably fluttering.

Of course, Zhang Xing was still busy and nervous.

He asked Xiong Bonan about the movements of the officers and soldiers in Liangjun; sent Niu Da to investigate the situation in Chuqiu City; sent Xiao Zhou out to contact Wang Zhen who was going south to inquire about and supervise the delivery of Xiayi; Guan Xu took a little gold and silver treasures to infiltrate Monsangong's team as condolences, just in case.

That's not counting. Turning around, thinking of something, he called Xu Shiying again and asked him to organize a disciplined army, maintain the discipline of the camp, and take care of the safety of the palace personnel and property.

He didn't even forget to tell Chai Xiaohe, who was in charge of logistics, and the others to treat them equally as much as possible, and to add meat to the palace people.

After all the tossing, I felt relieved, had some food, and hurried to see the queen, little princess, Cao Wang and others with my own eyes. It was time to soak my feet in hot water at thirty, so I simply went into the room, and Heitian felt until dawn.

The next day is the first day of the first month, which is the new year.

The large army returned home like an arrow, and continued to go north without stopping, but passed through Chuqiu City without entering, and went straight to Jiyin.However, at noon, about seven or eight miles away from the city, Meng Sangong's troops stopped and no longer followed the escort... Obviously, their goal was Chuqiu City behind them, and they would suffer from jealousy if they went any further. up.

On the way to continue on the way, Xiao Zhou worked hard to turn back, and told a good news, a bad news... The good news is that Wang Zhen successfully gave up the city to the armed servants led by Wang Gonggong when he left, and the bad news is that the Dangshan bandits saw Some of the palace servants accompanying the servants later moved their minds, causing a moderate conflict.

Of course, Xiao Zhou is safe, and under his insistence, Wang Zhen and Cook Fan, who didn't take it seriously, cleared up the discipline and ended the matter.

It can only be said that fortunately, someone was sent there before.

But since the matter is settled, it is useless to think too much, especially when Jiyin County is in front.

In the afternoon, the team continued to move forward, and after a short walk, they saw the oncoming Dragon Gang's own team and several leaders who stayed behind, but cheered in the wilderness.Immediately afterwards, under the greeting of the responding team, the large team quickly came to a market.The market rises across a small river, and there is another bridge on the river, which is the Xiaozhou Bridge named after the opposite Jiyin Zhouqiao County. The market on the south of the bridge belongs to Liang County, and the market on the north of the bridge belongs to Jiyin.

When the team came here, the crowd became more and more enthusiastic and restless, Zhang Xing was not pretentious, and immediately set up the banner with the word "舍" on a soil platform in the south of the bridge, and started rewarding directly here.

It is to take out one-third of the seized in this trip, the leaders share the treasures, the soldiers share the gold and silver, and everyone has a share.

The specific process is even more random, Zhang Dalong sat on it, Xiong Tianwang personally supervised, Xu Datou maintained the situation, some accounting chiefs and soldiers only opened the cage, roughly estimated the weight, and then randomly piled up the treasures, Only gold and silver are used for weighing, and they are sent directly to the earth platform.The leaders and soldiers passed by the earthen platform like flowing water, took a share, and followed Zhang Dalongtou's eccentric northern customs, saying "Happy New Year" to Zhang Dalongtou, and then they could leave with gold and silver treasures.

But in the afternoon, the whole set was full of cheers, and everyone said "Happy New Year" to each other as if they had learned something new, as if the pot was boiling... It made Jia Yue feel a little at a loss.

Until the evening, after Zhang Xing finished dividing the gold and silver, he called the envoy of Liang County who had been waiting here for a long time, and sent Cao Wang to a donkey cart prepared by the other party, and then agreed to continue in Zhouqiao in the future. Talking about the handover of the queen, he simply crossed the bridge.

So far, the attack has been perfect.

However, any perfect thing does not exist. That night, while staying in Zhouqiao, Zhang Xing heard two small bad news.

"Han Qi is dead?"

"Yes."

"According to today's leader's reward, make up his brother two...three!"

"Yes."

The news Guo Jingke came to report to Zhang Xing is really not surprising, because Han Qi was the one who was severely injured by the female officer next to the queen, and was sent back to Jiyin early. He had been chopped into meat, apart from greatly compensating his brother who was also a Hebei ranger, I am afraid there is nothing else to say.

After Guo Jingke, it was Zhang Jinshu who came into Zhang Xing's residence, this is the leader of Zhongyi, one of Xiong Bonan's deputies, he stayed long ago and was in charge of military discipline inspections.

"There was a deputy helmsman, the former magistrate of Jiyang, who suddenly ran away on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month." Zhang Jinshu was obviously a little nervous. "When we passed Jishui at the beginning, everyone thought he had something to do, so they didn't dare to ask. Only one of my subordinates, the corporal leader, was puzzled. He told me and actively followed him. He crossed the border and entered Liang County to go to Chenliu, but he really didn't dare not chase him... It was the corporal leader who took him back without authorization after crossing the border."

Zhang Xing was stunned for a moment, as if he wanted to express something, but when he thought about it carefully, he also felt that there was nothing to express... Twelfth lunar month 27, the news of successfully robbing the queen must have spread to the rear, and the uncultivated leaders who stayed behind Here, many of them were court officials who had been transformed into civil servants after they surrendered... These people were shaken, frightened, and terrified when they heard the news, and fled while taking advantage of the emptiness behind them.

Even in the future, as the situation changes, such things will only become more common.

At this point, Zhang Dalong shook his head, without much expression, but ordered in a flat tone: "Let Chief Wei and King Xiong Tian go and ask for clarification, if it is confirmed that he is a traitor, he will directly kill Jiqi... As for the one under your command Captain, if you have meritorious service, you will be rewarded, and you can sign up with Chief Zhou, join the gang first, and then be promoted, and you will be rewarded with some goods."

"Yes." Zhang Jinshu could only bow his hands.

On the third day of the first lunar month, Zhang Xing returned to Jiyin County and settled the empress. He only waited for the arrival of the Huaiyou League, for the snow to melt and for the spring plowing, for his Dragon Clan to expand and deepen, for the military uniforms to be completed, and for the war. open.

And he didn't know at all that when he returned triumphantly, a large-scale war had already broken out on the Eastern Front.

Besides, Zhang Xuguo got Jiangdu's order and Dongdu's support before, and he was greatly cheered up. He immediately selected [-] people, rewarded them properly, slaughtered livestock and rewarded them properly, and prepared to cross the border to suppress bandits and attack Zhishi's army... But he He didn't take the main road, which is the so-called detour of Mount Tai to attack Wang Hou head-on. Instead, he followed the route that Zhishi's army fled in embarrassment that day, crossed the mountains, took a shortcut in the mountains, and came straight to Lu County.

A blessing in disguise, Wang Hou came to Lu County and easily obtained half of Lu County. His momentum recovered for a while, and then his eyes were attracted by Shan Tonghai, the "flying general" who came to take the other half of Lu County. Cheng Dalang, who was defeated together with him, went directly to the opposite side, which made him even more resentful.

Even if you are on guard, you are on the road, so how can you take care of your back?
So, near the end of the new year, Lu County was covered with snow, but because the snow began to melt in the south of Mount Tai, the roads were difficult, so the Zhishi Army simply scattered in four or five counties in the east of Lu County, eating separately.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Xuguo led the soldiers of Qi County to descend from the sky, and flew behind him like a "flying general", and fought four or five consecutive battles in four or five days. In addition, the officers and soldiers of Qi County were afraid of it early in the first battle, so in just four or five days, they were beaten like an avalanche.

The nine masters who managed to make up with great difficulty lost five more.

However, Zhishilang Wang Hou learned to be smart. Hearing the news behind him, he immediately turned around and fled, taking only 3 to [-] thousand people, and went directly to Langya's hometown.

And Zhang Xuguo, who had recovered half of Lu County, did not chase Langya this time, but turned his attention to the other half of Lu County, focusing on another "flying general".

"This man looks a bit vigorous." In Bo City at the foot of Mount Tai, Zhang Xuguo listened to the introduction in the hall of the county government office, and agreed. "The more important thing is that you are young. Given time, you may not be able to become a great weapon... But the more you are like this, the sooner you defeat him, try to kill him, so as not to add chaos to the court."

The people listed below are actually quite young, and they are quite disdainful upon hearing this.

Instead, a masked young man on the first right side inexplicably took the initiative to ask, "Is this person congealed?"

As soon as this statement came out, people around looked sideways. Obviously, this young man from the Eastern Capital, who is said to have a high level of cultivation and background, is not very social here.Even the resident Hei Shou Yu Bai Mei, who also belongs to the Jing'antai system, seems to have a better relationship with the local heroes in Qi County, and has nothing to do with this Zhang Zhushou.

To put it bluntly, no one likes a colleague who wears a mask.

Especially now that the officialdom of Qi County has been successfully built into an army by Zhang Xuguo.

"That's what I'm worried about." Zhang Xuguo said seriously. "When I was young, I followed many famous generals in the imperial court, and I have seen too many things... Some people usually practice extremely difficult, but as long as they survive, win, or even survive consecutive defeats, they will be like Flying upwards as if ascending to the sky... For example, here in Yu Hei Shou, although he had mastered Ren Du's second vein early on, but in the previous two big battles he killed four bandit army leaders, and he immediately mastered two more strange scriptures, and the single In Tonghai's place, apart from Shan Tonghai himself, there is another Cheng Dalang who defected to him, and according to rumors, before the rebellion, he was a master who had both connections with Ren and Du and went to Ningdan."

That Zhu Shou nodded slowly and said nothing more.

"Besides that." Zhang Xuguo looked around and continued. "The main reason is that the prefect of Lu County was actually surrendered to a thief. It's ridiculous... As a general guard appointed by the court, if I encounter it, if I can't capture it for the court and send it to Jiangdu for punishment, wouldn't it be a failure of the saint's grace?"

As soon as this remark came out, most of the people present only nodded.

Fan Hu, who was promoted to Captain, couldn't wait even more: "Tong Shou only said how we fight."

Zhang Xuguo nodded, and blurted out, as if he had a plan in mind:
"Zhi Shi's army retreated in a big rout, Cheng Zhili went again, Shan Tonghai must send people to scout... We feasted on the army in the city, pretending to be resting here.

"But if that's the case, he won't be at ease, so at the same time, Fan Hu, you have to dispatch 2000 people immediately, just as if you want to cross Wenshui before the end of the freezing period, and go to the south bank of Wenshui immediately Liang's father, stand with him as an outpost. At that time, he will definitely divide his troops or personally lead them to Gongqiu, which is also on the south bank of Wenshui River, to confront you from east to west.

"Then, the weather is getting warmer in the past two days, and the snow and ice are melting. After another two or three days, the ice surface in Wenshui will definitely become thinner. At that time, they will definitely relax on Wenshui, and I will draw eight thousand main forces, Suddenly dispatch troops, use Wenshui as a cover, march from the north bank of Wenshui, build a simple pontoon bridge to cross the river when it freezes again at night, and attack Gong Qiu directly with you from the flank...

"So, let this guy know what a real 'flying general' is!"

For two consecutive games with less wins, even with one against ten, everyone had already been extremely convinced by Zhang Xuguo. At this moment, they just looked at each other for a while, and then stood up together under Fan Hu's leadership, and said yes .

But that Zhang Zhushou was half a beat late again, really annoying.

PS: The air conditioner compressor overheated and collapsed... After realizing that I couldn't fix it on the spot, I moved to the living room overnight to sleep on the sofa...

(End of this chapter)