While Niu Shiqun and others mobilized guards and horses from various prefectures in Shaanxi to gather at Xi'an Prefecture, they sent two batches of fast horses one after another to send the anger and orders of the provincial government to the Yulin Guards through Qingyang Prefecture.

Of course, there must be an explanation from the imperial court, so in the first paragraph of the memorial to the capital, he gave the Holy Emperor a reassurance: He was a defeated bandit, and he was lucky enough to succeed in a sneak attack. He has dispatched a large number of troops to suppress it, and it will be done in a few days.

Memorial. The middle paragraphs of the memorial prove each other with reasonable evidence. In fact, everyone has already unanimously noticed that some officials are "increasingly old" and cannot bear to participate in the memorial just because they "think of their old age", which finally leads to this catastrophic disaster.

Panic - Well, the loss of a city is not only due to poor management, it is not even considered "oversight": everyone has clearly seen it, how can it be said that it was oversight? Alas, it is all caused by being too soft-hearted -

- Respecting the elderly, loving the young, and being too soft-hearted is an advantage that the sages have repeatedly emphasized, but it can’t be considered a big sin, right? At the end of the article, the three officials expressed heartbrokenly that they had failed to live up to the expectations of the court and would not be able to escape their guilt even if they died. However, the banditry was just a rout.

Thieves, ugly people like you, are suffering from ringworm and scabies after all. The Holy Emperor is a good pastor of Jiuzhou. With the blessing of the Emperor, it is as easy as turning the palm of your hand to observe the pattern. It will be a success soon. Please wait for the good news!

Guan Shengyun of Yan'an Prefecture is also making intensive preparations.

My own "uprising" was originally just to avenge my adoptive father Lu Yong, and then I couldn't help it. I originally thought that I would die wherever I went, and I would just let fate take one step at a time. Unexpectedly, it gradually became a climate. What happened now

, Guan Shengyun must seriously consider the future: for himself and for the thousands of brothers who follow him.

Master Luo's plan is to go south.

There are two reasons. First, Shaanxi is too poor. It is easy to build a team, but it is not a good place to feed thousands of mouths. Separating one side to farm and fight is purely a dream: if this place can be self-sufficient, why

As for how even the dignified frontier troops of the imperial court had to rely on the salt and rice transported by water from the capital to barely survive starvation? Wasn't it because they had nothing to eat that they were able to gather this large group of people?

Secondly, several core generals knew in their hearts that if there was a real farm, these people would disperse in a blink of an eye, and they would be immediately beaten back to their original form and turned into mere commanders - and then captured and cut to pieces!

Therefore, Mr. Luo firmly advocated going south to Huguang. "If you are familiar with Huguang, you will be enough in the world." Moreover, when you arrive in a place where you are not familiar with your life, you will be seen through as soon as you open your mouth. Leaving the crowd will lead to a dead end, so that you can gather the crowd.

All the generals once again unanimously supported Master Luo's foresight.

After the policy of going south was decided, how to proceed became a problem that required careful study. In this era, large armies relied heavily on waterways to march long distances.

First of all, the human body must be replenished with water at any time: not eating for two or three days is not a big problem, but without drinking water, any army will collapse. There is a saying that when Qin destroyed the six kingdoms, one of the magic weapons for victory was actually Guokui, that is, dry

Noodles - long shelf life, greatly reducing logistical pressure. As long as there is a river nearby, the troops can maintain combat effectiveness for a long time. Secondly, rivers are free transportation capacity and can carry much heavier transportation tasks than any cattle and horses. Moreover, boats

The raft does not need to eat like the peasants, and the water flow never needs rest like the mules and horses.

Based on this, Guan Shengyun has two choices. One is to go south to Ganquan and then go down the Luoshui River. The advantage of taking this route is that the Luoshui River is relatively gentle and the difficulty of transportation is small. The disadvantage is that it goes straight to Shaanxi Province.

Save your heart and threaten the Xi'an government - everyone has no chance to explain to the chief envoy and other officials: We are just passing by, but we are actually going to harm Huguang... Of course, they won't believe it. So, along the way

It is bound to be heavily blocked by the entire Shaanxi Dusi Prefecture; another option is to follow the water to the east, and then go south along the Yellow River. This section is the east side of the "several" shaped channel of the Yellow River, almost straight from north to south.

However, the difficulties are obvious: the Yellow River is naturally dangerous, the water is turbulent, and the transportation difficulties are not increased at all. Of course, the benefits are not small. At the junction of Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, the military pressure will definitely be much lighter. Both provinces will be cautious and alert, and there will be no

It’s really a life-and-death fight: If you want to fight, it’s best to go to the other side’s territory! Both Guan Shengyun, who was born in the border army, and Luo Yonghao, who was a court official, knew this very well.

Guan Shengyun didn't know which way to take it, and Luo Yonghao couldn't make up his mind for a while. However, one thing was necessary: ​​to win the extension first and solve the worries. Mr. Luo was familiar with the behavior of the stubborn old man Yu Shengliang, and Chang Wenping

This has also been confirmed. If this threat is not completely resolved, Mr. Yu, who is obsessed with being loyal to the emperor and serving the country, will definitely continue to cause trouble behind his back, and the army will be overwhelmed.

Chang Wenping has already made an agreement with Mr. Luo that he will never "become a thief", and Luo Yonghao cannot force his friend to take the lives of more than a hundred people in the family. The plan the two of them discussed is that Chang Wenping will live in seclusion for the time being.

Waiting for the right opportunity, that is, when Guan Shengyun leads his troops to leave, he goes back to "recover" Ansai County, and with his help, "rescues" Yan Wenlong, Mo Hantao and others from prison. Such a great achievement can not only save the people of Changzhi County

Life, it is estimated that the official position may still be promoted - Yan Wenlong and other heads, Guan Shengyun are not of much use, there is no deep hatred, it is not necessary to kill them, it is better to sell a favor to the master's friend and leave a way out.

Guan and Luo made this move very well, and received great rewards a long time later. Of course, this is another story.

Deciding to capture Yanchang County first, Guan Shengyun asked the auxiliary troops to go all over the mountains and plains to cut down trees and build boats and rafts. According to the scout reports, the city wall of Yanchang County was very dilapidated. However, even the broken earth wall was also an obstacle. At this time, Guan Shengyun was really

I can't bear to let the already ravaged people of Yan'an Prefecture serve as siege cannon fodder. Having said that, breaking through along the Yanshui River can not only greatly reduce the difficulty of the attack, but also accumulate some experience for the next long-distance march along the waterway.

Although he is only in his twenties, the leader of the auxiliary army, Guo Qinglin, can be considered an old man who followed Guan Shengyun. The captain of the army was an abandoned child who was picked up by a lonely old locksmith from Weiyuan Guard in Datong Prefecture. In the blink of an eye, it was twelve or thirteen.

Years passed, and I learned the craft quite well. Later, a robbery case occurred in Weiyuanwei, which coincided with the year of the imperial court's "big plan". The prince became anxious: this was clearly causing trouble to his official career! So he issued an order: Three

There is a "competition" every day, and the case is solved within ten days! The so-called "competition" means that every few days, if the criminal cannot be caught, the government officials will be slapped on the butt with a big stick (there are also places to slap the mouth) to encourage their enthusiasm for work.

The poor men didn't want to be punished, and of course they didn't bother to look for any clues to really solve the case - how long would it take? So on the third day, both Lao Guo and Xiao Guo, the locksmiths who were able to pick locks, were sent to work.

The men of Six Doors know that as long as they work harder during the trial, the person will be dead without evidence, and the case will be iron-clad. Sure enough, the old country failed to withstand all the boards in the court - the last few boards were "wrong"

"He was spanked", not on the buttocks and thighs, but on the lower back. He became incontinent and urinated blood on the spot, and was put on death row that night. Of course, the case file received by the Ministry of Punishment stated that "the principal criminal died of a sudden illness."

Guo Qinglin, who was 12 or 13 years old, was malnourished and looked like a teenager. He could neither be shot to death nor recover any stolen goods, so Xiao Guo, a half-year-old boy who didn't understand anything, was kicked out.

The old locksmith's house had been confiscated by the poor men until only four walls were left, and Xiao Guo was living on the street.

However, being able to pick locks in those days was definitely considered a high-tech talent. Since those who made and repaired locks had no way to make a living, they had no choice but to use their expertise in lock picking. Soon, the small country was surrounded by a group of "people who were very good at both stealing and robbing."

The small team of "heroes" established a firm foothold. Later, the "heroes" collectively voted for Guan Shengyun, who had just recruited number 100. Guan Dashuai felt that a hand that could open a lock was much more valuable than a hand that could only swing a knife, so the small country

He was given special care. As the half-grown child gradually turned into a young man, Xiaoguo also took on the title of general and the position of auxiliary army officer.

Baizong is also called Baizong. Because there was no Chinese pinyin in Mandarin in the old days, many of the soldiers were heroes from all over the world with different accents. The literacy rate in the army was ridiculously low, so the words "ba" and "bai" were used interchangeably.

You can call it whatever you want. Unlike Hong Xiuquan of later generations, Guan Shengyun had to make up a messy set of official titles to confuse everyone, and directly followed the rank of official positions in the Ming army.

The rank of general military officer is the seventh grade, and today it belongs to county-level cadres. Of course, civil servants do not recognize this. In theory, there are 440 soldiers under their jurisdiction, which was very powerful in the early period of the Ming Dynasty. However, in the middle and later periods of the Ming Dynasty, the value of administration rapidly depreciated.

The status is similar to that of a platoon-level cadre. In fact, it is more like a squad leader. It is good to have more than a dozen subordinates. This is the Central Plains area. Because there are many wars and various soldiers and horses are mixed, the appointment is very chaotic. The Fujian and Guangdong areas are relatively quiet.

, the general is still a very important and valuable military attache.

That evening, a logging team of seven or eight people did not return to the city. At first, the commander didn't take it too seriously: maybe because of some delay or walking too far, he camped outside the city at dusk and waited for dawn.

Will come back - generally speaking, absconding is not possible. In this era, there are barren mountains and ridges farther away from the city. Transportation depends on two legs. At best, each person is only given two grain buns when setting off, let alone encountering

If the officers and soldiers of the beast were to escape, they would starve to death in a few days. I thought that when they came back, I would whip them a few times to make these guys remember it, but until the evening of the next day, not only did the team not come back, but also

Another group of people is missing.

The general manager realized something was wrong, so he immediately reported it to Guan Shengyun.

Frankly speaking, Guan Shengyun didn't care at all about missing a few auxiliary soldiers, and just hummed a few casually. Even when he was an official army, auxiliary soldiers were consumables among consumables. They ran away or died.

, just catch some more people later.

It happened that Luo Yonghao was not here, and if Master Xiao Luo hadn't happened to be talking to Guan Jianlin and listened in, the matter would have passed. Luo Shifan was not very strong and full of clever ideas, Guan Jianlin was not stingy with any of them, he was not afraid of anything but had no brains, but these two people

They are good friends, and Guan Jianlin likes to hear whatever Ronaldinho says.

Master Xiao Luo tilted his head and listened for a while. Without alerting Guan Shengyun, he dragged Guan Jianlin to find Gu Baihua. Gu Baihua was very dissatisfied with Xiao Luo's analysis. He thought those guys must have run away. He laughed.

Isn't it just a coolie? As long as Guo Qinglin gets him some wine, he will send people to each house to catch as many as he wants. But in the end, he was persuaded by Xiao Luo and picked a dozen brothers with good skills to ride out of the city.

check it out.

After lunch, Guan Shengyun took a copy of "Xuanguai Lu" from Yu Shengliang's bookshelf to kill time. After reading it for a while, he became sleepy and began to take a nap on the chair. He vaguely dreamed of passing the green hairpin wine order to several fairy girls.

A beautiful woman in white clothes was stuck, and everyone was shouting that she would be punished with "a fragrant one." Fhuitan Kepo, whose face was red with shame and her lips were slightly open, just came closer, and was suddenly woken up by a commotion outside. He opened his eyes.

, the beautiful face disappeared, replaced by Gu Baihua's round black face, which almost touched the tip of his nose and shouted loudly: "Commander, the enemy is attacking!"

Spit sprayed all over Guan Shengyun's face.

Knowledge points in this article:

1. Ancient marches had very high requirements on water sources, and in order to prevent enemy poisoning or unclean drinking water from causing a large number of non-combat casualties, the water source must be running water.

2. In ancient times, the death penalty was very formal and the process was cumbersome. It even required the emperor himself to execute the sentence in person (usually in the autumn when the grass and trees were killing each other, so it was called "beheading after autumn"). For example, if the sentence was "beheaded in prison", theoretically

The above is a suspended death sentence: waiting for the Ministry of Punishment to report the list to the emperor, who will be beheaded by the imperial pen. If it is a high-ranking official known to the emperor, there is a high probability that he will not die - if he really wants to kill you, he will be executed immediately. It is just a scare.

, there are even many people who were brought out of prison and reinstated to their posts after a while, showing the emperor's great grace and making you work hard from the bottom of your heart. However, from being a high-ranking person to being a prisoner all of a sudden, there is a huge gap, and you are always on tenterhooks.

If the emperor is not happy to cross his name one day... it will be like a year. Of course, if the things he provokes get out of control, or the emperor is in a bad mood, and the more he thinks about it, the more he hates it, and someday he will simply cross the line. If it is the emperor

It depends on the fate of the ordinary people whom the emperor does not know... There are also people who have a particularly good fortune. They have been in prison for decades (well, decades in prison are not much better), but they have not been hooked every time. In the end

The emperor's name seemed familiar to him, and when asked about it, he had slipped through the net for decades. After thinking about it, he thought that his life should not be cut off, so he pardoned it. On the contrary, if he died "accidentally", the court would not pursue it. For example, you are a county

Officer, the prisoner was sentenced to "standing in a cage" and his meat was dried after being exposed to the sun for more than ten days. That was an "accident" - who knows why he didn't resist the sun! So, it's okay. Others in the prison starved to death.

The big board can cause a heart attack, a wound infection and death...it's all the same, just report "serious illness" or "violent illness".
Chapter completed!