After he received the transfer order from Hong Chengchou, the governor of Yansui, he was very angry.
How could he be happy? Compared to Wang Jiayin, he was actually more willing to deal with Liu Chengzong.
After all, Liu Chengzong was only a "half-border army" unit, while Wang Jiayin was a full-border army unit.
Even on the border it is not clear who belongs to whom.
Du Wenhuan felt very strange, why did Li Zhao provoke him?
Fortunately, Wang Jiayin took people to Shanxi to rob, and brought back the loot to pay tribute to the various border forts. After paying the tribute, he stayed in the mountains, eating and drinking.
The thief was safe, the generals at the border fortress were full, and the border soldiers went out for a robbery and returned to camp. It was clearly an industrial chain that everyone was happy with.
This autumn, the Taolu invaders invaded again, and after repelling the Taolu, Du Wenhuan was ready to quit working because of his old age.
After serving the imperial court all his life, the big undercurrent problems have all surfaced. Even if he, Du Wenhuan, crushed his flesh and bones and pasted them on the side wall, he would not be able to solve so many problems for the imperial court.
Let’s just go back to my hometown in Kunshan.
What's good now is that there is Wang Jiayin in the north and Liu Chengzong in the south. The number of men and horses in each hand is no less than the total number of soldiers.
The two men do not have as many troops as the general soldiers on paper, but the general soldiers in the border town have troops to garrison at the border, and they only have a few thousand people who can really be mobilized and run around.
Which one can be defeated by thousands of people?
Originally, I wanted to follow He Huchen and let the unlucky guy from Ningxia fuck Liu Shishi in the front, but he blocked the back and tried to level one first.
It's good now, I have to go up and deal with Wang Jiayin myself.
Du Wenhuan didn't want to deal with it, so he marched north very slowly, and he even left people behind to watch. If He Huchen managed to fight Liu Chengzong out of Huanglong Mountain, he would immediately turn his troops back.
Unfortunately, after waiting for several days, Liu Chengzong didn't come out.
For some reason, Du Wenhuan felt that He Huchen might have given Liu Shishi something.
This situation is particularly annoying.
We already have everything we want, so we can just encircle the entire Yan'an Prefecture and starve them to death.
I have to let you put an end to the chaos.
What's more, this is no ordinary chaos.
News came from the north that Hong Chengchou sent his lieutenants Yin Tixin and Bai Yiqing to attack, but Wang Jiayin was not a fool who only knew how to defend, he dared to fight in the field.
Although they didn't get any benefits, they didn't suffer big losses either. There were winners and losers in the field battle, and they returned to Fugu City.
The name Fugu sounds very harsh.
The county seat is located in the deep mountains in the easternmost part of Shaanxi. To the west is Gushanchuan, a tributary of the Yellow River, and to the south is the Yellow River. The county seat is still on the south side of the mountain, with cliffs on three sides. It is difficult to enter the county seat.
You won't suffer any losses in field battles, and you won't be afraid of defending battles. What's more, Wang Jiayin has just returned from Shanxi to steal money and food.
Du Wenhuan thought about it, and there was only one result for his trip. Wang Jiayin was eating and drinking in the city every day, while his people were drinking the northwest wind by the Yellow River.
When he ran out of food, he couldn't resist Wang Jiayin's attack.
So I thought about it, but I can’t go.
But there must be an excuse not to go. Even a veteran like him who has been fishing for seven or eight years cannot think of a suitable reason to refuse to conquer Wang Jiayin.
Liu Shishi could still refuse, because he was not in the Yansui General Soldier's defense zone after all, but Wang Jiayin was making trouble in the east of Yansui Town, leaving Du Wenhuan unable to think of a reason to refuse.
While the army was stationed in Yanchuan, Du Wenhuan thought hard and came up with two ways.
First, Wang Jiayin took the initiative to run out of the Yansui Town defense area.
Let him cross the river and cross the Yellow River into Shanxi. That is not Yansui Town's business, and Hong Chengchou has nothing to do with it.
Secondly, Du Wenhuan must be dragged away by the matters at hand.
For example, Liu Shizi has turned back, or a group of thieves who went to Shanxi have returned.
But the latter idea treats the symptoms rather than the root cause, not to mention that Liu Shizi is not much easier to deal with than Wang Jiayin, so he is still the first one.
Finally, Du Wenhuan thought of a trick and called Wang Zuoguan, deliberately asking him to wait outside the tent. Inside, he talked with his generals about attacking Fugu County. When it came to attacking Fugu County, he was not afraid of anything but Wang Jiayin.
Escape back to Shanxi.
Then he called Wang Zuoguan in and explained a few words about the march, so that the guerrilla general Li Mingfu could relax.
As expected, Wang Zuogao led a dozen people to escape overnight.
Du Wenhuan applauded and was very happy, and that night, he divided thousands of Wang Zuoguan's troops among his subordinates.
Bang, kill thousands of bandits for the imperial court.
Theoretically speaking, the escaped Wang Zuoguan will send the news to Wang Jiayin, and then Wang Jiayin will move to Shanxi, and the matter will be over like this.
But sometimes people want two things. One thing is good, but two things are not necessarily so good.
On the night when Du Wenhuan devoured Wang Zuoguan's men, Yanshuiguan sent a message to General Du: "The thieves who entered Shanxi are coming back!"
Just across the Yellow River.
According to the defenders at Yanshui Pass, tens of thousands of bandits have appeared in the past few days from the direction of Yonghe County, Shanxi Province.
Fu Renxi, the general guarding Yonghe Pass, could not resist, so he could only retreat to the pass and sent a message to Yanshui Pass to tell them to be careful. There were more than tens of thousands of thieves.
What bad intentions could Fu Renxi have?
I just want to scare away the Yanshui Pass defenders so that Gao Yingxiang and the Lion Battalion workers can quickly return to Shaanxi to help Liu Lion.
But at this moment, Du Wenhuan was by his side, and even the defenders of Yanshui Pass did not dare to run away even if they had ten thousand courage.
This is great, Du Wenhuan has been recruited.
Gao Yingxiang's troops were planning to cross the river, so Yanshui Pass took the risk and sent people to Yonghe Pass to explain to Fu Renxi that Du Wenhuan led his army to Yanshui Pass.
Fu Renxi was so frightened that he quickly contacted Gao Yingxiang: "Wait a minute to cross the river, Yanshui Pass has just sent someone, saying that General Du of Yansui is in the pass, with thousands of soldiers and horses."
Gao Yingxiang thought about it and decided to lead his army across the river.
Fu Renxi was shocked: "Why, Chief Gao, you can't beat Du Wenhuan, he has to be on guard."
Gao Yingxiang stared at Fu Renxi for a moment, then suddenly laughed: "You said you asked for a box of gold. I don't know how the lion found such a good helper like you. You just informed me and I will note it down. I will have it in the future."
I’ll give it back to you again when I get the chance.”
"Will this cause you any disadvantage? Since Mr. Du already knew that Gao wanted to cross the river, Yanshui Pass sent someone to tell you that I would not cross the river. Wouldn't it be a harm to you?"
Fu Renxi was stunned, and his favorable impression of Gao Yingxiang greatly increased.
Then Gao Yingxiang continued: "While it's dark, I'll take people across the river to have a look, and I'll also ask Brother Gao to help Gao with a box of gold."
"Well, please tell me, Chief Gao."
"Brother A Box of Gold is a local from the Yellow River." Gao Yingxiang couldn't help but smile when he talked about this local, and then asked seriously: "How wide is the river from this bank to the other bank?"
Fu Renxi thought Gao Yingxiang had some request. When he heard what it was, he smiled easily and said, "Chief Gao has asked the right person about this. The floating bridge on the river is one hundred and eighty steps long."
Gao Yingxiang nodded, cupped his fists and said, "Thank you very much, I already know that."
That night, Gao Yingxiang's troops spread out on the east and west banks of the Yellow River. On the east side, they piled up a five-foot earth platform more than a hundred paces long, and on the west side, they pushed out several scattered low hills.
Fu Renxi, who was shut down by Yonghe, couldn't understand.
But it doesn’t matter if you don’t understand. Then Gao Yingxiang’s troops marched in. The majority of the troops stayed on the east bank, and Gao Yingen was ordered to lead more than 2,000 strong soldiers under his command to cross the river.
The most elite Yiding troops in his hands surrendered and stayed east of the short hill after crossing the river.
In the middle of the night, the garrison at Yonghe Pass came to report to Fu Renxi, saying that Gao Yingxiang's men had pushed several cannons on the earth platform on the east bank.
Fu Renxi was so surprised that he simply got up from the bed and went to the city to have a look.
He thought to himself, can these bandits still use cannons?
In Fu Renxi's mind, among the leaders in Shaanxi, Liu Chengzong is the only one who can use artillery.
After all, the strong men in the Lion Camp are like wolves and tigers, and they did get two red barbarian cannons, and their cannons are more powerful than the official army.
The other leaders, Fu Renxi, really never thought about using cannons.
Even if the defenders told him that Gao Yingxiang had pulled a bunch of cannons to the river bank, he was still laughing in his heart. Didn't the Gao leader just ask him how wide the Yellow River was earlier?
He knew that Gao Yingxiang built a long embankment on the east bank, but he never thought about what Gao Yingxiang planned to do with the long embankment.
I didn’t even think about the cannon at all.
Light cannons like Yongzhu and Tiger Crouching can't hit people across the Yellow River. What's more, even if Gao Yingxiang had a general cannon, he wouldn't be able to dig a long embankment of hundreds of steps.
But when Fu Renxi stood in Guancheng and took a look, he was dumbfounded.
He quickly opened and closed the door and ran out.
Under the moonlight, on the earth embankment half a man high, there were all two-wheeled artillery carts.
The wheels are large but very narrow. They are made of iron and are made by Xiangning blacksmiths. The wooden gun mount in the middle is made by a craftsman, and the bronze cannon fixed on it is cast by Chengwo, a craftsman.
The soldiers standing under the embankment did not light torches. Gao Yingxiang stood on the embankment and looked towards the other side. It was pitch black and he could not see anything.
When Liu Chengzong sent someone to send a message to Shanxi, the newly cast 200-pound lion cannon had been cast and entered the final polishing stage.
A total of forty-seven cannons were cast in the two batches of artillery, but 11 of them were not finished and were re-melted into copper ingots. I plan to continue casting after Shicheng and Liu Chengzong are reunited.
Liu Chengzong's intention in sending the letter was to remind Gao Yingxiang not to blindly return to Shaanxi to avoid running into the invading army.
But Gao Yingxiang didn't think so. Master Gao thought Liu Chengzong was asking for help, and he had to return to Shaanxi to help anyway.
As soon as these cannons were built, they immediately fired up their troops and swept up from Pingyang Prefecture, passing through Xizhou like locusts, heading straight for Yonghe County.
By the way, I also helped Liu Chengzong test the condition of the two-wheeled gun carriage. The big iron wheels were very easy to use and the weight of the gun was just right.
It happens to be that a donkey can pull it all over the ground, and a gun crew is equipped with four mules and five people, and it is no problem to travel hundreds of miles a day on the official road.
In fact, Gao Yingxiang has been a little eager to try it for a long time.
Last month in Shanxi, before the cannons I promised to cast for him were finished, he borrowed a few cannons to go to the Pingyang Flag Guard Army to practice.
To be honest, there are several such things. Gao Yingxiang feels that he is more than 18,000 times better than last year.
In the end, the artillery was not even used in turn, and the Pingyang Guards were so frightened by their strength that they did not dare to go out. In the end, they only fired a few artillery pieces when they were fighting Zhuangzi in the suburbs, which was not satisfying at all.
When I heard that Du Wenhuan was on the opposite side today, Gao Yingxiang was not in awe. He really wanted to fire a salvo with thirty-six cannons.
Even if I fight just once here.
Gao Yingxiang's plan is very simple. Let Gao Yingen lead his troops to attack Yanshui Pass. They will definitely not be able to defeat him. He will wake up the officers and soldiers, and they may chase them out when they are angry.
The mounds built on the other side are what I learned when I was a teacher in Sanyuan County and watched the Zhongtong rebels use artillery. They are indicators of the range.
As long as the officers and soldiers run past those indicators, the artillery can fire.
When I saw how excited he was, I was a little worried and said: "Chief Gao, these cannons can only hit the bank of the river when fired flatly. Adjust the muzzle, so they are not very powerful."
In the mountainous area of Xiangning, I tried the range of these two types of guns, both horizontal and upward.
The little lion cannon shoots 170 steps flatly and 500 steps upwards.
The big lion cannon shoots 190 steps flatly and 600 steps upwards.
The range is not too far, but the power is pretty good. If you can hit it accurately at a distance of a hundred steps, a tree trunk as thick as a bowl will be broken by just one sweep.
If you want to break up the enemies, the range of both cannons is ten steps away and within a hundred steps.
It’s just that the big lion cannon is loaded with 160 powders; the small lion cannon is loaded with 100 powders.
Although I did not participate in the battle when I was a teacher, I ran around with the Lion Battalion and witnessed many artillery battles.
He did not expect Gao Yingxiang's imagined volley of thirty-six artillery pieces to blast the enemy to pieces from a few hundred steps away.
This is unrealistic.
He agreed more and looked forward to the way Cao Yao used artillery.
Integrate this light artillery into the infantry line, face to face with the enemy, and within the range of fifty paces intervals of volleys of bows and muskets, in a large square battle of two hundred paces, a single volley will cripple the enemy formation. Master, I think this is the destiny of the little lion cannon.
In order to ensure this advantage, when he customized the gun wheel from the blacksmith, he specifically requested that three small handles be made on the side of the gun wheel to facilitate the infantry to push the gun forward.
If we really hope to achieve the effect Gao Yingxiang wants, I think Shicheng should use the big guy he cast in Sanyuan County.
The 1,500-kilogram artifact can shoot a seven-kilogram iron ball four hundred steps away, piercing seven or eight people with one shot. It will be a bloody path wherever it hits.
Twenty of those things are lined up in a row, and they can destroy the headquarters to only a few people in one go.
But nowadays, these gadgets are not that powerful. If you can hit three people, you are lucky.
Gao Yingxiang didn't care about this. He just had itchy hands, so he stood on the embankment and waved his hands: "It's okay. At worst, I can just fire a cannon and run away."
He really thought so. Anyway, if he could hold on to the pontoon bridge, he would be unable to return to Shaanxi.
But the purpose of his coming here is to help Liu Chengzong share the pressure. Since Du Wenhuan is here, dragging Du Wenhuan in Yanshui Pass can be regarded as relieving Liu Shizi's pressure.
Gao Yingen and Du Wenhuan didn't keep him waiting for too long.
Du Wenhuan didn't want to get into trouble with Wang Jiayin and Liu Chengzong, not because he was a coward, but because it's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice.
Sufficient troops must be mobilized to fight those two guys, otherwise there will be no food and no pay, and fighting them will be a waste of troops.
But Du Wenhuan just didn't want to touch those two people, and there was nothing to fear from others.
Gao Yingen's troops just appeared not far east of Yanshui Pass, and Du Wenhuan ordered his troops to leave the city.
Gao Yingen was so frightened that she quickly ran to the shore.
One ran in front and the other chased behind. They ran to the bank of the Yellow River like two fire dragons holding torches.
Gao Yingxiang was happy, clapped his hands and said: "Mr. Shi, let them see our cannon!"