Chapter 613 The winner of the Western Expedition is in Northern Shaanxi?
The cold wind was biting, and Sun Shoufa stood at the head of Pingliang City, facing the cold wind and facing the east.
After adjusting the new Ming Dynasty military uniform that had faded and was full of patches, Sun Shoufa let out a cold breath.
The military uniform he was wearing was one of several general uniforms without epaulettes sent by Jin Yiwei when the imperial court conferred Sun Chuanting as a general. After receiving the military uniform, Sun Chuanting issued one to each of several important generals in Sichuan and Shaanxi at that time.
One set, Sun Shoufa divided it into another set.
After being assigned new military uniforms, Sun Shoufa would wear them on important occasions to show his attitude and loyalty to the court. Seven or eight years later, no matter how much he cherished them, the new clothes became old clothes.
Anyway, this time, Sun Shoufa put on the new military uniform and never took it off again. He said to his soldiers: Do you want to die in Pingliang City wearing this clothes, or do you want to wait for the court to send him new uniforms?
Change.
"General, it's so cold, why don't you go down to the city to rest first? Anyway, there is no enemy situation yet!" Seeing that Sun Shoufa, the general of the servant team, had been standing motionless at the top of the city, he hurriedly stepped forward to persuade him to go down to the city and rest.
"We have been here for ten days anyway, and we don't know if the person who sent the letter to the court has delivered it!"
"It should have been delivered. Even if it was not delivered, the imperial court should have received the news. The message about Jiang Ye's affair spread throughout the world, and the whole world was shocked. There is no way the imperial court didn't know about it."
"The soldiers and horses of the imperial court are still too far away from us. We are afraid that we will not be able to catch up in time now. Current events are pressing. I originally wanted to return to Hanzhong before performing righteous deeds, but Na Si did not give me a chance and directly detained me in Pingliang City.
Don't move."
The Nasi mentioned by Sun Shoufa naturally refers to Sun Chuanting. Time will change everything. The two people who once fought side by side have now become life-and-death enemies. In recent years, Sun Shoufa's life has become more and more difficult due to different political opinions. To pacify
After the rebellion in Gansu, Sun Chuanting directly sent Sun Shoufa to garrison in Pingliang City. Recently, he went too far and tried to take away Sun Shoufa's military power and let him return to Xi'an. This is the direct reason why Sun Shoufa had to publicly issue a proclamation at this time.
"General, according to the report from Tanma, the enemy troops coming from the direction of Guanzhong have arrived at Lingtai. We must prepare properly."
"What are the movements of the generals stationed nearby?"
"The attitude of the soldiers and horses in Qingyang, Guyuan and other cities is very unclear. They have no intention of responding to our rebellion, but they have not moved towards Pingliang City."
"They are all rats! They are watching our success or failure! It seems that in the next days, we can only rely on more than 3,000 brothers to defend Pingliang City and wait for the imperial court's Western Expedition Army!"
"Will the imperial army come to rescue us in time?"
Sun Shoufa did not answer the general's question, and narrowly escaped death. When he sent a message anyway, he knew his situation. Pingliang was too far away from the place where the imperial troops and horses existed. No matter how fast the imperial troops and horses moved, they would enter from northwest Shanxi
It will take at least more than a month to reach Pingliang from northern Shaanxi.
Relying on more than 3,000 troops to hold on in the small town of Pingliang for more than a month, this is an epic level of difficulty! How could Sun Shoufa, who had been a military commander all his life, not know this?
Braving the cold wind, Mayouliang led the men and horses from the Third Front Army Headquarters to rush across the land in northwest Shanxi. After receiving the military order, he rushed from Yuncheng to northwest Shanxi. Time did not wait for anyone. At this time, Sun Shufa had already left.
A full eighteen days have passed. It is estimated that Sun Shoufa's side has begun to meet the enemy, but he has not prepared anything yet.
Arriving at the village where they were going to camp for the night, Mayou Liang just got off his horse and asked the adjutant: "How is the investigation of the crossing point? Has the staff determined the place?"
"The current location determined by the staff is to cross Yanshui Pass from the direction of Yonghe!"
"Bring me the map!"
Upon hearing this, the guard quickly opened the military map he carried with him and showed it to Mayu Ryo.
Mayouliang found the location of Yanshui Pass on the map. After watching it carefully for a while, he said: "We will cross the river at Yanshuiguan! Order the 173rd Security Brigade closest to Yanshui Pass to move here immediately, and order
The 384th Brigade of the Military Cavalry arrived at the ferry as quickly as possible. After the two troops arrived, they immediately started crossing the river without waiting for other troops. After crossing the river, the 173rd Security Brigade was responsible for controlling the ferry and supporting the main force to cross the river. The 384th Brigade quickly moved towards
Rush in the direction of Pingliang. Tell them that they are fighting alone in this battle. No matter what means they use, they must rush to the vicinity of Pingliang City as quickly as possible to share the pressure for the Pingliang defenders!"
The clerk quickly wrote down Ma Youliang's military orders, sorted them out and presented them to Mayu Liang for review and seal!
"Order, the 81st Division and the 84th Division must rush to Yonghe County within six days to assemble! Order, the 251st Security Brigade and the 286th Security Brigade, which are responsible for logistics, transport military supplies to Yonghe as quickly as possible.
For this campaign of entering Shaanxi, Yonghe was designated as the general logistics base, and all the army's supplies were concentrated here to enter Shaanxi."
After issuing a series of military orders, Ma Youliang stopped and prepared to have dinner. Sun Shoufa's incident was so sudden that Ma Youliang was extremely busy. He had to assemble scattered troops and horses, and transport logistics materials to the front line.
To determine the place to cross the river, to determine the direction of operations after entering Shaanxi, in short, there are a lot of things to deal with.
You said Sun Shoufa, if you want to do such a big thing, couldn't you find a way to get in touch with the court in advance? A sudden attack would really kill people!
After finishing dinner in a hurry, Ma Youliang asked someone to bring a military map of northern Shaanxi and started looking at it again!
Pingliang is in the westernmost part of northern Shaanxi (Northern Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty included Pingliang and Qingyang), controlling the Liupan Mountains and connecting Gansu, Ningxia and northern Shaanxi. Its geographical location is very important. It is located on the three sides of the Ming Dynasty: Yansui Town, Ningxia Town,
The hub of Gansu Town. If things happen here, the whole of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia will be stirred up.
The more he looked at the map, the more frightened Ma Youliang became! The sudden advance of the battle into Shaanxi might become the biggest and most critical battle in the entire Western Expedition! If this battle is won, the situation of the entire Western Expedition will be different.
It will become clear.
Who would have thought that the key points and the winner of the Western Expedition would actually occur in northern Shaanxi instead of Guanzhong?
According to this posture, it seems that there are not enough troops to bring only 30,000 people across the river into Shaanxi! No, we must quickly send a message to the front finger and the court, asking them to mobilize more than one main division no matter what! Otherwise, this battle will really be impossible.
Good to fight!
Realizing the seriousness of the situation, Mayu Liang quickly ordered the secretary to draft documents and send urgent messages to Luoyang and Beijing! This was no joke. If this battle was messed up, Mayu Liang could not even imagine the consequences.