In this Tangyin ambush battle, the 200 horse bandits in Dongping Water Village were defeated by less than 40 cavalrymen from the Jinghua Security Team. When the news came out, it can be said that it shocked many surrounding gangsters.
The name of Dongping Water Village is not small. It is not a gang in Henan, but a group of fierce bandits that originally occupied the territory of Dongping Prefecture, Shandong. Dongping Prefecture, this place name may sound strange to ordinary people, but if you say this place is...
Liangshanpo in the Song Dynasty, then everyone would probably have to widen their eyes and say "I have admired it for a long time".
Yes, the most famous place in Dongping Prefecture is Liangshan Park, but the area of Liangshan Park at this time has been reduced sharply, and it is no longer as vast as it was in the Song Dynasty.
Regarding the area of Liangshan Lake, there were many doubts in later generations. They believed that there was no "eight hundred miles of water lake" in Shandong. This was pure nonsense. Especially during the Tatar Qing Dynasty, Teng Yongzhen, the magistrate of Shouzhang County, said such an influential statement after research.
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"Liangshan belongs to the genus of Shouzhi Zhang, and the surrounding area of the mountain is ten miles. The Water Margin is eight hundred miles around the clouds, which is Songjiangzhai. There is a small wall on the hill. It is said that Zhang Huang's words are true, so that the stupid people in the world will not come to this place. I believe that
However, there is no such thing as being treacherous and promiscuous. Because if you bring it out and report it to the superior officials and make everyone in the world know about it, it is the same as it cannot be trusted."
According to what Teng Yongzhen said, Liangshan is the administrative vassal of Shouzhang. The mountain is not big, only about ten miles away. How can such a small mountain accommodate so many Liangshan soldiers and horses? Moreover, Songjiang Village is only a small wall on the hill. Therefore,
It can be seen that the grand and magnificent Liangshan Mountains are all fake and are all compiled by experts.
Teng Yongzhen's words have influenced generations of people, so much so that many people in later generations believe that the Eight Hundred Miles of Liangshan Park does not exist and is just a fiction. But is this really the case?
In modern times, due to the development of science and technology, it has become more and more convenient for everyone to access knowledge. The statement that Liangshan Bo is fake has also been questioned more and more. Moreover, through various literature investigations, many doubts have been discovered.
According to textual research, there was actually a description of Liangshan Bo during the Song Dynasty. According to "Zizhi Tongjian", from the Five Dynasties period to the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Yellow River had three major breaches, and the river water came to the foot of Liangshan Mountain, forming a
The endless water bank was later called the eight hundred mile water bank.
Han Qi, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, once wrote a poem titled "Mooring on the Liangshan Mountains". One of the lines is "The vast swamp is boundless, and all the boats are there to support it." - The huge water mooring can't be seen at a glance, which shows that it was indeed
There is Liangshan Park.
However, due to the change of the course of the Yellow River, the amount of water in Liangshanbo has been constantly changing. According to the "Jin History" records, by that time, there was not much water in Liangshanbo. However, in the Yuan Dynasty, the Yellow River changed its course again, so Liangshanbo came again.
water.
Until the Yingzong period of the Ming Dynasty, Liangshan Po was still eighty miles away. It can be seen that there was still a lot of water in Liangshan Po at that time. Later, during the Jingtai period of the Ming Dynasty, the court renovated the river course, and finally the water in Liangshan Po became less and less, so later generations of people
Never again will we see the eight hundred miles of water.
But there is a saying here. Even if the imperial court restructured the river course, Liangshan Lake at this time did not completely dry up to flatland. It still had a certain range. Why is this proof? I still remember that the gangster leaders in Dongping Water Village mentioned before that "
"Anshan Shuiyi" paid protection fees to them? That Anshan Shuiyi is one of the proofs.
The Ming Dynasty court established a system of horse and water stations. I have specifically mentioned this in the previous article in this book, so I won’t repeat it here. Simply put, since there are still water stations in the local area, it means that the waterways are very smooth, at least smooth enough to cover long distances.
sail.
How long is it? It runs through the whole province of Shandong from north to south. Just this water post route connecting Anshan Shui Post has the following water posts from south to north: Jiagou Shui Post, Heqiao Shui Post, Nancheng Shui Post, and Kaihe Shui Post
, Anshan Water Station, Jingmen Water Station, Chongwu Water Station, Qingyang Water Station, Qingyuan Water Station, Dukou Water Station, Jiamaying Water Station, Liangjiazhuang Water Station, Ande Water Station.
It is precisely because at this time, although the area of Shuibo Liangshan was greatly reduced, it was still a skinny camel, so there were still water bandits until a few years ago.
They are called water bandits, but this is Shandong after all. Therefore, once these water bandits form a large scale and become bigger and stronger, they will have entanglements with various horse bandits in Shandong. The result of such entanglements is either a merger or a conflict.
Together, in the past twenty years, the Dongping Water Village was formed into a large bandit village that could eat both water and land.
But as luck would have it, the past twenty years happened to be a period of extremely rapid development for Jinghua, so the two sides quickly started working together.
To put it bluntly, Jinghua is actually a monopoly group that spans industry and commerce. What does such an organization hate most? Of course, it hates the people who make it impossible to do business. So there is no doubt that a large water-land gang like Dongping Shuizhai is Jinghua.
A nail that must be pulled out in Shandong.
However, in fact, the process of Jinghua pulling out this nail was not very smooth. There are naturally reasons for this. First of all, Jinghua was mainly engaged in foreign trade at that time. It traveled overland to Tumut, Ordos, various Jurchen tribes, and went to sea to the East.
Nanyang, these were the main directions of Jinghua's early efforts. At that time, the power devoted to Shandong was very limited.
After Gao Jingshi opened a shipyard in Laizhou, Shandong, Jinghua began to produce inland river vessels. At the same time, it also slowly built up an inland river fleet and began to eliminate floods.
But this still has a process. In the early days, Jinghua's fleet mainly operated two lines in the Central Plains: the Yellow River line and the canal line. The other tributaries of the Yellow River and Huaihe River were not taken into account for the time being.
About ten years ago, Jinghua's inland river transportation gradually began to spread on various tributaries, so it directly conflicted with Dongping Water Village. At this time, Jinghua's strong ships and guns mobilized more than 400 inland river gunboats to jointly
During the campaign, the Dongping Water Village was easily wiped out in one fell swoop, which not only dealt a serious blow to the power of this gang of gangsters, but also forcibly transformed them from a combined water and land bandit into a de facto horse bandit.
But then something went wrong. After being beaten with high technology, this group of people learned a lot and never fought head-on with Jinghua. From then on, they broke into pieces and developed a system that was close to that of the Nian Army in the late Qing Dynasty.
The system seems to be ordinary people at ordinary times, but at night, as long as they get the order from the leader, they will immediately revert to horse bandits.
Regarding the method of the horse bandits, Jinghua alone cannot handle it - it's not that they can't win, but they don't know who to fight. Therefore, after Gao Jingzhi learned the news, he questioned the Ministry of Punishment as a cabinet minister.
, requiring the Ministry of Punishment and all prefectures and counties in Shandong to conduct strict inspections and make sure to distinguish between good and evil, loyal and traitorous, so that the gangsters can be completely eradicated.
However, here comes the problem. The Ministry of Punishment is not the sphere of influence of the Real School. It has been controlled by the Heart School for many years. After Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue stepped down, they led the Ministry of Punishment...or to be more precise, the assistant minister who led the work of the Three Laws Department was
Who? Yes, it is Shen Yiguan.
At this point in the story, everything is connected, and it is obvious what will happen next. Since Gao Pragmatic criticized Shandong's ineffective anti-bandit work by name, and the Ministry of Punishment is also partly responsible for this, then Shen Yiguan, regardless of whether he is happy or not, can only show his skill on the surface.
I wanted to do it, so I deployed it myself.
After going back and forth, Shen Yiguan soon discovered the bright spot: all the gangs in Shandong hated Jinghua and Gao Jingshi very much. They all believed that Gao Jingshi had not only cut off their financial path, but even their livelihood, then
I really wish I could eat the flesh of high pragmatism and sleep on the skin of high pragmatism.
The enemy of the enemy is an ally. Although Shen Guanyi naturally does not regard "mere bandits" as allies, this is just like the Japanese Empire calling Japan and South Korea allies - it doesn't matter what they are called, as long as they can be used to wipe them out at any time.
Butt, that's a good piece of toilet paper.
After Shen Guanyi discovered this, he didn't think about how to use them specifically at first. He just thought of some ways to get in touch with them, and then use them to interfere with Jinghua's trade network in the eastern and northern parts of Shandong and Henan.
Just find something to cause trouble for Jinghua.
Not long ago, Gao Yingshi received the emperor's order and was about to return to Beijing to report on his duties. Shen Yiguan also learned that the Queen was about to give birth. In order to prevent the worst situation from happening, Shen Yiguan finally decided after testing Zhao Zhigao's mind: it must be
let's move.
Thus, there was the Tangyin ambush. However, Shen Guanyi never expected that even after controlling all the variables to a very small error, the 200-year-old bandit would be completely defeated by less than 100 people.
Such outrageous things like the forty-horse Beijing security team.
In fact, to put it bluntly, this is Shen Yiguang's own lack of knowledge, or a big problem that the entire Xin School currently has: they are too amateurish about military affairs.
These gangsters in Dongping Water Village are indeed fierce gangsters left behind by the Daliang Taosha. If you look at each of them individually, they are probably considered "jianghu masters". If they are allowed to compete one-on-one with the Jinghua Cavalry, the Cavalry is likely to
Even one of them will fail miserably.
However, battle formations are not martial arts competitions. Battle formation martial arts and Jianghu martial arts are fundamentally two different systems.
"Battle formation martial arts" is divided into horse and dismount, and swords and spears are mostly used. In fact, riding and shooting battle formations are often mentioned in the martial arts treatises of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and Yu Long and Qi Hu have discussed them in many ways.
It is characterized by being simple and direct, and easy to perform. In actual combat, more emphasis is placed on the coordination of military formations than on individual martial arts, advancing without retreating, attacking directly forward, with fewer turning around or vertical attack movements. Moreover, battle formation martial arts are
They are all armed with weapons, and there is very little bare-handed combat training - except for wrestling, which is a compulsory course.
"Jianghu martial arts" originally originated from Jianghu fights. When it comes to real fights, usually there are enemies who have hatred towards each other. When two enemies meet, there will be death or injury. Needless to say, the lethality of weapons is compared to that of fists and kicks, so it must be the same.
Gotta bring a guy.
In this case, it is natural to copy the long-hand style instead of the short-hand style. If there is no one with a short face, then use a concealed weapon. If it is not possible, holding a handful of dirt is better than empty-handed. In a real fight, you can say that you can do anything.
However, this often makes people fall into some tricky thinking, always thinking about taking surprise, always thinking about defeating the enemy with moves, and ignoring that personal strength under the battle formation is not important at all. You seem to have cleverly avoided the confrontation by turning sideways.
A knife, but maybe he stretched his neck to catch another enemy's blade.
When the results of Tangyin's ambush were reported back to the capital, Shen Yiguan was nervous for a while. Even though it was already the second day of the Lunar New Year, he was still prepared for Gao Pragmatic's violent counterattack.
However, unexpectedly, until the first dynasty of the new year, when Gao pragmatic met him, he was still the same as usual, smiling and showing no anger at all, and there was no such thing as hiding a knife in a joke or criticizing Huaihua. He seemed to be right.
It was as if Tang Yin had no idea what was going on behind the ambush.
This situation made Shen Yiguan feel a little doubtful, wondering if he really overestimated Gao Pragmatic's political methods. Maybe... maybe the reason why Gao Pragmatic has been so successful in these years is really just relying on his unparalleled sacred scrolls and achievements.
And not because of how brilliant he is in power?
The reason why Shen Yiguan fell into doubt was of course not just because of his highly pragmatic reaction - a highly pragmatic reaction was to have no reaction at all.
In fact, Shen has always had such suspicions because he himself had indeed made a lot of preparations in case the incident came to light.
For example, although the people in Dongping Water Village may have known that Shen Yiguan was the person behind them and the person who could give them orders, there had never been any correspondence between the two parties, and there was absolutely no evidence in black and white.
For another example, Shen Yiguan, in order to arrange for the "reasonable" appearance of gangsters in Dongping Water Village in eastern Shandong to appear in northern Henan, he deliberately launched a crackdown in eastern Shandong some time ago on the pretext of discovering the Dongping gang's lair.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! He ordered several local governments in Shandong to send troops based on a private letter from the cabinet minister (as mentioned earlier, this is a common practice for ministers to ask local officials to cooperate) and an official document from the Ministry of Punishment.
As soon as a raid was carried out, a reasonable foreshadowing was laid in advance for the Dongping gang to "run around". Even if Gao Pragmatic wanted to pursue the case, he would have an excuse - didn't you say before that the Ministry of Punishment and Shandong local government were not doing their job well?
Is it wrong to suppress gangsters now?
It is precisely because of this that Gao Jingshi's complete lack of reaction made Shen Yiguan think that Gao Jingshi really didn't see the reason and just thought that the Dongping gang was looking for an opportunity to seek revenge on Jinghua.
Of course, there may be some details here. For example, Gao Wuruo was not the party involved after all, and he must have been rewarded by Gao Wuruo. Therefore, it is also possible that Gao Wuruo did not find out the reason and reported wrong news to Gao Wuruo.
In short, Gao Pingshi showed no reaction, and there was no movement in the Nanning Marquis Mansion. Shen Yiguan finally felt relieved.
Now that he was relieved, Shen Yiguan became happy again, because although his purpose of arranging the Tangyin ambush battle seemed not to be achieved, in fact, more than half of it was achieved - it is reported that although the ambush battle ended with the victory of the Beijing Cavalry, but
Gao Wuruo himself was injured, so he had to temporarily move to Weihui and stay there to recuperate... It is said that His Highness King Lu sent someone to visit him.
This is success! After all, Shen Yiguan was ultimately just to delay Gao Wuruo's southward journey to Xinzheng. As for killing him, it was just incidental. Since Gao Wuruo was injured and stranded in Weihui, the assassination of Gao Zai and his wife was naturally a matter of course.
Much easier to handle.
However, Shen Yiguan did not expect that just three days before he felt relieved, Gao Wuruo had already disguised himself as an ordinary security team cavalryman, and Shi Shiran entered Longwen Yayuan.
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