On the 21st of the first lunar month, Gao Pangshi received news from Huang Zhiting, telling him that Lang Son had been conquered and asking him to consider whether to push the headquarters to Lang Son.
At that time, Gao Pangshi was still a little hesitant. It was not that he was afraid that Lang Son would be unsafe, but that he had no soldiers - he only had Gao Zhang's 300 servants around him, and he did not want to mobilize officers and soldiers. Therefore, going south to Lang Son seemed a bit "strong."
"Weak".
Gao Zhang was bitten by scrub typhus last time and had to recuperate for half a month after being poisoned. Therefore, he did not go on an expedition with Gao Jue, but stayed with Gao Pingshi. He actually felt that going to Lang Son did not matter, because even from his perspective
Looking at it, I also feel that Huang Zhiting could not have done anything disrespectful towards Gao Pragmatic.
In fact, there is no need for him to say this. Gao Jingshi also knows that he simply does not want to have a strong supporter and a weak team. However, after two days of delay, Gao Jingshi felt that he had to move forward because Cen Ling
News also came that Gaoping had been captured and the Mo army in Gaoping was defeated, and Tonghua was expected to be captured in three days.
According to Cen Ling's plan, after he captured Tonghua, he would not immediately go south to capture Taiyuan, but would first go southwest to capture Xuanguang.
It is understandable that this idea is highly pragmatic. This march plan is equivalent to a right hook, squeezing the Mok army in the northwest toward Taiyuan or even Shenglong.
That is to say, after Cen Ling considered squeezing the Mo army to Taiyuan or Shenglong, he and Huang Zhiting - and even Gao Jue - surrounded the main force of the Mo army in the north, and then defeated them in one fell swoop.
He is very courageous and courageous. But he likes Gao Pragmatism very much.
Now the Mok army in the north should not be the elite of the Mok army. It is a good plan to defeat them in one fell swoop and then wait for the main force of the Mok army to come back from the south. Otherwise, before the clearing of the north is completed, the main force of the Mok army in the south will come back and it will be a disaster.
That's not to say that it will definitely be impossible to defeat, but it will definitely be more troublesome.
In particular, Gao Pragmatic had been worried about turning Annan into a land full of rebels. After all, "General Lin Dengwan" was no joke. Gao Pragmatic had a headache when he saw such a name.
In the past, only Lang Son had achieved a breakthrough, and Gao Pingshi could still stay in Siming Prefecture to wait and see the situation. But now that Gaoping has been conquered, there is nothing to say about moving the headquarters forward.
Taking 300 servants with him and joining Huang's first batch of 2,000 reinforcements, Gao Pingshi arrived at Lang Son via Zhennan Pass.
However, Huang Zhiting left at this time - when she sent the message to Gao Pingshi, she had already led her army to attack Changqing Prefecture (Lang Son belongs to Changqing Prefecture).
Since all the troops of the Changqing Mansion were lost in the Battle of Lang Son, Huang Zhiting's battle to capture Changqing was much smoother. To be precise... there was no battle. Changqing's soldiers had already received the news that the Ming army was marching southward.
After that, he "transferred" to Jingbei Prefecture, and Huang Zhiting directly captured Changqing.
Cen Ling's second battle report was also sent over. He said two things. One was that Tonghua had been successfully captured, and the other was that on the way to Xuanguang, he had learned the news that Xuanguang originally had more than 20,000 troops.
, but now he directly abandoned Xuanguang and transferred to Taiyuan.
Cen Ling proposed that after he captured Xuanguang, he would take a day's rest before heading east to Taiyuan. He asked Gao Jingshi to order Huang Zhiting's troops to cooperate with the westward march and besiege Taiyuan with him - he believed that by capturing Taiyuan, there would be no resistance in northern Annan.
If you have enough strength, then you will be able to attack Shenglong City with the power of Mount Tai.
Gao pragmatic thought for less than half a stick of incense before deciding to continue south and go directly to Changqing Mansion to meet Huang Zhiting.
The smooth development of the battle was somewhat beyond his expectation. Judging from the current battle situation, except for the battle of Lang Son, where the Annan Mo army showed its due tenacity, the rest of the battles were all devastating, and the Mo army did not make a slight effort.
If you resist, you will fail. You will simply run away without having the courage to fight.
Although the highly pragmatic people are not on the front line, it is not clear whether this is because the Mo army is too weak or the wolf soldiers are too strong, or it is just because Mo Chao Nanzheng has depleted all the elite soldiers and generals, but in a word: now Bei Annan has been
It is impossible to stop the Cen-Huang coalition.
If there is any resistance, it is Taiyuan.
But if we want to attack Taiyuan, Gao Pragmatic must go. Otherwise, Huang Zhiting and Cen Ling have almost the same status, and the strength of their troops is also very different. Who has the final say then?
Gao Pragmatic didn't want the two armies that could have exerted 10% of their combat power to have a failing result, so he couldn't wait any longer. He had to go directly to the front line and take personal command - personal command might not be possible.
But you must make your own decisions and orders.
On the twenty-fourth day of the first lunar month, Gao Pingshi arrived in Changqing. Huang Zhiting led the Guinan chieftains and generals out of the city to greet him.
When they arrived in the city, Huang Zhiting first reported the results of the battle. In this Battle of Lang Son, the East Route Army captured a total of 3,427 Annan Army leaders and captured 5,439 people. It is estimated that there are still 3,400 people.
Thousands of people fled.
There are two main directions for his escape. One is to flee to the north of Beijing and Shenglong, and the other is to flee to Anbang Hailong Mansion. In other words, he flees all the way to the southwest and all the way to the southeast.
Gao Pingshi came here with a reward of silver, including five taels of silver for each head, a total of 17,135 taels of silver, and two taels of silver for each prisoner, a total of 10,878 taels of silver.
At the same time, considering that the chieftains would not be rewarded by the court for their merits this time, he also directly rewarded them with silver. However, he did not ask about the specific distribution of the silver rewards. He only gave Huang Zhiting a reward of 20,000 taels of silver and let her judge the merits.
Assign and submit to yourself for approval.
This is obviously to continue to improve Huang Zhiting's prestige. Of course Huang Zhiting will not refuse, and no one among the chieftains questions this decision - the chieftains are not stupid. Now it is obvious that Gao Yuntai trusts Miss Huang. Who is willing to do so?
Jump out and sing blackface?
Besides, looking back now, it seems that there is some unusual friendship between the two of them. Reminiscent of the fact that the two of them once traveled thousands of miles alone...these Guinan chieftains originally followed the Siming Mansion.
Now I still have to worry about Miss Huang suddenly turning into Mrs. Yingtai at some point, and I can't afford to offend her even more.
After settling the issue of the silver reward, Cen Ling's battle report came again. He said that his troops would set out to march eastward on February 23, and asked Huang Zhiting's troops to immediately march west to join him after getting the news and encircle Taiyuan.
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Well, he didn't know that Gao pragmatic had arrived in Changqing.
Gao Pragmatic was not hypocritical. After asking Huang Zhiting what she meant, she also believed that it was feasible to encircle Taiyuan. Maybe once Taiyuan was lost, Shenglong might lose the confidence to resist.
So two thousand soldiers and horses were left to garrison the road behind Changqing Mansion, and the army continued to march towards Taiyuan.
Before arriving in Taiyuan, even more unexpected news came. This time the news came from Gao Jue from Shenglong City. The servants of the Gao family sent by Gao Jue excitedly expressed to Gao Jingshi: Mo Mao wants to open the city.
Welcoming Gao Tuanzuo into Sheng Long City, he announced in public that the Great Tomorrow Soldiers were here not to punish the Mo family, but to help Mo family wipe out the Li Ni Zheng thief!
Mo Maoqia even stated that "the troops under the Annan Dutong Division" as well as himself would accept the direct command of the Guangxi patrol, and "we are eagerly looking forward to Gao Gong coming to Shenglong to take command of the overall situation."
Gao Pragmatic was extremely shocked, and Huang Zhiting even opened her beautiful eyes, as if she suspected that her ears were broken.
Mo Maoqia is... surrendering?
Huang Zhiting whispered in Gao Pingshi's ear: "Guess what sentence I thought of? Let me remind you, it is an idiom."