Meng Zhuze is a famous Daze in the Central Plains. It is written in "Yu Gong" that "Guo He Ze" was Meng Zhu. "Erya" listed Meng Zhuze as one of the ten zes in the world, together with Dayez and Dalu Ze.
, Yunmengze and other names.
However, such a large swamp has been continuously silted up in the following hundreds of years, and has been reclaimed by ancestors. It has shrunk into many small lakes and hills between Juye and Dingtao counties and along the Guangji River.
It is not as good as Yangsanbo in Jeju in the northeast.
When the Jin Kingdom took control of the Central Plains and the Song Dynasty crossed south, the Yellow River burst and flowed north of Nanjing Road for forty years, causing great changes in the landscape. Old lakes were gradually flattened, and new lakes were formed.
.A few miles north of Guide Mansion, there is a lake area between the former site of Sanbaili Dike and Qigou. Although it is still called Mengzhuze, it has no connection with the original vast swamp.
At this time, Meng Zhuze could vaguely hear the sounds of winter coming from the direction of Guide Mansion in the south. It was the Jin army that suddenly took action, urging the troops to approach the city with the sound of drums.
Probably disturbed by the sound of drums, a group of wild ducks flew up in the lake. Soon after the wild ducks flew high, a large reed was suddenly knocked down with a door panel prepared in advance. Hundreds of door panels followed one after another across the edge of the lake.
The silt tidal flats formed five parallel roads.
On the road, thousands of soldiers advanced silently.
When Yin Chang was lured out of Binzhou by Guo Ning, he once thought that he would spend the rest of his life as a civil servant. Unexpectedly, Guo Ning was not like this. Instead, he awarded Yin Chang the position of military commander of the Xingde Army, requiring him to firmly control Jinan and serve as a military commander.
To the west, it curbed Damingfu Road and to the south, it drew in the remaining red-coated troops of Dongping Prefecture.
Yin Chang completed this task very well, and Guo Ning never regarded Yin Chang as an outsider. The equipment of his troops, rewards and land grants, etc., were all exactly the same as those of the Ding Navy Headquarters. Even the number of students enrolled in the military academy,
There is also some preferential treatment for the quotas for promotion in the army competition.
In the past two years, Yin Chang's Xingde Army has truly become a member of the Ding Navy system.
But Yin Chang and his close subordinates were always worried.
Because the Jinan Xingde Army was originally the only unit under Zhou Guogong with an independent military title, Yin Chang was worshiped as the Jiedushi, and in terms of official status alone, it was second only to Guo Ning himself.
However, with the rapid expansion of the size of the Ding Navy, the number of important generals who have obtained or are about to obtain the status of Jiedu Envoy has exceeded ten. Guo Ning himself has been promoted from Xuanfu Envoy to Capital Marshal, and from Du Marshal to Zhou Guogong. He is far away from the emperor.
Not far away.
This is too fast.
If this continues, when Duke Zhou ascends the throne and establishes the country, where will I, Yin, rank among the military officials? Twenty, thirty, or forty or fifty? How can this be achieved?
Yin Chang wished he could shout loudly, asking Duke Zhou to stop and wait for your loyal subordinates to give us a chance to make meritorious deeds!
Fortunately, his expectations had come to fruition not long ago. Ding Haijun was about to attack the Kaifeng court, and Yin Chang's department was one of the most important ones.
According to the military plan assigned by Zhongdu, Yin Chang's troops will set out from Jinan and march a long distance of 500 miles. On the way, they will threaten the old Red Coat Army in Dongping Prefecture, and then win over the water bandits in Liangshanbo, passing through the Red Coat Army and Kaifeng.
Jeju, where the imperial forces were intertwined, arrived at Weishan in Peixian County at the junction of Tengzhou, Pizhou, and Xuzhou, and merged with the main force led by Guo Ning.
This task is not easy to accomplish.
Not to mention the hot weather in the summer, the long-distance march of the army, fatigue and illness along the way; nor the difficulty of continuously recruiting friendly and guest troops, integrating thousands of people with the headquarters, and reorganizing the organization while marching.
Along the way, the army will inevitably arouse the vigilance of the Jin Army's garrison troops at the border. Therefore, sometimes they have to march at night to keep secrets, sometimes they have to send more detective horses to capture the enemy's details, and sometimes they have to simply besiege a certain camp and massacre everyone to prevent it.
News leaked.
It takes a lot of effort to direct your subordinates to do any of these things; each one must be done, and each one must not be neglected, which is even more exhausting.
Fortunately, Yin Chang did it.
When he arrived at Weishan, he received an urgent order from the Duke of Zhou that day, asking him to lead his troops to continue the forced march across the forks of the Yellow River and directly take the Guide Mansion. The subordinates in the army, Fang Guosan and Zhan Hui, heard this
, there was a lot of wailing and distress, and some Liang Shanshui thieves even boarded the ship and left directly.
But Yin Chang instead saw the hope of making great achievements and the opportunity for his family to truly become the arm of Zhou Guogong. He tried his best to boost morale and stimulate the enthusiasm of the soldiers, and even used his own money to reward those who opened the way during the march.
Soldiers who have done meritorious service in building bridges.
When they were crossing a fork of the Yellow River, the river was swollen, and huge waves were roaring and roaring, knocking over four or five boats carrying people crossing the river. The soldiers were inevitably frustrated.
Yin Chang also personally led the soldiers to patrol various places where they were boarding the ship. He immediately beheaded those who were hesitant, timid, or made remarks that shook the morale of the army. In a moment, he killed more than forty people in a row. He forcibly boosted the morale of the army, and successfully crossed the river in only half a day.
, and in another day, they stationed themselves at Mengzhuzeli.
Over the past century, the Yellow River has choked four times in this area, turning the vast plains into silt tidal flats, and reducing the number of roads from Xuzhou to Guidefu and even Kaifeng to a few fixed roads. Everyone believes that as long as they occupy the
Once the key pass is reached, it is enough to stop the army's movement.
Only in the eyes of Ding Haijun, we have more choices.
This marching route was the result of repeated surveys by Xu Yan's spies in the past two years. To this end, the Recording Department invested huge resources, so much so that it almost neglected Zhongdu.
Yin Chang's troops arrived at Guide Mansion along this route, completely beyond the Jin army's expectations.
The price paid was that as many as a hundred ships were stranded along the way, and more than half of the baggage that was stuck in the mud and unable to continue moving was more than half of the entire army. Along the way, the number of soldiers who were exhausted and fell ill due to illness was as high as 1,500.
The remaining people, more than 200 of them, died directly from the heat.
Guo Ning told Peng Yibin about the arrival of Yin Chang's troops in Guide Mansion. It was just a few words. In fact, how could he not know the difficulties involved?
It is nothing more than raising an army for a thousand days and using it for a while. It is nothing more than kindness but not commanding an army! In the final analysis, the army is a tool for killing people and replenishing the wilderness, and the tools are indispensable for wear and tear.
Besides...
How does the difficulty of marching compare with the danger of capturing a city with light cavalry?
How does the loss of soldiers compare with the gain from taking Guide Mansion?
Now that this battle has been won, there are almost no available troops around the Kaifeng Mansion. It can be said that the entire Kaifeng court has become the possession of Ding Haijun. In order to realize this entire big plan without any flaws, Duke Zhou Guogong
Guo Ning himself came to Guide Mansion in person!
What else is there to say?
In this game, Guo Ning must win a big victory, and Yin Chang must also win a big victory.
Only a victory of sufficient weight can show Duke Zhou the bravery of the Jinan Xingde Army, and tell everyone in the Dinghai Navy that there are many heroes who can fight in the Jinan Xingde Army!
When I looked at it at this time, I saw that Yin Chang's already thin face had become even thinner due to the long journey, and his two eye sockets were sunken deeply. His gray beard was also unkempt, and he didn't even bother to wipe it when it was stained with muddy water, but because
His spirits were so high that his eyes were so bright that they seemed to shine through.
He has been in the army for twenty years and has been a private salt dealer for twenty years. To be able to survive so many years of ups and downs and continue to grow his own power, Yin Chang is by no means an ordinary person. He is good at weighing and calculating in his bones, and he is rarely fooled.
What things can move you easily?
But now, he was extremely excited. He had never known his own value as well as he did now. He was delighted to find that in the chess game that determines the general trend of the world, Binzhou Yin Chang and the army he built are powerful pieces.
!When this chess piece is finished, it will leave its name in history!
Yin Chang exhaled deeply, held the long knife in his hand, and pointed forward.
Around him, the soldiers were silent and quickened their pace.
These soldiers are old and young. Because of the good treatment and strict training in the past two years, everyone is very strong, wearing armor and stomach, like a ferocious beast.
Thanks to the repeated encouragement from the generals, their morale was very high. As for their physical strength, most of the soldiers were naturally extremely exhausted, but because they were traveling with the fleet, it was necessary to gather a group of elites who were full of physical strength and marched by ship from beginning to end.
But no problem.
Five teams of elite soldiers attacked at the same time. Among the five brave generals leading the team, three of them were Yin Chang's old troops when he was a tycoon in the private salt industry. They were Li He, who was good at using flowers and spears, and Yang Yue, who fought with short swords and daggers. He used long swords to kill the generals.
Banner Jiang Jin, there are two Shuizhai heroes recruited by Yin Chang after he left Jinan, namely Guo Zheng and Xu Wende.
These five people were all good generals who had been summoned by Guo Ning. The five generals led their troops to stand out, like five long dragons soaring, and like five iron currents surging. Their murderous aura rose into the sky, and immediately alarmed the inside and outside of the Guide Mansion, and everyone was lining up.
The various units of the Jin army attacking the city fell into chaos!
"Is there an enemy ambush in the north of the city?"
"Why is there an ambush? Why are they coming from the north of the city?"
"It's right behind the Fengdi? Isn't it only two miles away from us? Why don't you look carefully? This is going to be painful!"
"Our cavalry is small. We have to go east to scout for hundreds of miles. Where can we find the manpower to go north? Quickly inform the three captains that the enemy troops are divided into three groups. They are coming with an overwhelming force. I don't know how many there are!"
"Every unit, go north! Go north! It's time to fight!"
"What? Half a moment? We will fight in half a moment? How to fight? Our army has just spread out. All six companies and battalions are facing the city. The soldiers have also been replaced by short soldiers suitable for climbing the city and fighting in the streets...
Tell me how to fight? What should I use to fight?"
"Where are the crossbowmen? The crossbowmen quickly gathered to the north and formed a line to release arrows!"
Outside Guide Mansion, the army that was gradually approaching the city was in a mess. In the main army of the Chinese Army, the officers, soldiers, and subordinates were also in a mess. Most of the people were confused and didn't know what to do, and the hearing
The better ones could already hear the sound of fighting and the sound of arrows flying through the air.
To be continued...