The things that Hou Hai, the right chief of the Han Palace, are always different from those of ordinary people.
When Hou Hai first entered Guizhou City, the first thing he asked was the family of Hou Gu Cheng, Zhenyuan.
Gu Cheng’s remaining four sons, all his grandsons and family were all in Guizhou City!
Hou Hai had just arrived outside the Guizhou Metropolitan Office and reported the matter to Zhu Gaoxu.
Zhu Gaoxu was also surprised to hear the news.He thought for a while, then came to the lobby and asked someone to press Gu Yong on the case.
Suddenly, Zhu Gaoxu pulled out his waist knife from his waist! Gu Yong shouted in fear: What are you doing? What does the King of Han want to do!
At this time, Miaojin also walked into the lobby. She stood silently at the door, looking at Zhu Gaoxu's terrifying face.
Zhu Gaoxu turned his head to look at Miao Jin, still pressing Gu Yong's wrist with one hand, and slashed the ground with the other hand.
Ah screamed in pain, and Gu Yong's left index finger was accurately cut off and fell on the floor tiles!
After picking up the broken finger, Zhu Gaoxu handed it to Hou Hai beside him.Hou Hai hurriedly took out his handkerchief and bowed his hands to continue.
Find an envelope and seal it.Zhu Gaoxu said, and then use the seal and paint seal from Guizhou Dusi to give it to Zhenyuan Hou.
Hou Hai asked carefully: Prince, do you want to put letters in the envelope?
Zhu Gaoxu pondered for a moment, shook his head and said: No, ask the messenger to bring a word to Gu Cheng, so that Gu Cheng can sit down calmly and have a talk.If Gu Cheng is unwilling to talk or kill the messenger... then tell him that every day, I will give him two larger and more round gifts.
Hou Hai clasped his fists and said: The lower official obeys the order.
Gu Yong's face was full of pain, blue veins bulged out on his forehead, and he turned his head and gritted his teeth and said: My father will never be threatened by you!Unexpectedly, the King of Han was such a despicable person!
Zhu Gaoxu said coldly: Are you a despicable thing?There are thousands of brothers who died in battle for this king. Who should be counted on?
...Zhang Sheng, who was responsible for delivering letters, rode a fast horse along the post road day and night.
The next afternoon, he had just arrived at the territory of the Yunnan Provincial Administrators and was arrested by the official scouts.
However, the letters in Zhang Sheng's hand were covered with the seals of the Guizhou Dusi Yamen.
He was questioned for a while and then was sent straight to the city of Kunming.
Zhang Sheng was from the Northern Division of the Imperial Palace. He was the cousin of Wang Yu, the Qianhu Wang of the Han Dynasty guards. He had successfully sneaked into Chengdu City to contact Li Rang.
Although he failed to persuade Li Rang to surrender, Zhang Sheng also successfully delivered the intention of winning over the Han Palace.
This time Hou Hai sent him to Yunnan and felt that he had experience in doing this.
It was the third day when the group arrived in Kunming City.
Gu Cheng sent a messenger in the headquarters of the Central Army.
Zhang Sheng presented a thick envelope and said: The last general is Zhang Sheng, a general from Guizhou, who brought a few words to the Marquis... After saying that, he turned to look at the soldiers on both sides.
Gu Cheng waved his hand and asked his subordinates to retreat outside the door for the time being.
Then Zhang Sheng said in a deep voice: To be honest, the last general is from the Han Palace.Don’t be angry, the prince will suffer a lot of casualties in the attack on Guizhou, and he is also angry.If we are both angry and cannot talk calmly, then we will not be able to lose.
Gu Cheng frowned and looked at Zhang Sheng, checked the lacquer marks of the envelope without saying a word, and then pinched the things inside.He immediately cut the envelope with a knife.
There was no letter in the envelope, and a finger was poured out!
Gu Cheng looked at it for a while, his face turned red and changed. Suddenly, he slapped the case with a slamming palm, and the finger bounced up.
The soldiers outside the door heard the movement and immediately jumped into the middle hall. With two swishes, two people's waist knives had been pulled out.
Only then did Gu Cheng raise his hand to stop them, then raised his head, and everyone immediately retreated.
Zhang Sheng's face also changed. He swallowed and breathed a sigh of relief in secret.
Gu Cheng asked in a deep voice: Is Guizhou City broken?
Zhang Sheng said: Mr. Marquis should believe that General Gu Yong will not surrender on his own initiative.
Where is Wu Gaojun?Gu Cheng said coldly.
Zhang Sheng said: You should know that Wu Gaojun is in Maoyunba, 200 miles away from Guizhou.
The wrinkles on Gu Cheng's face trembled subtly and quickly. He seemed to be unable to believe that with Wu Gao's army of 100,000, Guizhou could be broken!
Kunming is not more difficult to attack than Guizhou. Kunming has not been captured yet without reinforcements... If Gu Cheng judged that Guizhou City would be compromised, he would probably return to rescue Guizhou!
After a long time, Gu Chengcai said coldly: Get out quickly while I have not changed my mind!Tell the King of Han that I will never surrender.
No, no!Marquis, you misunderstood.Zhang Sheng bowed and said, and he seemed very angry when he saw Gu Cheng, so he was very careful not to anger Gu Cheng further. Our prince must have no intention of asking the marquis to surrender.
Gu Chengdao: What does that mean?
Zhang Sheng bowed: What the prince brought to you is, please let Zhenyuan Hou have a peaceful conversation with Mo Jiang.Our prince respects Zhenyuanhou very much. In the "Jingnan Battle" that year, in order to be loyal to the palace, your four sons were killed. The prince would never want to see the tragedy happen again...
Gu Cheng suppressed his anger and raised his hand and said: You villain, dare you threaten me?
Zhang Sheng's face was very red, and he was also nervous at this time. He quickly waved his hand and blurted out: Please calm down when you are still so angry, the King of Han said that he would give you two larger and more round gifts every day...
Bigger and rounder?Gu Cheng glared at each other.
Seeing that Gu Cheng's white beard was almost blown up, Zhang Sheng's eyes were full of murderous intent!
Zhang Sheng was also a little scared on other people's territory. He hurriedly said: The Marquis cannot make a mistake for eternal regret! Everything can be discussed now...
Gu Cheng sat on the upper seat, his whole body tensed, his bearded and felt as if he was being pulled by something. He didn't say anything for a long time, nor did he move for a long time, and he seemed to have entered a state of meditation.
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Two hundred miles east of Guizhou City, Mao Yunba official army camp.
Before dawn early in the morning, Wu Gao was woken up.
He got up and heard a clang of armor, and he felt sore all over his waist and back.
At dawn, the rebels retreated!A voice said.
Wu Gao rubbed his temples and asked: Where did the people and horses withdraw?
all!The voice in the dark light said.After a while, the fire chub was blown up, lighting up the candle on the table.
Wu Gaodao: Don’t act rashly. Ask General Liu to send a scout to find out the truth first.
Wu Gao had long pondered the situation of this battle.
His men were to rescue Guizhou City.
If the main force of the rebels is restrained on the eastern front, the goal can be achieved; on the contrary, if his troops are defeated by the rebels, Guizhou City will become an isolated city!
By that time, to protect Guizhou City, the battlefield in Yunnan will also be restrained.
So Wu Gao was not in a hurry to start the Battle of Mao Yunba. He was waiting for a mature fighter opportunity to defeat the main force of the rebels in one fell swoop and make the first contribution to suppressing the rebellion!
After being woken up, he got up and started a day's military service.After dawn, a sergeant came to the central army and submitted a seal from a hundred households in Guizhou, telling Wu Gao: Guizhou City was captured!
Wu Gao could not determine the authenticity of this messenger (the rebels of the Han Dynasty were in Guizhou, and it was not impossible to capture a person from a hundred households), but when he thought of the report in the early morning, he felt something was wrong, so he asked: If Guizhou City could be broken, why no one came to worry about it in advance?
The messenger said anxiously: We are hiding in the mountains outside the city. Baihu sent people to come and asked General Wu for help twice!
Wu Gao could not remember this, and perhaps he had never received any news.
The official road to the west was controlled by the rebels, and it was not easy to send a message to Guizhou City, so the messenger could only walk around the dense forest path in the mountainous area.Therefore, the urgent news is very likely not sent to Master Wu.
By noon, Liu Sheng came to report: The rebel camps were in a mess, and no one left was left, and there was no one in the mountains and forests on both sides!
Wu Gao was stunned there and could not come back to his senses after a long time.
Why did the rebels withdraw?
If Wu Gao's men followed the city of Guizhou, and the 100,000 troops echoed the defenders inside and outside, could the rebels still break through Guizhou?
In such a situation, it is difficult to determine whether the rebels dare to surround Guizhou City!
Wu Gao suddenly made a judgment: Guizhou City was really broken!Moreover, Mao Yunba’s rebels are not the main force of the Han King at all!
He immediately sent an order to Chen Mao as the vanguard, and Liu Sheng followed up and led his troops to pursue the rebels!Wu Gao said in a trembling voice.
The general clasped his fists and said: Get the order!
Wu Gao looked at the iron helmet placed on the table and sat there without moving.
The expression on his face was very rich for a moment, and he was humiliated by being played with and deceived!
From time to time, I feel that my judgment is wrong, and I feel strongly blamed.
Some were a little embarrassed, some regretful, and some were also lost... Wu Gao finally had the military power, and this battle could have performed better.
Then a faint worry surged into Wu Gao's heart.
His 100,000 army suffered almost no losses, and there was no question of defeat, but the court strategy was to let him protect Guizhou!
Will the court settle his failure?
Will it affect the future of all the old generals?
Wu Gao stood up and paced back and forth in the house built by the military households in Maoyunba.
He gradually threw all kinds of complex moods behind him, because those things were influenced by the aftermath and could not be compensated or regretted now... The key is, what else can be done now to make up for the unfavorable situation and rewrite the result of this battle!
Did the rebels occupy Guizhou?
If Wu Gao's army advances to the city of Guizhou; Zhang Fu and Gu Chengjun from Yunnan mobilize troops from the west... the rebels will be trapped in a situation where they are attacked by officials from both sides of the east and west, and there is still a lot of potential in this battle!
As long as the performance of the east and west government troops is not bad, at least they can force the rebels to abandon Guizhou and regain this city!
If the rebels advance towards Yunnan, Wu Gao could also leave some troops to monitor Guizhou City and follow the rebels of the Han King with the main force; and then echo the east and west of Yunnan's official troops!
On the territory of the Yunnan Provincial Administrators, the government army can still re-establish the advantage of the battle!
When Wu Gao thought of this, he gradually calmed down.
He turned around and saw a member of the army standing at the door, and said casually: A big battle can be rewritten before the last moment comes!
When Hou Hai first entered Guizhou City, the first thing he asked was the family of Hou Gu Cheng, Zhenyuan.
Gu Cheng’s remaining four sons, all his grandsons and family were all in Guizhou City!
Hou Hai had just arrived outside the Guizhou Metropolitan Office and reported the matter to Zhu Gaoxu.
Zhu Gaoxu was also surprised to hear the news.He thought for a while, then came to the lobby and asked someone to press Gu Yong on the case.
Suddenly, Zhu Gaoxu pulled out his waist knife from his waist! Gu Yong shouted in fear: What are you doing? What does the King of Han want to do!
At this time, Miaojin also walked into the lobby. She stood silently at the door, looking at Zhu Gaoxu's terrifying face.
Zhu Gaoxu turned his head to look at Miao Jin, still pressing Gu Yong's wrist with one hand, and slashed the ground with the other hand.
Ah screamed in pain, and Gu Yong's left index finger was accurately cut off and fell on the floor tiles!
After picking up the broken finger, Zhu Gaoxu handed it to Hou Hai beside him.Hou Hai hurriedly took out his handkerchief and bowed his hands to continue.
Find an envelope and seal it.Zhu Gaoxu said, and then use the seal and paint seal from Guizhou Dusi to give it to Zhenyuan Hou.
Hou Hai asked carefully: Prince, do you want to put letters in the envelope?
Zhu Gaoxu pondered for a moment, shook his head and said: No, ask the messenger to bring a word to Gu Cheng, so that Gu Cheng can sit down calmly and have a talk.If Gu Cheng is unwilling to talk or kill the messenger... then tell him that every day, I will give him two larger and more round gifts.
Hou Hai clasped his fists and said: The lower official obeys the order.
Gu Yong's face was full of pain, blue veins bulged out on his forehead, and he turned his head and gritted his teeth and said: My father will never be threatened by you!Unexpectedly, the King of Han was such a despicable person!
Zhu Gaoxu said coldly: Are you a despicable thing?There are thousands of brothers who died in battle for this king. Who should be counted on?
...Zhang Sheng, who was responsible for delivering letters, rode a fast horse along the post road day and night.
The next afternoon, he had just arrived at the territory of the Yunnan Provincial Administrators and was arrested by the official scouts.
However, the letters in Zhang Sheng's hand were covered with the seals of the Guizhou Dusi Yamen.
He was questioned for a while and then was sent straight to the city of Kunming.
Zhang Sheng was from the Northern Division of the Imperial Palace. He was the cousin of Wang Yu, the Qianhu Wang of the Han Dynasty guards. He had successfully sneaked into Chengdu City to contact Li Rang.
Although he failed to persuade Li Rang to surrender, Zhang Sheng also successfully delivered the intention of winning over the Han Palace.
This time Hou Hai sent him to Yunnan and felt that he had experience in doing this.
It was the third day when the group arrived in Kunming City.
Gu Cheng sent a messenger in the headquarters of the Central Army.
Zhang Sheng presented a thick envelope and said: The last general is Zhang Sheng, a general from Guizhou, who brought a few words to the Marquis... After saying that, he turned to look at the soldiers on both sides.
Gu Cheng waved his hand and asked his subordinates to retreat outside the door for the time being.
Then Zhang Sheng said in a deep voice: To be honest, the last general is from the Han Palace.Don’t be angry, the prince will suffer a lot of casualties in the attack on Guizhou, and he is also angry.If we are both angry and cannot talk calmly, then we will not be able to lose.
Gu Cheng frowned and looked at Zhang Sheng, checked the lacquer marks of the envelope without saying a word, and then pinched the things inside.He immediately cut the envelope with a knife.
There was no letter in the envelope, and a finger was poured out!
Gu Cheng looked at it for a while, his face turned red and changed. Suddenly, he slapped the case with a slamming palm, and the finger bounced up.
The soldiers outside the door heard the movement and immediately jumped into the middle hall. With two swishes, two people's waist knives had been pulled out.
Only then did Gu Cheng raise his hand to stop them, then raised his head, and everyone immediately retreated.
Zhang Sheng's face also changed. He swallowed and breathed a sigh of relief in secret.
Gu Cheng asked in a deep voice: Is Guizhou City broken?
Zhang Sheng said: Mr. Marquis should believe that General Gu Yong will not surrender on his own initiative.
Where is Wu Gaojun?Gu Cheng said coldly.
Zhang Sheng said: You should know that Wu Gaojun is in Maoyunba, 200 miles away from Guizhou.
The wrinkles on Gu Cheng's face trembled subtly and quickly. He seemed to be unable to believe that with Wu Gao's army of 100,000, Guizhou could be broken!
Kunming is not more difficult to attack than Guizhou. Kunming has not been captured yet without reinforcements... If Gu Cheng judged that Guizhou City would be compromised, he would probably return to rescue Guizhou!
After a long time, Gu Chengcai said coldly: Get out quickly while I have not changed my mind!Tell the King of Han that I will never surrender.
No, no!Marquis, you misunderstood.Zhang Sheng bowed and said, and he seemed very angry when he saw Gu Cheng, so he was very careful not to anger Gu Cheng further. Our prince must have no intention of asking the marquis to surrender.
Gu Chengdao: What does that mean?
Zhang Sheng bowed: What the prince brought to you is, please let Zhenyuan Hou have a peaceful conversation with Mo Jiang.Our prince respects Zhenyuanhou very much. In the "Jingnan Battle" that year, in order to be loyal to the palace, your four sons were killed. The prince would never want to see the tragedy happen again...
Gu Cheng suppressed his anger and raised his hand and said: You villain, dare you threaten me?
Zhang Sheng's face was very red, and he was also nervous at this time. He quickly waved his hand and blurted out: Please calm down when you are still so angry, the King of Han said that he would give you two larger and more round gifts every day...
Bigger and rounder?Gu Cheng glared at each other.
Seeing that Gu Cheng's white beard was almost blown up, Zhang Sheng's eyes were full of murderous intent!
Zhang Sheng was also a little scared on other people's territory. He hurriedly said: The Marquis cannot make a mistake for eternal regret! Everything can be discussed now...
Gu Cheng sat on the upper seat, his whole body tensed, his bearded and felt as if he was being pulled by something. He didn't say anything for a long time, nor did he move for a long time, and he seemed to have entered a state of meditation.
……
Two hundred miles east of Guizhou City, Mao Yunba official army camp.
Before dawn early in the morning, Wu Gao was woken up.
He got up and heard a clang of armor, and he felt sore all over his waist and back.
At dawn, the rebels retreated!A voice said.
Wu Gao rubbed his temples and asked: Where did the people and horses withdraw?
all!The voice in the dark light said.After a while, the fire chub was blown up, lighting up the candle on the table.
Wu Gaodao: Don’t act rashly. Ask General Liu to send a scout to find out the truth first.
Wu Gao had long pondered the situation of this battle.
His men were to rescue Guizhou City.
If the main force of the rebels is restrained on the eastern front, the goal can be achieved; on the contrary, if his troops are defeated by the rebels, Guizhou City will become an isolated city!
By that time, to protect Guizhou City, the battlefield in Yunnan will also be restrained.
So Wu Gao was not in a hurry to start the Battle of Mao Yunba. He was waiting for a mature fighter opportunity to defeat the main force of the rebels in one fell swoop and make the first contribution to suppressing the rebellion!
After being woken up, he got up and started a day's military service.After dawn, a sergeant came to the central army and submitted a seal from a hundred households in Guizhou, telling Wu Gao: Guizhou City was captured!
Wu Gao could not determine the authenticity of this messenger (the rebels of the Han Dynasty were in Guizhou, and it was not impossible to capture a person from a hundred households), but when he thought of the report in the early morning, he felt something was wrong, so he asked: If Guizhou City could be broken, why no one came to worry about it in advance?
The messenger said anxiously: We are hiding in the mountains outside the city. Baihu sent people to come and asked General Wu for help twice!
Wu Gao could not remember this, and perhaps he had never received any news.
The official road to the west was controlled by the rebels, and it was not easy to send a message to Guizhou City, so the messenger could only walk around the dense forest path in the mountainous area.Therefore, the urgent news is very likely not sent to Master Wu.
By noon, Liu Sheng came to report: The rebel camps were in a mess, and no one left was left, and there was no one in the mountains and forests on both sides!
Wu Gao was stunned there and could not come back to his senses after a long time.
Why did the rebels withdraw?
If Wu Gao's men followed the city of Guizhou, and the 100,000 troops echoed the defenders inside and outside, could the rebels still break through Guizhou?
In such a situation, it is difficult to determine whether the rebels dare to surround Guizhou City!
Wu Gao suddenly made a judgment: Guizhou City was really broken!Moreover, Mao Yunba’s rebels are not the main force of the Han King at all!
He immediately sent an order to Chen Mao as the vanguard, and Liu Sheng followed up and led his troops to pursue the rebels!Wu Gao said in a trembling voice.
The general clasped his fists and said: Get the order!
Wu Gao looked at the iron helmet placed on the table and sat there without moving.
The expression on his face was very rich for a moment, and he was humiliated by being played with and deceived!
From time to time, I feel that my judgment is wrong, and I feel strongly blamed.
Some were a little embarrassed, some regretful, and some were also lost... Wu Gao finally had the military power, and this battle could have performed better.
Then a faint worry surged into Wu Gao's heart.
His 100,000 army suffered almost no losses, and there was no question of defeat, but the court strategy was to let him protect Guizhou!
Will the court settle his failure?
Will it affect the future of all the old generals?
Wu Gao stood up and paced back and forth in the house built by the military households in Maoyunba.
He gradually threw all kinds of complex moods behind him, because those things were influenced by the aftermath and could not be compensated or regretted now... The key is, what else can be done now to make up for the unfavorable situation and rewrite the result of this battle!
Did the rebels occupy Guizhou?
If Wu Gao's army advances to the city of Guizhou; Zhang Fu and Gu Chengjun from Yunnan mobilize troops from the west... the rebels will be trapped in a situation where they are attacked by officials from both sides of the east and west, and there is still a lot of potential in this battle!
As long as the performance of the east and west government troops is not bad, at least they can force the rebels to abandon Guizhou and regain this city!
If the rebels advance towards Yunnan, Wu Gao could also leave some troops to monitor Guizhou City and follow the rebels of the Han King with the main force; and then echo the east and west of Yunnan's official troops!
On the territory of the Yunnan Provincial Administrators, the government army can still re-establish the advantage of the battle!
When Wu Gao thought of this, he gradually calmed down.
He turned around and saw a member of the army standing at the door, and said casually: A big battle can be rewritten before the last moment comes!