On the morning of July 29, the first year of Hongxi, the sky was clear and the ground was wet.
The Liujiang River on the east side of Liuzhou Prefecture City is shrouded in a layer of water mist.The milky white fog vapor floats slowly and gracefully in the breeze, with a gentle look.
However, on several floating bridges on the river, soldiers marching in line with wide-brimmed iron hats were filled with masculinity.
The noise of the people is often accompanied by filthy yelling and scolding, and vulgar words have destroyed the atmosphere of the beautiful scenery.
Geng Hao rode silently on the horse and stood beside his father-in-law Wu Gao.
At this time, a donkey cart loaded with cannons and wooden barrels could not move forward by the pontoon bridge. The man who drove the car whipped the donkey, but unexpectedly the donkey was very stubborn and even less moving.
Wu Gao flipped off the horse's back, walked over to push the donkey cart, and turned around to the generals and said: Help!
Although Geng Hao was extremely reluctant, his father-in-law went up in person, and he hurried over to push the cart.
Who built the bridge?Wu Gao looked back and asked.
No one answered around, and one of the generals said: Marquis, when these people have passed, they will ask people to nail a few wooden boards by the bridge so that they can drive away the car.
Go and do it now!Wu Gao ordered.
He turned his horse back and rode his horse across the river from the pontoon bridge in front.
Geng Hao was behind, let go of the hilt of the sword inlaid with mutton fat jade, silently took out a handkerchief, and repeatedly wiped the dirt with a complex smell on his palm.
As the marquis, the commander of a 100,000 army, Geng Hao felt uncomfortable when his father-in-law Wu Gao was always wandering around the army to do such small things.However, he relied on his father-in-law and naturally did not dare to say it.
...After crossing the Liujiang River, the group ran along the flat road in the northeast.After a while, I finally saw the central army flag on the west bank of Luoqing River.
The west bank of Luoqing River is crowded with people and noisy.
In addition to countless soldiers wearing wide-brimmed hats, there are also a large number of short-dressed men.
There were many ships on the river bank, and soldiers and civilians were transporting supplies, food and grass onto the ship.
The ships loaded the things left the river one after another and floated to the middle of the river.
Wu Gao knew that the rebel army was advancing towards Liuzhou Prefecture, so he did not agree with this path at first.
But all the generals advised him that it would be too light to leave Luo Qingjiang now!
Although it is the end of July, Guangxi is still warm and humid, with the south wind blowing. The cold wind in the northwest of autumn and winter has not yet arrived; Luoqing River flows north and south directly to Guilin Prefecture, and the waterway is just right.
The ship brought the baggage and raised the sails and went to Guilin along the south wind. It was really easy to march.
Once everyone arrives in Guilin, they can use the Lijiang River to go north.
There is convenient water transportation, unless you have to, there is no reason to give up!
Wu Gao knew that some people in the army criticized him for being timid. After repeatedly asking the scouts, he finally made a compromise and ordered the entire army to go north of Luoqing River.
Some military officers from Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian are neither literate nor speak official language, and Wu Gao can't even understand a word in dialect; he also has to maintain good relations with military generals in Guangxi and other places so that the generals can manage the military officers under his command.
A group of generals rode to the central army, and Wu Gao immediately called the soldiers from the scout camp to ask questions.
The general called over a dozen scouts who had returned from the past two days.The sergeant who spoke first was from Guangxi. Sure enough, after talking for a long time, Wu Gao didn't understand anything.He turned to look at a general.
At this time, someone translated: The villain returned to Liuzhou Prefecture in the middle of the night last night.More than a thousand cavalry of the rebel vanguards had arrived in Liucheng County (100 miles northwest of Liuzhou Prefecture City). The magistrate of Liucheng summoned the civil and brave archers to gather, but he did not dare to go out after being closed.The rebel vanguard requisitioned ships and wooden boards on all sides, forcibly rented them from the villagers at the price of a penny per dollar, hoping to put up thousands of floating bridges in Liujiang!
Another soldier said in Mandarin: Report to the Marquis, west of Liujiang, Liucheng County, the enemy vanguard is building military camp barriers, and a large area of camps can accommodate 80,000 to 90,000 people!
The small one was west of Yishan County (one hundred miles west of Liucheng County), and saw the official road full of dust, looking like the fires and smoke in the mountains, and the people were like a big black dragon.The chief of the little flag said, there must be more than 100,000 people!The Little Flag Chief took a few brothers and continued to touch the west from the mountain. He wanted to see what happened, and asked Xiao Di to come back first.But Xiaodi came back for a day and a night, and had not seen the little flag leader yet. He was worried. I wonder if the brothers were caught or lost...
The people coming from Qingyuan Prefecture said that the rebel army was coming to Yishan County.
The last general also found out about this news, and many pedestrians and people said that the rebel army had 100,000 people!It has arrived to the west of Yishan County.
A civil servant submitted several official documents.Wu Gao took it and took a look. There was an emergency document from the magistrate of Liucheng County, asking the army of officials to go to rescue, and there was also a report from the post station chief.
The general next to him said: It seems that until last night, the rebel army had not arrived in Yishan County.Yishan County goes east to Liucheng County, one hundred miles away; from Liucheng County, one hundred miles away, another one hundred miles away from Liucheng County, one hundred miles away!We set out north this morning and walked less than a hundred miles before we could leave the rebels behind.The Marquis is worried!
Wu Gao said nothing. After learning about the disturbing reports and official documents, he suddenly stared at one of the soldiers and asked: You just reported that you came back without seeing the full picture of the enemy?
The sergeant hurriedly said: We just met the rebel army on the official road, and the small flag leader sent the young man back first.For the rest of the matter, the little flag leader continued to inquire with his two brothers.
Wu Gao turned his head and said: Send someone to see the number of rebels with your own eyes!
The Marquis clearly explained that there would be many sentry scouts around the main force of the army.The brothers are easily caught when they approach, and it is even more difficult to see from beginning to end... The generals of the scout camp clasped their fists and said.
Wu Gao said coldly: That is the scout's incompetence!If I always rely on guessing, I was ambushed by the rebels and wiped out by the entire army in Guizhou several months ago!Can you still command here?
The last one will get orders!
After Wu Gao said that, he led the central army guards and a group of honorary flags to travel south.Soon, several floating bridges appeared on the Luoqing River again, and the infantry and cavalry army without supplies were crossing the river lightly.
At this time, the wooden ships were limited to carrying, and ships that could carry more than fifty people were large ships; the navy fleet on the sea in the Ming Dynasty was huge in scale and the highest in the world, with giant ships, hundreds of warships, and only 20,000 naval personnel.
Wu Gao had an army of 100,000, and it was only 300 miles to Guilin. The soldiers definitely could not take a boat and could only walk.
The main official road is on the east bank of Luoqing River; and there is a river blocked to the west of the army, so it is not easy to be attacked.Therefore, after the main force of Wu Gao's army crossed the Liujiang River, they continued to cross the Luoqing River and marched along the main road.
...Two days later, on the morning of August 1st.
As soon as Wu Gao got up, he received a newspaper sent by the Liuzhou Prefecture Certification Hundred Households (similar to the later Tangbao).
Yishan County and Liucheng County fell one after another; many panicked people were fleeing towards Liuzhou Prefecture City.
These things are bound to happen.
There are almost no soldiers in ordinary counties, and it is okay to rely on the temporary military service of the Minzhuang Army to deal with bandits. If you encounter the army led by the vassal kings, it would be strange if you can defend it.
Wu Gao guessed that the magistrates should not have defended the city and must have surrendered.
Wu Gao even expected that after he led the main force of the army to leave Liuzhou Prefecture, once the rebels sent troops to Liuzhou Prefecture, the civil and military officials in the city would surrender without fighting!
He was not interested in paying attention to these local cities, and the imperial court officials and the commander of the Pinghan army, Zhang Fu, did not ask Wu Gao to defend Guangxi.
Wu Gao rode on his horse, watching the magnificent scene between heaven and earth.
On the distant river surface, gray sails are like clouds, dotted among the green mountains and green waters; on the road, cars and horses are like dragons, and the army queues are nowhere to be seen.
The sound of drums and footsteps were all kinds of sounds, as if echoing on the other side of the West Mountain.
Wu Gao looked at the large green forest in the west, blocking the entire west sky. He stared at it for a long time, looked back and asked: What is behind that forest? Has any scout ever been investigated?
A Guangxi general replied in a mandarin with a strange accent: The mountains and forests in the west are endless, until Guilin Prefecture, and there are almost no people.The soldiers had to go into the mountain to explore, afraid it would be difficult to get out; they had to detour the southern foot of Yangshan and then go north to Rongxian.
There is only one county town in the northwest of our country, which is Rongxian; the local people from various tribes live in a radius of hundreds of miles, and there are also seedlings.It is easier to walk to the south of Rong County, but as soon as you leave Rong County, you will see mountains and forests.As far as I know, no one went there except for private salt dealers who avoided patrols and wanted to avoid life!
I have heard people talk about it before... Wu Gaodao.
The generals of Guangxi said: Local government troops occasionally enter the mountains to suppress the rebellion and capture the bandits, but they were forced to do so.There are so many rebels, and they come from other places. If they enter the mountains, they will most likely get lost!
Wu Gao nodded slightly and responded.But somehow, he always had an ominous premonition in his heart!
Perhaps it was because the two armies were too close and easier to contact, so Wu Gao was habitually nervous.The mountains and forests on both sides of the Luoqing River made him feel vaguely tight.
At first, this ominous dullness was just a feeling of no evidence.But on the evening of the next day and on the second day of August, Wu Gao received an urgent report, which made him even more nervous!
The report of the scout of the military general in the rear army wrote that the rebels had a large number of troops, including about 10,000 people, crossed the Liujiang River, and suddenly turned north and marched north!
After reading this, Wu Gao's face changed suddenly. He immediately thought in his mind that Rong County was north of Liucheng County.
There is no city around Rongxian within a radius of hundreds of miles. It is exactly what the generals said that only desperate salt dealers can walk on the mountain road.
What did the rebels' large-scale rebels go to Rong County for what purpose? The number of people crossing the river is easier to see clearly, with only more than 10,000 people; where is the main force of the rebels? !
It turns out that three or four days ago, the scout found so much news about the main trends of the rebels, all of which were fake news?!
Wu Gao hurriedly summoned the generals to discuss matters and asked the generals of the scout camp first: On the morning of July 29, I ordered you to send the scouts to carefully inquire about the rebel forces.Can it be done?
The scout general clasped his fists and said: "The last general has sent someone, but only three days have passed and the person has not come back yet... When the general saw Wu Gao's face was not good, he hurriedly said, "Please punish the marquis!"
Wu Gao ignored him anymore, and still expanded the map and stared at the picture silently.
His sn in law Geng Hao carefully advised: Marquis, let's set out early in July 29th and walk to the present.Just rush to Guilin Mansion for another three days...
All the generals agreed and suggested that Wu Gao continue to go north.
But Wu Gao did not let go. He frowned, poked his fingers heavily on the picture, and suddenly cursed: Damn it!
The Liujiang River on the east side of Liuzhou Prefecture City is shrouded in a layer of water mist.The milky white fog vapor floats slowly and gracefully in the breeze, with a gentle look.
However, on several floating bridges on the river, soldiers marching in line with wide-brimmed iron hats were filled with masculinity.
The noise of the people is often accompanied by filthy yelling and scolding, and vulgar words have destroyed the atmosphere of the beautiful scenery.
Geng Hao rode silently on the horse and stood beside his father-in-law Wu Gao.
At this time, a donkey cart loaded with cannons and wooden barrels could not move forward by the pontoon bridge. The man who drove the car whipped the donkey, but unexpectedly the donkey was very stubborn and even less moving.
Wu Gao flipped off the horse's back, walked over to push the donkey cart, and turned around to the generals and said: Help!
Although Geng Hao was extremely reluctant, his father-in-law went up in person, and he hurried over to push the cart.
Who built the bridge?Wu Gao looked back and asked.
No one answered around, and one of the generals said: Marquis, when these people have passed, they will ask people to nail a few wooden boards by the bridge so that they can drive away the car.
Go and do it now!Wu Gao ordered.
He turned his horse back and rode his horse across the river from the pontoon bridge in front.
Geng Hao was behind, let go of the hilt of the sword inlaid with mutton fat jade, silently took out a handkerchief, and repeatedly wiped the dirt with a complex smell on his palm.
As the marquis, the commander of a 100,000 army, Geng Hao felt uncomfortable when his father-in-law Wu Gao was always wandering around the army to do such small things.However, he relied on his father-in-law and naturally did not dare to say it.
...After crossing the Liujiang River, the group ran along the flat road in the northeast.After a while, I finally saw the central army flag on the west bank of Luoqing River.
The west bank of Luoqing River is crowded with people and noisy.
In addition to countless soldiers wearing wide-brimmed hats, there are also a large number of short-dressed men.
There were many ships on the river bank, and soldiers and civilians were transporting supplies, food and grass onto the ship.
The ships loaded the things left the river one after another and floated to the middle of the river.
Wu Gao knew that the rebel army was advancing towards Liuzhou Prefecture, so he did not agree with this path at first.
But all the generals advised him that it would be too light to leave Luo Qingjiang now!
Although it is the end of July, Guangxi is still warm and humid, with the south wind blowing. The cold wind in the northwest of autumn and winter has not yet arrived; Luoqing River flows north and south directly to Guilin Prefecture, and the waterway is just right.
The ship brought the baggage and raised the sails and went to Guilin along the south wind. It was really easy to march.
Once everyone arrives in Guilin, they can use the Lijiang River to go north.
There is convenient water transportation, unless you have to, there is no reason to give up!
Wu Gao knew that some people in the army criticized him for being timid. After repeatedly asking the scouts, he finally made a compromise and ordered the entire army to go north of Luoqing River.
Some military officers from Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian are neither literate nor speak official language, and Wu Gao can't even understand a word in dialect; he also has to maintain good relations with military generals in Guangxi and other places so that the generals can manage the military officers under his command.
A group of generals rode to the central army, and Wu Gao immediately called the soldiers from the scout camp to ask questions.
The general called over a dozen scouts who had returned from the past two days.The sergeant who spoke first was from Guangxi. Sure enough, after talking for a long time, Wu Gao didn't understand anything.He turned to look at a general.
At this time, someone translated: The villain returned to Liuzhou Prefecture in the middle of the night last night.More than a thousand cavalry of the rebel vanguards had arrived in Liucheng County (100 miles northwest of Liuzhou Prefecture City). The magistrate of Liucheng summoned the civil and brave archers to gather, but he did not dare to go out after being closed.The rebel vanguard requisitioned ships and wooden boards on all sides, forcibly rented them from the villagers at the price of a penny per dollar, hoping to put up thousands of floating bridges in Liujiang!
Another soldier said in Mandarin: Report to the Marquis, west of Liujiang, Liucheng County, the enemy vanguard is building military camp barriers, and a large area of camps can accommodate 80,000 to 90,000 people!
The small one was west of Yishan County (one hundred miles west of Liucheng County), and saw the official road full of dust, looking like the fires and smoke in the mountains, and the people were like a big black dragon.The chief of the little flag said, there must be more than 100,000 people!The Little Flag Chief took a few brothers and continued to touch the west from the mountain. He wanted to see what happened, and asked Xiao Di to come back first.But Xiaodi came back for a day and a night, and had not seen the little flag leader yet. He was worried. I wonder if the brothers were caught or lost...
The people coming from Qingyuan Prefecture said that the rebel army was coming to Yishan County.
The last general also found out about this news, and many pedestrians and people said that the rebel army had 100,000 people!It has arrived to the west of Yishan County.
A civil servant submitted several official documents.Wu Gao took it and took a look. There was an emergency document from the magistrate of Liucheng County, asking the army of officials to go to rescue, and there was also a report from the post station chief.
The general next to him said: It seems that until last night, the rebel army had not arrived in Yishan County.Yishan County goes east to Liucheng County, one hundred miles away; from Liucheng County, one hundred miles away, another one hundred miles away from Liucheng County, one hundred miles away!We set out north this morning and walked less than a hundred miles before we could leave the rebels behind.The Marquis is worried!
Wu Gao said nothing. After learning about the disturbing reports and official documents, he suddenly stared at one of the soldiers and asked: You just reported that you came back without seeing the full picture of the enemy?
The sergeant hurriedly said: We just met the rebel army on the official road, and the small flag leader sent the young man back first.For the rest of the matter, the little flag leader continued to inquire with his two brothers.
Wu Gao turned his head and said: Send someone to see the number of rebels with your own eyes!
The Marquis clearly explained that there would be many sentry scouts around the main force of the army.The brothers are easily caught when they approach, and it is even more difficult to see from beginning to end... The generals of the scout camp clasped their fists and said.
Wu Gao said coldly: That is the scout's incompetence!If I always rely on guessing, I was ambushed by the rebels and wiped out by the entire army in Guizhou several months ago!Can you still command here?
The last one will get orders!
After Wu Gao said that, he led the central army guards and a group of honorary flags to travel south.Soon, several floating bridges appeared on the Luoqing River again, and the infantry and cavalry army without supplies were crossing the river lightly.
At this time, the wooden ships were limited to carrying, and ships that could carry more than fifty people were large ships; the navy fleet on the sea in the Ming Dynasty was huge in scale and the highest in the world, with giant ships, hundreds of warships, and only 20,000 naval personnel.
Wu Gao had an army of 100,000, and it was only 300 miles to Guilin. The soldiers definitely could not take a boat and could only walk.
The main official road is on the east bank of Luoqing River; and there is a river blocked to the west of the army, so it is not easy to be attacked.Therefore, after the main force of Wu Gao's army crossed the Liujiang River, they continued to cross the Luoqing River and marched along the main road.
...Two days later, on the morning of August 1st.
As soon as Wu Gao got up, he received a newspaper sent by the Liuzhou Prefecture Certification Hundred Households (similar to the later Tangbao).
Yishan County and Liucheng County fell one after another; many panicked people were fleeing towards Liuzhou Prefecture City.
These things are bound to happen.
There are almost no soldiers in ordinary counties, and it is okay to rely on the temporary military service of the Minzhuang Army to deal with bandits. If you encounter the army led by the vassal kings, it would be strange if you can defend it.
Wu Gao guessed that the magistrates should not have defended the city and must have surrendered.
Wu Gao even expected that after he led the main force of the army to leave Liuzhou Prefecture, once the rebels sent troops to Liuzhou Prefecture, the civil and military officials in the city would surrender without fighting!
He was not interested in paying attention to these local cities, and the imperial court officials and the commander of the Pinghan army, Zhang Fu, did not ask Wu Gao to defend Guangxi.
Wu Gao rode on his horse, watching the magnificent scene between heaven and earth.
On the distant river surface, gray sails are like clouds, dotted among the green mountains and green waters; on the road, cars and horses are like dragons, and the army queues are nowhere to be seen.
The sound of drums and footsteps were all kinds of sounds, as if echoing on the other side of the West Mountain.
Wu Gao looked at the large green forest in the west, blocking the entire west sky. He stared at it for a long time, looked back and asked: What is behind that forest? Has any scout ever been investigated?
A Guangxi general replied in a mandarin with a strange accent: The mountains and forests in the west are endless, until Guilin Prefecture, and there are almost no people.The soldiers had to go into the mountain to explore, afraid it would be difficult to get out; they had to detour the southern foot of Yangshan and then go north to Rongxian.
There is only one county town in the northwest of our country, which is Rongxian; the local people from various tribes live in a radius of hundreds of miles, and there are also seedlings.It is easier to walk to the south of Rong County, but as soon as you leave Rong County, you will see mountains and forests.As far as I know, no one went there except for private salt dealers who avoided patrols and wanted to avoid life!
I have heard people talk about it before... Wu Gaodao.
The generals of Guangxi said: Local government troops occasionally enter the mountains to suppress the rebellion and capture the bandits, but they were forced to do so.There are so many rebels, and they come from other places. If they enter the mountains, they will most likely get lost!
Wu Gao nodded slightly and responded.But somehow, he always had an ominous premonition in his heart!
Perhaps it was because the two armies were too close and easier to contact, so Wu Gao was habitually nervous.The mountains and forests on both sides of the Luoqing River made him feel vaguely tight.
At first, this ominous dullness was just a feeling of no evidence.But on the evening of the next day and on the second day of August, Wu Gao received an urgent report, which made him even more nervous!
The report of the scout of the military general in the rear army wrote that the rebels had a large number of troops, including about 10,000 people, crossed the Liujiang River, and suddenly turned north and marched north!
After reading this, Wu Gao's face changed suddenly. He immediately thought in his mind that Rong County was north of Liucheng County.
There is no city around Rongxian within a radius of hundreds of miles. It is exactly what the generals said that only desperate salt dealers can walk on the mountain road.
What did the rebels' large-scale rebels go to Rong County for what purpose? The number of people crossing the river is easier to see clearly, with only more than 10,000 people; where is the main force of the rebels? !
It turns out that three or four days ago, the scout found so much news about the main trends of the rebels, all of which were fake news?!
Wu Gao hurriedly summoned the generals to discuss matters and asked the generals of the scout camp first: On the morning of July 29, I ordered you to send the scouts to carefully inquire about the rebel forces.Can it be done?
The scout general clasped his fists and said: "The last general has sent someone, but only three days have passed and the person has not come back yet... When the general saw Wu Gao's face was not good, he hurriedly said, "Please punish the marquis!"
Wu Gao ignored him anymore, and still expanded the map and stared at the picture silently.
His sn in law Geng Hao carefully advised: Marquis, let's set out early in July 29th and walk to the present.Just rush to Guilin Mansion for another three days...
All the generals agreed and suggested that Wu Gao continue to go north.
But Wu Gao did not let go. He frowned, poked his fingers heavily on the picture, and suddenly cursed: Damn it!
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