The fine rain scattered in the air, and the wind blew white and drifted like smoke.
It was not a good thing that the Wuchang army encountered such weather just after coming. Tens of thousands of people were trapped in the wilderness and could only camp in the rain, cutting wood, digging trenches and draining water increased the difficulty.
In October, when the weather is wet by the rain, you must be careful of sudden illness in the army.
Zhou Mengxiong returned to a dilapidated temple where the Central Army was temporarily stationed in the evening, and his body was soaked.Unexpectedly, as soon as I entered the eaves, there was a tiles on my head, and it seemed that the rain had stopped falling.
A group of people walked into the ruined temple. When the general looked at the airy walls on all sides and the clay Buddha covered with dust and spider webs, he couldn't help but say: The Grand Marshal is living here tonight, why no one cleans up?
Another said: There is a village not far away. I heard that the Huben Camp is stationed there. Why doesn’t the general stay in the village and choose such a broken place?
At this time, Liu Mazi said seriously: Let’s go out to fight, not to be comfortable.The village is full of people and eyes. Where can the Central Army guarantee that there are no spies?This temple is a little broken, but it is quiet.Ask people to raise the fire and let Dashuai bake clothes.
Soon, a group of military generals sat in front of the Bodhisattva and took off their coats and roasted them to the fire.
Suddenly a woman wearing a veiled hat appeared at the door, holding a sword in her hand. The central army suddenly appeared and called out a woman. Several people were stunned. Some of them whispered: "The Eunuch."
Everyone then felt a sudden appearance.
What does the Escort Province do? As long as you compare the imperial court factory guards, you will understand it very well. The people sent to spy on military affairs are not all women, but because the Escort Province was a cult vanishing religion, and the leader Yao Ji was once the concubine of Emperor Jianwen, almost all those who have a high status in the church and can meet Yao Ji often are women.
The one who could come to the central army to meet Zhou Mengxiong was naturally the leader of the Ministry of Eunuch.
The woman saw a few men sitting next to the fire without getting into the house, and stood outside the threshold and said: Report to General Zhou, we just got some reliable news.British Duke Zhang Fu sent a general to the Northern Army, and this person was named Zhu Mian.
Seeing Zhou Mengxiong frowning, she seemed to have never heard of Zhu Mian, so she said again: The son of Wu Jin Bo Zhu Rong.Zhu Rong died in the first year of Hongxi and was exterminated by Zhu Mian.
Sure enough, Zhou Mengxiong said oh, as if he suddenly realized what he realized.
The woman said: If General Zhou is interested in the new chief general of the Northern Route Army, he can send someone back to Wuchang to get the files, and everything from his family to his resume is complete.
Then there will be a hard work.Zhou Mengxiong said.After hearing this, the woman bowed and said goodbye.
At that time, during the Xuande Dynasty, there were still people with titles. Almost without exception, they were neutral in the Battle of Jingnan, and Wu Jinbo was no exception.
Zhou Mengxiong, who also participated in the Jingnan Campaign, naturally heard of it, so when he mentioned the names of Wu Jinbo and Zhu Rong, he knew the origin.
He was suddenly affected by a negative emotion and was stunned at the fire.Seeing this, the generals around him gradually stopped talking and fell silent.
Zhou Mengxiong and his group of people could not get rid of the influence of the civil war more than 20 years ago. Now that the opponents who had met again many years ago were reunited on the battlefield, how can people not sigh?
Not to mention Wu Jinbo, British Duke Zhang Fu was actually an old man in the Jingnan Campaign.
This kind of mood was caused by Zhou Mengxiong putting himself as a loser, at least he was the former loser.
Feeling humiliation, reluctance and anger...
Perhaps the person who really should feel the failure was Emperor Jianwen. Zhou Mengxiong was too young and had very limited power at the time. He should not bear too much responsibility for such failure, but human destiny is closely related to the general trend.
What kind of humiliation can make people feel embarrassed and unacceptable?
That is to be defeated by someone you look down on, but you are sure to win but you are defeated, and you are upset by many mistakes afterwards.
So anger always comes from being unable to accept one's own incompetence.
Zhou Mengxiong was originally a child of a military general family. The failure of the war made him lose everything and lose all his dreams of making achievements as a real man. He could only hide in the valley and farm for the rest of his life.
And he could only hear in the distant shadow that Zhang Fu of the same era was granted the title of Duke, Zhu Rong was granted the title of Wu Jin Bo, and who was granted the title of Duke, who was granted the title of Duke, who was honored by the family to glory and wealth, and was respected by the world.
This contrast made him not balanced for decades, but he could only hide in helplessness, as if he wanted to live in such a depressed life.
But now, Zhou Mengxiong was in a daze in this dilapidated temple and found that he had heavy troops in his hand. The opportunity came again, which was the last time.
Zhou Mengxiong's mood gradually became boiling in the extreme complexity: there is no need to be afraid of those famous people, those things could also belong to you.
Silk... With the unique sound of metal, he pulled out half of the old saber from the scabbard. Others didn't know what he was doing, so they held their breath and looked at him.
When he noticed it, he suppressed his emotions and re-shewn the knife, and found that the nearby area was so quiet.
The rain has stopped, and there are still sporadic water droplets dripping from the tiles on the eaves. Waves, waves... The crisp and soothing sound sounds sounded in my ears. Zhou Mengxiong closed his eyes slightly, and his chest had followed this rhythm and became calm and peaceful.
This sound reminds people of the guqin playing with sparse sounds in the Boya era, just like the wisdom of the ancestors' ears.
……
After the weather turned clear, the military camp was filled with dust. In short, the conditions for marching and fighting were of course not comparable to those of home, either muddy or dusty.
The original weeds on the ground were destroyed because of the walls and digging trenches. The soil was turned over and dried by the sun. It was easy for seven or eight hundred people in a village to move on a piece of land to make dust.
Zhou Mengxiong stood on the earthen wall and looked around, and could see similar camps wherever he could see them from the left and right and behind.
About 750 people made a village, surrounded by earth walls, sandbags were built on the walls, and deep trenches were dug outside the walls to form a defensive fortification.
This fortification was built around the garrison during training in Wuchang. It was a method proposed by the King of Xiang. Later, the generals also recognized the advantages of this camp. It was not only simple to build but also quite practical. It could quickly build a fortification that was easy to defend and difficult to attack on the plains, and was rarely restricted by the terrain.
At this point, the vanguard Huben Camp had marching, and did nothing, and then he set up a line of defense in many fortifications.
To the east is the boundary of Wuchang County controlled by the government army (the county town on the other side of the Yangtze River of Huangzhou Prefecture, which was called Ewangcheng before the Three Kingdoms period). The two armies are only ten miles apart.
These camps start from Yaer Lake in the north and from Sanshan Lake in the south, reaching twenty miles across, almost blocking the official army's way of encircling and encircling. Unless they travel a long distance, they will not be able to threaten the Xiangwang Army's side.
However, the news received by Zhou Mengxiong's scouts that the government army also built similar fortifications, including inner walls and outer grooves, as if they had been negotiated.
Zhu Mian, the head general of the North Road, came from Jiujiang, probably learned from the defense of Yongdingyingying, Jiujiang City, and put all his knowledge into practice.
Zhou Mengxiong explained this to the generals, and only such one person could have such a tacit understanding between them.
This kind of camp fortification is something that adapts to firearms, and the functions of the previous military camps were different.
Liu Mazi said: The government army transported grain from the river and built walls in front of it. Some of them fought.
Zhou Mengxiong looked at the files about Wu Jinbo sent by the Provincial Eunuchs, and said calmly: Zhang Fu used an army of more than 100,000 to intercept Jiujiang City on three sides, with the obvious purpose of trying to eat Yongdingying Camp; and if there is no rescue in Jiujiang Yongding Camp, he will definitely be defeated.So as long as the Northern Route Army blocks our reinforcements, they don’t have to defeat the reinforcements, they will win in the end.Even the Northern Army does not have to block us at all. They just need to establish a foothold here and naturally threaten our army's baggage and food routes.
So, Zhu Mian is going to waste time with us in this bird place?Liu Mazi frowned and said, "How did the Grand Marshal plan to build such ditch wall fortifications?"
Zhou Mengxiong touched the bearded man on the horse's face and said coldly: There is no need to worry about this for the time being, Zhu Mian must attack first.
Liu Mazi didn't understand why, because the general just talked about the principle of the enemy defending and attacking, and then guessed that the official army would be in a hurry to attack, and the words were indeed very contradictory.
Zhou Mengxiong shook the dust on the file and turned around and handed it to the nearby servant, but no longer had any more talk.
At this moment, I suddenly saw several riding horses coming from the dry fields, and the smoke and dust rising on the light yellow road was very conspicuous.
The Huben Camp Ranger, who was moving ahead, quickly met him, and then he heard a shouting sound from afar, as if the enemy was coming.
But not many people were seen, and the defenders on the camp wall just watched from a distance.
Several enemy cavalry did not clash with the ranger, and suddenly shot an arrow, pulled out the horse and ran away.
After a while, the scout picked up an arrow tied with an envelope and sent it straight to Zhou Mengxiong.
The general helped to take apart and said: It was an official general... The letter of appointment by Wu Jinbo will be set up in the middle of the two armies' camps tomorrow morning.
Liu Mazi looked at Zhou Mengxiong in surprise: What a great coach!All the generals cast awe-in-law eyes, and then everyone asked for the battle to make a first contribution.
Zhou Mengxiong raised his hand to stop the generals around him: I won’t accept their appointment tomorrow.
After hearing this, the generals were very disappointed. It was much better to put on the field to fight than to attack fortifications, but due to the fear of Zhou Mengxiong, no one dared to object.
At this time, Zhou Mengxiong looked back and said: I guess Zhu Mian wanted to take the lead in attacking, and it was not because of his nature.This person has many similar practices in the deeds we have collected. One of them was besieged in the Jiaozhi Post Road Fortress, and he was unwilling to defend and took the initiative to attack the barbarian camp. He believed that he could first destroy the opponent's spirit before he could defend... This is why my unwillingness to fight at this time. Most of our soldiers came from afar without actual combat and came from afar to attack. They rashly fought with the official army who was waiting for their hard work. They lost more than defeated the enemy and lost their morale. It would be better to defend the camp first and then defeat the enemy.Zhu Mian is eager for quick success and instant benefits, so just let him chew our fortifications.
It was not a good thing that the Wuchang army encountered such weather just after coming. Tens of thousands of people were trapped in the wilderness and could only camp in the rain, cutting wood, digging trenches and draining water increased the difficulty.
In October, when the weather is wet by the rain, you must be careful of sudden illness in the army.
Zhou Mengxiong returned to a dilapidated temple where the Central Army was temporarily stationed in the evening, and his body was soaked.Unexpectedly, as soon as I entered the eaves, there was a tiles on my head, and it seemed that the rain had stopped falling.
A group of people walked into the ruined temple. When the general looked at the airy walls on all sides and the clay Buddha covered with dust and spider webs, he couldn't help but say: The Grand Marshal is living here tonight, why no one cleans up?
Another said: There is a village not far away. I heard that the Huben Camp is stationed there. Why doesn’t the general stay in the village and choose such a broken place?
At this time, Liu Mazi said seriously: Let’s go out to fight, not to be comfortable.The village is full of people and eyes. Where can the Central Army guarantee that there are no spies?This temple is a little broken, but it is quiet.Ask people to raise the fire and let Dashuai bake clothes.
Soon, a group of military generals sat in front of the Bodhisattva and took off their coats and roasted them to the fire.
Suddenly a woman wearing a veiled hat appeared at the door, holding a sword in her hand. The central army suddenly appeared and called out a woman. Several people were stunned. Some of them whispered: "The Eunuch."
Everyone then felt a sudden appearance.
What does the Escort Province do? As long as you compare the imperial court factory guards, you will understand it very well. The people sent to spy on military affairs are not all women, but because the Escort Province was a cult vanishing religion, and the leader Yao Ji was once the concubine of Emperor Jianwen, almost all those who have a high status in the church and can meet Yao Ji often are women.
The one who could come to the central army to meet Zhou Mengxiong was naturally the leader of the Ministry of Eunuch.
The woman saw a few men sitting next to the fire without getting into the house, and stood outside the threshold and said: Report to General Zhou, we just got some reliable news.British Duke Zhang Fu sent a general to the Northern Army, and this person was named Zhu Mian.
Seeing Zhou Mengxiong frowning, she seemed to have never heard of Zhu Mian, so she said again: The son of Wu Jin Bo Zhu Rong.Zhu Rong died in the first year of Hongxi and was exterminated by Zhu Mian.
Sure enough, Zhou Mengxiong said oh, as if he suddenly realized what he realized.
The woman said: If General Zhou is interested in the new chief general of the Northern Route Army, he can send someone back to Wuchang to get the files, and everything from his family to his resume is complete.
Then there will be a hard work.Zhou Mengxiong said.After hearing this, the woman bowed and said goodbye.
At that time, during the Xuande Dynasty, there were still people with titles. Almost without exception, they were neutral in the Battle of Jingnan, and Wu Jinbo was no exception.
Zhou Mengxiong, who also participated in the Jingnan Campaign, naturally heard of it, so when he mentioned the names of Wu Jinbo and Zhu Rong, he knew the origin.
He was suddenly affected by a negative emotion and was stunned at the fire.Seeing this, the generals around him gradually stopped talking and fell silent.
Zhou Mengxiong and his group of people could not get rid of the influence of the civil war more than 20 years ago. Now that the opponents who had met again many years ago were reunited on the battlefield, how can people not sigh?
Not to mention Wu Jinbo, British Duke Zhang Fu was actually an old man in the Jingnan Campaign.
This kind of mood was caused by Zhou Mengxiong putting himself as a loser, at least he was the former loser.
Feeling humiliation, reluctance and anger...
Perhaps the person who really should feel the failure was Emperor Jianwen. Zhou Mengxiong was too young and had very limited power at the time. He should not bear too much responsibility for such failure, but human destiny is closely related to the general trend.
What kind of humiliation can make people feel embarrassed and unacceptable?
That is to be defeated by someone you look down on, but you are sure to win but you are defeated, and you are upset by many mistakes afterwards.
So anger always comes from being unable to accept one's own incompetence.
Zhou Mengxiong was originally a child of a military general family. The failure of the war made him lose everything and lose all his dreams of making achievements as a real man. He could only hide in the valley and farm for the rest of his life.
And he could only hear in the distant shadow that Zhang Fu of the same era was granted the title of Duke, Zhu Rong was granted the title of Wu Jin Bo, and who was granted the title of Duke, who was granted the title of Duke, who was honored by the family to glory and wealth, and was respected by the world.
This contrast made him not balanced for decades, but he could only hide in helplessness, as if he wanted to live in such a depressed life.
But now, Zhou Mengxiong was in a daze in this dilapidated temple and found that he had heavy troops in his hand. The opportunity came again, which was the last time.
Zhou Mengxiong's mood gradually became boiling in the extreme complexity: there is no need to be afraid of those famous people, those things could also belong to you.
Silk... With the unique sound of metal, he pulled out half of the old saber from the scabbard. Others didn't know what he was doing, so they held their breath and looked at him.
When he noticed it, he suppressed his emotions and re-shewn the knife, and found that the nearby area was so quiet.
The rain has stopped, and there are still sporadic water droplets dripping from the tiles on the eaves. Waves, waves... The crisp and soothing sound sounds sounded in my ears. Zhou Mengxiong closed his eyes slightly, and his chest had followed this rhythm and became calm and peaceful.
This sound reminds people of the guqin playing with sparse sounds in the Boya era, just like the wisdom of the ancestors' ears.
……
After the weather turned clear, the military camp was filled with dust. In short, the conditions for marching and fighting were of course not comparable to those of home, either muddy or dusty.
The original weeds on the ground were destroyed because of the walls and digging trenches. The soil was turned over and dried by the sun. It was easy for seven or eight hundred people in a village to move on a piece of land to make dust.
Zhou Mengxiong stood on the earthen wall and looked around, and could see similar camps wherever he could see them from the left and right and behind.
About 750 people made a village, surrounded by earth walls, sandbags were built on the walls, and deep trenches were dug outside the walls to form a defensive fortification.
This fortification was built around the garrison during training in Wuchang. It was a method proposed by the King of Xiang. Later, the generals also recognized the advantages of this camp. It was not only simple to build but also quite practical. It could quickly build a fortification that was easy to defend and difficult to attack on the plains, and was rarely restricted by the terrain.
At this point, the vanguard Huben Camp had marching, and did nothing, and then he set up a line of defense in many fortifications.
To the east is the boundary of Wuchang County controlled by the government army (the county town on the other side of the Yangtze River of Huangzhou Prefecture, which was called Ewangcheng before the Three Kingdoms period). The two armies are only ten miles apart.
These camps start from Yaer Lake in the north and from Sanshan Lake in the south, reaching twenty miles across, almost blocking the official army's way of encircling and encircling. Unless they travel a long distance, they will not be able to threaten the Xiangwang Army's side.
However, the news received by Zhou Mengxiong's scouts that the government army also built similar fortifications, including inner walls and outer grooves, as if they had been negotiated.
Zhu Mian, the head general of the North Road, came from Jiujiang, probably learned from the defense of Yongdingyingying, Jiujiang City, and put all his knowledge into practice.
Zhou Mengxiong explained this to the generals, and only such one person could have such a tacit understanding between them.
This kind of camp fortification is something that adapts to firearms, and the functions of the previous military camps were different.
Liu Mazi said: The government army transported grain from the river and built walls in front of it. Some of them fought.
Zhou Mengxiong looked at the files about Wu Jinbo sent by the Provincial Eunuchs, and said calmly: Zhang Fu used an army of more than 100,000 to intercept Jiujiang City on three sides, with the obvious purpose of trying to eat Yongdingying Camp; and if there is no rescue in Jiujiang Yongding Camp, he will definitely be defeated.So as long as the Northern Route Army blocks our reinforcements, they don’t have to defeat the reinforcements, they will win in the end.Even the Northern Army does not have to block us at all. They just need to establish a foothold here and naturally threaten our army's baggage and food routes.
So, Zhu Mian is going to waste time with us in this bird place?Liu Mazi frowned and said, "How did the Grand Marshal plan to build such ditch wall fortifications?"
Zhou Mengxiong touched the bearded man on the horse's face and said coldly: There is no need to worry about this for the time being, Zhu Mian must attack first.
Liu Mazi didn't understand why, because the general just talked about the principle of the enemy defending and attacking, and then guessed that the official army would be in a hurry to attack, and the words were indeed very contradictory.
Zhou Mengxiong shook the dust on the file and turned around and handed it to the nearby servant, but no longer had any more talk.
At this moment, I suddenly saw several riding horses coming from the dry fields, and the smoke and dust rising on the light yellow road was very conspicuous.
The Huben Camp Ranger, who was moving ahead, quickly met him, and then he heard a shouting sound from afar, as if the enemy was coming.
But not many people were seen, and the defenders on the camp wall just watched from a distance.
Several enemy cavalry did not clash with the ranger, and suddenly shot an arrow, pulled out the horse and ran away.
After a while, the scout picked up an arrow tied with an envelope and sent it straight to Zhou Mengxiong.
The general helped to take apart and said: It was an official general... The letter of appointment by Wu Jinbo will be set up in the middle of the two armies' camps tomorrow morning.
Liu Mazi looked at Zhou Mengxiong in surprise: What a great coach!All the generals cast awe-in-law eyes, and then everyone asked for the battle to make a first contribution.
Zhou Mengxiong raised his hand to stop the generals around him: I won’t accept their appointment tomorrow.
After hearing this, the generals were very disappointed. It was much better to put on the field to fight than to attack fortifications, but due to the fear of Zhou Mengxiong, no one dared to object.
At this time, Zhou Mengxiong looked back and said: I guess Zhu Mian wanted to take the lead in attacking, and it was not because of his nature.This person has many similar practices in the deeds we have collected. One of them was besieged in the Jiaozhi Post Road Fortress, and he was unwilling to defend and took the initiative to attack the barbarian camp. He believed that he could first destroy the opponent's spirit before he could defend... This is why my unwillingness to fight at this time. Most of our soldiers came from afar without actual combat and came from afar to attack. They rashly fought with the official army who was waiting for their hard work. They lost more than defeated the enemy and lost their morale. It would be better to defend the camp first and then defeat the enemy.Zhu Mian is eager for quick success and instant benefits, so just let him chew our fortifications.