Home Historical fiction Pass on Peace (Hide + Continued) KeyboardSwitching:(219/529)

Chapter 218 Spring Cold

8days ago Historical fiction 7
Not long after, the main force of the 6,000 official troops in Luxi Town evacuated northward in early February.

This move puzzled all forces in Huguang.

For example, a person's enemy sharpened the knife on the whetstone not far away for a long time, and they were incompatible with each other. It was obvious that the enemy came to kill after sharpening the knife, but rushed halfway but turned around and left...

It will surprise people no matter what.

Zhu Yongxin's deployment was: to let the official army of Longtou Temple meet Chenzhou to defend the city; 6,000 main forces march towards Yongding Guard, threatening the retreat of the rebels; Yuezhou army marched from the north of Dongting Hubei to attack Lizhou.

Why do we suddenly withdraw the Miao people?

That day, I saw an eunuch who had met Duke Cheng's general in the central army tent, and I was also discussing it privately, maybe it was the intention of the court.

...It was drizzling in Cili County. It was only a few days ago that the spring season was coming. When it rained, the temperature dropped, as if it was back to the chilly time of spring.

In the cold spring, Zhang Ning couldn't help but think of the little yellow flowers in Yingchun, and Fang Ling (Gu Chunhan).

His eyes moved away from the black circle of ink that showed Yongdingwei on the drawing and moved westward, but on the drawing there was a piece of white paper and nothing was drawn.

Now is not the time to think about the spring and moon things. He raised his head and said to the busy officials in the signing room: Send someone to the Weapon Bureau to urge Ma Dapeng to write the latest developments in artillery making into a documentary.

At this moment, Wei Bin hurriedly walked in, walked to Zhang Ning and bent down to bow. Seeing that he looked abnormal, Zhang Ning hurriedly asked: What's the matter?

Wei Bin said in a deep voice: "Discovering the Mass, Zhu Yong's troops left Lu Xi."

When Zhang Ning heard this, he felt ominous. He hurriedly asked Wenjun to take out the detailed map marked with the mountains and rivers, and tried hard to keep calm and asked: "March direction?"

north.Wei Bin simply said one word.

Their goal is Yongdingwei?Could it be that the news that we are going to re-attack Yongdingwei has been leaked?

Zhang Ning blurted out, looking back at the surroundings, it is unlikely that the people in the entrustment room of the Senate Department would disclose military aircraft, and even the guards at the door were early soldiers from Fengxia Mountain.

He thought about it and said, maybe it was because our artillery manufacturing incident exposed the purpose. There were many people in the weapons workshop and needed to transport a large amount of raw materials. The artillery test was even more shocking, and it was indeed impossible to keep it confidential.

Lao Xu, Hou Mao, Wang Yu and others all looked sideways and found out that something big happened to Zhang Ning.

Zhang Ning said again: Mr. Wei Qian, go and instruct the scouts team immediately to keep an eye on Zhu Yong's army and try to find out exactly where they are going.

Wei Bin said: Let’s do it now.

Chen Maocai, who came back from the mission, had been arranged by Zhang Ning to go to the Senate Department. At this time, he stood up and asked Zhang Ning what had happened. Zhang Ning briefly explained the movements of Zhu Yong's troops.

Chen Maocai immediately said: Zhu Yong occupied Lu Xi, and the battle situation was very good to him. Why should he give up the good situation and go north?Not to mention that it is expected to defeat more than 10,000 Miao rebels, it is said that the siege of Chenzhou is much more important than reinforcement of Yongding Wei. How many people are Chenzhou? How many people are there in Yongding Wei just a city?This matter should not be what Zhu Yong himself is willing to do... He went to Luxi first, and then went north to Yongding. At such a long distance, he still wanted to use the same trick again to cut off our retreat?When he comes, we will go back to the mountains long ago.

Lu Xi from Yongdingwei said it was not far away, but it was more than 200 miles away. Although the road was difficult to walk, the army would not be able to march for more than ten days.Zhang Ning frowned.

Chen Maocai said: Ten days are enough for us to leave calmly.

Zhang Ning remained silent.He was neither willing to give up the territory he had occupied, nor was optimistic about the prospects after returning to Yongshun Mountain Area.

If he goes back, with the population and economic scale of the mountainous areas, he will not be able to raise enough food at all. It is also a problem for military pay a little longer. If he can't raise a army, he can only dissolve it, and then everything will be gone and start over?

The second question is, why did Zhu Yong suddenly withdraw his troops from Lu Xi? Is it a tactical change or is there another reason?

A face gradually emerged in Zhang Ning's mind...

Zhu Zhanji.

He imagined the scene where Zhu Zhanji planned to go to Le'an to pacify the rebellion of the Han King. Zhu Zhanji seemed to be saying: Use his overwhelming superior force to pacify Le'an in one fell swoop!

This new emperor who had just ascended the throne was definitely not a good master. The impression he gave Zhang Ning was that he liked to bully the small with the big and attack the weak with the strong; so he would not wait until the weak became strong before he took action.

If Zhu Yong withdraws troops and changes direction, it is Zhu Zhanji's will, and Zhang Ning will be very optimistic about the prospects after withdrawing into the mountainous areas.

After Zhu Zhanji's attention was paid to this matter, he would very likely issue an order for Zhu Yong to control the troops from all over the country and clean up the mountainous areas in the eastern part of Yongshunsi, kill them and eliminate them!

By the evening, the Peach Blossom Fairy was sent to Cili by Mrs. Yao as a messenger, bringing news that Zhang Ning didn't want to face very much.

The news comes from the people from Emperor Jianwen. They learned about it through detailed works among eunuchs. Zhang Ning, who acted as detailed works, guessed it was Wang Gou'er. Of course, it is not ruled out that Emperor Jianwen's men also cultivated undercover in the palace for more than 20 years.

The content of the news is that Zhu Zhanji sent someone to urge Duke Zhu Yong to target the main target of the Jianwen Rebellion Party, and there is no need to rush to deal with the Miao people.

Zheng Qia brought the message to Mrs. Yao, with the purpose of warning Zhang Ning in advance that Zhu Yong might use heavy troops to attack Cili Shimen and other places.

Before this, Zhang Ning had already found out about Zhu Yong's movements through scouts and spies, but the news brought by Yao Ji is still of great significance.

Because Zhang Ning can confirm that Zhu Yong's actions were instructed by Zhu Zhanji...

From the time I received the Peach Blossom Fairy, until late at night, the candlelight in the signing room was lit.

The officials had already returned to their residences, and only Zhang Ning was left here. In addition, Wen Jun was also doing some trivial matters. Seeing that Zhang Ning's face turned gray, the Peach Blossom Fairy didn't go to rest.

He wasn't busy with anything, he actually did nothing.

Zhu Yong was heading north, with a trip of less than ten days, but Zhang Ning could not find an exit to solve the problem.

Perhaps what is in front of him is a dead end.

There are only two roads in front of you: first, retreat. If you have a little time, you can only withdraw your troops and retain up to two or three hundred people. Then wait for the government troops to block and clear them from all sides, or hope for small possibilities. The government troops will give up entering the mountains and continue to deal with the Miao rebellion.

Second, we will fight the government and army to the death in the three counties. If we win, we can save the occupied territory and expand it. However, the huge gap in the troops in this battle will be one to six or even one to eight, and the victory may be extremely low.

There is no third road. Of course, Zhang Ning remembers something called launching mass guerrilla tactics, but it is obvious that this road will not work at this time and there is no environmental soil.

If copied, you can only become a bandit and will be more likely to be eliminated at this time.

The means of agrarian revolution are even more nonsense in this era. First of all, the land at the beginning of Xuande was not serious, and what the people lacked was not land; secondly, the so-called poor and lower-middle peasants believed that gentry and fellow villagers who had moral prestige and reputation could not support bandits, and the public opinion of distinguishing between black and white is even more in the hands of scholars.

Zhang Ning has always believed that a person's fate is largely determined by personality. In fact, he already has a choice in his heart: he is not a person who is willing to sit and wait for death, but he is more willing to take a gamble.

The most urgent thing to do is to convince some important military generals. Although the military power and decision-making power are in the hands of Zhang Ning, if the people below do not support the decision above, this battle will be even more impossible.

It can be expected that most of Zhang Ning's subordinates now want to retreat, and today Chen Maocai's words are very telling; after all, Zhu Yong is a famous general, with 6,000 troops approaching, and more than 2,000 people in Yuezhou are also threatening, and he may participate in this battle.

One thousand people and six thousand people are not equal in power at all. Only when they are crazy want to fight like this.

Everyone was forced out. Zhang Ning believed that when a large number of official troops and chieftain troops entered the mountains from all directions to eliminate the massacre, the soldiers would be willing to fight to the death...

But a person’s weakness is that he will not shed tears without seeing the coffin. He has to wait until the genius enters the mountain to work hard. How can he have the strength?

There is nothing short of food and grass resources, and there is not even sulfur to make gunpowder, and iron is scarce. Could it be that it is sharpened by bamboo poles and eating grass roots and bark to fight against the government army?

Grind ink.Zhang Ning shouted, his voice echoing in the empty house. It seemed that there was no one here, and everyone had abandoned themselves.

He told himself: This is just an illusion. Are Xu Wenjun and Taohua Fairy still there?The others just went back to rest and sleep, and they were not abandoned.

Xu Wenjun walked out of it, put down the feather duster in his hand, and obediently went to get the inkstone.She saw Zhang Ning's eyes staring with blood in it, and she couldn't help but look at him in surprise.

What kind of literary techniques that quote classics and use the speech of saints to express their opinions naturally cannot be used. Zhang Ning tried to use the most straightforward and simple language to analyze the reasons for the death of abandoning the territory and returning to the mountains and forests.

Even if you read this way of expression to an illiterate person, as long as he is normal in mind, he should understand it.

He wanted people to understand that if they didn't fight with the government army at this time, there would be only a dead end.

The signing room was filled with guqin, pens, ink, paper, and piles of file documents. This was a place full of literary atmosphere.

But Zhang Ning felt like he was a desperate person...

A criminal who is not a knife is a desperate person, and a desperate person is just a situation and psychology.

What's even more difficult is how to make many people go crazy together, otherwise they can't die by just one person's strength.

Zhang Ning, who was in his past and present, never thought that he would become like this. He always tried his best to adapt to society and abide by the rules. Even if he was told that he was not long after his terminal illness, some of them would only have despair and helplessness about fate. Before leaving, he gave his bank account to his family.

In a trance, he was thinking that if he had not taken this path at the beginning, but avoided the exposure of his identity and lived a free and prosperous life as an official, perhaps it would have been a big difference?

If you are unwilling to obey the rules, you always have to pay a price.He thought he had understood this truth many years ago.