Chapter 92: Heart, that is, reason! 2
The war is not a legend, and it is not that Oda Nobunaga can take 2,000 people to cut down the 20,000 army of Imagawa Yoshimoto in the bucket narrow in the rain; it is not that whenever someone is about to die, he will "kill a general in the oblique slash" to relieve the siege. War is cruel. This cruelty is not just a result. Imagine how crazy you feel when you lead an army that consumes thousands or two soldiers a day and are exhausted in an area blocked by a mountain, but you can't even see the shadow of the enemy?
Therefore, Wang Shouren had to solve all his worries first, like walking on thin ice. In fact, it is not terrible to walk on thin ice, because you already know that the ice is thin, so be careful and psychologically prepared. What's terrible is that when you walk on this ice, but you don't know whether it is thin or thick, or where it is thin and thick. Nangan is undoubtedly a thin and thick ice cube: sudden danger is not only a provocation to life, but also a torture of the soul.
Fortunately, Wang Shouren has already refined a powerful and impartial heart. It turns out that strong will and determination can overcome all difficulties. Persistent faith and fearless mind are the most powerful weapons.
All battles are heart battles. The following is just a continuation of the heart - concentrate the superior forces and attack Xie Zhishan, Lan Tianfeng and others who are located in Hengshui and Zuoxi. Among them, the most important thing is to fight the blue sky and phoenix.
Why do you want to hit the blue sky phoenix first? Because Lan Tianfeng is a completely soft persimmon, nearby officials, no matter how big or small, can't help pinching him. Over time, a tradition has been formed. Wang Shouren, who respects the tradition, is ready to take the blue sky phoenix first based on the guiding principle of not stepping on white.
In ancient marches and wars, they had to be divination first to measure bad luck. Wang Shouren went to work and get off work every day. He has long found that the fortune tellers at the door are wrong. His acting skills are really poor. At first glance, he is the eyeliner of mountain thieves, but he deliberately left these eyeliners for later use in the special operation of "strictly fighting the bandits", and now it has come in handy.
Yang Ming found the fortune-teller and threatened to use the soldiers across the water in Jiangxi. Please test the bad luck. As a full-time eyeliner, although the fortune teller has not seen The Actor's Self-cultivation, he has obviously read The Letter to Garcia and spread the news on time and on demand.
Now Xie Zhishan is in Zuoxi, and the blue sky and phoenix across the water are very nervous. And Chi Zhongrong, the "Golden Dragon Overlord" who is least afraid of Wang Shouren, is still very far away from him. Although Chi Zhongrong shouts to attack Wang Shouren all day long, the latter is calm and doesn't care at all.
This is a note. Hide from the sea.
After only one day, a good news came. Chi Zhongrong suffered a defeat. Although it was not a big loss, the battle was very morale. Since the division was unfavorable and the battle was defeated, naturally, these mountain thieves who were originally not morale began to beat again. Chi Zhongrong had no choice. In order to boost his morale, Chi Zhongyi made his brother, open the warehouse beam from the "grain warehouse" of his hometown and let the brothers "eat up". Only when you are full can you go to war!
But this defeat, Chi Zhongrong fell into the hands of Hu Li, the commander of Fujian. He obeyed Yang Ming's request and took more than 5,000 people to hit Chi Zhongrong, who had been attacked proudly from behind.
The thief was caught off guard and defeated. Chi Zhongrong led the army to garrison and sent fast horses to summon Xie Zhishan and Lan Tianfeng to join the army with him. Because he lost the battle late, he could only stop and could not march to fight, because his precious time and physical strength should be used for integrated treatment.
Hu Yan led his army to camp at the foot of the mountain and sent people to send letters to Wang Shouren and the surrounding provinces for support. Xie Zhishan and Lan Tianfeng were also interesting buddies. They actually agreed, not only to agree, but also accelerated their march here.
Yang Ming had already led the troops on the way to the front line and marched to the vicinity of the umbrella (the border between Fujian and Guangdong). Suddenly, he heard a shout of killing in front of him, but Ji Yong, the commander of Fujian Wei (Zheng Sanpin) and County Cheng (deputy county magistrate) Ji Yong responded to the call of "everyone to step on the blue sky and phoenix", and bravely advanced lightly and was ambushed by the thief soldiers. The nearby Cantonese soldiers sat on the wall and turned a blind eye.
Yang Ming took a soldier to save him, fought back the thief soldiers, but his own side was also greatly damaged, and he was killed and injured.
The continuous fighting of so many rounds has caused countless damage to Xie Zhishan and Lan Tianfeng. Because these two people are a labor expedition after all, the morale and physical strength of the whole army have become a big problem, and they are not familiar with the terrain. Such a great loss is also deserved.
And now, all kinds of troops and horses have finally met at the foot of Xianghu Mountain. All the generals pointed to the wall and pushed the crowd, and the drums were beaten. Led by Wang Shouren, one stepped on the persimmon and stepped on the persimmon cake. Unexpectedly, because Lan Tianfeng was trampled on for a long time, she was finally stepped out of consciousness. Therefore, Lan Tianfeng, who never cheated people, began to actively dig pits; therefore, several officers and soldiers were ambushed.
Standing under Xianghu Mountain, I raised my eyes and looked up, but I saw thousands of people standing on the wall, easy to defend and difficult to attack, lush trees all around, and crows noisy.
The officers in the barracks are also noisy.
The officers taught Wang Shouren a vivid lesson with practical actions: once they are related to their own interests, they will turn around faster than to turn over books.
Everyone is like the 18 princes of Dong's coalition army, and there is a lot of discussion. There is only one theme for discussion: Xianghu Mountain is extremely high and dangerous and has never been broken. Conclusion: Stop the attack and transfer the wolf soldiers.
Wang Shouren did not say anything, but told them with practical actions: I'm not Yuan Shao.
According to the comments of the generals, Yang Ming pretended to report to the court and added wolf soldiers. At the same time, it is better to tell the generals: it is better to make a plan and pretend to repatriate the masses from the division. In fact, they only retreat the old and weak soldiers, and lead all kinds of elite troops to lurk in Shanghang not far away, deploy them carefully, and take advantage of the enemy's lax attack, and they will be able to directly beat the Yellow Dragon. Chen said, and all the generals agreed.
The blue sky and phoenix saw the "departing" of the officers and soldiers with tears in their eyes - I was finally not trampled into a persimmon cake.
The excited blue sky and phoenix feasted for three days and delivered an important speech during the banquet: Facts have proved that officers and soldiers are not invincible, and all officers and soldiers are paper tigers! Don't think that if you are small, there will be no power; don't think that if you are humble, there will be no dignity!
Unfortunately, I was only excited for three days.
As an ideal and uneducated leader of the peasant uprising army, Comrade Lan Tianfeng, a proletarian revolutionary, finally failed to play with the resourceful Wang Shouren, which shows that reading is still useful.
The spies came to report that the thief soldiers have relaxed their vigilance and can take advantage of the slack attack. After Wang Shouren learned about it, he immediately selected 1,500 elite soldiers as the vanguard, followed by 4,000 heavy soldiers and divided them into three routes.
It was the night of February 29th, with dark clouds and sudden wind. The three-way soldiers and horses are straight, and they seize the dangerous pass of the thief soldiers in one fell swoop.
Although the thief soldiers have lost danger, they are all brave and capable of "surgling the valley, jumping like flying", and once again occupying the upper level, throwing rolling wood, throwing huge stones, and resisting stubbornly.
The battle lasted from the evening to noon the next day, and both sides suffered heavy casualties. While anxious, thousands of soldiers sent by Yang Ming to the thief from the mountain path suddenly launched an attack. The thieves were defeated and fled. More than 2,000 people were killed and more than 1,500 were captured. There were countless people who fell into the deep valley of the mountains. Blue Sky Phoenix, who liked to play hide-and-seek, was also captured in a cave.
For this unprecedented victory in southern Jiangxi, the imperial court gave an unprecedented reward - twenty taels of silver.
If you don't have much money, just have the right.
Wang Shouren gave a memorial to the court, demanding greater authority in terms of space and time.
Space: able to supervise and transfer troops throughout southern Jiangxi, including some troops from the surrounding four provinces (as the governor of southern Jiangxi, Wang Shouren is only the secretary of the provincial party committee, and the governor also serves as the commander of the military region).
Time: Only for the success of the battle, and the court cannot set a time limit.
This behavior of not taking the emperor as a cadre has aroused the dissatisfaction of many bosses in the dynasty, and the most dissatisfied is Yang Tinhe, the chief assistant of the cabinet.
At Zhengjia's time, Yang Tin-he was the only one who could barely draw with Wang Shouren.
At the age of 12, he was a middle-aged man and a 19-year-old scholar. He served as a cabinet scholar for 14 years and nine years as the first assistant. During this period, he was praised by the government and the opposition.
Such a gorgeous resume, which has been turned over the history of the Ming Dynasty, is also rare, worthy of the comment of "calm down, make up for the rescue; safety is in danger, and the merit is in the community".
Unfortunate, he met Wang Shouren.
A few years later, when the science school represented by Yang Tinghe lost to the heart school represented by Wang Shouren in the battle of "Great Discussion Ceremony", I don't know if he will sigh: Since Yang was born, He Shengwang!
However, so far, it is not Wang Shouren's turn to connect with Yang Ting and the short soldiers, but Wang Qiong.
Separately, Yang Tinghe and Wang Qiong belong to capable ministers who have both ideals and means. Together, the chief assistant of the cabinet and the minister of the Ministry of War were inseparable and tacitly.
At the beginning, Wang Qiong recommended Wang Shouren and Yang Tinghe to agree because he did not believe that a person who taught Taoism all day long could quell the chaos in southern Jiangxi. Therefore, he approved Wang Qiong's recommendation in line with the obscene mentality of "to kill the enemy and kill himself to eliminate civil strife".
Yang Gelou, who lost a thousand worries, finally miscalculated once, and Wang Shouren won.
Wang Shouren, who won the battle, also miscalculated once. In the victory, he returned all the credit to the Ministry of War without mentioning the cabinet. The height determines the vision, and with the platform Wang Shouren is on at present, it is impossible to peep at the high-level infighting.
However, Yang Ting and his next move made me understand the difference between politicians and politicians.
It is said that Yang Tinhe should be very unhappy and should immediately reject Wang Shouren's request to increase authority.
On the contrary, he approved it.
If solving foreign enemies, immediate internal fighting is also one of the glorious traditions of Chinese civilization, then wait for you to solve foreign enemies first. At that time, Wang Shouren, there was finally a war between you and me. This battle was related to the history of the next 100 years of the Ming Dynasty, and I was waiting for you there. Don't thank me for my magnanimity at this moment. The so-called magnanimity is all because your current level is not enough.