Chapter 67 Mixed Situation

As mentioned earlier, some of these surrendered soldiers were reorganized on the spot and left behind as soldiers and horses of the Dazhong Army. They were responsible for protecting the safety of the front line of the canal and the safety of a large number of ships going north. As they marched further and more northward, their supply lines became longer and longer. When he arrived at Tianjin Weiwai in mid-May, The whole supply line of the Grand Canal has stretched out for thousands of miles. I don't know how expensive it is. It supports so many military operations of soldiers and horses. The materials consumed every day are astronomical. In addition to the dry road in Shanxi and Henan, most of these materials are transported to the north by waterway to the north, from Yangzhou every day. Almost hundreds of boats have been issued to ensure that the army in front of them has no worries about food and clothing.

Such a large-scale transportation supply, even for future generations to think about it, will feel a little big, not to mention in this era when traffic basically depends on walking, communication basically depends on roaring, and public security basically depends on dogs? So although Xiao Tianjian has accumulated some private money over the years, he can't stand it.

Xiao Tianjian also underestimated the difficulty of maintaining along the canal at the beginning, so he was a little unprepared in the early stage, so that the boat on the canal was often looted by soldiers or large bandits in April. In addition to losing a lot of materials, it also affected some boat people, which made many boat people dare not dare to drive north to replace Dazhong. The military delivers supplies.

Later, Xiao Tianjian had to delay for some time on the road. He transferred a group of soldiers and horses from all over the country to strengthen the defense on both sides of the canal along the way. In addition, while walking, he also adapted a lot of Ming troops to subside to eliminate the defeated soldiers and bandits in the jurisdiction, which made the safety of the ships on the canal began to be guaranteed. , reducing the number of attacks. In addition, he also dispatched some generals of the navy to act with the fleet and escorted the fleet north. In addition, some armed personnel were arranged in each fleet to escort. In addition, one or two warships loaded with a lot of light artillery were included in each fleet to escort the fleet, which curbed the rampant water theft of some lake bandits. The plundering of the material fleet of the Dazhong Army.

But in exchange is a sharp increase in transportation costs. The adaptation of these soldiers will undoubtedly consume a lot of food. Since they have become a member of the Dazhong Army, Xiao Tianjian will naturally no longer let them solve the food problem by themselves, so the food supplies transported from the south are very large. Some of them have been consumed by these new soldiers.

Therefore, for Xiao Tianjian's Dazhong Dynasty, as soon as the country was established, it immediately launched such a large-scale war. For their kings and ministers, the pressure is undoubtedly obvious.

In addition, Xiao Tianjian's gathering of troops to go north undoubtedly caused a void in the rear. After Xiao Tianjian waved his army to the north, some local officials and generals of the Ming Dynasty began to move in the south, trying to take advantage of this God-given opportunity to regain some territory. In mid-April, Xiao Tianjian got Shi Ran, who stayed in Nanjing. The report said that Fang Guoan, who fled to Ganzhou, gathered nearly 40,000 Ming troops in Ganzhou, known as 100,000 troops, and began to go north to try to restore the land lost in Jiangxi. The front of the soldiers pointed to Nanchang Prefecture, which had been controlled by the Dazhong Dynasty. Shi Ran had mobilized the remaining troops in the south and went south to the Fuzhou Prefecture to deal with the passers-by of Fang Guo'an. Horse.

After Xiao Tianjian learned about it, he ordered the Ministry of War to issue an order that Luo Rucai, who stayed in Huguang, also mobilized the left-behind generals of the third town in Huguang, attacked Ji'an Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, and contained Fang Guo'an's headquarters from the side, and shared the pressure of Fang Guo'an's headquarters to go north for Shi Ran. In short, the north is It is a critical moment. As a big rear, the south can't have any big problems at this time.

This is also the main reason why Xiao Tianjian has not been able to quickly enter Shanhaiguan during this period. There are too many things to distract Xiao Tianjian, which makes him have to lead the army while fighting and pay attention to the major events in the rear.

In addition to Fang Guoan leading troops north to try to restore the territory of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng did not stop. Xiao Tianjian was not wise to deal with Li Zicheng's claim to be the emperor, which led to Li Zicheng's complete hatred with their Dazhong Dynasty. First, he tried to attack Henan, but was defeated by Fan Sheng in Tongguan and suffered a great loss, and then Gao Jie's surrender to the Great China and North Korea made Li Zicheng even more angry.

Although Li Zicheng lost his mind, he was finally persuaded by his subordinates and ministers. Considering that his strength is too far from Xiao Tianjian's strength, and the Dazhong army is too fierce. With his strength, he really broke up with the Dazhong army completely. Although the main force of the Dazhong army is going north now, the left-behind soldiers are not food. It's just that the thousands of large and medium-sized soldiers led by Fan Sheng in Tongguan are enough for him to drink a pot.

Therefore, after the fiasco of Tongguan, Li Zicheng temporarily withdrew back to Xi'an, turned around and began to move to the west. He led his soldiers to follow Xiao Tianjian's so-called royal expedition. After April, he took advantage of the collapse of Shaanxi Qunlong Wutou and the main force of the officers and army to successfully captured Pingliangfu, Gongchangfu and so on along the way. The land controlled a large area in western Shaanxi into his hands, so Li Zicheng was a little fluttering again.

After May, he remembered Xiao Tianjian's insult to him. He actually sent his general Gao Yigong, who stayed in Hanzhong. He wanted to take advantage of the opportunity that the Dazhong army had gone north, or wanted to get a hand from the Dazhong army. This time, he did not dare to choose Tongguan to attack the territory of Dazhong Dynasty, but focused on Yunyangfang. Xiang, sent people to fight and heard that the Dazhong Army did not have many troops in the Yunyang area, so he wanted to make the high-level powerful soldiers to raid Yunyang and enter Huguang from the Yunyang area to open the channel, so that he could enter Huguang and occupy the current fish and rice hometown of China.

In the first year of high school, he was ordered to lead 20,000 or 30,000 Shun troops to set out. He rushed to Yunyang Mansion aggressively, intending to break Yunyang Mansion with a drum, so he waved to Xiangyang City.

Unfortunately, Li Zicheng thought of it, and the people in the Dazhong Army also thought of it. What's more, Yunyang, as the throat of Huguang, Sichuan and Shaanxi, how can he not pay attention to it? Therefore, Yunyang, because of its small population, the Dazhong army in the town is not much. During this period, it is still gradually filling the immigration area around Yunyangfu, but as an important strategic place, of course, it will not let unknown people be responsible for guarding it.

It is not others who are responsible for guarding Xiangyang Mansion and Yunyang Mansion. It is Zhao Weihua, the general under Xiao Tianjian's command, who is also the previous Zhao Erlu.

Because there was a gap between Zhao Erlu and Li Shuanzhu, after Xiao Tianjian took Huguang, he gradually transferred Zhao Erlu and Li Shuanzhu. Although Zhao Erlu was still Li Shuanzhu's deputy, he did not work under Li Shuanzhu much, but was entrusted by Xiao Tianjian and stayed in Xiangyang as the vice president of the third town. Responsible for guarding Xiangyang, Yunyang and other places, Xiao Tianjian's important task for Zhao Er's donkey is to keep an eye on Li Zicheng, who was kept in Shaanxi by him, and prevent Li Zicheng from entering Huguang from Yunyang after he turned against them one day.

So at a very early age, Xiao Tianjian had been stuck in Tongguan and Yunyang, two important gateways connecting with Shaanxi. As early as there was Shaanxi Prefecture in the north and Yunyang in the south, all of whom had a considerable number of troops left behind, always guarding against Li Zicheng, the evil wolf.

Now Li Zicheng has finally turned against Xiao Tianjian and has become an unbeatable opponent. How can Xiao Tianjian go north without arranging to deal with this hungry wolf first?

So Gao Yigong was very unfortunate. By the time he led his troops into Yunyang, Zhao Erlu had already heard the news and transferred the soldiers and horses of Xiangyang and Chengtianfu, including more than 10,000 soldiers and generals, including the local reserve battalions. When Gao Yigong entered the city of Yunyangfu, Zhao Erlu's soldiers and horses had also been ambushed in Wudang Mountain.

Although Zhao Er Lv has only four battalions in his hand, he controls six reserve battalions and half a heavy artillery battalion (two companies). According to Zhao Er Lv's deployment, there are two reserve battalions left in Yunyang Mansion City, defending Yunyang Mansion City, which first attracted Gao Yigong to attack with heavy troops. Yunyangfu City, and he led the main force to station in the area of Wudang Mountain, watching the high-power department attack Yunyangfu City from afar.

Gao Yigong led the army to attack Yunyang City for three days, and his morale naturally declined. Taking advantage of this time, Zhao Er donkey suddenly led the main force out of Wudang Mountain and rushed straight to the back of Gao Yigong's department. Only then did Gao Yigong know that he was fooled. He was defeated by Zhao Er's donkey. Gao Yigong was defeated. The defeated soldiers fled back to Hanzhong.

However, when Gao Yigong fled back to Hanzhong, he found that their nest in Hanzhong had also been copied by the people of the Dazhong army all the way. It turned out that after entering Sichuan, Li Shuanzhu first took Chongqing and Chengdu Prefecture. During this period, he gradually swept Baoning Mansion in northern Sichuan. Now Li Zicheng is against their Dazhong Dynasty. Hatred, how could Li Shuanzhu still be polite to him? As soon as the high-powered soldiers here came out of Hanzhongfu, he got the news, sent 3,000 elite men and horses, and went out of Baoningfu day and night. Taking advantage of the emptiness of Hanzhong Dashun's army, he entered the territory of Hanzhongfu, and carried out a lot of destruction in Hanzhongfu, destroying Li Zicheng's two games in Hanzhong. The granary also set fire to a lot of Li Zicheng's logistics materials, and almost copied the old capital that Li Zicheng has operated in the Hanzhong area in the past two years.

When Gao Yigong fled back to Hanzhongfu with the defeated soldiers, the generals of the 3,000 Chinese army had also done enough damage, wrapped a large amount of materials and retreated to Baoningfu.

After hearing this, Gao Yigong was furious. He led the defeated soldiers and chased them to Baoning Mansion. As a result, in the territory of Baoning Mansion, the Dazhong Army, which was chased by him, took advantage of the terrain and gave it a hard time. With buried mines, he blew up many Dashun soldiers, and even an important general under Gao Yigong He was killed on the spot, and Gao Yigong retreated in a hurry. As a result, he was chased and killed by the Dazhong army. When Gao Yigong ran back to Hanzhong, he almost became a bare pole commander.

Seeing that the situation was not good, he felt that Hanzhong could not be defended. He was planning to pack up his belongings and run towards Xi'an. However, at this time, the Dazhong army took the initiative to retreat, reduced its troops, and did not take advantage of the situation to attack Hanzhong.

In fact, at this time, Xiao Tianjian had realized that he had dealt with Li Zicheng's affairs improperly. At present, the matter of Jiannu in the north had not been solved, so he arrogantly provoked Li Zicheng. Although he was confident in dealing with Li Zicheng, he wanted to deal with the Ming Dynasty, Jiannu, Li Zicheng's three forces were the enemy. Obviously, he was a little overwhelmed, so on his way to the north, he began to review his mistakes in his decision during this period, and decided not to fight with Li Zicheng for the time being.

So he ordered the military department to issue an order. For the time being, the generals in various places took a defensive against Li Zicheng and did not take the initiative to compete with Li Zicheng for territory. If Li Zicheng's people took the initiative to provoke, they would fight them back fiercely, but for the time being, it was limited to repelling them. The local lords are not allowed to take the initiative to rob Li Zicheng's territory, so as not to force them. Li Zicheng jumped over the wall in a hurry. At this time, he concentrated all the Dashun army and fought a decisive battle with the Dazhong army. After all, Li Zicheng's men also had at least a hundred thousand soldiers and horses. Although these hundreds of thousands of horses were mostly mobs in the eyes of the Dazhong army, if Li Zicheng risked his life now, he would still involve a lot of Dazhong Dynasty. With strength and energy, Xiao Tianjian doesn't want to have such a situation at present.

So this is why Li Shuanzhu and Zhao Er donkey lost Gao Yigong, but they did not take the opportunity to capture Hanzhong, which made Gao Yigong watch around Hanzhongfu for a few days and learned that the Dazhong army had retreated, which dispelled the idea of Gao Yigong to escape to Xi'anfu.

After a great defeat, Li Zicheng made it clear that he was not Xiao Tianjian's opponent at all. Although Xiao Tianjian is now busy with the overturning of General Daming and resisting the entry of Jiannu, the strength left behind is not something that Li Zicheng can shake. Not only that, these left-behind Dazhong army even have The ability to copy his nest, so Li Zicheng also calmed down after learning the news of the defeat of the first high school. After discussing with Song Xiance and other advisers, Song Xiance and others also believed that the most important thing for them now is to expand their territory, rather than to compete with the Dazhong army. In their opinion, China is very big, although the Dazhong army They have occupied Henan, Shanxi, Sichuan, Huguang and other places, but the west is still very vast. They don't have to fight with the Dazhong army and rush to the west to grab the territory. In the future, once the Dazhong army wants to settle the general account with them, the Xi'anfu area will definitely not be able to be preserved, so they have to occupy more western territory in advance. It's really not OK, just run a little farther!

Therefore, after the defeat of Yunyang in the first year of high school, Li Zicheng also completely gave up the idea of continuing to take advantage of the Dazhong army to go north to make money from Xiao Tianjian.

(I'm dizzy! In the past two days, it has been changed to one update. Lord Huru actually rewarded 88 yuan and 88 cents, which really makes me ashamed! In addition, I also want to thank the two brothers Xinli and wangzw. Your support makes me ashamed! Today, I have to have a chapter of 4,000 words! A little thank you, I don't want to repay you. The next book is a better book to repay the love of the brothers!)