Be the emperor from the postman

"He probably thinks so."

Zhang Fuzhen really knows his former colleagues very well.

They all want to join the cabinet and become a cabinet elder. Nowadays, there is no hope for ordinary promotion. Only by making great achievements in the military can it be possible to quickly enter the cabinet.

Especially at present, Chongzhen is bold and quick to promote civil servants with military capabilities, and they don't do old-fashioned things at all.

As long as you can be like Yang Sichang, have some skills and figure out Zhu Youjian's thoughts, then you can be the next Minister of the Ministry of War.

The two of us, the monarch and the minister, cooperate closely, and we will surely sweep the world and rejuvenate the Ming Dynasty.

He Jinzhao sometimes couldn't understand the operations of the civil servants of Ming Dynasty.

Maybe the butt is not sitting there, most of the time it is the butt that decides the head.

If he didn't turn the tables, but was in that system, He Jinzhao himself might not even know how he was cheated to death.

"By the way, my lord." Zhang Fuzhen raised his mouth again:
"As far as I know, the reason why Fu Zonglong was dismissed was because of the time you and King Gao Chuang went to Beijing to kill the emperor.

It wasn't until Li Zicheng made a big disturbance in Sichuan last year that Sichuan's civil and military forces had nothing to do, that Chongzhen promoted him.

After staying at home for so many years, Fu Zonglong still has resentment towards you, my lord. "

"He has a grudge against me?" He Jinzhao spread his hands: "It was the dog emperor who took off his official uniform, why didn't he blame Zhu Youjian?"

Zhang Fuzhen stroked his beard and smiled without saying a word. He probably couldn't say such strange words about the emperor and wanted to be promoted in the Ming system.

Besides, if it weren't for you group of rebels making troubles, could his career as an official be delayed?
"So he wants to take the opportunity to seek revenge on me this time?"

He Jinzhao raised his eyebrows slightly as he rode his war horse.

A traitor who never thought of appeasement, who would think about when he would offend the officials of Ming Dynasty?

The two sides are not in the same camp. Should we consider the feelings of the opponent's pieces when flipping the table?

Those who look forward and backward, don't engage in rebellion!
In the past, He Jinzhao was a little hesitant and was put on the shelf, but with the passage of time, his state of mind is quite different from before.

"I have the idea of ​​getting up from where I fell."

He Jinzhao lightly knocked on the horse's belly and said, "Then I'll step him into the mud this time, so that he won't even be able to get up."

The news of Gao Yigong's western expedition also came back.

Since acquiring Lanzhou, he led his troops to continue westward.

Daming Liangzhou (now Wuwei, Gansu) and Zhuanglang surrendered one after another, and the hammer bandits entered Ganzhou.

Gansu Governor Lin Rirui, General Soldier Ma Yu and others organized a stubborn resistance.

In December, the hammer bandits crossed the river on ice and reached the city.

At that time, it was snowing heavily, and the snow was deep enough. The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who were forced to defend the city had chapped hands and feet, and even froze their fingers. They all complained.

On the other hand, the Hammer bandits and soldiers were full of spirits, well fed and warmly dressed, using snow piles as ladders to climb the city, and actively preparing to attack the city.

Even the ladder was saved, and the snowy day was so speechless.

On December 27, "the guards lead the thieves up", the hammer bandits successfully captured Ganzhou City.

Lin Rirui, Ma Yu and others were all executed by Gao Yigong. After the hammer bandits occupied Ganzhou, Suzhou (now Jiuquan, Gansu) and other places did not fight.

The whole of Gansu fell under the rule of the hammer bandits, and the entire Ming Dynasty was wiped out.

But in recent days, Gao Yigong sent troops into Qinghai to get in touch with the relationship left by Lin Danhan and wanted to further occupy Xining.

However, he was harassed by the local chieftain soldiers who were loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and lost more than a hundred people, including a general of the Ming army who surrendered to the hammer bandits in Lanzhou.

Gao Yigong is sending people to inquire about the news, preparing for revenge.

He Jinzhao glanced at Gao Yigong's battle report, and it can be said that everything is proceeding step by step.

Daming's forces were completely eliminated, or turned into the camp of the Hammer bandits.

However, the chieftains in Qinghai are not so peaceful, and they have to kill and kill before they can settle down quickly.

Or these chieftains say they are loyal to Daming, it is just an excuse, they just want to see if the new forces can bully them well, and whether they should bow their heads.

There are not a few leaders like this who want to send a group of people to test the ingredients.

He Jinzhao got off his horse and took a piss. He thought for a while to reply to Gao Yigong's letter, telling him to be careful in that area of ​​Qinghai.

In particular, it is necessary to find some hostile forces that are hostile to the chieftain of one's own side, and to unite forces that can be united, so as not to be drawn into the ambush circle due to unfamiliar terrain.

Don't use guides who come to your door on their own initiative, most of them are fraudulent.

It is very common for this kind of locals to give up their lives and lead the way to the trap, just like Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and others, who were led into the Chexiang Gorge by the locals.

For those chieftains loyal to Daming, their tribes will kill them if they should, and don't hold back their hands.

The more barbaric and backward the area, the more it believes in fist supremacy.

It is also necessary to win over those chieftain forces who are not interested in Daming, and replace those loyal to Daming. It is best to join forces to strangle the hostile forces.

They can also be used in the future, at least in terms of familiarity with the terrain, it can be regarded as an early warning.

He Jinzhao thought of writing the letter in this way, and handed it to Zhang Fuzhen, Jigui, and the two staff officers, and then sent it to Gao Yigong in a hurry. It would probably take ten and a half days to receive it.

Fu Zonglong led the army forward, and received an order from Hong Chengchou, ordering him to strictly guard all the passes, beware of hammer bandits invading Sichuan, and not to support Hanzhong.

Fu Zonglong wanted to ignore Hong Chengchou's order.

However, a series of three military orders made him stop advancing and not allow him to leave Sichuan.

Even if Fu Zonglong wanted to support Hanzhong, there was nothing he could do.

Pioneer Zhao Guangrui has already left Sichuan, he doesn't know how this group of people marched so quickly.

Fu Zonglong originally wanted to force Hong Chengchou to send troops together to deal with the hammer bandits and keep Hanzhong alive.

This can also prevent the hammer bandits from expanding to Sichuan.

But Hong Chengchou just didn't agree. Instead, he showed Shangfang's sword for the last time. If you dare to violate the military order, I will kill you.

With the old history of Yuan Chonghuan beheading Mao Wenlong, the deterrent power of Shangfang's sword has really increased a lot.

Fu Zonglong originally wanted to save Daming, but didn't want to try the sword with himself, and in the end he got a reputation for not obeying military orders.

He could only mobilize Sichuan troops from all walks of life to station at dangerous passes, and then deploy tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to prevent the hammer bandits from going south from Chengdu to Langzhong as the second line of defense.

Fu Zonglong didn't want to chase Zhao Guangrui back because of how quickly Zhao Guangrui led them away.

It doesn't matter if he goes to support, it can make the Hammer Bandits fearful.

Zhao Guangrui continued to send scouts into the territory of Hanzhong to explore the troop deployment of the hammer bandits.

When he didn't enter the border of Hanzhong, he was quite anxious, but after he arrived, he became less anxious, so as not to fall into the ambush of the hammer bandits.

The servant of Zhao Guangyuan, the general soldier of Hanzhong, came to greet him with a letter.

After passing through Ning and Qiang, there are two roads, one is through Wuding Mountain to Mian County, and the other is through Dingjun Mountain to Mian County, in order to attack the hammer bandits who besieged Nanzheng County from the flank.

Or go back to the middle of Sichuan and take the Xiaoba Mountain area directly to the south of Nanzheng County, but it will take a longer time.

Zhao Guangrui asked how many hammer bandits there were, and he was relieved when he got the news that there were only more than ten thousand people.

Nanzheng County has five thousand soldiers and horses, and he brought five thousand soldiers and horses, plus Governor Fu led 2 soldiers to follow behind.

The officers and soldiers were able to besiege the hammer bandits with superior forces.

But Zhao Guangrui immediately realized that the Hammer bandits only had this few troops, and they couldn't besiege Nanzheng County smoothly.

5000 people defending the city versus 1 people attacking the city, that's a huge advantage.

Not right.

Zhao Guangrui felt that his cousin had concealed the number of hammer bandits from him.

"Have you really found out that there are only 1 hammer bandits outside the city?"

"Back to General Zhao, I have really investigated clearly, and the rebels saw that Nanzheng could not be defeated, so they began to increase their troops. They are on the way, and the number of them is about [-]."

Hearing what his cousin Jia Ding said, Zhao Guangrui felt relieved, that's right.

Zhao Guangrui told them to go down to rest and wait for his scout horse to come back.

Before making him wait too long, he got the news that there were no enemy troops in Wuding Mountain, but only Dingjun Mountain was guarded by rebels.

"Where do you come from?"

"Back to General Zhao, we came from Wudingshan Road."

Zhao Guangrui nodded, called a few subordinates, let them have a good rest, and pretended to walk Wuding Mountain tomorrow, and then collectively passed the path of Dingjun Mountain.

As soon as this plan was announced, several generals were a little surprised and uncertain.

How can you hit the enemy with a gun?

"General Zhao, there is a hammer bandit flag in Dingjun Mountain, why do we have to go there?"

"The flag of the hammer bandit was deliberately exposed on Dingjun Mountain. It must be a fake soldier. The soldiers gathered in Wuding Mountain and waited for us to pass by and lay an ambush for us."

Zhao Guangrui held the Yanling Saber: "The Hammer bandits thought our army was going fast, but they didn't know that I had more than half of the Qiang soldiers under my command, and they crossed mountains and rivers faster.

At that time, we will quickly rush out of Dingjun Mountain, enough to kill the hammer bandits who are besieged outside Nanzheng City by surprise. "

I have to say that Zhao Guangrui's analysis is extremely reasonable.

Who has nothing to do to ambush on the small road, especially if he deliberately missed the trap.

If there were no flags on the two roads, Zhao Guangrui still couldn't make up his mind, maybe he had to throw a boot and let God help to judge.

But now that the hammer bandit's flag was planted in Dingjun Mountain, he had already made a judgment for him, so he went to the place where the hammer bandit deliberately set a trap.

If you don't go to a place where nothing is exposed, it must be a trap.

Zhao Guangrui didn't believe that the Hammer bandits didn't know the news of the arrival of Daming's reinforcements. After all, Governor Fu didn't hide it at all, but publicized it.

It's just that he sent someone to contact Governor Fu's men, but they haven't come back yet.

Not to mention where Governor Hong took his troops, even the guards sent by his cousin did not detect Governor Hong's troops.

Zhao Guangrui reckoned that in this battle, Sichuan soldiers would have to be the main force, and then wait for Governor Hong to finish.

But at this time, the arrow is on the string, and I don't care about other things.

As long as he successfully entered Nanzheng County, with the support of Governor Fu and Governor Hong, he could earn a lot of money from King Rui.

This time, he brought the brothers under him to make money.

The main force of the hammer bandits has already ambushed on Dingjun Mountain.

Wu Dading was lying on the mountain with a grass leaf in his mouth, waiting for the news to be delivered.

"team leader."

Yuan Shizhong crawled over slowly: "The Ming army is heading towards Wuding Mountain. Is our ambush about to fail?"

Hearing this, Wu Dading straightened up and spat out the weeds in his mouth: "Is the news accurate?"

"The news that Tan Ma just sent is extremely accurate."

Wu Dading was a little suspicious, after all, he was under a lot of pressure.

This wave of Ming army generals obviously did not proceed according to the normal way of thinking. If Bai had ambushed him, he would have been able to pass through Mian County smoothly, and then flank the soldiers he had arranged outside Nanzheng City.

Once defeated, isn't this a disappointment to the Marshal's expectations of himself?

The prestige accumulated through the war will also disappear.

Yuan Shizhong and others didn't urge them, but just waited for Wu Dading's order.

Everyone is now a grasshopper on a rope. If the ambush fails, no one will grasp the exploits of this battle.

Although the bulk of the responsibility lies with Wu Dading.

Wu Dading sweated a little on his head, but calmed down this time:

"Don't worry, Wuding Mountain is a big road, but it's a long way, and we're waiting."

He remembered that the Marshal once said in the martial arts hall that fishing needs pulling, don't panic just because of the fish's several temptations, and calm down to sit on the Diaoyutai.

"Yes."

Yuan Shizhong climbed back again, and asked the detectives below to continue to investigate the movements of the Ming army, trying not to expose the ambushes at Dingjun Mountain.

Wu Dading wiped the hot sweat off his face. He thought that his strategy to lure the enemy army was fine. Anyone with a little brain would think that there was an ambush designated on the deserted road.

Is it possible that Zhao Guangrui, who led the troops this time, thought that the Sichuan soldiers under his command could rush out of the encirclement of my hammer bandits, and they were defeated?
Even if Cao Wenzhao was reborn, he would not have this strength.

He couldn't even get out of the encirclement of Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng's ambush, let alone the rest of the Ming soldiers.

So Wuhan University must have been unable to figure it out for a while, and his heart was always hanging.

After all, it was the first time that the Marshal had entrusted him with a heavy responsibility, so he had to seize the opportunity to complete the task.

Now that there is an uncontrollable situation, it is inevitable that I will be a little anxious.

Wu Dading took a deep breath to stabilize his mind, even if the officers and soldiers passed Wuding Mountain smoothly, they would inevitably have doubts in their hearts.

Even if they really walked Wuding Mountain, they could run to stop him since they were closer to Mian County, but they just couldn't wait for work.

But Wu Dading didn't have to wait too long, and the latest news came back from Tanma.

The group of Ming soldiers suddenly turned to a small road and came straight to Dingjun Mountain.

Wu Dading couldn't help clapping his fists, he really doubted that there was no sign of defense in Wuding Mountain, so he rushed towards the path.

Yuan Shizhong and other generals admired Wu Dading's judgment even more.

At last, they didn't let the brothers lie in vain. As long as they have military merits, it's easy to appoint.

Who doesn't want to work hard to move up in the next division of the Marshal?
As He Jinzhao controlled more and more territory, they also believed more and more that following the commander in chief would make meritorious deeds, thus honoring their ancestors.

Zhao Guangrui came straight to the trail with his subordinates, and he was extremely proud of his actions in his heart.

"The hammer bandit's strategy is nothing more than that, let's see how I can break you!"