"That's called the one who knows the times as Junjie!" Gao Pragmatic said angrily, and then asked the family who sent the letter: "Mo Maoqia obviously has a large army outside, and it is not very far away, and he himself has Thang Long City to defend, why would he surrender to me so easily in such a situation, has Gao Ming found out the reason for this?" ”

The family Ding said: "Master, the regiment has checked, mainly because the army of the Mo Dynasty's southern expedition suffered a big defeat, it is reported that the 60,000 troops of the main force of the Mo Dynasty's southern expedition were defeated and lost in Ningping, Qinghua, and lost more than 30,000 soldiers, and only about 25,000 to 28,000 remnants of the defeated army fled back to Henan. The auxiliary king of the Mo Dynasty urged Mo Dun three times a day, wanting Mo Maoqia to strengthen Ruan Ti's 15,000 men and Mo Yulin's 25,000 men to defend the southern front. ”

Gao Shishi and Huang Zhiting glanced at each other, and they both turned upright, and they all walked to the map and looked at it.

The Southern Expeditionary Army of the Mo Dynasty actually lost, and lost so badly? The loss of more than half of the main force of the elite is a real nerve-wracking.

Their situation, if you want to roughly analogize it, is like the defeat of the Ming army in the Battle of Songjin in history, the elite of the nine sides built with all the national strength was lost, and there was no power to fight back again.

Of course, Mo Chao is still slightly stronger than the Battle of Songjin this time, and the loss of more than half of it is better than being completely annihilated, although it was also broken backbone, but it left some seeds.

Moreover, no matter what Mo Chao says, there are two famous generals, Ruan Ti and Mo Yulin, especially Ruan Ti, who has had brilliant achievements before. The combined strength of the two of them is also 40,000 men, which is actually not a small number.

In other words, even if you don't count the soldiers and horses of Shenglong City, the Mo Dynasty can still gather an army of sixty or seventy thousand. In Gao Shishi's opinion, if these people can gather and all obey Ruan Ti's command, there is still a good hope of repelling the Zheng army of the Li Dynasty.

Of course, the premise is that there is no high pragmatism and troublemaker.

After understanding the current situation, Gao Pragmatic himself admired that the timing of his dispatch of troops this time was really coincidental, although Mo Chao was defeated this time, he was actually fully capable of stabilizing the overall situation.

Just like the Mo Dynasty in history this year, it was also defeated, and it will continue to be defeated again two years later, but it was not until ten years later that the Zheng army finally really defeated the main force of the Mo army, forcing the Mo Dynasty to only a mere Gaoping, and survived under the protection of the Ming Dynasty.

But this time, because of his own horizontal insertion, Mo Chao was attacked by the north and south, and the north and south were both defeated - not to mention the south, the loss of Langshan in the north is a big defeat!

Because Langshan is lost, Annan is a flat river for the Ming Dynasty!

Gao Pragmatic couldn't help but think, if he was Mo Maoqia, there seemed to be no other way out in this situation, right? In addition to "recognizing the thief as a father" hugging Daming's father's thigh and crying that he is loyal and filial, what else can he do?

Following the example of King Xu, Lutai self-immolated?

Mo Maoqia's problem seems to have been solved, but the problem now is that he may have become a pick-up man - after taking Mo Chao's plate, it is estimated that he will have to fight with Zheng Jun, who is going north while he is victorious.

But at this time, Huang Zhiting said: "Straight to the point, I think the first priority now is to subdue Taiyuan's Mo Yulin Department!" ”

Gao pragmatic suddenly realized, Huang Zhiting made sense!

Although Mo Maoqia was already in his own hands, Mo Yulin, Ruan Ti, and even Mo Dunrang, the three people who actually had soldiers in their hands, did not indicate that they would obey their own dispatches, what if there was any change in the three of them?

For example, if you don't recognize the "edict" issued by Mo Maoqia when you are threatened, or even more decisively, you will go to the Li Dynasty? You must know that defeat and surrender and surrender with 20,000 troops are completely different situations.

Defeated and surrendered, Zheng Song killed if he wanted to; Lead the troops to surrender, it's not easy to kill if you want to! What's more, this kind of power that can be used, isn't it good to use it well, why kill it?

Gao pragmatic nodded and said, "That's right, now I have to force Mo Yulin to show his attitude first." But...... However, it is necessary to grasp a good degree here, not only to let Mo Yulin accept our supervision and even reorganization, but also to ensure that he will not be forced to rebel. ”

This degree is not easy to grasp, because this kind of thing not only depends on the overall situation, but also on the personality of the other party - what kind of personality is Mo Yulin?

Gao pragmatic is not a fairy, how does he know!

Huang Zhiting's thinking is much more direct than Gao Pragmatic, probably because Guinan Guixi Tusi is not as fond of finding weaknesses in human nature to "solve problems" as people in politics like Gao Pragmatic, and her plan is straightforward!

"Continue to encircle Taiyuan, put out all the artillery, bombard the city gate and wall on one side, and then send someone to tell him Mo Maoqia's decision, let him surrender the city and accept the reorganization!" Huang Zhiting said coldly: "We can clearly tell him that if he accepts the reorganization, we will take him with us to defeat Zheng Song; If he doesn't accept it...... After the city is broken, there are no chickens and dogs left! ”

Gao pragmatic glanced at her in surprise.

Huang Zhiting suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, suddenly lost the coldness just now, lowered her head, and whispered: "I'm just for you...... Think about the big picture. It turned out that she thought Gao was pragmatic and thought she was too cruel.

Gao Shi suddenly laughed and said, "I know, I know, you have a point, you really can't be indecisive at this time...... There is a way that mercy is not in charge of soldiers, but you taught me a lesson. ”

Huang Zhiting glanced at him quietly, and saw that he didn't look like a fake, so he put his mind at ease and said, "Then I'll give the order now, let's not rest, pull out the camp early, and rest outside Taiyuan City." ”

Gao pragmatic did not object, he knew that one of the big advantages of the wolf soldiers was that they were very able to walk, and it should even be said that they were particularly able to walk, which may have been exercised by walking mountain roads since childhood, and now that they have passed Langshan, the terrain has become the Red River Plain of a flat river, which is even more unlikely to make the wolf soldiers feel that there is nothing to work on the march.

It's not even good, the most tiring thing in the entire army is that he is pragmatic - even if he rides a horse, even if he usually exercises a little, but a civilian official is a civilian official, and he is not a genius with both civil and military skills.

The army continued to march westward, and two days later, it had reached less than thirty miles east of Taiyuan City, Cen Ling sent someone over, saying that he had rushed to Taiyuan City, but Taiyuan City's reaction was very strange, not to mention the high hanging free battle card, but also sent someone to contact him that Shenglong had already contacted Gao Zhitai, and the two sides were now friendly forces.

Cen Ling didn't know the truth for a while, thinking that Huang Zhiting's side was about to arrive, so he didn't launch a tentative attack, and planned to wait for Huang Zhiting to arrive to see it together.

Gao Pragmatic asked Cen Ling's Tanma to go back to report to Cen Ling, saying that he had already come in person and would talk about it when he met.

The so-called tanma in Cen Ling's department actually doesn't even have a horse - they produce bantam horses in Guixi and Guinan, but that kind of horse can be used to carry people and goods, and it is completely unreliable to be a tanma, so the so-called tanma under his command are all running.

Not to mention, all of them are long-distance runners, and it is estimated that if they can go to the 21st century, they are afraid that they will be able to participate in world-class marathons.

Thirty miles was walked in less than half a day. Cen Ling, like Huang Zhiting before, smiled and led his subordinates to meet the pragmatic driver.

He also had gains on his side, and of course Gao Pragmatic had to be rewarded as usual, but he was not as fierce as Huang Zhiting's Battle of Lang Son along the way, and the number of Gao Ping's defenders themselves was not as good as that of Lang Son, and they only obtained more than 1,000 heads and nearly 2,000 prisoners in total.

Gao Pragmatic didn't care about this little money, and with a wave of his hand, he gave the reward as usual. However, because the Battle of Gaoping was not as fierce as the Battle of Langshan, Cen Ling's extra reward along the way was less than half of Huang Zhiting's department, and he only took 10,000 taels.

Cen Ling didn't have any opinions, but he still quipped: "In the battle of Langshan, my Guixi wolf soldiers can't catch up, but if we want to fight with the Zheng army of the Li Dynasty in the future, we should not miss the work of our Western Route Army. ”

Gao Pragmatic laughed and said, "As long as the battle achievements are solid, the reward is easy to say." ”

In fact, he knew in his heart that whether it was Huang Zhiting's department or Cen Ling's department, the seizures after they took the city of the Mo Dynasty were all distributed by themselves, even if the Mo Dynasty was also poor, but there should still be some treasury accumulation, and now the two departments should have seized some floating wealth.

But Gao pragmatic doesn't care about these, the biggest difference between the wolf soldiers and the official army is that the wolf soldiers do not pay military salaries, and the morale of the expedition is mainly maintained by looting, after all, no matter how big the rules of the Tusi are, they can only maintain military discipline, but they can't maintain morale.

Besides, whether it is Langshan, Changqing, Gaoping, or Xuanguang that they have taken now, they can't talk about any rich land, even if they grab some floating wealth, it is estimated that it is limited, and most of them will not be able to enter the eyes of his high people. Not to mention that Gao Shishi's main coveting places for Annam are basically on the seashore or some places not far from the seaside, and the seizure in the north is at their own discretion.

Now that the two sides met and exchanged the situation, Cen Ling knew that the southern expedition was going so smoothly, especially Gao Jue's department, which was as smooth as listening to Dr. Cha's story.

After a few random shots, Thang Long City actually surrendered - oh, it should be said that the whole country surrendered.

Cen Ling couldn't help but be envious, and said that I was tired and tired, and I fought from Gaoping to Tonghua in more than half a month, from Tonghua to Xuanguang, and from Xuanguang to Taiyuan.

Who knew that because of the geographical location, there was such a prominent victory as the Battle of Langshan, and then Gao Jue's surprise attack on Shenglong and won the biggest contribution to pacifying Annan, which ...... It's simply intolerable!

Now seeing that the battle of Taiyuan may also be in the soup, Cen Ling can't wait to kick Mo Maoqia's waste material - why can't you hold on until I take Taiyuan and then surrender?

It's a shame that a boiled duck can still fly!

Gao Pragmatic didn't have time to take care of Cen Ling's mood now, so he just concentrated all the artillery at the south gate of Taiyuan according to the original plan, planning to show them a round of fireworks without saying a word......

Who knew that before the artillery was in place, someone in Taiyuan City came out with a white flag, nodded and said that he was coming to see the Gao Gong of the Guangxi Patrol Court on behalf of King Dunhou.

Gao pragmatically said: Who is the king of Dunhou? Why does this title feel a little funny...... Do you have anyone named the Honest King?

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