February of the seventh year of Chongzhen.

Just past the dragon raised its head. Although the solar terms in Guangdong have begun to rise, there is still some spring cold. (Nonsense!) How can it be cold in Guangdong!? Don't say I'm talking nonsense, it has snowed heavily in Guangdong at this time, and it's normal to be a little cold. ）

Just when the Shaanxi peasant army headed by Gao Yingxiang and Gao Chuang Wang either forcibly crossed the Yellow River to the south or crossed the Qinling Mountains into Sichuan, officially unveiling their career as a rogue in the Jianghuai River, and officials from all over the country were playing sparsely, shirking responsibility for themselves, and accusing each other, Chen Tianhua's team was marching rapidly on an almost abandoned road in Xin'an County, Guangdong Province.

"The dragon dives into the cape of the sea and is frightened, so he jumps into the abyss for the time being. Waiting for the gathering of the wind and clouds, the world will be determined. ”

Sitting on a high-headed horse with shiny coat, looking at the team winding on the official road, he couldn't stop chanting this song of the Seven Uniques. Although the rhyme and words are not so neat, there is a heroic atmosphere between the lines.

After reading it a few times in Hakka, looking at the marching team in front of him and behind the horse, the sweaty faces that walked because of the long march, Chen Tianhua couldn't help but think of the famous military chariot line, "Che Linlin, Ma Xiaoxiao, pedestrian bows and arrows are all at the waist!" ”

However, compared with Fang Cai's verse, this poem lacks that pride.

The previous poem was written by Shouhan that day. To be precise, it is to plagiarize other people's works when everyone has the intention of persuading them to advance.

On that day, when the Toji Cheng Xuanhe Qibao asked him if he would open a new name for the financial expenditure of the Toji Division, it would be used to expand the territory in the north. Shouhan almost agreed.

However, in the expectant, surprised, or blank eyes of everyone, he still forcibly suppressed his impulse.

"No need. Just open an account for expenses in the north to quell the unrest. The insufficient part, according to the old rules, will be advanced from the inner house first, and the next year or three sections will be written off! ”

"But! The Central Plains is already in turmoil, why can't the lord afford a brigade of volunteers to hang the people to fight the crime in order to relieve the people's upside down? Save the people from fire and water? ”

Under the pressure of everyone present. On the one hand, it is to show the heart. To prove that he does not have the idea of chasing the Central Plains and changing the dynasty at the moment, on the other hand, it is also to leave a thought for those who support the dragon, and at the same time, it is also to blow the wind in advance for those who are neutral and ride the wall. lest you not be able to turn a corner when you get it; Shouhan once again sacrificed the magic weapon of crossing the crowd. Plagiarism of someone else's work.

But. Whose good is it to plagiarize? For people before the Ming Dynasty, don't think about it, you can only plagiarize it after the Qing Dynasty. However, it seems that the Qing Dynasty could not find bold and domineering verses at all. Come and think about it. It seems that only Yuan Datou's "Kaixuan Ping Beidou, turning over too low" has a little meaning. Alas! Damn, could it be said that the son of the fourth master, who has a high exposure on the screen, claims to be the master of the perfect old man, and picks out a sentence from tens of thousands of imperial poems? It's a pity that Li Shouhan is not Wang Yuyan, he can remember so many things, if he is asked to talk about the late Qing Dynasty's Shulai Bao, bamboo branch words, ten not idle, cross talk, drums and other literary and artistic varieties with the characteristics of the Eight Banners, he can still say a few things, and it seems that in addition to a few songs by the chairman, he really regrets reading less!

Huh? I suddenly remembered that there is a person's verses that can be plagiarized generously! It is the poem of Hong Xiuquan of the Hakka people in Huaxian County, Guangdong!

So, Shouhan generously read out this poem in order to encourage himself when King Hong Tianwang fell in public. Suddenly the eyes of the civil and military personnel present lit up.

It turns out that the lord does not intend to change the dynasty in the Central Plains, but he feels that the time is not ripe enough, and our strength is not strong enough! There is a way that the lord is worried about the humiliation of the lord and the humiliation of the minister, since the lord thinks that our strength is not enough, then, as a group of subordinates, let's complete these things for him!

Just after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, when the ordinary people of Nanzhong were still intoxicated with the atmosphere of the New Year, and were still a little drunk by the aroma of wine and meat, the crusade of the Nanzhong Army against the Mo family had begun.

The troops who crusaded against the Mo family were led by Xu Huanshan, the commander of the right wing of the water division, and started from Ha Jing Fu, the old base of the Southern Central Army, all the way to the west. The force had grown from five battalions to fifteen battalions.

"It's just a little less artillery!" Some of the insatiable Xu Huanshan looked at those who were carrying funeral guns and knives, and some of their green faces were full of excited expressions, all of them were young people who yearned for military merit, and couldn't help but praise them from the bottom of their hearts.

These mobilized soldiers are recruited from all over the country in accordance with the principle of one armor and one soldier, all of them are selected strong men, who have received at least two months of training in their hometowns every year, and who have left their names in the military register, and most of them have also participated in the war with the natives in the vicinity, and are not strangers to combat. Under the leadership of the first commander and the officers, they know how to use the weapons in their hands, how to fight in accordance with the requirements of military discipline, and how to save the lives of themselves and their comrades on the battlefield.

Xu Huanshan took out the battle order issued by Shouhan, and assigned their artillery corps to his own combat sequence from the garrison stationed in Hanoi in the name of the Military Division and the Nanzhong Military Camp Office.

"You are also peaceful in this Shenglong City, rather than eating and doing nothing here, it is better to go and kill the enemy with us and make meritorious contributions, rest assured, when the time comes, the first credit in the book of conquering Qinghua will be your artillery team!"

Seeing that the four Kelong cannons, six mortar cannons, and twelve cannons over eight pounds were dragged into the camp by cattle and horses, Xu Huanshan couldn't help grinning and patting the battalion officers of the artillery team on the shoulders.

"We will never treat you badly!"

"The brothers all want to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, and I hope that the adults will give them a chance, so that everyone can get what they want!"

"No problem! This seal of the commander of the Ming Dynasty and Annan, Lao Tzu has taken it! Lao Tzu got this seal, and you all have credit! ”

Nearly 20,000 troops marched westward. In addition to the combat troops, there were tens of thousands of supply support personnel along the way, and they swept westward like a giant dragon rolling up a monstrous flood, as if they were about to swallow everything that stood in their way.

In the face of strong military pressure, almost no one in the villages and towns in the Mo family's territory, and the various cities resisted, and before the arrival of the Nanzhong Army, the treasury was sealed early, the population registration and other things were prepared, and the city contacted the vanguard of the Left Route Army to ask for surrender.

What's more, he went directly to the branch of the Han Yuan firm in the city to get a flag and hang it at the head of the city. Then firecrackers rang out in the city. announced that he was no longer a common man under the Mo family.

"Is this war?" A conscriptor carries a spear in the marching column. Looking at the officials kneeling at the city gate in the distance, holding the seals, the population account books, and the keys to the treasury, they were very puzzled. "How can it be easier than training at home? Every day is a march, a small rest, a march, a big rest, a march, a meal, and then a march and camp? ”

The captain next to him carved the name of the town on the barrel of the funeral gun with his sword. While training this recruit with a tiger face.

"What do you know? The easier the opening battle became. The harder it is to hit the back! This is the enemy shrinking his forces. Let us lose our vigilance and become arrogant, and we will inevitably be ambushed somewhere! ”

Something that the chief can think of. Naturally, the commanders of the Left Route Army could also imagine it. As a result, the daily march route map became more and more cautious, and every hill, every wood, and every ravine would be clearly marked on the map by the scouts, where it was possible to hide troops, where it was possible to set up ambushes, which mountain was undulating, and which mountain road was the easiest to ambush, were all depicted on the map.

That's it, Xu Huanshan was still afraid that he would be ambushed by the Mo family's army, and every day when he was marching, he would scatter a large number of scouts, all of whom were composed of experienced veterans. At least three or five miles from the front and back of the marching procession, the left and right sides of the road were reconnoitred to prevent the Mo family army from being ambushed.

"That's a big eye, a big joke!"

In his Chinese military account, he explained this sentence to the battalion officers more than once.

The more smoothly they move forward, without encountering the slightest resistance, the more they feel that there are hardships ahead, and that there is a huge trap and conspiracy waiting for them with their mouths wide open.

Therefore, they marched fifty miles every day, and immediately after arriving at the camp, they set up a camp according to the geographical shape provided by the scouts and the terrain. The trenches were dug up according to the standard of five feet deep and six feet wide, and behind the trenches, the excavated earth was rammed to build an earthen wall, and the earthen wall was erected with felled trees, and gun emplacements and gun holes were installed.

There is an access between the earthen wall and the moat, but the passage across the moat does not directly face the exit of the earthen wall, so it is slightly off. On both sides of the entrance and exit of the earthen wall, there are gun emplacements of the Great Buddha Machine, and the slanted muzzles can just block the exit with a dense rain of shotguns.

And behind such a ditch and earthen wall, there is another ditch and earthen wall.

The huge amount of engineering and earthwork amazed the natives along the way. However, in front of the Nanzhong Army, which carried a large number of tools made of wrought iron and nine-turn steel, it seemed that everything became very easy. The accompanying auxiliary troops, oh, mainly the men and the baggage soldiers, were busy digging or ramming the earth walls on the white lines drawn with lime. One of the more daring natives came up to him and asked if he could serve the army, digging earth and building walls here, and earning some wages.

The soldiers, who were worried about the tight deadline and the shortage of manpower, were unwilling to see someone coming to look for work? Pick up the place that doesn't matter, plan the lot with sweat and sweat, and assign the task.

On the road from Hanoi to Thanh Hoa, such camps were set up one by one, and every day the rear team changed into a squadron, the squadron became the front team, and the front team became a rear team, so as to prevent the enemy from being caught off guard in unexpected places and suddenly coming to him!

Seeing that the road to Thanh Hoa is getting closer and closer, and the possible ambush sites have been left behind one by one, and some overly important passes have been sent by the South Central Army to stay there to prevent being cut off. "What is this old man Mo having?"

Xu Huanshan measured the distance from Qinghua on the map with a ruler, and listened to the scouts from the local people who asked about the distance from Qinghua, and couldn't help but wonder in his heart, not knowing what means the opponent was going to take to deal with his more than 10,000 men.

"My lord! Is it intended to rely on the city? Taking advantage of the exhaustion of our army from afar, after stubbornly resisting our besieging army by relying on the fortified city, harassing our army on our way and forcing our army to retreat? And then another Ouroboros chase? ”

"At this time, there is no news in Qinghua City, and those in the investigation room and statistics room on weekdays are all tricky, but at this time, they can't be seen! The lord spent an unknown number of silver dollars and tongbao every year to supply them, and at this time. But I can't count on any of them! ”

The army marched towards Thanh Hoa City in trepidation. The closer you get to the city, the more nervous you become. lest a cannon suddenly sound in an unexpected place, and the Mo family's army will be killed from an unexpected direction.

However, things in the world developed. It's often really beyond people's expectations. It is not subject to human will.

The vanguard was set up camp less than fifty miles from Thanh Hoa City. As we prepare to begin our assault on the last remnant of the regime in Annam, something unexpected happens!

"What!"

In the camp of the Chinese army in Xu Huanshan, the messenger sent by the former Feng Zhong Hanxiu explained the latest situation to Xu Huanshan. Xu Huanshan is going crazy!

"The Mo family in Qinghua City sent people out of the city to contact you, preparing to surrender the city?! Send the wrong letter, I'll kill your head! ”

"Not only your head Lao Tzu wants to kill, but also the head of your battalion officer Zhong Hanxiu, the head of his whole family, Lao Tzu will cut off for him!"

The messenger was a guard commander under Zhong Hanxiu, the battalion officer who served as the striker, and he was the most experienced on weekdays. At this moment, his face is also full of helplessness and dazedness.

"My lord, I believe you have personally opened it, and this is the situation ahead. Mo Deling, an important minister of the Mo family, sent his son out of the city to contact, saying that he had already charged Mo Jingkuan and others, and when our army arrived at the city of Qinghua, he would immediately open the city and surrender. ”

"If you don't feel at ease, you can take someone to check on Na Mo Deling's eldest son and see if it's me."

The development of this situation is like a master, the whole body is on guard, and he punches with all his strength, but the result is empty, and the other party has no intention of fighting with you at all, and at the moment you punch, he falls to the ground and begs for mercy!

How is this not discouraging? Especially when the whole army is tense up and down, lest they have an inadvertent situation where they are taken advantage of by the opponent?

"How many people know about this at this time?"

After calming down a little, Xu Huanshan opened his mouth and asked the chief who delivered the letter.

"My lord, Officer Zhong knows that the matter is serious, and he doesn't dare to let too many people know, first, for fear of leaking the news, and second, for fear of affecting the morale of our army. Therefore, in the forward battalion, only three or five people knew about it. ”

"Good! Pass the order! Order the rear team to quickly go to the Chinese army to take over the defense! After the arrival of the rear army, the Chinese army will immediately leave for Thanh Hoa City tonight! ”

When Xu Huanshan's 5,000 Chinese troops arrived at the city of Qinghua, looking at the undulating battlements of the city wall in the distance, his heart almost jumped out of his throat.

lest the news received is a fraudulent plan, just like Cao Cao was deceived into Puyang City by Lu Buyu in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. "The lord has never lost a battle since he started the army, I hope this time I don't set this precedent because of me!"

However, as a commander led seven horsemen to gallop towards Thanh Hoa City with the banner of the Southern Central Army, the city gate was slowly opened, and the drawbridge was slowly lowered.

At the head of the city, the Mozi flag, which was still flying high, was torn off the flagpole by someone three times and two times, and replaced it with a huge white flag, and there was a huge black character on the white flag, "Descend"!

The gate opened, and a group of people walked out.

Led by Lord Mo Deling, who went to the Nanzhong Army that day to borrow food to survive the famine brought by locusts.

"The sinner has no orders to wait, it is too late to surrender, and I hope to beg to atone for my sins!"

Mo Deling recited the words of atonement in his mouth, and waved his right hand forward very decisively, and a group of people who looked like domestic slaves and private soldiers came to the front of the Nanzhong army with a group of well-dressed but unkempt and wolf-like people.

"This generation is all people who intend to resist the heavenly soldiers, and the criminals and others have taken it on their behalf, please check one or two!"

"This person is Mo Jingkuan, as the commander of Annan, he doesn't want to repay the great tomorrow's kindness, but he vainly tries to resist the heavenly soldiers,"

Mo Jingkuan and Xu Huanshan had several encounters, that day he went to Hanoi to accept the territory rewarded by the South Chinese Army, as the commander of the capture of Hanoi, Xu Huanshan had dealt with him, seeing that this person was not a fake and shoddy product, behind his son, wife, mother, daughter and his party were bound like fat pigs to be slaughtered.

Behind them, a group of civil and military officials of the Mo family held the golden seals of the envoys of the capital of Annan, the imperial notes, and the geographical and river maps of the mountains and rivers in the Mo family's territory, indicating the formal surrender to the southern Chinese army.

"Alas!"

originally thought that there would be a bloody battle, at least not less than the bloody and tragic battle in Hanoi, but unexpectedly, this result made Xu Huanshan, who was bent on making more war exploits for himself, look up to the sky and sigh.

On the 27th day of the first month of the seventh year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Mo Jingkuan, the commander of the Mo clan in Annan, was captured by his subordinate Mo Deling and others, and tied up his family to surrender to the southern Chinese army. At this point, there was no group outside the South China Army in Annam. The border reaches Guangxi, Yunnan and other places!

This news was sent to Hue by fast horse, and then by clipper to Chen Tianhua, who was stationed on Hong Kong Island and was about to march to the hinterland of Guangdong.

"This guy! It's really a blessing! ”

Chen Tianhua didn't know whether it was envy or jealousy, or something else, so he read a sentence in his mouth.

"Our troops will go to Xin'an County tomorrow! The Left Route Army has already made great contributions, and our Right Route Army cannot be laughed at! ”

So, this team of less than 4,000 people left more than 1,000 people to guard the island, and the rest of the men and horses came along the Kowloon Peninsula to Xin'an County! (To be continued......)