Chapter 81: The Battle of Yunyang

Yunyang is not a big city.

Yunyang was developed in the Ming Dynasty, and it was in the Chenghua period that the displaced people gathered in a large area in the mountains where the four provinces of Sichuan, Henan, Hubei and Shaanxi were handed over, and the official data was as much as 930,000, but when the government pacified the displaced people during the Chenghua period, the killing of the main officials at that time was too prosperous. Even the Xiangyang Fallen Tears Monument was renamed.

It used to be a monument to commemorate the fallen tears of the sheep, but it has become a tragic fallen tear monument between the Jiang and Han dynasties.

Therefore, for a long time in the future, the Yunyang Mountains were a gathering area for displaced people, and even in the Qing Dynasty, it did not change much.

In the Yunyang area, there is little flat land. The few county towns are also small valleys divided by mountains. Yunyang City is not high, but many times, it can't hit Yunyang City. Gao Yigong marched east along the Han River from Hanzhong, and when he advanced to Yunyang, he encountered Wang Guangtai's stubborn sniping.

On a mountain pass, the army that stretched for miles came to a halt.

This mountain road can accommodate two or three people in parallel, one side is the surging Han River, the Han River is in the mountains, and the other side is the lush vegetation, although the mountain is not much steep, but there is no road to pass, only the road along the river.

And the road was not carved out by hand.

It seems that when the Han River was flooded, the river water hit both sides and washed out of the flat ground. But at this time, the Han water could not rise to the highest water level, so this road was left.

The narrowness of the road directly restricts the traffic capacity, and I don't know how the battle is going on in front, but this road, and the people behind can't go up, so they can only rest along the way and wait for the battle situation in front.

"Kill." Suddenly, on the top of the hill on the south side, many soldiers appeared, about more than 100 people, shouting loudly and rushing down the mountain. Cutting the long procession into two sections from the middle, the army that was cultivating was shocked, although some people immediately stood up to resist, but many more soldiers panicked, either died under the enemy's sword, or fell into the Han water with rolling and crawling.

In the boiling Han water, the load is heavy and floating. With the rolling waves, it disappeared.

This assault came and went quickly, and almost before the people who broke into the camp reacted, they had already withdrawn into the mountains and forests, and the soldiers who broke into the camp saw this, and they did not dare to pursue, so they could only report the situation. Because it's not the first time.

Gao Yigong, who supervised the battle in front, saw the battle report and said: "The old one. ”

But no matter how much Gao Yigong looks down on Yun Yangjun, Yunyang Jun's old routine, but he also has to admit that the old routine works.

He is now facing Baihe County.

The small county in the mountains can never be compared with the county town in the plains.

Baihe County was originally Baihe Fort, and it was also one of the county seats established together with Yunyang Mansion during the Chenghua period. He is the main road of Shaanxi Lake. Guarding this place can resist the northwest

Yunyang. It seems that for this reason, Baihe County was placed under the jurisdiction of Hanzhong Prefecture rather than Yunyang Prefecture.

This kind of intertwined political philosophy, above the ground, is very common.

But in troubled times, I can't say so much. When Gao Doushu supported Yunyang Mansion alone, there were enemies on all sides, and he didn't care about any provincial boundaries and county boundaries, so he sent troops to stand in Baihe County, but at that time, there were only a few thousand people left in Baihe County, which was not as good as a big village now.

And now, although Baihe County has not been able to restore the old view, it is also a gathering place for mountain people from all over the world, and it is also very lively when it comes to the first and fifteenth gatherings of the new year. The people in the mountains to avoid disasters also inevitably come here to exchange some supplies.

Baihe County is also the place where a tributary of the Han River flows into the Han River.

In this way, it also knocked out a small plain, which is where Baihe County is located.

Gao Yigong understands very well that the Yunyang Army is stationed in Baihe County, and the number of people will not be too much, at least thousands. But in the narrow battlefield, even thousands of people can't be used, and they can even divide into several groups of men and horses to block Gao Yigong on the south side of Hanshui.

In such a narrow battlefield, the number of people is useless. No amount of people can be useful. Then the Yunyang army sent a small detachment, or a hundred or hundreds of people, to haunt the mountains and attack the grain routes of the army.

On the one hand, the army could not attack, and the grain route was threatened.

Under such circumstances, it is good to withdraw the troops early, but if the troops are not withdrawn, it may cause a mutiny in the army, after all, the army will be chaotic if there is no food. It is a wise saying of soldiers.

Gao Doushu relied on Yunyang District to repeatedly defeat the encirclement and suppression of the camp, and it was by virtue of this routine.

Gao Yigong faced this routine again, and for a while there was a feeling of powerlessness.

However, Gao Yigong also came prepared, just took this information to heart and urged the people below to continue to attack.

The road in the mountains is difficult, and it is impossible to transfer that kind of jack artillery. Even the artillery that was only one of Gao Yigong was placed in the rear team, and it couldn't be called for a while, but Wang Guangtai had already prepared, although the number of tiger squat cannons was not much, but there were more than a dozen.

More than a dozen tiger squatting cannons, plus hundreds of bows and arrows, but more than a thousand soldiers, the mountains and a narrow flat land of the Han River are tightly blocked. Gao Yigong can only attack in waves, as if he was sent to death.

An almost futile move.

However, at the same time, Wang Guangtai also received the latest battle report. Wang Guangtai snorted coldly and said, "I didn't expect Gao Yigong to come to this hand." ”

It turned out that when Wang Guangtai blocked Gao Yigong here, he didn't know that a partial division from Dang Shousu came from the south to Baihe County, and the time was only a day or two. There are only a few thousand people in Baihe County, and it is impossible to fight hard for a single army.

Therefore, Wang Guangtai immediately ordered to find the leaders of the cottages.

In Yunyang, there is a type of people who have to be considered, and that is the mountain people.

Yunyang is a place where displaced people gather since the Chenghua period, and there are more than one million displaced people stranded. It can even be said to be one of the birthplaces of the peasant army, after Li Zicheng's defeat and hid in Shangluo Mountain, he was able to gather the displaced people to make a comeback, and the place where Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai rested was Yunyang Mountain.

Even the thousands of miles of mountains centered on the Yunyang Mountains, after the fall of the Southern Ming Dynasty, still resisted the Qing Dynasty and lasted until the Kangxi period. It can be seen that the power of these mountain people.

In just a moment, the leaders of the cottage came, some old and some young, but everyone leaked a fierce meaning. Life in the mountains is much harder than on the flats. These people are not obedient to the people, they are all masters who draw swords when they disagree.

Even Wang Guangtai didn't dare to take it.

Wang Guangtai said: "Ladies and gentlemen, how are my brothers and I settled in Yunyang in the past two years? ”

"Wang Er, you don't have to talk nonsense." An old man knocked on the cigarette pouch and said: "Gao Yigong is the person who broke the king, although the king is no longer there, but this love is still there, and we will not help each other at most." ”

"Really?" Wang Guangtai said. He then kicked a bag down with a heavy kick, pulled out his knife and slashed at it, and countless yellow particles flowed out.

"Salt." I don't know who said it, but many people suddenly moved.

In later generations, the salt production process was developed, and the salt had no impurities, so it was all white, but in this era, there were quite a lot of impurities in salt, most of them were yellow, and the shades of yellow were different, some were process problems, and some were the heart and intestines of salt merchants.

The color of salt ginseng soil is naturally different from that of soil ginseng salt.

The most important thing to live in the mountains is salt, and if you don't eat salt for a few days, a big man will have weak limbs. That's why salt is the most precious. But for Mr. Wang, it's not much of a problem. Not to mention anything else, the largest salt-producing area now, the Huaiyang area, is in the hands of Great Xia.

After Yunyang surrendered to the summer, he immediately received material support from Great Xia, and salt was only part of it.

"I buy my life with salt." Wang Guangtai said: "Buy the head below the high one." All the leaders have to say is whether to do this business or not to do it. ”

For a while, everyone was silent, and no one could say a word.

Salt is not too important to Wang Guangtai, who has the support of the rear, but it is a life-saving thing for many cottage women and elderly people in the mountains who can only eat light food.

"I did." I don't know who said it first. Immediately, countless people responded.

Wang Guangtai's eyes lit up slightly, and he said secretly: "With the help of these people, it is difficult to move an inch." ”

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