Torches flashed from time to time on the opposite hillside, like a little star in the vast mountains at night.

The mountain wind whimpered, the clouds churned, and the stars were scattered by the clouds and turned into a little bit of starlight.

The scenery is like a dream, but Zheng Lang lost his mentality of appreciation, there are actually many beautiful environments, whether it is Bears Ears Mountain or Tongbai Mountain, or Wudang Mountain further south, the scenery is good, but Zheng Lang has the heart to see?

said to Di Qing: "General Di, if you go to the south, you must remember some of my following words. ”

Not far away, Chen Zhifang exterminated the Yellow Ghost Hunt, and the forcible relocation of the barbarians had been sent to the capital, and it was possible that after he suppressed the righteous army, the south had begun to erode.

"Please say, "Among the civil officials, Di Qing's most trusted and admired is Zheng Lang, who attaches importance to himself, delegates power, trusts, no civil servant can do it, and he is deeply educated, saying that it will be cold next year, and it will be cold next year.

"In the past, the imperial court also had forbidden soldiers to change the borders, and the most feared thing was to go to the south, often for three years, not to accept the water and soil, and half of them died." Zheng Lang said that this is also a kind of redundant soldiers, but it has a nice name, called the more Wu method, which was invented by Zhao Kuangyin, there are two reasons, the first Zhao Kuangyin is in the world, the strongest soldier in the country is the forbidden army in the capital, so he often sends the forbidden army in the capital to conquer the world, and returns after the conquest, the second reason Zhao Kuangyin saw that this is beneficial, so that the soldiers and generals can not know each other, which is conducive to the rule of the dynasty, of course, he is not a traverser, and he can't think of it so far-reaching, so he came out to fight more methods.

It is really necessary to divide the regular army of the whole country, more than 800,000 forbidden troops, about 300,000 garrisoned in the capital, followed by Shaanxi, Hebei and Hedong, and then other places, but in fact, more than half of the border troops still come from the forbidden army in the capital to take turns to defend the border. This range includes the north and the Jianghuai, Jinghu, Sichuan, and Shaanxi, and Lingnan regions. The most bitter thing is to go to the south, to die and die, to be sick. It is not easy to stay for three or two months, to get a little familiar with the local climate, and to take turns, often not only the road is hard. The wife and children are wide, and the human relationship is depressed. Fortunately, there were few soldiers in the south, and the harm was not great.

The most famous is that Guo Kui led 300,000 people to conquer Vietnam, almost destroying Vietnam, but because of the water and soil, half of the soldiers were killed and wounded, so they were separated by a Fuliang River. Quasi-Li Qiande, please surrender. At this time, Di Qing was not the little soldier Di Qing in the past, and he had heard some things from the soldiers. When it comes to the south of the Lunbo, it is as if they have seen a ghost.

Zheng Lang said again: "Because of the safety prison, I gave a herbal prescription, although it can't stop malaria, it also has an effect, and if you are not accustomed to water and soil, you can eat some apple tofu." But the army is a shot. The soldiers were mostly crowded together, and the soldiers were all transferred from the north, so it was impossible to really put an end to them. That's where I'm worried. Therefore, be sure to bring more military doctors, as well as preventive herbs. ”

"Whoa."

"The mountains are bigger and more abundant than here, so be sure to ask a guide who is familiar with the terrain, and you would rather set up camp than act hastily. Again, once there is a change in the south, it will be transmitted to the capital, and the army will start, coming and going. At least the army will not arrive until next spring, and there is a lot of miasma in those mountains in the spring, which should not be taken lightly. ”

"Whoa."

If the main southern part of the country is less populated and there are many mountains, if it becomes a unique valley topography, animals and plants decay after death to produce some harmful substances to the human body, which have accumulated over hundreds of thousands of millions of years. Silted in the valley, once you stray, you will faint at least and die at worst. It's not as exaggerated as in the legendary novels of later generations, but it does.

Zheng Lang is not as good as Di Qing in command, but Di Qing is not as good as Zheng Lang in terms of knowledge in these aspects.

Let's talk about it, let Di Qing do a prevent.

In addition, at the beginning of the art of military reduction, the ministers of the court and the central government had to see confidence, and once they were defeated, they would think crankily and think that it was caused by insufficient troops. Once the law of military reduction is suspended, even Zheng Lang will not know what to do at that time. …,

An Zhizhou walked over and said, "Zheng Xianggong, you haven't rested yet?" ”

"Right now."

"What is Zheng Xianggong's good plan?"

"You'll find out tomorrow morning."

"Yes." An Zhizhou hesitated, and then said: "The bandits are very fierce, and the terrain is ...... vicious."

"An Zhizhou, do you still need to remind me? It may not be fierce, it is your subordinates who are cowardly, and the terrain is indeed a little evil," Zheng Lang looked at the mountain opposite. The camp of the righteous army is not on the main peak, it is too steep to set up a large camp, but on a mountain peak not far from the main peak, the peak is not high, and there is a natural platform on it. Behind is five or six more steep mountains, although the peak where the camp is located is not high, there is a platform from the middle and upper part to the peak, there is a buffer rooting place, but from the middle below, it becomes very steep, so Hou Xiaoliu took people to camp here.

"Yes," An Zhizhou replied tremblingly.

He led the army to exterminate him, but he did not succeed, but sacrificed more than 30 people, and I don't know if the court will punish him.

Zheng Lang didn't say anything, and said, "You can also go down and rest, there will be business tomorrow morning." ”

……

The night is darker.

On the peak of the mountain behind the six camps of Hou Xiaoliu, hundreds of people turned out and quietly climbed up the mountain. Approaching the top of the hill, a few hundred people stopped. This is the plan that Di Qing and Zheng Lang came up with. It is possible to attack the righteous army with his own army, but many soldiers will die. It has nothing to do with the ferocity of the enemy, the terrain factor, and the sacrifice produced by a strong attack is not worth it.

But turning from behind the mountain, some of the peaks are not connected, and there is even a wide valley in the middle, and the cost is no different from a frontal attack, and it is not worth it. There are only three peaks that are really connected, and under the guidance of the guide, there is a mountain that can be climbed behind the mountain, but Hou Xiaoliu is not stupid, and a sentry post is set up on it.

In fact, when night came, Hou Xiaoliu also sent people to patrol everywhere. Hugh said that his subordinates were even Zhang Hai who would be afraid when he saw this Song army coming.

In the end, Zheng Lang and Di Qing took a fancy to a mountain peak in the east, and there was definitely no road leading to the peak, even if they climbed, there was another difficulty at the top of the mountain. From the top of the mountain to the top of the mountain, there is a cliff about ten feet high. It's hard to get up. But it was precisely because of this that the rebels were defenseless.

As for Zheng Lang's training of soldiers to climb the mountains in Kunshan and Bear's Ears Mountain, the enemy may or may not hear it, but in their minds, it is only to familiarize themselves with the training done in the mountainous area. How many times in this era have soldiers trained in rock climbing?

There were still other ways to capture this village, but in the end, this method was chosen in preparation for going to the south in the future and fighting in the more complex Nanling.

It is also to bully Hou Xiaoliu for not having superb military talent.

Where to get a large number of highly talented people with military talents? Even Zhang Hai, Zheng Lang may not think that he has much strategic and tactical vision.

If Hou Xiaoliu is prescient. As early as when his army arrived, they scattered in a hurry. Why did he use this small mountain peak and less than three hundred men to resist the four or five thousand most elite Song troops?

Chen Shi'an took off his armor. Handed over to the soldiers, along with weapons. He is one of the six people picked out by Zheng Lang, and if he wants to go up, he must move forward lightly. The other five were also preparing, with hooks, some rope, and a specially made grappling hook with four claws sticking out. It can be folded, and each claw is very long, these are clumsy borrowing tools.

Chen Shi'an put a bundle of rope on his shoulder, the rope is not long, only a dozen meters, it is also a thin rope, which will be connected piece by piece, and finally the thick rope is dragged to the top of the peak with a thin rope. The intent of this. Or to lighten the load.

The commander made the horses look at the sky and whispered, "Begin." ”

Chen Shi'an nodded, and led the other five people to swim towards them like slow snakes. The difficulty is very high. The scene was very thrilling, it took almost half an hour, and Chen Shi'an was finally the first to reach the peak without danger. Sections of rope were connected, and the thick rope brought with them was pulled to the summit and tied to a large tree, and then the six men pulled up a dozen soldiers, and more. Eventually, the ropes were put in more and more ropes, reaching twenty ropes, and the speed finally increased. …,

The commander made the horses climb to the top of the summit and looked down. The enemy was patrolling below, far away, and there was some night fog, so it was not very real to see. I looked at the sky again, it was still early, and it was four watches. The leader of the horse group breathed a sigh of relief, and the time was rushed, and there was no delay.

The last soldier was dragged up and put back on his armor, which lasted for a long time, two hours from the time Chen Shi Anden Rock began. The sky has entered the fifth watch, and the morning star has begun to brighten in the east.

But there was still time, with a wave of his hand, the five hundred armor soldiers continued to go down the mountain slowly and silently like snakes.

When the enemy camp finally approached, the horses took out a large firecracker from their bosoms, lit it with tongues of fire, and shouted: "Rush! ”

Nearly five hundred men rushed towards the enemy camp.

Hearing the sound of firecrackers, the Song army camp also moved, Zheng Lang and Yi slept on the bed, waiting for this notice, and immediately got up. Di Qing moved faster, he had already left the barracks and ordered the soldiers to blow the horn. Thousands of Song troops rushed up the mountain.

By this time, the horses had already rushed into the enemy camp and began to fight.

Without the cooperation of Zheng Lang's main army, only these 500 Song troops would not be able to resist these 500 armor soldiers as long as they entered the enemy camp and made the enemy lose the danger of geographical advantage. Under the command of Zheng Lang and Di Qing, the Song army was divided into five routes, one side divided into two detours, intercepting all the enemy's escape routes, and the main army went to the mountains to kill.

An Zhizhou got up sleepily, he didn't know what was going on, but the sound of killing on the mountain weakened, but there was a cry for mercy everywhere, and the battle had come to an end.

This victory was very beautiful, with only four soldiers killed, nine wounded, two hundred and eighty-six volunteers killed, 11 killed, and the rest captured alive.

Two other battles were also declared over, and they were also almost completely annihilated.

These prisoners of war were handed over to An Zhizhou for disposal, and Zheng Lang led the army to the west to turn the Guanghua army.

When I came to Horse Cave Mountain, it was getting late, and the three camps were encamped.

Suddenly, the soldiers outside came in and reported: "Xianggong, that woman is here again." ”

"Oh, go out and have a look," Zheng Lang and Di Qing smiled at each other and walked out of the tent.

Liu was standing outside the barracks, and the two soldiers pointed at her with knives, and she couldn't underestimate this pretty little woman, who was so bold that she dared to break into the army, wanted to capture the prime minister alive, and dared to treat these people as if she had grown up eating porridge.

Zheng Lang smiled again and said: "Liu, although I said that I don't like to kill women and children, but there is a bottom limit, if you break through this bottom limit, even if you are a woman, this official will kill you as a result." ”

A soldier said, "Yes, Xianggong, kill her, she is not an ordinary woman, she kills without blinking." ”

In this regard, Di Qing also thinks that it should be killed, Zheng Lang has done a good job in the northwest, whether it is a woman or not, as long as it is a soldier in Yuan Hao's army, all those who resist will be killed. This woman is probably even more fierce than those party women. It is a curse to stay.

But it was not said.

The young woman knelt down and said, "The slave came this time to surrender to the court on behalf of the officials. ”

The soldiers burst into laughter together, here they are again, and there is no end? It seems that not only Yuan Hao will make this move, but these bandits will also.

Zheng Lang also smiled.

Liu said: "Xianggong, we really want to surrender. ”

"Liu, when did I change from a dog official to a minister?"

Di Qing smiled and shook his head, no matter what the reason for the rebellion was, how many officials in the world were dog officials, but how could they scold Zheng Lang for being dog officials?

"That's slave mistake." Liu said.

Zheng Lang misunderstood, she really came to surrender. Han Qi began to act in the north, Guo Miaoshan did not know the height of the sky, and tried to resist in vain, but was Han Qi's army the Song soldiers that Guo Miaoshan had encountered before? Speaking of command ability, Han Qi is also ahead of him, and there are two brave generals under him, Jingtai and Ji Zhen. In the first battle, he was quickly defeated by the Song army. This kid is very clever, seeing that the situation is not good, he took advantage of the mountainous terrain to hide and hide with Han Qi in a hurry. …,

In the hearts of the people, Han Qi's military exploits are far from catching up with Zheng Lang's, and Zheng Lang does not need to sharpen his sword skills to chop wood, and he has trained the army's adaptability to fight in the mountains in advance. In the first battle of Tianchang, Wang Lun was suppressed in one hour, and the battle of Tongbaishan was eliminated in the same hour, and Hou Xiaoliu was eliminated in the same hour, and Zhang Hai and his wife were a little frightened.

When the materials of the imperial court arrived, some of the victims had other thoughts in their hearts after hearing about it, and some people quietly fled from the rebels one after another, even if they did not flee, their morale was low, and compared with the situation more than a month ago, the rivers were declining.

and Zheng Lang's compassion, which made the husband and wife think a lot. I didn't want to kill the official and be a thief, but then the drought broke out, the officials were incompetent, and more and more teams poured in, and the husband and wife became more and more bold, and they actually went to the capital to find out the truth. But in fact, as Zheng Lang said, they are a stone thrown into the river, which can splash a small wave temporarily, but in the face of the surging river, this wave quickly develops towards the trend of disappearing.

Without Zheng Lang's compassion, the husband and wife would continue to resist stubbornly, but because they saw that Zheng Lang had a sense of sympathy, they came to surrender, and could they have a more satisfactory ending.

Liu Shi also said: "As long as the government does not hold us accountable, our husband and wife are willing to lead all the 3,500 dozens of subordinates out and surrender to the prime minister." ”

"Do you really want to surrender?" Zheng Lang asked suspiciously.

"Yes, as long as the minister says a word, the slave will go back immediately, and let the officials lead all his subordinates over and return to the prime minister for reorganization."

"Aren't you afraid that the official will deceive you and kill you all when you come?"

"The credibility of the minister, the slave still knows."

"What credibility do I have?" Zheng Lang was made to laugh again by her conceiving and backing Gong.

The slave wanted to ask the prime minister to think twice, and the prime minister also issued an order, saying that those who surrendered would not be held responsible. As long as we are not held accountable, there is no need for officers and men to make sacrifices, and the country will soon be at peace. Otherwise, our husband and wife can only fight to the end, although they will be defeated, but many of these soldiers around Xianggong will die. With the sympathy of the fair, I don't want to do it. ”

Zheng Lang walked around her suspiciously, as if it was true, and even changed his title to a lowly slave, then thought about the consequences and said, "Why do you want to surrender, it will be very troublesome for you to surrender to this official." (To be continued)