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The New Year is coming, and the footsteps of the Spring Girl are near!

Wang Fuzhi, who specially asked Qin Mu to come with the army, stood on the south gate of Hengyang, spread his big sleeves, and chanted in the wind: "Yunmeng goes a thousand times, Xiaoxiang does not lose his companion from the south in the night sky, and the Hengyang tree is red." ”

The army under the city rumbled out of the south gate, and Wang Fuzhi's move was a bit of a scholar's sourness, but Qin Zuoming, the deputy general of the army, couldn't show any unhappiness.

Before setting out on the expedition, Qin Mu also personally told him to protect Wang Fuzhi no matter what.

The emperor told him like this, which shows how important Wang Fuzhi is in his eyes.

It's just that Qin Zuoming can't figure it out, as a scholar, don't you stay in Nanjing, play with your pen, why do you have to come to the army to suffer this crime, there is such a weight as His Majesty, are you still worried that there will be no chance of promotion in the future?

"Master Wang, it's time to go, I will have the shoulders that have been prepared."

"No need, General Qin just give me a horse."

The reason why Wang Fuzhi invited him to join the army is because he has his own ideas, and his way of studying is not to hide in a small building to find chapters and sentences, scratch his head and groan. He wants to come out, and he believes that there is learning between heaven and earth.

The commander of the army this time was Liu Tichun, who was nicknamed "Flying Tiger" in the Dashun Army at the beginning, and served as General Guoyi, the right standard of the right battalion of the Dashun Army, who fought for more than ten years and accumulated extremely rich combat experience. This time, he commanded an army of 15,000, claiming to be 50,000. The war horse Xiao Xiao, hunting with the flag, went to Yongzhou in the south to kill.

A few months ago, Qu Shiyun took advantage of the Northern Expedition of Great Qin and sent his general Jiao Lian to lead an army to raid and capture Yongzhou Mansion and the surrounding counties of Qiyang, Dong'an, Ningwan, and Daozhou in one fell swoop.

As soon as Liu Tichun and Qin Zuoming's army left Hengyang, Jiao Lian received the news and sent his general Gu Xiancheng to lead 4,000 men and horses to fortify on the south bank of the confused water north of Qiyang City.

If Qin Mu was here, he would definitely cry and laugh, Gu Xiancheng, an immortal Xiaoqiang, started from Gannan. He caused chaos to him again and again, Qin Mu once sent Ye Buhui to chase and kill this guy, but as a result, not only did he not die, but he also became a general of the Yongli Dynasty.

Speaking of which, Gu Xiancheng's will to resist the Qin army is still very firm, because he has a beam with the Great Qin Emperor;

At the beginning, under the pursuit of the night without collection, nine deaths and life, and now the pursuit and killing order issued by Qin Mu to the night without collection has not been withdrawn, if the Qin army is allowed to occupy Guangxi, he will not even have a place to mix rice.

So this time he worked very hard. He put a lot of effort into the defense line on the south bank of the water, and even the banks of the river were nailed with dense barbs, and the vicinity of the ferry was dug criss-crossed by his order, full of trenches;

It is said that the guns of the Qin army are very powerful, hiding in the trenches, can dodge the guns of the Qin army, and can effectively block the attack. In short, Gu Xiancheng racked his brains, and he used all the plans he could think of.

The south bank of the confused water was arranged by him to be impenetrable. In this way, he felt that it was not enough, so he asked people to collect herbs and boil a large amount of poison according to the method of making poison learned from a Miao person. Then ask the soldiers to put all the arrowheads in the poison and boil them.

The bow and arrow are blocked by armor, and most of them do not penetrate the flesh, and if they are not injured and have to be cut, sometimes they are hit by several arrows. Still able to continue fighting.

But if the arrow is poisonous, it's different, just one arrow. Even if it misses the vital point, it can quickly make people lose their combat effectiveness, and even die quickly.

The spies sent out kept transmitting back the movements of Liu Tichun's army, and Gu Xiancheng was stationed at the edge of the horse and water, carefully examining his own arrangement;

Wei Sanguan, the general under his command, was one of the few people who followed Gu Xiancheng all the way from southern Jiangnan, he followed Gu Xiancheng and sighed: "Big brother, if we had joined Qin Mu with Ma Yongzhen and them, maybe now we can also be crowned a prince." ”

It is impossible for Gu Xiancheng to have no regrets in his heart, even Ma Liuliang and his wife have been sealed, but the matter has come to this point, and it is useless to think about it.

He turned around and scolded: "Sanguan, if you nag this nonsense again, believe it or not, Lao Tzu will remove you." ”

"Big brother, I'll just talk about it."

"Talk about it, with this idle work, you send me someone to urge more food, damn it, if this confused water can't be kept, let's roll up the pen and silver, and continue to go up the mountain to live a leisurely life, not much worse than him being the emperor."

"Big brother, there aren't many people coming from the Qin army this time, do you think we can't hold it?"

"Who said that? Lao Tzu had to kill him this time. ”

"Then big brother, you still say"

"Tell the, is it wrong to leave a path for yourself first? Hurry up and urge the salary, tell sù Jiao Lian, who is willing to work hard without food? When Qi Yang can't hold it, it's no wonder that we can't do it. ”

"Yes, big brother."

The New Year is coming, but there is no festive atmosphere for the New Year in Guilin, I heard that the Qin army is coming, the hearts of the people in the city are fluctuating, and the undercurrent is turbulent.

Qu Shiyun appeased the people's hearts on the one hand; While recruiting soldiers and training them carefully, they can build castles and strengthen their defenses.

Qu Shiyun was still very loyal to the Ming Dynasty, although Zhu Youlang's cowardice disappointed him, but after arriving in Guilin, he still tried his best to prepare for war.

He not only took out all his money, but also successfully raised thousands of taels of silver from the wealthy gentry in Guilin City, in short, he still won the support of many officials and gentry with his personal prestige.

However, the messengers in front who were urging for food and salary kept rushing to Guilin Fucheng, especially the messenger of Gu Xiancheng who was at the front, crying, making trouble and hanging himself, after this trick did not work, he directly threatened Qu Shiyun, if he did not send food immediately, I am afraid that the army would collapse.

For the sake of the overall situation, Qu Shiyun had to endure it and gave most of the money he had just raised to Gu Xiancheng.

As a result, other generals did the same, and they also sent people to urge food and wages, which made Qu Shiyun overwhelmed and overwhelmed. Qu Shiyun had no other choice but to ask for food and pay on the table.

Halfway through the recital, his attendant military attache Nian Baihu hurriedly rushed into the government with a leaflet: "My lord, my lord, look, many leaflets have suddenly appeared in the city."

"Take it to the official." Qu Shiyun is 58 years old this year, and his body is still quite healthy, and he quickly snatched the leaflets from the hands of 100 households.

At a glance, it is full of propaganda that Great Qin is orthodox in the world, how good the people of Qin are living, how light the taxes are, how strict the discipline of the Qin army is, as long as everyone does not resist, after the arrival of the Qin army, there will be no offense in the autumn, if you take the initiative to sacrifice the city, there will be high-ranking officials and rewards.

Of course, in the end, it is inevitable to threaten, if anyone stubbornly resists the "Wang Shi", not only will he be beheaded for public display, but also his family will be affected.

Qu Shiyun looked at the leaflet, and his expression changed greatly: "Hundred households, have you ever caught the spy who distributed the leaflets?" ”

"Back to my lord, I haven't."

"Go and search quickly, no matter what, you have to find out the Qin army's spies."

"Yes, sir."

Qu Shiyun paced back and forth in the yamen with a leaflet, thinking about countermeasures, Qin Jun's leaflet was nothing new, but it spoke with facts.

Guangxi is next to Huguang, and the Qin State did not prohibit merchants from coming and going. Qin Mu ruled in Huguang, promoted new grain, divided land, and reduced taxes, and the lives of the people in Huguang were improving day by day, and these things had already spread to Guangxi.

Therefore, although there is nothing new in the leaflets, the facts are all there, and the incitement to the officials and people of Guangxi can be imagined.

Qu Shiyun thought hard, but he couldn't think of too many countermeasures, if he faced the Qing army, he could use the national righteousness to persuade the people.

But the Qin State is also a Han regime, and the will of the military and people in Guangxi to resist is not so strong, and even many people yearn for it, after all, the Qin State is strong and the people of Huguang live in abundance, these facts are in front of the military and people of Guangxi.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the government was corrupt, the people were not happy, and the people did not have much nostalgia for the Ming Dynasty.

It is not possible to fight the national righteousness, and it is not necessarily effective to fight the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty, what kind of reason can be used to inspire the will of the military and people in Guangxi to resist the Qin army, Qu Shiyun thought about it for a long time, but he did not know the essentials.

And this name is a very important thing, if the division is unknown, the soldiers have no intention of fighting, and the people have no intention of resisting, and even look forward to becoming the people of Qin, then Guangxi will not be able to defend.

Qu Shiyun couldn't think of a way by himself, so he had to call Zhang Tongchang, the squire of the military department, and others to discuss together.

Qu Shiyun and others are struggling with a slogan, but Li Tichun only knows how to move forward, move forward, and move forward now.

From Hengyang to Qiyang, about two hundred miles away, Liu Tichun's army spent three days and recommended entering the north bank of the water;

Confused water is a tributary of the upper reaches of Xiangshui, which flows into Xiangshui in the north of Qiyang County, and at this moment the south bank has already been arranged by Gu Xiancheng like an iron bucket, if you can't cross the water, you can't launch an attack on Qiyang, and if you can't play the military power in this first battle, the next one will be difficult to do!

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(To be continued......)