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In the winter of the first year of Qin, there was not a single snow in Guizhou, and there was no magnificent picture of 100,000 troops fighting back and forth like the Jianghuai area.

There were wars as well, but they were usually smaller ones ranging from three to five thousand men to a few hundred.

The proverb "the sky is not sunny for three days, and the ground is not three feet flat" refers to Guizhou, where there are lofty mountains and barriers, high mountains and dense forests, only suitable for small groups of men and horses to fight, if the 100,000 troops are driven, it is a nightmare just to transport logistics and supplies.

300 miles north of Guiyang Mansion Banzhou Xuanwei Division, was originally a powerful Tusi, Wanli years Banzhou Tusi had rebelled, Wanli 28 years after the "Battle of Pingbo", the Ming court implemented "change the land and return to the stream", in the following year the state was divided into Zunyi, Pingyue two "military and civilian government", Zunyi is still subordinate to Sichuan, Pingyue changed to be subordinate to Guizhou.

Yunnan was in turmoil, Liu Wenxiu, who was entrenched in Luzhou, soon led his army south, and encountered the Shuixi Tusi soldiers and horses in Chishui, so he turned southeast and captured Zunyi in one fell swoop.

Between Zunyi and Guiyang Mansion, Liu Shuzhen, the wife of Song Qin, the Tusi of Shuidong, presided over the expansion of a road during the Yongle period, which was a rare and good section of the road in the whole Guizhou, which was extremely beneficial to Liu Wenxiu's southward journey.

The only important thing that may prevent Liu Wenxiu from going south to Guiyang is Wujiang Pass.

Wujiang River is famous for its rapids, many beaches and narrow valleys, and Wujiang Pass is known as "natural danger".

Guizhou originally had 3,000 men and horses stationed at Wujiang Pass, but because the horses and six were like broken bamboos, the troops pointed directly at Guiyang Mansion, and after discussing with Zeng Yi, the political envoy of Guizhou, it was decided to leave 500 men and horses to continue to garrison Wujiang Pass, and withdraw 2,500 men and horses to defend Guiyang Mansion.

When the 2,500 men withdrew south. The Yanglongkeng Division in the south of Wujiang Pass was attacked by the Shuidong Song clan and was defeated. Fewer than 1,000 people were able to flee back to Guiyang.

The Shuidong Song clan seized a large number of weapons and equipment in one fell swoop, and the momentum was shocked.

Just as Song Ping, the head of the Song family, was preparing to follow the agreement with Long Guangsheng. When going north to control Wujiang Pass, An Shi, who had already been eyeing the west of the water, was unwilling to be lonely, and An Rupan sent his son An Kun and nephew An Chongsheng to lead 3,000 men and horses to take Wujiang Pass first.

Song Ping's 800 men and 1,500 people from An Chongsheng's south encountered in Yanglongkengsi, and the two sides fought fiercely, Song Ping was defeated and retreated to the south of Xifeng to hold on.

And at this time. Ma Liuliang encountered the first difficult to break through the dangerous pass since entering Guizhou, and the Guizhou guerrilla Wu March led 800 men and horses to block the Qianjiang Pass east of Longlisi, which was less than 100 miles away from Guiyang City. But Ma Liuliang tried his best to attack for four days in a row, and he was so anxious that he scolded his mother every day.

Unlike Ma Liuliang, who was unable to do an inch for several days, He Tengjiao, a scholar of Jamesburg University, and He Jinan, a deputy general, only had 500 people. The appeasement of Duyun Mansion and Liping Mansion was extremely smooth.

He Tengjiao has not arrived. Officials from many prefectures went out of the city to greet them first, and within a few days, most of the prefectures and counties of Duyun and Liping announced their return to Qin.

This made Ma Liuliang even more anxious, He Tengjiao, who was looked down on by him, did not spend a soldier or a foot, and even went down to the two prefectures, but he was blocked in the Qianjiang Pass, and lost more than 200 horses in a few days, and still could not see the hope of breaking the pass.

Angry, he found Tang Yue and asked, "Sour Xiucai." You've got a lot of fucking bullshit in the past, and now you're giving me an idea! ”

Tang Yue suffered from the wind cold. The military doctor was boiling medicine, and he was wearing a thick cotton coat and sneezing repeatedly.

Ma Liuliang didn't have the slightest pity for the patient, and in a hurry, he went up and grabbed Tang Yue's collar! Tang Yue sneezed again, and snot sprayed Ma Liuliang's face

"Fuck it, Sour Xiucai, you deliberately sprayed me, didn't you?"

This is a very rude thing, Tang Yue, who has always paid attention to image, was in a hurry, and wiped Ma Liuliang's face with his sleeve, and said urgently: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, General Ma, I didn't mean to"

"Go, go" Ma Liuliang slapped Tang Yue's hand, wiped the snot off his face, his hand suddenly stiffened, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and then slapped his thigh hehe smiled: "Sour Xiucai, you take care of your illness, Lao Tzu won't care about you about this matter Ha Lu haha!" ”

Ma Liuliang ran out of the big tent with an excited face, which made Tang Yue inexplicable, and he hurriedly instructed Chen Dasheng, a personal soldier at the tent gate: "Dasheng, go and see what General Ma is going to do." ”

"Yes, Master Tang."

Tang Yue is also anxious, Song Ping was defeated and did not control Wujiang Pass, what is the idea of the Shuixian clan, and whether he will collude with Liu Wenxiu after controlling Wujiang Pass to lead Liu Wenxiu into Guizhou, no one dares to guarantee this, if this is the case, the problem will be complicated.

Cui Feng's 10,000-strong army had just passed Pingxiwei, and it was still a few days away from Longli, and the more people in this army, the slower the marching speed, and Cui's speed was difficult to compare with Ma Liuliang.

Before Cui Feng arrived, the Shuishui Xi'an clan was already restless, not to mention the robbery of Wujiang Pass, the Pushi Office, Chishui Wei, Bai Sawei, Bijiewei, and Qixing Pass in the northwest were all controlled by the An clan.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Wanzhang realized that only in the center of the ethnic minorities was dispersed and could not be effectively controlled;

So in July of the fifteenth year of Hongwu, he issued an edict: "The sergeants are lined up on the road, and if there is something to do, the guards and soldiers will be arrested." If you are divided into various places and go deep into the mountains, the barbarian life will change in an instant, the road will not be passed, and it will be inconvenient to live a good life. ”

In the Ming Dynasty, the Guizhou guard was set up according to the idea of Zhu Yuan's summons, in addition to the communication line from Huguang to Yunnan, it was divided into Pingxi - Zhenyuan - Biqiao - Pingyue - Longli - Puding and other guards; On another communication line from eastern Sichuan to Yunnan, there were also 3 guards and 4 stations, including Pushi Office, Chishui Wei, Bai Sawei, Bijiewei, and Qixing Guan, which were quickly occupied by the Shuixi An.

Tang Yue felt that An Rupan was not a simple person, he divided his troops to attack, first encroached on the guards on these communication lines, controlled these traffic lifelines, and mastered the strategic initiative, this person's ambition is not small.

Not only that, An Rupan also seized Zeng Yi, the political envoy of Guizhou, and personally led nearly 20,000 troops two days ago to forcibly occupy Wei Qingwei in the northwest of Guiyang City, which is only sixty or seventy miles away from Guiyang.

In case Guiyang Mansion is taken by An Rupan to take the lead, let alone enter Yunnan to fight, I am afraid it will be difficult to settle Guizhou.

Tang Yue was in close contact with Long Guangsheng, who was stationed in Guiyang at night, hoping to appease the Shui Xi'an clan, but after contacting him many times, there was no progress, An Rupan was ambitious, and he didn't want to be restrained by anyone at all, it was true that he wanted to swallow the whole of Guizhou.

Tang Yue turned around again and asked Long Guangsheng to persuade Guizhou to envoy Zhang Yao and commander Chen Ruizheng to return to Qin, but so far Long Guangsheng has not replied, presumably things are not going well.

Tang Yue's illness was half because he was worried and couldn't sleep at night. He sighed faintly, he really couldn't think of any good plan for this chaotic situation, and it seemed that he could only wait for Cui Feng's army to arrive.

However, Ma Liuliang didn't want to wait for Cui Feng, after he was sprayed with snot by Tang Yue, he had an idea and came up with an idea, and after rushing out of the big tent, he immediately asked people to cut a batch of bamboo and make a "water dragon".

This kind of water dragon is generally used in those big cities to fight fires, the production is very simple, the bamboo knot is opened, the front end of a bamboo section is retained, a flat hole is dug here, the cloth is wrapped with the wooden trunk, and the bamboo tube is stuffed into the piston to push the wooden trunk to absorb water and spray water.

Ma Liuliang made dozens of water dragons, each one zhang long, and four or five people were needed to operate it together.

After everything was ready, Ma Liuliang immediately sent troops to attack the Qianjiang Pass, first throwing arrows to suppress the defenders on the pass, and then sixty or seventy water dragons went into battle together and sprayed water on the pass.

The difference between water and arrows is that as long as the enemy hides under the wall, the arrows cannot be shot at the enemy due to the limited angle, but the water dragon has no angle problem.

Ma Liuliang looked at this spectacular artificial rain, laughed happily, and kept yelling with a knife: "Spray quickly, spray quickly!" Hurry up! ”

If it is summer, the defenders of the city must be very happy, maybe they will take off their clothes and bathe happily in the city, the problem is that it is now a cold winter wax moon, although there is no snow in Guizhou this year, but the temperature has almost dropped to freezing.

Ma Liuliang's strange trick was not ordinarily good, and the defenders at the head of the city were poured into falling chickens by the water dragon, and they were shivering from the cold, their faces were blue, and their lips were black.

The group of gangsters under Ma Liuliang were so happy that they screamed again and again, and the depression of not being able to advance for a few days was swept away.

Hou San even slapped the horse's ass and said: "Ma Tou'er, Zhuge Liang is not as wise as you, spray it twice, the enemy will definitely fall in an uproar, hahaha, this water dragon battle, I'm afraid the enemy never dreamed of it"

Ma Liuliang subconsciously wiped his face, and said with a smile: "What kind of water dragon war, you know a fart, this is called a snot war, sour Xiucai's snot haha!" ”

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Haoyuan bowed again.

(To be continued......)