The Guancheng of Yuling Pass is only two or three miles deep, embedded in the pass of Fuyu Mountain and Baiji Mountain, both sides are steep cliffs, it is blessed with unique terrain, only the front of the city, there is a relatively open terrain for the enemy army to approach, it has become a gully that the Zhejiang and Fujian army can not cross for several years - the white bones in the valley outside the Guancheng are like a base, I don't know how many people in the boudoir dream of this.

Since mid-August, the garrison of Yuling Pass has increased sharply from 3,000 to more than 50,000, and Xie Chaozhong has set up a large camp of the Western Zhejiang Recruitment Army here.

With the increase of the garrison, all kinds of merchants also gathered, forming a chaotic gathering place on the northern slope of the Guancheng camp, which made Yuling suddenly prosper.

There are all kinds of food shops with different flavors and greeting the generals, a brothel for the generals to relax and entertain, and a pawn shop to relieve the urgent needs of the generals, and in this daytime, you can faintly hear the female voices of silk bamboo and babbling in the rough brothel village......

Deng Yue beat his horse past, looking at this situation, his heart was full of sorrow - not only the generals of the imperial camp brought by Xie Chaozhong were playing wantonly, disregarding military discipline, but the generals of the original Huinan Army also couldn't hold back their chews, Deng Yue caught leaving the military camp without permission, and all of them were severely punished, but compared with the two, the following generals also complained that he was too harsh.

If you can't go back to Huizhou, you haven't entered western Zhejiang, and the two armies will be mixed together, at least the Qing people will become turbid! Who called him just a deputy?

Most of these businessmen have something to do with the "two kings and one surplus", and there are also a lot of "tributes" on Xie Chaozhong's side, and Deng Yu has no way to expel them from Huizhou.

Beat the horse into Guancheng and enter Xie Chaozhong's line.

The envoy sent to Fuyang to watch the battle had returned, Deng Yu came over, and Xie Chaozhong immediately opened a military meeting, first asking the envoy to give a detailed introduction to the fierce battle of the Hanghu Army on the outskirts of Tonglu.

"Under the mountaineering village, the corpses are like hills, hundreds of warships have been sunk and burned in the Qianjiang River, and the Hanghu Army has suffered heavy casualties, but the rebels have also suffered many casualties......"

"Deputy Envoy Deng," Xie Chaozhong looked at Deng Yu with a cold face, and said, "The situation is like this, does Deputy Envoy Deng want to wait for the Hanghu Army to defeat Tonglu before attacking Chun'an?" ”

The Hanghu army defeated Tonglu, and then marched along the west of the Jiangxi to Chun'an, and the western part of Zhejiang recruited the army out of Yuling Pass, and to the east it was Chun'an, and to the west it was to fight Wuyuan......

Deng Yu also has eyeliner in Fuyang, knowing that the people sent by Xie Chaozhong are not exaggerating, and the private letter given to him by Meng Yishan has repeatedly urged this side to send troops - Tonglu is fighting hard, and Yuling Pass is sending troops, even if it can't disperse the defenders of Tonglu, it can also hit the morale of the defenders of Tonglu.

Moreover, if the Yuling Pass side has not moved, and the luxury family has been asked to transfer the troops and horses of Chun'an and Wuyuan to the east to strengthen Tonglu, the offensive of the Hanghu Army will be completely contained and withdrawn in vain - now the Hanghu Army has filled in three or four thousand lives into it, and it will be withdrawn without any military merits, and it will not be able to explain to the upper and lower levels.

However, Lin Lian's handwritten letter had already been sent, and Huaidong not only made Lin Xuwen publicly preside over Deng Yu's battle plan to defend Huizhou and Xie Chaozhong to lead troops into western Zhejiang, but Lin Lian's private letter was to hope that Deng Yu himself could insist on this point - Yue Lengqiu's meaning was also to ask Deng Yu to guard the back road in order to achieve stability.

Deng Yu can ignore what Lin Lian and Huaidong think, Yue Lengqiu has the grace of knowing and promoting him, he can't ignore Yue Lengqiu's opinion, but the current situation is not completely controllable for him.

Deng Yu has also learned Xie Chaozhong's temperament of retribution these days, and he calculated in his heart: Yue Lengqiu left the center and went to Jiangzhou to supervise the war, once he tore his face with Xie Chaozhong, he was afraid that no one in the court would help him speak, and he couldn't fight Xie Chaozhong, especially after Xie Chaozhong led the 40,000 imperial battalion army to Huizhou.

Even if Emperor Yongxing ordered Xie Chaozhong to seize his military power, Deng Yu had no room to resist.

"I'm not feeling well, and I have to rest for a few days to get it," Deng Yu said, "If you don't recruit the envoy to lead the troops first, I will stay in Yuling Pass and Huizhou for the recruit, so as to wait for the triumphant ......."

"General Deng has been sick for several days, but I haven't seen General Deng find Langzhong once." Yu Bijiang said lukewarmly.

Xie Chaozhong had a dark face, pressed the saber on his waist, and stared at Deng Yu: "Deputy Envoy Deng wants the envoy to ask the emperor to make a decree?" ”

Xie Chaozhong came to Huizhou to lead the troops, but he still had some details in his heart about the imperial camp army, how could he not drive the 20,000 elite soldiers under Deng Yu to take the lead? In fact, the reason why he came to Huinan to lead the troops was that he knew that the luxury family's troops in western Zhejiang were insufficient, and second, he knew that after he got Huinan, he had Deng Yu's 20,000 elite soldiers to drive.

As far as the current situation is concerned, the luxury family in Chun'an and Wuyuan is at most 20,000 elites, Deng Yu has been fighting against the Zhejiang-Fujian army in southern Huinan for several years without falling behind, and with Deng Yu's 20,000 elite soldiers, Xie Chaozhong's confidence is enough.

It was precisely because he asked Deng Yu to lead the troops into battle that Xie Chaozhong was a little patient with him, otherwise he would have asked the imperial decree to force Deng Yue to bow his head, but at this point, Xie Chaozhong's patience was getting lower and lower.

If you really want Meng Yishan to capture Tonglu first, there will be no movement here, so that Yu Xinyuan, Wang Xueshan, Wang Tian and others will be difficult to raise their heads in front of Chen Xiyan - Huinan has strengthened 40,000 soldiers and horses, and the results are not as good as the Hanghu Army, doesn't it prove that Chen Xiyan's words against his leading troops were correct, and the 40,000 imperial battalion troops came over, and they didn't play any role at all!

"The emperor is always staring at western Zhejiang, even if General Deng is unwell, he should try his best to share the worries of the emperor and the court!" Liu Zhi persuaded that he, the prison army, came to make peace with the mud, and he didn't want to offend anyone, let alone the emperor who was angry when he saw that he was not moving here.

Deng Yue frowned, pondered for a long time, and then let out a long breath and said: "Deng Yue will listen to the order of the envoy, and he will lead his troops out of the city tomorrow!" Although it is not very reassuring to hand over the back road to Xie Chaozhong, as long as Meng Yishan does not leak out of Dong Yuan's time in Fuyang, Deng Yu is not worried that the soldiers and horses of the luxury family in western Zhejiang will be able to eat him even with meat and bones.

"That's good," Xie Chaozhong saw Deng Yue bow his head, his mood was lifted, and said, "Deputy Envoy Deng will lead his headquarters to go first tomorrow, and Luo Wenhu will lead his troops to follow, and the two of you will go straight to Huangtian from Yuling Pass to clear the obstacles for my army to recruit troops from western Zhejiang to enter western Zhejiang along Daqingxi south......"

Out of Yuling Pass, along the Daqingxi River valley to the south, you can directly rush to the edge of the Qianjiang River, along the north bank of the Qianjiang River, to the east is Chun'an, to the west can go to Wuyuan, across the Qianjiang River, to the south can enter Quzhou, up and around.

Huangtian is located in the middle reaches of Daqingxi, from the Yuling Pass zigzag and twist is also forty miles of mountain road, when the luxury flying bear led the troops to attack the Yuling Pass, there was a large camp there, this is also the outer defense of the western Zhejiang to resist Huizhou, to enter the western Zhejiang, it is necessary to take the Huangtian first.

Deng Yu has no opinion on the first battle of Huangtian, now there is no one in the court, if he wants to keep his position, he must rely on the condensation of blood and fire, but the terrain of Huangtian Village is relatively narrow, even if he leads 20,000 elite soldiers from his headquarters to the past, there are too many soldiers and horses, and there is no place to spread out, Xie Chaozhong wants Luo Wenhu to lead another 10,000 people to accompany him, and he is not afraid of panicking?

Deng Yue knew Xie Chaozhong's thoughts, and used the southern Huinan army to fight desperately in front, if the imperial camp army did not move at all, Xie Chaozhong's face would be dull, and he would not have a hard bar to say in the future; Moreover, Xie Chaozhong did not let Luo Wenhu be restrained by him, and he wanted to attribute all the credit of domination to himself.

Deng Yu scolded secretly in his heart, but he didn't want to argue with Xie Chaozhong, so he only said: "The soldiers and horses set up camp, the action is very big, and please ask the envoy to strictly block the news, and do not let the merchants approach, so as not to leak the news and make the enemy of Huangtian prepared......"

"Of course I know that!" Xie Chaozhong said impatiently.

Deng Yue sighed secretly, Xie Chaozhong came to Huizhou, and he monopolized the power, except for the 20,000 elite soldiers under his command in the camp outside the northeast slope of Guancheng, Yuling Pass and Huizhou's affairs, all of which could not be interfered with - he wanted to leak the news, so that the Zhejiang and Fujian rebels were prepared in Huangtian, and if they couldn't gnaw Huangtian, maybe it would not be a disaster, and it would be a big deal to withdraw the troops.

Deng Yu made various calculations without thinking, and first resigned and returned to the camp to prepare; Even if there were preparations beforehand, it was still a bit hasty to send troops tomorrow.

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The soldiers and horses set up camp, the action was very big, Xie Chaozhong said that it was to strengthen the guard, but the secret sentry sent by the luxury family could still calmly climb over the ridges on both sides and transmit the news back to Huangtian.

The autumn colors are thick, the maple leaves are red in the sunset, and the luxury Wenzhuang is wearing a black robe, like an ordinary old man, and said to Zheng Mingjing: "The battle of western Zhejiang, although there are two preparations, but I pin my hopes on Huangtian, Huangtian to fight a real battle, but also to preserve the strength, whether Huangtian can be lost and recovered, it is related to whether we can put Huizhou soldiers and horses in to close the door and fight dogs!" ”

"Xie Chaozhong didn't let Deng Yu stay behind on the back road, all the way Deng Yue took Huangtian, Xie Chaozhong must urge him to go deeper along Daqing Creek, we 'stragglers' who got rid of it, naturally it is the appetizer of the imperial camp army - if the imperial camp army does not have first-level merit, then it is too unreasonable!" Zheng Mingjing smiled lightly.

Zheng Mingjing is so relaxed, Tian Chang can't say anything.

Can't let Deng Yu and Xie Chaozhong feel that Zhexi is a trap, Huangtian can't give up easily, he must fight bloody, and even fill two or three thousand lives at all costs, in the end, only some of the "remnants" fled into the mountains, so that Deng Yu's Huizhou elite can be lured in to close the door and fight the dogs - the task of closing the door, although there are other deployments, but the greatest hope is that the remnants of Huangtian and the more than 1,000 elites who were previously hidden in the col converge, and can successfully recapture Huangtian Village, and then rely on Huangtian Village to resolutely seal Deng Yu's back road, It will be under the attack of Deng Yuhui's southern army and Xie Chaozhong's imperial battalion.

It is unknown how many soldiers and horses can survive in Huangtian's garrison, and even whether Zheng Mingjing himself can survive, but the dead soldiers they all personally selected by Yu Wenzhuang are undoubted.

The affairs of Luwenzhuang in western Zhejiang still can't be leaked, so as not to disturb Deng Yu, the old snake, and not get into the trap. But as long as Deng Yue gets in and Huang Tian can close the door smoothly, no matter how elite the Huinan army is, it will be at an absolute disadvantage.

This day was September 25, the third day of the outbreak of the war in eastern Fujian and the third day of the outbreak of the war in Tonglu.

Zhejiang and eastern Fujian are separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, and Luxury's village does not know whether the retreat of the Mindong battles is going according to the plan, in front of Huaidong, it seems that everything is difficult to calculate, and now there is only one person to listen to the destiny of heaven, Luwenzhuang and Tian Chang left Huangtian that night and returned to Wuyuan to make the next deployment.

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On September 26, the weather was slightly cold, and the Huinan army crossed the Yuling Pass and went south to attack the Huangtian Walled City.

Deng Yue is cautious temperament, the army marches in the valley road, and the scout explores the horses to the two wings of the ridge and scatters, afraid that there are ambushes hiding in the col next to the valley road, but the mountains on both sides of Daqing Creek are undulating, one after another, Deng Yu sent the scouts, can only search the two wings of ten or twenty depths, and then go deep into the ridge valley and mountain pass, that is, it can be searched out in a short time.

The army of 20,000 is a long snake swinging out, I don't know how far away; The front army fought with the Zhejiang-Fujian outpost on the periphery of Huangtian, and the rear army had not yet walked out of Yuling Pass - ruthlessly wanted to send Deng Yu's troops to the front and fight with the Zhejiang-Fujian army to defeat both sides, Xie Chaozhong wanted to fight for the front of the Hanghu Army and form a breakthrough in western Zhejiang, so he did not let Deng Yu leave a single soldier in Yuling Pass, and drove out at one time.

Fortunately, when the extravagant flying bear attacked Yuling Pass, he spent great efforts to build a mountain road from Huangtian to Yuling Pass, so that the mountain road could accommodate four horses to drive side by side.

Huangtianzhai is the main village of the Zhejiang-Fujian army in the periphery of western Zhejiang, and there are also many outposts between Huangtianzhai and Yuling Pass, with few garrisons and elites, and they are also easy to defend and difficult to attack.

In order to prevent the Zhejiang and Fujian troops from going out of the village to meet the battle, Deng Yu also sent his henchmen to lead the most elite 2,000 soldiers and horses to attack the outpost.

Deng Yu originally wanted to wait for the outpost to defeat Huangtianzhai, and then the main force of the department would go out of Guancheng and go south into the hinterland of western Zhejiang, but Xie Chaozhong would not allow it to live or die - Deng Yu really didn't know how Xie Chaozhong could be trusted by Emperor Yongxing to lead the troops.

Yue Lengqiu was not in Jiangning, and the ministers of the political hall and the court officials above the squire, including Lin Xuwen and Huang Jinnian, talked about the use of troops, but the specific military equipment and army management were not their strengths, and they were even lacking, and no one could see Xie Chaozhongcheng's lack in this regard.

The clearance of the outpost is not difficult, after the Huangtianzhai soldiers and horses counterattacked to the outpost of the Huinan army, seeing that the Huinan army was menacing, the Zhejiang-Fujian army took the initiative to abandon the peripheral outpost fort, concentrated the troops in Huangtianzhai, and resisted to the death.

This battle is very important, Deng Yu did not dare to be sloppy, hit the horse and rushed to the front to supervise the battle, and drove a member of the Zhejiang and Fujian army to wear silver armor to lead his troops out of the village to face the battle.

On the small and wide slope in front of the wall, the silver-armored Xiao used the lance of the horse, stabbed left and right, and scattered a row of shield soldiers, and then dozens of elite horsemen followed and rushed up, trampling the outpost position of the southern Huinan army beyond recognition.

Under the wall, hundreds of defenders waited for an opportunity to pounce.

Although the outpost of 2,000 soldiers and horses also lined up in the three-tier echelon, the appearance of the first echelon is ugly, but the second and third echelons are still in order, and the outpost commander will urge Lie to come over to welcome Deng Yu with a somewhat ugly face, and more than 100 guards, together with Deng Yue, retreat to a hillside to watch the battle.

"Who will this be, it turned out to be ferocious!" Deng Yu looked at the silver armor and picked the two guards holding the big shield to death at this moment, and asked the outpost master in surprise. He guarded the south of Huinan for many years, and was extremely familiar with Tian Chang, the main general of the luxury family in western Zhejiang, Tian Chang was not known for his martial arts, and he commanded many generals, but none of them wore silver armor and were good at making horses and horses.

"The imperial court sent the imperial battalion to supplement Huizhou, and the luxury family drew troops from Jiangxi, this person should be a military general transferred from Jiangxi by the luxury family!" Urging said, "Huangtian is the gateway to western Zhejiang, and there are one or two hard-handed generals, which is normal and ......."

Deng Yu nodded.

"I heard that the news that Xie Chaozhong was going to lead the troops reached Xuzhou, and Pengcheng County scolded him for being a-stirring stick, but this seems to be true!" Deng Yu's staff member Xing Changhe said in a suppressed voice.

Xie Chaozhong did not come to Huizhou, there were more than 20,000 soldiers and horses in the Chang Department of Zhejiang and Western Zhejiang, and the Hanghu Army and the Huinan Army fought Tonglu and Huangtian respectively, and the pressure would not be too great.

Xie Chaozhong seems to have led 40,000 imperial battalions to strengthen Huinan's use of troops in western Zhejiang, but he also made the luxury family transfer 10,000 elites from western Zhejiang to supplement western Zhejiang. On the one hand, it is to add 40,000 people, and on the other hand, it is to add 10,000 people, it seems that Huizhou is still powerful, but for Deng Yu and the future under his command, he would rather not have 40,000 imperial battalions than fight for 10,000 elites of the luxury family.

It's a pity that the meat eaters above the temple, one, two, three, four addition and subtraction are extremely fine, and they don't seem to be confused in general, where can they know the real situation below and the true thoughts of ordinary generals?

It's good to have war exploits to fight for, but his own family has fought for his life, but the war exploits are taken away by Xie Chaozhong, so who is willing.

Xie Chaozhong led the imperial battalion army to fill in Huizhou, which is simply a burden, and now Xie Chaozhong is forcing the southern Huinan army to fight hard for the elite of the luxury family, how can the generals under Deng Yu not hate, how can there be no resentment?

"What's the use of talking all day long!" Deng Yue scolded in a low voice, not letting his generals complain, since the facts cannot be changed, complaining can only weaken his will, he pointed to the enemy general who was rampage in front of the slope, and asked Urglie, "My southern army of Huinan has no brave generals to match it?" ”

The Huinan Army is not without brave generals, but there are really few brave generals of this level. Deng Yu personally came to supervise the battle, and the outpost position was trampled on by the enemy like this, and the armor soldiers were scattered on the periphery, not daring to come forward to block it, and he couldn't get over it on his face.

"I'm coming!" Urging Lie responded to Deng Yu with a low roar, shouting left and right, "Bring my knife!" "Urging Lie is not tall, wearing a black iron helmet, and he is half a head lower, but he has a big knife in his hand, and his blood is churning, and he shouts loudly, and he also exudes a murderous aura, telling the left and right generals to follow the flesh and blood, and with the brave guards, he rushed to the battlefield in front of him.

The Huinan army is also the elite of the long-term battle, the main general You You shouted into battle, and the armored soldiers also had a lot of blood and energy, gathering on the two wings of the urge, and pressing towards the enemy cavalry, which was bound to be pressed down by dozens of enemy cavalry.

"Who's coming?" Urging Lie carried the war horse, the handle of the knife was clamped under the armpit, and the blade was pointed obliquely, watching the silver-armored enemy general collide head-on, but still did not ask his name.

"Let's go to the Yama Hall and inquire!" Zheng Mingjing, as the captain of the guard of Luwenzhuang, rarely has the opportunity to lead the troops to the battle, so his reputation is not obvious, and not many people recognize his appearance, but the name "Zheng Mingjing" is going to come out, and Deng Yue can think of the possibility of Luwenzhuang personally sitting in the town, and even go out to battle and change armor with others.

Zheng Ming borrowed the horse to sprint, so that the horse lance stabbed fiercely, and the two horses were about to catch up, which could be missed. Urging Lie slashed the horse chopping knife obliquely on the head of the horse lance, and narrowly split the head of the gun, only to feel that the arm was numb, and the tiger's mouth was in pain, and he secretly said: This girl is the same color, so much strength.

The two armies fought, and the main general had very few opportunities to fight, and if he missed a blow, a large number of soldiers and horses were mixed together, and he squeezed Urglie and Zheng Mingjing apart. The infantry and cavalry were mixed up, the shouts shook the sky, and each other also invested more and more troops.

The hundreds of foot cavalry of the Zhejiang and Fujian army out of the village all participated, and the Huinan army also invested in two echelons and fought together.

Zheng Ming discounted two long lances, also felt tired, drove his horse back, signaled the wall of the wall to collect the troops, and led the cavalry to bring back the troops who were trapped in the siege, and they all avoided to the root of the wall, and the arrows on the wall were as dense as rain, forcing the pursuers to retreat.

The enemy will be in the city, urging the fierce and not impatient, and then order the troops to form a shield array to protect the crossbowmen to press forward, drive the baggage behind to transport up, and move the shield car and side van car made by Huaidong forward......

When he rushed back, Deng Yu didn't look at his armor soaked in blood, and only said: "Organize more people to dig more trenches, and don't rush to attack the village tomorrow!" ”

"Most of the envoys will come to urge." Urging said.

"It's his business that he's anxious, let's follow our steps, and we can't mess up a single step!" Deng Yu said.

Don't look at the 60,000 soldiers and horses in Huizhou, but the terrain in western Zhejiang is complex, and there is not much open terrain, the 20,000 elite soldiers of the southern Huinan army went south to engage the enemy, and even if the imperial camp army has some combat strength, it is more likely that it will not be able to help and not be able to make efforts - the luxury family still has the ability to gather 20,000 elites to meet them in the lower valley of Daqingxi, and Deng Yu can't help but think about the 20,000 sons under his command.

Deng Yue didn't want to turn his face with Xie Chaozhong, so he chose to fight, but between the destruction of the 20,000 elite soldiers he had saved over the years and completely offending Xie Chaozhong, Deng Yu would of course choose the latter without hesitation.

Decisive, waiting for the afternoon and not seeing Deng Yu's strong attack on Huangtian Village, Xie Chaozhong couldn't sit still and sent someone to question.

Deng Yu only said that he wanted Xie Chaozhong to send someone who knew about military affairs to supervise the war, and if he could see any slackness on his side, he would not be resentful by the military law - Xie Chaozhong would send Yu Bijiang, a military senator, to supervise the war that night.

Although Yu Pijiang's reputation is not very good, but after a year and a half of working in the prefect of Haozhou, Deng Yu also knows that Xie Chaozhong can lead the troops to the battle, and the biggest supporter behind him is Yu Bijiang's father, Yu Xinyuan, the imperial history of Zuodu.

Yu Bijiang's fear of death, Deng Yue was still clear, and when he came over, he only said a lot of reckless attacks that might lead to evil consequences, Yu Bijiang was no longer in a hurry to urge Deng Yue to forcibly attack the village, and only said: "It's okay to be cautious, but General Deng shouldn't disappoint the emperor too much......