Chapter two hundred and thirty nine
It was not someone else who attacked Dahezhuang, but Zuo Liangyu!
Zuo Liangyu's life is not easy.
Since Hou Xun was imprisoned, the supply in Zuo Liangyu's army has become a big problem. Military pay is always inexplicably deducted, and military supplies are often in short supply. In addition, Zuo Liangyu was resentful of Hou Xun's imprisonment and inevitably became slack in advancing. The commander's emotions are easily infecting his soldiers. As a result, the morale of the five or six thousand people was depressed and it was difficult to fight against the bandits with superior forces.
The first thing Zuo Liangyu has to worry about is to support this group of people. This is not for the court, but for himself. Zuo Liangyu is very clear that once the army has shortage of food and mutiny, he will definitely suffer first. Deng Yan's fate is alive, forcing him to wake up.
In history, after Hou Xun was imprisoned, Zuo Liangyu also encountered the problem of insufficient military rations and military supplies. His solution at that time was to openly loot the people, then transform the people into soldiers, and then rob them again. With this method, he quickly gathered hundreds of thousands of troops and became the largest warlord in the late Ming Dynasty. However, in that era, the troops that could be fought in the Ming Dynasty were basically dead, and Zuo Liangyu dared to be so unscrupulous.
In this era, Hou Xun was imprisoned far earlier than in history, and there were even more powerful people around him such as Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng. He did not dare to openly loot, so he had to secretly arrest good people and sell them to Lin Chunhong to maintain military supplies.
At the end of this matter, the generals and soldiers under his command inevitably focused their attention on the good people. They falsely accused the good people of the bandits, tied them up and sold them to Bangtai. Bangtai never refused, and never asked about the origin of the bandits, and they were all transported to Qiongzhou Prefecture and Hong Kong Island.
After a few months, as long as the Zuo family army crossed the border, the people would regard the official army as bandits and flee. This led to a significant decrease in the efficiency of the Zuo family army to capture prisoners, and their income gradually dried up, and the situation they faced became increasingly severe.
The act of accusing Liang of the thief angered the Ming gentry, and the memorial to impeach Zuo Liangyu to kill Liang and take the initiative to appear on Zhu Youjian's case. Fortunately, Zhu Youjian thought that Zuo Liangyu's military achievements were outstanding, so he issued an order to denounce it.
Zuo Liangyu was deeply afraid. He understood that if Zhu Youjian could tolerate it for a while, it did not mean that he could tolerate it for a lifetime. Maybe one day Zhu Youjian was in a bad mood and would chop off his head.
Zuo Liangyu thought about a way out but couldn't get it. When he was depressed, a man came to the army, which completely solved Zuo Liangyu's difficulties.
This person is Qu Shishi. After Qu Shishi arrived in the army, he used the temptation to rescue Hou Xun and tried his best to persuade Zuo Liangyu to attack Lin Chunhong.
Of course, Zuo Liangyu was unmoved. After fighting for so many years, how could he not know that anyone in this world can provoke Lin Chunhong?
Qu Shixi took Lin Chunhong's successful case and persuaded Zuo Liangyu to occupy Tongbai County, use Tongbai's gold, silver and copper mines to support the army, and to gain self-respect. This made Zuo Liangyu a little moved, but he still couldn't take up the courage to attack Lin Chunhong. Later, Qu Shixi had to fully disclose the plan of the Donglin Party, and use detailed data to prove that in order to prevent the collapse, Lin Chunhong would never attack the officers and soldiers.
Zuo Liangyu was illiterate, and Qu Shixi took out the so-called data on goods transfer, gold and silver income, and made Zuo Liangyu confused, not only did he rely on Lin Chunhong to solve his urgent needs from time to time, but the court also relied on Lin Chunhong's money from time to time to solve his urgent needs.
In this case, how could Zuo Liangyu provoke Lin Chunhong at will?
Finally, when Qu Shixi was about to give up, a casual word completely moved Zuo Liangyu. Qu Shixi said: "Lin Chunhong is far away in Guangzhou, and Zhou Wang is confronting the bandits near Luoyang. Jingzhou, Yiling and Xiangyang are empty. If you take advantage of the opportunity, it is not difficult to occupy the three places! The three places are rich, and they store more than tens of millions of stones of grain and grass, and countless gold and silver. If the general gets it, he can instantly gather hundreds of thousands of troops..."
Before Qu Shixi finished speaking, Zuo Liangyu made up his mind: "Nainai, I did it, I took Lin Chunhong's nest. The court could not ask for it. I gained profits and got fame... Haha... both fame and fortune!"
After making up his mind, Zuo Liangyu did what he said and immediately summoned his confidant to secretly discuss robbing the gold and silver of Tongbai. The generals were very moved, but they were a little nervous when they took the military power of Jingzhou.
Even Zhang Yingyuan, who has always been brave and wise and brave, persuaded: "Master General, Tongbai only has five or six thousand archers from Dou Shiwen, which is not worth worrying about. He is afraid of being angered more than ten thousand Jingzhou troops. Once Zhou Wang returns to his army, the world is so big that it is difficult for us to have a place to live!"
Luo Dai had no good feelings for the Jingzhou army, and yin refuted: "Isn't there any court? Although Dou Shiwen was a general in the court, he opened a mine without authorization, which was like a bandit. As long as we were under the banner of extermination of bandits, Lin Xiaosan dared to attack us?"
Zhang Yingyuan was about to retort, but heard Zuo Liangyu coughing, immediately stopped and turned to look at Zuo Liangyu who was cold and frosty.
Zuo Liangyu was silent with a cold face, which made the atmosphere in the tent extremely depressed. He was quite dissatisfied with his subordinates' short-sightedness, and he was about to play bigger and take a decisive step towards dominating Jinghu.
After a long time, Zuo Liangyu said something: "The first step is to eliminate Dou Shiwen and obtain gold and silver, and collect more than 100,000 miners as the second step. The third step is to take advantage of the opportunity to attack Xiangyang and Jingzhou with the help of the miners!"
A stone caused a thousand waves, and all the confidants were stunned: The general was crazy and wanted to slap Lin Chunhong in one go?
Zuo Liangyu glanced left and right at his subordinates' surprise. He was quite content with a sneer and said, "The reason is that the bandits are rampant, and the source of troops is inexhaustible. We also have to learn it and collect 100,000 miners from Tongbai first, and the 100,000 army will be successful in an instant."
Zuo Liangyu became more and more proud of her: "Jingxiang is rich, and you don't know! Now Lin Chunhong and Zhou Wang are leading the army outside, and they are just taking advantage of the opportunity to take advantage of it. They have to use Jingxiang's wealth to raise a 100,000 army. Whether it is Lin Chunhong or the court, what can I do to me?"
The confidants gasped. The general not only wanted to defeat Lin Chunhong, but also wanted to gain troops!
The wealth of Jingxiang! The army of 100,000!
This goal is simply so attractive! The confidants woke up from their shock and suddenly became excited. The men in the army were filled with the aura of fearlessness. How could they withstand Zuo Liangyu's longing and temptation? Soon, the confidants all exclaimed: "Do it! At worst, the dead birds are coming towards the sky!"
Zuo Liangyu was very satisfied with his subordinates' morale and immediately ordered Ling Luo Dai and Zhang Yingyuan to lead all the elite troops to pounce on Dahezhuang, Tongbai County.
It was not until this time that the Military Information Department woke up like a dream and passed the news to Luoyang, Xiangyang and Tongbai like crazy.
The Military Information Department's reaction was so slow this time, and it was considered to be a cleanup. Qian Qianyi and Qu Shizu leaked the news many times and were quite afraid of the Bangtai Military Information Department. Only two people knew about this plan, but the Military Information Department had no way to know. When Qu Shizu left Changzhou and went to Biyang, the Yangzhou Military Information Department followed him all the way, not knowing Qu Shizu's purpose.
Zuo Liangyu also heard about the activities of the Bangtai Military Intelligence Department, and his plan was very close, and the secret stakes were kept in the dark. It was not until Zuo Liangyu rushed south that the secret stakes suddenly realized and urgently passed on the information.
However, things are too late.
Zuo Liangyu was quite a veteran in his military service. He knew that Dou Shiwen would be unprepared. As soon as he first attacked, he put all his strength into his orders and ordered Luo Dai, Zhang Yingyuan and Wen Yizhou to attack Dahezhuang.
Dahezhuang was originally a copper mine, and there was no city to protect it. After the sudden attack, the mining area was in chaos. More than a thousand archers did not care about the escaped miners, and quickly organized a counterattack under the leadership of the sentry general Zheng Haiying.
The equipment of Dahezhuang's bow soldiers was not advanced, and most of them were eliminated by the main force. There were very few archers. Some of them were not even wearing armor at all. In addition, the number of people was too small and the preparation was insufficient. How could they be the opponent of Zuo Liangyu's five or six thousand battle divisions? After only half an hour of perseverance, more than half of them were killed or injured, and they were defeated and retreated to Guanzhuang.
Zuo Liangyu was overjoyed. He looked at the running miners, with a look of greed in his eyes and ordered loudly: "Wen Yizhou, I led my good students to comfort the miners, and said that there were countless gold and silver on the Yindongpo. If you are willing to take it, follow us!"
"Luo Dai, Zhang Yingyuan continues to advance and target Yindongpo!"
Wen Yizhou was overjoyed and ordered the soldier to shout: "Go to Yindongpo to grab gold, grab silver..."
The soldiers suddenly felt like they were injected with chicken blood, their eyes were red, and they shouted loudly at the top of their lungs.
The roar attracted a large number of miners, including Cao Laizi hiding in the mountains and forests. Cao Laizi stuck his head out, staring at the corpses all over the ground in horror, and hesitated.
The miners beside him also imitated Cao Laizi and looked out.
Cao Laizi growled: "If you don't want to die, hide it better!"
Cao Laizi is quite famous among miners. The miners stick out their tongues, retract their heads, stare at Cao Laizi's butt, and stare at Cao Laizi's butt, in a daze.
"It's time to steal the silver...it's time to steal the silver..." The roar of the soldier kept teasing Cao Laizi, making him feel a little excited. As a refugee, Cao Laizi's family either died of famine or were carried away by bandits. He had long been alone, and the call for robbery was very tempting to him.
Seeing that more and more miners were joining the looting team, the miners around Cao Laizi had long been unable to hold back and whispered to Cao Laizi: "Brother Cao, do it, you've worked all day long, what's the bullshit future..."
Cao Laizi jumped up from the ground, spitted, and cursed: "Damn it! I'll do it, just grab it and run away!"
The miners were overjoyed and followed Cao Laizi out of the forest and joined the team in Wenyizhou.
Wen Yizhou took the opportunity to gather miners, and sent a soldier from every ten people to serve as the captain, and instantly gathered more than 10,000 troops. The Zuo family army's momentum suddenly increased.
Zuo Liangyu laughed and yelled with more than 10,000 miners: "There is nothing more joyful in the world!"
Chapter completed!