Chapter 34 Departure

In early March, the 30,000 Tang troops who arrived from the mainland only repaired in Shangjun for three days, and then mobilized them to go north to recover Shenmu Town.

Although this town is small, it has the reputation of Guanzhong, Guanzhong of Nanwei, Hetao of Beiping, which is the danger of Jinyang on the left and the junction of Lingxia on the right. In the dynasty of building the Great Wall, it is convenient for a border from Mongolia to enter the mainland. The Great Wall of the Tang Dynasty was mostly not repaired, but there are military towns built here and soldiers and generals deployed defenses.

Zhang Renyuan attached great importance to this military town at the beginning of his rebellion and mobilized a large number of troops near the left to prepare for defense, because this is the gateway to the northern grasslands, naturally, it is necessary to focus on defense.

But what I didn't expect was that the official army did not attack the important town immediately, but ran far to Lingzhou to capture Li Yixun. It was a bit unexpected...

No one had ever thought before that whether Li Yixun was important or Shenmu Town was important. However, as long as someone with a normal mind was able to attack, he should immediately take all the important towns in front of him, right?

Who knew that Xue Chongxun had sent troops to Lingzhou for more than 700 miles.

Does he have no idea about the terrain at all, nor does he understand the importance of the portal to fight for the military strategists. Will the blind cat encounter a dead mouse when he is angry?

No one knows it, but now it has proved that the arrest of Li Yixun has indeed played a decisive role...

A person who uses strange and unruly troops can't guess what he will do next.

However, now Xue Chongxun has some soldiers in his hands and is about to go north. Finally, he remembered Shenmu Town, so he led all the troops stationed in Shangjun to go all out, and he was approaching Shenmu Town openly without any concealment.

So many troops were mobilized from various towns in Guanzhong, and they had just gathered together. They naturally did not have the possibility of a rapid raid day and night. If they ran too fast, they would probably fall apart and they could only march during the day and rest at night.

In order to have more time to march, Xue Chongxun was just dawning when he set out from Shangjun.

The carriage he was in was still dim after leaving the city.

The heavy and orderly footsteps of the infantry and army formations on the road sounded very pleasant under the accompaniment of the skin drum. Xue Chongxun picked up the curtain and saw that the shadow of the long weapons above the crowd looked gloomy against the white sky background.

There was a light hanging outside the carriage, but it was pitch black inside. When the light shone in with the car curtain, it suddenly became brighter. But when he let go of his hand, the curtain hanged down and the dark light returned to the carriage.

There were two people wearing long robes sitting opposite the same car, namely Xue Chongxun's two capable civil servants and aides, Erling.

People are always affected by the environment they are in, because the carriage is a bit old and the tone inside is so dull, and Zhang Jiuling and Wang Changling's faces don't look very optimistic and positive.

On the contrary, Xue Chongxun looked calm and composed. Compared to the bright places, he prefers to stay in such a dark and hazy place...

Maybe this will make you feel more secure?

He himself didn't know, he just liked this color, just as he liked rainy weather.

In Xue Chongxun's impression of the book, Zhang Jiuling and Wang Changling are both poets, but Wang Changling's poetry achievements in history are obviously higher than political achievements. Zhang Jiuling is the opposite. His name is his positioning...

Xue Chongxun specially attracted these two celebrities to be his aides, but now it seems that Wang Changling has some achievements in government affairs. For example, before and after the last Battle of Wuhai, his logistics plan was very scientific and reasonable, effectively avoiding the problem of generals deducting soldiers' military pay; and Zhang Jiuling has not shown any outstanding performance in practice so far, probably because he has been with Xue Chongxun for a short time.

The three of them met silently. Xue Chongxun was thinking about the two aides in front of him. At this time, Zhang Jiuling suddenly spoke: The guess proposed by the prince is "a bitter plan", I still feel that it doesn't look like Ah.

oh?Xue Chongxun made a voice and looked over.People's eyes seemed to be brighter in the darkness.

Zhang Jiuling touched his chin and said thoughtfully: If you think this matter was discussed by Zhang Renyuan and his generals, it is intended to give the generals the opportunity to make contributions and protect themselves, this makes sense.But why did Zhang Renyuan do that?In this way, he still couldn't get rid of the suspicion of affair with the Turks who wanted to let enemy soldiers rob the mainland urban and rural areas, and he still couldn't get rid of his infamy, and even his life was accompanied...

Speaking of this, Zhang Jiuling did not continue. It is estimated that he will not be able to make the words too clear.

However, Xue Chongxun also understood: it seems unlikely that people like Zhang Renyuan who are so loyal as to the border officials.

Xue Chongxun remembered that he had read a book that said that Yan Xishan had originally planned to surrender to Japan, but because of the situation of the Pacific War, he immediately turned to both sides of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party as fences...

However, people are different. It is unknown whether Zhang Renyuan, a magistrate in the border, is that Xue Chongxun. He has never met this general at all.

As soon as Zhang Jiuling opened up, Wang Changling also spoke: I still think Xue Lang’s statement is more likely.Since the generals of the Three Cities (Three Surrender City) sent a secret envoy to cooperate with the inside and outside, it always makes sense.Either they said it was true and really didn't want to follow Zhang Renyuan all the way to the dark; or it was a trick to lure the enemy; or as Xue Lang said, it was a trick to lure the enemy... The trick to lure the enemy was the smallest. If Zhang Renyuan wanted to encircle my 30,000 troops, he might have to mobilize all the troops in the three cities, and I don't believe that he could still order all the troops to coordinate field battles now.Join forces with the Turks to siege our Tang soldiers?Did he ignore the rumors? It is unlikely that the Turks will form a siege between the three cities and not let us hear the news in advance. Many Han people have moved south of Yinshan.In contrast, the possibility of a bitter meat scheme is the highest.

Erling’s views are different, and each person expresses his own opinions.

At this time, Xue Chongxun fell silent and listened to them quietly, thinking to himself: Zhang Jiuling has indeed shown the characteristics of the prime minister's talent. When Wang Changling analyzed the situation, Zhang Jiuling was looking at people.

After the two of them had almost finished arguing, Xue Chongxun said in a big way: Whatever his surname is Zhang is going to do? This is all determined that the army is approaching the three cities. Just do it like this. It is not a good thing to think too much.

The two of them looked at each other and couldn't speak in a word...

Doesn’t doing this mean you have decided to quell the rebellion in one fell swoop?

Even though they didn't understand the relationship factors of each party, they just rashly forced the two sides to showdown, it seemed like they were a little anxious.

In case this battle is unfavorable... Wang Changling couldn't help but remind him.He is a relatively cautious person and always plans for the worst.

Xue Chongxun thought to himself: If you lose this battle and lose all the 30,000 Tang troops in your hands, then there will be no soldiers to defend the northern defense line in Guanzhong. You can only rush to deploy troops and deploy defense again, and then increase taxes to collect military expenses from the people. The consequences seem to be a bit serious.

Sometimes the general trend is very subtle, maybe it starts with something that seems to be irrelevant to the core, and the thousand-mile dike collapses into the ant hole.

However, he did not show any doubts, but just smiled and said: It's okay.

Perhaps it was Xue Chongxun's attitude that infected the staff, and they seemed to think it was no big deal. Even if something went wrong, Xue Chongxun still had a way to clean up the mess...

After all, during the period when he was fighting with the Tubo people, Xue Chongxun refused to listen to dissuasion several times, but his achievements were there.

At this time, Xue Chongxun remembered the words of the guard leader Fang Yuzhong once taught him a lesson: No matter what happens, everyone should think that you have a solution.

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It is not far from Shangjun to Shenmu Town. You will be almost there after walking north along the extension line of the old Great Wall for a day. It is less than twenty miles away from the military town before camping that night.

So at the beginning, Zhang Renyuan thought that the first military operation of the government army must be to capture Shenmu Town, just under his nose.

The troops divided the camps, set up camps according to the military tactics, arranged sentinels to patrol, and then rested for a night.It was quiet all night without any accidents, and the rebels obviously had no intention of taking the initiative.

The next morning, the generals came to the Central Army to meet the commander Xue Chongxun. Yin Ci stepped forward and asked for his order: The last general is willing to be the vanguard general, lead the army first, and clear the road and test the truth.

Yin Ci belonged to Xue Chongxun’s confidant. He stood up and wanted to be a striker, so the generals gave in, all of them thought that this was his fault.

However, Xue Chongxun said seriously: Why do we need to divide the front army into the central army? Our army will go over together and then settle it directly, which is easier to do.

The generals were still very surprised. The first time they saw tens of thousands of troops rushing to the ground.If Xue Chongxun hadn't been famous for losing 60,000 to 500,000, everyone would have thought he would have followed an idiot.

So everyone set out to set out, and the mighty army directly suppressed Shenmu.When he arrived near the target, the scout came to report: The city gate was wide open, and he did not know the reality or reality.

Xue Chongxun asked: Is there anyone playing the piano with a goose feather fan on the city wall?

The soldier looked at him innocently and said with a sad face: Humi Li... Humi Li didn't pay attention, just look at the defense force, please punish him!

The staff looked at each other and understood that Xue Chongxun was teasing an allusion: Zhuge Liang was playing the empty city plan.

Xue Chongxun didn't look joking at all, and just waved his hand and said: You're doing a good job, go ahead.

yes.The sergeant quickly clasped his fists and responded.

Xue Chongxun looked back and forth, and all the soldiers stood up seriously and sat on horseback or stood in the queue, with no one talking and flags flying.The generals looked sideways, waiting for the commander's military order.

Then he shouted: Where is General Yin?

Yin Cice immediately stepped forward and clasped his fists and said: The last one is here.

Immediately lead the cavalry into the city to capture the city gate. If there is an ambush, he will hit the red flag and play the white chess without any danger.

Get order!Yin Ci received the military order and immediately gathered a large group of cavalry to run out of the army camp. Suddenly, the horse's hooves roared and the deathly spring of the North became enraged for a moment.