Lu Bing led Zhu Liu, Shitou, Yang Sen and more than fifty Jinyiwei, under the leadership of Sun Quan and his wife, rushed to a small mountain village in northern Shaanxi, and met Huang Feier, Huang Duxian, who was well-known twenty years ago. From Huang Duxian, I got important clues about the underground horse market, but these clues did not make Lu Bing happy, on the contrary, they were more serious.
These clues indicate that the underground horse market is actually related to dozens of forces, large and small, ranging from the bandit caravan to the Dongchang Bailian Sect. Some of these forces even existed as natural enemies, such as the Bailian Sect and the imperial court, the Dongchang and the civil official group, and so on. These forces originally had irreconcilable contradictions, but they actually got it in a small horse market on the border. Perfect integration—cooperate with each other, cooperate with each other, cover up with each other!
Lu Bing even suspected that in recent years, the little prince had always used the opening of a horse market as a reason to carry out military operations such as harassment and invasion, just to provide cover for this underground horse market!
In other words, in addition to the emperor, the entire Ming Dynasty, a little bit of influence, knew about this underground horse market, and even profited from it, and they attacked and squeezed each other in front of the emperor, and they were only acting for the emperor. Look, let them check and balance each other except the emperor, let the emperor think that he can control everything.
Deep concern arose in Lu Bing's heart. His own milk brother, after the "Big Liyi" defeated the civil official group, began to be a little too confident. In recent years, he has become more and more obsessed with alchemy and immortality. This is nonsense. Things.
In fact, Lu Bing knew in his heart that Emperor Jiajing defeated the civilian clique with heavy codes in the "Great Ceremony Discussion" and mastered all military and political powers, becoming the first Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to truly take power after Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty and Yongle. But because of this, Tingzhang not only opened up the road of power in Jiajing, but also interrupted the backbone of the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty.
The civil service group does have its drawbacks, such as repelling military officers, strong desire for power, pedantry, and so on. But they are also representatives of scholars, who represent the righteousness of the Ming Dynasty!
Now that some people in the civil official group can't see the rights, they reach out to money, control their clansmen, form business groups, make profits everywhere, and then return to their hometowns to enclose land. Today's officials are of a bit of rank, and they are almost all big landlords in their hometowns.
The most famous of these are the Hai Merchants and Shanxi Merchants in the south. The maritime merchants in the south and the Japanese pirates colluded, going ashore for the people, and entering the sea for pirates. The Shanxi Business Group and some large merchants and caravans in the north have even made business in the Baishan Black Water of Changbai Mountain. They have various transactions with Sheng Jurchen, such as Dongzhu, animal skins, including ginseng, tiger bones and other rare medicinal materials. of. Even logging in Daxing'anling, Xiaoxing'anling and other places, and releasing them to the mainland for sale along the way, the business is not insignificant.
But these are not as serious as the underground horse market! The above can also be called making money, and the underground horse market is called treason!
The horse market is strictly forbidden to prevent important military materials such as salt, iron and tea from entering the grassland. Deliberately use chronic means to slowly weaken Mongolia.
It seems that the little prince is not stupid, he can actually contact so many forces within Ming to form an underground horse market and secretly conduct business!
Lu Bing knew that when he came, he wanted to be simple. The task now is not only to overthrow Chen Hong, but more importantly, to break this collusion!
Damn it! The catch! It should be annihilated. Annihilate!
Although Lu Bing had awakened, it was too late. He did not expect the situation in the Northland to be so complicated, and he did not expect that the East Factory had been lurking here for a long time. In the end, he missed a step and missed the opportunity.
Today, more than fifty Jinyi guards including Lu Bing have been flanked back and forth by nearly a thousand bandits under the banner of the White Lotus Sect, and they are already in danger.
Although Lu Bing used words and rewards to arouse the surging weather of all the Jinyiwei, the fighting spirit is rolling!
However, the number of people who differ greatly between the two sides is placed here, which is the biggest problem. If you are not careful, the whole army will be destroyed, so the important information you have is useless!
There are only fifty Jinyiwei guards on our side. Although each has horses, Jinyiwei is not a professional cavalry. The opponent not only has hundreds of knights, but also hundreds of infantry! Fringe back and forth, this battle. . how to spell
This question actually exists in the hearts of several Jin Yiwei leaders such as Zhu Liu. It's just that they choose at this time. . I can only choose to believe in Lu Bing, this different Jinyi Qianhu official.
And Lu Bing did not intend to disappoint them.
In fact, before deciding to fight, Lu Bing had already carefully observed the mountains on both sides and the formation of the opponent's soldiers.
The mountains on both sides, on the opposite side-the east side of the mountain is relatively short, the mountain is not steep, most people in the village go out of the mountain to choose this side of the mountain road. Therefore, it is also very suitable for cavalry to rush from top to bottom.
Looking at the White Lotus Mother Flag on the eastern hill, it was obvious that the opponent's leader was very familiar with the terrain here and knew the art of war, so the main force was placed there as the main direction of attack.
And behind, on the mountain in the west, obviously there are slightly fewer cavalry than in the east, and more infantry, because the mountain on the west is much higher than the east, very steep. In many places above the mountain, the horses are If you can't rush down directly, you have to come down carefully. Therefore, the bandit leader's intention is also very clear. The enemy on the hill to the west is used to sniper and pursue and escape.
There is a very wide road in the middle of the small village, which is also the only main road in the village, connecting the mountains on both sides. Lu Bing observed for a moment, and he knew from the clarity, width, and other details of the mountain roads on both sides. The villagers went out to the east and cut wood and hunted before heading to the west.
Lu Bing also observed the enemy's formation and level of discipline, and learned that although the enemy bandit leader had a little knowledge of warfare, the soldiers were just mobs, and the speed of the formation was extremely slow and irregular. Even the equestrian skills of some knights are obviously just folk riding methods, and horses are not war horses. Some of them, depending on their approximate shape, turn out to be workhorses for cargo and carts.
These details, in a small-scale combat, do not seem to have much disadvantages, but in such a small terrain, more than a thousand people fight, so that unprofessional cavalry and horses will show great disadvantages, such as Interference with each other, in power, etc., and even trampling on friendly forces occurs.
Especially in the face of the Ouchi thoroughbred horses ridden by the Jinyiwei, it will show a big gap.
Based on the geography and careful observation and comparison of personnel from both sides, Lu Bing believes that as long as the tactics are used properly, there is still a chance to win. Lu Bing thought about it for a while, and then he had a plan and decided to fight head-on.
Lu Bing believed that as long as his side had some results, the half-people and half-bandit enemies would be defeated.