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Because of the strategic location of Guanzhong, the Ming Dynasty set up a governor in Shaanxi to oversee the military and political affairs of Shaanxi.

Guo Pu, who served as governor of Shaanxi, was also a veteran of the Ming court.

Guo Pu was admitted to Jinshi in the 14th year of Jiajing's reign and was selected as a scholar. Later in the Jiajing Dynasty, he was always famous for his Qing Ci.

Guo Pu was a political ally of Gao Gong. After Gao Gong came to power, he was arranged by Gao Gong to serve as governor of Shaanxi.

Later Gao Gong stepped down, but Zhang Juzheng accepted all Gao Gong's political team, and Guo Pu soon joined Zhang Juzheng and continued to serve as governor of Shaanxi.

This time after Li Chunfang came to power, Guo Pu also joined other local governors in demanding more rights.

In order to appease Guo Pu, Li Chunfang gave him the title of Minister of Rites. Like Li Chengliang in Shandong, he could appoint officials of ninth grade and below.

Guo Pu's power in Shaanxi became even more intense, and it can be said that his life reached its peak.

However, Guo Pu is not the kind of minister who is simply incapable of doing anything. After serving as the governor of Shaanxi, he has been building a new army. He has set up a number of new workshops in Xi'an and an arsenal in Xianyang, specializing in the production of muskets and artillery. .

Shaanxi itself has many resources. Shaanxi is very rich in coal, iron and mineral resources.

Therefore, the workshop run by Guo Pu quickly began to produce output. In particular, Shaanxi's rich coal resources greatly promoted the development of the iron smelting industry.

With workshops and weapons, Shaanxi's new army is naturally better than those in other provinces.

Guo Pu required that soldiers of the New Army must be literate in more than 300 words before joining, and the New Army adopted new drills.

Guo Pu's Shaanxi New Army has suppressed several peasant uprisings and is very famous in Shaanxi. This also makes Guo Pu considered capable among the governors and is very popular with the imperial court.

In comparison, Jiang Dongchen, the governor of Sichuan, was far behind.

Sichuan has always been somewhat under-armed due to its geographical location.

During the Ming Dynasty, as the political center moved north and the economic center moved east, the status of Shuzhong was also declining.

Once a country that was once prosperous and benefited by two, Sichuan is now somewhat insignificant in the political system of the Ming Dynasty.

Sichuan is not like Shaanxi in the north, and it also has Shaanxi's mining foundation.

And since Sichuan has always been relatively stable and has poor combat effectiveness, its stability maintenance value is too high.

The result is that Shaanxi has a governor, but Sichuan still only has governors, which are inferior to Shaanxi in terms of level.

Jiang Dongchen, the governor of Sichuan, was naturally not happy about this matter.

And Guo Pu has an aloof character, Shaanxi and Sichuan are next to each other, and Jiang Dongchen is not as good as Guo Pu in terms of rank, so Guo Pu has always yelled at Jiang Dongchen and treated him as a subordinate.

Jiang Dongchen was naturally dissatisfied. You are the governor of Shaanxi, not the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi. Why are you ordering me?

So the relationship between the two sides is very tense.

Guo Pu was not completely domineering. The reason why he wanted to compete with Jiang Dongchen for power was because he saw the problem of integrating Sichuan and Shaanxi.

The strategic complementarity between Sichuan and Shaanxi is very important, especially the defense of Hanzhong Prefecture. Guo Pu has been writing to the Ming Dynasty, asking Sichuan to also send troops to garrison Hanzhong Prefecture together with Shaanxi's new army.

Guo Pu's reason is also very simple. Sichuan and Shaanxi are strategically integrated. The safety of Hanzhong affects the safety of Sichuan, so Sichuan should send troops to assist in defense. Even if you don't send troops, you should still contribute some money, right?

But in Jiang Dongchen's view, Hanzhong Prefecture is your Shaanxi territory. The governor of Shaanxi ordered us from Sichuan to send troops to defend Hanzhong Prefecture. What does this mean?

Do you want to sit on my head and shit, or do you want to be the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi?

Jiang Dongchen naturally refused flatly.

Jiang Dongchen also knew that Hanzhong's defense was part of the entire Shuzhong's defense, and that Hanzhong was more important to Sichuan than to the Guanzhong Plain in Shaanxi.

But Jiang Dongchen was absolutely unwilling to send troops and money to help Guo Pu defend Hanzhong.

Moreover, Jiang Dongchen was also wary of Guo Pu's suggestion. Does this old guy want to concurrently serve as the governor of Sichuan and annex his own territory?

Jiang Dongchen also mobilized his allies to continuously write letters to impeach Guo Pu for his crimes in Shaanxi. For example, Guo Pu was very grand in Shaanxi, occupied the property of the Qin Palace, and even disrespected the royal family.

In fact, these are all routine operations. Now the authority of the Zhu Ming royal family is long gone. Haven't you seen that King Jing is doing hard labor in the southeast?

The problem of local governors oppressing grand masters existed when Jiajing was in power, let alone in today's troubled times.

King Qin is the best example. After welcoming Jiajing's imperial chariot, King Qin sent the emperor off but did not receive any reward.

After Guo Pu took office, he constantly asked the King of Qin to raise funds. The Qin Palace was very "willing" to "donate" all the old money to help Guo Pu organize the new army in Shaanxi.

Even though the Prince of Qin's Palace was not happy, Guo Pu was ruthless and ruthless. Several clans that did not respond to the donation encountered bandits and rebels. Even if the Prince of Qin was in the city of Xi'an, there was no guarantee that someone would come and set fire to it.

Not only in Shaanxi, there are many clans in Shanxi, and we have encountered many such situations.

Although Jiang Dongchen's impeachments were not serious crimes, they were still purely disgusting. Guo Pu was naturally furious when he received the news.

He also wrote a letter to impeach Jiang Dongchen, saying that he was corrupt and incompetent, that his military training in Sichuan was ineffective, and that he could not even suppress the rebellion of the peasant army.

The final result was that the plan to jointly defend Hanzhong Prefecture was abandoned, and the defense of Hanzhong Prefecture was handed over to the new army of Shaanxi.

After the New Army in the Southeast captured Huguang, especially Xiangyang, Guo Pu also smelled danger.

Xiangyang is an important town on the Han River. After Xiangyang is captured, the Southeast New Army can directly enter the Hanzhong area and threaten Hanzhong Prefecture as long as they supply supplies along the Han River.

Guo Pu's actions were not unpleasant. He quickly mobilized the Shaanxi New Army to gather in Hanzhong, preparing to defend Hanzhong Prefecture.

However, Shaanxi's finances could not support such a large army. Guo Pu asked the capital for financial support, asked Sichuan to transport grain to Hanzhong Prefecture, and also requested support from the Ming court troops in Henan.

Li Chunfang was also very troubled after receiving Guo Pu's memorial asking for help.

From a military perspective, there was no problem with Guo Pu's request for help.

Hanzhong is related to the safety of the two provinces, so it should naturally be heavily guarded.

Huguang also borders Henan. If Huguang's Southeast New Army attacks Hanzhong Prefecture, Henan should coordinate with Shaanxi's army.

If the New Southeast Army can be defeated in Hanzhong, maybe the Ming Army can regain Huguang.

But politically, this is a big problem.

Chen Yiqin, the governor of Henan, was a political ally of Li Chunfang. Henan was not rich either, and he had to prevent the new southeastern army from moving north from Huguang. The military strength was always very tight, and he was constantly asking the Ming court for money and weapons.

The governor of Sichuan and the governor of Shaanxi were at odds with each other. The two sides were like fire and water. Li Chunfang could not give orders to the governor of Sichuan Jiang Dongchen. If they were unwilling to transport grain, then it would be Li Chunfang who would not be able to come to Taiwan in the end.

Li Chunfang finally understood the difficulties of his predecessor Zhang Juzheng.

His authority is not as good as Zhang Juzheng's, and he cannot even order the governors of these places.

Li Chunfang could only send envoys to Henan, Shaanxi and Sichuan to coordinate, hoping that the Sichuan governor would support Hanzhong with some food for the sake of the overall situation.

As a result, before Li Chunfang's envoy arrived in Sichuan, the Southeast New Army led by Xiong Kuang was dispatched.

On November 2, Xiong Kuang left behind the infantry and led an independent cavalry regiment. He set out from Xiangyang with only light artillery and headed west along the Han River to attack Junzhou, which was heavily defended by the Ming army.

Junzhou, known as Shiyan in later generations, is located on the side of the Han River and at the foot of Wudang Mountain. It is the gateway to the important town attacking Hanzhong from Xiangyang.

After Jingzhou and Xiangyang were captured by the Southeast New Army, part of the Ming army in Huguang retreated to Junzhou. Guo Pu, the governor of Shaanxi, also ordered the New Army of the First Association under his command to station in Junzhou together with these defeated troops, totaling 15,000 people. .

The cavalry led by Xiong Kuang did not besiege the capital city of Junzhou.

Xiong Kuang first defeated the Ming Ting troops who tried to fight out of the city three times, then destroyed all the Ming Ting military camps and strongholds outside Junzhou City, and sent dead soldiers to blow up Junzhou's dock on the Han River.

The Ming Dynasty army was defeated in three battles. Naturally, they did not dare to continue fighting against Xiong Kuang in the wild. They could only retreat into the city and defend the city.

Xiong Kuang waited until the Ming army retreated into the city, and then stopped attacking the city. Instead, he continued to rush along the Han River to the

Instead, they directly bypassed Junzhou, ran all the way along the Han River, directly skipped Junzhou (Shiyan), and began to attack Jinzhou (today's Ankang).

Jinzhou is the important town of Hanzhong Prefecture.

You can tell by looking at the location of Jinzhou. Several passages from Shaanxi to Hanzhong converge in Jinzhou.

The logistics of the Ming army in Junzhou (Shiyan) were transported by camel from Xi'an via several ancient roads into Hanzhong (Baoxie Road, Tangluo Road, Ziwu Road). They were first transported to the Hanzhong area, and then sent to the Jin Dynasty along the Han River. Prefecture, and then continue to transport to the Junzhou front line.

But Guo Pu did not leave many troops in Jinzhou (Ankang).

The reason is also very simple: Guo Pu does not have enough troops.

There are too many important nodes that need to be defended in the Hanzhong area, and Guo Pu's defense of Hanzhong is mainly to defend against the Southeast New Army's attack on Xi'an.

So of course, Guo Pu's army was mainly stationed near the three passages into Hanzhong, Baoxie Road, Tangluo Road, and Ziwu Road.

Once these armies are attacked, Guo Pu will ask them to quickly withdraw to Xi'an instead of staying in Hanzhong and fighting with the Southeast New Army.

To put it bluntly, Hanzhong and the Guanzhong area near Xi'an are not a strategic area in themselves.

Guo Pu's base is the Guanzhong Plain near Xi'an, and the area along the Wei River from Baoji to Xi'an.

Strategically, Guo Pu could completely abandon Hanzhong. As long as he stuck to the three passages out of Hanzhong, Baoxie Road, Tangluo Road, and Ziwu Road, just like Cao Wei did back then, he could defend the Guanzhong Plain at a much smaller cost.

It can even be said that the garrison in Hanzhong stretched the logistical supply of Guo Pu's army, which was strategically wrong.

As expected by Xiong Kuang, Jinzhou (today's Ankang) did not have many military defenses, and Xiong Kuang quickly captured Jinzhou (today's Ankang)!