Chapter 8 Purgatory
Yang County, government office.
When Xu Huang came in, Yang Feng didn't look very good.
"General!" Xu Huang bowed to Yang Feng and said, "Gao Shun is clearly testing these days. If our army does not gather forces to expel him, I am afraid that Gao Shun will not only harass various villages."
"How many troops should be gathered?" Yang Feng looked at Xu Huang with an ugly face and said, "How many troops can our army gather now?"
Xu Huang was speechless for a moment. Yang Feng had more than 10,000 soldiers and horses under his command. If it were like this before, it would not be a problem to gather 5,000 soldiers and horses. But now, Hu Cai and Li Le are attacking Yang County.
Coveted, they have been secretly bribing or wooing Yang Feng's generals during this period. I am afraid only they know how much they have bribed.
At this time, if a large number of troops are mobilized, even if Gao Shun can be driven away, Yang County may have to change hands.
But if troops are not sent, Xu Huang is not worried about Gao Shun's troops approaching the city, but the villages outside the city may defect to Chen Mo, and all the key points in Yang County will be occupied by the Hedong Army. By then, Yang County will only have an isolated city left.
Once the food and grass are cut off, the 30,000 troops in the city will probably collapse immediately.
Xu Huang suddenly felt that Chen Mo's release of these two people was a conspiracy. Today, Yang County has fallen into a weird circle. The three Baibo commanders who were supposed to be allies are now wary of each other, and their troops have been used.
In addition to mutual confrontation, the Hedong Army was able to attack their prestige step by step without any scruples and cannibalize their tribesmen.
After thinking for a long time, Xu Huang said in a deep voice: "It is better to invite generals Hu Cai and Li Le to discuss together and send troops together to recapture Xiangling and Pingyang. In this way, the crisis can be resolved."
Yang Feng suddenly looked at Xu Huang and said, "Gongming, I heard that Hu Cai is often with you these days. Is this the case?"
Xu Huang took a deep breath and said in a deep voice to Yang Feng: "General, that Hu Cai did intend to win over the general, but the general has never betrayed the general in the slightest. I hope the general will learn from this!"
Waving his hand, Yang Feng said: "I didn't mean that. It's just that Hu Cai and Li Le are cunning. I'm worried that Gong Ming will be deceived by him. In this case, you send someone to inform them that I will host a banquet here tonight to invite them.
People come to have a banquet and discuss strategies to defeat the enemy!"
"Here!" Xu Huang respectfully agreed and bowed to leave.
In addition to Yang Feng's mansion, Xu Huang turned his head and looked in the same direction as the lobby, suddenly feeling a little decadent in his heart. Although Yang Feng didn't say it, Xu Huang knew that Yang Feng was already suspicious of him.
Although this was the result of Hu Cai's entanglement these days, it was understandable for Yang Feng to be suspicious, but the moment Yang Feng spoke, Xu Huang couldn't help but feel a little chilled.
In the face of a formidable enemy, the three great white men are plotting against each other. Even if they can defeat Chen Mo this time, what will happen next time? And... can they really defeat Chen Mo this time?
Xu Huang originally had confidence in his heart, but at this moment, he suddenly lost that confidence. Even if he is capable, after all, he is not the one who calls the shots here.
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"A banquet?" Hu Cai looked at the invitation sent by Yang Feng, turned to look at the generals beside him and sneered: "Afraid it's not the Hongmen Banquet?"
"General, there is not much food and grass in the city now. Yang Feng naturally does not want us to share Yang County with him. If we can get rid of the two generals at this time, we can annex the general and Li Le's tribe, expel Chen Mo, and occupy San
By then, the county will have enough food and grass, and even powerful soldiers in hand, who can take advantage of the trend and sweep southward to the east of the river. We must be on guard!" A general frowned and said: "The general thought that this banquet was just a banquet, so it's okay not to go."
Hu Cai nodded, but narrowed his eyes slightly, turned to look at the general and said, "Go to Li Le's place and see what he means."
"The general's intention is..." The general heard the words and looked at Hu Cai. When he saw Hu Cai nodding slightly, he understood in his heart. He bowed and saluted and said, "I will do it now."
Join forces with Li Le to kill Yang Feng, and then the two of them join forces to fight Chen Mo, which is much better than the three of them now.
The general quickly arrived at Li Le's station, and after explaining his intention, Li Le directly agreed to Hu Cai's request without much hesitation.
"General!" Li Le's subordinates frowned and said, "I'm afraid this Hu Cai may not have good intentions. The general is worried that if Yang Feng is eliminated, Hu Cai will take advantage of the opportunity to get rid of the general. We must be on guard!"
"This matter needs to be settled after all. Now the three families are stationed in Yang County, but they are wary of each other..." Li Le nodded and said solemnly: "If things go on like this, Beihua will definitely die here. It's better to take action now. Let's agree to Hu Cai first.
If we secretly join forces with Yang Feng, when the time comes, we will see his two families fighting, wouldn’t it be better for me to wait and reap the benefits!?"
"The general is wise!" the generals said with admiration.
"Go and promise Hu Cai that you will contact Yang Feng. After we join forces to kill Hu Cai tonight, I am willing to respect him!" Li Le sneered and nodded at the two generals.
"Here!"
Later, Li Le ordered another general and asked him to gather the elites, and he was going to watch the fight with him tonight.
Hu Cai and Li Le had their own thoughts and began to prepare for tonight's banquet. On the other hand, Yang Feng received requests from Hu Cai and Li Le to join forces at the same time.
"Both of these two people are not sons of man!" After Yang Feng saw the envoys sent by the two men, he gritted his teeth and said: "I kindly let them station here and lent them food, but they did not want to be grateful, but wanted to murder me!
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Xu Huang frowned and stood beside Yang Feng, while Chen remained silent.
In fact, I had some premonitions that things would come to this point. After all, there is only so much food in the city. Ten thousand people are enough, but 30,000 people are not enough to consume it. Moreover, Hu Cai and Li Le are obviously not serious people. Secretly,
They all want to share more. It's ridiculous that they wanted to wait for Chen Mo to cut off their food and fodder before counterattacking. Now, instead, the rift between them is gradually widening because of the food and fodder issue.
"Gongming?" Yang Feng looked at Xu Huang and frowned: "Get your troops and horses ready tonight. I have pretended to cooperate with Hu Cai. You and Li Le will join forces to defeat Hu Cai. It would be best if you can kill him."
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"General!" Xu Huang sighed and saluted Yang Fengyi: "General, take your orders!"
In fact, no matter who wins in the fight against each other at this time, they will lose in the end. Not to mention the losses during the fight, even if they can annex the other two groups, people will be divided for a while, and they may not be able to defeat Chen Mo if they send troops.
If you wait a little longer, the food here will be exhausted and you will no longer be able to fight against Chen Mo.
But now the other two were determined to take action. Even if he persuaded Yang Feng, it would be useless. They could only bow down and accept the order.
That night, a battle between the three groups, each with its own ulterior motive, finally broke out near the government office. The first one to take action was Hu Cai. After reaching some kind of agreement with Li Le, he immediately arranged the manpower to cooperate with Li Le, and together they
Attack the government office.
But Yang Feng had already taken precautions, and there was no one in the government office. He followed Xu Huang and led people into Hu Cai's mansion. The men who originally planned to attack Li Le could only use them to resist Xu Huang, but Li Le's men noticed that Yang
After Feng Bu arrived at the government office, he decisively launched an attack on Hu Cai's troops, who had the same idea.
The war was relatively clear from the beginning, but gradually expanded. Yang Feng led his men to kill Li Le and Hu Cai who broke into the government office, but did not find Li Le and Hu Cai. At the same time, Xu Huang also defeated Hu Cai.
He had no power to resist, so he could only sound the horn to summon more troops to come and fight.
Later, the entire Yang County inside and outside became a battlefield of thirty thousand people fighting each other. At first, the three of them tried to control the scale of the battle. However, after seeing the elite sneak attack fail, Li Le and Hu Cai did not care so much and put themselves to death.
All the men and horses were gathered together. When the number of men and horses increased, Yang Feng had no choice but to pull the men in even though he didn't want to fight.
In the end, the small-scale fighting at the beginning expanded to a chaos that spread throughout Yang County. The people who were killed did not flee. When they encountered another group of people, they could only bite the bullet and go back or escape.
The most innocent people in this fight are probably the people of Yang County. In such a large-scale bloody battle, the people who have no resistance are the ones who suffer the most. Some soldiers hid in the city to avoid the killing.
In private houses, most people will directly kill people.
It was already light up on the horizon, but the fighting was getting more and more intense. Some people opened the city gate and wanted to escape from the city. The people or the frightened soldiers were in a mess, and some wanted to surrender to Chen Mo. More
The others fled towards Yong'an, which was also the territory of the Baibo thieves.
"Lord, there's chaos in Yang County!" Chen Mo didn't get the news until the morning, and Gao Shun quickly came to report to Chen Mo.
"Gather your troops and let's go!" Chen Mo immediately stood up and led his troops to rush towards Yang County. Along the way, he encountered many fleeing Baibo bandits or Yang County people. Chen Mo ordered people to notify Cui Geng to come to respond and comfort them.
But when Chen Mo came to Yang County, looking at the city that was almost in ruins, Chen Mo felt a little uncomfortable. He was also responsible for causing all this.
There were still sounds of fighting in the city, but most people had already fled outside the city. Chen Mo ordered people to sound the trumpet and occupy key areas on the city wall. The Baibo bandits who were still fighting in the city were either driven out of the city, and some of them surrendered directly.
Chen Mo took Dian Wei and his guards and walked on the street full of corpses. There were Baibo thieves, but more of them were the corpses of ordinary people. Some women had obviously experienced inhuman torture during their lifetime, and their limbs had even been twisted.
Not decent.
"What a bunch of beasts!" Dian Wei looked at this scene and couldn't help but cursed.
Chen Mo didn't say anything. On the street, a half-clothed woman with her lower body still bleeding was rushing toward her like crazy.
"Stop whoever is coming!" Chen Mo's guard immediately raised his spear, but the woman seemed not to see half of it.
"Don't hurt anyone!" Chen Mo wanted to scold the soldier and put away his weapons, but the woman had already rushed forward crazily, and her body was pierced by a spear. Chen Mo saw relief in her eyes.
Chapter completed!