Chapter 255 My reputation is ruined

Fortunately, there were not many Xia army defenders in Liyang City, so they did not block the tidal flat positions, so Chen Ying was able to dock successfully. However, just when he got ashore, Chen Ying encountered great trouble.

It’s okay if the fully armed soldiers came ashore, but the supplies, food, equipment and armor carried by the army were very troublesome. There was no machinery in this era, and all transportation was all up to people. When Chen Ying came to Liyang, he found that even a young man could not see a young man around Liyang, and only the elderly, the weak, sick and disabled were left in all the villages, which was really useless.

He was taken by a team of soldiers to outside Liyang City for some reason. Seventy or eighty old people from the villages and tribes came to Chen Ying. These old people and tribes looked at Chen Ying nervously. In the propaganda of the Xia army, Chen Ying became a vicious demon. He had to eat the heart of two children every day and suck the brains of living people every night, otherwise Chen Ying would not be able to use magic. They were not stupid either. They still had basic eyesight. It was easy for them to tell who was better and who was worse.

These old people from the village were flattered and thought to themselves: "The Tang generals who came here are not fierce at all, but they are very angry. As for Chen Ying, there is no rumor at all."

The more humble Chen Ying acted, the more awesome the old people in Liyang Township were. On Chen Ying's "Wan'an" ship, Chen Ying asked someone to set up a seat for the old people in the township and then gave him a meal. Of course, it was not a delicacy, but just an ordinary meal for military soldiers.

Half a pound of white flour steamed buns and horse jerky stews, these old villagers whispered, "The sun is coming out from the west?"

Li Yang is a strategic focus and has always been a place that must be fought for by military strategists. Over the years, there have been more generals in the past. Either they are like bandits, they plundered the beautiful name of borrowing grain. When they see money, they will shine golden when they see women. Some of them recruit young and strong soldiers and pull many young and strong people away from Li Yang, but few of them come back. Like Chen Ying, not only did not collect grain from them, but they did not attract men, they also felt strange.

In fact, Chen Ying found that Li Yangqing was hiding and did not have enough manpower. It was definitely not easy to remove these materials in a short time. Fortunately, Zhang Zhongjian called on his pirates to help a lot. At this time, pirates were suffering because they could not survive. Haha, they were strong and could endure hardships.

Besides, Chen Ying didn't let them work in vain, and paid more than 20% of the normal porters' salary, and these pirates were working very enthusiastically.

When these fellow villagers and clans had almost finished their meals, Chen Ying asked with a smile: "My fellow villagers, I wonder where the people from Li Yang have gone?"

A kind-hearted old man Qiqiai Ai said, "Some have gone to war with the King of Xia, and some have gone to escape!"

In ancient times, war was the key reason for the large-scale migration of population. The Guanzhong area of ​​the Tang Dynasty was the most densely populated place in the world. The population of Chang'an City alone was no less than one million. During the Anshi Rebellion, the people escaped from the war and left their hometowns. The enemy came from the east, so they could only escape west and south, and some fled into Hanzhong and Bashu, but the Shu Road went south, so more people fled to the northwest and poured into Liangzhou, Ganzhou and Suzhou layer by layer.

Now Hebei has been annexed by Dou Jiande in one fell swoop. However, with the arrival of the Tang army, Li Yang has become the top priority. Therefore, these young and strong men smelled the smell of gunpowder in the air, packed their bags and wandered around in a foreign land.

The key is that the general in charge of defending Li Yang in Xia State was Liu Ya, the general of Wuwei of Dou Jiande. Liu Ya was named Liu Yazi. He was a little stuttering and had difficulty speaking. In order to avoid being ridiculed, he rarely spoke. However, as the saying goes, the mute knew that he was actually very smart.

When Liu Jintang's defense of Xingyang City fell, he guessed that Chen Yinghui led his army north to attack Liyang. He knew that relying on the more than 6,000 soldiers under his command was very difficult to defend Liyang, so he thought of a clever plan. He learned the strategy proposed by Zhang Bin and Zhang Mengsun to Shi Le during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and strengthened the walls and cleared the fields.

It was just a pity that Chen Ying was in a hurry to rescue Luoyang, so he didn't care about Li Yang. However, Liu Ya did not waste the time Chen Ying gave him. He quickly bewitched the people from leaving his hometown, and he sent people to promote Chen Yingwei's devilishness in the countryside.

However, things are precious when they leave their hometowns, and people are cheap when they leave their hometowns. Most of the people in Liyang, who are close to Liyang Cang, have convenient transportation and are very prosperous in the economy, which is much richer than the people in Hexi. They are even more unwilling to leave their hometowns.

What's more, Li Yang has many boys and girls. Li Mi captured Li Yang Cang, and then Li Mi was defeated. Xu Shiji guarded Li Yang City. As a result, after years of fighting, Li Yang's population decreased by two-thirds compared to the seventh year of the Sui Dynasty. Now the remaining ones are either orphans and widows, or the elderly, weak, sick and disabled. It is actually very difficult for them to leave their hometown. At this time, these orphans and widows have already accepted their fate and are not ready to escape.

When Liu Ya saw that these old ladies did not listen to the hello and could not force them to drive them away, otherwise they would have to backfire. Liu Ya sent people everywhere to promote Chen Ying's army consisting of Turkic Hu people. These Turkic people are over 100 meters tall, look like gorillas, and are very energetic. They can't get through a few times a night. The most important thing is that they like to go together to deal with a woman.

These orphans and widows in Liyang were so scared that their faces turned pale. Their small bodies could not withstand the conquest of Hu Zong.

In ancient times, it was very difficult for orphans and widows to survive. They had the intention of finding a man from Tang to live together, but now they heard that they were a group of Husbands, so they were all afraid.

When Chen Ying learned of this situation, he was speechless.

He was very annoyed: "My reputation has ruined you, a bastard!"

After learning that the villages and villages along the Yellow River had all indiscriminately lured the people away, leaving behind endless empty villages and villages. In this case, since these people did not serve as the best medium for spreading fear, Chen Ying wanted to chew around one city after another, and did not know that it would take until the year of the monkey and horse month to complete it.

At this time, he wanted to strangle Liu Ya to death, but he treated this guy as a turtle, so Chen Ying had to change his strategic actions again.

On the "Wan'an" ship that night, the generals under Chen Ying, such as Feng Li, Yuchi Gong, He Yuejing, Gao Yunquan, Luo Shixin, Zhang Shigui, etc., were gathered together.

Chen Ying looked at these generals who had been through life and death with him and said in a deep voice: "I believe you already know that the Xia Kingdom in front of us has already been prepared. Now we must change our action plan, and the orders of the Ministry of War have been sent to you. You all know what to do, right?"

The generals shouted in unison: "It's clear!"

The thousands of miles along the Yellow River have almost become no-man's land without people.

Chen Ying gestured on the map and said, "This general's plan to attack Hebei is ruined. The more than a thousand roads in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River can only work but be in vain. The general has already figured it out. We can't be so stupid in this battle!"

Feng Li pondered: "So, according to General Chen's meaning, how should we fight this battle?"

"Yuzhou Luo Yi!" Chen Ying took a piece of charcoal pen and drew a line on the map. He drew a huge map on the sea where the continental shelf was. Chen Ying said: "Why should this general fight to death here? Luo Yi actually sat on the wall to watch? Therefore, the general planned to use the canal ships to transport the cavalry army, the Modao Army, and the slaughter army to raid Youbeiping from the water, and join forces with Luo Yi's army to go south. As long as Luo Yi doesn't listen to the greeting, he will kill him without any hello!"
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