Yao Liang smiled and raised his hands and pressed them down to calm everyone down, and then said: "We have arrived in Xinye after all the hard work, and there is no way we can let this piece of fat escape from our mouths.
!Now I will arrange how to enter the city."
"Give me the ladders you just made and let my men climb over the city wall and enter the city. Then open the city gate and rush in together..."
The leaders listened carefully to Yao Liang's arrangements, because the people Yao Liang brought undertook the most dangerous task of scaling the city wall and seizing the city gates, and they had no objections.
At the end, Yao Liang said: "Have all the brothers remembered their positions in the city? One last point: after entering the city, you are not allowed to kill innocent people indiscriminately, and you are not allowed to molest women. If you violate this, my knife will not recognize you! Remember!
.We are the rebels who rob the rich and give to the poor!"
Yao Liang's words made some of the leaders look a little ugly. At this moment, a leader next to him chimed in and said, "What Dashi said is true. We are here for the long term, not just for temporary pleasure. Whoever violates this will be punished by me."
Tiesi was the first to turn his back on others." It seems like flatterers are everywhere!
Yao Liang smiled appreciatively at Tie Si and said, "Brother Tie still understands the truth! After entering the city, you can take your people and act with me!"
The other leaders immediately understood what Tie Si had just said, and that Yao Liang had lured Tie Si into his confidant. They all secretly regretted it in their hearts, and quickly made up for it: "Listen to the boss. We are the rebels!"
When the leaders saw Yao Liang leading his more than 600 people and holding a ladder to the team, they couldn't help but feel a little lucky. Not only were they lucky that they were not cannon fodder, but they were also lucky that they had taken refuge with a benevolent and brave man.
leader. So unknowingly, those new defectors gradually integrated into Yao Liang's team.
But just when Yao Liang was about to give the order to attack the city, the city gate opened with a creak, which made everyone confused. One leader asked doubtfully: "Why did you open the city gate? Is there something inside?"
Ambush?"
Everyone immediately made preparations, preparing for the possibility of soldiers rushing out of the city. However, after waiting for a long time, they only saw a few people standing at the gate of the city and constantly waving to Yao Liang and the others.
"What's going on?" Ye Chao asked Yao Liang in surprise.
"Whatever it is! Rush over first and control the city gate first!" Yao Liang immediately ordered. So Fu Sheng immediately led his two companies and rushed to the city gate. Without any surprise, Xinye County's
The city gate was occupied by Yao Liang and others.
The people who opened the city gate were the same Qingpi who reported the news to the peasant army. Because Yao Liang's troops were so deceptive now, the group thought that the peasant army was coming. But when they saw the peasant army coming, they were not sent out by themselves.
The peasant army reported the news to the peasant army, so that group of people made the mistake and led Yao Liang and others to seize the entire city.
Yao Liang also remained calm. He did not reveal his identity at all. According to the prior arrangement, Yao Liang's leaders successively occupied all the key points in the city. Under Yao Liang's restraint, those leaders only forced the big households in the city.
They took out a large amount of grain and silver. Of course, it was inevitable to steal some of the property of the people in the city. But in general, the military discipline in the city was relatively strict.
Yao Liang mainly guarded the county government office, as well as the warehouses and official warehouses near the county government office. Although a lot of food in the official warehouse was taken away by the victims, a lot was left behind. In addition to the donations from the big households in the city, Yao Liang gained a total of
There were more than 40,000 dan of grain, more than 1,000 taels of silver, as well as some cloth, wine, medicinal materials, etc., but the converted silver must have exceeded 10,000 taels, which can be said to be a great harvest.
Moreover, Yao Liang, who had made up his mind, could also count the number of people. Including the new victims from Xinye County, the number of Yao Liang's troops now exceeds 4,000. Of course, the combat effectiveness of those who have newly taken refuge is negligible.
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Since the harvest was already so big, Yao Liang was ready to harvest it as soon as it was ready. He was preparing to return to Xinji Township with food and supplies. But at this moment, spies outside the city were arranged to report: a group of people had arrived.
Peasant Army.
Now Yao Liang couldn't leave. He immediately closed the city gate and consolidated the city defense. Then he collected a few horses from the city and asked his soldiers who could ride horses to quickly return to Runing to report the news.
When Wu Shigong received Yao Liang's letter asking for help, he immediately became furious. No matter what Yao Liang's motives were, his action completely disrupted the actions of the Runing Army. But now it was useless to complain. So Wu Shigong wanted to change immediately.
this military operation.
Xinye County was originally a strategic military location, but its shortcoming was that it was easy to attack and difficult to defend. Therefore, anyone who has read "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" knows that one of the three fires Zhuge Liang used when he came out of the mountain was to burn Xinye.
In addition, Xinye County is a bit far away from Runing, so the defensive fulcrum arranged by Wu Shigong on this road is Zaoyang County in the rear.
But Yao Liang was so free and undisciplined, which put Runing's army into an embarrassing situation that they had to rescue. For the same reason, Xinye is easy to attack and difficult to defend. The food, grass and materials in the city are nothing more than that. The key is,
The Runing Army has never abandoned its comrades.
However, the mobilization of this road will greatly expand the encirclement of the Runing Army. It is very likely that the peasant army in the encirclement can escape through the gaps of the Runing Army and become a fish that slips through the net.
But now I don’t care about so much. Anyway, there are only two directions for those peasant soldiers to flee: one is towards Runing, but this road is basically to die; the other is towards Luzhou. Anyway, due to the capture of Fengyang, the imperial court
Heavy troops have been stationed here, and it is time for other Ming troops to stretch their muscles.
After thinking about it, Wu Shigong immediately led his three hundred soldiers and rushed in the direction of the teaching legion. After arriving, he gathered the cavalry battalion of the teaching legion and galloped to rescue Xinye County. The teaching legion even sent a
The infantry regiment followed the cavalry to respond to the rescue.
On the way to Xinye County, Wu Shigong couldn't help but laugh at himself: "I thought I wouldn't go on an expedition this time, but I didn't expect that I would have to do it myself. What a hard-working life I have!"
But what Wu Shigong didn't expect was that when he rushed to Xinye County after all the hard work, it was all calm. Yao Liang was still guarding Xinye County, and there was no trace of the peasant army outside the city. What was even more surprising was that
, Yu Zilian's Ruzhou Army was stationed outside Xinye County.
After sending away the messenger asking for help, Yao Liang prepared to defend the city. But when the peasant army appeared outside the city, they did not attack the city immediately. They only sent envoys into the city to negotiate with Yao Liang. At this time, Yao Liang remembered
, it turns out that my current identity is also a peasant army.
The envoy was a close aide of King Guabei. He was more eloquent and wanted to recruit Yao Liang and the others first.
When King Guabei rushed to Xinye County, he found that other peasant armies had conquered it first, so he was quite depressed. But when he learned that it was a little-known mountain-shaking cannon that occupied Xinye County, he immediately
So I started to make wishful thinking.
King Guabei believed that he was well-known in the peasant army. As long as he recruited the peasant army in the city, he could not only strengthen his strength, but also the food, grass and property in the city could fall into his hands in disguise, so
, he sent envoys into the city.
Of course it was impossible for Yao Liang to seek refuge with King Guabei, but what he needed most now was time. Therefore, Yao Liang received the envoy politely and told the envoy that he needed time to discuss this important matter with his leader.
But after waiting for a long time, King Guabei also felt that something was wrong, so he proposed to Yao Liang: According to the rules of the rivers and lakes, everyone who meets has a share, first send him a batch of food and grass.
In fact, according to the rules of the peasant army, whoever gets it has always been who gets it. The reason why the Guabei King made such a request was simply because of his own strength. And if Yao Liang refused to recruit, then the Guabei King would be more or less the same.
You can get some benefits.
King Guabei's request made Yao Liang in trouble. From the bottom of his heart, Yao Liang would definitely not send food to the enemy of the Runing Army, the peasant army. But if he doesn't give King Guabei some food now, it would be wrong.
By refusing King Guabei's solicitation, it was just a matter of not being like-minded among the peasant army, but Yao Liang showed hostility towards King Guabei.
If King Guabei becomes angry and resolutely attacks Xinye County, will his mob be able to defend Xinye County?
When Yao Liang was in trouble, Yu Zilian's Ruzhou Army was also approaching Xinye County. At this time, King Guabei had two choices, one was to flee immediately, and the other was to fight the Ruzhou Army. Depending on the strength of both sides,
In contrast, the melon-backed king would never choose the second option.
The idiom "Li Ling Zhi Huan" is used to describe King Guabei at this time. He was reluctant to part with the food and property in Xinye County! So King Guabei lowered his request again and asked Yao Liang to send troops to fight with the Ruzhou army together with King Guabei.
After that... needless to say more about the result? Think about why Yu Zilian became so successful and why Yao Liang was sent to the frontier. The two of them were old acquaintances in Ningling County, and they went to rescue Guidefu City together, and they worked together in the same boat.
Where is the field?
So that night, Yao Liang got in touch with Yu Zilian, preparing to play a trick on King Guabei in the next day's battle.
But for Yao Liang, the more troublesome thing was how to explain the situation to his bosses. So just like what was described in the novel, he ambush the swordsmen behind the tent. But Yao Liang did not expect that those bosses could be heard that they could be killed.
The court immediately cheered and unanimously agreed to Yao Liang's decision. In fact, at this time, the attraction of the Ming court was still very strong in the minds of the peasant army. As a result, King Guabei was in tragedy. (To be continued.