Xushui belonged to the Yan region in the Spring and Autumn Period, was the front line of the Yan-Zhao battle in the Warring States period, and was a border military town in the Song Dynasty. Yang Yanzhao once guarded it here, but at this time it was only a desolate town dozens of miles away from Baoding.
Five miles to the west of the city, Chang Yu ordered the two battalions to rest and looked at the almost blazing fire in the east, inferring that Xushui City either had too few rebels or was too lax.
While the two were discussing in low voices, they suddenly heard a commotion due to the west. Immediately, someone came to report it and found that the bandit army was probing the horses all the way. There were about ten people. Li Tiezhu had already led his men to chase them.
Chang Yu couldn't help laughing when he heard this. He must have thought that they were rogues, otherwise they wouldn't have dared to come so close. After all, Baoding Mansion was surrounded by the bandits' sphere of influence at this time. They probably never dreamed of having such an army of officers and soldiers.
He just came in with such a blatant smear campaign.
"Act within your capabilities, and remember not to attack by force. The lives of each of the brothers under my command are very important. We can't do that if the thieves ignore their lives and ignore them." Chang Yu warned, and if the attack failed, he would go to Baoding City to meet the governor.
Tu Yuan took the order, got on his horse and led the Black Tiger Camp towards the east slowly.
Chang Yu immediately ordered the Gongzi camp to continue marching southward, but because the horses were a little tired from the continuous galloping, they also marched slowly and just arrived at a river a few miles away, when they saw Li Tiezhu returning in triumph, and he killed all the traitor horses.
Even if you cross the river and enter the area of actual control of the thief army, you will definitely encounter more thief troops exploring horses, or small groups of bandits. However, Chang Yu speculates that it is already early in the morning, and the chance of encountering exploring horses is much greater than that of large groups.
Thief army.
Chang Yu led the Gongzi camp south, sometimes letting the horses go slowly, sometimes galloping. As expected, the dozens of miles were almost smooth. He encountered a few probing horses and mistook them for his own people. He approached them to say hello, and they were all received. Occasionally, some of them were excited.
Dead bodies were found in the wilderness within three miles.
When the sky was getting light, there was a towering black shadow in the distance. Chang Yu knew that Baoding City was approaching, so he ordered the soldiers to dismount and rest and make final preparations.
In Baoding City, Shi Kefa, who was busy with city defense, had just fallen asleep when he was woken up by the soldiers on duty saying that something had happened in the city. Shi Kefa was shocked, thinking that the rebels were attacking the city and got up in a hurry. Cheng Ming, who lived in the same hospital, and six or seven others
After hearing the news, thousands of households from Tengxiang Guards hurried to the city together.
Not Nancheng? The soldiers said it was Beicheng!
Shi Kefa was puzzled. The main force of the rebel army was on the Qingshui River outside the south city. How could they attack from the north city? Only when they got to the city did they realize that it was not what he thought at all.
"Master Shangshu, in front of half a stick of incense, a group of troops came from the north city. They sent a letter without saying a word, saying that they were reinforcements from Dongchang and wanted to see you!"
Reinforcements from Dongchang? Shi Kefa raised his eyebrows and took the letter. It was actually a piece of cloth, which read: Sir Shangshu is polite. Chang Yu from Dongchang has arrived with reinforcements, asking to see you!
Didn't Chang Yu go to the military governor outside the pass? How could he be here?
Shi Kefa was a little confused. Looking at a group of men and horses looming outside the moat, he couldn't help but muttered: "The moat is more than a mile away from the city wall. How could the enemy shoot the message up from such a long distance?".
Cheng Ming had fought side by side with Chang Yu in Taiyuan. Hearing this, he said: "This distance is not surprising for those who are good at arching. In my humble position, I once saw a robber under a thief in Taiyuan who had a master archer. His archery skills were astonishing. He was a small man.
The governor himself is also skilled in archery, and he has a team of sharpshooters under his command, and his commander Kuang Ren is also a master of archery."
Shi Kefa nodded, but he couldn't understand why Chang Yu came here. He was worried that the thieves were deceiving the door, so he didn't dare to be careless, so he ordered his confidants to lower the city to the moat to confirm.
But the confidant had met Chang Yu. At this time, the sky was slightly bright, and he could see from across the river that it was Chang Yu. He was overjoyed and was about to return the favor, but was stopped by Chang Yu. Then a sharp arrow was inserted at his feet, and the tail of the arrow was tied.
There is a letter with a big secret inside.
Shi Kefa and others in the city had seen all this clearly. Seeing the reactions of their confidants, they knew that the person below the city must be Chang Yu. They were overjoyed, and immediately their confidants in the city went to the city and handed him the secret message.
Shi Kefa glanced at it and was shocked after reading it. He finally understood why Chang Yu didn't shoot this letter into the city just now, instead of waiting for him to arrive in person. This was indeed a secret letter.
"Master Shangshu, since he is the governor, I humbly accept his duties and open the door to welcome him into the city."
"No need." Shi Kefa shook his head slightly: "He won't come in."
Why? Everyone was shocked and reacted quickly. Could it be that the reinforcements were just that?
If there are really such a small number of people, it really doesn't make any difference whether or not we come in. It might even be safer if we don't come in.
Shi Kefa whispered to his confidant for a while and lowered him down to the city to deliver the message. At this moment, he suddenly saw a bandit army of about a hundred people coming from the west and approaching Chang Yu's tribe. The people on the city suddenly became nervous.
Unexpectedly, Chang Yu was calm and calm, not panicking, and turned a blind eye to the approaching bandit army. He waited until he finished chatting with Shi Kefa's confidants, then turned his horse's head and pointed his blade at the approaching bandit army: "Destroy it."
Got it!"
It was already getting dark at this time. This group of soldiers should be a bandit army camped near the west of the city. They noticed something strange and sent people to investigate, but they didn't want to end up sending someone to their death.
Shi Kefa had heard about the killing of the young eunuch for a long time. Before entering the capital, he had heard that he had become famous in a battle in Taiyuan. When he was in the capital, there were many rumors saying that he was good at fighting and brave.
Today, I finally got a glimpse of his style. I saw Chang Yu leading his troops to march slowly to meet the bandit soldiers. After fifty steps, they suddenly burst out and killed three hundred heavily armored cavalry. They were like a strong wind sweeping away fallen leaves. The bandit army was horrified and hurried.
He fled in all directions, but the god of death had arrived, destroying everything and making him unstoppable.
In just half a cup of tea, more than a hundred thieves were slaughtered. The palace camp did not wait any longer, turned its horse and ran eastward, disappearing at the end of the wilderness in the blink of an eye.
Shi Kefa on the city was dumbfounded, the wind was blowing, and the clouds were coming and going like the wind. How powerful it was. The little eunuch was indeed worthy of his reputation, and he actually had the style of a famous general in ancient times. Everyone around him was also full of praise, but Cheng Ming looked proud.
After Chang Yu led the Gongzi camp to slaughter the bandit army, he went a few miles to the east of Ma Ma and encountered a small group of bandits who fought again. When he saw that there seemed to be traces of bandits a few miles away to the south, his subordinates were very motivated to fight.
, proposed to go and fight.
After briefly looking around, Chang Yu decisively ordered Gongziying to go north immediately, away from Baoding City. Combining the intelligence from previous scouts, he had figured out the surrounding situation.
There are three rivers in the west of Baoding City, Yimuquan River in the north, Hou River in the middle, and Qingshui River in the south. These three rivers merge into Qingshui River in the southwest of the city and flow through the south of the city. They are also the source of the moat.
There are rebel camps on the banks of these three rivers, ranging in size from dozens to dozens, with branches covering an area of more than ten miles. The same is true on the Qingshui River in the southeast of the city. Li Zicheng's main army is stationed on another branch of the Qingshui River ten miles south of the city.
riverside.
In other words, the bandit army camped near the water, with the main force due south, and dozens of enemy camps of various sizes in the southwest and southeast divisions, which should be assigned to the troops under their command. As for the north of the city, which had no river and no troops to garrison, it should be divided from east to west.
The garrison is responsible for patrolling. The group of thieves Chang Yu encountered just now should be the patrol team stationed at the enemy camp at Yimuquan River.
Now that he has figured out the surrounding situation, he just killed two people in a row and made such a big movement. Why don't he leave and let people block him? No matter how awesome he is, he doesn't dare to trap 300 people in a tight siege, so before the rebel army can
When you understand the situation, run away quickly.
Gongziying ran for nearly twenty miles in one breath. When the men and horses were exhausted and they were about to dismount and rest, they suddenly saw a group of men and horses from the northeast coming to kill, about hundreds of people. Everyone was shocked, and Chang Yu ordered to prepare for war.
Unexpectedly, when they looked closer, they saw the Black Tiger Camp. Everyone was relieved, but they also wondered why Tu Yuan came so quickly. Is Xushui difficult to attack?
Difficult to attack? Doesn’t exist!
Tu Yuan's eyebrows were flying, and he vividly described his attack on the city to everyone. Everyone looked surprised. They captured it without spending a single soldier or even starting a fight. How the hell is this okay?
Yes, Tu Yuan also didn't expect that the bandit army in Xushui was just a group of thirty or forty bandits. To be precise, it was a temporary base where several groups of spies gathered together.
The spies have always been very clever, and since they are defending the city, it will not be easy to defeat them, but who are the people under Tu Yuan's command? The thieves from Li Yan's tribe, these are all old friends!
It was impossible for the rebel army to brave the cold and patrol the city in person. They just sent a few people with a group of puppet troops to make a show on the city. When they were sleeping, they heard someone calling the door from the city. When asked, the other party cursed and said it was a certain person.
The Caotou King's men came out to plunder and were tired and wanted to go into the city to rest.
The people on the city casually asked a few questions, and the people below the city answered fluently. They had no intention of taking precautions, so they decided that it was one of their own, because they did not believe that two hundred Ming soldiers dared to go deep into the tiger's den even if they were killed. They opened the door and were immediately captured.
After getting off, he immediately led the way and eliminated the rest of the bandit soldiers in the city.
It was so easy, so easy that even Chang Yu was stunned, and then he couldn't help laughing. Throughout the ages, there have been countless tricks like this to deceive city gates. Officials deceive thieves, and thieves deceive officials. There are even many incredible ones, such as massacres.
After all, the troops led by Yuan were the former members of the bandit army. It was not difficult to deceive the city gate, which made sense. However, there were only dozens of people in the city, which still surprised him.
I didn't know much, but I didn't expect it to be so little, so I felt relieved. I thought of historical records that Liu Fangliang took Guangping Prefecture (today's Handan area, governed Yongnian County) and then went north, leaving only 500 troops to garrison, leaving only one prefectural city.
Five hundred, a few dozen people in a small county like Xushui is pretty good.
Maybe Wuzhong would have missed it, and there might not be any traitors in Rongcheng. Chang Yu thought, and asked Tu Yuan about Xushui's situation, saying
The city was in a state of disarray, with ten houses and nine empty houses, and many people were fleeing. The city was too small and short to be used as a garrison, so they abandoned the city and came to Changyu, who happened to meet them halfway.
After resting for a while, a scout came to report that there were enemy sightings ten miles south. Chang Yu knew that the rebel army had been alerted and began to search around for this group of people who appeared out of nowhere.
Chang Yu immediately ordered to go to Rongcheng.
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