Chang Yu walked around the military camp to check, his face getting darker and darker. Gao Jie led several generals behind him to see the little eunuch who looked more and more timid, always feeling like he was about to step into a thunderbolt.
Unexpectedly, the little eunuch unexpectedly did not explode. He just swept away everyone coldly: "I will only say what I said once. If you can listen to it, please go in. The women in the army will be sent away immediately. If there are more women who prey on the people enter the camp."
It's a matter, I know the inspector will kill them one by one!"
"General, please obey the order and don't dare to do this again." The murderous aura on Chang Yu's body spread so much that Gao Jie and others broke out in cold sweat. He nodded obediently and then with a wink told his men to send the women away cleanly.
Huang Degong's men and horses were loading grain and fodder. Under the guarantee of the young eunuch, Gao Jie lent a thousand shi of grain and some fodder. Although it was not much, it was better than nothing and it was enough to support Huang Degong's more than 10,000 men and horses for the time being.
"General Soldier Gao has a lot of stock!" Chang Yu looked at the grain and grass in the camp and said with a half-smile. Gao Jie felt guilty. Although he had prepared these grains and grass from Xuzhou and earned them from occasional "part-time jobs" along the way, as a civil servant, this is strictly prohibited.
"Part-time job", how could he dare to admit: "The army rushed thousands of miles to support humble workers, knowing that it was inconvenient to raise food along the way, and almost used up all the food stored in Xuzhou..."
Chang Yu didn't listen to his rhetoric, but he didn't pursue it any further. After all, when hiring people at this time, it's not about sticking to the current situation. Beating and threatening would be enough. Moreover, it still depends on the person. For a loyal person like Huang Degong, you can
With the interests of the family and country in mind, you can intimidate and threaten someone like Gao Jie who has no way out, but it is difficult for Liu Zeqing, a shabby dog who doesn't get into trouble. If it's too easy, he won't tolerate you; if it's too serious, he dares to rebel. How can you still say this so bluntly?
Don't dare to kill him at will.
Gao Jie had more than 12,000 soldiers, including 3,000 or 4,000 cavalry, and Huang Deqing was about the same as Liu Zeqing. Breaking out of a camp of this size was not something that could be done in a short while.
The most troublesome thing is to cross the river. The Qingliang River is tens of meters wide. It is not that easy for the army to cross without boats and bridges. Fortunately, there have been several years of drought and the river has dried up and even has some sections. But even so, it is difficult for those vehicles to cross.
Horse baggage also requires a lot of trouble.
Gao Jie ordered the entire army to cross the river before sunset, and his soldiers did not dare to neglect. They cut down trees to build bridges, requisitioned ships from surrounding villages, or found shoals to start crossing the river in a mighty way.
While he was busy with all this, Chang Yu had already led more than ten of his entourage to cross Jiangxi. Gao Jie stood on the shore and looked into the distance with a surprised look on his face. The general asked curiously whether the little eunuch was going to Zaoqiang, where he lived.
How dare you take risks alone in a high position? How young and fearless you are!
Gao Jie sneered: "He might go further." His subordinates were even more surprised and shook their heads in disbelief. Several mansions in Hebei Province had been occupied by the enemy. The little eunuch dared to go deeper.
Gao Jie rolled his eyes and said to himself, you know what? It was previously rumored that when he was in Taiyuan, he sneaked into Li Zicheng's camp behind enemy lines and killed the young king Li Laiheng. This was confirmed by himself when he was just chatting with Huang Degong, not to mention that he was outside the customs.
Fighting against the Qing army's cavalry, any one of them can be called a legend. Just before him, he led more than a hundred men from Baoding Prefecture through enemy-occupied areas to get here. Who has such courage at the moment!
If not, how could I be in awe of him!
The two battalions of Gao Jie and Huang Degong were busy decamping to cross the river, and Chang Yu only led more than ten followers to cross Jiangxi. He really wanted to go to Zaoqiang to see how Huang Degong and Gao Jie's men attacked the city, and to see their combat power and tactics.
So what.
Of course, he did not rule out going deep into Jizhou. Although there were many thieves there, he was not afraid at all. He thought that when he was in Taiyuan, he dared to touch Li Zicheng's main camp and kill people after being held captive for several nights. At this time, Li Zicheng was far away.
Baoding Prefecture, Jizhou is just a certain grass-headed thief, and the ten guards around him are all great masters, so what should be feared!
A group of people rode horses and ran wildly in the fields to the west. There were not many villages on the way, but there were still many villagers. Their faces were full of panic. They may have been frightened by the sudden and continuous passing of several groups of officers and soldiers. They were on the border of Hebei and Shandong, and they were also rebels.
In the buffer zone with the officers and soldiers, except for the occasional harassment by the patrolling horses from both sides, no large army had been seen in the past few days. At this time, I was panicked by what I saw.
Chang Yu was lightly equipped with fast horses, but he encountered a large river blocking the road less than ten miles away. It was a branch of the Qingliang River. The bottom of the river was dry and exposed. There was a group of people crossing the river. A closer look showed that they were part of the group of people sent by Huang Degong to take charge of the baggage.
"Where is Tian Xiong?" Chang Yu asked someone. Huang Degong sent his subordinate Tian Xiong to lead a thousand troops to attack Zaoqiang. The man recognized him and hurriedly told him that Tian Xiong saw Li Chengdong leading his troops and came from behind.
As a result of his plunder, he hurriedly led a vanguard of more than 500 troops to Zaoqiang without waiting for the baggage to cross the river, vowing to be one step ahead of Li Chengdong.
Chang Yu secretly laughed and ordered the heavy troops to cross the river quickly so as not to miss the opportunity to fight. Then he quickly crossed the river and left. After running wildly for a while, he saw the small town of Zaoqiang in the distance, and there was a large army fighting in the distance. He was confused, maybe Li Chengdong and Tian Xiong were having sex.
When Da Ma came closer, he saw that it was really Tian Xiong and Li Chengdong who were fighting, but instead of killing each other, they joined forces to kill the thieves. Seeing the bandit army of hundreds of people fleeing towards the city desperately, Chang Yu was a little confused.
, what are you doing, you ran away as soon as I came?
Taking advantage of your illness to kill you, Tian Xiong and Li Chengdong led their troops to pursue the rebels as they fled to the city. They were stopped by a hail of arrows from above and then withdrew two miles away. When they saw Chang Yu arriving, they went forward to report.
The officers and soldiers crossed the river to enter the country. Naturally, they immediately returned to the city to report what they had found. The rebels sent a message to Jizhou and deployed their troops to prepare for it. Besides, Tian Xiong and Li Chengdong were competing with each other. They both reached a few miles east of the city before they had time to talk.
When they knew who would fight first and how, they suddenly saw the city gate opened wide and a bandit army of about 500 people came out, leaving the two of them confused!
Since they are so hospitable and we have more than three times the manpower, let's do it.
So it was a fierce battle, and they won the battle. Until now, the two of them still haven't figured out what the Taoist army was thinking. They were not defending the city, so why did they come out to seek abuse!
Chang Yu couldn't laugh or cry after hearing this. After much deliberation, he could only think of one possibility, that is, the thieves were slapped in the face for pretending!
Since Li Zicheng's Eastern Expedition in Xi'an, wherever he went, the officers and soldiers were begging to line up to surrender. No one dared or had the heart to fight him. Until he met Chang Yu in Taiyuan and was brutally beaten. The same thing happened to Liu Fangliang of the Eastern Route Army.
The men and horses are even more powerful. Several prefectures in Henan say that he defeated them at best, or that they gave him to them forcefully.
After crossing the Yellow River and entering Henan, the first stop was Huaiqing Mansion. Chen De, the deputy general who defended the city, tied up the governor and censor Su Jing and presented the city to surrender. When Weihui Mansion next door heard the news, all the officials and guards fled.
At the second stop, Lu'an Mansion, everyone including Shen Wangtou escaped, and they directly took over and plundered everything before leaving.
The third stop, Zhangde Mansion, is Xiaodong Bingdao. How small is it? It’s so small that it can be ignored.
At the fourth stop, Guangping Mansion, all the officials fled. Zhang Ruxing, the former Tongzhou Commander-in-Chief who lived in the city at that time, had already gone to pay the money to his confidant when he was in Cizhou before Liu Fangliang came. When he brought Liu Fangliang into Guangping Mansion, he was greeted thirty miles away.
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Then go all the way north to Baoding Fucheng...
In other words, Liu Fangliang's subordinates had never fought or suffered any losses along the way. In their eyes, the officers and soldiers were all cowards. They were frightened to the point of peeing by waving their swords, and just like that, they all drifted away.
Become arrogant.
So when he saw a group of officers and soldiers suddenly coming to kill him, this group of people were not afraid of the revolt and were finally able to do something. They killed this group of people so that they could report the attack to the superiors and also boast about it. So the leader of the bandits who guarded the city ordered to go out of the city to kill him.
Damn it.
It's just that he didn't expect that when they encountered two tough enemies, Gao Jie was one who would rather surrender to the Qing Dynasty than surrender to the bandits, and he would definitely kill the bandits whenever he encountered them. Huang Degong, a loyal and brave man, also took it as his own duty to kill bandits and defend the country.
It's a deadly move, not to mention that the two groups are competing with each other at this time. If you encounter these idiots who come to your door, why don't you kill one and get ten for free!
After a cup of tea, the bandit army returned to the city with howling ghosts and wolves, leaving half a hundred corpses outside the city, being killed by two groups of men.
I don't know which unlucky thing is so stupid. Chang Yu looked at Zaoqiang County and sighed, and then said to Tian Xiong and Li Chengdong: "Break it before dark, and the bandit army will be slaughtered. Do not disturb the people, and those who violate it will die." He glared especially.
He glanced at Li Chengdong and was so frightened that goosebumps appeared all over his body. He didn't know why he always felt that this little eunuch had been targeting him, and he hated Huang Degong even more deeply in his heart.
"No matter what method you two use, the governor who enters the city first will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver and will be credited with the first achievement!" Chang Yu blew the competition whistle. At this time, the sunset was red, and Tian Xiong's baggage team had arrived. In fact, it was seven
Eight ladders to climb the city.
The siege battle started soon. Tian Xiong and Li Chengdong were competing and cooperating. With siege equipment and two thousand men, it was more than enough to attack such a small city. Li Chengdong's men had already suppressed the rebels at the top of the city with bows and arrows, and Tian Xiong's men set up ladders.
Siege the city.
The tactics were simple, but also very effective. The rebels' firepower was relatively fierce at the beginning, but for some reason it soon ended in an incoherent manner. When Tian Xiong's men attacked the city, they immediately abandoned their weapons and surrendered.
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