Huang Degong and Gao Jie led the thief reinforcements they killed and fled for more than ten miles. They returned in triumph to Chang Yu to report their merits. Seeing that both of them were covered in blood, they knew Chang Yu personally went into battle to kill the enemy and praised him a few times.
Pointing at the two thousand surrendered soldiers at the foot of Nancheng, he asked, "How to deal with it?"
Reducing the soldiers and recruiting them into the army is the conventional default method. Huang Degong and Gao Jie knew immediately that the young eunuch had other thoughts. Could it be that he wanted to...?
"Superintendent, the bandits are strong and we are weak, so why not organize them into an army to resist the bandits?" Huang Degong and Gao Jie expressed their opinions, thinking that it would be good to use them as artillery fire.
Chang Yu sneered: "Have you ever heard that this governor has a nickname?".
The two of them felt a chill in their hearts, and they were slaughtered!
This little eunuch was so murderous that he was rumored to have killed tens of thousands of people in Taiyuan to build the Jingguan. Even outside the customs, no one survived. He also thought of the small Jingguan outside Zaoqiang City last night. Could it be...
"Have you two heard of Bai Qi's name?" Chang Yu saw the difference in their expressions and asked with a slight smile.
"The governor is talking about Bai Qi, the general of Qin during the Warring States Period," Huang Degong asked. As a military general, he knew this.
"He is known as the God of War throughout the ages and has never been defeated." Gao Jie licked his lips and said. It seems that he admires Bai Qi very much.
"You only heard that he was never defeated and was known as the God of War. Do you know how many people he killed?" Chang Yu asked again.
The two shook their heads. Chang Yu asked Chen Wangting and others again. Everyone shook their heads, but Wuzhong said: "I heard that many prisoners were buried alive."
"You are talking about trapping and killing 450,000 Zhao army prisoners. Bai Qi is both the God of War and the God of Killing. He has made great achievements in fighting and killed more than one million enemies in his life. In other words, half of the total two million people killed in the Warring States Period were
What he did!" Chang Yu continued with a calm expression: "He almost killed more than 100,000 enemies in every battle, and the least one was the Battle of Xingcheng, where he beheaded 50,000 Korean soldiers."
Everyone took a breath of air and looked sideways in shock.
"He is the God of Killing and will not accept orders of less than 50,000 people. I am a butcher. I will kill thieves regardless of their size!" He said with a sneer and glanced at Gao Jie: "Your subordinate Li Chengdong is not bad. I heard that ruthlessness is very suitable for me.
, let him do the work outside the city."
Gao Jie trembled, feeling that something was wrong, but he did not dare to disobey the order and immediately sent someone to send a message to Li Chengdong to do the work.
Not long after, Chang Yu went down to the city and entered the Yamen, where a squire was hosting a banquet. He happily went to the banquet just as he was hungry. At the same time, there were faint sounds of killing outside the city, and screams continued!
Chang Yu always predicts things well, but there are occasional accidents. The consequences of these accidents are very serious. For example, when he miscalculated the direction of Li Zicheng's main attack in Taiyuan, he was almost attacked by him. Outside the pass, Dorgon pretended to besiege the mountains but actually attacked Ningyuan.
The city was once almost destroyed.
This time Li Zicheng's arrangement was beyond his expectation. The western defense line was actually a decoration, while the northern one was a copper wall. Poor Liu Zeqing must have been furious at this time.
Chang Yu was indeed good at predicting events. Liu Zeqing outside Jingzhou City really greeted him over and over again from eighteen generations of his ancestors, but still couldn't understand his hatred.
He was coaxed and frightened by the young eunuch into agreeing to go north. Early in the morning, he ordered to break camp, and at the same time, detectives went around to inquire about the movements of the Jingzhou bandits.
Although Liu Zeqing was a cruel man, he acted extremely cautiously. To put it bluntly, he was timid. The so-called army broke out of camp, scouting the horses first, and sent out more than ten groups of soldiers, large and small. At the same time, 3,000 vanguards and infantry and baggage followed behind and marched towards Jingzhou.
Less than ten miles ahead, scouts came to report that the bandit troops in Jingzhou were dispatched intensively, and within twenty miles they encountered several groups and small-scale fighting broke out.
Liu Zeqing's eyes narrowed. He had been at the border for more than ten days and he and the bandits in Jingzhou knew each other's existence. The two sides were only thirty or forty miles apart. During these days, both sides had a tacit understanding.
We don’t disturb each other. If you don’t come, I won’t go. The dozens of miles left behind become a safe buffer zone.
Unexpectedly, the rebel army on his side was preparing for war with great fanfare as soon as he broke camp. How could the news come so fast? After Liu Zeqing thought for a while, he realized that it was Chang Yu who had alerted the rebel army when he broke through the barrier last night and put them on guard.
Keep marching!
Liu Zeqing ordered the vanguard to divide into three teams and march abreast one mile apart. If they were intercepted by the rebels, they would attack immediately. According to what the young eunuch said, there were only a few thousand people in Jingzhou City in a small area, so how could they withstand the invincible force of his army.
After traveling a few more miles, he scouted the horses and reported again that there was a bandit camp ten miles east and west of Jingzhou City. The number of people and horses was unknown. Liu Zeqing was shocked and ordered his men and horses to stay temporarily.
When the young eunuch came, he only said that there were thousands of thieves in Jingzhou City who were vulnerable to attack. Why did two more troops appear out of thin air overnight? Liu Zeqing really couldn't understand. Could it be that the young eunuch had deceived him.
To be honest, this really wronged Chang Yu. These two groups camped ten miles east and west of Jingzhou City and established a twenty-mile defense line. The purpose was naturally to prevent the officers and soldiers from marching northward, but Chang Yu didn't see any when he passed by Jingzhou at that time.
He discovered that his men and horses encountered the rebels in the north of Jingzhou City. In the blink of an eye, he used heavy armored cavalry to defeat the enemy, and then passed through the city without stopping to cross the border.
Fortunately, if he had been provoking a life-and-death thing outside Jingzhou City at that time, and if he had delayed a little longer, he would have attracted reinforcements from two wings of thieves, and he would have been deeply surrounded, and it would have been a lot of trouble to break out with his 400 men.
So he didn't even know that there were rebel troops stationed on the east and west wings of Jingzhou. He didn't even realize at that time that Li Zicheng's real defense line was deployed here, and the elite of the rebel army were also here. The reason why he easily passed the border was because of the rebel army.
Unexpectedly, a Ming army of several hundred men was not expected to come from behind, and it was so fast that there was no time to mobilize the army to encircle them.
But after all his troubles, the bandit army was on guard, but Liu Zeqing caught up with them.
Faced with the sudden new military situation, Liu Zeqing ordered his troops to temporarily summon his generals for discussion. The little eunuch could cross the 500-mile enemy-occupied area from Baoding Prefecture with only 400 people. He had more than 20,000 people under his command. How could he be killed by a man who didn't even have a crotch?
Is the egg-sized Jingzhou City blocking the way?
Where is the face!
beat!
The officers and soldiers were divided into three groups. Two wings attacked the bandit camp outside the city. The main force besieged Jingzhou City. They wanted to capture Jingzhou before dark at the latest. Liu Zeqing became furious. Who are you trying to scare with a bunch of mobs? I didn't want to fight before, no?
Afraid!
Here Liu Zeqing aggressively mobilized his troops to prepare for war, but unexpectedly the rebel army caught the enemy's attack. The two wings of the rebel army outside the city sent more than 5,000 troops to attack the vanguard of the officers and soldiers from the east and west.
The vanguard hurriedly fought, but found that the thieves' army was astonishingly powerful, and the morale of the army was unstable due to panic. Liu Zeqing was shocked, and immediately ordered the main force to rush for reinforcements. After a fight, the two armies were evenly divided, each guarding their troops with gold, and they faced each other ten miles apart!
Fuck, it turned out to be a tough one. Liu Zeqing was horrified and scolded the young eunuch for not telling the truth. He only said that there were two or three thousand troops, but there were tens of thousands of them. He was just talking about a ragtag crowd. How powerful is the ragtag crowd?
However, Liu Zeqing can become the commander-in-chief of a party. Apart from the fact that there are no tigers in the mountains, he is indeed a bit of a general. I think he was promoted by his ability and military exploits back then. In a small town with a defense line of nearly 10,000 thieves, he can still do it with his current strength.
Eaten.
Hejian Fucheng has been occupied by the young eunuch's people, which is like driving a nail into the heart of the rebel army. Jingzhou City is too small to be defended. We should take advantage of the rebel army's unsteady footing to break it in one fell swoop. If we wait for reinforcements to arrive, it will be very difficult.
Wonderful, maybe we have to turn around and go back.
The soldiers were very quick. Since they decided to break camp and go north, they would fight quickly. Liu Zeqing became furious and immediately deployed and mobilized all troops to advance with all his strength.
The rebel army was good at fighting in the field and there were elites among them. Liu Zeqing advanced with a large force, but his steps were heavy. After several fights, the rebel army finally couldn't resist and fled. The officers and soldiers were able to retreat to the city, but they also suffered heavy casualties. Liu Zeqing was angry and cursed at the sky and the earth.
He cursed the little eunuch for giving birth to a son without having eyes, but he forgot where the eunuch could give birth to a child.
The two wings of bandits outside Jingzhou City were defeated and fled. Only two thousand bandits escaped into the city. They wanted to fight in the city and wait for reinforcements, but after seeing the officers and soldiers surrounding them with their artillery, siege ladders, and other supplies, I felt heartbroken.
Knowing that there was no way to stop them, and that the city would be destroyed as soon as Duryodhana joined forces, they simply surrendered.
Forget about surrendering, Liu Zeqing will not give up easily after losing so much, but he is different from Chang Yu. Although killing prisoners can relieve hatred, there is no practical benefit!
Raid the city!
Liu Zeqing gritted his teeth. He had been struggling in his heart. If he had done it in the past, he would have done it without hesitation. However, since he saw the little eunuch being beaten by him, he had to restrain himself. After all, he was not like the one after the death of Emperor Chongzhen in history.
He was so arrogant and lawless. At this time, the emperor was still there. Although he was arrogant and had a certain temper, he still knew how to be afraid.
Rob! In the end, Liu Zeqing couldn't bear this tone. He felt that he had been deceived by the little eunuch. Since there was a loss, he had to compensate for it, and he had to compensate immediately, so he hinted that his troops would set off to rob. Of course, he had already thought of a countermeasure. After the plunder and killing
Just blame it on the rebels. Let’s just say that during the siege, the rebels in the city jumped over the wall and massacred the people to vent their hatred. As for the soldiers who surrendered, they naturally killed them and silenced them!
Soon Jingzhou City fell into a sea of fire and became a hell on earth. (To be continued)