Lingnan soldiers and horses invaded Yanling City, controlled all forces in the city, and replaced all the city walls with their own soldiers.
Li Chengmu is sitting on horseback, wearing silver armor and carrying a sword at his waist, looking majestic.
Long Yutian was wearing armor made of fine steel and shaking a feather fan in his hand, feeling very comfortable.
Feng Tu rode on horseback to protect Li Chengmu on the other side.
And behind them, the flags were fluttering, and they were in full formation.
"Your Highness, the city has been controlled by Sha Yuliang, should we enter the city?"
Li Chengmu pinched the horse's belly and drove it forward, "Let's go."
Thick smoke was rising in many places in the city, and the people were hiding in their houses and not daring to show their faces. The soldiers and horses in Lingnan not only had to clean up the bandits in the city, but also sent manpower to help the people put out the fire. It can be said that the city was very busy.
Long Yutian sat on his horse, looking at everything in the city. He frowned and said to Li Chengmu next to him: "These rebels have gone too far. They just abandoned Yanling and fled. They actually dared to set a fire in Yanling City."
, it’s really abominable!”
After hearing this, Li Chengmu's eyes flashed with anger as he looked at the chaos in the city: "When will the rebels consider the situation of the people? If we don't eliminate this group of rebels, Dayu will never have peace!"
Feng Tu glanced around the street, then turned to Li Chengmu and said: "There are about five thousand rebels stationed in Yanling. After our attack, the rest fled to Xuchang. This time we can
The reason why we captured Yanling so easily was because we were caught by surprise and the rebels were unprepared. If the remnants of the rebel army were defeated and fled to Xuchang, Xuchang would definitely be ready by then, and it would not be easy for us to capture Xuchang easily again."
Long Yutian shook his feather fan and pointed to the west, and said: "In order to cooperate with our attack, Jingzhou soldiers and horses attacked Yingyin, which is close to Jingzhou. In less than two days, we will receive news that they captured Yingyin."
Li Chengmu looked around at his two generals and said with a smile: "According to what the supervisor said, Jingzhou soldiers and horses have recaptured Yingyin, and we have recaptured Yanling. The two cities are on the right and left of Xuchang.
When our troops join together, we can attack Xuchang from both sides, so it is not up to us to decide whether the rebels will surrender or kill them!"
Long Yutian nodded: "Let's go, speed is the key to military success. Let's rest in Yanling tonight and march to Xuchang tomorrow!"
Several people led the team and rode towards the Yanling County Government Office.
After entering the county government office and sitting in the lobby to rest and drink tea, Long Yutian remembered something again and raised his eyebrows slightly and said: "Your Highness, on the way to Xuchang from Yanling, there is a small town called Weicang. There is a small town in the town.
The craftsmen are very famous.”
"What craftsman?"
Li Chengmu became interested. He knew that his mother was a craftsman who paid great attention to craftsmanship.
Through Xia Jing's attention, Li Chengmu saw the ability of craftsmen. All the equipment made from Lingnan Steel, the glass factory and the cement factory can tell everything. Having good craftsmen is equivalent to holding a trump card in your hand!
"He is good at equipment. My subordinate once bought a firecracker from him, and also bought several concealed weapons with mechanisms!" Long Yutian said truthfully.
Li Chengmu was very happy after hearing this, "If this person is really as capable as you said, you have made a great contribution. This person's abilities are exactly what the Queen Mother needs. Of course, if he is willing to work for the Queen Mother,
The future is bright!”
After hearing this, Long Yutian immediately responded: "When I pass by Weicang, I will use my sharp tongue to persuade him and let him serve the queen!"
The next day the army set off, but Long Yutian disappeared early in the morning. When the army arrived in Weicang, he brought a middle-aged man to pay homage to Li Chengmu.
"Your Highness, this is the craftsman Old Man Luo that my subordinates mentioned yesterday." After saying that, Long Yutian turned around and introduced: "Old Man Luo, this is our Crown Prince, why don't you come and pay homage to His Highness!"
When Old Man Luo heard this, he immediately knelt down and said without hesitation, "The common people have seen His Royal Highness, Your Highness, stay safe!"
"When you are away from home, keep everything simple. Master Luo, get up quickly." Li Chengmu motioned to Changlu to help old Luo up.
"Thank you, Your Highness!" Old Man Luo stood up and stood behind Long Yutian with his head bowed.
Li Chengmu was in a good mood and said to Long Yutian with a smile: "Since Master Luo is willing to follow us, let's arrange for someone to send him back to the capital. Talents like him can only show their skills with his mother.
A chance to show off your talents!”
"Don't worry, Your Highness, my subordinates will make arrangements for this matter!"
Whether the military equipment will have a chance to be improved in the future depends entirely on their craftsmen. How dare Long Yutian neglect them? He must arrange everything properly and send it back to the capital safely.
After seeing Old Man Luo off, the team continued to Xuchang.
By the afternoon, the information about Xuchangcheng was concentrated in Li Chengmu's hands.
There were 50,000 rebels stationed in Xuchang City. In fact, the real strength may have been halved. Just like they claimed that 100,000 troops were marching south to quell the rebels, in fact, the real number was only 80,000 troops.
Even if he only has 25,000 troops, since the enemy is defending the city, it will still be difficult for them to win the battle.
There are 25,000 soldiers and horses, including about 1,000 cavalry. The elite of this rebel army is only about 5,000. There are 2,000 pikemen, 1,000 musketeers, 2,000 archers, and the rest are all swordsmen.
Shield soldier.
Of the 25,000 soldiers and horses, only about 5,000 have armor. The rest of the battles are fought without armor. This is equivalent to a human shield. Going to the battlefield means losing lives.
But in this battle, the rebels defended the city, and the lives of these human shields were somewhat guaranteed.
After Li Chengmu read the information in his hand, he ordered Ye Bu to investigate again!
"What do the supervisors think of this?"
The information was handed to Long Yutian.
"We are not afraid of facing off against 25,000 rebels, but if we want to minimize our losses, it will be difficult for us to win this battle. We must come up with a complete strategy." Long Yutian said truthfully.
Li Chengmu controlled his horse's speed to match Long Yutian's. He turned his head and asked, "Do you know anything about the traitorous guard general of Xuchang?"
Long Yutian shook his head honestly: "My subordinates have been staying in Lingnan before. They know something about the famous generals in the Central Plains, but they know nothing about the rebel generals."
Li Chengmu nodded regretfully, "Let Ye Bushou explore this aspect."
Speaking of which, this was not the first time Li Chengmu led troops, but for some reason, maybe because he had changed his identity, he felt the pressure on his shoulders this time.
When you are under pressure, you become cautious when doing things. In the past, you could make decisions casually, but now you have to think carefully and carefully!
In fact, not only did they want to know more about Xuchang's generals, but the Jingzhou soldiers and horses also wanted to know more.
However, the Xuchang rebel garrison was more anxious than both of them.
"Have you found out any specific information?" Yuan Shixin, the rebel general in charge of Xuchang, had been tensing his nerves when he heard that Yanling and Yingyin had been lost, for fear that the two armies would encircle Xuchang.
Lieutenant General Hong Xing'an looked a little solemn: "It is obvious that the two armies will encircle each other. We must prepare in advance."
Yuan Shixin never thought that he was just lucky and selfish, hoping that the two armies would detour to other places to cause trouble, so as not to embarrass him.
He frowned tightly, "What's going on? How come the troops from Lingnan have already started dispatching before the autumn harvest?"
This is completely disrespectful of martial ethics!
Originally, Yangzhou's troops were weak, so they could bully them and grab some food and grass when they had nothing to do.
Since King Qian's troops came to Jiankang, they no longer dared to bully Yangzhou.
To the north is the Gyeonggi area adjacent to Yingchuan County. It used to be occupied by Beidi, so they didn't dare to tease the tiger's beard. Now it's Princess Qian who is even more ferocious than the Beidi people, and they don't even dare to provoke her.
On the other side is Jingzhou, which they don't dare to provoke. In the past few months, they have been waiting for the autumn harvest in Yingchuan. Why can't they be allowed to live in peace for a few days?
The food hadn't been harvested yet, so they had no extra food and grass to use for fighting, and the troops from both sides were already fighting at their doorstep.
"Does this still allow people to live?"
Hong Xing'an stood aside and had to remind: "This time the enemy is coming fiercely, we have to prepare for the worst!"
Speaking of the worst plan, Yuan Shixin's face darkened, "Seriously speaking, the Yuan clan in Yingchuan is still the ancestor of Yuan Rujiang. He led troops to attack his own clan only after he was completely unconscionable!"
Hong Xing'an held his forehead with a headache: "General, now the enemy is in front of us. In their eyes, we are just traitors who cannot stand on the stage."
Isn't it a fantasy to want the officers and soldiers to respect traitors like them?
After hearing this, Yuan Shixin fell silent for a moment.
Logically speaking, he was also an official of the imperial court. However, as fate would have it, three years of drought directly led to the uprising of the rebels. He was initially kidnapped by the rebels, but later he took the initiative to help the rebels solve their difficulties. This is tantamount to treason.
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Sure enough, when Jingzhou soldiers and horses arrived outside Xuchang City, there were soldiers with loud voices holding a loudspeaker and shouting at the city that they were animals that had forgotten their ancestors!
He scolded whatever he said was unpleasant, and in the whole morning, the whole Xuchang City knew about this breaking news!
The information spread quickly enough, and finally when Yuan Shixin was walking in Xuchang City, he could feel the people around him looking at him.
"General, the situation is critical now, we can't sit still and wait for death!" Hong Xing'an was anxious.
He is a rebel, and as a rebel, he knows how to judge the situation best and run away if he can't fight. Anyway, no matter which land belongs to the imperial court, give it to them if they want it.
They occupied wherever they went, and if they occupied it, they would earn money. There was no need to go head-to-head with the imperial troops.
Just like the soldiers and horses of Yanling, they just found that they couldn't defeat the imperial soldiers and horses, so they abandoned the city and fled. Everything is possible if they are to survive. If they resist to the end, they may not even be able to save their lives!
There is no chance of a do-over in life, so of course the most important thing is to save your life!
Yuan Shixin is different from Hong Xing'an.
Yuan Shixin was once an official, and his education taught him that it would be shameful to run away without fighting!
So when he found out he was being targeted by the enemy, he didn't even think about escaping, but thought about how to break the situation.
"What do you mean?" Yuan Shixin looked at him doubtfully.
Hong Xing'an was almost anxious to death because of his behavior, "Of course he abandoned the city and fled!"
Yuan Shixin: "."
Hong Xing'an couldn't stand the look in his eyes, "Don't look at me like that. If we don't escape from this situation now and wait until we are surrounded by enemy soldiers and horses on the other side, we will have no chance of escaping. As long as we put our lives at risk,
Are you willing to confess here, even if you die and confess here?"
The last sentence touches the heart directly. I want to ask Yuan Mingxin if he is willing?
Of course, they are not willing to give in. Who in their prime years wants to hand over their lives here? They haven’t married a wife to stay behind, so how can they say death so easily!
"It's easy for us to escape, but how do we explain it to the general?" Yuan Shixin couldn't get over the hurdle in his heart when he was told to abandon the city and flee.
Hong Xing'an was extremely irritated, glared at him, and said: "Fleeing if you can't beat him is a life-saving magic weapon that we have been using since the uprising. Now you actually doubt it. Do you know that the general will still run if he can't beat him? Do you believe it?"
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In the Jingzhou barracks, Yuan Mingxian got out of his tent and stared at the Xuchang city wall in a daze.
"General, do you need to feint tonight?" Laizi, who followed out, asked.
Yuan Mingxian glanced at the city wall again and walked to Huotou Camp: "No, we will wait until His Royal Highness the Prince arrives with his troops! By then, the two teams of troops will surround Xuchang. Are you afraid that you will not be able to capture this ruined city?"
Speaking of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Lai Zi sighed: "When we went to Runan to greet them, who would have thought that a prince's son would have the opportunity to sit on the throne of the prince, and that a step-concubine who was resurrected from the dead would be able to honor the world. You
Are you saying this world is fantasy?"
Yuan Mingxian also feels that it is really difficult to predict the fate of life, "Who can say otherwise."
If you have a good birth, good parents, and great luck, if you combine the three, you will eventually become a prince!
Lai Zi smiled and thought for a while, then asked: "General, based on our friendship with His Highness, do you think he will reward us for this meeting? It would be best if we could be given an official title."
Yuan Mingxian was speechless and rolled his eyes at him: "You can be considered an official now, so I warn you not to be too obsessed with the official!"
Lai Zi raised his head with a smile and said arrogantly: "This official is not the other official. The other official is a personal official with a big seal stamped by the emperor. How can it be compared with the current official status?"
Yuan Mingxian felt that his words were reasonable, so he encouraged him: "Then come on, try to get His Highness to notice you!"
"That's what I said." Lai Zi scratched his head in embarrassment, "No matter how well my subordinates deal with it, it will not overshadow the general's glory. Don't worry, when His Highness the Crown Prince comes in, he will be the first to notice you!"
Yuan Mingxian didn't bother to pay attention to him. He was quite familiar with His Royal Highness, so why did he have to get to know him through him?
The two were chatting and laughing, and Lai Zi's eyes fell on the city wall of Xuchang again. Remembering something, he asked again: "General, do you think the rebels will abandon the city and flee tonight?"
After hearing what he said, Yuan Ming paused and slowly turned back to look at him: "Don't mention it, it's really possible! The traitor's best tactic is to escape."
Lai Zi felt funny after hearing this, "Then if they escape tonight, should our people pursue them?"
Although Yuan Mingxian regretted the death of the rebel leader, it was obviously more important to recover Xuchang City. "What should I pursue? The credit for recovering Xuchang City is great enough. If the soldiers want to go into battle to kill the enemy, they will have many opportunities in the future. As long as they have more free time,
Practice your skills, and once you have mastered your skills, you will always have the opportunity to produce merit, and it’s no problem to be crowned a king or given a title!”
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