Thirty miles east from Hetang is Danxia Ridge. There are several hills in the middle, but the mountains are not so steep. The road from Chaishan to Lishan is opened between these hills.
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Cao Ziang intended to show Luo Wenhu the military might of Chaishan's troops and horses to intimidate him - Luo Wenhu was trapped in the carriage, but he moved freely and looked around. However, he was surrounded by several cavalry on the left and right, making it impossible for Luo Wenhu to jump out of the carriage and escape.
Going east from Hetang, although we haven't seen the main force of Chaishan's soldiers and horses yet, the farther east we go, the more intensive the scouts are who are scattered on the mountain ridges and forest ravines to block the signal passage.
Even if someone in Chaishan found that he was unusually interested in reporting to Suizhou, it would be difficult to get through such a dense blockade; and since Chaishan is located in the hinterland of Huaishan, Suizhou never thought that the main force of the Huaidong Army would come out before Chaishan, so he headed east from Lishan
, no beacon fire pier or Chuanyi was built. The mountain people in the surrounding villages hated the Suizhou Army so much that even if they found an abnormality, few people would take the initiative to report it...
The horse galloped and arrived at Danxia Ridge before dark, and galloped over a gentle slope. Under the dusk, the campfire at the western foot of Danxia Ridge looked like stars in the sky. At first glance, it was impossible to see beyond.
At the western foot of Danxia Ridge is a shallow valley surrounded by mountains, almost seven or eight miles deep. The road from Chaishan Mountain to Lishan Mountain passes through this shallow valley. The soldiers and horses coming out of Chaishan Mountain entered here before noon today.
We stopped here for a while to make final preparations for attacking Lishan and Suizhou; tens of thousands of soldiers and horses were stationed on both sides of the Chi Road, almost filling the entire shallow valley.
Luo Wenhu never expected that such an elite army of forty to fifty thousand people would approach Lishan City so quietly and less than fifty miles away. He stood there in a daze, wanting to say something, but his throat was so dry.
It was bitter and astringent, and he couldn't say a word - his hands and feet were shaking endlessly, and even he couldn't tell whether it was fear or shock...
The day before yesterday (the 17th), good news came from the Jingzhou battlefield via Suizhou, saying that Jingzhou would be captured soon. Who knew that the Huaidong Army's 40,000 to 50,000 elite troops were like a pack of tigers and wolves, lying quietly on one side, waiting for the opportunity to pounce and bite them off?
Beiyan entered the throat of Jingxiang's soldiers and horses...
Luo Wenhu suddenly laughed like crazy: "Everyone in the world knows that gods are good, but they can never forget their fame. Where are the generals of ancient and modern times? The graves are piled with grass and gone..." He sat down on the dirt and thought of those people in Suizhou.
The officials and generals have been talking about how they should be rewarded and rewarded after Yan Hu takes over the world. It is so ridiculous to think about it at this moment. After laughing, I feel that I am not a frog in the well. I can't help it.
Two lines of tears fell...
"Lord Luo, is Commander Cao still waiting for your reply?" Cao Peng, the school sergeant who escorted Luo Wenhu to the Danxia Ridge camp, saw Luo Wenhu crying and laughing. He was afraid that he was so frightened that he went crazy and his mental state never changed.
If you don't understand clearly, remind him in a low voice.
It was precisely because Luo Wenhu knew a little about military affairs that he knew how harmful Huaidong's punch from Chaishan was.
Forty or fifty thousand soldiers and horses are not too many. If the Huaidong Army is on the southern front and there are forty or fifty thousand soldiers and horses on the front of the eastern Hubei defense line, at most Yan Hu can be asked to fill in an additional two to thirty thousand soldiers on the west bank of the Han River to defend Huangpi.
, Hanjin front line; if the Huaidong Army is on the northern front and has an additional 40,000 to 50,000 troops in Xinyang to cooperate with Huaixi Dong Yuan, then Yanhu's Ye Jiduo in Jinan will only have to withstand the pressure to defeat Shandong's hundreds of thousands of troops.
Pressing on Xu Si's defense line will force part of the Huaidong Army to move eastward to ensure that Xu Si's defense line is not lost -
The great thing about the Huaidong Army is that such an elite army was able to escape Yan Hu's sight. When Yan Hu's main army was restrained on the north and south lines and his heart was empty, he stabbed in with a sharp knife and directly
A stab at the fatal heart will completely disrupt Yanhu's entire position in Jingxiang.
Even if Ye Ji Luorong captured Jingzhou in time, he could not prevent the collapse and destruction of more than 200,000 troops and horses on the east bank of the Han River from Huangpi and Hanjin in the south to the northern foot of Huaishan Mountain! More than 20 troops on the east bank of the Han River were destroyed.
Thousands of soldiers and horses were scattered on the north and south fronts, and were restrained by the Huaidong, Huaixi and Chizhou armies. There was no way they could move to block the fatal blow from Chaishan's soldiers and horses.
Excluding the soldiers and horses restrained by the northern and southern fronts, the total number of troops garrisoned by She, Luo and Yanhu in various cities in the hinterland of Jingxiang was only 50,000.
The destruction of Suizhou was only the first step.
Luo Wenhu was not crazy, he was just faced with such a big change all of a sudden. However, the changes and subversions in the war situation were far beyond his imagination, making it difficult for him to digest.
But at this moment, what choice does he have?
His family and children were all in Lishan City, and he had kicked Luo Xiancheng away from Lishan and ignored him for three years. What other choice did he have? Cao Ziang was willing to give him a choice, probably because of Wang Xiang's kind words.
However, with the powerful combat power of Chaishan's lurking troops and the fact that he had no inspection in Lishan, Cao Ziang could easily attack Lishan City and then march towards Suizhou...
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Luo Wenhu left the city to meet Wang Xiang, but he never returned for a long time, and no one was seen after dark. Chaishan stopped moving forward after the soldiers and horses guarding the grain were stopped outside the city, and there was no explanation. Judging from the situation, the situation was still vague.
Lishan City was surrounded by these abnormalities - these anomalies aroused the vigilance of Lishan Lieutenant Zhao Guan and Beiyan's envoy Tong Aqing. After dark, regardless of whether Luo Wenhu returned to the city or not, they closed the city gate and gathered the soldiers.
Get up and send troops to the city to prevent accidents.
Lishan City is small, with more than a thousand households, half of which are from the families of the defenders. If there is any disturbance, it will spread throughout the city in the blink of an eye. By midnight, Luo Wenhu has not returned to the city, and the entire Lishan City is in a panic.
It's clear what happened...
Just before everyone was in shock and deliberation to send someone to rush out to Suizhou to report the news, Luo Wenhu appeared outside the south city in a car, surrounded by more than a hundred cavalry, and shouted to the guards to open the city.
Torches were placed all over the crenellations in front of the city gate, illuminating the city gate as brightly as day. Luo Wenhu saw that the hundreds of cavalrymen behind Luo Wenhu were extremely strong, and the iron hooves of the war horses scratched the ground in front of the city gate, making a sound. In the autumn,
In the cold night, white steam came out of my mouth and nose, thinking I had traveled a long way.
Lishan Lieutenant Zhao Guan became suspicious and pointed at Luo Wenhu and asked the small school guarding the city: "These people were all brought by Mr. Luo when he left the city. Why are they all strangers?"
Luo Wenhu was wearing Confucian clothes, carrying a knife at his waist, and was standing on the railing in the car. Seeing Zhao Guan hesitating in front of the city tower, fearing that he would delay and make mistakes, he pointed at the city head and shouted: "Zhao Guan, my son, you saw me entering the city.
If you dare to reject me behind closed doors, are you going to rebel?"
Although there are only three thousand scattered soldiers guarding Lishan City, most of them are Luo Wenhu's confidants. Although Zhao Guan is suspicious, others have opened the city gate below the city to welcome Luo Wenhu into the city. Although Zhao Guan is suspicious, Lishan City is still
He had no ability to stop Luo Wenhu from knocking on the city gate in the middle of the night.
Luo Wenhu, surrounded by more than a hundred elite riders, entered the city gate and parked on the inner side of the city gate by the climbing road. He waited for Zhao Guan, Tong Aqing and other generals to come down to greet him. He pointed at Zhao Guan, and Tong Aqing said to Cao Peng beside him:
"They are Zhao Guan, the captain of Lishan Mountain, and Tong Aqing, the envoy in the city. They can be killed..."
Zhao Guan and Tong Aqing hadn't figured out what Luo Wenhu meant when he said "killable". Four horses galloped out from the left and right, rushing toward them without warning. The swords struck him like lightning, cutting him off.
Their necks...
Tong Aqing fell dead immediately, while Zhao Guan rolled to the ground with his metal bag first, but his head was still hanging with a layer of skin attached - Zhao Guan, whose head was severed, was still standing there, with blood gushing out from the carotid artery like a fountain.
, in the blink of an eye, Zhao Guan's bright silver scales were dyed through. After about five or six breaths, Zhao Guan's body "plopped" to the ground.
Although most of the city's defenders were Luo Wenhu's cronies, Lishan Lieutenant Zhao Guan was assigned by Luo Wenhu to be sent to Lishan. And Tong Aqing was sent by Ye Ji and Luo Rong to temporarily supervise the cities under Luo Xiancheng's jurisdiction after Luo Xiancheng defected to Yan.
An official in charge of food.
Chaishan outside the city was escorting grain soldiers to besiege the city. Luo Wenhu left the city late at night and returned with more than a hundred strange knights. After a disagreement, he ordered the execution of the informants sent by Luo Xiancheng to Lishan. Even though many of the generals under the city were Luo Wenhu's cronies, this
I stood there stunned for a moment...
Zhao Guan is Luo Xiancheng's nail in Lishan City, and Tong Aqing is the nail planted in Lishan City on behalf of Beiyan. Since Luo Wenhu is determined to defect to Huaidong and does not kill Zhao Guan, who will Tong Aqing kill in the name of surrender?
Luo Wenhu got out of the car with his sword on his waist, looked at the frightened and bewildered Lishan generals, and said eloquently: "Luo Xiancheng and I are of the same clan, and we have a kinship between elder and younger. In his early years, he lived in poverty, and was forced to raise his troops and kill officials in rebellion.
I also made great contributions to the establishment of Luo Xian, but when Luo Xiancheng used me, he treated me like a nephew, and when he abandoned me, he treated me like a useless shoe. You generals and brave men also made great contributions to the war, but they followed me to Lishan and had nothing to eat.
The clothes do not cover the body, do you have no resentment in your heart? However, this resentment is small, and the public enmity is a big one - the barbarians invaded the Central Plains, kidnapped my wife and children, and killed my parents. Luo Xiancheng held a heavy army and became the giant of the land.
, but you don’t want to defend the land and resist the invaders for the Central Plains fathers, but instead join the bandits and help the bandits massacre Nanyang, Jingxiang, and kill hundreds of thousands of our soldiers and civilians. The blood is flowing and the rivers are blocked. Do you have no resentment in your heart? I
Luo Wenhu was not willing to give up and was not ashamed to associate with him. However, he was forced to become a pawn for many years and still feels guilty and resentful. Today, Meng Zhongguo refused to abandon him and was recruited into the Huaidong Army. He was able to become a cut-off robe with Luo Xian. You and others
From me?"
Luo Wenhu stood with his sword in hand, staring at the Lishan generals menacingly.
Although most of the generals in Lishan have not yet understood the situation, Luo Wenhu's words are clear: Luo Wenhu will sever ties with Luo Xiancheng from now on and join the Huaidong Army...
Although Luo Wenhu spoke clearly, the Lishan generals were still hesitant: now the Yanhu army was about to capture Jingzhou, and was about to beat Huaidong's main force in Huangzhou like dogs and retreat from the north bank. Luo Wenhu actually showed up at this time
Is it crazy to betray Luo Xiancheng and join Huaidong?
Although most of the Lishan generals present were Luo Wenhu's cronies, it did not mean that Luo Wenhu was seeking death. They all closed their eyes and jumped down, and most of them stood there looking at each other.
"Damn it, Gou Shengzi killed my fellow villagers. Gou Shengzi has long been displeased. Today Gou Shengzi and Luo Tou rebelled against each other!" A tall, bearded primary school student squeezed in from behind.
He came forward, stood beside Luo Wenhu with a sword in his hand, stared at the generals in the city, and shouted, "Whoever refuses to obey, Gou Shengzi will chop him with a knife!"
At that time, common people did not yet have any concept of country or nation in their hearts, but instead had a strong sense of regional and rural sentiments.
Luo Xiancheng made his fortune between Jinghu Lake, and many of his soldiers were descendants of Nanyang.
Although most of the soldiers and civilians massacred in Nanyang City were refugees who had moved there from Henan and Shandong after Liang Chengchong, Yan Hu went on a killing spree in Jingxiang and slaughtered the remaining areas, still calling many generals in the Suizhou army
Not pleasing to the eye - on the contrary, it was Zhou Fan and the remnants of the She family. Their soldiers were either from the north or from Zhejiang and Fujian, so they felt no pressure at all to slaughter Jingxiang.
Luo Wenhu and Cao Peng behind him introduced in a low voice: "Zhou Goucheng is an orphan from Tanghe in Nanyang. He is a bit reckless but has a bloody spirit. He is my deputy lieutenant in Nancheng, Lishan..."
Someone stood up and started, and then one after another people stood up to respond, but after hesitation, half of them looked at each other, not knowing what to choose. A middle-aged official with a thin face and protruding cheeks stood up and said: "Beiyan will take Jingzhou soon."
, Lord Yan will rule the world, Commander Luo will be granted the title of King of Xiangyang, and everyone will be rich and honorable from then on. Mr. Luo, you can’t lead everyone into the pit of fire at this time..."
"Historian Master, in the face of great justice, you are still greedy for the bullshit wealth and honor thrown by Hugou. How can I tolerate you?" Luo Wenhu had a sullen face and ordered Zhou Gouzi, who stood over to join him in surrendering to Huaidong, "Zhou Gou
The rest, you and I will take down the historical records and use them as a sacrifice to the Jueyi War Robe. If anyone doesn’t obey, they will all follow this method..."
Zhou Gou Sheng has been killing people on the battlefield for many years, and his killing intent is still there. Hearing Luo Wenhu's order, he did not hesitate. He immediately grabbed the stunned registrar Shi Wensheng, pulled out the ear-cutting knife from his waist, and stabbed him into the chest.
Chest; Luo Wenhu's white robe that had been cut off to the ground was rubbed twice in the pool of blood shed by Shi Wensheng's body, and he looked around: "Who else is disobeying?"
Except for Zhou Goucheng and other officers who stood on Luo Wenhu's side, Cao Peng led more than a hundred elite cavalry to surround the Lishan generals inside. What other options did the Lishan generals have? They couldn't command the soldiers inside and outside the tower.
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Whether it is through coercion or willingly, the situation in Lishan City has been settled. Zhao Guan, Tong Aqing, Shi Wensheng and some remaining gang members may be unsettling factors. Luo Wenhu also sent people to arrest them...
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