Chapter 480 I don't want to kill you, I just want to beat you hard
Jingdong East Road, Zichuan County, Qingzhou.
In the camp near the Zihe River in Zichuan County, Xiao Tang and a group of brothers gathered in the commander's tent. At this time, Zhu Jing entered the tent and stood up to report: "Brother, Yuntian Biao sent three hundred rangers to investigate.
The route seems to be about to break out. My younger brother has led his troops to kill the group of birds and captured another fifty or sixty people. However, more than a hundred remaining soldiers fled back to Zichuan."
After hearing this, Yang Zhi sneered and said, "You're making that guy lose face! It's Yuntian Biao who thinks he can defeat our stronghold by leading several state troops. Now that he has lost his troops and generals, let's see how he will explain to the court!"
Xiao Tang pondered for a moment and said: "Although Yun Tianbiao suffered a disastrous defeat, he has been appreciated by the old manager, and he should have some real abilities. It's just that the officers, soldiers and horses of the various states are not under unified control, so it is difficult to work together.
If we work together, even though our army will be victorious, we should not underestimate that guy because of this."
What Xiao Tang was also thinking about was that the reason why the officers and soldiers who came to attack Erlong Mountain were defeated was not only because most of the troops led by Yun Tianbiao were not his own soldiers.
People from Qingzhou, Dengzhou, Yizhou (as well as Dong Ping, the Yunzhou Forbidden Army soldiers who were clearly affiliated with the East and West Road in Beijing but also came to compete for credit) and other places, have uneven combat capabilities and have their own agendas, so they
Under Ling Zhen's sudden artillery fire, he lost his fighting spirit, and then collapsed when Xiao Tang led his army to attack.
This battle also fully exposed the low combat effectiveness of the imperial troops in the Rongwei states. Although the soldiers and horses in Erlong Mountain and Qingfeng Mountain are elite and powerful, at least the officers and soldiers in the Rongwei Jingdong East Road states are also from the Song Dynasty.
Even if the official army underestimated Erlongshan's impregnable city defenses and powerful catapults, they should not have been defeated in such an embarrassing manner.
Obviously they are soldiers who shoulder the responsibility of protecting their homes and the country, but most of the imperial troops under the military commanders in various places in the Song Dynasty are either neglected in training, or they are old and weak and have no pay. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand Fang La and even Tian in the original work.
Tiger King Qing and his ilk could easily separate themselves from one side and openly defy the imperial court... What worries Xiao Tang most is that how can these weak officers and soldiers withstand the Jin Kingdom's cavalry, which will be in full swing by then?
Thinking of this, Xiao Tang couldn't help but shook his head with a wry smile. As the leader of the strong men in the green forest, he had to be wary of the Song Dynasty officers and soldiers who came to encircle and suppress them. However, when he led a group of confidants and easily defeated the conquering officers and soldiers, he turned around.
Coming to Xiao Tang, he still has to worry about the Song Dynasty's increasingly weak combat power... A person has two identities and needs to worry about two hearts at the same time. Only Xiao Tang can deeply understand this feeling.
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Xiao Tang thought mockingly, cleared his throat again, and said loudly to the brothers in the account: "Zichuan County is not a place to stay for a long time after all, not to mention that Yun Tianbiao is a general in charge of all the troops, and he is a good admirer.
A man with a false reputation is now trapped in a county by us green forest strongmen. He must have lost his composure."
Lu Zhishen laughed and said: "If that guy really doesn't want to just stay in the county town and be a tortoise, it will save us a lot of effort! If other colleagues in the Western Army are here, Sajia will never want to go.
Ruining their lives is so tiring that the court is short of state officials. But this Yun Tianbiao is no longer the son of the Western Army. He is the one who came to tease us first, but he is not seeking his own death? "
"I think that given Yun Tianbiao's current status, it's best not to take his life..." At this time, Xu Guanzhong pondered for a moment before speaking.
Xu Guanzhong then shared his idea with the leaders present, and it was very consistent with Xiao Tang's plan. Although Yuntianbiao was pretentious and was seeking fame, after all, he had not done any evil deeds that were harmful to nature so far. However, Xiao Tang knew that since he had formed a deadly feud with him, he could never be kind to a woman. However, if he wanted to take his life now, the big and small leaders who had fallen into the grass at Erlong Mountain still had many concerns.
Among the officers and generals killed by Xiao Tang and other green forest heroes, Haransheng, Feng Hui and others were just local tycoons, and Lou Xiong, Xie De and others were just local low-ranking officers and generals. Killing these people was not enough. Even if he killed him, he would not alarm the government and the public and attract more officers and soldiers who came to suppress him.
But Yun Tianbiao's identity was different. He was the general manager of the Ma Bu Army in charge of the imperial troops stationed in various states on the East Jingdong Road. According to later generations, he could be regarded as the commander of a military division. At that time, Xiao Tang was captured as the pacifier of the South Jingdong Road. Yang Tai, the steward who had committed several serious crimes, had to be escorted to the capital and reported to the Privy Council for verification before being sentenced to death. He couldn't be killed with a single sword, not to mention that Xiao Tang was still the leader of the Green Forest strongmen.
It was precisely because of this concern that Xiao Tang and other leaders did not take the opportunity to attack Qingzhou City and kill the notorious corrupt official Murong Yanda. Because Murong Yanda also had a girl who was favored by Song Huizong, and now Xiao Tang is here The forces in the green forest were still fledgling. If they took the lives of Murong Yanda and Yun Tianbiao, the attitude of the Song Dynasty court towards them would immediately change from a group of green forest thieves who did not take it seriously to a group of green forest thieves who killed officials and rebelled openly. Fight against the huge bandits and rebels of the imperial court.
In the original work, a group of Liangshan men invaded Qingzhou, robbed Jiangzhou's execution ground, and flattened Zhujiazhuang without attracting the attention of the court. However, after breaking through Gaotangzhou and killing Gao Qiu's brother Gao Lian, Gao Qiu was eager for revenge. Only then did he request Song Huizong to order the dispatch of troops to conquer Liangshan. As the Liangshan heroes broke through Damingfu, a famous city in Hebei, one of the four capitals of the Song Dynasty, and began to attack nearby state capitals unscrupulously, the scale of the army sent by the imperial court to conquer Liangshan became larger and larger. big.
Now Xiao Tang had five strongholds, and the combined military strength of the Baozhou tribes was only 20,000 to 30,000 troops. It was not the time to openly declare war with the entire country of the Song Dynasty, not to mention that this was not Xiao Tang's ultimate goal.
After listening to what Xiao Tang and Xu Guanzhong said one after another, the leaders present couldn't help but look at each other. Shi Jin snorted and said first: "Even if we spare that guy's life, he will definitely hate us to the core after suffering this disastrous defeat. At that time, when Yun Tianbiao wrote to ask for help, wouldn't the imperial court still send a large army to attack the stronghold?"
Xiao Tang smiled slightly and said: "Since Yun Tianbiao is a man who is keen on fame, as long as he is spared his life for the time being and makes that guy suffer a lot, I think he will be even less likely to report it to the imperial court and ask the Privy Council to issue a report. The army is coming to conquer our village."
As the leader of the Green Forest strongmen, this was Xiao Tang's first time to be surrounded and suppressed by the army. However, as a general of the imperial court, he went to conquer the bandits who were causing trouble in various places in the Song Dynasty. He had already understood the rules and techniques. The child is clear. Yun Tianbiao can say that he was not in a good position to defend the territory, which led to the rampant banditry on the Jingdong East Road, so he petitioned the court to send out the Imperial Guards to suppress the bandits. But if he really did that, it would basically mean that he had been along the way. Don't even think about continuing to be the commander-in-chief of military affairs. Your career is almost over.
At that time, Xiao Tang asked Liang Shijie, the left-behind prime minister of Daming Mansion, to mobilize three battalions to attack Gaizhou Niu Wenzhong's small group of three to four hundred bandits. Liang Shijie, who had received many benefits from Xiao Tang, still hesitated. What? As long as bandits gathering from all over the country don't come to kill them, they will do a lot of things like catching and suppressing thieves, and make a lot of mistakes. Yun Tianbiao is still working very hard for promotion, and other military commanders have Who would go the extra mile and take the risk of defeat and accountability to punish a green forest strongman who did not offend him?
Although the commander-in-chief of the horse and infantry armies of each district has the power to temporarily mobilize the forbidden troops and horses of the states under his rule to conquer the strongman, this also means that all the responsibility for the defeat must be shouldered by him alone, so the number of strongmen under the rule of most state capitals If it's not big, the state officials will take care of it. If it gets big, the Privy Council will dispatch a large army to pacify it. Even a powerful traitor like Gao Qiu will lie about the results of the battle because he is ineffective in chasing thieves. Yun Tianbiao is just a soldier. The general manager is not Gao Qiu, but Tong Guan is a big crocodile in the DPRK who can turn his hands into clouds and turn his hands into rain. This tragic defeat is enough to wipe out all the efforts he has made for promotion. .
The military commanders in various places concealed their faults and did not report them. There were many ways to deceive the military commanders. Based on all the actions and deeds of Yun Tianbiao and the evaluation of the outside world, Xiao Tang felt that he would most likely not be willing to speak out about his faults to the Privy Council. Since Liang Zi It's already formed, so we might as well hit him harder to see if he has the face to admit his incompetence to the court...
It's not convenient for me to kill you this time, but I can still teach you a lesson.
When I was coding the previous chapter, my mouse malfunctioned and the left button failed. I quickly and slowly used the words coded by someone else's computer. I didn't notice that the previous chapter should be Chapter 479, but it was written as Chapter 484... The title cannot be modified. Forgive me.