Beiwudu was called Dingling in ancient times. It was a fiefdom of Dongbugeng Kingdom in the Western Zhou Dynasty. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Chu destroyed Bugeng and was renamed Dingling County. During the Sixteenth Kingdom of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, General Murong Nong of Later Yan destroyed Dingling City and converted the city site into Dingling County.
It was moved to the current location of Beiwudu.
After the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Northern Wei Dynasty established Lingjun here, and the Eastern Wei, Northern Qi, Sui and Tang Dynasties all established Beiwuyang County. In the Tang Dynasty, Kaiyuan County was abandoned and moved back to the current Wuyang City. During the Dade Period of the Yuan Dynasty, Wuyang and Ye merged and were changed to Beiwudu Inspection.
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By the Ming Dynasty, although Beiwudu Town was no longer a county town, due to its geographical advantage of being surrounded by three rivers: Shah River to the north, Hui River to the west, and Ni River to the south, it surpassed Wuyang County and became a land and water transportation artery.
It is said that "it connects to Ru Road in the north and Wanxiang in the south. Mountain goods from the south of the Yangtze River and sea salt from the east are transferred here." Therefore, Beiwudu has become a famous town in Nanyang Prefecture.
Even in the famine-ridden Henan Province, this flood-drought wharf still has a bit of a "little Hankou" trade atmosphere. Many businesses are unloading goods here, and the coolies on the river bank are shouting in unison to remove the goods stuck in the mud.
Cargo ship pulls.
There are more than ten tables at the front of the pier, which is a good place for merchants to rest, chat and exchange business information. But at this time, the merchants did not dare to sit there because all the tables were occupied by the officers and soldiers under Li Wanqing's command.
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About half of the officers and soldiers were injured, and the other half had abandoned their armor. Merchants traveling to and from Beiwudu all found out that General Li was ambushed by bandits in Yuzhou. It is said that more than half of them were killed or injured and defeated.
Very miserable.
But people did not dare to talk nonsense. Yesterday, several boatmen whispered the news of the defeat of the army. When Li Wanqing heard it, he cut off his hands and threw them into the river to drown alive.
Li Wanqing and several of his trusted generals were sitting on the innermost tea table, drinking wine with deep thoughts. The drink came from several merchants who "rumored" that the army was defeated. Li Wanqing could not deal with Guo Junzhen.
Can't you still deal with a few merchants?
"I heard that intruders everywhere used the name of Marshal of the Civil and Military Capital of Fengtian to advocate righteousness, and sent letters to nearby states and counties, saying that they were local officials, gentry and common people. Anyone who surrendered to the city would quickly donate mules, horses and grain. The officials would still hold their posts, and the people, regardless of whether they were rich or poor, would serve as usual.
Everyone lives in peace; if you dare to resist and refuse to surrender, you will suffer the massacre of the city."
The general next to Li Wanqing carefully told the latest intelligence, but Li Wanqing was furious. He threw the wine glass directly into the officer's face and sternly cursed: "I am fortunate to be favored by the imperial court. I will no longer be
A thief, he has secured a decent life for his descendants. Only a person with a human body and a dog's heart dares to talk about surrender!"
The officer's forehead was scratched in several places by the broken wine glass. He hesitated for a while, then knelt down and said: "Old Zhangpan, didn't Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai also receive favors from the imperial court? The imperial court treated them badly, and they turned back.
.Now the imperial court is not treating us well, and has repeatedly withheld payment and money, so that we have no choice but to send troops to collect food, plunder the people, and then return to the green forest, why not?"
"You fucking humanoid dog heart! Who is your old master!"
Li Wanqing hated to hear anyone mention his past as a thief. This phrase "old boss" suddenly aroused all his anger. With a "swipe" sound, the saber was unsheathed, and Li Wanqing kicked the tea table over.
, then stretched out his right hand and stabbed the officer to death with one strike.
Not wanting to relieve his anger, he ran forward and trampled the officer's body under his feet, cut off the head, held it in his hand, and cursed the other officers with red eyes: "We are all officers and soldiers who live on the salary of the imperial court.
Whoever dares to mention the word "thief" again, this is his fate!"
Even if the other officers didn't really want to fight with their old friends and brothers, they didn't dare to say anything when they saw the battle in front of them. They could only sigh secretly in their hearts. What is an official? What is a thief?
"General, the traitors have entered the territory of Ye County and Wuyang. General Liu's soldiers left the county seat of Ye County this morning and are heading south. We are urgently summoned to send troops to the north so that they can counterattack the soldiers.
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While everyone was panicking and sighing secretly, an officer and soldier came galloping at night and reported the latest military situation. However, Li Wanqing was greatly surprised when he heard the news. He asked in surprise: "Old Liu agreed to keep each other guard.
We must never leave the county walls lightly to avoid a surprise attack by ambushes from mid-range thieves. Why do we suddenly have to send out all our troops to fight in the wild?"
That night he kept smiling bitterly and replied: "General Liu's original intention was to hold on to the county walls of Ye County to exhaust the spirit of the bandits. However, the bandits in Ye County set fire everywhere and destroyed the properties and houses of the powerful families in the county. The magistrate of the county
, Jiaoyu, Dianshi and other famous gentry, all urged desperately. General Liu was worried that if he did not send troops, the gentry would blame him for being a traitor, so he had to change his deployment."
"Hey!" Li Wanqing was furious when he heard this. He cut off the table leg with a knife and cursed, "These big dogs!"
He knew in his heart that these officials and gentry still regarded him and Liu Guoneng as thieves and did not really trust them at all. When Li Wanqing was defeated by Guo Junzhen in Yuzhou, he still knew that these elite soldiers of thieves were by no means ordinary natives of Henan.
Kou Kebi, even if he and Liu Guo can attack together, they are not sure of victory.
What's more, his troops have been greatly weakened by Guo Junzhen, and his chances of winning are even slimmer!
"By the way, if Lao Liu's troops all go south to attack the intruders, how will the small Yuan camp in the east respond?" Li Wanqing thought of Yuan Shizhong who was active near Linying, and felt extremely worried about Liu Guoneng's outburst.
Ye Busuo took out a letter, handed it to Li Wanqing and replied: "This is what General Liu asked me to give to the general. The letter contains General Liu's entire deployment strategy for dealing with Xiao Yuan's camp and the intruders."
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Li Wanqing opened the letter. Although he was favored by the imperial court, he was not very literate. Fortunately, there were some staff secretaries dispatched by Zuo Liangyu in the army, so he asked them to read the contents of the letter to him.
"As a king's minister and a general, I tried my best to defend the defense, but what if I died? The intruders pretended to be benevolent and advocated the idea of opening the city without killing; the gentry believed the rumors and even offered food to avoid the thieves. My brother is in Ye County
, Hundreds of plans have been exhausted, and the gentry used the left army to plunder the people without paying a single salary; what about my brother in Wuyang? At present, I can only use my troops to fight in the field. When the letter reaches Beiwudu, my brother will move his troops southward and will approach the mouth of the river. Please ask my brother
Support me on the south bank, and divide the bandits' forces to make the horn route. If the north bank is advantageous, then we can cross over and join forces, and we will definitely defeat the bandits."
After Liu Guoneng surrendered to the court, he carefully recruited many literati to learn writing. His cultural level was already much higher than that of Li Wanqing. Although this letter was still written in a half-literate and half-white tone, it already had the influence of some educated people.
Basics. The letter was also appended with Liu Guoneng's deployment of the remaining troops in Ye County. Due to Yuan Shizhong's changes in the east, he had to allocate a lot of troops for defense. As a result, there were only about 2,000 field troops left.
Li Wanqing was puzzled at first, but after hearing another explanation from his staff, he finally understood Liu Guoneng's situation in Ye County. It turned out that the intruders were passing out cards everywhere, saying that as long as the gentry in the county took the initiative to donate some grain and mules, the intruders would be free.
You can leave the county seat alone and not attack it.
This caused a huge conflict between the gentry in the city and even the county magistrate, and Liu Guoneng. The magistrate only wanted to keep the county seat and fulfill his responsibility of defending the land, while the gentry were all worried that their property outside the city would be damaged by the intruders, and they were even less willing to fight.
Although Liu Guoneng wanted to inflict heavy losses on Li Laiheng and wipe out some of the thieves, he had neither the gentry nor the county magistrate's salary support. After the invading army began to destroy the property of the gentry in Ye County, the tone of such a big dog immediately changed and he urged day and night.
They made up their mind to ask Liu Guo to send troops quickly. If Liu Guo could defeat all problems, they would be solved naturally. Even if Liu Guo could be defeated, as long as they donated mules, horses and food, they could still keep a county safe.
Li Wanqing cursed: "Damn it, these people who have fallen in the eyes of money, don't they understand what it means to treat people as swordsmen and me as fish and meat? If Lao Liu and I were defeated, they really thought they could escape the thieves.
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"We have worked so hard for the imperial court, how could we end up in this situation!"
The officers surrounding Li Wanqing all came closer. You looked at me, and I looked at you. Finally, a bolder man finally stood up and asked in a low voice: "General, what should we do?
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Li Wanqing raised his head and looked at the dazzling sun in the sky for a long time. It wasn't until his eyes shed tears from the direct sunlight that he sheathed his sword and said solemnly: "Liu Guoneng and I have agreed not to be born on the same day, but to die on the same day, thief."
The situation is rampant, but even if it means going through mountains and seas of fire, I will go through fire and water for Lao Liu!"
"Let's send out troops! March along the south bank of the river, and we will join forces with Ye County's troops to coordinate the attack and defense. We will never let the intruders go any further!"