The Three Cities of Heyang, first built in the Northern Wei Dynasty, are divided into North Zhongcheng, Nancheng and Zhongli City. They are located on both sides of the Yellow River and on the sandbank in the middle of the river. During the Mid-Tang Dynasty, Heyang Jiedushi was established, which initially governed Huaizhou, and was called "Three Cities of Heyang".
Huaizhou Jiedu Envoy".
During the Huichang period of Emperor Wuzong, the imperial court challenged Liu Zhen, Zhaoyi, and Li Deyu established Mengzhou with jurisdiction over Heyang and other five counties. From then on, Heyang administered two states and ten counties.
Heyang is actually a very small vassal town with a small population. Since the Chao Rebellion, it has suffered many wars. Last year, Mengzhou was almost massacred by Sun Ru. Fortunately, Datong Horse Company made a deal with it and took away most of the people from the five counties.
Some people in Huaizhou also followed.
In addition, for several consecutive years, the Heyang sergeants in the disaster army took away their families and neighbors, so Heyang, the place with the largest number of people in the country, may be about to have a spiritual summer, which is ironic enough to say.
After Sun Ru withdrew, Li Hanzhi took full control of Meng and Huaizhou, and Li Keyong represented him as the governor of Heyang.
But there were not many people left in the ten counties of Heyang, at most 30,000 or 40,000, which could not satisfy Li Hanzhi's appetite, let alone feed his army. So he conscripted the strong men of Heyang and killed the old and young to serve as military rations.
Started to expand to Hezhong Town.
The people in the ten counties were just tortured bit by bit.
Even if the ten counties of Heyang obtained by Zhu Quanzhong cannot be said to be empty, they are not far behind. Now that he can find 10,000 people, he is considered capable.
"Why are the two states of Meng and Huai so empty?" Zhu Quanzhong's slightly annoyed voice echoed back and forth in the narrow streets, as if he was mocking him for getting a blank field.
The captured subordinates of Li Han and the officials looked ashen, there were no people around, the fields were barren, the warehouses were empty enough for horses to run, and they had nothing. What value did these officials have?
"Li Hanzhi is not out of his nature as a bandit, and he only seeks to kill the people. Shao Shude is in vain to be the king of the country, and specializes in robbing the people." Zhu Quanzhong kicked the case over and said angrily: "I took advantage of someone's free time.
, it is so shameless to stir up trouble in the rear!"
"Commander." Jingxiang coughed and stepped forward: "Shao Shude is certainly a scoundrel and is despised, but the biggest enemy here is Li Keyong."
Zhu Quanzhong was silent for a while, then turned around and sighed: "What the envoy said is true. Li Keyong has sent troops from Xingzhou, and the army is stationed in Ze, Lu. We are far away from me. We can't act with emotion at this time."
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Jingxiang served in the Xuanwu Army as an important member of the army and as an inspector of the post office. But the latter actually received a salary, and it was his job to follow the army and make suggestions. And he was also very good at figuring out Zhu Quanzhong's thoughts, and could offend him with every word and deed.
When it reaches the itchy spot, it is very popular with Zhu Quanzhong.
"How should we deal with the Henan matter?" Zhu Quanzhong pulled Jingxiang to sit down and asked.
The generals gathered around them and listened quietly, and no one made any noise.
The so-called "Henan incident" refers to the confrontation that occurred in the Cijiandian area of Xin'an County a few days ago.
The 2,300 Xuanwu cavalry faced the 5,000 cavalrymen of the Difficult Army and less than 700 Hedong rebel generals. They were greatly humiliated. In the end, they were frightened by the opponent's power and had no choice but to retreat and return.
to Zhengzhou.
Better cavalry! Zhu Quanzhong felt that his obsession had strengthened again. Xie Tong and Xie Yanzhang jointly proposed to recruit Khitan people on the grassland, Xi people, it seems that they can consider it.
Luo Hongxin of Weibo Town has just sent an envoy to offer a lot of money and silk, and is willing to repair it. It seems that he can try it on the grassland by passing through the towns in Hebei.
"Zhang Quanyi is afraid that he will not be able to drive out the troops who are determined to be in trouble, so the commander-in-chief might as well send an army south to help Zhang Quanyi force the troops to retreat. If he still refuses to leave, he might as well send a large number of troops to go south."
Zhu Quanzhong pondered for a while, then suddenly laughed and said: "The Hedong Army is exhausted after a long battle and should be unable to advance towards Heyang. So I left Ding Hui to guard Meng and Huai, and led the army south to push back the Dingnan Army first. This Shao Shude, Lao
The man is addicted to fishing, so this time he has to cut off his hand. By the way, we will also capture Xu and Cai Erzhou and wipe out the land of Huaixi."
After hearing that Kang Junli had retreated from Heyang, Li Hanzhi had already rescued Luoyang and went to Wangwu County to Jiangzhou. At present, Li Keyong appointed him as the governor of Zezhou and led the military governor of Heyang.
In Henan, except for the Dingnan Army, there is no opponent worth mentioning.
After finishing speaking, Zhu Wen sighed again and said: "I heard that the Dingnan Army's loyal and brave three thousand cavalry have crossed the river. The small Henan Prefecture actually gathered nine thousand elite cavalry. This is just a partial division of Shao Shude.
There are just as many cavalry and pawns as there are in our Xuanwu states. They fight when they want and leave when they want. They are erratic and make people envious."
"Xuanwu's infantry is the best in the world. Why should the commander belittle himself? Nine thousand cavalry is a lot, but it consumes food and grass several times that of infantry. King Gong of Shaanxi and Guo has tried his best to raise military food supplies. Now Li Han is relieving the siege
If we leave, the Shaanxi soldiers will not come to Henan Prefecture. How much food and grass will Wang Gong provide? The cavalry and soldiers of the troubled army will have to retreat if they don't retreat." Jingxiang analyzed: "The commander-in-chief can safely raise his troops to go south and collect Xu.
Prefecture, drive away Yang Fugong's fake son Yang Shouzhong, and then attack Caizhou to stabilize the rear."
"Good! Just do it like this." Zhu Quanzhong praised: "Shao Shude, I will have to settle accounts with him sooner or later."
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The camp in Xin'an County has been withdrawn.
Li Duo and He Wei, with nearly 3,000 infantry, escorted the grain and grass and a group of recently gathered refugees to retreat towards Mianchi County.
An Xiuxiu's Shatuo Cavalry, together with Yang Hongwang's Leopard Cavalry, rushed to Luoyang and Henan counties. They coaxed, intimidated, and even semi-forced them to kidnap more than 3,000 people who had just returned from the neighboring counties.
Zhang Quanyi stood at the top of Luoyang City and wanted to cry without tears.
These are all the refugees he recruited with all his hard work! At first, he made eighteen flags and distributed them to his generals, asking them to recruit people to colonize and resume production in eighteen counties. Unexpectedly, unexpectedly, now they are all easier for outsiders.
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If the Xuanwu Army had not arrived in time, defeated Kang Junli, and scared Li Hanzhi away, it is estimated that the Dingnan Army would not have left, and would have had to evacuate Henan Prefecture.
Fortunately, I'm finally gone now! Let's go, let's go, the further away the better! Zhang Quanyi never wants to see these shameless people again. Shao Shude is so wicked when he evacuates other people's homes!
At this time, Chen Cheng had led the cavalry troops south to Shou'an County.
Liu Sandou opened a new refugee camp here. What made him speechless was that as soon as the camp opened, not many people came, but many Qin Zongquan troops rushed to beg for food to survive.
In the camp, there were only hundreds of riders from the Datong Horse Troops that he brought over. Liu Sandou saw more and more defeated troops and was afraid that they would cause trouble outside, so he gathered them up. In a few days, there were more than a thousand people.
Among the horse riders there were many veterans of the Dingnan Army who were around forty years old. They could serve as grassroots officers and take these Qin sergeants out to gather the refugees. When Chen Cheng arrived, their team had grown to a large number.
There are more than 1,700 people, and there are more than 4,000 refugees.
"The people are all sent to Mianchi." Chen Cheng gave the order as soon as he arrived: "Li Hanzhi has retreated, and Wang Gong will probably not deliver food to us anymore. The stalls here will be open for a few more days, and they will be closed down later.
Bar."
Liu Sandou nodded somewhat depressedly.
Chen Cheng was also helpless. He had previously counted that Mianchi, Xin'an, Shou'an and other camps had attracted more than 33,000 people in total so far, which was far lower than the expected target.
It’s a pity, we probably won’t be able to get many people, and it’s very likely we’ll never get anyone!
It is certain that Zhu Quanzhong controls Meng, Huai, and Henan Prefectures. If he takes Ru, Xu, and Cai Prefectures next, he will have taken over all of Huaixi.
Zhang Quanyi, in the land of Huaixi under the rule of Qin Zongquan, the Dingnan Army could come in and out at will, and no one cared about what they did. But Zhu Quanzhong was a man with great ambitions and had a strong army. He could not tolerate the Dingnan Army coming to seize people.
Recruiting troops.
Moreover, the rise of Zhu Quanzhong in Henan not only means that the disaster-stricken army can no longer reach out to Henan, in fact, horse racing shops in Xingzhou and other places will also be closed one after another. Datong horse racing is in Henan, and Hebei's many years of hard work have ended.
Once destroyed, it will not be easy to obtain information in the future.
Zhu Quanzhong is so annoying!
"General Zhe, I have decided to go to Ruzhou and Xuzhou to recruit troops. We must control the retreat. I don't know when the Bian soldiers will go south. In short, time does not wait for us." Chen Cheng walked around the camp, his mood
Restless: "This is the last time, there will be no chance in the future."
Time is running out, and the food supply may be cut off at any time. In the past few days, Chen Cheng has been under extraordinary pressure, so much so that the corners of his mouth have blistered and his eyes are bloodshot.
"How long will it take?" Oritsugu Yu asked.
"It's best to have a month." Chen Cheng thought for a while and said, "If it doesn't work, twenty days will do."
"It's a bit risky." Oritsugu shook his head and said, "Zhu Quanzhong may not give us so much time."
"Every person who can be raised is one." Chen Cheng made up his mind and said: "Every time we raise three hundred people, we will go to Shaanxi and Guo until we can't raise anything. Zhu Zhen raised more than 10,000 people in Ziqing Town in ten days. Let's consider it slow.
A few, but it’s not too much of a difference.”
Seeing Chen Cheng's hard work, Zhejiyu was also a little affected, so he said: "Okay, I will let Zhongyongdu three thousand ride to the north of Luoyang, so that the Xuanwu Army will be surprised. By the way, he will send someone to negotiate with him and exchange documents.
Maybe we can delay it for a little longer."
"General Zhe's plan is very clever!" Chen Cheng put his hands on his hands and smiled, saying: "If the recruitment of troops is successful, General Zhe will also have great achievements. I don't know when we can come back to Henan."