Yang Zilin gathered the defeated soldiers, about 5,000 of them, and the rest of the soldiers fled back home in defeat. Yang Zilin had no choice but to lead more than 5,000 people to bypass Yang'an County and retreat back to Luzhou.
In the afternoon of the same day, Xue Xun's family returned to Yang'an County. Xue Xun summoned state and county government officials on his sick bed and stated that he would only severely punish the culprits and would not hold other officials accountable. This reassured the officials. He immediately arranged for the officials to issue orders to calm the people.
Maintain order.
In the room, Xue Xun sighed and said to Guo Song: "Now I know what ability is. What others can't do, my nephew can do it. Not only did he seize military power, but he also defeated Yang Zilin. No wonder the emperor values you so much."
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Guo Song smiled slightly and said: "Uncle Shi praised me too much. You can't say that Yang Zilin's weakness is my toughness. In fact, I just happened to be at the right time. The real reason is that the people in Shu have decided that ordinary people do not support the rebellion."
, thus causing Yang Zilin’s men to have unstable military morale and low morale.”
Xue Xun thought for a moment and said: "My nephew, do you think we can put down Yang Zilin's rebellion before Cui Ning's army arrives?"
"Uncle Shi is very jealous of Cui Ning's army?" Guo Song saw Xue Xun's worry.
Xue Xun nodded, "When Cui Ningruo led his army down, the people suffered. Yang Zilin's army did not disturb the people very much, but the Jiannan army was like wolves and tigers, and its military discipline was corrupt. The people of Xichuan hated and feared them. Shu was in chaos for more than ten years.
It has not calmed down in years, and the root cause is that the public anger of the Jiannan Army is too great."
Guo Song thought for a while and said, "I can give it a try."
Yang Zilin's rebels were weaker than Guo Song imagined, giving Guo Song some confidence in defeating him.
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The 2,000 Jianzhou troops who had been taken away by Yang Zilin did not follow him back to Luzhou. They fled in defeat. Guo Song took back more than 500 troops, bringing his strength to 1,500 troops.
Guo Song handed 500 men to Feng Yuan and ordered him to guard Yang'an County. Guo Song himself led 1,000 men to leave Yang'an County and take another slightly longer road to Luzhou.
Down from Jianzhou is Zizhou, and further south is Luzhou, which is about three hundred miles apart.
Five days later, a thousand Jianzhou troops who detoured south arrived in Luchuan County. Luchuan County is surrounded by water on both sides. Like Yang'an County, it is limited by terrain. The city is small and relatively dilapidated. It is the prefecture of Luzhou and is also owned by Yang Zilin.
Lair.
Guo Song's army stopped to rest in a forest about three miles away from Luchuan County.
Xu Yan worriedly said to Guo Song: "Your Majesty, there is something I don't know whether to say or not?"
"What did Lieutenant Xu want to say?"
"Shijun, in fact, our Jianzhou army is similar to Yang Zilin's Luzhou army. They are both local armies and their combat effectiveness is very weak. We only have a thousand people, while the opponent has five or six thousand people. It's really a head-to-head fight. We are no match at all.
We all believe that it would be unwise to attack Luzhou."
Guo Song smiled slightly and said: "Victory does not depend on the number of soldiers, but on the way of using them. Why should I go south in a roundabout way? I just don't want the other party to discover our existence. Because of deliberate calculations and unintentional calculations, we gained the upper hand in the first place."
"You want to make a sneak attack?"
Guo Song nodded, "It can be said that before I left, I carefully inquired about the situation in Luzhou. The Luzhou local army was not stationed in the city, but outside the city. I have sent people to inquire about it. Now I need to confirm this.
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Xu Yan said for a while: "We have no experience in sneak attacks, especially when fighting at night. If we can't distinguish between ourselves and the enemy, we are afraid that we will disappoint you."
Guo Song patted him on the shoulder, smiled and comforted him: "No one is born to fight. Tell brothers, don't worry, follow my command, we will definitely win this battle."
Xu Yan was still quite worried. After all, the other party was just a supervisory censor. How much combat experience would he have?
Soon, Yang Jun came back to report that the opponent's military camp was indeed outside the city.
Yang Jun drew a picture and explained to Guo Song: "The military camp is in a wilderness, covering an area of about a hundred acres. It is surrounded by walls made of rammed earth. There are more than a dozen rows of bungalows inside, basically made of rammed earth.
, relatively simple, with a relatively sparse forest to the west, and past this forest is the official road going north."
Guo Song listened very attentively and asked again: "How far is the military camp from the county seat?"
"About two miles!"
Guo Song thought for a moment and then asked: "How is the condition of the sentries in the military camp?"
Yang Jun shook his head, "There is no sentry tower, there are just a few guards at the gate, and the wall is very thin, so it is impossible to stand on the wall."
Guo Song basically understood that this was a very ordinary military camp, not a wartime camp. After Yang Zilin's army came back, it basically returned to normal conditions instead of continuing to maintain wartime conditions, otherwise the military vigilance would not be so relaxed.
Although there is something fishy here, isn't Yang Zilin afraid of Jian Nanjun's revenge?
There are a lot of strange things, but Guo Song can't think of that many for the time being.
"Have you seen the condition of the soldiers? Is there any training or anything like that?" Guo Song asked again.
"I was looking at the inside of the military camp from a big tree. I could see clearly that the soldiers in the military camp were eating. There were about five or six thousand people gathered together in twos and threes. It was like a big market. I also saw soldiers fighting. As for training, maybe
I went there relatively late and didn’t see it.”
From Yang Jun's various detailed descriptions, Guo Song ruled out the possibility of Yang Zilin committing fraud. They indeed did not notice their arrival.
At this moment, Guo Song made up his mind...
The time gradually reached two o'clock, Guo Song led a thousand soldiers through the official road and entered the small woods close to the military camp. The woods were relatively sparse and the moonlight was not bad. A full moon hung in the dark blue sky, shining the silver light.
Spreading over the ground, you can see the low military camp walls through the woods.
The wall was covered with weeds and shrubs, and there was a small ditch. Next to the kitchen of the military camp, a small section of the wall collapsed, about a foot wide, and a path was trampled underneath. The soldiers used this gap to sneak into the city.
Inside.
As soon as Guo Song waved, the soldiers rushed in from the gap. They were led by each captain and brigade commander. Before setting off, Guo Song told all the soldiers that it is easy to distinguish between the enemy and ourselves. Those with neat armor are our own people, and those without armor are our own.
Anyone wearing a helmet or even barefoot is the enemy. This is a life and death battle. If you are too soft-hearted and dare not take action, everyone will die in Luzhou if the enemy counterattacks.
The soldiers began to take action. Ten of them opened fire, kicked open the barracks door, rushed in and stabbed them all, killing them all, and then entered the next barracks.
In an instant, screams and cries resounded in the military camp, and only the roars and shouts of killing were heard. The sleeping soldiers in the military camp were awakened one after another. They fled the barracks in panic, only to be met by the killers.
The jealous, wolf-like and tiger-like Jianzhou soldiers were chopped down with knives and stabbed to death with spears. The soldiers were so frightened that they didn't even have time to put on their shoes and ran barefoot outside the military camp to escape.
The military camp was in chaos. General Zhu Cha, who had just been appointed captain, rushed out of the barracks with his sword and went to meet Guo Song, who specialized in killing generals. He did not react hastily and was pierced by Guo Song with a wave of his spear.
Heart, Zhu Cha screamed and died immediately.
Guo Song had already killed more than a dozen generals above the brigade commander level. The Luzhou Army soldiers were leaderless and even more chaotic. The soldiers simply had no will to resist, or they fled in panic. If they couldn't escape, they would kneel down and beg for mercy.
This sneak attack ended in almost half an hour. More than 2,000 of the 6,000 soldiers were killed and 1,300 were captured. The rest of the soldiers fled over the wall in panic.
The Jianzhou army suffered more than 40 casualties and achieved a complete victory in this battle. It was also this battle that made the Jianzhou army sincerely surrender to Guo Song.
But the battle is not over yet, they have not caught the culprit Yang Zilin, and Yang Zilin should still be in the city.
Guo Song left two hundred people to guard the prisoners of war, and made it clear to the prisoners of war that once the war was over, they would be released home and they would not be held accountable.
Guo Song led 800 soldiers to kill Luchuan County one mile away.
Luchuan County is also a dilapidated old county town. The city wall is less than two feet high and is low and dilapidated. This dilapidated city wall has no defensive value and can be easily breached. Therefore, there are no soldiers patrolling the city, and only dozens of people guard the east and west towers.
city gate.
Jianzhou soldiers found more than a dozen ladders from the military camp warehouse. They rushed to the north city, set up wooden ladders one after another, and swarmed up. In just a moment, they climbed up the city wall, divided into two groups, and attacked the east city and west city.
go.
Guo Song personally led four hundred people to the Governor's Mansion. It was just past three o'clock, when the whole city was sleeping deeply. Hundreds of people were running on the streets without disturbing the sleeping people.
The Luzhou governor's mansion was in the form of a front office and a back house. In the front was the Luzhou government office, and in the back was the governor's official residence. The soldiers quickly surrounded the official residence, and then the soldiers climbed into the house, opened the door, and nearly a hundred soldiers swarmed in.
"Those who commit adultery and plunder will be killed, and those who capture Yang Zilin will be rewarded five hundred taels of silver."
Under the heavy reward, the soldiers rushed to the back house, kicked open every room, and searched carefully for Yang Zilin. Suddenly, the governor's house was in a panic, with screams and curses resounding throughout the house.
Guo Song stood waiting in the courtyard. Dozens of soldiers held torches, lighting up the courtyard like daylight.
Not long after, the soldiers pulled out a middle-aged man. Someone knew him and told Guo Song that this man was Yang Zilin, the governor of Luzhou.
Yang Zilin also just returned to Luzhou yesterday. She was very tired and wanted to take a good rest for two days before taking the next step.
Unexpectedly, the day after he returned, Guo Song led the Jianzhou army to Luchuan County and captured him alive.
Yang Zilin was only wearing a white tunic, with disheveled hair, and was in a very embarrassed state. He was forced to kneel in front of Guo Song, with his arms held down by soldiers. Yang Zilin was so angry that she raised her head and shouted: "Who are you? You have repeatedly ruined me."
event?"
Guo Song lowered his head and whispered: "I am Guo Song, the military envoy of the three towns. Have you heard of it, Commander Yang?"
"ah!"
Yang Zilin was stunned. He shouted for a while: "Kill me!"
Guo Song shook his head and said, "If I don't kill you, I will hand you over to Xue Changshi of Jianzhou and he will send someone to escort you to Beijing."
Yang Zilin let out a long sigh and closed her eyes without saying a word. Guo Song shouted, "Take him away!"
The soldiers sealed Yang Zilin's house and escorted Yang Zilin to the military camp outside the city.