Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 353 I am happy when the court is in trouble 【Subscription】

From west to east, there are only two roads to Jeju, or Shandong.

[-]. Follow Jishui to the east.Just like Lu Qian won the land of Shandong, first Jeju, then Dongping, and then Zizhou, Qingzhou, Weizhou, and Denglai.With Jishui as a convenience, taking this road is definitely the best choice for the army to fight.

The second is to start from the south of Shandong, take Yizhou, pass through Mizhou, go to Denglai, and in turn outflank the northwest of Shandong.Who made the Yimeng Mountains stretch across the entire central and southern part of Shandong in the center of the land of Qilu?

Although the Yimeng mountain area is a region with mountains, hills and plains, it cannot be said to be a pure mountain area, but it does not mean that crossing the Yimeng mountain area is a good choice.

Lu Qian is now letting go of southwest Qilu, and no army has entered either Xuzhou or Yanzhou.Tong Guanruo sent a force of soldiers and horses to kill them, and they would be able to sweep through more than ten counties in the two prefectures in a very short time.But does it have an egg?Entering Yanzhou does not mean entering Ludong. The Yimeng Mountain that stretches across the front is simply an unsolvable problem.The only way out is to go to Yanbei, pass through Tai'an to Laiwu, and then enter the southern border of Zizhou. This is essentially the Jishui route.

Tong Guan leads 10,000+ troops, and they will never take the southern road.Without the convenience of water transportation, just the transportation of grain and grass for the army can make Cai Jing, Liang Shicheng and others in charge of state affairs complain.And when he takes the north road, Liangshanbo is a threshold that cannot be bypassed.

Tong Guan was very troubled by this problem, although he had received a letter from Zhao Liangsi, and he had already asked people to go to the Bianhe River to get rid of the ship.As the most important Bianhe River among the four water canals in Tokyo City, the Bianhe River is responsible for the transportation of 600 million grain grains a year, so there will naturally be enough ships.But those are civilian ships.

The gap between civilian ships and warships is still very obvious. Even to be on the safe side, he will recruit a group of people related to water warfare to come and direct the fight.

The Dengzhou navy is finished, and only the Jinling navy is available.Liu Menglong suffered a terrible defeat last time, and the strength of the Jinling Navy has not yet recovered, but no matter how miserable Liu Menglong was defeated, he is still a good player in the water.His Tong Guan's Yang family brothers, regardless of whether they can be found at a discount, Liu Zhongwu's package is included, but all of them are standard 'land ducks'.

If so, Tong Guan came up with a plan, first use a vanguard to contain the bandit army in Liangshan Dazhai, and then divide a part of the army to break through Jeju City, cut off the canal, and then send troops south to Xuzhou to confront Yang Zhijun, and then protect them. Liu Menglong's army marched north to Jinling.

Things have to be prepared.Mixed in the palace, Tong Guan, who started as a young eunuch at the bottom, does not put eggs in one basket when doing things. This has been a habit he has developed during decades of vicissitudes, and the habit has become natural.Now he is also preparing with both hands.

……

In Jeju City, Chao Gai did not retreat.

Not only did Chao Gai not withdraw, Xu Ning also sent Liu Tang and more than [-] people from his troops into the city to support.Even Zhang Shun led a part of the navy, wandering in the waters outside Jeju City.

……

The drums of war sounded bang.The sound of killing, shouting, people shouting and neighing, went straight to the sky, but it was only a short confrontation.

Liu Tang led 2000 elite soldiers and fought a battle with the vanguard of the invading government army.There are only [-] officers and soldiers, and the leading army will hold a flag with the word "fold".Obviously this is a vanguard team composed of the Fuzhou Army.

There was no definite winner of the fierce battle, because Han Tianlin, the military commander of Tangzhou, led his troops to arrive, and Chao Gai urgently ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops.

At this time, on the west wall of Jeju, the Liangshan army in armor was lined up in order, orderly and silent.

At the top of the city, Chao Gai stood in the middle, and the surrounding generals stood on his left and right, watching the battle formation of the officers and soldiers gradually revealed in front of their eyes.

Chao Gai's experience in fighting and killing is also very shallow, but he was born with a big heart.Even though the battles of the officers and soldiers outside the city were astonishing, Chao Gai still had a calm expression, the only change was that the light in his eyes flashed from time to time.

Liu Tang had already led the army back to the city, and the officers and soldiers did not pursue them.

In the distance, war drums roared.On the horizon, one army after another seemed to be a black line, expanding from far to near, and it had already entered Chao Gai's eyes.

There are really many people.The flags are like the sea, the battle robes are like clouds, and the clouds of fire.In the end, there are more than 2 troops, which is simply a sea of ​​people.

And when they got closer, the ladders, siege towers, chariots, trench bridges, and various stone cannons hidden in the array all appeared one after another.

Although under the telescope, they have already been seen by Chao Gai.But when these hundreds of large equipment were placed in front of everyone, there was still a sound of breathing above the city.

"Let's see, leader Chao, it's a moat bridge, the length of which is based on the width of the moat. Two giant wheels are used for the lower part, and two small wheels are used for the first pass. Push it into the moat, and the bridge will be flat if the wheel sinks. Even a city can be crossed. If the moat pool If it is wide, use a folding bridge, that is, two trench bridges are stacked together, with a rotating shaft in the middle, like a hinge. When it is time to use it, the method is to pull it with ropes."

"That's a chariot, with a hollow bottom and an upper cover like an ax blade. It's covered with raw cowhide, and there's room for people to push the cart on the ground. It goes straight to the city to attack Jue."

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There are naturally knowledgeable people around Chao Gai to explain to him.With so many equipment, coupled with stone cannon bed crossbows, the preparations of the officers and soldiers are not incomplete.However, no matter how well-prepared, if you can't win the city, it's still useless.

At this time, the sound of armor shaking came from behind, and the red-haired ghost Liu Tang strode up to the top of the city wearing a blood-stained armor.

"Brother Chao." Liu Tang in this time and space has no loyalty to Chao Gai in the original work, but he still respects him very much.

This is not only because of Chao Gai's strength - his own martial arts are good, but also Wen has Gongsun Sheng and Wu Yong, both of whom are reused by Lu Qian; Wu has Sun An who can beat Qin Ming, even slightly better than Lin Chong and Lu Zhishen A top-notch master; and because of Chao Gai's bold and generous personality, he was already very appetizing to Liu Tang.

"Brother Liu Tang, come and see the formation of the army. There are more than 2 horses, this momentum is really extraordinary."

Chao Gai stuffed the binoculars into Liu Tang's hands straight away, looking out of the city with piercing eyes, his face full of eagerness and excitement.

He is not afraid of the officers and soldiers at all.

What about an army of more than 2?There are four to five thousand soldiers and horses in Jeju City.Even Song Gongming can rely on Dizhou to fight against the [-] officers and soldiers in Cangzhou, so what's scary about him now?

Don't say that the Hebei Imperial Army is unbearable to fight, is it true that the official army on Jingji Road in the Central Plains is unbearable?joke.

The only one to be careful among the government troops outside the city is the Five Thousand Western Army.But looking at the fight between Liu Tang and him, he was not weak at all.

With a strong city in his own hands, if he was really afraid of the officers and soldiers, he, Chao Gai, gave up his will to fight in the battlefield, and he could honestly serve as a civil servant in the rear.

The one left behind in Jeju is Xu Ning.Although the Liangshan Army established the Metropolitan Governor's Office, there was no formal reward official position, because everyone knew that no matter how many rewards were awarded now, if Liangshan Bo could not cross the threshold of Tong Guan, it would be fake.

Chao Gai's position is Jeju City Guard.To a certain extent, they all represent the status of the prefect of Jeju.Because of his name, it is still somewhat useful for Liang Shanbo to officially take over the political affairs of Jeju.

Chao Gai, the leader of the private salt industry and a tycoon in the Jianghu, is a rare all-rounder among the people in the Jianghu - 'both civil and military'.It is true literacy and hyphenation, able to write and count.

And he has been with officials such as Zhu Dian, Lei Heng, and Song Jiang for many years, so he has some understanding of the activities of the county government.Not to mention, when he was the city guard of Jeju, Chao Gai held the "Government Strategies" in one hand and a knife in the other.But he is naturally impatient with this, and he would rather go to the battlefield than be a civil servant.

"Don't be afraid of them." Liu Tang patted his chest, "That Zhejia army is so famous, Shizhen Fuzhou, I thought that all of them were heroes of iron. In fact, it was nothing more than that. When the sword and gun were shot, they fell to the ground as well. , crying for father and mother." Although the combat effectiveness of this Zhejia army is much stronger than that of the previous army, blood and flesh were scattered in the battle, stabbed with knives and guns, and iron whips and bones were smashed. The performance is really much braver than the previous officers and soldiers.

But Liu Tang was sure that if there was no foreign army coming, the Liangshan army would win in the end.

Because Liangshan Bo soldiers are more daring to fight.Since the lieutenant soldiers were divided into military merit fields, he could feel that the combat effectiveness of his men and horses had once again soared.If earlier, it could only be said that he was in the middle of nowhere, then now he is sure of victory.

"As for the [-] Jingji Road officers and soldiers, they are just a group of juniors who have not experienced any battles, so they are nothing."

"Haha, the brother's words are exactly what Chao Gai wanted." Heavenly King Tota burst out laughing.

Liu Tang and Chao Gai were on the top of the city, pointing and commenting on the officers and soldiers outside the city. Under the banner of the Song Army, Zhe Kecun, the pioneer of the Song Army, also saw the current leader of the Zhejia Army, his brother Zhe Kecun.

The two are brothers, and there is no cover for their words.Zhe Keqiu directly reprimanded: "Today is such a thrilling place that I almost lost the morale of our army." The two thousand Zhejia army was almost defeated by a group of bandit soldiers with an equal number of bandits. I lost my teeth.

Zhe Kecun, who was just 20 years old, did not take this seriously, but said to his brother in a shocked tone: "I have long heard that the Liangshan thieves are brave, the soldiers are brave, and their fighting power is extraordinary. I just thought they were incompetent figures. What a fuss about this insight. But I didn’t expect this Liangshan bandit to be so good. Today, the enemy and our forces seem to be strong, but the Liangshan bandit has the upper hand. It’s not because Tang Dujian arrived in time, my younger brother has been defeated.”

Of the 500 prefecture troops, only [-] were left standing.In that short confrontation, [-] Kanxi men were killed or injured, and [-] of the [-] prefecture troops that went out in this battle were lost.While cleaning the battlefield, there were not many corpses of the Liang bandits.Moreover, when Liu Tang retreated, he ordered to take away the corpses of the dead soldiers as much as possible, and as for the wounded, he did not keep any of them.

Zhe Keqiu's face rose with a stern look.The result of today's battle really shocked him.Although Zhe Kecun is young, he has been on the battlefield since he was 15 years old, and he is a rising star in the Western Army.It's definitely not a wine bag and a rice bag.

The battle of two thousand soldiers and horses was actually put at a disadvantage by the Liangshan bandits, which Zhe Keqiu had never thought of earlier.The present result also reflected the truest Liangshan bandits. "It can be seen that the officers and soldiers who came here to arrest were defeated and returned. So it is so powerful!"

——This group of bandits and water bandits are as powerful as the Western Army.

How can this be?

Zhe Keqiu couldn't believe it, but he knew it was the truth.

……

In Leize County, a large flag with the word "Zhai" flying over the county seat.

Brother Zhai Xing and Zhai Jin were ordered to lead 2000 soldiers from the village to occupy Lei Ze.Accompanying him was Zhou Bin, the training envoy of the Jeju regiment.This guy followed Cheng Wanli and fled for thousands of miles, and ran directly to Huainan East Road to be safe.

The magistrate of Cheng can be said to have abandoned his family and career, and Zhou Bin has become a bare rod.The two who share the same destiny are now once again serving in the army.Because the main general of this wave of conquest is Tong Guan, and Cheng Wanli is Tong Guan's disciple.Although his importance in Tong Guan's mind is far less than that of Zhao Liangsi, but at least he has reached the level of magistrate, so it's a pity to abandon him.In this way, Cheng Wanli has committed crimes and meritorious deeds under Tong Guan's account.But Zhou Bin was not so lucky, and was sent to the front line early.

And Zhou Bin didn't even know that the leader of the Henan Province soldiers he was in had a relationship with him that was far more than a fellow Henan Province fellow.

The three of them have more or less ties to Liang Shanbo.

Zhai Xing's face was heavy, and he handed the letter in his hand to Zhai Jin, got up and walked to the door of the military tent, looking at the vast clear autumn sky, let out a long breath.It seemed that this could completely empty out the boredom in his heart.

"Brother, the civil unrest in the south of the Yangtze River is getting worse and worse. Fang La has now captured Shezhou, annihilated the middle part of the third general Guo Division, attacked Fuyang and Xincheng in the east, and headed straight for Hangzhou. If Hangzhou is lost, Fang La will become a climate, and for Misfortune is not less than Liangshanbo..."

Unlike his elder brother Zhai Xing who was full of gloom, Zhai Jin had an uncontrollable joy flashing across his face.There is a loss in the southeast, which really kills Tokyo City.Moreover, Liang Shanbo and Fang La echoed so much from north to south, and it was even more difficult for the imperial court to destroy them, which was not easy.

That's what he likes.

(End of this chapter)