Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 270 The last time

Zhu Quanzhong strode into Heyang City.

The three cities of Heyang, first built in the Northern Wei Dynasty, are divided into North Middle City, South City and Zhongli City. They are located on both sides of the Yellow River and on the sandbar in the river.During the middle Tang Dynasty, Heyang Jiedushi was set up, and Huaizhou was initially under the jurisdiction, and it was called "Huaizhou Jiedushi in the Three Cities of Heyang".

During the Huichang period of Emperor Wuzong, the imperial court challenged Zhaoyi Liu Zhen, and Li Deyu placed Mengzhou on the table, governing five counties including Heyang. Since then, Heyang has governed two prefectures and ten counties.

Heyang is actually a very small feudal town with a small population.Since the Chaos, there have been repeated wars. Last year, Mengzhou was almost slaughtered by Sun Ru. Fortunately, Datong Maxing traded with him and took away most of the people in the five counties, and even some people in Huaizhou followed.

In addition, for several years in a row, Heyang soldiers in the Dingnan Army took away their family members and neighbors, so now the place with the largest number of people in Heyang in the whole country may be the spiritual summer, which is quite ironic.

After Sun Ru withdrew, Li Hanzhi took control of Mengzhou and Huaizhou, and Li Keyong designated him as Heyang Jiedushi.

But there are not many people left in the ten counties of Heyang, at most [-] to [-], which cannot satisfy Li Hanzhi's appetite, let alone support his army.So he confiscated Heyang young men, killed the old and young as army rations, and began to expand to Hezhong Town.

The people in the ten counties have been tossed away little by little.

The ten counties in Heyang obtained by Zhu Quanzhong were not far behind, even if they could not be said to be empty.Now that he can find [-] people, he is considered capable.

"Meng and Huai prefectures, why are you so empty?" Zhu Quanzhong's slightly annoyed voice echoed back and forth in the narrow streets, as if mocking him for getting a piece of land.

Li Han's subordinates and officials who were captured were ashamed. There was no people in the fields, the fields were barren, the warehouses were so empty that they could run horses, and there was nothing.What is the value of these officials?
"Li Hanzhi did not lose his nature as a bandit, and he only used the disabled people as a means to succeed. Shao Shude, in vain as the king of the country, specializes in plundering the people." Zhu Quanzhong kicked the case and said angrily: "While there is no time to do it yourself , making waves in the rear, you are shameless!"

"Marshal." Jing Xiang coughed, stepped forward and said, "Shao Shude's despicable behavior is despicable, but the enemy of this meeting is Li Keyong."

Zhu Quanzhong was silent for a while, turned around, and sighed: "What the envoy Jing said is very true. Li Keyong has already been a teacher in Xingzhou, and the army is stationed in Ze and Lu, and he is far away from me. He must not be arrogant at this time. "

Jing Xiang served as an important member of the army and a post inspector in the Xuanwu Army.But the latter is actually a pure salary, and it is his job to advise and advise with the army.And he is also very good at trying to figure out Zhu Quanzhong's mind, every word and deed can scratch an itch, which wins Zhu Quanzhong's favor.

"How should we deal with the Henan matter?" Zhu Quanzhong asked Jing Xiang as he sat down.

All the generals gathered around them, listening quietly, no one made any noise.

The so-called "Henan incident" refers to the confrontation incident that occurred in the Cijiandian area of ​​Xin'an County a few days ago.

The 700 Xuanwu cavalry, facing the [-] Dingnan cavalry, plus less than [-] people from the Hedong rebel general An Xiuxiu, were greatly humiliated.In the end, frightened by the opponent's power, he had no choice but to retreat and returned to Zhengzhou.

Be good cavalry!Zhu Quanzhong felt that his obsession had once again strengthened.Xie Tong and Xie Yanzhang jointly proposed to go to the grassland to recruit Khitan people and Xi people, it seems that it can be considered.

Luo Hongxin from Weibo town just sent an envoy to offer a lot of money and silk, wishing to repair it.It seems that you can use the towns in Hebei to try it on the grassland.

"Zhang Quanyi is afraid that he will be unable to expel the Dingnan army. The commander-in-chief might as well send an army south to help Zhang Quanyi force the Dingnan army to retreat. If he still does not leave, he might as well send a large army to go south."

Zhu Quanzhong pondered for a while, then suddenly smiled and said: "The Hedong army is exhausted from long-term fighting, and should be unable to enter Heyang. A certain Liu Dinghui will guard Meng and Huai, and lead the army to the south, forcing the army to retreat first. This Shao Shude, fish Ren Lao is addicted, this time he has to cut off his hand. By the way, take Xu and Cai Erzhou again, and wipe out the land of Huaixi."

After hearing that Kang Junli had retreated from Heyang, Li Hanzhi broke the siege of Luoyang and left Wangwu County for Jiangzhou.At present, Li Keyong has appointed him as the governor of Zezhou, leading Heyang Jiedu envoy.

In Henan, apart from the Dingnan Army, there is no opponent worth mentioning.

After finishing speaking, Zhu Wen sighed again, and said: "I heard that the loyal and brave soldiers of the Dingnan Army have already crossed the river with [-] cavalry. The small Henan Prefecture actually gathered [-] elite cavalry. This is just a partial division of Shao Shude. There are just as many cavalry pawns, twice as many as in my Xuanwu states. They can fight and leave when they want, and they are erratic, which makes people envious."

"Xuanwu's infantry is the most powerful in the world, why should the commander underestimate himself? Nine thousand horses is a lot to say, but it consumes several times as much food and grass as the infantry. King Gong of Shanguo has exhausted his energy to raise food supplies for the army. Now Li Hanzhi rescued the siege And go, the Shaanxi soldiers will not come to Henan, how much food and grass will Wang Gong provide? It will be difficult for the cavalry, if they don’t retreat, they will have to retreat." Jing Xiang analyzed: "The commander-in-chief can rest assured that he will send his troops south and accept Xu Drive away Yang Fugong's fake son Yang Shouzong, and then attack Caizhou to stabilize the rear."

"Good! Let's do it like this." Zhu Quanzhong praised: "Shao Shude, I will settle accounts with him sooner or later."

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The camp in Xin'an County has been evacuated.

Li Duo and He Yan led nearly [-] infantry, escorted food and grass, and a group of refugees who had recently gathered to retreat in the direction of Mianchi County.

Anxiuxiu's Shatuo cavalry, together with Yang Hongwang's leopard cavalry, rushed to Luoyang and Henan counties.Coaxed, threatened, and even semi-forced, more than 3000 civilians who had just escaped from neighboring counties were taken away.

Zhang Quanyi stood at the head of Luoyang City, wanting to cry but without tears.

These are all the refugees he has painstakingly recruited!At the beginning, he made [-] flags and distributed them to the generals, and asked them to recruit people to cultivate and resume production in [-] counties.I didn't expect, I didn't expect, it's even cheaper for outsiders now.

If the Xuanwu army hadn't arrived in time to defeat Kang Junli and scare away Li Hanzhi, the Dingnan army probably wouldn't have left, and the Henan government would have to be emptied.

Fortunately, it is finally gone now!Let's go, let's go, the farther the better!Zhang Quanyi never wanted to see these shameless people again.How wicked Shao Shude was to evacuate people from other people's homes!

At this time, Chen Cheng had led the iron cavalry to the south to Shou'an County.

Liu Sandou opened a new refugee camp here.What made him feel speechless was that as soon as the camp was opened, not many people came, but a lot of Qin Zongquan's defeated troops flocked to beg for food to survive.

There are only hundreds of horse riders he brought over in the camp.Seeing more and more rout soldiers, Liu Sandou was afraid that they would cause trouble outside, so he gathered them together, and within a few days, more than a thousand soldiers were gathered.

There are many 40-year-old veterans of the Dingnan Army among the horse riders, and they just let them act as grassroots officers and take these Qin soldiers out to gather refugees.When Chen Cheng arrived, their team had grown to more than 4000 people, and there were more than [-] refugees.

"The people are all sent to Mianchi." Chen Cheng ordered as soon as he arrived: "Li Hanzhi has already retired, and Wang Gong will probably not give us any more food. The stall here will be open for a few more days, and it will be slowly closed later. Bar."

Liu Sandou nodded depressedly.

Chen Cheng was also helpless.According to his previous statistics, camps such as Mianchi, Xin'an, and Shou'an have taken in a total of more than 3000 people so far, which is far below the expected target.

It's a pity, there shouldn't be many people to get, and it is likely that we will never be able to get people!

Zhu Quanzhong's control of Meng, Huai, and Henan prefectures is already a certainty. If he takes Ru, Xu, and Cai prefectures next, the land of Huaixi will be taken as a whole.

In the land of Huaixi under the rule of Zhang Quanyi and Qin Zongquan, the Dingnan army could come in and out at will, and no one cared about what they did.But Zhu Quanzhong is a man of great ambition and has a strong army. He cannot tolerate the Dingnan army coming to recruit people and recruit soldiers.

Moreover, the rise of Zhu Quanzhong in Henan not only meant that the Dingnan Army could no longer reach out to Henan, but in fact the horse shops in Xingzhou and other places would also be closed one after another.Datong Maxing's years of hard work in Henan and Hebei were ruined, and it will not even be easy to obtain information in the future.

Zhu Quanzhong is so annoying!
"General Zhe, I have already decided to go to Ruzhou and Xuzhou to recruit troops. The future must be controlled. I don't know when the Bian soldiers will go south. In short, the time is not waiting for me." Chen Cheng walked around the camp, feeling Restless: "This is the last time, and there will be no chance in the future."

Time is running out, and food supply may be cut off at any time.In the past few days, the pressure in Chen Cheng's heart was so great that the corners of his mouth were blistered and his eyes were bloodshot.

"How long?" Zhe Siyu asked.

"It's best to have a month." Chen Cheng thought for a while and said, "If it's really not possible, 20 days will do."

"It's a little risky." Zhe Siyu shook his head and said, "Zhu Quanzhong may not give us so much time."

"One is the one who can be recruited." Chen Cheng made up his mind and said, "Every time we recruit 300 people, we will go to Shanguo until we can't. Zhu Zhen recruited more than [-] people in Ziqing Town in ten days, so let's be slower." , not too much difference."

Seeing Chen Cheng's hard work, Zhe Siyu was also a little infected, and said: "That's okay, so I let the Zhongyong Du three thousand ride to the area north of Luoyang to move around, which made the Xuanwu Army suspicious, and sent someone to negotiate with him by the way, and exchange documents. It might be a little longer.”

"General Zhe's plan is very clever!" Chen Cheng clapped his hands and smiled, and said, "If the recruiting is successful, General Zhe will also make great contributions. I don't know when we can come back to Henan."

(End of this chapter)