Struggle in the early Tang Dynasty

In an instant, his eyebrows were gloomy, his eyes were angry, and he clenched his fists tightly and looked up to the direction of Chang'an, which was out of reach. He questioned with a hundred reluctance in his heart, did His Majesty know about Yu Shinan's situation a long time ago?Why didn't you tell us earlier?Could it be that His Majesty Li Er is really so heartless and ungrateful?In order to realize his great plan, he would rather be so indifferent by nature that he abandon Yu Shinan, so what?

So chilling!

Suddenly, another voice appeared in Guo Ye's heart: "Impossible... No... According to historical records, Li Shimin is definitely not such a person. History books also say that looking at the kings of all dynasties, they can be like Taizong Li Shimin." It is rare for someone to be so empathetic and considerate to his ministers and workers."

Will not!

Guo Ye kept admonishing himself secretly, it is true that His Majesty Li Er loves face, and it is true that he is very happy, but he will never be so cold.

Chapter 1082 Retreat and transfer

Yuan Tiangang didn't go very far, and Guo Ye ordered Pang Feihu and the others to come over from the city.

In front of everyone, he announced the decision to transfer tonight and withdraw from Qianzhou City.

As soon as this decision came out, a stone immediately stirred up a thousand waves, attracting opposition and doubt from everyone present.

It's no wonder that Guo Ye's brothers didn't give him face, because the decision Guo Ye suddenly announced was too abrupt and contrary to common sense.

"Uncle, what are you doing?"

Cheng Erniu was the first to quit, ignoring Pang Feihu lightly tugging on his arm, and yelling loudly: "Big Brother, how much effort did we take to take down this Qianzhou City? How many brothers died? Now you suddenly let We are going to withdraw our troops tonight and hand over Qianzhou City to the Bailian bandit army. Isn’t this bullshit? Ruan Lao San, don’t be a boring gourd. Your Sword and Shield Battalion will suffer the most damage in this attack on Qianzhou City Seriously, you have the most say."

Cheng Erniu was not stupid either. After expressing his opinion, he immediately kicked the ball to Ruan Laosan.

Ruan Lao San was named by Cheng Erniu, and also hit the most painful place in his heart by Cheng Erniu's words, so he stood up slowly, and asked Guo Ye with a puzzled face: "Brother, what is Cheng Erniu doing?" You don’t usually get four or six, but I agree with what I said today. When I came to the Sword and Shield Battalion, there were more than [-] brothers. In the first battle at the north gate of Qianzhou City, more than half of them were killed or killed. Although you let the Bailian bandit The prisoners of the army were added to our Sword and Shield camp, but the blood of those dead brothers was shed in vain?"

Xue Rengui, who is the captain of the Sword Shield Camp under Ruan Laosan, was originally not qualified to participate in this kind of meeting, but he has made many military exploits recently, and Guo Ye has been deliberately cultivating him, so he was able to participate in today's meeting.

As soon as Ruan Laosan's words fell to the ground, Xue Rengui naturally stood in the position of the sword and shield battalion and added a knife: "My lord, your decision is too absurd, it is simply unreasonable, sorry for the lowly ranks, it is hard to obey!"

"Is it really hard to obey?"

Guo Ye stared at Xue Rengui coldly, said with a stern face, "I don't care whether you are hard to obey or easy to obey, do you think I am discussing with you Xue Rengui to make a decision? Listen carefully, this is an order! An order!!! You Do you understand? Xue Rengui, as a soldier, don't you know that obeying orders is the bounden duty of a soldier?"

"overbearing!"

Xue Rengui was swept back by Guo Ye's few words, touched his nose, and immediately sat back in his seat sullenly, muttering: "Overbearing, keep your word!"

Xue Rengui hit a snag, and Ruan Laosan and Cheng Erniu naturally didn't dare to touch the wall again.

Kang Bao was about to get up, but Pang Feihu forcibly pushed him down, because he was always mature and prudent, and he absolutely trusted Guo Ye unconditionally. He always felt that Guo Ye's order to retreat was not as simple as it seemed on the surface.

Immediately, after holding Kang Bao down, he asked softly, "Brother, is there any secret behind this retreat?"

Cao Luxun, who had always reserved his opinion and never said a word, also suddenly asked: "Master Guo, you had a plan with Wei Gong before. After you captured Qianzhou City, you held it for fifteen days and attracted all the white lotus guards from all the states to come here. Come here, so as to help him successfully recover the fifteen state capitals on Lingnan Road. It's only been a few days since the [-]th appointment. If you do this, will it affect Weigong's series of actions on Lingnan Road? "

"will not!"

Guo Ye said categorically: "General Cao Zhonglang is too worried. The reason why Qianzhou City can become the target of public criticism and attract bandits from all walks of life to rush to help and besiege it is because there is a gold brick hidden in Qianzhou City. It is not so much Qianzhou City. The city is the focal point of firepower. It is better to say that the gold brick is what the Bailian bandit army is determined to win. Therefore, as long as the gold brick is transferred to follow us, then the hundreds of thousands of bandit troops outside the city will also be led by us Nose away. Therefore, it will not affect Duke Wei."

Cao Luxun grunted to express his understanding, and then he stopped questioning, because he didn't care about other things except this.On the contrary, he even more recognized what Guo Ye said just now to reprimand Cheng Erniu - soldiers take obeying orders as their bounden duty.

Although Guo Ye's explanation convinced Cao Luxun, it does not mean that other people will agree with this explanation, because everyone cares about different things.

Guo Ye looked at everyone's gloomy look, and finally had to explain: "Temporary retreat does not mean retreat all the way, and temporary win or loss does not mean that all the games are lost. After a while, you will understand my hard work Be careful. All I can say now is that this is the order of the emperor, who dares to disobey it?"

It is the king who guides the ministers, and Guo Ye carried His Majesty Li Er out, and it worked immediately. Although everyone was a little unwilling, they stopped thinking about questioning and opposing.

Afterwards, Guo Ye ordered: "Everyone, go back and get ready. Tonight, we will retreat from the West Gate and cross the river to Lingnan City. With the Heishui River as a natural danger, I am afraid that it will be even more difficult for the bandit army to cross the river and attack the city." Pang Feihu, Kang Bao, Cheng Erniu, the three battalions of you are responsible for pulling out the batch of gold bricks from the governor's mansion, and then loading them onto the boats one after another from the west gate, and crossing the river to Lingnan City first."

The number of gold bricks is huge, and Guo Ye is worried that it will be difficult to move them all at once if the three battalions are not arranged to carry them on board.

Immediately afterwards, he ordered Ruan Laosan's Sword and Shield Battalion to escort Guanshi Yu and the elites of Fenglei Hall to Lingnan City.At the same time, he told Xue Rengui to lead a team of troops to wait until after dark, and take out all the thunderbolt bombs buried in the ground within a radius of one mile outside the south gate. There are many talented people in the aristocratic family. If they take advantage of it and finally shoot themselves in the foot, it will be very bad.

As for Cao Luxun’s Black Armor Xuanbing Battalion, Guo Ye didn’t intend to let him idle, and said with a light smile, “General Cao Zhonglang, the three thousand Black Armor Xuanbing who wronged you, carried the hundred bed crossbows on the tower of the South Gate. After the boat arrived on the other side, a hundred bed crossbows were used to set up the first line of defense in the area of ​​the Dongmen Wharf in Lingnan City. If the bandit army really planned to cross the river by boat and attack, a hundred bed crossbows would probably be enough for them to eat. The pot is gone."

"As ordered!"

Without saying a word, Cao Luxun left here before the others, and acted according to the order.

Because he is a pure soldier, he is more inclined to the military code of obedience.

Guo Ye then got up and clapped his hands, encouraging him: "Okay, everyone, don't delay, everyone will act according to the plan, and start to get busy. By the way, Fatty Zhu."

Guo Ye suddenly noticed that Fatty Zhu didn't seem to have received an errand, so he hurriedly ordered: "Don't stand there stupidly, your supply camp must carry the food and grass of our Guangnan Road army, and then arrive at Lingnan City first to make fire and cook food. Let the brothers have a hot meal in Lingnan City earlier."

"It's... a command!"

Fatty Zhu staggered slightly, and hurriedly responded: "Old Zhu will do it now, hurry up, and I will never let you off the hook."

After speaking, a group of people swarmed out of the governor's mansion, carrying out their duties and leaving.

And Guo Ye also walked out of the flower hall with his hands behind his back. Seeing that the dusk was approaching, he couldn't help stretching his neck again and subconsciously looked towards the south gate, as if he was looking at the bandit camp ten miles away from the city. , murmured rather gloatingly: "If hundreds of thousands of them poured into the city and found that they rushed into an empty city, what kind of expression would they have? Hu Bilie was fulfilled, but Liuzhou Dugu's He and Wuzhou Yu's family were really disgusted. Hehe, it's quite relieved to think about it this way, and I will settle the account with you in the future!"

After talking to himself, Guo Ye's mood gradually picked up, and he shouted at a soldier not far away: "Come here, prepare to salute for me, go straight to the west gate after dark, and cross the river to Lingnan at night." city."

"As ordered!"

Chapter 1083

Everything was ready, and that night, Qianzhou City was carrying out the retreat in an orderly manner.

They crossed the Heishui River in batches one by one, entered Lingnan City, stepped up their defenses at night, and evacuated Qianzhou City without anyone noticing.

At this time, the two camps of the Bailian bandit army, because they have orders from above, have a good rest tonight, and there will be a big battle tomorrow.Except for a few groups of troops patrolling at night, hundreds of thousands of bandit soldiers were sleeping soundly in their dreams, how could they know that Qianzhou City was already an empty city at this time.

A few hours later, the darkness before dawn was torn apart, and it was dawn.

However, the sun did not rise in the east as usual. On the contrary, the weather became more and more sultry, and the sky was covered by a few dark clouds. A hot morning wind blew by, but the dark clouds could not be wiped away.

The hot weather is oppressive, but Hu Bilie, who woke up early in the morning and went out of the tent to observe the weather, secretly felt happy and excited, because based on his experience, this kind of weather doesn't need to last long, at the latest it won't pass In the afternoon, there is bound to be a shower.

Luckily, Hu Bilie still did not forget to praise secretly, a senior is a senior, a living god is a living god, I, Hu Bilie, can be assisted by him, tsk tsk, how lucky I am!After occupying the south, I will definitely repay the living gods.If in the future he can assist me, Mr. Hu, to attack Chang'an, and sit on the dragon chair in the Taiji Palace, er... that is to share the world with living gods, so what?

For a moment, Hu Bilie's thoughts fluttered and he was a little bit flustered. He didn't realize that Duguyu and Yu Jingde led the three sons to come behind him quietly.

"Cough cough..."

Dugu Yuqing coughed twice, startled Hu Bilie a little, and then turned around.

Duguyu woke up early in the morning and found that the weather was different today. As usual, this was the kind of depression before the storm, and she couldn't help but believe in Hu Bilie's prediction that there would be a shower this afternoon.

He and Yu Jingde knew very well in their hearts, how could a fool like Hu Bilie have such an ability to predict the weather?It must be the expert behind Hu Bilie who is giving him advice.

That's why he invited Yu Jingde to look for Hu Bilie together, with the purpose of testing Hu Bilie and digging out the mysterious expert behind him.

On the way here, he reached a consensus with Yu Jingde that it would be best if a mysterious expert like Hu Bilie behind the scenes could be recruited for his own use.It is better to work for the two of them than to let such a high-level person with extraordinary abilities work for Hu Bilie.He, Duguyu, firmly believes that what a rough man like Hu Bilie can offer, the conditions offered by his family will only be higher and better, as the saying goes, good birds choose trees to live in.