Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 1226 Honor
"Your Highness, Li Cunxiao is a rebellious jackal, and Li Keyong can't make him bow his head obediently. It's not strange for this fellow to do anything, why bother to be angry?" Cao Yijin said in the middle of the road.

The location they are in is called Junduxing, the northernmost Xingdao of Taihang Eight Xing.

The Xing Road is forty miles long, with two mountains standing between each other, a river flowing beside it, and the road is square and rail-the water is named (léi) Yu, and later named Guangou.

Xing Road is divided into south entrance and north entrance.

Nankou is fifteen miles northwest of Changping County, Youzhou. Before the Anshi Rebellion, there was Nankou City, which was garrisoned by troops, but it is now abandoned.

The north entrance is in the south of Juyong County in Han Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, the city of Guan was set up, and it was called Jimen Pass and Tiemen Pass, but many people still commonly call it Juyong Pass.The city is tall, steep and deep, extremely strong, and it is really a danger of not being attacked.

Twenty miles outside the pass is Juyongguan Mountain, also known as Jundu Mountain, and later named Badaling.It's very risky, looking down at Guancheng as if it's at the bottom of a well.

Juyongguan is such a powerful city, and the military capital Xing is such a dangerous place, it is normally difficult to capture it.But the problem lies in the word "normal". Those who have lived in the mediocrity in history have all been defeated by abnormal means.

For example, in the later Wei Duluo and Zhou Kejun's capital pass (Juyongguan), it relied on internal response, that is, someone rebelled against it.

The Xia army also came here today, but in fact they still used abnormal means to attack - the thieves and soldiers were panicked and fled in all directions.

There were not many Xia troops attacking Juyongguan, probably more than [-] people, mainly the newly formed Crane Control Army.

When the army reached Changping, the bandit soldiers only persisted for a day, and then broke up.Then they entered Duxing from Nankou, and the road was unimpeded. When the defenders of Juyongguan saw them, some even went out of the city to escape.

It was also because of this that Shao Siwu and Cao Yijin were able to chat easily here instead of fighting for their lives with solemn faces.

"Your words are very kind." Hearing Cao Yijin's words, Shao Siwu forced a laugh and said, "It's okay, it's okay."

Cao Yijin glanced at the lord and nodded inwardly.

Even if you are a nobleman, many warriors may not give you face, you have to get used to this.If you can't even bear this, then you really can't get angry.

Even if he is a saint, many warriors in the army speak very vulgarly in front of him, and sometimes they are not even pleasant.The sage doesn't take it seriously at all, and gets along with the warrior in the way of a warrior, which can increase his goodwill.

King Zhao is also growing!No one is born to know it, no one is born to be scheming, the speed of Zhao Wang's progress can be seen with the naked eye, and Cao Yijin is very pleased.

"Where is the saint?" Shao Siwu asked.

"In the ancient city of Dayi three days ago." Cao Yijin replied.

The ancient city of Dayi is fifteen miles southeast of Guiyi County, the other capital of Marquis Yanhuan.In fact, it is just a place name, and there is no city anymore.Eighteen miles south of Guiyi County, there is also the old city of Yijing.The land is adjacent to Yishui in the south, and boats can go down the river directly into the Liaohai Sea. Gongsun Zan cultivated it vigorously, and it is extremely solid, with 300 million valleys accumulated, waiting for the changes in the world.Shihu hates its solidity and destroys it, so it is only a place name now.

"That will be soon..." Shao Siwu nodded and said to himself.

Going northward from Guiyi County, passing through Xincheng and Fanyang, it is only about two hundred miles away.If you take the post road of Gu'an, it is only two hundred and twenty or thirty miles, and you can reach Youzhou in seven to ten days.

"Intensify the attack on the city." Shao Siwu turned his head to look at the majestic Guancheng, and ordered.

The number of the Crane Control Army has increased, but the combat effectiveness is really worrying.Except for the ability of the three thousand Dunhuang warriors, the rest are all at the level of bravery.

After it was compiled and practiced hastily, many people still couldn't cooperate, and some even didn't recognize the banner of the golden drum, which caused a lot of headaches.

Fortunately, the Juyongguan defenders are not fierce.The most important thing is that they are few in number and have low will to fight. What they think about now is not resistance at all, but how to save their own lives - Guizhou outside Juyong Pass is Li Cunxiao's territory, and Changping County inside the pass was captured by the Xia people , Youzhou is still at stake, how to fight this battle?
Therefore, the battle of the Crane Control Army's attack on Juyongguan resulted in pecking at each other.

After attacking for a whole day regardless of casualties, Juyongguan Township Hu Linggui also lost confidence and took advantage of the night to break through the city—perhaps this was his plan.

But Hu Linggui was very unlucky.During the escape, the horse stumbled and fell headlong into the rough road.The Jin soldiers who ran away with him were vicious, and after looking at each other, they took the opportunity of helping him up to kill him.

Hu Linggui came to his senses the moment he was attacked, he was going to be used by someone with his head.But being attacked suddenly, he had no strength to resist, and could only fall to the ground sadly, panting.

Regardless of whether he was still alive or not, the sergeants drew out their horizontal knives and slowly cut off his head.

Hu Linggui screamed in pain at first, then twitched all over, and then fell silent again.

Not long after Shao Siwu entered Juyongguan, he received Hu Linggui's head.After understanding the situation, he could only sigh secretly, ordered his subordinates to take some money and silk as rewards, and then drove those Jin soldiers out.

He would not accept this kind of person, nor did he dare to accept him.

"Both Changping and Juyongguan have been captured..." Shao Siwu touched the thick wall of Guancheng, his face was full of satisfaction: "Shimenguan sent troops to occupy it?"

It is recorded in the history that Juyongguan was built with huge stones in the Tang Dynasty, and it can be said that no expense was spared.When Shao Siwu touched the thick stone wall, he still couldn't believe that such a grand pass, which is difficult to conquer by manpower, was taken down by himself.

At the same time, I also realized that if people are not good enough, they are not good at anything.As long as the defenders themselves are unwilling to defend the solid stone fortress, it is a heap of stones and nothing more.

"500 people have been sent to rush there overnight. The place has been abandoned and there are no bandits." Cao Yijin replied.

Shimenguan is outside Juyongguan.To be precise, it is on the Jundu Mountain (Badaling) in the northwest, which echoes Juyongguan.When the thieves came from the grassland to attack Juyongguan, the guards of Shimenguan came down from the mountain like a broken bamboo.When the enemy is struggling to attack Shimen Pass, the defenders of Juyong Pass can attack it from the side.

Of course, the above are all military offenses and defenses under normal circumstances.Under abnormal circumstances, anything can happen, let alone mention it.

"Leave 2000 people to guard Juyongguan, and take the rest away and return to Youzhou." Shao Siwu didn't want to stay here for a long time, and decided to rush back to Youzhou as soon as possible.

This time to attack Juyongguan, the main reason is that the army has not arrived, and it is difficult to attack all the way by him alone.So first divide the army and collect Changping and Juyong-in fact, it doesn't make much sense, the main purpose is to save some credit for my father and let him know that he can also fight, that's all.

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Ge Congzhou's brigade has set up camp in the southwest of Youzhou.

Youzhou, also known as Jicheng, got its name because it is located in Jixian County, and it is located in the southwest of Beijing in later generations.

Ge Congzhou brought more than [-] people, including [-] Longxiang Army, more than [-] Xiaojie Army, and [-] Qingyi Army.Yeli Kecheng and Wang Qianyu stayed in Zhuozhou to guard the flanks.

The Tianxiong Army was stationed in the south of Youzhou, and about 2 people also came.

If you count the more than [-] people in the northeast of Youzhou, the total army is nearly [-]. Compared with the more than [-] remnants in Youzhou City, it has an absolute advantage.

But now is not the time to attack the city.

To put it cruelly, if the motley crew and the Tutuan peasants didn't come together, what would you attack?

But since the siege cannon fodder didn't come, it doesn't mean that nothing can be done now.Ge Congzhou is knowledgeable, and from the moment he arrived, the psychological battle had already begun.

Zhuozhou, Yingzhou, Mozhou, Jizhou, Pingzhou, etc., the soldiers and captives of the states under the jurisdiction of Youzhou Town lined up one by one and walked to the city of Youzhou.

Just one thing: cry!

As the saying goes, a lonely city is hard to defend.Defending an isolated city requires professional sergeants, sufficient savings, and the morale of seeing death as home. Those who cannot do these will not be able to defend for a long time.

The cries of the captives are to clearly tell the defenders that nine of the Lulong Army's ten states have been captured by Wang Shi, and you are already in a state of isolation and helplessness.

It is not impossible to make up your mind to stick to it, but you have to weigh the consequences.In case of causing serious damage to Master Daxia, will you have good fruit after breaking the city?
It is also unrealistic to count on external reinforcements.Among other things, more than [-] vanguards of the Jin army were wiped out, and An Yuan was beheaded.Qigouguan and Zhuozhou are also controlled by the Xia people. How long will it take for the reinforcements to come?
Not to mention, just look at the soldiers and horses of the Great Xia who came in the first order, and you will know that you fought badly in other battlefields, and there is no hope.

"The sage has arrived in Fanyang..." Ge Congzhou said, "The sage can reach the city of Youzhou in at most five days."

In terms of distance, of course it would take less than five days.He said this because he heard that the sage was showing off his martial arts in Zhuozhou, frightening the Yiwu army and Hedong, so he reserved two days for the sage to "play".

He actually wanted to take Youzhou before the saint arrived, but it was impossible after thinking about it.But if it can be done, it will be a great honor.

"Ge Shuai, in fact, the sage may wait for the first-class supplies in Zhuozhou. Now all the local folks are crazy, and there are damaged vehicles and dead draft animals on both sides of the post road. He may not..." He Delun said. .

Ge Congzhou stretched out his right hand and stopped He Delun's words.I saw him take a deep breath and said: "Everything is as usual. Those who persuade to surrender, those who dig ditches, those who dig ditches, and those who make equipment. Take your time, don't rush."

Ge Congzhou decided that it is better to leave the honor of Youzhou to the saints.

This is not aimless, but the result of his careful consideration.

Li Tangbin is in the prime of life, he could have continued to lead the army to fight, what is he doing now?
At his age, he could have continued to fight for 20 years, maybe he could make more contributions and become a famous general in history books.But in today's social atmosphere, he is obviously unlikely. This is the tragedy of the times, and there is no way.

Ge Congzhou didn't want to be so aggressive that he would be feared by his master.

Perhaps in the eyes of other warriors, this is too useless and too weak.Even in front of the emperor, you shouldn't be so humble.Since the Tang Dynasty, there has been no such rule, so is it not a slave?

But Ge Congzhou didn't care about other people's opinions, he just wanted to die well and enjoy wealth and honor in peace.

If you learn everything——

"Haha!" There was a burst of hearty laughter in the distance, and Li Cunxiao rode back to the camp with a large group of people.

"Bang!" He threw another person off his horse, and said proudly: "This thief is called Li Cunhui. He was originally from the Yier Army. He sneaked out of the city last night and wanted to go to Yizhou to ask for help. I captured him. Take it to Ge Shuai." , have a good trial."

Before Ge Congzhou could speak, he heard Li Cunxiao say again: "Zhu Zhen is the Marquis of Du Yu, right? What kind of door did he open? He can't even stop the messenger. I think—haha."

After speaking, he shook his head and left.

The expression on Ge Congzhou's face was very exciting, and he said after a long time: "Let Zhu Zhen come to interrogate this thief."

(End of this chapter)