Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 267 Mianchi
4000 people and horses galloped eastward like a gust of wind.

Each person carried [-] Hubing, a small amount of soy sauce and a bag of beans, and walked along the Liangjing Dayi Road.

Huazhou is known as the first state in the east of Beijing. It reaches Chang'an in the west, Luoyang and Taiyuan in the east, Shangluo in the south, and Fufang and Xiasui in the north via Tongzhou. Refugees flocked from Kanto to escape the flames of war.

If Marshal Shao is here, he has to pretend to say, if there is no me, the people in Guanzhong are also fleeing at this time, but the people in Henan are inevitable, and they all died by the side of the road.

Yang Hongwang was politically savvy, so he asked people to quickly notify the cavalry behind to accept the refugees and send them to the Huazhou Horse Bank for resettlement.

The commander-in-chief may not be happy about winning an insignificant battle, but if you save countless hungry people and send them to Lingxia and Hewei, the commander-in-chief will remember it in his heart.In the future, when they compete for a certain position, when the two have similar achievements in battle, the inclination in the commander's heart will play a key role.

To the east of Huazhou, there are actually some garrisons.Dongshiqiao, Han Shenyang Old City, Xingdejin, Yehuquandian, Yongfeng Cang, Weijin Pass, etc., each had dozens to hundreds of soldiers guarding them.Well, they were not so much town soldiers as they were tax collectors, they only stared at the merchant brigade for money, and completely turned a blind eye to the murderous cavalry in front of them.

The imperial army in Guanzhong is just so "weird".It's like a decoration, it doesn't matter who comes, it has nothing to do with them.You can wander around as you like, even if you go to the Daming Palace, it doesn't matter, we can live in peace.

Perhaps Guo Zhang, the governor of Tongzhou who went out of the city to fight Wang Chongrong more than two years ago and was finally defeated, is the last local general who still has a sense of responsibility?

It took only one day for the leopard riders to reach Tongguan.They did not pass through Guancheng, but entered Shanzhou on the side road.

Guancheng, it is impossible to completely block the road.

If the defenders only dare to hide in the city and dare not go out to fight, then this powerful and dangerous pass will lose its due function.

Because the enemy can calmly transport people and supplies beside you, it will be as if your pass city does not exist.Of course, this is an extreme situation. Generally speaking, the sergeants defending the city are not so useless. It is impossible for the attacker to leave your closed city without fighting, at least send troops to defend it.This is what is said in the art of war, when the middle way meets a big city, you must go down or prepare for it.

There are not many defenders in Tongguan now, and they don't bother to pay attention to the leopard riders passing by.They are only interested in the passing business travelers, the army, refugees, what do you like to do.

Yang Hongwang shook his head at these useless sergeants.In the future, if the king takes all the land in Guanzhong, he will have to replace all the sergeants guarding Tongguan, otherwise this will be a road for anyone to pass at will.

On the evening of the seventh day of April, all the troops rested in the outskirts of Wen (wén) Township (now Lingbao Township, Henan), [-] miles southeast of Tongguan.

Yan Township is already one of the six counties in Guo (guó) Prefecture, and it is only a hundred miles away from Hongnong County.This place is three miles away from Dahe in the north, and there is a large-scale post station. There are many business travelers during the Taiping Festival, and it is a prosperous place.But in these turbulent years, all you see are refugees with their families.

In fact, Shanguo cannot feed these refugees for a long time, and they must be aware of it themselves.When Huang Chao was raging in Henan, the people ran to Guanzhong. It seems that Zhu Wen's wife ran to Tongzhou at that time.

Yang Hongwang was young after all, and he couldn't bear to see the hardships of these people.But they didn't bring much food with them, so they could only tell these people to keep going, and they would survive after passing Tongguan.

"General, please see someone who has horses." Just as he was about to feed the horses some fodder and beans, someone suddenly came to report.

"Let him come over." Yang Hongwang said, throwing the horse to the soldiers.

"Ma Xingtao Jiu from Guozhou met General Yang."

"How many people are there in your horse company? You can even find out the whereabouts of our Leopard Cavalry." Yang Hongwang smiled and said: "If Zhu Quanzhong and Li Keyong's soldiers and horses are so sensitive, it would be a good idea to rectify them gone."

"General Yang was joking. Ma Xing sent people nearby to see if he could gather the people. He happened to meet the general's men and horses. He was spotted as soon as he came and was almost caught and killed by the iron kite." Tao Jiu smiled embarrassingly and said. : "Recently there are too many people running here, Ma Xing is short of manpower, and many people have been missed, so we can only walk more in various ways, and maybe we can gather another hundred or ten households."

"What's the situation in Luoyang now?"

"Zhang Quanyi raided Heyang and captured Li Han's family. In Li Hanzhi's rage, he mobilized a large army to attack. Zhang Quanyi was defeated repeatedly, and now he could only hide in the city and resist desperately. The city wall of Luoyang was broken, and if there were no foreign troops Rescue, fall is a matter of time."

It should be said that the early relationship between Zhang Quanyi and Li Hanzhi was relatively good.After Sun Ru retreated, the two occupied Henan Mansion and Heyang Town, took refuge in Li Keyong, and Li Keyong represented him as Henan Yin and Heyang Jiedushi respectively—Shao ​​Dashuai also declared Zhang Quanyi as Henan Yin.

Li Hanzhi is a warrior in troubled times with great ambitions.After gaining a firm foothold, he began to plan for the rich Hezhong.

Li Hanzhi had only a few thousand soldiers in total, but this guy liked to gamble, and he also had the ruthlessness of a desperado, so he gathered all the soldiers and horses and stormed Jiangzhou.Wang Youyu, the governor of Jiangzhou, couldn't resist, so he simply surrendered.

After winning Jiangzhou, Li Hanzhi enlisted Ding Zhuang to attack Jinzhou.Hezhong Jiedu envoy Wang Chongying led his army to fight against them, curbing the attack of the gang of cannibals. At the same time, he tried to contact Zhang Quanyi and planned to attack Li Hanzhi.

It was impossible.Li and Zhang carved their arms as an alliance, as brothers, they supported each other, and their affection was extraordinary.

But Li Hanzhi drifted away, and his attitude towards Zhang Quanyi gradually became bad. Not only did he frequently ask for food and grass, which exceeded the supply capacity of the Henan government, but he also whipped and scolded the officials of the Henan government, treating them as subordinates.

On the surface, Zhang Quanyi was calm and ingratiating.

Li Hanzhi called him a "useless farmer", and he resigned himself to it.

Because the supply of food and grass was not enough, Li Hanzhi sent people to arrest the officials of the Henan government and tortured them in public.

It's just masochism!
But when Wang Chongying's envoy arrived in Luoyang, Zhang Quanyi made a move.He gathered soldiers and horses from several surrounding counties, and took advantage of the favorable opportunity when Li Han's main force was in Jinzhou and Jiangzhou, and attacked Heyang at night.Li Hanzhi was unprepared, fled in embarrassment, and fled over the wall, but his family was captured and suffered a big loss.

After all, Zhang Quanyi's military ability was a little weaker.After Li Hanzhi returned to the army, he immediately counterattacked. Zhang was defeated and retreated to Henan Mansion. After another defeat, he could only hold on with the dilapidated Luoyang City.

Wang Chongying is not interesting enough.After Li Hanzhi's main force went south, he only calmly attacked the troops left by Li Jun and collected the lost ground, but he did not send troops to rescue Zhang Quanyi.

Co-authoring is a disadvantage for honest people!Betrayed by two allies one after another, Zhang Quanyi's mood at this time must be very unusual.

"Didn't the Xuanwu army go to rescue Zhang Quanyi?"

"Zhang Quanyi sent his wife to Bianzhou as a hostage and asked Zhu Quanzhong for help. This is true. But after Zhu Quanzhong sent troops, he found that he could play a big game, so he left Zhang Quanyi and attacked Huaizhou in the north, trying to occupy Ze and Lu in the north. , cut off Li Ke’s army’s way back.” Tao Jiu said: “Kang Junli has 3 cavalry, and Ding Hui has more than [-] cavalry, and there are also many cavalry. The situation is very difficult to control. , Zelu recruited Ding Zhuang, trying to block the Xuanwu army."

"It's all Li Ke's troubles caused by his own mess." Yang Hongwang, a young man who was proud and arrogant, was very disdainful of Li Ke's unbelievable operations, and said: "That is to say, when we enter Henan Mansion, we will not meet Did Li Ke use any troops?"

"The Hedong army is currently in the area of ​​Meng and Huai, and Zhu Quanzhong's main force is also advancing there. When we go to Henan Mansion, there are only Li Hanzhi's soldiers and horses, and maybe some Qin Zongquan's soldiers and horses."

"Qin Zongquan?" Yang Hongwang was taken aback.

"Before Qin Zongquan was trapped in Zhengzhou, Zhu Quanzhong was fighting with the Zhu Xuan brothers at that time, and he had no intention of knowing it. After returning from Yunzhou, Zhu Quanzhong clashed with Wei Bo again, and Qin Zongquan was able to continue to occupy. Knowing that Heyang has changed, the Xuanwu Army When the main force arrived, Qin Zongquan led his army south to Caizhou, but in Zhengzhou and Henan Prefecture, there were still many Cai soldiers wandering in the countryside, raping and plundering everywhere. Many of our horsemen were killed if we were not careful."

"These Cai people!" Yang Hongwang said angrily, "Let's rest here tonight, and tomorrow someone will lead an army into Henan Prefecture. Where are you Ma Xing collecting refugees?"

"The nearest one is in Mianchi County."

"Mianchi is not close to Luoyang, is it? Why not near Luoyang?" Yang Hongwang resolutely stopped talking at this point.Nonsense, of course I dare not!

Luoyang is now the core area of ​​the war, and it is also the area with the most severe damage, but it is also the area where Zhang Quanyi recruits refugees to cultivate the most densely.Of course Datong Maxing knows that the closer it is to Luoyang, the easier it is to get people, but they don't have the strength, so there is nothing they can do.

"Let's rest first, and find two lieutenants to add up."

On the eighth day of April, thousands of Leopard Riders continued eastward.It took about a day and a half to travel through Pandouyi, Hucheng County, Chousangdian, Lingbao County, and Xindian to Shanzhou.

Shanzhou has a branch of Datong Horse Bank, which covers a wide range of areas.After many years of operation, there are many people, but most of them are not here at this time, and went to the two refugee camps in Mianchi and Xin'an.

Most of the soldiers and horses in Shanguo Town have been diverted north to the river. At this time, there are only more than [-] people in Shanzhou City.The large influx of leopard riders made them a little panicked, especially when there was news from the west that about [-] riders were coming along the avenue, and the panic increased.

If the shogunate hadn't sent the news in advance that the Dingnan army was going to cross the border, the people of all counties might have been recruited and fought.

The leopard riders rested in the horse shop for half a day and one night.In the early morning of the [-]th day of the Lunar New Year, after replenishing the fresh water, we continued to move along the avenue.After passing through Shixian (xiá), Shihao Town (the place referred to in "Shihao Officials"), Ganhao Town, Huguo Village, and Tuhao, we arrived at a place called Nanguan in Mianchi County on the afternoon of the [-]th. This is the refugee resettlement camp set up by Datong Mahang.

And at this moment, a group of thousands of infantry was also moving rapidly towards the Mianchi camp.

The leading general's name was Li Duo, and he belonged to Li Hanzhi in Heyang.They came here this time because they heard that there is food in Mianchi—yes, people are also "food" in war-torn places.

After walking for a full three days, Li Duo's men were almost exhausted of the candied food they carried with them. After seeing the dilapidated low wall of the South Pavilion from afar, Li Duo breathed a sigh of relief, and finally had something to eat.

"General, look!" Lieutenant General He Yu (yīn) galloped over, pointing to a small slope in the southwest, and said.

Li Duo set up the awning with his hands, looked against the sun, but saw several horses standing on the slope of the soil.

The knights and horses all wore heavy armor, and under the sun, their bodies shone with silver light.

The hood is very tight, and the face cannot be seen clearly, and the long horse is held in the hand, standing there like a sculpture.

"This is..." Li Duo gasped, and swallowed subconsciously.

More than ten riders appeared on the slope, also wearing heavy armor.

Soon, like a magic trick, dozens of riders turned out on both sides of the slope, and the number was still increasing slowly.

"Don't you come running after us?" Li Duo put down his right hand, he could hardly open his eyes under the dazzling sunlight.

"General, they're moving!" He Yu suddenly screamed, and at the same time quickly pulled out his horse, intending to meet the enemy.

Facing the sun, it's not easy to fight!
"Let's go!" Li Duo also saw it clearly, but he didn't intend to fight, but took the reins of He Yu's horse and walked away.

More than two hundred riders rushed out from both sides of the slope.

Their horses have a strong load-bearing capacity and seem to have good physical strength, and they continue to accelerate during the run.

The protection of their armor is very solid, and the horses in their hands are even more chilly.

Scattered bows and arrows were shot at the body, all of which were blocked by the heavy armor.

The speed of the horse had already reached the extreme, and more than two hundred people slashed towards them like a silver knife and axe.

Like hitting rotten wood, debris flies around.

For the iron harriers, this battle really didn't have any difficulty.

(End of this chapter)