Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 629
Of course, the soldiers of the Flying Dragon Army did not go to pick up Zhu Quanzhong's ancestral grave.Is anyone stupid enough to tell their whereabouts?

They first traveled northward for [-] miles, and arrived at Baimajin, also called Liyangjin, where there were only a dozen veterans.

The guards at the ferry have been transferred to Weinan County next door.There were some old men left, and Qi Bizhang didn't make things difficult for them, and even gave some mustaches to fill these poor hungry people.

After one night in Baimajin, the army continued eastward, bypassing the heavily guarded Weinan County without fighting, and rushed eastward all the way.

On the road, he encountered a group of cavalry from the Liang army who were searching for him. Qi Bizhang ordered to speed up to prevent the night from having many dreams.

The guards at the ferry yelled and were immediately disarmed and then released.

This day is already the sixteenth of March in the second year of Qianning.

The sound of the water outside the ferry is surging, and there are dots of fishing fires on the river.I don't know which fisherman is still busy after nightfall, and the tyrannical government is fiercer than a tiger, probably to cope with the government's reminder to teach.

On the other side of Puyangjin is Dunqiu County of Weibo.In terms of foreign exchanges and business exchanges, this should be the most important ferry nearby, also known as Desheng Ferry.

"Deshengdu is not safe." Qi Bizhang asked people to spread out the already stained map.

He knew very well that Puzhou had been attacked by the Liang people for many years, and a large number of people had been looted. Apart from being able to control the vicinity of the city, Puzhou's defenders were basically in a state of half-abandoned peripheral counties like Puyang.What's more, Liang general Liu Zhijun has already occupied Linpu County, and may go north at any time to threaten Puzhou City.

Puyang, who can guarantee safety?
The sergeants were exhausted, but they couldn't rest.

Some soldiers were assigned the task of going out to guard, and the auxiliary soldiers started a series of trivial logistical tasks.

They dismantled the boards of the ferry barracks and chopped them into firewood for cooking.

Some build hoofs, shoe shoes, and others start—killing horses!
Some horse mules were wasted today, some collapsed on the road, and some persisted to the ferry, but this will not work, and they were killed directly for meat.

When supper was ready, the soldiers brought horsemeat, vinegar cakes, and a jug of wine.

After Qi Bizhang wolfed down his food, he focused on looking at the map again.

Eighty miles to the east of Puyang is the city of Lisuojuan (juàn) in Puzhou, the fiefdom of Cao Zhi in history, and Weibo can be reached by crossing the river in the north.

The governor of Puzhou was still Shao Lun, the family of King Xia, and he was born in the family of a local general in Puzhou.

Sixty miles northeast of Puzhou to Fan County, the seat of Gu State in the Xia Dynasty in the pre-Qin Dynasty, and further east from Fan County, it entered the boundary of Shouzhang County in Yunzhou.

Puyang is actually quite close to Bianzhou.

Starting from Puyang, go southwest, passing through Weicheng and Fengqiu counties, you can reach Chenqiao Station, and this station is only forty miles away from Bianzhou City.

Puzhou goes south, needless to say, to Caozhou and Songzhou.

The distance between the states and counties of the Central Plains is so close!After leaving Tongguan, the further east you go, the denser the towns are, the more populous they are, and they seem to be much richer than Kansai.

If the commander-in-chief still stays in Kansai and does not come out, allowing the heroes of the Kanto to merge, the consequences will be disastrous.There is no need to unify the entire Kanto. If Henan is unified, it will be uncontrollable, and if Hebei is unified, it will be even more uncontrollable.

This is not just a matter of population. The population may look about the same, but with the same population of 100 million, Kanto is much richer than Kansai. It can support long-term wars, and its technology and culture are more advanced.

Qi Bizhang thought for a while, and now the various ministries of the Liang Army should have entered the territory of Huazhou one after another.But he let out the rumor that he was going to Songzhou to pick up Zhu Quanzhong's ancestral grave. No matter what they thought, they felt that they might be lying, but would anyone dare to bet?
Songzhou must be divided, even if it is infantry, it must be sent there.

In addition, Gao Renhou, the recruiter, should have sent the second batch of 5000 Flying Dragon troops across the south of the river, and there may be some fan cavalry, but I don't know where they will sneak south, and what will happen to the deployment of Liang Jun's troops. influences.

By the way, speaking of Fanqi, where did Li Renyu and Tuoba Renfu go?Qi Bizhang decided to send people to Puzhou tomorrow to contact Zhu Xuan's people and ask Tuoba Renfu and Li Renyu, two unprogressive people, to come and see him.

On March [-]th, the two Tibetan generals did not come, but Puyangjin ushered in an unexpected guest: Taining Army Jiedu Zhu Jin.

"I've met Zhu Shuai." Qi Bizhang, who was packing his bags and planning to go to Puzhou City, saluted.

"General Qibi is so polite." Zhu Jin stopped Qibizhang and asked, "The Flying Dragon Army made a big scene in Huazhou. I went to help Yunzhou and heard about General Qibi's feat, but I don't know where I want to go now?"

Qi Bizhang hesitated for a while, and said: "I want to go to Puzhou to supply some grain, horse mules, arrows, and medicinal materials, and then go to Caozhou. After watching the Liang army go, I will make more calculations."

Zhu Jin also hesitated for a moment, and said: "Tuoba Renfu and Li Renyu, don't bother looking for them. They took their troops to Qizhou, sometimes plundering De and Di, sometimes Zi, Qing, I am very happy. A few days ago, the whole army assembled and went to Dizhou, and it seems that they will not leave."

"This gang of thieves!" Qi Bizhang gritted his teeth and said, "They don't even want their family members anymore, thieves are thieves!"

"I don't blame them." Zhu Jin smiled and said, "Wei Bo doesn't allow them to borrow, so they can only stay in Yun and Qi, and there is no way out. There is one thing that General Qibi probably doesn't know yet. The troops were withdrawn from the city of Youzhou. Because the situation in Youzhou was unstable, Lu Wenjin and Shan Keji persuaded Wang Rong to take advantage of the opportunity to rebel. Ke Yong realized that something was wrong and prepared to go back to suppress it. Therefore, more than 3 people led by Zhang Cunjing and Ge Congzhou may return at any time Hua, Zheng, if General Qibi returns to Huazhou, he will suffer a lot."

"I don't know about that." Qi Bizhang thanked him.

"It's too dangerous to go back to Huazhou today. In fact, as General Qibi said, if he enters Caozhou at the right time, and then breaks into Song and Bo, it will definitely cause chaos in Quanzhong." Zhu Jin said: "If General Qibi doesn't If you mind, I also want to take two thousand sons and go south to Caozhou to kill some thieves for fun."

To use "play" to describe killing, perhaps only Zhu Jin can say that.

He was born as a cavalry general, he is good at spears, and his archery skills are also very good.

Historically, after defecting to Huainan, the sharp archer An Renyi once boasted: "(M) Zhicheng's ten bows should not be one of (Zhu) Jin's bows; (Zhu) Jin's ten of them should not be one of (An) Renyi's bows."

This An Renyi put gold on his face, but it also showed from the side that Zhu Jin's Ma Qiang was indeed very powerful, at least in Huainan, he stood out from the crowd.

Xu Zhixun, Xu Wen's son, once learned the art of war from Zhu Jin, and Zhu Jin taught him carefully, which shows that he is also quite capable in military command, but he doesn't know what happened to being repeatedly defeated by Liang Jun.

Of course foot combat is also good.After Xu Zhixun learned the art of war from Zhu Jin, he saw the famous horse awarded to Zhu Jin by Yang Xingmi. He liked it very much and demanded it.Zhu Jin refused, so Xu Zhixun selected several assassins to assassinate Zhu Jin at night, Zhu Jin killed all of them on the spot and buried them in the backyard.

Was assassinated in the middle of the night, caught off guard without even wearing armor, drew out his sword and fought with the assassin, one against several, and even killed people one by one, this martial art is really amazing, it is actually excellent in both foot combat and cavalry combat .

"Zhu Shuai wants to go with him, but Zhang can't ask for it. But, doesn't Zhu Shuai need to go back to Yanzhou?" Qi Bizhang asked.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Jin sighed, and said: "Since Guangqi, I have been either on the way to rescue Xuzhou, or on the way to rescue Yunzhou, or fight against Liang thieves. How many days are there in Yanzhou all year round? I'm used to it. My brother doesn't want to be with you anymore. Quanzhong fought, but I still can't let go and want to try."

Qi Bizhang glanced at Zhu Jin, what a formidable young man!
Yes, Qi Bizhang is in his 20s this year, but Zhu Jin, who became the military governor of the Taining Army at the age of 29, is not yet [-] years old. He is in his best years and the most unconvinced.

Is it strange that he wanted to beat Zhu Quanzhong?Before Zhu Xuan didn't want to fight, Zhu Jin was very disappointed, but now that he met Qi Bizhang, it aroused his thoughts again, so he came up with the proposal just now.

"Forget it." Qi Bizhang said: "Since Zhu Shuai wants to go south, I also have a few helpers, which is very good. King Xia has used troops for many years, and this year he mobilized more than [-] troops to attack Quanzhong from the north and the south. Live, defeat is a matter of time."

"I don't have any other thoughts, just cut off Quanzhong's dog's head." Zhu Jin said with a smile: "Let's go south together and kill him upside down."

……

As Gao Renhou sent a second wave of troops to Henan, and Li Tangbin stepped up his offensive against Xin'an County, the situation on Liang Jun's northern front suddenly became tense.

On the southern front, large-scale warfare has been going on for several days.

In the big camp on the west bank of Pishui, food and grass had been stockpiled enough for two months.Liang Jun's brigade began to look for opportunities to cross the river, but was discovered several times, but failed.

They had no choice but to forcibly cross the river downstream, while camping and building a village upstream to build a pontoon bridge.

On the vast land, Shao Shude got on his horse, pushed Chen Cheng's hand away from the rein, laughed and rode away.

The soldiers roared to keep up, roaring like thunder.

Chen Cheng was so angry that he stomped his feet repeatedly, but soon he smiled helplessly. He secretly called the two men and asked them to bring a few empty horses and catch up with the commander.

A group of Liang soldiers had already crossed the river on the bank of Pishui River.

Leading the way was a group of old soldiers who looked fierce and resistant to battle.When they were discovered, more than [-] people had crossed over, quickly formed a small formation, and slowly pushed outward, opening up space for the following people.

The infantry of the Qianxia army rushed to them, and after hastily forming a formation, they rushed to kill them.

But what's outrageous is that they came down from the high hills, occupying a favorable location, and there were more people, but they were gradually pushed back by the Liang people who had only one-third of their number, and they couldn't stand.

"Shi Shucong!" At the critical moment, more than a hundred riders rushed up and shouted in unison.

Liang Ren, who was advancing against the wall, was taken aback for a moment, and someone in the back row subconsciously looked around.

"Shi Dutou is supervising the battle on the east bank, brothers, don't be fooled by the bandits, kill them!" a military academy yelled.

"Whoosh!" An arrow flew out, hitting the person's face.

Liangren Military Academy felt something was wrong at the last moment, and subconsciously wanted to hide, but the arrow came too fast, piercing the eye socket, and fell to the ground after a scream.

"Uncle Shi!" Shao Shude didn't signal this time, but the soldiers spontaneously shouted.

"There!" Shao Shude laughed loudly, raised his hand and shot an arrow, hitting another person.

After shooting, he turned his horse's head and galloped sideways.

"Shi Shucong!" Li Zhong waved the big banner, almost shouting out of breath.

"Uncle Shi!" The soldiers shouted in unison, almost drowning out the sound of horses' hooves.

"There!" Another arrow flew out, hitting a Liang army warrior.

This man stripped off his armor, bare his flesh and charged forward, holding an epee, and chopped down two soldiers of the Xia Army in succession, which was unstoppable.

The arrow flew over with a sharp whistling sound, piercing hard into his chest and abdomen.The man staggered two steps and fell to the ground.

The soldiers also drew their bows and fired a round of arrows.

Suddenly being attacked from the flanks, even though Liang Jun was fierce, he was a little confused.

After Xia Jun stabilized, these Cai people also broke out fiercely, roaring and launched a counterattack.

The ebb and flow of morale gave them the upper hand and began to push Liang Ren back.

Shao Shude no longer cared about the Liang army that had charged the furthest, and instead took his own soldiers and rode his horse to the place where the Liang army crossed the river.

He drew an arrow with his right hand and held it high.

"Uncle Shi!" The shouts have never been so loud.

"Whoosh!" Liang Jun's drummer on the bank of the river fell to the ground.

Another feathered arrow was raised high above the top.

"Uncle Shi!"

"He's dead!" Shao Shude let go of his hand, and the arrow flew out. Liang Junzhe Qi screamed and died. The other person was caught off guard and let the banner fall down.

"Uncle Shi is dead!" Cheers resounded throughout the field.

Seeing the bravery of the coach, the recruits of the Cai people became more and more morale, and the remaining nervousness was thrown away, and some jerky movements became extremely smooth.

They roared and rushed to kill, and the Liang army in front of them was defeated steadily, until they collapsed to the river.

There was already a second wave of seven or eight hundred Liang Jun crossing the river by the river bank, all of them were Tutuan villagers from Chuzhou.

Just now Shao Shude shot and killed the drummer and the standard bearer with two arrows, it was already a bit chaotic, and the veterans who had returned from their own side would rush in and add chaos to the chaos.

Cai Ren's new recruits were relentless, and they rushed Liang Ren into the river like fierce tigers on the mountain.

Liang Jun broke down crying and jumped into the Pishui, trying to swim across the other bank.But Shouzhou had just had two days of heavy rain, and the river rose three feet overnight, making the water turbid and turbulent. These people splashed a few times, and soon they were swept downstream along with the silt, dead branches and leaves, and gradually disappeared.

The killing on the river bank continued.

The Cai people became violent, especially bloodthirsty and cruel. Liang Jun wanted to surrender, but he was quickly chopped into a meat paste by random knives.

The rest of the people gave up hope, except for a few lucky ones who grabbed the ferry and rowed to the opposite bank, most of them rushed to jump into the river and completely collapsed.

Shao Shude glanced at the battlefield and turned his horse around.

Zheng Yong had just arrived with more than a thousand people, and witnessed this hearty victory with his own eyes, and his mood was surging.

Shao Shude held his riding bow high and roared past.

Wherever they went, the sergeants shot the ground with their guns, their eyes following the bright red cloak, and they cheered endlessly.

Zheng Yong looked at the lord enviously.He is the military envoy of this army, and he has been training hard for the past month. He lives in the barracks, so it can be said that he shares weal and woe.But now it seems that it is King Xia who has won the military spirit. The importance of personal force can be seen.

I heard that Li Keyong of Jinyang is also very popular in the army, maybe it has something to do with him often fighting on the front line?
His eldest son, Li Luoluo, is currently serving as a cavalry commander. He also likes to take the lead and often leads the charge.Such a lord is indeed easy to win the morale of the army, and can better control the army.

"The thieves are defeated, our army will surely win!" Zheng Yonggao raised the iron mace in his hand and shouted.

"We must win! We must win!"

The uniform roar crossed the river and spread to the opposite bank.

The real Uncle Shi stood on the high slope, he snorted coldly when he saw this, and ordered to hit the gong to stop crossing the river.

Although crossing the river has always been a difficult problem, there were not many people who faced Jiahe in ancient times, but he couldn't break through the defense line of [-] recruits, which really made him feel a little embarrassed.

But this was the first trial attack, and he would think about it next time, and he must go to the other side of the Pishui River.

(End of this chapter)