Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 667: Dark Clouds Overcome the City
Outside Xingluo warehouse, the sound of killing shook the sky.

The Hezhong Ya army was divided into five groups of 2000 people, and they took turns to attack Cangcheng.

When a group is defeated, a group of people will be replaced, never stopping, and not giving the enemies in the city time to breathe.

The bloody head was thrown on the ground, and the blood flowed horizontally, which was shocking.

The [-] Chishui Army infantry stood ready in formation, and killed them when they saw a rout, forcing the sergeants in the river to confront the defenders head-on.

In the evening of the battle, the last batch of Hezhong troops collapsed.

With a big wave of Fan He's hand, arrows were fired in front of the formation, shooting dozens of the fastest runners to the ground.

"Don't treat us as human beings, fight with them!"

"Brothers, Wang Yao eats inside and out, and doesn't care about the life of our He Zhongerlang, kill Wang Yao, kill Shao Shude!"

"When is the end of this day, it is better to fight to the death!"

"Go home! Go home!"

The sound of rumbling horseshoes sounded, and a thousand cavalry rushed into the crowd of rout soldiers, chopping with knives and axes, and more than a hundred people died in an instant.

The rest of the people were a little sober after being shocked by such a shock, and did not dare to make any more noise.

Some officers stepped forward, kicked and scolded these people, and dragged them down for rectification.

Fan He glanced at the Hezhong Yajun who still had more than [-] men, snorted coldly, and said, "Yumen Army, go!"

"Obey!" Long Run replied loudly.

Seeing Xia Jun's brutal methods against the sergeants in Hezhong, the first batch of more than a thousand Yumen sergeants who set off felt apprehensive and did not dare to moisten.

"The red-haired army is here!" Xingluo Cangcheng exclaimed, and the two sides quickly exchanged hands.

At the same time, outside the city of Gong County in the northwest corner, Liang Jun rushed out of the city for a while, but was soon driven back by Chishui Army infantry.

They were too timid at the beginning to go out of the city to fight against the huge Xia army, which numbered in the tens of thousands. After the trenches were dug and the trench walls erected, it was a bit difficult for them to go out to attack.

Three thousand infantrymen of the Chishui Army led tens of thousands of peasants from the Tutuan, and with the assistance of the cavalry, they repelled the tentative attacks of the Gong County defenders twice.However, it seems that they are not very anxious, and they may still be playing a solid defense, waiting for the main force to come to help them.

"The troops are still insufficient." Fan He sighed.

Of course, he also knew that his complaint was unreasonable.There are more than one hundred thousand people, and they still complain about the lack of troops. Isn't this nonsense?The ones who are really few may be the Yajun with stronger combat effectiveness. He really doesn't have many on hand, and there are not too many on Fu Cunshen's side, which adds up to only 3 to [-].

Ten thousand people of the Tianxiong Army have just crossed the river, commanding the peasants of the Tutuan to transfer and distribute food, grass and equipment, and they have not officially entered the battle yet.

As for whether there is a reserve team, there are indeed. There are still two thousand Fan soldiers in Huaizhou, and more than 400 armored cavalry from Leopard Cavalry have also arrived in Mengzhou. That's all.

I heard that Lu Huaizhong, envoy of the Wuwei Army, has led his troops eastward, and Li Ren's headquarters of the Heyuan Army has also set off to advance in the direction of Shanzhou, and they should join Heyang in this direction.

In the two prefectures of Jinjiang and Jiangxi, only the second army of Wuxing and Guzhen plus more than 3000 guards and pro-guards remained. There were also 3 guards and pro-guards in Wangwu County, and [-] Zhen Guojun with poor combat effectiveness in Tongguan.This is a total of more than [-] steps, and it should not move.

Basically, all the troops that could be invested were invested, the lion fought the rabbit, and attacked with all its strength. If it was not enough, Fan He didn't know how to fight this battle.

Grab time!

Thinking of this section, he set his sights on the Heyang Tutuan villager who was resting.

Is the land so easy to get?Go up and attack the city in a while.

"General, there are bandit rangers appearing outside Yingzi Valley." The scouts kept coming forward and reporting the news from all parties.

Yingzi Valley is twenty miles east of Gong County, the road is dangerous and narrow, the stockade has been built, and the town is building a city.Those who guard the village are Tutuan villagers from Heqing and Wangwu counties. They have all experienced the tragic offensive and defensive battle in the spring and summer of the fifth year of Dashun. The "fighter" in Tutuan Village.

Twenty miles east of Yingzi Valley is Sishui County, which was Chenggao County in Han Dynasty.There is Xuanmen Pass ten miles southwest of the county. On the Xuanmen Ban, one of the eight passes in Luoyang in the late Han Dynasty is the Nanxiakou of Hulao Pass. The locations and names of the gates in different dynasties are different, such as Xuanmen Pass, Chenggao Pass, Hulao Pass and Sishui Pass basically refer to one place.

Sishui County and Xuanmen Pass are guarded by Liang soldiers, and they will not give up on such an important place.

"Don't worry about those stragglers, continue to build the city." Fan He ordered without hesitation.

"There is a bandit army in Yanshi County, and they went out and then retreated." Another scout reported.

"There must be an attack on the back road, continue to monitor." Fan He dared not go further without taking down Gong County and Xingluo Cang, but if Luoyang bandits attacked at this time, he would also feel very troublesome.

"The Tianxiong Army did not have a Tibetan military envoy to inquire about the situation of the battle..."

"Let him go to help save the trial."

"Leopard riders are about to cross the river..."

"Let them go to Baimapo."

After one piece of news like this followed, Fan He quickly processed it, and turned his attention to Xingluocang again.

The red-haired savages of the Yumen Army had already attacked the city.

After all, Xingluocang is Cangcheng, a non-professional military town, and it is located in the southeast of Gong County on the Nanyuan. The terrain is flat and not too difficult to capture.But still the same sentence, it takes time, and what is being robbed now is time.

……

Qi Bifan led a thousand cavalry from Uighur and Tuyuhun to the northwest suburb of Luoyang.

Hundreds of local peasants who hastily assembled were marching, and they were rushed away by them, causing more than a hundred casualties.

When they went around to the chan (chán) Jian post in the west of Luoyang City, they encountered a team of more than [-] Tutuan peasants, killed them again, and beheaded dozens of them.

After interrogating the captives, Qi Bifan and others soon learned of Hu Zhen's plan: It turns out that the city lacks troops, and this fellow wants to recruit soldiers!
So the question is, what does he enlist for?

Guard Luoyang?Can that dilapidated small town survive?If you go on an expedition, where will you go?Considering common sense, the most likely one is Baimapo, the place where the Tiande army built a fortress, trying to communicate with the Liang soldiers in the southern city of Heyang.

The news spread back quickly, and Qi Bifan even added his personal opinion: It is advisable to transfer the Tianxiong Army and the Leopard Cavalry to go south to defeat the bandit army and attack Luoyang while winning.

After the messenger was dispatched, he did not waste time, and continued to wander around Henan County with a thousand cavalrymen in the western suburbs of Luoyang, collecting food and grass, and aggressively attacked the small group of local villagers who were weak in combat effectiveness.He even sent a small group of people to enter the Xiaohan Valley Road westward to threaten the rear of the Xin'an County defenders-from a purely military point of view, these cavalry could not threaten the rear of the Liang Army stationed in Xin'an County, but In terms of morale, the damage is huge.

In Luoyang City, the atmosphere is already very dignified.

Hu Zhen is neatly dressed and has decided to go out.

It is very difficult to defend Luoyang in such a dilapidated state. The only chance now is to go north to Mangshan, fight against the bandits, and contact the Huo Cun tribe trapped in the southern city of Heyang.

After careful calculation, they actually had quite a lot of troops in Luoyang, but they were divided, and each department had its own difficulties, so they couldn't form a whole to fight, and they were extremely passive.

There is no way to move, so I can only break the situation with strength, and hope that it will happen.

In addition, I hope that Kou Yanqing can repel the bandit army going south from the Luokou area, otherwise he will die.

"Inspector Duan, why are you back? What did Xu Huaiyu say?" Before leaving, Hu Zhen bumped into Duan Ning again and asked.

Duan Ning was sent by him to Xin'an County in the west to contact the guard Xu Huaiyu to find out what kind of regulations he is.

Xu Huaiyu is also an old man from Yuan Cong of King Liang, and his qualifications are not inferior to that of Hu Zhen, but he has made less meritorious deeds and is brave and intrepid. In addition, King Liang likes to use newcomers and doesn't like old generals so much, so he walks a little slower than him .

"General Xu said that the commander-in-chief Li Tangbin has stepped up his offensive, so he can't withdraw. Once he withdraws, his morale will be shaken, and he is afraid of a repeat of the old incident." Duan Ning replied: "On the way back, I saw Xia's bandit cavalry heading west in the distance. and go."

"how many?"

"Two or three hundred rides."

Hu Zhen relaxed slightly, and sighed: "If the situation is like this, we are all guilty. There is no other way now, but to die to repay the king."

Duan Ning was also a little touched when she heard the words, and sighed inaudibly.

"I don't know what's going on in Shazha City..." Hu Zhen was a little worried again.

The envoys sent to Shazha City have not come back yet, there are Wudu Infantry Army of Youguo Army, plus thousands of Tutuan peasants, the force is about the same as that of Xin'an County, the guard has a special status, he is the son of Zhu Cun, the second brother of King Liang Zhu Youning.

Zhu Cun and Liang Wang followed Huang Chao to revolt together, and they all know each other.Later, when attacking Guangzhou, Zhu Cun died in battle.Liang Wang Zhenbian took his family back from Xiao County. The two nephews Youlun and Youning born of the second brother both went to the army to practice.

Zhu Youning has made some contributions, fought Qin Zongquan with King Liang, and was sent to Luoyang the year before last. It was both training and surveillance, and Hu Zhenxin knew it well.

"Forget it! The battle situation is complicated and confusing, and the black clouds of bandits and soldiers are overwhelming the city. I can't control too much." Hu Zhen stomped his feet and shook his head. With Huo Cun, let's all live in peace."

Conscripting [-] troops in nearby counties did not go well to be honest.The main reason was that Xia Zei cavalry harassed the people, and the common people ran away one after another. They couldn't find so many people at once, and only gathered [-] people.

Hu Zhen mobilized elite soldiers from the three capitals of the Youguo Army, and led the four thousand peasants from the Tutuan to the north in a tragic way.

7000 people, each holding dry food for several days, had no plans to fight for a long time, and it turned out to be a one-shot deal.

"Oh!" Duan Ning sighed again, and walked home.

He is not very optimistic about Hu Zhen's prospect of going north.Since Xia thief dared to go out of Baimapo, between Luoyang and Heyang South City, he must have made a good plan.Besides, it has been a long time, their camp should have been very strong, the [-] soldiers mixed with old and new, most likely will be smashed to the ground.

On the way home, I ran into the governor Ma Sixun.

This gentleman is from Haozhou, and his family has been a civil servant in the state army for generations, handling various clerical work.He was no exception. His son inherited his father's career, and he was familiar with the scriptures. He was very eloquent and eloquent, which was highly valued by the governor Zhang Sui.

Of course, he also practiced martial arts, and was good at using Modao, epee, and long spear.After Haozhou was captured by Yang Xingmi, Ma Sixun fled back to Bianzhou with hundreds of people. Liang Wang took pity on him and appointed him as the governor of the Bianzhou military government. Hundreds of veteran subordinates were also incorporated into the Youguo Army.

Now there are two infantry troops left in the city, and they are temporarily led by Ma Sixun.

Duan Ning thought for a while, took a deep breath, and greeted her.

(End of this chapter)