Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 748 The Second Time

Zhu Quanzhong personally put on the head of the city.

Many light cavalry appeared on the field outside the city.They galloped across the field, sometimes gathered, sometimes dispersed.

The wheat seedlings have been trampled terribly, and next year's summer harvest looks like it will be greatly affected.

To be honest, it wasn't intentional, but that's how wars are, and killing them doesn't really matter that much.

Moreover, the fields are indeed level and suitable for marching by infantry and light cavalry.

"There must be more than [-] riders." Zhu Quanzhong made a rough estimate, and said, "Shao Bandit is becoming more and more hopeless. Letting his horses go south and wreaking havoc on the Central Plains, how can such bandits last long?"

Jing Xiang and the others followed behind, echoing again and again, with a reserved smile on their faces, but the smile seemed stiff no matter how you looked at it.

Everyone knows that this is the second time that Xia Bandit has approached outside the city of Bianzhou.

From a military point of view, Bianzhou is really bad. It is located in the center of the flat plain, and there is no danger to defend.Once the cavalry breaks in, how to defend is a huge problem.

Moreover, if the Bianzhou defenders had no fighting spirit, they might have surrendered directly, which is the worst.Fortunately, there is a long straight army in the city now, this is Dinghaishenzhen.Not only can they defend the city, but they can also fight in the outskirts of the city, driving the enemy away and preventing them from getting too close.As for places further away, there is nothing we can do. After all, Bianzhou is very important and cannot be lost.

"You don't have to worry too much." Zhu Quanzhong looked at the faces of his confidants and said with a smile, "I have made a plan. In a few days, the Caozhou and Suzhou battalions will be able to dispatch a group of soldiers and horses. Especially cavalry."

The Desheng army on the left and right had a full strength of [-] horses, many of which were damaged in battle, but they tried their best to make up for it, and there were still [-] horses, but the whole army only had more than [-] horses, which was a little short.

The two armies of pro-riding and catching students are full of thousands of cavalry, but now they are incomplete, with one nine hundred and one eight hundred.In Tabai City, there are only six or seven hundred riders now.After fighting for six or seven years, for the Xuanwu Army, the cavalry was the most difficult to replenish.

Jing Xiang was a little surprised when he heard the words, but he remained calm and thought secretly.

Why can't the soldiers in the Caozhou and Suzhou camps be transferred?Because the right wing of the Flying Dragon Army led by the thief general Liang Hanyong is in that direction.The width of [-] miles from south to north is full of endless plains. People just find any wheat fields and insert them obliquely. After a few days of harassment, they will run away. They must garrison a large army for defense.

In fact, this is not enough.Because each of them has more than one horse, and the Liang Jun cavalry has only one war horse, and they can't catch up after chasing them.Therefore, the best way is to let Zhu Xuan expel Liang Hanyong's troops, and prevent them from using the Tianping Army as a base to rest and replenish, and then harass the Liang prefectures.

If possible, the Taining army had better close the gate to Liang Hanyong, so that the threat from the east would be abolished, and more troops could be recruited to move westward to fill the extremely empty hinterland of Bian Song and Bo Ying.

"Shao Bandit doesn't know about soldiers." Zhu Quanzhong laughed again: "If I were to change places with him, all the people outside the city would have been plundered by now."

Zhu Quanzhong had done this matter of plundering the people many times in Yun and Yaner towns before, and this factor was involved in the establishment of the arresting army.

As for the massacre of common people, that is absolutely unfeasible.At least so far, except for the idiot Qin Zongquan, others have been extremely restrained in massacring and even massacring the city. It can be said that there is almost no.

With the low moral bottom line of warriors, it sounds unbelievable, but it is true.In the last few decades of the late Tang Dynasty, this kind of situation only happened once, that is, Zhu Youning drove the people of Bochang to fill the ravine and attack the city.

Are warriors cruel?brutal.But why not kill people and even massacre cities at will?Confusing.

It may be because the common people have no martial arts at all. If you plunder, they can bear it and even cooperate.But Tucheng is about to be besieged by crowds.

"My lord, the thieves have invaded the hinterland of Bianzhou. It is best to drive them out." Jing Xiang said: "It is not a problem to let them loot around like this. I heard that the original Wu County of Zhengzhou has been looted." How do you know that Xia's bandits don't come to Bianzhou to plunder people?"

"The Desheng army has come to the west." Zhu Quanzhong said briefly.

The left and right Desheng troops are cavalry. To deal with the Xia bandits running around, they can only use cavalry.The infantry usually needs several times more troops to catch some of them, and the cost is too high, not to mention that they can't mobilize troops at all.

"Your Majesty, relying on the Desheng Army alone may not be enough." Jing Xiang said seriously: "My servant, please send the elite troops out of the city to cooperate with the Desheng Army to mop up the thieves who invaded Zheng and Bian. Most of the thieves are from the countryside. Bravery does not have the determination to fight to the death, so it can be planned. If the troops are insufficient, Ge Cong Zhou Longwu's army can also be transferred to support."

Zhu Quanzhong was silent.

Suddenly there was a burst of warm cheers outside the city.

Everyone on the top of the city looked around, only to see a cavalryman from the Xia Army shoot left and right, shooting down two scouts from the Liang Army.Seeing that the third person couldn't escape, he immediately turned around to fight, Xia Qi slapped his horse to meet him, and confronted him tit for tat.

"Huh!" When the two riders approached for dozens of steps, a short spear was thrown like lightning.

Liang Jun's scouts were caught off guard and were shot off their horses.

Xia Jun's cavalry jumped down lightly, drew out the iron sword at his waist, grabbed Liang Ren's helmet, and wiped it horizontally, blood gushed out immediately.

"General Wang is mighty!"

"General Wang killed three thieves in a row, who can compare with this ability?"

"I, Gao Youqing, also killed a thief. Does no one recognize me?"

"What bullshit King Liang? With such a great reputation, he turned out to be a coward."

"I've been sent to Bianzhou for the second time, and I'm not ashamed? Does this seem to be possible? Liang Jun brothers, just tie Zhu Quanzhong and surrender."

Wave after wave of sound sounded not far away.Zhu Quanzhong's expression remained unchanged, but the defenders became angry with embarrassment. The crossbows on the top of the city fired again and again, driving Xia Jun's rangers far away.

Zhu Quanzhong went down to the top of the city as if nothing had happened.

Jing Xiang who was following behind him suddenly said: "Your Majesty, the Xia thief must have known about the emptiness of Bianzhou, so he sent many horsemen to provoke me and lure me to encircle and suppress them. It couldn’t be better. Now we still have to hold our breath, if Your Majesty doesn’t want to send a long straight army to fight, and the Shenwu Eighth Army has practiced for more than a year, you can order them to garrison in Wansheng Town, Suanzao County and other places to limit the ability of the thieves to move.”

In fact, regarding the encirclement and suppression of the cavalry of the Xia Army, Zhu Zhen of Caozhou once proposed a quite effective plan, that is, to use the obstacles of rivers to divide the defense areas, and a certain number of troops will be stationed in each defense area, and the whole will brake quietly and slowly. Slow cutting, reducing the range of activities of the Xia Army cavalry.

Jing Xiang thought it was right, but after a careful calculation, it took a lot of troops, even doubling the total strength of the Cao and Su battalions was not enough.Now he suggested to transfer the recruits of the Shenwu Eighth Army to guard the traffic nodes, but it was actually Zhu Zhen's old trick.

The so-called delimiting the river to enclose the land, using static braking, and then sending mobile forces to pursue and suppress it is also true.

"Shenwu Eighth Army..." Zhu Quanzhong hesitated, but he was still not at ease.

They are all a bunch of recruits, who have been trained for more than a year and have never fought a war. Will it be useful?

Jing Xiang observed his words and expressions, and immediately said: "Your Majesty, you must not send the soldiers and horses of the Yingshui Camp to the north, the Xia bandits are staring at you."

After arriving at the person, Zhu Quanzhong finally sighed.

Xia thief wanted to eat Pang Shigu's tribe, he had already seen it.At the end of May, the bandit army swarmed into Ruzhou, but most of them were concentrated in Linru and Liang counties, deliberately lingering and not entering, so where did they come from?Hehe, don't you want to attract Pang Shigu's army to go west and fight with him?
Zhu Quanzhong is sure that once Pang Shigu enters Ruzhou westward, Xia Bandit will definitely retreat step by step, and even lose two small-scale games, attracting Pang Shigu's more than 10 troops to the vicinity of Yique Pass.Afterwards, all the soldiers and horses in Yangzhai direction were sent out to control Yingshui and Rushui, cut off the ancient grain road of Pangshi, Zhezongben's Weisheng army marched northward again, and attacked Li Tangbin's north and south, and wiped out all the [-] horses in Ru State.

Once Bandit Xia succeeds, Zhu Quanzhong will become like Zhu Xuan, Zhu Jin, and Shi Pu, who can only defend the city to the death, without the ability to fight back, and will be attacked at any time.

Xia Bandit was patient, they even deliberately waited for three months, but they didn't wait for Pang Shigu to go west, but saw him overhauling the camps and fortresses and strengthening the Yingshui line of defense, so they couldn't help but go south and east.The two armies faced each other across the Yingshui River, and the stalemate lasted for more than two months.During the period, there were dozens of battles, each with thousands of casualties.

The battle of Yingshui is related to the fate of both Xia and Liang, and it can be said to be a decisive battle.

For some reason, Zhu Quanzhong thought of Shi Pu.

In the first year of Wende (888), Zhu Zhen led an army to attack Xuzhou, and Shi Pu led [-] cavalry to fight against it. The two sides fought in Wukang Town.

The mobilization of 7 horses was almost a decisive battle for Shi Pu.As a result, Zhu Zhen defeated the Xu army, and Shi Pu fled back to Xuzhou in a hurry with the defeated generals. The main force of Xu town was wiped out with casualties along the way.

If Liang Jun's last mobile force is wiped out in Yingshui, can he continue to persist for five years like Shi Pu?

Of course, death on the spot is unlikely.This is the era when Wufu ruled the country, and it is not so easy to be destroyed.In other dynasties, after the failure of the decisive battle, they basically perished. Local prefectures and counties can be passed down, but the national dynasty can't. This may be the only aspect that is beneficial to Bianzhou.

But in any case, even if Yingshui wins, it cannot be defeated.The consequences of a fiasco were too severe to bear.

"The situation in Keying and Caizhou is critical, how to solve it?" Zhu Quanzhong asked: "In the area of ​​Bian and Zheng, I can let the bandits run, and I can tolerate the bandits entering the city of Bianzhou. Even if people's hearts fluctuate, there will be no immediate trouble. But Yingzhou is empty, who can stop the Weisheng army and the Huaining army?"

"Your Majesty, you can send all the soldiers and horses of the Suzhou camp to the west. There is no need to defend the east, and you can't." Jingxiang said: "Now the strong men have to cut their wrists to have a chance of victory."

Zhu Quanzhong thought for a long time in silence, and then said: "I want to send an envoy to Yunzhou to report my interests to Zhu Xuan, how about it?"

"Yes." Jing Xiang said: "If Zhu Xuan can be persuaded, the bandits will have nowhere to go. They must return to the town by way, or turn against Zhu Xuan and attack Puzhou and Yunzhou. Either way is a good thing. On the other hand , Huainan also needs to send envoys. The Huai people have repeatedly failed to attack Anzhou, which is meaningless. Now we can persuade Xingmi to invest the main force and then attack Shouzhou. retreat."

"I didn't expect that now I can't suppress Shao thief by myself." Zhu Quanzhong laughed at himself: "Even if I want to find him, I can't find a chance."

"In the battle, undefeated is the most important thing. In the past when Emperor Taizong challenged Xue Rengao, the main forces of the two armies fought for more than [-] days. Rengao repeatedly challenged, Taizong made deep trenches and high fortifications, strictly prohibited the soldiers from fighting, and finally won a big victory. Now, The main force of the Xia bandits' Luoyang camp has already arrived at Yingshui, so the most important thing to compare at this time is patience." Jing Xiang persuaded: "There is still a chance. If the main force of the Xia bandits can be wiped out by [-] in the Yingshui war, the towns of Tang and Guang will be terrified. , Ruzhou is back in my hands."

Jing Xiang spoke nicely, but Zhu Quanzhong was not very happy when he heard it.It turns out that Yingshui's victory can only make Xia thief spit out of Ruzhou, but it can't reverse the current situation?Will it continue to be passive?When did Shao thief accumulate so many advantages step by step?

"Send missions to Yun and Yang as soon as possible." Zhu Quanzhong said irritably, "This situation can't be dragged on for too long. The longer it drags on, the bigger the Xia thief's advantage."

　On May [-]st, we entered the stage of closed production, laying the ground floor, and the time was a little tight.

　　Conditions are too poor.You can't even see an ambulance selling cigarettes.

　　In addition, thank you for your rewards, there should be two chapters left.Find time to make up for it these days.

　　
　
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