Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 753 Sticking
Pang Shigu boarded the high platform in the camp and carefully observed the battle situation between the two sides.

On the white grassland, a Xia army left the camp and marched forward.

One of their allies has just been routed.The Liang army who came across the river invited to fight, and the Jinglue army sent hundreds of people to fight, but was defeated by hundreds of soldiers of the enemy's long sword army.

Guan Kairun, envoy of the Jinglue Army, was furious, and personally led 500 people to fight, and finally defeated the Liang people.The broken soldiers retreated along the pontoon bridge, and the two sides stopped their troops again.

Near Yingqiao Town, north of Baiprairie, part of the Dingyuan Army crossed the river to the east, and the Burning Liang Army guarded two small stockades, and defeated a group of Liang Army infantry who rushed in hastily, capturing more than ten people and returning.

Small-scale battles that have never subsided!

"The summer thief is so tightly glued." Pang Shigu patted the railing lightly, frowning and muttering to himself.

The four armies of Dingyuan, Jinglue, Guide, and Huguo are the names of Xia Bandits on the other side of Yingshui that have been heard for a long time, with a total of more than 3 people.In addition, there are [-] Tutuan peasants from Henan Prefecture, Hezhong Prefecture and Heyang Township.

Liang Jun's troops deployed to the east of Yingshui were mainly Jianrui, Changjian, and Kuangwei, plus Tutuan villagers, totaling more than 5 people.

There is not much difference in the strength of the two sides, and the combat effectiveness and equipment of the sergeants are also similar. Except for a small difference in morale, everything else is really similar.

Therefore, no one is sure to defeat the other party in a large-scale field battle.

But there was no big war, but the small war never stopped.And this kind of small battle is also an important means of spying on the opponent's intelligence, inquiring about the composition of the opponent's force, and testing its combat effectiveness.Otherwise, they secretly changed the weak soldiers to guard the stronghold, and transferred the elite soldiers away, but you don't know it, which may bring a fatal crisis.

Pang Shigu had a feeling that in recent days, Xia Bandit's "sticky energy" has come up, constantly sending men to harass Liang Jun on the other side of the river, as if he was very worried that they would abandon their camp and leave.

The battle between the infantry arrays of the two sides in front of me is still a small scene.The real big scene was that the Xia bandits sent many Fan cavalry, after crossing Yingshui, they went deep into the vicinity of Xuzhou to harass their logistics and grain roads.

Fortunately, the main force is not all deployed on the Yingshui line, and there are still troops available in the rear, so the food road will not be cut off.I just find it a bit annoying, Xia Zei cavalry is too arrogant!
"Dutou, Po Xiajun and Luoyan have left Xuzhou and headed for Chenzhou." Zhang Shensi climbed onto the high platform, walked to Pang Shigu's side, and said.

"Where are Dai Siyuan and Yang Shihou?" Pang Shigu asked.

"Dai Siyuan had already left Chenzhou and arrived in Yancheng via Yanling. Yang Shihou was stationed in Shangcai County, and he always asked for equipment and rewards on the grounds that the bandit army was powerful." Zhang Shensi said.

Pang Shigu nodded slightly.

Zhang Shensi did not add fuel to the cake.In fact, he has truthfully stated the situation of each department, leaving everything to Pang Shigu himself to judge, without any emotional inclination, which is very good.

Kang Yanxiao has already rushed to Shangcai, no matter how much Yang Shihou delays, it is time to make a move.

But relying on this point alone, it may be difficult for people to win the Zhe Zongben.If you want to successfully defeat the army, you still have to work hard and send more people over there.Pang Shigu thought left and right, and decided to transfer the Changjian and Kuangwei armies on the front line of Yingshui to Yancheng, and transferred 2 soldiers of the national army to the top, and continued to confront Xia's army.

On the other side of Yingzhou, except for the [-] people from the Poxia Army and Luoyandu, Pang Shigu didn't plan to send any more troops.In fact, there is no need for people like Zhao Lin and Zhu Hanbin to take the lead, and they will not be able to take on important responsibilities in a short time.

In addition, it is to issue rewards to boost morale, which seems inevitable.Anyway, this part of the money will be paid by Luo Hongxin and Yang Xingmi.

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The offensive receded like a tide, and came back like a tide.When the tide reached its highest point, the revolving gate was shattered, and the city gate was opened under the combination of inside and outside.

Hu Zhen wore iron armor and entered the city under the guard of sergeants.

He called out the names of several people in a row and blamed them endlessly.

"It's only now, why hesitate?"

"After the reorganization of the Longwu Army, many people were scattered, and there was no way to make noise for a while." Someone replied.

"Those folks from Bian and Zhengtuan didn't want to surrender, and it really took a lot of effort." Another person said.

"General Wang committed suicide. If he didn't die, many people would hesitate to wait and see."

"The surrender has been surrendered, Hu Shuai may be in command of the army? If he can command the army, can everyone follow you?"

Hu Zhen was a little embarrassed, but it was okay, he was thick-skinned now.

Soldier?Most likely it is impossible.Not to mention asking him to lead the Liang army to surrender troops, isn't that a test of Hu Zhen's loyalty?I can't guarantee that I will always be loyal...

"Now that you have surrendered, go to the Shanzhou Academy for training first." Hu Zhen said: "After the training is over, you will be recruited into the various armies, and you should fight hard for King Xia."

The coach of the capital is the Yamen Shanzhou Academy. At present, there are about 2 recruits in training, mainly surrendered soldiers.They have greatly reduced the recruitment ratio of new recruits, and they can't run out of captives, so why recruit so many new recruits?That is to say, the Lingzhou Institute received few captives, and is currently recruiting a large number of newcomers for training.

Surrendering soldiers, not everyone will use it, that's for sure.The strong and brave ones were sent to the armies as soon as possible to fill the vacancies, and those of average level were sent to the armies to supplement the battle damage according to the plan after repeated training.The level is really too bad, and they are basically brushed down, and they are sent to Xiuwu County to do physical work.

Everyone was speechless.

Fighting for King Xia?No, everyone is fighting for themselves.King Xia didn't default on rewards, so of course it was okay to work hard for him.If there is no reward, then don't blame everyone for being unfaithful.

The soldiers of the Chishui Army marched into the city in formation.They lined up neatly, looked solemn, silent, and their morale was very high. One after another, they drove into the pass city.

Hu Zhen and others watched silently.

The Chishui Army does not show its mountains and dews, but many people know that this is the army with the second largest number of martial arts students besides the Tianxiong Army.

The battle to attack Luokoucang and Gong County was bloody.Before the war, those soldiers of the Baosheng Army vowed to guard for three months until the river thawed.But under the desperate offensive, most of these cities were broken by the Chishui army before they lasted even a month.

The military envoy Fan He is also a ruthless man. Even if he is a martial arts student, he will kill the soldiers who are disadvantaged in combat. He ensures that this army is very aggressive. Even after recruiting a lot of recruits, it is still very aggressive. .

There is no doubt that the defenders at the Revolving Door Pass were killed by them.

To be more precise, it was when Ge Congzhou made a large-scale retreat to the east, which shook the morale of the army, and at the same time Hu Zhen persuaded him to surrender, he finally broke through the pass and occupied this key pass.

"Hu Canjun, the commander-in-chief has an order to hand over the thousand surrendered troops to your command. The next step is to collect the two counties of Sishui and Heyin." Fan He walked up to Hu Zhen with his horse and said: " It should be more difficult on the Heyin side, take down Sishui County first. It’s better to do it sooner rather than later.”

Hu Zhen was a little surprised.How could King Xia trust him so much?
Although there are only a thousand people, the nature is completely different.Being in charge of soldiers and not being in charge of soldiers are completely two different things.

"Don't worry, General Fan, I'll take a trip to Sishui now." Hu Zhen said: "Ge Congzhou led the main force to go east, and leaving them here is completely letting them fend for themselves. The army is coming."

"Okay! Let's split up." Fan He was overjoyed, and said: "Tomorrow I will send troops to Heyin, and pursue the enemy step by step. We are also part of the Luoyang camp, and it is shameful not to have merit."

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On December [-]th, the sky was full of wind and snow.The Xia army cavalry active in the field disappeared almost overnight.

In fact, they didn't leave, they just disappeared into Liang Ren's eyelids.

In the rural villages of Yuanwu, Yangwu, Suanzao, Xuncheng and other counties, there are many village braves who escaped from the wind and snow.

While marveling at the wealth of Henan, they mercilessly collected goods.

Grain, fodder, cloth, copper coins, gold and silverware, livestock and even the population itself became the objects of their looting.

The bitter Heyang braves happily stuffed their parcels with goods, and then escorted a group of people back to Mengzhou on the ice of the Yellow River.

The first group of people left, and the second group came again.By the time the second batch was about to leave, the third batch was ready to go.

These counties in the north of Zhengzhou are really suffering from bad luck.If it weren't for the large-scale deployment of the Longwu army and the considerable obstacles created, more than four or five thousand people would have been taken away, and several counties might have been evacuated.

Against such a noisy background, Ge Congzhou led the Longwu Army to recover Xingze County in a low-key manner, intercepted a group of Xia army cavalry on the post road leading to Guancheng, and beheaded more than two hundred.

In the afternoon, the endless sound of horseshoes sounded from a distance, and slowly gathered in Xingze County.

Commander He Delun of the left and right Desheng armies threw down several bloody heads, got off his horse, looked up at the bitterly cold weather, and cursed in a low voice.

"Ge Dutou, Zhengzhou can't retreat anymore." He Delun walked all the way, with a heavy heart, he didn't even play with the horsewhip in his hand, and concentrated on thinking about the battle situation.

"Has General He ever seen Your Majesty?" Ge Congzhou looked sad and in a bad mood.

He has fought against Shao Zeizheng'er Bajing many times.I still remember that during the first confrontation, Bandit Xia was aggressive and came all the way east, but he set up an ambush in the Erban area of ​​Xiaoshan Mountain and killed hundreds of enemies.Afterwards, he firmly controlled Xiaozhai, always threatening the flanks and grain roads of the Xia bandits, and in the end they retreated after just plundering, and lost a great opportunity to occupy Henan Mansion—and this lost opportunity, later The Xia bandits took back one by one at the cost of blood.

This command of the Longwu Army is the first time that Ge Congzhou has played as the commander-in-chief of the side, which is of great significance.

But the question is, what the hell is this fight?

As soon as I came, I was faced with the matter of whether to give up Xuanmenguan and Sishui County.According to Ge Congzhou's original intention, the whole army withdrew and fell down, but he didn't dare to do so, for fear that Zhu Quanzhong would punish him, so he made a half-push and half-do, in fact, to give Xia thief's head for nothing.

"Of course I saw it." He Delun said.

"Does Your Majesty have any instructions?"

"Your Majesty, fight hard." He Delun said: "Caizhou is Pang Shigu's left arm, Zhengzhou is Pang Shigu's right arm, this summer the bandits want to break these two arms, and at the same time send people to attack Yingzhou and sneak into Chenzhou. The plan behind Pang Shigu's back. The battle is difficult, and the king knows our difficulties, so he didn't urge us to do anything, but he encouraged us to fight bravely and defeat the Xia bandits in one fell swoop."

Ge Congzhou old fritters, automatically filtered the nonsense, caught the information that Liang Wang was still "understanding" them, and immediately felt relieved.As he had expected, at this time, King Liang would not act rashly, and the arrogance of the subordinates was completely within the tolerance range.At the same time, I was also a little embarrassed. How could King Liang, who once said that he was the only one, come to this point step by step?
I heard that King Liang didn't look anxious, panicked, disappointed, discouraged, or decadent at all in Bianzhou.The energy is still very strong, and I often deal with official documents until late at night, which is admirable.

Forget it, I will help King Liang kill again.Aside from other things, he is still confident in the situation in Zhengzhou.

Xia Bandit's soldiers do not seem to be many, and they are not enough to break the overall situation of Zhengzhou.Unless they continue to increase their troops, he would like to see if Shao Shude can still conjure up troops.

(End of this chapter)