Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 890 Destruction

On February 26, a large number of soldiers crossed the river through Yucheng, traveled eastward all the way, and arrived in Qizhou.

Shao Shude inspected the sergeants outside the city with a loud noise.

The conquest of the counties in Qizhou is coming to an end.

Needless to say, Yucheng County was the first to surrender.The two counties of Linyi and Linji surrendered after dispatching the Tielin Army, and each transported [-] hu of millet and wheat to Licheng.

Zhangqiu County is more troublesome, because Qingzhou Rangers appeared in the east of the county, and the county was vacillating.Wang Jiao, the new commander of the Qizhou State Army, killed more than ten bandit soldiers with bows, arrows and spears at the foot of Changbai Mountain alone. Zhangqiu was shocked and surrendered to the county.

Changbai Mountain, also known as Changbai Mountain, has been a famous mountain since ancient times and is known as the "Vice Mountain of Mount Tai".During the Spring and Autumn Period, Chen Zhongzi lived in seclusion here, and there is an ancient spring post at the south foot, which is located beside the post road leading to Zizhou.

Of the six counties in Qizhou, except for Changqing, the other five counties have been pacified.But except for Licheng County, there is no garrison, and the original team stays in the post, which is just a matter of thought.

After reviewing the troops, Shao Shude ordered the Qizhou State Army and Tianxing Army to guard Licheng—the Qizhou State Army currently has 500 people, of which 300 are newly arrived soldiers and soldiers, and [-] are soldiers of the Tielin Army , and the rest were surrendered troops from Qizhou.

Li Yanwei, the yamen army envoy, led his troops to Xiazhai in Lishan Mountain.

Lishan is five miles south of the city.Qizhou Prefecture Zhili City was called Lixia in ancient times, and the name comes from this.

There are [-] soldiers in Zhoucheng, and [-] troops garrisoned in Lishanzhaizi. There are [-] people, and the defense is enough.

Shao Shude himself led [-] Tu generals, [-] personal soldiers, [-] Yinanzhi troops, and more than [-] Tielin troops. A total of nearly [-] soldiers marched westward to Changqing County.

The primary goal is to wipe out the enemy army that has collapsed in the east.

On February 29, the army arrived at Dongxiazhai, Changqing County.

At this time Shao Shude received several messages.

Qi general Liu Po ​​sent people to attack Licheng, and Li Yanwei, the yamen army, was defeated and lost two thousand troops. However, the city and the village were still intact and did not fall into the enemy's hands.After careful questioning, it turns out that Liu Yan provoked with weak soldiers, but Li Yanwei took it lightly, led his army to pursue, ambushed by the bandits, and returned in defeat.

Fuck you!Shao Shude was furious, and decided to reorganize the Yanei army on the spot after beating Zhu Qiong.

The second news is not so bad.

Ye Liyu led the right side of the Tielin army to march towards Yanzhou. Ge Congzhou and others besieged the city for a long time, but they could not overcome it.Rencheng defender Yan Bao led five thousand soldiers to pursue him. At Kangfu, he was besieged by nearly 3 people from the four armies of Longxiang, Guangsheng, Shenjie, and Longhu. Yan Bao rode away alone and ran back to Rencheng.

Kangfu's danger, carts cannot run on square rails, and horses cannot run side by side. It is in the southwest of Rencheng County.

After the Yan army was defeated, Longxiang's fourth army fought back.The Yan people abandoned the camp at Yangmen Bridge and retreated back to the city. There were only more than [-] yamen soldiers and [-] Tutuan peasants, and they dared not go out to fight again.

In the direction of Hezhong and Heyang, the Jin soldiers took advantage of the terrain and kept going down the mountain, making it impossible to defend.But generally speaking, although the Jin people took the initiative, they won each other's battles with the Wuwei army and the Tianxiong army, and the scale of the battle was very small, which is very strange.

Shao Shude had previously received news that the Jin army had begun to mobilize and transfer supplies after the Lantern Festival, and should have completed preparations for a decisive battle by early February, but where is their main force?He didn't fight Jinjiang, he didn't fight Heyang, where did Li Keyong plan to fight?
The last piece of news is about Wei Bo.

After the army of the Wei people gathered in Bozhou, they found that the generals were "terrified" and "retired to Qizhou".Shao Shude couldn't laugh or cry when he saw it, and thought maybe they should be taught a lesson.

At the same time, he also doubted the route of the Jin army. Could it be that Yixiong came straight to me?hate me so much?
"Your Majesty!" Wei Boqiu, envoy of the Dingnan Army, brought people to meet him in the camp.

There was another person who came with him, that is, General Xia Housheng of Dizhou.

"See Your Highness." Xia Housheng bowed and saluted.

"Your surname is Xiahou, is it after Xiahou Cheng?" Shao Shude asked his soldiers to serve tea.

Xia Houcheng was originally a general of Li Shidao's department.The imperial court issued an edict to crusade against Ziqing, and Xia Houcheng was captured by Wei Bo's army during the battle. Later, Li Shidao awarded the head, and Wei Bo Jiedu envoy Tian Hongzheng suspected that the head was not real, so Xia Houcheng came to identify it.

"Cheng Shu looked at his face, and when the trombone died for a long time, he hugged his head, licked the dirt in his eyes, and cried again."

Tian Hongzheng was moved by it, and he was righteous but not responsible.

Shao Shude is familiar with history books, and when he heard this surname, he immediately thought of it.

"Exactly." Xia Housheng replied.

"Qi Duo is also a righteous man." Shao Shude said with emotion.

As the saying goes, what is lacking is what is missing, and in this day and age, what is lacking are loyal and righteous people.Even if Xia Houcheng and Wang Yanzhang are not in his camp, it does not affect his appreciation.

"Has Mr. Shao thought it over? Have you talked about the Dizhou matter?" Shao Shude turned to Wei Boqiu and asked.

"Return to Your Majesty, I have informed Mr. Shao." Wei Boqiu replied.

Lu Yanwei, the Jiedu envoy of the Yichang Army, sent troops south to besiege Dizhou. This happened just now.Shao Shude asked Wei Boqiu to tell Shao Bo, who was trapped in Changqing, to see his reaction.

"Your Highness is a believer, and my family made you believe that Dizhou was under siege." Xia Housheng said: "There are not many soldiers left behind, and Dizhou is in danger, so I am very anxious."

"How many soldiers are there in Dizhou?" Shao Shude asked.

"Only three thousand." Xia Housheng sighed, and said: "The town soldiers from all counties have been brought here, and most of them have fallen by now."

"The discipline of the Yichang army is not very good." Shao Shude said.

Xia Housheng sighed again.

"What's the use of sighing?" Shao Shude picked up the teacup and asked leisurely, "Has Mr. Shao thought about it? Are you willing to surrender? If you surrender me, after defeating Zhu Qiong, I will march eastward and keep Dizhou .”

"I wish to surrender." Xia Housheng replied: "Shao Shijun has something to say, and I don't expect anything else now, but I only wish to protect my family and the graveyard."

"That's very good." Shao Shude said happily, "Shao Bo understands righteousness deeply, and I will declare him as the governor of Dazhou, rich and honorful."

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On the bank of Haogoubo, Zhu Qiong and Zhu Xuan were relatively silent.

Running all the way east, he was still blocked here.

They have been very careful, trying to walk along the mountain road, so that Xia Jun's cavalry cannot take advantage.But everything has advantages and disadvantages. It is safe to walk like this, but the speed is very slow. So far, I have only traveled more than 40 miles, and then I was blocked.

Fifty miles southwest of Changqing County, Haogoubo has a radius of about a hundred miles. It faces mountains in the south and has ditches nearby. It is a very good agricultural area.

Nearly [-] troops are stranded here, with limited food and fodder, which is less than half a month's needs, and it is the end of the road.

Zhu Xuan felt a little regretful now.

He wanted to find an opportunity to seize Zhu Qiong's military power before, so he accompanied him all the way.But this time you will find that even the little capital you have will be lost. Stealing chickens will not cost you money, what a ****!
"Why don't you surrender to the thief Shao and see if I can still be the governor of Qizhou. With so many soldiers, the thief Shao can't kill them all?" Zhu Qiong hesitated and said.

Changqing County has surrendered, and thousands of Dizhou soldiers have left the city to set up a stronghold, joining the ranks of soldiers who besieged Qizhou.

There are still a large number of Xia soldiers ahead, it seems that there are tens of thousands of them.There were still chasing soldiers coming from behind, Zhu Qiong felt that with the low morale of Qizhou soldiers, this battle was probably going to be over, and it was over.

"Beautiful idea!" Zhu Xuan sneered, and asked: "Shao thief will have the upper hand, how can he open his mouth to let you separate the side? Don't think about good things, why not see how to break through."

Shao Shude conquered the four towns of Dongdu, Xuanwu, Fengguo, and Yunzhou without setting up an independent feudal town, and all of them were firmly in his hands. This was something everyone could see.

If he is willing to open his mouth and compromise, the towns of Weibo, Ziqing, Taining and so on may have already surrendered.For them, it is not bad to be a vassal town when they are forced to do nothing.

But the thief Shao hadn't let go, so in desperation, the towns could only resist to the end, until they couldn't beat them and surrendered.

"Ziqing is by my side, and Li Keyong will go south at any time, maybe Shao thief will agree?" Zhu Qiong's words were a bit self-deceiving, and she smiled wryly after she finished speaking.

"Don't think about it." Zhu Xuan continued to sneer and said, "Shao's bandit wants to completely pacify the world, not to create a sandwich. If he is willing to let go, the towns in Hebei don't have to fight, and they will pay him one by one. It was convenient to fight Li Keyong. But the Shao thief probably didn’t have confidence in his son, thinking that he would not be able to subdue these vassal towns. After his death, the towns rebelled, the world was overthrown, and the Shao family dynasty II died.”

"Shao thief can't give a chance?" Zhu Qiong's voice was a little choked up: "I have no objection, I just want to use Qizhou to support the elderly, is that okay?"

Zhu Xuan stopped talking.

Zhu Qiong was weak-minded and not a hero, so he secretly thought of any way to seize his military power.At worst, take more people and run away, looking for opportunities to make a comeback.

"Boom, boom, boom..." The war drum sounded, and it was the east side.

"Kill his head and roll!"

"The sudden general is here, the thief will die!"

There were roars one after another not far away, the Xia army was determined to fight, and the morale was high. The Qizhou soldiers in the trench listened, and everyone's face changed.

"Boom, boom, boom..." There was also the sound of war drums in the west.

"The national defense army is here, the thief is here to take his life!"

"Holding the Japanese army here will make a big profit today."

There were shouts of killing one after another, and the pursuers who had fought with them for many days arrived. Qi Bing heard this, and his morale became more and more low. Some people were already crying secretly.

Zhu Qiong asked people to put on his armor, and went to patrol the camp with his own soldiers to suppress the flustered sergeants.

Zhu Xuan sighed secretly, and found his cronies.

"Where's Zhu Han?" He asked, with an ominous premonition in his heart, did this guy run away?

"I don't know."

"It's still in the morning."

"It seems that I took someone to the sentry, but I don't know why they didn't come back."

The soldiers said in a hurry.

Fuck!Zhu Xuan was sure that this guy ran away looking for an opportunity.There are mountains to the south, who can find it if they hide in it?
"Pack up your things and get ready to run!" Zhu Xuan ordered.

He had nearly 3000 men under his command, of which [-] were infantry and the rest were cavalry.After running this time, I don't know how many people are left, alas!
Zhu Qiong's heart is not firm, but not everyone in this world is as hard-hearted as iron.It's going to rain, my mother wants to marry, let him go, those who can follow me, one counts as one, and they will be rich and honored in the future.

"Kill!" A fierce battle had already begun, Xia Jun attacked from both sides, and the offensive was overwhelming.

Zhu Xuan climbed up a high slope, and saw that the Qizhou soldiers only resisted for a while before retreating steadily.

One village is lost, two villages are lost, three villages are lost...

"A group of trash, the game is over!" Zhu Xuan went down the high slope, found his own soldiers, and fled towards Nanshan with those who were willing to follow him.

The tens of thousands of troops were defeated.

(End of this chapter)