Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 964 One more point please

On February 3th, more than [-] soldiers and horses had gathered outside Yuxiang County.

The main force is the [-] cavalry in the left wing of the Wuwei Army. They are troops that were reorganized earlier, and they are already very familiar with each other.

Chishui army envoy Fan He also arrived in the east of the city with 5000 main force, and more than [-] local peasants were recruited.

A total of [-] Yamen and nearly [-] Xiangyong surrounded the east, north, and west of the city, leaving only one place in the south of the city to lure the thieves to flee.

Lu Huaizhong is in his forties and has been fighting for almost 30 years, but he is still an "honest man".

Because of his early experience, he hated generals who drank blood and treated soldiers harshly.

He has a very violent temper, which belongs to the temperament of a little bit.But since the time of Tielindu, he has forced himself to read more books and study more. After a long time, not only his level has improved a lot, but his temper has also become much milder.

With him, there is no distinction between miscellaneous brands and direct lineages. Forbidden troops like the Wuwei Army also want to attack the city, so there is no need to discuss it.

There is a tradition of the Wuwei army attacking the city.From the first time he broke Kang Yuancheng's camp in Lingzhou, it was basically out of control.

During the Battle of Heqing, he led his troops to attack key points such as Heqing County and Baiyacang, causing heavy casualties, but he captured these strongholds before Pang Shigu's main force came to help, laying the foundation for driving away Liang Bing.

It has been more than a month since Pu Bing rebelled, and the attack on Yuxiang County has continued for nearly a month.Since the end of the first month, they have completely confined the thieves to Yuxiang County through continuous field battles, and half a month has passed.

Encircling three ques and one is a classic siege tactic, designed to make the enemy abandon the city and flee.Surrounding the entire line and digging trenches is another method of siege, which is more tragic, and neither the attacker nor the defender will end well.

The tactic of besieging three and one is working.The rebel soldiers who gather with profit will inevitably scatter with profit, especially those who are not strong-willed, and there is an endless stream of people who flee at night.

Of course, most of them were captured and beheaded in the pursuit, and very few escaped the net.

Lu Huaizhong personally came outside the city and witnessed the end of an offensive battle.

Li Zhong, Marquis of Duyu, and Han Xun, the envoy of soldiers and horses in the left chamber, lined up on the left and right, silent.

It was the Wuwei army that was defeated, and hundreds of people were killed and injured-it can basically be considered that hundreds of people died, because the wounded were bruised and bruised, and it was obvious that they would not survive.

Du Youyi envoy An Xiuxiu rushed over with a group of captives.

"Kneel down." The cavalry soldier got off his horse and said angrily.

More than twenty prisoners were very obedient and knelt down directly.

"How is the situation in the city?" Lu Huaizhong walked up to the captive and asked.

The soldiers have raised their whips.

A soldier from the military academy immediately replied: "Due to the disadvantages of going out of the city several times and the morale was low, some generals, Wang Shiyou, clamored to abandon the city, went east to Zelu, and was beheaded by Li Diancheng. Since then, all the soldiers have complained, and Li Diancheng has been appointed an official. Make a wish, the governor, the defense envoy, the regiment training envoy, and the suppressing envoy have given out a lot, and everyone is at ease. As your army has accelerated the attack on the city in the past few days, some people can't stand it anymore and start clamoring. Li Diancheng is suspicious and hunts down A lot of people."

Lu Huaizhong nodded, and roughly understood the situation in the city.In his opinion, Li Diancheng's fate was not much better.

In the face of difficulties, there are generally four endings for soldiers who make rebellions.

One is the appeasement from the higher-ups, assuming that nothing happened, and ratify the fact.

The second is resolute suppression.For example, in the 11th year of the Dali calendar, when the Heyang army was in chaos, Ran Tinglan, the eunuch and supervisor, was expelled from the city and plundered for three days.Ran rectified his troops, entered the city again, punished the rebellious leaders, and put them down.

The third is to use both suppressing and appeasement, and it is appropriate to control appeasement.In the first year of Baoying, Deng Jingshan, the Jiedu envoy of Hedong, was killed because of embezzling military pay and causing military chaos.The Hedong soldiers stationed in Jiangzhou also took the opportunity to cause chaos. The Beiting soldiers stationed in Yicheng killed Li Feiyuanli, the envoy of Jiedu. .

The fourth is internal collapse.A typical example is the rebellion with the Chinese soldiers in the first year of the Dali period. As a result, they were afraid and surrendered one after another. In the end, the rebels simply killed the Jiedu envoy Zhou Zhiguang and all surrendered.

"Take all the captured soldiers to the city and let them persuade them to surrender." Lu Huaizhong ordered: "By the way, how many prisoners are there?"

Li Zhong, Marquis of Duyu, immediately replied: "The envoys, there are more than [-] captured soldiers. The Tutuan villagers have repelled them, and there are still more than [-] soldiers."

"How about beheading?"

"Thousands and four hundred levels of beheading, half of government soldiers and half of township braves."

There must be more than so many people killed in the siege battle, but there are only so many that can be counted, there is no way.

Lu Huaizhong calculated carefully. If the escaped fish were removed, there should only be more than 3000 yamen soldiers left in the city, and the Xiangyong might be slightly more, but not much more. The overall defenders would only be around 8000. .

For these panic-stricken people, the best way is to suppress and appease them. The price to pay for forcibly exterminating them is too high.

More than [-] captives were still repairing trenches, but they were quickly gathered together and escorted to the city one by one.

Under the intimidation of Wuwei soldiers, the prisoners had no choice but to take turns shouting.

"Brothers, let's surrender. Just dig trenches, and we won't turn over old scores."

"Six mustaches a day, but they didn't treat us harshly."

"Give up, the Jin soldiers on Wuling Road will go down the mountain to loot, they are like thieves, they can't save you."

"Xia Wang and his old man gave everyone a way to survive, and they can continue to be martial arts by joining the army."

"The Wei people in the left wing of the Xiaojie Army are all determined, what are you waiting for?"

"If you don't surrender, we will have to dig ditches day and night, what a pain."

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The shouts outside the city continued, and the guards at the top of the city listened for a long time, and probably understood everything.

After hearing this, Zhao Lie, the ten general who was in charge of the defense of the western city, immediately called for a few of his confidantes, and said, "Everyone, after you stay in the city and plunder the military rations and assets, you must get limited gains. Yuxiang City won't last long. At the latest in mid-March, the army will run out of food, and we will not be able to hold on."

After Li Diancheng's rebellion, he claimed to be the queen of the national defense army, so the rebellious soldiers were called the queen of the army.

Everyone was also sensible, and they nodded upon hearing this.

"What is the Xiaojie Army? I don't know. It's probably the newly formed army of King Xia. This kind of new army should not be voted for. If you vote, you will die. What's more, you have to move home. I didn't want it before. " Zhao Lie said: "But in the current situation, don't say anything, why not try your luck?"

"General, if we surrender, shouldn't there be a reward?" Someone said suddenly.

"Adversary." Another person echoed: "After Li stayed behind, he took over the whole city. It must be no problem for each person to get a penny. Shouldn't the Xia people give money to surrender?"

"Take Li Liuhou's reward first, and then vote for the Xia people, and ask for a point." Someone laughed.

Zhao Lie knew that the sergeant was greedy for money, but he didn't expect to be so greedy, and his subordinates made him feel a little bit helpless.

One more point please?Can you still do this?

He has a bit of a head, and he thinks that the Xia people are not stupid. How will they manage the army after this kind of danger is the first?

The sergeants rebelled, and the crowd pushed a leader, who gave rewards.The army came to suppress, and the rebels asked for rewards. After taking the money, they killed the leaders and surrendered collectively.The benefits of both sides are taken, the loss is only the general, the big soldiers are unscathed, and there is still money to get, so will the army who came to suppress it be unhappy?Will they also take the opportunity to make trouble and ask for rewards?
Anyone with a little brain would not be so bottomless to please the sergeant.Once many precedents are set, the atmosphere will fall to a lower level, and it will be very difficult to pull it back in the future.

"This matter..." Zhao Lie hesitated for a moment, and said, "Let's see what Liu Hou said. Besides, it seems that we can't do it alone. We have to connect more people to act together to make it work. .”

"It's reasonable. Don't worry, general. I still know a few fellow countrymen, so I will go to someone to discuss it."

"I also know a few military academies, so let's go around."

"It's best to act after dark. It's not beautiful to leave your post at this time and get caught with your head on the ground."

"Too."

Everyone chattered and looked excited.

Zhao Lie felt chills in his heart when he saw it, thinking that he might just run away after dark.Each of these people has a lot of desires, and they bargain with each other. It will not be good to follow them.

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After Li Hang, the appeasement envoy, established his prestige in Hedong, he handed over the troops to Fengzangzhi, and he continued to rectify them.

Afterwards, he headed north all the way to Jiangzhou, gathered the soldiers in the river scattered everywhere with great fanfare.

On February [-]th, more than a thousand surrendered troops were gathered in Wanquan, Jishan and other places.

On the [-]th, they went to Longmen and recruited hundreds more.

On the [-]th, they went to the outskirts of Zhengping County and collected [-] people.

There are less than [-] soldiers, and they are all incorporated into the right wing of the Xiaojie Army as usual.

Yang Yi, deputy envoy of the Economic and Strategic Army, also came to join with 3000 people.

While Li Hang was rectifying the surrender, he also dealt with an accident in time, killing dozens of people who were the leaders of the rebellion, which was regarded as an escort.

"General Yang, there are only more than a thousand soldiers in Xizhou, and they lost a battle a while ago. I don't think we can hold on for a few days. Now that the Ministry has received the order, let's go north quickly." Li Hang said: "Jiangzhou, There should be about [-] rebels in the Hezhong Mansion, but since they didn't come to join forces, they were determined to cause rebellion, and there was no need to appease them. When the Tutuan recruited by Wang Yao gathered together, Fengzangzhi would lead his troops northward , the situation in Jiangzhou will stabilize."

"The heads are worried about the instability of the new arrivals, so our troops temporarily stationed in Jiangzhou." Yang Yi replied: "It's actually okay, so what if Cixi is taken over by others? The weather is cold, the mountain roads are not easy to walk, and the thieves come Not so fast."

"Forget it." Li Hang said: "Then please trouble the soldiers of the Economic Strategy Army."

In fact, he has no idea what attitude he has towards the newcomer.What if someone makes trouble again and kills him?Wouldn't it be wrong to die?
It would also be good to have more time to reorganize the team.It will take time for the group of people in the right wing of the Xiaojie Army to really go into battle.

In addition, this time he made a good idea and directly doubled the general's quota. I don't know what King Xia thinks.

Often by Shao Shude's side, he knew that King Xia had been working hard to control the total number of troops under his rule, trying his best to reduce expenses and consume miscellaneous soldiers.This time, he got another five thousand more, and Li Hang was also very helpless.

And just when he was feeling anxious, the envoy had rushed five hundred miles to Luoyang, and delivered his handwritten letter to Shao Shude's desk.

(End of this chapter)