Delong

Chapter 193 Raising Arms (6)

On the fourth day of October, the day after Zhang Xing burned his account, Li Shu conquered Dingtao.

It’s hard to say it’s a conquest, because it’s more like someone gave up voluntarily... Dingtao ordered Liu Ben and Song Yi, the son of Jiyin prefect Song Chang, to persist for a day under the attack of Shan Dalang who arrived first, and immediately realized that they were alone in Jiyin. There was no need to guard the city north of the water, so before the confluence of the rebels, a pontoon bridge was built under the south gate of the city overnight, and then a group of women and children were driven across the river. Ximen escaped, and sailed across the river in a grand manner.

Shan Dalang fell into the opponent's plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain, and only chased to the other side of the river, but it was in vain.

Taking this opportunity, Dingtao garrison and Jiyin garrison joined forces to further stabilize the city defense.

On the fifth day of October, Li Shu was in Dingtao Lianxiong Bonan, Shan Tonghai, Wang Shuyong, and Shang Huaizhi, a total of [-] leaders, crossed the river on the sixth day, surrounded Jiyin in a hurry, and then tried to attack the city to no avail.

There is no way, Jiyin is a county city, the city is tall, the city is well repaired on weekdays, the treasury and armaments are also sufficient, plus the confluence of the Dingtao defenders, and the methods of the prefect Song Chang, it really makes one's scalp tingle.

After this battle, Xiong Bonan, already a master of the Cheng Dan period, once wanted to rush into the city to execute the beheading tactic, but was persuaded by Li Shu, Shan Dalang, Wang Wulang, and Shang Huaizhi... The reason could not be simpler, The whole family of the Fang brothers and Shang Huaizhi, including some of the family members of the righteous soldiers, are still in Jiyin City.

At the same time, there are at least five obvious core command levels in the city: Song Chang, Song Chang's son Song Yi, Ding Taoling Liu Ben, Jiyin County Chancellor, and Jing'antai Stationed in the county.

Under such circumstances, as long as five people are not killed in one go, or even five people are killed in one go, the beheading operation that is close to assassination is likely to attract equal retaliation... and the latter is the attacker's What the rebel army can't bear, at least for now, it's not worth it.

"Considering that many family members of the rebel army and the two leaders of the Fang family are still in the city, the best way is to let Song Chang and his son retreat. They leave the country with dignity, and we will give them gifts." On the eighth day of October, at dusk, Ying At Shang Huaizhi's request, a temporary military meeting was held suddenly. Li Shu, who was wearing a leather armor and wearing a small warrior crown, cut straight to the point and made an overall strategic arrangement. "Of course, if he is really a loyal minister and a filial son, he will burn all jade and stone, and he was the one who chose him."

Several big leaders Qiqi went to see Shang Huaizhi, who was pale-faced. This serious captain of the county is naturally one of the best figures in the county on weekdays. He was a big leader, but this time he fell into a disheveled face... It's okay to be disheartened, the key is that Shan, Xu, and Wang all performed exceptionally well in the righteousness, but it seems that he is incompetent with a heavy hand.

Of course, it seems hard to say that he is incompetent, because there are Fang brothers who can blame him, and Song father and son who can shirk the blame, but things go around and around, people still have to ask, why are you so unlucky?
Under the eyes of everyone, Shang Huaizhi's expression changed again and again, but he really didn't know what to do, because he had already realized that he could not control and influence the final decision at all.

So, this leader Shang, who didn't know if he could still be the big leader, paused for a while, and then just nodded: "That's the only way...but it's better to find a way to subjugate the enemy without fighting, or use tricks to win the city." , I have an old confidant, who has always been safe, and stayed in the city that day..."

"It's natural." Li Shu quickly comforted him. "I came here today to listen to your plan..."

"We have to draw a path!" Shan Tonghai, another leader of the left wing, was obviously impatient and interrupted the military discussion directly. "This kind of method of using a dead horse as a living horse doctor is useless in all likelihood...Since we get together, why don't we make it clear first, when and under what circumstances will we all be destroyed? Do you really think we can't beat it?"

Shang Huaizhi was completely depressed, and the other leaders were also more silent.

After all, everyone understands Boss Shan's emotions quite well. Everyone knows that his territory and manpower are located on the east side of Jiyin County, and in line with the original plan, after taking Jiyin and Dongjun, the Dragon Gang will make a big move eastward. , launched at the same time as Zu Chenyan of Dongping County, and swallowed the entire Dongping County in one fell swoop... And according to this line of thinking, Shan Dalang's good days are far behind!

Now, no one thought that Jiyin County City, which originally had the greatest control, would become a black hole in the whole process of raising righteousness. Under the circumstances, both Wang Wulang and Xu Dalang got their relatively small "shares" as planned. Site", on the contrary, Shan Dalang, who originally had the broadest vision, was dragged here.

That's right, although the food and debts have been released later, but from a macro point of view, the Dragon Gang has just launched an incident, and is even at the beginning of the incident... It's only been a mere ten days, even if It was Li Tingwen, the black ribbon of Dongjun, who escaped smoothly at the first time, and fled to Dongdu, and the journey was smooth. At this time, Dongdu knew at most that the white horse might be gone.

Then?

Then there is no more.

At this time, it is understandable that everyone is a little anxious... Good days are really to come!What the hell is Jiyin doing here?
"It's nothing more than a restriction on Liang Jun's reinforcements coming..." Wang Wulang laughed, and then immediately became solemn. "I thought that Liang Jun's reinforcements should never join Jiyin City here."

"It's not like that." Li Shu shook his head. "It is not allowed to let Liang County's reinforcements enter Jiyin County... As long as Liang County's reinforcements appear on the border of Jiyin County, they must immediately forcibly attack the city. King Xiongtian should be dispatched, and the big boss Shan and the big boss Wang should use their strength. , if necessary, I can also put on armor and go into battle, and I must try to take down the four counties on the south side of Jishui!"

"Do you have any explanation?" Shan Tong asked in a sea urn voice.

"Yes." Li Shu answered frankly. "I have an appointment with Zhang Longtou. If the three counties are successful in raising their righteousness, they will definitely open up between Dahe and Jishui to the east, and run through the east..."

"It's natural."

"And if this is the case, then I will attack from the east and he will defend from the west..."

"So, when the time comes, Jiyin will be left behind by Zhang Longtou. If the whole county can't take it down, it won't be easy to explain to Zhang Longtou?" Shan Tonghai seemed to twitch the corner of his mouth, as if he wanted to mock, but he glanced at Xiongbo After Nan and Wang Shuyong controlled some strange emotions, they just asked seriously. "If this is the case, can we discuss with Zhang Longtou that we only take Jiyin County as the Jishui hub, and forget about the counties behind?"

"No."

"No."

"not good."

Li Shu, Wang Shuyong, and Xiong Bonan almost spoke at the same time, but the expressions in their words were slightly different.

And obviously, when these words came out, not only Shan Tonghai was a little panicked, but the three who spoke were also a little surprised, so that they looked at each other.

"It's not righteous to do this... The things you agreed to do have not yet reached the point, how can you change your mind? Shan Dalang, your clan uncle did something disgusting on his own, and you are also a loyal person, so nonsense If you put on the dragon head, you will be laughed at." Xiong Bonan was the first to come to his senses, and then spoke out calmly, expressing his thoughts.

"Xiong Tianwang misunderstood." Shan Tonghai was embarrassed for a moment, he was afraid of this statement, he was a gangster, although he felt that Zhang Xing didn't give him face and killed his clan uncle easily, but he was not afraid of others pointing at his clan Uncle's actions are too simple and bad, but why do you say that he has no regard for the overall situation?
In the final analysis, everyone just raised an incident, and after all, they easily took the regulations of a county and a half dozen counties, and the Dragon Gang is doing well. If he turns his face on this kind of thing at this time, everyone in the world will laugh.

But the more so, the more aggrieved he felt.

On the other side, Wang Shuyong smiled again when he saw this, and didn't say anything more.

In other words, the straight line distance from here to Lihu is only sixty miles away, what happened four days ago, who doesn't know this place except Shang Huaizhi?It can only be said that if Shan Dalang is a showman, it's fine to keep his mouth shut. If he insists on breaking up, he must be the one who loses face.

"That's not what it means." Seeing this, Li Shu just turned a deaf ear to it, and instead talked about another reason. "If we advance eastward, once we succeed, it will definitely shake the world, and the imperial court will definitely come to encircle and suppress. Right now, there are no soldiers in the Eastern Capital, but they are recruiting soldiers. It is estimated that there will be soldiers after the new year. When the time comes There is also a possibility of being attacked here, so we must try our best to take down the southern half of Jiyin County, try our best to connect with Mangdang Mountain, and connect with the Huaiyou League, so that we can turn around and support the situation. Don't forget, Shanfu County in the southernmost part of Jiyin Further south is Dang County."

This statement is reasonable and irrefutable.

Shan Tonghai also took the opportunity to put on a show and nodded: "So, as soon as Liangjun's soldiers and horses move, we will be ruthless immediately, and everything will be destroyed."

"Shan father... isn't Shan Dalang's ancestral home?" Shang Huaizhi obviously still finds it difficult to accept the words "Burning together with jade and stone", and he didn't bother to pay attention to the small internal disputes in the Dragon Clan before, but later the words "Shan father" But let him catch something. "Is it possible to go directly across the city of Jiyin County and take down Shanfu? Then enter the counties on the south bank of Jishui from Shanfu, surround Jiyin County City from the outside, make it a deadly place, and force the city to surrender?"

"My family was forced to move out of my father by the Wei court 20 years ago..." Shan Tonghai sneered. "Otherwise, I wouldn't hang out on Jishui and become a gangster."

"This strategy is actually very correct." Li Shu thought for a while, then shook his head. "But we don't have enough strength, because if we want to deter the city, we need to sweep the four counties to the south quickly. Later, reinforcements from Liang County may arrive, and we have to attack by force."

"If this is the case, it's not appropriate to divide the troops from here?" Xiong Bonan was also a little frustrated. "At that time, if you want to take it back, you will waste time."

"It's more than that?" Wang Wulang also said seriously. "This is a strategy to attack the mind. Don't say whether the troops will be withdrawn or not. It's just a division of the troops. I'm afraid the city will know that our best effort is just a show for the five thousand soldiers. On the contrary, they will despise us and make the plan go bad."

"Only ten days after the hasty incident, Xu Dalang sealed off Qiu, the last county in Dongjun, Jijun soldiers surrounded Chanyuan, Niu Da rushed to the top, and Lei Ze's isolated city was in the east, so he didn't dare to move at all. In the third place, we still need to leave some troops to control the area, it is thankful to be able to gather [-] soldiers, how can we expect reinforcements in a hurry?" Xiong Bonan smiled wryly for a moment, completely helpless. "I have thought about the situation of raising righteousness countless times before, but where did I think that raising righteousness is so difficult?"

"Not at all." Li Shu quickly comforted him. "At the end of the day, we're just playing tricks on the rat. The overall situation is always with us... Moreover, Zhang Longtou sent a letter last night, saying that we should try our best to get together the new army. When the time comes, we will see the scale and decide which side to send reinforcements to."

"Even if we gather some people temporarily, to speak a word of conscience, it should be sent to Niu Da or Xu Dalang." Xiong Tianwang was still so pertinent.

But such pertinent words also silenced everyone for a moment - they really didn't know what to say.

Half a day later, Li Shu, the leader of the Dragon Clan, barely lifted his spirits, and looked at Shang Huaizhi again: "Brother Shang, is the old department in your city reliable?"

"Naturally reliable..." Shang Huaizhi responded immediately, but his voice immediately became quieter, almost with a hint of pleading. "Li Gong, send a big leader to suppress the formation tonight, let me try again."

"I'll personally hold the battle for you." Li Shu nodded slightly, and then ordered again solemnly. "Actually, in my opinion, it's good to be able to steal the city, but if it doesn't work, it's okay to take people out, ask about the situation in the city, let King Xiong go around, and find out where the hostages are."

Shang Huaizhi nodded quickly, and the others wanted to speak, but they finally didn't speak.

In this way, everyone discussed it, and after all, they still find it tricky... Or, at this point, as long as the Song family and his son in the city do not make mistakes, it can basically be considered that it will probably take a long time. Let's "burn jade and stone together" relying on super-level force.

It's just that Shan Tonghai and Wang Wulang don't need to care about things like "burning jade and stone together". This kind of thing that needs to take the overall situation into consideration can't help but feel that it's not a good taste.

It is precisely because of this that the military council finally passed the proposal brought by Shang Huaizhi—following an old department in the city who took the initiative to contact him, and tried to steal the city at night.

But in the evening of this day, the rebels of the Dragon Gang suffered a shameful defeat again, and the heroic Wei Jiyin soldiers and civilians once again won a glorious victory.

To be honest, when Shang Huaizhi found himself in an ambush at the extension wall of the west gate of Jiyin City that he was familiar with as agreed, although he was extremely depressed for a moment, he was not surprised, but just sighed. He leaned over in embarrassment and walked away. Li Shu behind him didn't come up to respond, so he sloppily ended the stealing of the city.

Five corpses were left, more than a dozen people were injured, and four or five mules and horses were damaged.

This is also the limit of two rounds of crossbow arrows for the extended wall fortifications of a county in the core hinterland of the Great Wei Dynasty.

It can be seen that even this Captain Shang himself is just doing his best, and he may even be fighting political battles for his subordinates in the city.

However, even if the casualties were insignificant, it still had a huge impact on the morale of the rebel army, especially the tossing of this night, which was endless.

The rebel army outside the city sent troops here at the second watch, and retreated hastily at the third watch. No one expected that the defenders in the city would turn their noses up and launch a surprise attack on the fourth watch under the leadership of Song Chang's son Song Yi... Song Yi It's not that stupid, just set foot on the camp, otherwise, any big leader he meets will die instantly on the spot, but this does not prevent him from keeping a low profile, taking advantage of the night with the kindling made of bundles of autumn straw, easily He reached the front of the camp, lit a few tents, and took advantage of the chaos and darkness to sneak back from nowhere.

Like the previous ambush, it did little harm and was extremely insulting.

But so far, the reckless posture of the rebel army, or the true nature of the grass-roots team, is fully evident... Or, from the very beginning of the righteousness, there are many hills, internal fighting, no military literacy, gang habits, arrogance, and no organization. It also lacks the characteristics of discipline, which is undoubtedly revealed.

Li Shu is also tired, and his heart is also tired.

After only sleeping for an hour, he sat upright in the brightly lit tent to calm people's hearts. He tried his best to intervene in every trivial matter in the army... he comforted one and encouraged another. Seeing Xiong Tianwang turn back from the city, he breathed a sigh of relief... But in fact, Xiong Bonan's entry into the city did not do anything, he couldn't even find the positions of the main generals, and even suffered a round of crossbow arrows. But more or less because of his astonishing cultivation, he killed several officers as retaliation, which can be regarded as suppressing the arrogance in the city.

I can only say that thanks to Yang Shen's defeat so quickly back then, he didn't have the face to say it, otherwise he might not be able to resist breaking his composure, and then shouted at these people in public, who did I lead in the rebellion back then? Now you ask me to lead you...Lead you, if you are not obedient, you still want to make a fuss about this and that... If you continue to make trouble like this, will you be hanged and beaten by a local tyrant in some village? !
Return the rebels? !

Still making trouble?
Still sandwiching Heji between the eastern border? !

However, isn't it because Yang Shen lost so quickly back then, and he was embarrassed to say some things.

"Go away!"

Maybe he is not young anymore, Li Shu, who is in a particularly diffuse mood today, only tried to laugh under the banner of the word "拍" on a white background, but he also comforted Xiong Bonan. "King Xiongtian doesn't need to worry about it. It's okay. Let's recuperate for three days. If it doesn't work, we will attack the city on a large scale. I don't believe it...a small city of Jiyin, just two masters of strange scriptures, more than 1000 people Defenders, how to resist in front of us?"

Xiong Bonan could only nod his head, then turned back angrily.

Li Shu was finally able to return to his tent in the Chinese army and catch up on some sleep.

However, after sleeping for only two hours, before noon, he didn't even remove his armor, and he was awakened by the movement in the camp after only going to Xiaoguan... He was really awakened, and he couldn't understand why the military commander Can there be commotion and noise during the day?

How many people in Jiyin City are so bold?You Xiongtianwang, Shan Dalang, and Wang Wulang are all dead?
"What about people?"

Li Shu almost rolled down from the couch with some kind of outrageous anger, and then couldn't hold it back completely, and sternly reprimanded him on the spot. "What happened again?!"

"Big dragon head!"

Zhang Jinshu, the leader of Zhongyi, is also the deputy general of the Chinese army this time. Hearing the sound, he ran in quickly from outside, and he was smiling all over his face. "Big dragon head, come out and see!"

"What are you looking at?" Seeing the other person's expression, Li Shu heaved a sigh of relief and only felt a headache.

"Look at the big dragon head and the big army!" Zhang Jinshu blurted out.

Li Shu's head hurt even more...but only for a moment, after a shock passed, he came to his senses: "Master Zhang brought reinforcements?"

"Yes!"

"How many?"

"No less than five thousand!"

"How many?"

"No less than five thousand!"

Li Shu got up immediately, ran out, and then immediately boarded the rammed-earth platform in front of his big tent, and swept his flag with the word "舍" on the white background, and immediately found the word "舍" on the other side of the red background. Daqi, at the moment, is leading an army no smaller than his own, paralleling Jishui, flowing down from east to west.

The troops are well equipped with horses and horses, and the proportion of livestock is quite large. Although there is a lack of flags and golden drums, the actual number of troops that are slightly messy in the marching ranks can be clearly seen.That's not to mention, above the Jishui, there is still a small logistics fleet that complements this army, heading majestically under the warm sun to the city of Jiyin.

Not only the rebels, but Jiyin City were visibly panicked.

"When did Zhang Longtou kill Shan Dalang's clan uncle in Lihu?" Li Shu couldn't help but turn around and ask Zhang Jinshu.

"The third grade!" Zhang Jinshu blurted out.

"What day is it today?" Li Shu continued to ask.

"Ninth day..." Zhang Jinshu himself felt a little terrified. "Six days... no, five thousand troops in five days?"

Li Shu stretched out his hand and calculated: "Aside from Xu Dalang who used the power of the white horse to attack Fengqiu, Niu Da used the power of Puyang to defend Chanyuan, leaving Lingchang, Xuncheng, Weicheng, Kuangcheng, and Lihu... The heartland of our East County happens to be five counties?"

Zhang Jinshu came to his senses, and then calmed down: "That's right, there are exactly five counties. As I said before, there will be 500 people in these five counties, [-] will stay in order, and [-] soldiers will be dispatched by the gang. Zhang Longtou also said , gather together and support...that's the right thing to do."

"Yes, that's right." Li Shuding looked at the red-bottomed "舍" banner that was slowly approaching, and nodded repeatedly, as if he had suddenly come to his senses.

However, no one knew except the leader himself, but his heart was becoming more flustered and shocked at the moment.

Without him, if the matter is completely incomprehensible to him, then it's okay to say, at most Zhang Xing has foreign aid, or other preparations, so what's the matter?It's okay to change him.

Even, although the effect of the four-faced Dongjun song before was amazing, it didn't bring him any sense of shock...Who doesn't eat a little crispy meat for the New Year?It made Li Longtou look like he had never seen the world like that county magistrate and all the country leaders.

But today, Li Shu was really shocked.

Because the current situation is nothing more than 5000 people from five counties... The so-called five counties were quickly settled down within [-] days of the uprising, and a thousand new troops were quickly pulled out, and then gathered and equipped, Get organized, and then immediately support yourself who has the most strength, not Xu Dalang and Niu Da who seem to need support more... But what does this mean?
What does this mean?
This means that this young Zhang Sanlang has done nothing wrong with every step.

That is, he himself understands every behavior of Zhang Sanlang, and seems to know how to do it, but when added together, it seems that it is not so simple to complete it so calmly... As the saying goes, I know how to do this thing, but let me Come on, I really didn't do as well as this young man.

Li Shu, who was actually extremely proud in his heart, knew very well that people who really know how to do things would be shocked and afraid.

Of course, people who don't know how to do it will too.

Li Shu turned his head under the white banner with the word "拍". Over there, Jiyin City was already in a state of panic, but at this moment he felt a little hopeless, he just wanted to ask himself who was the person who lived and died. Did Du Caiqian follow him... If so, he wanted to urgently invite the other party to sleep with him, and then carefully ask this person he trusts the most, what did Zhang Sanlang do in the past ten days? what?
He wants to hear every detail.

"Xiong Tianwang, you have always traveled far and wide and learned a lot, you said..."

Zhang Xing turned over and got off the yellow puma, and smiled at Xiongbo Nanlai who was coming to meet him. "Is the fish in Jishui delicious? On the way, I let the crew of the fleet catch a lot of them. How about making fish soup before noon, and giving the soldiers extra meals?"

Xiong Bonan was caught off guard and didn't know how to answer for a while.

PS: Good night everyone.

(End of this chapter)