Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 623 Comeback
When Li Mi got Uncle Wang to vote, that would be like adding wings to a tiger.

Next, the two masters and apprentices led troops to sweep across the counties, as if they were in no man's land, they attacked cities and broke counties one after another, and the anti-army forces increased greatly.

Wherever soldiers and horses went, thieves and bandits from all walks of life came to vote one after another. Meng Rang was very bold and refused all comers, and all of them were appointed officials and knights. On this point, he fully accepted Li Mi's suggestion As bold as Yang Xuangan.

In a short period of time, Meng Rang's Qi army had already rolled to one hundred thousand people. Although it was a mob, it was indeed a large number of people.

Li Mi became the great Sima of the Qi army, commanding the army to attack, and Li Mi took Wang Bodang as the general of the hussars.

"King Qi, I think that although our army is large, we still don't have much food and grass, especially in Huaiyang, which is not a place to defend and is not a base."

Meng Rang held a wine glass in his hand, hugging a beautiful woman in his arms, wearing a dragon robe, and said with some wine, "Da Sima is right, I'm going to discuss this with you too, Now we have an army of [-], and we are famous in the Central Plains. However, Huaiyang is safe to defend, so I plan to lead my troops south to Huaixi."

Huaixi is the western part of Huainan Road. It is roughly located on the east and west sides of the Dabie Mountains. Yongan, Qichun, Tongan, Yiyang, Lujiang, and Huainan counties. Because there are Dabie Mountains and Tongbai Mountains in this area, it also faces the Han River, The Yangtze River, which can be surrounded by mountains and backed by the river, is a dangerous place.

Especially in this era, there are still many barbarians in the mountains such as Dabie Mountain and Tongbai Mountain.

These barbarians were actually the ancestors of the later Tujia people, but they were indeed not civilized enough. The court's rule in these mountainous areas was not strict enough. Compared with Henan, the heartland of the Central Plains' Fourth War, Huaixi is undoubtedly a good place.

To advance can be attacked, and retreat can be defended.

If the situation is not right, you can retreat into the mountains and run away, no matter if you run to the south of the mountain in the west, or to the south of the Yangtze River, or to Huainan, it doesn't matter.

To put it bluntly, although Meng Rang is already called the king of Qi, he doesn't have much self-confidence.

But this route is not what Li Mi wants.

He is determined to take revenge and wants to overthrow the Yang family, so why would he want to hide in the mountains all his life and become the king of the mountain?

"Your Majesty, now the faint king Yang Guang is still surrounded by Yanmen, and all the soldiers from all over the world are rushing to the King of Hedong. With this opportunity, let's head north."

Li Mi believes that it is still time to take the opportunity to fight Luoyang.

However, Luoyang City is strong, so the rebels can attack Xingyang first and seize Luocang.

"Your Majesty, Xingluo Granary has a cellar of [-] mouths, and each grain storage is [-] shi. This is the largest grain storage warehouse in Luoyang and the whole world. If our army takes this opportunity to seize this warehouse, we can call the heroes of the world to use the grain warehouse. , gathered in Luoyang, and besieged the eastern capital together. At that time, the heroes of the world will all obey the king. At that time, the army will capture Luoyang, and the king will be able to advance to the throne and proclaim the emperor, and then follow the trend to pacify the Central Plains and establish a new dynasty."

But Meng Rang still hesitated.

Although the soldiers and horses are expanding rapidly now, after all, Meng Rang was also the head of Qi County, not the kind of ignorant reckless, as a member of the former system, he is very aware of the strength of the court.

Right now Zhang Xutuo is leading the soldiers of the Henan government to go to Yanmen Qinwang, but he will definitely come back.In particular, he judged that although the emperor was caught off guard by Shibi, he should be fine.

It won't be long before the emperor will go south, and so will the god of death Zhang Xutuo.

What to do then?
Yang Xuangan didn't think he could do things that he couldn't do back then.

So Meng Rang was reluctant to go to Luoyang.

"Wei Gong, although my generation is not much better than those who are a group of thieves who live day and night in the grass, we are not much better. Although we claim to have a crowd of [-], we have less than [-] armies and less than [-] riders. How can we fight?" Luoyang, the eastern capital? Even Xingluo Cangcheng is quite strong, I have been to Xingluocang City, where the defense is very tight, there may not be a chance."

This remark made Li Mi very annoyed. He felt that Meng Rang was really not the one to make big things.

"Your Majesty, what we are doing now are head-scratching rebellions. This is like sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat. Instead of taking advantage of the opportunity to seize the prosperity of Luocang, destroy Luoyang, and call on the heroes of the world, we are thinking of retreating to Huaixi and entering the mountains. Li, is this the reason for things to happen? If the government soldiers return to Henan, no matter how much we hide in the mountains, it will be useless."

No matter what Li Mi persuaded, Meng Rang still decided to go to Huaixi.

Li Mi was so angry that he trembled all over, and wanted to yell at Meng Rang.

Fortunately, Meng Rang didn't overdo it in the end. After all, today's success is also thanks to Li Mi.So in the end he proposed a two-dimensional strategy, dividing troops.

He proposed that he would personally lead an army to march south and attack Huaixi as a base.

As for Li Mi, he led his troops to the north to attack Xingyang and seize Luocang.

"If Duke Wei can capture Xingluo Cang, then I will send troops north to join forces and fight Luoyang together."

Now that things have come to this, Li Mi is helpless.

So it was agreed at the moment that Meng Rang led the main force to go south to Huaixi, and Li Mi led his troops to go north to Xingyang.

Li Mi got 1 horses, and they were basically bandits from all walks of life who had just come to vote for these geniuses, including the team of student Wang Bodang.

Gritting his teeth, Li Mi headed north with the mob of more than ten thousand.

He went north along Caishui.

At this time in the land of Henan, many elite government soldiers were lost during the Eastern Expedition, and at the beginning of the year, many government soldiers were transferred from the Central Plains to the border area, which made the government soldiers sharp. reduce.But the emperor Yanmen was besieged, and he summoned soldiers from all over the world to serve the king.

Zhang Xutuo, the pacifier of Henan, and Fan Zigai, the governor of Dongdu, led their troops northward, and Henan became even more empty.

Li Mi and Wang Bodang formed a team, although they led a mob, their morale was high, and no one could stop them going northward.

They broke through several cities one after another, and every time they broke through a city, they took all the money, food and equipment, and even recruited the county soldiers and township soldiers in the city to accompany them, so their strength continued to increase dramatically.

At the beginning of September, Li Mi attacked Chenliu, a large city on the canal.

Then the troops entered Xingyang County. At this time, Li Mi's troops had increased to [-].

After entering Xingyang, Li Mi sent Wang Bodang to attack Jindi Pass.

Jindi Pass is on the east bank of the canal, not far from Hulao Pass.

The guard of Jindi Pass faced the 3 Malay invaders led by Wang Bodang and went out of the city to fight, but was defeated by Wang Bodang, and Jindi Pass then fell.

When Li Mi arrived, he took Jindiguan as his base camp and divided his troops to attack the counties of Xingyang.

The Wei army broke through the cities, and finally besieged Xingyang City by the Suoshui River to the east of Hulao Pass.

The prefect of Xingyang was concurrently served by Zhang Xutuo, the appeasement envoy of Henan Province. At this time, Zhang Xutuo led the elite of Henan Province far away in Hedong. Fortunately, Xingyang City was the foundation of the Zheng family. With a lot of money, he recruited warriors, and sent out servants and servants to help defend the city, and finally repelled the Wei army's first siege.

"Hurry up, hurry up and report to Zhang Anfu, and let him lead his troops back to rescue!" Zheng's mansion, an old man from the Zheng family in Xingyang said anxiously.

(End of this chapter)