Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 773 Sky-high birthday gift
Hebei, Xindu County, Wuqiang City.

Guo Xuan, the envoy of Fan Yang's Longwu Army Jiedu, received a letter from Luo Siye. Luo Siye told him that there is currently a lack of food in the army, and the transfer is not good.

"If you attack quickly, you will be wounded; if you defend for a long time, you will be short of food."

Luo Siye asked Guo Xuan to suspend the attack and stop going deep into Leshou City alone, but let him raise food and grass by himself in Hebei.Ask Guo Xuan to find a way to collect food and grass from the surrounding counties and towns to support himself. If the food and grass collected are not enough, he can return to Boling first.

At this time, Guo Xuan had [-] soldiers under his command. In addition to the Fan Yang soldiers and Beiping soldiers brought from Fan Yang, there were also several thousand Dingxiang Xuanwu cavalry brought by Liu Hongji, and those who were defeated and surrendered in the two counties of Shanggu and Hengshan. [-] to [-] bandit soldiers.

With so many soldiers and horses heading south, it is overwhelming, but when they reach the vicinity of Hejian, the supplies have reached their limit.

It is difficult to support so many soldiers and horses by relying on the supplies of the captured cities.

Originally, Guo Xuan was expecting to fight all the way to the Leshou City, and then join forces with several other groups of soldiers and horses, and then receive food and grass from them.

"It seems that we can only send troops to collect food and grass first."

In order to be able to solve the problem of food and grass, after discussing with the generals, Guo Xuan decided to divide the troops in each city for food.So more than a hundred thousand horses under his command were thrown out.

He himself led Fan Yang soldiers to station in Wuqiang and Xiabo two cities in Xindu County, stationed Beiping soldiers in Wuyi and Fucheng two cities on the east bank of the Zhang River, and then let Liu Hongji lead Xuanwu cavalry to station in Anping and Boling. Lucheng in Xindu.

They sent even more Xinguifugu bandits and Hengshan bandits to attack Zhaojun and Xiangguo counties. In fact, they were asked to find ways to collect food and grass to be self-sufficient.

Guo Xuan did not choose to march northward to the Hejian Leshou area, because there is now a small but elite Xia army left behind. It is also difficult to get supplies.

As for Leshou City, Guo Xuan has a strong army. Although Guo Xuan has 10 troops, he doesn't have much confidence that he can quickly break through Leshou.

early February.

Song Jingang led the bandits from Shanggu, and Zhen Zhaier led the bandits from Hengshan. They attacked Zhao County and Xiangguo counties respectively. They were originally horse bandits. Lord, Guo Xuan didn't give them food and grass when they left the Wuqiang Camp, and let them find their own way.

What can the two do?
Of course it's old fashioned.

So the two headed west all the way, and wherever they passed, they were like locusts crossing the border. When they met the county town and attacked the county town, they met the village of Xiangji and the village of Xiangji. Although they held the banner of the official army.

As far as possible, they are still like robbers. Wherever they pass, they rob all food and grass, and even coerce young and strong into soldiers, plunder women, and rob money and silk.

For a while, the people of the two counties of Xiangzhao and Zhao were all resentful.

Originally, many local gentry were powerful, but they still held a wait-and-see attitude towards the Liao soldiers going south, and some people were even ready to welcome the Liao soldiers.

Who knew that these people came under the flag of Liao, but what was feasible was banditry, murder, arson, burning, killing, looting, and doing all kinds of evil.

Not only did the common people suffer, but even the gentry and powerful landlords did not escape.

So they quit.

As a result, these powerful landlords of the gentry raised high the banner of Emperor Qinxia protecting Hebei, gathered their children and horses, began to form a village for self-defense, and even began to actively attack small groups of looting soldiers.

Shandong.

Luo Cheng still stationed troops in Linyi.

"Your Highness, Li Mi sent an envoy to present him with a thousand taels of gold and many treasures, saying that he is here to celebrate His Highness's birthday."

Luo Cheng couldn't help laughing.

"This Li Mi, did you find out my birthday?"

But Luo Cheng wouldn't believe that Li Mi was so intentional. It was obvious that this guy had been a little panicked recently. Dou Jiande didn't die, so Li Yuan ran away first, and he even got along with him.Over there, Wang Shichong and Pei Renji and Wei Wensheng counterattacked vigorously, but at this time Luo Cheng had already landed in Shandong strongly.

Li Mi is now anxious to kill Wang Shichong, but also afraid that Luo Cheng will kill him from behind, and worried about falling into the disadvantageous situation of fighting on both sides.

The original plan was to destroy Dou Jiande first, then attack Shandong, prevent Luo Cheng from entering Shandong, and keep Luo Cheng outside the pass, but now the situation has changed drastically, and Li Mi has no choice but to continue to submit to Luo Cheng, just to slow down Luo Cheng's offensive pace.

"How about this, send someone back to see Li Mi, and tell him that he has a heart, and this king is very happy. This king also knows that it is hard for him to fight for rebellion, so I will send troops to support him."

"For the four counties east of the canal, let the two generals Luo Cunxiao and Shan Xiongxin lead the left and right brave troops to take over the defense. He can go and attack the rebel general Wang Shichong with peace of mind."

"Your Highness, didn't you say before that we don't want to intervene in the battle in Henan and just wait in peace?" Guo Xiaoke asked.

"At this time, at that time. Before the decisive battle between the Xia and Wei armies, we made room for them and didn't disturb them. And Wang Shichong and Li Yuan were still on the side, so we didn't join in the fun. But now, Li Yuan has already gone to Guanzhong, Dou Jiande retreated to Hebei, Wang Shichong began to fight Li Mi, the battlefield has been transferred from Dongjun to Luoyang, so we can take back the four counties of Dongjun."

"Li Miken let him out?"

"If you don't let me, then hit me."

"But we have no food now."

"I know, so I didn't ask Li Mi to fight directly, but first wrote to Li Mi asking him to give it to us." Luo Cheng was confident that Li Mi would let it go.First of all, there are basically no people in the four counties now. Luo Cheng moved the people once, and later when Li Yuan left, he took away another group, so now the plains on both sides of the canal in the heart of the Central Plains are already empty.

For these open spaces, does Li Mi dare to fight Luo now, dare to fight on two fronts?

Luoyang, Xingluocang.

Li Mi met Luo Cheng's envoy and heard Luo Cheng's request.

Faced with Luo Chengshi's big opening and directly asking for the four counties of Dongjun, Li Mi was very aggrieved.

But Luo Cheng's intention was obvious, if he didn't give it, then he would send a large army to Luoyang to help in the battle. The so-called help in the battle must be to attack.

"Fight him!"

Several generals of the Wei army shouted.

Li Mi chuckled a few times, "General Liu is extremely brave, how about sending you to garrison the four counties to defend against Luo Cheng?"

The man immediately fell silent.

"Forget it, let's withdraw the soldiers. Anyway, they are just empty cities, so let's give them to Luo Cheng first. We will try our best to destroy Wang Shichong. After we win, we will fight against Luo Cheng." Li Mi said helplessly.

But at the same time, Li Mi ordered that all the cities in the four counties be burned down and destroyed before the soldiers and horses withdrew.

The villages will be burned, the wells will be filled, the canals will be blocked, and the bridges will be broken.

"Let the land of these four counties be completely dead, and the land of hundreds of miles will become a buffer zone for no one. I want to see what Luo Cheng can do if he gets these four counties!" Li Mi gritted his teeth and said.

(End of this chapter)