Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 352 0347 [Bai Qi's personal show]

The officers and soldiers on Kuizhou Road all ran to "recover the lost ground", Li Bao was not very clear about this.

To be cautious, he left [-] soldiers and horses to garrison Hezhou to prevent the officers and soldiers from Kuizhou Road from coming again.With the rest of the troops, he went north to attack Guozhou (Nanchong), and joined forces with Lin Chong and Bai Qi.

Li Bao didn't even know where the friendly troops had gone, they were simply executing the planned plan.

"The thieves of Hezhou have fallen into Hanchu County." Chen Rujia put down the battle report with a look of despair.

Xue Yuanjian couldn't understand: "On the four roads of Chuanxia, ​​Kuizhou's soldiers are the most elite. Why haven't they come to suppress the thieves now? They don't need to attack fiercely. As long as they are restrained from the rear, the Hezhou thieves will definitely not dare to attack."

Chen Rujia also couldn't figure it out: "Could it be that the Kuizhou soldiers have already been defeated?"

The Kuizhou soldiers only lost one water battle, and they are busy regaining lost ground, and now they have almost entered the border of Bazhou.The more cities recovered, the farther away they would be from the main battlefield. How could Chen and Xue have imagined such a tricky route of attack?

In the state office, fell into silence.

Weng Zhen, the commander of Guozhou, couldn't help but said: "It's better to retreat to Suizhou, and we have to retreat quickly. If the two bandits join forces, it will be too late to leave."

"This proposal is feasible." Xue Yuanjian agreed.He is the prefect of Langzhou, the area under his jurisdiction has long since fallen, so it doesn't matter where he flees.

Chen Rujia is the prefect of Guozhou, and he still wants to continue to guard his own state city (Nanchong), hesitating and unable to make up his mind.

But the bandits in Hezhou are approaching, and if they don't leave, they will be flanked, and the soldiers under their command obviously don't want to fight.

Chen Rujia looked around, thought about it, and finally said: "Withdraw the army tonight, you will go back and prepare."

He wanted to fight, but he didn't dare to fight.

When afraid of being flanked, the officers under him will lead the soldiers to defect directly!

The waterway from Nanchong to Suining has been cut off by Li Bao, and the whole journey has to be done by land, passing through more than a hundred miles of hilly areas.

In order to carry grain, grass and luggage, all the mules, horses, donkeys and cattle in the city were requisitioned by the officers and soldiers, and they went door to door to collect them.

Searching and searching turned into large-scale looting, and the targets were no longer just livestock.

Two townspeople were dozing off on the city wall, one of them looked back and said, "Why is there such a commotion in the city?"

"I don't know." Another person basked in the sun with squinted eyes.

"Could it be that the rebels entered the city?"

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"You won't say anything else?"

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"..."

At this moment, a voice suddenly came from below the city wall: "Brother Jiang San, your cattle have been robbed!"

The village soldier who kept saying "I don't know" suddenly stood up and shouted, "Who the hell did it?"

"They're all robbing livestock. It's arranged by the superiors," said the person who reported the message. "At first they only wanted livestock, but now they're all robbing food and money."

As soon as this remark came out, many officers and soldiers guarding the city left their posts and ran into the city one after another.

Most of the soldiers are locals, some are young and strong urban recruits temporarily recruited, and some are farmers who fled to the city with their families.

For example, the third brother Jiang was born in a family of small landlords. Not only did the whole family flee to Nanchong City, but they also brought all their cattle with them.

The officers at the head of the city couldn't hold back at all and could only watch the soldiers run away stupidly.

"Whoever robs my cattle, whoever robs my cattle..." Jiang San ran and shouted along the street, holding a pike in his hand, followed by tenants and farmers.Their dozen or so families all rely on the cow to plow the fields.

There was chaos in the streets and alleys everywhere, and looters could be seen everywhere.

The official army and the official army will fight on their own.

It was an official soldier who lived in the city. When he found out that his house had been looted, he immediately rushed to fight desperately.

"Prefect, chaos, chaos!"

"But the bandits have entered the city?"

"It was my own people who fought. I asked them to collect livestock, but those Qiu Ba went around looting!"

"Follow me to suppress!"

Chen Rujia led his soldiers into the street, looking at the completely chaotic city of Nanchong, he didn't know how to deal with it.

A group of personal soldiers rushed up, scaring the looters and running away.

A little clever ghost was afraid of being beheaded, so he ran away and shouted: "The rebels have entered the city! The rebels have entered the city..."

"The rebels have entered the city, run for your life!" It was the people in the city who were frightened and shouted along with them.

Soon rumors spread and shouts came and went, even the guards who were still standing on their posts could hear them.

Jiang San and his fellow villager had already found the farm ox, which was standing alone on the street.But his old mother was killed, and it was unclear who the murderer was, and his sister-in-law, wife and children, younger sister and nephew were even missing.

I ran wildly for several streets but couldn't find it, probably hiding somewhere.

Jiang Sanyue became more and more angry as he thought about it, he picked up his spear and said, "Follow me to seize the city gate and throw myself at the thieves!"

Friends from the same village couldn't find their family members, full of anger and nowhere to vent, and followed Jiang Sanfeng to the east gate.

Lin Chong and Bai Qi had already noticed the abnormality in the city. The whole city was shouting, crying, and roaring, and the sound had already spread beyond the moat.

The sentries guarding around the city quickly returned to the camp to report.

The two led the troops out of the camp, Lin Chong wanted to take the opportunity to seize the city, but Bai Qi was still a little worried: "Will there be fraud?"

Lin Chong said, "How can there be any deceit? As far as the morale of the officers and soldiers is concerned, if the general dares to cheat, the soldiers will really dare to scatter and flee."

"That's right." Bai Qi realized that he was overthinking.

They led the troops to rush outside the moat, pushed out the bridge carts to build the pontoon bridge, and they were not shot by bows and arrows.

Before the pontoon bridge was built, the city gate suddenly opened wide.

The gatekeeper was the prefect's cronies, and was attacked by Jiang San from behind, thinking that the rebels had really entered the city, he threw away his weapons and fled in fright.

"You guard the city gate!"

Jiang San ran out of the city alone, took off his clothes and picked it up with a javelin, and shouted across the moat: "Come into the city quickly, enter the city quickly, don't lose time!"

"Hurry up, hurry up!" Lin Chong urged anxiously.

A pontoon bridge was finally built, and Lin Chong immediately led his troops across the river.

Jiang San said: "General, my family is gone, don't kill people randomly when you enter the city."

Lin Chong said as he ran, "Don't kill people randomly. You know the way. Take me straight to the state government office. I promise to find your family. You will see the people alive and the dead bodies."

Chen Rujia, the magistrate of Guozhou, was still suppressing the rebels, successively suppressing thousands of people.

Hearing that the thieves had entered the city, he didn't think much about it, because they were shouting like this everywhere.

It wasn't until Lin Chong and his troops appeared on the street that Chen Rujia finally realized that it was true. He raised his knife and shouted: "Follow me to kill the thief!"

When the prefect gave an order, most of the officers and soldiers around him were scattered, and only a few strong-headed ones rushed forward.

Lin Chong has a leopard head with ring eyes and a full beard. His image is like Zhang Fei in a film and television drama.He rushed to the front with a gun, and picked up several people one after another. The morale of the rebels behind him was greatly boosted, and he shouted and followed the leader to charge bravely.

Chen Rujia turned around in doubt, there was such a large group of people just now, only a hundred or so rushed up at this moment, why did the others disappear?

In a daze, Chen Rujia was knocked down by the rout soldiers and pinned to the ground by the rebels.

"I caught a high official, I caught a high official!"

"I caught it, you don't want to claim the credit!"

"..."

Bai Qi crossed the river by another pontoon bridge, but he led his troops around the city and chased towards the west of the city.

Xue Yuanjian, the prefect of Langzhou, and Weng Zhen, the commander of Guozhou, had taken their family, entourage and a small number of soldiers out of the west gate and fled towards Suining.

Bai Qi saw it from a distance, and immediately shouted: "The cavalry follow me!"

Their partisan division is all composed of surrendered soldiers, the backbone of which is [-] surrendered troops from Xingyuan Mansion and Sanquan County, and the rest are all young and strong selected from the surrendered troops along the way.

The so-called cavalry is also the horses captured on the way.

Most of them were poor horses used to pull carts and loads. Only a poor 20 or so horses were captured for this kind of goods that could not be used on the battlefield.

Not only are the war horses trash, but also the people riding on them.

Only a few people have ridden a horse, and the rest are trying to drive ducks to the shelves, barely riding and running without falling off.

As a lieutenant general in the army, Bai Qi's horse is naturally the best.

He took the lead, and soon left his own people far away, and went to hunt down the escapees alone.

Weng Zhen, the commander of Guozhou who was fleeing, said to the soldiers around him: "Just those few bandit soldiers, follow me to kill them and kill them before fleeing!"

Seeing the enemy general stop, Bai Qi also reined in his horse and slowed down, took out his bow and arrow and waited for his soldiers.

He is not stupid, if the enemy flees, he will naturally pursue and kill them.Now that the enemy has stopped, there is no need to be brave alone.

Weng Zhen was even more crazy about the sixth child. The bird man noticed that Bai Qi had stopped halfway, as if he wanted to gather more rebels, so he turned around on his horse and ran away, ignoring his family.As for the followers and soldiers under his command, they had no horses to ride, so they could only watch the general flee.

"Where will the thief escape!"

Bai Qi chased after him again, and dozens of officers and soldiers knelt down and surrendered when they saw him coming to kill him.

Weng Zhen's horse is even better, but Bai Qi started to learn to ride a horse when he was seven or eight years old, and he just rode a pony around the village when he had nothing to do.Bai Qi not only has better riding skills, but also is very familiar with mountain biking.

The two chased and fled, and soon encountered a river, and drove north along the river bank.

The farther away from the city, the more complex the terrain.

There are rice fields that have been harvested everywhere, and the water is dry but not completely dry, and the fields are full of mud.And it belongs to the hilly area, and there is a hill from time to time.

Fearing that the horse would stumble, Weng Zhen had to slow down.

Bai Qi rode on a bad horse and chased him closer and closer, and he was able to free up his hand to draw a bow and nock an arrow.

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When an arrow was shot, Weng Zhen hurriedly leaned over to avoid it, and was so frightened that he swung his whip and ran away quickly.

After another two miles, Weng Zhen's war horse trampled the ridge of the field, and he and his horse fell into the mud.Before he could struggle to get up, he was shot in the arm by an arrow.

Bai Qi had already dismounted, stood on the ridge of the field, and took another arrow slowly.

"Surrender, surrender, little general, don't shoot arrows!" Weng Zhen shouted in horror.

Bai Qi said: "Throw the weapons farther away, and throw away your bow and arrow. Throw the quiver first, and don't even hold the arrow and the bow in your hand. Then take off your belt and come here with your boots on. You are not allowed to take off your boots, nor Go ashore!"

Although the young man who recited "Quiet Night Thoughts" hadn't fought any big battles yet, he had made personal achievements.

Lin Chong took Nanchong and interrogated the prisoners, only to find out that Li Bao was coming here to kill.

He immediately sent someone to inform Li Bao not to come.

Lin Chong and Bai Qi led troops to go overland and went straight to Tongquan, Shehong and Zizhou (Santai).

Li Bao returned to Hezhou, advanced both by land and water, and captured Suining (Tongnan) and Suining (Suining) to help Lin Chong solve the rear problem.

The goal of the two rebel armies is Mianzhou (Mianyang), which directly cuts off the retreat and food roads of the main force of the official army.

If the tens of thousands of officers and soldiers in Zitong don't run away, they will be dumped.

(End of this chapter)