A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 280 I, Marquis Li, am never weaker than others
After entering Zaoqiang County.

The first person to be held accountable was the county magistrate. The magistrate, Yan Chaowen, was dismissed on the spot and jailed for investigation.

In prison, Yan Chaowen quickly revealed all of this. Just when the boss wanted to arrest Mr. Zhang, the news leaked out from nowhere.

Zhang took the initiative and led hundreds of county soldiers to surround the county government office.

The leader could only run away with his troops. Fortunately, the cavalry was elite. After dozens of people died, the leader took the remaining thirty or so cavalry and ran out of Zaoqiang County.

When the incident came to light, the three tycoons from Zaoqiang continued to fight, and started revolting in response to the peasant armies from all over the country.

They were led by the Zhang family and former county captain Zhang Tu. Each family, together with the county soldiers, gathered more than a thousand people in an attempt to occupy the city and defend themselves.

Seeing that Zaoqiang was rebellious, the chief immediately asked the Qinghe prefect for more troops. After all, Zaoqiang was the first county in Qinghe County to explicitly rebel.

By the time three thousand soldiers from the county entered Zaoqiang, Zhang Tu had already gathered five thousand people.

Among them, Li Hou was also among them. He took the Li family's children and led 500 people inside, including a small leader.

Zhang Tu formed a formation on the west bank of the Zhangjia River. He wanted to wait until the soldiers of Qinghe County crossed the river, then take advantage of their unsteady footing to attack halfway across the river.

But I didn't expect that the commander of the Qinghe County soldiers was playing dirty tricks and secretly sent five hundred elite soldiers across the river at night.

When all the county soldiers crossed the river, Zaoqiang's "rebel army" launched an attack. In the stalemate between the two sides, five hundred Qinghe County soldiers broke in from the side and behind, and Zaoqiang's army was defeated.

Li Hou was clever and saw that the situation was wrong, so he decisively ran away with his men.

After Zao Qiang's army entered the city, only two to three thousand people were left. Fortunately, Li Hou ran fast and he still had 300 people left.

Soon the two sides fell into a city defense battle. Although the county soldiers were elite, Zaoqiang had the right location and people. After all, he was a local powerhouse and easily organized more than a thousand people.

During this period, Li Hou fought bravely and lost no less than ten of his men. After the rebel army was defeated last time, many people died there. Including the city defense battle, no less than five thousand people died. Even the head of the Wang family, Wang Ku , Liu Kan, the head of the Liu family, was seriously injured.

So in view of Li Hou's bravery, he was appointed by the leader Zhang Tu to lead the army. Although he only had a few hundred people under his command at this time, he was still considered a general.

Due to Zaoqiang's tenacious resistance, the county soldiers fought for half a month but failed to capture it. This made the insurgents in other counties seize the opportunity. While most of the county soldiers were in Zaoqiang, the entire Qinghe River was filled with smoke.

In order to protect the county city, the county soldiers had no choice but to retreat.

After the victory in Zaoqiang, the head of the Wang family died of a serious illness not long after, and his tribe was annexed by Zhang Tu, Liu Kan, and Li Hou. A large number of Wang's descendants in Zaoqiang were killed. From then on, he disappeared in Zaoqiang.

Li Hou was also promoted by Zhang Tu and became the most powerful general in Zao Qiang's army besides Zhang Tu and Liu Kan.

Although Liu Kan was also seriously injured, his son Liu Yi had the courage to take over Liu Kan's position. Unlike the Wang family, their strength was severely damaged during the Zhangjiahe battle, and the head of the family died early, so they ended up like this. .

Half a month later, the situation in Qinghe became increasingly corrupt. Except for the county town of Qingyang, which was still in Xinmang's hands, the rest of the county towns were captured by the rebels.

So all the rebel armies agreed to meet in Qingyang and attack Qingyang together.

At this time, Zao Qiang's military strength also returned to several thousand men. After leaving enough defensive strength, Zhang Tu took 5,000 men to Qingyang to join him.

Under Qingyang City, Zao Qiang had the largest number of troops, so Zhang Tu was promoted as the leader of the Qinghe Rebel Army. At this time, Li Hou had 1,500 people under his command, with the Li family's descendants as the backbone.

The Qinghe rebels totaled more than 30,000 people, while the Qingyang defenders only had 2,000 to 3,000 people.

Except for a few troops who were direct descendants of the leader, most of the rebels were farmers who had just put down their farm tools, and their combat effectiveness was impressive.

The Qinghe rebels besieged Qingyang City for two months but failed to capture it.

However, in the meantime, Zhang Tu used various means and used siege to bring many other troops under his command. Although the rebels suffered tens of thousands of casualties, 70% of the remaining rebels only obeyed orders. By myself.

At this time, it was heard that Chang'an was captured by the Green Forest Army. Now the people's surname is Liu again, and the current emperor's name is Liu Xuan.

After General Qingyang learned the news, he had no choice but to surrender.

Zhang Tu finally entered Qinghe County and became the leader of the Qinghe Army.

Li Hou also relied on his courage to fight and his clever personality to become the third-in-command of the Qinghe Army. Zhang Tu valued the talents of the Qingyang Guards and took him into his bag.

Now, after a period of consolidation, the strength of the Qinghe Army has reached 50,000, while Li Hou has nearly 10,000 men, becoming Zhang Tu's general who can stand alone.

At this time, the generals available to the Qinghe Army, in addition to the leader Zhang Tu himself, were Liu Yi of the Liu family in Zaoqiang, who had more than 10,000 men; Li Hou, who had more than 9,000 men; and Hong Xiaocheng, the Qingyang guard who had surrendered before , with more than 5,000 men under his command.

Zhang Tu claimed to be a general, and Liu Yi, Li Hou, and Hong Xiao became partial generals.

But soon, Qinghe attracted its first challenge, the Youlai tribe. The Youlai tribe originated from Bai County and was a peasant army that revolted at the same time as the Green Forest Army, the Black Mountain Army, and the Red Eyebrow Army.

It's just that they are not as famous as them. In Hebei, apart from the Black Mountain Army, there are the Bronze Horse Tribe and the Youlai Tribe. Now the Youlai tribe has completely occupied Bai County, and has also occupied the southern part of Guangping County, Julu County and Changshan County, and is now moving towards Qinghe County.

But fortunately, they are not without enemies, regardless of the behemoth Bai Kingdom in their south, the Zhao Kingdom holding firm in Handan, the Heishan Army in Changshan County, and the Bronze Horse Tribe in the north.

Therefore, only more than 100,000 people came to attack Qinghe at this time.

But this was already more than half of the Qinghe Army. Zhang Tu was a little flustered. He only had more than 50,000 people. How could he fight?
In order to survive, he kept sending envoys everywhere to ask for help from soldiers and piers.

Chang'an was too far away, Bai Guo refused to accept it, and Heishan looked down on them. Zhang Tu was very anxious.

As soon as Youlai's troops entered Qinghe, Zhang Tu was defeated steadily. Not only that, his troops were also very scattered. He only had more than 20,000 people around him, and the rest were in the hands of his three generals.

In the end, they had no choice but to let them come to the county seat and defend with him.

But in the end only Hong Xiaocheng came, Li Hou stopped at Xincheng, and Liu Yi stopped at Dongwu. Both of them stood still, not wanting to enter Qingyang and die.

Zhang Tu kept cursing the two men, and had no choice but to rely on the 30,000 people he had in hand to defend Qingyang against the Yulai tribe's more than 100,000 people.

The battle started soon. With Hong Xiaocheng who was good at defending the city, Qingyang was not that easy to conquer.

Li Hou has been paying attention to the battle situation in Xincheng and decided to listen to whoever wins. If You Laibu wins, he will immediately switch to Youlai. If Zhang Tu wins, he will beat the lost dog and cut off Yu Laibu's retreat. He will still be Zhang Tu. A good general.

While Li Hou was paying attention to the war situation in Qingyang, news came from the west that Liu Ziyu proclaimed himself emperor in Handan, Zhao State, and received the support of Liu Jie, King of Guangyang, and Liu Lin, a relative of the Liu family. In order to eliminate Liu Xuan of Chang'an, Influence on Hebei, many forces in Hebei chose to be loyal to Liu Ziyu.

Including the Tongma Tribe, the Youlai Tribe, the Xindu Army, the Hejian King and other large and small forces, even the Shanggu and Yuyang counties as far away as Youzhou all turned to him.

For a time Liu Ziyu became the lord of Hebei.

You Lai's tribe surrendered to Zhao Han, and You Lai's tribe was attacking Qinghe. Doesn't it mean that Zhao Han was attacking Qinghe?
Li Hou captured "Hua Dian" at once, and immediately asked his brother Li An to command the entire army. He was not allowed to use weapons until he came back. He took dozens of knights and rode lightly to Handan to meet the saint.

After arriving in Handan, Li Hou met Liu Ziyu and was appointed by Liu Ziyu as the captain of Qinghe, in charge of the military affairs of Qinghe County.

Because for Liu Ziyu, the Youlai tribe was too powerful and needed to be weakened, and Zhang Tu did not clearly support him. This Li Hou was smart enough, and he could control Qinghe County through him.

So Li Hou returned to Qinghe with Liu Ziyu's appointment.

He immediately rushed to Dongwu City with his army, met Liu Yi, showed his seal as the captain of Zhao Han Qinghe, and persuaded him to be aware of current affairs. Now Zhao Han has become the de facto master of Hebei.

Liu Yi agreed to temporarily obey Li Hou's orders.

So Li Hou and Liu Yi joined forces with 20,000 troops and rushed towards Qingyang.

At this time, there was also a split within the Youlai tribe. The leaders in Julu and Guangping actually turned to Liu Ziyu and were appointed by Liu Ziyu.

So Li Hou, with 30,000 reinforcements from the "imperial court", attacked You Lai's army who was attacking Qingyang from behind.

Under the attack of 50,000 people, Youlai's army was defeated. Zhang Tu still had more than 10,000 people left. Seeing that the situation was over, he opened the city gate and surrendered to Li Hou, who entered Qingyang City.

The original leader became his subordinate, which was a new experience for Li Hou.

Li Hou had a disagreement with General Zhao Han who came for reinforcements as to whether to accept Zhang Tu's surrender, but in the end it was still a senior official, so Li Hou had to accept Zhang Tu's subordinate.

Although Li Hou became the leader of the Qinghe Army, at this time he had the Qinghe Prefect appointed by the Zhao Han court, Liu Yi who was at odds with him, and two Zhang Tu who had a grudge against him. .

As for Hong Xiaocheng, he was transferred by the imperial court.

Although he had 50,000 people at this time, only 20,000 people listened to him. The remaining 20,000 people listened to Liu Yi and 10,000 people listened to Zhang Tu. Under the suppression of the Qinghe Prefect, they all realized what they meant. of peace.

But Li Hou is a person who accepts his fate.

Just when Liu Xiu was attacking Zhao Han, Qinghe asked to mobilize troops to reinforce Handan. Li Hou took the opportunity and asked Liu Yi to take 30,000 people to Handan to support him on the grounds that he needed to guard Qinghe.

At this time, the only thing against him was Zhang Tu.

Handan was surrounded, and the Bai people defeated Liu Xiujun's 200,000 troops on the battlefield, and Liu Yi was here with 30,000 Qinghe troops.

Hearing that Liu Yi had been granted the title of Marquis of Guannei, Li Hou felt unlucky, and ordered people to go to Zaoqiang and send a large amount of treasures to the Liu family, hoping that his Li family would marry the Liu family.

At this time, the situation in Zaoqiang has changed drastically. Since Li Hou became the captain of Qinghe County, the Li family replaced the Wang family in Zaoqiang and became the strongest clan, controlling half of the resources in the county. The power also extended to the county and surrounding counties.

The Zhang family and Liu family fell under the Li family, but because of the existence of Liu Yi and Zhang Tu, they united to resist the erosion of the Li family.

Today's Li family, its prestige is known throughout Qinghe County because of Li Marquis, but due to its shallow background, it has not yet become a prominent family in the county.

(End of this chapter)