Late Tang

(Thanks to Meng Yiran for the birthday red envelope, and to Zui Xiaodao for the monthly pass, thank you everyone)

After only a shower of arrows, someone shouted from the top of the city: "I wish to surrender, I wish to surrender!"

Wang Xianzhi was annoyed at the previous resistance in the city, and wanted to take the opportunity to boost morale, how could he agree easily.Gongqiu City in Yanzhou is just a small county town in the south of Wenshui. Wang Xianzhi captured this city the last time he marched west from Yizhou. Took one side.The last time the town [***] passed by, he wiped out the subordinates of the Cao army who stayed here, and Gongqiu City restored order.

Unexpectedly, after a few days of peace and stability, Wang Xianzhi led thousands of troops to kill him again.At first, the people in the city didn't know that it was Wang Xianzhi who came, they just thought it was some kind of horse thief, so the young and strong in the city organized to resist for a while, but it was Wang Xianzhi who came.After several rounds of arrows rained down, the city couldn't support it immediately.

Wang Xianzhi led the army to easily break into the city along the huge gap, and the thousands of grass soldiers who had been fleeing desperately all the way immediately turned into ferocious robbers and began to rush into the city, burning, killing and looting everywhere, annihilating money and looting, to vent their frustrations. Nervous mind since time escape.

The raging fire burned all night before it gradually extinguished. During the period, the young and strong in the city saw the ferocity of the grass bandits and organized two groups to resist, but they were all slaughtered by the grass bandits.

The city was screaming and screaming, and from time to time someone ran out of the fire screaming and howling, and finally turned into a pile of ashes.

The grass army ran non-stop, ignoring those who were burned to death, and making up for those who were half-burned.

The young women and money and food in the city had been robbed, and the remaining grass thieves couldn't take them away, and they didn't want to stay any more, so they burned them all.

With a bow and arrow in his hand, Shang Rang shot those who were fleeing in panic to death one by one.

Only one person escaped from the house, instead of running away, he knelt down and kowtowed and shouted: "My brother, I am my brother!"

After finishing shooting the arrow in his hand, Shang Rang took the spiked arrow from his own soldiers and said with a big smile, "You are also called my brother!" He set up an arrow to shoot, but Shang Jun stepped forward to stop him.

Shang Junchang said: "Wait a minute, brother." He turned around and asked Wang Xianzhi who was drinking, "Marshal, why don't you listen to this person's identity first, maybe it is really my brother. By the way, you can inquire about the situation here."

Wang Xianzhi drank another big gulp of wine, his beard and clothes were covered with wine, he nodded, "Second brother Shang will decide this matter."

Shang Rang rolled his eyes, put down his bow and arrow and shouted, "Bring it up!"

Several grass soldiers stepped forward, pulled their horses over, raised their saddles, whipped the man, and urged them to the front of the generals.

The man didn't dare to get up, he was hit by the whip, he prostrated himself on the ground with his head on the ground, and walked in front of Wang Xianzhi and the others with his head in his arms. His body was covered in mud and his clothes were burnt in several places.His face was scorched and his face was black, he kowtowed repeatedly when meeting each other, and said in a trembling voice: "Little man Yang Biao, I have met all the generals."

Shang Junchang condescended and asked: "Who are you who dares to call yourself your brother?"

Yang Biao said: "The villain, Vice President Huang, is under the command of General Meng Kai, and he is the leader of the Zuodu front team in the front battalion of the left wing of the rear army."

As soon as he spoke, everyone present couldn't help but be surprised when they heard the words. They didn't expect this person to be Huang Chao's subordinate.But since he is Huang Chao's subordinate, why is he in Gongqiu City?Could it be that Huang Chao has been defeated?

Shang Junchang asked urgently: "Hugh is talking nonsense, Vice President Huang is in charge of Qizhou, why are you here?"

Yang Biao replied tremblingly: "It was in Qizhou before, but Li Jing led the town [***] to kill from Jeju, and Song Wei led the Pinlu army to kill from Zizhou. Deputy Huang Dutong and General Wang saw the situation. It was not good, so he led the army to the south. The young one was at the rear of General Meng Kai. He arrived in Laiwu the day before yesterday and went out to search for food and grass according to the order, but was ambushed by a team of township troops. Most of his companions and brothers died in battle, and the young one was taken all the way here .”

"You said Vice Dutong Huang and General Wang Jingwu have led their troops south? Where have you gone? How many troops have you brought with you?"

Yang Biao quickly replied: "Deputy Huang led 15 troops and General Wang Jingwu led 20 troops, together with [-] troops. In addition, he brought [-] auxiliary troops and [-] young and strong troops to go south. According to General Meng Kai, the army is going to Yizhou. state."

The news was so shocking that even Wang Xianzhi put down his wine bag and stared at Yang Biao like lightning, "How could you, a small team leader, know about such an important military situation?"

Yang Biao hurriedly said: "The little fellow from the same village is General Meng Kai's personal soldier, and he told the villain the news about going to Yizhou."

After asking someone to take Yang Biao down, all the generals were silent for a while.

They had fought two battles with Li Xi in Rencheng, although Li Xi didn't get any advantage, but they also lost hundreds of brothers.In the end, everyone got the news that Huang Chao had been chased by Zhen [***] all the way to Qizhou to meet Wang Jingwu, so they unanimously decided to go north to join Huang Chao.No one expected that Huang Chao would go south.

Wang Xianzhi frowned and asked: "Brothers, after hearing the news, what are your plans?"

Shang Junchang stroked his beard and said, "I think what this person said is probably true. Li Jing and Song Wei attacked from east to west, and Wang Jingwu and Huang Chao couldn't stop them at all. It's a good idea to take the initiative to retreat south." The idea. Now the six towns of the official army are concentrated in Caozhou, while Li Jing and Song Wei are in Qizhou, Xue Chong has been defeated by Huang Chao, and the Li family is no longer able to fight. At this time, going south, only the Huainan army is left There are Liu Ye and Xue Neng, the Probation Army. Compared with Li Jing and others, Xue Neng and Liu Ye are far behind. Going south is a good move."

Huang Chao and others have already gone south, and Qizhou must have been occupied by Zhen[***] and Pinglu army now, if they go north at this time, they will seek their own death.The [-] soldiers and horses were all defeated by Li Jing, and now there are more than [-] people in his hands, no matter what, they can't beat Li Jing.

In this way, if you can't go north, you can only go south.

However, Wang Xianzhi still had a worried look on his face. Last time Songzhou was defeated, he defected to Huangchao, but during the battle of Juye, he escaped twice. Although he felt that even if he did not escape, the final battle situation would not change. Huang Chao must have hated him for what he did not behave properly.If he went to vote for the yellow nest again now, he worried that he would not be as easy to talk to as last time.

Wang Xianzhi turned around and asked Mr. Shang: "What do you think, Second Brother Shang?"

Lord Shang understands Wang Xianzhi's worries, but right now, there is no other way but to go to Huang Chao.He replied softly: "I think it's better to go to Yizhou first, and then fight to Huainan together after the rendezvous. After we get rid of the army, we can make plans at that time." There are only [-] soldiers.And they have more than [-] elite cavalry, whose strength is not much worse than Huang Chao.What's more, they still have the title of leader of the grass army, so even if they go to Yizhou, they don't have to worry about anything.

Opinions were quickly unified, and they immediately went east along the Wenshui River, first to Xintai City at the northern end of Yizhou, and then along the valley channel between Yishui and Shushui Rivers to Linyi City in Yizhou, where they joined Huang Chao and Wang Jingwu's second department .

Immediately, gather the troops and head east all the way.

Two days later, arrived in Xintai.In Xintai, Wang Xianzhi has already caught up with Meng Kai, the rear team left by Wang Xianzhi.Meng Kai led 3000 people to command the auxiliary army to escort the young men and their luggage, while Huang Chao and the others had already headed south on Qingqi.

After Wang Xianzhi saw Meng Kai, he was also happy, and learned the specific information about Huang Chao and others from Meng Kai.Wang Xianzhi, who couldn't wait, rested for a long time, and immediately continued to go south.

Two days after going south, Wang Xianzhi arrived at Yishui City, the northern county of Yizhou, which had been occupied by Huang Chao at this time, and Huang Chao also left some soldiers to guard the city and take care of the wounded.Wang Xianzhi rested for a long time in Yishui City, and then hurried south again.

After starting from Yishui City, after three days of driving all the way, Wang Xianzhi finally led more than [-] Qingqi to Linyi City, the seat of Yizhou.

When Wang Xianzhi arrived, Huang Chao and Wang Jingwu had just captured Linyi City.

However, Wang Xianzhi saw that there were no traces of battle in the entire Linyi city, so he asked a few grass soldiers to find out that Huang Chao and Wang Jingwu traveled lightly along the way, with only soldiers in front and auxiliary soldiers behind.

When [-] soldiers arrived at Linyi City, the city seemed unprepared. They only attacked under the cover of bows and arrows for less than an hour, and Linyi had already been captured, with less than a hundred casualties.

Hearing this news, Wang Xianzhi was also very happy.Immediately ordered to fly the banner of his general Tianbuping and the commander of all the tyrants in the country, and more than [-] cavalry appeared in front of Linyi City swaggeringly.

The news had already been reported to the city, Huang Chao rushed over again when he heard that Wang Xianzhi was so shameless, and angrily chopped a table in front of him into pieces.

"Shameless, despicable!" Huang Chao was furious! "Just ask someone to come and greet you, and just say that I'm not feeling well."

When the other generals heard that Wang Xianzhi had actually come here, they all looked bad.Everyone should remember that if Wang Xianzhi hadn't escaped twice, they might have won the battle of Juye, so why would they have escaped all the way here.No one wanted to dismiss Wang Xianzhi, and they all said something was wrong or they were not feeling well.Finally, Lin Yan just happened to see Zhu Wen coming in, so he immediately said: "General Zhu, you take the headquarters to the east gate to welcome Wang Dadu to enter the city, and said that the commander and the generals are both unwell and cannot go out of the city to meet him. Forgive me."

After receiving this task, Zhu Wen had no choice but to go forward with a wry smile.Sure enough, when Wang Xianzhi in front of the city gate saw that the person who came to greet him was only a pawn, his face turned dark all of a sudden.And he still vaguely remembered that the guy in front of him seemed to be from Zhen [***] before, and had participated in the Battle of Yucheng in Songzhou.Huang Chao and all the generals refused to come to greet him, but instead sent this guy, is it to embarrass him on purpose?

"The commander-in-chief and all the generals are unwell, and the last special general Zhu Wen came to welcome Dutong!" Zhu Wen saluted in front of Wang Xianzhi's horse.

Bi Shiduo said coldly: "The commander is here, where is the commander? Do you understand the rules?" As he said, he threw a horsewhip over him, Zhu Wen couldn't avoid it, and immediately got a horsewhip on his face. Bloodstains were immediately apparent.Both Zhu Zhen and Zhu Cun stared at each other. Zhu Wen gritted his teeth and reached out to block the two brothers, pushing them to the back and making way for them.

Wang Xianzhi snorted coldly, without even looking at Zhu Wen, he rode his horse into the city with a livid face. (To be continued.)