Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 296 Suiyang Zhang Xun
Riding on a war horse, seeing the gratitude in the eyes of the Nanyang people who lined the road to welcome him, Li Fei suddenly had an idea, that is, he wanted to recruit some soldiers and horses in Nanyang City to make up for some of the losses of the war.

Thanks to the sudden surprise attack on the anti-army camp, the anti-army was defeated too quickly. The whole battle was basically a one-sided massacre. The loss of Anton's cavalry was actually not large. Only more than 100 people died in battle, and there were others who were lightly or seriously injured. There are more than [-] people, and the Blue Dragon medical team has already treated the wounded. According to preliminary estimates, the final reduction in personnel should be around [-].

With such a small number of casualties in exchange for a great victory that defeated more than [-] enemy troops, the loss can almost be regarded as negligible.

Li Fei not only wants to make up for the loss of the war, but also wants to further strengthen his own strength.However, the people in Nanyang City were besieged for half a year, and their food reserves were exhausted. They were rescued by him at the most desperate time, and they were grateful to him from the bottom of their hearts. If they recruited some soldiers in Nanyang City, their loyalty to him might not be high. It is lower than the soldiers recruited by the Anton Protectorate.

As soon as he thought of it, he did it, and Li Fei sent someone to raise the banner of recruiting soldiers that day.

Nanyang is a big state city with a population of nearly 20.Because of Li Fei's reputation and thanks to Li Fei for breaking the siege of Nanyang, there are more than 8000 young and strong people from Nanyang who came to apply. However, what Li Fei wants is the real elite, so he only plans to take 2000 or [-] of them.

Although the chance of being selected is only [-]/[-], as long as they are selected successfully, Li Fei will give each of them a settling allowance of [-] yuan on the spot, and there will be another [-] yuan of military salary every month from now on. Well, even the soldiers under Lu Jiong's command are jealous.

This time Li Feiye attacked more than 10 rebels who defeated the military order, not only got enough food and grass to feed 200 people for half a month, but also got more than [-] million worth of property.They were all obtained by Wu Lingxun's plundering all the way to the south. Even if you give each recruit twenty guns, it's just a drop in the bucket.

"Wu Guogong only recruited real elite soldiers in the Anton Governor's Mansion?" Lu Jiong asked.

"That's right, the quality of soldiers is more important than the number of soldiers." Li Fei nodded and said.

"No wonder Wu Guogong's Anton Iron Cavalry is so elite, it is not inferior to any iron cavalry in the world!" Lu Jiong sighed, agreeing with Li Fei's statement in his heart.An Lushan's 15 troops marched southward, swept Hebei, crossed the Yellow River in just thirty or forty days, and captured the eastern capital Luoyang.In the Battle of Yingchuan, the 6 Tang Dynasty army was defeated by more than 2 anti-army elites joined by Wu Lingxun, Khitan and Xi cavalry.When the rebel army just besieged Nanyang City, it only grew to [-] people, and he also had [-] troops in Nanyang City, but because there were more than [-] elite soldiers in the rebel army, he dared not go out of the city. In the First World War, he was besieged for half a year, so that he was at the end of his life. If Li Fei hadn't come to rescue him, he thought that Nanyang City would never be able to survive another month.

Li Fei stayed in Nanyang City for a full 20 days. In addition to waiting for the Anton Iron Knight soldiers injured in the battle to recuperate, he also trained two thousand new recruits to ride horses.

Because Li Fei equipped each soldier with two war horses in order to hurry up when he set out from the Anton Protectorate's Mansion thousands of miles away. Therefore, among the Anton Iron Cavalry, there are absolutely a surplus of war horses, but there are no standard weapons and armor. The two thousand recruits were temporarily wearing the armor and weapons stripped from the captured rebel soldiers.

In just 20 days, it is of course impossible to train the newly recruited 2000 or [-] recruits into elites. It is just for them to learn the basics of horseback riding and archery. The next step is to lead them to slowly grow into real elites in bloody battles. .

After Li Fei bid farewell to Lu Jiong, the Jiedu envoy of Shannan Road, he led his army to leave Nanyang City and headed straight to Suiyang in Huainan, preparing to relieve the siege of Suiyang.

Suiyang is located about [-] miles southeast of Bianzhou, which is the barrier of the Jianghuai region.Datang's defense of Suiyang was the defense of the Jianghuai River and the gateway for the rebels to go further south to the south of the Yangtze River.And if the rebel army wins Suiyang, they can enter the Jianghuai area, and if they occupy the Jianghuai area, they can go further across the river and capture the beautiful Jiangnan, which is not much less prosperous than Guanzhong.

You know, Datang, Hebei, Luoyang, and Guanzhong are all lost at this time, and Hedong is also devastated.Under the scourge of Yang Guozhong in Jiannan, Shannan, etc., the people were poor and hardly received any taxes.Datang currently only relies on Jianghuai and Jiangnan to provide most of the taxes and food to resist the rebels. Once both Jianghuai and Jiangnan are captured by the rebels, Datang may really be powerless.

Compared with the siege of Nanyang, the siege of Suiyang was much more tragic, because there was a Zhang Xun in Suiyang!
To say that Zhang Xun was originally just a small county magistrate in Qingyuan County, Haozhou, he was not qualified to lead the fight against the rebels.But Zhang Xun played a legend in his life!
After the Anlu Mountain rebellion, the whole way from Youzhou City was like a broken bamboo, and soon crossed the Yellow River to capture Luoyang, the eastern capital, and proclaimed himself emperor in Luoyang. into the domination.

When the news came, the states and counties along the way didn't even dare to resist, so they waited and surrendered.

The rebel army was far from arriving in Haozhou, but the governor of Bozhou at that time was ready to surrender to the rebel army, and forced Zhang Xun to be the chief historian to meet Yang Chaozong's rebel army.

Zhang Xun was furious at the time, and pretended to obey the orders of the governor of Haozhou, but quietly recruited troops along the way. When he arrived in Yongqiu County, there were more than a thousand troops. Before the troops of the army reached Yongqiu, they took the first step to occupy Yongqiu County.

With more than a thousand troops of his own and more than a thousand troops recruited in Yongqiu County, the total number of people defending the city is only 3000, while a rebel army sent by Yang Chaozong to attack Yongqiu has a total of 5000 people. [-] people, five times that of Zhang Xun.

Relying on three thousand untrained men and horses, Zhang Xun fought bloody battles with five times the rebels in Yongqiu, killing the siege rebels with heavy casualties, and finally not only defended Yongqiu, but also repelled the rebels Army, Zhang Xun became famous in the first battle.

Then they continued to fight the second wave of [-] rebels in Yongqiu.

This time it was even worse, Zhang Xun had only two thousand defenders left, and the rebels were twenty times as many as him.

Almost everyone thought that Zhang Xun would never be able to defend Yongqiu this time, but Zhang Xun took a night attack by surprise and led more than a thousand people into the rebel camp, killing the rebels in panic. It became a mess, causing thousands of casualties to the rebels, and the rebels had to retreat to rest.

Later, Zhang Xun repelled the rebels in Yongqiu several times one after another, killing and injuring no less than 2 rebels, which not only demonstrated the confidence of the Tang army, but also made his own reputation. Even Tang Xuanzong, who was still in Chang'an City at the time, Hearing of Zhang Xun's name, he personally decreed that Zhang Xun should be named Yushi Zhongcheng.

In the end, General Yang Chaozong led 4 elite rebels to kill him. Zhang Xun knew that he was invincible, so he gave up Yongqiu and retreated to Suiyang, which was more important.Now it has been nearly three months since the bloody battle with the rebels in Suiyang. With a mere [-] defenders, they have resisted the rebels' siege. There were more than [-] troops in the army, and the anti-army general Yang Chaozong was furious, but he was still unable to capture Suiyang.
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