After conquering Yiyang City, Xiao Tang, Wei Dingguo, and Shan Tingjue's troops could only be temporarily stationed for rest, because if they went west, they would be heavily guarded by thieves from southern Hebei, and Yongnian City, where the Zhaozhou Governance Office was located. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

When the army of generals such as the commander Wang Huan, the deputy marshal Zhang Kai and Wen Da and Xue Yuanhui drove to Yiyang City, there was a battle report from the south of Zhaozhou that called Wang Huan and Zhang Kai and the two commanders were angry:

Chen Zhu, Wu Bingyi, and Ma Wanli were defeated in Feixiang County, Zhaozhou.

Originally, Wang Huan's strategic deployment planned to be led by him to march into Quzhou County, and then Chen Zhu and other Jingxi governors went north to encircle and camp on the south bank of the Lishui River. After breaking the Yongnian City of Zhaozhou, if Zhang Di fled westward, Chen Zhu and others could lead the army west into Handan, Cizhou, to cut off Zhang Di's retreat.

Hedong Road is also a place where bandits are rampant, Zhang Di wants to escape from He1 North West Road to Hedong, and goes straight to the west to be blocked by the towering and precipitous, endless Taihang Mountains, so he can only enter Cizhou from the west of Linwei Town, and then turn south through He1 North Xiangzhou and turn into Hedong Road Longde Mansion.

If Chen Zhu and other capital eunuchs can conquer Feixiang and march into the east of Cizhou, then Zhang Didong will have Wang Huan and Zhang Kai to lead Xiao Tang, Wenda and other forbidden troops to advance, the west will be blocked by the Taihang Mountains, and the north will be Xingzhou, Zhaozhou, Zhendingfu and other prefectures to stay in the forbidden army, and Chen Zhu and other Jingxi governors will lead the army to intercept in the south...... Zhang Di has no way to go to heaven and no way to go to the ground, and he is still worried about teaching him the Fa?

But now, with the defeat in Feixiang County, all strategic plans have become delusional.

"Phew!" The fiery temperament opened his slap and slapped it heavily on the table, his face sank like water, and he said sharply: "Those chaotic fools! If you get rid of Na Kou Shou Zhang Di this time, Lao Tzu in the Privy Council will definitely want that guy to look good! ”

Xiao Tang and his subordinate henchmen, Wei Dingguo and Shan Tingqi have been stationed in Yiyang, just learned the battle report, but did not know the details, Xiao Tang asked: "Most of the bandits in southern Hebei are thieves who are not accustomed to military affairs, and the so-called alliance is just a rabble, and now most of the thief army is gathered in Linwei and Yongnian, and the three of them are all supervising more than a dozen battalions of soldiers and horses, how can they be defeated in Feixiang?" ”

Wen Da heyed and said to Xiao Tang: "Brother Xiao doesn't know, the Jingxi Army fought with the southern Hebei thieves Zhang Xiong and Fan Yuming in Feixiang, according to the battle report, they had the upper hand, but they suddenly killed a group of people who were in ambush. The ambushed thief army was led by a big man with a big axe, and went straight into the Chinese army to fight with Chen Zhu and other main generals, and the strength of the three people of Chen Dujian, Wu Dujian and Ma Dujian was still not the opponent of the big man! In addition, the helpers around the big man were fierce, and the commanders and generals alone broke seven or eight people. The thieves took advantage of the situation to counterattack, and Chen Dujian and others were defeated and retreated southward, and they were all about to withdraw from the boundary of Zhaozhou. ”

Seeing Wenda's expression with a hint of schadenfreude, he obviously had a grudge against Chen Zhu's ridicule of the northern general of He1 last time. And when Xiao Tang heard what Da said, his expression moved, so that the big man with the big axe has such a method, who else could it be if it wasn't Bian Xiang?

Chen Zhu, Wu Bingyi, and Ma Wanli's martial arts Xiao Tang knew in his heart that in the Water Margin, they were just three goods that gave Liangshan five tigers and eight horses to give people head gains. With Bian Xiang's martial bravery, for a while, he Xiao Tang, Hua Rong, and Suo Chao could resist the siege, not to mention that these three people had no great ability?

It's just that now that Bian Xiang has made this great achievement, he will inevitably be more reused by Zhang Di. If you meet him again on the battlefield and don't persuade him to surrender, how can you save him when he takes the lives of many officers and generals?

Xiao Tang was thinking about it, and he opened his mouth and scolded: "There is a big man who makes an axe!" Xiao Prison and the two commanding envoys of Texas made only five battalions of soldiers and horses, and they conquered the three cities, but these fools were almost driven out of Yuzhou! According to Lao Tzu, those stupid people were afraid that Lao Tzu and Wang Jiedu would investigate the crime of defeat, so they lied and made up some characters to prevaricate and cover up. There really is such a thief, and more than a dozen battalions of soldiers and horses can't stop him!?

If you enter the grandmother, if this time there is an official family sent to the sword gold medal (the military system of the Song Dynasty, the emperor appointed the commander of the generals, gave the sword or gold disposition card, and killed the offender. The military law dealt with the implementation of the case, giving the commander a great deal of military power in the war, and immediately after the war, he withdrew the military power he had granted. Similar to the power of the military generals in the Han and Jin dynasties, Lao Tzu beheaded these donkeys first! ”

Although Zhang Kai has been recruited for many years, and he is also a member of the official residence, he still does not change his fierce and fierce habits when he broke into the green forest. At the moment, Chen Zhu and others were so angry that they dragged down the fighters, and they were even more scolding with foul language.

And the old merry Wang Huan has survived for decades, and his kung fu to nourish his qi is far better than that of Zhang Kai, he saw Zhang Kai, the deputy marshal, scolding himself, so he said: "Brother Zhang Kai, you are from the green forest, and you naturally know very well what the battle of the green forest pirates is." Most of the thieves fought with the officers and soldiers, and strictly obeying military orders and training soldiers were secondary, all relying on nothing more than a momentum. If the momentum overwhelms the opponent, each is like a wolf and a tiger, plagiarizing and arrogant; If the momentum is overpowered, it will be crushed and scattered.

Xiao Zhijian and Dezhou Wei and Shan two commanders were well-trained, and first designed the inside and outside to seize the city of Quzhou, and then made the general Geng Gong deceive to open Yiyang City, all of which were caught off guard by the thief army, and the thief army had taken the momentum of the army, so our army attacked everything. And although most of the people who gather in the mountains and forests are wild and wild, there are also many wise and brave people, if Chen Dujian and others really encounter any extravagant strongmen, it is not uncommon to have such a defeat. ”

Zhang Kai said angrily: "Why should Wang Jiedu excuse those stupid birds who are afraid of swords and avoid swords, greedy for life and afraid of death? ”

Wang Huan smiled slightly and said; "Ben Shuai, who is excusing those three? However, knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, the cottages of the strongmen in the green forest are uneven, and the officials and soldiers of my Great Song Dynasty are not? Those who are diligent and conscientious in the military and state departments and command departments under the command departments may be able to train elite soldiers. But I'm a big Song Dynasty military and political ...... Don't need to say more, you must know it very well, Brother Zhang. ”

Although Wang Huan said to Zhang Kai, his eyes glanced at Xiao Tang, with a deep meaning. Although it was inconvenient for Wang Huan to say it explicitly, Xiao Tang understood the meaning of Wang Huan's words. Now he is serving as a soldier and horse prisoner in the left-behind division of the Daimyo Mansion, and he has long seen and heard of the situation of various departments drinking soldiers' blood, eating empty salaries, slacking in training, and low combat effectiveness of redundant soldiers.

Of course, Xiao Tang can rely on the relationship with Liang Shijie, the left-behind minister, and Wen Da, the supervisor of the soldiers and horses, so that he will not be constrained in the left-behind division of the Daimyo's Mansion, and he can even entrust Suo Chao and other brave generals who are good at fighting to supervise the military affairs under his command.

But whether it is Liang Shijie or Wenda, while maintaining a certain combat strength of the forbidden army under his rule, they also use the army as a channel to collect money according to the atmosphere and common practice of emphasizing literature and light military force in various states and prefectures.

As for the other soldiers and horses of the Daimyo Mansion, Li Cheng's bad deeds are particularly bad, and Xiao Tang also has a relatively cold relationship with him, one of which is that Li Cheng is not as good as Wenda and Kind (although Wenda is a little arrogant and arrogant, and was ridiculed as "the big sword Wenda does not know the amount, and the wild words are really carving insects", and proposed that the Lantern Festival be lit up to help Liangshan break through the Daimyo's Mansion. And when Yang Zhifa matched the Daimyo Mansion to compete with Zhou Jin in Dongguo, even if one was a soldier and the other was a low-level sergeant, it was also him, a high-ranking soldier and horse, who thought of Hugh and accidentally injured the lives of his colleagues, and proposed to go to the head of the gun and use a felt piece dipped in lime to compete) is a person with a narrow personality, and the second is that Xiao Tang knew that Li Cheng later threw himself into the account of the traitor Liu Yu, but he didn't have the opportunity to take his life, so how could he have any friendship with him?

The Daimyo Mansion is still a famous city with a dangerous strategic location in the north of the river, and the situation in other state capitals is bound to be even worse. What Wang Huan wanted to say to Xiao Tang was obvious: If you want to go down in the military world of the Great Song Dynasty, as your military rank increases, the problems you will face that make you helpless will only increase, and how should you deal with it then?

Zhang Kai mixed up to one side, of course, he also understood what Wang Huan said, he scolded: "Straight lady thief! If this is the soldier led by Lao Tzu......" Speaking of this, even he, a brave and fierce general, couldn't help but shake his head in annoyance. Although Fang Jiedu is an outstanding official position of martial arts, it is just a fictitious title that enjoys wealth but has no real power. The generals do not know the soldiers, the soldiers do not know the generals, and the real power to train the army and supervise the military affairs is not as good as the command of one military state, and the soldiers and horses are all supervised.

Zhang Kai snorted, and turned the topic back to the crusade against Zhang Di, he was also a tycoon in the green forest back then, and it can be said that Zhang Di, a character who is unwilling to make a living by cutting paths in the mountains and forests, and solicits and gathers strong people everywhere, can be said to be very clear. Then he said: "Zhang Di is an ambitious person, if he sees that the momentum is not right and leads the crowd to flee to Hedong, the court will blame it, and in three or five years, this guy will make waves again!" ”

"Since we can't intercept him, won't we chase him?" Wang Huan smiled loudly and said, "But the most important thing at the moment is how to build this Yongnian City." ”

When Wang Huan, Zhang Kai, Xiao Tang and other generals were discussing the best strategy for attacking the city, a sergeant suddenly came to report: "Report! There were fifty or sixty thousand people from the direction of Yongnian City, coming straight to our army's camp! ”

"What?" He opened his eyebrows and scolded, "Fart!" Where did the thieves in southern Hebei get the fifty or sixty thousand horses!? Falling from the sky? ”

The sergeant who came to report grinned at the corners of his mouth and said with a wry smile: "Deputy Marshal Zhang... None of them are thieves..."

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In front of Wang Huan's barracks, tens of thousands of people were suppressed, but they were all villagers, most of them shouted and grabbed the sky, howled and cried bitterly, and everyone saw Wang Huan and other generals talking in the east and shouting in the west, rumbling and making a mess, and Xiao Tang and others were dumbfounded.

"What the hell is going on?" Wang Huan, a veteran who was accustomed to wind and rain, couldn't help but wonder, and ordered the soldiers around him to shout: "Don't panic, folks!" But are they all the people from Yongnian City? Call a leader to answer! ”

The crowd surged, and after a while, a person dressed as a scholar was squeezed out, and when he saw Wang Huan, he immediately bowed and said: "Chen Chaozhi, the official of Xiaguan Zhaozhou, has seen the Lord of the Festival!" ”

Wang Huan hurriedly asked, "Chen Tuiguan, what happened in Yongnian City?" How did you and the people come here? ”

Chen Chaozhi cried with a sad face, and replied: "My lord, on that day, the thieves in southern Hebei broke Yongnian City, and many of the prefect's military supervisors were killed by thieves. Recently, it was heard that the lord led a large army to break through several cities, and the thief leader Lu Hui in the city ordered the thieves to rob the first crops outside the city, and put a large amount of grain and grass to strictly guard the city, and also looted and stripped the money and grain of the people in the city, and expelled them all from the city. The people in the city were hungry, so they had to rush all the way to the camp of the adults, and hoped that the adults would understand the misery of the people and take care of them! ”

Solid wall clearing?

Listening to the official surnamed Chen, these four words came to Xiao Tang's mind, but this trick was used on the officials and soldiers who were recruiting, and it was not the right way?

This strong wall and clear field refers to the defensive strategy of the defenders to strengthen the city defense and harvest all the food outside the city, so that the attackers cannot grab supplies if they cannot capture the stronghold, and have to retreat after the food and grass are exhausted. But this is mostly used for the country-to-country, two forces against each other when the enemy invasion of a combat method, now Wang Huan led the army in the Great Song Dynasty to conquer the thieves, the lack of grain and grass can be continuously replenished by the surrounding state capitals, how to make the army retreat?

Wang Huan snorted coldly when he heard this, and said, "It seems that the thief leader is going to take advantage of the danger of the city wall to resist our army to the end." ”

Listening to what Wang Huan said, Xiao Tang thought about it and probably came up with an eyebrow. The thief first saw that the eastern company of Zhaozhou was taken three cities, and the army reached the city of Yongnian, and the field battle with the official army did not have the upper hand, and the only way to consume the official army was to take advantage of the city wall.

In the battle to defend the city, the grain and grass reserves in the thief city are the top priority, and now the crops around the state are looted clean, and they are also ready for long-term wear and tear with the official army. As for the people in the city, although there were many fierce and brutal strongmen in the Great Song Dynasty, there were few examples of using the people in the city as hostages to threaten the officials and soldiers.

Because of course, this move is not in line with the morality of the rivers and lakes, but the main reason is that in the past, when the thieves were recruited and suppressed, the murderous generals in the official army often killed good and meritorious people. From the perspective of a thief, if an officer or officer is consumed by the desire for profit, and only wants to make meritorious contributions to the rank of official and make a fortune, how can they throw themselves into the trap of the rat and care about the ordinary people?

Zhang Di did not plan to cede the land and become the king at the moment, so the people in the city became a burden to consume grain and grass. Instead of having tens of thousands of people in the city, why not expel all of them from the city, the instructors and soldiers have a headache?

However, the thief leader Lu Hui made this plan to die according to the power of the city's defense... Xiao Tang thought in his heart, the siege battle was bound to cause a large number of casualties, and this Yongnian City ...... And how to take it?

At this moment, Shan Tingqi, who had not spoken much, suddenly asked the magistrate Chen Chaozhi: "In this way, at this moment, Yongnian City is full of thieves, and there are no good people?" ”

Chen Chaozhi saw that Shan Tingqi was a general next to Wang Huan, so he replied: "I want to teach this general to know that except for some unsuccessful scoundrels, red-eyed thieves who loot and collect money and flee, there are few good people in the city." ”

Shan Tingqi nodded and muttered: "Yongnian City is low-lying, surrounded by water, and there is a river flowing through the territory to the north......