Chapter 228 No one in the world knows General Chen

Luokoucang, located in the loess ridge of Heluo Town, Gongxian County, is located in the hills, the situation is dangerous, the soil layer is hard and dry, and there is the convenience of water transportation. From the Luohe River, it can reach Luoyang, the capital of the east at that time, up the Yellow River to Tongguan in Shaanxi and Chang'an in Xijing at that time, and down the river to Shandong to Haikou.

Liu Tong used special warfare methods, unexpectedly, successfully occupied Luokoucang, which is equivalent to putting a knife on Wang Shichong's waist, as early as the thirteenth year of the great cause, Li Mi captured Luokoucang, and then built Xingluocheng, the circumference of the city is forty miles, becoming one of the super cities.

After Liu Tong occupied Luokoucang, he immediately counted the seized grain, but it was a pity that the vicissitudes of life had passed, and Luokoucang, which had stored grain as much as 24 million stone during the Sui Dynasty, had already run out of grain at this time. In the past, there were basically no grain cellars of 3,000 grain cellars that could accommodate 8,000 stones, but there were scattered grains on the ground in many grain cellars, and almost no grain cellars could be cleared out of three or five stones. It took more than 5,000 people to clean up more than 100 grain cellars, and Liu Tong had to get more than 500 stone of grain.

Although these grains are a little mildewy and a little bitter, which affects the taste, they are also life-saving food for the poor people who are already so poor that they want to eat the soil to satisfy their hunger, and there is nothing to be picky about. However, after Liu Tong laid down the Luokou warehouse, there was a lesson from Li Mi's opening of the warehouse to release grain, and the displaced people around Gongxian County who could not survive and the common people who could not open the pot came to defect one after another, and as many as 3,000 people came to defect in just one day, and this number must have increased exponentially over time.

However, there was no more food in Luokoucang, and even if he went to clean the corners in the grain cellar, the food he got was not enough to stuff his teeth. Liu Tongyi ordered the old, weak, sick and disabled of the department to clean up the grain cellar, while building a blade, and at the same time asking Chen Ying, who was in Yanshi, for help.

However, Luokoucang was only more than fifty miles away from Yanshi, and for the messenger of the Beiwei Army, this distance could be a round trip in three hours at most.

Chen Ying received an urgent letter from the Beiwei army on a stormy night, however, Chen Ying was overjoyed when he saw Liu Tong's message asking for help.

Even Guo Luo and Zhou Qing felt inexplicably wonderful. Chen said to Guo Luo: "It seems that you can't sleep tonight!" ”

Guo Luo arched his hand and said, "Please command!" ”

Chen Ying asked: "You go and inform Sun Jingchu and tell him that I want to use him now, and let him drive all the boats he can collect to the Buddha beach to standby!" ”

Guo Luo said in surprise: "The humble has some impressions of Sun Jingchu, he was originally the handsome governor of the fierce tiger, and he took a group of brothers to go to the canal to beg for a living, as if he also set up a village in Xijiang Village in Chenliu." ”

Shuai Dudu is a leading officer in the military system of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, it sounds like it should be not small, in fact, this official is very small for the seven lives, that is, the brigade commander of the Tang Dynasty. Of course, the Northern Zhou Dynasty is a strange thing in Chinese history, although it created the prototype of the government military system, but the name makes people feel inexplicable. Yuwentai of the Northern Zhou Dynasty led the army in general power, and the leading officers were the Six Pillars, each leading an army, which was for the six armies. Under the Six Pillars, each Pillar Country has two generals, a total of 12 generals. Under each general, there are two open mansions, a total of 24 open mansions, which are 24 armies. Under each open house, there are two yitong, a total of forty-eight yitong. Yitong is almost a thousand people long, and it is also equivalent to the Eagle Yang Lang General and the Commander of the Sui Dynasty. Each Yi Tong has five governors (equivalent to school captains), each governor has two governors, and each governor has two governors.

After Chen Ying mastered the Tiger Yicong, he immediately repaid the arrears of the previous Hou Mo Chen clan, and this Sun Jingchu withdrew a total of 760 yuan and 550 stone of grain, so that the number of people under his command should not be less than 100, and it may be more.

When he found out that Wang Shiyun and Chen Bing were in Yanshi City, Chen Ying thought of attacking by water. Of course, the only drawback of this strategy is that Luokoucang guards the Cao Canal Road, which is only 40 zhang wide and less than 100 meters, and the defenders of Luokoucang City have every chance to hold the river on the bank.

Although Sun Jingchu had dozens of boats, they were all small boats of 100 stones, even if they only transported soldiers, they were only dozens or hundreds of people. It is not easy to break through Luokoucang.

Chen Yingchu ordered Liu Tong and Xunxiang, the purpose is to wait for the opportunity to sneak into Luoyang, create chaos, once Luoyang is in chaos, Wang Shichong's long snake array will inevitably be shaken, if Wang Shichong transfers Wang Renze's command to return to Luoyang to pacify Liu Tong's department, then Luo Shixin and Zhang Shigui can take advantage of the opportunity to storm Wang Renze's department, and respond to the army under the command of Li Yuanji and Qu Tutong to break Wang Renze's encirclement. At that time, not only can it break Wang Shichong's encirclement of Li Yuanji and others, but it can also create more pressure on Luoyang, and maybe there is still hope of winning Luoyang.

If Wang Shichong sent Wang Shiyun's troops back to Luoyang, Chen Ying could take the opportunity to break through Wang Shiyun's defense line in one fell swoop and come to Luoyang City. However, the plan was wonderful, but it could not keep up with the changes. Chen Ying ordered Liu Tong and Xunxiang to sneak into Luoyang, who would have thought that they would encounter oppressed miners in the Songshan Mountains of Gongxian County, Chen Ying did not expect that Liu Tong would actually lead the miners to take Luokoucang in one fell swoop.

In this way, the river obstruction in front of Chen Ying disappeared, and Chen Ying could completely use Sun Jingchu's Cao Yun ship to transport soldiers and horses from the waterway to Luokoucang, so that Wang Shiyun would have no point in guarding Yanshi.

Chen Yingdao: "There is a stronghold of Sun Jingchu in Fotantou, you arrive at Fotantou and take my letter to give them a connection, and they will naturally pass the news to Sun Jingchu." ”

Guo Luo nodded and said, "Buddha Beach is not far away, go here!" ”

Chen Ying looked at the rain curtain and said with a faint smile: "Zhou Qing, you go and inform General Feng and General Wei, and let them lead their respective troops and be ready to set off at any time!" ”

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In the camp of the Tang army in Cijian, Qin Qiong rode on horseback, looked at the camp of the Zheng army from a distance, tightened the reins, and complained to Changsun Shunde: "General Changsun, His Royal Highness the King of Qin has allowed me to take people into battle to keep the front base of the Zheng army to break through, and you can make up for my lost soldiers and horses in the future, I will personally pick people one by one, and you are not allowed to fool me with blind and broken feet!" ”

The eldest grandson Shunde really couldn't smile bitterly, Qin Qiong's worries were so unreasonable, and now in this situation, he definitely didn't dare to do anything. Sure enough, as Qin Qiong entered the prepared death squad formation, more than 2,000 Guanzhong elites were already waiting for them. In order to transfer these dead soldiers, the eldest grandson Shunde took great pains, this time is different from the past, and the price is not small if you want to make the soldiers desperate. More than 2,000 cloud riders were dispatched.

Yun Qiwei is the seventh rank of the Tang Dynasty, although he has no power and power, but he represents Yulu, which is not much about eighty-five times a year, and it can be hereditary.

Qin Qiong was very satisfied with the troops assigned to him, these soldiers' equipment was all good goods produced by the weapons supervisor, and the soldiers were also tall and big, so they were not weak chickens at first glance.

The eldest grandson Shunde said: "General Qin, you also followed Wang Shichong back then, and he is familiar with your tactics. As soon as you show your face, can Wang Shichong prevent you? ”

Qin Qiong is not like Cheng Zhijie, who has a tiger's back and a strong waist, and has a lean face, if he takes off his armor, the whole person is no different from the most ordinary old farmer in Lianghuai, but his eyes are bright and bright, and he is quite extraordinary.

Qin Qiong looked at the direction of the Zheng army's camp in the rain curtain, and muttered: "This general is in Wang Shichong's eyes, but he can't be seen, he doesn't necessarily remember me, they rely on the strength of the crowd, now that the rain is so heavy, they must be defenseless, they are unprepared, if they can't break through the Zheng army's camp, the Qin character after Lao Qin will be written upside down." ”

The eldest grandson Shunde said with a smile: "Then I wish General Qin good luck!" ”

The rain became heavier and heavier, and the rain was not very useful, so Qin Qiong removed the rain and let the heavy rain pour it on the armor, pouring the lining through the wet. Qin Qiong asked Sui Hu to go to the eldest grandson Shunde to ask for 2,000 sets of leather armor, and asked the soldiers who stole the camp to replace the group armor and the lining, and wear two layers of leather armor.

Raindrops leaked down from the canopy, falling on the raging fire, and in an instant, it turned into steam, Qin Qiong walked into the camp of the dead, smelled the meat, and said, "Scoop me a bowl of meat,"

He didn't take chopsticks either, and he wasn't afraid of burning his hands and throwing two pieces with his fingers in his mouth, and the grease overflowed, which was really enjoyable, so he said to the dead soldier in the tent, "Break the enemy camp, you follow me, I will take you to touch the camp, and I will also bring you back, a cloud cavalry captain is not enough to let the master throw his life there." When this battle is over, the general has already asked for an order, allowing you to unload your armor and return to the field, take the commander of the cloud cavalry, and return to the township to find your mother-in-law to start a family. ”

The soldiers burst into laughter.

How bold these Guanzhong men are, they don't think it's a big deal to stop the rain and steal the camp. A bearded man smiled: "At this time, there is an old man with a rough waist for Le Yile, and stealing the camp is even more fucking good!" ”

Qin Qiong said: "What the hell you think is beautiful, there are no prostitutes in our camp, if there is, I will give up this old face to complete the brothers." ”

It didn't take long, the eldest grandson Shunde let people send all the leather armor to the camp of the dead soldiers, and along with the leather armor came more than 2,000 brand-new horizontal knives, these horizontal knives are slightly different from the standard horizontal knives, the horizontal knives in the hands of ordinary dead soldiers are glowing with blue light, this is a horizontal knife made of high-carbon steel, and this batch of new horizontal knives is glowing with black light, even if it is under the firelight, this may not be reflective.

Qin Qiong smiled: "This knife is good, it is simply tailor-made for the stealing camp!" ”

Qin Qiong didn't know that these horizontal knives were actually not made by the weapons supervisor, but the high-manganese steel horizontal knives produced by Chen Ying's workshop, which were made of high-carbon steel and were harder and sharper.

However, Tiangong is really not beautiful, this heavy rain has been raining all night, and there is no intention to stop until dawn, Qin Qiong until the sky is bright, but the Zheng army camp has heard bursts of gathered drums.

Qin Qiong was also very surprised, Li Shimin hurriedly ordered Qin Qiong to be calm and not impatient, and sent scouts to carefully reconnoiter the movements of Zheng Jun's camp.

In fact, Wang Shichong thought about it, Wang Shiyun's pressure to resist Chen Ying was too great, and he didn't dare to move at all, once Chen Ying broke through Yanshi, Wang Shiyun had to retreat slowly, evacuate to Gong County, and resist step by step, at this time, there was no way to return to Gong County to quell Liu Tong's rebellion.

As for the soldiers under Wang Renze's command, they are already crumbling, and it is impossible to draw out troops, so for today's plan, as long as 5,000 soldiers are transferred, led by Wang Shiwei, to quell the rebellion in Gongxian County.

In Wang Shichong's mind, there are 5,000 soldiers and horses, and it should be more than enough to pacify 5,000 or 6,000 rebellious people, Wang Shichong has already made a plan in his heart, as long as Wang Shiwei quells the rebellion in Gongxian, he will hand over these 5,000 soldiers and horses, and the captured rebellious soldiers, all to Wang Shiyun, and strengthen the strength of the Yanshi defense line.

It's just that Wang Shichong doesn't know that in fact, he has no chance to go against the sky.

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The suppression of commerce in ancient China was very serious, of course, in addition to the treachery of businessmen, only interests in their eyes, the most important problem is the working class, far more fierce than the peasant class, especially the miners who came to Liu Tong and Xunxiang, not only kaolin, but also iron ore and copper mines in the Songshan Mountains, although the number is not large, but there are as many as tens of thousands of miners who rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, although most of the people still dare not follow Liu Tong to rebel, but some of them come to defect.

Weapons and equipment, although some of them were captured, but the gap was very large. Liu Tong asked the craftsmen who knew how to make steel among the miners to melt away the captured Zheng Jun's armor, forge all the guns into spear heads, and put the wooden rods on the spear heads, which was a pikeman. As for archers, spears, cavalry, and other types of troops, there are almost none.

Liu Tong is also very trouble-free, with a hundred people to come to the direct appointment of the brigade commander, more than 300 people appointed as captains, more than 500 people like Yang Dazhuang, also only appointed the deputy lieutenant Guo Yi of the school, above the deputy lieutenant Guo Yi, to serve as the general of the Wei army. At this time, Liu Tong's entire army had more than 7,000 men, but the cavalry was less than 500, the archers were less than 1,000, and the other more than 4,000 were cheap pikemen.

These miners usually need to work collectively when mining mines, so they have already cultivated a certain tacit understanding in daily life, and after half a day of simple training, the effect is actually better than training farmers for more than ten days, at least they can listen to the orders of their respective officers, forward or backward, a bit of a look.

Hu Kui has gone farther and farther on the road of rebellion, Hu Kui, who originally looked very old, was actually less than forty years old, looking at these miners with spears and murderous stabbing training, and sighed: "With such a strong army in hand, you can attack Luoyang!" ”

"Humph!" Xun Xiang shook his head and said: "Just them, it's too far away, they barely have a little courage and discipline, in terms of combat skills and blood, it's not that I look down on them, I can crush them with a regiment and a charge." ”

"Lao Xun, they are not the elite under the command of the great general, you can't measure them by that standard!" Liu Tong smiled bitterly: "Looking at the world, in addition to the general's subordinates, are there any elite troops?" ”

Xun Xiang nodded, sighed and said, "This is also true!" ”

Hu Kui asked curiously: "General Liu, General Xun, ......what is the general in your mouth?"

"Champion General Chen Ying!" Liu Tong and Xunxiang said almost in unison.

Liu Tong thought that Hu Kui had not heard of Chen Ying's reputation, but he looked at Hu Kui and suddenly realized: "The two generals turned out to be General Chen's subordinates, no wonder, no wonder ......"

Xun Xiang asked curiously: "Old Hu, have you also heard of General Chen's name?" ”

"I've heard it, it's like thunder!" Hu Kui said: "You ask them, who hasn't heard of General Chen's name?" ”

Who Chen Ying is, if you want to talk about it, there is really no one who doesn't know.

Chen Ying's real fame was not in the battles of Lizhou and Shizhou, but in Lingzhou, where he defeated the Turks four times. As early as the rise of the Turks as popular, it became the enemy of life and death in China, because China was plagued by the evil neighbors in the north, for the northern nomads, very vigilant, especially in the last years of the Sui Dynasty, the Turkic cavalry in Hedong, Hebei, Hexi, Xihe and even Youzhou raging, in fact, as long as it is a northerner, there is really no one who does not know the name of the Turks.

However, in just two years, the Turks suddenly stopped, which made everyone feel uncomfortable. After inquiring about it, I found out that there was a great general named Chen Ying in the Tang Kingdom, who fought the Turks four times and scared the Turks.

Even Liu Tong didn't expect that when Liu Tong publicly announced that the Beiwei Army was a unit under General Chen, not only the enthusiasm for the training of the soldiers was even higher, but many clans and homeless people flocked to Luokoucang, even if Liu Tong released the news that Luokoucang had no food, these homeless people still flocked to Luokoucang, for them, the name Chen Ying had inexplicable magic power, which could make them feel at ease.

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