Chapter 538: Shameless
(Thanks to the dream. Yiran's birthday red envelope, thank you for the monthly pass with a drunken smile, thank you)
After a rain of arrows, someone in the city shouted: "Surrender, surrender!" ”
Wang Xianzhi was angry that the city had resisted before, and he wanted to take the opportunity to boost his morale, so he was not willing to agree easily. That Yanzhou Gongqiu City is just a small county town south of Wenshui, Wang Xianzhi last time from Yizhou westward, he captured this city, when he led the army to loot Gongqiu, but also let Gongqiu City take away. The last time the Zhenguo army passed by, the grass army subordinates who left him here were wiped out, and Gongqiu City returned to order.
Who knew that after only a few days of stable life, Wang Xianzhi led thousands of men and horses to kill. At first, the people in the city didn't know that it was Wang Xianzhi who came, and they only thought it was a horse thief, so the young people in the city organized themselves to resist for a while, but they didn't expect it to be Wang Xianzhi. After a few rounds of arrow raindown, the city immediately became unable to support it.
Wang Xianzhi led the army to easily break into the city along the huge gap, and the thousands of grass troops who fled for their lives all the way immediately turned into murderous robbers and began to rush into the city, burning and looting everywhere, raping and plundering, in order to vent the tension since the escape during this time.
The raging fire burned all night before it gradually went out, during which the young men in the city saw the cruelty of the grass thieves and organized two pulls to resist, but they were all slaughtered by the grass thieves.
The city screamed and screamed, and from time to time someone ran out of the fire howling, and finally turned into a pile of ashes.
The grass army galloped endlessly, ignoring the burned to death, and making up for the half-dead burned.
The young women and money and food in the city have been robbed, and the remaining grass thieves cannot take them with them, and they do not want to stay any longer. A fire burned it out.
Shang Rang holds a bow and arrow. Shoot those who fled in panic one by one.
Only one escaped from the house. Not only did he not run, but he knelt on the ground and kowtowed and shouted: "My own brother, I am my own brother!" ”
Shang Rang finished shooting the arrow in his hand, took the wolf tooth arrow handed by his own soldiers, and said with a smile: "You also call yourself a brother!" "I was about to shoot an arrow, but Shang Junchang stepped forward to stop it.
Shang Junchang said: "Brother, slow down. He turned around and asked Wang Xianzhi, who was drinking, for instructions, "Dashuai, it's better to listen to this person's identity first." Maybe it's really my own brother. In addition, by the way, you can also inquire about the situation here. ”
Wang Xianzhi took another big sip of wine, even his beard and placket were stained with wine, and he nodded, "This matter is up to Second Brother Shang." ”
Shang Rang rolled his eyelids, put down his bow and arrows, and shouted, "Bring it up!" ”
Several straw soldiers stepped forward, drove their horses over, raised their saddles, whipped the man, and urged them to the front of the generals.
The man did not dare to get up. He was on his body with a whip and prostrate on the ground. With his head on the ground, he walked in front of Wang Xianzhi and the others with his head in his hands, his body was covered with mud and soil, and his clothes were scorched in several places. His scorched face was black, and when he saw him, he kowtowed again and again, and said in a trembling voice: "Villain Yang Biao, I have seen all the generals." ”
Shang Jun condescended and asked, "Who dare you call yourself your brother?" ”
Yang Biao said: "The villain Huang is a subordinate of General Meng Kai under the command of Deputy Dutong, and he is the leader of the front team of the left wing of the rear army. ”
As soon as he spoke, everyone present couldn't help but be shocked when they heard this, but they didn't expect that this person was actually Huang Chao's subordinate. But since he is a subordinate of Huang Chao, why is he in this Gongqiu City? Could it be that the Yellow Nest has been defeated?
Shang Junchang asked anxiously: "Hugh is talking nonsense, Deputy Huang is in Qizhou, why are you here?" ”
Yang Biaozhan replied tremblingly: "It was in Qizhou before, but Li Jing led the Zhenguo army to kill from Jeju, and Song Wei led the Pinglu army to kill from Zizhou. The small one was in the rear of General Meng Kai, and after arriving in Laiwu the day before yesterday, he came out to search for grain and grass according to the order, but was ambushed by a team of township troops, and most of his companions and brothers were killed in battle, and the small one was taken here all the way. ”
"You said that Deputy Dutong Huang and General Wang Jingwu have led their troops south? Where have you gone? How many centaurs were brought? ”
Yang Biao hurriedly replied: "Deputy Huang led 20,000 troops and General Wang Jingwu led 30,000 troops, 50,000 troops, and another 150,000 auxiliary troops and 200,000 young and strong people went south. I heard General Meng Kai say that the army was going to Yizhou. ”
This news was so shocking that even Wang Xianzhi put down the wine bag and glared at Yang Biao like electricity, "With such an important military situation, how can the leader of your small squad know about it?" ”
Yang Biao hurriedly said: "The little fellow villager is General Meng Kai's personal soldier, and the news of going to Yizhou is what he told the villain." ”
After asking someone to take Yang Biao down, all the generals were silent for a while.
Everyone had fought two battles with the Li family in Rencheng before, and although the Li family did not bargain for anything, they also lost hundreds of brothers. Later, everyone got the news that Huangchao had been pursued all the way to Qizhou by the Zhenguo Army to join Wang Jingwu, so they unanimously decided to go north to join Huangchao. No one expected that Huang Chao would actually go south.
Wang Xianzhi frowned and asked, "Brothers, what are your plans after hearing this news?" ”
Shang Jun stroked his beard and said, "I think most of what this person said is true, Li Jing and Song Wei are fighting in the east and west, and Wang Jingwu and Huang Chao can't stop them at all." It's a good idea to retreat south. Now the soldiers and horses of the six towns of the official army are concentrated in Caozhou, and Li Jing and Song Wei are in Qizhou, Xue Chong has been defeated by Huangchao, and the Li family is no longer able to fight. Compared with Li Jing and others, Xue Neng and Liu Ye are far behind. Going south is a good move. ”
Huang Chao and the others have already gone south, and Qizhou must have been occupied by the Zhenguo Army and the Pinglu Army now, and if you go north at this time, you will be asking for your own death. 100,000 soldiers and horses were defeated in the hands of Li Jing, and now the more than 3,000 people in their hands 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 sad face, the last time Songzhou was defeated, he defected to Huangchao, but during the Juye War, he escaped twice, although he felt that even if he didn't escape, the battle situation would not change after the worst time, but after all, this matter was not authentic, and Huangchao must hate him in his heart. If he goes to the Yellow Nest again now, he is worried that he will not be as good as last time.
Wang Xianzhi turned his head and asked Shang Junchang: "What does Second Brother Shang think?" ”
Shang Junchang understood Wang Xianzhi's worries in his heart, but at the moment, there was no other way but to go to Huangchao. He replied softly: "I thought it would be better to go to Yizhou first, and then kill Huainan together after the convergence, and after getting rid of the official army, we can also make plans at that time." In the end, Shang Junchang specifically pointed out that Huang Chao now only has 20,000 soldiers in his hands. And they have more than 3,000 elite cavalry, and their strength is not much worse than Huang Chao. What's more, they still have the name of the leader of the grass army, even if they go to Yizhou, they don't have to worry about anything.
Opinions were quickly unified, and immediately went east along Wenshui, first to Xintai City at the northern end of Yizhou, and then along the valley passage of the Yishui and Shushui rivers to Linyi City, Yizhou, where they joined Huangchao and Wang Jingwu.
Immediately, gather the troops and go all the way to the east.
Two days later, arrive at Xintai. In Xintai, Wang Xianzhi has caught up with Meng Kai, the backteam left by Wang Xianzhi. Meng Kai took 3,000 people and was responsible for commanding the auxiliary army to escort those young men and heavy men, while Huang Chao and they had already rode south.
After Wang Xianzhi saw Meng Kai, he was also happy in his heart, and learned the specific information of Huang Chao and others from Meng Kai's mouth. 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 seat of Yizhou, which had been occupied by Huangchao at this time, and Huangchao also left some soldiers and horses to guard the city and take care of the wounded soldiers. Wang Xianzhi rested in Yishui City for a long time, and immediately rushed south again.
After setting off from Yishui City, after three days of driving all the way, Wang Xianzhi finally led more than 3,000 light horsemen to Linyi City, the seat of Yizhou Governance.
When Wang Xianzhi arrived, Huang Chao and Wang Jingwu had just captured Linyi City.
However, Wang Xianzhi saw that there was no trace of battle under the entire Linyi City, and asked a few grass soldiers to find out that Huang Chao and Wang Jingwu were traveling lightly along the way, only bringing soldiers in front and auxiliary soldiers following behind.
When the 50,000 soldiers arrived at the city of Linyi, the city did not seem to be prepared at all, they only attacked under the cover of bows and arrows for less than an hour, and Linyi had been taken, and their own casualties were less than 100.
Hearing this news, Wang Xianzhi was also very happy. Immediately ordered to raise the banner of his Tianzhu average general and the commander of all the nobles in the sea, and more than 3,000 cavalry swaggered under the city of Linyi.
The news had already been reported to the city, and Huang Chao heard that Wang Xianzhi was so shameless and rushed over again, and angrily chopped a table in front of him into pieces.
"Shameless, despicable!" Huang Chao is furious! "Just call someone to greet me, and say I'm not feeling well."
When the other generals heard that Wang Xianzhi had actually come here, they all looked bad. Everyone can remember that if Wang Xianzhi hadn't escaped from the battle twice, maybe they would have won the battle of Juye, and they would have fled all the way here. No one wants to be Wang Xianzhi, and they all say that they have something to do or are unwell. After the last day, Lin Yan 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 into the city, just say that the marshal and the generals are unwell and cannot go out of the city to greet him, please forgive him." ”
After receiving this task, Zhu Wen had to go forward with a wry smile. Sure enough, when Wang Xianzhi in front of the city gate saw that he was just a pawn who came to greet him, his face darkened suddenly. And he vaguely remembered that the guy in front of him seemed to be from the Zhenguo Army before, and he had participated in the Battle of Yucheng in Songzhou. Huang Chao and the generals refused to come to greet him, but instead sent this guy here, did they deliberately embarrass him?
"The marshal and the generals are unwell, and the last general Zhu Wen is specially sent to greet the capital!" Zhu Wen saluted in front of Wang Xianzhi's horse.
Bi Shiduo snorted coldly: "The big handsome is here, where is the big handsome, do you understand the rules?" As he spoke, he threw a horsewhip directly, Zhu Wen couldn't avoid it, and immediately received a horsewhip on his face, and a blood mark immediately appeared. Zhu Zhen and Zhu Cun both stared, Zhu Wen gritted his teeth, stretched out his hand to block the two brothers, pushed them to the back, and gave way to the road.
Wang Xianzhi snorted coldly, didn't look at Zhu Wen, and rode into the city with a blue face. (To be continued......)