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"Just because you also want to block the car with your mantis arm, it's really beyond your strength, a group of thieves and prisoners, all dragged down and cut down!"

Under a large white flag, several burly officers sat on tall horses, coldly looking at the dozen embarrassed officials who were dragged in front of them. These people are disheveled, and there are whip marks on their faces, all of them are the original court officials of Songzhou Tuo County, and after the city was broken today, they were finally searched.

Zhu Wen, the general under the command of the Yellow King under the white flag, and the former general of the army, pressed the long sword in his hand and said in a cold tone.

Several soldiers of the 'rebels' stepped forward and dragged the screaming and pleading officials down, turning a deaf ear.

Zhu Wen exhaled a long breath, looked around, the white flags around him were flying, and the endless follow-up teams were coming, and the herald cavalry wearing silver armor and the command flag on their backs were speeding between the queues, passing the military orders.

This is between Songzhou and Chenzhou, and it is the southwesternmost county of the eight counties in Songzhou.

After the rebels captured Sizhou, they went north and broke Shenzhou and Ruzhou. At present, Qin Zongquan and Sun Ru in Caizhou, Zhou Qi in Xuzhou, Lu Yanhong and Wang Jian in Chenzhou, all retreated to the state city, and let the Huangchao army pass by. After the reforming army was slaughtered by Zhou Qi for 3,000, the rest fled back to Xuzhou in panic, and the Taining army Qi Kerang retreated overnight, and as a result, he encountered a battle with the Huangchao army, and the battle was defeated again.

All of a sudden, in addition to Luoyang and Zhengzhou, there were also assembled Tang troops, and the rest of the feudal town armies. are already under the Yellow King's paper. Each of them is based on the state. Don't dare to attack.

On the one hand, Huang Chao led the army to continue to approach the eastern capital, and on the other hand, he sent Zhu Wen to lead his troops to plunder Song and Bian, collect grain and grass for the army, and at the same time deter Chen, Xu, Cai, Song, and Bian prefectures, and at the same time threaten the east of the eastern capital, hoping to respond to the Hebei rebels and put more pressure on the defenders of Luoyang.

Zhu Wen set off from Ruzhou and passed through Xu, Cai, and Xu. None of the generals of the original Zhongwu army faced the battle, allowing Zhu Wen to lead the army to sweep through, plundering a large amount of grain and grass, and taking away a large number of young and strong. On the fifteenth day of the first month, Zhu Wen entered the territory of the Xuanwu Army, and Mu Renyu not only did not send troops to defend in advance, but transferred the Xuanwu Army back to Bianzhou to defend.

Zhu Wen entered the territory of Songzhou, and in just one day, he broke through Tuoxian.

After looting Tuoxian again and forcibly conscripting all young men into the army. Zhu Wen now has an army of 50,000 under his command, including 10,000 soldiers.

Take Tuoxian. Zhu Wen rewarded the camps here, which made the morale of the subordinates high.

Three years ago, Zhu Wen rushed to Songzhou from Xuzhou and joined Li Jing's Zhenguo army in Songzhou. Even in Songzhou, he once fought desperately with Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao for life and death, and he also met a woman who will never be forgotten in this life here. If it weren't for those accidents, he might have become a good officer of the Zhenguo Army, or, by now, he was already a soldier.

Time cannot be turned back, and there is no regret medicine in the world.

He fought to the death with Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao, he used to be a subordinate of Li Jing and Mu Renyu, and killed the enemy side by side with the Zhenguo Army, the Zhongwu Army, and the Xuanwu Army.

He used to be a warrior and a hero in the eyes of the people of Songzhou.

But now, he is a 'rebel', a grass thief.

It's been three years, and with Huangchao moving to the north and south of the river, the Central Plains and Lingnan. From Henan to Heji, from Heji to Xusi, and then to Huainan, and then to Shannan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Lingnan, Hunan, Jiangxi, Huainan, and finally back to the Central Plains.

More than 1,000 days and nights were spent in the rush of killing day by day.

During countless attacks, he almost died on the battlefield, but in the end he survived, but there were many more scars on his body.

In the past three years, Zhu Wen also relied on his own hard work and ability, and finally climbed up from the rebels step by step. In the past three years, many of the former high-ranking generals of the rebel army have died in battle, some have died of disease, some have been captured, and some have surrendered.

Zhu Wen did not die in battle, nor did he surrender, and eventually became a high-ranking general in the rebel army, with 10,000 elite soldiers in his hands.

Huang Chao now trusts Zhu Wen very much, although he is not as good as Lin Yan, Huang Ye, and Meng Kai, but he is already a core general in the righteous army. Huang Chao didn't ask for the more than 10,000 elite soldiers in his hands, but gave him a lot of armor and equipment.

In this attack on Luoyang, Huang Chao directly let him block one side, led an army alone, and gave him 20,000 young men. After dividing the troops, Zhu Wen fought all the way and captured 20,000 young and strong soldiers, and now he has 40,000 auxiliary soldiers, 10,000 soldiers, and 50,000 troops in his hands, and the momentum is huge all of a sudden.

Because he had spent some time in the Zhenguo Army, Zhu Wen had been training his soldiers and horses in the mode of the Zhenguo Army. Up to now, Zhu Wen has two armies, namely Xuanfeng and Tabai Second Army, each with 5,000 people, and Zhu Cun and Zhu Zhen are the commanders respectively. In addition, the 40,000 auxiliary army was also organized into eight corps. Zhu Wen also established a personal guard capital, all cavalry, a thousand cavalry, named Luoyan Capital, with Ding Hui as the soldier and horse.

Zhu Wen treats his subordinates most generously, and most of the gains from the city are distributed to the soldiers, so he is very supported by his subordinates. Moreover, Zhu Wen also attached great importance to the literati, and every time he passed by, he had to ask the local scribes, please use them. Up to now, Zhu Wen's tent has Zhu Cun, Zhu Zhen, Ding Hui, Li Tangbin, Guo Yan, Zhang Ren and others, and Wen has Xie Tong, Liu Han and others, condensing a lot of power led by Zhu Wen.

Zhu Wen's selection of the front and the two armies of the White Army, each army has 5,000 people, of which each army has two battalions, one compartment has five battalions, and each compartment has four battalions of infantry and one battalion of cavalry. Each corps had four thousand infantry, one thousand cavalry. The equipment of this unit is not far from that of the elite old battalion of Huangchao, each infantry is equipped with a set of leather armor, and 6,000 of the 8,000 infantry are equipped with a set of leather armor, a leather shield, a spear, a bow, and a horizontal knife. Another 2,000 of them were armed with a single crossbow. The remaining 2,000 infantry were equipped with a set of infantry iron armor, a square iron shield, and a rifle.

The 3,000 cavalry of the whole army were also equipped with leather armor, riding shields, sabers, and riding bows.

In addition, there are many heavy crossbows such as Fuyuan crossbows in the whole army. Big shield. Even those auxiliaries. He also had a spear in his hand. And some of them are equipped with horizontal knives. In addition, all of them were equipped with spear throwers and slings that Zhu Wen had come into contact with in the Zhenguo army, and each auxiliary army carried twenty short spears and a bag of stone bullets on their backs.

If tens of thousands of auxiliaries shoot a salvo and throw spears when they are critical, it will be a huge lethality. Even if the spear is gone, the stone is thrown with the sling, and the attack from the huge auxiliary group is just as extraordinary. The simple tools of spear throwers and slings made the rebels' crowd tactics even more powerful.

Zhu Wen's military discipline was also much stricter than that of other rebels. Although Zhu Wen couldn't help but rob and commit adultery. However, each raid could only be carried out after Zhu Wen had ordered it to be carried out, and once the order was given to collect the troops, the headquarters had to order it to be forbidden. After several years, Zhu Wen's headquarters soldiers have basically been able to do this kind of order and prohibition.

Although he had already betrayed the Zhenguo Army, the various systems of the Zhenguo Army have always been respected by Zhu Wen. The words that Li Jing said, which cannot be called an army without discipline, and can only be regarded as a bandit at most, have always been deeply imprinted in his mind. All the time. No matter how many people he had, he never gave up on the importance of military discipline.

Over the moat. In the city ahead, there was a group of soldiers wearing black flags and black clothes, most of these soldiers were very small, and some were even disabled with severed hands and blind eyes, but everyone had a solemn face. These are Zhu Wen's gendarmerie, completely modeled after the Zhenguo Army, used to supervise military discipline and prevent espionage. These people were originally elite veterans, but because they were injured and were not suitable for combat, Zhu Wen arranged them to be military policemen and make the best use of their talents.

At present, as soon as the county was broken, the gendarmes immediately supervised military discipline in the county seat. Although Zhu Wen allowed to plunder, he had a stipulation that seventy percent of all the captured should be returned to the public, and the remaining thirty percent could be kept. And for those who returned to the public, thirty percent of them were equally distributed among all tactics, and the rest was used as military funds.

Zhu Wen saw that the strategist Xie Tong was not far ahead, and a group of literati staff who were now following him were registering boxes of account books, caught up a few steps, and said with a smile: "Ziming, how is the harvest?" ”

Xie Tong turned his head and saw that it was Zhu Wen, a smile immediately appeared on his slightly white face, he was originally from Fuzhou, and he stayed in Chang'an for three years, but unfortunately he failed the exam for three consecutive years, and returned to Fujian after the worst time, but he happened to meet Zhu Wen's troops, and after talking with Zhu Wen, he felt that this grass thief was not as good as he imagined, and he stayed after the worst. With his talent, he naturally quickly shined among the grass thieves, and gradually became Zhu Wen's most relied on strategist, and now serves as Zhu Wen's secretary.

"The harvest is indeed a lot, the rich land of Biansong, a small county town, compared to the money and grain of a state in Fujian and Hunan."

Zhu Wen smiled with satisfaction and said to Xie Tong: "A small extension county has this harvest, then we will definitely gain more when we conquer Songzhou City." ”

Until now, Zhu Wen still can't completely forget Song Zhou and the woman Song Zhou saw. When he came back this time, he had already heard that the woman had already married Li Jing and was now in Dengzhou. However, his father still served as a assassin in Songzhou and never moved his nest. Zhang Tailiu, who followed him at the beginning, died of the plague as early as when he was in Guangzhou. As soon as he thought of Song Zhou, he couldn't help but show the voices and smiles of Zhang Hui and Zhang Tailiu in his mind. After a while, he said fiercely: "This time, we must take Songzhou." ”

Xie Tong heard Zhu Wen say this, he was a little worried, he didn't know about the grievances between Zhu Wen and Zhang Rui, the assassin of Songzhou, and stroked his beard and said: "This time, our main purpose is to collect money and grain, and in addition, to deter the towns in Henan, so that they dare not assemble to Luoyang." Songzhou City is strong and has enough food, but I am afraid that it is not easy to fight. If the city is fortified, it is not good to fight for a long time, but I am afraid that it will make the other towns ready to move. ”

Zhu Wen thought about it, although the righteous army swept through Henan several times and invaded Songzhou several times, in fact, it had not really besieged Songzhou City. He is clear about the solidity of Songzhou, and if he only deals with the soldiers and horses in Songzhou City, he is sure that he will be worried, and he is worried about the reaction of other towns. Thinking of this, he hesitated: "The other towns are afraid that they don't have the courage to leave the town, there are not many soldiers in Songzhou City, if they can break through Songzhou City, it will definitely cause a greater deterrent effect." ”

Xie Tong pondered for a while, and then nodded his head as well. If you can capture a state city, it will also be of greater help to capture Luoyang.

Thirty miles south of Luoyang, that is, Yique, also known as Longmen Mountain.

Longmen is the open gateway to the south of Luoyang, where the Xiangshan and Longmen Mountains on both sides of the river are opposite, and the Yishui flows in the distance, and it looks like a natural gate. Therefore, since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there has been a very figurative name here, Yique. Luoyang, the capital of Emperor Yang of Sui, because the gate of the imperial palace is facing Yique, the ancient emperor regarded himself as the son of the real dragon, so it was named Longmen.

Yique is one of the eight passes of Luoyang in the Han Dynasty.

Dense peasants are picking up soil and moving rocks and digging ditches under the supervision of the Tang Army in Red Army uniforms. At this dangerous pass, the city wall of nearly three zhang has begun to see the scale, and most of the city walls have been repaired. In addition, on the surface of the river, there are also many large and small boats that are constantly sinking stones into the Yishui River, blocking the river and forcing the boats to move, and laying large iron piles on both banks, connecting three large iron cables with the thickness of an arm.

Under the pass on the west bank, there are also many pulley nooses, and when it is critical, the iron ropes can be twisted, and the iron ropes can cross the river to block the Yishui.

There are countless grain trucks carrying grain from Luoyang to Guancheng.

The Tang army in fiery red armor stood above the city, and the big red handsome flag fluttered high on the eight-foot flagpole. Under the flagpole, an official with a thin body and a thin purple official robe was surrounded by more than a dozen generals in male clothes and gorgeous armor.

This is the Shangshu of the Tang Dynasty and Cui Anqian, the capital of the camp in the south of Hebei. The two people on his left and on the right are Du Xian, the defense envoy of the eastern capital of Jidu, the deputy commander of the camp in the south of Hebei, and the general of Zuo Weiwei, the deputy commander of the camp in the south of Hebei, and Zhang Zimian.

"Duke Cui, the emperor has issued an order for Liu Yunzhang to stay in the eastern capital, and sent an edict for us to lead our troops to Tongguan to guard the gate of Guanzhong." Du Tao said to Cui Anqian a little helplessly.

Zhang Zimian also reported with a black face: "The sentinels sent to Lu have ascertained that Huang Chao will arrive in Yique in three days, and his troops have 300,000. In addition, Huang Chao also divided two men, one led by Zhu Wen, to march to Song and Bian, intending to go around to the east of Luoyang to attack Zhengzhou and cut off the Bianhe River transportation. At the same time, he also sent Ge Congzhou to lead his troops to attack Ying, Hao and other places to prevent Huainan, Hezhen Navy, Liangzhejiang, Jiangxi and other towns from going north. According to the news, Zhu Wen and Ge Cong's troops are about 50,000 people, and with Huang Chao's rate, there are 400,000 grass thieves. ”

Cui Anqian's face was cloudy, and after a long time, he sighed: "Luoyang Jiancheng, we are guarding the city according to the pass, the so-called 400,000 yellow thieves, among them, there are only a lot of rabble, and the real elite is not more than 70,000 or 80,000. ”

"It's hateful that at this time, the probation army is in turmoil, the loyal army is even more rebellious, the Hezhong army is in rebellion again, Qi Ke let the army defeat, the probation army retreats, and Huainan, Zhenhai, Liangzhejiang, and Jiangxi provinces also stopped. At present, although we are determined to hold Luoyang, Chang'an is worried that Tongguan will not be able to stop the rebels, and is only anxious to let them retreat to Tongguan. There are more than 100,000 gods in the pass, but when it is really used, there are no soldiers available, a bunch of waste. Zhang Zimian said with some resentment.

Cui Anqian was also very disappointed in his heart, the loyal army was also his old subordinate, but he didn't want to behave like this this time, and the three states under the army killed officials one after another to stand on their own, which was like a rebellion, causing the collapse of the Lishui defense line. At present, he has the heart to stick to Luoyang, but Chang'an has no confidence in this. The Zhongwu Army and the Hezhong Army were no longer reliable, the Taining Army and the Tianping Army were defeated by Huang Chao one after another, and the Reform Army, the Huainan Army, and the Zhenguo Army all sat on the ground and watched again.

There are Hebei rebels in the north, if Luoyang can't hold it, even this army will be lost, and only relying on the hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops, it will be even more impossible to hold Tongguan.

But if you don't fight, you will abandon Luoyang and retreat to Tongguan, which is really unwilling.

In the silence, there was another rush of footsteps.

Cui Anqian turned his head to look, but saw a eunuch coming to the city under the escort of several forbidden soldiers.

"Subordinates: Cui Anqian, Du Xian, and Zhang Zimian led Luoyang soldiers and horses to retreat to Tongguan, and on the eighteenth day of the first month of the sixth year of Qianfu."

The twelfth holy decree within three days, Cui Anqian gritted his teeth, and finally had no choice but to step forward to take the holy decree, and then turned his head to look at the quietly flowing Yishui, and said for a long time: "Order the whole army, immediately return to Luoyang, and retreat to Tongguan early tomorrow morning." ”

The eunuch who delivered the decree was relieved when he heard that Cui Anqian finally ordered to lead the army to retreat to Tongguan. And Du Xian and Zhang Zimian generals, but they all lowered their heads, clenched their teeth, and were full of unwillingness! (To be continued......)