Chapter 987: Retreat
When the two commanders left, most of them still thought that they could sneak back, after all, the commanders left the army and left, which was a crime of killing their heads. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
But now...... Needless to say.
Because of this news, Xia Zhenren was a little irritable, and even wanted to stop others from moving food for a while.
But now the rebel army in the two counties has changed from 40,000 to 50,000 -- and there are 10,000 new recruits from Yongle and Tonghe.
Coupled with the 5,000 people who came from Xiaoshan, the number of the rebels went to 60,000.
Xia Zhenren only has 10,000 people in his hands, and he really can't muster up the courage to turn his face, let alone the other party is still standing behind Lei Gu.
Li Yongsheng had no intention of considering his thoughts, he was just gathering information to see where he was going to attack next.
The captured recruits this time came from different counties, and most of them had not yet grown into ruffians, and most of them were happy to take the people of Lei Valley to rescue their hometown fathers.
It was nearly noon, and a light rain began to fall, which drove away some of the heat, and everyone's mood was much better, at least not so angryβafter all, the battle was won, wasn't it?
Li Yongsheng looked at the sky speechlessly: This old bird is chasing me and it is raining, and it will not be good if others see that something is wrong.
But this rain was a day and a night, and the next night, Xia Zhenren braved the light rain, found Li Yongsheng, and spoke with great interest, "The prisoners don't need to be dismissed, the county is about to launch a full-scale attack." β
In the battle of the Xishan battalion, there were 50,000 prisoners, except for the recruits who had already been retired, and some of the elites of Zheng Wangfu, he originally planned to dismiss at least 20,000 on the spot.
As mentioned above, the imperial army always looked down on King Zheng's soldiers, and thought that it was better to let them waste King Zheng's food than to leave these people to waste food - as for them to take food from Li Shu's mouth, it was not for the imperial army to manage.
Ci is not in charge of the army, and the world is like this.
It is serious that King Zheng's soldiers have done a lot of evil, so they naturally pushed the people's hearts to the side of the court.
Xia Zhenren wanted to dismiss these people, but Li Yongsheng disagreed: Xishan's Li Shu is already bitter enough, you still let these guys out and grab food from them?
So this issue is put on hold for the time being.
Now it's okay, no need to argue.
Because Lei Gu regained four counties one after another, defeated at least 50,000 veterans of King Zheng, and more than 100,000 recruits, the situation in the southwest of Yuzhou was changed, and the military service room of Yuzhou decided to launch a counterattack in an all-round way.
The county military service room has actually been expanding the army, but they are training recruits in a regular way, and they are fighting on two fronts, and the battle against King Xiang is a little more intense, so they have no intention of cleaning up King Zheng.
Now that King Zheng's troops have been greatly reduced, the county military service office has realized that this is a rare opportunity, so it can no longer sit back and watch King Zheng expand his army, and must strive to solve this scourge.
The situation has changed, and the release of the captives is no longer a suitable option, and it is not possible to take King Zheng's soldiers for his own use, and to temporarily detain these people, it is a big deal to pay the price of some food and grass.
Besides, there's no need to feed them, is there?
"Going to counterattack?" Li Yongsheng looked up at the dark sky, let the fine rain hit his face, and muttered softly, "It seems that the mission of this copy is also over." β
"What do you mean by that?" Xia Zhenren didn't understand what "copy" was, but he knew the words "mission over".
For a while, he was a little anxious, "The county military service room is communicating with the Boling Education Department, and wants to seconded you here and make you the recruitment envoy of the four counties...... This official is a little smaller, and it doesn't fit your real identity, but he will give you a wartime establishment of 200,000 horses. β
The temporary establishment in wartime is nothing, but the number of 200,000 people is quite impressive, and even if the war is over, at least they will enjoy the treatment of deputy military service envoys of the county, and there will be no objections to serving as military service envoys in smaller counties.
Li Yongsheng looked at him and smiled, laughing so much that the other party's eyes widened, and then he asked with interest, "If this matter can really be operated, do you think Wang Zhiyun will let me go?"
"Wang military service envoy?" Xia Zhenren knew about Bo Ling's military service envoy, he blinked his eyes, and then laughed dryly, "This is different, you Bo Ling has not been invaded...... Well, let's contact the indoctrination room, and please keep it confidential from the military service room. β
"It's not a question of whether I keep it secret or not," Li Yongsheng shook his head, you really don't know my name in Boling, and if you want to transfer across counties, how can those people agree?" β
When Xia Zhenren heard this, his disappointment was overflowing, and he pondered for a moment before he spoke, "It's really inseparable from you here...... What are we going to do so that you are willing to stay and help us pacify King Zheng?"
He knew very well that the reason why Yuzhou County was able to make up its mind to counterattack, the existence of Lei Gu was one of the key factors, and Zheng Wangfu was bound by Lei Gu after going to it, and they all saw it.
Li Yongsheng shook his head very resolutely, "It is impossible for me to cooperate with the imperial army, Lei Gu is a branch of the Dao Palace, and if I cooperate with you, I will give people a handle, I don't know how many people are staring at me now." β
The day before yesterday, the two of us cooperated! Xia Zhenren pouted in frustration, "Then you won't track down the demon demon?"
Li Yongsheng spread his hands and spoke frankly, "This matter will be left to you, for the imperial court, the demons who mock the religion are much more threatening than the wild rituals in the country." β
Although the imperial court also forbids the wild worship of Suzaku, sometimes it may not really put a lot of effort into it, but the demons of the Mocking Sect and the True God Sect are absolutely intolerable to the imperial court - Buddhism and cultivation must be ranked after these two.
Xia Zhenren saw that he was decisive, and couldn't help but complain, "Eternal life, in addition to being a person from Thunder Valley, you are also a person from the government. β
"This one is different," Li Yongsheng smiled and shook his head, "I haven't received a day's salary...... Moreover, the Lord of Thunder Valley is still the daughter of the King of England, so what?"
"Alas," Xia Zhenren let out a long sigh, and only spoke happily after a long time, "Then you leave some good hands in Lei Valley, and you should help, it's all fine, right?"
"It's a big problem!" Li Yongsheng laughed when he heard it, he knew the other party's psychology too well, it was nothing more than trying to play a side game, making it half covered up, and in essence, it was still borrowing the reputation of Lei Gu.
However, thinking that Xia Zhenren was also trying to quell the chaos as soon as possible, he didn't care about this guy, "We must all withdraw, but what...... As for the matter of tracking down the demons, you can tell each other that Lei Gu is very concerned, and I can only help you. β
Xia Zhenren knew that this was also the best result, although he was very reluctant to accept it, and finally he sighed, "Then where are you going to go next when you leave this time?"
"Go back to Lei Valley first," Li Yongsheng replied, and after a pause, he added, "By the way, is there any news of Huiji County?
"I really don't know this," Xia Zhenren shook his head, thought for a while and then spoke, "But the news of the county military service room should be more well-informed, if you stay here for a few days, someone will come to the military service room." β
Li Yongsheng didn't want to see someone from the military service room, although he had already made up his mind to leave, but he didn't want to waste words with those people needlessly, "Forget it, I'd better go to Yongle and stay, if there is any news, you just let Lao Haitou tell me." β
Early the next morning, he left the camp with the people of Lei Valley and went to Yongle County, leaving Lao Haitou and waiting for news.
As soon as I entered Yongle County, I saw dark clouds and lightning and thunder not far away.
Li Yongsheng made a judgment, thinking that this was a rare natural rainfall in Yuzhou County recently, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart: This natural disaster in Yuzhou can be regarded as the past, right?
Because they were carrying the wounded of Lei Gu with them, everyone looked around and found that there was a ruined village not far ahead, so they hurried over to take shelter from the rain.
The village was not large, and it was built halfway up the mountain, and it looked like there were only about 30 families, but when they walked in, they found that there was not a single living person in it.
In fact, not to mention the living, there are not even a few intact houses, and King Zheng raised an army, which brought too many disasters to the people.
Li Yongsheng and his family chose a relatively large courtyard, where there were barely two usable houses, and the wounded were given priority to live, while the others set up tents with the help of broken walls.
As soon as the tent was erected, a strong wind howled, blowing sand and rocks and the sky dark, which was a typical sign of the coming strong convective rain.
The wind blew for almost a stick of incense, and there were raindrops the size of beans.
At this moment, more than a dozen people rushed in outside, and it was none other than the real person who was the first to sacrifice to the strong.
The sacrifice was originally in Tonghe to recuperate, and when he heard that Lei Gu was leaving, he did not hesitate to leave, and the two sides planned to meet in Yongle, but they didn't expect to encounter a storm and meet here.
With him were several children of the priest family, as well as some wounded soldiers of Yongle.
Li Yongsheng had no choice but to help the other party diagnose the injury and take out some medicine.
The downpour came in an instant, and it took half an hour before it stopped, but there were still thick clouds all around, and it was not sure when it would rain again.
The current mountain road is full of flowing muddy water, and it is very inconvenient to catch up with the road, unless a real person is coercing everyone to fly.
Li Yongsheng and the others were not in a hurry, they discussed it and simply decided to stay here for one night.
Sai Qiang deliberately took out a jar of wine, saying that it was given by his robe, and the wine was not very precious, and it was rare to have a hundred years of aging.
When he got up the next day, the sky was still a little bad, and Li Yongsheng didn't bother to wait any longer, so he simply released a flying boat and let them sit on it, while he and the blood slave were flying and guarding beside him.
The place they went to was the small valley where Li Yongsheng first came to Yongle, and it was there that he met King Zheng's Kanyu team, which was a more suitable place to be stationed.
As soon as he approached the valley, Li Yongsheng's face changed, and he smelled the smell of blood.
Immediately afterwards, he saw two corpses, left in the grass, both with different heads.
One of them was just a child of seven or eight years old!