Chapter 235: Exchange
Jinling has the danger of the Purple Mountain, and the Yangtze River is a natural moat, compared with the number of the rebels led by Liu Chengfang, the difference between the number of the opponent is suspenseful, and they have not undergone formal training, not to mention that the Tatars are already brave and good at fighting, how easy it is for them to take Jinling. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
However, the first failure cannot be blamed on Xu Qing's unfavorable command, in fact, there was a surrendered general who rebelled in the middle, so that the siege plan was known by others in advance, and failure had become inevitable.
Victory is morale high, and it is a strong against weak, and the defending side quickly wins the second wave of attacks.
According to Wang Jing's prior plan, the plan to capture Chuzhou and directly go to Jinling completely failed.
However, at this time, Liu Chengfang had already taken refuge in many people, and quickly formulated a new plan: first sweep away the surrounding enemies, and then plot against Jinling.
Soon they chose Hezhou, the closest to Chuzhou, and planned to cross the river from here.
Although they already have a lot of men and horses at this time, the places they captured still need to be guarded, and there are not many people who can really go to the war, and the court of the Great Zhou has already known their intentions, and there is bound to be a fierce battle with the state.
After Liu Chengfang discussed with Xu Qing, he told everyone: "There are many soldiers, and five thousand people are enough." ”
Young people are fearless.
Although facing the brave and warlike Tatars, Liu Chengfang took the lead and still ordered Xu Qing to be the general, leading the children of the Liu family all the way to Hezhou. Although they were not many in number, the city defense of Hezhou was very poor, and Xu Qing commanded everyone to quickly take down Hezhou City.
The first thing Liu Chengfang did after entering the city was to recruit men, and although the people's mood was high, he could only recruit four or five thousand people. However, at this time, the imperial court unexpectedly surrounded Hezhou City with 100,000 elite soldiers.
Because Liu Yongan and others harassed the enemy in the rear, and Xu Qing was a military genius, he often used troops unexpectedly, complementing each other and repeatedly repelling the enemy.
The main targets of the imperial court were Liu Chengfang and Xu Qing, the leaders of the rebel army, and Liu Yongan robbed the enemy's grain and grass in the rear without any pressure.
The rebel army, which had food, was like a tiger, and not only rebelled against a part of the enemy army, but also joined forces with the people in the city to annihilate a large number of enemies.
After a month of hard fighting, the enemy finally retreated. Xu Qing showed his courage in this battle and won the admiration of everyone.
However, before everyone had time to celebrate the victory, a man named Sun Dixing, who revolted with Guo Zhixing, came to the outside of Hezhou City with 2,000 people, saying that he had not eaten for several days and asked Liu Chengfang for help.
Guo Zhixing is Liu Yongan's classmate, and he made great efforts to conquer Dingyuan, his friend came to ask for help, Liu Chengfang quickly welcomed people in, and then asked about Guo Zhixing's situation.
When Sun Dixing entered the city, he told Liu Chengfang: Guo Zhixing wanted to kill him because of personal grudges, so he fled to Liu Zaifang.
"In the face of national hatred and family hatred, personal grievances can only be placed in the back row." Liu Chengfang plans to make peace for them and resolve this grievance.
Sun Dixing was grateful to Liu Chengfang on the surface, but in the middle of the night three days later, he secretly kidnapped Liu Chengfang and went out of the city gate early the next morning.
Because it is a friendly army, the passage is unimpeded.
It wasn't until noon that Xu Qing found out that Liu Chengfang was gone.
The people were kidnapped by Sun Dixing, and Xu Qing didn't dare to leave Hezhou to negotiate with the other party, so he had to send someone to tell Liu Yongan about the matter.
When Liu Yongan saw Guo Zhixing, he asked Sun Guo the reason for the contradiction.
It turned out that Sun Dixing was a neighbor of the Guo family before, and often rubbed tofu to fill his hunger at Guo's house, and the relationship with Guo Zhixing's parents was not bad, and occasionally helped the Guo family do something, and later coaxed Guo Zhixing's sister Guo Xiangqiao to commit to him with rhetoric, but now he wants to marry Zhao Wen's girl as his wife, and Guo Xiangqiao wants to be small.
Now the anti-Tatar voice is very high in various places, there are rebels in various places, and Zhao Wen's men are far more than Liu Chengfang.
Liu Yongan listened to the whole story, and looked down on Sun Dixing, but he didn't dare to act rashly, after all, his father Liu Chengfang was still in the hands of the other party, and this era is very particular about "hiring people as wives and runners as concubines", although the Guo family has been wronged, but the current situation of the Liu family is inconvenient to directly stand up for the Guo family for such a thing.
Liu Yongan had no choice but to comfort Guo Zhixing and said: "The coming day is long, we will avenge this revenge sooner or later." ”
Of course, Guo Zhixing also knew that the overall situation was important, and even if he wanted to kill Sun Dixing now, he had no chance, so he had to comfort Liu Yongan and said: "I'm not in a hurry about this, but Uncle Shi is now in the hands of that thief, and it would be better to rescue him as soon as possible." ”
However, after Liu Yongan took people to Dingyuan, someone sent a letter saying that Liu Chengfang was already in Suzhou, which belonged to Zhao Wen's jurisdiction, and he was a descendant of the royal family of the previous dynasty and had proclaimed himself King Luhuai. Everyone is fighting the anti-Tartar banner, and if there is no legitimate reason, the Liu family has no reason to send troops to Zhao Wen.
Sun Dixing was very cunning, claiming that he was inviting Liu Chengfang to Zhao's house as a guest, but in fact he wanted to persuade him to attach himself to Zhao Wen.
Liu Chengfang felt that Sun Dixing's move must have been instructed by Zhao Wen, and felt that he was not bright enough, so he tactfully told Sun Dixing that he had already contacted the people from Han Ling's side.
Han Ling's father is rumored to be the ninth generation of the royal family of the previous dynasty, it is said that his father was born before Maitreya Buddha came to the world, in the Yellow River area is very popular among the people, at this time has been called the emperor in Qiaocheng, the country name "Song", the year name "Dragon and Phoenix", Zhao Wen's reputation is not as prominent as Han Ling, otherwise he would not have resorted to such a low means to win people over.
After Liu Yongan came to Suzhou, he didn't see Zhao Wen at all, only Sun Dixing talked about him, but he didn't mention that Liu Chengfang was kidnapped by him.
"There are still many things that need to be solved by my father in Haozhou, if Brother Sun really wants to invite us as a guest, I will stay and let my father go back first." Liu Yongan also did not mention that Liu Chengfang was kidnapped by him, and only said that he would exchange him for Liu Chengfang.
Originally, the person was kidnapped, Zhao Wen had already told him not to offend the Liu family too much, and now Liu Yongan wants to protect himself in exchange, and the reason is very sufficient, although Sun Dixing is unwilling, but it is not good to refuse directly, plus his parents are still in Dingyuan, he does not dare to offend the Liu family to death, so he simply took the words to prevaricate, "It is the intention of the prince to invite Uncle Liu Shi to be a guest, and the younger brother is not good to make decisions without permission." ”
Liu Yongan: "If this is the case, I have no choice but to ask the king to decide." When you invite someone as a guest, you have to take care of the host's wishes, right? He changed his previous mildness and became aggressive.
The implication is that if you don't agree to exchange me for my father, then we don't mind being Han Ling's pawn and going to war with you right away.
Liu Chengfang's own side of the people is really unwise to face Zhao Wen, but if there is Han Ling as the backing, Zhao Wen will have to think twice, it is better to leave Liu Yongan as a proton, so that Liu Chengfang will also have some scruples about them, so he reluctantly agreed. (To be continued.) )