Chapter 353 Hirakawa and Odori

On Gangguan Mountain, the sand sculpture won a small victory, but it was very unfavorable for the entire battle situation. Exposed early, the original raid lost its meaning, at this time the thieves must be strictly guarded, and at this time, they also raided the outer positions of Tongling, which is tantamount to seeking their own death.

Liu Guoneng's army hurried over, but only caught up with the tail. turned over and dismounted, and soon found the sand sculpture next to the official road. At this time, the sand sculpture was leaning against a dry tree, his eyes were cloudy, the long knife in his hand was on the ground, and the blood had not dried up. Liu Guoneng walked over and patted the other party's shoulder gently, "Commander Sha, the matter has come to this point, it's useless to think about it." Since the sneak attack can't be successful, then let's attack it. ”

"Tongling City is heavily guarded, so Xu Beifeng is not an easy person, if you want to break through the Tongling defense line, how easy is it!" The sand sculpture is a proud man, and if it weren't for the particularly difficult situation, he wouldn't have said such things.

Liu Guoneng didn't know how difficult it was to attack, but sometimes, knowing that there were tigers in the mountains, he had to go to the mountains, "Since the Inspector let us attack Tongling, there must be a follow-up move, we just need to launch a fierce attack on the periphery of Tongling on time according to the plan." ”

Liu Guoneng didn't know what the specific plan was, but his long-term experience told him that the Iron Inspector cherished the lives of his soldiers and would never let his brothers spend money in Tongling City in vain. Xu Zhixin was also at a loss for the situation in front of him, according to the plan, the soldiers and horses of Nanjing Jingying would go south to Huizhou Mansion four days later, and cooperate with the soldiers and horses of Xuanfu to threaten Yuqian County, where Liukou had gathered heavy troops. But looking at the current situation, I'm afraid the plan will have to change, with the strength of Liu Guoneng and the sand sculpture, it is almost impossible to take Tongling within four days.

Feeling Xu Zhixin's hesitant gaze, Liu Guoneng felt unconvinced in his heart. On the march to fight, he never felt that he was worse than Zhou Dingshan, this time he attacked Tongling City, but he had a good chance to prove himself, how could he be embarrassed? What's more, with Xu Zhixin by her side, what happened in the first battle of Tongling will most likely affect the share of spoils in the future. The elite of the dignified Cloud Mansion, how can you let others look down on it?

The next day, mist shrouded Tongling. The winter around Tongling seems to have always been like this, the fog is foggy before the sun, and only when the sun is shining brightly will the fog completely dissipate. Pingchuan Town, Tongling, is peaceful at this time, Pingchuan Town in the morning, the cold wind blows, and there are few pedestrians. Compared with the great enemy of Tongling City, Pingchuan Town seems to be much more relaxed. Pingchuan Town is located west of Tongling, and the geographical location is not important, as if everyone is not interested here, which causes the peasant army in Pingchuan Town to relax their vigilance.

Speaking of which, the person guarding Pingchuan Town still has a bit of a background, this person's name is Li Zijian, and it is said that he is Li Zicheng's clansman. Because he had a relationship with Li Zicheng, Xu Beichuan gave him a relatively easy job. Xu Beichuan didn't want to offend Li Zicheng, so this Li Zijian couldn't be used, and he couldn't be reused, so it was better to throw it to Pingchuan Town, and it was up to him to do whatever he wanted.

Li Zijian is not a fool, he knows that he has no great ability, and coupled with his relationship with Li Zicheng, Xu Beichuan's arrangement is also understandable. However, Li Zijian is a very interesting person, and since he came to Pingchuan Town, he has stayed honestly. However, he can't do nothing, anyway, the war in Tongling and the Nijiang River has little to do with him, and he is idle when he is idle, so he is looking for fun almost every day. The battle of Gangguanshan has made Tongling City strictly defended, but just last night, Li Zijian also found a few dancing girls and enjoyed it.

At that time, the sun shrouded the whole town, but Li Zijian was in a daze and had just woken up. Maybe it's because I'm playing too crazy, I feel sleepy when I sit up, my body is very tired, I yawn, and I shrank back into the bed.

At three moments, a team of several hundred people dispersed and quietly came to the outskirts of Pingchuan Town. Suddenly, someone shouted: "From the east and west sides, attack Pingchuan Town, be sure to take Pingchuan as quickly as possible!" ”

The city head was full of rumors, the battle shook the sky, many people were beaten, and the deputy general who defended the city ran to the mansion in a panic, shouting all the way: "Leader, it's not good, the officers and soldiers are attacking the city.... The brothers can't hold it anymore......"

Li Zijian, who was in a daze, stood up suddenly when he heard the news of the siege, he opened his eyes, full of surprise, what the hell are the officers and soldiers doing? Didn't you send people to attack Datong, how could you run to fight Pingchuan, take Datong, and there will be no obstacles south of Tongling, you can rest assured that you can attack Tongling City, and what good will it do to the officers and soldiers if you hit Pingchuan?

No matter how much Li Zijian can't figure it out, but the siege really happened, on the top of the city, Li Zijian found that although the officers and soldiers were attacking the city, the number of people invested was very small, in fact, Liu Guoneng did not plan to attack the city on a large scale, but Li Zijian was suspicious by nature, and always thought too much naturally, he could also think of things that were not there, he always felt that there must be a conspiracy here, so Li Zijian did not dare to slack off at all, and the generals and colonels at the head of the city kept shouting, commanding the troops, "Quick, move the rolling wood and thunder stones up, After a while, the officers and soldiers attacked the city and smashed it hard at me. ”

At this time, in the face of the strong attack of officers and soldiers, Li Zijian was glad that he was guarding Pingchuan Town. Although Pingchuan is a town, it is surrounded by a city wall, which is higher than the city wall of an ordinary county town. If Pingchuan was as unsheltered as other towns, then he Li would only have to flee for his life at this time.

Under the city, Liu Guoneng stared at the head of Pingchuan City, but kept shaking his head, "Li Zijian still doesn't pay enough attention, Zheng Tao, let your people rush with a ladder and give Li Zijian more heat, but as soon as they encounter resistance, they will immediately retreat." ”

Zheng Tao took the order to go, and soon more than 1,000 people rushed to Pingchuan City with a cloud ladder, in order to make the scene more grand, deliberately let people prepare some more drums, the soldiers rushed, the drums rumbled, and at the same time, the soldiers also deliberately shouted peace, and really made a murderous posture, Li Zijian had to take it seriously, almost all the peasant troops defending the city were gathered at the head of the city, but what made Li Zijian vomit blood was that the officers and soldiers ran to the head of the city, and just took a few rolling logs and flew down, the speed of withdrawal, It's several times faster than the speed of marching.

Li Zijian was confused, and the others were also confused, but soon they were not confused. Liu Guoneng under the city saw that there were enough soldiers and horses gathered at the head of the city, and directly issued an order, and for a while the crossbowmen and musketeers were ready, and with the first bullet fired at the head of the city, Li Zijian finally understood what was going on, many crockpots flew up, accompanied by many rockets, and the pungent smell permeated the city, and the eyes were full of purple smoke.

This kind of crockpot contains all kinds of things such as sulfur, which is something researched by Dai Qimeng, which was originally used in cannonballs, and now it is used by Liu Guoneng to attack the city. There was a great chaos in the city, and Li Zijian's soldiers and horses could not withdraw in order to prevent the officers and soldiers from taking advantage of the chaos to attack the city, and they had to suffer from the smell of sulfur and fireworks.

Li Zijian kept scolding there, in fact, this kind of smoke with a strange smell is not too lethal, the key is the panic it brings, and the blow to morale is too terrible.

When morale is not available, the soldiers have doubts about the commander, how terrible the situation is, and every general is very afraid of this situation. In fact, Li Zijian also knew in his heart that he had to do something to do it, and he had to re-establish his supreme prestige. Otherwise, if he continues to toss like this, he Li Zijian will become a monkey who is being played with in the eyes of everyone.

Li Zijian's life was quite painful, but in comparison, Wang Ye, who was in Datong, was much more moisturized.

Datong, and Pingchuan City east and west, but Datong is only a poor countryside around the mountain, the land is connected by broken mountains, and there is no waterway connection, and there is no role in communicating the north and south, so it has not been favored by people, the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, and there has never been a master of the house to put Datong in his eyes, and even when the Japanese invaded the south of the Yangtze River, they were too lazy to come to Datong this broken place.

Chase is a poor country, and absolutely no one wants to come. Therefore, in Nanzhili, there is another saying, called Jiangnan Exile, as long as you can get by, don't go to Datong, go to Datong and it will be over in this life. However, Wang Ye has been sitting in Chase for many years, and he is still very moisturized, and he doesn't seem to be worried about his future at all. Wang Ye is a good person, others don't like the poor place of Datong, but Wang Ye likes it.

This place is simply a place of transformation, no matter what you do, no one cares. So, when the rogues came, he turned into a spokesperson for the rogues in Chase again.

All along, Datong is also peaceful, before Wang Yan, Li Zicheng, Xu Beichuan were fighting near Tongling, but no one was interested in Datong, this kind of poor and remote broken place, it is useless to ask for it, they would rather occupy a mountain than want a broken city. No one came, and Wang Ye didn't take the initiative to cause trouble, so Datong was quiet for a few days, but today, something may have happened.

After noon, the county Cheng Li Wan hurriedly ran into the county office, and saw Wang Ye playing with the antiques in his hand, he said a little anxiously, "Lord Zhixian, something happened, someone just came to report, saying that there was a biao of soldiers and horses in the east." ”

Who knew that Wang Ye didn't take it seriously when he heard it, he pursed his lips and touched the delicate mustache, "What's the panic, it's not that there have been no soldiers and horses, just let the soldiers prepare properly, it is estimated that the people of the king of the mountain are passing by." ”

Looking at Wang Ye's attitude, Li Wan was depressed for a while, and Wang Zhixian's brain reaction was too inflexible, so he had to recount it, "Lord Zhixian, yesterday the soldiers and horses of Xuanfu and General Xu's people fought in Gangguan Mountain, it seems that the imperial court intends to recapture Tongling City, should it be that Xuanfu is dividing troops here, we have to deal with it carefully." ”

Imperial court soldiers? Wang Ye panicked in his heart, his hands trembled, the exquisite porcelain turned into a pile of fragments, these days I don't know how many legends about the soldiers and horses of Xuanfu, just the legends are scary enough, not to mention that Wang Ye also has a military report in his hand, and he knows these things in more detail. It can be said that the legend is not excessive, and it is not exaggerated in the slightest. I can think of how powerful the soldiers and horses of Xuanfu are, but today I heard that the officers and soldiers can come to Datong.

"How is this possible? With a limited number of officers and soldiers, how could it be possible to attack both Pingchuan and Odori at the same time? Aren't they afraid that the army of Tongling City will hit them back? Wang Ye really couldn't figure it out, he was still wondering if the scout had made a mistake in the information.

Half an hour later, Wang Ye stood at the head of the city in military uniform, looking at the majestic soldiers and horses under the city, the luck in his heart was finally gone. It's really officers and soldiers, don't participate in a little false elite soldiers and horses, look at their tight formation, high morale, you know that this is a tiger and wolf army, damn, although Wang Ye has 3,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, but he has no confidence at all, because these 3,000 soldiers and horses are purely bluffing. said that it was 3,000 soldiers and horses, most of them were rogue ruffians who were temporarily summoned and mountain bandits from Zhao'an, relying on these people to hold Datong?

"Quickly send a message to Tongling, the officers and soldiers attacked Datong, please General Xu send reinforcements quickly" Wang Ye didn't think about it, he gave an order, he never thought that he could hold Datong.

It's not that he didn't think about surrendering, the moment he saw the Xuanfu army, his first reaction was to surrender. But when he thought that he had just descended to the Liukou, and in turn descended to the court, in the future, as soon as the Liukou left, the court would not let him go.

Fortunately, the sand sculpture marched all the way, and the people were sleepy and tired, and they were not in a hurry to attack the city, but camped near the northeast of Datong to rest. Of course, the sand sculpture will not be careless, send scouts widely, and release ten miles away. The officers and soldiers raided Datong, and they didn't think that they had to lay down Datong, but they just used Datong to accomplish some kind of purpose, and if they couldn't complete it, the sand sculpture didn't want to stay longer.

The clouds of war shrouded over the city of Datong, Datong has not encountered a war for many years, even in the era of rampant Japanese bandits, Datong was unconcerned, and now there is suddenly a war, and many people are still in a trance.

When the news reached Tongling, Zeng Qian was so shocked that his jaw almost fell to the ground, knowing that the officers and soldiers would fight Datong, but why did they want to fight Pingchuan?

In his heart, Xu Beichuan wanted to defend Tongling City, it can be said that in addition to Tongling and Nijiang River, the officers and soldiers wanted to fight wherever they wanted, Xu Beichuan didn't even blink his eyes, but on the contrary, the officers and soldiers wanted to fight Pingchuan.

What the hell is going on here, Datong is poor, and its geographical location is more or less at the southern end of Tongling, but Pingchuan's broken place is worthless, and even bandits are not interested, and the officers and soldiers are trying to find a place to stand in Pingchuan?

Xu Beichuan, like Li Zijian, stared at a series of question marks on his head, but he couldn't help but send reinforcements. The more you can't understand, the more you can't be careless, "Come on, go and order Du Jianwen, and order him to quickly lead 10,000 soldiers and horses to aid Datong, and be sure to arrive in Datong City before tomorrow." ”

Xu Beichuan's reaction was very fast, and when tens of thousands of soldiers and horses left the city, the news quickly reached the ears of the sand sculpture. In this way, one thing is confirmed, Xu Beichuan also knows the importance of Datong, otherwise why would the small Datong need tens of thousands of reinforcements. The sand sculpture smiled, as long as Xu Beichuan's soldiers and horses went out of the city, everything would be easy to do, and then Liu Guoneng only did one thing, that is, to order the soldiers and horses of all departments to give up rest, besiege Datong, and make a siege posture, so that Tongling reinforcements could rush faster, and the military situation was reported to Pingchuan City, about three o'clock in the night, taking advantage of the dead of night, the drums suddenly rumbled outside Pingchuan City, and the torches were shining, which woke everyone in the city up, even Li Zijian was not very relieved, and personally climbed to the top of the city, he looked at the situation, thought that it was a tired tactic that he had used, so he ordered all his troops to defend the city, no matter what the officers and soldiers did, as long as they did not attack the city, they would not be able to hold out.