Outside Jinling City, Li Xiaofei met the masters with all the wine, and the Taiji Hall Zhu Yaoshi and the ministers stared at the map and paid attention to the northern battle situation.

He Wuji and Wang Tiezhu had already arrived in Bozhou with 200,000 horses, but they had to be stationed because of heavy snowfall. Wu Zhenchang also took the 230,000 people requisitioned to Liyang and stationed there.

With more than 400,000 troops, every extra day of stay requires an extra day of military food and grass, Zhu Yaoshi and Song Huafu are worried day and night in Jinling, looking forward to He Wuji and their quick victory.

Twelve edicts were sent to the northwest and north respectively, urging He Wuji, Wang Tiezhu, and Wu Zhenchang to march into the army.

He Wuji Wang Tiezhu, who was connected to the twelve edicts, didn't want to break through quickly and enter the pass, but at this time, the weather was cold, and nearly half of the 200,000 troops were southerners, who were not used to the severe cold in the north. Many of the soldiers wore thin shirts and capes, and had to hide in their tents to keep warm. Zhu Yaoshi's envoy kept threatening the two commanders: "Two marshals, have you forgotten about being impeached by civil officials in the Taiji Palace?" It is said that the military generals will fight and the civil generals will make peace, but how come this dynasty is that the civil ministers are going to fight, and the military generals are going to peace? ”

He Wuji smiled bitterly: "How do you know that those who shout in the court to start a war and fight, the sword will not cut at them, let alone their turn to go to the battlefield, and they will have merit in winning the battle, and defeat the sin in us." And they will never buy all the military food and grass for us, and if we change to an envoy to fight this battle, I am afraid that we will not shout for war! ”

The messenger shook his head: "I am acting on orders, and I will not comment on what the two marshals say, but if you disobey the holy decree, you will be killed!" The two marshals have to think about their own future, and besides, how can there be immortals in war! ”

Wang Tiezhu's teeth were gritted, but he still tried his best to hold back: "The last general will obey the order!" Marshal He, send troops, it's better to die in battle than to die under your own sword! ”

"Send troops! Let's talk about Suiyang first! He Wuji also reluctantly ordered to go west.

Wang Tiezhu persuaded He Wuji: "Brother He, you take 150,000 horses to stay in Bozhou as backup, and I will take 50,000 horses to attack!" He Wuji knew that Wang Tiezhu didn't want more people to freeze to death in the wild, so he nodded tearfully: "Okay, Brother Wang Xian, you have to take care of yourself this time!" ”

The snow was falling, and those who stayed behind took off their only cloaks and gave them to the soldiers who went out on the expedition, but many of them still had straw sandals under their feet, and better of all, they were wrapped in layers of hare fur.

As soon as you step on it, the toe prints in the snow are clearly visible, and the queue heading west is densely packed with footprints. Wang Tiezhu couldn't bear to run out with 50,000 horses and get cold, so he asked the infantry to slow down, and he took 2,000 cavalry to Suiyang to gallop!

Wang Tiezhu took the lead, and he knew that the only opportunity was to break into the city while the enemy army was unprepared, otherwise the enemy army would be on guard and only need to pour water on the city wall to block his army.

The wind blew up all the snow on the ground and stirred it into the air, and blew it into the helmets of the cavalrymen, turning it into ice water around their necks, and covering the armor of many with snowflakes.

The wind was blowing more and more tightly, the horses were neighing and running harder, and the snowflakes flew backwards, and Wang Tiezhu's eyes were only staring ahead, trying to put everything into his eyes.

Rushed to Suiyang City, the city gate was wide open, and there were several cars dragging charcoal and firewood at the city gate.

Wang Tiezhu rushed in with a double hammer, and smashed several soldiers defending the city with a collision. The soldiers behind him also rushed in with a roar, rubbing their hands in the horse's neck a few times before drawing their swords.

Yu Guo in Suiyang City only sent 500 soldiers and horses, and the remaining 8,000 garrisons were all from the local families in Suiyang.

Suiyang City was taken, Wang Tiezhu rushed into the treasury with 2,000 men and horses, and the first thing he did was to search for clothes, and when he saw that there were nearly 10,000 pieces of thick clothes made of fur mixed with silk cloth to keep out the cold, they all cried.

After changing clothes, he went to take over the defense of the entire city. There was already a group of people waiting on the edge of the government office in the heavy snow, dragging pigs, cattle and sheep in a cart to reward Wang Tiezhu.

Wang Tiezhu greeted everyone, accepted these pigs, cattle and sheep, and promised not to plunder in the city, so that everyone was willing to leave.

Wang Tiezhu succeeded in the raid on Suiyang, and the news was transmitted back to Bozhou, He Wuji breathed a sigh of relief: "There is finally good news!" ”

"Marshal He, I'm afraid this is not a good thing. The victory was too easy, and the enemy army did not have major losses, and the people of the court would definitely urge us to march again, in case we won first and then lost, it would be even more difficult to explain! "Joining the army is worrying on the sidelines

"You're right, but now you can only wait for the court to make an order! At present, we have to send someone to Liu Jian in the west to buy warm clothes, otherwise our remaining army will not even be able to get out of the city!" He Wou-Ki's soothing mood turned gloomy again.

The 2,000 people led by Wang Tiezhu himself received clothes, wine and meat, and naturally they would not loot, but the more than 40,000 people who arrived one after another began to eat clothes and meat. Later, they could only drink bone broth and spend the money in the treasury to buy cloth. The last 20,000 people could not even see the bones and threads, and they had to eat and clothe to survive.

What to do? With a knife and a gun in your hand, grab it!

In Suiyang City, out-of-control soldiers broke into people's houses everywhere, stripped off people's clothes, put them on themselves, and looted the food at home. In this process, it is inevitable to kill people and burn houses. Suddenly, there was chaos in Suiyang City.

Wang Tiezhu at first brought his own soldiers to suppress it, but to no avail, the thousands of people who had laid down their weapons during the siege of the city now took up arms and fought desperately with Wang Tiezhu's army.

Suiyang City, a bloody rain, smoke and fire everywhere, crying and shouting endlessly.

The resistance of the people in the city was no match for Wang Tiezhu's tens of thousands of horses, and when the fireworks were extinguished and the killing stopped, the weather cleared, and the dazzling sun shone on the corpses and ruins all over the ground.

Wang Tiezhu stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyes, peeled off a layer of blood scabs, and looked at the remaining more than 30,000 soldiers: "There can't be a next time for such a thing!" If you hurt heaven and reason, you will definitely be punished in the future! ”

The snow melted, diluting the blood and slowly spreading it out. Before it completely disappeared, it was covered with new ice and snow, and it was another round of heavy snowfall, and Wang Tiezhu had to take them to guard the dilapidated Suiyang.

Zhu Yaoshi's edict really came again, Wang Tiezhu won the first battle and defeated Suiyang, Jinling Chaozhong was very happy, and they all thought that the recovery of Luoyang and Chang'an was just around the corner, so they issued another edict while rewarding Wang Tiezhu and ordering He Wuji's whole army to attack and recover Guanzhong.

He Wuji did not speak for a long time after receiving the edict, and the messenger reminded him of his gratitude, and He Wuji asked: "When will the warm clothes of the more than 100,000 people here be delivered?" ”

"I am only responsible for passing on the decree, and the marshal of this quartermaster should ask Du Zhishangshu!" The messenger responded to him coldly

"The last general obeys the order, and the whole army will go to battle in three days!"

After He Wuji sent the envoy away, he went to the battalions to see his soldiers, and by this time thousands of people had already died, and thousands more had fled. Left and right persuaded He Wuji to investigate the guilt of the generals and captains below, He Wuji waved his hand: "That's it, I'm about to go to the battlefield, no need!" ”

The battle was won in the west, and Wu Zhenchang of Liyang could not hold it back, and was also ready to urge the army to go north, but the guards and officials of Liyang tried their best to dissuade him.

"Wu Shangshu, the combat power of the Mobei army is several times greater than that of our army, and I am used to this ice and snow, so I am afraid of being disadvantageous if I rush into battle!"

"Lord Wu, there are trenches everywhere outside this Liyang City, our army wants to go north, we need to fill in these trenches, and now it is covered with ice and snow, and we will not be able to do it until after the spring of next year!"

"Lord Wu, at this time, it is not right for the troops to enter the army, and these soldiers from Huaibei are not familiar with the terrain of Hebei, and the time and place are not in me! In addition, the north has changed the country to the emperor, and the morale is booming, and the people are not in me! ”

There were waves of people who dissuaded Wu Zhenchang, and the reasons were all very sufficient. But Wu Zhenchang is a stubborn person, and what he believes will not change. What's more, Pharmacist Zhu's edict arrived again, and Wu Zhenchang passed the edict to everyone to watch.

"Will be outside, the king's order will not be affected! Lord Wu, although the emperor is urging him, it is still not suitable to enter the army at this time! The crowd continued to dissuade Wu Zhenchang

Wu Zhenchang was also curious about why these people even dared to disobey the emperor's orders: "Everyone, please forgive Wu for the crime of resisting the decree, Wu can't afford it, you don't want to enter the army, just guard Liyang!" I led these 200,000 people north! ”

Everyone was dejected: "May Lord Wu be victorious!" ”

Where everyone is afraid that Yu Guo's army is strong, they are all worried that Wu Zhenchang will be able to smuggle with Ju Wuzhi in the future.

In order to maintain the deep friendship with Ju Wuzhi for more than a year, the officials in Liyang City drew Wu Zhenchang's marching route and troop deployment into a map and sent it to Ju Wuzhi.

Ju Wuzhi got the atlas, but put it aside and sent the messenger away.

It's not that Ju Wuzhi is confident, but he thinks that this is just the group of officials in Liyang who deliberately threatened him in order to get more benefits: "What 200,000 troops, not even cavalry, but a group of rabble, our Dayu country's iron cavalry rushed over and crushed them!" ”

Left and right reminded Ju Wuzhi that he should report back to the royal court, and Ju Wuzhi scolded: "We have reported that our army has surrounded Liyang for more than a year, and now you have reported 200,000 troops to the royal court, do you want the emperor to come up and investigate my dereliction of duty?" ”

The left and right didn't dare to say more, so they retreated. Ju Wuzhi saw the heavy snow outside the camp tent, and laughed again: "In this kind of weather, even we don't want to fight, let alone those southern barbarians?" Ordered the battalions to keep an eye on the movement of Liyang City, and if they dare to come, we will send out cavalry to break through them! ”

Wu Zhenchang is a nerd and has never fought, but he has several advantages, one is that he rushes to the front. The second is that he really did what he thought of, in order to deal with the cavalry of Yu State, he used a stupid method to let 10,000 soldiers carry the door panels and the horses made of wood to move slowly towards the camp tent.

By the time the soldiers found out, the tens of thousands of people brought out by Wu Zhenchang were already less than three miles away from them.

Ju Wuzhi was calm, and personally led the most elite cavalry under his command to rush to the front of the formation and began to draw the bow and fire a volley, and after a few rounds of arrow rain, most of the arrows were nailed to the door panel. When the rush was closer, he found that there were all rejected horses in front of him, so he had to rein in his horse and prepare to turn around.

Wu Zhenchang took the lead in throwing spears, and the army behind him all threw their spears at the cavalry who were in vain. Ju Wuzhi couldn't dodge, and was pierced by a few spears and fell off his horse, and the remaining dozens of cavalry also fled north.

Poor Ju Wuzhi is also a battle-hardened general, and he was killed on the spot by a nerd who had never led a soldier in a battle. What's even worse is that someone sent out information in advance!

Ju Wuzhi was killed, and the camp of Yu Guo outside Liyang City was also in chaos, and they fled one after another, Wu Zhenchang covered up with the aftermath of the victory, and won a complete victory.

Wu Zhenchang occupied Ju Wuzhi's camp, and searched out the letters and picture books exchanged between the officials of Liyang City and Ju Wuzhi from the camp, and stood on the spot.