425, build high walls, accumulate grain, and slow down to become king (10)
(Some netizens protested that the writing was too detailed recently, and they hope to speed up the pace, so I'll speed it up a little.) )
Zheng Fei then gathered the people inside and outside the city as he did last time in Yuncheng County, and tried the profiteers, bullies and corrupt officials recognized by the people in Yunzhou City, the people were naturally angry, and the anger that had been suppressed in their hearts for a long time finally broke out. Such a scene was also staged in the counties under the jurisdiction of Yunzhou at the same time.
Subsequently, Zheng Fei officially gave a big gift to the people of Yunzhou, saying that when the war is over, the Heavenly Dao Army will not only protect the legitimate interests of all good people, but also redistribute the fertile land occupied by bullies and tyrants and corrupt officials to the poor people! Let the people of Yunzhou first live a life of "the cultivator has his land". And those who are willing to participate in the Heavenly Dao Army can enjoy the generous treatment of the Heavenly Dao Army, and at the same time, they can also get more good land!
The people of Yunzhou exploded in an instant, stimulated by a series of things, they were as enthusiastic as the people of Yuncheng County, and in just one hour, all the townships and counties in Yunzhou, including Yunzhou City, there were more than 3,000 Yunzhou people who wanted to join the Heavenly Dao Army.
After careful selection, the Heavenly Dao Army selected more than 1,500 people with physical conditions and age qualifications, first rewarded each person with two pieces of money as a sign of encouragement, and then distributed weapons to them, which was regarded as the formal establishment of the Yunzhou New Army, and then immediately sent people to conduct preliminary military order training for them, so that they could at least be a qualified "extra" in the upcoming battle.
Zheng Fei saw that everything was ready, so he officially divided the army into two routes, north and south, according to yesterday's plan.
The Northern Route Army consisted of Lu Zhishen's First Advance Corps, Lin Chong's First Battalion of the Cavalry Regiment, Pang Wanchun's Independent Battalion, plus 200 Yuncheng soldiers, 200 Runing soldiers, 300 Yunzhou surrendered troops, and 600 Yunzhou recruits, totaling more than 2,000 people, commanded by Zheng Fei himself, responsible for attacking Yanzhou, Bozhou, Qizhou and Gaotang Prefecture.
The Southern Route Army consisted of Chao Gai's 3rd Infantry Regiment, Deng Yuanjue's 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the Cavalry Regiment, plus 200 Yuncheng soldiers, 200 Runing soldiers, 300 Yunzhou surrendered troops, and 600 Yunzhou New Army.
Yunzhou City was still guarded by Yang Zhi and 100 Yuncheng soldiers and 300 Yunzhou recruits.
On the third day, the well-prepared armies of the two roads officially set off, each heading towards their respective goals!
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In the next battle, the Tiandao Army was even more overwhelming, and most of the state and county governments had already received the news that Yunzhou had fallen, and Jeju had almost been breached, and they were panicking, but when they heard that the Liangshan thieves were coming towards them, and they saw flying sand all over the sky, and there were crowds of people, and they couldn't count how many thieves there were.
Even Yunzhou, which had several times more troops than themselves, had been breached, how could they, who only had two or three hundred, four or five hundred state soldiers in their hands, dare to expect to be able to resist the attack of the Liangshan bandits? And they also heard that the Liangshan thieves and thieves were killing in Yunzhou City, and they targeted officials and local tyrants and profiteers who were not benevolent, and the killing was called a river of blood, which scared them even more, most of the state officials and county officials abandoned the city and fled, and the Tiandao army occupied the city without much effort, of course, a small number of states and counties chose to resist, but the result was naturally that the Tiandao army quickly ended the battle and broke the city.
It is worth mentioning that when attacking the city of Bozhou (Dongchang Mansion), all the officials of Bozhou abandoned the city and fled, only one general led 300 state soldiers to defend the city, this person is none other than Zhang Qing, the soldier and horse supervisor of Bozhou City.
It is said that Zheng Fei led the army to attack here, and when he heard that this person was still in the city and did not escape, he clapped his hands and laughed again and again, and then immediately ordered the army to stop attacking Bozhou City, only besiege but not attack, and deliberately hoarded grain and grass in a place not far from the city, and deliberately exposed flaws and only let a small group of troops guard the grain and grass.
Sure enough, Zhang Qing was fooled, he led the state soldiers to sneak out of Bozhou City at night to burn grain and grass, but as soon as they arrived at the place, they only heard the earth-shattering shouts and killings, and the ambush was everywhere, Zhang Qing was shocked to know that he had been tricked, and he wanted to retreat but saw that the retreat had been blocked by countless soldiers and horses, Zhang Qing had to lead his troops to break through and escape, but where could he escape the net that Zheng Fei had already laid out, and the two hundred subordinates were quickly killed and killed, and he was also caught by Lin Chong, Shi Jin and others and brought to Zheng Fei.
In the process of arresting him, Lin Chong, Shi Jin, Wu Song and others were accidentally injured by Zhang Qing's flying stones, and even Lu Zhishen was broken by Zhang Qing's stone. Zhang Qing was also like a dead ash thinking that he would definitely die, but unexpectedly, Zheng Fei not only did not kill Zhang Qing, but personally untied the rope for him, saying that he had heard the name of "no feather arrow" Zhang Qing earlier, and wanted to let Zhang Qing go back, Zhang Qing was moved, and took the initiative to surrender Zheng Fei, Zheng Fei was overjoyed, and then awarded Zhang Qing the position of battalion commander, and did not care that he was the newly surrendered identity, taking him to the left and right, Zhang Qing was even more moved, and felt that Zheng Fei was benevolent and kind, was more convinced of Zheng Fei, and since then Liangshan has one more general.
Zhang Qing also helped the Tiandao Army recruit his two deputy generals who stayed in Bozhou, "Huaxiang Tiger" Gong Wang and "Medium Arrow Tiger" Ding Desun, and helped the Tiandao army to take Bozhou without blood.
With the end of each battle, every time a new city is occupied, the number of the Heavenly Dao Army not only does not decrease, but rapidly expands, reaching a total of 20,000 people in the north and south!
Although most of the new recruits to the Heavenly Dao Army are ordinary people who have not even touched a knife, except for some descendants, they have no combat effectiveness on the battlefield at all, and even wait for a few days later, the Heavenly Dao Army has no weapons to issue to these recruits, and these recruits can only take out kitchen knives, flat poles, hoes, and even pick up a wooden stick and brick on the spot as a weapon, but they also play a very important role, you think, when twenty or thirty thousand people shouted the slogan that shook the sky and killed them, What a terrible scene it must have been for the pitiful two or three hundred state soldiers in every city!
In just seven days, the Heavenly Dao Army went from Qizhou in the northernmost part to Xuzhou in the south, from Puzhou in the westernmost part to Yanzhou in the east, with Liangshanbo as the center, and laid a big territory, occupying almost half of the east and west roads of Beijing!
While the Heavenly Dao Army gained a large area of territory and a large number of people, it also swept away the government treasury and grain depots of all states and counties, and confiscated all the properties of all the corrupt officials, profiteers and bullies who were punished, especially in Gaotang Prefecture, and actually found nearly one million Guan family wealth in the cheap mansion, it is conceivable how terrifying it has been!
At the same time, the raging bandits of Liangshan in various states also flew like snowflakes to Bianliang .......
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