Chapter 116: The Ming Army Strikes
Zhengtai County and County Office, Su Jiakang sat at the top, and said aloud to more than ten civil and military officials below:
"Since last year, Lear must coerce the ignorant foolish people to rebel in Lijia Village, it has been a year, during which our Great Tomorrow Army has been fighting successively, first Ke Lijia Village beheaded the puppet emperor Li Erbi, and then successively hit the puppet Tang Dynasty, killing more than 1,000 thieves, but the puppet Tang and other anti-thieves supported Li Xuan, the son of Li Erbi, to continue to resist, and the foolish people were hidden in the mountains for thousands of years.
During the period, the puppet Tang Dynasty rebels plagued the people, and successively broke through many existences to the point that the lives were ruined, and even Fengjiazhuang was also looted, and the gentry and people were terrified, and such anti-thieves were not enough to anger the people! ”
"In order to level the Li thief, this official has played many times, and the new Lord Song of the Mansion last year also sent a document to my Zhengtai County many times, asking us to gather the military and civilians to wipe out the pseudo-Tang Li thief in one fell swoop, and return the 100,000 people of Zhengtai to a Lang Lang Qiankun!"
Immediately, he looked around at the many civil and military officials below, and then said: "Today, this official summoned you to come here to discuss how to eliminate this group of bold anti-thieves!" ”
At this time, among the several generals sitting on the seat on the right-hand side, the one sitting on the upper right was about fifty years old, and the person wearing the official robe of the five-grade military attache immediately said loudly: "What Lord Su said is extremely true, the pseudo-Tang Dynasty must be exterminated, otherwise the face of the court will not exist, the safety of the people will not exist, how can I avenge the great revenge of the Lord Zeng of Tong'an Qianhu?" ”
"The six hundred elite soldiers of my Tong'an Thousand Households have been prepared, just wait for your order, Master Su, and the six hundred children of my Tong'an Thousand Households will enter the mountains to suppress the thieves!"
Su Jiakang glanced at Diao Leixun, the new Qianhu of Tong'an Qianhu, and showed a look of satisfaction, this Diao Qianhu was originally a deputy Qianhu of Tong'an Qianhu, and last winter he also followed Su Jiakang and Zeng Ziyun into the mountains to encircle and suppress the bandits in Huangzhushan.
At that time, when he was ambushed in Luohu Valley, he was the one who protected Su Jiakang and escaped, which can be regarded as a 'escort' meritorious service, and later when Su Jiakang wrote the folds, he put all the responsibility for the defeat on Zeng Ziyun's head, and Diao Leixun turned into a hero who was fierce and held his position until Su Jiakang successfully rescued.
Then, he was promoted!
was promoted from a deputy thousand households to a positive thousand households, and the official rank also became a positive five products, becoming the new positive thousand households of Tong'an Thousand Households.
With these experiences, he and Su Jiakang are natural allies, especially in the battle of the early fall of Tiger Valley, the two of them have to unify their voices, otherwise the truth will be exposed, Su Jiakang will be finished, and he Diao Leixun will also be finished!
After Diao Leixun finished speaking, a military general who was also a positive fifth grade sitting below him also spoke: "The pseudo-Tang anti-thieves naturally want to be exterminated, otherwise we wouldn't be here today in a few days, but now we haven't found the location of Huangzhushan now, I'm afraid it's not a small risk to rush into the mountain, why don't you slow down and send someone to find out Huangzhushan first?" ”
When this person spoke, several people, including Su Jiakang, looked at him, especially Su Jiakang, and a trace of displeasure flashed on his face, but he did not have a seizure, because this person was not from their Zhengtai County, but Wang Zhisi, the fairy of the neighboring county.
This time, he brought the fairy Shi Qianhu to Zhengtai County to participate in the war, but it was not Su Jiakang's power that was transferred by a paper order, but the master Song Zhiwen of Xingquan Mansion personally wrote a letter, so he invited this fairy Shi Qianhu to Zhengtai County.
If he really annoyed this Qiu Ba, Wang Zhixian raised his feet and left, Su Jiakang was helpless, after all, he was not a governor, strictly speaking, he had no power to mobilize the army, and people just looked at Song Zhiwen's face, so they brought people over to fight.
This time, in addition to the 500 officers and soldiers of the Tong'an Thousand Households and the 400 Fairy Shi Thousand Households, Su Jiakang also had about 100 soldiers from the internal inspection department of Zhengtai County, 500 county warriors recruited by Su Jiakang himself from the villages and towns under Zhengtai County, and 200 people from the army chief.
In addition, the two hundred soldiers of Fucheng sent by Song Zhiwen, the lord of Fuzun, and brought over by Song Zhiwen's Master Wu, were led by a deputy Qianhu.
In this way, the total number of troops used to encircle and suppress the puppet Tang anti-thieves will exceed 2,000 people!
It's just that the regular army that can fight inside, the two thousand households are actually not the nine hundred people of the two thousand households, let alone those county warriors, but the more than 200 soldiers in the city brought by Master Wu, and these two hundred or so people are not those military households of the traditional guards, but recruits!
At the end of the spring ploughing, the two thousand people were already assembled in Zhengtai County and Longhua Town.
With so many troops, Su Jiakang's confidence increased greatly, and he secretly swore in his heart that this time he would never repeat the mistakes of the past and be defeated, and he would definitely flatten Huangzhushan and capture the puppet emperor Li Xuan alive.
After Wang Zhi sighed, the middle-aged elegant scribe sitting opposite him spoke: "Lord Wang, don't worry, find out the location of Huangzhu Mountain, Wu has already had a belly case, and at that time, it will be ten days at most, or three or five days at least, and he will definitely be able to find out that Huangzhu Mountain!" ”
Although this middle-aged scribe was not wearing official robes, he sat in the second position on the left, which shows that his status was not low.
Therefore, this person is Wu Junzhi, the confidant of Song Zhiwen, the prefect of Xingquan Prefecture, although he has no authority to come to Zhengtai County from an official point of view, he is here on behalf of Song Zhiwen, the prefect of Xingquan Prefecture, so even Su Jiakang has to give face to this person.
Not to mention, the Fucheng he brought over recruited more than 200 soldiers, which was the backbone of this operation.
Since Wu Junzhi said that there was a way to find the location of Huangzhu Mountain, then the others naturally would not have an opinion, and after discussing it for more than two hours, everyone dispersed one after another.
Early the next morning, Zhengtai County was very lively, a large number of Ming Army, County Yong and other people went out of the city one after another from the small city gate, including not only Diao Leixun, Wang Zhisi, these generals, but also Su Jiakang, Wu Junzhi is also among them.
Like last time, this time he went into the mountains to clear out the pseudo-Tang anti-thieves, Su Jiakang still went into battle in person, not because he likes to fight, but on the one hand, it is to grab credit, and on the other hand, if there is no coordination of him, a civil official from a Jinshi, don't expect the following thousands of households and deputy thousands of households to work together.
Su Jiakang set off from Zhengtai County with his men and horses, and when he passed by the rear base camp of Longhua Town, Su Jiakang left two hundred counties to be stationed outside this place to prevent accidents in Longhua Town, a logistics station that has a large amount of grain and grass.
And the others were brought into the mountains by Su Jiakang.
When Su Jiakang led a large number of men and horses into the mountains with great momentum, Li Xuan, who was deep in the mountains, also learned the news of the coming of the Ming army from the spies who trotted all the way back to report the news!
The moment he heard the news, Li Xuan's eyes instantly turned black, and he felt dizzy, Rao is he had already been mentally prepared, and he had been working hard to resist the upcoming Ming army in the past few months, but when he really heard that the Ming army was marching into the mountains in a big way, and the strength reached two thousand people, he still couldn't be calm.
That's 2,000 people, how many people are there in the Tang Dynasty? The standing army has less than 350 people, and the guards have more than 80 people, and this strength is only 430 people.
And these four hundred and thirty people have basically squeezed out the potential of the more than 2,000 people of the Tang Dynasty, even if they are mobilized again, and pull out the old and weak men who can barely carry knives and guns, this number is at most six or seven hundred.
And it is basically impossible for such a small number of people to defeat the Ming army of more than 2,000 people!
In Li Xuan's mind now, there are only three big characters and a question mark: What should I do?