Chapter 11: The famous general Li Yan
I wanted to stimulate Liu Cong to vent his anger for the people in Zigui County, but I didn't want Liu Cong not to eat this set, and he also drew a Tao, if he didn't go down, he was afraid that he would be ridiculed. Hit it!
If these two sons can outperform themselves in martial arts, you can be regarded as a general, then push the boat down the river and let the officers and soldiers enter the city.
Li Yan didn't care about everyone's dissuasion, and rode out of the city gate to the outside of the city, looking Liu Cong up and down: "It's not that Li is aggressive, it's just that he is entrusted by the people of Zigui, and I hope that Lord Duwei will go back to General Yuming and send a capable person to guard Zigui!" ”
"There's a lot of nonsense, if you don't fight, if you don't fight, you will ask someone to open the door!" Liu Cong was determined to make Li Yan submit, so naturally he would not miss the opportunity.
"Then Li is offended!"
"Let the horses come!"
The two were no longer polite, and they fought together. At first, the two did not use their strength, in Li Yan's opinion, Liu Cong is not a thief or an enemy, but the second son of Liu Biao, the lord of Jingzhou, in case he hurts this, he can't bear it. The mentality is similar to that of Gan Ning at the beginning.
Liu Cong is here to collect Li Yan, so naturally there is no need to kill him as soon as he comes up. How can you surrender when you cut someone?
Gradually, Li Yan found that the situation was wrong, this Liu Cong seemed to be weak, and he seemed to be not bad. Obviously, there is still hidden strength, as long as every time you play harder, the other party will immediately respond. Gan Ning and Wei Yan, who were watching the battle later, were also very nervous at first, for fear that Liu Cong would have an accident, so they were ready to go up to help. But later, they found that their worries were unnecessary.
Looking at the people on the battlefield again, Liu Cong and Li Yan, before they knew it, the two sides had fought for more than 20 years, and anyone who knew a little bit of martial arts inside and outside the field could see that Li Yan was already at a disadvantage.
Li Yan is sweating profusely, but Liu Cong is seeing the move, it's not that Liu Cong is not serious, he is looking for a vacancy.
Soon he got his wish, Li Yan stabbed forward with a move, and tried to suppress Liu Cong with all his strength. Liu Cong didn't answer, his body flashed, dodged the gun, at this time Li Yan's body had been seriously leaning forward, if Liu Cong was a hard connection, he would definitely flash back, the distance between the two was still about the same, but Liu Cong flashed to the side, and after dodging, he stepped forward, and grabbed the two horses when they staggered, and Li Yan's whole person was actually pulled to Liu Cong's horse.
"Is Captain Bendu's skills enough to guard Zigui?" Liu Cong threw away the weapon in his hand and pressed Li Yan on the horse's back with both hands.
"Liu Duwei is very skilled, Li admits defeat."
Now that he had admitted defeat, Liu Cong put Li Yan down, beckoned to Gan Ning and Wei Yan behind him, and turned over and dismounted.
Gan Ning and Wei Yan hurriedly came over to tie up Li Yan, but Liu Cong waved his hand and signaled that he didn't need to.
That Li Yan is not an unknown person, and hurriedly knelt on the ground, "The grass people have eyes and don't know Mount Tai, and I hope Lord Duwei will forgive me." ”
"Get up and speak, and stand between you and the people of the city, and you are not at fault."
"Thank you, sir!"
"Hurry up and open the city gates, Captain Pontus still has something to do!" Liu Cong wanted to sit down with Li Yan and drink a little wine to exchange feelings slowly, but there were still hundreds of wounded soldiers and prisoners on the outskirts of Yiling City, and more than 300 mountain bandits were captured in the first battle just now.
"No!" Li Yan was no longer reserved, and waved his hand towards the city wall, and the city gate immediately opened from the inside.
"Order all soldiers not to harass the people, violators will be beheaded!" Liu Cong deliberately raised his voice, half of it was for his subordinates, and half for Li Yan.
"No!"
Everyone turned over and entered, and under the leadership of Li Yan, Liu Cong, Wei Yan, and Gan Ning went straight to the county office. When I arrived at the county office, there was no damage to the yamen, and it seemed that the battle here was not fierce, but the damage to the city wall was really puzzling.
"Li Yan, tell me what happened these days?"
"No!"
Li Yan forced the mountain bandits into Zigui County in 1510, and the county ordered to organize resistance until Zigui City was broken, and the mountain bandits went out, and he took the opportunity to control the county seat.
As Liu Cong expected, there were originally 500 county soldiers in Zigui County, but the county order was negligent in taking precautions, and the city wall had already been tampered with, and when the two sides went to war, more than 100 of the 500 county soldiers took refuge in the mountain bandits.
It is indeed a bit wronged, after these mountain bandits entered the city, they immediately ordered the major wealthy clans to hand over their private soldiers to strengthen their ranks. Since these mountain bandits had mastered the situation in the city in advance, these big clans did not dare to hide their secrets, and handed over the number of people according to the mountain bandits' requirements. The mountain bandits began to loot in the county seat, but fortunately, the county soldiers rescued in time, and the mountain bandits had to suspend the raid and go out of the city to meet the enemy.
This also gave Li Yan and others a chance, because of the hatred of the mountain bandits, several big clans also worked together, organized almost all the remaining family members to control the mountain bandits in the city in one fell swoop, originally thought that Wu Ju and others would quickly defeat the mountain bandits, but I didn't expect the news to come yesterday, the county soldiers were actually defeated and fled, Li Yan and others suddenly felt empty. It is almost impossible for 300 people to carry 2,000 mountain bandits.
All the heads of the big clans looked at Li Yan with blank eyes, Li Yan just smiled bitterly, let him deal with two or three hundred mountain bandits, two or three thousand, just kidding, this city wall is broken, it must be unsupportable.
In the afternoon of this day, when they saw that the mountain bandits had returned, everyone hurriedly went up to the city wall to prepare for the battle.
It's just that only 500 people came this time, and Li Yan thought that Liu Cong's troops were mountain bandits at first, and it wasn't until the mountain bandits disarmed and surrendered that everyone understood that they were reinforcements from officers and soldiers. Even so, Li Yan and the others still complained, after all, many families suffered heavy losses, so they refused to open the door to welcome reinforcements.
When Liu Cong sat down in the top position of the county government, Li Yan looked at Gan Ning and the others to know how abrupt he was.
Wei Yan and Gan Ning are only afraid that they will not be able to resist any one of them, and those officers and soldiers, just now they have seen it, and it took a few minutes to solve the battle against more than 500 mountain bandits, although most of them surrendered, but it just shows that these mountain bandits are afraid of officers and soldiers. It must have been a fight before.
Coupled with the fact that he was captured by Liu Congsheng, Li Yan would be a little unable to wipe off his face, he knew that if he changed to a short-tempered general, he would inevitably be punished, and even a few military sticks would be for sure.
This Liu Cong has been pestering him to ask since he entered the city, as if he had forgotten the paragraph just now. If it weren't for Gan Ning and Wei Yan glaring at each other angrily, Li Yan would definitely think that he was hallucinating.
"Wei Yan, you lead your subordinates to maintain law and order in the city, and Gan Ning, you lead your subordinates to settle the wounded soldiers and prisoners."
"No!" The two led the troops away.
"Li Yan, you did a good job! Being able to take advantage of the mountain bandits to control the county town and minimize the losses of the people in the city, Captain Pontus appreciates your approach. ”
"Lord Duwei Xie, these are all things that grass people should do."
"Go and gather people to find the old officials who were previously in Zigui County for Lieutenant Bendu, I have something to order."
"No!" Li Yan was relieved to see that Liu Cong had no heart to deal with him for the time being.
Except for the county commander and the county lieutenant who were killed by mountain bandits, most of the others returned to their posts after Li Yan took control of the county seat, and after a while, all the big and small officials arrived. Liu Cong sent people to call Gan Ning and Wei Yan.
"Gan Ning, after your department settles the prisoners in the city, immediately rush to Yiling and bring Huang Quan and the others here!"
"Adult ......"
"Don't ask so much, hurry up." Liu Cong knew why Gan Ning hesitated, it is said that Huang Quan and others were closer to Yiling, but Liu Cong had his own ideas. These captives were captured by themselves, and if they entered Yiling County, they would be handed over to Wu Ju for disposal.
Although Wu Ju may not look down on these captives, for Liu Cong, who wants to make a career, these are a big fat meat. Besides, there are bandits in this Zigui county, and it is difficult to ensure that there is no Yiling.
"Wei Yan, you temporarily serve as the county lieutenant of Zigui, wait for Huang Quan and the others to return, carefully check the prisoners, and find some reliable ones to enrich the songs."
"No!"
"Ladies and gentlemen, in view of the fact that the Zigui County Commander was killed, and the Zigui County has just suffered a great disaster, someone must preside over the overall situation, so Bendu Wei temporarily made the decision for his father and ordered Li Yan to temporarily handle all matters in the county on behalf of the county order, do you have any opinions?"
"Nope!" Liu Cong said that he was asking for everyone's opinions, but in fact, even the blind could see it, which was polite. Liu Cong himself naturally has no right to appoint a county commander, but now that he has just experienced the war, he really needs someone to take care of things, not to mention who Liu Cong is, Liu Biao's second son.