Chapter 578: Expedition (Second Shift)
The ministers who participated in the Zichen Hall court meeting that day were all scolded by the saint, of course, the saint meant to scold those feudal towns, and the ministers attending the meeting were the pond fish who were affected.
Regarding the mood of the saint, Fu Cunshen can naturally understand that most of these feudal towns will pick at a critical time. didn't say that he wanted to take refuge in Zhu Wen, and he didn't plan to help the imperial court.
In the end, except for a few feudal towns in the east, only Lingwu, Xia Sui and Shaanzhou agreed to send troops.
Lingwu Jiedu made Sun Kuan a person who was loyal to the imperial court, and it was not surprising to send troops at this time; Xia Sui now sits in two towns, and outside the shock, Li Sigong's brother Li Sijian has become a squire in the military department, and it is reasonable to send troops.
As for Shaanzhou, no one paid attention to it, because in the previous battle with Heyang, Shaanzhou suffered heavy losses, and only 2,000 cavalry were sent this time.
Compared with Lingwu sending 10,000 troops, Xia Sui and Tiande jointly sent 20,000 troops, which is a bit small, but no one said it.
In the end, the imperial court took Liu Kui as the commander of the camp in the north of Bianzhou, and commanded the right Shence army, the left Yulin army, the left Shenwu army, 10,000 Hedong soldiers and 20,000 Xia Sui and Tiande coalition armies, a total of 100,000 troops.
With Li Hong as the commander of the camp in the west of Bianzhou, he commanded the left and right Tiance Army, the Zuo Shenwei Army, the Shenji Battalion, the Guannei Dao and Jingzhaofu Prefecture Soldiers, and the Shaanzhou Soldiers, totaling more than 110,000 people.
With Li Zhen as the commander of the camp in the south of Bianzhou, he commanded the Right Shenwu Army, the Right Yulin Army, the Shannan Dongdao and Jingnan Prefecture soldiers, totaling more than 60,000 people.
With Cui Anqian as the commander of the eastern camp, he commanded the soldiers and horses of the four towns of the Pinglu Army, the Tianping Army, the Taining Army, and the Henghai Navy.
In addition, Zheng Congyan was appointed as the commander of the four-sided camp in Bianzhou, and Liu Qi was the deputy commander of the four-sided camp in Bianzhou, and the operation was commanded in a unified manner.
Of course, in the end, the reason why the imperial court officially ordered a crusade against Zhu Wen was that Zhu Wen ordered the Zhongwu Army to lead an army of 60,000 troops led by Ge Congzhou to unite with the Wuchang Army to make Du Hong's 15,000 soldiers and horses to attack Shannan Dongdao.
Tangzhou and Suizhou Assassin Shi successively opened the city and surrendered, and the two armies attacked Xiangzhou.
No one in the world expected that at this time, Xuanwu would actually take the initiative to attack, and he was looking for the weakest Shannan Dongdao.
Moreover, the Wuchang Army, which had previously played a crusade against Zhu Wen, made Du Hong actually unite with Zhu Wen at this time, which also surprised many people.
However, in this way, the Right Dragon Wu Army could only stay and stick to the Shannan East Road, and in order to ensure the safety of Xiangzhou, the imperial court also transferred the Right Yulin Army, which belonged to the western army, to the Shannan East Road.
"Commander Fu, what are your soldiers carrying? You can't take an iron rod in this war! ”
On the way from Tongguan to Shaanzhou, Li Cunxiao saw that many soldiers in the Shenji Battalion were carrying something like an iron rod in addition to the horizontal knives on their bodies, Li Cunxiao was a little curious and couldn't help but quip.
The above attaches great importance to the Shenji Battalion, so they let Zuo Shenwei Army be responsible for walking with the Shenji Battalion and ensuring the safety of the Shenji Battalion.
Li Cunxiao was naturally dissatisfied with this order, and found Li Hong to make trouble, thinking that Zuo Shenwei's army should kill the enemy on the battlefield, instead of protecting the Shenji battalion. The people of the Shenji Battalion all have weapons on their right hands and feet, why do they need the protection of their left Shenwei Army, isn't this an extra move?
Li Hong knew that Li Cunxiao was arrogant, so he directly dismissed him with the will of the Holy Lord.
For this reply, Li Cunxiao naturally didn't believe it, and made trouble with Zheng Congyan again, but the result was still this.
There is no way, Li Cunxiao can only admit it. However, during the march, Li Cunxiao was also very curious about the Shenji Battalion.
There is no way, who let a lot of things in the Shenji Battalion be covered with linen, and there are so many carts with them, which are obviously not food and grass.
General Li laughed, it was not an iron rod, but it was a weapon we used to kill the enemy, but Fu couldn't say too much to General Li. After it is displayed on the battlefield later, General Li will be able to see the power of this weapon. Fu Cunxian smiled, obviously not intending to explain the matter of the musket
"Commander Fu, you're bored." Seeing Fu Cunxian's perfunctory treatment of him like this, Li Cunxiao was a little unhappy.
But no matter how aggressive he was, Fu Cunxiao just didn't buy it, and after eating a few closed doors, Li Cunxiao didn't continue to ask, which was too embarrassing.
In fact, the army of the four routes, the army from the west, was the last to arrive at the battlefield, because they still had to open from Tongguan to Shaanzhou. And their first battlefield was not Xuanwu, but Luoyang.
In the east and south, the imperial court did not have an advantage, but was in a very passive state.
To the east, Zhu Wen did not pursue the defeat of Pang Shigu, but sent an additional army to Pang Shigu.
For a time, Pang Shigu had an army of 130,000 in his hands, and the army on the opposite side of the imperial court was the combined army of Taining, Tianping and Ziqing, but only 70,000.
As for the 20,000 troops of the Henghai Navy, they have withdrawn to Henghai to resist Wei Bo's army.
At the same time, Zhu Yougong led an army of 30,000 from Xuzhou to the north, intending to attack Yanzhou, the base camp of the Taining army.
In this way, Zhu Jin could not continue to reinforce the direction of Yunzhou, but went all out to guard against Zhu Yougong.
Don't talk about it in the south, Ge Congzhou is a famous general of Xuanwu, and the loyal army under his command is even more elite, at present, the right Yulin army has not yet arrived in Xiangzhou, and Li Zhen has the right dragon army in his hands.
Therefore, Li Zhen did not take the initiative to attack to meet the battle, but ordered the surrounding counties to relocate the people, take away all the grain, clear the wilderness, and have a protracted battle with Ge Congzhou.
Compared with the passivity of the east and south, the west has not yet participated in the war, and the north is a lively fight.
Although the right Shence army, the left Yulin army and the Xia Sui army in the northern camp have not been assembled, and only the cavalry of the right Shence army and the left Yulin army have arrived, and the Xia Sui and Tiande coalition forces have just set off from Suizhou, and it is estimated that it will be more than half a month before they reach the front line.
But in this case, Liu Kui still ordered an attack on Xiangzhou.
The Left Shenwu Army has a Heavenly Strategy, and of course, the Right Shence Army also has a Divine Cannon, but it is still on the way.
Xiangzhou and Cizhou sang a river, and the Zuo Shenwu army had a siege weapon like the Tiance cannon, and the defenders of Xiangzhou didn't even hold it for two days, so they obediently opened the city and surrendered.
In addition, the cavalry of the Right Shence Army and the Left Yulin Army also crossed the canal and entered the hinterland of Wei Bo, causing panic among Wei Bo and his superiors.
Luo Hongxin hurriedly sent an army to encircle and suppress these two cavalry, but as soon as they met, Wei Bo's army was killed by the cavalry of the forbidden army. Especially in the face of the cavalry of the Right Shence Army, Wei Bojun had no power to fight back.
Knowing that the imperial army was gathering towards Cizhou, Zhaozhou and other places, Luo Hongxin also panicked, and hurriedly ordered to withdraw the 30,000 troops attacking Henghai to Wei Bo.
I don't know what Luo Hongxin thinks, the 30,000 Wei Bo troops withdrew to Wei Bo, does he think Lu Yanwei will be so calculated?
At the beginning, the Henghai Navy did not attack Wei Bo, it was Wei Bo who attacked Henghai first, and occupied Texas in Henghai, which made Lu Yanwei lose a lot of troops.
Now that Wei Bojun has retreated, will Lu Yanwei be so good at giving up?
So Lu Yanwei didn't get any instructions from Cui Anqian, and directly led 30,000 horizontal navy to kill Wei Bo.
And what Luo Hongxin didn't expect was that the deadliest threat to Weibo did not come from external enemies, but from within.
You must know that since the Anshi Rebellion, there has been a popular saying.
The Son of Heaven in Chang'an, the tooth soldier of the Wei Mansion!
I want to talk about "Rebirth of Tang Zhongxing" with more like-minded people, and pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~