Chapter 85: Yang Xingqian's Defeat (2) (2nd Update)
"General, Shuzhou Assassin Sun Chen sent someone to deliver a letter, saying that the rebels have surrounded Tanglong County, and the Assassin Mansion has insufficient troops, and I hope we will send troops to support."
In the east of Dayi County, at the junction with Shuzhou, Yang Xingqian was drinking and having fun with his subordinates in the army, and there was a woman in his arms, who seemed to be a dusty woman. However, most of these women looked reluctant, but they didn't dare to resist, and they could let the big hands of those rough men rub oil on their bodies. In the center of the tent, there were also several bewitching women in scantily clad clothes who were dancing.
No matter how you look at it, this is not like a court army that is fighting, but like a rabble.
Yang Xingqian, who was on the rise, said dissatisfiedly, "What do you support? The rebels are all in front of us, there are rebels in Tanglong, and it is not a climate, let Sun Chen solve it by himself, and the big thing will come to us. ”
"General, wouldn't this be inappropriate? After all, Sun Chen is the assassin of Shuzhou, the Sun family still has some influence in Xichuan, and Sun Chen's eldest brother Sun Ye is the chief of King Shou's mansion and the future father-in-law of King Shou. A general next to him let go of the woman in his hand and hesitated.
"Shouwang? A child who hasn't grown all his hair still wants to fight with the festival marshal and the prince. It won't take long for King Shou to know the consequences of him offending Jieshuai and Lord Guogong, and then Sun Ye and Sun Chen will be cleaned up together. Yang Xingqian said nonchalantly.
"General, what you said is true?"
The people present were Chen Jingxuan's cronies, most of them followed Chen Jingxuan from the Shence Army, and they were the soldiers of the Jiedu Envoy before, after the formation of the Xichuan Army, these cronies held important positions in various positions and became the key to Chen Jingxuan's control of the Xichuan Army. Of course, there are also some people who were originally local generals, and later took refuge in Chen Jingxuan.
However, they still heard about the grievances between their own Jieshuai and Shouwang. However, that was last year, and this year it was not so prominent, but Yang Fugong, Zheng Jin, Xiao Yu and others have been fighting against Tian Lingzi and Chen Jingxuan in the court, while Shouwang is relatively low-key.
"Naturally, it's true, you've seen anyone who offended Lord Guogong and could still die a good death, even if it was King Shou." Yang Xingqian, as Chen Jingxuan's confidant, naturally did not take King Shou in his eyes.
When everyone thought about it, there were indeed few people who offended Tian Lingzi, and they were relieved, and they didn't pay attention to Sun Chen's plea for help, but continued to have fun.
However, just when everyone's interest was high, the rebels of Dayi were dispatched, and the scale was not small, estimated to be tens of thousands, including hundreds of cavalry.
Seeing this scale, although Yang Xingqian and others were not happy, they had to pay attention to it. They had fought with the rebels before, although the rebels were outnumbered, but they were a rabble, but even so, Yang Xingqian did not get a bargain in the hands of the rebels, but lost nearly a thousand soldiers.
Of course, the rebels also lost more than 2,000, but the two sides confronted each other because of this, and no one could help anyone.
In this case, Yang Xingqian moved his mind under the advice of the people below. If you don't have military merit, why should your superiors promote you?
Therefore, Yang Xingqian sent troops to slaughter several remote villages and towns nearby, and then blamed the rebels, and reported the heads of the people slaughtered by these villages and towns as the heads of the rebels. Originally, he only had one or two thousand gains, but soon became seven or eight thousand gains, and in his opinion, he would be able to be promoted a few levels if he went back without accident, and maybe he could be released as a defensive envoy, assassin or something.
With 'military merit', he naturally didn't want to take the initiative to fight the rebels. But he didn't look for the rebels, but the rebels found him, and the six or seven thousand elite imperial army was waiting on the side, and it was impossible for him to sleep well.
However, although there are many troops under Qian Neng, most of them are farmers who have just taken up arms, and even many people have no weapons, so they have to hoes, wooden sticks or something, and it is difficult to defeat Yang Xingqian's army, so at this time, someone gave Qian Neng an idea.
Of course, it was Guo Qi who came up with the idea, but at this time, Guo Qi was fighting several counties below Yazhou, so naturally he didn't have time to help Qianneng. However, he until, the relationship between him and Qianneng is the relationship between lips and teeth, and he naturally understands the truth of cold lips and teeth, so he gave Qianneng a way to break the enemy.
Just as Yang Xingqian's troops were fighting with the troops from Dayi, a large number of enemies suddenly came from behind him.
At the beginning, Yang Xingqian saw that the enemy in front was vulnerable, and was thinking about whether it was time for him to break the enemy army, when suddenly a messenger came to report, saying that there was an enemy attacking the camp. Moreover, there were a lot of enemies attacking the big camp, and there were even a lot of elites, who carried strong bows and crossbows, and soon broke through the big camp and were killing all sides in the big camp.
Hearing the news, Yang Xingqian's face changed greatly, and he immediately realized that he had been tricked.
In fact, the rebels' attack on Tanglong was a ploy, which was Guo Qi's idea. Attack Tanglong in the form of a riot first, so as to attract the attention of the officers and soldiers, and send three thousand elites to Tanglong at night to mix in the riot team.
Don't look at Qianneng now has more than 20,000 troops in his hands, but Qiongzhou and other places need to stay behind, so he only brought more than 15,000 people out, of which less than 4,000 are with armor, and these 4,000 are the strongest troops in his hands.
On the Dayi side, there were also many people who were dissatisfied with Chen Jingxuan's taking the opportunity to start an incident, and took refuge in him, so that he concentrated 26,000 people in Dayi. Although there are many troops, they still can't be defeated in the face of 7,000 officers and troops.
Originally, according to the plan, Tang Long's side was to attract the attention of the officers and troops, so that the officers and troops could divide their troops to reinforce Tang Long, so that it was more likely that he could lead the army to break through the officers and troops in the front. Who knew that the official army did not plan to reinforce Tang Long, which put a lot of pressure on Qianneng's side, and thousands of officers and troops were like no man's land in his nearly 20,000 army.
Fortunately, at this time, the strange soldiers on Tang Long's side took the opportunity to attack the official army camp, which did not let the frontal Qianneng and others suffer a heavy defeat.
"General, what now? The situation on the side of the big battalion is critical, and if you don't return to the division to defend, the big camp may not be able to keep it. "The officers and soldiers who were fighting also noticed the movement of the large camp behind them, and many of them did not have the heart to fight, but paid attention to the large camp, if the large camp fell, they would fall into the trap of the enemy.
"General He, you immediately lead the men and horses of your headquarters back to the camp, and you must defend the camp for me." Yang Xingqian also realized the importance of the camp, and immediately instructed a general beside him.
However, at this time, Yang Xingqian's army was affected, and when he saw that there were officers and troops returning to the camp, some people in the rebels shouted, 'The officers and troops have been defeated!' ''The officers and troops are defeated!'' Some officers and soldiers did not know the situation, so they turned around and ran, and some even directly laid down their weapons and surrendered.
At first, it was only a small group of people, but this was like a plague, and it soon spread, and in the back, the officers and soldiers thought that their side was defeated. Even Yang Xingqian scolded angrily, but he couldn't change the situation.
Seeing this situation, Qianneng took the opportunity to personally lead the team to kill the officers and soldiers, and the rebels, who were already not in good morale, were encouraged by Qianneng's actions, so they took up arms to fight back. Even if Yang Xingqian controlled the panic of the army in the end, in the face of the imposing rebels, the trace of courage that had just been condensed was directly dissipated.
In the end, less than 3,000 of the more than 6,000 officers and soldiers fled to Shuzhou City, more than 1,000 were killed in the battle, and more than 2,000 were captured or surrendered. In this battle, Yang Xingqian not only failed to pacify the rebels, but was heavily damaged by the rebels, losing more than half of his troops, and he only brought back less than 3,000 remnants of the 7,000 people who followed him on the expedition.
After the defeat of the official army, by virtue of the great victory, Qian Neng led 20,000 troops to take the opportunity to kill Shuzhou not far away, and surrounded Shuzhou City, and captured Shuzhou in one fell swoop, threatening the posture of Chengdu Mansion.
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Just when Qianneng was fighting fiercely with the official army, the person sent by the Shuzhou Assassin Shi to Chengdu Mansion to deliver the letter also successfully handed over the letter to Sun Ye. After seeing the content in his heart, Sun Ye was also surprised, he didn't expect the situation on the front line to be so erosive, before Chen Jingxuan also said that Yang Xingqian defeated the rebels, how could it suddenly become Yang Xingqian's killing and risking merit.
However, after realizing the seriousness of the matter, Sun Ye immediately handed over the letter to King Shou. This letter can only be presented to His Majesty if it is handed over to King Shou.