Qiu Xiaozhi says:

"The father-in-law went on the expedition for a long time, and the labor was fruitless, and the Marquis of Wei led the Jihu battalion to fold most of the men and horses.

Originally, in order to save money, I planned to use the elite thunder of the Beijing camp to annihilate the thieves, but now I have lost so many people, and finally transferred the forbidden army, and I didn't save a dime but spent more.

All the adults in the court are watching, as a prison soldier, if you want to go back like this, you have to be pulled off the horse. “

On the side, Tao Zhutu asked:

"The leader of the team is King De, and Gonggong Yu is just a supervisor of the army, even if the Lord of the DPRK is impeached, the spearhead will be on King De.

Didn't the ministers of the court and the central government want to bring down King De for a long time? Isn't this just an excuse, so that the fish father-in-law will be untied. ”

Qiu Wenruo says:

"Because of this, Grandpa Yu will definitely be thrown out as a scapegoat.

The emperor's preference for King De is well known, so this expedition used all the palace staff, and also selected the experienced Yugong Gong to supervise the army, in order to win the battle and let King De make meritorious contributions.

For the same reason, if he loses the battle, the fault cannot be recorded on his head, and the reason for asking Father-in-law Yu to come out is to ensure victory, what else do he want him to do if he fails? “

When Tao Zhulu heard this, he said thoughtfully:

"So, if it fails, Wei Hou may also carry the black pot together?"

Everyone was thoughtfully and silent when they were reminded of this.

Lan Ziyi coughed dryly, shaking up the awkward atmosphere, and then said:

"Now that I'm leading my troops on the march, I only need to think about one thing, that is, how to win, and the rest of the things will only be distracted. Needless to say. “

Hearing Lan Ziyi's words, everyone nodded and didn't say anything more.

Although Lan Ziyi said so, he was also very apprehensive in his heart. The order he received with Wei Qionglou was to command the forbidden army to encircle and suppress the bandits, not to fight in coordination with friendly forces, presumably Qi Rongxun received the same order.

That's the problem.

There is no problem with Qi Rongxun to command together, although there is a dirt between the two and they don't like each other, but judging from the last time the Tiger Camp ventured to rescue each other, Qi Rongxun is not the kind of person who interferes in public affairs with personal grievances, which is easy to say,

On the contrary, the forbidden army coming from the north side of the river was very problematic.

Although there was an order for Lan Ziyi and Qi Rongxun to command the whole army, both Lan Ziyi and Qi Rongxun were leading troops independently for the first time, and their prestige was insufficient.

Although he knew that his father-in-law wanted to grab credit and save face, even if he Lan Ziyi and Qi Rongxun were only commanding in name, as long as they went,

But before the battle began, the command was so chaotic, and the attitude of the friendly forces was difficult to understand, how could this be fought?

It would be nice if Father-in-law Yu came in person, the scene was absolutely calming,

But Father-in-law Yu is busy serving King De, which is really ironic.

In this way, the army marched during the day, rested at night, and advanced north according to the plan, and when camping every night, the Jihu Battalion and the Shenji Battalion were not far apart, and they were camped separately, so that the commanders of the two armies did not want to get too close, and they could also use each other's horns and support each other.

After the soldiers of the two battalions arrived in Xiangfan, the supplies of the imperial court were also delivered in time.

The Shenji Battalion received four new red-coated cannons from the capital, as well as gunpowder and ammunition, while the Jihu Battalion received 2,000 recruits and matching horses.

Although the Jihu battalion is still dissatisfied with the personnel after being replenished, its strength has rebounded.

After getting the red-coated cannon, the Shenji Battalion hurriedly went up the mountain to test the firing, and sure enough, it was extremely powerful.

The target of the test was a boulder, which was torn apart by a single shot, and several large trees were broken in the trajectory of the projectile.

The Shenji battalion was very satisfied with the new cannon, but this cannon was much heavier than the Furlong machine, and had to be transported by special gun trucks, and at least two horses were used for a gun, but these problems were within the acceptable range.

The soldiers of the two battalions did not stay long in Xiangfan, because the city of Xiangfan was already dilapidated.

After the thieves broke through Xiangfan and plundered for a few days, all the officers and soldiers in the city were killed, the strong were captured, and the women and children were bullied.

It is also strange to say, it was raining heavily, and the fire of the thieves burned for two days, except for the Xiangfan city wall, almost all the houses in the city were burned down.

Lan Ziyi and they have been stationed outside the city after they arrived in Xiangfan, although the capital and Jiangcheng have sent officials to clean up the tragedy of Xiangfan, but the heavy rain continues, and there is a lack of supplies in the city, and the people die of cold and hunger every day.

The Xiangfan region has been unable to provide any supplies for Lan Ziyi and them, and even unable to support Lan Ziyi and them to continue stationing.

With the assistance of the ships transferred from Jiangcheng, the army quickly crossed the river, and then approached in the direction of Wancheng.

To Lan Ziyi's relief, the thieves did not go south to meet the attack, nor did they advance east to Jiangbei, but moved north to Yuzhou.

Originally, Lan Ziyi had been cautious after they crossed the river, and sent scouts to investigate every day, and only dared to advance after confirming that there were no thieves, but after getting this news, Lan Ziyi and Qi Rongxun both accelerated their pace and marched north,

Of course, in order to prevent the ambush from happening here last time, Lan Ziyi and the others did not march in a hurry, and they still walked very carefully, but judging from the marching situation, this is too much to worry about.

Along the way, I saw that the destruction of the thieves was more than that of the south of Xiangfan, no wonder the thieves no longer went south, and there was no grain and grass here for the thieves to plunder.

Perhaps the thieves went north to Yuzhou to take it before the official army, and then broke away from the basin around Wancheng and headed north into the vast plain.

But the thieves completely underestimated the speed of the forbidden army's march, and before the thieves arrived in Yuzhou, the 90,000 forbidden troops in Xu County had already moved south to Yuzhou.

The court officials who passed by the thieves died, and those who fled, and the local people's livelihood withered, and it was almost a mess

Wancheng was under the jurisdiction of the old capital Taishou, and because the thieves were isolated from the north, they could not send people over to organize disaster relief, so Lan Ziyi and they went north to enter Wancheng first, and assigned personnel to maintain order and dispatch materials.

It was not until the situation in Wancheng was roughly determined that Lan Ziyi and Qi Rongxun led the troops to continue north.

The Forbidden Army's move into Yuzhou seems to have been greatly unexpected by the thieves, who seem to have no idea what to do after this happens, and have been stationed at the foot of the mountains west of Yuzhou.

Theoretically speaking, there is now the main force of the forbidden army in Yuzhou, and Lan Ziyi and they are on the south side, so they should be attacked from both sides.

However, the number of people in the Jihu Camp and the Shenji Camp is too small, and if you really want to do this, you will only be broken by the thieves.

Besides, Father-in-law Yu also ordered Lan and Qi to lead the forbidden army to fight, so Lan Ziyi and Qi Rongxun led the team all the way north into Yuzhou.

It is also strange to say, although it is only separated by a river, but the north of the river is actually sunny, there is not a drop of rain, all the way north compared to the floods seen in the south of the Yangtze River, the fields in the north actually have signs of drought.

But the enemy is not in the mood to care about these things at the moment.

Lan Ziyi and Qi Rongxun were worried all the way, and finally saw the Yuzhou city wall, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Lan Ziyi and Qi Rongxun, who were free from the threat of thieves, were quite happy, and ordered the Jihu Battalion and the Shenji Battalion to camp outside Yuzhou City.

But the forbidden army didn't seem to have this idea, 90,000 troops were stationed, and there was not even a single tent outside the city, only a large number of horses were seen grazing on the slopes east of the city.

It seems that the old men of the forbidden army who went south have all lived in the city.

After Lan Ziyi was stationed, he sent someone to inform Qi Rongxun, and the two of them also had Wei Qionglou, the Tao brothers, and the deputy general of the Shenji Battalion went into the city with the escort cavalry.

The arrival of the army in the city will definitely affect the order of Yuzhou City in the morning, Lan Ziyi was already prepared, but the actual situation he saw was several times worse than Lan Ziyi expected.

The first is the city defense, when Lan Ziyi and his party came to the city gate, there was no one stationed on the gatehouse, and the guards at the city gate were not forbidden soldiers, but the original officials of Yuzhou City.

The thieves were stationed on the west side, and the officials saw the gates open without questioning the passers-by who were entering and leaving the gates.

Okay, these officials aren't doing it in the first place, but what about the forbidden army? Are they here to enjoy the mountains and rivers?

After entering the city, Lan Ziyi and the others found out that these forbidden army masters were really here to play.

After the 90,000 forbidden troops entered the city, they did not look for a place to hit the garrison, but randomly looked for their favorite houses to live in.

The officers at all levels were not polite, and picked out the compound of the rich family in the city and moved in with their cronies, while the ordinary soldiers seized the inn or forcibly moved into the people's homes, and the whole thing was full of trouble.

Lan Ziyi and they rode on the street, and in front of them were groups of forbidden soldiers drunk and swaying on the street, without discipline at all, to see who was unhappy to beat or scold, from time to time to molest women from good families, the people in the city dared to be angry and did not dare to speak.

Lan Ziyi and the others were furious, and immediately ordered the accompanying guards to arrest the few forbidden soldiers in front of them.

Unexpectedly, this led to a hornet's nest, and all the forbidden troops around them surrounded them, and took out white knives on the street, wanting to fight with Lan Ziyi and them.

It wasn't until Lan Ziyi and Qi Rongxun took out the military orders and the emperor's holy decree and revealed their identities that the group of forbidden troops died down, and the other sergeants on the street relented.

Lan Ziyi and Qi Rongxun saw that the military discipline of tens of thousands of troops had deteriorated to such an extent, and they were almost besieged, their faces turned purple with anger, and they asked the 90,000 forbidden army generals who had entered the city to work in the yamen of the state capital, and then escorted the rebel army who had just been arrested to the yamen.

When I arrived inside the yamen, I found that except for a few forbidden soldiers guarding the gate and the prefect sitting in the lobby sighing, I didn't see a single general of the forbidden army.

The prefect sighed when he saw Lan Ziyi and them coming, and was overjoyed when he learned that it was the commander appointed by the imperial court.

Lan Ziyi looked at the prefect who was about to cry and asked:

"Where are the commanders of the forbidden army in the city?"

prefect says:

"How do I know where these old men are, after these masters came, they didn't even look down on my mansion, and they all went out to rob people's houses and live."

At this time, the forbidden army staying in the yamen finally woke up after figuring out Lan Ziyi's identity.

Qi Rongxun shouted at this group of sergeants:

"Why don't you go and call your leader!?"

When the sergeants heard the order, they lowered their heads and went out to look for someone.

The prefect didn't know whether to cry or laugh, and said to Lan Ziyi:

"Generals, you're here. If you don't come again, this Yuzhou City will really be a mess. “

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