Although Lu Yuan was very unwilling, and the words 'the whole army retreated' were also said through gritted back molars, he also knew that he could not retreat at this time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Hearing that Lu Yuan had made up his mind, Luo Ren and Chief Su had nothing, and the others in the big tent breathed a sigh of relief. Although they are not optimistic about the prospects of rebellion, it is always good to live one more day.

Luo Ren and Su Chieftain immediately arranged a retreat. The retreat is also very particular, and the retreat of the other party in a swarm can be easily pursued and killed as long as there is cavalry, so it must be arranged in detail.

Luo Ren first arranged for the army to return from the troops stationed at the west, north, and south gates of Jinan, and then arranged for the siege of the city for two consecutive days, and then withdrew on August 26.

At this time, only Pingshanwei and Dongpingwei arrived at Jinan Mansion, and the soldiers of Jinan Wei also lost a lot of losses in the defense of the city in the past few days, and the total strength was not much more than the rebels outside the city. Xie Cheng was worried that there was fraud in it, so he did not send troops to pursue him.

Of course, for Xie Cheng's decision, the commander of Dongpingwei made Zhuang very puzzled. Zhuang De said to Xie Cheng: "Xie Du commanded the envoy, even if he was worried that there was fraud, but there were still three thousand cavalry in the city, and it was completely possible for the cavalry to pursue, even if it was just hanging far away to prevent a trap, it was better than not sending a single soldier!" ”

But Xie Cheng insisted: "Now our army is not much more than the rebels, in case the three thousand cavalry are sent out and are ambushed, then our army will be completely unable to contain the enemy army, once the rebels once again carry a large number of young men to attack the city, there will be nothing for them to scruple about." ”

Xie Cheng is the commander of the Shandong Metropolitan Division, and since he has made up his mind not to send it, then no one else can do it. Although Zhuang De felt that Xie Cheng was too careful, what Xie Cheng said was not unreasonable, so it was just.

Subsequently, on August 27 and 28, three guards, including Lin Qingwei and Ren Chengwei, and several soldiers from thousands of households came to Jinan City, and the total strength of the army in Jinan City reached more than 30,000 people and nearly 40,000 people.

On August 30, Xie Cheng left 3,000 households to defend the city, and Zhuang De, the commander of Dongpingwei, was the main general of the city, and personally led more than 30,000 people to pursue to the east. If he can quell the rebellion before the official arrival of the imperial court's will, then he will have made a great achievement, plus he is actually not responsible for the rebellion of King Sanwei of Qi, and most of them can be crowned the marquis.

At the head of Jinan City, Zhuang De looked at Xie Cheng's departing back, and secretly thought in his heart: 'Why did Xie Cheng behave so differently before and after?' At first, he was so careful that he didn't even send cavalry, and when there were many troops waiting to come, he was so bold that he only left three thousand households in the city. Xie Cheng has changed too much in the past few days! ’

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On the evening of August 29, Luo Ren and Su Chieftain led the remaining 16,000 troops to retreat to the shores of Baiyun Lake in Zhangqiu County.

At this time, their army was completely demoralized. Before the attack on Jinan, although the morale was not high, there was always a point, but after the withdrawal from Jinan City, there was no morale at all.

Although they retreated safely from under the city of Jinan, because Lu Yuan ordered an all-out siege at the beginning, they suffered huge losses in Jinan, and a full 6,000 people died under the city of Jinan.

The dead were not the most terrible, but the wails of countless wounded in the tents were constantly destroying the morale of this army.

Later, when they retreated, they left the seriously wounded outside the city of Jinan, and when this army withdrew to the shore of Baiyun Lake, it had completely lost its morale.

After arriving at the shore of Baiyun Lake, not only Luo Ren and Chief Su, but even Lu Yuan knew that this army could no longer fight, so he listlessly commanded the soldiers to set up camp. He had his tent set up, and he went into his tent first.

Lu Yuan lay on the bed, thinking to himself: "Now it seems that this army has no way to fight, I am afraid that at this time, one thousand households can defeat these sixteen thousand people." ’

It seems that there is no way to pull too many people to accompany the burial, I wanted to take Jinan City and slaughter hundreds of thousands of people, but now there is no chance. However, the four counties of Zhangqiu, Zouping, Zichuan and Linzi on the way from here to Qingzhou could still be defeated, so they attacked these four county towns under the pretext of boosting morale. ’

And after returning to Qingzhou, there are more than 200,000 people in Qingzhou City, as long as the soldiers of the imperial court hit Qingzhou City, they will set fire to Qingzhou City and completely destroy Qingzhou City, so that the people of the entire Qingzhou City will be buried with me! Even if the soldiers of the imperial court tried their best to fight the fire and save people, they could always kill half of the city. ’

So hundreds of thousands of people will bury me with me, and I won't lose anything! ’

Lu Yuan had already made up his mind, and he slept soundly this night. Early the next morning, he called Luo Ren, Chief Su and others over, and said to them calmly: "Immediately command the army to attack Zhangqiu County." ”

Chief Su asked suspiciously: "Zhangqiu does not have the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, it is easy to attack Zhangqiu County, but what is the use of defeating Zhangqiu?" ”

Lu Yuan said: "Now that the morale has reached this point, if you don't want to find a way to boost it, it is estimated that half of the people will run away if you can't go to Qingzhou, how can you still hold Qingzhou City?" After the Zhangqiu was laid, the sword was not sealed for two days, and the soldiers were allowed to do it. ”

"What!" Luo Ren, Chief Su and others were shocked. Although they are rebels now, they are from the economic army of the imperial court, and everything still follows the military discipline and military discipline of the imperial court. But now Lu Yuan is going to violate the military discipline and military discipline they have always followed and indulge the soldiers.

Luo Ren and Chief Su looked at Lu Yuan with burning eyes, as if they hoped that he would give up this order. But Lu Yuan stared at them in turn and said, "What are you looking at! Why don't you go to the herald right away? ”

Chief Su sat in his seat for a long time before he sighed: "Today is finally a thief!" Then he went out of the big tent and sent a herald. The rest of the people in the room also had similar expressions.

Although they rebelled against the imperial court before, they were still a regular army, which could be called rebels, but they were not thieves. But with this order today, their military discipline will be wiped out, and they will be completely reduced to thieves.

At the same time, it is difficult to say how the emperor will think about this order, and the civil and military officials from Shandongdong are afraid that they will hate them to the bone, and even if they are estimated to be alive anyway.

However, this order can really boost morale. As soon as this order was given, the morale that had not existed at all was in a trance again. In particular, many soldiers who do evil on weekdays and are often punished by military discipline are even brighter-eyed.

Probably stimulated by this order, the packing of the barracks, which had been delayed for a long time, was quickly completed.

Although Chief Su and the others gave this order, they were unwilling to dirty their hands and take their own soldiers to the outermost periphery, and they were unwilling to command this time something that could not be called a war at all.

However, there is no army of the imperial court in Zhangqiu City, but it is a people's strong organization temporarily organized by the county order, and it is easy to resist the rabble, but the organized army cannot resist.

Lu Yuan personally commanded the battle, divided the layers to attack Zhangqiu County, and soon Zhangqiu County fell. Lu Yuan personally announced the order of 'not sealing the knife within two days' at the gate of the county seat. Soon there was a cacophony of voices in Zhangqiu City, mixed with the utterly indulgent shouts of the soldiers and the cries of the people.

It wasn't until it was almost dark in the evening that Luo Ren and others, who were really unwilling to spend the night outside the city, brought their own soldiers into the city.

As soon as they entered the city, they were stunned by what they saw. One by one, they stood still, and there was no reaction to the blood flowing down the city wall and onto their bodies.

According to Zhang Jiude, a citizen of Zhangqiu County who survived later, "Among the citizens, those who hung beams, threw themselves into wells, threw themselves into rivers, bloody, severed limbs, and those who were cut off and did not die, especially those who moved their hands and feet, and their flesh and bones were in disarray. ”

"Day and night in the public in the neighborhood, there are *** disobedient people, nail their hands to the board, still **."

Although Luo Ren and the others had fought and seen countless people die in front of them, such an asura scene was still unacceptable.

Just as they were standing at the city gate, Luo Ren suddenly felt that someone seemed to grab his legs, he looked down and saw a disheveled woman looking at him with tears in her eyes, and begged: "Please let the military master let my father go, I am willing to accompany the military master." ”

Luo Ren looked sideways and saw two soldiers fighting with a man with a spear. One of the soldiers snatched the spear from the people twice, and the other was about to slash the people to death.

Luo Ren shouted: 'Stop! ’

The two men were stunned when they heard the cheers, and looked sideways. Of course, they knew Luo Ren, so they stopped. One of them also smiled and said, "Master Su, since you have fallen in love with this woman, we will give it to you." Then they went away with their knives.

Luo Ren asked a guard to help the man up, and then he said to the woman: "I don't need you to accompany me, I saved your father and daughter, not to reciprocate, just to have peace of mind." ”

Then he looked at the woman who was still trembling and said, "Let you go now, I'm afraid that you won't be able to go far and you will suffer misfortune again, so let's follow us first." I'll let you go before they leave Zhangqiu County. ”

The man came to support his daughter, and he could see that this person was not lying, so he knelt on the ground and said, "Master Zhang Jiudexie, the grass people!" ”

Luo Ren helped him up and said, "Don't say thank you anymore." "Originally, they brought the soldiers here, and where did he have the face to accept the word thanks.

Luo Ren asked one of his guards to take out a piece of clothing and put it on the father and daughter, and then asked the guards to take the father and daughter to find a place to settle down first, and he took the rest of the people to Zhangqiu County. He expected that the road would be far away, and it must be in Zhangqiu County.

Lu Yuan is really in Zhangqiu County. When Luo Ren arrived at the Zhangqiu County Ya, he saw Lu Yuan sitting in the lobby, drinking wine. But right above the lobby, next to his seat, there were several corpses.

Lu Yuan heard the footsteps, raised his head and said to Luo Ren with a smile: "Brother Luo is here?" Sit down for a drink? ”