Chapter 807: Tooth Extraction from the Tiger's Mouth
"Winning Luoyang City is thanks to Zhang Yudai's credit."
Pei Xingyan and Zhang Zhongjian were walking slowly on the city wall of Luoyang, and in the distance, a group of soldiers and horses were coming to Luoyang, and a Zhengzi flag was flying high.
Zhang Zhongjian glanced at it, "It is the soldiers and horses of Wang Xuanshu, the second son of Wang Shichong, about 20,000 people, who were originally stationed in the north of Luoyang and kept an eye on Wang Bodang of Jinyong City. ”
Wang Xuanshu's 20,000 horses, although not the most elite Huai army foot lancers, can be regarded as a heavy army in Luoyang. If it weren't for his intently staring at Wang Bodang in Jinyong City, he was afraid that Pei Xingyan and them might not be able to take Luoyang City so easily.
"It's a pity he's late." Pei Xingyan chuckled.
At this time, in Luoyang City, although the Qin army brought by Pei Xingyan only rode 4,000 horses, more than 10,000 people from all over the secret society recruited by Zhang Zhongjian had already rushed to Luoyang, plus the children of the noble officials in Luoyang City who he had rebelled against in advance, and there were several thousand people anyway.
In total, there are no less than 20,000 people in Luoyang City.
What's more, Zheng Jun was still captured a lot before.
"Luoyang City is a little bigger, or it is better to defend."
Luoyang is the capital city built by the Great Cause Dynasty, which is magnificent and huge, even surpassing the newly built Chang'an Daxing City of the Kaihuang Dynasty. However, the bigger the city, the more difficult it is to defend.
In fact, the most defensible and difficult to attack is actually the kind of military forts built on terraces, high mountains, and cliffs, which are small and dangerous, and often a few hundred people and thousands of men can withstand the attack of tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of people for several months.
"However, in recent years, many secret societies have developed in various counties in Henan Province, and the congregations of various guilds are rushing to Luoyang, and they can gather no less than 100,000 people."
100,000 people, this number frightened Pei Xingyan.
This is not Liaodong outside the Guan, outside the Guan, the Red Gun Society, these clubs, that are officially supported for development, naturally there are all townships and tuns, and almost all young and strong people have joined a club. But in Henan, this is an enemy-occupied area, and it is secretly developed, and in a short period of time, no less than 100,000 people can be developed.
"The world is chaotic, everyone naturally wants stability, the club can protect itself, and of course everyone is willing to join." Zhang Zhongjian said with a smile, the emperor gave a lot of money and grain to the pro-army governor's mansion, not to mention, the pro-army governor's mansion also secretly supported the development of many merchants' chambers of commerce, and used his own intelligence channels and advantages to engage in business and smuggling, and also made a lot of money.
"I don't know how Li Mi and Wang Shichong are now."
Pei Xingyan said.
The result of the battle between the two tigers will also affect the situation in Luoyang City.
"I'm sure there will be good news."
This operation, it was a tiger's mouth to pull teeth.
After all, before the main force of the Qin army came out, it dared to go deep into Luoyang, and it was indeed bold to pull teeth from the mouths of Li Mi and Wang Shichong, two fierce tigers.
"I also asked Zhang Yudao to organize the people of the local clubs into regimental camps and unified command."
Zhang Zhongjian said, "When the clubs in various places are developing, they take into account the situation like today, so the organization of each club is actually the law of the regiments and camps in the army. ”
A branch is a compartment, and a branch is a regiment. There are wards below the branches, and the wards are all the same. The wards are also divided into teams and fires.
In fact, it is completely organized by the law of the army, and although these people are the masses of secret societies, they are all composed of relatives in the township, and the leaders are also prestige, so their kind of team, in fact, the combat effectiveness should not be underestimated, and it is a little stronger than the ordinary peasant army.
In particular, they all secretly received weapons supplies from the pro-army Governor's Mansion, as well as the guidance of the officer instructor sent to them, so the more than 10,000 people from the Guild Society gathered here were actually more than 10,000 township soldiers.
Zhang Zhongjian had no intention of grabbing power and merit, and generously handed over the command of the more than 10,000 congregations to Pei Xingyan.
Pei Xingyan was not polite, and immediately ordered the more than 10,000 people to be reorganized together with his own 4,000 Qin army, as well as the thousands attached to Luoyang City, and immediately formed an army of more than 20,000 people.
There are 24,000 people in the six compartments and one military headquarters, and many of them are classified as auxiliary defense units.
The search in Luoyang City continues, mainly to search for Wang Shichong's clan comrades, and to search out the officials and military academies in Luoyang City.
At the same time, a notice was announced that martial law should be imposed in the city, so that the people should stay quietly at home and not go out into the streets.
Next, the original officials and officials of Fang Street reported to Zhang Zhongjian, who was in charge of the affairs of the city, one by one, and then took over to pacify the people, maintain law and order in the neighborhood, crack down on fire and robbery, investigate the spies, and be responsible for cooking and delivering meals to the defenders, treating the wounded, transporting ordnance, and arranging for the young and strong to go to the city to assist in the defense.
Luoyang City, the huge eastern capital, is rapidly calming down.
This is already the second mutiny in Luoyang City in a short period of time.
The last mutiny was when Wang Shichong led the army into the palace, and then killed Lu Chuyuan, Wendu and others with a knife, and it didn't take long for the Qin army to enter the city again.
The people of Luoyang City didn't seem to be alarmed, they just panicked for a while, and then quickly settled down, and even many people were still very curious to stand behind the doors and windows of their homes, secretly looking at the Qin army and the Red Gun Society that came into the city.
Some people even met the former neighborhood officials who came to appease the announcement, and they had to smile and come forward to chat and inquire about the situation.
The big families in the city, Haoqiang and others, almost went to surrender their allegiance to the newcomers General Pei and Zhang Duwei, and they patted their chests and said that they welcomed the Qin army into the city, and also said that they were grateful to the emperor for rescuing them.
While saying good things, he presented two gift lists.
A gift list is very luxurious, there are a lot of gold and silver coins on it, which are given to General Pei and Zhang Duwei, and the other is less, which is for the Great Qin Imperial Court, and there are a lot of rice, noodles, vegetables and vegetables.
Pei Xingyan was in charge of the city defense command at the head of the city, commanding the newly formed Luoyang City Defense Army, as well as the soldiers and people who were organized in the logistics battalion.
Zhang Zhongjian was in charge of the internal affairs of the city in the palace of King Zheng of Wang Shichong in the city, and was responsible for logistics.
He looked at the name stickers and the gift lists, but he only showed a disdainful sneer.
"These people, they are really putting the cart before the horse, they actually gave such a generous gift to a certain and Pei Taishou, but they were only willing to give so little to the emperor."
"They may think that you are also a person like Wang Shichong." Some of his subordinates laughed.
"Haha, then they will recognize the wrong person, someone is the emperor's eyes and ears, how can they do such a thing. But these people are new to the group, and they shouldn't ask for so much. Combine these two gift lists and write them down together, even if they are both presented to the court. ”
Someone said, "Pei Taishou is also like this?" Will it upset General Pei? ”
"This is also for General Pei's good, it's better if he doesn't know, if he knows, and he is greedy, if he makes a mistake, it will be bad, let General Pei preside over the defense of Luoyang with all his might."