Chapter 297: Taking advantage of the victory to go west
Early the next morning, Yang Congyi came to the hill and saw that the hill was already full of Xuanwei Army and Nasuo Town people.
He parted the crowd, and when he got to the front, he was struck by what he saw.
Looking to the south at a glance, I saw that there appeared countless pools of water of all sizes there, extending to the distance that could not be seen, the original dense trees, all of them were lying on the ground at the moment, or in the pools, except for a few big trees that were still standing there crookedly, there was nothing to stand on, from north to south, a horse and a flat river, in many places, there was no vegetation left on the ground, only yellow sand.
Everything downstream was washed away by the rushing water, and even the hills on both sides of the mouth of the twin peaks were washed away by a thick layer, and the bottom of the valley mouth was originally seven or eight zhang wide, but now it is more than ten zhang.
Everyone looked at the scene in front of them and couldn't help but talk about it.
After seeing it, Yang Congyi returned to the camp.
It is impossible for the enemy to escape a single person at night, and in the face of huge waves several feet high, even in the daytime, there is no chance of escape, and the battle is a complete victory for the Wei army!
The old patriarch came early in the morning when he heard the news, and congratulated the Xuanwei army on its victory.
Yang Congyi said that this great victory is inseparable from the help of the old patriarch and the people of Nasuo Town, and when he returns to Qinzhou, he will definitely report their merits to Lord Zhizhou, and there will be a reward at that time.
The old patriarch chatted for a while and returned satisfied, and then he was going to take the people back to Nasuo Town.
For the sake of their safety, Yang Congyi suggested that they go down the mountain later, and after the Xuanwei army has explored the town and confirmed that there is no enemy, it is not too late to descend the mountain.
The Nasuo people accepted Yang Congyi's suggestion, and most of them returned to the northern mountains, leaving only a few dozen people at the Shuangfeng Pass, waiting for the old patriarch to call them.
The enemy's outpost spies are estimated to have arrived in Huashi Town, and it is likely that they will find that the Northern Route Army has been wiped out, perhaps they are the last living mouth of the Southern Route Army, and they must be captured as prisoners, otherwise how many enemies have been destroyed in this battle, it is not convenient to say clearly, many enemy corpses are flowing downstream, and it should be difficult to find.
Luo Cong led two hundred Xuanwei troops, with the help of Nasuo hunters, back to Nasuo Town, where they were to set up an ambush and capture all the enemy spies.
The lake in the mouth of the twin peaks has completely receded, and there are still a few logs across the banks of the valley river, and the Xuanwei army has arranged a few logs to turn a few logs into a bridge connecting the two banks.
Yang Congyi followed the bridge to the opposite bank, found Yao Chang, and asked him to lead two hundred people south, find Su Zhong and Pan Cheng, after the three converged, with Su Zhong as the mainstay, go south to Dongxing Town, if there is an enemy army, all annihilated, and after taking Dongxing Town back into his hands, do not go west for the time being. Wait for him to meet Luo Cong and lead the team south to Dongxing, and then make a decision.
Yao Chang received the order, and after a little preparation, he led two hundred Xuanwei troops that morning, with the help of the Nasuo people, to leave the Shuangfeng Pass and make a detour to the south.
A day later, Luo Cong came back, along with four Li Yue people.
Luo Cong said that there were more than these four people, but the others resisted stubbornly and injured the Xuanwei army, so they killed all those who did not surrender, but these four people didn't know what to say and couldn't understand a word.
The others are dead and dead, as long as there is still a living mouth, Yang Congyi doesn't mind killing a few more enemies, now they don't have enough rations, and their own people don't have enough to eat, where can they have more food to feed the prisoners.
Yang Congyi personally interrogated the prisoners and found that he couldn't understand what they said. In fact, it is not surprising that most of the Li Yue people can speak the Central Plains dialect, but there will always be many people from the depths of the mountains in the west who speak the words of their tribe, maybe these few people happen to be from a few tribes.
If the trial can't be tried, forget it, just detain them and bring them back to Qinzhou, the territory of Qinzhou is not small, not far from Li Yue, there will always be people who can understand what they say.
A group of Xuanwei troops left Shuangfengkou with Yang Congyi's battle report to Mao Zhizhou and four prisoners, and was ordered to return to Qinzhou.
The town of Nassau is safe, and the people of Nassau should return to their town.
After Yang Congyi said goodbye to the old patriarch, he took the remaining Xuanwei army and quickly crossed the river to the south and went to Dongxing Town to join Su Zhong and others.
The Xuanwei army was small in number, and it was light and simple, and with the help of the Nasuo guide, it took less than five days to reach Dongxing Town.
Dongxing Town was a county seat before, before the Song Dynasty was the center of the western Qinzhou region, the most prosperous place, after the Song Dynasty, the Dongxing Town area was changed to Anyuan County, after the disappearance of the county seat, the previous prosperity was no longer there, but it has always been the core of the entire western Qinzhou region, the population has remained at about two or three thousand people for hundreds of years, and it has not continued to decline, but it has not been prosperous again.
Not long ago, after the arrival of Li Yueren, they occupied Dongxing Town, which was already there, because they wanted to occupy it for a long time, and the houses and buildings were not destroyed, but the local disobedient people still killed hundreds of people.
Su Zhong, Pan Cheng, Yao Chang, after receiving Yang Congyi's order, took the Xuanwei army to the south quickly, and arrived at Dongxing Town in only three days, they divided their troops into the east, north, and west three roads, surrounded Dongxing Town, and then attacked the town, and took down all the more than 200 Li Yue enemy troops who stayed here, because the enemy was too fierce, although the Xuanwei army had a huge advantage in strength, only three prisoners were captured.
After taking Dongxing Town, the Xuanwei Army took over all the military assets left by Li Yue people here, of course, some of these military materials were transported from Li Yue, and some were stolen along the way. Li Yue's enemy army originally planned to transport these military materials over after taking Anyuan County and Qinzhou City, and fight a protracted war with the Great Song Dynasty, so this batch of military funds was quite a lot, enough for 4,000 enemy troops to consume for a month.
After Su Zhong and others took Dongxing Town, they did not blindly advance westward, but they also sent some spies to cross the river and go west to spy on the enemy.
Two days after they recaptured Dongxing, Yang Congyi also came here with seven or eight hundred people.
The five of them held a small meeting to discuss how the Xuanwei Army would act next.
Su Zhong and Pan Cheng suggested continuing to the west, all the way to the border, and driving out all the invading Li Yue people, the invading enemy had been wiped out more than 1,800 people in Huashi Town, and a few days ago outside Nasuo Town, more than 4,000 people were drowned in a big flood, and there were not many enemies in Qinzhou, so they should be annihilated in one go, and completely recover all the land in Qinzhou, even if it is a small village or a small village.
Yao Chang and Luo Cong also suggested going west and continuing to recover some villages, but it was not easy to send most of the Xuanwei army, and there was no prosperous place to the west, and there should not be many enemies left, and it was not recommended to fight all the way to the border, Li Yue came to attack Qinzhou, and he was originally prepared and sent six or seven thousand people, and now the Xuanwei army suddenly appeared in Dongxing Town, so where did Li Yue's army go? It will inevitably arouse the suspicion of Li Yueren, if they fight all the way to the border, they will not give up, so they should accept it when they see it.
The four of them all felt that they should go west, and Yang Congyi then told them that this time the Li Yue people were not only attacking Qinzhou, but their main force was actually in the north of Yulin Prefecture and Zuozhou, Yulin Prefecture had been fully occupied, and Zuozhou also had most of the land in the hands of Li Yueren, and now the Yongzhou Governor's Office mobilized the troops of the eight states of Guangnan to confront Li Yue in Zuozhou, and each side had 40,000 or 50,000 troops.
The Li Yue people who appeared in Qinzhou should be a strange soldier all the way, but unfortunately Qinzhou is close to the sea, there are too many rivers from north to south, they are not familiar with the terrain, the speed of the march is far behind the plan, often not to a place, where the people heard the news Li Yue invaded and ran away, either hiding in the mountains, or running east, so the news of Li Yue's invasion spread in Qinzhou early, but they were not seen for a long time.
Therefore, the news that the enemy army in Qinzhou has been completely wiped out should be kept low-key, since there is no danger in Anyuan County and Qinzhou City, the Xuanwei army might as well be stationed in Dongxing Town, control the east-west passage, and wait for the opportunity to move. Or take advantage of the confrontation between the two armies in Zuozhou to cut off the grain route of Li Yue's army from behind and force the enemy to retreat.
Yang Congyi's words surprised the four of them, it turned out that they didn't know that such a big thing happened in Guangnan, and they originally thought that it was just an invasion of Qinzhou, and they didn't want this Li Yue people to have a lot of appetite, and they wanted to swallow the land of several states in Guangnan.
When I heard Yang Congyi say that the Xuanwei army would be stationed in Dongxing Town and wait for the opportunity to go north to Zuozhou, I felt even more incredible. The army stationed in Qinzhou, without an order from the imperial court, can they run to Zuozhou casually? The overseers are too bold! Questions were immediately raised.
Yang Congyi replied, the Xuanwei army is now clearing the enemy army in Qinzhou, regardless of the south road or the north road, it is now fighting, it is not wrong to go to the north road to pursue the enemy army, and it is not wrong to chase Zuozhou, waiting for the opportunity to make a great contribution, and the court can still pursue it.
After some discussion, the Xuanwei army gave up westward expansion according to Yang Congyi's wishes, and after resting for two days, left 300 people to garrison Dongxing Town, and the others went north to find Li Yue people and wait for an opportunity to cut off their grain routes.
During the two days of rest, Yang Congyi sent a team of Xuanwei troops to the east by boat from outside Dongxing Town, and returned to Qinzhou, first, to send the prisoners back and report the results of the battle to the governor of Qinzhou, and second, to strive for a batch of military resources and ordnance.
Su Zhong, Pan Cheng and Li Yue's enemy army consumed too many feather arrows, and now the whole army is average, each person only has a pot of arrows, they have few people, and they can't meet the enemy in the north, and they need to be suppressed by bows and arrows in order to advance and retreat freely and grasp the initiative.
From Dongxing Town to the east by boat, less than 100 miles to the outside of Qinzhou City, a team of Xuanwei Army, on three small boats, arrived outside Qinzhou City in less than a day. Before it was dark, they quickly rushed to Qinzhou City with the battle reports of the prisoners and Yang Jianjun.
On the second watch, they finally rushed to the city of Qinzhou, knocked on the door for a long time, and after a lot of investigation, they were delayed for half an hour before they were able to enter the city.
As soon as they entered the city, they were sent by the defenders to the state office, and after being informed, they waited for another half an hour to see Moltke.
Mao Qi took Yang Congyi's battle report, said hello three times, and praised the Xuanwei army: "Okay, the Xuanwei army first annihilated 1,800 enemy troops on the North Road in Huashi Town, and then annihilated more than 4,000 enemies in Nasuo, and now it has recaptured Dongxing Town, and in just half a month, it has made three meritorious contributions. Rare! Rare! ”