- Ciyang Mountain

At this time, Ciyangshan was already a large-scale iron ore production base, with a garrison of 500 people in Liangshan and more than 3,000 workers.

The day and night of steel production has left the leaves on Ciyang Mountain with a layer of black ash, which is the result of making iron from coal.

In this era, no one thinks there is anything bad about this, and environmental protection issues are too sunny in this era.

Garrisoned here was Lei Heng's army, these days, Lei Heng personally brought a regiment of troops to set up a camp, and the 3,000 workers also dispatched most of them to help build defense facilities.

What was done was not anything else, but because Ciyang Mountain was too close to Yanzhou.

To be precise, Ciyang Mountain is in Yanzhou, only forty miles away from Yanzhou City, and you can often see the smoke of ironmaking when you look at this side from the height of Yanzhou City.

Since Jiang De learned that there was an abnormality in Yanzhou, he sent Lei Heng here as soon as possible, in order to prevent Liu Yu from attacking his iron factory, and he was indeed not wrong, on the third day of Lei Heng's arrival, a large army appeared at the foot of Ciyang Mountain.

Lei Heng's face was grim and he looked at the Song army three or four miles away from Ciyang Mountain, and the fluttering banner of Guan Zi represented the main general of this army.

"Division commander, look at this banner team, I'm afraid there are no less than 10,000 people in the Song army, let's hurry up and ask Hou Ye for help." Liu Dan, the head of Lei Heng's subordinates, said to Lei Heng.

Lei Heng put away the binoculars and said, "Let the brothers not panic, when we set off, Hou Ye had already summoned the commanders of all divisions to Liangshan for a meeting, thinking that reinforcements would arrive soon, and what we had to go was to defend Ciyang Mountain." ”

Lei Heng said while feeling very fortunate in his heart, if he came a few days late, this Ciyang Mountain would have to be destroyed by the Yanzhou army.

"Commander Liu, you immediately take a battalion of brothers, let the villagers transfer, and then organize the miners to be used by our army in the way of one soldier and four workers." Lei Heng knew that most of those workers were prisoners of war from Nanyang, and although they came here to work as miners in two shifts, they were well fed, warmly dressed, and had a good life, as long as he could promise them, these workers could immediately become strong soldiers.

Lei Heng is not afraid of these workers defecting, where can these Nanyang natives go after defecting? This is the Central Plains.

In this way, Lei Heng has nearly 6,000 sergeants in his hands, and the ordnance can be built at any time, and the food and grass are enough to eat for a month, and his heart has gradually settled down.

At this time, the Song army also began to set up camp, Lei Heng saw a few black spots running, knew that it was cavalry, and raised the binoculars to look, and saw about seven or eight horsemen, headed by a general, holding a green dragon glaive knife, a red horse in his crotch, a green robe, a red beard, red phoenix eyes, lying silkworm eyebrows, Lei Heng's eyes were about to fall.

"I thought that my brother Zhu Tong was already the reincarnation of Guan Yu, but looking at this person today, I know that General Guan's descendants are still alive!" Lei Heng couldn't help but think of his good brother Zhu Tong, who was also like a heavy jujube, with eyes like stars, and was known as a beautiful bearded man, but compared with this level of victory, it was too far behind.

Suddenly, a horse rushed over and shouted loudly to the mountain, "The thief on the mountain will listen, the heavenly soldiers have arrived, my general Guan is just a thief, you should surrender quickly, otherwise you will attack the mountain, and there will be no chickens and dogs!" ”

Lei Heng laughed when he heard this, and said to the left and right, "He thinks he is really the reincarnation of Guan Yu?" I still want to surrender without a fight! ”

A staff officer on the side arched his hand and said, "Division commander, I heard Master Hou say before, this Guan Sheng has the courage of ten thousand people, and it should not be underestimated." ”

Lei Heng nodded and said, "Staff Officer Jia, what you said is reasonable, don't pay attention to them, guard them and wait for Hou Ye's reinforcements." ”

Guan Sheng at the foot of the mountain saw that there was no movement on the mountain for a long time, and said to the second general on the side, "I see that the soldiers and horses of Liangshan seem to have been prepared, and I heard the local people say that there are hundreds of soldiers and horses on this mountain, and there are 2,000 people in recent days, and there are 3,000 soldiers and horses. ”

These two generals are extremely vicious, with a face like the bottom of a pot, nostrils facing the sky, curly hair and red beard, eight feet in shape, not looking like a person from the Central Plains, holding a big knife, bow and arrow at the waist, and unlike ordinary people, this person has two bows, which can be seen to be extremely good at shooting.

The other general was dressed in a splendid battle robe, with seven-star dragon scales on his armor, holding a spear, a short black beard, and a sturdy body.

These two people are Guan Sheng's righteous brothers, the vicious called Xuanzan, the former Liao State came to envoy, he won the Liao general with arrows, this is a county king, but he doesn't want the county lord to hate its ugliness, he died depressed in less than half a year, he didn't have the face to stay in the county king's mansion, so he spent all day in the barracks, but he was extremely popular with the army, and also trained a strong soldier.

Another general named Hao Siwen, and Guan Sheng have known each other since childhood, a martial arts, a civilian background, after being admitted to the martial arts as an official in Yanzhou, because of the integrity, won the hearts of the military, all the way to the preparation of the general, after the rise of Liangshan, the local generals in Yanzhou were afraid of Liangshan, and they were transferred away, and Hao Siwen also moved to the general.

Since Hao Siwen recommended Guan Sheng to Liu Yu, Guan Sheng and the two of them were in Yanzhou as generals, Guan Sheng's martial arts are strong, and he is deeply versed in the art of war.

According to the military system, the forbidden army in various places is headed by the general general, and the Xiang army and the township soldiers are headed by the commander, and they obey the instructions of the prefect in wartime.

Guan Sheng, as a general in Yanzhou, is naturally the first person in the Yanzhou military, but the Song Dynasty used literature to control the military, Sima Guang once said, "Since the national dynasty, the general administrator, the governor, the capital supervisor, and the prisoner are the officials of the generals. Gai Zhizhou is the general of a state, and Zhixian is the general of a county. Therefore, it is the military characteristic of the Song Dynasty not to take the military as the commander and the autocracy, but to take the civil servants as the strategy and the general system.

Guan Sheng sent troops this time, half of it was to pull out the threat of Yanzhou, and the other half was to correct his name, after all, he was an airborne general, and there were still many people in the Yanzhou army who were dissatisfied with him, such as Liu Yu's son Liu Lin, who was often the one who Guan Sheng just relied on his good looks, but he actually had no ability.

Therefore, Guan Sheng's victory in this battle must be won.

Guan Sheng watched the figure on the cottage swaying, worried in his heart, he knew the strength of the Pingyin army, if he couldn't quickly take Ciyang Mountain, he would be in danger of being flanked.

Xuanzan looked at the terrain and said, "General, you look at Ciyang Mountain, although it is said to be a mountain, it is not tall, and the road up the mountain is gentle, so it is better to attack it." ”

Hao Siwen shook his head and said, "If our army is only facing Ciyang Mountain, of course, it can be so, but the Pingyin army still has tens of thousands of troops on the side, and it will come at any time. ”

Guan Sheng nodded and said, "What does the virtuous brother mean?" ”

Hao Siwen pointed to Lei Heng's general flag and said, "I look at this flag, I think it is the head of Yuncheng in the past, I know this person, this person is nicknamed the winged tiger, born in a blacksmith, he is extremely filial, as long as the general insults his mother, he will go to war."

When the time comes, please deceive the general, lure him down the mountain, and he will be caught! ”

Guan Sheng stroked his long beard for a while and sighed, "Bullying people with filial piety should not be used, helpless!" Just do it. ”

Xuanzan and Hao Siwen were ordered to arrange, Lei Heng continued to patrol the defense in the village, and suddenly heard scolding from outside the village.

When Lei Heng heard it, what did he say, "Thunder Heng roll out!" "Lei Heng, don't be a turtle with a shrunken head!" couldn't help laughing, "Let them scold, stay for a few days, and see how much strength they still have." ”

Before Lei Heng turned around, he suddenly found that the scolding words had changed, all of which were arranged for his mother's foul language, and there was also a singing that his mother was seventy years old, and her heart did not change, and she went to the beggar's nest to steal people. ”

Guan Sheng was ashamed, and Hao Siwen stepped forward and shouted, "What I am scolding is the female turtle that gave birth to you, a turtle with a shrunken head, which is not a thing in the first place, what about him, he has the ability to fight down!" ”

Lei Heng's face was flushed, and Staff Officer Jia on the side hurriedly persuaded, "Division commander, this is the enemy's strategy to lure the enemy, don't be fooled." ”

Lei Heng's eyes were red, looking at a person dressed as an old woman being abused in public by a strong man, and hung a sign that said "Lei Heng's mother", he had no father since he was a child, so he was extremely filial to his mother, and his eyes turned black with anger, he pushed away Staff Officer Jia and said, "It's not your mother, of course you say so, I know it's a plan... I just don't listen. ”

As he spoke, Lei Heng closed his eyes and walked to the back of the village, but Guan Sheng picked out all the soldiers with very loud voices, and Lei Heng could faintly hear it when he hid in the back camp, and he couldn't help but hate it in his heart.

Outside the cottage, Guan Sheng saw that Lei Heng had not come out for a long time, and said to Hao Siwen, "It seems that this Lei Heng is not stupid, he knows that it is a plan, what should I do?" ”

Hao Siwen looked at the sky, it was spring now, the weather was not too hot, Hao Siwen thought for a while and said, "You can tempt the enemy so much." ”

About an hour later, the shouting sergeants were also tired, and they sat on the ground one after another, taking turns scolding, Lei Heng couldn't bear it, and came up to check again, and found that most of the sergeants below were sitting on the ground, and there was smoke behind them, which was preparing to eat.

Lei Heng looked through the binoculars, and sure enough, he saw someone carrying food spring water coming over, and these sergeants who had been shouting for a long time gathered around to eat and drink.

Lei Heng rolled his eyes and said to the staff officer on the side, "Let Liu Dan come over!" ”

After a while, Liu Dan ran over and said to Lei Heng, "Divisional commander!" You call me? ”

Lei Heng pointed to the bottom of the mountain and said, "You see, the officers and soldiers have not been trained much, and now they are tired, this is the opportunity for our army to win, I am ready to take a thousand people to attack, you are good to guard the gate of the village, and prepare another 500 people to respond." ”

Liu Dan saw that the Song army under the mountain was really in a mess, and he also felt that it was an opportunity, but he was a little worried and said, "That Guan Sheng is valued by the Hou Ye, I'm afraid he is not a mediocre talent, and the division commander is still careful to stick to it." ”

Lei Heng was eager to cut down those officers and soldiers who insulted his mother at once, he shouted, "I am the division commander, the military order is like a mountain, I know that Guan Sheng is extraordinary, but you see, Guan Sheng has returned to the military village, the following is just a general, you don't delay the military plane!" ”

Speaking, Lei Heng walked down the lookout, there were already a thousand soldiers gathered below, Liu Dan was in a hurry, he could only stand on the lookout and prepare to respond, he looked down the mountain, and saw that Guan Sheng's general flag was really gone, and the erection was the Xuanzi battle flag, which I thought was Xuanzan.

The gate of the village creaked open, and Lei Heng took the lead, waving his sword and shouting, "Brothers, kill the enemy with me!" ”

The sergeants of the two battalions followed closely behind and pounced on the Song troops below the mountain. When those Song soldiers saw the sudden arrival of the enemy, they all panicked, and Lei Heng slashed to death the sergeant dressed as an old woman, and they were very happy in their hearts, and suddenly heard "The enemy general has run away!" ”

Lei Heng raised his eyes and saw an ugly-looking general running towards the camp with the defeated soldiers, and shouted in his mouth, "Lei Heng, wait for me to find your father to teach you a lesson." ”

Lei Heng was angry, pointed at Xuanzan and shouted, "Chase me!" He took the sergeant and chased after him.

After chasing for a while, suddenly Lei Heng's war horse roared, and Lei Heng fell down, as a general, Lei Heng was wearing a war armor, and the war horse was in a high-speed state, this fall made him dizzy, and only raised his head after a while, only to hear a shout of killing, he hurriedly raised his head, and saw countless Song troops surrounding, the nearest one was only a hundred steps away from him.

Lei Heng hurriedly went to pick up the knife, slashed to death a storming Song army, and shouted to the sergeants around him, "Don't panic!" Retreat slowly!! ”

Suddenly, a sound of horses' hooves sounded, Lei Heng looked at it, only to see a flash of knife light, the big knife in Lei Heng's hand had already flown into the sky, and then lowered his head, a green dragon glaive knife was only the slightest distance from his throat.

"Tie up!" Guan Sheng smiled slightly, and said to the second general Xuanzan on the side, "Go, take advantage of the victory to attack the mountain!" ”

Liu Dan on the mountain saw it clearly, and when he saw Lei Heng being arrested, he secretly complained, and the staff officer on the side said, "Commander Liu, there is a steel mill in Ciyang Mountain, and it can't be lost, since Commander Lei has been arrested, according to the military system, please ask Commander Liu to command." ”

Liu Dan gritted his teeth and said to the left and right, "Listen to my orders!" The archers laid an ambush on the left and right, and the third battalion with the miners pretended to be panicked, and the gate of the fortress was opened, luring the enemy closer. ”

Guan Sheng took thousands of soldiers and horses all the way to the gate of the village, and saw that the banners on the village were chaotic, and the gate was still open, and the soldiers inside could be seen running around.

"It must be that the thief will know that he is powerful and has escaped, so let's rush in." Praise the Great Joy Saying.

Guan Sheng nodded and smiled, "But it's also a godsend, let you and my brother make meritorious contributions." ”

Guan Sheng waved his sword, the Song army shouted and rushed to the walled gate, and when about thirty paces, suddenly a drum sounded, and thousands of archers suddenly drilled out from under the wall, and several ballistae fired huge crossbow arrows from the wall, and for a time the arrows rained down, and in less than ten breaths, hundreds of Song soldiers were shot into hedgehogs.

"Not good! There is an ambush, withdraw!! The Song army, who originally thought that he could make great contributions, suddenly receded like a tide.

Liu Dan's eyes narrowed, and he shouted to the left and right, "Brothers, you see, the Song army is different from us, we are soldiers and fight for our families who are allocated land, and for the future of the world, and they are just to make money, therefore, as long as we hold on, they will not dare to attack with their lives, we will definitely be able to defend it!" ”

"Hold on! Hold on!! All the Pingyin troops shouted, Guan Sheng listened to the shouts, and couldn't help but wonder, "Is there still a general in the village?" ”

Hao Siwen thought that he could rely on his own strategy to decide a battle, but he didn't expect this result, and he angrily handed over his hand to the battle and said, "General, please let me lead the sergeant to attack the village, just now our army is light on the enemy, this time we will win!" ”

Guan Sheng nodded, let Hao Siwen lead the troops to attack the village, Hao Siwen ordered three thousand soldiers and horses, more shields, and slowly advanced, the bows and arrows of the Pingyin army are also difficult to hurt the Song army behind the shield, Liu Dan looked at the Song army attacking the village in formation, and was secretly surprised, he knew the Song army too well, most of the Song army couldn't even stand up in the basic queue, so it was rare to be able to form a formation.

A vicious battle began, Hao Siwen and Xuanzan took turns to lead the team to attack the village, Liu Dan did not retreat, and the two sides attacked and defended in less than three hours and killed and injured thousands of people, until it was dark, and then the army stopped fighting.

Liu Dan was also injured in the defense battle, and he wrote a letter asking for help, asking people to use flying pigeons to send a message to Liangshan for help, and asked half of the miners to keep vigil in order to reduce the energy consumption of the soldiers.

In Guan Sheng's military camp, Lei Heng was sent to the prisoner car, Xuanzan looked at Lei Heng who was glaring at him and laughed, "This guy is still not convinced, you go to Yanzhou for a while, wait for me to catch Jiang De in the future, and then send you to the court together to punish the crime!" ”

Lei Heng snorted, turned his head, didn't say a word, Xuanzan felt bored, turned back to Guan Sheng and said, "General, I watched the battle today, and found that there are about four or five thousand people in the village, although there are people in command, but that person is inexperienced, and he does not leave too many reserves, all the soldiers are tired, and they can attack at night." ”

Guan Sheng nodded and praised, "Brother Xian is right, the enemy is broken tonight!" ”

Lei Heng was extremely anxious when he heard this, and he was helpless, he only hoped that Liu Dan and the others could guard carefully and not let their mistakes be greater.

That night, Guan Sheng left Hao Siwen to guard the village, and he took Xuanzan to divide his troops into two ways to launch a night attack on Ciyang Mountain, Liu Dan fought for a day, tired, but still strong fighting spirit to patrol around, he is now the supreme commander in the camp, this pressure makes him a little breathless.

"Poof!"

"What sound?" A strange sound made Liu Dan turn his head and see that the sergeant who was originally standing on a watchtower was gone.

"Not good! Enemy Attack!! Liu Dan shouted loudly, and the sergeant on the side also hurriedly shouted, but it was too late, Liu Dan saw a general rushing out of the black shadow of less than fifty steps, and the big knife in his hand rose to the sky and smashed into the walled gate, the log gate weighing thousands of catties was actually cut into two sections, the general's big knife flew, and the heads of four or five Pingyin army sergeants who wanted to block the door flew up, and hundreds of Song troops rushed in, Liu Dan was angry, while shouting for the sergeant to resist, while holding a spear and wanting to lead people to surround and kill the general, He had already recognized that the general was Guan Sheng, the chief general of the Song army.

The Pingyin army is indeed well-trained, although the gate of the village was broken, but no one escaped, but spontaneously formed a team to resist, Guan Sheng saw that the Pingyin army did not flee as he imagined, but faintly rushed in the Song army to kill and retreat, and couldn't help but be anxious, at this time, there was also a sound of fighting behind the cottage, which was to lead the team through the path to the back mountain of Xuanzan.

Guan Sheng found Liu Dan, who was a hundred steps away from him, and shouted, "The thief general is not ready to surrender?" As soon as he urged the war horse, he cut off a few swords and spearmen in front of him and rushed towards Liu Dan.

In the era of cold weapons, brave generals like Guan Sheng can often create the myth of taking the head of the general among the ten thousand armies, and Guan Yu in the Three Kingdoms directly rushed to Yan Liang in front of the ten thousand armies and stabbed him to death, so that Yuan Shao's strategic offensive was blocked.

Guan Sheng's martial arts are naturally inferior to Guan Yu, but the gap between Liu Dan and Yan Liang is even greater, Liu Dan watched Guan Sheng kill in front of him as if he had entered a no-man's land, and he could only grit his teeth and fight with a gun.

"Tie up!" Guan Sheng shouted to the soldiers who were following him, and then shouted to the two armies who were still fighting, "The thief general has been captured by my Guan Sheng, why don't you surrender quickly?" ”

When the Pingyin army who was fighting heard this, they looked for the sound, and sure enough, they found that Liu Dan's general flag had been cut off, and Dong Xing, the deputy head of the regiment in the back, shouted when he saw this, "I am Dong Xing, listen to my orders, and break through backwards!" ”

Guan Sheng was furious when he heard this, and sure enough, he saw a new flag erected, and all the Pingyin troops rushed back around this banner, but many of the coerced miners were unwilling to fight again, and they all put down their swords and surrendered, anyway, for them, surrendering is the same for everyone.

Xuanzan had already killed at this time, and saw that a general under the command of the Pingyin army in the chaotic army was commanding, took out a hard bow, and shouted with a bell, "The thief will look at the arrow!" ”

Dong Xing didn't have time to react, he only felt that his throat was sweet, he turned over and fell off the horse, and the staff officer Jia Yibin on the side was a little afraid when he saw this, he was originally a poor showman, and joined the Liangshan Army in a Liangshan fight against local tyrants, and later because of the beginning of Wenmo, he entered the Huaxing Society, and also entered the military cadre training class, but he was weak by nature and was not suitable for being a general, so he was appointed as the staff officer of Lei Hengshi.

Now that the division commander Lei Heng has been arrested, the regiment commander and deputy regiment commander have all been killed or captured, according to the system, he is the highest military commander, and the soldiers around him are all looking at him, he gritted his teeth and shouted, "Break through!! ”

But he no longer dared to show his face on horseback, and the ugly general on the opposite side was so powerful that he had no confidence to dodge the arrow.

Guan Sheng and Xuanzan chased and killed all night, and did not collect their troops until dawn, counted the corpses and captured, Guan Sheng was surprised to find that none of the Pingyin troops took the initiative to surrender, basically they were seriously injured and captured, and those who were slightly injured or not injured were all original miners.

"General, come with me to see what these thieves have done." Xuanzan hurriedly ran over and said to Guan Sheng, who was counting the seizures.

Guan Sheng raised his head and asked, "What is it that makes Brother Xian so surprised." ”

Xuanzan pulled Guan Sheng to the inner belly of Ciyang Mountain, only to see huge steel furnaces towering, Guan Sheng was also startled when he saw such a huge steelmaking furnace for the first time.

"This ginger thief is smelting steel here, I'm afraid there are thousands of catties a day, and now it has been cracked by us, which is a great achievement." Hao Siwen also said excitedly.

Guan Sheng snorted and said, "Quickly go and inform the prefect, and send an order to the three armies, these equipment are not allowed to be destroyed, and they will be of great use in the future, and find lightly injured prisoners and inquire about the military situation, then Jiang De will definitely come to recapture Ciyang Mountain." ”

- Liang Shan

"Commander Lei couldn't stand the insults, and saw that those officers and soldiers were scattered, so he sent troops, but he didn't expect to be captured by that Guan Shengsheng, Commander Liu guarded all night, was attacked by the night to break through the camp, Deputy Regiment Commander Dong died in battle, and he could only lead the remnants of the soldiers and horses to break out of the encirclement, and after the counting, there were less than 600 people left." Jia Yibin said, tears came out, Jia Yibin has been a staff officer in this regiment for two years, everyone can be named, now most of the war ink, how can he not be sad, Jiang De turned his back, looked out the window, shook his head and said angrily, "When the thunder is gone, I have repeatedly instructed you to be careful, how dare he be so light on the enemy!"

Ciyang Mountain is an important place for our military industry, but it was attacked, Yanzhou bullied me too much, I will destroy him Liu Yu!

Mr. Xu, how are the soldiers assembled? ”

Xu Guanzhong first asked for sin, "Hou Ye, don't be angry, Ciyang Mountain is located in Yanzhou, Yanzhou is my enemy, we must attack it first, it is to underestimate the enemy, and I also ask Hou Ye to punish the crime." ”

Jiang De suddenly came to his senses, in fact, it was not Lei Heng who underestimated the enemy, nor Xu Guanzhong underestimated the enemy, but he himself underestimated the enemy, in Jiang De's eyes, Liu Yu was just a waste who brushed up experience for the four generals of Zhongxing, and he didn't look at him at all, but he ignored that Liu Yu still had such a brave general under his account, and even ignored that after Hao Siwen's training, the Yanzhou army was already a war army that could always attack the city.

Jiang De hurriedly stepped forward to help Xu Guanzhong and said, "Mr. Xu's words are shameful to me, this battle is my underestimation of the enemy, since I have competed with Jin Bing once, I have underestimated the heroes of the world."

Mr. Xu, I am ready to send troops to besiege Yanzhou, what do you think? ”

Xu Guanzhong nodded in agreement, "Zhu Junshi discussed with me last night, and we both feel that we must quickly attack Yanzhou now to ensure the strategic security of our Liangshan, and then we can do a good job in dealing with the possible southward movement of Jin soldiers next year." ”

Jiang De looked at Jia Yibin again and said, "Staff Officer Jia, you go down first and take the rest of your regiment to cultivate." ”

Jia Yibin gave a military salute and retreated.

——Yangsan Combat Conference Room

Since the last further reorganization and reorganization, Jiang De has gradually turned the Juyi Hall into a place similar to the court, and specific political and military affairs will be discussed in special areas.

This is also to prepare for the complete separation of the military and the government in the future.

In the combat conference room, in addition to many division commander-level generals, there are also many young staff officers, these staff officers are sitting behind the division commander, Jiang De has paid more and more attention to the training of staff officers, and most of the existing divisional and regiment-level officers are more than armed but not enough, which requires these staff officers to help them make up for it.

In his plan, all the specific actions of the army in the future are planned by these staff officers, the officers are the executors, and the generals have the right to decide on the planning of the staff officers.

On the huge map on the wall, there is the entire Jingdong Road, and it can be seen that a huge area centered on Yanzhou is painted blue, which is the goal of this combat meeting.

"Stand up!"

With a loud shout, everyone stood up in an uproar, and Jiang De walked in with Lu Junyi, Chao Gai, Xu Guanzhong, Gongsun Sheng, Zhu Wu, Cui Yizhi and other members of the Military Commission.

Zhu Wu originally built a city in Puzhou, and this time he also came to participate in this combat meeting.

After Jiang De and others sat down, he began to say, "I have convened you here for a meeting today, and I think everyone knows why.

Since I passed on the edict to the state capitals, all parts of the country have been looking at the wind, only Yanzhou has relied on the Holy Duke of Youyan, not only disobeying the orders of our army, but also issuing a document to insult our army, if it is just so, I will also take into account the overall situation, and will not be the enemy for the time being.

But recently, there was Zhu Biao, the remnant of Zhujiazhuang, who attacked Jimo City at night, burned and killed our army's merchant brigade, and fled to Yanzhou, which not only did not hand over this person, but also shot and wounded our army's envoy.

There are also traitors in the court who forged holy will, maliciously slandered Benhou, declared Benhou to be rebellious, and ordered Liu Yu, the prefect of Yanzhou, to recruit envoys for Jingxi Road in Beijing, and set out to fight our army, and now it has broken through my Ciyang Mountain, Lei Heng Division Commander was captured, and thousands of brothers fought in ink, which is really unbearable! I am ready to raise three armies, go out to Yanzhou, and wipe out Liu Yu, one is to avenge Jimo's revenge, and the other is to shock the courage of traitorous ministers.

Now although the Jin soldiers retreated, but they will go south in the near future, so it is the righteousness of the world, this battle should be fast as the key, within a month, it is necessary to break the Ji, Yan, Yi, and Mi Mansions.

It is now up to Mr. Xu to issue the military order. ”

Xu Guanzhong nodded to Jiang De, then stood up and said to everyone, "According to the intelligence of the Di Listening Bureau, Yanzhou has been recruiting troops since the beginning of this year, and has united with the surrounding state capitals to jointly operate and protect each other, with Yanzhou Governor Liu Yu as the mainstay, Yizhou Governor Lu Weiqing, Mizhou Governor Li Wen, Rencheng County Shousun Xinpeng and other vassals.

This battle was attacked from all sides, and Rencheng, Jiaoxi, Laiwu, and Gongxian were attacked.

Lu Junyi! ”

Lu Junyi stood up and shouted, "The last general!" ”

"Order you to lead your headquarters to attack Rencheng, and within ten days, you need to go to Ciyang Mountain!"

"Yes!"

"Shi Jin, Han Tao!"

"The last general!"

"Let the two of you lead your troops and horses to attack Jiaoxi, and within ten days, you need to conquer Mizhou City! Within 20 days, it is necessary to besiege Linyi, and there must be no mistake! ”

"Yes!"

"Teng Huan!"

"The last general!"

"Order you to lead the troops and horses of the headquarters to attack Laiwu, within ten days, you need to be Fengfu!"

"Yes!"

"Zhu Tong, Jiang Xintai, Lin Chong, Dong Ping, Pang Wanchun, each led the soldiers and horses of the headquarters to attack Gong County led by Hou Ye himself, and waited for all the soldiers and horses to arrive together to attack Yanzhou!"

"Yes!!"

Jiang De waited for Xu Guanzhong to finish the military order, and said, "The imperial court will definitely not sit back and watch our army is strong, once our army goes out, I expect that the Hebei soldiers and horses will not be coming, Zhu Junshi, Puzhou is the left wing of our army, if the imperial court soldiers and horses come, you only need to hold on for a month, it will be a great achievement!" ”

Zhu Wu bowed and said: "I will not fail in my mission!" ”

Jiang De said again, "Hebei is now full of thieves, the people's livelihood is difficult, and there is a Jin country that needs to be guarded against, I don't think I will send heavy troops, but I can't do it, this matter will be handed over to the commander of Chao, the northern army is coming, it will pass through Guanshan Town, Commander Chao, you lead Liu Tangshi to the town to guard, just hold on for one month, it will be a great achievement!" ”

Chao Gai smiled: "I will not disappoint Master Hou." ”

Jiang De looked at everyone and said, "This battle needs to attack the land of Sifu, in the past, we only need to annihilate the enemy army, but this time it is different, the Sifu will become our military jurisdiction in the future, so we must be strict with military discipline, if there is a violator, we should be severely punished!" ”

Everyone couldn't help but look nervous, and Jiang De saw that everyone heard their hearts, so he looked at Xiao Rang on the side and said, "In addition, President Xiao, I also need you to write an article to beg the thief." ”

Xiao Rang arched his hand and said, "I understand my humble duties." ”

"The battle order is as above, and the rest of the horses and horses perform their duties, run grain and grass, and guard the city roads, and there must be no mistakes."

"Yes!"

- Yanzhou

At this time, the city gates of Yanzhou were closed, and a pair of heavily armed sergeants were constantly patrolling the city walls and streets, and many of them had nervousness and fear written in their eyes, most of them had never been on the battlefield, let alone fought with anyone, and even more than half of them were newly recruited sergeants.

On the main hall of the palace, Liu Yu listened to the book below and read the text.

"At that time, my dynasty was in turmoil, and the common people were in misery, and there were Jurchens and party members on the outside, and traitors and corrupt officials on the inside. Jin Kou peeped into my Shenzhou, the army entered the customs, first swallowed Yanyun, and then attacked Hebei, Kaifeng was trapped, the world will fall, fortunately there is Taiyuan in the east, there are daimyo in the west, there are Li Chong inside, and there are righteous people outside.

However, the country is in turmoil, the Quartet is disturbed, the evil is endless, the court is restless, the wolf-hearted and dog-lung generation is raging in the court, and the servants and servants are in charge of the government, and the outside does not send food and grass, and the internal depreciation and punishment of loyalty and goodness will eventually lead to the defeat of the Western Army and the chaos of the Central Plains.

Fortunately, the Marquis of Yin, Zhisheji is in danger of being tired, and the living beings are in urgent need of hanging upside down, so they dare not ask the court for their crimes, and only seek peace for the people in the four fields. With the joint protection of all states, it will win the hearts of all the people.

From time to time, there is Liu Yu, who is a farmer and lacks morality. Less thieves, long stealing public property, receiving the grace of the saint, stealing Yanzhou. It is advisable to serve the death of the festival and repay the country's kindness, but he is greedy for property, arson is a thief, slaughters the people, and plunders the common people.

I have to accept the people with lofty ideals in Shandong, act with righteousness, take advantage of the time to move, cherish the officials and soldiers of Zhou County, etc., which is nothing more than the original intention, forgive all coercion, succumb to the thief's authority, and have no way to escape. If you can accept the money openly, the meat will surrender, or you are willing to turn against the precursor, or list the pot pulp in the road, you should know that you are still consistent, do not change your career, do your best to use Hantiao. If you are obsessed with it, you are willing to be an eagle dog, and you are a dog who barks at Yao, a hunter and cries tigers, and you should bow to the punishment of heaven, quickly sweep away the stubbornness, bring disaster and clan relatives, insult your father and ancestors, hang today's anti-party, and send a thousand years of notoriety. ”

"Enough!!" Liu Yu yelled and interrupted the unfinished article.

Liu Yu gasped, looked at the people below and said, "Overnight, the city is full of this inscription, Guan Sheng, the security in the city is responsible for you, how do you manage it?" ”

Guan Sheng's face was already red, but it was even redder at this time, he tilted his head, stroked his long beard and said, "The last general only led the troops back to the city today, how do you know about this?" What's more, the soldiers and horses in the city have always been in charge of General Liu? ”

"Guan Sheng, what do you mean by this?" Liu Lin suddenly stood up and shouted.

"General Liu, I am the general of Yanzhou, even if you are the son of the prefect, you are only a commander in the military!" Guan Sheng squinted at Liu Lin.

Liu Lin is the son of Liu Yu, in fact, he is not Liu Yu's parent, Liu Yu is forty years old, still no queen, his brother Liu Guang will give his son Liu Lin to Liu Yu, Liu Lin looks heroic, can ride a fierce horse, pull a hard bow, make good use of spears, copper, he doesn't like to read, but he is so ambitious, Liu Yu used his own merits to let him fill the general Shilang, and then promoted to the undertaker, but the clerical Liu Lin couldn't stand it at all, pestering Liu Yu to lead the troops, Liu Yu was helpless, so he let him be the commander of the army, but the position is still civilian, still hopes that he can be admitted to the imperial examination in the future.

But as the saying goes, there is no first, there is no second, Liu Lin is arrogant, after arriving at the barracks, he is looking for people everywhere to compete, others or really can't beat him, or let him, all the time he has met Guan Sheng, Guan Sheng has learned Guan Yu all his life, Guan Yu's arrogance has also learned seven or eight points, and he doesn't put Liu Lin in his eyes at all, the two only used three knives to cut Liu Lin's weapon into the sky, and therefore formed a feud with Liu Lin, Liu Lin said bad things about Guan Sheng every time he was in Liu Yu, but Liu Yu knew that Guan Sheng was brave and needed to rely on him to resist the Pingyin army, so he never made trouble, But I also remember them one by one.

Liu Yu didn't want to continue to talk about this, turned his head to look at a few literati on the other side, and asked, "A few gentlemen, what should I do now?" ”

These people are representatives of the family in Yanzhou, the leader of which is Kong Jing, the son of the Confucian family, Kong Jing's hair and beard are white, over fifty years old, the head of the Confucian family at this time is Yan Shenggong Kong Duanyou, who is a member of the generation, and Kong Jing is the next generation of Wang Zi, but he is older. ”

Sitting next to Kong Jing is also the representative of the Meng family Meng Bin, speaking of which, although Mencius and Confucius are equally famous, but the Meng family is far worse than the Confucian family, due to the Khitan invasion to the south, the Meng family lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests, or later Jingyou four years, the Confucian family of Kong Dao assisted in Yanzhou, visited the descendants of the Meng family, recommended to the imperial court, this was reborn, before coming to Yanzhou, although Meng Bin was the young head of the Meng family, but only a county official.

In the past, there was Yan Jie of the Yan family, as well as other representatives of the Confucian family.

These people gathered here on behalf of Confucianism to support Liu Yu and make Liu Yu and Liangshan enemies, and it was also because of the support of these people that Liu Yu dared to accept Zhu Biao, who intercepted and killed the Pingyin caravan.

But these people are all good at sitting and talking, but now in the face of Liangshan's attack, they are looking at each other, not knowing what to do.

In the end, Meng Bin, who was the only one with administrative experience, said: "Liu Xianggong, how many soldiers and horses does our army have now?" Where has the thief army gone? ”

The scribe who read the book below said, "The pseudo-Pingyin Marquis has already said in the text, the soldiers and horses are out in all directions, all the way to Rencheng, all the way to Jiaoxi, all the way to Laiwu, all the way to Gong County, but I don't know if it's true." ”

Meng Bin nodded and said, "I once went to Yuncheng in Weifu, and I know that Jiang De has a very high prestige in the green forest, and I don't think I will cheat at will, so I must send troops according to these four roads."

The target of the thief army is Yanzhou, and Jiaoxi must be a feint, as long as Mizhou is defended, the key is in Yanzhou three roads. Zizhou has been a thief, Laiwu has the danger of mountains and rivers, easy to defend and difficult to attack, why not let Li Cheng stick to Laifu, think that the thieves will not be able to attack for a long time, and if they are not the main attack, they will retreat.

And Rencheng and Gong County are less than 100 miles away from my Yanzhou, the thief army is to attack my Yanzhou, our army has just broken through Ciyang Mountain, I heard General Guan say that there is a place where Liangshan thieves smelt iron and smelt soldiers, thieves will inevitably recapture it, can make General Guan garrison in Ciyang Mountain, General Liu garrison in Yanzhou, the two armies are the momentum of the horns, Ciyang Mountain is in the west of the water, the thieves will use the river to transport grain, such as the thieves attack Ciyang Mountain, General Liu can attack its grain ships, such as the thief army attacks Yanzhou, General Guan can attack its back road. ”

Liu Yu nodded, feeling that his words were reasonable, but Liu Lin said, "No, the thief army is strong, if you divide your troops and attack, what should you do?" ”

Kong Jing said, "What General Liu said is very true, according to the old man's opinion, it is the best policy to shrink the troops and horses, defend Yanzhou, and invite the imperial army to come to the rescue." ”

Yan Jie glanced at him and nodded silently.

The Meng family and the Kong family have always been a little incompatible, this is also because although Confucius and Meng are equally famous, but the treatment of the Meng family is too much worse than the Kong family, Meng Bin argued, "Who in the world does not know that Jiang De is good at strange and skillful skills, and there must be no shortage of siege equipment, not to mention that the imperial court now has Hebei, Shanxi and other places that need to be pacified, how can there be soldiers and horses to help?" Even if it comes, what's the use if it's slow? ”

Kong Jing snorted, "If the whole army can't hold it, can the division of troops hold it?" As for the reinforcements, the soldiers and horses from Yizhou and Xuzhou can be mobilized to help. ”

"How much is it to use soldiers as a strategy?"

"I only ask you, if you can hold it with few soldiers, why do you have to divide your troops? If there are few soldiers and can't hold it, why should the troops be divided? ”

"If the troops are divided and defended, how dare the thieves divide their troops to attack the city?"

The two of you come and go, don't let each other go, I heard that Liu Yu had two big heads, and he didn't dare to scold, only when the two of them were tired, they asked Guan Sheng, who closed his eyes and didn't know if he was asleep, "What does General Guan think?" ”

Guan Sheng opened his eyes and said, "If I take 10,000 soldiers away, and the prefect can hold it, he will divide the troops, and if he feels that he can't hold it, he will stick to it." ”

Yanzhou originally had a commander of the forbidden army, two commanders of the Xiang army, no township soldiers, the first general of the forbidden army is Guan Shengbu, and the other commander is Kong Yanzhou stationed in Surabaya, and the second commander of the Xiang army is Liu Lin of Yanzhou and Li Cheng of Laifu, as for the township soldiers, they are the township warriors in various places, and the number is really difficult to say.

Although Liu Yu was appointed as the envoy of Jingxi Road, the soldiers and horses in various places have not yet had time to concentrate, so there are really not many soldiers and horses in hand.

Liu Yu thought for a while and said, "If it has nothing to do with the general, but this city is difficult to defend, why don't you send General Xuan to take three thousand soldiers and horses to Ciyang Mountain?" ”

Guan Sheng shook his head and said, "If this is the case, it is better to go down to the village outside the city and give up Ciyang Mountain, on the contrary, just like being able to defeat thieves, Ciyang Mountain can still be captured, if not, it is useless to occupy it." ”

Liu Yuben had no military experience, and seeing that Guan Sheng's idea, Kong Jing and Meng Bin did not object, he agreed to do so, and ordered Xuanzan to burn the iron-making equipment in Ciyang Mountain.