Chapter 718: Kill this old thief
At this time, Luo Cheng, who was rumored to be a dragon slayer warrior by the outside world, was looking at the information sent back from the customs and fell into deep thought.
The situation is changing.
But what really made him ponder was not that there were twelve emperors today.
What makes people's expressions serious is two bad news in succession, one is that Yin Xue Shixiong of Fanyang Mansion was killed, and the other is that Hebei pacified Li Jingzhan to death.
Xue Shixiong died, which made Luo Cheng very depressed, originally he had been sending people to contact Xue Shixiong, just to be able to win the general to fall into his camp, Xue Shixiong was a little hesitant at first, but then Luo Cheng's letters moved and persuaded him, and finally decided to change the banner.
And Duguyu, the governor of Beiping, who was blocked between Fan Yang and Andong at that time, also expressed his willingness to change banners, which is really exciting news.
Dugu's Beiping Governor's Mansion, which was guarded by Dugu, sat on the three counties of Beiping, Yuyang, and Anle, and controlled the most important Great Wall fortresses of Linyu Pass, Lulongsai, Wuzhongzhai, Miyun City, and Yanle City.
But who would have thought that Luo Cheng was already preparing to enter the customs, but Dugu Yu played him a trick.
He not only killed Luo Cheng's envoy, but also ran to Fanyang, killed Xue Shixiong and his eldest son Xue Wanshu, and also seized Fanyang's mansion and collected Fan Yang's soldiers.
Now Dugu not only owns the three counties of Yuyang and Yanle in Beiping, but also captures Fanyang Mansion, and takes the opportunity to control Boling County, with more than 30,000 soldiers and horses under his command.
And Dou Jiande occupies most of Hebei, owns nine counties, and is called the emperor Jianxia Kingdom in Hejian County.
Wang Xuba occupies the upper valley, and Wei Dao'er occupies the Heng Mountain.
After Li Jingzhan died, there were still some old troops who were guarding Zhao County.
Now in the entire Hebei, there are only these four forces left, among which Dou Jiande is the strongest, followed by Dugu of Fanyang Mansion.
Li Jing's old troops were struggling to support, and they could be surrounded and annihilated by the Xia army at any time.
Wei Dao'er's main power was in Hedong, and there was only one Hengshan County in Hebei.
Luo Cheng can not care about Wei Dao'er and Wang Xuba for the time being, they are stationed in the area of Taihang Mountain, and they do not block Luo Cheng's way to enter the customs, and now the most troublesome are Dugu and Dou Jiande.
One blocked the pass of the Great Wall, and the other blocked the southward road of Hebei.
But both of them are strong.
Dou Jiande is obviously very smart, after he seized Hejian, he actually secretly reached a non-aggression agreement with Dugu Yu. Dou Jiande did not attack Fanyang Boling, and Dugu did not go south to conquer Hejian.
The two of them obviously regarded Luo Cheng outside the gate as a big enemy, and they didn't want to give Luo Cheng a chance to go south.
Now Dugu is guarding the Great Wall wholeheartedly to prevent Luo Cheng from leaving the customs.
Dou Jiande also took this opportunity to attack the remnants of Li Jing in Zhao County with all his might.
"Kill the old thief!" Luo Cheng said hatefully.
Luo Cheng was not in a hurry to enter the customs before, firstly, because Dugu Yu expressed his willingness to belong at that time, and secondly, the loyal army was indeed not ready to enter the customs.
Therefore, while Luo Cheng stepped up his preparations, he sent people to constantly contact Dugu and Xue Shixiong, hoping to make peace without a fight.
But who would have thought that it would be such a result, this Dugu Yu really made him Luo Cheng impressed.
Putting down this piece of information, Luo Cheng picked up another piece of information.
But it was sent by Siye, saying that his communication with Yun Dingxing has not been very good recently, although the Mo Nan Jiedu envoy was looked down upon by the Luo Cheng brothers, sold his daughter for glory, and then killed his nephew for glory, but this guy is now wavering, with an attitude of sitting on the ground and raising prices.
But now Luo Cheng and they can't ignore him, because he owns the land of the Hetao, if the heir goes south, he will inevitably threaten the back road of the heir, and if this bastard leads the Turks again, it will be even more troublesome.
Now there is intelligence that the emperor has gone crazy and has used all kinds of stupid tricks.
Not only did he send people to Mobei to recruit Turks to go south, but he even sent people to ask for help from the Western Turks, intending to use Turkic troops to deal with Heiye and Liu Wuzhou in Hedong Daibei.
Even the Turkic tribes that are now attached to Monan are also some of them ready to move, and the heir has to put Princess Yicheng under house arrest, but in this way, it has also caused many Turks to be dissatisfied.
Therefore, now the heir has to devote himself to these Turks inside Dingxiang, and he is temporarily unable to go south.
And Liu Wuzhou of Daibei, although he captured the three counties, but Yang Yichen and Xiao Yu blocked the passage north of Taiyuan, at the same time, Daibei had just experienced the raid of the Turks last time, so he has not recovered now, more than 200,000 mouths, but after the autumn harvest, it is not enough for himself to eat grain and grass, Liu Wuzhou is now not even enough military food, he is killing Wang Rengong to raise troops, and many Mayi generals are also secretly dissatisfied with him.
So now it is also a hurry, on the one hand, it has to fulfill its promise to release grain to help the people, and on the other hand, it has to deter and appease the subordinate generals, and if it wants to go south, the independent army is not the opponent of Yang Yichen and Xiao Yu, especially the lack of food.
As a veteran of the battlefield, Luo Cheng knows very well that a war is not simply said to be fought like this.
He involved not only the mobilization of soldiers and horses, but also the mobilization of grain and grass, the preparation of ordnance and baggage, and even the recruitment of people, all to sum up.
It is necessary to have money and food, and there must be soldiers.
Daibei's army is now unstable, and Liu Wuzhou did not dare to go south to attack Taiyuan at this time, he lacked money and food, and did not dare to send troops. He constantly sent people to Siye and Luo Cheng to ask for money and food, and sent reinforcements.
But at this time, where did Luo Cheng take care of him.
He has to deal with the Yuan clan first, at least he has to take Fuyu River first, hit the Yuan clan hard, and then force him to negotiate in order to promote peace and beat the Yuan clan, so that he doesn't dare to think about it easily, and he has no ability to pose a big threat to Luo Cheng.
After all, the Yuan clan still has at least three million people in their hands now, with 100,000 soldiers and horses, and can mobilize two or three hundred thousand soldiers.
The good news is that Du Fuwei has withstood the pressure in Jiangnan, and Yang Guang has not sent troops across the river until now, but now the situation in Jiangnan is also chaotic, Shen Faxing took advantage of Du Fuwei's full defense against Xiaoguo's army to the south, and took the opportunity to rise up and capture Yuhang and Huijishu counties, which should have been a place that Du Fuwei could capture.
And Zuo Caixiang and Lin Shihong also occupied several counties in the west of the Yangtze River, Du Fuwei made wedding clothes for them, he blocked the Xiaoguo army from going south, but let them rest assured that they could attack the city and plunder the land in the back, and call the emperor the founding of the country.
Luo Yi, who was far away in Annan, wrote to Luo Cheng and told him that his plan to go north had also encountered some difficulties.
First of all, Lin Yiguo invaded and harassed at this time, and then Ning Changzhen, Feng An, Gao Facheng, Xian Baoche and other local chiefs in Lingnan, all of whom also raised troops to divide one side and attack each other, which led to Luo Yi now wanting to go north to the Central Plains, but there was no way out.
And Shi'an County, which occupies the main land route back to the Central Plains, that is, the land of Guilin, is held by Li Xizhi, who is loyal to the imperial court, and this person is very loyal to the Sui family, no matter who comes to attack and persuade him to surrender, he will not pay attention.
So now Luo Yi is blocked by these people in Annan and cannot go north, unless he leaves by boat alone and goes north alone, but Luo Yi is unwilling to leave these soldiers and horses in Annan, so now he can only fight with the people of Linyi on the one hand, and on the other hand, he has to fight against these separatist forces in Lingnan, which is completely a situation of porridge and chaos.
After reading this information, Luo Cheng's brows furrowed a little more.
The battle of Buyeo River must be accelerated and ended as soon as possible, so that troops and horses can be drawn out and join the battle situation in the Central Plains. Today's situation is more chaotic, but it is also more distinct.
"Report! Marshal, the great victory of Buyeo River, General Luo Shixin launched the battle of Fuyu City on October 8, it took only half a day to attack the city, and after a day of fierce fighting, he captured Buyeo City, captured the enemy Shuai Yuan Jiantu, beheaded more than 3,000 ranks, captured more than 10,000 soldiers, obtained more than 50,000 households, and countless cattle and sheep. ”
A good news that was delivered urgently made Luo Cheng's brows finally stretch a little.
Buyeo City is broken, then the remaining 40 or so cities of Buyeo River will have no backbone support, and they can all be obtained.
"Go and invite Wei Changshi to come, I want to ask him Yuan Taizuo to write a letter!"