Chapter Thirty-Eight: Expanding the Results
The news of Yongning's emergency was soon sent to Luoyang City, after the prefect Feng Yijun heard about it, he was even more shocked, the matter in Mianchi County was still unsettled, and now the soldiers and horses of the Xingtian Army killed Yongning County, although Yongning County is not an important place, but there is a Wan'an King Zhu Cai, who is one of the royal kings, once it is lost, even if his prefect is at the end, with the temper of today's saint, he will end up with a beheaded city.
So he didn't dare to slack off at all, and hurriedly invited the general soldier Wang Shaoyu to the mansion, and informed Wang Shaoyu of the news that the Xingtian army was besieging Yongning County.
Xingtianjun went south to Henan to make trouble, the first thing to bear the brunt was Henan Mansion, this area was the area he was responsible for, Mianchi County was lost, so that Xingtianjun took the initiative to give up, so that he could easily recover Mianchi County, even if this matter was reported to Jingshi, it could be fooled.
But once Yongning County was captured by the Xingtian Army, and a Zhu Cai was killed, he couldn't afford this responsibility, so after listening to Feng Yijun's words, he didn't dare to slack off for a moment, and quickly went back and began to deploy troops.
At present, he does not have many troops in Luoyang, in addition to leaving enough soldiers and horses to guard Luoyang, the troops he can use are only about four or five thousand people, and this time the Xingtian Army entered Kou Henan, with more than 5,000 troops, although others do not know much about the Xingtian Army, but as the chief general of Henan Mansion, he has to pay attention to the situation in Shanxi, and his understanding of the Xingtian Army is more profound than that of ordinary Henan officials.
Others don't know the power of the Xingtian Army, it doesn't mean that he doesn't know the power of the Xingtian Army, Zuo Liangyu, He Renlong, Xu Dingguo, and Hu Dawei are all well-known figures in the current official army, but these four people jointly sent troops to Yangcheng, and in the end, except for He Renlong, who was still able to retreat, the other three almost all returned with a feather, and Hu Dawei even almost died in the hands of the Xingtian Army.
And now the Xingtian Army sent troops to Henan, which is undoubtedly a huge bad news for him, the chief soldier who is responsible for guarding the area around Henan Prefecture, and now Lu Xiangsheng has taken the Tianxiong Army under his command to the north to Xuanda to defend the town, Henan is the time when the army is crippled, and with his strength alone, he is not the opponent of the Xingtian Army at all.
Therefore, while he was busy dispatching troops to Yongning County to rescue, he hurriedly discussed with Feng Yijun and sent someone to quickly ask Chen Biqian, the governor of Henan, who was sitting in Kaifeng to supervise and suppress the army, to send reinforcements to suppress it.
However, Wang Shaoyu encountered resistance among his subordinates in the matter of transferring troops to Yongning County to rescue, and he originally wanted to send his subordinate general Zhang Tong to lead his troops there, but after this Zhang Tong heard the order, he simply came to the pretext that he could not come out and refused to lead his troops to fight.
Wang Shaoyu is very greedy for money, has always been accustomed to deducting military salaries, often on the peak to allocate military salaries to his hands, he first has to deduct eighty percent in his own pocket, the remaining two percent have to have one component to be sent to his family, the rest of the ten percent to distribute to the soldiers.
So Wang Shaoyu has a nickname in the army, called Wang Bacheng, some officers and soldiers simply saved this word and called him Wang Ba, these officers and soldiers who have been exploited under him all the year round have long been complaining, guarding a city on weekdays, and it is difficult for them, but let them fight, but few people are willing to do it.
Wang Shaoyu failed to transfer troops, Feng Yijun urged him again, and he had no choice but to personally put on the battle, and ordered four thousand soldiers and horses in the barracks outside Luoyang City, and he was so painful that he took out 10,000 taels of silver from his waist bag, and after distributing it, he finally got these generals to agree to send troops with him.
But such a delay was three days, when he led his troops to leave Luoyang City, before they reached Yiyang County, a small number of officers and soldiers escaped from Yongning County, and rushed all the way to Yiyang County, bringing the news of the fall of Yongning to Wang Shaoyu.
Wang Shaoyu was shocked after hearing this, and after leading his troops to Yiyang County, he no longer dared to advance towards Yongning County, but simply put on a posture of imperial defense in Yiyang County, intending to hold Yiyang so that the Xingtian Army could not threaten Luoyang City.
In addition, Wang Shaoyu is not stupid, knowing that if Yongning is lost, the court will definitely be held responsible, so he immediately sent someone home, took the silver and hurried up and down to make points, and sent someone to find King Fu, and sent 10,000 taels of silver to King Fu, and said that Yongning was lost, all of which were the responsibility of the Yongning County garrison and Wu Dalie, the county magistrate, and they did not leave him Wang Shaoyu time to lead the rescue at all, and he couldn't complain about anything.
In order to gain a firm foothold as soon as possible and expand the results of the battle, while sending people to monitor the movements of the surrounding officers and soldiers who may come to suppress, on the other hand, in the second and third battalions, each dispatched a sentry to form a temporary Yongning County garrison, responsible for guarding Yongning County and maintaining order in the county, and after a short rest in the second and third battalions, they replenished the soldiers in the baggage barracks of the accompanying army on the spot, and the baggage battalion was from the prisoners of the officers and soldiers and Yidou Valley. A part of the strong men who were willing to follow the Xingtian Army were selected, and the soldiers who were lacking were replenished, and they were trained as temporary recruit camps, and then they began to sweep the Huangzhuang and the local gentry's villages and forts in Yongning County.
Now for Luo Li and his gang, such a thing as fighting Zhuangbao has long been familiar with it, coupled with the strong firepower of the Xingtian Army, dealing with such a Zhuangbao is simply a matter of hand-to-hand, even if it encounters a few Zhuangbao with fierce resistance, with the help of the engineer battalion, the method of digging and blasting can be taken quickly.
When the battalions of the Xingtian Army did these things, they also tried to minimize the harm to the local ordinary people, and often every time they broke through a Zhuangzi, they would take out a part of the grain from the village according to Xiao Tianjian's instructions, and give relief to the nearby displaced people and ordinary people on the spot.
In this way, in just a few days, the Xingtian Army opened up the situation around Yongning County, and the common people learned of the benevolence and righteousness of the Xingtian Army, and gathered one after another, although they could not help the Xingtian Army attack Zhuangbao, but they were willing to follow the Xingtian Army to help carry some materials in exchange for a full meal.
What worried Xiao Tianjian did not happen, and the officials and troops in the direction of Luoyang actually stopped in Yiyang County after learning the news of the fall of Yongning County, which gave him more time to control Yongning County.
And after the battle of Yidou Gu in the battle of crossing the Yang River, he fled back to Dafang Mountain with the remnants, probably because Liu Yao was really afraid, after this guy fled into Dafang Mountain, he stubbornly guarded several key crossings into the mountain in Dafang Mountain, and never dared to show his head again, but this beam is also completely finished, but how will Yidou Gu retaliate next, Xiao Tianjian has not found out for the time being, but in order to prevent the retaliation of Yidou Valley, he still let Liu Yaoben's teaching battalion be stationed in the area of the Duyang River, while sweeping the local Zhuangbao, While monitoring the movements of Itogu.
And Luo Yingjie led the officials in charge of civil affairs are not idle, in Yongning City, they at a very fast speed, restore the order in the county, all kinds of shops because they have not been harmed, under the order of the Xingtianjun, they have also opened for business again, at the same time, Luo Yingjie was sitting in the county seat, from the county office, copied out the stub of the title deed in Yongning County, and burned it clean outside the county government in public, so that the land deed in the hands of the rich people in the county even if it is kept, it has become a piece of waste paper.
With the expansion of the actions of the Xingtian Army, the Zhuangzi of several famous large landowners in Yongning County fell under the front of the Xingtian Army, and the division of land was immediately launched in Yongning County.
After already having the experience in Shanxi, now the division of land promoted by the Xingtianjun in the area of Yongning County is much easier, and the officials in charge of civil affairs under Luo Yingjie quickly began to go down to the townships, recruiting a group of helpers on the spot, measuring the land, issuing announcements, and counting household registration and other affairs soon spread out in Yongning County.
Yongning County, which was originally bleak, immediately began to be lively, and even some of the surrounding homeless people quickly learned the news, and they poured into Yongning County one after another, registering their household registration in various townships, and waiting for the Xingtian Army to distribute the fields.
As for the people's desire for land, there is no need to detail it here, if it is said that the most serious place of land annexation in this era is where, then Henan must be able to come out on top, according to incomplete statistics, nearly half of the land in Henan has fallen into the hands of the emperor's relatives and some officials and gentry, and the vast majority of the people can only serve as tenants for these rich families.
As soon as they entered Yongning, they made a long-term defensive posture, and after re-measuring and regulating the arable land in the county, they began to gradually distribute it to the landless people with the number of ten acres of land per household.
Yidou Gu in the Dafang Mountain hated the Xingtian Army so much that he gritted his teeth, and crossed the Yanghe River to fight, he didn't expect that more than 700 Xingtian Army's subordinates would really dare to fire at his 7,000 troops, and he didn't expect that the firearms of the Xingtian Army were so fierce, just a round of guns down, and the more than 300 archers who he regarded as treasures were swept away by the Xingtian Army, and then a round of guns came over, and his men in the crossing of the Yang River were floating corpses, and the entire Duyang River was almost stained red by the blood of his men. The corpses of his men who were killed almost blocked the water of the Yang River.
Under such a chilling blow from the Xingtian Army, the rabble under his command collapsed on the spot, and the rumbling ones scattered and fled.
Although Yidougu also knew that he didn't have many elite soldiers under his command, he didn't expect to be defeated so badly, ten times that of the Xingtian Army, he would be killed so badly, and what was even more odious was that he found that the other party led the team was actually some seventeen or eighteen-year-old offspring boys.
It's not enough for these juniors of the Xingtian Army to kill so many of his men, and they also crossed the river to chase and kill him when he began to retreat, killing his already sloppy military spirit even more of a mess, if he hadn't been used to keeping one hand and running fast, this battle would have almost been captured alive by the less than 1,000 Xingtian Army's subordinates.
When he fled all the way back to Dafang Mountain with the remnants of the defeated army, he learned that this time he led his troops out, and he didn't get it cheaper, not to mention, more than 7,000 people who took it out, but less than half of them came back, and only more than 3,000 of his men followed him back to Dafang Mountain, and the rest were either killed or captured by the Xingtian Army.
As a result, he could only send people to defend the mountain pass, and he no longer dared to go down the mountain to find trouble with the Xingtian Army.