Shannan East Road, near Jingmen County, to which Xiangyang Town belongs, in the flat valley with the mountains and rivers at the back, is just as the corpses are all over the field and are fighting endlessly.

Liu Jurong, the envoy of Shannan Jiedu, who was born with a thick face and thick eyebrows and a burly appearance, also commanded his subordinates to fight on the spot on the top of a mound where the Chinese army was temporarily established, and smashed and defeated the peasant army that came in waves on the spot.

In terms of seniority, he is also one of the few generals in the imperial court who was born in the imperial examination. Initially, he was in Xuanzong Dazhong for eight years as a martial arts scholar and the first, and served in the Wuning Army in Xuzhou. Tang Yizong Xiantong followed the town army to the border of Guizhou for three years, and was the general under Wang Zhongfu; also escaped the rebellion of the Silver Knife Party in which the Wuning Army expelled the Jiedu envoys; Later, Annan fell into Nanzhao, and he was among the Guan Gui soldiers who went to help.

Tang Yizong Xiantong ten years Guilin soldiers returned to the north of the Pang Xun rebellion, he did not participate in it but took advantage of it to return, but was awarded by the imperial court "Yinqiao Town Containment Envoy" (now Suxian County, Anhui). But since then, it has not been unknown for more than ten years, until the fifth year of the reign of today's son, Wang Ying, the general of the western Zhejiang Command, rebelled and attacked Mingzhou (now Wenzhou, Zhejiang).

Then with the Huangchao soldiers rose up and began to rise in the official career, in order to chase and suppress the grass thieves, the Chuzhou regiment training envoy, Qi Huang recruited the deputy envoy, the Xiangzhou marching Sima and the inspection school right scattered cavalry standing attendant, in October of the following year, in order to encircle most of the Huangchao in the south, it is to march Sima Qianshan South Dongdao Jiedu envoy (Xiangyang) so far.

It can be said that he has experienced and witnessed most of the military affairs of Xuanzong to Yizong, and then to most of the military affairs of the Son of Heaven of the Three Dynasties; His exploits and future were also built on the bones of these grass thieves; It is the Li family, who is not inferior to the master, or the prime minister Wang Duo, who has gone through three dynasties and does not know the military affairs and will only flee from the battle, he also has no reason or room for compromise and concession against these grass thieves, but can only fight to the death.

But what is reassuring at this moment is that under the critical situation, he is not alone against the grass thief; The reinforcements led by Cao Quanyan, the envoy from Jiangxi, had also traveled up the river one step ahead and arrived near Xiangyang; Then after a simple meeting of troops and consultations, Liu Jurong was not willing to passively defend the urn city, and even persuaded Cao Quanyang to cooperate with him to implement a rather bold light temptation plan.

First of all, the weak soldiers such as the local soil regiments drove the grass thieves to the north again and again, and abandoned a lot of grain, grass and wealth, so that they gradually became arrogant and arrogant; The various ministries competed for merit and gradually stretched each other apart.

Then, under his command, there was a general called Ashina Yuelu, who was known for being good at riding and shooting, and could tame horses; Liu Jurong ordered him to lead a number of cavalry to break into the front of the grass thief battle and fight fiercely for a while, and then wait for an opportunity to abandon his mount and flee on foot. Since then, the thieves have become more and more cowardly.

As a result, on the second day, the leaders of the grass thieves really rode these trained horses out to fight, and as a result, these horses could understand the call of the original owner, and they were shouted by Ashina Yuelu's department before the battle, so they rushed back and the grass thieves could not stop them. It was to capture the twelve thieves on the spot, and the beheadings were hung on the flagpole.

The rest of these menacing grass thieves did not expect that the officers and soldiers would dare to take the initiative to go out of the city to meet the attack, and they were caught off guard by the unprepared under the leaderless group of dragons, and the entire tens of thousands of pioneers turned into corpses full of pits and valleys; Then, most of the follow-up people who woke up like a dream rushed up to fight.

However, under the limitation of geographical advantages, although they are several times larger than the number of officers and soldiers, they can only add fuel to the battle with waves of people to carry out a war of attrition on a front with a limited width; Then he endured the continuous rain of arrows and rushed in front of the camp set up by the official army, and then the corpses piled up again and again to rout and retreat.

Liu Jurong was like this, thinking about it, and watching the front held by the officers and soldiers, under the continuous influx of grass thieves, it began to become shaky or shrinking, and he was not moved at all; And several times refused Yamashita's request for help and retreat to change the guard.

Even if he heard that his nephew Liu Wan, who has always been optimistic, and Zhang Deyi, a general of his cronies, were blocking those grass thieves who tried to bypass the side of the mountain; Unfortunately, the bitter battles were fought one after another, and the current situation was lost, and it was just an oh sound, and it was just a hard grasp of the whip handle in his hand. This was not enough, he said this to himself in his heart, but it was better to retreat from the enemy than to hit it with all his strength, and he wanted more than that.

At this time, it was as if his wish had come true, and the news he had been waiting for for a long time was finally delivered to him by the scouts and scouts. Da Xu, who represents the second person of the grass thief and the leader of the road, has appeared in the direction of the enemy's rear position. Liu Jurong couldn't help but let out a breath of depression and threw the horsewhip into the dust, and opened his voice as if he had seen the sun

"Blow the trumpet and send the letter."

With the sound of columns of smoke and horns lit on the hills; At this time, the Jiangxi soldiers, who had been ambushed in the mountains and forests near the left in advance, also roared out in the huge movement and noise of the forest birds; Under the leadership of Cao Quanyang, the whole body was dressed up and the momentum was like a rainbow surging out with overwhelming momentum, and in a moment it annihilated the direction of the rear formation where the grass thief's heavy grain and grass dependents were located;

It was like a variegated tide that filled most of the mountains and valleys, and at once it was cut off and swallowed up by tens of thousands of Jiangxi soldiers who were still gray in color, and blocked and swallowed up a large piece from the rear; All of a sudden, these thieves couldn't care about each other on the spot, and spontaneously became chaotic and their hearts floated.

Then, someone reported that he saw that the banner of Shangzi behind the enemy's formation began to shake, and slowly retreated backwards; At this time, Liu Jurong flew on his horse and yelled at his subordinates:

"Armies slay the thieves with me. Meritorious service to the court, it depends on the present dynasty. ”

"Mighty. . . Mighty.. ”

"Defeat the enemy. . . Changsheng. ”

The hills were suddenly in a roar, and they vied with each other to raise their flags and guns and shout like thunder; Later, I saw the Yaqian soldiers led by Liu Jurong and the left and right Shendu battalions as the pioneers, and countless gathered armor sparkling and flying in the middle of it, like blood dots and scarlet cloaks; It turned into a large silver-red mottled stream rushing down, and rushed fiercely into the chaotic and overwhelmed thieves, and the mountain shook and shook the ground and scattered and collapsed into a deep chunk.

After a few more hours, the valley was left with blood-soaked dirt and cascading corpses.

"Tens of thousands of each are killed, this is an exciting victory."

Jiangxi's envoy Cao Quanyan, who was stained with blood and had a gray beard, was also unable to hide his joyful face

"Seeing that the thief is going to have a wing, but my generation still needs to continue to struggle.。。

"I think that the country bears a lot of people, and it is not rewarding in danger, and it is offended when things are peaceful. . . ."

However, Liu Jurong, who also took the lead and stained his blood-stained robe, shook his head slightly and said something a little shocking:

"Instead of counting on the period of reward, in fact, it is better to leave the thief and hope for the future."

"Virtue is wrong. There are upright people in the DPRK. ”

However, hearing this rebellious remark, Cao Quanyang's face couldn't help but change slightly, but it turned into a complicated expression and a wry smile and said with relief.

"Why be so pessimistic? Why don't you give this opportunity to the old man. ”

"It's just that I felt a little bit of it, but I laughed."

Immediately, Liu Jurong also re-corrected the way.

"It's not enough to have a thief army all the way, so I'm going to keep my hands behind. Since then, we have done everything we can to eradicate evil for the country."

"My tooth soldiers and Xiangcheng sailors, they must have crossed the river at this moment."

Later, a local historical record said:

Jiangxi recruited Cao Quanxi and Shannan Dongdao Jiedu to make Liu Jurong join forces to fight the thieves in Jingmen, and the grass thief in the middle of the road commander Shang was defeated and wounded countless times, and the troops were killed and captured, and the remnants retreated to Jiangdong; The officers and soldiers chased and defeated dozens of thieves, and the thieves were scattered, and only more than 1,000 people were spared.

。。。。。。。

And among the rebels who fled away, Zhu Cun, who was already the deputy commander of the Kokang Army and the general of Lang, was also grinning with a few severed arrow shafts on his body, and was lying on a mule with his strength and shouting loudly.

"It's all miserable by this sloppy and reckless Shang Datou. I really regret not listening to the monk's words,"

"This trip to the north is really not so easy to fight."

"If I hadn't kept an eye on it, I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to keep this foundation."

Then he groaned again and struggled to get up from the mule's back and shouted

"No, I can't go with the tide anymore, I'm going to Jiangling to find Cao Shishi to help you with one or two."

After the war, in the city of Xiangyang, which had been lifted from martial law and began to show its blessings, there was a mansion with carved beams and paintings. The servant of the door who had just escaped for a long time, the left servant of Shangshu shot Tongping Zhangshi, and the envoy of Jingnan Jiedu and Wang Duo of the Duke of Jin, but there was no joy and excitement for the crisis to be resolved.

Because, with a blank face, he was looking at some of the newly seized special objects; Then, in the trembling eyes or frightened expressions of the surrounding subordinates and staff, there was a certain gritted tooth of resentment:

"This is a confusing demon book. Ahh

"It's been widely spread among grass thieves."

"Why is the Duke of Jin from here, it's just a mere act of nonsense."

A secretary next to him joined the army, and he was relieved.

"It's just a matter of destroying the ban. . . ."

"Confused, they are all a bunch of fools, it is because you are so neglected and neglected, that the country is in decline and there are many adversities."

Wang Duo scolded with some heartache.

"What kind of nonsense dare to instigate the people to resist the government and gather in the mountains and forests; Dare to pseudo-attack the Three Kingdoms War at the end of the Han Dynasty to allude to the present, and preach how to be a strategy for the art of war in the troubled world. ”

Not to mention the commentaries which slandered the eunuchs, the clans, the courtiers, the magistrates, and the gentry; It's even more contemplative and quite demagogic. Those who dare to make such a fallacy and compete for the hearts and minds of the country and the dynasty are the real evil thieves who bring disaster to the world. ”

"Not to mention that it is said that the leaders of these grass thieves are already in their hands and they are carrying them to read day and night, and they take it as a guide."

"Once their rumors spread with these grass thieves, the harm will be even worse than that of the culprit."

On the case were some excerpts from the "Heroes of the Three Kingdoms" and "The Legend of the Heroes of Liangshan" seized from the defeated grass thieves, with the names of "Yuanxuan" and "Void Travel" respectively printed on them.

"Pass my hall and post it, so that the government offices in the southeast have divisions, and hang the monk Yuanxuan and the person who is famous."

Then he made a decision, and said angrily.

"Regardless of whether you live or die, once it is verified, you will be rewarded with 600,000 yuan and 300 pieces of silk, all of which will be given by my public slack."

When this order was given, Wang Duo seemed to be relieved of the depression in his heart and spit out, and then handed over his singer in the local Xinna, and began to have fun; However, guessing that the next day, he received the news that the envoy had arrived.

Because I sat in the car for too long, I was tired and didn't want to move, so I was lazy for an extra day, sorry

(End of chapter)