Chapter 129: Expansion
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And Xiao Tianjian led his subordinates to work until the second half of the night, and finally took stock of the battle damage and capture, etc., and then dragged their tired bodies one by one, and returned to Xiao Tianjian's big tent with a smile on their faces. *..!。 *
Some guards immediately brought the food to them, just now they were only busy with their work, and everyone else had finished eating, but their gang of generals did not get the rice bowl, and when they smelled the smell of rice, they moved their index fingers one by one, and they didn't care about any manners, so they picked up their chopsticks one by one and chewed on them.
Because the firehead soldiers knew that Xiao Tianjian and his generals had not eaten, so they made something special for them tonight, using the captured dead horses, stewed a large pot of horse meat for them, and also served them a basin of bread and a pot of porridge, Xiao Tianjian didn't care so much, and his generals ate a lot, and after a while, they swept the things on the table clean.
Luo Li patted his stomach and smiled: "It's just a sip of wine!" If you can drink another pot of wine, it will be refreshing! ”
After Xiao Tianjian wiped his hands, he asked people to clean up the table, and after removing the table, he smiled at the generals: "It's not yet time for us to drink and eat meat in a big bowl, and wait until one day after we lift the emperor Lao'er off his throne, so that the people in the world can eat a full meal, and we will eat meat and drink in a big bowl!" ”
The generals were slightly excited when they heard this, although Xiao Tianjian led them to rebel, so far, it was the first time they heard Xiao Tianjian talk about the words of wanting to remove the current emperor, then this also means that Xiao Tianjian has the intention of winning the world, when they followed Xiao Tianjian to rebel in the past, at first many people just wanted to follow him to mix two full meals every day, but now they found that everyone's mood is a little high, and they are not as easy to feel satisfied as before, And Xiao Tianjian's words also speak to their hearts, they always have a goal in rebellion!
And just having enough to eat is definitely not the goal they want, and following Xiao Tianjian, they want to have a bigger goal, and Xiao Tianjian's words today have been put bluntly, that is, to do big, not to mention whether what Xiao Tianjian said is bragging, at least this is the direction they will work towards in the future, who has never thought about it! If Xiao Tianjian can sit on the throne one day, then these people will be the founding fathers of the country, so everyone's eyes lit up.
Xiao Tianjian looked up at the eyes of the generals, knowing that he was talking a little too much today, but it didn't hurt, setting a goal for his subordinates was better than living a muddy life, if they didn't even have this bit of ambition to be rich and noble, then don't say anything about subjective initiative, so he didn't mind him saying his ambition.
"That's it! Everyone worked hard today! The inventory of all places just now has come out, and while the big guy is not sleepy at this moment, I'll just say it!
Today, our losses are not small, a total of 74 brothers killed in the battle, 171 wounded, basically all soldiers, it can be said that the loss of our soldiers has reached almost 10%, mainly when dealing with the official army array, the casualties caused to us by the chariots of the official army, and there are very few brothers casualties in the pursuit battle!
This also shows that we still have some deficiencies in dealing with the officers and soldiers, and it seems that we will need to improve them in the future! This chariot is indeed not easy to deal with!
However, compared with the losses, our harvest in this battle is also quite good, more than 1,200 people were captured, and the number of enemy soldiers was probably more than 1,000, and the capture of military tents and armor needless to say, in addition to the capture of more than 200 war horses, including dozens of wounded horses, but it is also quite good, and then there is a batch of grain and mules and horses, ten chariots, more than 20 artillery pieces of all kinds, it is not an exaggeration to describe this battle with a great victory, it is estimated that this time the government should know how powerful we are! Xiao Tianjian picked up a compiled list of battle conditions and said to the generals.
After hearing this, the generals also laughed heartily, because this battle was really wonderful, and the Xingtian Army could be said to have defeated this team of officers and soldiers who were more than twice their strength head-on without any tricks, which is almost extremely rare among the rebels from all walks of life, and the other rebels have not won battles, but many times they are defeated by winning more and fighting less, and they are winning more with less, which is enough for each of them to make them feel honored.
Xiao Tianjian raised his hand to stop the laughter of the generals, and then said to them: "Don't be happy too early, although we defeated this official army this time, but it will definitely attract great attention from the government in the future, although their main attention is now focused on the various righteous armies in the Huguang area of Henan, and they may not have the energy to send a large army to deal with us in a short period of time, but we must not take it lightly, during this time, we must lay a larger territory as soon as possible, and at the same time we must train a group of new soldiers, In order to cope with the future retaliation of the officers and troops against us!
Today's battle is just the beginning for us, and then from the west of this place to the north of Yangcheng County, we must take it as soon as possible and expand our territory, my goal is to occupy the entire territory of Yangcheng and the area of Yuanqu County before the summer harvest, and try to obtain more resources before the official army sends troops to attack us again! You have a long way to go! Don't get complacent now! ”
As soon as the generals heard this, they immediately hurriedly got up to take the order, these guys are not afraid of fighting now, but afraid of not fighting, don't look at some of them have not been in this line of work for a long time, but they have developed a belligerent habit with Xiao Tianjian.
Niu Taiqi reluctantly fled back to Zezhou City with more than 100 remnants of the defeated generals all the way without stopping, which was relieved, but after returning to Zezhou City, he also knew that he was finished this time, so he hurriedly sent people out of the city to inquire about the news of the Xingtian Army along the way, while trying to collect his remnants as much as possible.
And what frightened him even more was that he only cared about himself and fled in a panic, but he forgot the Wang Jian Jun who was with the army, and when he ran outside Zezhou City, he remembered that there was still the Wang Jian Jun who did not run back with him, which scared him into a cold sweat.
As a military supervisor, the Wang eunuch represents the emperor, and he was defeated in a big battle and fled, even the Wang eunuch was lost, this time he was completely out of the show, let him go bankrupt, I'm afraid no one will help him speak, so the completely desperate Niu Tai sighed outside the city of Zezhou, pulled out the knife and wanted to kill himself, so he didn't have to be arrested to suffer the knife, but his knife was finally taken away by his family, and he couldn't die once, and he didn't have the courage to commit suicide again, so he had to send someone to Taiyuan Mansion, The news of the defeat was reported to the current governor of Shanxi, Wu Fu, while he stayed in Zezhou Mansion to deal with the endgame temporarily.
The news of the defeat of the official army spread all over the area of Zezhou in almost one day, and the relatives of those villagers wept one by one after hearing the news, and they were looking for the government to ask for people, and where are the officials of the Zezhou government going to give them people at this time! can only be kind words, and each family gave some pension money, and temporarily pressed the matter.
And the news of the defeat of the officials and troops in this war also shocked Zezhou and the surrounding states and counties, and suddenly the local governments became nervous, because they all knew very well that the troops in Shanxi were empty at the moment, and suddenly such a powerful thief army appeared in Yangcheng, which was not good news for them.
It was only at this time that they realized that they were underestimating this group of thieves in Yangcheng, but no matter how anxious they were, they didn't have more troops at the moment, so they could only stare dryly.
And Wu Fu, who was in Taiyuan Mansion, did not receive the news of Niu Tai's defeat until three days later, when even if he was so shocked that he dropped the tea bowl in his hand to the ground, Wu Fu as the governor of Shanxi, this time sent troops into Yangcheng to suppress the thief army was his idea, originally he thought that he would send Niu Tai to lead two thousand elite soldiers, coupled with the cooperation of the local villagers in Zezhou and Yangcheng, he should easily take down this group of thieves, but he didn't think that Niu Tai, a bastard who had more than enough success, actually led troops and couldn't even enter the boundary of Yangcheng, The four thousand soldiers and horses that were finally organized were lost by this guy, and even the eunuchs who accompanied the army were missing, which made Wu Fu angry, and immediately ordered people to go to Zezhou to arrest Niu Tai back to Taiyuan Mansion to ask for the crime, and quickly reported the matter to the governor of the five provinces, Hong Chengchou, and asked Hong Chengchou to send troops to Shanxi to take down this group of thieves, and the most unfortunate thing is to ask Hong Chengchou to send the famous general Cao Wenzhao back to Shanxi, as long as Cao Wenzhao comes back, It is expected that it should not be a problem to solve this gang of thieves.
In short, this incident not only caused a shock in the Zezhou area, but even almost the entire Shanxi Province knew the news, and everyone was shocked.
Although Wu Fu still wants to send heavy troops to suppress this group of thieves, but He Nai has just been out of Fengyang not long ago, and now a large number of officers and troops from Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Huguang, Nanzhili and other places have been transferred to Henan to suppress bandits, and Shanxi has not left much available troops for him, and he still has to leave enough troops Chen Bu to the northwest of the mountain to prevent the Tartars from entering the Kou again, so at the moment the forces he can use are really limited, even if the three or five thousand officers and troops can move, he is not sure that he will be able to exterminate this group of thieves. So we have to wait for Hong Chengchou to come up with an idea of how to deal with this matter.
And Xiao Tianjian can't control the government, how can he be embarrassed! Immediately after his victory in the First Battle of Beiliu, he began to launch a new operation in the local area, and with the power of the great victory, he quickly began to divide his troops and carry out a sweep along the banks of the Qin River, aiming directly at the various large villages established by the local wealthy and large families, and began his expansion operation.