Chapter 112: Fighting the White Lotus Sect
After listening to Li Yuan's suggestion, the people of the Incense Burning Sect were very moved, and immediately sent people to Anyang, Xiangzhou, Anyang was the base camp of their White Lotus Sect, and it was easy to find the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce.
Of course, this is also related to Li Yuan's earnest guidance.
In two days, the Incense Burning Sect and the Baiyang Sect hit it off, threw this batch of gold and silver treasures on Luoyang City with trebuchets, and then took this opportunity to attack the city in one fell swoop.
When the time comes, when the city is broken, the treasure will be theirs again.
The calculation of slaughtering Qian and Huijing Shitai is very fine.
However, this matter was only circulated among the upper echelons of the White Lotus Sect, and how could the lower echelons of people come into contact with it.
Taking advantage of this unfluent information, Li Yuan secretly used money to buy a part of the White Lotus Sect's people, about dozens of people, and began to spread rumors inside.
Dark night, a tent.
"Master Huijing is too inappropriate, and the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce is my wife!" Zhao Laosi slapped the table and said angrily.
Surrounded on the left and right are his henchmen.
"Fourth, what do you say, we can't let this and Baiguan money go in vain."
The dim candlelight metaphor can see a stack of bills, stamped with stamps, which are very beautiful and recognizable at first glance.
But at the moment, these bills are like waste paper.
The Four Seas Chamber of Commerce has been captured by the Incense Burning Sect, and the property inside has also been used for public use.
Taking money from others is like killing one's parents.
"Don't do it, let's ......" Boss Zhao looked at a group of people, Scar shook as he spoke, he took a sip on the ground, and scolded: "These people who eat people's lives and don't spit out bones are purely disgusting, I heard Lord Wu Xiang say, we have been surrounded by the imperial army, and the brothers will be dead souls under the knife sooner or later." ”
"So what should I do?" Someone immediately asked.
The hearts of the White Lotus Sect are not aligned, except for those true believers, the others are all unpopular people who steal chickens and dogs, and some still hold the people hostage.
If you win, you can barely fight a smooth battle, but if you lose, it will really be a defeat and a direct rout.
Unfortunately, the current White Lotus Sect does not have a character like Li Chuang, who can be defeated again and again, and after being beaten back to Yudi by Li Xiaogong, he is a little sluggish.
After besieging Luoyang for five days, he didn't even climb the head of the city.
is inferior to the Wagang army at the end of the Sui Dynasty, at least there is Li Mi in command.
A hint of cunning flashed in Zhao Laosi's eyes, and he said very roughly: "Take advantage of the night to deceive those who guard the treasure and rob his mother directly." ”
"Good! Listen to the fourth! Everyone nodded in agreement.
The night was quiet, and the whole night was quiet, but the White Lotus Sect members inside the tent had a different mind.
There is more than one case like Zhao Laosi.
......
The next day, the sky was bright.
Five miles outside Luoyang City, the White Lotus Sect army was overwhelmed.
As the saying goes, when there are more than 10,000 people, there are a sea of people. The White Lotus Sect's army is as many as 200,000, although most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, but it is not easy to gather such a large number of people.
The White Lotus Sect army is very distinctive, at the front are hungry women and children and the old and weak, they walk numbly, and are driven by the infantry behind them, once they turn back, they are ruthless swordsmen, and behind the infantry, there is a cavalry army that has been hidden for a long time.
Because they are in the Central Plains and have no place to raise horses, the horses of the White Lotus Sect are pitiful, and even the well-trained cavalry is dwarfed, so there are only less than a thousand horses, and one person and one horse, which is a huge difference from the Tang Army's one person with two horses or three horses.
But it's better than nothing.
Of course, the most striking thing is that in the middle of the three armies, the army dressed in white clothes and white armor, they are well-trained and walk in unison, and they are the religious army of the White Lotus Sect.
These religious armies are not very numerous, only three thousand, but often these religious paranoids are the most fearless of life and death.
The White Lotus Sect's large tent stands on a high ground.
Li Yuan sat on the cheap dragon chair that the White Lotus taught him to make, carried by a few wrestlers, and was very conspicuous in the middle of the battlefield, just to cast his posture as the emperor.
Around Li Yuan were the high-level leaders of the White Lotus Sect, all with serious eyes, staring at the Luoyang City in the distance.
Luoyang City, that is, the south city.
Compared with the ragtag army of the White Lotus Sect, the Tang army was much more formal, full of spirit and in excellent condition.
Obviously, dealing with such a group of trash fish, they naturally didn't care.
Compared to the fierce Turks, the White Lotus is like a docile lamb.
And on the city wall, there was also a young general, wearing bright light armor, with a sword at his waist, a serious face, and a hard face with fine wounds, rolling down beads of blood.
He held a telescope and looked into the distance.
"Grandpa Huang, I hope you're okay this time." Li Ke whispered to himself, he turned his head to look at Xue Li on the side, and asked, "General Xue, can you be sure that you will lead the army to attack the White Lotus Sect's middle tent and welcome back the Emperor?" ”
He looked forward to it.
"Not the slightest certainty." Xue Rengui's eyes were deep, without a trace of emotion, and said: "Your Highness, you see, although the White Lotus Sect's march seems to be disorderly, but they take the old and weak people as the front army, obviously with the purpose of consuming the strength of our army, the cavalry is pressed in the middle army, waiting for the opportunity to move, and there is an elite to protect the middle tent, if the last general leads the cavalry to rob the camp, it will take at least three quarters of an hour to rescue the emperor from the encirclement, but this time is too long." ”
It is not very difficult to disrupt the White Lotus Sect's formation, but the difficult thing is to rescue the Emperor Taishang at the same time. The time consumed on the way was enough for the White Lotus Sect to kill Li Yuan hundreds of times.
The tide of the war is in limbo.
You can't send troops to attack, you can only defend passively.
The emperor is too sensitive, and if he is killed by the enemy, it will be a dead death.
"Bastard, what to do!" Li Ke smashed the city wall angrily, very helpless.
He led 5,000 cavalry troops from Xiangzhou to the south, and after half a month, he finally arrived in Anyang, but it coincided with the rebellion of the White Lotus Sect and was forced to go to Luoyang, so that he reached an unsolvable death.
"The White Lotus Sect is a clown jumping off the beam, so there is nothing to be afraid of, but the key is that they use the imperial grandfather as a bargaining chip, and it is really difficult to hold themselves alone......" Li Ke's cold gaze swept over the generals present.
There are the generals he brought from Xiangzhou, and there are also those old generals who came from Chang'an.
Qin Shubao, Hou Junji, Zhang Liang, Cheng Yanjin and other princes are still rushing from Guanzhong, and they are fortunate in misfortune.
Li Ke understood that if those former ministers of the Qin Palace's mansion came over, the battlefield would not be commanded by him.
Although the holy decree issued by his father in an expedited manner of 800 li was to take him as the head of the march, but he, the head of the march, was undoubtedly the product of balancing the authority of various foreign generals, and they were all a group of elders, who would listen to him, a guy who had not grown all his hair.
And it's hard to guarantee that his father doesn't have any other thoughts.
The battlefield can only be dominated by him.
"Xue Li." Li Ke shouted.
"In!" Xue Rengui stood up from among the generals.
Li Ke stared at Xue Rengui tightly, his face tightened, and said, "General Xue, Gu sent you a thousand cavalry troops and three hundred scouts, can you have the confidence to rob the Emperor Taishang?" ”
Xue Rengui's mind was suddenly empty, but he still replied without thinking: "Xue Li...... Have faith. ”
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