Volume 2 Prosperous Bianjing Chapter 112 The Officers and the Rebels
Tian Haoyong is also from Huainan, and unlike Ye Yuzhen, this guy has always fed the whole family without hunger. After the flood, he couldn't see the suffering of his brothers' families, and he didn't want to trouble his relatives and friends in his hometown too much, so he took a few people to defect to the official army.
The secretary in charge of recruiting was very puzzled by Tian Haoyong's behavior of joining the army from a good family, and after asking, he learned that Tian Haoyong was the kind of "lumpenproletarian" who wandered around and was brave and ruthless, and he no longer paid attention to it under disdain. The newly recruited army actually practiced every five days, Tian Haoyong vaguely felt that there was a battle to be fought, and sure enough, the first part of the Xiang army where he was quickly picked up by Yao Pingzhong.
After the reorganization, Yao Pingzhong saw his own head, and he was actually a bold northwest military man, who was said to have been in the old lady's pro-army, and made a good bow and arrow. Tian Haoyong is very valued by his own capital because of his martial arts.
When Tian Haoyong was in his hometown, he beat people to the brink at most, where have you ever seen a battle of life and death? In the first battle with Fang Lajun, his waist knife was inserted into the chest of a young man, who shouted for his father and mother to beg for mercy, but was shot into the head by Yao Pingzhong's head, and red and white things splashed on his face. "He can't live, give him a good time," Yao Pingzhong's head said.
For several nights, Tian Haoyong had nightmares in a cold sweat, and when he went to the battlefield again, his hands didn't tremble, but the emptiness and irritability after the fight could not be made up. Tian Haoyong was finally pulled by the capital, broke into the thatched hut of a small people, and enjoyed the woman in front of the man, and the farmer never said a word. Before leaving, Du Tou suddenly shot the man of that family with a bow, Tian Haoyong listened to the heart-rending cries of the woman and the child, stabbed Du Tou with a knife, and was kicked to the ground by Du Tou, "The dog that bites people doesn't bark, learn hard!" ”
In order to enhance his combat strength, Yao Pingzhong selected combatants from the Western Army, and while paying high salaries, he also relaxed the constraints on military discipline. He was originally from the Western Army, and he knew too well what those men who killed people without blinking an eye wanted, and he also knew how to control those rough men. The prison army and Fa Cao and others took the dividends of the "spoils", and it was not easy to turn their faces, and repeatedly reminded him to pay more attention, in case Han Shizhong couldn't hold on, everyone would be unlucky.
Yao Pingzhong has his own considerations, and he has always been the first to protect people who have a backstage. He understands the civil officials in the court, "As long as Lao Tzu has merit on the battlefield, suppress Fang La as soon as possible, return peace to the south of the Yangtze River, and do not delay the court's plan for the north, those civil officials will not care how much money Lao Tzu has robbed." is too honest, but they suspect that Lao Tzu has bad intentions...... If you want to pick thorns, Lord Domination will only pick on his thorns Han Shizhong. ”
Yao Pingzhong's consideration is one of them, Fang Lajun's cruelty to the gentry is the main reason why Yao Pingzhong does not need to worry. Most of the people in Fang La's army hated the gentry and officials to the core, and almost killed a large number of gentry and scholars in every place, which made the scholars and doctors resentful and frightened Fang La. Compared with Fang La's "heinous crimes", Yao Pingzhongjun robbed some goods, killed innocents, and plundered women...... It's very inconspicuous. I am rotten, but there are worse than me in the way, Yao Pingzhong has never lacked such "awareness".
Yao Pingzhong also felt that it was better to be cautious, and at the suggestion of the adjutant general, he began to act under the banner of "cutting off the rebellion that defected to the Fang La army", and also sold the captured leaders of the Fang La army to the gentry who had suffered for a large price for them to relieve their hatred. This approach was witty, and although some scholars and Confucians complained about Yao Pingzhong's military discipline erosion, they were often suppressed. With all kinds of paragraphs, and with the assistance of "people" at the right time and place, Yao Pingzhong really doesn't have to worry too much.
In this context, Tian Haoyong followed the outstanding Dutou to "fight bravely to kill the enemy", and followed Yao Pingzhong's banner all the way west. When he went to the battlefield, he followed the head to slash and kill, and when he was resting, he vented in the military prostitute camp full of "rebels" of the Fangla army, and the occasional looting and disturbance of the people was also a reserved program.
In all fairness, Yao Pingzhong mixed in with a lot of soldiers of the Western Army, and it was indeed the army that could fight the most tough battles in the Four Route Army, and hundreds of veterans of the Western Army who were skilled in horse steps and good at cutting and shooting added a lot to their combat effectiveness. Yao Pingzhong was still dead-faced, and asked for 300 knights from the two families, and put together 500 cavalry, which was almost equivalent to Han Shizhong's 800 cavalry.
Tian Haoyong's capital was killed in the attack on Jiaxing City, and when he was dying, he handed over the "spoils" to Tian Haoyong, Tian Haoyong did not greed for a copper coin, and sent it all to the family of the old capital. He is not a good person like the old soldier of the Western Army, he has killed innocent people like the old soldier, he and the old soldier ...... He was almost the same as the old soldier, so he wouldn't be greedy for the money of his brothers in the army.
After capturing Jiaxing City, Tian Haoyong, as the head of the new capital, did not go with his subordinates to "confiscate" the illegal property of the traitors, but quietly in a daze alone. He didn't shirk the things that his subordinates offered, after all, it was the hearts of his brothers, and at most all of them were sent to the homes of his fallen brothers. For some reason, Tian Haoyong felt tired of it, maybe after a few more fights and more kills, he would officially become a qualified general.
After Han Shizhong conquered Huzhou, he immediately went south and ordered Yao Pingzhong to step up to take Tongxiang and protect the right side of the army. Yao Pingzhong felt that his subordinates were stronger than Han Shizhong's Chinese army, that is, Han Shizhong had mastered a lot of large weapons, so he was so powerful, so he deliberately delayed for most of the day. I don't know what kind of psychology he had, anyway, he didn't delay for a day, and he didn't leave immediately, so he didn't embarrass or embarrass for most of the day, making the prison guards, Fa Cao and his staff confused.
With the dull sound of drums, many soldiers ran out of brothels, green houses, and houses with their trousers in their arms, and some of them ran with valuable things in their arms. Crying women were chasing after several soldiers, some of them disheveled, who had been pushed out by the men of the family to claim their possessions. There are even some soldiers who are not wearing pants, and under the coercion of the military order that they must be killed after the expiration date, they stand in the team with their lower bodies covered...... Yao Pingzhong, who wanted to show his fierce spirit, saw such a scene.
After killing more than a dozen soldiers and affirming military discipline like an afterthought, Yao Pingzhong took three thousand soldiers and went straight to Tongxiang with thousands of people. One of Tian Haoyong's subordinates was sacrificed, and the soldier's legs were trembling when he was dragged down, and Tian Haoyong whispered that he would send all the goods and pensions to his family, so that the soldier did not make a fool of himself.
Yao Pingzhong's army set off in the early morning to make rice, planning to arrive in Tongxiang in the afternoon, and launched a tentative attack after making a meal and resting, and officially attacked the city the next day. Yao Pingzhong's army had less than 4,000 soldiers, but there were 5,000 young and strong people, and with hundreds of carts, the team was scattered into several miles long. Yao Pingzhong had a headache, but he understood that what was on the car was the source of the combat power of his soldiers, so he had to rub his teeth and slowly move forward at a low speed.
Riding on a tall horse, Yao Pingzhong lowered his voice and said to the deputy general: "It's all strange that the soldiers don't know the rules of the generals and the soldiers, and there are a few van armies that can fight. Han Shizhong's guy took advantage of it and directly took his old subordinates who had been fighting for many years to the battlefield......"
The deputy general responded cautiously: "Han Zhao has the support of Zong Ze and several governors, and he really takes advantage of it. Then the adjutant general's eyes rolled, "But the soldiers in Jiangnan can't fight tough battles, and it's not easy to set off the generals. ”
Yao Pingzhong laughed, "That's right, let's see Lao Tzu go down to Tongxiang in one fell swoop, and then pull out the nail of Yuhang, and go straight to the city of Hangzhou......"
The adjutant general echoed continuously, and then hesitated: "General, there is a sentence below, I don't know whether to say it or not?" ”
"What do you say, speak!"
"Our army and civilians are young and strong, and the three thousand men and horses are also scattered into snakes, in case they are ambushed...... Is it better to put those hundreds of carts in Jiaxing, or leave a few hundred people to protect them, so that the main force can gather in one place and go to Tongxiang City first? ”
Yao Pingzhong confirmed that the prison army was far away, and then lowered his voice, "Ahem, it's not that you don't know where these things come from, if you put them in Jiaxing, they will be meat buns and dogs, and those people will not fight to grab them back." The sergeants under his command have the combat power to look at these things, if someone wants to take ......" Speaking of this, Yao Pingzhong and the deputy general had a cold war, Yao Pingzhong continued: "The Fangla army has no cavalry, and there are only low hills and small rivers nearby...... Fang Lajun doesn't have a lot of stone throwers and bed crossbows, how dare they ambush me? ”
The adjutant general nodded again and again, he didn't think that Fang Lajun was so powerful, and he didn't have all the swords and guns to call the army? Although he felt that he was too worried, the lieutenant general always beat a drum in his heart, reminding his own soldiers to protect the commander, and he rode back and forth to check.
Tian Haoyong also passed by the burned tea shop, and he also saw the naked woman's corpse, compared to when Ye Yuzhen passed by, the corpse at this time was already covered with dust, and the flames that were about to be extinguished crackled. If it's summer, this place should be a scene of decay and stinking and mosquitoes flying, right? Just as Tian Haoyong's thoughts were flying, there was an exclamation in front of him, and the stone bridge across the river collapsed!
"There's an ambush!" "I've been tricked!" Tian Haoyong, whose mind was blank, reacted and ordered the soldiers with shields in their hands to go to the first row, the long weapons were held diagonally in the second row, and the archers hid behind the car to prepare. Tian Haoyong, together with several good players, acted as a reserve team, ready to fill the loopholes at any time. That's all he knows, and the rest is at his behest to be told.
Looking down from the air, the battlefield where the Fang La army ambushed Yao Pingzhong's army was distributed in a long strip from east to west, the road was full of carts and young people, the westernmost was the bend of the river where the stone bridge was destroyed, and the easternmost was the crooked path. There is a small river to the north and hills to the south, and the road is relatively wide. This kind of place is not a good place to ambush, Yao Pingzhong's army has thousands of people, and there are big cars, in this kind of place, they can hold on and wait for help, but how can Fang Tianding and Shi Bao have no backhand.
Yao Pingzhong's pro-army killed dozens of people before driving them behind the car, shivering by the small river to the north. Yao Pingzhong ordered all the troops to defend according to the carts, divided the hundreds of cavalry into a team of thirty people, and prepared to rush back and forth, and now suppress Qingzhuang by the river. Yao Pingzhong's arrangement is decent, with the meaning of a long snake formation, unless Fang Lajun sends tens of thousands of elite shocks, Yao Pingzhong will be invincible.
The army of Fang La, appearing from the exits and hills of various hills, did not rush to attack, waiting for something. Yao Pingzhong frowned and was silent, and at this time, the deputy general who had driven the young and strong came over, "The traitor is not in a hurry to attack, what is the backhand?" ”
On the highest hill in the west of the battlefield, a fierce general of the Fang La army appeared, with a silver helmet and silver armor, and a gorgeous Fang Tian painting halberd in his hand. This kind of costume has been outdated for hundreds of years, and Fang Tian's painting halberd has been outdated for thousands of years, but no one can doubt Fang Tianding's force.
The herald ran up the mountain quickly, and soon a personal soldier came to Fang Tianding's side and whispered for a while, Fang Tianding's eyes narrowed, "It's worthy of Shi Shuai, it's ready in such a short time, let's start!" Fang Tian's halberd pointed forward, and the metal shook out.