At the turn of the spring and summer of the second year of Changqing, the water level of the Sanggan River in Youzhou rose sharply, flooding six counties and 48 farms on both sides of the river, displacing tens of thousands of people, forcing Li Mao to devote considerable energy to disaster relief. There are almost all the books I want to read.,It's a lot more stable than the general station.,It's faster than the update.,There's no ads in the whole text.。

Based on the rigid and stable Chengde Festival, Li Yu saw the opportunity and decisively decided to solve Wang Tingcuo outside the city of Hengzhou by force, and he expected that Li Mao would not interfere.

Li Mao did not interfere, because Wang Tingcao knocked Li Yu to the ground and stepped on his feet violently with his own strength.

Chengde Jiedu made Li Yu was captured as a prisoner of Wang Tingcuo in front of the battle, Wang Tingcuo naturally did not stop there, Daxu pointed out, 20,000 tiger and wolf army directly attacked Hengzhou City, and captured Mrs. Mo, Mrs. Rong, Mrs. Liu and Wang Xiao who had not yet withdrawn.

At the beginning, it was Li Yu who insisted on letting the three ladies and Wang Xiao stay in Hengzhou in order to confuse Wang Tingcuo, but he didn't want to ruin the lives of the four people. Wang Tingcuo did not have a soft hand, the three ladies were paid for the army, they were devastated and died violently, Wang Xiao drowned, and searched out a copy of the Wang family tree from the inner house, according to the map, all the descendants of the Wang family were arrested, and they were killed in a big pit.

All the property of the Wang family was confiscated, one was confiscated, and most of the army was rewarded.

The two generals of Chengde, Lu Zhen and Fang Chuang, were dissatisfied with Li Yu and surrendered to Wang Tingcuo, and they were both entrusted with important tasks.

In fact, since the death of Wang Chengyuan, the orthodox status of the Wang family in Hengzhou has been greatly weakened, and until Wang Yu died violently, Wang Xiao offered six states to the imperial court, and the prestige of the Wang family was even more gone.

In order to divide the local needs, the Chengde royal family has been propagandizing and smearing the imperial court for decades, so that most of the middle and lower-level soldiers and ordinary people have prejudices against the imperial court.

Wang Ting imprisoned Li Yu, and after he was retained, he sent an envoy to Youzhou to explain to Li Mao why he wanted to imprison Li Yu and slaughter the descendants of the Wang family, Li Mao said to the envoy: "You have a last resort, but you poke this hornet's nest, how will the queen deal with it?"

The envoy replied: "Hengzhou is willing to form an alliance with Taiwei and carry the imperial court together." ”

Li Mao was furious, and angrily reprimanded the envoy of Hengzhou: "I, Li Mao, a loyal minister of the Tang Dynasty, how can I be in the same stream as you, Wang Tinggang imprisoned the court officials, and slaughtered the court loyalty, which is a traitor, and I and the traitor are incompatible." ”

The envoy fled back to Hengzhou in panic, Wang Ting heard this, and said with a smile: "The villain's face, I took Hengzhou, except for him in the eyes and thorns in the flesh, he doesn't know how happy he should be, scold me, scold me well, I did such a big thing, how can the court not crusade against me, he Li Mao also has to send troops to the edict, it doesn't matter, Youzhou will know the severity." ”

Wang Tingcuo's expectation was good, and when he learned that Li Yu was imprisoned and Wang Xiao's family was slaughtered, Li Heng, the playful son of Chang'an, couldn't sit still, and summoned Prime Minister Duan Wenchang and Li Fengji to ask: "Wang Tingcuo openly rebelled, how to deal with it"

Duan Wenchang said: "The anti-heart has been revealed, unless it is conquered by a large army, it is impossible to revitalize the prestige of the imperial court." ”

Li Heng pouted and said: "It's not for any prestige, it's to remind some people in Hebei, Li Fengji, what do you say you should do." ”

Li Fengji said: "Wang Tingcuo openly resisted the imperial court, and he must not be tolerated, but he could order Youzhou, Liaodong, Yingping, Yiwu, Henghai, Weibo, Hedong, Tianping, Yicheng, Xuanwu and other towns to send troops to fight for it. ”

Duan Wenchang hurriedly echoed: "I will use Taiwei Li as the envoy of Hengzhou to recruit envoys from all sides, crusade against Wang Tingcuo, and strive for full success." ”

Li Fengji said: "What Duan Xianggong said is extremely true, Taiwei Li has great achievements in war, and he is good at using soldiers, so it is appropriate to let him look at the overall situation;;;;;;;;." ”

Li Heng said with a smile: "What the two ministers said is very agreeable, let the Hanlin Academy draw up their intentions." ”

Li Fengji said: "The matter should be confidential, and it should not be known to the Hanlin Academy, so as not to leak it, and it should be drafted by the courtiers or the inner court, so as not to leak the heavenly secret." Li Heng said: "This is also." Looking back at the privy envoy Wang Shoucheng: "Then there will be a hard work for the Minister of Lao." After that, he got up and walked out of the Yanying Palace, there were already dozens of children in the inner garden outside the hall waiting for them, and today's program was to accompany the Son of Saint De out of the palace to observe the people's feelings and visit the east and west cities.

Li Mao repelled the envoys of Hengzhou, so he made preparations to go south to Hengzhou, and he ordered all the flowering shells of the Tortoiseshell Mountain Ordnance Institute to be transferred to the front of the army for use, and Shi Kong glanced at the number: one hundred and twenty. Shocked: "Good girl, are you going to really fight this time?"

Li Mao said: "Joke, the imperial court let me be the commander of the armies, how can I do it if I don't really fight, not only to really fight, but also to fight quickly, this one hundred and twenty flowering bombs are not much, the local people in Hengzhou are fierce, eat the royal court to make such a bewitchment, and must not resist desperately, this battle is to fight hard, must fight until they obey." ”

The edict of the imperial court was still on the way, and Li Mao sent a message to Liaodong, Yingping, Yiwu, Henghai, Wei Bo and other provinces as an envoy of Youzhou Jiedu, asking for a joint army to attack Wang Tingcuo. Since he led the two armies of Lu Long and Xiongwu to join Yan Qin's Shence army, a total of 70,000 people, went south to Yingmo, together with 30,000 people of Yingping and Liaodong, a total of 100,000 people, and 500 people of the Yiwu army and 300 people of the Henghai army, they went out to attack separately.

Although Chengde is only in six states, it is also known as having 100,000 soldiers, and after repeated infighting, only 60,000 or 70,000 troops and horses remain, but the combat effectiveness is still very strong. The strategy set by Li Mao and Chang Mucang was to break through Shenzhou first, then take morality and martial arts, and attack Hengzhou directly, and then divide their troops to attack other states after they conquered Hengzhou, and seize the six states of Chengde before the imperial army was stationed, so that they could attack and retreat in the future.

There were 17,000 defenders in Shenzhou City, and the general was a confidant of Wang Ting, Li Mao concentrated 50,000 elites, with 73 flowering bombs as the forerunner, and the bombed Shenzhou City shook the mountains, and the morale of the army was suddenly lost by half.

The defenders of the city rarely won in the street battles after the city was broken, so the defenders would have a great shadow psychologically because the city defense was breached, thinking that the general trend had gone, there was no way to fight, and the morale of the army collapsed, which could not be recovered.

However, it was not easy for the 17,000 defenders to be wiped out, and the street fighting in Shenzhou City lasted for a day and a night before finally subsided, and the casualties on each side exceeded 10,000.

Although the loss is heavy, but it is very beneficial to Li Mao, Shenzhou City, the northeast gateway of Chengde, heavily garrisoned, known as impregnable, but it fell in less than three days, the news reached Hengzhou City, immediately caused a great panic, Wang Ting wanted to block the news, lurking in the city of the right wing of the people and horses are desperately clamoring, in times of crisis, people are more willing to believe in unfavorable news, three days after the fall of Shenzhou, Hengzhou City set off a wave of refugees, rich families dragged their families with mouths, carrying fine soft out of the city for refuge, the people also brought pots and pans, Dragging his children and daughters out to escape the famine will inevitably affect the morale of the army, so Wang Tingcuo can only order the city gate to be blocked, and the people are not allowed to flee.

The city gate is easy to close, but the restlessness accumulated in the hearts of the people cannot be closed, and the characters from all sides show their magical powers, and they have stood up to dig the roots of the city defense, and the right wing lurking in the city is also active to help those who want to get out of the city to dredge up the relationship and get out of the city as soon as possible. With the efforts of all parties, in the heavily guarded Hengzhou City, dozens of households have successfully escaped from Ascension every day, and the people have seen hope, who is willing to live and die with the city

This made Wang Ting miserable, but helpless. He has always advocated force and despised the methods of these chickens and dogs.

He sent Lu Zhen and the general Wang Zhenwan to defend in the direction of Shenzhou by virtue of the geographical advantage, while sending an envoy to Li Mao's military camp to pray for peace talks, the conditions offered by Wang Ting were very attractive, as long as Li Mao withdrew the army, the treasury of the six states of Chengde could be used at will, Shenzhou could be ceded to Youzhou, and Youzhou could be stationed in the hinterland of Chengde.

Li Mao responded to him with three flowering bombs, the Yiwu army sent five hundred troops this time, originally wanted to offend both, but Li Mao was willing to let go of Zhang Maozhao, the old fox, proposed to attack Hengzhou, worried Zhang Maozhao couldn't sleep for two consecutive days, was not knowing how to answer Li Mao, suddenly heard that Li Mao's army had crossed Dingzhou, went to Hengzhou, Zhang Maozhao scolded Li Mao robbers, scolded three times and suddenly felt comfortable all over his body, indescribably comfortable, so he laughed three times, and went to sleep happily.

Wang Tingcuo didn't expect Li Mao to come so quickly, and there was no possibility of making peace with him in this posture, Wang Tingcuo reviewed his mistakes, Li Mao was full of wings, and his ambition was even bigger, he was no longer satisfied with making a small fuss and engaging in the situation of Hebei secession, he was ambitious, and he had already given birth to the idea of unifying Hebei.

Wang Tingcuo knew the misery of the defeated generals, and had to raise the spirit of 120,000 points, he now hoped that the various crusades of the imperial court would become virtuous, the more people, the more opportunities to do tricks, and the greater the room for maneuver, which is like now, one-on-one, there is no room for maneuver at all.

What Wang Tingcuo expects is exactly what Li Mao is worried about, he has received the edict of the imperial court, what Hengzhou is recruiting envoys from all sides, commanders of all armies, he is not rare at all, there are many people, there are many things, there are many troubles, and he has to try to settle all aspects of the requirements, which will undoubtedly involve the energy to solve Hengzhou, which is exactly what he does not want to see.

Hengzhou City, Li Mao once came, Wang Shizhen died of illness in the past, Wang Chengzong stayed since he was appointed, the imperial court sent a large army to conquest, he had come with the army, this city is tall and strong, heavily defended, can not be said to be easy to defend, but absolutely difficult to attack.

There are 36,000 garrisons in Hengzhou City, 15,000 directly under Wang Tingcuo, 11,000 Fang Chuang, and the rest are some generals who were loyal to the Wang family in the past.

If Fang Chuang can be pulled over, half of Hengzhou City will collapse, even if he can't be pulled over, it is a good choice for Wang Tingcao to be suspicious of him.

If you want to plot against him, you can't do it head-on, this person is known as a Confucian general in Chengde, likes to read history books, and is quite strategic, and idle words can't coax him, if you want to rebel against him, you need to start with Lu Zhen outside the city.

At this moment, Lu Zhen and Wang Zhenwan, the general under Wang Tingcoo, led the army to build a fortress one hundred and twenty miles east of Hengzhou, preparing to block Li Mao's westward advance from Shenzhou, but he did not expect that Li Mao would directly attack Hengzhou by virtue of morality.

Zhang Maozhao, the old fox, accepted the benefits of Hengzhou before the war, and promised not to stir up the troubled waters, but he spoke like a fart, and turned his face to flatter Li Mao.

The two discussed for a while, and there were two ways at the moment, one was to take the opportunity to attack Keshenzhou in the east, threaten Yingmo, and force Li Mao to withdraw his troops, and the other was to return to the division to rescue Hengzhou. Wang Zhenwan advocated attacking Shenzhou, Hengzhou was heavily armed, and Li Maofei could not succeed in his outpouring of troops, so Shenzhou would inevitably be empty, and conquering Shenzhou would constitute a great blow to the morale of Youzhou's army.

Lu Zhen has a steady personality, does not want to take this risk, Youzhou has 100,000 troops, the advantage in troops, the main force to attack Hengzhou, not necessarily Shenzhou is an empty city, with Li Mao's treachery, how can he expose his belly weakness in front of the enemy, but he is in an awkward situation, if he insists on not obeying Wang Zhenwan, it is difficult to ensure that he will not be deducted from the hat of fearing the enemy, then the gain outweighs the loss, thinking about it again and again, Lu Zhen had to reluctantly agree, the two of them pulled out the camp to the east, but in the octagonal village thirty miles away from Shenzhou City, they were fiercely resisted, Nearly 10,000 troops were blocked by a mere few hundred men for two days and one night.

Wang Zhenwan was furious, armed with a big knife and shirtless, led the death squad to attack successfully, most of the defenders were killed, only thirteen people were captured, and the torture learned that the city of Shenzhou was very empty, and the garrison was less than a battalion, and the reason why they resisted fiercely was to buy time for the rear retreat.

Wang Zhenwan shouted to be fooled, killed thirteen captives, hurriedly led the men and horses to Shenzhou City, 10,000 people galloped thirty miles to Shenzhou City, and pulled out a ten-mile long queue from end to end, Wang Zhenwan took the lead, rushed to the city gate, drank the order to open the door, but responded to him with a cold arrow, Wang Zhenwan knife method, shook the knife to avoid, turned the horse to go back, wanted to choose a safe place to speak again, the soldiers who came after saw that the Lord would return to the horse and go back, did not feel frightened, and was busy returning to the horse.

Wang Zhenwan was shocked, and hurriedly stopped, and the voices were boiling, how could he hear it

Wang Zhenwan was terrified, took a bow in his hand, and shot three people

The crowd was even more shocked: generally speaking, only when the attack was ineffective and the soldiers retreated, the main general would kill people in front of the battle.

Later, the soldiers couldn't understand what was happening in front of them, and when they saw that the main general was killing, they all turned their horses and walked back, but they were bitter for the infantry who trotted all the way, and Hengzhou lacked horses, and the infantry fought on foot, and ran for thirty miles in heavy armor, how could they have the strength to run again

Wang Zhenwan was furious, desperately beating the horse forward, wanting to stop the brigade, but in the eyes of the left and right soldiers, the overall situation was out of control

When the horse was foaming at the mouth, Wang Zhenwan stopped the team, and cut a few of Huan's generals who ran, which stopped the rout and continued to march towards Shenzhou City.

After this toss, Wang Zhenwan's arrogance suddenly disappeared and he became cautious, he expected that there would be no garrison in the city, otherwise he should take advantage of the situation when the Fang Cai brigade was in chaos, maybe he would be defeated.

This time, he stood a stone's throw away, and ordered the lieutenant general to go and call the door, promising that as long as the defenders put down their weapons and surrendered, they would not kill anyone. This time it was not the cold arrow that responded to him, the gate of Shenzhou was wide open, and Qiang Qiang drove out a group of heavily armored infantry troops, and then heavy armored cavalry, at the same time, the scouts on the left and right flanks reported at the same time, and found a large number of unidentified cavalry moving towards the brigade in the north and south directions, with more than 1,000 people.

Confidence collapsed in an instant, and Wang Zhenwan found himself falling into a trap designed by others

At this time, the siege is the next policy, the retreat is the next strategy, the middle strategy is to leave the army scattered and break through, and the best strategy is to dismount and surrender.

Wang Zhenwan chose the middle strategy to disperse and break through, leaving the brigade behind, and rushing to the southeast.

Lu Zhen, who was escorting the rear team, heard that Wang Zhenwan had absconded, and the army fell into the encirclement of the enemy, so he hurriedly gathered his headquarters and slowly retreated into the octagonal village. This night, the breeze is gentle, cool and pleasant, but for the thousands of soldiers left by Wang Zhenwan, it is absolutely hell on earth, the slave army that executes the clearance is slashed and killed all night, at dawn on the second day, the rout army scattered in the field has no one alive, and thousands of bundles of slave army surround the octagonal village.

Gui Zhisheng carried his eighteen-pound Qinglong Yanyue Knife and paced back and forth in front of the door, and everyone saw that his eyes were red, like a demon, and they were frightened.

Seeing that the attackers pushed many strange-shaped siege equipment, Lu Zhen made a final decision: surrender

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