Chapter 196: The Battle of Mianzhou (1)
"What do you say? There is a Tiance army outside Chengdu? Hu Jingzhang from the Bazhou front line and Wang Yan, the general sent by Wang Jian, were about to rest after calming the soldiers' emotions, when they heard the Hongling messenger from Chengdu, the base camp.
"The lord has sent an urgent order, there are not a few Tiance troops outside Chengdu, and the other party has already begun to attack the city when he is out of the city, please ask the general to return urgently." The messenger replied after explaining the details of what he had seen outside Chengdu.
Li Maozhen's order made Hu Jingzhang frown for a while, he suddenly withdrew his troops back at this time, which would inevitably make the situation on the front line in Bazhou chaotic, and it was impossible to rely on Wang Yan's army to stop the Tiance army outside the city. But Chengdu is basically an empty city at this time, and if you don't return to the army, then the nest will be ended. It's just how did this Tiance army appear?
Hu Jingzhang is the only one under Li Maozhen who can be called a handsome general, his face changed after a careful look on the map for a while, and there will be no secrets since this kind of thing appeared once in history, but after the Tiance army gathered this time, it attacked the city for a month, basically took the road to Shu, and the offensive was fierce, and the war that just ended made everyone focus on the direction of Bazhou on the northern line. Li Maozhen and Wang Jian also sent the main force to Bazhou in order to repel this Tiance army, but everyone did not expect that the other party would let the main force act as a feint force and send a partial army into Shuzhong to use as the main force.
When the messenger saw Hu Jingzhang's solemn face, he roughly guessed what he was thinking, but he just retreated without saying a word, and gave up the hall of Nuoda to Hu Jingzhang. After a long while, Hu Jingzhang suddenly let out a long sigh and sent someone to find Wang Yan, another commander of the coalition army.
"Wang Shuai, at this time, it is a matter of the safety of our army's rear, and my lord urgently ordered me to lead the army back to help, and Bazhou hopes that Wang Shuai will worry a lot." Hu Jingzhang apologized and told Wang Yandao about the order he had just received.
Wang Yan is Wang Jian's younger brother and the former commander of Wang Jian's side this time, and his military knowledge and ability are not as good as Hu Jingzhang, so the coalition army is basically Hu Jingzhang in charge and assists himself. At this time, when he heard Hu Jingzhang's words, he almost fell to the ground, and Bazhou threw it to him, and there was no way to defend it.
"Don't worry, Wang Shuai, I will send Wen Tao to stay behind to assist you, and leave another 30,000 troops. In this way, Bazhou can basically maintain the scale of 100,000 people, as long as you don't go out of the pass to face the battle, it is not a big problem to guard the city, and when I exterminate the partial army in Chengdu, I will naturally come back and work with Wang Shuai to defeat the Tiance army outside the city. After thinking about it, Hu Jingzhang was still not at ease, and left Wen Tao in Bazhou. You must know that in Li Maozhen's army, Wen Tao is also a rare wise general, although his character makes Hu Jingzhang look down on him, but he is indeed capable. With him, Hu Jingzhang was also a lot more relieved, plus he left 30,000 people, and 100,000 people against the 60,000 or 70,000 Tiance army outside the city was basically twice as large as the enemy.
After arranging these, Hu Jingzhang packed up the remaining 80,000 people and set off overnight from Bazhou to Chengdu. Rescue soldiers such as firefighting, he can not delay, the heart of the entire Sichuan in Chengdu, if Sichuan is lost, then the entire Shuzhong will not have any room for struggle. It's just that what Hu Jingzhang didn't know was that Chengdu Mansion had already fallen when he set off.
Among the secret guards arranged by Hu Xiaosi, there was a person who served as a middle-level general in Li Maozhen's army, and this person was Li Jipeng. Originally, Li Jipeng was also among the generals who went out, but Xuan Yingwei considered that the Sichuan strategy could be carried out smoothly, so he used a strategy to replace Li Jipeng and stay in Chengdu temporarily.
When Xu Ying appeared in Chengdu Mansion, the Xuanying Guard in Maozhou was also ordered to find Li Jipeng to convey the latest mission to him, asking him to cooperate with Xu Ying's army to complete the occupation of Chengdu, so as to complete the entire central Sichuan strategy of the General Staff.
Li Jipeng was the general who was rebelled by Hu Xiaosi during the Guanzhong War, and then he has been lurking in Chengdu and as the person in charge of the Xichuan Xuanyingwei Branch, at this time, he received Xu Ying's general order from Xuanyingwei to go out of the city and find Xu Ying, and directly described the internal defense map of Chengdu and the important mansions in various passes in the city, and suggested that Xu Ying enter the city at night, and there are his own people near the south city gate to answer.
After listening to Li Jipeng's narration, Xu Ying began to divide his mountain battalion into two, leading the main force of 10,000 people in the north, and the remaining 5,000 people followed Li Jipeng to detour to the south city and enter the city at night to create chaos.
At this time, the Chengdu Mansion did not feel the slightest abnormality, Li Maozhen urged the supplies and replenishment of soldiers as usual to go towards Mianzhou, and after a busy day, he returned to his Guogong Mansion and thought about his newly married concubine, Li Maozhen also showed a rare smile. Although Li Maozhen was in the middle of the year, according to the aesthetic point of view at the time, he was a standard beautiful man, and Li Maozhen was still very complacent about the woman who relied on his own charm, so he dragged his tired body to the smoke-like courtyard and prepared to resolve the fatigue of the day in the arms of the beauty.
Ruyan is an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl in Sichuan, to be precise, a Yi person in Sichuan, but she is surprisingly infatuated with Li Maozhen, a Han person, and she will also have a hand in the ancestral skills of the Yi nationality - massage, and the gentle little hands on Li Maozhen's body are like a fairyland. Just when Li Maozhen smiled slightly and was about to turn into a wolf on the spot, he suddenly felt a faint sound of shouting and killing.
Li Maozhen was right, at this time, there was already a war in Chengdu Mansion, Li Jipeng vented all these years of unhappiness tonight, under his instigation, there were still some of the few remaining defenders in the city who took the opportunity to follow him to open the gate of the southern city anyway, so that Chengdu Mansion was completely exposed to the soldiers of the Tiance Army. The movement in the southern city instantly attracted everyone's attention, and the bustling street market to the west was suddenly disrupted, and a large group of soldiers of the Tiance Army poured into the city, occupying one out of the barrier and one out of the official residence under the guidance of Xuan Yingwei. Li Jipeng, a member of the Xuanying Guard, had almost no opponents everywhere he went, and he was surprised by how smoothly things were going.
Li Jipeng opened the situation in the south city and attacked the center of the city when Xu Ying also started to move in the north city, but originally Xu Ying planned to rely on some of the masters in the army to climb the city wall, but the city wall of Chengdu is almost comparable to Chang'an, and the city wall of five or six zhang high has no way except Li Xuanqing, so after this trick lost its effect, Xu Ying decisively took brute force, buried the explosives brought by the army at the city gate and then detonated, only to see a huge fireball suddenly rise in the night sky in a moment, The huge explosion and the muffled thunderous sound made the entire northern city fall silent for a moment, and Xu Ying led the army into the city from the collapsed city tower with one move with his right hand.
At this time, Chengdu was already in chaos, the dignitaries and dignitaries who had made their fortune through Li Maozhen's rule in recent years were panicked, and the ordinary people were all hiding in their homes and shivering, and the originally lively street market hook bars were upset shouts and cries, and countless people rushed to hide in the nearby shops. After Xu Ying entered, he began to divide his troops into separate ways to strangle the defenders who came spontaneously.
However, this kind of resistance basically belonged to the low-level generals themselves, there was no rule at all and the number was too small, and it was quickly killed by the wolf-like mountain battalion soldiers, Xu Ying himself quickly arrived at Li Maozhen's Guogong Mansion, which is where Li Maozhen's base camp in Chengdu was located, and happened to meet Li Maozhen who was going out in a panic.
"Li Maozhen, your time of death has come." During the Battle of Chang'an, Xu Ying saw Li Maozhen in Fengxiang, and naturally recognized it at a glance at this time, and immediately shouted, and at the same time, the long knife in his hand roared out, and a murderous aura made Li Maozhen stop from a distance of more than ten zhang.
"Dang", Xu Ying's move to split Huashan blocked the guards behind Li Maozhen, which also allowed Li Maozhen to escape, but then Xu Ying flew out with a kick and flew Li Maozhen to the ground, and his body also followed, and the long knife in his hand was already on Li Maozhen's body before the other party's guards reacted.
"Let all of your men raise their hands and surrender, or I won't mind slaughtering you." Two moves to subdue Li Maozhen Xu Ying himself was also sweating profusely, he was not a military general like Chen Yu, and it was already his limit to be able to do this, so after setting Li Maozhen up, he gasped and said with a smile.
"Okay, well, put down your weapons and don't move." Li Maozhen was forced by the murderous aura of the long knife in Xu Ying's hand to not dare to make the slightest move, and immediately asked her guards to put down their weapons. And Xu Ying's people stepped forward and took down all these people the moment the other party put down their weapons. Li Maozhen saw that Xu Ying's men were actually carrying ropes, and suddenly couldn't hold back anymore, and said loudly: "Who are you?" Due to the darkness and the thrilling scene just now, he still didn't see clearly who his enemy was at this time.
"Ming people don't do dark things, so it doesn't hurt to tell you, I am Xu Ying of the Hanzhong Group Army of the Tiance Army. Li Maozhen told you that my lord in Chuanzhong has already taken it, so you'd better be honest with me. Xu Ying threw Li Maozhen to the guards and said: "Tie up Li Maozhen and take him everywhere, and anyone who is unwilling to obey the order and surrender will be killed." ”
After Li Maozhen was taken, this almost farcical siege battle was basically over, and the scene of Li Maozhen's capture was immediately spread everywhere by Xu Ying's personal guards, and those who spontaneously resisted gradually put down their arms when they saw Li Maozhen's appearance. After solving all this, Xu Ying and Li Jipeng immediately began to block the city gate, escorting all these captured people to the prison, and Li Jipeng led the Xuan Yingwei to interrogate, and some of them were released after screening, and the remaining minds numbered about 300 people scattered and imprisoned.
After solving these problems, it was already noon the next day, Xu Ying gave Li Jipeng 5,000 people, and he took the remaining more than 10,000 people to prepare to go out of the city to support Xue Yang.
"Jipeng, Chengdu Mansion will be guarded by you before the main force of the group army arrives, and I will go to support the commander. You immediately pass the news to the General Staff and your Xuanyingwei headquarters, and let them quickly take contingency measures, we must stabilize Chengdu before the main force arrives. Xu Ying explained before leaving.
"Brother Xu, don't worry, I'm in Chengdu." Li Jipeng nodded, patted Xu Ying's shoulder and said, "After I stabilize Chengdu, I will find a way to support you immediately." ”
Xu Ying didn't answer, and after getting on the horse, the mountain battalion immediately set off for Mianzhou after the continuous fighting, to join Xue Yang, and wait for Hu Jingzhang's reinforcement army.
Although Xu Ying's movements were fast enough, and in order to hurry, he had already set off before Chengdu finally stabilized, but what he didn't know was that Mianzhou at this time had already exchanged fire with Hu Jingzhang's forward. It's just that this firefight almost broke Hu Jingzhang.
After Xu Ying left, Li Jipeng began to move all the usual arrangements of Xuanyingwei to the table, while organizing himself and some soldiers and forces that he could control anyway to help him stabilize the situation in Chengdu Mansion, and on the other hand, he brought out some of the generals anyway and let them serve Tiance Mansion by informing them of the general trend, leading the remaining 5,000 mountain battalion soldiers to quickly recover Pixian County, Shuangliu, Jinniu and other places near Chengdu, and occupy the Acropolis around Chengdu, so that the entire Chengdu Mansion completely fell under the control of Tiance Army.
After that, Li Jipeng made an unexpected decision, regardless of which he directly began to implement the policies of Tiance Prefecture in Chengdu Prefecture. This made all walks of life in Chengdu, which had just stabilized, turbulent again.
At this time, the Yuwen family, which had been dormant, began to appear publicly in Chengdu Mansion, convening the Chengdu business community to cooperate with Li Jipeng's decision, and said that the Yuwen family had created a great business with the support of Tiance Mansion over the years. The Chengdu business community, which was originally particularly envious of the status of the five wealthy businessmen of Tiance Mansion, quickly fell to Tiance Mansion after the intervention of this powerful force. After the business circles stabilized, Li Jipeng cleared the obstacles to his agricultural reform by force, directly sent troops to measure the land and distribute it to those landless tenant farmers and displaced people, and arrested almost all the big landlords who stood in his way, and some of the fierce resistance was directly killed on the spot, and the bloody means almost made Chengdu kill hundreds of people almost every day. Moreover, in order to pursue efficiency and time, and let the people at the bottom support Tiance Mansion as soon as possible, Li Jipeng did not have time to consider the rationality and relaxation of his own policies, but implemented these policies from top to bottom.
But you must know that in the Chengdu Plain, it has always been the land of fish and rice, this place is almost the essence of the whole Sichuan, the small plain is concentrated ninety percent of the landlords and big families, excluding those who choose to give up the land to avoid the drastic changes brought about by the land reform because of the help of the Yuwen family, there are also those large and small countless large and small landlords all stand on the opposite side of Li Jipeng at this time. And Li Jipeng's only choice at this time is to defeat everyone in the jurisdiction before these people unite, and then let his policies continue, so that the people who have benefited can become his own help, so that he can completely stabilize Chengdu before the arrival of the main force, and even turn Chengdu's rich manpower and material resources into the driving force to support the front line when the main force is blocked, instead of dragging down the raiding troops who are already overstretched.
And when Li Jipeng was forcibly implementing the Tiance Mansion policy in Chengdu, the Chang'an base camp was also reported by Li Jipeng. After Hu Xiaosi and Xu Tianxiang discussed urgently, they led a receiving team of more than 30 people, including officials from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and began to travel to Chengdu under the escort of the Flying Eagle Brigade to support Li Jipeng. 10