Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume III: The Turbulent Central Plains

Chapter 2 The Crisis of Gathering Hungry People Begins

Section 7 Three-Way Raid

After Liu Yunwei received the documents from the Henan Political Envoy and the order of the military department, he immediately ordered the 1,000 headquarters of the Hanwei battalion to start assembling, and at the same time discussed the entry of troops with Lu Ying, Wu Xing, Zhao Kaishan, Wen Poyu, Wang Kangdang, Li Tianhao, Gao Hongguang, and Huang Fuming.

During the discussion, everyone agreed that according to the strategic deployment of the imperial court, all the combat strength of the Hanwei battalion should be concentrated to raid Yanshi City, and a decisive battle should be launched under the city against the besieging army of displaced people, and it should be defeated in one fell swoop.

However, after synthesizing the various news that came back from Yebu, Liu Yunwei made a completely different decision: "According to the situation found by Yebuhui, the displaced people in Henan Prefecture are now distributed in Yanshi, Yiyang, and Longmenguan, among which the number of displaced people in Yiyang is the largest. If we follow the order of the Henan Political Envoy to concentrate our forces to fight against the enemy of Yanshi, then it won't take long for Yiyang to be broken by the displaced people, you must know that the local guards do not have much combat power, and under the siege of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of displaced people, these guards will definitely not be able to hold for long; Moreover, the fastest and best way to get from Yanshi to Yiyang is through Longmen Pass! And once Longmen Pass is captured by the displaced people, we will be blocked to the east of Longmen Pass, and we will not be able to reach Yiyang in a short time. So, I decided to divide my forces and attack! ”

Everyone was shocked when they heard this.

Lu Ying said: "Big brother wants to attack Yanshi, Yiyang and Longmen Pass at the same time? ”

Liu Yunwei nodded and said: "To be exact, it is to attack Yanshi and Longmen Pass at the same time, and because the Yiyang direction is too far, the brigade of soldiers and horses will definitely not have time to rush over, so we can only send a small number of elite soldiers to support." Wait for our main force to relieve the siege of Yanshi, and then enter Yiyang from the west of Longmen Pass. ”

After listening to this, everyone discussed it one after another, and they all thought that Liu Yunwei's plan was very feasible. At this time, Wu Xing said with some concern: "Big brother, then should we give a letter to the Henan Political Envoy to explain?" After all, according to the meaning of the Ministry of War, we are temporarily under the command of the Henan Political Envoy Division. ”

Liu Yunwei thought for a while, shook his head and said: "It's too late, when those big men make a decision, it is estimated that even Luoyang will be lost!" Let's report as we go. I don't think those civil officials will dare to do anything! ”

After finishing speaking, Liu Yunwei made combat arrangements.

Due to the insufficient number of war horses in the Hanwei battalion, when the previous expansion was carried out, except for the Longxiang Iron Cavalry led by Liu Yunwei himself and the night of the thousand headquarters, all the rest of the war horses were concentrated in Wen Poyu's Changshui Division, and the Hanwei Battalion only used one soldier and horse of the Changshui Department as a cavalry battalion; And Gao Hongguang's Eagle Yang Department was reorganized into a pure infantry battalion.

In view of this, Liu Yunwei ordered Wen Poyu to lead the soldiers of the Changshui Department to attack Yiyang, try to hold back the army of displaced people besieging the city, and wait for the main force of the Hanwei battalion to come to rendezvous; Liu Yunwei also ordered Lu Ying to lead the soldiers of the Feiyu Department to attack Longmen Pass to clear the way for the army to go to Yiyang; In the end, Liu Yunwei personally led the main force of the Hanwei battalion to Yanshi to relieve the siege. After making specific arrangements for the division of troops, Liu Yunwei also sent people to Dengfeng City to ask the prefect Wu Zhoukang for the army's grain and silver.

After everything was arranged, Liu Yunwei said to the generals in the account: "Soldiers, this battle is the first battle after the expansion of our Hanwei battalion, we must play the momentum of our Hanwei battalion, and the battle will be decided!" Completely solve the rebellion in Henan, and strive to continue to rush back to Sichuan as soon as possible! ”

Everyone clasped their fists and said, "The last general will be ordered!" ”

Early the next morning, Wu Zhoukang sent the food and military salaries raised overnight to the Hanwei camp. Seeing that the money and food were ready, Liu Yunwei immediately ordered the whole army to set off and divide the troops into three routes to fight the rebels.

The soldiers of the Changshui Department led by Wen Poyu set off first, and nearly 4,000 iron horsemen drove out of the camp and galloped all the way to the west. As far as the eye can see, I saw that the heavens and the earth were all elite iron cavalry soldiers and the war horses of the gods, and even the earth was trembling under the trampling of iron hooves.

The next to set off was the soldiers of the Feiyu Department led by Lu Ying, nearly 4,000 soldiers lined up in a phalanx and opened towards the Longmen Pass in the northwest direction, with drums and momentum. I saw that the leader was the soldiers of the First Division led by Jiang Wentian, all of whom were armed with strong bows and crossbows, and all of them were crossbowmen; Immediately behind them were the remaining four melee soldiers.

After the soldiers and horses of the two roads had already set off, Liu Yunwei led the main force of the Hanwei battalion and the reserve battalion to set off, all the way north towards the Yan Division. More than 30,000 officers and men, together with more than 30,000 old people, women and children from the reserve battalion, a huge contingent of more than 60,000 people marched along the official road.

When the huge team of the Hanwei battalion passed through Dengfeng City, the prefect Wu Zhoukang was standing at the head of the city and watching. Looking at the Hanwei Battalion team outside the city like a giant dragon, Wu Zhoukang's heart was very shocked, and at the same time, he was extremely happy. Wu Zhoukang secretly said in his heart: "Fortunately, the Hanwei camp passed by Dengfeng at this time, otherwise, now Dengfeng City will become a battlefield like Yanshi, and I'm afraid that this prefect will come to an end, and I can't even save my life." But then again, this guerrilla general Liu Yunwei is really a character, he dares to do such a major thing at such a young age, and he can absorb tens of thousands of homeless people at once, how much courage does it take! ”

Wu Zhoukang looked at the battle flag with the word "Liu" fluttering in the wind, and muttered: "I hope General Liu has a safe journey, it will be a big help for these homeless people, but if there is a slight mistake, the pool will become a nine-day hanging river!" ”

A day later, the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Department led by Zhao Kaishan took the lead in arriving at the city of Yanshi as the vanguard of the army. I saw that the outside of Yanshi City had become a huge refugee camp, and about 50,000 displaced people had set up nests around Yanshi City, surrounding the city with water, and the land outside the city was like a broken net, which had been dug up by the displaced people.

At this time, a group of thousands of displaced people were storming the southern city of Yanshi, only to see that the thousands of displaced people were attacking the city with very simple ladders, and the officers and soldiers on the city wall were resisting bravely, and the battle was very stalemate from a distance.

Seeing this, Zhao Kaishan hurriedly sent someone to tell Liu Yunwei, and then said to several generals under him: "It's really an evil sect, these homeless people can be so organized, and they will make a cloud ladder to attack the city?" Who taught them? ”

One of the generals said: "It's very strange, could it be that some of these homeless people are secretly commanding?" ”

Zhao Kaishan pondered for a while and said, "It must be so!" The order is given, and the whole battalion is ready to attack, beat him first, and then let's see how many catties and taels these homeless people have! ”

Then, the phalanx of the Tiger Ben tribe resounded with the roar of war drums, and nearly 4,000 soldiers quickly formed an attack phalanx and pushed towards tens of thousands of displaced people. When the displaced people outside Yanshi City heard the sound of war drums, they suddenly found that thousands of powerful officers and soldiers had been killed, and they immediately panicked, some old people, women and children all ran in all directions crying and screaming, while those young people began to assemble under the organization of some people. At the same time, the thousands of displaced people who were besieging the city also withdrew in an orderly manner, and after a little formation, they killed the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Division.

Zhao Kaishan saw it from a distance in the formation, and said secretly in his heart: "There are quite rules between the advance and retreat of these homeless people, there must be someone manipulating them in secret!" After that, Zhao Kaishan immediately commanded the army to kill the homeless Qingzhuang who was assembling.

The two sides immediately began to fight! Outside the Yanshi City, the sound of killing shook the sky, and the ghosts cried and were frightened.

At the same time, Liu Yunwei was leading the main force of the Hanwei battalion to rush to Yanshi at full speed, and received an urgent report from Zhao Kaishan on the way.

"It seems that this rebellion of the displaced people was not formed spontaneously by the displaced people, but was secretly manipulated by someone, and the nature of this rebellion has completely changed! This is not a civil unrest, but an outright mass rebellion! ”

Thinking of this, Liu Yunwei immediately shouted: "The whole army is speeding up!" If you don't collect it at night, you will immediately notify Lu Ying, the thousand general manager of the Feiyu Department, and Wen Po, the thousand general manager of the Changshui Ministry, that there is a mastermind behind the scenes who is manipulating this homeless riot! ”

An hour later, Liu Yunwei led the main army of the Hanwei battalion to the city of Yanshi.

At this time, the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Department led by Zhao Kaishan had withdrawn from the battlefield, and the army of displaced people besieging the city had been repulsed, leaving only countless corpses outside the city that were still telling the fierce bloody battle before. And the nests around Yanshi City have been emptied, most of the old people, women and children among those displaced people have fled, and the rest of them have been taken care of by Zhao Kaishan.

Zhao Kaishan came to Liu Yunwei and said, "Big brother, the homeless people have been repelled by the army I led, and now they are retreating towards the north, and I have already sent Ye Buhui to investigate." ”

Liu Yunwei nodded and asked, "How is the combat power of these homeless people?" What about the losses of the soldiers? ”

"The combat power of these homeless people is not very good, but there are more people, and in this battle, my Tiger Ben soldiers have killed about 4,000 people in total, which shows how the combat power of these homeless people is; But these homeless people should have been trained by someone, and there are still some rules between advance and retreat. In addition, the casualties of the soldiers were not large, and more than a hundred brothers were lost. ”

"If this is the case, then we must exterminate these outcasts as soon as possible, otherwise in time, these tens of thousands of outcasts will only become more and more courageous after the baptism of bloody battles, and sooner or later they will become tens of thousands of rebels who can fight well. In that case, it will be great bad news for the dynasty! Liu Yunwei said.

At this moment, a hundred generals came over and said: "General Qiyu, the prefect of Yanshi has sent someone to labor the army, and ask the general to lead the army into the city to rest." ”

Liu Yunwei thought for a while and said to Zhao Kaishan: "Kaishan, you first lead your troops to camp and guard in the north of the city, I will enter the city to get our grain and grass, and we will send troops to pursue the displaced people early tomorrow morning!" ”