Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume 3 Turbulent Central Plains

Chapter 3: Sweeping away the chaos and making meritorious contributions

Section 1 Transfer to Yiyang

Liu Yunwei led the main army of the Hanwei battalion to rest in place for two days, and then pulled the camp west and passed through Longmen Pass. More than 60,000 thieves and prisoners accompanied the army and did not stop until they reached the banks of the Ganshui River.

Liu Yunwei looked at the gently flowing river and said to the generals around him: "This Ganshui River is very famous, this is a major tributary of Luoshui, with Luti Mountain in the south and Luoyang, the divine capital in the north. Historically, there have been countless battles in the Ganshui River area. ”

Lu Ying said with a smile when he heard this: "Looking at the appearance of the eldest brother, I am in a very good mood today, and I am still interested in telling us about the past and the present." ”

Everyone burst out laughing.

Liu Yunwei said: "We just won a big battle, of course I'm happy, this time I don't know what reward the court will give us." ”

Zhao Kaishan shouted: "It's best to promote the eldest brother to another big official, and our Hanwei Camp can continue to grow and develop." ”

Li Tianhao said in a weird manner on the side: "The matter of promotion should be ironclad, now I am afraid that the Henan Political Envoy will find us trouble, after all, not only did we not leave a little credit to others, but the eldest brother also sent someone to let the Henan Political Envoy take over these tens of thousands of prisoners, are we a little too bullying?" ”

When everyone heard this, they immediately laughed crookedly, and Liu Yunwei also smiled red.

As he was talking, Gao Hongguang saw that the camp was almost built, so he said, "Big brother, let's go back to the camp to rest first." ”

Liu Yunwei nodded, and was about to take the generals back to the camp to rest, when he suddenly saw a team of officers and soldiers from the north riding horses. It wasn't until the recent report that I learned that it was the Henan Political Envoy and the people sent by the Henan government.

One of the commanders who led the team stepped forward and said: "The last general will see the general, and we are here to discuss with the general the delivery of the thief prisoners on the order of the political envoy of Henan. ”

Liu Yunwei asked strangely: "Did the Henan Political Envoy send a few of you?" I have more than 60,000 captives here, how can you deliver? ”

I saw that the general Qian was very embarrassed and said: "Back to the general's words, it is like this, when I came, the governor gave me an order, which was to tell the general that there was not much food in Henan anymore, and it was impossible to hand over these prisoners, and I hope that the general can understand the local difficulties and deal with these prisoners by himself." ”

When Liu Yunwei heard this, he was immediately full of anger, and said angrily: "The governor is in charge of the power of a province and still has no food in his hands, does I have food in the hands of a guerrilla general?" Since the governor is powerless to take over these thieves, I will release them all on the spot, and let them survive on their own! ”

Hearing this, Mr. Qian hurriedly said: "The general is angry! The general is angry! The last general also acted on orders, and asked the general to stay here for a while, and wait for me to return and ask for orders. ”

After the people of the Henan Political Envoy Division left, Liu Yunwei stood by the river without saying a word, and after a long time, he said fiercely: "A bunch of bastards! I thought that for the sake of sharing the worries of the country and the dynasty, I took the initiative to take care of these tens of thousands of prisoners, which was to help the political envoys of Henan; It's good now, they still have to inch in, and directly throw their errands to us, but they have started to be the shopkeeper, which is simply unreasonable! ”

Lu Ying also said with a sad face: "Big brother, we have to think of a way, the food in our hands can't last long, and now our men and horses plus these captives are already more than 100,000 people!" The food in the army can only last for about ten days, and time waits for no one! ”

Liu Yunwei's scalp was also numb when he heard this, and said, "Go back to the camp first, let's discuss it." ”

At this moment, everyone saw another team of people coming from the east, and when they got closer, they saw that it was a team of brocade guards. Liu Yunwei hurriedly led the generals forward to greet him, only to see a general commander led by him and said: "Liu Yunwei, the guerrilla general of the Hanwei battalion, has taken the order!" ”

Liu Yunwei hurriedly led the generals to kneel down to receive the order, and the general banner read the holy decree in public, and when it was said that the imperial court asked the Hanwei battalion to send troops immediately, go to Yiyang to fight the main army of thieves, and rescue Yiyang City as soon as possible, everyone including Liu Yunwei was stunned. Everyone didn't expect that the imperial court would ask the Hanwei battalion to attack immediately without properly accommodating more than 60,000 thieves and prisoners, what is the situation?

After Liu Yunwei received the holy decree, he briefly said a few polite words to the general banner, and then sent him away. After that, Liu Yunwei took the generals back to the Chinese army tent without saying a word.

As soon as they entered the tent, everyone began to quarrel with each other. Lu Ying and Wu Xing tried their best to persuade Liu Yunwei to act cautiously, first disposing of the army of more than 60,000 captives, and then marching west to Yiyang; And Zhao Kaishan, Li Tianhao, and Wang Dangdang kept encouraging Liu Yunwei to march into the army immediately, and couldn't wait to fight with the main force of the thieves besieging Yiyang; As for Gao Hongguang and Huang Fuming, they didn't say anything, both of them had an attitude of looking forward to Liu Yunwei.

After everyone expressed their opinions, Liu Yunwei said slowly: "What I'm worried about now is not actually these more than 60,000 captives, in fact, I can completely throw these captives to Henan Mansion, let's go west directly, and nothing will happen in the future to blame us." At worst, we can also find a way to spend money to buy food to tide over the difficulties, and these are not what I am worried about. ”

Everyone was very strange when they heard it, and they didn't even worry about the most tricky thing at the moment, so what else would Liu Yunwei worry about?

I only heard Liu Yunwei say: "What I'm most worried about is that after we exterminate the main force of thieves on the Yiyang side, the imperial court will reward us greatly, and it is even possible to transfer us from Sichuan to other places for promotion, in which case everything we planned before will be in vain." ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, if it was really as Liu Yunwei expected, wouldn't all the efforts that everyone had made before be in vain?

Lu Ying also hurriedly asked, "What are the plans of the eldest brother?" ”

Liu Yunwei shook his head and said: "There is no way, it can only be done according to the will of the imperial court, and the future can only be said in the future, and I can say that there is no way now." ”

Everyone discussed for a long time but did not come up with a feasible way, and in desperation, Liu Yunwei asked for food and grass in a letter to the military department, and ordered the army to enter Yiyang west on the same day, wanting to rush to the Yiyang battlefield as soon as possible, end the war as soon as possible, and go to Sichuan as soon as possible.

Two days later, Liu Yunwei led the army of the Hanwei battalion to Yiyang City, which was located on the shore of Luoshui.

At this time, the outside of Yiyang City was full of traces left after fierce battles, the mottled city walls were covered with dark red bloodstains, and the outside of the city was full of broken corpses and broken weapons. From time to time, many crows flew in the sky, as if waiting for a feast, and kept hovering around and refused to leave.

Liu Yunwei watched for a while, then sent out Ye Buhui to find the traces of the thief army, and contacted the soldiers of the Changshui Department led by Wen Poyu as soon as possible.

Liu Yunwei looked at the surrounding terrain and ordered the army of Hanwei's battalion to rest on the flat land south of Yiyang City, and set up a large camp next to Yiyang City. After that, Liu Yunwei explained to Lu Ying and others, and he led fifty Longxiang Iron Cavalry soldiers into the city.

At dusk that day, Liu Yunwei returned to the camp proudly, and said with a smile to Lu Ying, Wu Xing and other generals: "Haha, this Yiyang prefect still dares to cry poor with me?" I really don't know what to say about him, doesn't he know that our Hanwei Camp is the lifesaver of Henan Mansion now? It's all at this time, and it's stupid to say that there is no food! ”

Lu Ying asked, "Big brother, then what did you say?" ”

Liu Yunwei said with a smile: "I'll tell the prefect a word, if there is food, I will stay and exterminate the army of thieves, if there is no food, I will leave the more than 60,000 thieves prisoners here, and then lead the army to Luoyang to eat!" The prefect was immediately frightened, and promised to give us 5,000 stone of grain within two days. ”

When everyone heard this, they burst into laughter.

While talking, everyone heard the neighing of war horses outside and the sound of people, and after a while, they saw Wen Poyu walking in, it seemed that he had not had a good rest for several days, and the whole person looked very tired.

Liu Yunwei said with a smile: "The broken captives are back?" Sit down and rest for a while, and tell us about this army of thieves. ”

Wen Poyu took a sip of a large bowl of water, then took a breath and said, "Big brother, these thieves are not easy to deal with, the leader of the thieves is known as Zhao Zhenren, and it is said that some god descended from the earth." This person is very difficult, I led my troops to fight with the army of thieves three times, but I didn't get any bargains, and this person has a lot of skills in leading troops, those thieves were trained by Zhao Zhenren to look good and be very difficult to fight. ”

Everyone was taken aback when they heard this, and they asked about the specific situation, and Liu Yunwei also hurriedly asked, "What are those thieves capable of?" How many centaurs do they have? ”

Wen Poyu said in a deep voice: "The weapons of those thieves are not too sophisticated, but most of them can fight in formation, and they are basically not afraid of death, once they launch an attack, they will never look back until they are dead; The army of thieves is also very large, and I estimate that its strength is about 150,000. ”

Liu Yunwei's face was very ugly after hearing this, and said: "This is a bad thing, I expected that we would solve the problem quickly this time, solve the thief army in Henan in the shortest possible time, and alleviate the shortage of grain and grass through capture, but now it seems that my previous plan is basically unrealizable." ”

At this moment, everyone suddenly heard the guards outside the tent say loudly: "General Qiyu, I found an army of thieves ten miles west of our army at night, with more than 100,000 people, and they are killing Yiyang!" ”