Chapter Seventy-Four: Tactics to Exhaust Zhao Chen

Chang'an, located in the side hall of the Ganlu Palace, two hundred horsemen in charge of the telegram, at this time, just translated a telegram sent from Lingnan, looking at the content on it, the faces of the two hundred horsemen turned pale in an instant.

Sitting in this side hall, you can hear clearly, okay. The voice in the hall outside, His Majesty the Emperor at this time, was discussing the affairs of Mobei with several ministers.

It seems that Xue Yantuo is what's wrong, and they didn't pay attention to listen to it, anyway, listening at this time, His Majesty the Emperor was in the main hall, and he was furious, and it sounded very angry.

"There is a change in Lingnan, and this matter must be informed to Your Majesty!" The two hundred horsemen looked at each other with a pale face, and there was some hesitation in their eyes, and after a while, one of them gritted his teeth and spoke.

As soon as the words fell, the man of the hundred horsemen picked up the telegram on the table, which had just been translated, took a deep breath, took a big stride, and headed for the hall outside.

"Xue Yantuo, what does he want to do!" When the hundred horsemen walked into the main hall with a telegram, Li Erzheng slapped the imperial case, looked angrily at Li Jing and the others below, and shouted loudly.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty, Lingnan Urgent! As soon as Li Er's roar fell, the hundred horsemen stepped forward, bowed respectfully towards Li Er, raised the telegram in his hand over his head, and handed it to Li Er.

"Bastard!" At this time, Li Er had already been upset by Xue Yantuo's sudden invasion of Tuli, and when he heard Baiqi interrupting him, he didn't think about it, so he picked up an inkstone on the table with his backhand and smashed it at Baicai.

I heard a crisp sound of 'pop', and the inkstone thrown out by Li Er's backhand. Rubbing the scalp of the hundred riders, it flew over, and smashed on the upper wall behind the hundred riders at once. There was a crunch sound, then it broke into several pieces and scattered on the ground.

"Bring it!" The crisp sound of the inkstone shattering. It seemed to make Li Er's mind sober up a little, and then, with one hand, he stretched out his other hand to the hundred horses in front of him and said.

The hundred horsemen in front of him had already been pale with fright by Li Er's actions just now, and when he stood in front of Li Er. Both legs trembled slightly, and when he heard Li Er's words, he hurriedly took a step forward and handed the telegram to Li Er.

"Lingnan has changed greatly!" After receiving the telegram from Li Er, Li Jing and the others below kept observing Li Er's expression, and after a while, Li Er's expression began to be a little gloomy.

At last. When he raised his head, he shook the telegram in his hand vigorously at Li Jing and the others below, and said angrily: "The bureaucrats are all against it." At this moment, seventy or eighty thousand people have been gathered and the spearhead is aimed at Nanfuzhou! ”

"Feng An. Feng Ang really damned it! Speaking of later, Li Er slapped the telegram on the imperial case. He clapped vigorously on the telegram, gritted his teeth and said, "I have promised him Lingnan Zong." The identity of the Grand Steward. Isn't he satisfied? ”

"Your Majesty, what did the Marquis of Chang'an say?" Just listening to Li Er's anger there, but Li Jing and the others were all dazed and ignorant, and after a while, the eldest grandson Wuji looked at Li Er and asked.

"There are seventy or eighty thousand people, and at this time, they will divide their troops into several units and launch a sneak attack on all the tribes around Nanfuzhou!" Li Er took a deep breath, picked up the paper on the table, looked at the few people below and explained.

On the telegram, Zhao Chen had already made it very clear that this time the bureaucrats gathered 780,000 people, but they remembered the lessons of the last failure, so that the 780,000 people had already divided their troops into several units and kept attacking the surrounding areas of Nanfuzhou.

By the time this telegram arrived, several tribes belonging to Nanfu had been harassed, burned, and plundered by the rebels, almost destroying these village tribes.

“… Sure enough, it's a poisonous plan! After listening to Li Er's introduction, the hall suddenly fell into silence, and after a while, Du Ruhui took a deep breath and said with a frown.

"Indeed!" Du Ruhui's voice fell, and Fang Xuanling on the side immediately said: "If it is seventy or eighty thousand people, besieging Nanfuzhou, with the means of the Marquis of Chang'an, it will definitely be able to deal with it, but if it is like now, I am afraid that it is a little difficult to cope!" ”

In Zhao Chen's hands, there are only four or five thousand elite soldiers, plus the soldiers and horses in Nanfuzhou, at most more than 10,000, however, the rebel army of 70,000 or 80,000 people, divided into several groups and blooming everywhere, Zhao Chen is no matter how he has the means, he is also lacking in skills.

"Does the Marquis of Chang'an want His Majesty to increase his troops?" Li Jing, who had been silently speaking, listened to Fang Xuanling's words at this time, frowned slightly, looked at Li Er and asked.

"I didn't talk about the increase in troops!" When Li Er heard this, as he spoke, he unfolded the map of Lingnan that he had just sent from the inner servant on the imperial case, pointed to the Southern Fuzhou on it, and said: "The Marquis of Chang'an only said that now the rebels are hiding in the 100,000 mountains, constantly attacking the tribes around Nanfuzhou!" ”

"However, although the Marquis of Chang'an did not explicitly say that he wanted the imperial court to increase troops in Lingnan!" Li Er spoke, and continued without waiting for a few people to speak: "But now this situation depends on Chang'an Hou alone, I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with!" ”

"Lingnan is thousands of miles away, will it be too late to increase troops at this time?" Hearing Li Er's words, Fang Xuanling on the side glanced at the other people and asked tentatively.

"It's not too late!" Fang Xuanling's voice fell, Li Jing looked at the map, frowned and muttered: "If the Marquis of Chang'an can hold out for a while, quickly step up, transfer troops from Jianghuai, and directly enter Lingnan from Guilin Mansion, and directly enter from the rear..."

"Guilin Mansion?" Hearing Li Jing's words, Li Er immediately frowned, looked at Guilin on the map, and then, his fingers followed Guilin Mansion to the east, all the way to the 100,000 Mountain.

"Qinzhou, Yuezhou Ning, all participate in the rebellion this time!" With the words of Li Er and Li Jing, the eldest grandson Wuji also looked at the map, and said in a deep voice: "If you transfer troops to the past, you will be able to completely control Qinzhou and Yuezhou in the hands of the imperial court!" ”

"Well, Mowgli has a point!" When Li Er heard this, he nodded at the eldest grandson Wuji, and said in agreement: "In this way, most of Lingnan is already under the control of the imperial court!" ”

When he said this, Li Er's fingers followed the Guilin Mansion on the map, all the way to Nanfuzhou, and included Qinzhou and Yuezhou, except for Gaozhou.

"Tell me the will!" Thinking of this, Li Er immediately raised his head, looked at the hundred horsemen in front of him and said: "Be sure to let the Marquis of Chang'an hold on to Lingnan for a long time, the imperial court will urgently transfer troops from Jianghuai into Lingnan in a short period of time!" ”

"Whoa!" The hundred horsemen in front of him, his face was still a little pale at this time, and when he heard Li Er's will, he hurriedly bowed slightly to Li Er, turned around and walked towards the side hall.

And just when Li Er gave the order to Zhao Chen, Zhao Chen at this time, with people, had just arrived at a tribe that had been captured by the rebels, but it was a pity that they were one step late.

The tribe in front of him can be regarded as the tribe of Qingxitong, and this tribe existed before Zhao Chen moved south from the mountains to the deep mountains.

In fact, as early as the previous dynasty, when the Chen family was still ruling Nanfuzhou, there were many slang tribes living here, but these tribes at that time, because of backward production technology, were even inferior to the mountain tribes.

Later, with the southward migration of the mountain bureaucrats, Nanfu began to spring up like mushrooms after a rain, and after it was full of vitality, these tribes began to belong to the leadership of Nanfu little by little.

After introducing the rice field technology, he ate his stomach full, and began to learn from the Nanfu bureaucrats, and began to promote the handicraft industry in the tribe.

However, it took two years for the tribe to recover little by little, but at this moment, when Zhao Chen arrived with people, the originally huge village in front of him had been annihilated in a thick smoke.

All the grain in the stockade was robbed by the rebels, and those who could not be taken away were burned by the rebels and destroyed in a sky-high fire, just like many hanging towers in the stockade.

In the air, there was a choking smell of smoke at the moment, and the wood that had not been completely burned was poured into the water by the tribesmen, and there were puffs of smoke, which shrouded the entire ruin-like stockade.

And outside the stockade, the wingmen who were lucky enough to survive at this time looked at the stockade in front of them in despair one by one, and in the crowd, they heard the children and women crying in panic.

"This is already the fourth!" Looking at the miserable scene in front of him, Cheng Chumo held the handle of the knife tightly with one hand, and said with a murderous aura on a dark face.

"Let them escape again!" Zhao Chen took a deep breath, feeling that he was holding his breath in his chest, but he couldn't find a gap to vent it, so he had to take advantage of this deep breath to exhale a little depression in his chest.

As Fang Cai Cheng said silently, this is the fourth time they have missed, and these people have learned a lesson this time and actually played 'guerrilla warfare' with him.

Always when he was not expecting, he suddenly attacked a tribe, and by the time he received the news and hurriedly brought people over, the rebels had already fled without a trace, leaving him with only a mess that could not be cleaned up.

A little annoyed, but also quite helpless, it feels like a clenched fist, but there is no way to start!

"The people who stayed behind to deal with it, the rest of the people, etc., will come back to the city with me!" Next, I don't know where it will appear, Zhao Chen staying here is useless at all, it will only increase the troubles, and most importantly, he has to deal with the next attack.

"From now on, send me another wave of people into the mountain!" On the way back, Zhao Chen rode on horseback and instructed a wingman chief beside him: "Find out the specific location of these people in the mountains as soon as possible!" ”

As a later generation, who would have thought that in the Tang Dynasty, which is more than a thousand years apart, a group of bureaucrats will start a guerrilla war with a group of bureaucrats.

The most depressing thing is that the initiative in this battle is still in the hands of a group of wingmen, and it is really depressing to vomit blood! (To be continued.) )