Chapter 208: (Li Chengdong's ability)

In the city of Jinan, the imperial palace of Qi State

After Cheng Gongwu learned that Liaocheng had fallen, his whole person was in a struggle, and now he has begun to regret being the emperor in his heart, especially offending a person who should not be offended, and after Liang Gong learned that his son was trapped in Liaocheng, he tried his best to ask Cheng Gongwu to send troops to support Liaocheng. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Your Majesty, if Liaocheng is lost, there will be no danger in the southern part of my capital, and the enemy army can drive straight into Changqing County, if so, the consequences will be unimaginable..."

Hearing this, Zhou Fan couldn't help but interject: "Lord Liang, do you know how many troops I still have in the capital?" Do you know that the war in Texas is tight right now? If you send troops to support Liaocheng at this time, and there is an accident in the war in Texas, and you need the imperial court to send troops to support, what can you do to help the hussar general in Texas? ”

Zhou Fan's words can be said to be directly into the topic, especially the last sentence, the guard of Texas is the Qi Hussar General Cheng Tai, he is Cheng Gongwu's own nephew, brave and abnormal, once in Luoyang with Shangguan Yin Feng Qin Wang killed the Zhang family, and as I said before, Cheng Gongwu can be the emperor in Shandong, all thanks to the strong support of the Cheng clan behind him, Zhou Fan's words are actually very easy to understand, that is, Cheng Tai's life is more valuable than his Liang Xi's life.

Of course, all the civil and military officials present knew Zhou Fan's words, and they all secretly agreed with these words, to put it bluntly, Liang Gong himself was also born as an envoy in the Cheng Gongwu Mansion, and the ugly thing is that he is a house slave, how can the son of your house slave be compared with the people of the Cheng clan.

"Your Majesty, it's not that Weichen is favoritism, but Liaocheng really can't be lost, once Liaocheng is lost, all the counties in western Shandong will fall into passivity, and the capital will be threatened at all times, if Dezhou is lost, Shangguan Yin Feng and Li Chengdong and other northwest sides attack, then there will be no chance." Liang Gong immediately retorted, he didn't actually want to save his son, he had four heirs and two daughters, if he could be loyal to the country, it was also natural, but now that the Qi country was in great trouble, he couldn't help but think about it for the Qi country anyway.

But sometimes things always have two sides, Zhou Fan's words are very important to Cheng Gongwu, but weighing the pros and cons, Liaocheng can't help but save, Liang Gong's words are also very reasonable, so Cheng Gongwu coughed, stopped the two people who were still arguing, and ordered: "Two Aiqing, I think what you said makes sense, but Liaocheng is indeed on the lighter side than Dezhou, and there are about 50,000 in my capital, and I want to support Dezhou on the one hand, and defend the capital on the other, so I decided to transfer 10,000 troops to Liaocheng this time, What do you guys think? ”

"The emperor Shengming..."Zhou Fan and Liang Gong both said in unison, since Cheng Gongwu has spoken, there is no need to argue anymore, and the mentality of the two is also different, Zhou Fan thought in his heart that these 10,000 people to rescue is tantamount to a drop in the bucket, Shangguan Yin Feng has about 100,000 troops, and he will be sent to death if he goes, but Liang Gong is very happy, although 10,000 people are not much, but there is a good chance to take Liang Xi to break through the encirclement and return to Jinan.

After hearing what the two said, Cheng Gongwu nodded: "In that case, who do you think is the most appropriate person to send to lead the troops?" ”

Before Liang Gong could speak, Zhou Fan preemptively said: "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that General Liang is besieging Liaocheng, and it is most appropriate for Lord Liang's son to go to the rescue, anyway, he is the son of Lord Liang, and he can still take care of him when he breaks through." ”

Liang Gong never thought that Zhou Fan would let his son lead the troops, he knew very well that going to Liaocheng was abnormal, if he was lucky, he could come back, and if he was unlucky, he would have to die there, and Zhou Fan did this purely deliberately.

Cheng Gongwu nodded, looked at Liang Gong and said, "What does Liang Aiqing think?" ”

Cheng Gongwu's words also agreed with Zhou Fan's words, at least he thought that what Zhou Fan said was very reasonable, since Cheng Gongwu had spoken, Liang Gong had no reason to refute it, so he hugged his fists and said: "Everything is up to Your Majesty's will." ”

"That's good, pass the decree, order the mighty general Liang Qiu, lead 10,000 troops to Liaocheng to rescue, and set off immediately after receiving the order."

Because Liang Chao was guarding Jing County, and Liang Huan was also the lieutenant of northern Jinan, responsible for the defense of the capital, he naturally couldn't leave, so he could only let Liang Qiu, the youngest son of Liang Kong, lead the troops to the rescue.

Liang Gong silently nodded in thanks, but Zhou Fan looked at Liang Gong with a lower head with another expression.

On the ninth day of November, the Texas War Report, Li Chengdong and Ouyang Qing divided their troops to attack Jingxian, and on the same night they invaded Jingxian County, and Liang Chao led the soldiers in a fierce hand-to-hand combat, Chengtai General led 30,000 reinforcements also arrived and joined the battle, Liang Chao had 40,000 soldiers under his command, plus 30,000 reinforcements, it was also a full 70,000 people, Li Chengdong and Ouyang Qing combined nearly 100,000 troops, and they also had an advantage in numbers, but that's it, they also failed to take Jingxian in one go; On the tenth day of November, Cheng Tai personally led the main force of 50,000 troops in Dezhou City to reinforce Jing County, because the battle in Jing County continued, and Cheng Tai, who was quite talented in military affairs, was unwilling to miss the best opportunity to annihilate Li Chengdong and Ouyang Qing's troops, but what Cheng Tai never expected was that on the night of the tenth day of the first month, Li Chengdong, who was commanding the battle, suddenly led an army of 20,000 to make a detour and ran directly to Dezhou City, leaving several of his generals to command the remaining 20,000 soldiers of the headquarters to participate in the attack on Jing County, and Li Chengdong's attack, even Ouyang Qing did not know.

When Li Chengdong led the troops to the outside of the city of Dezhou, the guards on the tower of the city clearly saw the banner of the Cheng Dynasty army, because it was an attack, coupled with Li Chengdong ordered the siege sergeant to shout the news of Cheng Tai's defeat in Jing County, so that the Qi army defending the city was in turmoil, Li Chengdong personally attacked, climbed the ladder to the city, his sergeants were greatly encouraged, and successfully entered the city of Dezhou, and the Qi army fought in the city, due to the unstable heart of the Qi army, rumors spread, and the Cheng Dynasty army was suddenly killed, there were many people, Let the Qi army defending the city think that the Chengtai army was really defeated in Jingxian, so they gave up resistance, most of them chose to surrender, only a small number of loyal to Chengtai generals with hundreds of people out of Dezhou, some to Jingxian, the other part to Jinan.

After Li Chengdong took Dezhou City, his own troops suffered nearly 5,000 casualties in the siege, and there were less than 15,000 people under his command to defend the city.