Chapter 473: Xiangyang within half a month
Everything is going well here in Xuzhou, Wang Zheng has already sent the newly thrown Yuan Shizhong to Fengyang as a pioneer, and the whole army is also gearing up, and they all understand that Hou Ye is looking ahead and preparing to stir up in the quagmire of Fengyang.
Wang Zheng's movements became bigger and bigger, the territory of the Shandong Army spread several times, and everyone was also very excited, so they almost flew directly to Nanjing.
On this day, more than 90,000 soldiers of the four major battalions of the Shandong Army stood outside the city of Xuzhou, with iron armor and tiger spears like a forest, and everyone did not squint at Anton Hou who came slowly in gorgeous clothes and armor.
Wang Zheng held the family heirloom steel knife, ascended to the general's platform, looked around at the elite soldiers below, and nodded with satisfaction.
This reading can be regarded as Yaowei in Xuzhou, so that those young people can think carefully about whether they have that strength before making trouble!
Before Wang Zheng could say anything, a pacesetter came galloping from the west, holding an urgent report, jumped off the horse after entering the school field, and ran to Wang Zheng without stopping for a moment, knelt down and cried and shouted:
"Hou Ye, Hou Ye, Suizhou has fallen, Li Guo's thief slaughtered more than 3,000 of our brothers in the city, and the next one is, that is..."
"The superintendent Yushi and more than 1,000 students are all dead, Chen Shoubei and Dong Qianzong are all dead!"
Wang Zheng's eyes widened, he didn't expect this to happen, he originally thought it was good news from other places, but this was the first time he had received the news that the place he had occupied had fallen.
At that moment, Wang Zheng's mood suddenly became very complicated, watching Anton Hou's expression gradually freeze, Huang Yang, Dong Youyin and others standing below all gasped, and they couldn't believe it.
Who would have thought that Li Guo was so bold that he would not return to Xiangyang, and even Li Zicheng did not say anything, and he went to the Huangling burial post for a few days. ,
Without the expected thunder, Wang Zheng slowly stepped down in the eyes of everyone, picked up the pacesetter of Guide Mansion who was crying, and said warmly:
"You're okay, go back to the inn and take a rest."
The pacesetter was originally ready to accept the wrath of Hou Ye Anton, but at this time, he glanced at Wang Zheng in shock, and saw that Hou Ye was still very calm, and he felt even more guilty in his heart, so he refused to get up, and cried even more.
The losses in Suizhou were not unheavy, with 3,000 foreign soldiers and horses, 800 salt dings, more than 200 local military council clerks, and more than 1,000 students from all over the country who came to study for the examination, and almost no one survived.
The people in the city originally lived a stable and prosperous life, but of course the thieves were unwilling, so they resisted spontaneously, and finally they were killed by the soldiers of more than 1,000 people.
This Li Guo...
After the Shandong army heard the news, everyone was filled with righteous indignation, looked closely at the person at the front, and shouted that they wanted to kill Li Guo to avenge their hatred.
Wang Zheng stepped on the platform again with heavy steps, his expression was unprecedented, deep and angry, only to see him pull out the steel knife and make a cut in his hand.
Letting the blood flow out, Wang Zheng raised his hand with anger in his eyes and said:
"I swear here that I will conquer Xiangyang and kill Li Guo within half a month, so as to avenge the fallen students, civil and military generals, and many people, and let the people of the world know the strength of the Shandong army."
Wang Zheng's words can be regarded as a signal to the whole army, that is, from today, Shandong will start to use troops against the Shun army, and it is still a big move, and he will not give up if he does not kill Li Guo.
The Shandong army is like this, if there is revenge, it will be avenged, and it will never drag the mud and water, Wang Zheng acted decisively and quickly, and even the soldiers and generals below were almost the same.
Speaking of this, Wang Zheng suddenly shouted:
"Zhu Luan, the lord of the Guide Mansion, lost the city and fell to the ground, causing the imperial history and students of the imperial court to suffer, and his crime is difficult to escape, but because of his contribution to the imperial court in the past, he led his troops to capture the Shenqiu area within five days, if he arrived in Shenqiu and did not see the banner of my Shandong army at the head of the city, he should be beheaded to determine the three armies!"
"Lu Jingrong, the chief general of Qingzhou Mansion, immediately ordered 20,000 troops to reinforce Wenzhou and Guide after receiving the order; The first knife led the department to enter the Suizhou City inspection point and repair the houses; Liu Guoneng, the chief general of Kaifeng Prefecture, led 30,000 troops to Ruzhou to attack Nanyang, and the deputy general Chen Yongfu stayed in Kaifeng; Qiu Wu, the Haizhou garrison, was promoted to the guerrilla general of Nanzhili and moved to Huai'an Fucheng, that is, he led 20,000 Haizhou soldiers into Huai'an Fucheng. ”
As one after another angry orders were issued, there were constantly pacesetters holding tokens turning over their horses, and they rushed to various places to convey the latest military orders of Anton Hou Wang Zheng.
All in all, this time the Shandong army dispatched a large army, and there were foreign descendants, and they went south to besiege Xiangyang!
Originally, Wang Zheng planned to enter Fengyang directly with his soldiers, but he did not mean to target Li Zicheng, some things could not be said clearly, and he had to rely on him to promote the historical process.
But today's news came out, which completely angered Wang Zheng, if the Shandong army did not react, it would definitely make the world laugh, and the occupation of Nanzhili would be even more thorny.
Therefore, it is reasonable for Wang Zheng to give Li Zicheng and the whole world a resounding slap in the face, and the Shandong army, even if it is a Shun army known as a million, cannot afford to provoke it!
When the news came out, the north and south were shaken, and since the governor Yang Sichang committed suicide by poisoning in Xiangyang, the situation in the world moved closer to Li Zicheng.
More than a year has passed, the imperial court officials and troops have been defeated and retreated, and there is only the news that the Shun army has besieged a certain place and swept millions of loots everywhere, and no court soldier can mobilize so many forces to encircle and suppress the Shun army.
It is said that Wang Zheng also sent letters to Lu Jiude, the eunuch of the supervising army, Huang Degong, and Liu Liangzuo, the chief soldiers, inviting them to work together to suppress the thieves.
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On 15 June, a pacesetter suddenly appeared in the camp of Lu Jiude in Fengyang, the central capital, wearing crimson armor that they had never seen before, and with several small flags planted on his body.
The pacesetter got straight to the point, threw the letter on Ludjud's desk, and said:
"My marquis invited Duke Lu to publicly suppress the thief, and I hope to reply quickly!"
Seeing that the other party turned around and left after speaking, without giving any face, Lu Jiude suddenly remembered that there was an Anton Hou in the north of him, and the Shandong soldiers and horses under his hand were not vegetarians.
Lu Jiude opened the letter, and when he saw it, he couldn't stop, and almost dropped his jaw in shock, he touched his chin and walked in the camp, muttering to himself:
"Within half a month, you will kill Xiangyang, and you will kill Li Guo, this kind of words is what Anton Hou Wang Zheng dares to say, don't say it, I'm afraid that Shandong's soldiers and horses really have that strength."
Lu Jiude sat down and took a sip of tea, how could he never have thought that there was such a strong backer under his nose before, and said to himself with a smile:
"This time, Li Guo has broken the sky, and he thinks he is famous all over the world, he is small, he is afraid that he will die, he doesn't know how to die, how can the Shandong army provoke him casually, and it is good for our family to drink some soup behind Wang Zheng's ass."
Thinking of this, Lu Jiude picked up the pen and wrote, wrapped the letter after writing, and shouted violently:
"Someone, reply to the official, remember, you have to hurry up, we can ask you if you delay the big thing."
The soldier was Lu Jiude's cronies, and it didn't seem like a joke to hear that the master of his own prison army knew that he was going to do it seriously this time, so he naturally didn't dare to slack off, patted his chest and said that it would be delivered within two days, and he turned around and left the camp.
When the man went out, Lu Jiude kept wandering in the tent, and he didn't even know what he was thinking when he inadvertently pinched the brush in his hand.