Chapter 332: Capture Two Cities in a Row
He heard that someone outside called the door, and quickly led the people to the city; When I arrived at the city and looked down, I saw a team of about 2,000 people, all with crooked armor and embarrassed, calling for the door. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The person in charge of guarding the city gate is called Liu Meng, who is Liu Guohu's retainer; In addition to his strength, this person has some martial arts; It's just a reckless man. When he heard the shouting, he asked Xu Liang, "Lord Xu, do you see if there will be fraud." ”
Sun Liang took a look and said: "This subordinate didn't see it, but they were wearing clothes when they arrived with our people." I don't think it will be an enemy, after all, if you cheat the city, they will have too few people, and it is not enough for General Liu to call for him alone. ”
Liu Meng laughed and said, "Yes, Lord Xu is right. If you don't hurry up and open the door, I'll go down and have a look!" With that, he turned around and hurried down the tower. Xu Liang sneered in the back; Router? The rout is not just physical, look at what point of their spirit looks like a rout.
This Liu Meng led people down the city tower, and as soon as he opened the city gate, the army outside had already rushed over; As soon as the first general looked at him, he cut the knife without saying a word.
Liu Meng didn't expect that he wanted to dodge when he turned around, but it was too late; I heard a click and was cut off the horse. The defenders behind were so frightened that they turned around and ran.
Andy Lau led people to chase after him; As soon as he entered Haozhou, he heard someone shouting: "Is Liu Sima on the other side?" ”
Liu Dewei was stunned and turned his head to see a middle-aged official coming down the road along the city wall; He approached and bowed down and said, "Haozhou County Guard Xu Liang to see Liu Sima?" ”
Liu Dewei suddenly realized that when Xu Liang went to Taiyuan to meet Li Yuanji, he had seen it himself, and heard that he had a good reputation as an official; Hurriedly hugged his fists and said: "Lord Xu, I still have to chase down the thieves, please hurry up and take over the stability and security of Haozhou!" ”
When Xu Liang heard this, he was overjoyed, knowing that he had been exposed from this piece of the thief, and hurriedly bowed down to receive the order. He said to the stunned soldiers beside him: "Liu Wuzhou will definitely fail if he goes against the sky; We are the people of the Tang Dynasty, when will we not return to the Tang Dynasty at this time? ”
As soon as these soldiers heard this, they quickly put it under the banner of Liu Wuzhou, which can be regarded as returning to the rule of the Tang Dynasty.
With Xu Liang's cooperation, plus the enemy's generals have been killed; Moreover, Liu Guohu is brutal and unkind, and he is unpopular with the people; However, after half a day's effort, Haozhou was completely controlled by Liu Dewei.
Cheng Zhijie took Liu Guohu's body and escorted the captive soldiers, and came to Luzhou the next day.
Liu Guolong of Luzhou now hides in the back hall every day to ask for the blessing of the Buddha and pray for his younger brother Liu Guohu to arrive quickly. On this day, he was meditating in the back hall, and suddenly felt a sense of restlessness, as if something bad was about to happen.
At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps outside, and a servant ran in and said with a panicked face: "My lord, my lord, something is wrong." The enemy has come with reinforcements again, and, and ......"
"And what? Say it! ”
"And they also brought the body of the second master; It is said that the enemy set up an ambush in Baigu Mountain, and the second master's army was annihilated. ”
"Ahh National Tiger, I hurt you! Liu Guolong almost rolled his eyes and fainted, beating his chest and crying.
"My lord, please mourn, what will you do later? Still waiting for your attention? The adults were already waiting outside. ”
Liu Guolong stopped his grief at this time, sighed and said, "Let everyone go back!" What to do is how to do it! ”
The generals at the door have one, what should they do! One by one, I am confused, I really don't know what to do? At this moment, everyone suddenly found that the Buddha building in the back hall of the county guard mansion was billowing with smoke and blazing fire.
"National Tiger, go slowly! My brother is here to accompany you! Hahaha! ”
Everyone looked at each other, and Boom rushed in at once; It turned out that the Buddha building was already in flames, and it was too late to save it.
"Lord Liu, why did Lord Liu leave! Now that the soldiers are in the city, what can I do? "There was an official of Liu Wuzhou lying on the ground crying bitterly.
The rest of the people were staring at each other, and finally someone turned their heads and cut them away, and the rest of them all ran away with the scramble.
"Squeak!" As soon as the gate was opened, Cheng Zhijie, Cheng Zhijie converged, Chai Shao and others entered Luzhou City. After entering the city, Chai Shao did not immediately deal with these enemy officials in order to stabilize people's hearts, but still let them hold their original positions.
He returned all the property robbed by Liu Guolong to everyone, compensated the women robbed by Liu Guolong and let them go home, and then opened a warehouse to release grain to appease the people; Luzhou City quickly settled down.
Then Chai Shao reported to Li Yuan and agreed with Li Shimin to take joint action against Song Jingang.
Li Yuan went directly to the battle report and finally breathed a long sigh of relief, the enemy on the Western Front had retreated, and the situation in Shanxi was getting better day by day; This made him pay special attention to his second son; It was decreed that he should be crowned Shang Shuling, a general.
Li Yuan has not yet determined the position of the crown prince, and this addition of Li Shimin has caused Li Jiancheng's worries.
Although Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji have very different personalities, they are very angry, and Li Yuanji ran to Li Jiancheng's house that night.
"Big brother, the second child has gained such a big benefit this time, if he becomes the prince in the future, where will we still live; You're going to have a snack. As the saying goes, people don't hurt the tiger, but the tiger harms people's hearts. You are benevolent and generous, but there are some things that you can't be guarded against! ”
Li Jiancheng frowned slightly and sighed: "Third brother, I also know what you said, but this is the credit of the people of the world, no one can stop it, what can we do if my father favors him?" ”
Li Yuanji said: "Big brother, don't worry, I think of someone." It was Pei Lin who had just been punished by his father at home. It's easy to put the icing on the cake, but it's hard to send charcoal in the snow! Big brother, if we help Pei Lin at this time, can he not be anxious about our benefits? ”
Li Jiancheng nodded when he heard this, and Li Yuanji continued: "This father of ours is a person who misses the old. Don't look at Pei Lian being punished now, it won't be long before the pit will be able to reinstate the official.
Why was Pei Lin able to become the first hero of Conglong? In terms of credit, Liu Wenjing is much higher than him; But he was able to crush Liu Wenjing alive. His skills should not be underestimated. ”
Li Jiancheng slapped the table and said, "After listening to the words of the third brother, I suddenly opened my mouth; Walk! Without further ado, let's go meet this first person from the dragon. ”
After that, the two of them did not slack off, and went out to get on the horse and go straight to Pei Lian's house. Pei Lin was punished, and the gate of the busy gate used to be full of birds. However, Pei Lin was not in a hurry at all, and the old god was in the Buddhist hall with his eyes closed and chanting.
Hearing that Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji were coming, he smiled slightly and asked people to invite them to the living room.
"Oops! I don't know if the arrival of the two princes is far away, it's really damned! As soon as Pei Lin entered the living room, he smiled and saluted Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji.
Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji hurriedly got up and said, "Please forgive me for the recklessness of our coming!" Several people sat down, and Pei Lin said: "I don't know what advice the two princes have come to me." ”
Li Jiancheng said: "Master Pei has made great contributions to the Tang Dynasty, and we should have come to meet us; This time, Master Pei resisted the elite army of Song Jingang in Shanxi, which broke their spirit; but got unfair treatment, carried the black pot himself, and let the latecomers take advantage; We feel sorry for the Lord. ”
Pei Lin smiled and said: "Ashamed, ashamed, defeat is defeat, and I deserve to be punished." ”
Li Yuanji said in a hurry: "Master Pei, let's stop going around the corner, let's just say it!" The father made the second child a Shang Shuling and a general, we were afraid that he would rob the eldest brother's position, so we had no idea, and we wanted to ask Master Pei for advice on what to do? ”
Pei Lin smiled: "Qi Guogong is really straightforward, whoever should be in this position is whoever it is, and you can't grab it if you want to." As long as Yin Guogong does a good job of himself, does his filial piety, and achieves no loss in virtue.
Besides, hasn't the emperor made him the crown prince yet? You only need to say one thing to the emperor: There are lessons from the Qin Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty, and it is very dangerous to abolish the elders and establish the young. ”
The two of them couldn't stop nodding, and Li Jiancheng said with a smile: "Lord Pei is the most important minister of my father, and I don't bother the two masters for anything, so I have to ask Lord Pei for more help in this matter." ”
Pei Lin shook his head and said, "I am a guilty body, and I won't listen to what I say; The two princes can take a look at the relationship between the harem, and the pillow wind is very useful. ”
Li Jiancheng said: "Thank you Master Pei for your advice, the two of us will keep it in mind; I'm going back to tell my father that Master Pei has contributed to the Tang Dynasty, and he can't just be buried! Pei Lin was humble again and again.
The two of them got the answer they wanted, and then took their leave and went back to prepare; Pei Lin smiled slightly and returned to his Buddha hall.
Li Shimin received the intelligence sent by Chai Shao and applauded the case, and Song Jingang's grain route on the east side of the Fen River was cut off. He immediately sent Yin Kaishan and Tang Jian to lead 10,000 horses to attack Fenzhou and Xizhou, and harassed him in the vital places on the west side of Fenshui.
In these two places, Liu Wuzhou's troops were less, Yin Kaishan asked Tang Jian to lead his troops to feint an attack on the Xihe, and he himself led his troops to raid Zhang Nanbao, and the general Jing Zhang Dezheng killed Liu Wuzhou's general Zhang Lun, and occupied Liu Wuzhou's most important grain base on the west side of the Fen River.
Liu Wuzhou retreated to Taiyuan, and Song Jingang's lone army went deep into Jinyang, and the originally good situation turned out to be abrupt, and the victorious Taiping was biased to the side of the Tang army.
Liu Wuzhou hurriedly ordered his general Huang Ziying to lead an army of 20,000 to attack Luzhou, eager to open up contact with Song Jingang.
Cheng Zhijie and Chai Shao heard that Liu Wuzhou had sent Huang Ziying to lead the army of 2 kings, but they didn't put him down. Chai Yao said: "Huang Ziying is called the yellow fox, he is more scheming and less decisive, and he is hesitant to act; is not a general's talent; We will defeat him without much effort. Not far from here, even if the mouth of the pot, we will lay a pocket array there to meet this yellow fox for a while. ”