Chapter 293: What is the Intention?

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At the end of November, Li Fengyun commanded the alliance army to suddenly enter Jibei County, crossed the Jishui River, and surrounded Dong'e and Lucheng on the south bank of the Great River

Just when Zhang Xutuo was busy dispatching troops, Li Fengyun captured Lucheng, and then led the three armies of Neifu to cross the frozen river, enter Hebei, and attack Liaocheng in Wuyang County at the first time.

Liaocheng was caught off guard, and did not expect that Qilu's rebels would enter Hebei, let alone that thousands of rebel soldiers would rush over like a tide, and only a few hours later, Liaocheng fell.

Lü Xingxing led the Fifth Army of the Alliance to garrison Liaocheng on the north bank of the Great River, the Third Army to garrison Lucheng on the south bank of the Great River, and the Fourth Army to garrison on the north bank of the Great River, in the center.

Li Fengyun led the three armies of the Inner Prefecture and the first and second armies of the Outer Prefecture to continue northward into the territory of Qinghe County, and quickly advanced in the direction of Yongji Canal.

On the second day of December, the coalition army made contact with the Qinghe rebels. On the night of the same day, Li Fengyun and Wang Anchu, the leader of the Qinghe Righteous Army, met on the bank of the Mache River.

Before crossing the river, Li Fengyun had a detailed understanding of the Hebei Righteous Army.

The Hebei Righteous Army was divided into three parts, some of which were active in the eastern foothills of Taihang Mountain, with Yang Gongqing of Handan, Wang Deren of Wei County, and Li Wenxiang of Jijun being the strongest; Some of them are active on both sides of the Yongji Canal in Qinghe and Pingyuan counties, among which the north bank of Yongji Canal is the most famous for Gao Shida and Dou Jiande who gather in Gaojibo, while on the south bank of Yongji Canal there is the Qinghe Righteous Army called Zhang Jinshu by Zhang Jin, a native of Qinghe, and the Plain Righteous Army with Hao Xiaode, Liu Heimin, Du Yanbing, and Wang Run, who are the four heroes of the Plains; There is also a part of the Bohai County active in Hebei, Bohai County east of the sea, north of the river, west of the plain, south across the river and Qi County, the benefits of fish and salt are very rich, and salt is a monopoly, the local Haoqiang for the sake of competing with the government for profit, active smuggling, black and white conflict is fierce, this is also one of the main reasons for the Bohai rebel army to swarm, among which Liu Badao, Li Deyi, Sun Xuanya, Shi Ji Boudoir gathered in the southern part of the Bohai Sea Douzigang area of the largest force, and gathered in the northern part of the Bohai Sea Yanshan area of Geqian, Gao Kaidao, Zhang Junli and other handsome men are also very strong.

After the alliance crossed the river, the main object of cooperation was the Qinghe Rebels. The Qinghe Righteous Army is also a loose alliance, among which Zhang Jincheng and Zhang Jinshu brothers are the strongest, and the little handsome Wang An that Li Fengyun saw is a local strong man in Linqing County, Qinghe County, with nearly 1,000 men and horses.

In the past year or so, the Qinghe Rebels have not only repeatedly suppressed injustices, but have continued to grow stronger, and during this year's Holy Lord's Eastern Crusade, the Qinghe Rebels also adopted a restrained plundering strategy against the Yongji Canal that crosses its territory, which is worth scrutinizing. After the winter, Zuo Yiwei's general Duan Da rebelled in Hebei, and the target was Qinghe County, which was nominally to kill the rebels on both sides of the Yongji Canal, but in fact it was aimed at the wealthy families of Qinghe.

There are many wealthy families in Hebei, and there are countless second- and third-rate and even low-class nobles, among which the northern nobles take the Boling Cui clan as the pillar, the central and eastern regions have the Zhaojun Li clan as the pillar, and the southern part has the Qinghe Cui clan as the banner. Nowadays, the Li family of Zhaojun is no longer beautiful and is going "downhill"; The Boling Cui clan has been hit frequently, and it seems to be beautiful, but in fact it is full of dangers and difficult steps; Only the Qinghe Cui clan accounted for the light of the emperor's relatives and relatives, especially at the critical moment when the foundation was unstable at the beginning of the Holy Lord's accession to the throne, they helped each other and gained a lot, which made them the most powerful among the three major aristocratic groups in Hebei, so they also became the vanguard of the fierce confrontation between the Shandong people and the Guanlong people.

The powerful Qinghe Righteous Army, the Pingyuan Righteous Army, the Gaojibo Righteous Army and the Bohai Volunteer Army in the Hebei Righteous Army are all concentrated in the south of Yongji Canal, all in the south of Hebei, and they have all been repeatedly suppressed in the past year, and the reasons behind them are about to come out.

The southern Hebei aristocratic group naturally became the target of the Guanlong people, and the southern Hebei nobles were not afraid and fought back fiercely, especially after the sharp war knife of the "righteous army", the struggle on the political zhì was even more bloody and cruel.

Duan Da came violently, went straight to Yongji Canal, stationed troops in the Changhe and Zhangnan areas at the junction of Qinghe, Pingyuan and Xindu counties, relying on the grain and grass weapons continuously transported from Yongji Canal, commanded the army to attack the three rebel armies of Gaojibo, Qinghe and Pingyuan on the north and south banks of Yongji Canal. The Plains Righteous Army did not dare to stop its sharpness, and took the lead in retreating to Douzigang, and joined forces with the Douzigang Righteous Army, waiting for an opportunity to counterattack. Gao Shida and Dou Jiande of Gaojibo also did not dare to fight head-on with the official army, so they resolutely retreated eastward and went upriver along the Zhangshui River.

Duan Da chased and killed, led the army into Qinghe County, and in the name of suppressing thieves, he killed the local nobles and rich people suspected of "thieves".

The Qinghe people were furious, and Zhang Jinshu and Zhang Jinshu, under the urging of the supporting forces behind them, joined forces with the Gaojibo Righteous Army and resolutely fought with the official army in the area of Zongcheng, and the battle was lost. The rebel army decisively changed its strategy, broke into pieces, and made full use of its own advantages to fight a guerrilla war, and the two sides immediately fell into a stalemate, but the Second Eastern Crusade was imminent, and the Gyeonggi garrison could move north at any time, which was very unfavorable to the rebel army.

At this moment, Li Fengyun led the Southwest Lu Rebel Army Alliance to cross the river north and enter the Hebei battlefield, which should be good news for the Hebei Rebel Army, but Li Fengyun did not see the slightest joy on Wang An's face, only nervousness and uneasiness.

What is Wang An nervous about? Why are you so upset?

Li Fengyun and the Southwest Lu Rebel Army he led are now famous, but this "name" is notoriety, and it is notorious. The reason is very simple: this summer Li Fengyun led his army into the Central Plains, which coincided with the great drought in Henan and the people were struggling to make a living; on the one hand, there were countless refugees and starvation all over the wilderness, and on the other hand, they were attacking cities and villages, burning, killing, and plundering, and the results can be imagined. The Eastern Capital and the local county government just have an excuse not to give relief, and even if the local aristocratic bureaucrats have the heart to help, they can't do anything, in the face of the attack of the rebels, it is good to be able to escape with their lives, where can they take care of the refugees who are struggling on the line of life and death? Refugees are even more pitiful, under the natural disaster**, only by fleeing from home can there be a glimmer of life, but the escape road is too long, and the danger on the escape road is too great, so the corpses are all over the field, and the lives are devastated.

Who is accused of the misery of living in Henan? Of course, it is not from the Holy Lord and the Eastern Capital, nor is it from the local government and bureaucrats, it is naturally from Li Fengyun and the Righteous Army.

This is an era of very backward information transmission, and the public opinion of this era is in the hands of the government and bureaucrats, and in the hands of the knowledgeable and literate scholars, and with their positions and views, Li Fengyun and his alliance of righteous armies are of course guilty of many crimes, and the crimes are extremely heinous, and the crimes are unforgivable, so in a short period of time, the white thief Li Fengyun and the army led by him are notorious and known to everyone.

In fact, if Li Fengyun had not entered the Central Plains and had not caused trouble in Henan, the death toll of the victims in Henan might have been even greater, because Li Fengyun had carried millions of victims in the process of his westward expedition, opened granaries one after another, and finally rushed to the Tongji Canal, and these victims who rushed to the Tongji Canal finally arrived in the wealthy Yuzhou and were rescued by the rich and wealthy Yingru nobles. Without the Second Crusades, some of these victims may be returning home in order to "prepare" for spring ploughing and prepare for more to return home, but for now this seems to be a luxury.

In order to raise the money, food, and forced labor needed for the Second Eastern Crusade, the Eastern Capital and the local government would ruthlessly squeeze the last drop of blood in the Henan region, and would "kill" the wealthy Yingru region, and all the Henan people who struggled to survive would become the living "sacrifices" of the Second Eastern Crusade. Fortunately, the local governments in Dongdu and Henan and Yingru have already put the blame for the crimes that have been born and are about to be born on Li Fengyun and his army, and they have long lost the scruples of "killing", anyway, in the official propaganda, those Henan people have already died under Li Fengyun's butcher's knife.

Li Fengyun is the Murder Demon King, the real-life version of Asura, so it is normal for Wang An to be afraid of the arrival of Li Fengyun and the Rebel Alliance.

At present, the Qinghe people can still control the situation south of the Yongji Canal, but with the emergence of Li Fengyun, with the foreseeable large-scale burning and looting, with the complete explosion of the contradictions between the local government and the local forces, and with the frontal bloody battle between the Guanlong people and the Hebei people, the situation south of the Yongji Canal will inevitably get out of control, and the Hebei people are at a disadvantage in today's situation.

What made Wang An extremely uneasy was Li Fengyun's purpose of suddenly breaking into Hebei. As far as he knew, Li Fengyun was fighting fiercely with Yang Lan, the king of Qi, in Xuzhou, why did he suddenly arrive in Hebei? Was he defeated in Xuzhou and chased to Hebei by Yang Nan, the king of Qi, or was he unable to gain a foothold in southwest Lu after losing the battle and had to retreat to Hebei? At the beginning, Wang Bo of Qi County was like this, he was beaten by Zhang Xutuo and had nowhere to hide, and finally had to flee to Hebei. But Wang An had already seen Li Fengyun's army, it was an army with high morale and high spirits, a heavily armed and murderous army, an elite army that his scouts mistook for an elite division from the Eastern Capital Guard, an army that didn't look like it had lost a battle no matter how it looked, so Wang An could conclude from his intuition that Li Fengyun's appearance in Qinghe and on the Yongji Canal battlefield at this moment must have ulterior motives.

After a few words of greeting between the two sides, Wang An hardened, mustered up his courage, and cautiously asked, "What is the intention of the general to cross the river to the north?" ”