Although the rebels developed rapidly during this time, after all, they had to rely on themselves to obtain supplies, and most of them could only rely on looting to make a living except for obtaining a granary in Bazhou. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, when their brutality aroused the anger of the common people, the common people of all villages began to gather and fight against the invasion of the rebels with stone forts, so that after Zhang Tong repeatedly attacked Lizhou for a period of time, their food and grass began to be in short supply.

As a last resort, he had to send his subordinates to lead a small number of people to search for grain in the vicinity of Lizhou, but the people of the county and villages stood on the opposite side of him this time, and drove the grain and livestock into the stone fort, and the villagers also entered the stone fort to avoid and resist the rebels.

Most of these soldiers who followed Zhang Tong to make a rebellion were ordinary people who he forcibly coerced in Pengzhou, Dazhou, Bazhou and other places, these people were forced by Zhang Tong's obscenity and had to follow him, and there were also some ruffians and hooligans who took advantage of the chaos to join Zhang Tong's rebels, wanting to take advantage of the chaos to make a windfall, and some robbers from all over the country, seeing that the rebels were getting stronger and stronger, so they rushed to defect and wanted to mix people like dogs.

But now they found that Lizhou was not as easy to fight as they thought, and a lot of people died, but they were stunned that they did not attack Lizhou City, let alone make a windfall after breaking the city, so gradually some people began to become tired of war, and felt that this deal was not cost-effective.

In addition, as soon as there was a shortage of food in the army, these rebels began to run out of food, and in just a few days, their combat effectiveness dropped significantly, and even deserters began to appear.

At this time, Zhang Tong received another news that shocked him, the privy envoy of the imperial court, personally led the army to quell the rebellion, had set out from Jinzhou and conquered Tongjiang County, where Liang Tietou was stationed, and their east gate was knocked open by the official army.

This news was like a slap in the face for Zhang Tong, which made him a little flustered, he was also a well-informed person before, although it was far away from the capital, but he still heard a lot of news about the capital, and he had already heard about this upstart Gao Huaiyuan.

In his opinion, this Gao Huaiyuan is definitely not a good stubble, first with Shi Miyuan to launch a mutiny, to support the current saint Zhao Yun to ascend the throne, and then sent troops to Huzhou, exterminated the prince Zhao Hong launched the Xiachuan Change, not long after, then launched a military admonition, Shi Miyuan and his party overturned, at the beginning of last year, then the Northern Expedition, in just over half a year, the entire Jingdong into the imperial court, Li Quanbing was defeated and died, it is said that he also knocked the Mongolian army in Jizhou City, and even the Mongolian Tartars were defeated by him and retreated to Youzhou.

So in the eyes of many people, this high-ranking minister is definitely a hard-handed person, he didn't expect that he would toss around on this side of Lizhou Road, and actually recruited such a great god to the remote place of Lizhou Road, and he came to him in person to find trouble.

This time Zhang Tong couldn't sit still, he no longer dared to stay in Lizhou, and quickly gathered troops and horses, retreating towards Bazhou, not thinking that he would retreat, but the officers and soldiers in Lizhou took the opportunity to chase and kill, and grabbed the buttocks of his retreating soldiers, so that Zhang Tong was defeated and fled, and finally collected thousands of remnants of the defeated generals, and then fled back to the city of Bazhou.

When Zhang Tong arrived in Bazhou City, he closed the four gates and made a posture of imperial guard, he planned to meet the most popular general in the court here for a while, and see how powerful Gao Huaiyuan was.

And Gao Huaiyuan did not disappoint Zhang Tong, on the morning of the fourth day when Zhang Tonglizhou's army was defeated and fled back to Bazhou, he led 7,000 officers and soldiers to rush to the outside of Bazhou.

Bazhou, that is, Bazhong City in later generations, is the junction of Shaanxi and Sichuan, and is also the north gate of Sichuan, which has been a place where soldiers have fought since ancient times, and is also a gathering place for Cubans, especially Enyang in its territory is a place where water transportation is very developed in ancient times, and it is the most important water transport terminal in Badong, so Bazhou's status in Lizhou Road is also quite high.

Because of the importance of its status, so Bazhou in the Song Dynasty after the establishment of the country, has been repaired many times, so that it has become a solid city, the reason why Zhang Tong did not spend much effort to capture Bazhou, that is also because the Bazhou garrison was too small at that time, and when the officials of Bazhou heard that the rebels were coming, they first rolled up the cover and carried the family members of the family to flee to Lizhou first, so that the army had no fighting spirit, and no one stood up to command the resistance, which allowed Zhang Tong to take Bazhou lightly.

And when Gao Huaiyuan marched to Bazhou, Zhang Tong had already led thousands of rebels and made a gesture of holding on in the city, so Gao Huaiyuan couldn't help frowning a little after seeing Bazhou City.

Zhang Tong did not dare to lead the army out of the city and Gao Huaiyuan's officers and soldiers to fight a decisive battle, he also knew that most of the soldiers under his command were rabble, and he had defeated local officers and soldiers before, that was his good luck, and now this Gao Shu is not Lizhou soldiers and horses, but it is said that in the early years, he fought hard with the Jin army all the year round Chuzhou elite soldiers, when the strength of the two sides was about the same, he went out of the city to face the battle, that was looking for death, so Zhang Tong entered Bazhou, closed the door, and refused to come out again.

When the officers and soldiers were stationed outside the city of Bazhou, Gao Huaiyuan checked the situation in Bazhou in advance according to the old habit, and after seeing it, he also felt a little headache, the Qujiang River passed around the city, and the only way for them to attack Bazhou was the south gate, and the water flow of the Qujiang River was very fast, and it was impossible to attack Bazhou from the water.

From the locals found, the number of rebels in the city is not less than the number of officers and soldiers he leads, and it may even exceed it.

After Gao Huaiyuan saw it, he returned to the camp and summoned Zheng Bingjie and other generals to discuss how to capture Bazhou City.

Qi Yu Marshal, this time we came to attack Bazhou, it can be said that we just caught the thief head, Zhang Tong is right now in Bazhou, as long as we conquer Bazhou in one go and capture the thief Zhang Tong, then this Lizhou rebellion will basically be calmed down! The last general is not talented, and he is willing to lead the army to attack the city, please be gracious! Zheng Bingjie was the first to stand up and ask for a fight, he followed Gao Huaiyuan out this time, and he wanted to perform well, so the battle ** was very strong.

But after Gao Huaiyuan thought about it for a while, he asked him to calm down for a while, but then asked the other generals to also say their opinions.

At this time, Fei Wenlong, who was assigned by Huang Yan to Gao Huaiyuan to lead two battalions of archers this time, stood up and spoke: Today, the last general and others have already accompanied the marshal to inspect the garrison of the rebels in Bazhou, and we have all seen that the city of Bazhou is strong, and it is very difficult to conquer because it is close to the mountains and rivers, and the number of rebels is not less than our army at the moment, if we attack it, it is difficult to guarantee that we will not pay a heavy price!

Although there is a saying that Ci is not in charge of the army, but we enter Sichuan this time, the troops we bring are not much, if we attack and fight at any cost, it will be quite unfavorable for us in the future!

Judging from the captured rebels, most of Zhang Tong's generals are ordinary people who have been coerced by him, and their military hearts will not be very united, so why don't we use this to divide the enemy army? In this way, if we can recruit a group of enemy troops, then we don't have to pay a big price, and we can also solve the rebels and thieves in Bazhou.

Gao Huaiyuan looked at Fei Wenlong, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, this Fei Wenlong was an orphan he took in in his early years, and later when Huang Yan stayed in Chuzhou to serve in the army, he let Fei Wenlong also follow Huang Yan, and now Fei Wenlong has already grown into a young general, and has become a general in the Zhongshun Army, and this time Huang Yan deliberately left two battalions of Zhongshun Army archers, and let Fei Wenlong lead and follow Gao Huaiyuan, which actually means very clearly, just to let Gao Huaiyuan also carry Fei Wenlong this time.

After listening to Fei Wenlong's words, Zheng Bingjie stood up disapprerovingly and said: General Fei's words are wrong, this time to counterbalance the rebellion, the marshal once said first, we must treat the rebels with thunderous means and exterminate them in one fell swoop, how can we treat these traitors who dare to commit rebellion with gentle means? Or launch a siege immediately!

Although Gao Huaiyuan liked Zheng Bingjie's aggressiveness very much, he didn't approve of him being so brainless, so he shook his head and said: General Zheng's courage is commendable, but this official feels that General Fei's words are reasonable, General Fei has taken into account the various situations of the rebels, and although I once said that the rebels are dealt with by thunder, but the people I am targeting you must be clear that most of the rebels are still not guilty of death, most of them are forcibly coerced by the rebels to rebel, if they are all slaughtered, it will inevitably lose the hearts of the local people. Moreover, we as generals should judge the situation and strive to achieve the greatest victory at the lowest possible cost, so it is not the best policy to attack!

Of course, I'm not saying that what you said is wrong, General Zheng, in my officer's opinion, this attack on Bazhou, we should prepare with both hands, one fight and one pull, in order to achieve miraculous results!

What's more, at the moment, the city is immediately attacked, our army is still underprepared, brazenly attacking, treating such a strong city, in addition to letting the soldiers sacrifice in vain, I am afraid it will be difficult to capture Bazhou City!

In this case, this attack on Bazhou, the official thought that it was better to attack the heart first, and the strong attack to supplement! Today I will give each of you a military order, Zheng Bingjie!

Zheng Bingjie hurriedly replied: The last general!

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