Chapter 615: Hostage Exchange
30,000 Qingzhou Sui troops surrounded Gushi County, Zhang Xuan rode on a war horse, watching the gap in the city wall from afar, he had received scout information before, Luo Yi was seizing the time to repair the city walls of Zhuo County, so he was not surprised that there was such a big gap in the city wall of Gushi County.
Luo Shixin next to him said eagerly: "General, give the order to attack, and guarantee that you can defeat the defenders in one battle and enter the county!" ”
Zhang Xuan shook his head and smiled, "Didn't you notice that there were no soldiers behind the mud bag wall just now?" If I'm not mistaken, the other side is about to break through. ”
Zhang Xuan immediately ordered: "Order General Su of Beicheng, if the enemy army breaks through, don't fight with them, let them go north, and then chase after them from behind!" ”
The soldiers were ordered to rush away, and Zhang Xuan ordered again: "Order General Pei's cavalry to go north first, lay a net for me, and no one is allowed to escape!" ”
Zhang Xuan deployed them one by one, and Luo Shixin suddenly became a little anxious, "Dashuai, is there nothing for me?" ”
Zhang Xuan smiled slightly: "You led 5,000 troops to attack the city, just like you said just now, you will break the enemy's defense in a battle and kill into the city!" ”
Luo Shixin turned over and yelled, "The left army is with me!" ”
Luo Shixin danced a big iron spear, took the lead, and led 5,000 soldiers to kill the gap in the city, there was no moat in Gushi County, and the two-hundred-step mud bag wall was piled up indiscriminately, and there was a gap of more than ten zhang wide next to it that did not have time to be filled with the mud bag wall.
The soldiers have already evacuated the defensive line, lined up in the north city gate, waiting for the order to break through the city, there are only a dozen soldiers on both sides of the gap to observe the situation, they saw the Qingzhou army soldiers killing like a tide, and immediately rushed to the north city in fright, while shouting, "The Qingzhou army has entered the city!" Qingzhou has entered the city! ”
Luo Shou, who was in the northern city, heard the shouts of the soldiers. immediately said to Li Xingfang: "It's too late, go out of the city immediately to break through!" ”
Now there is still half an hour before dark, Li Xingfang wanted to wait a little longer, but the situation no longer gave him a chance, so he had to grit his teeth and order: "Kaecheng breakthrough!" ”
The gates slowly opened, and the drawbridge was lowered. Three thousand soldiers rushed out of the city under the leadership of Luo Shou and Li Xingfang, and the 10,000 troops led by Su Dingfang outside the city dodged to both sides like chopping waves, allowing this army to break through.
Although Luo Shou and Li Xingfang were deeply surprised, they didn't have time to think about it, they just turned their horses and fled, Su Dingfang stared at Luo Shou, Luo Shou was wearing a silver helmet, completely different from other generals, and was obviously a high-ranking official in Youzhou.
He pulled out a wolf's tooth arrow and bit it into his mouth. Urging the horse to chase Luo Shou, less than a hundred steps away from Luo Shou, Su Dingfang opened his bow and set up an arrow, and an arrow shot at Luo Shou's war horse, this arrow shot hard and accurately, hitting the front leg of the war horse, the war horse suddenly neighed, and fell to the ground heavily.
Luo Shou was overturned and fell to the ground. The war horse crushed his body, and his leg bones were broken. He screamed in pain, and several pro-soldiers hurriedly stepped forward to help, and at this moment, Su Dingfang swung his knife to kill, and slashed three of Luo Shou's pro-soldiers in a row, and Su Dingfang's war horse rushed to Luo Shou. Dust and murderous aura rushed to his face, frightening Luo Shou and shouting: "Spare your life!" ”
Su Dingfang snorted coldly, turned back to the soldier and ordered, "Tie me up!" ”
More than a dozen soldiers rushed up and tied Luo Shou firmly, at this time. The breakout soldiers had already killed the encirclement line in Qingzhou, and Su Dingfang shouted: "Give me a chase!" ”
10,000 Sui troops chased the soldiers who broke through the siege and fled from behind, at this time the Youzhou army's will to fight to the death faded, and they only thought about escaping for their lives.
This is a small test of war experience, only slightly let go of an escape gap, the mentality of the breakout has changed dramatically, from desperate to desperate, but in fact his ending has not changed.
10,000 Qingzhou were in hot pursuit, and in front of the deserters, 10,000 cavalry had laid a net, so that the 3,000 Youzhou soldiers had no way to escape except to surrender.
At the same time as the night fell, this unsuspenseful escape pursuit battle also came to an end.
This was a very fruitful battle, not only to capture the 3,000 Youzhou army and their main general Li Xingfang, not only to occupy Gu'an County, the southern gate of Youzhou, but more importantly, to capture Luo Yi's brother Luo Shou, which made Zhang Xuan a little unexpected.
The 30,000 Qingzhou Sui troops no longer went north, but were stationed in Gu'an County, patiently waiting for Luo Yi's response.
Two days later, the battle that took place in Gushi County quickly spread throughout Jixian County with the arrival of a small number of defeated soldiers, and a defeated lieutenant brought Luo Yi a handwritten letter from Zhang Xuan.
In the big tent, Luo Yi looked at the letter in front of him in a daze, this is Zhang Xuan's handwritten letter to him, there is only one line on it, 'Luo Shou and the three thousand troops, exchange Wen Yanbo and his family. ’
Luo Yi looked at Luo Shou's distress letter again, and after a while, he sighed, his brother was caught by Zhang Xuan, what else did he have to say. I can only be sorry for Li Yuan.
"Pass my order and send Wen Yanbo and his family to Gushi County!"
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The Wen Yanbo incident was eventually resolved with the strong intervention of Zhang Xuan, and Luo Yi was forced to return Wen Yanbo and his family in exchange for his captured brother Luo Shou and thousands of Youzhou soldiers.
Zhang Xuan immediately worshiped Wen Yanbo as the county governor of Hejian County, and was fully responsible for the government affairs of Hejian County, although Fang Xuanling praised Wen Yanbo for his talent and suggested that Zhang Xuan reuse it, but Zhang Xuan had his own considerations, he did not experience the county, and he was not allowed to enter the provincial Taiwan, and Wen Yanbo still needed to hone two more years in the local area.
Although the hostage exchange ended quickly, Luo Yi was not satisfied with the ending, although Luo Yi sent Wen Yanbo and his family to Gushi County in full accordance with Zhang Xuan's request, and the Qingzhou Army also evacuated Gushi County, but they did not evacuate Zhuo County, and the Qingzhou Army of 3,000 people was stationed on the south bank of the Juma River, facing Gushi County from afar.
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In the past two years, Jiangdu City has become more and more populated and congested, although Yang Guang ordered the hungry people in the city to be cleared out of the city.
However, the population of Jiangdu City Gate is still large, close to one million people, the streets and alleys are full of shops, the flow of people is like weaving, and business is booming.
There is a wine shop that covers a large area near the south gate of Jiangdu City, called Muyu Wine Shop, it is said that it is a restaurant opened by a big businessman in Jiangdu City in Donghai County, the scale of the restaurant in Jiangdu City is considered to be in the middle and upper, the four-story restaurant, five or six single courtyards, the market entrance is quite good, and the business is quite prosperous from morning to night.
There are more than 30 guys and six or seven chefs in the restaurant, and they open every day before dawn, and they don't close until about midnight, so the guys work very hard, usually for three days in a row and then rest for one day.
The shopkeeper of the wine shop is surnamed Wang, a middle-aged man who laughs all day long, and a good old man who abides by the law.
But in fact, this liquor shop is an intelligence point set up by the Qingzhou Army in Jiangdu, and the reason why it is chosen close to the south gate is because many officials have to have a drink after returning to the city after returning to the city, and the officials are an important source of customers here, and from the chat of the officials, they can get a lot of important news, and then according to each news, they dig deep and grasp the information accurately.
This afternoon, in a separate courtyard behind the liquor store, a dozen officials were secretly discussing something, and while they were discussing, they were drinking, and it was said that the argument was quite fierce, and there were four soldiers standing at the gate of the courtyard, and no one was allowed to enter except the bartender who delivered the food.
Two bartenders walked briskly over each carrying two large food boxes, and the four soldiers let them in after a brief search.
There were fourteen guests sitting in the room, it seemed that they were all court officials, civil officials and military generals, sitting in the middle was a nearly forty-year-old civil official, it was Yuwen Zhiji, Yuwen Zhihe After his father's death, Yang Guang, the son of heaven, remembered his father's merits and named him a general as a young eunuch, because his legs were inconvenient, and he only nominally served as a young eunuch, in fact, he didn't care about anything.
Next to him sat Yuan Min, a person from the Inner Shi She, and Yuan Min's younger brother Hu Benlang General Yuan Li, in addition to Hu Ben Lang General Sima De Ji, and the palace Zhige Pei? Tong, Huyalang General Zhao Xingshu, Yingyanglang General Meng Bing, Fu Xilang Liu Fangyu, Yizheng Zhang Kai, Chengmen Lang Tang Fengyi, Zhichang Xu Hongren, Xue Shiliang and more than a dozen people, everyone gathered together and was talking fiercely about something.
At this time, Yuwen Zhiji shouted, "Silence! ”
The room suddenly fell silent, and I saw two bartenders walking in with food boxes, serving them more than 20 drinks and dishes, and one bartender saluted, "Ladies and gentlemen, you have all the wine and food!" ”
Yuwen Zhihe waved his hand, "If I don't call you, you won't come again." ”
"Got it!"
The two bartenders quickly withdrew, and the room began to argue again, and the two bartenders hurried to the front hall, and one whispered to the shopkeeper, "I heard them say that if you want to do great things, you should not speak of the kindness of a woman." ”
The shopkeeper nodded, turned and walked to the backyard, and after a while, a thin man like a monkey slowly climbed up to the roof, he crouched above the roof, carefully lifted a tile crack, and put his ear to the tile crack to listen to the conversation of a dozen people below. (To be continued.) )