Chapter 193: The Siege of Laiyang
Five days later, Jing Haiwei's team came to the outside of Qixia County, this road is not easy, the road is mostly mountain roads, Qixia County is surrounded by hilly areas, very rugged and difficult to walk. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Zhao Lie's department was also more difficult, after all, wearing more than 30 catties of iron armor and holding a spear and fully armed on the mountain road, of course, the reserve troops who had completed the training had persevered.
The soldiers of the other thousand households can be said to have done their best to come over, and when they came to Qixia County, some officers and soldiers even cheered, it was really not easy.
Then they were not so happy, because they were surprised to find that they were the first soldiers to arrive, and even the war barracks of Dengzhou Laizhou did not arrive, they were the first soldiers in Denglai's army to arrive.
In Qixia County, Zhang Keda a personal general has been waiting, ordering the first to arrive in the army to go to Laiyang immediately, now the Wenxiang Sect chaotic people swept around Laiyang, and now gathered nearly 10,000 people and horses to flock to Laiyang County, Laiyang County only has more than 100 officials, as the county seat in the west of Denglai has no garrison at all, Laiyang County ordered three times a day, 100,000 urgent.
Chang Runing scolded in his heart, Nima, I, Jing Haiwei, was the first to arrive just to get this sad order? Is it better to march as slowly as possible in the future, who will fight bravely in the future, this Zhang Keda is really a bastard.
Of course, he is slandering in his heart, and he will never dare to say that he will come out, but now in the battle array, Zhang Keda has to go through the governor and the capital to clean him up on weekdays, but in the current war, Zhang Keda can cut first and then play.
Chang Runing pinched his nose and took the military order, feeling resentful in his heart.
Immediately, Chang Runing summoned the generals.
"Zhao Lie. This campaign belongs to your troops in full armor. Ben will order your department to go to Laiyang as the vanguard to investigate the situation of the chaotic people, and Ben will command the headquarters and then arrive. "Boy, Zhang Keda has made Ben Jiang uncomfortable, and I have to make you uncomfortable.
Zhao Lie looked at Chang Runing, and saw Chang Runing's face solemn, as for what he thought in his heart, Zhao Lie was also clear, that is, let him move forward. If there is a mistake, it is right to blame him.
Chang Runing is the commander of the guard, if Zhao Lie doesn't listen to the military order, it happens to be a canonical punishment, Chang Runing can't wait for him not to obey the military order.
"Subordinates obey." Zhao Lie knelt down to receive the order.
The other generals don't squint, and I can't afford to participate in your grievances.
Chang Runing secretly said that it was a pity, Zhao Lie did not disobey, and it also confirmed that Zhao Lie was not so reckless, he could bear it, and he should not be underestimated, and he was not a gentleman who only relied on his father's generation.
Meantime. It is also a sigh of relief, if it is Zhao Lie's department that resists in front. He is the commander of the beggar soldiers who can live a little in peace, Zhao Lie's department is the only one who can go into battle and carry it for a while, and the remaining beggar soldiers of the thousands of households are much better, leading these soldiers into battle is really a life-threatening errand, no, before they go into battle, seven people died on the march on the road, God, it's just a march.
Zhao Lie got out of the account, and immediately ordered the soldiers and horses to move along the official road, he is too lazy to talk much about Chang Runing now, but he is just smelling the incense and secting the people, after all, it is not the Jiannu Brigade or the old camp of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in the future, Zhao Lie really didn't pay attention to it.
Zhao Lie now only wants to get as far away from Chang Runing as possible, lest he can't suppress his anger and punch him a few times.
Laiyang County ordered Lin Dongze to hold on to the city wall and look out from the arrow battlement, only to see that there were chaotic people everywhere outside the city, and at this time many homeless people outside the city were rushing to make wooden ladders, and many wooden ladders were also in the final stage.
Lin Dongze looked at the swarming sect people outside the city and most of the cloud ladders that had been made out, he felt his heart beat faster, and his arms trembled uncontrollably.
When Lin Dongze was studying poetry and books hard, he also praised Ban Dingyuan and others, yearning for the day when he could be in a foreign land, but now he was just scared to the point of trembling when he smelled the incense and made trouble, and his body did not obey the call.
"Although the adults are not afraid of riots, they must also take care of themselves, the adults are the food and clothing parents of this county, and we still have to rely on a lot, and now it is better to go to the city." Dian Shi Zhang Tao said.
Damn, I, I don't listen to my hands and feet, I can't move. Lin Dongze is aggrieved.
"Your Excellency, your subordinates and Wang Xiancheng have already prepared the rolling wood and stones, and summoned 3,000 people in the city to help defend it, and the chaotic people outside the city are all rabble, and they can't please them." Zhang Tao persuaded.
Hearing Zhang Tao's persuasion, Lin Dongze calmed down a lot, and returned to the official office under the support of the family servants.
After that, the work of the meal, the city shouted to kill the sky, Lin Dongze closed his eyes and resigned himself to fate, after which the momentum was suspended, and the first siege of the city by his subordinates to report the rebellion was repulsed, and Lin Dongze got up and returned to the inner house sweating profusely. On this day, he didn't know how many sweats he had, so he had to go back to shower and change clothes.
Li Shengming frowned and watched the sect members retreat, and sighed secretly in his heart, these sect members are all rabble, and they are too far from the subordinates of the sect leader Xu Hongru in the second year of the Apocalypse, and the city is just a burst of stones to repel them, and the sassaga wood is useless at all, how can this be good.
Li Shengming and Li Chengnai are the incense heads in the Fuyuan area of Laiyang to smell the incense, and they have been incognito here for many years, and after several spreads, they have gathered more than 1,000 poor people and believers, and caught up with the drought in Laiyang last year.
Since the uprising, the congregation has swelled to tens of thousands in a few months, and Li Shengming knows that if he does not take advantage of this time to cause trouble, many congregants will return to continue to be obedient people when the wind and rain are good next year, and the incident at this time has to be done.
At the beginning of the uprising, Xu Tang fell behind, Laiyang had already gathered people to start an incident, and Fuyuan was not ready, so the two had to do things separately, but fortunately, the government coerced too much, and many people joined in, and in just twenty days, Laiyang had gathered six or seven thousand sect members, and Fuyuan also started under the leadership of Xu Tang.
After gathering two or three thousand people, under the leadership of Li Shengming and Li Cheng, he swept through the surrounding towns of Laiyang County, leveled many large households, and distributed a lot of money and food to the sect, which greatly boosted his momentum, but Li Shengming understood that the Ming army would definitely come to quell the rebellion, and there was not much time left for him.
Before that, he must take Laiyang. The first is to accumulate money and food. The second is to occupy a fortified city. The third is to continue to build momentum, hoping that the congregational congregation in other parts of Shandong will rise up, and Laiyang alone has no hope of success.
This time, he attacked Laiyang, revealing that his subordinates were really a bunch of old peasants, a rabble, a rabble that could be defeated by a few stones.
He turned around and looked at the more than 600 people led by his henchman Mao Ping, most of them were wearing leather armor and cotton armor, and they were holding spears and knives, which was his reliance.
Some of them are old members of the Church who started up during the Apocalypse. Some of them are soldiers recruited with a lot of money, most of them are equipped with kung fu, which is the foundation of their own combat strength, do you want to let them go into battle, no, Li Shengming shook his head, this is the last trump card of his own life, and he can't easily die under the rolling wood and stones.
Li Shengming ordered Mao Ping to lead people to kill several sect members, and ordered everyone to rearrange their formations to attack the city.
"Maitreya is coming, invulnerable." Li Shengming's eyes widened. Trembling all over, looking like a magic stick.
The people around him shouted. "Maitreya is coming, invulnerable."
The louder the voices shouted, the louder they shouted, the more they shouted, the eyes of many sect members also became firm, wielding knives, guns, sticks, axes, wooden forks, and all kinds of weapons in their hands, it was really a group of demons dancing wildly, and it had its own momentum, which scared everyone in the city enough, when did they see such a scene on a sunny day, they, well, wouldn't it be really invulnerable.
Zhang Tao was both angry and funny to appease the people in the city, as an old native of Laiyang, he knew that the Xiangjiao Sect was invulnerable during the Apocalypse, and he also bluffed the officers and soldiers enough, but as soon as Fang clashed, he was defeated by the officers and soldiers, and the corpses were all over the field, and the blood flowed like a river. The Smelling Fragrance Sect has always pretended to be a god and incited foolish people.
Just as the congregation was about to come again, two fast horses galloped into the big formation,
"Protect the law, the Ming army has come from Qixia County, and it is only more than ten miles according to this." Someone came to return by saddle and dismounted.
It's over, Li Shengming was gordon in his heart, and he hurried and hurried to catch Laiyang before the Ming army came to help. Li Shengming's face was already gray, and his fighting spirit was gone, and he was afraid that from that direction, he would only be Denglai's soldiers, and he would not be able to defeat him.
"How many Ming troops came." Li Cheng asked in a deep voice.
"There are four or five hundred people, there are more than 100 cavalry, and the others are infantry troops." The spy replied.
Well, Li Shengming breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately there are only four or five hundred people, God still favors me, if I defeat the enemy and swing his first-level armor in front of Laiyang City, the morale of the defenders of Laiyang City will definitely collapse, and Laiyang City may be able to go down in one go.
Li Shengming came back to his senses at this time and immediately ordered, "Li Cheng, you lead two thousand people to continue to besiege Laiyang, and I will lead the brigade to defeat the Ming army, and we will wait for success or failure in one fell swoop." ”
"Don't worry, the Dharma protector, we will definitely make it difficult for the people in Laiyang City to fly." Li Cheng responded.
Zhao Lie came this time, and more than 20 scouts had been placed in front of him, but he had never encountered the members of the Wenxiang Sect, which made Zhao Lie almost think that the Tang report was accurate.
It wasn't until more than ten miles away from Laiyang County that he encountered the sentinels of the Wenxiang Sect, although the scouts killed a few sentinels, a few sentries still returned to their horses and fled, after all, Zhao Lie's cavalry was only more than a hundred guards, and it was impossible to scatter them all.
Zhao Lie knew that the Wenxiang Sect had already known that his family was coming, and now the question in front of Zhao Lie was whether to fight or not, to be honest, Zhao Lie didn't expect that a forward probe would not encounter the Wenxiang Sect until he approached Laiyang, and it was a question of whether to engage in battle at the moment.
"My lord, smelling incense teaches a lot of people, most of our army has not been in battle, so it is better to stay away for a while." Zhao Da stepped forward and said.
"That is, the number of our army is too small, it is better to take shelter for a while." Zhu Ying hurriedly echoed, although the soldiers around him are all well-armed, and even the soldiers with the most complete armor Zhu Ying has ever seen in his life, but they are all farmers and have never been through the battle array, and Wen Xiang teaches thousands of chaotic people, Zhu Ying's heart, liver and lungs are trembling.
"Don't worry, let's see how the Wenxiang Sect deals with us, if it is a nest, our army avoids the battle, if it is a group coming, we will meet it here. Order all the scouts to go out, and be sure to find out the whereabouts of the Smelling Fragrance Sect. Zhao Lie said.
Zhao Da went as promised.
Zhu Ying closed his eyes, master, what kind of hero is it at this time, this is the time when the sword and gun have no eyes, you think this is a thousand households, but he knows the temper of this master, and he can't persuade him anymore, fortunately, most of the generals are on horseback, and it's a big deal to run away quickly, he hurriedly glanced at his more than 20 guards, and then everything will go first. (To be continued.) )
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