Chapter 20: The Trapped Beast Fights
Yang Jishan didn't expect these rabble to be so powerful, and hurriedly ordered: "Quickly wave the white flag"
In most cases, the white flag did not represent surrender, but rather a sign of asking for negotiations, and when he saw the white flag erected in the city, Li Shanfei waved his hand and suspended the attack
There is a reason why these rebels under his command are attacking the city regardless of their lives, because if they can't capture Tianshui City, they will be starved to death, Li Shanfei still has some food, but those grains can only supply his most elite cavalry, ordinary rebels want to survive, only keep rushing forward, it is through this method that he can sweep along the road from Pingliang and stability, like locusts, these rebels have many casualties, Shan Fei is not worried, as long as he builds a new city, more chaotic people will be trapped in it, of course, he can get what he wants without effort, that is not bad
So Li Shanfei came out of the crowd again and shouted: "The people in the city will open the city gate soon when they hear that they are going to surrender."
Yang Jishan held the battlements in his hands, and the four sturdy soldiers held the big shield in their hands, nervously protecting him around him, through the gap in the middle of the big shield, Yang Jishan cautiously poked out half of his face: "Listen, good man, please retreat thirty miles, Yang is willing to send you 100,000 stone of grain."
A lieutenant standing behind Yang Jishan hurriedly said, "How can there be 100,000 stone grain in the general's city?"
This captain was originally a house slave of the Yang family, and now with the Yang family brothers taking sole power, he has also become a school captain, this is the so-called one person who has attained the Tao, and the chicken dog ascends to heaven, he finally changed from a house slave to a general, naturally he does not want to lose his current status, if the food is handed over, the soldiers are not full, I am afraid that they will rise up and rebel, and when the time comes, Yang Xuangan will not blame his own brothers, I am afraid that he will have to take the knife against the people under them
Yang Jishan said impatiently: "Is it food that matters, or life matters, we don't have so much food, don't those big households in the city let them hand it over?"
At this time, Li Shanfei was already shouting under the city: "I borrowed grain from you just now, you didn't borrow it, now it's 100,000 stone of grain, I want to ask for 10,000 taels of silver, 10,000 horses of silk, 10,000 women to give you two hours, if you don't send it out of the city, you blame a certain subordinate for being ruthless."
Yang Jishan was startled, took a few steps back, gritted his teeth and said, "This guy has a big appetite."
The lieutenant arched his hand and said, "The general took advantage of these two hours to quickly mobilize the people to strengthen the city defense."
Yang Jishan shook his head and said: "The thieves are too strong to resist, so let those big families and the people pay money, food, and women, so that they can save everyone's lives, otherwise no one will be able to please after the city is broken."
The captain didn't dare to persuade him to take people down to the city, and the chickens and dogs jumped in the city for a while, although those big families also raised some domestic slaves and private soldiers, but after all, they couldn't compete with the regular army, and they were already swarmed in by those soldiers to grab money and food, and even the delicate daughter was carried out of the boudoir by the chaotic soldiers, Yang Xuangan's army composition is complicated, most of these soldiers' military discipline is corrupt, and it is inevitable that they will secretly entrain, and even those big girls and little daughters-in-law have been rubbed a lot of oil by them
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Twenty miles away from Tianshui City, there is a small village, Wen Hao's 10,000 elite cavalry is hidden here, a scout Pegasus came and said loudly: "General, the thieves have stopped attacking the city, but the cries and shouts in the city are loud, I don't know what happened."
Their position is downwind of Tianshui, and their movements are not easy to transmit to Tianshui City, but the movement of Tianshui City has already drifted with the wind, Wen Hao has been practicing martial arts all year round, and his ears are deaf, and he hears the faint crying sound in the wind tomorrow morning, and most of them are women and children, and he can't help but be anxious: "The lord has not heard back yet."
Li Shanfei suddenly entered Tianshui, no one expected that Liu Ziqiu's task to Wen Hao was to protect the grain road and restrict Yang Jishan's operation, so when the scout reported that there were a large number of rebels coming from the north, these rebels must be Li Shanfei's people, although the target was Yang Jishan of Tianshui, but it would also affect the grain route of the Hexi Army, but if he fought with Li Shanfei now, I am afraid that Yang Jishan would sit and collect the benefits of the fishermen, if he didn't fight Tianshui, the people would suffer again, Wen Hao couldn't make up his mind for a while, so he had to report to Liu Ziqiu that the three passes had been occupied by Liu Ziqiu, and the messenger sent to Fufeng all the way to Fufeng should have arrived long ago
As he spoke, he saw more than a dozen horsemen from the east galloping towards him, and the leader gasped: "The reply of the general and the lord"
As soon as the words fell, the man and the knights behind him dismounted one after another, and a group of soldiers hurriedly stepped forward to carry them down to rest, and some soldiers picked up the letter in the man's hand and handed it to Wen Hao, in fact, Wen Hao was too anxious, this team of messengers went back and forth for less than three hours, and they didn't dare to believe for a moment, and they didn't even dare to drink saliva, and the letter was delivered as quickly as possible, and the people were tired and lay down
The letter said that Liu Ziqiu's reply was that he agreed with his use of troops against Li Shanfei, but repeatedly emphasized that those rebellious people should be captured alive as much as possible and should not be killed on a large scale
After receiving this order, Wen Hao was overjoyed, turned over his horse, pulled out his saber, and shouted: "Kill"
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Li Shanfei's real name is Wei Dao'er, he was a horse thief active in Lingwu, Yanchuan and Mobei grasslands, and there were more than 2,000 fierce horse bandits under his hands, both Han and Turkic, who lived by beating houses and robbing houses all year round, and were brutal and infamous in the Guanlong area, and even Xiao'er did not dare to cry at night when he heard his name
Yang Guang died, the world was in chaos, Li Shanfei also took the opportunity to pull up a team, and gradually invaded the south, but to let him and Yang Xuangan or Yu Wenhua's regular army confront, he still did not have this ability, but at this time, Yang Xuangan wantonly collected food from the people, causing many people's families to die, and the desperate poor people took refuge in Li Shanfei, although he tied his head to the waistband of his trousers to live, but it was better than starving to death, Shanfei's momentum grew stronger, and his ambition gradually became stronger, and he actually wanted to fight for the world, so he led the army south to Tianshui, and laid down Tianshui, he will further attack Fufeng, Jingzhao
Li Shanfei is very cunning, he forced Yang Jishan to hand over the money and food, and asked Yang Jishan for a woman, that is, to force Yang Jishan to offend the people in the city, from Lingwu all the way to attack the city and plunder the land, Li Shanfei knows very well whether he can hold the city, the army is important, the support of the people in the city is even more important, Yang Jishan offended the people in the city, and then want to rely on their help to defend the city, it is tantamount to a fool's dream, and when he orders the siege again, he is afraid that the people in the city will rise up
Hearing that the city was in chaos, Li Shanfei was secretly happy for the success of his treacherous plan, and suddenly felt that the ground under his feet trembled, he was born as a horse thief, so he naturally understood what this situation meant, and hurriedly shouted: "Go and see where the cavalry came from."
When his words fell, the group of rebels who lived at the east gate became agitated, and they fled to this side, only to see a group of cavalry rushing towards the black press, everyone brandished a snowy steel knife, and shouted in unison: "Those who descend do not kill and eat, and those who descend do not kill and eat and are full."
This word of persuasion was taught by Liu Ziqiu to Wen Hao in the letter, those rebellious people followed Li Shanfei to rebel, in addition to being forced by Li Shanfei's obscenity and wanting to fill their stomachs, it was their biggest main reason, Liu Ziqiu was very keen, and he was grasping their minds, and a word could greatly disintegrate their fighting spirit, of course, with the combat effectiveness of the naval cavalry in the west, to deal with these disorderly, Untrained rebels are like killing chickens with knives, and the reason why Liu Ziqiu took such pains was just to reduce the number of killings, after all, these rebels were also the people of the Great Sui, and they were forced by Yang Xuan to get to this point
Since the start of the army, Li Shanfei has never met an opponent, so he couldn't help but be angry and shouted: "Rush over and kill them"
The more than 10,000 cavalry around Li Shanfei is his main force, of which more than 2,000 are horse bandits who have been following him, the most powerful in combat, and the other 8,000 people are also selected from the chaos of the brave people, all of them are strong and strong, proficient in riding and shooting, these people are the same as Li Shanfei, because they have never encountered the enemy, they are a little unaware of the high sky, listen to Li Shanfei's order, and then "whoop" and scream to meet them, and many foot soldiers encountered along the way are their own people, and they are still killed and injured by them
Wen Hao saw that these horse thieves were so careless about people's lives, and he was furious, and rode his horse to the front, slashing left and right with a saber in his hand, and no one fell off the horse, and the thieves were also good at riding and archery, so they opened their bows and shot at him, but Wen Hao's martial arts were superb, and the knife danced so hard that the needle could not penetrate, and the arrows fell into the air, and many of their own people were injured
At this time, the cavalry of the brigade of the West Navy had rushed over, and the gang of horse thieves collided fiercely, the two sides fell into a scuffle, although these horse thieves were brave, but after all, it was a group of rabble, where was the opponent of the West Sea Cavalry, only fought for half an hour, and then they were defeated, Li Shanfei saw that the situation was not good, and turned the horse away, these horse thieves were used to fighting with the wind, and today they met a strong enemy, and they had long been panicked in their hearts, and Li Shanfei fled, and the rest of the people were also scattered in a hurry
These two Wen Tianhao led his subordinates to patrol and set up ambushes in the area of Tianshui County, but only caught a few batches of scouts, and the most one was only the three hundred cavalry sent by Yang Jishan to Fufeng for help, and the fight was very unpleasant, and now he finally caught Li Shanfei, a big fish, where is he willing to give up his saber: "Chase"
Wen Hao's subordinates, this team of cavalry, most of them are the Xihai and Turkic tribes liberated slaves, although they are Han people, but also have lived in the grassland for a long time, have already mastered the most exquisite cavalry and archery skills, at this moment in the pursuit of the way they have the opportunity to show their cavalry and archery skills, cavalry bows, cavalry crossbows together, Li Shanfei's subordinates have fallen from their horses
Seeing that the enemy cavalry was in hot pursuit, Li Shanfei was annoyed and shouted angrily: "The trapped beasts are fighting with them, and the brothers are fighting with them".