Chapter 651: The Last Straw That Broke the Camel's Burden
The carnival in Liangshan is destined to be the end of the official army.
Just when many leaders on the golden beach were vying to witness Hu Yanzhuo's genuine heavy cavalry, Gao Yu's 70,000 infantry army had already fallen into a desperate situation.
The official army forward, who had not yet fought with Liang Shanjun, inexplicably heard that he had been defeated, and it was a fiasco. News poured in from all directions and various ways told them that the Chinese army and the rear army were finished. Tens of thousands of thief cavalry (fifteen thousand, in fact) appeared out of nowhere, attacking the infantry columns that had lost the protection of the cavalry and were in the midst of a rapid march from all directions.
The three giants Jing Zhong, Li Congji, and Zhou Ang, who were responsible for commanding the rear army, all chose to break their wrists with strong men, and hid in a nearby village with a forward that was not attacked for the time being.
Who knows that the good fortune of the officers and soldiers has not run out, and there are even more strange things waiting for them.
The people of Qilu, who have always regarded Liangshan as their own people and regarded the officials and soldiers as enemies, actually enthusiastically supported the officers and soldiers to settle in this time, and almost called the soldiers of the forbidden army who suffered the cold eyes and grievances of the people in their own land burst into tears, and everyone was moved to inquire about the name of the village here, it turned out that the name of this place was called Dulonggang, and this village was called Zhujiazhuang.
"If it weren't for Liangshan's evil work and cutting down the woods in front of and behind our village, the officials would be afraid that they wouldn't be able to find the way in! The people in our village have been looking forward to it for a long time, and finally they are looking forward to you! These lawless thieves should be uprooted! ”
Some villagers who are more excited than the official army said. Just looking up, the average age of this group of people is not yet twenty years old, not to mention that there are no gray-haired old people in the crowd, even middle-aged people are rare.
This abnormal enthusiasm made the officials and soldiers secretly vigilant, and cautiously inquired about their relationship with Liangshan. Originally. A year or two ago, Liangshan broke this village, and the owner of the village at that time died unexpectedly, although the ordinary villagers were unhindered, and money and food were distributed, but the seeds of hatred were like this, and in the friction in the future, quietly grew.
"I want us to go to the past and say one thing in this Dulonggang. If there is water, we will water it first, and we will occupy the land first, and the daughters in the other two villages are proud to marry us on the village, and now it is good! That Hujiazhuang relied on the two thieves and men of Hu Cheng and Hu Sanniang, and Li Jiazhuang also relied on Li Ying to fall into the grass in Liangshan, and the two villages did not greet us when they opened a canal with water, and the girl refused to marry into our village, and she was stunned to give back the land that was previously assigned to our village. Official, you say, are these guys too deceitful! On weekdays, we were angry, and we could only endure it, but now we finally look forward to the court to recruit these guys. The officials are going to call the shots for us! ”
Where did these get into the ears of the worried generals, but they were relieved to be sure that this village and Liangshan really had a grudge. Zhou Ang casually arranged some officers to send this group of hairy boys, and then went up to the city tower with the two Jiedu envoys to discuss the military aircraft.
"Now the hearts of the people are available. I'm not afraid of infighting in this village! Jing Zhong exhaled a breath of turbidity and said, "I just don't understand where this Liangshan got these tens of thousands of cavalry from to carry out a sneak attack on our army?" Taiwei's side didn't say that he found more than 50,000 people in Liangshan's main force. Let us come close quickly, then who will we meet? ”
"It's not my own person anyway!" Li Congji sighed and said calmly: "Now it is difficult for us to protect ourselves, we can only stick to and wait for help, I hope that the news of our attack can be told to the main force in time!" ”
"There are more than 70,000 of us, and there are only 30,000 people around Taiwei, who do you say is the main force? We can't help the captain, we can't hold him back! Jing Zhong subconsciously retorted. This is the first time that Gao Yu has given him the important task of leading the troops, and it has reached this point, more than half of the 70,000 infantry troops have been lost, and there are only 20,000 or 30,000 people left around him, and he is forced to go out of the village, he really doesn't know how to explain.
"More than 30,000 cavalry is not the main force? If we hadn't pulled all these people out, we would have been so wolf along the way? So much so that they let people drive sheep and run around! If it weren't for the oblique stab that bumped into this Zhuangzi, would we still have a chance to discuss any countermeasures here? Although Li Congji deliberately omitted the object of accusation, his tone was still very intense. Everyone is an ordinary festival envoy, don't think that if you take refuge in Gao Yu, you can overwhelm people.
From his heart, he also thought that this defeat had a great deal to do with the loss of cavalry, but Gao Yu he never dared to blame, so he had to say to the mud:
"At the moment of the great enemy, I hope that the two ministers will be calm. The current situation is unclear, we must not act rashly, Taiwei may have defeated the main force of Liangshan at this time, as long as we stick to and wait for help, there will always be a way out! After Zhou Ang finished speaking, he paid close attention to Jing Zhong's reaction, for fear that he would ignore the actual situation and think of taking the risk of getting closer to Gao Yu.
Who knew that Jing Zhong borrowed Zhou Ang's words, and he got off the donkey. To put it mildly, his rear army was still the first target of the Liangshan army, although Li Congji was hateful, but he was right, the unprepared infantry army was really like a sheep in front of the swarming cavalry, and he was rushed by the other party without even opening the formation. At this time, no matter how fast the panic spreads, it is not as fast as the thief's horse's hooves. If Jing Zhong hadn't seen the opportunity and resolutely abandoned the army and fled, he was afraid that he would have become a prisoner of Liangshan at this time.
"Ben Shuai also agrees with General Zhou's opinion, just stick to it and wait for help!"
Jing Zhong's silence did not make Li Congji feel any pleasure, and the battle was like this, which made this old soldier feel shameless and very depressed.
Zhou Ang nodded, and was about to make a postscript, when suddenly his stomach screamed, and he couldn't help but curse secretly, and said: "I've been busy for most of the day, and I haven't eaten yet. According to the young general, it is better to collect grain and grass in this village on the spot and deal with it for a while! ”
Jing Zhong didn't even raise his eyelids, and said: "It's rare that the people here are simple and enthusiastic, and I don't know how to repay them, so let's give them a face and barely eat a few meals from them!" ”
The originally hungry officers and soldiers were a little embarrassed to eat and drink directly in the face of the enthusiastic people, but they secretly complained in their hearts that these people were ignorant, and their mouths were so enthusiastic, why didn't they eat pot pulp. Treat the heavenly soldiers? At this time, the orders of the bigwigs came down, regardless of the skin, and proposed to go to their house to solve the belly problem in front of these people.
The younger generations who were still excited just now are completely out of fire this time. Someone cautiously asked: "The military masters are fighting and don't bring rations?" ”
"What's the matter!? The old man is fighting with his life on the battlefield, for the sake of you people who are deeply oppressed by Liangshan? Now that I eat your meal, I won't be happy here, and I'll push and block! Why should we help you go to Liangshan? ”
After the rootless warmth is torn, it is a naked and powerful relationship. In their creed, it is not a day or two for soldiers to eat the common people. Is it an exception for you to say two words of support? I saw that the officers unceremoniously distributed their subordinates, three or five people from the east family, seven or eight people from the west family, and the people refused to cook.
Zhujiazhuang, who was eager to beat the gongs and drums just now, was already making a bitter noise at this time, and a few stupid boys who had nothing to do gathered together. You look at me, I look at him, and I say indignantly, "How is this? Even the Liangshan thieves who killed a thousand knives came, and they didn't see the cattle that robbed our family! ”
can't afford to provoke the heads of the official army. Angrily turned out of the yard, holding a big stick in his hand, looking for his own unlucky children all over the village to vent his anger, beating and scolding: "Feed the dogs." You know what you know, and you all follow the foolishness and do evil to your own family. How can the old Zhu family clean up these things of you! ”
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"You go back and sue your Xu Ning, don't think that a sneak attack can change the fate of Liangshan's destruction! The Tai Lieutenant's reinforcements were approaching in a blink of an eye, and the general advised him to recognize the general trend and make plans as soon as possible. Don't wait for the heavenly soldiers to arrive, it's hard to think about it anyway! ”
Zhou Ang's words are half courageous, half true. said that it was courageous, because the two people in front and back of Zhujiazhuang were blocked tightly, and it was obvious that Liang Shanjun was familiar with the road. Although there was only one Xu Ning at the front gate, there were only two or three thousand cavalry, but the officers and infantry who were ten times larger than the enemy did not dare to go out.
Speaking of the truth, a tactical defeat is really nothing for the imperial army horses. As long as Gao Yu, the third lieutenant of the Holy Dependents, strokes the pen on the paper to ensure that how many people die and how many soldiers are replenished, this is the foundation and stamina that Liangshan, which has no base, can not envy.
With the two persuasions to surrender had no effect, Liangshan Xu Ningbu did not take action again. The tacit understanding between the two armies in the next few hours, although the side inside the village was worried, while the side outside the village was confident.
In late autumn, the days were short, the sky was dark, and seeing that the sun was gradually sinking in the west, this extraordinary day was about to pass like this, and the people on the city wall breathed a sigh of relief. Not to mention the physical exhaustion, the key is that I was still scared for a day, and finally had a chance to relax at this time, Zhou Ang was going to order someone to go down to urge dinner, who knows, at this moment, the movement at the gate of the village was big.
By the light of the setting sun, the three generals in the city could see clearly that there were about four or five thousand infantry troops and more than a thousand cavalry approaching the Zhuangmen. Because the infantry of the imperial court are all around the three of them, and the Yunzhou garrison is not to be counted on at all.
Zhou Ang felt that something was wrong, and discussed countermeasures with the two jiedu envoys, Jing Zhong's face became more and more heavy, as an old fox, he already smelled a trace of bad breath. The Liangshan army can gather here unscrupulously, could it be that the 30,000 cavalry led by Gao Yu is no longer a threat to them?
This is a very dangerous sign!
If Gao Yu has any three strengths and two weaknesses, they will really be alone. In a short period of time, it is difficult to say whether the imperial court will send reinforcements, even if it ...... Reinforcements arrived a few months later, and if that was called reinforcements, they would have become lonely ghosts.
At this time, Jing Zhong and Li Congji inadvertently looked at each other, and finally did not rub out sparks for the first time, because they were both in each other's eyes, perceiving a kind of helplessness and panic. Although they look down on each other, they can be grasshoppers on the same rope, and the love of sympathy for each other prevails.
"Over there...... Isn't it too much of a captain!? Among the three, Zhou Ang was the youngest and had the best eyesight, only to hear him suddenly shout, and there was a hint of despair in his voice.
When Jing Zhong heard this, his heart suddenly cooled, and he looked very hard at the place where Zhou Ang was pointing, but he was helpless to be separated by some distance, and he was not as familiar with the situation as Zhou Ang, so he couldn't see it clearly. At this time, Li Congji swallowed his saliva back, and said: "This guy is the most scheming, I'm afraid that what I want is that we will be in a mess!" With this afternoon, why is it difficult to make a fake flag out? ”
Zhou Ang really hoped that he could listen to and believe Li Congji's words, but he couldn't help but pound his heartbeat. At this time, a general rode out of the battle and appeared in the village. Zhou Ang knew this person, it was Xu Ning, the teacher of the Golden Gun Class in front of the Holy Driver, who had just called someone to come over to persuade him to surrender, and immediately ordered people not to release arrows, and secretly left a way back for himself.
I saw that this Xu Ning was carrying a head dipped in lime in his hand, and he couldn't see his face clearly when he was dirty, so he came to the village and shouted, "Do the rats know this?" ”
After Xu Ning finished speaking, he slammed up to the city tower, the soldiers guarding the city were startled, and it took a while for someone to pick up the head and send it to the three main generals.
"The culprit Gao Yu has been ambushed, and all 30,000 cavalry have been disarmed! Even the head of the forbidden army, Qiu Yue, has descended to my Liangshan! If you are stubborn, there is only one way to die! Our army doesn't have to fight hard, only defend the two exits, one in front and one behind, and starve to death! ”
The news revealed in Xu Ning's warning made Li Congji shocked, even a small role like Qiu Yue has become Liang Shan's rhetoric, so what about the whereabouts of the other Jiedu envoys? Isn't it because many of the soldiers defending the city are from local military towns, and they are afraid that they will get the news of the death of the commander and would rather die than surrender? Deduced the bad news of the martyrdom of the old guys, Li Congji suddenly became angry, and he didn't care about his life and death, and yelled at Xu Ning: "The two armies are fighting, don't kill the envoys, Xu Ning, you quickly retreat, if you dare to come again, I will shoot them with arrows!" ”
After he finished yelling at the city, he was about to turn around and tell him the bad news he had just guessed, but he didn't know who he had been hit by a black stick, and the whole person was shaky, just before he lost consciousness, he heard a shameless voice say: "Xu Ning!" If you promise that Liangshan will not kill me, I will open the city and surrender! (To be continued......)