Chapter 87: The Decisive Battle at the South Gate 4
On the one hand, under the heavy reward, on the other hand, the horizontal and vertical have to fight hard, the defenders really did everyone move forward this time, and they blocked the rebels' offensive and repelled the rebels again.
Although Chen Guangfu was not reconciled and launched another attack, when the fourth strong attack was made, the morale of the rebels was already extremely low, and the offensive was obviously inferior to the previous one, and the result was, of course, easily repulsed.
At this point, Chen Guangfu watched the sun go down and the temperature became colder, knowing in his heart that his attempt could not be achieved today, and the rebels suffered heavy casualties, and it was no longer meaningful to fight, so he had to reluctantly order Mingjin to withdraw his troops and withdraw to the camp.
Seeing the rebels retreating, there was an earth-shattering cheer in Muping County, both the military and the people and the officials, all burst into tears, this time they held the Muping County, then it means that they saved their lives, Muping County at least for a short time, there is no need to live in misery.
Everyone has a feeling of the aftermath of the catastrophe, this feeling is very complicated, both happy, but afraid, a little mixed, but most people understand that the reason why they are defending Muping County today, among which Xishan Village Xiangyong can be said to be indispensable, they used those sharp birds in their hands, a day of fierce fighting, killed and wounded more than half of the rebels, it can be said that most of the rebels, almost all died in their hands.
If it weren't for the fact that they were looking at the killing and wounding of the rebels, who were always unable to hold down the rebels and never be able to provide effective cover for the rebels besieging the city, then they alone would not be able to hold on to the rebels today, so when the battle was over, many people ran to get close to the township soldiers in Xishan Village, and the voices of praise and praise were endless.
Li San and his subordinates are naturally very happy, no matter what, their appearance today can be said to be very outstanding, and they have earned enough face for Xishan Village, looking at this Ninghai Prefecture in the future, who else dares to look down on them Xishan Village?
Zhao Zhizhou personally took the officials and officials to Li San and others to thank him, and privately, he sent someone to the big family in the city to knock a sum of silver, collected 1,000 taels of silver, put it in a box, and gave it to Li San and others as another special reward.
When the rebels retreated to the camp, they slaughtered pigs and sheep in the city, celebrated the success of the defenders, served meat in large bowls, and each of them was rewarded with a bowl of wine to relieve their fatigue.
Li San also lost no time in reminding Zhao Zhizhou that before it was dark, hurry up and cut off people's heads, these heads are all credits, if it is too late, the rebels will snatch these corpses back after the night, and there will be no chance.
So when Zhao Zhizhou and the guards of Muping County heard this, they immediately followed the good flow, and hurriedly sent people to slip down the city wall, picked up the knife and axe and slashed it violently, and then loaded it into a big basket, and carried the heads of the baskets on the city wall, and before dark, at least cut off the heads of the rebels who were close to the city wall.
As for these heads, they will naturally be distributed afterwards, Li Sanfang waved his hand and said, "It's just a rural villager!" What do you want these heads to do? Though you are divided! โ
With Li San's words, those officials and defenders in the city were even more happy, they actually understood that the reason why so many rebels were killed today was mostly due to Li San's credit, if Li San wanted these heads, he would inevitably have to share a large part of him, but he didn't expect Li San to be so generous, he didn't want any of them, and gave them all.
With these real rebel heads, they will be able to explain to the imperial court in the future, which is a great victory! Since the rebels rebelled, in this Denglai area, the official army has been defeated repeatedly, so defeated that almost even the pants are lost, and it is difficult to find a fig leaf, but the battle of Muping County has made them the only bright spot after the rebels have rebels during this time.
So after these people thanked Li Sanqian, they went down happily and began to share the spoils.
After a night of silence, Chen Guangfu was unwilling to withdraw like this, and the next morning, he led the troops to attack again, but the result was still beaten back by the defenders, and he did not get a little bargain.
At this point, Chen Guangfu also felt that the rebels under his command were already unstable, and if they continued to fight like this, they were afraid that there would be trouble, so they had to give an order to evacuate Muping County and find another place to start.
This Muping County and Xishan Village have become their nightmare, the standard hard bones, instead of gnawing this hard bone here and breaking the big teeth, it is better to find some soft persimmons to pinch, and let these rebels finally make a farce of killing because of this, then he will have a lot of fun!
Therefore, Chen Guangfu could only admit it in the end, turned his head to look at Muping County, and led his troops to cross Muping County and go in the direction of Wendeng County.
Muping County can't take it, so as long as Wendeng County is taken, then Muping County will become a lonely city, and it will be isolated and helpless.
And after controlling Wendeng, most of the entire Jiaodong Peninsula fell into the hands of their rebels, even if the court did not recruit them, they also had territory, if they really didn't work, they would follow the example of Jiannu back then, and choose to stand on their own and confront the court, which is also a psychology of the current rebel generals, which can be regarded as leaving a way back for themselves.
Watching the rebels gradually retreat away from Muping County and march towards the east, the whole of Ninghai Prefecture rejoiced, celebrated the victory repeatedly, and hurriedly sent people to Shandong and Jingshi to report the victory, and took the opportunity to get a good sรจ.
Although Muping County was saved, but the overall situation in Denglai and even in northern Shandong continued to erode, the original Shandong governor Yu Dacheng was quickly arrested by the imperial court because of his slow response and ineffective handling, and the new Xu Congzhi was appointed as the governor of Shandong, and led the army to Denglai to suppress.
As a result, the officers and armies of all walks of life did not cooperate with each other, and the enemy advanced lightly, but in the area of Huangxian in the first month, they were defeated by the rebels led by Kong Youde in one fell swoop, losing more than 20,000 officers and soldiers, and only fled back to Laizhou City with hundreds of officers and soldiers, and the rest of the officers and troops were all scattered.
Xu Congzhi was helpless, seeing that the rebels were chasing to Laizhou City, and there were no available soldiers on the left and right to stop the rebels, so he could only hide in Laizhou City and take Zhu Wannian, the prefect of Laizhou, to defend Laizhou City and fight to the death.
The rebels tentatively attacked the city of Laizhou in the first month and the second month, but they did not succeed, so they first plundered the surrounding areas, forcibly captured a large number of people, and coerced many young and strong people into the army, and followed them in the rebellion.
In February, Zhaoyuan County was broken, the rebels slaughtered the city for three days before sealing the knife, Zhaoyuan County was slaughtered more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians, and the rebels divided their troops to attack Pingdu Prefecture, conquered Pingdu Prefecture, swept most of the Laizhou Prefecture, and even the rebel forward, but also appeared in Gaomi and Jiaozhou and other places, Lianke more than 100 villages and forts, coerced a large number of people, robbed a large number of goods and food, and made the entire Laizhou Mansion a big mess.
On the night two days after the end of the battle of Muping, a small group of people appeared outside Xishan Village, after the password, these more than 30 people immediately entered Xishan Village, and no one was allowed to approach them to inquire about the situation, and immediately asked Liu Wei to arrange a quiet courtyard for them, entered the courtyard, and never came out, and all the food and drink were sent into the courtyard by people.
Only Liu Wei and Wu Shengtian were allowed to enter the courtyard, and the two of them were in the courtyard, but they saw these special combat members and brought back a few strangers.
Although one of them was wearing a cloth shirt, it gave people a sense of coercion, this kind of temperament was obviously a temperament that could only be cultivated after being in a high position for a long time, Liu Wei and Wu Shengtian didn't know him, so they asked the people of the special combat team who this person was.
When the people of the special combat team told the two of them the identity of this person, these two guys were so shocked that they almost sat on the ground, it turned out that this person was not an outsider, but actually an important member of the center of the whirlpool in the Denglai Rebellion, he was Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai.
When Sun Yuanhua was first taken to Xishan Village, he was very irritable, scolding the special combat team personnel who brought him food at his residence all day long, scolding these guys for being a dog blood spray, and they all had angry stomachaches, but they didn't clean up Sun Yuanhua because of this, and still treated him very kindly, serving him with good food and drink.
Later, in desperation, the talents of the special combat team invited Liu Wei to go in and persuade this guy.
When did Liu Wei deal with an official of this level! At first, he was still a little apprehensive, but after sorting out his thoughts, he figured out why the Lord sent this group of special combat personnel to steal Sun Yuanhua back.
Liu Wei thought about it, and he didn't figure out why the lord could guess that the rebels would not kill Sun Yuanhua, and would eventually let Sun Yuanhua go.
Because this group of special combat personnel came by coincidence, just in time for Sun Yuanhua to be released by the rebels, and the number of people who came was only a small team, only twenty or thirty people, even if Liu was killed, he didn't believe that the Lord would send such a few people to sneak into Dengzhou City, which was controlled by the rebels, to rescue Sun Yuanhua.
Moreover, after these people came here, they didn't ask him for too much assistance, but just took away a few scouts who were familiar with the terrain and roads in the Denglai area, so this also shows that these people had no plan to enter Dengzhou City to rescue Sun Yuanhua at all.
So they must have learned the news in advance that the rebels would let Sun Yuanhua and the others go, so they ran to wait for Sun Yuanhua to come to the door, and robbed Sun Yuanhua halfway.
But how did they know in advance that Sun Yuanhua would be released, this matter really doesn't make sense, because they set off from the south to rush here, at least a month and a half before they set off, and there can be no forks on the way, and when they set off, Dengzhou City has not yet been conquered by the rebels!
So there is only one explanation, that is, someone expected this situation in advance and made arrangements in advance, so at this juncture, someone was sent here to rob Sun Yuanhua, and who else is this person? Who else could there be but their Lord?
(Wow wow!) Today's monthly ticket list has climbed several places, and there is also a special laugh at the rewards of the Zephyr brothers and the February 6th brothers! Of course, we can't forget to thank the brothers who voted for the monthly ticket! Thank you very much! ๏ผ