Chapter 30: Inspire the Soldiers
Pingcheng County Yanai.
Last night, when two of the subordinates sent out to urge the warden returned, they brought shocking news.
The mud-legged people in the countryside actually rebelled!
Shen County's order was like being struck by lightning, and he was stunned for a long time, until the staff called out to the master, and then woke up the county order. He went on to ask, "How many are the rioters?" ”
"My lord, there are about thousands of chaotic people!"
"What do you say? Thousands of people in turmoil? That's impossible! ”
Shen Xianling was frightened by this number, he knew very well how weak the combat strength of the officers and troops of the county battalion defense was, how to quell the rebellion of thousands of people with hundreds of officers and soldiers!
"What now?" Shen Xianling was at a loss for a while.
"For today's plan, while the chaotic people have not yet arrived in the county, quickly convene all the masters to discuss countermeasures."
"Good! Just according to your word. Come on, quickly summon all the county officials to the county office, and discuss important matters. Especially the two heads of hundreds of households, they must be called. ”
"Yes, sir," the servant next to him trotted out the door.
A few hours later, the officials of Pingcheng County hurried over, and the solemn atmosphere premonition that something important was going to be heard.
Shen Xian Ling turned around anxiously a few times, saw that everyone had arrived, chopped his feet and said angrily: "Stupid warden official! Mistaken for me. There are thousands of rebellious people rebelling, and it is coming soon, what countermeasures do you have? ”
Rebel!?
It's like five thunderbolts, the old men can't believe it, these mud legs really dare to do it?
On a good peaceful day, why did thousands of thieves suddenly appear? With such a big movement, why haven't you heard of it before?
For a while, some people didn't believe it and wanted to send someone to investigate. There are also people who are already thinking about retreating, and are ready to let their subordinates send their relatives out of the city first.
Shen County Lingjian prevaricated with each other, had no opinions, and no one had any good ideas. He first sent people to investigate the movements of the rebels, and ordered Zhang Baihu and Shen Baihu to prepare for the rebellion.
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In the early morning, the army of nearly 10,000 displaced people led by Yang Qi came to Luohezhuang in a mighty manner, summoned all the generals to the main tent, discussed the final plan to capture Pingcheng County, and began to make intense military deployments.
The tension of sending troops spread throughout the barracks.
Many people realized that the battle of life and death for the rebels was coming.
The battle against the county seat of Pingcheng was the first real battle since the founding of the rebel army, and it was also a battle that was enough to decide life and death. If they can win the war, the rebels will have enough room for development. If they fail here, then what awaits them will be the frantic strangulation of the Imperial army. With these rebel armies, which are not much stronger than the homeless people, and have no stable foothold, they will inevitably be defeated in a battle, and there is no possibility of recovery.
Therefore, Yang Qi attaches great importance to this battle, although the news is leaked, but Li Wu's strategy has a great possibility of success, even if the strategy fails, there is a remedy, and all Yang Qi's team has full confidence in capturing Pingcheng County.
According to the plan that had been set to seize the gate, Li Wu disguised the rescue team of Luohezhuang and raided and captured the east gate of Pingcheng County. Subsequently, three elite hundred-man troops followed, and one consolidated and occupied the city gates, waiting for the subsequent rebel army to arrive; The other group occupies the arsenal to prevent weapons from being acquired by officers and soldiers, and once the officers and men of the county battalion defense are without weapons and armor, they are like a tiger with their teeth pulled out, and there is no threat. The last group was responsible for intercepting the assembly of officers and men of the county battalion, and this group of officers and men of the battalion still had a certain combat effectiveness. After that, Yang Qi commanded the army into the city, attacked the other three city gates, and then closed the entire Pingcheng County.
Mastered the four gates, tens of thousands of people in the city are turtles in the urn. Frightened by the tremendous momentum of the thousands of rebels, Pingcheng County, which had been peaceful for a long time, would inevitably fall into chaos in an instant, and there would be no ability to resist.
However, although Yang Qi was confident in attacking Chengxian County, the other rebels did not think so.
With just a few thousand mob thieves, can they really challenge an empire?
Yang Qi felt the morale drop.
In the face of this emotion, there are two solutions. First, lead them to conquer the city and county. As long as the first victory is won, the fear in the hearts of the rebels will dissipate a lot, but this little bit of water will not quench the thirst of the near. As for the second method, it is material rewards and incentives.
"The general has an order, and everyone will be rewarded after the city and county are leveled!"
"The infantry battalion and the horse team will be rewarded with twenty gold coins each, the elite battalion will be rewarded with fifteen gold coins per person, and the training battalion will be rewarded with ten gold coins per person. If there is an outstanding performance and brave fighter, an additional set of leather armor weapons will be rewarded; Those who are afraid of the battle and flee will not be spared according to the military regulations! ”
"Everyone in the city is fed! In the homes of those big landlords, there are all kinds of chickens, ducks, fish and meat! Even the women's camp can eat unlimited for three days! ”
One news after another, which was spread by the guards sent by Wang Wei, greatly boosted the morale of the rebels.
In the past few days of hurrying, Yang Qi deliberately deducted the rations of the rebels under the pretext that there was not much food left. The elite battalion is the most treated