On the twenty-second day of April in the sixth year of Jingtai, the Caizhou army was divided into two routes and attacked successively. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Among them, under the leadership of Yuan Huaiqing, the southward army crossed the river in four days along the southern section of the river at the southern end of Gaopi, rushed for more than 200 miles, and stormed Shansang (Mengcheng) overnight.

On the twenty-fifth day of April, Yuan Huaiqing left Yuan Wenbai to guard the mountains and mulberries, led the army to the north along the whirlpool, and attacked the city father, and the Bozhou probation army garrison under the shock was in chaos, and after a quarrel, Shang Yunliu led the reform army of 10,000 people south to reinforce the city father.

This time, the Caizhou army attacked the city father, but it was a little weak, until the belated Shang Yunliu reinforcements arrived at the city father, the Caizhou army still failed to conquer the city father.

When Bozhou breathed a sigh of relief for this, he never thought that the real killing move was still to come.

On the twenty-ninth of April, the main force of the Caizhou Army sneaked into the territory of Luyi along the northeast from Shenqiu all the way to the north, and when the Luyi garrison had not yet reacted, it abandoned Luyi and inserted into the territory of Zhenyuan.

On the sixth night of the first month of May, the Bozhou army mutinied in the county seat of Qiaoxian, the rebel army opened the city gate, and the main force of the Caizhou army occupied Qiaoxian before the reinforcements from Luyi and Zhenyuan came over and occupied Qiaoxian on the seventh day of May, and Liang Xu was killed.

Yuan Wuwei led the army out of the city on the eighth day of the fifth month, ambushed the reinforcements of the probation army from Luyi Zhenyuan, defeated the probation army, beheaded 3,000 enemies, and captured more than 5,000 people.

At this time, the Yuan clan fully showed its talented side, and Yuan Wuxing, who had not yet fully recovered, re-exited the pass, led an army to flee east pretending to be the defeated army of Bozhou, and captured Yongcheng without any precautions from the garrison of the Yongcheng Reform Army, and controlled the most important pass in the east of Bozhou in one fell swoop.

At the same time, Yuan Wuwei left Yuan Huaide to guard the county, and he led the main army to the south, and attacked Shang Yunliu with Yuan Huaiqing in the city father, the small wall of the city father city was short, and after holding on for three days, the city was broken on May 19, and Shang Yunliu was killed by Yuan Wuwei on the way to escape with a blow to the heavenly fire cloud wave plus magic weapon - Red Star Thorn.

On the twenty-first and twenty-second days of May, the lords of Luyi and Zhenyuan counties surrendered to the Caizhou army respectively.

The entire eight counties of Bozhou, except for Linlian, which is close to the main force of the Xuzhou Reform Army, and Yuxian, which is close to Songzhou in the north, have not yet fallen, all of them are controlled by the Caizhou army, and the change of hands between Linli and Xuzhou is also a matter of time, unless the army of Daliang or Xuzhou intervenes.

In just over ten days, Zhuang Yongsheng lost a lot of weight, and the cheekbones that were originally inconspicuous under the horizontal flesh also bulged, and in a pair of deeply sunken eye sockets, the pupils flashed faintly and faintly.

When he led the team back from Shouzhou to the north, he went directly to Qian County to meet Liang Xu, the younger brother of Ryazan, who was the assassin of Bozhou.

Liang Xu still attached great importance to him, but because Zhuang Yongsheng said that he needed to recruit Yanyun refugees to enrich the former Yingzhou Ya Army in his hands, Liang Xu also expressed his support, and the soldiers gave supplementary support in all aspects of grain and grass, horses, weapons and money, so Zhuang Yongsheng moved to Yuxian.

Yu County is located at the northeast end of Bozhou, close to Xiayi (Xiayi) in Songzhou, and not far from Xiao County in Xuzhou.

Since last winter, the peasants of the three prefectures of Yanyun and Yi, who had no harvest of autumn grain, have fled in all directions, and the Great Liang armies of Caozhou and Songzhou and the Pinglu army in the north have been in strict formation, stubbornly refusing the victims of Yanyun and Yizhou to enter their territory, and a large number of displaced people from the three prefectures of Yanyun and Yi have gone south to Fengxian and Pei counties in the north of Xuzhou and Danfu and Dangshan in Songzhou, and even fled to the area of Xiao County.

Xuzhou also wanted to stop these northern victims from going south, but due to the war and the raging ant thieves, Xuzhou's troops were empty, and the local government did not have much strength to stop this increasingly large team of southbound victims.

Zhuang Yongsheng also took this into account at the beginning, and Yuxian County was close to this area, so he could send people to this area to recruit troops, select its strength, and enrich the team.

With the support of Liang Xu, coupled with the secret support of Huaiyou, Zhuang Yongsheng's recruitment work went quite smoothly, and his original tooth army, which was worthy of a battalion of only five or six hundred people, quickly recovered to an army, of course, in terms of combat effectiveness, it could not be compared with the Yingzhou tooth army in the past.

According to Zhuang Yongsheng's idea, according to this posture, he can raise another army before the autumn grain harvest, so that there are 5,000 people, as long as the armor and weapons are guaranteed and trained, basically he can have a place in the north of Bozhou, and when the Caizhou army really comes to attack, he can also help Liang Xu openly, and secretly defend Bozhou according to Huaiyou's arrangement.

But he didn't expect Caizhoujun to come so quickly, not only beyond his imagination, but also beyond Huaiyou's prediction.

More than 20 days ago, he received an urgent report from Huaiyou Wuwentang from Bozhou that the Caizhou army might launch a full-scale attack on Bozhou, and a day later he had no time to report to Liang Xu, where the Caizhou army had already approached Shansang City and conquered Shansang in one fell swoop.

Then all this was chaotic, the Caizhou army attacked on two fronts, stormed the city father and attracted Shang Yunliu to go south for reinforcements, and the main army here bypassed the two counties of Luyi and Zhenyuan in the west, and attacked the state city of Qian County, and under the response of the county in Qian County, the city was broken in one fell swoop, and Lian Liang Xu was killed in the chaotic battle.

From the day he learned that Liang Xu was killed, Zhuang Yongsheng knew that nothing could be done, that Bozhou would fall into the hands of the Yuan clan was a foregone conclusion, and that the original policy discussed with Huaiyou had failed, and now what he needed to consider was how to preserve the army in his hands.

To block the Caizhou army is undoubtedly to hit the stone with an egg, which is meaningless, and the order given to him by the king is to find a way to pull up a team in the north of Xuzhou, so as to make a plan for the king to go north to Xuzhou in the future, which is his fundamental task.

It's just that now Yongcheng has been occupied by the Caizhou army, and the Xuzhou side still hasn't made any decent response, although there are a large number of troops stationed in Fuli and Xiaoxian reforming army, but Zhuang Yongsheng doesn't believe that they dare to take the initiative to attack Bozhou, and it is already Amitabha Buddha to be able to hold these two important places in the west of Xuzhou.

Zhuang Yongsheng also knew that the reason why the Caizhou army did not take advantage of the situation to attack its own garrison was not that the Caizhou army was afraid of a war, but that it was worried that taking Yuxian would stimulate the Great Liang army in the north and affect their Bozhou strategy.

And Zhuang Yongsheng did send someone to report urgently to the right army of Liang Tianxing, who was stationed in Songzhou, but there has been no response so far.

A rush of footsteps came in, and the subordinate guards came to report: "Master Su is here." ”

"Please. ”

"Brother Su, what's the situation?" Zhuang Yongsheng's face was as pale as he stood up to meet him.

"Not good. "The cycads were sweating like pulp, apparently returning from a long journey.

The situation in Bozhou suddenly became like this, even if the cycads were already mentally prepared, they still found it difficult to accept.

He had already issued an early warning to Shouzhou in advance, but Huaiyou's main energy was involved in Luzhou, and even the lord had already come to Luzhou in person.

It's never going to work out the way you design it, that's the reality.

The Caizhou army's stormy offensive showed even more that the Bozhou side was weak in response.

When the Caizhou army attacked the city after taking Shansang, the cycads asserted that this was the trick of the Caizhou army, as expected, when the Shangyunliu army was attracted to the south, the Caizhou army was the main force, rushing to attack Qiaoxian, and conquering the city in one fell swoop under the internal and external attacks.

As soon as Qian County is lost, the general trend has gone, and the true source and Luyi have become water without a source and a tree without roots, and it is a matter of time before they surrender.

In this way, Bozhou will go to most of it.

Hearing Su Tie's introduction of the information he had learned, Zhuang Yongsheng's face slowly showed a resolute look, "Brother Su, it seems that the matter in Bozhou is no longer possible, I am afraid that I have to find another way." ”

"Oh?" said the cycads, "how are you doing?"

"The task handed over by the gentleman is not in Bozhou, since the things in Bozhou cannot be done, a certain must get out as soon as possible and go to Fengpei two counties. Zhuang Yongsheng said categorically: "I expect Caizhou's offensive to be so fierce, I am afraid that the actions of the monarch will also be accelerated, the monarch said that Xuzhou can not be obtained by Caizhou, please Brother Su also return to Shouzhou as soon as possible, and report to the monarch as soon as possible, Xuzhou is in danger, and it must be arranged as soon as possible, otherwise once it is taken by the Yuan family, it will be in danger." ”

Su Tie didn't expect Zhuang Yongsheng to be so decisive, and he also admired a little more in his heart, no wonder he could be valued by the lord, but he still had some ability, and nodded: "Don't worry, a certain arrangement is still in Bozhou, and he will return to Shouzhou immediately, the lord went to Luzhou some time ago, and it is estimated that the matter in Luzhou has been concluded at this time, and now he can free up his hands to plan the affairs of Xuzhou." ”

"Oh, Wudi has been pacified?" Zhuang Yongsheng is also happy, the stronger Huaiyou is, the greater the chance of going north to take Xuzhou in the future.

"It's not clear, but the king of Wu Di has already made arrangements, if it weren't for this, how could he not have taken the time to deal with this side, and he was just taken advantage of by the Yuan family, but now that the matter is over in Luzhou, there will be no more opportunities for the Yuan family. Su Tie said confidently: "Brother Yongsheng is going north, you have to be careful, I heard that the situation in Yanyun and Yi Sanzhou has collapsed, and the Taining army is also showing signs of collapse and becoming bandits." ”

"Well, this matter has been heard from some old mouths in the past, the Taining army is not hungry, there are already several armies around plundering and eating, and the bandits are no different, I think this is the opportunity of the king, as long as you can take Xuzhou, there is enough food, then Yanyun Yi Sanzhou can be at your fingertips, isn't it happy?" Zhuang Yongsheng was full of pride.

"Hehe, that dare is good, then so-and-so will say goodbye first, and the next time so-and-so returns to the north, he will definitely float with Brother Yongsheng, and he will rest as soon as he gets drunk!"