Volume XX, Chapter 14
"Oh! I see, no wonder you want to say that it depends on luck, you said it earlier, it will cause us all to be emotional!" Zeng Zhaoli is a straight person.
"I've said a long time ago that this plan is purely a drill, but now it seems that there is a great chance of success, and now it depends on your full cooperation. Ying Xue glanced at everyone with a soliciting eye.
"We are willing to cooperate fully with the general's plan. Everyone stood up and said loudly.
"Okay, let's go back and prepare!" Wang Zhuo finally stood up and said to everyone.
After everyone left, Wu Zhuo said to Yingxue, "Yingxue, which city are you going to go to tomorrow?"
"I'm casual, it's just that tomorrow you may have to take some risks, I will send Long Li and Xiaotian to go with you to ensure that you are well!" said Yingxue with some concern.
"What are you afraid of, the general will inevitably die on the battlefield, not to mention that it is worth it to be able to peacefully receive Langya City and Yongju Pass this time, I am willing to take a risk. Besides, there are two people like Long Li and Xiaotian to protect me, so you can rest assured, but you go alone, I am a little worried. Wang Zhuo said righteously.
"Hehe, what are we doing here, worrying about coming, worrying about going, I'll be fine, you can rest assured, let's take a good rest today, recuperate our spirits, and take Langya City and Yongju Pass and Jiexiu City in one fell swoop. Ying Xue pretended to smile lightly, and then walked out.
Wang Zhuo looked at the back of Yingxue leaving, and sighed with emotion, these days, it has been a earth-shaking change for Wang Zhuo, from being trapped and embarrassed, to now about to unify the north. It was like a dream, it all came too fast. Wang Zhuo felt a little unreal, but all this was really in front of him. He couldn't help but believe it. Wang Zhuo thought alone for a while, and then walked out. The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, although it is a sure victory, but it is difficult to ensure that unexpected situations occur, and he must maintain his spirit to cope with tomorrow's situation.
The next day, Zeng Zhaoli and others slowly rushed to Jiexiu City with their troops, and they were not in a hurry to attack the city this time. Instead, Tang Bin and Xiang Cone talked about the surrender, Tang Bin stood under the city, and Xiang Cone was standing on the city tower, the two talked about it for most of the hour, of course Xiang Cone would not sell Tang Bin's account, Tang Bin was furious, that is, Zeng Zhaoli and others immediately attacked the city, where did Xiang Cone expect that they turned their faces so quickly, and were caught off guard by Zeng Zhaoli and others. In particular, the high-level magic of Tang Bin and Zeng Zhaoli's water and fire double dragon made the soldiers defending the city frightened, and Xiang Cone hurriedly sent another signal for help, this time Langya City and Yongju Guan City did not send the same signal again. When Xiang Cone heard the report, he was overjoyed and urgently ordered his troops to prepare for battle. In order to receive reinforcements from Langya City and Yongju Guan, they should join forces with each other. wiped out Zeng Zhaoli and others under the city to wash away the nest qi that had been in place for many days. These days, he has been teased by Zeng Zhaoli and others, and now it is finally his turn to take revenge on the cone, Xiang Cone stood on the head of the city and looked at Zeng Zhaoli and others who were dancing and constantly showing off to others, and thought hatefully.
Xiang Cone received the news of Du Biao of Langya City and Sun Khotan of Yongju Pass, they each came to the rescue with 15,000 people, Xiang Cone was overjoyed, ordered the whole army, as soon as the reinforcements arrived, they went out of the city to meet the enemy, and then attacked from three sides, and wiped out Wang Zhuo's troops under the city of Jiexiu, with the shame of snow for many days.
At this time, Zeng Zhaoli under the city also seemed to get the news, no longer attacked, began to lead the troops to retreat, 120,000 troops, began to slowly backwards, Xiang Cone heard the report, immediately ordered out of the city to pursue, and at this moment, Langya City's Du Biao and Yongju Pass's Sun Khotan has arrived, they seem to be a step late, they saw Xiang Cone, they ordered the troops to chase with all their might, Xiang Cone saw this, afraid that Du Biao and Sun Khotan would lose, but also led troops to chase Zeng Zhaoli and Tang Bin and others.
Zeng Zhaoli and Tang Bin and others dropped a lot of weapons, Xiang Cone saw this, knew that they had been scattered, and decided to take this opportunity to eliminate Zeng Zhaoli and others, so he urgently ordered to continue the pursuit, and suddenly Zeng Zhaoli and Tang Bin's army scattered into two deserters, and Du Biao, who was chasing in the front, seemed to be shot by a stray arrow, and his subordinates hurriedly rescued him, and hundreds of people protected him and sent him to Jiexiu City.
Du Biao was protected by hundreds of people and rushed to Jiexiu City, and here Zeng Zhaoli and others also fled farther and farther, while Xiang Cone and others chased farther and farther, Du Biao and others suddenly ran towards the city after entering the city, and the soldiers guarding the city were wondering, just now he had been injured and fell to the ground, why did he seem to be fine. But Du Biao suddenly made a move, hundreds of his men also quickly attacked, the city gate was immediately controlled by them, mutated elbows, the city troops have been taken out to the cone, there are not many soldiers guarding the city, and now by Du Biao's sudden attack, they suddenly panicked, lost their will to fight, and fled or surrendered, and at this time, Yingxue and Wang Zhuo actually took the troops out from the side, entered Jiexiu City, and then closed the city gate, quickly occupied the city tower, cleaned up Jiexiu City, and received the surrender army.
What is going on, it turns out that Wang Zhuo and Yingxue set off early in the morning to Langya City and Yongju Pass, Wang Zhuo entered Langya Pass alone, surrendered Du Biao, saw Wang Zhuo came in person, admired Wang Zhuo's courage and sincerity Du Biao, Wang Zhuo analyzed the current situation to Du Biao, this is inevitable to the cone of defeat, and Wang Zhuo promised to be able to save Du Biao's family, and still let Du Biao be the commander, command his own troops, and told Du Biao all the plans of Yingxue, feeling Wang Zhuo's sincerity, Du Biao decided to surrender to Wang Zhuo, he has been forced to this step, Wang Zhuo is now imperative, and Xiang Cone is the end of the crossbow, it is impossible to compete with Wang Zhuo, and more importantly, Wang Zhuo has always given preferential treatment to the army, which Du Biao has heard of for a long time.
And the situation of Yingxue to Yongju Pass is the same, Sun Khotan heard that Yingxue is Wang Zhuo's envoy, so he admired Yingxue's courage, and he heard that Wang Zhuo had personally gone to Langya Pass to surrender, he knew that Xiang Cone had gone, and Wang Zhuo still named himself the commander, which also moved him, and more importantly, Yingxue told the whole army's plan of action to ensure that Sun Khotan's family could be rescued. Khotan knew he had no choice but not to surrender. There is only one way to ruin, and it will also affect the family. Thinking of Xiang Cone's usual life, Sun Tian also decided to surrender to Yingxue.
After Yingxue asked Zheng Ti's troops to change into the clothes of Sun Khotan's troops, he went to support Jiexiu City with Sun Tian, and after he arranged the defenders of Yongju Pass with Zheng Ti, he quietly followed Sun Tian's troops to Jiexiu City with his troops, and as soon as Du Biao took control of the city gate, he immediately led the army to respond, and without resistance, Jiexiu City was already in hand. After taking control of Sukyu Castle, Takayuki immediately emitted a huge magical flame that could be seen from miles away.
Poor Xiang Cone is now chasing Zeng Zhaoli and the others with great interest, thinking that he has won a complete victory, however, he did not realize that his troops are simply running behind the troops of Zeng Zhaoli and others, and so far, they have not encountered a battle. It's just that I picked up a lot of weapons dropped by Zeng Zhaoli and others.
Suddenly, two ambush soldiers came out from the side and rushed towards Xiang Cone and the others, and Xiang Cone's troops were running with Zeng Zhaoli and the others' troops. Very fulfillment, where would you expect to kill an ambush from the side, at this time. The reinforcements of Langya City and Yongju Pass in Xiang Zun's troops also suddenly attacked, and Xiang Zun's troops were suddenly in chaos. A large area fell, and countless casualties were immense. Xiang Cone now realized that he had been calculated all along, and the troops besieging the city deliberately showed weakness, dropped their weapons, and let him chase him, but they were actually teasing him, and he was still in the dark, complacent!
At this time, Zeng Zhaoli and others also turned around, towards the cone troops to kill, to the cone of the urgent order to return to the city, leave the troops, in the support of the henchmen to flee to the city of Jiexiu, Zeng Zhaoli and others will be Xiang Cone of the rest of the surrounding, by Sun Khotan stood up to surrender to them, these soldiers saw that the commander actually left them alone to flee for their lives, thinking that they would be in a big situation, they would definitely be killed, did not expect that someone would come to surrender, of course these soldiers immediately dropped their weapons and were willing to surrender. Tang Bin and the others decided to let Ma He's troops escort some troops back to Tianguan, and the rest of the troops immediately continued to surround Xiang Cone.
Before Xiang Cone went back to Jiexiu City, he urgently ordered the soldiers to open the door, he was already scared out of a cold sweat, and he was still secretly glad in his heart, fortunately, the enemy army did not take the opportunity to capture Jiexiu City, otherwise with these forces of Jiexiu City, it must have been captured by the enemy, and he was thinking about it, and a rain of arrows mixed with a large number of magic attacks on the head of the city was cold, and the troops of Xiang Cone had already run with Zeng Zhaoli and others all morning, and they were exhausted, and now they were defenseless, and they suddenly screamed continuously, and they were put down by the sudden attack for a while. Xiang Cone ordered the troops to retreat outward, and only then did he realize that he had even occupied the lair, and this time it was a complete failure, and he turned around and looked at the soldiers around him, there were less than 20,000 people, such a force was no longer enough to fight against anyone, only to be slaughtered, and a feeling of despair came over his heart.
At this time, Wang Zhuo's figure appeared on the head of the city, and he said to Xiang Cong: "Xiang Cong, surrender quickly, otherwise you will not have another chance." ”
At this time, Zeng Zhaoli and others had already arrived and surrounded Xiang Cone and the others, and Sun Khotan stood up from the crowd again, and said to Xiang Cone's troops: "Everyone put down their weapons and surrender!" Seeing that there was no movement, Sun Khotan immediately ordered: "The people of the Third Brigade and the Fourth Brigade will come over to me immediately." ”
When the soldiers of the original Khotanese army heard this, they put down their weapons and ran towards Zeng Zhaoli's troops, and when the rest of the soldiers saw it, they also put down their weapons and ran over, and Xiang Cone began to want to stop it, but where could he stop it, and after a while, there were only one or two thousand people left around him, and it seemed that these were his henchmen.
Yingxue at the head of the city discussed with Wang Zhuoyi and decided not to hesitate any longer, these people are Xiang Zun's henchmen, even if they surrender, they are not willing, but there will be chaos, so Wang Zhuo waved his hand and gave a killing order to the troops.
Xiang Cone was thinking about whether to surrender or not, he couldn't pull it off, he was also a dragoon general, how could he surrender, but Wang Zhuo no longer gave him time to think about it, and in a sudden situation, Xiang Cone took the majesty of his dragoon general, and drowned in the rain of arrows and magic attacks of more than 100,000 troops with his henchmen.
Everything was a foregone conclusion, Yingxue and Wang Zhuo ordered Du Biao and Sun Khotan to take his troops and return to Tianguan with them, and then, ordered Zeng Zhaoli and Tang Bin to guard Jiexiu City, Zhang Luozhen to guard Yongju Pass, and Li Li to guard Langya Pass, asking them to stabilize their respective stations immediately, and all local affairs should be managed by the military first, and everything should be done according to the orders of Yingxue and Wang Zhuo and others, and the rest of the people would immediately rush back to their respective stations in case there was a change.
After arranging everything, Yingxue and Wang Zhuo returned to Tianguan with Du Biao and Sun Khotan, Yingxue gathered all the troops and counted them, these soldiers were less than 50,000, but Yingxue and Wang Zhuo did not break their promises, and still appointed the two of them as army commanders, that is, the eighth, The commander of the Ninth Army, the insufficient troops, made up for it from the new army recruited in the future, Du Biao and Sun Khotan, I didn't expect Wang Zhuo to be so trustworthy, Du Biao and Sun Khotan were grateful to Dade, where can such a tolerant general be found, and the two swore that they must be loyal to Wang Zhuo.
Next is some trivial things, under the strong promotion of Yingxue, Wang Zhuo had to take the position of marshal, according to Yingxue's arrangement, Wang Zhuo promoted Tang Bin to the general staff to fully assist him, and the nine army commanders under him were all promoted to generals, and the nine armies were set up as a corps, known as the Northern Corps, in this way, these nine armies are not only a whole, but also independent of each other, both under the orders of Wang Zhuo to act in unison, and can act alone. Since Wang Zhuo's experiment in selecting civilian officials in the northern capital had been successful, the selection of civilian officials in the entire three northern provinces was carried out in an all-round way, and Wang Zhuo had already ordered that all armies should be changed to a garrison system, and that the troops should be stationed independently, not to interfere in the affairs of local officials, and to assist local officials in quelling the rebellion.
After the local officials were elected, Wang Zhuo ordered that all the personnel in each city be verified, registered, and resettled, and at the same time all the land in the three northern provinces was divided into the three northern provinces, and all the land was under military management, and then it was evenly distributed, with one mu of land per person, no taxes were collected for the first three years, and all land could not be bought and sold freely, but could be subleased, and the land was not allocated to officials and military personnel, and the three northern provinces would pay Fenglu and military salaries. Due to the small number of people on the land, the surplus land is managed by local officials and can be subleased to the common people for farming. Wang Zhuo's policy of course caused a lot of dissatisfaction among wealthy people, they were all in line with the yang and yin, deliberately obstructing the local officials to do things, Wang Zhuo was furious when he found out, and immediately beheaded those who did not obey, seeing Wang Zhuo's attitude was so tough, the rest of the people did not dare to speak up, however, to their delight, Wang Zhuo did not check their family background, and these people had to obey. Wang Zhuo's policy of course has been warmly welcomed by the majority of the people, and at the same time posted a notice to the people, all thieves and thieves, as long as they put down their knives and guns, and return to their respective villages to settle down in their duties, they are not considered thieves, after the notice was posted, some thieves in the mobilization of their families, all returned home, local officials in accordance with Wang Zhuo's orders, it was divided into land, and some other thieves saw that this was really the case, they were forced to be helpless to be thieves, now there is land and land, where are they willing to be thieves, so they put down their knives and guns and returned home, of course, there are some people who do not know the times, Wang Zhuo did not show mercy to his subordinates, and quickly sent troops to destroy them, so as not to harm the place, The officials and people of the entire three northern provinces were also relieved to see Wang Zhuo acting so vigorously and resolutely.
After all this was preliminarily completed, three months had passed, and the season had changed from winter to spring, Wang Zhuo and Yingxue still ordered Zhou Ming and other army commanders to step up the training of the army and prepare to go out at any time.
And now the entire border country is also shocked, Wang Zhuo was able to unify the three northern provinces in such a short period of time, and Lai Rong, Xiang Cone and Zhu Xiaochun The three strong enemies were all wiped out, and now his strength is already the most powerful force in the entire border country, and now there is no one who can compete with him, and the current king of the border country has also sent a secret envoy to ask for peace talks with Wang Zhuo, trying to keep half of his southern country, and other generals also want to make peace with Wang Zhuo, at least they can be close to Wang Zhuo, they now hope that Wang Zhuo does not have the heart to unify the border country, so that Wang Zhuo's ambition is only limited to the three northern provinces, otherwise they may not be able to escape the bad luck。
And Wang Zhuo is still the same old look, for anyone's request, he did not agree, nor refused, everyone saw Wang Zhuo's attitude, and couldn't figure out what he was thinking, at this time, who dared to come out, everyone was waiting, Wang Zhuo was really calm, accompanied by everyone in the wait-and-see, the current border country, except for Wang Zhuo's three northern provinces, can be said to be everyone in danger, stormy, turbulent. (To be continued.) )