Chapter 38 Entering Lingnan

As mentioned last time, the Shu army blasted the city wall, and the explosion wave knocked Buqi and others who had just walked a short distance to the ground. Under the guidance of the deputy general, Bu Qi looked back and couldn't help but be stunned.

I saw that a large section of the city wall was completely gone, revealing a gap ten zhang long, and the gap was full of earth and stones, bricks and tiles, and human flesh and armor. The soldiers who had been standing densely on the wall were all gone, as if they had disappeared out of thin air, and not a single intact human body was to be seen.

"Kill!" The sound of shouting and killing came from outside the city, and the ears of Bu Qi and the others were temporarily deaf due to the loud explosion, and they couldn't hear these shouts of killing, but they could see the banners in the sky rushing towards this side quickly through the gap in the city wall.

Buqi, who has many years of military career, of course knows that it is a large group of people rushing here. The lieutenant obviously knew this, and ran away. A group of people ran to a small house not far from the east gate in panic like lost dogs, and got into it......

On the side of the Shu army, Liu Hou saw that the city wall had been blown down, waved his hand, and the order was quickly conveyed, and the 30,000 vine armor army that had already been waiting for the day under the leadership of the vulture bone and E Huan poured into the city from the gap like a tide.

In this case, it is naturally more suitable to dispatch the vine armor army than the musketeers. The musketeers, Liu Hou, Zhao Yun and others remained in the camp outside the city and waited for news. A gentleman does not stand under the wall, Liu Hou has always been a person who is afraid of death, and tries not to take risks when he can.

When the city was first broken, it was all chaotic, and it was bound to encounter resistance from the chaotic army and even various sneak attacks. Although the advantages of the Shu army are very obvious, there is still a certain danger in entering the city at this time.

If a stray arrow flies somewhere, if any of the Eastern Wu troops hiding in the corner suddenly jump out and assassinate him, it will be a big trouble. His little life is so valuable, how can he be casually lost in these places.

What's more, Bu Qi is not an ordinary person, he is also a figure in the history of the Three Kingdoms, in case he still has any tricks, what is waiting for him, he will not be able to eat and go around, never underestimate the wisdom of the ancients, this is one of Liu Hou's creeds.

Not to mention anything else, there is such a strategy in the various messy books that Liu Hou read before: the defending side pretends to be unable to defend the city and puts the besieging party into the city. All kinds of flammable materials have long been arranged in the city, and then the entire city will be burned with a fire, and all the enemy troops will be burned to death.

Although it is the bridge of the online novel yy, although doing so will cause the people of the city to be burned to death, and will be scolded by the world later, but who knows if Buqi will be such a ruthless person. A bad luck encounters such a madman and is burned to death, there is really no place to say the truth.

As a last resort, Liu Hou was unwilling to take such a risk, especially after personally leading troops to meet Xu Huang and Sima Yi in Jingzhou last time, Liu Hou was not more and more courageous, but more afraid of death. He doesn't like to take risks, he likes to be steady, and he likes to be under his own control.

There were no conspiracies, traps or anything like that in Cangwu City, and the Tengjia Army controlled the situation in the city very smoothly. By noon the next day, the fragmentary resistance forces in the city had been basically eliminated, and Liu Hou could finally enter the city with confidence.

After breaking the city this time, more than 10,000 people were captured, and almost this number was killed, and strangely, none of the high-ranking generals and officials such as Buqi were caught.

Liu Hou was very curious about the escape of Buqi and senior generals and officials, the Shu army did not surround three missing one this time, but surrounded the four city gates, how did Buqi escape?

Liu Hou found the old officials who stayed in the city and asked them a little to know the reason. It turned out that there was a secret passage in the city, which could lead all the way to the outside of the city, and they probably escaped through this secret passage of guò. Liu Hou asked the old official to lead the way, and it was easy to find the entrance to the secret passage that was not far from the east gate.

I called a few soldiers to go in and investigate, and found that this secret passage could lead to a manor five miles outside the city.

Liu Hou was speechless when he heard this, the legendary thing of the secret road may not be available in many big cities, but he didn't expect that there would be one in this southern barbarian land, in a remote town, and he didn't know if it was because Bu Qi was too lucky or because he was too lucky. No matter, anyway, as long as he occupies the Nanling Ancient Road, Buqi is a turtle locked in an urn, and he can be pinched as much as he wants.

After all, most of the people in the Tengjia army were southern barbarians, and the regular training of the Shu army was not long enough, and they did not do a very good job in military discipline.

After Liu Hou received the news, he immediately dispatched a gendarmerie to patrol and picket the whole city. Anyone found to have violated military discipline will be severely punished, and at the same time, officials will be sent to appease the people. Soon, dozens of heads hung on the city gate, which were the heads of the soldiers of the Vine Armor Army who had violated military discipline.

The riots of the Fujijia army were brought to a halt, and the city soon calmed down. Liu Hou, Zhao Yun and other high-level cadres led the musket team into the city, and at this point, the door to Lingnan has been opened.

After occupying the city, there were still many things to do, but Liu Hou didn't have time to do it, so Guo Youzhi's army immediately marched into Lingnan. He could see from Bu Qi's behavior that Bu Qi was trying to delay the advance of the Shu army regardless of casualties and at any cost.

The biggest reason for this is that the reinforcements of Soochow may be about to arrive in Lingnan, and Bu Qi is trying to do everything possible to drag the arrival of the Soochow army, and the scene will naturally be reversed at that time.

Liu Hou also agreed with Guo Youzhi's judgment, so he no longer took care of the affairs of the city, leaving a thousand men and horses to temporarily garrison the city, waiting for officials sent by the imperial court to take over the management. The army had only rested for a day, and then immediately marched out.

The reason why he took a day off was to deal with the matter of the prisoners, and it was also related to the implementation of the strategy that Guo You offered last time.

Last time, 20,000 people were captured, and Guo Youzhi said that it would be of great use to keep them, except for a small number of people who were sent to dig holes at the base of the city wall to bury explosives, the others were reorganized. This time, more than 10,000 people were captured, and it was indeed very difficult to deal with so many people.

First of all, some people were selected from these more than 30,000 people to join the army, and the first criterion for selecting soldiers became to voluntarily join the Shu army.

Fortunately, most of these captives were also Southern Barbarians, and the other part were people brought from Soochow by Buqi, so many people did not have much sense of belonging to Soochow, and it was easier to change their identities.

The second condition is the physical element, Zhao Yun naturally has a set of selection methods, and Liu Hou doesn't have to worry about these. Soon, 10,000 were selected from the more than 30,000 captives, and another 10,000 were selected from the 80,000 baggage brigades, so that 20,000 men were gathered to form a new army.

The 20,000 people Liu Hou put Zhu Bao in command, and they will be an important part of the implementation of Guo You's strategy. The other prisoners who were not selected were naturally still filled into the baggage team. In this way, the baggage team has a little more than 100,000 people, which is already an astonishing scale.

Fortunately, Liu Hou has successively obtained seven county towns in Yulin County, and now he has captured Cangwu County, and all the grain in the official warehouse in the city has been used for military purposes, so there is no need to worry about food for the time being.

According to Guo Youzhi's strategy, Zhu Bao led 20,000 horses, pretended to be at least 50,000 people, and went to Nanhai County with great fanfare under the banners of "Liu" and "Prince of the Great Han".

In other words, their task is to set up a suspicious formation, making people think that they are the main force of the Shu army and the soldiers and horses led by Liu Hou himself. They bypassed some unimportant cities all the way to Nanhai County and besieged Panyu City.

At this time, Buqi had fled back to Panyu City, the seat of Nanhai County. Along the way, anxious like a lost dog, panicked all day, who knew that just returned to Panyu, before he could breathe, he saw a dense Shu army outside the city, and he was so scared that he didn't dare to come out.

Fortunately, these Shu troops did not attack the city immediately, but there were two monsters floating in the sky every day. Having seen these monsters that can throw divine thunder from the sky, the people who participated in the Cangwu War were even more frightened, hiding in the bed and not daring to leave the house.

Buqi climbed to the top of the city, saw the scale of the Shu army camp and the number of banners, it was estimated that the Shu army had at least 50,000 horses, and the banners of the princes Liu Chan, Zhao Yun and other generals were impressively listed. Bu Qi couldn't help but gasp, which means that the Shu army that fought with them in Cangwu before was here, even more than what they had seen in Cangwu.

To say that 50,000 horses and horses are not too many in this era, at least in Panyu City, there are still 7 or 80,000 troops in the Eastern Wu army, which is more than the Shu army, but Bu Qiu has seen the terrible combat power of the Shu army, and he doesn't think that his 7 or 80,000 people can beat the 50,000 people of the Shu army.

He has a large number of people, but he is blocked in the city and does not dare to go out, Buqi has never tried to be so aggrieved since his debut, but now he has to wait for help.

In fact, seeing the main force of the Shu army appear under the city, Bu Qi was worried about his life on the one hand, and on the other hand, he was also relieved, as long as he could tie the other party to attack the city here, instead of the idea of fighting the Nanling Ancient Road, he had the hope of waiting for the arrival of the main reinforcements.

It's just that he can think of the importance of the Nanling Ancient Road, and others can't think of it? There are so many talents in the world, Buqi can't help but underestimate the military advisors in the Shu army.

Liu Hou led the main battle troops to rush along the way, day and night, all the way north to Nanling.

This journey took about a month, and the county towns along the way were determined to rejoin the orthodoxy of the Han dynasty.

Liu Hou estimated that the news of the defeat of the Buqi troops by the Shu army had already spread, and the county commanders of these counties did not dare to use their arms as a car, so they simply surrendered.

Anyway, surrendering to Liu Hou can also be under the banner of righteousness, not only is it not ashamed, but it will also be said that he understands righteousness, and he was just a traitor who temporarily begged for all to be attached to the traitor, and has been forbearance until now, just waiting for the opportunity to contribute to the court. No, now that the king has arrived, he will immediately go anyway, doesn't this just prove that he has always been interested in the court?

Liu Hou didn't have time to pay attention to these wall grasses, so he let them continue to be their county orders, wait for the arrangement of the imperial court, and continue to rush north after taking the troops to replenish the grain and grass.

After arriving in Zhongsu County (Qingyuan County), the large army was divided into three routes, one route was led by Guo Youzhi and E Huan to lead 10,000 rattan armies, 2,000 musketeers, and two hot air balloons to attack Yangshan Pass (in the northwest of present-day Yangshan County, Guangdong);

Zhao Yun and Wutu Gu led 10,000 vine armor troops, 2,000 musketeers, and two hot air balloons to attack Huangji Valley Pass (also called Huangxi Pass, located in the northeast of Yangshan County, Guangdong, Tongluo Zhailing);

The rest of the men and horses, led by Liu Hou, Guan Xing, Zhang Bao, and Guan Suo, attacked Hengpu Pass in the Meiling Ancient Road (on the Dageng Ridge in present-day Nanxiong City, Guangdong Province).

Hengpu Pass, Yangshan Pass and Huangxi Pass were the three famous passes on the communication line between Lingnan and Lingbei in the Qin and Han dynasties, and as long as these three passes were guarded, the traffic between Lingnan and Lingbei could be cut off.

The first thing Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue, did when he rebelled, was to cut off the three main roads of communication between Lingnan and the Central Plains, and said, "The thieves are coming, and they are desperate to gather troops to defend themselves." ”

For the Shu army, it is now also facing the shape of "stealing soldiers and coming", and it is also anxious to "defend itself". However, before defending oneself, one must first snatch these three passes down and control them in his own hands.

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