Chapter Forty-Six: The Capture of the East
After sending Guo Shao away, Li Xingzhi immediately discussed with everyone about the authenticity of the exchanged materials.
Zhang Shaoqian and Yang Biao both thought that Lu Liangzhi and Liu Zhongwu's family were old friends, and if they intended to confuse Li Jiashan, they would just agree to our request and end it, so why bargain, so this matter should not be faked.
Qian Anning had doubts, in his opinion, Lu Liangzhi was known for his loyalty, and it stands to reason that he would not accept the exchange of militaristic heavy weapons such as artillery for Liu Zhongwu, if they agreed to use money and food to settle the calculation, this matter may be taken seriously.
Regarding Qian Anning's opinion, Li Xingzhi also quite agreed, the so-called heart of harming people is indispensable, and the heart of preventing people is indispensable, Guo Shao agreed so happily, which makes people have to be suspicious.
Li Rui, the master of the four villages, said: "The big boss, according to the opinion of his subordinates, since we have made peace with the officials and soldiers, they must be defenseless, don't make dinner tonight, before dawn, raid the official army camp of Dajiaotai, Huang Wenchang's military horses are all composed of displaced people, when the time comes, the camp will be chaotic, and it is not impossible to capture Lu Liangzhi alive." ”
Yang Biao and the others were all refreshed when they heard this, if they really destroyed this group of officers and soldiers, wouldn't the money and food of Gaoyang, Xin'an, and Renqiu be left to their own devices, not to mention this little material at that time, maybe they could really get together twenty artillery pieces.
Qian Anning said with a smile: "The big boss, the master of the four villages has a very good plan, we can also bring the official and military prisoners, and when the time comes, whether it is broken or not, the official and military Dazhai will not be broken, and they will have no way back." ”
"Good! In this way, act according to Li Rui's plan. ”
Come and don't be rude, Li Xingzhi is not a person who can be slaughtered, and today's revenge of Liu Zhongwu's sneak attack on Li Jiashan can be calculated with Lu Liangzhi.
Therefore, Li Xingzhi immediately ordered Yang Biao and Li Rui to order 30 mandarin duck soldiers and 100 firearm soldiers, and put the whole army on standby at the eastern foot of Lijia Mountain, and only waited for the third watch before going down the mountain to attack the camp.
In terms of officials and soldiers, after Guo Shao returned to the camp, it was the result of a conversation with Lu Liangzhi and Li Xingzhi.
Liu Guangyong thought he had a plan, he thought that the matter was in a hurry and not slowing down, since Li Xingzhi had already been tricked, the thief must be defenseless tonight, it would be better to attack the mountain early tomorrow morning, and the thief would be caught off guard.
Lu Liangzhi agreed with Liu Guangyong's suggestion, believing that if the raid was successful, the thieves would definitely not have time to hurt Liu Zhongwu, so it would kill two birds with one stone.
At dawn the next day, it was just dawning.
The Li Jiashan Rebel Army and the officers and troops of Dajiaotai acted almost simultaneously.
Both sides left the camp by the glimmer of dawn.
Lijia Mountain is not high, because the righteous army is going down the mountain, the speed of the march is very fast, only two pillars of incense time, the righteous army arrived at the foot of the mountain.
The officers and troops also rushed to the foot of Lijiashan, but due to the different routes, the distance between the two sides was about two miles apart.
Hundreds of people marched in front of hundreds of people, and naturally there was no such thing as sneaking.
"Oh no, the thieves have come down the mountain."
"It's not good, there are officers and soldiers ahead."
The vanguard of both sides exclaimed almost simultaneously.
"The whole army is on guard!"
Li Xingzhi drew his sword and ordered, to be honest, he really didn't expect the official army to have the same idea as himself, but he was not afraid of the official army in front of him, anyway, he had his back to Li Jiashan, and if he retreated while fighting, it would be easy to retreat to the defense line of Dongshan.
"Array! The whole army was on alert and retreated to the main camp first. ”
Liu Guangyong was also shocked, this thief is too thief, in the name of peace talks, but under the pretense of attacking his own camp.
But at this moment, he didn't dare to enter the army, who knew that the thieves sent a few people down the mountain, if he and the thieves in front of him saw each other, if the camp was attacked by the thieves from other directions, it would be more than worth the loss.
Although the official army did not retreat, it was not far from the official army camp, and Li Xingzhi did not dare to pursue, so he ordered to retreat to the cottage first, and then plan later.
When Lu Liang heard the report, he was also shocked, and said that Liu Guangyong and Guo Shao said: "Li Wei is so cunning and changeable, if he doesn't get rid of it early, there will be trouble. ”
Huang Wenchang was full of slander, co-authoring only allows you to calculate others, and does not let others calculate you, Dongyu can enter the customs at any time, how can Baoding Mansion send troops.
At this time, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves outside the camp, and several knights flew straight to Yuanmen, shouting incessantly: "Chen Zhitai urgently ordered, the slave chief Hong Tai sent the puppet Wang Yuetuo as the general of Yangwu, and Doluo Anping Beledudu led tens of thousands of iron hooves to the wall ridge, and the troops immediately returned to the garrison, strengthened the city defense, and prepared to resist the eastern captives." ”
The officers and soldiers guarding the gate did not dare to stop it, and the heralds stepped into the camp, drove straight to the gate a few feet before reining in the war horses, then jumped off the horses, took out the express from the bags behind them, and hurriedly walked towards the military tent.
Lu Liangzhi, Liu Guangyong, and others were all shocked when they heard the report, in the ninth year of Chongzhen, the matter of Dongyu Kou plundering Jinggi is vivid, and now Dongyu is knocking on the gate again, how is this good?
Guo Shao stepped forward to take the urgent delivery, that is, he ordered the left and right soldiers to call the herald soldiers to rest first, and then saluted Lu Liang directly: "The county is urgent, yesterday's battle of Lijiashan, our army suffered a lot of losses, the wall is not far from Miyun, and the Dongyu can break into Jinggi at any time, we still need to return to Xin'an as soon as possible, rectify the city defense, Liu Shoubei has the courage to do things, and has won the hearts of my Xin'an army and people, if you want to keep the county, you must rescue Liu Shoubei, and the students want to re-enter Lijiashan to take advantage, even if they spend some money and food, they must redeem Liu Shoubei, otherwise Xin'an can not protect it." ”
Lu Liang sighed: "For today's plan, I can only negotiate peace with the thief, but this trip is very dangerous, Mr. Guo, this county will entrust you here." "After that, he slammed it to the ground against Guo Shaochang.
Guo Shao took the express in his hand and said with a forced smile: "The county lord doesn't have to worry, Li Xingzhi wrote yesterday, didn't he claim to be doing the right thing for heaven, and if he wants to come to the student to talk about the matter of knocking on the customs in the east, Li Xingzhi may be able to return Liu Shoubei." ”
Lu Liangzhi knew that this was also a way out of the way, General Chen Zhitai ordered that the armies return to the garrison, Liu Guangyong would inevitably return to Baoding to ensure the city, and the Xin'an garrison was originally only five hundred people, Zhang Shaoqian surrendered to the thief, lost more than 100, and attacked the mountain yesterday and broke more than 100, if Liu Zhongwu did not return to Xin'an, the morale of the army in the city would inevitably be extremely low.
The eastern captives are cavalry, if the defenders do not have a backbone, is there still a need to fight this battle?
Guo Shao bowed his hand to the generals in the military tent, resolutely walked out of the camp gate, and went straight to Lijiashan.
However, he said that after Li Xingzhi led the army back to Lijiashan, he was very happy, and said to the leaders on his side: "Lu Liangzhi is a resourceful and decisive person, if it weren't for Li Rui's suggestion that our army sneak attack the official army camp, then my Li Jiazhai can't protect it." ”
Yang Biao said angrily: "Brother Li, since Lu Liangzhi has gone back on his word, in my opinion, it is better to cut off Liu Zhongwu and send his head down the mountain, anyway, he will not let me go." ”
Li Rui, Chen Wu and others all clamored to support Yang Biao's suggestion, although Zhang Shaoqian wanted to oppose it, but he couldn't say anything against it.
At this time, a patrol came at the foot of the mountain to report that the messenger of the official army had come again yesterday.