King Fu of Lu took Huang Degong's line and confirmed that he was willing to flee to Xinyang first.

The specific arrangements for follow-up are much simpler, and there is nothing to repeat.

Huang Degong also had in-depth contact with Liang Yizhang, only to find out that Liang Yizhang didn't know that King Lu had come to Shangqiu, and the other party had been incognito and very low-key, and only appeared after the siege.

Therefore, Huang Degong also judged that the so-called "Yuan Zongdi came to attack Shangqiu in order to kill the king and trap the domain" at the beginning is probably a misunderstanding, or it is a self-defeating strategy on the thief's side.

Hundreds of thousands of troops spread out, stretching for hundreds of miles to attack each other, and it is normal for information to be exchanged poorly and to spread wrong words.

In any case, since Yuan Zongdi's side was so straightforward, after being knocked out of one side, he withdrew the two wings of the east gate and the south gate of Shangqiu City to surround it, so I think he will not be too resolute in preventing Huang Degong from retreating in the future.

Just for the sake of insurance, Huang Degong still did not act rashly immediately, let the troops rest in Shangqiu City for an afternoon, eat two meals, go to bed early, and get up at midnight the next day to assemble out of the city.

In this way, there will be about two hours of action time before dawn, ensuring that Yuan Zongdi's reaction time can be further compressed.

After the plan was arranged, Huang Degong also took care of Liang Yizhang for the last time: "Liang Governor's Mansion, it is impossible for our army to take the initiative to attack the camp and seek a decisive battle with Yuan Zongdi for you." After he shrank his forces, after all, he had a strong battalion that had been operating for several days to rely on, and it would be too much of a loss to attack with cavalry.

So after my army retreats, tomorrow you can let out the rumors, saying that King Fu of Lu was indeed in this Shangqiu City before, but he has been rescued by me.

In this way, Yuan Zongdi will definitely be half-hearted and shaken, and he is reluctant to spend all his blood and strength to attack Shangqiu. If he can be seduced to divide his troops to pursue me and fight a field battle with our army, Huang is absolutely sure to hit his main force again! ”

Liang Yizhang was also grateful to Huang Degong for his righteousness, but he was still a little worried, so he asked: "Will this increase the danger to King Lu and King Fu?" ”

But Huang Degong patted his chest and packed the ticket with him: "Don't worry, Yuan Zongdi can't catch up with me, and if he dares to chase it out, he can't beat me." Besides, you don't have to take the initiative to preach it early tomorrow.

Can you wait until Yuan Zongdi comes to attack the city again, and then say that this thing will hit his morale. In this way, at least another day and a half dragged on, and our army was all cavalry, and it had already run away. And you put it off and said that you won't offend King Lu Fuwang, this is tacit in advance, how did King Lu Fu know? ”

Liang Yizhang was right when he thought about it, and immediately said that he knew how to control the degree of confidentiality, the timing of leaks, and what to say and what not to say.

The soldiers and horses that Li Zi gave to Yuan Zongdi were definitely more than 50,000 or 60,000 at the beginning, but Li Jiyu was annihilated and Yuan Shizhong surrendered, adding up to at least 20,000 people and horses in the army.

In addition, Huang Degong's kicking camp defeated the Yuan army in Nancheng, and the bloody battle of Shangqiu City in the past few days killed and injured the breaking army. It can be said that in the past ten days, Yuan Zong's first department has reduced the living force by at least 30,000 people.

There are more than 30,000 left, and if the turtle hides in the camp and defends it, there are trenches and horses to be rejected, Huang Degong may have to pay a heavy price to gnaw it, so he is reluctant to use the elite cavalry to consume.

But if Yuan Zongdi dares to chase him out, then he is definitely looking for death.

What's more, Yuan Zongdi is not the cavalry of the whole army, while Huang Degong's cavalry of the whole army is also recuperated and retains his physical strength, and can march quickly and durably. As long as Yuan Zongdi dares to chase after him within a day or two, he will definitely be out of touch with the front and rear armies, and he can't care about each other.

When the time comes, Huang Degong, who has an advantage in organic power, will kill a horse pistol, and only pick the part of Yuan Zongdi's troops that chase fast to attack, and he will definitely be able to kill it more easily.

Huang Degong knew such a superficial common sense of the art of war, and Yuan Zongdi must also know it, otherwise he would not be qualified to be one of the five generals under Li Zicheng's account. So as long as he doesn't commit retardation, he will definitely not do such a stupid thing.

……

Early the next morning, the pampered King Lu was also misty and was pulled up by the maids and eunuchs, and he was about to leave the city when it was rare.

The soft belongings of the palace have been packed in advance.

Previously, when Wei Hui left to come to Shangqiu, they took advantage of the thieves to reach Huaiqing, and they ran away in advance from the boundary of a mansion, so they brought things more thoroughly, and even the silk and satin of the palace could be carried with them.

When Luwangfu was in Weihui, he accumulated at least seven or eight million taels of movable property and brought out more than six million taels. Recently, I have spent some of my money on the army.

This time, because he was with the army, he had to throw away the silk and broken silver, and the copper coins of the ordinary maids and eunuchs were also thrown away, and the prince divided the silver ingots for them to replace, and after calculating it, he only took more than five million taels with him in the end. It is worth nearly one million taels and is relatively heavy, so it was left to Liang Yizhang's army.

The defenders of Shangqiu were also shouted early in the morning, responsible for guarding, ready to cover at any time. Originally, the soldiers still had a lot of complaints. But when he heard that each soldier could directly issue three horses of silk and two silver ingots, all the dissatisfaction disappeared immediately, and he swore that he would follow the Liang prefect to defend the city well and persist through this winter.

Huang Degong allowed King Lu to ride in the carriage, but he still prepared horses for them, which could be changed at any time when they needed to ride. Five million taels of property were distributed to the soldiers and carried separately, but it was also easy.

Because at least half of the value of the wealth exists in the form of gold, which is converted into more than 20,000 catties, and it can be done by picking 300 pro-soldiers to carry seventy or eighty catties each.

The only thing that Huang Degong didn't understand was that King Lu's Mansion brought a lot of bronzes and pianos. Huang Degong is a rough man, where do he understand elegant things, he feels that even the broken silver has been lost, and what do he do with bronze.

King Lu was not good at talking about money in person, and in the end, it was the little county lord Zhu Yuchan who came forward with a hat and explained: "It's hard to work Huang Zongzhen, I am not a greedy person who is difficult for a strong man, but it is really worth carrying these pianos out of the house, which is worth more than carrying the same weight of silver."

The famous piano collected by my father is either an antiquity, or a rare masterpiece in the world. Those few wrapped tightly in silk bags and filled with fragrant wood boxes are all guqins in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

The rest are only stored in silk sacs, at least in the Tang and Song dynasties, and those that are open are the new system of the current dynasty, and my father never left anything less than 1,000 taels. Those bronze incense burners are also from the Han Dynasty to the Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang dynasties. After the Song Dynasty, my father was too lazy to accept it. ”

Huang Degong heard that these things were so valuable, so he gave up.

……

The army was quietly leaving the city, and the beginning was really smooth. The biggest problem is that King Lu and King Fu are not in good health, and these pampered nobles are so bumpy that they vomit more than once they are bumped by the carriage on the night road.

Fortunately, the visibility is not very high, and the carriages and horses will not run too fast, and they are already more than 30 miles away from the city at dawn.

On Yuan Zongdi's side, he also noticed that there was an army out of the city in the south of the city, but he didn't take it seriously, he was anxious now, he wanted too much, and he had too little ability. The Shangqiu defenders were able to get rid of some of them, and he didn't bother to stop them.

It was not until the time of Chen that Yuan Zongdi tentatively went to Shangqiu City to organize another small-scale attack. But at first glance, I didn't plan to really fight to the end, but just explored the reality and reality, focusing on crossbows and old-fashioned firearms.

Of course, Liang Yizhang led the Shangqiu defenders to attack Yuan Zongdi's attempt, so that Yuan Zongdi clearly realized that the soldiers and horses left the city in the early morning, which did not damage the will of the Shangqiu defenders, and Shangqiu City was still determined to defend to the end.

After getting this important information, Yuan Zongdi's goal was achieved, and there was no need to consume hundreds of people after they died.

When it was close to noon, when Yuan Zong's first department was about to withdraw to the camp, Liang Yizhang watched the thieves retreat, which made the scolding soldiers shout in unison:

"The thief will die! Yuan Zongdi, you have no place to be buried, you have already fallen into Shen Futai's scheme! Huang Chuangzi is here to break your men and horses, burn your baggage carts and horses, so that you can't quickly return to Chen County!

Huang Chuangzi's cavalry, coming and going like the wind, waited until they arrived in Chen County, and attacked Shen Futai inside and outside, and they would kill the thieves! When the time comes, you won't even have a place to vote for the dog master! ”

These words are not all organized by Liang Yizhang, they are all gossiping, and they are completely scolding the fighters for playing freely according to the central idea, so they are also very scattered, with a mallet in the east and a mallet in the west.

After scolding the main idea, someone mentioned again that "Huang Degong made great contributions and saved the vassal king".

The soldiers below didn't take it seriously at first, but after about half an hour, the various channels gathered to Yuan Zongdi little by little, and he realized the problem.

"Huang Chuangzi is really here to save the kings? The information sent by Mr. Song was actually accurate? Didn't you get me? Huang Chuangzi wanted to break my men and horses first and drag me down, but he himself relied on the speed of the cavalry to rush to the main battlefield to attack together? ”

After Yuan Zongdi smoothed out the situation, he was also slightly afraid.

Actually, he didn't think of this possibility, but the key was that even if he vaguely thought of it, he could still bet on the soldiers under him, and the captains and brigades at all levels didn't know.

As long as the people below don't know, he can pretend to be a lake, and he doesn't have to go to Li Zicheng to learn from him, and he doesn't have to gnaw hard bones to fight a tough battle.

But now Liang Yizhang directly asked people to scold the array and pick out these words, which means that even the most mentally retarded grassroots officers in Yuan Zongdi's army know this.

If Yuan Zongdi is afraid to move forward and does not share his worries for King Chuang, he may be bitten and exposed by the people below in the future, and he will be liquidated by the Queen of the Autumn.

You can pretend to be an ostrich and pretend to be blind, but you can't know the law and break the law.

After thinking about this truth, Yuan Zongdi was also depressed. He knew that at the moment, he could only show that he was still very loyal to Li Zicheng and was willing to work hard for Li Zicheng.

"The whole army is back to the west! Pursue Huang Degong and reinforce King Chuang! Reinforcement of the main battlefield of Chen County! Give up attacking Shangqiu! Yuan Zongdi was reluctant, but on the surface, he gave this order solemnly.

Several henchmen also advised: "General, Huang Degong is a cavalryman, and he just won a battle against us, and now his morale is declining, and his baggage, chariots, and horses have also been burned and looted." Now in pursuit, our army will be seriously disjointed. ”

"These are minor issues! King Chuang has lured the main force of the official army out for a decisive battle, now that we know, how can we not go! I, Yuan Zongdi, are mainly loyal and righteous, and you are not allowed to persuade you! Whoever persuades is unfaithful! ”

As soon as these cruel words were put aside, after squeezing the half-hearted existence in the army, Yuan Zongdi was dismissed.

Of course, he also had a heart, and sent the most elm-headed troops under his command, the most directly loyal to Li Zicheng, and the difficult to encircle, to the front line, so that they could rush to the forefront to chase Huang Degong, and even gave them more priority to distribute more war horses.

Those Li Zicheng, who was relatively the most brainless, were loyal and unmatched. Then a day later, near Zhecheng County, he was defeated and lost by Huang Degong.

Several of the brigades that eventually led to Li Zicheng, as well as a captain, were all killed by Huang Degong.

Knowing the defeat of the former army, Yuan Zongdi changed his posture of marching in a hurry, became steady, gradually gathered the rout, and fought steadily: Look, it's not that we are not loyal to King Chuang, but we are too loyal and suffer losses. If you don't take it seriously, it's a big mistake to die halfway through, and you can't be loyal to King Chuang when you die.

After two days of marching, Huang Degong successfully returned to Chen County. Before arriving in Chen County, he also divided 3,000 cavalry to escort King Fu Lu to Xiangcheng further down Chen County.

At the same time, the scouts he sent in advance had already made contact with Liu Guoneng's department and the Shenjia Army Naval Division fleet outside Chen County. Naturally, they also divided their hands to receive this important chess piece.

As for the Shenshu people themselves, they couldn't notify them for the time being, because the Shenshu people were surrounded in Chen County, and the news was temporarily isolated. It's just that Shen Shuren didn't panic from beginning to end, even if he was surrounded, he didn't feel that he would be in danger at all.

Huang Degong inflicted a heavy blow on Yuan Zongdi, and also annihilated and forced the landing of two local peasant army forces in Henan, completely curbing Yuan Zongdi's attempt to help Li Zicheng raise food from Guide Mansion, so this battle has actually divided the winner and loser.