Chapter 132: Both sides lose
The generals present were Ningbo Army Pioneer Meng Ge - Taizhou Guard General Yuan Bin - Shaoxing Guard General Niu Yongnian - Southern Frontier Army Captain Changjin - Alan County Militia Commander Li Yang, the generals of each army sat in two rows around a rectangular table, and on the table was a map of the whole territory of Changwei made of sheepskin, and there were several small wooden bumps on the map that were the seats of the allied forces and the rebels deploying troops
The general sitting on the left is Ningbo pioneer Meng Ge - Shaoxing guard general Niu Yongnian, and sitting on the right is the commander of the Ducai Captain - Taizhou General Yuanbin - Alan County militia leader Li Yang, Niu Yongnian sat opposite me, his eyes were round, looking at me viciously, I leaned back on the chair and stared at Niu Yongnian intently, after looking at each other for a while, he looked at Meng Ge, I sneered, and scolded a sb in my heart
At this time, the guards outside the camp tent shouted "The general has arrived", and the generals of the various armies sat up straight and became serious after hearing this, and as the curtain of the camp tent was lifted, the general Lei Qi walked in, he glanced at the generals who were seated, walked to the table, went to the handsome chair, threw the saber he carried on the table, and the atmosphere instantly became tense
Lei Cai pressed his hands on the table and looked at the map: Tell me how many more armies you have in your hands right now
Meng Ge: The general Ningbo army still has 6,800 soldiers, all of whom are deployed in the area of Mengding Mountain
Yuan Bin: There are still more than 5,000 troops in the Taizhou Army's combatable strength deployed in the area of Turtle Mountain
Niu Yongnian: The Shaoxing Army still has 2,500 combatable troops deployed in the area of Eagle Mountain
Li Yang: There are still 5,800 soldiers of the Alan County militia who can fight in the area of Tianqingshan
Lei Qi looked at the map and pondered for a while: Taizhou guard Yuan Bin
"The Last Will Be"
Lei Cai: Order you to select 4,000 soldiers from the Taizhou army to be stationed in the Mengdingshan camp
"The Last General Commands"
Lei Qi: Shaoxing guard Niu Yongnian
"The Last Will Be"
Lei Cai: I order you to draw 1,500 people from the Shaoxing army and station them in the Mengding Mountain camp
"The Last General Commands"
Lei Qi: Ningbo Pioneer Meng Ge
"The Last Will Be"
Lei Cai: Order you to draw 4,500 troops from the Ningbo army to fight the war
"The Last Will Do Duty"
Lei Qi: Tell me how many days you have enough food and grass to last
Yuan Bin: The grain and grass of the Taizhou army can last for 12 days
Niu Yongnian: The grain and grass of the Shaoxing army can last for 10 days
Meng Ge: Ningbo's military grain and grass can last for 15 days
Li Yang: The grain and grass of the Alan County militia can last for 18 days
Three days later, you led your troops with the 10,000 main force of the southern border guards to take the Lion Rock area, drove the rebels entrenched here to the area of Changling Mountain and Huangguling, blocked the rebels here, choked the throat of Chang Weiguo, forced the rebels to fight a decisive battle with us, and smashed the rebels in one fell swoop
"It's a great general"
After Lei Qi finished assigning their respective tasks, he looked at me: The Alan County militia held the Tianqingshan camp to prevent the rebels from entering Taizhou Mansion in the west
"The grass people obey orders"
Yuan Bin: After the last battle with the rebels, the Taizhou army used the weapons of the general were seriously damaged, and he urgently needed to replenish 500 steel knives, 600 spears, 300 shields, 400 sets of armor, 300 bows, and 50,000 arrows
Niu Yongnian: The general suffered heavy losses in the first battle of Huangguling, and the Shaoxing army needed to replenish 500 steel swords, 500 spears, 200 shields, and 100 sets of armor
Meng Ge: The Ningbo Army also needs to replenish nearly 2,000 people with ordnance and equipment, and if it is too late to transport ordnance and equipment from Ningbo Prefecture
Lei Cai: The place closest to here belongs to Taizhou City, generals, you go back and prepare, I'll find a way to solve the ordnance matter
The generals in the camp were about to get up and leave, Niu Yongnian suddenly stopped them: Wait a minute, generals, don't be in a hurry to leave, it just so happens that the generals and several people are taking this opportunity today I will tell you one thing
Lei Qi: What's the matter with General Niu?
Niu Yongnian stood up and pointed his finger at me: Li Yang, the commander of the Alan County People's League, the general, fornicated with the rebels, and met with his subordinates and the Shaoxing army to fight each other in public
Lei Qi looked at Niu Yongnian and then at me: What the hell is going on
Niu Yongnian: When the general Shaoxing army was besieged by Lion Rock, he captured a thousand barbarian Jiang rebels, but Li Yang didn't know what means he used to get through the heavy encirclement of the rebels, and after arriving at Lion Rock, he instructed his subordinates to release the more than 1,000 rebels, and the Shaoxing army refused to allow his subordinates to condone his subordinates to fight each other with the Shaoxing saber, Li Yang He didn't talk about martial arts, and suddenly attacked me when I was unprepared, and punched Shangguan in public
Lei Qi looked at Yuan Bin: It's really as he said
Yuan Bin: General Hui does have this, but let Li Yang say the reason for this
Ray sat back in his chair and leaned back: Tell me what the hell was going on
Li Yang bowed to several generals: the militia led by the Hui general Caomin was lucky to capture 5,000 barbarian Jiang people when they fought with the rebels, and after the main force of the coalition army was defeated by Huangguling, the commander Mengang-Gongzi Mengying and 2,000 Ningbo troops were captured by the rebels, and the Shaoxing army and the Taizhou army retreated to the Lion Rock area after being surrounded by the rebels
Before the reinforcements arrived, the coalition army was powerless, in order to prevent the remnants of the Shaoxing army, the remnants of Taizhou and the captured Ningbo army from losing their lives in vain, the prefect allowed me to exchange 5,000 barbarian Jiang captives with the leader of the barbarian ginger for the captured soldiers and the besieged coalition soldiers
The grass people and the leader of the barbarian Jiang agreed to exchange three captives for two coalition soldiers, but after the prisoners on the grass hand were replaced by the besieged coalition soldiers, it was not enough to exchange the captured Ningbo army, and the situation was critical, and I am afraid that if you don't release these captives, the Manjiang rebels will not let you leave Lion Rock
Niu Yongnian: Why do you say that the prisoners captured by the Shaoxing army will be released
Li Yang: If you don't let them go, can you sit here now, the Shaoxing Army, the Taizhou Army, and the Ningbo Army are all coalition forces, and they can't care about the life or death of the 2,000 Ningbo soldiers
Niu Yongnian: Don't tell me this, with these thousand captives in their hands, the barbarian Jiang people don't dare to attack easily
Li Yang: If you want to say that, General Niu, then how good it would be for you to stay in Lion Rock when you didn't come back
Lei Qi raised his hand and slapped it on the table, only to hear a "bang" Li Yang and Niu Yongnian quieted down at once: how many coalition soldiers did he exchange from the rebels
Yuan Bin: The generals Taizhou Army and Shaoxing Army withdrew 2,500 men from Lion Rock, and together with the more than 1,800 Ningbo Army released by the rebels, he returned a total of 4,300 men
Li Yang: If General Niu hadn't tortured and killed 234 barbarian Jiang people, the 234 Ningbo soldiers would not have been killed by the rebels
Thunder Rider: Then what happened to you?
Li Yang: General Niu and the Shaoxing army tortured and killed the barbarian Jiang people and defiled women and children, and even the younger brother and daughter-in-law of the grass people were almost killed by him, as the saying goes, the eldest brother is the father, he dares to bully the grass people's family, and the grass people taught him a lesson, it is because of people like him who are the people of Guanchang to defend the country and the people will raise troops to make a rebellion, and the defeat of the coalition army in Huangguling is also caused by General Niu's escape, otherwise General Meng and Gongzi will not be captured by the rebels
Niu Yongnian's face turned white instantly: General, don't listen to his nonsense
Lei Qi looked at him with a smile: You see that you want me to break this lawsuit for you, then you have to let me know what's going on
Meng Ge was a little excited when he heard this, and he grabbed my clothes: What the hell is going on, you can explain it
Li Yang: When the grass people asked about the battle of Huangguling, even if the battle did not go well, the two would not end up being captured, General Meng personally told me that because of General Niu's greed for merit, the rebels were ambushed in Huangguling, and General Niu sent someone to ask General Meng for help, and General Meng immediately led troops to support after learning about this
General Meng and Gongzi led the troops to fight to the death with the rebels to enter the encirclement and the Shaoxing army to make peace, as long as the Ningbo army and the Shaoxing army fought steadily and steadily, they could break out of the encirclement together, but just made a gap, General Niu actually led his troops to run away regardless of the safety of the Ningbo army and General Meng, which caused the Ningbo army to fall into a deep siege, and General Meng and Gongzi were captured by the rebels
Meng Ge then let go of his hand: this is true
Li Yang: If General Meng doesn't believe me, you can ask the Ningbo soldiers who were released, and when I come back, General Meng asked me to tell you to treat the families of those fallen soldiers well
Meng Ge: Brother, do you have anything else for you to tell me?
Li Yang shook his head at him slightly, and Meng Ge's emotions became more and more excited: You have been to the Manjiang Capital and met your brother-yes, you know where your brother is locked up
Meng Ge grabbed my hand: You take me and the Ningbo army to the Manjiang capital to rescue the general and the son
Li Yang: General Meng, General Meng, and Gongzi don't have to worry too much about their lives for the time being, if you rashly lead troops there, it will hurt their father and son
Lei Cai: General Meng, he is right, if you want to save Meng Ang and Meng Ying, you have to think long-term
Meng Ge grabbed Niu Yongnian's collar and swung his fist to beat him: You bastard brother led troops to support you, but you only cared about your own safety and escaped, Lao Tzu, I will teach you a lesson today as an ungrateful villain
Seeing that the two were about to fight, Yuan Bin and Changjin hurriedly ran over to pull the two of them apart, Lei Qi saw that this matter could not be solved in a sentence or two sentences, and when the war was imminent, I could still use these people or offend them, and the most important thing was to twist these people into a rope to defeat the rebels: General Ben is here to lead troops to quell the rebellion, not to cut off who is who has to be for you, this is not how much you yourself will fight in the nest first, see if you can defeat the rebels in the way you are now, I put my words here in this battle, no matter what his official residence is, whether he is in office or not, today it is discussed, you all go back and prepare, and let the brothers have a good rest while there are still a few days
"It's a great general"
Lei Cai only used three words to solve a thorny dispute, the generals of each army left the camp and then set off to return to their respective stations, Li Yang carried a pair of small hands to lead the horse and hummed a little song in his mouth leisurely walked on the mountain road, at this time there was a sudden sound of horse hooves behind him, Li Yang dragged the horse to the side of the road, looked up and saw that it was the general Lei Qi who came on horseback
Li Yang held the reins of the horse and bowed to Lei Cai: The grass people have seen the general
Lei Qi: Okay, no outsiders get up
Li Yang: General, you are
Lei Qi: I'm going to Tianqingshan Camp to meet my old friend Sun Yuanwu for a while, you are more familiar with this area than me and lead the way in front
Li Yang: The mountain road in front of the general is not very easy to ride a horse, and he can get off the horse and walk
Lei Qi jumped off the horse as soon as he jumped: You kid is really not worry-free, that Niu Yongnian is also a five-grade official, your kid said that he would fight too lawlessly
Li Yang: If the general were to beat him up once, what this thief would do was simply indignant and unbearable
Lei Qi: Niu Yongnian, I've heard a little that person is not very good, if he doesn't give him a satisfactory explanation of this matter, he won't give up
Li Yang: The grass people are willing to be dealt with by the general
Lei Qi: If you dare to be a man, Niu Yongnian's fight is not a big deal, but you have to suffer some hardships to be convincing
Li Yang pursed his lips and nodded, and then he walked in front of Lei Qi and knelt on the ground: The general forgives the grass people for their courage, and the grass people are willing to ask the general to uphold justice for the 100,000 barbarian Jiang people of Chang Weiguo
Lei Qi was confused by his action: what the hell is this
Li Yang kowtowed to the ground: The general's rebellion against Chang Weiguo this time was caused by the collusion and persecution of corrupt officials and profiteers, and the former county order of Xiangshan County made a clever seizure of tens of thousands of Li people without land to cultivate, shielded profiteers and monopolized the goods obtained by Chang Weiguo at extremely low prices, and profiteered in order to make huge profits
Chang Weiguo's people who went to Ningbo Mansion to report to the government also have no return, Chang Weiguo raised troops this time to get back justice for the people of Barbarian, and the county commander of Xiangshan County dared to oppress the people so blatantly, there must be a high-ranking and powerful person behind him to support him
Lei Qi's eyebrows furrowed when he heard this: I didn't expect that Chang Weiguo would have such a secret in his rebellion, so how did you know about it
Li Yang: When the general Caomin sent an envoy to the capital of Chang Weiguo, he was curious about why Chang Weiguo suddenly rebelled, so the leader of Manjiang told the grass people about the reason for this army and their unfair encounter
Lei Qi: The words of the brute ginger may not be credible
Li Yang: The words of the general Manjiang are true or false, and it will be known by sending someone to find out, according to Meng Ang, when the rebels attacked Xiangshan County, a wounded soldier escaped by luck, and it was he who brought the news of Chang Weiguo's rebellion to the Ningbo General's Mansion, and this wounded soldier is now injured in the Ningbo Army, and he may know something, and the appeal of the Manjiang people is nothing more than to seek justice
Lei Qi's face became a little ugly: I know
Li Yang: As long as the general can convince the barbarian Jiang people and send envoys to appease them, he can avoid this battle and save the lives of thousands of soldiers
Lei Qi's face was completely gloomy, and he said impatiently: I said I know
Seeing the displeasure on Lei Qi's face, Li Yang didn't dare to say anything, so he had to lead the way quietly in front, and the two returned to Tianqingshan camp without saying a word, when I led Lei Qi to the big tent, he arched his hands as soon as he saw Lord Sun: Brother Yuanwu, don't come unharmed
Sun Yuanwu returned the salute: Please forgive me for the general's personal visit to the lower officials
Then Sun Yuanwu invited Lei Qi to sit down on a chair and instructed me to let me pour a cup of tea for the general and him, Lei Qi looked around: Brother Yuan Wu This time I led the troops to quell the rebellion just came to see you, Brother Yuan Wu has been fine recently
Sun Yuanwu: The general came to see me to go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, and if you have anything to say about the relationship between you and me, you might as well say it directly
Lei Qi raised his head and laughed, "Haha" The person who knows me is Brother Yuanwu, I do have one thing I want to ask Brother Yuanwu for help
Sun Yuanwu looked afraid: As long as you don't borrow military pay from me, it's easy to say anything
Lei Qi waved his hand: Brother Yuanwu, don't worry, I'm not here to borrow military salaries
As he spoke, he took out a list from his sleeve and handed it to Sun Yuanwu: This time I came in a hurry, and the big war is imminent, I want to borrow some ordnance from you
Sun Yuanwu took the list and looked at it, and the whole person was instantly stunned: How could you ask for so much
Lei Qi: It's too late to transfer time from Shaoxing and Ningbo, Brother Yuanwu can only ask you to help think of a way
Sun Yuanwu looked reluctant: I can make it up for you, but you have to set up a note for me, if you don't admit it, I have a piece of evidence
Lei Qi: Brother Yuanwu, do you still use a written note for our relationship?
Sun Yuanwu: My brother still has to settle accounts, and black and white are the most reliable
Lei Qi: Brother Yuanwu, you know my personality very well, if I don't have these weapons, you will look for him
Lei Qi looked at Sun Yuanwu with a cunning look, Sun Yuanwu raised his hand with a smile and twisted his beard: As long as there are people, everyone is still the same
Lei Qi and Sun Yuanwu's operation made Li Yang stunned: General, let me pay back what you borrowed from Lord Sun, it's a bit unreasonable
Lei Qi took a sip of tea: There is no such thing as pie in the sky in this world, I will help you solve Niu Yongnian's affairs, and these will be paid, go and let people prepare some wine and food, and today I will have a few drinks with Brother Yuanwu
Three days later, in the early morning, the general Lei cavalry ordered 20,000 troops, with the main force of 10,000 of the southern frontier army as the vanguard and commanded by the commander of the capital cavalry, 4,000 Taizhou troops and 1,500 Shaoxing troops as the left army commanded by Yuanbin-Niu Yongnian, and 4,500 Ningbo troops as the right army commanded by the vanguard Meng Ge, and the 20,000 army launched a comprehensive attack on the rebels in the Lion Rock area
The first to fight with the rebels was Changjin led 10,000 border guards, it took less than an hour for the border guards to kill more than 2,000 rebels, and the border guards only lost less than 500 people, the border guards all the way to fight the long knife will kill an enemy wherever they go, the rebels stationed in Lion Rock could not withstand the all-round onslaught of the coalition forces and were forced to retreat to the area of Huangguling
After fully occupying the area around Lion Rock, General Lei Qiqin led 20,000 troops to set up a battle in the area of Changling Mountain-Huangguling, and the main force of 30,000 rebels led by King Acha Lan also set up a battle along the area of Changling Mountain-Huangguling, and the two armies launched a decisive battle in this area
At the beginning of the battle, the coalition army had the advantage of being unable to be injured by heavy enemy arrows, and after paying the price of 3-4,000 men, Ah Cha ordered the men to fight and retreat, and introduced the coalition army into the dense forest of Xiangshan, after climbing two mountains, the border guards in heavy armor showed fatigue, and the rebels in bamboo armor came and went more freely in the forest
Ah Cha Lan is to seize this weakness to lure the enemy deep, taking advantage of the enemy's fatigue to launch a counterattack to reverse the unfavorable situation, and Ah Cha Lan's number one general Sanji single-handedly fought with the general Lei Cai for more than 20 rounds, and then Lei Qi slashed him on the arm before he retreated, and Ah Cha Lan's second general Dorjee and Du Cai Captain Changjin fought on the horse is inseparable, this battle has been fought from day to night, and the two sides have to pay their troops
According to post-war statistics, the allied forces suffered nearly 6,000 casualties on this day alone, while the southern border guards suffered the largest casualties of more than 3,000 people, the Taizhou Army and the Ningbo Army suffered casualties of about 1,000 people, and the Shaoxing Army only had less than 500 people left after this battle, while the casualties of the Manjiang rebels were conservatively estimated to be about 10,000 people, and this battle was undoubtedly a defeat for both sides