This traitor in Yiyang County is very interesting, the leader is called Zhang Xing, originally the lieutenant of Yiyang County, his mother, once made a concubine for Lao Qi Dugu, but he is not Dugucheng's son, it is equivalent to Dugu accepting a widow with an oil bottle.

When Dugu was alive, he was a general of the left and right houses, and he was very capable, and Yiyang County belonged to Henan County, which was originally the territory of Dugu's family, and arranged a county lieutenant to sprinkle water.

This kid didn't plan to rebel, but took his subordinates to secretly open the official warehouse, smuggled a batch of grain out and sold it at a high price in the city.

The first thing Yujuluo did after coming to Luoyang was to count the official warehouses in various places and count how much grain there was.

Zhang Xing had no choice, he knew that it was a capital crime, so he ran out of the city with twenty accomplices, gathered a group of refugees in the nearby township, and started to rob homes and houses.

This is not a peasant uprising, and the peasant uprising does not bear this pot.

Yang Xuanting's brothers, these are all battle-hardened, murderous and unblinking guys, after arriving at Bears Ears Mountain, they found that the road up the mountain was not easy to walk, so they simply set a fire and burned several mountains.

It's winter, and the first snow hasn't fallen yet, so the dry branches are almost a little bit.

Zhang Xing had no choice but to lead the crowd down the mountain, otherwise they would be choked to death on the top of the mountain.

They can't even get together fifty weapons, don't look at them There are nearly 2,000 people, after going down the mountain, as soon as they see Xuan Ting's equipment, they know that they have encountered the elite regular army, and they don't dare to fight, so they flee in all directions.

If they can't escape, they don't have horses.

Nearly 2,000 human heads were built outside Yiyang County.

"A county lieutenant who has broken the law can gather nearly 2,000 people in two months, which shows how easily civilians can be bewitched," Yang Xuanting sat on his horse and sighed.

If you want to say that he has any mercy, in fact, he doesn't have it, it's just that it's too easy to kill, almost unarmed civilians, and even women, so he sighs a little.

Yang Xuanzong pursed his lips: "What is this, you saw the Wagang gang, you know what the chaotic people are, you know that they are bewitched, but if you persuade them, they will not listen, only kill, why did the prince let us not stay alive, it is because the more you kill, the more they will be afraid, fear makes people retreat, and Huairou is useless." ”

"There are really 100,000 people in Wagang?" Yang Xuanting said: "I don't believe it all along. ”

Yang Xuanzong laughed: "Now it's only a lot more, you recruit 100,000 soldiers, and you can't recruit them, but it's very easy to lure 100,000 civilians, especially now that these civilians have no way to live, if they rebel, they can still eat food for a few days, and they all live a day." ”

"Such a rabble is not to be feared," Yang Xuan said.

Yang Xuan sighed: "It's not enough to be afraid, but if you kill too much, you will be afraid." ”

"That's impossible, I've followed the prince to fight Tuyuhun, Goguryeo, and Turks, and I've never seen a dead person?" Yang Xuanting said with a smile.

Yang Xuanzong said: "Maybe we are pampered, we have lived a lot of peaceful days, and we are not as ruthless as the older generation, and the corpses of soldiers all over the ground and the corpses of civilians everywhere give people a different feeling." ”

Yang Xuanting was stunned for a moment and fell into deep thought.

Four days later, Pei Xingyan and Shi Huaiyi and their troops passed by here, saw the Jingguan built by those people's heads, and continued to march towards Luoyang without making any stops.

Xingyang County, Qu Tutong is now sitting here, and Yang Qingzhi, the king of Hedong Taishouxun, has completely become an ornament.

Zhai Rang first caused the disaster around Xingyang, and now the rebels in Shandong are coming here like a sea of mountains.

Pei Changcai, Shi Zihe, Guo Fangpre, Qin Junhong, Zuo Xiaoyou, Lu Xingxing, Shuai Rentai, Huo Xiaohan, Wu Hailiu, Han Jinluo, Zhen Baoche, Xu Yuanlang, Du Yanbing, Li Deyi, Peng Xiaocai, a total of 15 anti-thieves, a total of 180,000 troops passed through Dongjun and approached Xingyang.

Why don't they go to the south? Because Du Fuwei and Li Zitong went to the south, why didn't they go to Hebei? Because there are also many anti-thieves in Hebei.

Everyone is now in the early stage of entrepreneurship, between the anti-thief and the anti-thief, there is no contradiction, and there is no fighting, you are poor and have lost your pants, what's the point of me fighting you?

In the future, after the formation of secession, they will compete for territory with each other, and the immediate task is to solve the problem of food and clothing.

During the Northern Expedition, Shandong Guancang was almost requisitioned, and now it has been looted by various anti-thieves, there is no surplus grain, the landlord's family has it, but these anti-thieves did not rob the landlord, but went straight to Luoyang, the granary of the world.

Why not rob the landlords? The wealthy families all have their own private armies, and they are so scattered that they are not easy to fight, and they are discussing with the rebels.

If you don't touch me, I'll give you food, and if you move me, we'll fight and we'll be done."

You can get some food without doing it, so why do it?

After all, they are bandits, and they still can't play with their brains, so they told them that Luoyang had endless food, so they came to fight Luoyang.

The blockage of news and knowledge has led to many people not knowing what Luoyang is like, and when they finally saw Luoyang and didn't dare to fight, they had to fight.

Although many of the thieves had participated in the construction of the Eastern Capital, they did not know what Luoyang's city defense system was like.

Qu Tutong didn't want to give up Xingyang, and the old Zheng family wouldn't allow him to give up, but it was not easy to keep, there were less than 10,000 people in total, and the anti-thieves on the opposite side were everywhere, and they were still pulling all kinds of banners, although there was no formation, but Qu Tutong could roughly judge that it must be more than 100,000.

The estimated number of people on the battlefield is according to the flag, each regiment and brigade has its own flag, and you can guess it by looking at the flag, but the anti-thieves on the opposite side, the flag is too chaotic.

Among the thieves, many of them have served in the military and understand this rule, but in a short time, they cannot be equipped with these things necessary for the march, so the flags are chaotic, and they only look at the scene, and they also know that they are a rabble.

"There are too many thieves, so we should retreat to the Tiger Prison Pass and Xingluo Cang to refuse, reduce casualties, and wait for reinforcements," Qu Tutong said, standing on the wall of Xingyang City.

Zheng Xu, the prince of Jinxiang County, was dissatisfied: "Xingyang Gaocheng has a deep pool, there is a moat outside, and the Wagang thieves can't be defeated, and the Shandong thieves can't be beaten either." ”

He is the uncle of Zheng Shanguo, the secretary of Dali Temple, Zheng Yuanshou, the deputy head of the left guard of the East Palace, the third brother of Zheng Yi, the prince of Peiguo, and the head of the Zheng family in Xingyang.

Qu Tutong's son Qu Tushou sneered: "Everyone has been here for three days, and they are surrounded but not fighting, it is obvious that they are going to consume us, if we don't move, the thieves will bypass Xingyang and go to fight Xingluocang behind them, for today's plan, that is, to garrison Xingluo, and then block the enemy's westward march with a tiger,"

There are only 3,000 guards in Xingluocang now, and they can't bear these hungry people who are shining, and there are at least three million stone of grain stored in the warehouse, which must not be lost.

Qu Tutong knew that his troops were limited, so he wanted to use it in the most critical place, otherwise he would be disabled in Xingyang, how could he retreat to Xingluocang?

Losing Xingyang is a small matter, and losing Xingluocang is fatal.

"Gao Jin led 3,000 people and camped thirty miles west of the city, and he must keep an eye on the direction of Xingluocang," Qu Tutong arranged.

At present, the thieves in Shandong are all hoarded to the east of Xingyang, and they do not go any further, because they can't figure out how many defenders there are in Xingyang, and they dare not recklessly attack the city, nor dare they dare to bypass it.

That's why in ancient times, wars were always fought city by city, if you don't fight down, but choose to bypass, the garrison in the city can hang behind your ass and chase and fight, the biggest taboo in the march is that the enemy is not in front, in the back.

Li Deyi's side, relying on the strength of the crowd, began to attack the city the next day.

There were no siege equipment, so they could only take human lives, and the improvised ladder to cross the river was carried on their shoulders, and the forward troops were the first to storm the city walls.

After a few rounds of the rain of arrows, only a few hundred died, and they were scared back.

This is the fragile alliance relationship, the fifteen-way anti-thief, nominally respects Li Deyi as the boss, but no one wants to be cannon fodder, so in the first round of siege, for the sake of fairness, each family sent a thousand people.

Who is in command of this?

Li Deyi and others also saw the drawbacks, so they used the most earthy method to catch lots, and whoever caught it would attack the city.

Guo Fang was caught.

"My soldier shield is missing, the siege casualties are too great, didn't Xu Shuai rob the armory of the two counties? You lend me some and pay it back to you when you run out," Guo Fang said in the temporary tent.

Xu Yuanlang suddenly raised his eyebrows: "My little weapon was also exchanged for the lives of the brothers, and now I am lending it, I promise, but the brothers do not agree." ”

"I am willing to lose the bet, Guo Shuai is also a hero, the result has been out, the handsome man is here, you can't be allowed to deny it," Zuo Xiaoyou said.

For these people, the soldiers under their hands are the root of their lives, if the loss is too great, it is easy to be swallowed up by others, and their fate will not be much better at that time, so although Guo Fangzhen caught it, he was still a little unhappy.

Because at the beginning, he thought that fifteen people would draw lots, not necessarily because I caught them, but the matter fell out of his mind, and he regretted it.

Li Deyi clapped his hand and said: "The military order is like a mountain, tomorrow morning, Guo Shuai will lead the headquarters to attack the city, and the other roads will assist from the side, as long as Xingyang is laid, Xingluocang is our bag, and if there is no food, we don't need officers and soldiers to kill us, we will be in chaos first." ”

Guo Fangyu sighed helplessly and nodded, if he dared to refuse, the other fourteen people might send him on his way.

And the reason why Li Deyi is respected as the marshal is because the uncle's army under his command is the most powerful, and only 30,000 people have brought Xingyang, but in Shandong, there are still 30,000 people.

Li Deyi also knew in his heart that these people had their own ghosts, and respecting him as handsome was just a temporary attachment, and whoever would rise to power in the future would break away or even replace him.

Then if he wants to bring these people together, the best way is to consume others and protect himself.

My soldiers will not be sent out easily.