Chapter 143: Purging the Two Prefectures
Yongcheng's Chen Yantian was not idle.
The county hall was temporarily changed to a righteous hall, and the thieves who disturbed Gao and Lei Erzhou, except for the one who went to Gao County, gathered in the hall at this time, looking at the big boss sitting in the middle of the main hall.
Chen Yantian is also seriously looking at the brothers below.
Among them are old brothers who have followed him for many years at sea, and more are ordinary people who have just joined the team and want to make a living.
"It's been hard for everyone these days, Chen has the trust of his brothers, I'm really ashamed!"
"Don't be like that in the big boss! I will follow the big boss to eat and drink spicy food, come and go freely, and I have not lived in vain in this life! ”
"If the big boss has anything to say, please say it directly, I will wait for the water to go in the water, and the fire will go to the fire, and I will never frown!"
Everyone said in unison: "Big boss, please speak up, I will wait for everything!" ”
Chen Yantian choked up all of a sudden, and the seven-foot-tall man had red eyes!
"It's because I can't live with the brothers, and I can't earn a way for everyone to live! The imperial court was unwilling to recruit us and others, so it sent an army to suppress bandits, and last night the Zou Biao brothers and the three thousand brothers he brought with them had fallen in Daqingbao! ”
"What? The second master and the three thousand brothers have been planted? Didn't run out of a single mouth? ”
"Aren't the grandsons of Gao and Lei Erzhou so frightened that they can't shrink back? Where did the army come from with such ferocity? ”
"Why didn't the imperial court recruit us? I'm just trying to find a way to live! ”
Chen Yantian's heart was sour, the military advisor was right, once he embarked on this road, he couldn't turn back, if he couldn't make the court deeply jealous, he wouldn't have the bargaining chips to make peace with the court!
It's ridiculous that he has been procrastinating, always thinking that the emperor and the court will understand their difficulties, know that they are just hard-working people who want to find a way to live, will appease, will recruit peace, and will give them a way to live!
He has always controlled the rebel team in Gao and Lei, and never fought the idea of the two states, he was waiting, hoping to wait for the will of the imperial court to recruit peace.
It's a pity that things in this world never go their way. He waited for several months, but he still couldn't wait for the will of the imperial court to recruit peace, but the people who greeted them with smiling faces, from the beginning of seeing them as saviors to now fear them like beasts! Once the people who were originally weak and could be bullied put on armor and had minions, they immediately bullied those who were weaker than him a hundredfold!
When the voice in the lobby was quieter, Chen Yantian shouted loudly: "Big guy, be quiet, listen to me finish speaking!" ”
"Rather, I took the lead in creating it, and the sin is mine! Now that the imperial court is unwilling to recruit An, Chen is willing to use the head of the item to earn a way to live for the brothers! ”
"I die, my brothers live!"
Cai Xiuhu was the first to shout: "Big boss, no!" On that day, we waited for the promise that we would live and die together, how could we let you die alone, and we waited for us to live! ”
"Exactly, my righteous brothers must live and die together, and they will never live alone!"
"Now we still have the strength to fight, don't say frustrating words!"
"The court is unwilling to recruit peace, so we will enter Leizhou City, occupy the city as the king, live happily for several years, and not suffer in vain in the next life!"
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Listening to the chaotic voices below, Chen Yantian finally got a little comfort, and he said resolutely: "I have made up my mind, and the brothers don't need to persuade again!" Tomorrow, the official army will come to attack Yongcheng, and then I will surrender, and after I die, the court will definitely not kill them all, and all the brothers will live well in the future! ”
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Feilongwei repaired in Daqingbao for a day, and his spirit was better than before!
Wu Yang waited for a day, did not wait for Chen Yantian's team, at sunset, he ordered the whole army to feast, and attack Yongcheng and Gaoxian tomorrow!
Yongcheng is thirty miles away from Daqingbao and fifteen miles away from Gaoxian, and the state city of Gaozhou is located in between, both of which are twenty-five miles.
Early the next morning, Wu Yang ordered his troops and horses to make a surprise attack on Gao County, where a friendly army of Chen Yantian was stationed, about 1,000 people. He himself led the Long Meng army to attack Yongcheng, and ordered Feng Yujing and Zhao Gu to follow the army to fight the thieves, and Cai Liang, the commander of Leizhou who followed Zhao Gu, to hold Daqingbao with his team of 100 people.
Although Cai Liang was unwilling, he could only be ordered to stay.
Three cannon shots, the army departs!
There were still ten miles away from Yongcheng, and Lin Lang galloped over with a few brothers from the horse camp.
"Is there any movement from the thief?"
"Lord General, everything is as usual in Yongcheng, and the thief Chen has not gathered troops!"
Lin Lang also felt strange, and sent the master to report back to the thief named Heizi, Lin Lang knew that the general's move was nothing more than to provoke Chen Yantian to lead the men and horses to Daqingbao to rescue Zou Biao, if he went to the middle of the general's arms; If he does not go, there will be a rift among the thieves.
As far as he knew, this second-in-command was very prestigious among the bandits, and no matter how it was calculated, it was a surefire deal!
Unexpectedly, Chen Yantian did not get into the plan, but he did not wait for the battle, in the past, Chen Thief sent two sentries to patrol back and forth outside Yongcheng, but early this morning, these two patrols did not appear, and the guards on the city wall did not increase.
If Lin Lang hadn't personally probed it, Chen Yantian was indeed in the city, and he would have wondered if the imperial court would have made a mistake, Yongcheng and even Gao and Lei Erzhou would not have Chen Yantian at all, let alone such a powerful bandit!
Regarding the various speculations of the generals, Wu Yang only said one sentence: "Sooner or later, there will be a battle, and all the clowns who jump off the beam in front of the Flying Dragon Guard can only have one end in ashes!" ”
He ordered the army to continue to move forward, camped two miles outside Yongcheng, and ordered Xia Xiaoshu to rush to the back mountain of Yongcheng with Lin Lang to cut off Chen Yantian's back road!
When everything was ready, Wu Yang led the dragon army to set up a formation in front of Yongcheng, and Yao Guang took the lead to call the battle!
"Thief Chen, listen, the emperor personally sealed Huaihua Zhonglang will go to Wu and Yang to beg for thieves, and you will open the city gate and surrender quickly, Rao Er will not die!"
shouted for the third time, and the closed gate of Yongcheng slowly opened, and three people came out of the gate.
The man in the middle was naked, his hands were tied behind his back, and he was escorted by the left and right people and slowly walked towards Yao Guang.
Walking to a place about a shot away from Yao Guang, the man in the middle knelt down and shouted loudly on his back: "I am Chen Yantian, I don't know which one is General Wu Yang Wu?" Chen wants to beg for surrender to General Wu! ”
Hearing that the other party was Chen Yantian and wanted to surrender to Wu Yang, Yao Guang hurriedly avoided the side: "The general of my family is in front, if you really beg to surrender, I will take you to see my general after I verify that I am behind!" ”
The position of Chen Yantian and the three of them was between Yao Guang and the Yongcheng city wall, all within a shot of each other. At this time, countless heads appeared on the wall of Yongcheng, everyone had spears in their hands, bows and arrows were wound, obviously the guards tied up the boss of his family and turned around to attack them by surprise!
Yao Guang was not afraid at all, he stepped forward, carefully looked at Chen Yantian's face, and said to the three of them after confirming that it was correct: "Since you are really begging, I will not embarrass you, come with me!" ”
The people who followed Chen Yantian were the military advisor An Bijun and the third master Cai Xiuhu, and the three of them followed Yao Guangma and slowly went to Wu Yang's Chinese military tent.
Wu Yang's side took Yongcheng without a single soldier, and Chen Yantian and a group of thieves surrendered one after another. Over there, Changji and the dragoons were met with stubborn resistance in Gao County.
The leader of the bandits in Gao County is named Scar Lao Liu, he was originally a lone thief wandering in Gao and Lei Prefectures, with a bloody case on his back, and he has long been on the wanted list of the imperial court.
He is thoughtful, has a gloomy personality, and has always been at large!
After Chen Yantian made a fuss, the momentum grew stronger and stronger, and Scar Lao Liu thought that the opportunity had come and joined Chen Yantian's team.
Because he was not afraid of death and was decisive, he soon gained prestige in the team and was named the "Four Masters". Scar Lao Liu is different from Chen Yantian and others, he knows that a Jiangyang thief like him who has several lives on his body, even if he accepts the Zhao'an court, he will never let him go.
In his own words: "What kind of prince will Xiangning have? Why can the emperor and the dignitaries of the imperial court be able to delicate the mountains and seas, silk and satin, and we will be hungry and hungry? If you want to make trouble, you have to make a big fuss, you can't grab the country, you can't be the emperor, you don't want to occupy Leizhou City, and you will be the emperor for a few days? ”
Scar Lao Liu is extremely ruthless, no matter rich or poor, he basically does not leave a living mouth, he and Chen Yantian can't pee in the same pot, so he simply takes a cadre of people who support him to occupy Gao County, and fights against Chen Yantian!
Changji led the dragoon army to attack Gaoxian, and the smoke and dust raised by the horse's hooves alarmed Scar Lao Liu, and he immediately gathered men and horses, closed the city gate, and waited for it!
The walls of Gao County are five or six feet long, and the dragoons did not carry siege equipment, but this is not difficult for the pirate-born dragoons.
They stood on horseback, threw out hooks, lassoed the battlements on the city wall, the head of the man tied the wrist with a sleeve arrow, the back of the big knife, the brother under the cover with a crossbow, the first round of volley, taking advantage of the city wall bandits to dodge, the dragoon soldiers in charge of the city grabbed the long rope a few swings, turned over to the city, the wrist sleeve arrows together, shot down a batch first, casually pulled out the big knife behind the back and the bandits for a white-knuckle battle, the dragoon soldiers under the city wall took advantage of this gap, and already came up again.
Since the incident, these bandits have been fighting against the wind, how many times have they ever seen officers and soldiers who are more desperate than them and are not afraid of death?
The bandits guarding the city had no intention of fighting, and after leaving dozens of corpses, they fled to the city tower.
Part of the dragoon soldiers pursued the bandits, part of them turned the winch, opened the city gate, and Changji, who was waiting outside the city, waved his knife and led the cavalry into the area, chasing the bandits all over the ground!
Scar Lao Liu also rushed out with the bandits under his hand, how could he rush out of the encirclement and pursuit of the cavalry? He was also brave, and when he saw that he couldn't escape, he simply turned around and came back for a desperate fight: "My head has fallen off a bowl and a big scar, I'm afraid of a ball!" If you don't want to die, kill me! Fight your way out! ”
Most of the more than 1,000 bandits in Gao County are ruthless-hearted, and after listening to Scar Lao Liu's words, they immediately reflexively started a fight with the dragoons!
They all have hideous faces, fierce looks, and their subordinates are also ruthless! It's a pity that what they encountered was a group of pirates, and they were also the masters of licking blood from the edge of the knife, in terms of martial arts and ruthlessness, the two sides were half a catty! Helplessly, the dragoons relied on the advantage of horses, and only a few rushed back and forth, and the more than 1,000 bandits in Gao County had already died.
The people around Scar Lao Liu fell one by one, and in the end, he was the only one left in the empty field. The dragoons surrounded him in the center, the tips of their spears pointed diagonally at him.
Changji had already put the knife back into its sheath, and pointed the spear in his hand forward: "Scar, abandon your weapon and surrender, spare you from death!" ”
Seeing that the general trend had gone, Scar Lao Liu sighed, leaned down and was about to put the knife down, and when he didn't let go, he suddenly bowed down and exerted his strength, and rushed in the direction of Changji, and the knife flashed, and he was about to cut off the horse's feet!
Nagayoshi shouted, "Good coming! ”
As soon as he picked up the tip of his gun, a bloody mark appeared on the wrist of the sixth scar holding the knife, and he screamed in pain, and the knife in his hand fell off his hand and fell to the ground. The tip of Changji's spear was clicked again, "poof", and a bloody hole was pierced in Scar's shoulder.
Scar Lao Liu's face suddenly turned pale, beads of sweat rolled on his face, he gritted his teeth and picked up the waist knife on the ground and swung it towards Changji's calf!
If this knife goes down, Changji's leg will definitely not be saved!
Changji sneered: "Look for death!" ”
The spear swung, and the body of the gun "snapped" into the cheek of Scar Six, and Scar Six's head suddenly deviated, and several teeth mixed with blood foam spurted out of his mouth.
Taking advantage of the fact that the sixth man with the scar was staggered, Changji slammed his back with a spear, and he immediately knelt down!
Scar Lao Liu still struggled to get up, and the tip of Changji's gun was already pointed at his throat: "Tie up!" ”
In this battle, Changji led the dragoon army to behead 800, captured 320 people, and captured one of the bandit leaders, Scar Lao Liu, a complete victory!
Wu Yang led the Feilongwei to reach Gao and Lei Erzhou in less than three days, not only completely wiped out the bandits led by Chen Yantian, but also captured the four bandit leaders from Chen Yantian to death.
The military report of the victory came to Lin'an, and the emperor was overjoyed, and immediately promoted Wu Yang to the general of Yunlu, and ordered him to lead his troops to Kunshan Huangyuduo to search for the bandits in the Cao Gang.