On the second day when Wang Yuan led his troops north to aid Zhang Jun, the main scouts of the Western Army spread to sixty li, especially in the direction of Zhangqiu and Xinshizhen, and a large number of scouts were dispatched.

At the same time, under the command of Yang Weizhong, the Western Army once again launched a fierce attack on Licheng.

The intention is to take Licheng before the decisive battle with the Qingzhou army.

However, the two battle reports that came one after another shocked the generals of the Western Army.

20,000 Western troops were ambushed, Dutong Wang Yuan was captured, and only 3,200 people escaped!

The Taining Army and the Taiping Army were counterattacked and sniped ten miles outside Jieshou Town, and the commander of the Taining Army was killed in battle, and the forbidden army was defeated!

"Zhang Jun is in danger!"

In the main tent, Yang Weizhong's face changed drastically, and he muttered to himself.

There are 10,000 Black Mountain thieves in the new town, plus the Qingzhou army, Zhang Jun will definitely be defeated.

As soon as Zhang Jun was defeated, the Qingzhou army could divide its troops to Yucheng and cut off their retreat.

At the same time, the forbidden army that rushed to the aid was also defeated, and everyone in Dongping and Xiqing was in danger.

The first town of the retreat route to the south was also stuck by the anti-thieves.

Liang Fangping's eyes were frightened, and he scolded sharply: "Yang Weizhong, it is precisely because of your stubbornness and stubbornness that Wang Yuan's army was defeated. ”

He was really scared now.

I thought that this appointment as the head of the two roads to quell the rebellion was a gilded trip.

In fact, it was true at the beginning, in the face of Gao Tuoshan and Zhang Di's generals, the Western Army was like a heavenly soldier and a god general, and the suppression of the rebellion was as easy as chopping melons and vegetables.

You only need to sit in the rear, eat and drink, have fun, and make money by the way, and the credit will fall into your hands.

However, everything has changed since coming to Jinan.

The Montenegrin thieves were strong, with more than 10,000 people, guarding a small new town, and they actually withstood the offensive of the army on the left.

The Qingzhou Army, which suddenly appeared, was even more fierce, causing the Western Army to be defeated repeatedly.

“……”

Yang Weizhong was silent and did not defend.

Seeing that Liang Fangping was going too far, and was about to shift all the blame to Yang Weizhong alone, Han Shizhong couldn't see it, and said loudly: "Chief Liang, the plan to help was discussed by the generals together, why is this?" ”

"Presumptuous!"

Xin Xingzong shouted loudly and reprimanded angrily: "Just a mere Bingyilang, how dare you make a big statement, do you have a part in the White Tiger Hall?" ”

"......"

Han Shizhong was suddenly furious, new hatred and old hatred surged into his heart together, and he was about to speak, but was stopped by Yang Weizhong: "Good minister, don't be presumptuous." ”

Hum!

Han Shizhong snorted and died down.

Yang Weizhong arched his hand and said: "Manager Liang, the merits and demerits, and we will comment on the battle after the war." The current situation is not optimistic, and concerted efforts are needed to deal with the anti-thieves. ”

"Huh!"

Liang Fangping sneered, and said in a strange manner: "With General Yang here, the Qingzhou Army is just a clown jumping from Liang, and some anti-thieves are coming to capture, why do you need me to wait!" ”

With that, Liang Fangping flicked his sleeves and strode out of the military tent.

Xin Xingzong glared at Han Shizhong with gloomy eyes, and quickly followed.

"Alas!"

Yang Weizhong sighed with a bitter expression.

These inner servants are really not enough to succeed and more than to lose.

Tong Guan is like this, and so is Liang Fangping.

The war is urgent, and as the commander-in-chief, he doesn't think about how to retreat from the enemy, but he intrigues and shirks responsibility.

Han Shizhong asked, "Dutong, what should I do now?" ”

"Let's take one step at a time." Yang Weizhong shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Han Shizhong glanced at the outside of the tent, and said in a low voice: "Manager Liang will definitely not give up, be careful." ”

Yang Weizhong didn't care and said: "I'm just a martial arts doctor now, no matter how bad it is, how bad can it be." ”

Participated in the Battle of Pingxia City, invented the walled fort tactics, blocked the Western Xia at the doorstep, reversed the situation in the northwest in one fell swoop, and suppressed the anti-thieves many times.

Such a feat, but now he is just a martial arts doctor from the eighth grade, how ridiculous.

I don't know how long it was, but there was a commotion outside.

Yang Weizhong frowned: "Why is there any noise in the army?" ”

"The last general will go and see."

Han Shizhong said and turned around and walked out of the White Tiger Hall.

After a while, I saw him running in in with a panicked expression: "It's not good, Chief Liang and Xin Xingzong ran away, and took away 10,000 foot soldiers and 3,000 cavalry!" ”

"Huh?!"

Yang Weizhong was stunned, his face full of incredulity.

When he came back to his senses, he hurriedly asked, "Where are you going?" ”

"Yucheng!"

Han Shizhong's expression was strange.

Halfway through the battle, the coach ran away, and he didn't say a key hello.

Such a bizarre thing, Han Shizhong encountered it for the first time, and he was a little overwhelmed for a while, and asked: "Dutong, why don't you go and chase back Manager Liang?" ”

Yang Weizhong waved his hand: "Don't chase it, it's going to rain and my mother wants to get married, and it's in vain to go." ”

At this moment, a soldier walked into the White Tiger Hall: "Yu Du Tong, Chief Liang passed down the message." ”

"Say!"

Yang Weizhong commanded.

The soldier said loudly: "This general manager is stationed in Yucheng to prevent thieves from seizing it, cutting off the rear route of our western army, attacking and harassing baggage logistics, and handing over the front battle to General Yang." ”

Garrison Yucheng to prevent anti-thieves from cutting off the back road......

Not to mention, no one can find fault with this excuse, because of the current situation, the Qingzhou Army will most likely divide its troops to capture Yucheng and cut off all the retreats of the Western Army.

Liang Fangping personally led his troops to sit in Yucheng, which is reasonable.

Han Shizhong raised his eyebrows and sneered.

Where does Liang Fangping understand this, it must be Xin Xingzong's guy who helped him give advice and justify himself.

"Ben knows."

Yang Weizhong waved his hand, and after the soldiers left, he couldn't help but smile and said: "That's fine, without restraint, we can fight with peace of mind." ”

"Wow!"

Han Shizhong's eyes lit up, and he turned his anger into joy.

Yang Weizhong asked: "By the way, can Wu Jue's injury be healed?" ”

"Almost, I'm going to visit at the end of this morning, and the wound has scabbed and healed." Han Shizhong replied.

"Good!"

Yang Weizhong nodded, and said with a firm expression: "I want to see if the Qingzhou army has three heads and six arms!" ”

Han Shizhong asked: "Dutong, can Licheng still fight?" ”

Yang Weizhong said loudly: "Naturally, we want to fight, but it is mainly to disturb, supplemented by surprise attacks." Even if you can't take Licheng before the arrival of the Qingzhou army, you must make the black mountain thieves in the city exhausted and unable to go out of the city to face the battle. ”

……

……

"Liang Fangping ran away?"

When he learned the news, Han Zhen was reorganizing the prisoners of war.

This group of Western Army prisoners of war, Han Zhen had no intention of letting them go from the beginning.

However, it is also the reserve of the Qingzhou Army in the future.

As for whether these Western troops will defect, Han Zhen is not worried.

Last year, the two Northern Expeditions were defeated, the Western Army suffered heavy losses, and the Northwest Fifth Route urgently recruited a group of new troops, which barely made up for the gap.

How loyal can these soldiers be if they are forcibly conscripted, plus only one year?

Think about it, even veterans of more than ten years in the army, such as Wei Da and Nie Dong, chose to become deserters, which is enough to show how bad the environment of the Western Army is, not to mention these recruits who have been forcibly conscripted.

Control Dutou, Duyu Hou and other middle-level and grass-roots generals, and concentrate on them, and the rest of the big-headed soldiers are not at his disposal?

After two days of dry rice and one meal, plus Lao Jiu, the former old Western Army, one meal was almost, and after a while, they couldn't find the north one by one, and they treated Han Zhen as a living Bodhisattva.

"Brother Jiu, does the county magistrate really give out a reward?"

I don't know how many Western prisoners of war came to ask.

Lao Jiu was already impatient in his heart, but after receiving Han Zhen's order, he had to smile and pat his chest to promise: "The county magistrate has always spit on a nail, and the reward that should be given will not be missing you." Have you seen those military secretaries? ”

"Uh-huh!"

Looking in the direction of his finger, Wu Ji nodded busily.

"There are hundreds of such secretaries in my Qingzhou army. Why so many? It was for the sake of the statistics of the brothers' exploits. ”

Lao Jiu said, pointed to a guard not far away, and continued: "When I followed the county magistrate, this guy was still a fugitive in the mountains, my mother and son starved to death in the mountains, and the two dolls didn't even have a piece of paper clothes, and they were dressed in hay, miserable and tight. Now, the family has built a brick house, a ploughing cow was added a while ago, and two dolls were also sent to the county's private school to study. ”

Gollum!

Wu Ji swallowed his saliva, and said in disbelief: "Brother Jiu, don't bluff me, behead the first-level four guan money, this is a brick house, a ploughing cow, and a shackle of learning, I am afraid that it will add up to dozens of times, and you have to kill many people to make up enough military merits?" ”

"You know a lot."

Lao Jiu glared at him angrily and explained: "They have caught up with the good time, and a while ago, Zhang Wanxian was killed, and many people made a windfall. What kind of goods is the dare to blaze the army, they are all a group of bitter haha, carrying a simple knife and hoe, every time they fight more with less, you can kill ten or eight, how is the military function? ”

Hearing him say this, Wu Ji suddenly realized, immediately slapped his thigh, and said regretfully: "Join his mother, if I had met the county magistrate earlier, I would have made a fortune by this time!" ”

Lao Jiu patted him on the shoulder and smiled: "It's not too late now, behead the first-level four money, the first to climb, trap, behead, capture the flag and another reward, a big battle, mix a dozen or so as to play." You're not married yet, are you? ”

"Nope!"

Wu Ji shook his head and said bitterly: "My family is poor, and my mother has asked someone to find a few families, but no one can look down on them." ”

In ancient times, the name was arbitrary, and most of the poor people simply named it after Uncle Bo Zhongji.

Wu Ji is the fourth in the family, with two older brothers and one elder sister.

The family is not rich, and the two elder brothers have hollowed out the family when they get married, and when it is his turn, the family is too poor to open the pot, how can there be any money left to get married.

"When the time comes, build a brick house and buy a few acres of fertile land, isn't it up to you to choose? Take my mother over again, pay good respects, and live a comfortable life. ”

Listening to the cake painted by Lao Jiu, the soldier only felt his heart stirred, and his mind had unconsciously begun to fantasize about his future life.

After coming back to his senses, the soldier lowered his voice and asked, "Brother Jiu, you have been with the county magistrate for so long, you should have made a lot of money, right?" ”

"It's not much, it's only about three hundred."

Lao Jiu waved his hand, looking indifferent: "In addition, the county magistrate also rewarded me with a set of second-entry mansions in the county town." The house is quite big, but I actually don't want to live, it's too deserted, or live in the barracks comfortable and lively. ”

This is not a boast, as a captain of the guard, in order to facilitate his errands, Han Zhen did reward him with a set of houses.

Obediently, three hundred times, plus a set of two-entry houses in the county town!

Wu Ji swallowed again, and his eyes were full of envy when he looked at Lao Jiu.

At this moment, a soldier came up and said, "Captain, the county magistrate has called you." ”

"I'll come now."

Lao Jiu got up and patted his buttocks, and admonished: "My brother has been in the Western Army for so many years, and he didn't save a word, but he was injured. By the time I followed the county magistrate, I was already in my thirties, and my life was over. Listen to my brother's advice, while you are still young, you can hold a knife and a gun, and fight hard. ”

"When you take Shandong, let alone reward money, it's okay to seal your wife and son!"

Wu Ji nodded solemnly: "Brother Jiu, I know!" ”

(End of chapter)