Chapter 13 Guarding Liangzhou
In the Liangzhou Mansion, Li Zhen received a report that Lin Chong had gathered 100,000 horses to attack the city, and now the army was stationed in Qianxian, and Li Zhen was discussing countermeasures with the soldiers. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"My lord, why did Lin Chong bring his troops here so quickly this time? Then Song Qing, the northwest wolf, really listened to Lin Chong's words!" Li Zhen's subordinate Li Weibin said.
"Hmph! I see that little white face is insignificant, give me 8,000 elites, I'll go get his dog's head to see the adult. Song Tianba looked indifferent, it was he who had entered the Waha level of Lamutu at the beginning, and of course he had the confidence to speak.
"In my opinion, there must be something strange about this matter! Who is Song Qing? That is a human spirit who has experienced a hundred battles, how can he believe a person like Lin Chong. Li Zhen felt incredible.
"My lord, I have sent my subordinates to inquire about the news, and they will be back tomorrow at the latest. Li Weibin is meticulous and reliable, Li Zhen asked him to be a staff leader and assist him in handling important military affairs.
"It's okay! Knowing ourselves and knowing that the other side will not be defeated in a hundred battles, we will not ponder here anymore, and we will each go back to supervise the training, and we may face a big test. After Li Zhen finished speaking, everyone dismissed the meeting.
Lin Zhong led the troops to Qianxian, seeing that the water and grass were abundant, temporarily stationed to rest, by the way, waiting for the spies to report the situation in Liangzhou City, after all, in the face of Li Zhen, he was still a little empty, that kid had too many ideas, and if he was not careful, he would fall into his trap, and the scene of the defeat of the Waha army was still vivid, and he had to be vigilant.
He ordered the battalions to patrol in shifts, not to light torches at night, and to set up camp near the water's edge.
The supply of grain and grass procured in Huayin was quite timely, but he also had a plan, and when he arrived at the border of Liangzhou, all the grain of any family would be used as military rations.
For a time, the victims were all over the wilderness, and the people who had no food flocked to Liangzhou City to ask for food, to escape the persecution of the Lin Heavy Army, and the people sang a bleak ballad, "Liangzhou is cool, there are few people, and jackals, tigers and leopards still bite indiscriminately." ”
After Liangzhou attacked the city from Waha, it had just recovered a short period of peace, and it was about to usher in a war, and people sang in despair.
Could it be that the folk rumor "If you want snow in the nine heavens, you won't see Xiaoliangzhou in the world" is true?
I don't know what ancient secrets Liangzhou has, or maybe it has been cursed, and the war will never stop.
Li Zhen stood at the city gate and saw the dense crowd of disaster victims pouring towards Liangzhou, and his heart unconsciously felt a faint pain, the people under his rule, all of them were ragged clothes, yellow faces and thin muscles, all of them were old people, children, and their children may be in their own camps, the lives of their fathers and villagers are not guaranteed, and the army has combat effectiveness at all.
"Come, open the city gates, put food, settle the people, save as many as you want. Li Zhen now has only these old folks who have fled in his heart.
"My lord, by all means! Once this disaster victim is opened and let in, I am afraid that Liangzhou City will not last long. This will more or less destroy the army's food. Li Weibin hurriedly dissuaded Li Zhen, he knew that Li Zhen loved the people, but the reality was really not suitable for this.
"If you don't open the city, will you watch the people starve to death?" Li Zhen looked at his subordinates angrily.
"My lord, the little one dares to be presumptuous, this 100,000-strong army of Lin Zhong is about to be pressed over, and when the time comes, the soldiers will have no food and no food to eat, how can they fight against the invading enemy?" Li Weibin considered it reasonable.
"No! I can't ignore the safety of the people in order to defend my own territory, I can't fight, I gave it to him in Liangzhou. Li Zhen has obviously made up his mind.
"Okay! Since the adults have made up their minds, the little ones will do it! Whether it is dead or alive, I, Li Weibin, admit it, I have never followed the wrong person in my life, and death is worth it. Li Weibin was impressed by Li Zhen's world-minded bearing.
"Good brother, let's fight together in a blessing or a curse!" Li Zhen patted Li Weibin's shoulder and smiled.
The city gate was opened, and the granary was filled with grain! The victims outside the city cheered and poured into the city of Liangzhou like ants.
"Ge Dayou!" Li Zhen said as he looked around.
"The end will be!" Ge Da has a tiger's back and a bear's waist, but he is agile, and the cheeky guy on his face makes people afraid of three points, and he is nicknamed "bearded"!
"You send your people to quickly go to the granary to put grain, maintain the order of the people, and arrange accommodation, quilts and other things, so that I can hear that a common man is starving to death, I only ask!" Li Zhen foamed at the mouth and nailed, and the military order was issued without ambiguity.
"The last general commands!" That "bearded" has also been a child of a poor family since he was a child, and he has been determined to do things for the people since he was a child, and today he finally has the opportunity to work for the welfare of the toiling masses, how could he not do his best?
At night, the spies sent out by Li Weibin came back from the Liangzhou Mansion Yali.
"My lord, this time the spies came to report, and the 100,000 soldiers and horses led by Lin Zhong are true, but I heard that they are all a ragtag army formed by the old, weak, sick and disabled under Song Qing. Li Weibin excitedly reported.
"Oh, there is such a thing? It's really strange, why did Song Qing give soldiers and horses like Lin Chong?" Li Zhen heard this, and felt that things were strange.
"Yes, I wondered, but I heard the spy say something even more unbelievable. That Lin Chong led 100,000 soldiers and horses, but Song Qing didn't give him a penny, it was all Lin Chong's own grain and grass. Li Weibin said with a puzzled face.
"What? He didn't give Lin Chong's military salary, and he dared to lead 100,000 soldiers?" Li Zhen felt a burst of fear, he was not afraid of Lin Chong's courage, he was afraid that he would defeat Liangzhou, and the people here would never be able to turn over!
Since Lin Zhong dared to lead the troops without pay, he was ready to win, either win or die, he forced himself into a desperate situation first!
Li Zhen thought about it calmly, Lin Chong must be trying to make a quick decision now, or his supply of grain and grass is insufficient, and his salary is also a problem, although the 100,000 soldiers and horses are old, weak, sick and disabled, they may not have combat effectiveness, don't forget that their number is five times that of his side.
"Lord Li, why don't we abandon Liangzhou first, protect the people here, and then go back to Lingshui to defend?" Li Weibin also sweated for Liangzhou City.
"No! If I hadn't listened to your report just now, I guess I might have abandoned the city to protect the people, but when I heard that Lin Chong was fighting without pay, he was obviously from the people of Liangzhou City! If I leave, the people will suffer! It will even be even more brutal than Waha!" Li Zhen's mind was full of the tragic situation when Waha attacked the city at that time!
"Then we will have a tough confrontation with Lin Chong? Even 100,000 pigs will be enough for us to kill for a few days! I'm afraid that my brothers won't be able to withstand it!" Li Weibin worried, his worries are not unreasonable, 100,000 people come to attack small Liangzhou, even if one person takes away a brick, Liangzhou City can be turned upside down.
"It's definitely not okay to fight hard, he doesn't have the ability to command 100,000 people to fight, those rabble are obedient now if they have money and meat to eat, once they have no money and no meat, who will work for Lin Chong?" Li Zhen stared straight ahead, obviously he had a ghost idea.
In the autumn of Liangzhou boundary, the rain is dripping and dripping non-stop, Lin Chongbu is stationed in Zheng County, which is more than ten miles away from Liangzhou City, which is surrounded by mountains, and the grain transport team is moving slowly here, Lin Zhong knows Li Zhen very well, he knows that Li Zhen likes to do this kind of robbery of grain and grass and cut off people's back road, this time the grain transport team is as many as 10,000 people, even a fly can not get close to grain and grass.
Who knows that the sky is not beautiful, the rain still does not stop, the team siege in the rain is a taboo, the soldier's vision is blurred, and the will to fight is not high, so he has to wait, it doesn't matter, the food and grass and military salary must also be increased, Lin Zhong calculated his own small abacus, and the silver of the white flowers was wasted on the food and drink of this army.
War is about attrition, fighting for supplies, and whoever can't hold it out will withdraw from the stage of history.
"My lord, something is wrong, the grain transportation team is trapped in the valley of Thundering Mountain between Qianxian and Zheng County. "A soldier covered in mud and water in the rain came to report.
Lin Zhong was afraid that there would be a mistake in the grain transportation team, so he deliberately sent more people this time, but he didn't expect to be trapped.
"What the hell is going on, let's be clear!" Lin Zhong looked angry.
"We arrived at Leiming Mountain, it was raining all the time, so we took shelter in the valley, but we didn't expect the rain to be dripping and dripping, the mountains on both sides were soft, and the mud and gravel on the mountain rolled down, blocking the way out of the valley. The soldier panted.
"Oh! So, I thought it was Li Zhen's way again!" Lin Zhong muttered to himself.
"Come on, send 5,000 men and horses, quickly go to support the grain transportation team, and open the passage as soon as possible. Lin Zhong hurriedly sent someone down.
Lin Chong's heart was awkward, his eyelids kept jumping, this day was not good, he felt more and more uncomfortable.
Li Zhen had already explored the route of Lin Chong's grain transportation team, and Lin Chong guessed correctly, Li Zhen liked to rob grain and grass, but this time he was not robbing grain and grass, he was out of grain and grass.
Li Zhen sent Liu Shanwu Liu Ziying to cut trees and dig stones on Leiming Mountain, and destroyed a hillside loosely, and the rain did not stop, and the muddy water kept flowing to the valley, and when the grain transportation team arrived, Liu Ziying dropped the rolling stones on the mountain, and the muddy water and stones blocked a narrow valley and could not drain the water, and the grain transportation team of 10,000 people fell dead in the valley, and it took more than half a month to open up this road.
Lin Chong saw that there was not much surplus food in the army, and if he didn't go to war again, the soldiers were afraid that they would all starve to death, and now there were already some rumors in the army that affected morale from time to time into Lin Chong's ears.
Lin Zhong ordered, tomorrow's fourth watch, the whole army will assault and capture Liangzhou, even if you have a knife, you have to rush, and those who violate the order will be killed!
Liangzhou City was also in a state of high tension before the war in the past few days, and Li Zhen transferred 4,000 men and horses from Lingshui and Lamutu to support the battle of Liangzhou and resolutely block the invading enemy.
"Soldiers, are you ready?" Li Zhen shouted to the soldiers defending the city on the city wall.
"Ready, ready!" The officers and men were in high spirits and shouted loudly.
"Behind us are our fathers and fellow villagers, the enemy is hungry to fight us, we can't let people look down on us, show the blood of the northwest man!" Li Zhen's pre-war mobilization was quite passing.
"Kill, kill, kill......"
The war drums are ringing, shaking the land of Liangzhou, here will usher in a baptism of battle, not a curse, not a secret, it is the reincarnation of fate, the fate of the past makes this place bear the washing of blood again and again.