On Guangnan East Road in Duanzhou, an army of 20,000 people was marching rapidly along the Xijiang River. This army wore various armors, some wearing leather armor, some wearing rattan armor, some riding donkeys, and some bare.
Walk on your feet.
This army was an elite army of 20,000 people led by Liu Guangshi himself. After Liu Guangshi surrendered on Jinghu South Road, he was not executed, but was exiled to Guangnan West Road and was exiled to the army. He changed his name to Liu Zhongjun.
Nan Xilu trained militia for the local government, and he was quite capable. The militia he trained repeatedly suppressed rebellions by local barbarians.
Finally, it gradually attracted the attention of Emperor Zhao Gou. Zhao Gou had always been troubled by the barbarian rebellion on Guangnan West Road. Every time they rebelled, they massacred the government and Han people. In addition, the local government kept saying good things to Liu Guangshi. Zhao Gou actually believed that Liu Guangshi had already
He completely repented of his lies and re-enabled Liu Guangshi, appointed him as the militia commander of Guangnan West Road, gave him a quota of 20,000 people, and asked him to train the local militia army to suppress the barbarian rebellion.
With the army in hand, Liu Guangshi's ambition was once again exposed. He first restored his surname and took control of the pacifying envoy office on Guangnan West Road. At this moment, the emperor passed away and the news of the empress dowager usurping the throne came. Liu Guangshi immediately
He broke off and occupied seven states on Guangnan West Road. He proclaimed himself King Annan, plundered large households, seized money and recruited troops. In just a few months, his army reached 100,000 people.
At this moment, news came that Liu Qiong led an army of 80,000 to enter Guangnan East Road, which made Liu Guangshi very nervous. His troops were more powerful, but they were basically a mob without armor and equipment. Many soldiers were still
Holding a bamboo knife and bamboo spear.
However, after Liu Qiong entered Guangnan East Road, he was not in a hurry to enter Guangnan West Road, but was actively preparing for war.
At this time, Liu Guangshi received news that Liu Qiong led an army to Lianzhou to encircle and suppress the rebellion of mine supervisor Chen Zhiwu. There were the most important copper and silver mines in the Song Dynasty near Guiyang County in Lianzhou, with more than 100,000 miners. Liu
Qiong will lead at least 50,000 troops to quell the rebellion. There are still 30,000 troops mainly guarding the Guangzhou area, and there will be no troops in other places.
Liu Guangshi knew that the Western Army was preparing for war in Duanzhou and had accumulated a large amount of food, grass and soldiers. Now that the Western Army was heading north to suppress the miners, this was his opportunity!
Liu Guangshi immediately made a decision and led 20,000 elite troops to Duanzhou, 300 miles away.
In the Song Dynasty, Guangnan East Road had gradually improved due to overseas trade, and the population had gathered. However, the population of Guangnan West Road was not large yet. Twenty thousand troops marched day and night, and all the villages they encountered along the way were burned, killed, and looted.
, raped women, but they did not dare to rob the county seat for the time being. Liu Guangshi was worried that Liu Qiong would get the news, so he turned around and headed south again.
He had no choice but to temporarily promise the soldiers, and after he got the food and armor, he would rush into the county town to grab a good deal when he returned to the city.
"Go to Hyojiaku!"
Liu Guangshi was overjoyed. Seeing that it was getting late, he ordered the army to enter the city to rest."
Not long after, the spies came back and reported, "Prince Qi, the city is empty. No one is seen. The streets are full of discarded debris. The people in the city must have fled in a hurry. Maybe there are still many people hiding in the city. We don't have them."
Take a closer look."
The situation in the armory depot completely chilled them. Only a dozen boxes on the ground outside were real, and the other thousands of boxes were all empty.
"I went to see it. There is still a lot of food and grass in the warehouse."
"Black wine?"
"More than six thousand people!"
Liu Guangshi turned around and ran away. As soon as he ran out of the warehouse, more than a dozen soldiers came towards him and stammered: "Your Majesty, brothers. Brothers are all poisoned."
At this moment, a soldier pointed to the sky and shouted: "Your Majesty, there is an enemy situation!"
"Where's the armor?" Liu Guangshi asked anxiously.
Hundreds of soldiers began to look for firewood and wells for cooking. At this time, hundreds of jars of wine were found in the warehouse of a wine shop. The soldiers moved them to the street and prepared to drink to their heart's content. Unexpectedly, when they opened the jar, there was something inside.
It was a dark liquid with a pungent smell. The soldiers were furious and smashed all the wine jars, and the black liquid flowed all over the street.
"what happened?"
"Reporting to the prince, it seems that a lot of black wine was found in the wine shop. The brothers smashed the wine jars. This is the smell.
They first came to the grain and grass warehouse, half of which was hay, and the rest were bags of grain, which were piled up like a hill and estimated to be several thousand stones.
"My lord, look here!"
"There are a lot of boxes, and the boxes have leather armor, swords, and spears written on them. There are so many boxes, they are piled up like a mountain!"
I saw rockets flying in from all directions outside the city, and even fireballs flying in.
At this time, he suddenly smelled a pungent smell in the air. The smell was very familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a while.
Liu Guangshi was completely stunned.
"Have you visited the warehouse?"
Twenty thousand soldiers swarmed into the city and rushed into houses, looking for property and women. But to the soldiers' surprise, there was no one in the county town. There were a lot of things, but they were all tattered clothes and furniture, which were worthless.
Liu Guangshi now only hoped that the treasurer had committed fraud and embezzled the grain.
But every household had wine and meat, which were all freshly prepared. The soldiers were hungry and ate dry food along the way. Faced with the fragrant wine and meat, they couldn't bear it anymore, so they drank and ate meat one after another.
Liu Guangshi turned around and ran towards Bingjiaku, and the soldiers followed him one after another.
Liu Guangshi thought for a while and suddenly shouted, "No, it's kerosene!"
"Where did this smell come from?" Liu Guangshi asked.
There are two large warehouses close to each other, one is a grain warehouse and the other is a soldiers' armor warehouse, surrounded by a barracks outside.
Liu Guangshi was stunned and he immediately realized that he had been tricked.
That evening, the army arrived in Gaoyao County. Twenty thousand troops arrived outside the county town. They saw that the county town gate was wide open and no one could be seen. Liu Shiguang was confused, so he first sent several spies into the city to investigate.
Liu Guangshi almost fainted from anger. He only brought 20,000 people in total, so 30% of them were eliminated.
Liu Guangshi was so angry that he stamped his feet, "Who told them to eat randomly? How many people were poisoned?"
Liu Guangshi was stunned. What came out of the grain bag was not grain, but rice husks. He also pulled out his knife and chopped dozens of grain bags around him. What came out were all rice husks and not a single bag of grain.
They checked hundreds more bags, and their hearts went cold. Only a few bags on the ground outside the warehouse contained grain. It happened that the spies he sent into the city looked at these bags.
"The brothers went to the houses to look for belongings and found a lot of wine and meat. They couldn't help but eat and drink, and they were all poisoned.
A soldier pointed at the grain bag. Just now, his hand was itchy and he couldn't help but cut it with a dagger.
"Your Majesty, that's not right!" a soldier exclaimed.
Liu Guangshi led hundreds of soldiers straight to the warehouse. After all, they came here for soldiers and food.
Liu Guangshi stepped forward and asked, "What's going on?"
"Retreat! Retreat outside the city!"
Without his shouting, the soldiers had already rushed out of the city. There was only one south gate in Gaoyao County, and countless soldiers rushed towards the south gate.
Liu Guangshi had just taken a few dozen steps when a sudden fire broke out on the street in front of him, flames rose into the sky, and thick smoke billowed. It turned out that the black wine smashed by the soldiers had been ignited. Where was the black wine? It was clearly fire oil. It was a pity.
None of these soldiers had ever seen kerosene.
In fact, all the roofs were sprinkled with flammable substances such as sulfur, gunpowder, and kerosene. In addition, the houses on Guangnan Road were basically made of wood. The fire spread extremely quickly, and the entire county was quickly ablaze.