The veteran's eyes immediately turned red, and tears fell down his cheeks, "Governor Zhe, I am your personal soldier Li Changgui! Don't you recognize me?"
Zhe Yanzhi suddenly remembered and said in surprise: "You are Li Changgui. Didn't you die in Taiyuan?"
"Captain Zhe, I am not dead. I crawled out from among the dead. You are all gone. My legs were also injured. I had to escape little by little back to my hometown, Xinqin County. I have been asking about the governor, and later I heard that the governor had gone to the south.
, I gave up."
Speaking of this, veteran Li Changgui hugged Zhe Yanzhi's arm and burst into tears. More than ten years passed in a flash, and he never expected to see his lord again.
Zhe Yanzhi was also quite sad and said to the veteran: "Chang Gui, it's a good thing that everyone is alive. I am now the commander-in-chief of the Western Army and will not return to the south."
At this time, a cavalryman rushed over, clasped his fists on his horse and said: "I am reporting to the capital that there is an urgent military situation. General Li invites you to come over and discuss it."
Li Changgui's expression changed, "Someone from the food-stealing party must be here. I have to inform the county magistrate."
"Go and tell your county prince that I am coming with an army of 30,000 people, so he shouldn't worry."
Zhe Yanzhi led his men out of the city and soon arrived at the army garrison. Li Muqing stepped forward and said: "The scouts found an army and came from the north, about three thousand people. They were thirty miles away before, but now they are not far away from us.
Twenty miles.”
"Cavalry?"
"No! It's infantry."
Zhe Yanzhi nodded, "Dang Xiangjun should come to Xinqin County to grab grain. I just met an old subordinate and learned that their county magistrate is leading the people to harvest wheat on the south bank of Tumao River."
"How to deal with this party army?" Li Muching asked.
Zhe Yanzhi rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "The army entered the city and surrounded them from the north and south!"
The Dangxiang Army of three thousand people rushed towards Xinqin County. This army was specially responsible for robbing Linzhou of food. Xinqin County was the first stop.
The soldiers were familiar with the roads. They knew very well where the wheat fields were. But just grabbing the wheat was not enough. They also had to find big trucks to transport them. There should be big trucks in the county.
Three thousand troops rushed to the north city gate, but saw that the city gate was tightly closed. The leader of the army was furious and said, "Go to the south city gate!"
Three thousand Dangxiang troops ran along the east wall to the south city gate. They were still a hundred steps away from the south city gate. Suddenly, thousands of arrows were fired from the top of the east city, and arrows were fired at Dangxiang troops like a storm.
The Dangxiang army was caught off guard, and it was already too late when they discovered the arrows above their heads. The arrows fell like raindrops. The Dangxiang soldiers were hit by the arrows one after another. Suddenly there was a wailing and screaming, and the Dangxiang soldiers were in a mess.
At this moment, a cavalry force came out from the south, with as many as 5,000 people. They pulled out a long cavalry line and surrounded Dangxiang Army from south to southeast. The soldiers of Dangxiang Army fled north one after another. At this time,
, five thousand cavalry also appeared in the north, and also surrounded Dangxiang's army from the north to the northeast.
The two cavalrymen quickly closed together, with raindrops of arrows above their heads, and surrounded by ten thousand cavalrymen. The soldiers of the Party Army were desperate and let out a desperate cry.
The orders Chen Qing issued to Niu Gao and Zhe Yanzhi were all killing orders. Except for the Han soldiers in the auxiliary army, all other foreign soldiers were killed and no longer gave them the chance to reproduce.
The lessons of the Five Husbands’ rebellion against China are extremely unforgettable. Any tolerance towards foreign races in history will sooner or later bring disaster to the Han people in the Central Plains.
The Dangxiang army in front of him was no exception. The order Chen Qing issued to the remnants of Dangxiang was also a killing order.
Three rounds of arrow rain wiped out nearly two thousand soldiers, and the remaining soldiers could not escape the massacre by the cavalry. In the end, only thirty people were left to interrogate and give confessions, and all the remaining soldiers were beheaded.
Zheyanzhi led 10,000 troops to the wheat field area on the south bank of Tumao River. The people in the city planted more than 10,000 acres of wheat fields here, and their annual rations depended on these wheat fields.
All the old people, children, and women are harvesting wheat in the wheat fields. Young men are basically invisible. Many of the men who can be called young men are almost forty years old.
The county magistrate's name is Zheng Heng, a native of Linzhou, and he is thirty-eight years old. It has been ten years since he became the county magistrate in the second year of Jianyan's reign.
He had received a message from Li Changgui and saw an army crossing the bridge, so he quickly greeted them.
"I'm going to be the magistrate of Xinqin County, Zheng Heng. May I ask where the governor of Zhedu is?"
Zheyanzhi urged the horse out, "I Zheyanzhi!"
"As expected, it's Governor Zhe, the villain's father, Zheng Ziyuan."
Zheng Ziyuan once knew Linzhou affairs, and Zhe Yanzhi was very familiar with him. He nodded, "It turns out that we are old friends. Is your father still alive?"
"My father passed away from illness two years ago. I originally wanted to resign as a filial piety, but the people didn't agree, so I had to bite the bullet and do it now."
Zheng Heng's implication was to tell Zhe Yanzhi that he was not a magistrate of the Jin Kingdom, but a magistrate supported by the people.
Orihiko understood what he meant, nodded, and pointed at the endless wheat fields with his riding crop, "Do you need help from my soldiers?"
"We can cut the wheat fields slowly. The key is that party soldiers will come to grab the grain. We are really worried."
Zhe Yanzhi smiled slightly, "We have wiped out all the party soldiers who were robbing food. I wonder if there are still party soldiers robbing food elsewhere?"
Zheng Heng said quickly: "We only have this one in Linzhou, and there are one each in Lanzhou and Kelan Army. The number of soldiers going to Lanzhou will be more."
"Aren't there the Baode Army and the Volcano Army that are close to Fuzhou? And what about Fengzhou in the north?"
"These three places are the pastures of the Dangxiang people. There are no wheat fields, and the Han people have been driven away."
Zhe Yanzhi nodded and said with a smile: "I understand, you can continue to harvest wheat, and you don't have to worry about the army robbing the grain."
"Thank you, old general, for coming to our aid at this critical moment."
Zhe Yanzhi smiled again and said: "Go and tell the fellow villagers that starting from today, Linzhou will return to the Song Dynasty, and you are all the subjects of King Yong of Sichuan and Shaanxi."
"Is King Yong Chen Dutong?"
"He used to be the governor, but now he has been named King Yong."
"Great, the price of salt and commodities will come down. I will go and announce the good news to everyone."
Zheng Heng ran towards the wheat field. After a while, cheers began to sound in the wheat field.
Zhe Yanzhi smiled and ordered the army to turn around and return to the county seat. He needed to discuss the next move with Li Muching.
"Zhe Dutong, the confession has been made clear."
Li Muqing immediately stepped forward and saluted: "The other side has an army of 12,000. This time, 7,000 troops are sent to grab food. There are 3,000 people from Linzhou, 3,000 from Lanzhou, and then 1,000 from Kelan's army."
, I think this is a good opportunity to annihilate them one by one."
Zhe Yanzhi smiled slightly and said: "I came to you to discuss this matter!"
Li Muqing and Zhe Yanzhi quickly reached an agreement to leave 5,000 troops in Xinqin County to guard the logistics of 20,000 camels. They divided their troops into two groups. Zhe Yanzhi led 15,000 troops to Lanzhou, and Li Muqing led an army of 15,000 to Lanzhou.
Thousands of people went to Kelan's army and after destroying the enemy's army trying to grab wheat, the two sides agreed on a time and divided their troops into two groups to march towards Fuzhou.
The Western Army crossed the Yellow River from Hehejin. There was a pontoon bridge built by the grain-grabbing army here, which was very convenient. The army immediately divided into two groups. Zhe Yanzhi led an army of 15,000 to attack Hehe County, fifty miles away.
Although there are 5,000 infantry in the 15,000-strong army, it must be made clear here that even the infantry marches on horseback and has the power to move. They only form infantry formations during battles. The Song Army dreams of this, but only Chen Qing’s army in the northwest is separatist.
done.
His army has half a million horses, which means that every soldier has the power to move around.
There are two main places where wheat is grown in Lanzhou, one is the Weifenshui River Valley in the south of Hehe County, and the other is the Fenshui River Valley in Loufan County in the southeast.
The 15,000-strong army did not find Dangxiang's grain-stealing army in the Weifenshui River Valley. They went to Loufan County, and Zhe Yanzhi led 15,000 people to attack Loufan County.
But an unexpected situation happened at this time.