All the officers and soldiers on Kuizhou Road ran to "recover the lost ground", but Li Bao was not very clear about this.
To be cautious, he left five thousand soldiers and horses to garrison Hezhou to guard against another attack by the officers and soldiers on the Kuizhou Road. He took the remaining troops and went north to attack Guozhou (Nanchong), joining forces with Lin Chong and Bai Qi.
Li Bao didn't even know where the friendly troops were, they were just executing their predetermined plan.
"The thieves from Hezhou have fallen into Hanchu County." Chen Rujia put down the battle report and looked a little desperate.
Xue Yuanjian found it difficult to understand: "On the four routes of Chuanxia, Kuizhou soldiers are the most elite. Why haven't they come to suppress the bandits yet? There is no need for them to attack fiercely. As long as they are restrained from the rear, the Hezhou bandits will definitely not dare to attack."
Chen Rujia also couldn't figure it out: "Have the Kuizhou soldiers been defeated?"
The Kuizhou soldiers only lost one water battle. They were busy recovering the lost territory and were now almost entering the Bazhou territory. The more cities they recovered, the farther away they were from the main battlefield. Such a tricky advance route, Chen and Xue Er
How can anyone imagine it?
The state office fell into silence.
Weng Zhen, the commander of Guozhou, couldn't help but say: "It is better to evacuate to Suizhou. We have to evacuate quickly. If we wait for the two groups of bandits to join together, it will be too late to leave by then."
"This proposal is feasible." Xue Yuanjian agreed. He was the governor of Langzhou, and his territory had already fallen. It didn't matter where he fled.
However, Chen Rujia was the governor of Guozhou and wanted to continue to defend his state city (Nanchong), but he was hesitant and difficult to make up his mind.
However, the bandits from Hezhou were approaching, and they would be attacked from a flank if they didn't move away. Obviously, the soldiers under his command were unwilling to fight.
Chen Rujia looked around, thought about it, and finally said: "Withdraw the troops tonight, and you will prepare when you go back."
He wanted to fight but didn't dare.
When they are afraid of being flanked, their officers will lead their soldiers to defect directly!
The waterway from Nanchong to Suining has been cut off by Li Bao, so the entire journey must be taken by land, passing through more than a hundred miles of hilly terrain.
In order to carry grain, grass and baggage, all the mules, horses, donkeys and cattle in the city were requisitioned by the officers and soldiers, who went from house to house to collect them.
Searching and searching turned into large-scale robbery, and the target was no longer just livestock.
Two rural soldiers were taking a nap on the city wall. One of them looked back and asked, "Why is there a commotion in the city?"
"I don't know." Another person squinted and basked in the sun.
"It's not like the rebels have entered the city, right?"
"do not know."
"You won't say anything else?"
"meeting."
"..."
At this moment, a shout suddenly came from below the city wall: "Brother Jiang, your cattle have been robbed!"
The rural soldier who had been saying "I don't know" suddenly stood up and shouted: "Who the hell did this?"
"They are all robbing livestock, arranged by the superiors," said the person who reported the message. "At first they only wanted livestock, but now they are robbing food and money."
As soon as these words came out, many officers and soldiers guarding the city left their posts and ran towards the city.
Most of the soldiers were locals, some were young men from the city recruited temporarily, and some were farmers who fled into the city with their families.
For example, Third Brother Jiang came from a small landowner family. Not only did his family flee to Nanchong City, they also brought all their cattle with them.
The officers at the top of the city couldn't hold it back and could only watch the soldiers run away.
"Whoever robs my cow, whoever robs my cow..." Jiang San shouted as he ran along the street, holding a spear in his hand, followed by tenants and farmers. More than a dozen of their families relied on that cow to plow their fields.
The streets and alleys were in chaos, and robbers could be seen everywhere.
The officers and soldiers started fighting among themselves.
They were officers and soldiers living in the city. When they found out that their home had been looted, they immediately rushed to fight for their lives.
"Prefect, it's chaos, it's chaos!"
"But the bandits have entered the city?"
"It was our own people who started fighting. I asked them to collect livestock, but those Qiu Ba went around robbing them!"
"Come with me and suppress it!"
Chen Rujia led his soldiers to rush into the streets. Seeing Nanchong City in complete chaos, he no longer knew how to clean up.
A group of soldiers rushed forward, scaring the robbers into running away.
Some clever little devils were afraid of being beheaded, so they ran away and shouted: "The rebels have entered the city! The rebels have entered the city..."
"The rebels have entered the city, run for your life!" But the people in the city were so frightened that they shouted together.
Soon rumors spread, shouts and shouts were heard, and even the defenders who were still standing at their posts could hear it.
Jiang San and his fellow villagers had already found the farm cow, standing alone on the street. But his old mother was killed, and it was unclear who the murderer was, his sister-in-law, wife, children, sister and
The nephew is even missing.
I ran for several streets but couldn't find him. I guess he was hiding somewhere.
The more Jiang San thought about it, the angrier he became. He picked up the spear and said, "Follow me and seize the city gate and surrender to the thieves!"
The friend from the same village couldn't find his family, and he was full of anger and had nowhere to vent, so he followed Jiang San to the east gate.
Lin Chong and Bai Qi had already noticed something unusual in the city. The whole city was shouting, crying, and roaring, and the sounds had already spread outside the moat.
The sentries guarding the city quickly returned to camp to report.
The two led their troops out of the camp. Lin Chong wanted to take the opportunity to seize the city, but Bai Qi was still a little worried: "Is there a scam?"
Lin Chong said: "What kind of deceit can there be? With the morale of the officers and soldiers, if the general dares to deceive, the soldiers will really dare to scatter and flee."
"That's right." Bai Qi realized that he was overthinking it.
They led the troops to rush outside the moat, pushed out the bridge carts to build the pontoon bridge, and sure enough they were not shot by bows and arrows.
Before the pontoon bridge was built, suddenly the city gate opened wide.
The gatekeeper, who was a close aide of the prefect, was attacked from behind by Jiang San. He thought the rebels had really entered the city and was so frightened that he threw away his weapons and fled.
"Guard the city gate!"
Jiang San ran out of the city alone, took off his clothes and picked up a javelin, shaking across the moat and shouting: "Enter the city quickly, enter the city quickly, don't lose time!"
"Hurry up, hurry up!" Lin Chong urged anxiously.
A pontoon bridge was finally built, and Lin Chong immediately led his troops to cross the river.
Jiang San said: "General, my family is missing. When you come into the city, don't kill them randomly."
Lin Chong said while running: "Don't kill indiscriminately. You know the road well. Take me straight to Zhouya. I promise to find your family members alive and dead."
Chen Rujia, the magistrate of Guozhou, was still suppressing the rebels, and successively restrained thousands of people.
Hearing that bandits had entered the city, he didn't think much about it because they were shouting like this everywhere.
It wasn't until Lin Chong appeared on the street with his troops that Chen Rujia finally understood that it was true. He raised his knife and shouted: "Let me kill the thief!"
As soon as the prefect gave the order, most of the officers and soldiers around him were routed, and only a few remained who were determined to rush forward.
Lin Chongbao had a ring of eyes and a beard, and his image was like that of Zhang Fei from movies and TV shows. He charged at the front with his gun drawn, and picked off several people one after another. The rebels behind him were greatly boosted in morale, and they shouted to follow the general and charge bravely to kill them.
Chen Rujia turned around in confusion. There was such a large group of people just now, but now only a hundred or so people rushed forward. How come the others disappeared?
In a daze, Chen Rujia was knocked down by the defeated soldiers and pinned to the ground by the rebels.
"I arrested a high official, I arrested a high official!"
"I caught it, don't you guys try to take the credit!"
"..."
Bai Qi crossed the river from another pontoon bridge, but led his troops around the city and pursued them straight to the west of the city.
Xue Yuanjian, the prefect of Langzhou, and Weng Zhen, the commander of Guozhou, took their families, personal entourage and a small number of soldiers and fled out of Ximen in the direction of Suining.
Bai Qi saw it from a distance and immediately shouted: "The cavalry will follow me to kill!"
Their partial division was composed of surrendered troops, with the backbone consisting of two thousand surrendered troops from Xingyuan Prefecture and Sanquan County, and the rest were young men selected from the surrendered troops along the way.
The so-called cavalry also refers to horses captured on the way.
Most of them were draft horses used to pull carts and carry goods. As such, they were not suitable for use on the battlefield. Only a pitiful number of twenty horses were captured.
Not only are the war horses trash, but the people who ride on them are also worthless.
Only a few people have ever ridden a horse, and the rest are trying to get on top of a horse, trying not to fall off while riding.
As the deputy general in the army, Bai Qi naturally has the best horse at his disposal.
He took the lead and soon left his own people far behind, and actually went after the escapees alone.
The commander of Guozhou, Weng Zhen, who was escaping, said to the soldiers around him: "Just those few traitors, follow me to kill them and then escape!"
Seeing that the enemy general had stopped, Bai Qi also reined in his horse and slowed down, took out his bow and arrows and waited for his soldiers.
He is not stupid. If the enemy flees, he will naturally pursue him. Now that the enemy has stopped, there is no need to show off alone.
Weng Zhenze was even more special. This birdman noticed that Bai Qi had stopped halfway and seemed to want to gather more rebels, so he turned around and ran away on horseback. He didn't even care about his family. As for his followers and soldiers, none of them had horses.
Er Keqi could only watch the general flee.
"Where will the thief escape?"
Bai Qi pursued him again. When dozens of officers and soldiers saw him coming to kill him, they all knelt down and surrendered.
Weng Zhen's horse was better, but Bai Qi started learning horse riding when he was seven or eight years old, and would ride around the village on a pony when he had nothing to do. Bai Qi was not only more skilled in riding, but also very familiar with mountain riding.
The two of them chased and escaped, and soon encountered a river and ran north along the river bank.
The further away from the city, the more complex the terrain becomes.
There are harvested rice fields everywhere. The water has dried but not completely. The fields are full of mud. It is also a hilly area, with hills from time to time.
Fearing that his horse might stumble, Weng Zhen had to slow down.
Bai Qi, riding a bad horse, chased him closer and closer, and was able to free his hands to draw his bow and set an arrow.
call out!
An arrow was shot, and Weng Zhen quickly ducked to avoid it. He was so frightened that he whipped his whip and ran away quickly.
After walking another two miles, Weng Zhen's horse trampled the field ridge, and both the man and the horse fell into the mud. Before he could get up, Weng Zhen was hit by an arrow in the arm.
Bai Qi had already dismounted, stood on the ridge of the field, and leisurely took aim again.
"I wish to surrender, I wish to surrender, young general, don't shoot arrows!" Weng Zhen shouted in horror.
Bai Qi said: "Throw the weapons far away, and throw away your bows and arrows as well. Throw the quiver first, and don't hold the bow and arrows in your hand. Then take off your belt and come over with your boots on. You are not allowed to take off your boots, nor are you allowed to take them off."
Almost ashore!"
Although the young man who memorized "Quiet Night Thoughts" had not yet fought in any major battles, he could be considered to have made personal military exploits.
Lin Chong captured Nanchong and interrogated the prisoners, only to find out that Li Bao was coming to kill him.
He immediately sent someone to report the news and told Li Bao not to come.
Lin Chong and Bai Qi led their troops by land, directly inserted into Tongquan, Shehong, and Zizhou (Santai).
Li Bao returned to Hezhou, advanced by land and water, captured Suining (Tongnan) and Suizhou (Suining), and helped Lin Chong solve the problem of his retreat.
The goal of both rebel armies was Mianzhou (Mianyang), which directly cut off the retreat route and food routes of the main army.
If Zitong's tens of thousands of officers and soldiers don't run away, they will be dumped.
