Yun Lu said: "Of course there is no problem." Thinking of something, he asked: "Colonel Cui, how much food and grass have you stored in the city?"
"There are five or six thousand stones." Cui Bo said.
"Five to six thousand stones, at least it will take nearly a hundred carts to pull it away." Yun Lu said: "Where is your cart?"
Cui Bo said: "We need to dispatch vehicles from the city, and we need Magistrate Jiang's help."
"It's already getting late, and I'm afraid we won't be able to mobilize so many vehicles in an hour and a half." Magistrate Jiang immediately said: "It's better to have the official mobilizing vehicles in the city all night, and have all the vehicles ready by noon tomorrow at the latest. I'll invite you then.
Lieutenant Cui is entering the city to escort the grain and grass away. Is it okay?"
Cui Bo nodded and said: "Of course that is the best."
"But tonight I have to force my brothers to rest outside the city." Magistrate Jiang said with a smile: "There are no tents in the city, so we can't provide them to the brothers."
When Cui Bo and his men heard this, they were furious.
The Liaodong Army has always been undefeated in the Northeast, and the cavalry is an elite presence in the Liaodong Army. Under normal circumstances, let alone a small county magistrate, even the county guards would be polite when seeing the Liaodong cavalry.
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Now five hundred Liaodong cavalry were turned away from the city, and they were even told to rest outside the city. Naturally, the cavalry were furious.
Cui Bo and many of his men understood that the situation was already very dangerous when Long Rui's army entered the county. They had to find a way to enter the city no matter what. As long as they entered the city, even if there was a conflict with Long Rui's army, it would be impossible to exit the county.
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The importance of Changwu County today is self-evident.
If the county town is in the hands of the Liaodong Army, Song Shixin's troops can advance, retreat or defend, and the county town and Tianji Mountain are horns with each other, it will completely cut off Gu Baiyi's troops' retreat route.
However, Long Rui's army controlled the county town, and instead formed a rivalry with Songyang Caochang, posing a huge threat to the Liaodong soldiers and horses in Tianji Mountain.
Of course Cui Bo understood why Song Shixin rushed to station himself in Changwu County.
Song Shixin must not have realized that Long Ruijun would send troops directly from western Liaoning into Yingping County before, let alone that Long Ruijun would quickly seize Changwu County. When he realized that Long Ruijun had already made deployments, remember
When troops were mobilized, Long Rui's army had already settled in the county.
Cui Bo was now worried that the enemy would not be able to open the city gate. Hearing Jiang Jing's promise to let him enter the city to transport grain, Cui Bo felt relieved and made up his mind that once he entered the city, he would immediately seize control of the county with 500 cavalry.
However, the other side wanted to open the city gate again tomorrow and wanted the Liaodong cavalry to stay overnight outside the city tonight. This really made the cavalry very angry.
"If Captain Cui and the brothers find it inconvenient to be outside the city, they can go back to Tianji Mountain first." Yun Lu said thoughtfully: "We will prepare vehicles and even help you load grain and grass into the truck. Captain Cui will take the people tomorrow.
Just come here and transport it away."
Cui Bo thought to himself that since the other party said this, entering the city tonight would definitely be impossible, but it was absolutely impossible to retreat to Tianji Mountain now.
He pondered for a moment and then said: "In that case, we will rest outside the city for the night. Mr. Yun and County Magistrate Jiang, I would like to ask you to help prepare the vehicles. We will enter the city tomorrow."
Yunlu didn't say much nonsense and took the people away.
Cui Bo could only let his soldiers rest outside the city.
Although the cavalry all complained, there was nothing they could do. Moreover, they thought they could go directly into the city, where they would have their own food and accommodation, so they didn't even bring dry food with them, and everyone could only stay hungry all night.
Fortunately, it is already August. Compared with the coldest months of winter, if you camp in the open air during this season, at least you don’t have to worry about freezing to death.
At first, many cavalrymen were still cursing, and some even said harsh words, saying that they would give General Long Ruijun a taste of the pain after entering the city tomorrow. By midnight, most of the soldiers had fallen asleep on the ground, and Cui Bo also fell asleep in a daze for a long time.
After a while, I heard a cry in my ears, and I immediately sat up. I saw several people surrounding me, and I didn't understand what was happening. I saw one person raised his hand and pointed to the county town and said: "Captain, look, the city.
....There seems to be something going on in the city!"
Cui Bo wiped his face to make himself more awake. Then he turned his head and looked, but he saw a fiery red sky above the county town. He was a little surprised. Then he faintly heard shouts coming from the city, and vaguely heard the sound coming from among them.
With the sound of the gong, he stood up and frowned: "What's going on?"
"Captain, it seems that something happened." Someone said, "And there was a big fire."
"There's a fire in the city?" Cui Bo said in shock.
"Captain, something is very strange." Someone beside him said: "Looking at the situation, the fire must be huge. We were refused permission to leave the city tonight, but a fire broke out in the city tonight. I think there must be something inside.
eccentric.....!"
Cui Bo had already run towards the city gate, approached the city gate, and shouted to the top: "What happened in the city?"
At this time, there were only two soldiers guarding the night at the top of the city. Cui Bo asked loudly, but the two soldiers did not say a word. They squatted down at the same time and hid their figures behind the wall. The meaning was obvious. Naturally, they did not want to do anything to Cui Bo.
Say one more word.
Cui Bo clenched his fists, and a dozen people followed behind him, all of them angry.
The soldiers of the Liaodong Army have always been superior to others, and everyone was already angry when they were blocked from the city. At this time, the soldiers on the city didn't show any respect and didn't even bother to say anything. This caused everyone's self-esteem to be hurt like never before.
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"Lieutenant, you are simply bullying someone too much." The grumpy man had already drawn his sword in his hand and said angrily: "When have our Liaodong Army been so insulted? Long Rui's army occupied the county seat, but we were refused entry. This
The tone is really intolerable."
"Colonel Lieutenant, let's go straight into the city." Someone even said, "Arrest Yun Shaoqing and the one named Jiang directly and hand them over to the Zhonglang General."
Someone else said: "Captain, Zhonglang will order us to enter the city and control the city no matter what happens. Now that we can't even enter the city gate, Zhonglang will investigate and we can't explain it!"
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"If Guochangwu County is really occupied by Long Rui's army, they will be at odds with the soldiers and horses in Songyang Grassland." He said with some solemn eyes: "In this case, our soldiers and horses will be in extremely dangerous situations.
situation, so they must not be allowed to occupy the city."
Of course Cui Bo knew the current importance of this city, but he also knew what the consequences would be if he attacked Changwu County at this time.
Long Rui's army is now in the city. They are also soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty. They took the lead and captured Changwu County. If they attack the city at this time, the Liaodong Army will not be able to take advantage of it. Moreover, the two sides will directly turn from tit-for-tat to full-scale fighting. The war will begin.
There is no room for maneuver.
"Don't make any noise." Hearing his subordinates shouting, Cui Bo stopped everyone, turned around and glanced at everyone, then looked at the city gate, and sneered: "What, you think you're going to fight in now? Do you know?
, if we attack the city at this time, we will be charged with rebellion. It’s not a big deal to be charged with this crime, but we don’t know the situation in the city for the time being, so we must not act rashly.” After a pause, he continued in a deep voice.
: "After dawn, we will go into the city to transport food. Then we will understand the situation in the city and then respond."
Everyone looked at each other and understood that what Cui Bo said was reasonable.
"Now is an emergency. We are moving, and Long Ruijun also has arrangements." Cui Bo said softly: "Both sides are affected by one move, and one careless move will lead to extremely serious consequences. Fighting
We must fight, but when to fight and how to fight are not decisions that can be made on impulse. When we enter the city tomorrow, we will definitely not come out again. We will send someone to report the situation to General Zhonglang, who will then
We will decide what to do next. Until then, we must not act rashly."
Since Cui Bo said this, no one dared to say any more.
After more than half an hour, the fire in the sky gradually dimmed until finally it could no longer be seen.
It was already past midnight, and Cui Bo ordered his cavalry to continue resting, waiting only to enter the city after dawn. However, not long after he lay down, he heard shouting from the top of the city, and it was Cui Bo who was shouting.
Cui Bo could only get up and walk to the bottom of the city. He looked up and saw the firelight on the city wall, but Magistrate Jiang appeared at the city wall.
"Captain Cui, Captain Cui." County Magistrate Jiang looked very anxious. When he saw Cui Bo walking to the bottom of the city, he said in a tearful tone: "Captain Cui, the lower official is guilty, the lower official is guilty!"
Jiang Jing inexplicably claimed to be guilty. Cui Bo was a little confused and asked: "County Magistrate Jiang, what happened? I saw fire in the city before, but there was a fire?"
"Exactly." Magistrate Jiang said: "Not only was there a fire, but it was a huge fire. It took a long time to put out the fire."
Cui Bo said: "Do you need us to go into the city to help?"
"The fire has been put out." Jiang Jing said: "But...hey, the granary has been completely burned down, and not even a grain of food can be saved."
Cui Bo's body shook, and he realized something, and said sharply: "Our grain and grass, Jiang Jing, is there something wrong with our thousands of stones of grain and grass? What was burned was your own granary, and it had nothing to do with us, right?"
"Captain Cui, the grain and grass you have hoarded are all in the county's granary." Jiang Jing said with a bitter face: "Not only has the county's grain been burned clean, but the thousands of stones of grain you have hoarded...
...They were all burned completely.”
At this time, a group of people had already come behind Cui Bo. They were all shocked when they heard this.
"Who burned the granary?" Someone had already shouted: "Didn't we leave a dozen brothers to guard the granary?"
"They were all killed." Jiang Jingdao: "We rushed to the granary and found that all the brothers you left to guard the granary were killed. The fire in the granary was raging. It took us a long time to put out the fire, but it was too late." He put his hands on the wall.
On the stack, he leaned forward and said: "I can conclude that all this is the work of bandits lurking in the city, and they are the same group of bandits who killed the former county magistrate." Yun Shaoqing was furious, and he gave up.
The officer has a message for the captain: He will find out those bandits at all costs and give an explanation to your department!"