After the time entered mid-May, the rain gradually decreased, but the ground was still muddy. After the scorching sun was exposed, the post road, which had been destroyed beyond recognition by carts, people and horses, still needed to be tidied up, which was very troublesome.
More and more troops are entering Ruzhou.
After the Shunyi army, which was the fastest, captured Liang County, they moved down the river, captured Jiacheng, and advanced further to Xiangcheng County.
The Weisheng Army took control of Lushan and Longxing Counties, and the siege of Ye County entered a new stage. It is said that the Liang Army's morale is low and they may not be able to hold on for too long.
Zhu Quanzhong once inflicted huge casualties on the Xia army by defending key nodes, and it was delayed for several years. Now he is spitting out one after another. The troops guarding the city pass have become lone troops one by one, dying or surrendering, which has caused a great impact on morale.
A big bruise.
This is the result of the changing general trend and there is no solution.
Qi Xinzhang's Feilong Army's left wing originally planned to take advantage of the fact that the sky was getting clear and the enemy's main force had not yet been assembled to sneak out and jump to the outside line, but Li Tangbin refused.
Li Tangbin only agreed that they would use Yangzhai County as the rear and go forward as infantry to harass the retreating Liang army and kill as many as they could. Once the Liang people showed signs of a large army gathering, not only could they not jump out, but they would shrink back to you.
No fighting is allowed within the state.
By then, if it is successful, Xiangcheng, Jiacheng, Liang, and Linru will all give up, and most of the troops will retreat to the vicinity of the three passes in Luonan, luring the main force of Liang's army to pursue them.
The Feilong Army went south to Tangzhou and took a detour to raid the enemy's rear.
This order must be implemented even if Qi Banzhang understood it. Shao Shude did not interfere with Li Tangbin because he dreamed of letting the main force of Liang Jun come in.
Ding Hui escaped by boat before, which was extremely fast. It rained heavily. The Feilong Army failed to play its due role and failed to surround the tens of thousands of Liang soldiers. The expected encirclement and annihilation battle turned into a pursuit and rout battle. It was very
pity.
If Commander Liang Jun foolishly leads his main force into Ruzhou for the second time, then the big Ding Hui will never let them escape this time. And if he can annihilate 100,000 people in one battle, Zhu Quanzhong's life will begin to countdown.
Well, Liang Ren shouldn't be that stupid, but Shao Shude doesn't mind giving it a try, what if?
Shao Shude has been working near Guangchengze these days. To be precise, he hunts during the day and soaks in hot springs at night.
But business has to be done.
"Your Majesty, Zhu Quanzhong's excavation of the river is a big deal." Chen Cheng pointed to the map and said: "The flood swept through Huazhou and caused harm to hundreds of miles. Hua, Pu, Cao, Yun, and Yanqi states all suffered from it.
It was harmful, and the scholars and the people complained."
Zhu Quanzhong dug some river embankments, and the river flowed eastwards from the south to the north, carrying Huazhou City. This guy almost turned Huazhou into a sandbar in the middle of the river, surrounded by water towns and Zeguo, which have just receded. But how can I say it?
Well, Huazhou, the worst-hit area, has turned into a yellow mud pond, and Puzhou is not much better. Northern Caozhou, most of Yunzhou, part of Yanzhou and part of Qizhou have all been affected to varying degrees. People are currently scrambling to clear their fields.
water to see if we can recover some losses.
But no matter what, Huazhou is expected to be in trouble this year. Let alone a total harvest, the grain harvest will definitely be greatly affected.
"I'm afraid people in many places still don't know that Zhu Quanzhong ordered the river to be dug." Hu Zhen also said at the side.
"Your Majesty, you might as well send people to various towns to publicize it. Let's say that Zhu Quanzhong was so crazy that he dug a dyke on the Yellow River, causing loss of life and harming thousands of miles."
Shao Shude nodded and said: "Since Zhu Quanzhong dares to do it, he probably doesn't care anymore. Let's help him and make him stand up to the wind and stink for ten miles, hate people and ghosts, and be alienated from morality."
It's one thing for the Yellow River to burst its banks due to floods, but it's another thing to actively dig the river. Isn't this something that a serious person with a moral bottom line can do? Isn't it right for people to do this kind of thing?
Are they grass bandits? No, grass bandits may not do this! Huang Chao and Qin Zongquan didn't dig the Yellow River. Zhu Quanzhong, are you doing personnel affairs?
Of course Zhu Quanzhong could argue that this was a "natural breach of the embankment"
, not man-made. But some things can be hidden for a while, but not forever, not to mention that there will be people who will help publicize the scandals he has done. People whose downstream interests have been harmed also need an outlet to vent their anger, so Zhu Quanzhong will take his time to deal with it.
Let's do this nonsense and keep you exhausted.
"Hurry up and deal with this matter." Shao Shude said: "If we can make Quanzhong lose people's hearts, our attacks in the future will be smoother."
All in all, Shao Shude was very interested in anything that could damage Zhu Quanzhong's prestige and reputation.
Isn't it nice to arrange short compositions for me every day? The saint's concubine almost made me "sleep" all over, and even the prince is said to be my son. I will give you a big one this time.
After talking about this, we talked about some things in the south.
There is news from Jiangling Mansion that Li Kan has not seen anyone for many days and is said to be bedridden and on his deathbed. There is a fear of chaos in Jingnan.
What can be done about this matter? We can only observe it closely, and we can't spare much energy for the time being. If Zhao Kuangning is interested, maybe he can be encouraged to intervene. Anyway, the Zhao brothers have always been interested in Jiangling.
Liu Jianfeng, the military commander of the Wu'an Army, died and was killed by the leading soldier Chen Su.
The cause of death was very bloody. The wife of Chang Zhibing Chen Fan was beautiful, and Liu Jianfeng had sex with her. Chen Fan was furious and killed Liu Jianfeng with iron laos, and then was killed by the military generals.
Those who are straight will be on guard duty for a long time. Liu Jianfeng is also very good at playing with his sergeant's wife who is on guard duty.
Dare I ask King Xia what he thinks of this? Well, King Xia thinks this is an accident and there is nothing to say. If you ask again, King Xia will be anxious. The Chu family is already pregnant. Zhang Quanyi, you have the ability to kill me.
!
Qizhou actually surrendered to Yang Xingmi!
Huai soldiers besieged Qizhou, and General Jia Gongduo led troops from other places to help the city. The city was impregnable.
Unable to defeat them with a hard attack, Yang Xingmi became anxious and felt that Qu Zhang was not capable, so he transferred Zhu Yanshou to take command. Zhu Yanshou knew that Qizhou governor Feng Jingzhang, state general Jia Gongduo and others were all Cai thieves, and the key sergeants under his command were also Cai thieves.
He was not easy to fight, so he sent an envoy to surrender and agreed to marry Feng Jingzhang.
At the same time, Cai Zaiyong, a general in Yang Xingmi's army, finally persuaded the two men to accept the city and surrender.
Yang Xing secretly assigned Feng Jingzhang as the governor of the Huainan shogunate on the left, and Jia Gongduo as the guard general on the right. From then on, Qizhou was taken over.
Shao Shude was silent after reading it. How should I put it, although he knew that Qizhou would not be able to withstand the Huai army's offensive sooner or later, the process of Yang Xingmi's victory always left people speechless.
Huangzhou was conquered by Du Hong and surrendered to him on his own initiative. Qizhou was captured only after his fellow villagers persuaded him to surrender, and Zhu Yanshou and Feng Jingzhang became their own children.
How can we expand our territory like this? Shouldn't we fight it out with swords and guns?
"Chen Changshi, you have to deal with these nonsense. I want to keep an eye on Zhu Quanzhong." Shao Shude said, "I'm afraid that the long nights and many dreams will cause unintended consequences."
Master Pang looked forward to the stars and the moon, and finally waited for supplies of food and grass, which were delivered by Xiao Fu himself.
As soon as the food and grass arrived, the army set out and arrived in Xinzheng County on May 13th.
At this time, the Jianrui Army was still moving towards Xinzheng, while the Changjian, Jiama and other armies had already left Bianzhou and arrived at Weishi County.
"The thief general Qi Xinzhang was very hateful. He suddenly attacked from Yangzhai, intercepted part of the supplies of the Youguo army, and captured and killed more than 3,000 people." Pang Shigu sat in the county office and sneered again and again: "Ding Hui didn't know how to fight.
What kind of battle is it, and who is arranged to win the battle?"
"We withdrew from Ruzhou without firing a single shot. Although we had orders from King Liang, we really couldn't fight well." Zhang Shensi agreed.
Since his defeat in the Battle of Heyang, Zhang Shensi's status in the Liang army has plummeted. He has completely become a vassal of Pang Shigu, and has no longer regained the prestige of the leader of the army.
There are many people in Ding Hui's headquarters, but the loss of land in the east and west has led to the loss of troops and generals. Only about 21,000 of the 30,000 yamen soldiers have returned. Soldiers from prefectures and counties in Ruzhou and countrymen from various local regiments in Xuanwu prefectures have also been lost.
The loss was more than 6,000, which is not a heavy loss.
The Tutuan Xiangyong who were withdrawn from Ying, Xu, Chen, Song and other prefectures have been released one after another. In other words, Ding Hui only has more than 20,000 troops on hand - if the Ye County defenders do not have
If you can come back.
"That's all, the matter has come to this, there is nothing more to say." Pang Shigu was actually very happy to see Ding Hui defeated, but naturally he would not show it on the outside. He only heard him say: "The king ordered me to assist Ding Hui to evacuate Xuzhou.
, Now that the Youguo army has retreated across the Yingshui River and is facing off against the bandits across the river, this task has been completed. However,
Having said this, Pang Shigu glanced at Xiao Fu and said, "Your Majesty also allows me to make decisions on the fly and act expediently. What should we do in this situation? Doctor Xiao, do you have any strategy?"
Xiao Fu sighed after hearing this, with a sad look on his face, which made people feel that he was worried about the war.
"Back to Pangdutou, the main force of the Youguo Army is still there. After taking some time to reorganize it, it is still a strong force." Xiao Fu said: "The generals of Dutou have 30,000 troops, the sharp army Zhang Jun also has 20,000 troops, and Wang Zhongshi also leads 30,000 troops.
The rest of the army arrived at starry night. In this way, the army has exceeded 100,000, and among them, no less than 70,000 are capable of fighting. If Chen can recruit another 350,000 to 50,000 people, it will be an army of more than 100,000, which is worthy of a battle. Chen Xu common people
They are fierce and durable, and are not bad at fighting. With such a powerful soldier in Pang Dutou, there are many things that can be done.
"Doctor Xiao, what do you mean, I should wait until the army is gathered, then march westward and attack Ruzhou?" Pang Shigu asked.
"Of course." Xiao Fu replied: "After the battle of Huazhou River, hundreds of miles of fertile fields turned into a water town. The thief general Liang Hanke didn't have much place to drive. Cao and Su were not under much pressure to camp.
The Western Front created a good opportunity. It doesn't come around very often, and once you miss it, it's hard to say when it will come back again."
"No, Du Tou!" Before Pang Shigu could say anything, Zhang Shensi stood up to dissuade him. He only heard him say: "Today is different from the past. After the three passes of Luonan were occupied by thieves, Ruzhou was already a dead place.
, it is easy for the Xia people to attack from both the north and the south. Ding Hui managed to escape, and now he wants to go in again. What's the point?'
Pang Shigu nodded slightly.
When Xiao Fu saw this, he immediately handed over his hands and confessed.
"It doesn't matter, Doctor Xiao is also worried about the situation of the war." Pang Shigu stood up, smiled gently, and said: "Forget it, just settle down in Chen Xu Jian. Since the thieves have captured Ruzhou, it will not be so easy.
If we let go, there will definitely be more attacks in the future. Xu and Caizhou are the focus of the next stage of operations. The thieves will definitely attack, there is no doubt that what we have to do is to confine the thieves to Ruzhou."
"Yang Shihou's thousands of soldiers and horses, let him go back wherever they came from."
"Tell Zhang Yun to hurry up, what's the point of dawdling?
"Wang Zhongshi is so powerful and Yan's swordsmen are so good that I can be of great use to them. Let them stop delaying.
"The war with the Shao thieves is still going on." Pang Shigu said: "I am ashamed of the battle at Heqing. It may be a snowstorm now."