Chapter 82 Destruction (Added update for the serious little soap leader)
On February 26, a large number of sergeants crossed the river via Yucheng, traveled eastward, and arrived in Qizhou.
Shao Shude was reviewing the sergeants outside the city with great fanfare.
The conquest of the counties in Qizhou is coming to an end.
Needless to say, Yucheng County was the first to surrender. Linyi and Linji counties surrendered after sending Tielin troops, and each sent 5,000 dendrobiums of millet and wheat to Licheng.
Zhangqiu County is more troublesome, because Qingzhou Rangers appeared in the east of the county, and the county is wavering. Wang Jiao, the new commander of the Qizhou Prefecture Army, killed more than ten thieves with bows, arrows, and spears at the foot of Changbai Mountain.
Qiu Ling was greatly frightened, so he surrendered the county.
Changbai Mountain, also known as Changbai Mountain, has been a famous mountain since ancient times and is known as the "Video Mountain of Mount Tai". In the Spring and Autumn Period, Chen Zhongzi hid here. There is an ancient spring post at the southern foot, located next to the post road leading to Zizhou.
Except for Changqing, the other five counties in Qizhou have been pacified. However, except for Licheng County, there are no troops stationed there. The original team is left in office, which is just a matter of thought.
After reviewing the troops, Shao Shude ordered the Qizhou Prefecture Army and Tianxing Army to guard Licheng. The Qizhou Prefecture Army currently has 1,500 people, of which 200 are newly arrived soldiers and 300 are Tielin Army.
The rest were soldiers from Qizhou.
Li Yanwei, the Yameni military envoy, led his troops to the lower village of Lishan.
Lishan is located five miles south of the city. Qizhou Prefecture's Licheng was called Lixia in ancient times, and the name comes from this.
There are 6,500 soldiers in the prefecture city, and 4,800 troops are stationed in Lishan Village. With these 10,000 people, the defense is enough.
Shao Shude led 12,000 Tu generals, 800 personal soldiers, 700 Yinanzhi, and more than 4,000 Tielin troops. A total of nearly 18,000 soldiers and horses headed west to Changqing County.
The primary goal is to destroy the enemy troops that retreated to the east.
On February 29, the army arrived at Dongxia Village in Changqing County.
At this time, Shao Shude received several messages.
General Liu Wei of Qi sent troops to attack Licheng. Li Yanwei's Yamen army was defeated and he lost two thousand soldiers. However, the city and the stockade were still intact and did not fall into the hands of the enemy. After further questioning, it turned out that Liu Wei provoked Li Yanwei with his defeated troops.
Yanwei ignored him and led his troops to pursue him. He was ambushed by the thieves and returned in defeat.
Damn you, uncle! Shao Shude was furious and decided to finish Zhu Qiong's attack and reorganize the Yamen army on the spot.
The second news is not bad.
Ye Liyu led the right wing of Tielin's army toward Yanzhou. Ge Congzhou and others besieged the city for a long time, but could not overcome it. The sergeants made a noise, so they relieved the siege. Yan Bao, the city guard, led five thousand soldiers to pursue.
In Kangfu, they were besieged by nearly 30,000 people from the Longxiang, Guangsheng, Shenjie, Longhu and Longhu armies. Yan Bao escaped on his own and ran back to Rencheng.
Kangfu's danger is that cars cannot square the track and horses cannot run parallel to each other. It is in the southwest of Rencheng County.
After the Yan soldiers were defeated, Long Xiang's four armies fought back. The Yan soldiers abandoned the Yangmen Bridge camp and retreated back to the city. There were only more than 3,000 yamen soldiers and 3,000 Tutuan villagers, and they did not dare to go out to fight again.
In the middle of the river, in the direction of Heyang, the Jin soldiers took advantage of the terrain and kept going down the mountain, making it impossible to defend against them. But generally speaking, although the Jin people had the initiative, they fought with Wuwei Army and Tianxiong Army with each other winning and losing, and the scale of the battle was very small, which is surprising.
Very strange.
Shao Shude had received news before that the Jin army began to mobilize and transfer supplies after the Shangyuan Festival. By early February, they should have completed preparations for the decisive battle, but where is their main force? They did not attack Jinjiang or Heyang. Li Keyong
Where are you going to fight?
The last news is about Wei Bo.
After the Wei army gathered in Bozhou, they found that General Tu was "terribly frightened" and "retreated to Qizhou." Weizhou felt confident that they had won, and their attitude became tougher. Shao Shude couldn't laugh or cry after seeing this, and thought that maybe they should be taught a lesson.
At the same time, he also doubted the route of the Jin army. Could it be that my sworn brother came straight to me? Does he hate me so much?
"Your Majesty!" Wei Boqiu, the envoy of the Dingnan Army, brought people to the camp to pay homage.
There was another person who came with him, namely Dizhou General Xia Housheng.
"See Your Highness." Xia Housheng bowed and saluted.
"Your surname is Xiahou, is it after Xiahoucheng?" Shao Shude asked his soldiers to serve tea.
Xiahou Cheng was originally a general of Li Shidao's ministry. The imperial court issued an imperial edict to attack Ziqing. Xiahou Cheng was captured by Wei Bo's army during the battle. Later, Li Shidao gave him his head. Wei Bo's Jiedu envoy Tian Hongzheng suspected that the head was not genuine and asked Xiahou Cheng to come and identify it.
"Looking at his face when he is mature, the trombone has been extinct for a long time, so he hugs his head, licks the dirt in his eyes, and cries again."
Tian Hongzheng was moved by this, but he was righteous but not responsible.
Shao Shude is familiar with history books, and when he heard this surname, he immediately thought of it.
"Exactly." Xia Housheng replied.
"There are so many righteous people in Qi." Shao Shude said with emotion.
As the saying goes, what is lacking will be supplemented. In this day and age, what is lacking is loyal and righteous people. Even if Xia Houcheng and Wang Yanzhang are not in their own camp, it will not affect his appreciation.
"Has Shao Shijun thought about it? Have you talked about everything about Dizhou?" Shao Shude turned to Wei Boqiu and asked.
"Your Majesty, I have informed Shao Shijun." Wei Boqiu replied.
Lu Yanwei, the governor of the Yichang Army, sent troops south to besiege Dizhou. This happened just now. Shao Shude asked Wei Boqiu to inform Shao Bo, who was trapped in Changqing, to see how he would react.
"Your Highness is a man of faith. My family convinced you that Dizhou was under siege." Xia Housheng said, "There are not many soldiers left, and Dizhou is in danger, so I am very anxious."
"How many soldiers are there in Dizhou?" Shao Shude asked.
"Only three thousand." Xia Housheng sighed and said, "All the county soldiers have been brought here, and most of them have already fallen."
"The military discipline of the Yichang Army is not very good." Shao Shude said.
Xia Housheng sighed again.
"What's the use of sighing?" Shao Shude picked up the teacup and asked calmly: "Have you made up your mind, Commander Shao? Are you willing to surrender? If you surrender, after defeating Zhu Qiong, I will march eastward to protect Dizhou.
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"I am willing to surrender." Xia Housheng replied: "Shijun Shao has said that I don't expect anything else now. I only want to protect my family and the cemetery."
"That's very good." Shao Shude said happily: "Shao Bo understands the great righteousness. I will appoint him as the governor of Dazhou. He will have no shortage of wealth and honor."
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On the bank of Juigou Moor, Zhu Qiong and Zhu Xuan were relatively speechless.
After running all the way eastward, I was still blocked here.
They have been very careful and tried their best to walk along the mountain road so that the Xia army's cavalry could not take advantage of it. But everything has advantages and disadvantages. Although it is safer to go this way, the speed is very slow. So far, they have only walked more than forty miles, and then they were
blocked.
Juigou is located fifty miles southwest of Changqing County, with a radius of about a hundred miles. It faces mountains to the south and has ditches nearby. It is a very good agricultural zone.
Nearly ten thousand troops were trapped here, and the provisions they carried were limited, less than half a month's supply. They were at the end of their rope.
Zhu Xuan now regrets it again.
He had previously wanted to find an opportunity to seize Zhu Qiong's military power, so he accompanied him all the way. But now he found out that he was afraid that even the little capital he had was going to be lost. What a damn thing!
"Why don't you surrender to Shao Thief and see if I can still be the governor of Qizhou? With so many soldiers, Shao Thief can't kill them all, right?" Zhu Qiong hesitated and said.
Changqing County had surrendered, and thousands of Dizhou soldiers came out of the city to set up strongholds and joined the ranks of the Qizhou soldiers besieging them.
There are still a large number of Xia soldiers in front, seemingly tens of thousands of them. There are also pursuers coming from behind. Zhu Qiong feels that with the low morale of the Qizhou soldiers, this battle will probably be over and there is no chance.
"What a beautiful idea!" Zhu Xuan sneered and asked: "Thief Shao will have the upper hand now, how can he open his mouth and let you separate one side? Don't think about good things, it's better to see how to break out of the encirclement."
Shao Shude conquered the four towns of Dongdu, Xuanwu, Fengguo, and Yunzhou without setting up an independent vassal town. He held them all firmly in his hands. This was something that everyone could see.
If he was willing to open his mouth and compromise, Weibo, Ziqing, Taining and other towns might have surrendered by now. For them, it would not be bad to become a vassal vassal town when they were forced to do nothing.
But the Shao thieves did not relent, so the towns were in despair and had no choice but to resist until they finally surrendered.
"Zi Qing is on the side, and Li Keyong will go south at any time. Maybe Shao Thief will agree?" Zhu Qiong's words seemed a bit self-deceiving, and he smiled bitterly after saying it.
"Don't think about it." Zhu Xuan continued to sneer: "Shao Thief wants to completely pacify the world, not to make a mess. If he is willing to let go, the towns in Hebei will not need to fight, but will pay him one by one.
Provide convenience to defeat Li Keyong. But most of the Shao thieves have no confidence in their own son and feel that he cannot surrender these vassal towns. After his death, the towns rebelled, the world overthrew, and the second generation of the Shao family dynasty died."
"Can't Shao Thief be given a chance?" Zhu Qiong's voice was choked with sobs: "I have no objection, I just want to use Qizhou to provide for my retirement. Isn't this okay?"
Zhu Xuan stopped talking.
Zhu Qiong was weak-minded and not a good man. He secretly thought about some way to seize his military power. As a result, he took more troops and ran away, looking for an opportunity to make a comeback.
"Dongdongdong..." The war drums sounded, that was from the east.
"Kill him and his head will roll!"
"The sudden general is here, the thief will die!"
There were roars one after another not far away. The Xia army was determined to fight and their morale was high. When the Qizhou soldiers in Juigou Po heard this, their expressions changed.
"Dongdongdong..." War drums also sounded from the west.
"The National Defense Army is here, and the thieves are here to take their lives!"
"We are here to support the Japanese army, and we are going to make a big profit today."
The shouts of killing came one after another. The pursuers who had been fighting with them for many days arrived. When the soldiers heard this, their morale became even lower. Some people were already crying secretly.
Zhu Qiong asked someone to put on his armor and stomach, and went to patrol the camp with his own soldiers, suppressing the panicked sergeants.
Zhu Xuan sighed secretly and found his cronies.
"Where's Zhu Han?" he asked, already having an ominous premonition in his heart. Could this guy have run away?
"I don't know."
"He's still there this morning."
"It seems that I took someone to scout, but I don't know why I didn't come back."
The soldiers said all at once.
Fuck! Zhu Xuan is sure that this guy ran away looking for an opportunity. There are mountains to the south, who can find him if he hides in there?
"Pack your things and prepare to run!" Zhu Xuan ordered.
He still has nearly 3,000 men, of which 2,000 are infantry and the rest are cavalry. After running away this time, I don’t know how many people will be left. Alas!
Zhu Qiong's heart is not strong, but not everyone in the world is as hard-hearted as iron. It's going to rain and my mother wants to get married, so let him go. Anyone who can follow her will be counted as one, and I will give them wealth in the future.
"Kill!" A fierce battle has begun. The Xia army is attacking from both sides, and the offensive is like an overwhelming mountain.
Zhu Xuan climbed up a high slope and saw that the Qizhou soldiers only resisted for a moment and then retreated.
One village was lost, two villages were lost, three villages were lost...
"A bunch of losers, their defeat is certain!" Zhu Xuan went down the high slope, found his own soldiers, and fled towards Nanshan with his life in hand with those who were willing to follow him.
The army of tens of thousands was completely defeated.