No matter who betrayed Tangzhou City or himself, Li Kuo must hurry back and help at this time!
On the one hand, it is naturally because the Tangzhou generation is its foundation, and neither Yu nor Yu private Li Kuo can easily hand it out. More importantly, at this time, every citizen in Tangzhou city was treating him.
They believe that they can live in the war without worry. They cannot let their trust down or the promises they made back then.
Li Kuo made a promise to defend his home with a sword.
However, Li Kuo retreated from Ningling to the front line, but encountered a lot of trouble on the way. Since An Qingxu became emperor, the rebels' strategic attack center has shifted to Suiyang. Therefore, the two capitals left behind, Taiyuan and Hebei Road were eliminated.
Almost all the rebels pressed southward. Li Kuo had to make sure that he did not encounter a large number of rebels on his way back. This was not because he was afraid of fighting with the enemy, but to quickly return to Tangzhou City. Now Sun Xiaozhe
The troops are already at the city, and there is no room for a moment of hesitation.
Moreover, the strategic position of Tangzhou and Nanyang is also very important. If these two places are captured, you can enter Huainan Road through Xiangyang, which is roughly the same as the capture of Suiyang. Therefore, Li Kuo must not allow the rebels to open up a hole in this line.
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It would not be difficult if it was just to avoid the main force of the enemy. After all, this army is all light cavalry and has extremely strong mobility. The scout camp led by Xian Yu Yucheng is by Li Kuo's side, so as long as the post is working as a post
It is not difficult to avoid its edge if you are more diligent and complex. However, it is a bit difficult to maintain a very high marching speed while doing a good job in intelligence.
However, Li Kuo is a veteran of a hundred battles. In the battle of Shibao City, he led his army to attack Fuqi City, and he was very good at grasping when the army would march and when to rest. After two consecutive days of marching, the soldiers and soldiers
There are few complaints in the middle.
"Qilang, why not go to the small county town in front of us to rest." Zhou Wujue pointed to the black and gray city wall not far away and said in a harmonious voice. Now it is almost dusk, if you follow Qilang's temperament, you may still have to
March overnight and camp in the wilderness for a break until midnight.
The team has been marching urgently these two days, and the rest time is only two hours a day. Although everyone knows that the governor is anxious about the form of Tangzhou City, he is not anxious. If he rushes over like this, he will probably be exhausted without fighting with the rebels.
Down.
Li Kuo has been silent since he heard the news that Tangzhou City was surrounded. Now, when he heard Zhou Wuzui's persuasion, he glanced at the situation of his brothers in the army, and sighed softly: "In this way, let's go to the city to rest for a night."
"The governor has an order to go to the city to rest tonight! The governor has an order to go to the city to rest tonight!"
The personal soldiers ran wildly in the team, repeating Li Kuo's general over and over again, and a burst of cheers came as expected.
"Long live the governor, long live the governor, long live the governor"
This county town is called Shangcai, but I don’t know what ancient meaning it is.
The whole army worked hard for two days and two nights. After entering the county town, there was no time to care about the origin of the county name, and they all fell on the beds of the military camps in the city.
What made Li Kuo happy to arrive was that Shangcai County did not fall into the hands of the enemy. Although the county magistrate, county magistrate and other officials were all cut to death by the rebels, at least a ninth rank chief clerk named Feng was overtaken.
He took a group of yamen runners to recruit local tyrants and recruited strong men, which was also considered to be a conscientious person.
Of course, Shangcai City is not a strong city, and it is even more dilapidated than Mi County. The walls of the south city and a section of the east city have already collapsed due to long-term rain erosion, although Feng Zhubu also wanted to
He led the crowd to fill up this section of the city wall, but dragged it down for various reasons.
The chief clerk invited him warmly, but Li Kuo was naturally not willing to refuse.
One pot of turbid wine, two pots of yam soup, three plates of side dishes, four bowls of stir-frying balls, and five flavors mixed. (Note 1)
It's so sad and cute, so sad and touching.
When Li Kuo saw the so-called best food in Shangcai City, his eyes became wet. Last year, the rebels swept south and almost swept away all the food on Henan Road. The village could not store food. Everyone
It depends entirely on the storage of grain in the treasury of some large counties. But Henan Road has been a densely populated place since ancient times, and it can even be compared with Guanzhong. With so many mouths, how can the grain in the treasury be overcome by the past?
It's only March now, and the autumn harvest is still far away. It's the time when the green and yellow are not around. Everyone can only tighten their belts and grit their teeth and persevere.
And it was at this moment that Feng Zhubu presented this kind of delicacy to him on behalf of the people of the whole county. How could Li Kuo not be moved?
"Master Feng, you are too polite. Li just stays in the expensive place for a night, so he doesn't have to spend so much money." Li Kuo hugged the thin and black ninth-rank chief clerk in front of him, and indeed a gift. In his opinion,
This low-level chief clerk is much more realistic than some senior officials who are in vain.
The horsepower is seen from afar, and people's hearts are seen over time. Those important officials of the court may be able to add icing on the cake in the so-called prosperous times, but they will never be able to provide timely assistance in the court and the country is in danger.
I would rather let the world down than let the world down! Whenever they encounter chaos, they will only think of themselves.
Low-level officials like Feng Zhubu enjoyed the benefits given by the court completely inconsistent with his efforts, but they organized the people in the city to fight against the enemy without regrets. The taste made Li Kuo feel deeply moved.
"General Li, you can bear it. You are the savior of our whole city's elders!" As he spoke, Feng Zhubu fell to the ground and bowed to Li Kuoshen.
Although Li Kuo is far higher than Feng Zhubu in terms of grade and title, Li Kuo cannot accept the gift of an old man who is much bigger than himself in his grade.
"Please get up quickly, please get up quickly!"
Li Kuo hurried forward to help Feng Zhubu's body: "What do you have to say slowly? Why do you need to do this? Li can't bear it!"
"If you don't agree to stay and save the people of Cai Yushui, I will kneel down here for a long time!" Feng Zhubu was stubborn at this time, and he stood up straight and made his own request.
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"Oh, if you have anything to say, I'll promise you!" Li Kuo spread his hands helplessly and signaled to Feng Zhubu to get up to discuss
After listening to Feng Zhubu's confession, Li Kuozhi was indignant. It turned out that what Feng Zhubu had always been worried about was not the rebels' siege of cities and land, but a group of horse thieves who did everything they did.
"Zhengbu Feng, how many horse thieves are you talking about? Are they all locals?" Li Kuo asked in a deep voice, although he was about to rush back to Tangzhou City now, he ran into a collision on his way back.
When he comes to such a thing, he will never sit idly by.
"Hey, horse thieves get off the horses, horses are for the people, and horses are for the people, and horses are for the thieves. Of course, they are local people. As for the number of people, they are different. Sometimes there are only a thousand or eight hundred people, and sometimes there are three or four thousand riders.
What’s hateful is that they were still killing the generals all the way under the banner of rebels. Officials in ordinary counties were scared to their feet when they saw the flag of the Dayan Kingdom. How could they have the fighting spirit to resist? They just killed them all the way.
They exhausted all the food in the treasury near the prefectures and counties."
When Feng Zhubu heard this, he was indignant but he was helpless. Even if he knew that they were dressed as horse thieves, he said lightly, and he said lightly!
"Does the state capital ignore such a group of horse thieves?" Li Kuo became more and more angry as he heard it, and asked in a deep voice.
"Shut? They can't even handle An Lushan's rebels. How can they still have the energy to care about a group of horse thieves coming and going like the wind?" Feng Zhubu sneered softly: "To put it bluntly, if it weren't for the state."
Someone in the mansion secretly talked with horse thieves. How could these horse thieves rush into the gap in the city accurately and accurately and looted again and again?”
Li Kuo's heart sank and said, "What Feng Zhubu means is that there is an insider."
"Oh, I have seen a lot of things like this. In which dynasty and which generation are fewer people who are robbed. No matter how big a mountain of grain is, I can't help but dig like this. Today, I will be a shovel, tomorrow, if so,
There may not be anything in the peaceful years, but if it reaches such a wasteland year, it would be a life-threatening death.”
Zhubu Feng just shook his head heavily, looking very helpless.
"Zhengbu Feng, tell me, what should I do to help you! Since Mr. Li saw something unclean today, I have to take care of it to the end!" Li Kuo clenched his fists tightly and said word by word.
Feng Zhubu said with a hint of chin: "Sometimes ago, this group of horse thieves had passed by the county town. Their head shot a feather arrow into the city, which was an ultimatum for the old and young men in the city, saying that it would be the next time.
When I came, I didn’t prepare enough food and young girls, so I had to attack the city and massacre all the people in the city. You have also seen the situation in Shangcai City, how can I withstand their impact?"
Li Kuo raised the corner of his mouth slightly and said in a cold voice: "Is this final deadline tomorrow?"
Note 1: The dumpling is a special food in the northwest, defined as "a paste made of mixed noodles". Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia are very delicious. One is the water-sie city, and the other is the drifting fish, including corn dumplings and
Potato sauté. I am greedy, so I recommend the delicious food in my hometown to everyone!
ps: Today I have been working hard, and my body is exhausted. The more I go back, the harder I write. Alas, Changan rice is expensive, it is not easy to be huge.