Just as Chao Yong and the others were about to leave the house, they saw a team of law enforcement members rushing in.
The law enforcement team patrolling along the street saw that the gate of Chaihuang City was violently destroyed and thought it was a robbery by insurgents. When they saw the three of them, Chao Yong, they hurriedly saluted.
Chao Yong nodded and said, "This is Chaihuangcheng's house. Wu Song just killed two scoundrels who abused women. You can tell by going to the back garden and taking a look."
After Yin Tianxi died, several of the remaining rogues also committed suicide, but two of them suddenly lost the courage to commit suicide and knelt down to beg for mercy from Chao Yong and the others.
Wu Song had already suppressed his anger, so he went up and killed the two of them with two cuts.
Soon, the law enforcement team came out of the back garden, and they also questioned the surviving woman in the house.
Chao Yong also told them to hunt down the escaped idlers, so he walked to the government office with Wu Song and Shi Qian.
Halfway through, he saw one of Chao Gai's soldiers coming in a hurry and reported: "The King of Heaven invites the three leaders to go to the government office hall to discuss matters."
Chao Yong knew that something big was happening again, so he hurried to the lobby with Wu Song and Shi Qian.
When I arrived at the lobby, I saw that all the leaders had arrived.
Chao Gai signaled the three of them to sit down, and then said: "Just now, the military advisor sent people to interrogate Gao Lian. In addition to asking for help from Dongchang Prefecture and Qizhou, he also asked for help from Tokyo and Daming Prefecture. Daming Prefecture reinforcements will probably arrive in two or three days.
, so we called everyone together to discuss countermeasures."
As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Tang said: "We have discussed deeply, so we will wait here. It will not be too late to defeat them before leaving."
Yang Zhi heard this and said: "I have been in the army of Daming Prefecture. The two commanders there, Li Cheng and Wen Da, were both brave enough to be worthy of ten thousand men, and they had 20,000 forbidden troops under their command. Cai Jing also gave double the military pay to the four auxiliary forbidden troops.
The most powerful among them is probably the Fourth Auxiliary Forbidden Army. If they fight, the casualties may be high."
Chao Yong also said: "In my opinion, it is better to avoid it. Now we are already in the hinterland of Hebei. If we are held back by the Daming Forbidden Army, and Tokyo orders the Hebei frontier army to attack again, we will fall into a tight siege. It is better to retreat to Liangshan.
, if they dare to pursue you, it won’t be too late to fight them again.”
When Wu Yong heard this, he frowned and said, "In this case, Gaotangzhou's money and food will not be able to be moved back."
Chao Gai did not attach much importance to money and food, and said: "Tomorrow we will clean up some of the big households in the city that have done the most harm to the people. We will return to the mountains early the next day."
The next day, the leaders of Liangshan held a public trial in Gaotang Prefecture, beheaded several of the city's most outraged wealthy families, and distributed part of the money and food in the city to the poor people.
Lin Chong and others marched all night. After arriving at Dongchang Mansion, Dongchang Mansion was not on guard. Gong Wang and Ding Desun directly asked the city defender commander to open the city gate. The Liangshan army rushed in and took control of Dongchang Mansion.
On the third day, Chao Gai led his army to withdraw from Gaotang Prefecture and come to Dongchang Prefecture.
But Liang Taishu, who was left behind in Daming Palace, was Cai Jing's son-in-law. After Cai Jing became an official, he restrained himself a lot and did not dare to act as wildly as before. After receiving Gao Lian's request for help, he sent Li Cheng to lead 10,000 imperial troops to rescue Gaotang Prefecture.
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Li Cheng was afraid that Liangshan would defeat Gaotang Prefecture, so he asked the vanguard Suo Chao to lead three thousand troops and horses to rescue Gaotang Prefecture first. He led his own army and came later.
After receiving the general's order, Suo Chao immediately ordered three thousand soldiers and horses to attack Gaotang Prefecture.
Traveling in a hurry, I saw that the city of Gaotangzhou had appeared in the distance, but I had not yet encountered the soldiers and horses of Liangshan, and there was no sound of fighting.
Wang Ding, the first general under Suo Chao's command, said: "General, something is wrong with the situation. Perhaps Liangshan's troops have already broken through Gaotang Prefecture. Why don't you, General, take people to inquire about the situation in Gaotang Prefecture and then decide on the movement of the army."
Suo Chao also felt that the silence was a bit scary, so he reined in his horse and said: "Take a hundred horse troops to check outside Gaotangzhou City, be careful of ambush."
Wang Ding immediately led his 100 cavalry troops to Gaotang Prefecture, while Suo Chao commanded the army to set up a formation to prevent Liangshan troops from raiding.
Wang Ding quickly rushed to the outside of Gaotang Prefecture with a hundred horse troops, but saw that there were neither Liangshan flags nor imperial flags on the city gate, but the city gates were wide open, and many people were coming in and out, and there seemed to be no panic.
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When Wang Ding arrived at the city gate with his horse, the people saw them but hid on the side of the road, for fear of blocking their way and being knocked over by their horses.
Wang Ding reined in his horse, clasped his fists at a commoner and said, "We are the imperial army of Daming Prefecture, and we are here to relieve the siege of Gaotang Prefecture. Did the Liangshan bandits retreat on their own?"
Seeing the officer's question, the common people hurriedly bent down and carefully replied: "Go back to the army, the Liangshan soldiers and horses broke into Gaotang Prefecture the day before yesterday. Yesterday they killed many corrupt officials and evil gentry in the city. This morning they moved dozens of carts of money and food and left."
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"How did they break the city?"
"It is said that Dongchang Prefecture soldiers and horses managed to open the city gate, and Liangshan soldiers and horses took the opportunity to attack the city."
Wang Ding was still worried after hearing this. He rode into the city and ran around again. When he saw that there was no trace of Liangshan soldiers and horses in the city, he led his people to report Suo Chao.
As soon as Suo Chao heard that the Liangshan troops had plundered Gaotang Prefecture and left, he immediately said: "The Liangshan bandits have moved a lot of money and food, so their march must be slow. We will catch up with them and kill them without leaving a trace."
Wang Ding frowned and said: "The general order we received is to rescue Gaotang Prefecture. I'm afraid it's inappropriate to pursue and kill the Liangshan bandits without authorization."
Suo Chao was extremely impatient and said: "The fighter plane disappeared in a flash. When I asked King Li Tian for instructions to pursue again, I'm afraid the Liangshan bandits had already returned to Liangshan. You just need to follow my orders. I will send someone to report to King Li."
, ask him to directly intercept the Liangshan soldiers and horses. Zhou Wen, go and report to King Li Tian, and the rest will follow me to pursue the Liangshan soldiers and horses."
After saying that, Suo Chao took the lead and left.
When Wang Ding saw this, he had no choice but to lead his cavalry to catch up.
"Report, a soldier is catching up."
Chao Yong, Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, Yang Zhi, Qin Ming, and Hua Rong led three thousand soldiers and horses to break up the rear, in case any soldiers and horses chased them and disrupted the army escorting money and grain in front.
When he heard that there were pursuers, he quickly took up his position.
Suo Chao's soldiers and horses have also detected soldiers and horses in front of them to intercept them. Seeing that his soldiers and horses have been chasing for half a day, their physical strength is already a little exhausted, so they have to set up their battle formations and prepare to kill some Liangshan bandit leaders, which has damaged Liangshan's morale, and then cover up and kill the bandits.
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The two armies were facing each other. When Suo Chao saw Yang Zhi, he couldn't help but stepped out of the battle and cursed: "Yang Zhi, you are an ungrateful person. Mr. Liang treats you very well. How come you colluded with the Liangshan thieves to rob the birthday card?"
Yang Zhi rode out of the battle and said: "The matter of the birthday card is indeed because Yang Zhi fell into the scheme of King Chao Tianwang and others, but it is not that Yang Zhi is ungrateful."
Seeing that Yang Zhi still dared to argue, Suo Chao cursed: "You guys still dare to argue. If you hadn't colluded with Chao Gai and others, why would you be working with them now?"
When Yang Zhi heard this, he couldn't help but froze. Although he was later invited to Liangshan by Chao Yong, looking at Suo Chao's appearance, he probably wouldn't believe it no matter what he said. Moreover, today's battle is inevitable, so it would be useless to say more. (To be continued.)
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