Chapter 585 Making a feint to the east and attacking in the west

Chapter 585 Making a feint to the east and attacking in the west

Chapter 585 Making a feint to the east and attacking in the west
Douzigang is located in the southern part of Bohai County, on the northern bank of the Yellow River estuary. It is actually a depression and has nothing to do with gang. Due to the backflow of seawater, the land in this area is particularly barren and only a few beans can be grown, hence the name.

It is also because the land is barren and difficult to survive that an uninhabited area of ​​hundreds of miles is formed.

Liu Badao led his army to hide in this uninhabited area. Because the imperial court forcibly conscripted civilians to go to Liaodong, a large number of people fled to Douzigang and were incorporated into Liu Badao's army, bringing Liu Badao's military strength to its peak of more than 100,000 people.

At this time, Zhang Xutuo led an army of 30,000 to suppress Liu Badao, but the more important reason was that the barren land could not support more than 100,000 people. After only a few months of strength, Liu Badao's army fell apart and split into more than a dozen teams.

But even if they were split into more than a dozen armies, the barren Douzigang still could not feed them, and more than a dozen armies soon abandoned Douzigang and went to join Dou Jiande.

There were only more than 10,000 people under Liu Badao left in Douzigang area. Although Zhang Xutuo withdrew his troops, the people around Douzigang had all fled, and Liu Badao could not survive.

At this time, Liu Badao looked around and found that the rebellions in various places had already escalated and he was seriously lagging behind. Meng Haigong occupied Dongping County, Xu Yuanlang occupied Lu County, and Dou Jiande occupied Xindu County. They all occupied counties and proclaimed themselves kings, but he was still hiding in the barren wasteland and suffering.

Liu Badao realized that he could also occupy counties and become king. Liu Badao could certainly occupy the Bohai Army. On the one hand, the population of Bohai County was too small. On the other hand, he also realized that if he developed in Hebei in the future, he would sooner or later come into conflict with Dou Jiande.

At this time, the counselor Wang Bo gave him a strategy, which was to use Bohai as the base and occupy the four counties of Shandong Peninsula at the same time, use the grain of Shandong Peninsula to feed the army and use the salt of Bohai County to make profits.

Liu Badao immediately adopted this plan. Before dawn that day, Liu Badao led an army of 10,000 and set out south.

At this time, the Yellow River had frozen over. Qi County was on the south bank of the Yellow River, but the river was very wide, more than 30 miles. When they reached the middle of the Yellow River, a spy came to report, "Reporting to Lord Liu, Qin Qiong led his army to annihilate Gao Shida and has now entered Qi County."

This surprised Liu Badao. Why did Qin Qiong's army come back again?

Three years ago, he went south to Qi County to rob food, but encountered the Qi County army led by Qin Qiong. He was defeated and Qin Qiong led his army to the south of the Yangtze River. He breathed a sigh of relief, but he did not expect Qin Qiong to come back again.

Liu Badao was at a loss for a moment and sent someone to find Wang Bo. Wang Bo pondered for a moment and said, "If Qin Qiong's army goes to Qi County, Beihai County will be empty. Why don't we change the route and seize Beihai County? As long as we have food and the army has the city to rely on, we are not afraid of fighting Qin Qiong's army."

"This is a great plan!"

Liu Badao readily accepted Wang Bo's plan and immediately ordered: "The army will turn to Beihai County!"

The 10,000-strong army turned around and rushed southeast, and landed in Beihai County in the cover of night. At the suggestion of Wang Bo, the army headed straight for Linzi County.

The governor of Beihai County is Yidu County, and Linzi County is the second largest city. It not only has the largest grain warehouse in Beihai County, but also has a tall and strong city with a large population. More importantly, all the county soldiers are in Yidu County, and there are no soldiers guarding Linzi County.

As a local tyrant, Wang Bo certainly knew that taking over Linzi County was the most cost-effective. After the army had food replenishment and recruited soldiers in Linzi County, it would be much easier for the army to attack Yidu County.

But what Wang Bo didn't know was that Linzi County happened to have an army of a thousand soldiers led by Cheng Yaojin.

Cheng Yaojin's biggest problem is that he accepts things humbly and refuses to change. His attitude is very good, but not allowing him to drink or gamble is like not allowing a dog to gnaw on a bone. How is it possible to do that?
In the county military camp, Cheng Yaojin was in high spirits gambling with a group of soldiers in the big tent. His clothes were half opened, revealing his well-developed chest muscles and dark chest hair. He put his feet on the table, held a wine pot in one hand and shouted: "I'm the banker, place your bets quickly!"

The soldiers placed their bets one after another. At this moment, a soldier rushed in and shouted, "General Cheng, the spies have sent a message that Liu Badao's army is coming and is less than thirty miles away from Linzi County."

The big tent was silent for a moment. Suddenly, Cheng Yaojin shouted, "Damn it, no more gambling. Hurry up and call up all the troops. It's time to fight!"

At this time, it was just getting dark and the soldiers were still asleep when suddenly an urgent alarm sounded and the soldiers rushed out of the tent to gather. Cheng Yaojin also put on his armor and came out. He shouted, "Liu Badao's army did not go to Qi County, but changed the route to Beihai County. We don't care how many troops they have, we just need to kill Liu Badao."

Cheng Yaojin was not good at deploying troops and fighting, but he had a lot of tricks up his sleeve. He would not fight Liu Badao head-on, but instead led a thousand troops to ambush in the north city of Linzi County. Linzi County was a large county with both north and south urn cities, and Cheng Yaojin's army ambushed on top of the urn cities.

"Go find firewood and straw. The more the better. I'm going to burn these bastards to death!"

Liu Badao led an army of 10,000 and arrived at Linzi County. It was already late at night and the city gates were closed.

A bandit stepped forward and shouted: "Open the gate at the top of the city quickly, and I will spare your lives, otherwise your entire family will be killed!"

An old soldier glanced at Cheng Yaojin, who nodded to him. The old soldier hurriedly said tremblingly, "I'll open the city gate right away, don't worry, sir!"

The drawbridge was slowly lowered, and the city gate slowly opened. An impatient group of soldiers rushed in directly, and a general shouted, "Mr. Liu, there is nothing wrong in the city!"

Liu Badao then urged his horse into the city gate, and the soldiers behind him also followed in a mighty procession.

They entered a city wall, which was quite large. When they walked to the inner gate, they unexpectedly found that the gate that had just been opened was suddenly closed.

Liu Badao was startled, and then he suddenly realized, "Oh no! This is a trick."

He turned his horse around and rode away, Cheng Yaojin yelling in a broken voice, "Brothers, fuck him!"

A thousand soldiers suddenly appeared on the top of the city wall, raised their crossbows and started shooting, and there was a scream in the city.

At this time, orders were given to shoot more than a dozen gunpowder arrows, and the firewood and wheat straw piled in the city wall were ignited and began to burn. The city was suddenly in chaos, and the soldiers rushed out of the city one after another, blocking the city gate.

At this moment, several huge tree trunks were thrown down from above the city gate, smashing dozens of people below into meat patties. Then a large amount of wheat straw was thrown down and burned in front of the city gate, turning the city gate into a sea of ​​fire.

Liu Badao's personal soldiers were all shot down by arrows. No one was left to block the arrows for Liu Badao, and soon he was also overwhelmed by the dense arrows.

Wang Bo was in the rear army, which consisted of thousands of weaker soldiers, mostly old, weak and sick. Those who entered the city first got to eat meat, and it was not their turn, so they could only follow behind and drink some soup.

But it was precisely because of this that these old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers escaped. Wang Bo thought that the enemy had an ambush, so he hurriedly led the rear army to retreat several miles.

At this time, the city gates were closed, the drawbridge was pulled up, and Liu Badao's 4,000 vanguard troops were like being swallowed by a giant beast.

Wang Bo had no choice but to lead his troops to retreat. The next morning, news came that Liu Badao's head was hung at the city gate.

Wang Bo, with thousands of old and weak soldiers, did not dare to stay long and retreated back to Hebei in a panic. He did not go to Douzigang but went directly to join Dou Jiande.

Liu Badao and his 4,000 troops died in Linzi County. When the news reached Jingkou, Xiao Xia immediately ordered a reward of 3,000 pieces of cloth for Cheng Yaojin and promoted him to the rank of Yingyang Lang Jiang.

(End of this chapter)