Chapter 1324 It’s ripe for success

Chapter 1324 It’s ripe for success

Chapter 1324 It’s ripe for success
After receiving the reply, Li Chong immediately appointed Jiang Ke, the commander of the Silver Spear Left Camp, as the vanguard commander, leading 6,000 soldiers from the Silver Spear Left Camp, 3,600 soldiers from the Left Cavalry Guard, 2,400 soldiers from the Left Changzhi Guard, and 2,400 soldiers from the Right Dragon and Tiger Guard, totaling nearly 15,000 combat soldiers, plus 10,000 soldiers from Hebei Town and 5,000 young men from Youzhou as logistical auxiliary troops. They drove carts and set out from Peking, heading east to Liaoxi.

On the seventh day of April, Xu Meng, the chief officer of the Left Cavalry Guard, led more than 2,000 people to the outside of Lingzhi County. The county magistrate Gongsun Fu opened the city gate and welcomed the Liang army in.

"General..." Gongsun Fu bowed.

Xu Meng got off his horse, rummaged through his bag, and asked, "Do you have any paper or pen?"

Behind him, there was the sound of horse hooves, and the large group of people continued to move forward without stopping.

Gongsun Fu was confused by the question, but the county magistrate was very smart. He immediately asked someone to bring paper and pen, and also moved a desk.

Xu Meng knelt on the ground and asked, "Where are you from?"

"My ancestral home is Xiangping. During the Cao Wei period, my clan members were scattered to Beiping, Liaoxi, Yan, etc...."

"Enough!" Xu Meng picked up the pen and wrote, and it was done in a moment.

Gongsun Fu took a look at it and saw that it said: "I have received the Qian Fu, and I have come to rule over all nations, benefiting the near and far, and influencing the living and the dead. Recently, I heard that Gongsun Fu, the magistrate of Zhi County in Liaoxi Prefecture and a native of Xiangping in Liaodong, knew the times and understood the affairs. He surrendered to the people with his whole city, understood the principles of obedience and rebellion, and demonstrated his loyalty and sincerity. I commend his sincerity and have granted his request.

Now I have appointed Gongsun Fu to his original post as county magistrate, to take charge of county affairs and to comfort the people. He should be diligent in his duties, supervise agriculture and sericulture, eliminate evildoers, pay taxes and impose labor service equally, and do not disturb the peace of the country. If he can make the people work peacefully and the officials fear the law, I will not hesitate to reward him; if he is lazy and disobedient, I will punish him according to the law.

Announce it in the county so that everyone will know about it."

"Take it and post it in a conspicuous place." Xu Meng said, "The official seal and robes will be given to you later."

After saying this, he saw that his warhorse had rested enough, so he got up, mounted the horse, and rode away.

The post road outside the county town was filled with smoke and dust, and the flags and armor were dazzling.

Cars and teams of people passed by solemnly.

From time to time, knights rode by on the roadside, shouting: "A 500,000-man army is marching to attack Liao, rising up for justice, staying in their original positions, raising troops to resist, leaving no grass behind..."

Everyone in Lingzhi County watched quietly.

Officials in the border areas are not easily frightened. They won't really believe you if you tell them that there are 500,000 troops. But it is also true that the size of the Liang army is far greater than that of the Yan (kingdom). As for their combat effectiveness, these soldiers are very brave and cannot be resisted by ordinary tribal soldiers or powerful tribes.

With so many troops pressing forward, as long as we don't make any mistakes, our chances of winning are very high, and it seems that there will be no problem for them to surrender.

"Go back." Gongsun Fu waved his sleeves and said loudly, "Post the order of the emperor of Daliang and ask people to spread it. If there is any disturbance in the county, suppress it immediately without hesitation. Send people to the villages to collect food, grass, and livestock. If the king's army needs them, send them to the army."

"What if Master Wang doesn't want it?" someone asked stupidly.

Gongsun Fu was too lazy to talk to him, and just said: "If you don't want to give it, just say that the royal army will arrive soon and the whole family will be killed without a single survivor."

The words are very clear. It doesn't matter whether the king's army wants to order the county to provide food and grass. Collect them first and then talk about it. If they don't hand them over, use the name of the Daliang king's army to intimidate them. Now there are soldiers passing by everywhere, I don't believe they won't be afraid. As for how to deal with these food and grass and livestock in the future, we will discuss it later.

High!

The strong never complain about the environment. I can get wealth even when a large army is approaching.

And in Yangle County, a fierce battle has just broken out.

Song Huang, the Liaoxi Guard appointed by Murong Huang, led his men to rush towards the prefectural government. The governor Sun Xing had already received the news and organized a group of family soldiers to engage in a melee with Song Huang's troops.

The two sides fought from the street to the prefectural government, and in a short time, corpses were everywhere and blood flowed like a river.

The Hu and Han people in Yangle were panicked and rushed out of the house.

By evening, the sun was setting in the west, and the people were in a state of panic as if the end of the world was approaching.

There was no one to gather them together, no one to command them, no one to provide them with weapons. Everything was in chaos. Even the highest military leader in western Liaoning had rebelled. What was there to do?

After nightfall, the news spread to the more distant countryside.

Upon hearing the news, some tribal leaders evacuated their tribes overnight and fled into the mountains to the north; some tribal leaders pretended nothing had happened and remained on high alert; and some tribal leaders sent people everywhere to gather information and see where the Liang soldiers were, preparing to return to the right path.

Of course, some people fled eastward to Linyu City, where some of the Duan tribe Xianbei people belonging to the Murong clan settled, and they were herding and farming. After the Yan officials fled in, they were directly beheaded as a military achievement. The rest of the people were horrified and did not take a rest, and fled eastward into the wilds at night. The Duan tribe Xianbei sent cavalry to capture them, and returned with more than ten people.

On the eighth night, Xu Meng led hundreds of cavalry to the outside of Yangle City, where they met Sun Xing leading the remnants of his troops to flee. He shot and injured them with a volley of arrows.

Sun Xing fell off his horse, foaming at the mouth.

Xu Meng was about to continue heading east, but when he heard the man's name, he became angry and turned around, kicked the dying Sun Xing, and said angrily, "You are a well-dressed scholar, why are you following the barbarians?"

Sun Xing laughed twice, staring at the cold waning moon in the night sky, and said, "Jin was in chaos and Hebei was in turmoil. I fled to Pingzhou, and Lord Murong treated me with courtesy. This kindness is so great that I can only repay it with my death."

"Stupid!" Xu Meng sneered, "With a million troops now attacking Liao, how can a small Murong resist? I want to see what happens to your family."

After saying that, he left and continued to head east.

Sun Xing lay on the ground, staring at the sky, and soon died. After a while, several soldiers came over and chopped off his head, and even fought for it.

The noise of soldiers marching outside Yangle City continued all night. When more troops and horses arrived at dawn, all those who were willing or unwilling to join the battle became obedient. They really had no way to resist such a large army.

Those who fled from Linyu City arrived at Linyu Mountain around April 11. On the way, they encountered a tribe grazing nearby. Both sides did not dare to stay, so they packed up their tents and equipment and drove their cattle and sheep to hide inland.

Several counties and 300 miles of land in Liaoxi County fell into the hands of Liang soldiers within a few days.

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When Li Chong received the news, he was hardly surprised at all.

His Beijing camp currently has about 70,000 elite soldiers from the palace and the imperial guards. In order to serve these 70,000 soldiers, there are almost the same number of auxiliary troops - half of which are composed of Hebei garrison troops, Youzhou miscellaneous Hu people, and powerful families.

There is no problem in having more than 100,000 troops, claiming to be 500,000.

The Liaoxi route was ripe and pacified in an instant. The next step was to consider whether to send a detachment to the east. While thinking about this issue, he also turned his attention to the north.

On the Yanshan Mountain Road, Daliang's auxiliary soldiers and civilians were transporting supplies and filling up temporary warehouses.

The roads are also being roughly repaired, and it can even be said that they are being transported and repaired at the same time, doing their best to ensure that there is no shortage of food and fodder on the front line.

On April 12, King Shao Yu of Yan had stationed about 10,000 troops near the old city of Pinggang, and urged the auxiliary troops and Wuhuan herdsmen to ram the earth to build the city and cut down trees to build warehouses.

On the 13th, the first batch of 6,000 bushels of millet and wheat arrived at Pinggang Ancient City, which explains a lot of things...

"What is the Yuwen family waiting for? It's already mid-April, and they haven't sent out the troops yet." Shao Yu sat cross-legged on the grass, looking at the child standing in front of him.

The child was only five or six years old. He held a Hu pancake that was bigger than his face in his hand. He took a bite from time to time. Then, a pair of eyes appeared from behind the pancake and he secretly looked at Shao Yu.

Shao Yu was in a playful mood, so he stretched out his hand and pinched the child's chubby face, saying with a smile, "You only know how to eat."

The child ran away suddenly.

This man was named Xiluo Teng. He was supported as the leader by the former subordinates of his father Xiluo Hou, and then surrendered to Daliang in his name.

The little boy, who was still ignorant, had already made the first contribution in the war against Liao, and even the emperor knew his name.

Houmo Chencan seemed to know this group of Wuhuan people. After negotiating with them, he came back and reported: "Your Highness, if you go east from here, you can reach Bailang Mountain. There is a city called Fan in Shandong. It seems that there was a battle there at the end of the Han Dynasty, and the Wuhuan people were defeated miserably."

"Learn some words when you have time." Shao Yu said, "Many of the generals around my father were illiterate, but they all learned slowly. You don't need to know a lot, just a few hundred words will be enough, or at most a thousand."

Houmo Chencan was extremely shocked: "You actually need to know a thousand characters? That's harder than killing a thousand people."

Pei Man laughed when he heard this. Only someone like this could say such nonsense.

Shao Yu explained to Houmo Chencan: "At the end of the Han Dynasty, Wei Wu led his army to attack, defeated the Wuhuan coalition in Fancheng, killed Tadun, and then took Liucheng. Can you tell me who is in Liucheng now?"

"I asked someone I know, the Zhuhun clan, and learned that Murong Huang, as the commander of the Eastern Yi, led more than 5,000 infantry and cavalry to defend this city. There are also Chengzhou, Jiyang, Yingqiu and other counties within the territory of Liucheng County, each with its own governor."

"Where do these 5,000 soldiers come from?" Shao Yu asked.

Those who have fought in many battles would not assume that Murong Xianbei soldiers were Xianbei people as soon as they saw them. In fact, they could be Han people, Wuhuan people, Xiongnu people, Goguryeo people, or even Yuwen herdsmen who surrendered to them. So they must ask clearly to judge their fighting strength. For example, the forced surrender of the Xiluo Wuhuan this time would not necessarily be recorded in detail in history books. It is very likely that the history books would only write that he met "Xianbei" on the way and defeated them. In fact, the soldiers who fought with him were Wuhuan surrendered soldiers under Murong Xianbei.

"Most of them are soldiers from Hebei noble families who were stationed in Liucheng by Murong Wei. The cavalry may be Xianbei, but there are no more than a thousand of them at most." Houmo Chencan said: "Chengzhou, Jiyang, and Yingqiu are all overseas counties, and they make a living by farming."

"How do you think we should fight?" Shao Yu asked.

"Your Highness, we have tens of thousands of people, brave and good at fighting, just charge forward." Houmo Chencan said.

"I haven't received the order from the Recruiting Envoy yet." Shao Yu stood up anxiously and said, "Go to Hua!"

"I am here." Daohua heard it from afar and responded loudly.

Shao Yu waved at him and blinked.

Daohua came running over.

Shao Yu leaned close to his ear and whispered, "Pick a thousand elite cavalrymen, have some food and water, and rest well. After nightfall, follow me eastward to conduct reconnaissance."

"Your Highness, you--" Daohua wanted to say that his old problem had come back, but he didn't dare to.

The prestige of the Prince of Yan has been rising recently, and he dared not to speak out directly, so he could only remind him tactfully: "Your Highness, it seems that General Tuoba has received an order to keep an eye on you."

Shao Yu turned his head to look at Tuoba Sigong who was leaning on the haystack and pretending to sleep with his eyes closed, smiled and said, "It's okay, there are still a thousand more elite soldiers."

I was speechless when I arrived in China.

"Okay, it's just reconnaissance." Shao Yu punched Hua's chest and said, "I won't fight in person anymore, how about that? Are you afraid that you can't escape with ten horses? What do you think? Can't you protect me?"

When Dao Hua heard this, he said angrily: "Your Highness, why do you say that? Even if I die, I will protect Your Highness."

"What do you mean by being torn to pieces? Don't talk nonsense." Shao Yu said with a smile: "Go and prepare quickly."

"Yes, sir." Daohua had no choice but to accept the order and leave.

Shao Yu stood in the middle of the field with his hands on his hips, and found Xiluo Teng appeared not far away with a Hubing in his hand.

It hasn't been long and half of the Hu Bing is gone. This kid is such a big eater!
Shao Yu rushed over, hugged him and laughed.

Xiluo Teng flapped his legs and screamed.

"Come fight with me in the future." Shao Yu pinched his chubby face and said, "I will teach you martial arts."

Xiluo Teng burst into tears.

"Here's some Hu Bing for you." Shao Yu said.

The crying stopped for a while.

"Oh, forget it." Shao Yu didn't know what he remembered, put the child down, and said, "I won't lie to you about risking my life."

After saying this, he stroked the hilt of his knife and inspected the camp.

The child followed him.

When Shao Yu stopped, he stopped; when Shao Yu walked forward, he also walked forward, like a follower.

(End of this chapter)