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Chapter 86 The Tiger Thief

The old name of Hejian Mansion was Yingzhou, and it was also called Guannan.

This place is the capital of Zhongdu in the north and Qingji in the south. Since ancient times, it has been an important place for water and land, where the roads pass by.Youyan has something to do, and there is no one who does not first plan the river.At the end of the Later Han Dynasty, this place was once an important place for Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan to compete for.Later, the Wuhu was chaotic and Tuoba declined, and even at the end of the Sui Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, the heroes competed and waited for the tiger to watch. They stayed in Yingzhou for almost every year without fighting.

When the Daliao established by the Khitan people was strong and prosperous, they also occupied this place, so they drank horses and rivers, and dominated Bianluo.It all depends on Zhou Shizong's vigorous battle to restore Guannan, and the defense of Rongxia, so that he can be less solid, and then there is the Song Dynasty that followed.

At that time, under the rule of the Song Dynasty, there were Gaoyangguan Road, Tongying, Mo, Xiong, Bei, Ji, Cang and other ten state armies.Later, with the rise of the Great Jin Dynasty, Yan, Dai and the Central Plains merged into one, and Gaoyang Pass was abandoned.And Yingzhou Hejian Mansion became the center of eight prefectures, one prefecture and thirty counties on the East Road of Hebei.

Of course, after the three-year war with Mongolia in Da'an, these important military towns have all been weakened to the point of weakness.With the collection, requisition, and signing of the army time and time again, supplies from all over Hebei were continuously sent to the front line, all the mules and horses were taken away, and all the young and strong joined the army. Is there only one Hejian mansion?

The local predicament encountered by governors such as Tu Shanhang and Nianjiazhen is not an isolated case.

Up to now, the inside and outside of the Hejian Mansion are abnormally empty, and the soldiers and horses of the Mansion of the East Hebei Road Mabu Army and the Mansion of the Jiedushi of the Yinghai Navy only exist in name in the imperial court books.

In the past half a year, the military and political affairs of the entire Hebei East Road have been maintained by Gao Xi, a Bohai native who was urgently transferred to the inspection and transfer envoy.

And the so-called maintenance means shrinking the forces of shops, post stations, and even the walled cities located on the main traffic routes, filling the Hejian Mansion's capital city to the brim, like an iron barrel.As for the outside of the city...

In the past two years, thieves and thieves have been rampant, how can my Hebei East Road inspector and transshipment envoy solve it?
At this time, Guo Ning's troops were attacking a city that had been emptied of many troops.

To the west of this walled city, there is an avenue parallel to the Hutuo River, leading to Zhending Mansion, and then connecting to many famous cities on Hebei West Road, Dafu, so it was very prosperous in the early years, and it used to be the county seat of Suning County, Hejian Prefecture.Later, the county seat was moved to the south of Huanglongdian, which is on a higher terrain, and this place was changed to a military village.

Because Cao Cao used the water of the Hutuo River as the Pinglu Canal, this fortress was called Pinglu Village.

According to the guard of Pingluzhai, it is a general of the local prison army. Under normal circumstances, he leads five hundred troops.

He saw unidentified troops approaching from a distance, so he hurriedly sent his horses and horses to Hejian Mansion to ask for help, but the cavalry who asked for help were only two or three miles away from the city wall, and were chased by enemy horses in the wilderness. Under the circumstances, his head was beheaded.

And hundreds of vanguard troops of that team accelerated and approached, attacking the city immediately.

They will all just cry out.

This Pinglu village was rebuilt on the basis of the abandoned county town, and it was very large, enough to accommodate thousands of troops.But there are only two hundred soldiers left under the generals, standing on the top of the city wall, there can only be two or three people per foot of the wall, so how can we fight?Not to mention that the source of the soldiers of the Prison City Army is local criminals. These people are coolies and have not received much military training in the first place!

Only half a moment later, the enemy soldiers outside the city attacked the city in two ways.

There are two groups of troops, one each. Li Ting's troops on the East Road are the main attackers. The first to attack and create a huge momentum is Zhang Xin's troops on the West Road who are in charge of assisting.

Zhang Xin's troops spread out a wide front, some were in charge of clamoring and waving flags, yelling and pretending to attack, and some were in charge of shooting arrows to suppress the top of the city.Zhang Xin personally led the elite cadres to the front, and the soldiers didn't use ladders. Some soldiers bit their swords in their mouths and climbed the city with their hands and feet. Some people held their shields above their heads and collapsed towards several old city walls. corner dash.

Seeing this momentum, the defenders all turned their attention to the west.

At this moment, Li Ting's troops, who were wandering east of the city wall, suddenly exerted their strength.In just an instant, they crushed the resistance like a hammer smashing an egg, and rushed into the stockade, while their own losses were minimal.

It is not easy for the coordination and cooperation of the two troops to achieve this level when troops of hundreds or thousands of people are fighting.This kind of ability was originally lacked by Guo Ning's subordinates.

It is because since the founding of Dajin, the generals who command the army have always been Jurchens.The tactics, routines, and even the rhythm of offense and defense, the changes of advance and retreat, and the subtlety of the formation of those commanding the army are all in the hands of the Jurchen who is in charge of Wan Hu Bo Ji Lie and who is in charge of Meng An.

Most of the generals under Guo Ning were Han soldiers and officers along the Jiehao Great Wall.No matter how brave and skilled the generals at the bottom are, they will not be able to take charge of their own affairs, and it is even less likely that they will gain the experience of commanding larger forces in battle.

Not to mention the generals, Guo Ning himself is the same.Back then when he was fighting on the frontier of Wushabao, he would always personally rush into the formation to create opportunities for the subsequent large troops.

Even though an army of more than 2000 people was gathered in the Feijunhe camp later, what he was really good at was raiding with a small number of elites.

This situation changed rapidly after Yisa Chucai arrived.

It is true that Yila Chucai is a scholar, he has no merit in martial arts, riding and archery, and has no actual combat experience at all.But this gentleman is really knowledgeable, and he is very familiar with the art of war, martial arts, and even the circulation of documents within the army over the years, and the requirements of combat regulations.

A person like him is a staff officer in the imperial army.Even if he can support logistics, supplies, maps, archives, military pay and even military aircraft planning with only one person, he is only a staff officer.

But in the Feijunhe camp, the officers had extremely rich combat experience, and only lacked theoretical refinement and refinement.Yila Chucai came to Feijunhe, and the grassroots officers interacted with him, and with his support, he could easily deduce many tricks in army training, encountering enemies, and fighting in battle.

And those tricks, many of them are Yilitong and Bailitong.After entering the hall and entering the room, the magic of using it is all in one mind.

At this moment, Li Ting was ordered to lead his troops to attack the city. A few months ago, he would have split up and attacked from all directions, and it was inevitable that he would face the toughest.But at this moment, he only slightly staggered the attack direction and launching order of the two groups of troops, and naturally won the victory, and the city wall was broken in an instant.

The defenders of the city will fight and retreat, trying to take a small number of subordinates to the mansion on the west side of the city wall to defend to the death.

After walking not far, the two soldiers in front of them screamed and fell to the ground with arrows.

All generals bent down to avoid the arrows, Li Ting jumped out from behind the battlement beside him, and he was in the air, chopping down like a sword.

They all stretched out their left arms subconsciously to block, and then let out a miserable cry, and the left arm flew away from the body.The next moment, Li Ting swung his knife straight towards his face.

The general yelled for a while, and didn't know whether to beg for mercy or what to do, but unfortunately, the blood burst out in front of his eyes, and most of his head fell to the ground immediately, so he doesn't have to worry about anything from now on.

(End of this chapter)