Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 435

Seeing Wang Gong's head held in his son's hand, Zhu Jian laughed heartily.

His laugh is weird.

There is not only the exhilaration of successfully killing the Jiedu envoy, but also the excitement of being about to take power, and even a trace of inexplicable fear.

This matter is not over!
"Go, go to the military mansion!" Zhu Jian ordered.

Everyone was in the same mood as Zhu Jian, excited and scared, and their voices trembled a little.

According to the "standard procedure" of today's rebellion, the next step is to occupy the Jiedu envoy, and then convene the generals of the military government to discuss matters and determine the upper and lower names.

This is another interest blending.

Everyone is a general of the Yamen and a general of the foreign town, and they have the same status. Why should you be an envoy?Is it necessary to give compensation?

This step is also very critical.

Generally speaking, it is reasonable to rebel, and it is impossible to have many soldiers.

The military power of the yamen generals was taken to death, and the only ones who could use it were the servants and the generals.

Zhu Jian was a general from outside the town, and he had more than 3000 soldiers on hand, but it was impossible to bring them all. It would be too ostentatious, and people would find out halfway, so he only brought [-] confidants, and sneaked up by a small road.

Shancheng is isolated and extremely difficult to capture. It is necessary to open the gates and fight if necessary.

But Jiedushi is not an idiot, and there are so many examples of overcoming and overcoming over the past hundred years, so more restrictions must be imposed.

Receiving the military power of the government generals is the first step, and the second step is to limit the number of personal soldiers and generals for each person, and at the same time, put more control on armor, hard bows, and crossbows.

There are weapons hidden in Zhu Jian's home, but there can't be too many.The number of servants and generals is limited, even counting the three hundred soldiers and temporarily armed servants he brought over, it is still not enough to control the whole city.

The news of Wang Gong's death will be known to everyone tomorrow. At that time, no one will care about whether there is an order to dispatch troops. If they cannot be satisfied, they will mobilize and attack, and failure is inevitable.

Sergeants had already lined up on the street, and they were somewhat loyal to Wang Gong.

When the leading ten generals saw the rebellious soldiers, they ordered to suppress them.

"Wang Gong's head is here, do you still want to stop me?" Zhu Jian picked up the head and threw it in front of the ten generals.

The army roared.

The ten generals picked up the head and looked at it carefully for a long time.

If Wang Gong is not dead at this time, he will naturally lead troops to rescue, and after the event is completed, it will be a matter of prosperity.

But Wang Gong is dead, who will reward you?

At the beginning, Wang Chongrong was careless, and was killed by the government general Chang Xingru.

Chang Xingru didn't have enough prestige to get the support of other people, but he still went to the Duyu Housi to complain every day, and no one took him seriously, as if nothing happened.

It was not until the imperial court appointed Wang Chongying as the Jiedu envoy of Hezhong, and after he took people to the post, he finally arrested Chang Xingru and took him to Wang Chongrong's tomb to be hacked to pieces.

"Wang Gong is dead. After General Ruoding embraces me as a stayer, the post of General of Lingbao Town is waiting for him." Zhu Jian saw that he hadn't made a move for a long time, so she had confidence in her heart and began to woo me.

"The sergeants were frightened late at night..." General Ding said.

"I was given four strings of money and ten bolts of silk." Zhu Jian said generously.

He didn't know if Wang Gong's family wealth and the goods in the treasury of the state and county government were enough. If it was not enough, he would be satisfied if he allowed him to plunder the people for three days.

After hearing this, the sergeants all looked at General Ding Shi expectantly. There was sweat on his forehead, and it felt like the eyes of the sergeants fell on him like knives.How should I speak at this time?

"Avenge Wang Shuai!" A large number of soldiers suddenly poured in outside the south gate.

Zhu Jian was taken aback, where did this army come from?
General Ding Shi was also a little at a loss, and the sergeants were even more at a loss, who is here?Are they all fools?To avenge a dead man?
Thousands of Fengxiang sergeants swarmed into the city.

Zhe Silun rode on the horse and said: "Zhu Jian made a rebellion, killed the commander-in-chief, let me kill him! Anyone who dares to obstruct is Zhu Jian's party, and the king of Lingwu County and the king of Langya County will not let him go."

All the sergeants suddenly agreed.

More than a hundred archers stepped forward, firing several arrows in a row, and a large area of ​​Shanguo soldiers standing on the street lay down.

Afterwards, a large group of soldiers marched forward with guns in formation.

Zhu Jian turned around and ran away the moment Zhe Silun appeared.

The servants of the Zhu family and the soldiers of Lingbao also scattered like birds and beasts behind them.

There was another sound of horseshoes on the east side street.

When the thousands of cavalry who entered the city saw people standing on the street, they would kill them, regardless of who was a rebel soldier and who was a counter-insurgency soldier. Who could tell the difference at night?
A total of [-] infantry and more than [-] cavalry, not even the camp outside the city, the soldiers and auxiliary soldiers entered the city together, everyone armed, to suppress the rebellious party.

Zhu Jian ran frantically on the street, with fewer and fewer people around her.

Some people fell down when they were shot by arrows while walking, while others turned into the dark alley without making a sound.

"It was Zhe Silun who led the troops here just now, right? A dog thief!" Zhu Jian cursed secretly, rushed to an intersection, and carefully debated the direction.

"Grandfather, there are still..." The two sons were still by their side, but they had taken off their armor, otherwise they wouldn't be able to run fast at all.

"Don't worry about it." Zhu Jian reprimanded: "Try to find a way to get out of the city and go to Bianzhou. Why does a man have no wife?"

There are dozens of wives, daughter-in-laws, and grandchildren in the mansion, but they can't control that much, the most important thing is to save their lives.

Just as they were about to continue moving forward, a group of people suddenly surged up in the darkness ahead, shouting, "Hugh left Zhu Jian and his son!"

"Li Fan?" After seeing who was coming, Zhu Jian was shocked and angry: "You want to kill me too?"

"Stop talking nonsense! Shuai Jieshuai, treasonous, I don't have a friend like you! Come on!" Li Fan said righteously.

Zhu Jian's eyes darkened. This Li Fan led a hundred soldiers, and I will die.

And when the dramas were staged in Shanzhou City, Shao Shude also quietly arrived in Shan County, waiting for news at Gantang Station outside the city.

The letter Zhu Quanzhong sent to Lingbao didn't reveal anything, but the matter is almost clear now.

The Bian army marched westward in a big way, and the troops were divided into two groups. One was led by Zhu Quanzhong and drove to Luoyang, with a crowd of [-]; the other was led by Pang Shigu, with a crowd of [-].

If you do something else in Shanguo, such as asking Zhu Jian to entertain Lu Huaizhong, Zhe Silun, etc. at the banquet, ambush and kill them at the banquet, and then make a surprise attack, you will suffer a big loss if you fail to keep everything.

The Xiaohangu Road in Shanguo has several weak points. Once it is controlled, how long it will take to get through is secondary. The most important thing is that it will shake the morale of the frontline troops.

In ancient times, morale was very important in wars!

If Pang Shigu sent troops to go to Shanguo again, things would be even more troublesome.

Henan Province is really not a plain terrain.

While waiting for the news, Shao Shude looked at the map by the light.

There are many mountains in the west of Henan. From north to south, Wangwu Mountain, Dongxierxiao Mountain, Xiong'er Mountain, Funiu Mountain, and Waifang Mountain are arranged in sequence. The mountains are high and the valleys are deep, stretching for hundreds of miles and connecting with Shaanxi.

In this kind of place, the role of cavalry is quite limited, far inferior to that of infantry.

There are agricultural reclamations, counties and towns in the intermountain basins and river valleys, and the valleys are full of trails and trails, which are extremely complicated.

Previously, Ge Congzhou wanted to go straight into Shanguo from the mountainous area in western Henan, and confront Feng Ba and Hao Zhenwei on the north bank of the river. This strategy was actually correct.But he didn't expect that Shao Shude would leave a large group of soldiers behind, and Zhu Quanzhong's appetite was too great. He wanted to attract the main force of the Xia army deeper and farther, and eat them all in one bite. .

The four prefectures of Shaanxi, Guo, Ru, and Luo (Henan Prefecture) are regarded as "the key points of the two capitals" in the eyes of the imperial court. "No promotion", that is, local power has never been granted to outsiders. Taking Shanguo as an example, there were 46 vassal commanders before the chaos, 40 of whom were civil servants, and Shanzhou was once one of the outer towns of the Shence Army.

After Chao Chao, it eventually lost control, but it was also deliberately divided into two feudal towns, namely, the Jiedushi of the Baoyi Army (leading Shan and Guozhou) and the Jiedushi of the Youguo Army (leading Henan Prefecture and Ruzhou).

In the future, Zhu Quanzhong and Zhu Quanzhong are bound to compete repeatedly in this area.He has actually controlled Luo and Ru for many years, so he must control Shan and Guo and stabilize people's hearts as soon as possible.

In Ruzhou, this position is the most uncomfortable, because it can go straight to the back of Xiashi through the mountain road, so Shao Shude even has to abandon Huguo Village, a strategically important place.

More Hengshan Party Xiangshan people should be conscripted!

"Marshal, Zhu Jian and his son have been captured, and it's almost time to do it." Chen Cheng walked into the big tent and said softly.

"Okay!" Shao Shude clapped the table and said, "Pass my order, and all ministries will act immediately to control the following points."

"Yi Cong sent a part of the army out of Tongguan and immediately took control of Hucheng County."

"The Lu Huaizhong Department of the Wuwei Army seized Lingbao County."

These two counties are the intersection of the two north-south avenues between Tongguan and Shanzhou. The location is very critical, even more important than Hongnong County, which is located in Guozhou.

"After Zhe Silun took control of Zhoucheng, he immediately divided up a part of the army and continued to control the Qilijian pass and the two sides of the sun floating bridge ferry."

The south side of Shanguo is full of mountains, while the north side is the plateau terrain of the Loess Plateau. It looks flat, but there are many deep valleys and valleys between the plateaus. Qilijian Pass Road.

This place, located in Xiqili of Shanzhou, is the Caoyang Market where Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty ran eastward and slept in the open. It is also called Caoyangkeng.

Because of the dangerous terrain, there have been many wars in history.

According to the earliest history books, it should be that Chen She sent Zhou Wen into Guanzhong, where Zhang Han defeated his army and killed Zhou Wen.

During the Guo Dynasty Huaixi Fangqiu soldiers with four thousand infantry rebelled from Qufang. When passing through this pass, more than a thousand Shaanxi soldiers lay on both sides, firing their bows and crossbows. Bing "one of the four dead".

There are too many such deep pits and steep valleys, which is one of the reasons why Shao Shude is worried about being approached by Bian soldiers. It is so easy to ambush that he doesn't need many people.

The Sun Pontoon Bridge, the ancient Maojin Ferry, leads to the North River, so its importance goes without saying.

"Order Ye Liyu, deputy envoy of the Tielin Army, to lead a part of the Xiashi Party's Xiang Bing to control the Anyang Old City, Qiziban, and Xiashiwu between Shan County and Xiashi."

These three places have all served as governors of Xiashi County.Among them, the terrain of Qiziban is the most dangerous, and Anxi general Wei Boyu once defeated Shi Siming twice here.

The Hengshan party has been repairing the defense system here before, and these three places are the highest priority.

The entire Xiashi County is a land of mountains, and the roads are difficult and dangerous, and they are easily cut off.

Many literati have walked this road in the past dynasties, and they all described the steepness of the road, such as "the two cliffs of the guest road are open", "the soil stands like a deep wall", "the sky is peeping through a gap", "a thousand cliffs are steep" and so on.

There are thousands of ravines, narrow roads, and towering cliffs. Pushing stones down from the top of the cliffs can cause heavy losses to passing soldiers and horses, or directly block the post road and let you go to drill the ravine.

But no one who has walked this road thinks that Shao Dashuai is so worried about the future that he is making a fuss out of a molehill.

Let's see if Zhu Quanzhong dares to come from the front!
"Order the guards to rush to Shanguo immediately and seize Ruicheng County on the other side of the river."

Ruicheng County is located in Hebei, one of the counties of Shanzhou. It is one east and one west of Pinglu County. It can be used as the two strongholds of the Shuofang Army on Hedong Road, controlling the area south of Zhongtiao Mountain, and waiting for opportunities to infiltrate and advance behind the mountain.

After issuing this series of orders, Shao Shude undressed and rested in the station.

He didn't wake up until the next morning, and Zhe Silun had been waiting outside for a long time.

"Congratulations, Marshal!" Zhe Silun said with a smile as soon as they met: "Shaan County has been taken without bloodshed. This county is a road, isolated on three sides, and facing the river on one side. If I were to attack, I don't know how to attack. If you garrison a large army and go out of the city overnight, the way out to the east will be cut off."

"Xiaohangu Road is extremely difficult and dangerous, and the important thing is not only the city of Shanxi?" Shao Shude said with a smile: "Zhu Jian, father and son, have a trial first. After the trial, send the whole family to Hezhong and hand it over to Wang Chongying. The case must be firmly established, and it will be planted on Zhu Quanzhong's head."

"Of course." Zhe Silun nodded with a smile.

Shao Shude was also very satisfied with him.

There is strategy, there is splendor in the belly, which can be used to great effect.

At this point, it is no longer possible for Shao Shude to take care of everything personally, and many things have to be done by his subordinates. He is only responsible for grasping the general direction.

Zhe Silun's two recent performances made him very satisfied.

What he said just now is also true, "Soldiers don't kill blood."

If the local soldiers resolutely resist the terrain of Shanguo, how much effort and how many elites will you have to sacrifice to attack one by one?

If he hooks up with outsiders, such as Zhu Quanzhong, or sends reinforcements from Hezhong, most likely he will not be able to defeat him, and he will be locked in Tongguan.

The counterfeit strategy of attacking Guo has now come to fruition.

It is justifiable to avenge Wang Gong.Officials who disobey and dare to resist, town generals, soldiers and horse envoys, etc. are Zhu Jian's party and should be punished.

"Go, let's go into the city and have a look!"

(End of this chapter)