I'm playing tricks in Daqin

The Lan and Li families are old enemies. They have been fighting openly and secretly for a hundred years. Even if there are casualties, they have not yet reached the point of dispatching a large army to attack. Lan Shaoping does not believe that the Li family dares to attack aggressively. In addition, the robbers who have been quiet for several months The group started to stir up trouble again, robbing everywhere, and countless sufferers complained, which made him burnt out. He didn't care about the changes in Baiwu Pass at all, and even suppressed such an important situation, and didn't report it to Lan Yun.

Now, his precious son died suddenly, and he was so angry that he completely lost his mind, and all the troops in the city crossed the border and killed him at the Baiwu Pass.

"Kill me!"

Lan Shaoping, with red eyes, gritted his teeth and ordered the cavalry to charge and kill the Jiayue people who were still stranded outside the customs.

"Fire arrows!"

Li Wei ordered the archers on the top of the city to shoot and kill the cavalry from Hongfeng Province, so as to cover the people stranded below the city and get out of danger in hanging baskets.

Arrows rained down from the top of the city, and the cavalry who rushed to kill fell down from their horses, causing a lot of losses for a while.

Lan Shaoping, who was screaming in anger, ordered the archers to advance to cover. For a while, the archers of both sides shot at each other, and the mid-air was full of dense arrows, covering half of the sky.

The dense rain of arrows fell, and soldiers on both sides were hit by arrows and fell down screaming. However, the defenders of Baiwu Pass were condescending, taking advantage of it and losing very little.

When a large number of heavy siege equipment arrived at the city, Lan Shaoping ordered a strong attack on Baiwuguan, and the battle between Hongfeng and Jiayue Province officially kicked off.

Chapter 1 and Four: War Breaks Out

The earth-shattering roars were mixed with the rumble of war drums. The soldiers on both sides were fighting bloody battles. The air was full of criss-crossing arrows, densely packed like locusts. When they fell, blood blossomed, and soldiers kept screaming and falling down.

The black crowd like an ant colony, the battle flag fluttering like the sea, the siege equipment with billowing smoke, the corpses of different shapes everywhere, the broken weapons and armor, and the blood flowing into a river constitute a cruel and tragic scene. Battlefield scene.

This is the third crazy attack by the soldiers of the Red Maple Mansion regardless of casualties. Lan Shaoping was so angry that he lost his mind and became a lunatic who only wanted to avenge his son. He dispatched all the soldiers in Changping Pass Come to attack the city, leaving only 5000 people to defend the city.

In the first two attacks, Changping soldiers captured the top positions of the city several times, but unfortunately they fell short, and finally were recaptured by the defenders desperately counterattacking.

Although Lan Shaoping became a lunatic who lost his mind, he was not really crazy. At least, in mobilizing the army to command the siege, he fully demonstrated the military talent that a general should have. For revenge, he wanted to break through Baiwu Pass, and sacrifice the heads of the people in the city to his son.

Lan Shaoping did have some general talent, but he made a common-sense mistake because of the several changes in the front of the city. Baiwuguan claimed to have [-] guards, and the auxiliary guards were deducted. With so many thousands of empty pay, he thought that the guards at Baiwu Pass were actually only about [-]. Therefore, he not only transferred all the soldiers from Changping Pass, but also sent his most elite [-] private soldiers. On the battlefield, they tried in vain to conquer Baiwu Pass in one go.

On the top of the city, Li Weitian, Ce Wuyou and others watched Tang Tianhe command the soldiers to defend the city leisurely. Tang Tianhe followed the plan and only invested a small amount of troops to defend the city. The tug-of-war at the top of the city not only consumed a lot The elite troops of the Red Maple Mansion were lost, and Lan Shaoping had an illusion.

This is the third time that Hongfeng's soldiers have launched a strong attack regardless of the cost. Lan Shaoping also put his most elite [-] private soldiers into the siege battle, which once caused a certain amount of pressure on the defenders. The change of hands made Hongfeng's soldiers seem to see the hope of victory, but unfortunately, it was always a little bit short.

On the passage of the city gate, three thousand soldiers in heavy armor, armed with mo knives and heavy iron shields had assembled and stood by. They only waited for Li Wei's order to open the city gate and launch a counterattack.

On the contrary, it can be said that the soldiers of the Hongfeng Mansion attacked the city frantically and were unable to attack for a long time. The soldiers were exhausted and their morale had already dropped. The soldiers only need one effective counter charge, and they will be able to defeat the [-] Hongfeng soldiers under the city in one fell swoop.

But Li Wei is still waiting for the best opportunity to counterattack, he is waiting for the signal from Changping Pass.

On the head of Changping Pass, several of Lan Shaoping's counselors were as anxious as ants on a hot pot. Lan Shaoping refused to listen to dissuasion, insisted on going his own way, and brazenly launched an attack on Jiayue. The consequences were very serious. The old man Qifeibao guarded Lanyun, but it would take four or five days at the fastest to come and go, and the day lily would be cold by then.

At this time, 5000 soldiers had been dispatched by Lan Shaoping, leaving only 5000 guards in the city. It was said that [-] people were actually just an imaginary number, and they were all the private soldiers of the powerful families in the city.

It is a common and normal phenomenon in the imperial armies of the mainland that officers at all levels eat empty salaries and fill their pockets to make a fortune. Changping Pass claims to have [-] guards. After deducting the logistics and auxiliary soldiers, plus Lan Shaoping's own free salary, and the free salary of his generals at all levels, it is already very good to have [-] or [-] soldiers.

Five thousand soldiers were not enough to guard Ruoda's Changping pass. The only thing that made the strategists rejoice was that the Jiayue army was defending the main attack and the two cities were only about ten miles away.

"Several uncles, the Patriarch has urgent matters to discuss."

A tall, handsome young man saluted respectfully and politely to the counselors on the top of the wall.

"Tong Zhixiang must be discussing the matter of defending the city, right?"

"Oh, Nephew Pingxian, please lead the way."

A few counselors did not suspect fraud, they happily followed Nephew Pingxian into the tower.

The cold light flashed sharply, accompanied by a few shrill screams, all the counselors fell into a pool of blood.

A burly middle-aged man strode out from the city tower and gave orders to the guards on the top of the city, "Light the fire, send the signal!"

He is Tong Wei, the patriarch of Changping Tong's family, and he is the Tongzhi of Changping Guan. Changping Tong's family can be regarded as a century-old family, but it has been suppressed by Lan Yun, which has long dissatisfied the Tong clan. Lan Shaoping is in charge of guarding Changping Pass. It was even more domineering, brushing Tong's face several times, which made Tong Wei feel rebellious, and took the initiative to contact Jiayue Neiwei's secret agent, willing to be an internal response. This is also Li Wei's determination to launch a war in advance and invade Hongfeng One of the reasons for the province.

The city was empty of troops, and Tong Wei was in charge of leading the private soldiers in the mansion to guard the south gate, which happened to give him the opportunity to act.

At this time, Li Wei and the others standing on the head of Baiwuguan City saw three strands of thick smoke rising from the opposite side, and couldn't help laughing. The time for counterattack finally came.

Thick smoke billowed from the top of the city, covering the sky and the sun. You only need to look up at the sky and you will be able to find it.

"what happened?"

Lan Shaoping noticed three strands of thick smoke rising from Changping Pass, he couldn't help frowning, and hurriedly sent a deputy general to lead a team back to the city to see what happened.

"Report to my lord, the city gate is broken, the city gate is broken."

A soldier flying out of breath came to report.

Lan Shaoping took a look, and sure enough, his soldiers poured into the opened city gate like a tide.

"Order, the army strikes!"

Lan Shaoping was so excited that he drew out his sword, pointed forward, and shouted loudly: "Boys, go!"

The already exhausted soldiers became fanatical and aggressive one by one as if they had been beaten with chicken blood. The general promised to break the city and plunder freely for six days. Who wouldn't want to get rich?

Tens of thousands of troops surged like a tide, sweeping towards the open city gate.

As he approached the city gate, Lan Shaoping suddenly realized that something was wrong. Didn't his subordinates rush into the opened city gate?Why are they fleeing back like lifeless one by one? What's going on?

The east gate of Baiwuguan was indeed opened, but it was not broken by the soldiers of Hongfeng Mansion, but opened by the guards of Baiwuguan.

Fifty Red Maple Mansion soldiers were braving the rain of locust arrows, struggling to push the siege vehicle to hit the city gate. He was stunned for a moment, then cheered, and charged into the city with a sword in his hand, and the news that the city gate was breached quickly spread backwards.

Three thousand soldiers in the camp wearing heavy armor and holding Mo Dao have been on standby for a long time. They have been eager to kill the enemy and make meritorious deeds. He split open the wooden shield covered with only a thin layer of iron, splitting the soldiers behind the shield in half, and the red maple soldier's iron sword cut on the thick and solid iron armor, only making a loud rattling sound, and exploded. A flash of sparks came out, and the inferior iron sword broke in response.

"kill!"

With the roar of the sky, the heavy and sharp mo knives were raised high and fell, and blood burst out. The fifty Hongfeng soldiers who rushed into the city fell into a pool of blood in the blink of an eye, most of them were It was split into two halves and died in a terrible state.

Three thousand soldiers from the trapped camp poured out of the city gate like a tide, and crushed towards the swarming Hongfeng soldiers. Howling, fell one by one.

Chapter 1

Three thousand soldiers from the trapped camp rushed out of the city like a tide, killed the Hongfeng Mansion soldiers outside the city, quickly formed an attacking cone formation on the flat ground, and then moved forward with rumbling steps.

At this time, Lan Shaoping had already led the army to rush forward. It was impossible to form an formation or retreat at this time. He had to bite the bullet and charge forward. The two sides collided fiercely. The soldiers of Hongfeng Mansion were pierced by the soldiers of the trapped camp.

Three thousand tiger and leopard cavalry came out of the city afterward. Instead of attacking directly from the front, they bypassed the trapped soldiers and surrounded them from the left.

The knights on horseback urged their horses to gallop, while drawing their bows and shooting arrows on bumpy horseback. Except for the bulls, it was difficult for ordinary soldiers to hit the target. However, under the rain of arrows, they also harvested life.

After two rounds of arrow rain, the soldiers of the tiger and leopard cavalry put away their bows, quickly drew out their sabers, and slashed at the enemy. There were no pikemen in formation, and the infantry with archers covering the formation was tantamount to committing suicide against the cavalry, Lan Shao Ping's left wing was the first to collapse.

Three thousand tiger and leopard cavalry rushed into the dense crowd, like cutting through waves, pierced through Lan Shaoping's central army in a blink of an eye, and rolled towards his commander-in-chief flag.

"General, get out."

At this time, any fool could tell that the army was about to collapse, and the guards around Lan Shaoping quickly grabbed the reins of Lan Shaoping's war horse.

Lan Shaoping cursed, turned his horse's head, and fled in the direction of Changping Pass surrounded by personal guards.

When the swarming army not only failed to break through the conical battle formation formed by the three thousand camps, but was also chiseled into the army, Lan Shaoping already knew that the situation was over. At this time, he had completely calmed down. A heavy armored infantry with terrifying combat power?

Now he already understands that he fell into the hole that others dug long ago, but it is too late to regret it, the only way to retreat to the city first, keep the city not lost, maybe he can save his old life.

Another cavalry surged out from the east gate of Baiwuguan, outflanking the defeated Red Maple soldiers from the right, followed by a large number of infantry rushing out like a tide.

Without Lan Shaoping's order to retreat, the tens of thousands of Red Maple Mansion soldiers had completely collapsed, desperately rushing towards Changping Pass. The Jiayue Mansion soldiers who were chasing them were not in a hurry to crush them, but were slowly advancing in a three-sided manner. .

Lan Shaoping, under the protection of the personal guards, rushed to the gate of Changping in embarrassment, but found that the gate of the city was closed, and he couldn't help being shocked.

"Who is in the city? Why don't you open the city gate quickly and let the general enter the city?"

The captain of the personal guard cursed and ordered the guards on the city to open the city gate, but what he answered was a dense rain of arrows, and he and dozens of guards were shot to the ground on the spot, Lan Shaoping was also shot in the shoulder .

With the retreat route cut off, the desperate Lan Shaoping yelled loudly: "Left and right are dead, fight back with me, kill one is enough money, kill one pair to earn one!"

He swung his long sword and rushed out first, followed by his personal guards. However, no one responded to the broken soldiers around. They glanced at each other, dropped the weapons in their hands, and crouched on the ground hugging each other.

It's better to be a prisoner than to die. The one surnamed Lan is already unpopular, so who is willing to work hard for him?

The desperate Lan Shaoping and his personal guards had not rushed to the front before they were shot into big hedgehogs by the tiger and leopard cavalry with a dense rain of arrows.

All over the place, the soldiers of the Red Maple Mansion, who abandoned their weapons and armor and squatted on the ground with their heads in their arms, were all pale and trembling. What kind of fate awaited them?

A white flag was erected on the head of Changping Pass, and the city gate was opened. Tong Wei led a group of children from all clans outside the city to welcome Li Wei and his party into the city.

With the help of the Tong family and several big families, there was no battle in the city. All those loyal to Lan Shaoping were killed by Tong Wei's private soldiers. In a panic, the soldiers of Jiayue Mansion took over Changping Pass smoothly.

Li Wei gave a certain amount of care to the Tong family and other powerful families who had surrendered. In order to enter the core group of the Li family, the Tong family not only selected the young and handsome members of the family to join the army, but also made do with several families. The four thousand private soldiers who got up were all sent out.

Li Wei is also not polite, and accepts everything according to the order. At least, the personal strength of these private soldiers is higher than that of ordinary soldiers. They only need to undergo formal systematic training and they will soon become qualified soldiers. .

For more than 1 captives, Li Wei left only [-] strong, who were scattered and incorporated into various armies, and all the rest were released and let them go home to work in agriculture.

The notice of Anmin was quickly posted. In order to appease the people in the city, Li Wei announced a one-year tax reduction, which not only dispelled the worries of the people, but also won their support.

For the honest common people, the change of dynasty and so on are all floating clouds. Whoever treats them well will be an upright official and a good emperor. If they have enough food, warm clothes, and live and work in peace and contentment, who wants to go to war?

At this time, the night was already deep, and the exhausted soldiers had already fallen asleep, but the general's mansion was brightly lit, and Li Wei and his think tank were still busy.

After Li Wei occupied Changping Pass, the first thing he was most concerned about was the state capital's silver and granary warehouses and other important places. Tong Wei had already sent private soldiers from the government to guard them, and nothing happened.

What frustrates him is that Changpingguan's government inventory is only 10,000+ taels of silver, but there is a lot of food, and the arsenal only stores a small amount of weapons and equipment. In Li Wei's eyes, these are all inferior products and have to be refined again.

"Master, master, we are rich."

Wu You hurried in and handed over a thick account book with a smile. In addition to making suggestions, Li Wei also entrusted him with the important task of sealing up the treasury.

"Get rich?"

Li Wei took a look at the account book, couldn't help grinning, hehehe laughed, Changpingguan's house had only five or 10,000+ taels of silver in stock, but a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings were copied from Lan Shaoping's house , It is estimated that there are as many as 500 million taels, this guy is a big corrupt official.

He smiled and said: "For Lan Shaoping's gift of so much money to us, don't embarrass his family. Put him under house arrest and take care of him. When the war is settled, give them a settling allowance."

"The young master has a kind heart..."

Wu Youkuang flattered her, but her speech was hesitant, as if there was something else going on.

"what's wrong?"

Li Wei saw that something was wrong with him, and asked with a smile.

"That...subordinate...hehe..."

Wu You rubbed her hands together, with an embarrassed expression on her face, "Master... this subordinate...well, that... Lan Shaoping forcibly snatched the girl... this subordinate..."

Li Wei pointed at him, shook his head and smiled wryly. He understood what Wu You meant. This guy was obviously a wolf, and he fell in love with a certain concubine of Lan Shaoping and wanted to take it for himself.

Chapter 1

Anyway, it is someone else's wife, Li Wei is happy to give it generously, and can buy people's hearts, so why not do it?

However, he still warned Wu You that that woman is also a hard-working person, since you want it, she is your woman, you must treat her kindly, and don't neglect Le Niang at home, otherwise, I want you to look good.

He has sympathy and pity for the cheap father's maid, Le Niang, and hopes that she can have a good home. There are too many poor women like Le Niang in the world. He is not the savior, but since it happened in his own home, Nature couldn't bear her suffering.

"Thank you, Master."

Wu You was so happy that she closed her mouth, gave a long salute, and then ran away in a hurry, most likely to comfort the newly acquired little beauty.

Li Weilian yawned, but now he can't sleep, some things have to be dealt with immediately, the battle damage report has been submitted, the defensive battle at Baiwuguan, the second brother-in-law Tang Tianhe's troops, and the young and strong people in the city who helped defend the city were injured Among them, there were more than 300 casualties in total, and the casualties were relatively large. Compared with the 110 trapped camp soldiers, [-] and [-] people were injured in the battle, and more than [-] people were injured. In addition, the casualties of the tens of thousands of recruits who fought against the wind were only more than a hundred, and the loss was not too great.

The soldiers damaged in the war were supplemented by prisoners of war or private soldiers sent by several big families such as the Tong family. The army did not decrease, but instead increased by more than 1 people.

Early the next morning, Li Wei led a mighty army to march, leaving 5000 troops for his second brother-in-law Tang Tianhe to guard Changping Pass, plus 3 veterans transferred from Baiwu Pass, for a total of [-] troops. People, it is more than enough to guard Changping Pass.

He had to be careful. Changping Pass was not only the northeast gate of Hongfeng Province, but also the retreat route for the army he commanded. In case of an unpredictable turn of events, he could return to Changping Pass.

The army led by Li Wei still has more than 8 people, but it is claimed to be 5 people. According to the soldiers, several small counties under the jurisdiction of Changping Pass either surrendered to the county magistrate or abandoned the city to abscond.

Those small counties have no strategic significance at all, usually there are only a few dozen yamen to maintain order. For safety reasons, Li Wei still left 1000 soldiers in each small county to guard them. Thousand tigers and leopard cavalry and three thousand light cavalry arrived at the foot of Baiye City, and camped ten miles outside the city.

Baiye City is just a county-level city. The size of the city, the height of the city walls and the population are only two-thirds of Changping's, but it is the gateway to Hongfeng City. If you capture Baiye City, you can directly threaten Hongfeng City. The second city that the army must capture.

The guard of Baiye City is Lan Yun's nephew, Lan Pi, who is also a demon king of the common people, who is secretly called "rotten fart" by the common people.

He received the news that Lan Shaoping led an army to attack Baiwuguan yesterday. At that time, he didn't care much about Lan Shaoping's audacity. Hun Qipo was almost scared away.

Lan Yun never thought that Li Wei's ambitions would be so big, that he dared to risk the world's power and annex his territory. Although he was cautious, he stationed 3000 defenders in a small county-level town like Baiye, but the guard general Lan Pi One person ate the empty salary of a thousand soldiers, plus the empty salary of officers at all levels. In fact, the entire Baiye City, including the old, weak, sick and disabled, only counted [-] soldiers. city?

Lan Pi sent people to ask Lan Yun for help, and at the same time desperately recruited the young and strong in the city to help defend the city, causing the whole city to panic and panic.

The [-] pioneers of the Jiayue Mansion Army were all cavalry, and they did not carry heavy siege weapons. They just surrounded but did not attack, waiting for the main force to arrive.

The defenders in the city spent the night trembling with fear. At noon the next day, Li Wei led an army to arrive. Eighty thousand troops formed a formation under the city, scaring Lan Yun to death, and desperately sent messengers to ask Lan Yun for help. .

Fortunately, Li Wei deliberately asked him to send a messenger to ask Lan Yun for help, otherwise, he would have surrounded the city on all sides and launched an attack with all kinds of siege weapons.