Lord of the House

(The third one!)

Liu Yefei shot the arrow off his horse, howling in pain, the left and right servants were all under the blow of the arrow rain, and no one had the intention to save him. The horse's hooves stepped on, Liu Yefei listened to the sound of the sternum cracking, and rolled into the shallow ditch by the roadside to avoid being trampled to death on the spot, but the right rib and chest hurt by the arrow were extremely painful.

Even if he didn't die for a while, half his life was still here. The ambush soldiers came from all sides, and there was no way to escape. He closed his eyes in despair.

It was Chi Yuanji, the son of Chi Zhou, who led his troops to ambush at the southern foot of Jigong Mountain. He didn't wait for the large army to withdraw from Daoyu Village. Seeing the cavalry fleeing to Dengzhou City in the dark, he decisively ordered an attack and attacked Liu Ye. On the spot - the arrows had been shot, and seeing that the cavalry would be defeated without resistance, they lit torches to capture the prisoners.

Chen Zhihu's partial division attacked, and Liu Yefei transferred two battalions of the only three battalions of defenders in Dengzhou City to Daoyu Village. to escape from the city.

After Liu Yefei left Dengzhou City, Yuan Zhixing was the one who stayed in the city to preside over affairs.

The enemy is now and disaster is imminent, and the defenders are seriously insufficient. Liu Yefei took two-thirds of the defenders to Daoyu Village. Said to welcome Jiangning's special envoy, but Yuan Zhixing believed that he was greedy for life and feared death, so he fled to Swordfish Village first. As a city, Swordfish Village is easier to defend than Dengzhou City, and more importantly, it is possible to escape south by sea boat at any time from Swordfish Village.

Yuan Zhixing is still a bit stubborn, and he didn't think about going to join the enemy. He wrote a good article and was reluctant to govern, but he had no experience in defending the city, and he didn't have the courage to not panic in the face of disaster. At that time, my heart was full of numbness, and I called my subordinate officials to the government office to discuss matters. There was a group of people sitting there crying, hoarsely saying some nonsense about "dedicating their lives to righteousness and being loyal to the court", but no one thought about it. He wanted to go to the top of the city to organize defense, not to mention to rectify the only five or six hundred defenders and recruit the people.

Some officials with active minds first thought of escaping from the city to seek refuge, and some officials thought of surrendering, but they couldn't find the opportunity to speak - the soldiers of a battalion left behind in Dengzhou City were abandoned because they were not Liu Yefei's close friends. feeling. From the generals to the soldiers, they have no intention of defending the city, and even some soldiers deserted and fled.

The defenders didn't disperse in a hurry, not because of anything else, but because Zhao Zhen led the main force of Dengzhou Town to retreat to Pingdu, and they had not been annihilated, leaving them a line of hope to defend Dengzhou, and they were afraid of being incriminated in advance.

Under such circumstances, the fact that the defenders of Dengzhou City did not notice the Haidong soldiers and horses landing from Tangzi Bay in the northeast corner could not be called an accident.

Chi Yuanji led his troops to launch an ambush at the western foot of Jigong Mountain, and Zhao Hu led his troops to approach the north gate of Dengzhou City. At this moment, the gate of Dengzhou City actually opened, and countless chariots and horses rushed out of the city gate. Time to go out of town for refuge.

The latent sentry came out of the city to report the situation in Dengzhou city, Zhao Hu was dumbfounded when he heard it:

Before the enemy army came, Dengzhou City was in chaos first. Even in the middle of the night, the city gate was opened and people were released to flee. I don't know how many soldiers were mixed in and fled.

People can't do it, they can't use it. Even if there is a solid city, it can't hold it. The so-called collapse of a thousand miles is nothing but this.

Whether they can fight, whether they are elite or not, depends on the people. Thinking of the shabby belongings of the refugee army, they could still fight for thousands of miles, attacking cities and looting the land, causing large cities in the hinterland of the Central Plains to fall. Liu Miaozhen relied on old and weak soldiers to guard Huaiyang, so she Telling Chen Zhihu to not dare to attack by force is not a blessing. In fact, except for the limited elites, the level of military preparedness in ordinary places is too deep.

Huaidong already has 100,000 elites available, and there are 120,000-30,000 reserve soldiers in the labor battalion, almost supporting half of South Vietnam. Zhao Hu used to think that Huaidong's strength was still weak, and his ambitions should not be exposed prematurely. The situation of the prefecture city facing the enemy was so unbearable. Thinking that in the past few years, the military and horses of the imperial court seemed to be only responsible for throwing away troops and armour, losing the city and abandoning the land, Zhao Hu felt that Huaidong no longer needed to look at the imperial court. The face acted.

Zhao Hu had a headache before how to convince the defenders to open the city gate and let them in. Now, there is no need to worry about this matter - Zhao Hu instructed the left and right: "Light the torch..."

The people in the city begged the defenders to open the city gate to escape, and even blocked the sight of Jigong Mountain. They didn't care that Liu Yefei and Hu Cong were ambushed at the western foot of Jigong Mountain, and they were in a mess to escape from the city. In the darkness of his face, countless torches suddenly lit up, reflecting countless savage faces of Rong soldiers rushing out of the mountain, just as if the enemy soldiers were attacking, they immediately seemed to have poured a spoonful of cold water into the hot oil pan, panicking. pole.

The people fleeing from the city fled everywhere, and the guards at the city gate were unsure of their minds, and they also scattered in a hurry.

Zhao Hu looked at the open city gate, at the fallen carriages and horses, at the shoes, socks and hats that had been stepped on, at the terrified faces of the people who had their feet slashed or injured, and at the guards The discarded bow and knife, angry and resentful, with a livid face, told the left and right to rescue the people who fell into the moat first - it was so easy to "occupy" the North City of Dengzhou City.

Thinking of the bandits in the 9th year of Chongguan, the Donghu army swept Yannan and captured more than 30 cities in Yannan in just one month. Presumably this is the situation in most cases?

At this time, the city was a little cluttered, and there was a team of more than a hundred soldiers running towards this side to kill - thinking that under such circumstances, there were still people in the city who wanted to counterattack and retake the Beicheng, Zhao Hu was relieved, and it made people feel more relieved. Go forward and shout, don't add any more casualties for no reason.

After a while, two people were brought over by his subordinates, one of them was dressed as a yamen and casually dressed in a leather armor, and the other was a general of the garrison, who only looked like a small school at the city gate.

"Little Liang Shou is the leader of the third class of the Fucheng prison." Liang Shou opened his mouth wider and saluted his identity as he approached, "His name is Shi Anjin, he is the deputy lieutenant of Nanmen. Shi Anjin brought his men to help, and the little one was also dizzy and rushed over with the yamen on duty, but he didn't know that the general brought the Huaidong Army to aid Dengzhou..."

Zhao Hu looked at Liang Shou and Shi Anjin: Liang Shou had a fat head, big ears, wide waist and broad shoulders. He looked like a big arm of strength. What was even more rare was that he didn't escape at this time, and he was able to bring more than a dozen yamen along with the defenders to counterattack Beicheng. , and also thought that he should be very prestigious in the yamen on weekdays, so that he could get others to follow him desperately; An Jin was quite young, tall and thin, with a dark face, looking strong and powerful.

"Liu Yefei, the prefect of Dengzhou, has surrendered to the enemy, do you know that?" Zhao Hu asked Liang Shou and Shi Anjin with a sullen face.

At this moment, Chen Enze came over and heard Zhao Hu question Liang Shou and Shi Anjin.

Zhao Hu was quite surprised, let Liang Shou and Shi Anjin retreat first, and asked Chen Enze, "Has the affairs of the Swordfish Village been done?"

"Mr. Gao has entered the city, Hu Yu'er is really trustworthy, and there is no trouble at the critical moment..." Chen Enze said.

"You kid is going to try to do this, and make me sweat; if Hu Yu'er is unreliable, I really can't explain it when I go back," Zhao Hu sighed, "It seems that you teenagers have grown up, no wonder The adults can trust you."

Not only the Chongzhou meat ticket teenagers can hold important positions, Zhao Hu's two younger brothers in those days, Zhao Bao is now a battalion general under Zhou Pu, Zhao Mengxiong is also eighteen years old, and is compiled as Lin Fu's bodyguard——Chen Enze smiled and continued: "Mr. Gao expected that Liu Yefei's more than 1,000 miscellaneous soldiers could not be defeated in front of Lord Tiger, and asked me to come over by boat to discuss other arrangements..." It was a broken army, a disorderly army, Chen Enze wanted to rush over, and at this time he could only go to sea by boat.

"Originally, I only wanted to occupy one place in Daoyu Village and Dengzhou City, but now I can occupy both places. It's really good," Zhao Hu said. "Mr. Gao, what arrangements do you want to instruct?"

"Mr. Gao intends to ambush Chen Zhihu's partial cavalry in the south of Port Ling!" Chen Enze said ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and Mr. Gao said, don't trace who colluded with Liu Yefei in the city, at this time it is important to calm people's hearts! "

"Okay, that's what I mean too!" Zhao Hu said excitedly, "You'd better come here, I'll lead the troops to Qijia, and I'll leave this matter to you first..." Thinking of Chen Enze seeing him just now He questioned the situation of Liang Shou, Shi, and Jin, and explained, "We suddenly approached the Beicheng Gate, and the Beicheng defenders dispersed in a rush. The two of them had the courage to gather some miscellaneous soldiers from others to capture the Beicheng—others No matter who they are, the two of them have to find out clearly that they have nothing to do with Liu Yefei, and they can reuse it for Huaidong!"

Zhao Hu handed over this matter to Chen Enze, leaving him a battalion of troops to settle the situation in Dengzhou City, and restore the defense of the city in the shortest time. In addition to Chi Yuanji's troops who ambushed and cleaned up the mess on Jigong Mountain, Zhao Hu led the four battalions of infantry, and in the clear sky, they rushed to Qijia at the southern foot of the Buling Mountains. Maybe after reaching Qijia, the soldiers You can rest for a while or two before engaging the enemy.

At dawn, Chi Yuanji sent someone to **** Liu Yefei and Liu Zhiyong who were seriously injured, and he was ordered to lead his troops to Qijia for reinforcements.

Chen Zhihu sent the detachment to attack Dengzhou with 2,000 troops; Zhao Hu had only four or five battalions of infantrymen, and they were mixed together from various armies. They were not the most elite combat power in Huaidong. If the battle is not smooth, the casualties are bound to be heavy, so the more troops that can be gathered in Qijia, the better.

This battle of Qijia is also a must. Repelling or even defeating Chen Zhihu's partial division will greatly delay the speed of Chen Zhihu's main force crossing the Jiaolai River and entering Dengzhou, in order to withdraw as many people as possible from Dengzhou. Win more time with the supplies, and even bring back Zhao Zhen's troops who were stranded in Pingdu and withdraw together. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter