Lord of the House

(asking for a red ticket)

Ye Jiluorong's slaughter order was to arouse the murderous spirit of the siege soldiers. Naturally, it was to be known to the whole army, but it was also quickly spread to Nanyang City, which aroused the will of Nanyang soldiers and civilians to resist with all their strength.

Before Liang Chengchong abandoned the city and fled east on the 16th, although the city wall of Nanyang was smashed by stone throwers for a long time, the soldiers and civilians could block it with wooden fences and cloth bags filled with soil; The Chengtou defenders and the people are also like arrows and stones.

On the 14th and 15th, heavy rain poured into the territory of Nanyang, and the Yan troops continued to attack the city, and the soldiers and civilians in the city did not go down to the fortress, ignoring casualties and resisting in the rain. The strong wind that was blowing at that time actually smashed both the enemy and us from the broken crenel and fell under the city, and the mud washed by the rain under the city was already dyed blood red.

In Ye Ji Luorong's heart, he felt a little regretful that when the massacre order spread, the will of Nanyang military and civilians to defend the city became stronger, but Liang Chengchong could not see that the will of the military and civilians to resist became firmer, but the stream in the upper reaches of the Ganshui and Tang River after the rain. The river water surged, and it was possible to block the enemy on his flank for him, so he decided to abandon Nanyang and flee east on the night of the drizzle on the 16th...

However, the road from Nanyang to Biyang was also washed away by the rain. Liang Chengchong fled east on the rainy night and did not buy him much time. Defeated in the wild.

Liang Chengchong's life and death are unknown, but after Liang Chengchong gave up Nanyang and fled east, the Xinfu Han army who participated in the siege of the city successively attacked the city and raised butcher knives to the nearly 100,000 soldiers and civilians abandoned in Nanyang.

In Jiangning, Shewenzhuang also slaughtered with troops, but the main purpose at that time was to create chaos and loot materials, and the number of civilians who were actually slaughtered was limited.

This time, Zhou Fan presided over the siege of the city, and he naturally presided over the massacre of the city. He had no intention of slaughtering the city. At first, he just let his troops and Tian Chang's rush into the city to loot, indulge the military discipline, and let the generals and soldiers be vented.

However, at the time of the military meeting, his subordinate Tu An, in front of Ye Jiluorong, offered a plan to Zhou Fan: "Nanyang is about food, and if we don't suppress it, the slaughter at this time will only deepen the hatred. It's easier to change!"

Tu'an was originally a general of Liang Xi's army, and he beheaded Liang Xi in Dongping and led his army to surrender to Yan; his intention was to exterminate the troops and civilians in Nanyang, and he had his own sinister intentions. At that time, there was a lower-level official in the Xinfu Han Army, Guo Pu, who couldn't bear it, and scolded Tu An in front of him: "The human face is like a beast, but a dog and a mouse are not as good." But this word reached Ye Jiluorong's ears, and Ye Jiluorong immediately ordered Guo Pu to be sent to him. Pu beheaded outside the camp.

Zhou Fan then ordered Tu An and Tian Chang to lead his troops into the city again, strangling the soldiers and civilians in Nanyang City one by one, killing them all to ensure that no one slipped through the net. The very few soldiers and civilians who fled Nanyang in disorder.

Of course, after Nanyang City was broken, there was sporadic resistance in the city, but this kind of resistance was very weak in the face of the well-trained slaughtering army. The Huaidong Army was deployed in the dark line in Nanyang City, and only two or three people escaped.

When the massacre spread to Biyang, not only did they fail to inspire Yuan Guizheng, Liang Chengyi, Liang Chengdong, Liang Dai, Yuan Jinsheng and other remaining Nanyang generals with the determination and courage to stick to Biyang City, but instead made them terrified of the **** massacre. Losing his soul, he dared not defend the city and fight against Yan Hu.

When Liang Chengchong's deserters and horses were defeated in the east, and Liang Chengchong's life and death were unknown, seeing that the number of enemies coming south from Fangcheng was like a flood, Yuan Guizheng and others abandoned Biyang and went from Dongcheng Gate to Tongbai before the Yan soldiers came to encircle Escape in the mountains.

Biyang is located in the upper reaches of the Tang River, at the western foot of Tongbai Mountain. Both the north and south sides are sheltered by the remaining veins born from the branches of Tongbai Mountain. If it deviates too far from the main river of the Nanyang Basin, Biyang is purely topographically, and it is better than Nanyang City. Much easier to defend than to attack.

However, after Yanhu slaughtered Nanyang City, Yuan Guizheng, Liang Chengyi and other generals also lost the courage to lead 9,000 troops and tens of thousands of people to defend this city surrounded by mountains on three sides.

Although Tongbai Mountain is hundreds of kilometers across, and there is a valley road to the east that leads to Zhengyang, where the Huaixi general Xiao Kuian is guarded, there are nearly 10,000 troops and horses, tens of thousands of generals and soldiers, and tens of thousands of Biyang people who fled in chaos. They all fled without a plan, but they gave the Yanhu cavalry a chance to cover up and kill.

From Biyang City to the east, all the way to the deep valley and old forest of Tongbai Mountain, as long as the cavalry can pass, there are corpses everywhere, and the rivers and rivers are also dyed red, and even blocked by the accumulation of corpses.

The pursuit of the Yanhu cavalry continued into the territory of Zhengyang County, and after Xiao Kuian led his troops to counterattack, the massacre of the fleeing soldiers and civilians was restrained.

After all the main forces on the western front occupied Nanyang, in the north of Xinyang, Chen Zhihu's troops also quickly made adjustments, gave up the frontal entanglement with the defenders of Guoyang and Zhengyang, and moved their troops to the west to Doshan, Runan and other places.

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On the 23rd, it rained like a curtain in Shouzhou; after autumn in previous years, it was rare to see such heavy rain in Huaixi.

Heavy rain has the advantage of heavy rain. The rivers flowing from the eastern foothills of Tongbai Mountain and the northern foothills of Huaishan Mountain have risen sharply, which also makes the water in the upper reaches of the Huaihe River fierce, reducing the chance of Yanhu cavalry piercing into the hinterland of Huaixi.

Coupled with the fact that the center of gravity of Chen Zhihu's troops has obviously moved westward in the past few days, Shouzhou can breathe a sigh of relief.

More than a dozen fast horses galloped in the rain, stepping on the water and squatting, splashing water. In such a heavy rain, people are riding fast horses in the rain, and the rain is not worth it at all. Yuan Guizheng is like a chicken in soup.

When escaping from Biyang, Yuan Guizheng, Liang Chengyi and others took the road and fled, and they were a little panicked.

Yuan Guizheng chose to take the Gu Road connecting Biyang and Zhengyang. Although this line was the most difficult for the enemy to kill, Yuan Guizheng still fled into Zhengyang City to join Xiao Kuian. The Yanhu cavalry attacking Zhengyang was unfavorable, and they shrank back, but they did not give up the valley road east out of Tongbai Mountain. Then, news came that the traitor Tu An was appointed as the defender of Biyang.

Ye Jiluorong used Tu'an to guard Qinyang, with clear intentions. One was to make Tu'an clean up the Nanyang military and civilians who escaped into Tongbai Mountain, and the other was to make Tu'an control the passage out of Tongbai Mountain in the east and contain the troops and horses of Xiao Kuian in Zhengyang City. , to cooperate with Chen Zhihu in the north.

This is also the case. Other Nanyang soldiers and civilians who fled into Tongbai Mountain were temporarily given the opportunity to cut off their escape into Zhengyang.

Yuan Guizheng could not wait for the news that Liang Chengyi and the others had escaped pursuit in Zhengyang, so he had to come to Shouzhou with Liang Dai to see Dong Yuan first.

Yuan Hancheng, the king of Chu, and Liu Tingzhou were waiting at the gate of Xicheng earlier. Yuan Guizheng restrained the horse, his feet were weak and his body was weak.

Yuan Guizheng helped the soldiers on the left and right. He was covered in mud and messed up like a beggar. When he saw Yuan Hancheng and Liu Tingzhou, he burst into tears: "Chu Prince, Lord Liu, 200,000 soldiers and civilians in Nanyang, they died unjustly!"

Yuan Hancheng and Liu Tingzhou did not expect that Yuan Guizheng would be so rude.

Although the incident of the massacre in Nanyang came to Shouzhou, it also made them very angry and full of righteous indignation at the time, but after all, they were more hard-hearted than ordinary people. Blame the slaughter of Nanyang on the failure of the Huaidong reinforcements to arrive...

Huaidong did not send reinforcements, and Huaixi did not send reinforcements either. Comparatively speaking, Huaixi was more responsible for sending reinforcements—Yuan Guizheng burst into tears, Yuan Hancheng and Liu Tingzhou were not good at responding to him; even if reinforcements were sent , Nanyang has only been defending for a few days, can Huaidong and Huaixi have the opportunity to send reinforcements?

Even at this time, Huaidong's troops in the hinterland of Jiangxi have not been fully assembled in Jiangzhou, so how can they help Nanyang?

Even if the responsibility is all on Huaidong's head, at this time, Yuan Guizheng has no soldiers or soldiers in his hands, and Jiangning is under Huaidong's control. What can Yuan Guizheng use to accuse Huaidong?

Lin Fu defeated Yuanzhou's army so easily, but he killed Huang Binghao and his direct relatives after the incident, which went against his previous style of soliciting and embracing tenderness. Killing Huang Binghao was for some people to see...

Only when Yuan Guizheng was stimulated, Liu Tingzhou comforted him with good words: "The recruiter has not closed his eyes for a few days, and his body is very unwell. He originally came over to pick up Lord Yuan, but he still persuaded us to come down - Lord Yuan is still advanced. Take a rest and tell us what happened in Nanyang in detail..."

Yuan Guizheng's eye sockets were deeply sunken, and his eyes were bloodshot. He heard Liu Tingzhou say that Dong Yuan was unwell, and his fists were clenched tightly. He didn't expect Dong Yuan to avoid it. Liu Tingzhou spoke more euphemistically, but Yuan Guizheng was not a three-year-old child, so how could he not hear it.

Yuan Guizheng escaped from Biyang and rushed to Shouzhou City in the heavy rain. His body was soaked by the heavy rain. For him, he was also exhausted at this time. When he was exhausted, he immediately vomited a large mouthful of blood, and fell backwards.

Liu Tingzhou and Yuan Hancheng winked at him. Yuan Hanchang sighed, and ordered Yuan Guizheng to join his carriage and Yuan Jinsheng, who came to Shouzhou with Yuan Guizheng. , Liang Dai and others all told him to go to the Chu palace. Liu Tingzhou rushed to see Dong Yuan.

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In Dong Yuan's Xingyuan, Ding Zhiru, Chen Jingrong and others all sat down in the hall, listening to Liu Tingzhou with Dong Yuan about Yuan Guizheng's vomiting blood and fainting under the city gate.

Chen Jingrong said: "The matter of reinforcements must not be mentioned again. The fall of Nanyang is due to the ineffective defense of the Liang clan, and should be responsible for the defeat!"

Ding Zhiru always felt that something hurt others, no matter whether Liang Chengchong and Liang Chengyi could escape their lives in the end, but they didn't have a soldier or a soldier in their hands, that is, a lost dog or a lost dog. The responsibility for the defeat does not belong to them. On the head, who else can it belong to?

He really wanted to tell Yuan Guizheng to go to Jiangning and scold Nanyang for the failure of the reinforcements. In fact, he couldn't blame Huaidong. Instead, he asked Huaidong to have an excuse to question why Huaixi, who was so close, didn't get reinforcements!

Dong Yuan waved his hand and said, "Don't talk about it, let Yongchang Marquis rest in Shouzhou for a few days. If you want him to go to Zhengyang to gather the remnants, then Fangjiaao, upstream of Meizhu River, will be entrusted to him to defend..."

Liu Tingzhou knew that this was a quid pro quo for Dong Yuan to keep silent on Yuan Guizheng and not mention military aid.

Fangjiaao is an unimportant stockade to Huaixi. It is located in the valley at the foot of Tongbai Mountain. It is handed over to Yuan Guizheng. If Yuan Guizheng and the Liang family can gather some remnants to rest, it is better than nothing. Back to Jiangning to be stronger.

Liu Tingzhou nodded and said, "Nanyang has already been defeated, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians have been massacred. This is not the time to investigate who is responsible for the defeat. The war is far from over, and the next situation will be even more difficult."

At present, the troops and horses led by the traitor Chen Zhihu are out of frontal contact with the defenders of Guoyang and Zhengyang, and the center of gravity of the troops and horses is shifted to the west.

The situation is obvious, Luoyang, Ruzhou and Nanyang will be the back road for the Yanhu Western Front to take Jingzhou directly to the south. When Ye Jiluo Rong led the main force to the south, in the western Henan area, only Chen Zhihu had a single army. Compared with Huaixi, Chen Zhihu was at a disadvantage in the situation. A normal tactical adjustment.

At the same time, the troops and horses of the rogue Luo Xiancheng also shrunk to the northern foot of Huaishan Mountain. After burning, killing, looting and looting for half a month, Luo Xiancheng abandoned the cities in the hinterland of Huaixi, such as Xixian and Huangchuan, and retreated to Luoshan and Mafan. , Shigang and other fortresses close to the northern foot of Huaishan Mountain.

The rogue Luo Xiancheng's intention to shrink to the northern foot of Huaishan is also very clear. He wants to cooperate with Yanhu to transfer more troops to the southern line, and his troops in Huaixi will naturally be greatly reduced. To avoid the opportunity for Huaixi to be seized by the reduction of troops, Luo Xiancheng could only give up the hinterland of Huaixi that he had occupied in the early stage and shrink towards the northern foot of Huaishan Mountain.

Even if Ye Ji Luorong led the main force of the Yanhu Western Front Army and the main force of Shejia and Luo Xiancheng's army to attack Jingzhou, including the army of Chen Zhihu who moved to Queshan and Ruzhou, and the army of Tu'an who guarded Biyang and attacked Tongbai Mountain, Luo Xiancheng stayed at the northern foot of Huaishan Mountain, and the total strength of the enemy army on the northern front would add up to almost 100,000. Yan Hu will eventually remain on the northern front with a force comparable to that of Huaixi, making Huaixi still unable to find an opportunity to switch from defense to attack in a short period of time.

Dong Yuan would not be relieved or gloat because Yanhu did not go east to fight Huaixi after he defeated Nanyang, but went south to fight Jingzhou, because after Yanhu defeated Jingzhou, he was blocked by the Yangtze River, and would not continue to go south in a short time. Will turn around and hit Huaixi.

If Yanhu's plan to attack Jingzhou could not be aborted, after Yanhu conquered Jingzhou, Huaidong troops would not be able to gain a foothold on the north bank, and would have to retreat to Jiangzhou.

At that time, if Yanhu left 100,000 troops in Jingzhou, Hanjin and other places, it was enough to form a short-term confrontation with Huaidong's troops in Jiangzhou and Luzhou, and Yanhu would be able to free up nearly 300,000 troops. Malays attacking Huaixi - how will Huaixi defend then?

"Are you asking the privy envoy to transfer Ning Zechen's department, who was deployed in Shanyang, to Shouzhou?" Ding Zhiru asked.

General Huaidong, Lin Fu is not counted, Fu Qinghe, Cao Ziang, Qin Chengzu are not counted, there are also one phoenix and nine tigers, namely Liu Miaozhen, Zhou Pu, Zhao Hu, Sun Zhuang, Ao Canghai, Zhou Tong, Zhao Qingshan, Ning Zechen, Ge Cunxin, Ge Cunxiong, and the 20,000 soldiers of the Fengli Army under Ning Zechen were actually 20,000 elites in the Huaidong Army.

If Lin Fu transferred Ning Zechen to Huaixi and fought jointly with the Huaixi Army, he would at least be able to contain more Yan and Hu forces on the northern front and reduce the pressure on the southern front.

Dong Yuan shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it's too late! When Zhong Rong went south, Luo Xiancheng retreated to the northern foot of Huaishan Mountain. We were in a hurry. He would retreat to Huaishan Mountain and Suizhou. How many soldiers and horses did we need to kill? Go in? Luo Xiancheng hasn't done much in these years, but his strength is not enough!"

Dong Yuan didn't know that Lin Bie said the same thing in the ruined city of Qichun - Dong Yuan did not join Jinghu to attack Luo Xiancheng in the past two years, of course not because of Luo Xiancheng's performance, but mainly because the situation in Henan was not optimistic. On the one hand, Luo Xian is dressed as a pig, but he may not have the strength to eat tigers.

Liu Tingzhou sighed lightly. Dong Yuan did not mention Dong Yuan or Tu An, but Ti Luo Xiancheng. It was really Huaixi who wanted to turn defense into attack, so he could only fight Luo Xiancheng.

Chen Zhihu had 50,000 soldiers and horses in Queshan and Runan, and he was the strongest in combat. Even if he pressed Huaixi's 100,000 soldiers and horses, he might not be able to bite Chen Zhihu. Tu'an guards Biyang. On the one hand, there is only one channel to attack Biyang from Zhengyang, and this channel is not wide, and as soon as he exits from Gudao, it is blocked by Biyang City. No matter how many troops and horses are, it is difficult to launch an offensive. Chen Zhihu's department is too close, less than two hundred miles away, and if he is not careful, Chen Zhihu will be killed.

Chen Jingrong thumped his hands and said regretfully: "Biyang collapsed without a fight, but Yuan Guizheng has the face to come to Shouzhou to complain! If Biyang does not lose, the situation may not be so ugly!"

Biyang and Zhengyang stand at the west and east foothills of Tongbai Mountain, and there is a valley road in the middle. Biyang is not lost, even if Biyang has only 10,000 defenders, but because Biyang directly threatens the Nanyang Basin, there is a city in Biyang, and at least 50,000 soldiers and horses of Yanhu are contained - and when Biyang falls, Yanhu even has only 50,000 troops. More than 10,000 troops are needed to close this gap.

Compared with 40,000 troops, the impact on the pressure on the southern front will be huge.

Liu Tingzhou shook his head and smiled bitterly, and asked Dong Yuan, "Can Luo Xiancheng really fight?"

According to Yan Hu's deployment, Chen Zhihu could not fight, Tu An could not fight, and they could only fight Luo Xiancheng's soldiers and horses at the northern foot of Huaishan Mountain.

Dong Yuan shook his head and said: "It's hard to fight. When Luo Xiancheng was the most powerful, he claimed to have 200,000 troops, and he was also called the two heroes with Liu An'er; after he established a foothold in Suizhou, he cut his troops and settled the fields, and the soldiers were reduced to 80,000 - in At the same time that Luo Xiancheng's troops were reduced, the strength of Luo's bandits has actually been increasing. Mr. Liu, you also participated in Min and beat Liu An'er back then, do you feel relieved?"

Liu Tingzhou shook his head bitterly. He couldn't despise Luo Xiancheng just because he was honest. How could a bandit who is as famous as Liu An'er be the same generation?

Although the Huaisi refugee army had long since disintegrated, Liu Tingzhou still remembers the pain of defeating the Huaisi army—now in the Huaidong Army, Liu Miaozhen, Sun Zhuang, Ma Lantou, Chen Zhu, Zhang Gou, and Li Liang. The brave generals were actually born in Huaisi.

Since Luo Xiancheng can be as famous as Liu An'er, he once had 200,000 soldiers and horses under his command, and he was able to serve as a hero, so why would he be in the minority?

During the four or five years that Luo Xiancheng was entrenched in Suizhou, on the periphery of Suizhou, one was to build a large number of defenses along the southern foot of Dahong Mountain and Qishan in the south, and the other was to build a large number of defenses in the north, in Huaishan, and the defense line in Huaishan. It is the line of defense against Huaixi.

No one would naively think that Luo Xiancheng would only occupy a city in Suizhou with 200,000 troops.

Luo Xiancheng's control of Suizhou, the actual scope of the east is deep into the heart of Huaishan, Chaishan; to the west, it controls Xiangyang, Fancheng and the fortress of Chakou all the way to the Danjiang River into the Han River; to the southeast, it controls Dahongshan, and to the south, it controls the army Mountain, Qishan, and to the north, it controls the hinterland of the Huaishan North Line—this area includes almost fifteen counties.

Since Dong Yuan entered Huaixi much later, in fact, the valley roads entering and leaving Huaishan were all under the control of Luo Xiancheng. Between Huaixi and Suizhou ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Suizhou holds the initiative, not to mention some of the key fortresses at the northern foot of Huaishan are also called Luo Xiancheng to win.

In the north, with Chen Zhihu being restrained, how many troops can Huaixi send to fight Luo Xiancheng's troops at the northern foot of Huaishan? Even if Lin Fu transferred Ning Zechen to Huaixi to cooperate in the battle, it would be difficult to form a military advantage!

There were no outsiders in the hall, and Chen Jingrong asked in a low voice, "Will the Chongguo Guild resort to a plan to capture it?"

Hard to catch? Liu Tingzhou was a little puzzled, and then he realized that he had heard the wrong thing. Instead, Chen Jingrong said that he was worried that Huaidong would sacrifice Jingzhou again this time, and had no intention of fighting the enemy in eastern Hubei.

Liu Tingzhou also had this concern, and he looked at Dong Yuan.

Dong Yuan shook his head and said, "The ambition hidden in Lin Fu's heart will not be so weak that even Jingxiang dare not fight in the first battle! For Huaidong, Nanyang can be sacrificed, but Jingzhou is impossible. Sacrifice. Besides, if Lin Bie is not fighting against Yanhu in Jingxiang, what choice do we have?"

Yes, they can only hope that Huaidong will resolutely march into Hubei and ensure that Jingzhou is not lost - only Huaidong and Yanhu will form a tug of war in Jingxiang, and Huaixi will be able to escape, otherwise Huaixi will have to fight next. Directly facing the bad situation of the influx of 300,000 Yanhu troops!

"I stay in Shouzhou, and it is of no great use. Why don't I go to Qichun!" Liu Tingzhou said, "You can rest assured if you see it with your own eyes."

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