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- Chapter 380: Burning food and grass, putting blame on others
More than two months had passed since Zhao Kai ascended the throne. The situation in the Song Dynasty seemed calm, but internal turmoil was turbulent. The reason was because the angry Zhao Yunluo had captured Shezhou, wiped out Fang La, and gathered the enemy troops. Conquering other armies, they are quickly gathering the army, preparing to return to Beijing to face the Holy Spirit!
Face to face? Now it's exciting.
And Ximen Qing also returned to Bazhou yesterday evening.
At this time, Ximen Qingzheng was chatting with Tao Qian and Wu Yong in the city lord's palace.
Ximen Qing asked: "Xuetuo, how is the war situation between Tang Tianheng and the Liao Kingdom? Before I came here, I saw that both sides were unable to defend the city. What is the situation? Does it look like there is some conspiracy?"
Wu Yong and Tao Qian laughed, and Wu Yong said: "Emperor Yi, you don't know. In the past few months since you left, Tang Tianheng's army and the three armies of the Liao Kingdom fought more than twenty times. Every time the two sides fought, They are all equally matched and evenly matched. Naturally, the casualties will be very high. According to our spies' report, Tang Tianheng's 150,000 army has been reduced to 100,000, and the Liao army has also suffered heavy casualties. Tang Tianheng knows well that if this continues It was not a solution, so I decisively hung up the no-war card and was unwilling to go to war. The Liao Kingdom also wanted to have children and rest, so it stopped sending troops."
Ximen Qing nodded and said with a smile: "Haha, Tang Tianheng must hate us to death. By the way, how many troops do we have now?"
Tao Qian stroked his beard and smiled, saying: "Emperor Yi, how about you guess?"
Ximen Qing said: "Originally we had 170,000 troops. I have been away from Bazhou for more than half a year. We must add 30,000 troops anyway!"
Tao Qian laughed and said: "Emperor Yi, you underestimate the reputation of our Liangshan army. Now our army consists of Leopard Camp, Yu Camp, Modao Camp, Liehuo Camp, Eagle Camp, Qinglong Dadao Camp, and Lianma Ma There are 16 battalions, including the Hook and Sickle Spear Battalion, the Assault Battalion, the Bear Camp, the Elephant Camp, the Wolf Camp, the Mastiff Camp, the Thorn Camp, the Shield Camp, and the Yama Camp. Each battalion currently has 15,000 men, including other soldiers. The entire Bazhou has 250,000 men and horses!"
"What? Eighty thousand more troops? That's a lot!" Ximen shouted in surprise.
Wu Yongdao: "Yes, there are so many, and you don't have to worry about the quality. Every soldier is carefully selected and will definitely be no worse than our original soldiers in Liangshan!"
Ximen Qing asked: "Why are there so many? Where are they recruited from?"
Wu Yongdao: "They are all recruited from nearby states. There is no problem at all. There is no need to worry about someone disobeying orders."
Ximen Qing nodded, then rubbed his hands, and said with a happy face: "Study, Tao Qian, I asked Zhu Wu to speed up the recruitment to protect the safety of Liangshan Headquarters. He also sent me a letter before I came. , talking about the recruitment situation, do you know how many soldiers they have recruited now?"
"How much?" Wu Yong and Tao Qian asked.
Ximen Qing raised a hand and said: "Fifty thousand! And they are still recruiting. At this rate, when Zhao Yunluo takes Tokyo City, we will have a total of 350,000 horses in Liangshan, or even nearly 400,000. ! Damn, this is something I can¡¯t even imagine!¡±
Wu Yong and Tao Qian also looked surprised. Wu Yong said: "The world is in chaos today, and the people are in dire straits. They all want to join the army and have enough to eat. But our conditions in Liangshan are the best, and the food for the soldiers is the best, so the people are naturally willing to join."
Ximen Qing said: "You talked about food, I would like to ask, how are our grain and grass reserves, are they enough?"
Tao Qian said: "It's enough now, and even if it's not enough, you can still buy it with gold and silver treasures. We still have three warehouses of useless gold and silver jewelry!"
Ximen Qing chuckled and said, "That's not true. We have taken away all the treasures from Tanzhou, Jizhou, and Bazhou, but we can't use them all!"
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Seeing Ximen Qing like this, Wu Yong raised his eyebrows and asked, "Emperor Yi, do you want to send troops?"
Ximen Qing nodded and said: "That's right! Now we have 250,000 troops and a strong army. If we don't send troops, what are we going to do? And I'm worried that something fishy will happen to Tang Tianheng Sticking to one place won't last long after all. Plan!"
Wu Yongdao: "I think so too, so where should we start?"
Ximen Qing looked at the map behind him, squinted his eyes and said, "Tang Tianheng is immortal and has always been a serious problem! So we must capture Tanzhou!"
Wu Yong said: "Okay, then I will mobilize our troops quickly. We will send troops to Tanzhou tomorrow!"
"Wait a minute!" Ximen Qing stopped Wu Yong and said, "Don't be busy now. If we send troops to attack Tanzhou, the Liao army will be happy and the fishermen will benefit. In this case, why don't we fishermen?"
Wu Yong nodded and said understandingly."I understand I quickly sent Yue Fei to investigate, and then asked Lin Chong to do it. Let him pretend to be Tang Tianheng's army to intercept the Liao army's food and grass!"
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After receiving Wu Yong¡¯s order, Yue Fei quickly investigated when Youzhou would deliver grain and grass to Jizhou.
Three days later, Yue Fei returned with spies and brought the exact time when the Liao army would escort the grain and grass. Immediately, Lin Chong led a thousand dead soldiers and horses, replaced them with the services of Tang Tianheng's army, and then left Bazhou.
They followed the Youlan Valley all the way north and slowly entered the boundary of Youzhou. Then they walked quickly in the moonlight and soon came to an official road. Then the army ambush on both sides of the official road, waiting for the grain and grass army to arrive.
Over the past six months, the grain and grass army has transported grain and grass to Jizhou many times. Each time, everything went smoothly and there was never an ambush. Therefore, over time, Youzhou also relaxed its caution about escorting grain and grass, and did not send a large army to escort it.
On the official road, hundreds of carriages were slowly approaching, each carriage filled with grain or forage. On both sides of the motorcade, there were only about a hundred or so people guarding them, and everyone was walking around, yawning, and talking, just like a group on a spring outing.
Seeing the carriage slowly driving into the encirclement, Lin Chong gave the order decisively, and then the archers shot arrows one after another.
Whizzing. . .
Suddenly, the guards panicked and hurriedly shouted "enemy attack", "enemy attack", but the arrow feathers were too fierce, like dense rain, turning the many guards into a hornet's nest.
Afterwards, Lin Chong led his troops to charge out, burned the food and grass, and then withdrew.
The guards who had narrowly escaped death hurriedly fled towards Jizhou.
In Jizhou City, Yelu Dezhong, Kangli Ding'an and He Shanlu were discussing military affairs. At this moment, the guards suddenly rushed in and told about the burning of grain and grass. The three of them were shocked!
There are more than 100,000 troops in Jizhou City, and they need a lot of food and grass every day. At this time, the soldiers are waiting to eat. Now that the food and grass are burned, it can easily cause the army to lose morale.
Yelu De asked hurriedly: "Who burned the food and grass, but the Liangshan bandit army?"
The guards knelt on the ground and said hurriedly: "Return to the general, they are not the Liangshan thieves, but the Tang army!"
After Tang Tianheng occupied Tanzhou City, he removed Tian Hu from the post of commander-in-chief, moved from behind the scenes to the front, and changed the army to the Tang Army, claiming to be a descendant of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.
Yelu Dezhong said: "Tang Jun? Why did Tang Jun run to the rear? Did you see clearly?"
The guards hurriedly said: "My subordinates can clearly see that it is definitely the Tang Army! Moreover, they ran away after burning the food and grass and did not stop at all!"
Yelvde nodded emphatically and said: "You fools this time are not good at guarding the food and grass. I will execute you according to the law. Seeing that the enemy is too cunning, I will spare you the death penalty this time. However, the death penalty can be avoided, but the living penalty cannot be escaped. Go out and yourself Lead the military stick! After receiving the military stick, quickly return to Youzhou to report to Master Lang, and say that there is an urgent shortage of food and grass in Jizhou"
The guards were grateful to Dai Ze and hurriedly retreated.
At this time, Yelu Dezhong looked at Kangli Ding'an and He Shanlu and asked: "Two generals, who did you burn the food this time? Is it really the Tang Army? I always feel that something is fishy!"
Kangli Ding'an nodded and said, "I feel the same! Ximen Qing is so cunning. I'm afraid that he will burn the food and grass and then blame the Tang army!"
But He Shanlu shook his head and said: "I don't think so. If the Liangshan thieves burned the food and grass and wanted to blame them, why didn't they do this before? Moreover, the Liangshan thieves occupied Bazhou for many days and never went out. How could they know What is the escort route for our grain and grass? What worries me is that this grain-burning army was sent by the Tang Army. Its purpose is to burn our grain and grass, causing us to be short of grain and grass and have to evacuate Jizhou and occupy Jizhou! You guys! I have also seen that the Tang army has not left the city these days, and has not even shown its face. We went to call for formation, but they ignored us. It is so strange, there must be a conspiracy!"
Yelu De said seriously: "This matter needs to be discussed carefully. Whether it is the Liangshan bandit army or the Tang army, this grain-burning army has been wandering behind us and staring at our grain and grass. It has always been a bad thing! It must be eliminated!"
¡°General Yelu¡¯s words make sense!¡±
Three days later, Lord Lang sent five thousand men and horses to escort the grain, grass, chariots and horses to Jizhou.
When the grain, grass, chariots and horses arrived at Jizhou, they were still half a day's journey from Jizhou City, but they were attacked by Lin Chong's army again.
Lin Chong's thousand soldiers were all dead soldiers, and they were definitely killing tools. Therefore, although the grain and grass soldiers were escorted by 5,000 men and horses, the grain and grass were still burned, but among Lin Chong's 1,000 men and horses, three or four hundred people died. , and more than a hundred people were captured.
News of the burning of grain and grass spreads againWhen Yelv Dezhong, Kangli Ding'an, and He Shanlu heard about it, the three of them were so angry that they overturned the table. Nowadays, there is a shortage of food and grass in Jizhou City. The soldiers have already missed a meal, and the collection of food in the city has had little effect. The three of them are anxious. Now that they learned that their food and grass had been burned, how could they not be angry?
Subsequently, the three men interrogated more than a hundred captured dead soldiers.
What Yelu Dezhong and the other three want to know most is whether this group of enemy grain and grass troops was sent by the Liangshan bandits or the Tang army!
The dead soldiers were loyal to Liangshan and naturally did not know their origins. After enduring all kinds of torture, they finally told the "truth" that they were Tang Jun.
The credibility of a few people saying that they were Tang soldiers was not high, but more than a hundred people said so, which convinced Yelu Dezhong and the others.
Immediately, the three of them hated Tang Tianheng and wished they could send out troops now to capture Tanzhou City and kill all the Tang troops.
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