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Volume 1: Entrance Chapter 115: They are all chess pieces (2)

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    At midnight on October 27th, the Yanzhou Army's vanguard, which had marched four hundred miles for three days and three nights, appeared under the Song Gate in the southeast corner of Tokyo City.  However, what the leading vanguard officer saw in the morning light was not at all what the intelligence said was that "Tokyo City is undefended and peaceful." The entire city wall and the top of the barbican were filled with fully armed soldiers. The two gates of the barbican were  Close tightly.  Unwilling to be reconciled, the vanguard officer sent his cavalry around Tokyo Que City and found that all ten gates and two water gates of Jue City were guarded by General Iron. The top of the city was full of garrison troops, with a strength of at least 20,000.  The pioneer officer felt half cold and hurriedly reported to Murong Yanchao, the governor of Yanzhou who had already arrived.  Murong Yanchao couldn't believe it at all. He drove his horse to the front of the city to observe. He found that the information was accurate. He immediately turned his horse around and shouted to his brothers behind him: "I have an internal agent in the city. The people on the top of the city are all temporary prisoners."  The strong men who came are not real soldiers at all. " Murong Yan waved his hand, and a group of guards brought large baskets of money to the front of the formation and began to distribute it. The soldiers were excited for a while at first, and then a lot of them.  When people found out that the money was still money printed by the Yanzhou Governor's Office, their expressions immediately changed.  Murong Yanchao loved making money by nature. He had previously found counterfeit silver makers from the private sector. He led dozens of people in a secret room day and night to make Yanzhou coins with an iron core and silver lining outside. They were known as "iron tire silver" among the people.  In Yanzhou City, everyone shuns these fake money that can't buy anything.  "Guo Que'er has usurped power and brought trouble to the world. Everyone will punish him." Murong Yanchao's black face shone brightly, and he rode his horse in front of the battle and shouted repeatedly, "God bless Yanzhou, God bless Qilu, today we are doing justice for God, I  It is announced that those who attack the city will be promoted to three levels in a row and will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver; after breaking the city, they will not seal the sword for three days. "Such a tempting reward immediately aroused the enthusiasm of those recruiting masters, and they shouted towards the city wall.  Kill.  Murong Yanchao laughed loudly and his eyes narrowed. However, his laughter did not last long before it subsided until it became silent.  Those masters rushed over like a swarm and used the long ladder to cross the moat. It was relatively smooth. However, when they first rushed towards the only step in front of the urn city, they were immediately suppressed by the dense arrow array.  , when the follow-up shield formation of the Yanzhou Army caught up and protected them over the steps and rushed to the bottom of the Wengcheng, from directly above the arc-shaped Wengcheng, from the diagonally rear wall, and from the head of the rear city wall, continuous three-dimensional  The arrow formation covered almost all attack sites, and the attacking Yanzhou Army could not even raise its head, let alone set up a ladder to go up to the city.  Murong Yanchao became ruthless and organized a supervising team to force Yanzhou soldiers to attack the city.  At this moment, a general on the right wing arrived on horseback and reported that a large number of cavalry appeared in the north, all wearing the uniforms of the Forbidden Army.  In fact, there is no need to report at all. The continuous ground movement, the thunderous sound of horse hooves, the shouts of killing, and the dust rising into the sky have attracted more and more Yanzhou soldiers under the city to quickly turn their heads to look north. The overwhelming  The black cavalry were rushing towards them in a wedge shape.  Murong Yanchao was stunned. Where did the cavalry come from? Didn¡¯t the last imperial troops in Tokyo cross the Yellow River?  "Charge, charge, charge." Guo Wei, who had not fought on horseback for nearly two years, was very excited and kept directing his forbidden troops to charge forward.  Previously, Guo Wei crossed the Yellow River with 20,000 forbidden troops. Instead of going directly north, he sneaked far away to the east and stationed himself in Weizhou, just east of Tokyo City. He also blocked the Yellow River ferry and secretly sent the generals of the forbidden troops to lead the Weizhou garrison to pretend to rush.  Tokyo City; after receiving the news that the Yanzhou Army had left the city from Yunzhou Jiedushi Gao Xingzhou as early as October 25th, they crossed the Yellow River overnight and sneaked to Chenqiaoyi in the north of Tokyo City, waiting for the arrival of the rebels.  , this morning, when Murong Yanchao's forward troops rushed to the city, Guo Wei, who received the report from the scouts, immediately led the forbidden troops to swarm across the river and attack with all their strength.  Murong Yanchao also saw clearly that the incoming enemies were all genuine Imperial Guards, and a thought came to his mind: Guo Wei must be in the army. As long as Guo Wei is captured and killed now, everything will be easy to handle.  Murong Yanchao immediately began to organize his personal guards and disciples to form a team, preparing to take a risk. However, the development of the war was completely beyond his expectation. Before the forwards of the Forbidden Army could reach the formation, the soldiers on the right wing dispersed.  Many people fell to their knees and surrendered.  A member of the family guard pulled Murong Yanchao and shouted: "Sir, keep the green hills here, don't worry about running out of firewood, go back to Yanzhou." Murong Yanchao glanced at his army, which had begun to disintegrate as a whole, and suddenly  Calm down, turn around and run away.  Seeing that the enemy army had been defeated, Guo Wei immediately issued a new order: "Only kill the leader of the evil traitor Murong Yanchao, and the rest will not be killed if they surrender." When this order resounded through the battlefield, the Yanzhou soldiers in the field immediately fell to their knees.  Most of the time, any dream of holding a dragon and ascending to heaven would be too ignorant of current affairs.    The whole war was basically over as soon as it started. Guo Wei sent Zhang Yongde to lead 10,000 forbidden troops to pursue the escaped Murong Yanchao, and he led the troops to clean up the battlefield.  In the afternoon of the same day, Wang Jun personally led 10,000 Western Expeditionary Forces and soldiers from Zezhou and Huaizhou to Tokyo City. He wanted to lead the crowd in pursuit eastward, but was stopped by Guo Wei. He reorganized the army on the spot and walked with Wang Jun in person to lead the army to the east.  Heading west, now, the most important task of the Zhou Dynasty has become to deal with the Liao-Han coalition forces, and Murong Yanchao is just suffering from scabies.  Murong Yanchao, who had fled, discovered that it was easy to come but hard to go.  The troops stationed in Caozhou, Shanzhou, and Jeju, which had no response when they first marched, all came out and resorted to digging roads, building roadblocks, building barriers, and breaking bridges to stop the attack. Murong Yanchao, who was attacked before and after, led his troops forward regardless.  After the attack, he fled for his life. When he fled back to Yanzhou City at midnight on the 30th, only less than 4,000 of the initial nearly 10,000 trusted troops remained.  However, the situation in Yanzhou made Murong Yanchao even more heartbroken. Ten thousand Tianping troops had successfully captured the north gate of Yanzhou City.  When Murong Yanchao asked, he learned that as soon as the army left Yanzhou, someone raided the north city from inside the city. The Tianping Army, which was lurking in, occupied the north gate. Murong Yanfeng had been leading his army to fight for it. The two sides had been fighting for several days.  Before Murong Yanchao could react, the bad news came: the Imperial Army pursuers and troops stationed along the way had arrived and headed straight for the north gate, and the city defense was about to be lost.  Just when Murong Yanchao was jumping on his feet and commanding his cronies to disperse money at the top of the city in an effort to stop the enemy from outside the city, bad news came again: the guards at the West Gate and South Gate had surrendered to Kaicheng, and the messengers who came back with the news  The head of Qian's subordinate and a handwritten note from General Ximen: "Keep your iron tire silver and bury it with you." Murong Yanchao was so angry that he vomited blood on the spot and looked up to the sky and sighed: "I regret that I listened to Lin Feng's suggestion, and my family has to accompany me to this point.  "At first, Lin Feng suggested that he put his family and future in Shouzhou, in the Southern Tang Dynasty, but Murong Yanchao didn't believe Lin Feng on the one hand, and on the other hand, he was surrounded by the army when he caught up with Shouzhou, so his family stayed there.  He stayed in Yanzhou and did not move.  On the evening of October 30th, the desperate Murong Yanchao handed over his last 500 close subordinates to his son Murong Jixun to attack the siege; Murong Yanchao led his wife and clan members to stick to the governor's mansion.  After the wall was broken, he and his wife threw themselves into a well and died; however, when Murong Jixun led his troops to break through, he was captured by the Yanzhou garrison in the east city and became a stepping stone for others to rebel and claim credit.  In the early morning of November 1st, Zhang Yongde, who led his personal guards into the city, gave an order to massacre all the Murong Yanchao clan members. On behalf of the Holy Emperor, he thanked Gao Xingzhou and Gao Huaide and his son for successfully breaking through Yanzhou City in advance, and reorganized the remaining soldiers in the city.  , quickly restored order.  At this point, because Murong Yanchao fell into Guo Wei's plan and attacked rashly, resulting in a disastrous defeat, the Yanzhou rebellion was like a flash in the pan and was wiped out within ten days. It was not at all the Yanzhou rebellion that lasted for nearly four months in history.  The drama of counterinsurgency officially came to an end.  According to original historical records, Murong Yanchao secretly recruited young men, accumulated salary and food, secretly connected with the Northern Han Dynasty, and secretly communicated with the Southern Tang Dynasty. In the first month of the second year of Guangshun (952 AD), he took Yanzhou and rebelled. After Guo Wei heard the news,  Several moves were made at the same time: first, he ordered to separate the two states of Yi and Mi (which ruled Linyi and Zhucheng in present-day Shandong Province) from the Taining army patrol in order to weaken Murong Yanchao's military strength; then he ordered Cao Ying, the commander of the guard infantry capital, to camp for Yanzhou  The capital was deployed, Qizhou Defense Envoy Shi Yanchao was the deputy deployment officer, Xiang Xun was the capital supervisor, and Yao Yuanfu was the marching camp and Ma Budu Yuhou led the army to attack; at the same time, Xuzhou Inspection Envoy Zhang Lingbin was ordered to block the reinforcements of the Southern Tang Dynasty.  When the war began, Zhang Lingbin defeated 5,000 reinforcements from the Southern Tang Dynasty in Shuyang, killing and drowning more than a thousand people, and captured their general Yan Jingquan. Murong Yanchao was isolated and helpless, and was besieged by Cao Ying and others in Yanzhou City. Although he repeatedly fought to break the siege,  , but they were all defeated by Yao Yuanfu, and they closed the city. Cao Ying and others could not conquer the city for a long time. On May 13th, Guo Wei personally marched to Yanzhou, and when his troops were refused to surrender, he supervised the troops to attack the city.  On the tenth day, the city was captured and the Yanzhou rebellion was put to rest.
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