Chapter 129: Seizure
Outside the governor's mansion, Suning turned over and dismounted and ran wildly into the gate. He ran too fast that he tripped on the high gate threshold and fell heavily into the gate. His helmet fell off and rolled to the side on the ground. However, Suning didn't care at all, and got up with hissing and screaming while running towards the lobby.
"Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, send reinforcements quickly, Che'er is in danger."
When he ran into the lobby, he saw Li Anguogao sitting in the middle of the lobby, with soldiers and generals on both sides.
"Brother-in-law, have you received the news? It's great, are the troops all equipped? Hurry up, go and save Che'er immediately." Suning shouted.
A painful light flashed in Li Anguo's eyes and he waved his hand.
"Suning, you are tired, go down and have a good rest. Don't worry about other things." Li Anguo said in a deep voice.
Suning was stunned and looked at Li Anguo in disbelief.
"Brother-in-law, what do you mean? I want to save Che'er, send troops, send troops quickly!" He rushed forward a few steps, grabbed the big case in front of Li Anguo with both hands, and shouted with red eyes.
Li Anguo was silent for a moment before he slowly said: "We lacked troops, and King Feng of Zhenwu must be waiting for us to leave the city halfway. At this moment, he attacked like a moth to the fire. Che'er could only save himself."
"What did you say? What did you say?" Suning's expression was a little distorted, "That's Che'er, your son."
Li Anguo took a deep breath.
"I know, but Che'er's safety alone is incomparable to Chengde. I can't gamble on Chengde to save Che'er."
Suning stared at Li Anguo in a daze, stepped back step by step, and murmured: "Che'er, I said, if you don't listen to me, you must regret it."
He suddenly turned around and ran out of the lobby.
Li Anguo waved his hand, and the generals on both sides rushed out, knocking Suning to the ground, and holding him down tightly.
Suning struggled desperately and shouted loudly.
You Yong walked over and leaned over and pulled out a horizontal knife from Suning's waist. The generals of the two sides held Suning hostage and stood up. Suning struggled and wanted to yell again, but he opened his mouth, but was immediately blocked by someone.
You Yong strode out the door, and outside, there were hundreds of soldiers who escaped back with Suning.
Li Anguo walked to Suning, put his hands on Suning's shoulders, and whispered: "Aning, Che'er is my son, the son I value the most. I am only more worried about his safety than you. But the hundreds of thousands of people in Chengde, and the lives of the brothers who have worked with me for so many years are all tied to me, so I can't act irresistibly."
Suning stared at Li Anguo tightly, and his blood-red eyes actually burst into tears, and his head was swaying vigorously. But the general behind him immediately fixed his head, forcing him to face Li Anguo head-on.
"When we went to the battlefield, life and death are fate, wealth and honor are in heaven. Have you forgotten what happened to your elder brother back then? For the victory of that war, we had to watch your elder brother besieged for dozens of days and then died in the battle. But in the end, we won the final victory. The army that killed your elder brother was killed by us in the end and no one left. The situation is so similar now. I can't ruin the entire Chengde just because Che'er is my son. Life is his luck, and death is his life."
Su Che made a whimper in his throat, screaming like a dying wolf. Everyone in the lobby changed their faces when they heard it.
"In less than three days, Wang Feng's troops will definitely come to attack Shenzhou if we leave the city." Li Anguodao: "The next thing we have to do is to defend Shenzhou. If you are tired, rest well. When your body recovers, I still need you to come out and help me avenge this blood sea!"
After saying this, Li Anguo waved his hand, and several generals immediately took Suning toward the back house.
Outside the gate, You Yong stood with a knife. Although he was only one person, hundreds of soldiers who had just come down from the battlefield were so stern and dared not speak. Just now, they heard Suning's shouting and immediately rushed towards the gate. They wanted to rush in, but the guards at the gate could not resist. As they retreated, You Yong stepped out.
As soon as they stood there, these soldiers from Shenzhou stopped immediately. Every time You Yong took a step forward, they took a step back until everyone retreated.
Standing on the steps, You Yong said lightly: "Governor Su is injured and needs to rest for a while. From today on, from now on, you will be under my command and serve as personal soldiers of the Jiedushi. Is there any problem?"
The military general below looked at You Yong in a daze, not knowing how to answer this question. You Yong didn't force them to answer, but just stood coldly and stared at them.
After a while, a general came out: "Commander You, we governor him?"
You Yong looked at him and said, "You have roughly aware of the specific situation. Now that Chengde is at its most dangerous time, at most, the enemy army will be at the city of Shenzhou. Governor Su is concerned about the life of the major general. If you still lead the army to fight at this moment, it will inevitably be unfavorable to the guards of the entire Shenzhou. Therefore Governor Su needs to rest and calm down. You are all veterans, so there is no need to hide anything from you. When Governor Su understands the links, they will naturally come out again. At that time, you will still return to Governor Su's command. Is there any problem?"
The general nodded: "In this way, we will have no problem."
If you can become a soldier, you must be a veteran. If you can become a general among the soldier, you will naturally have a lot of experience in war. You Yong doesn’t need to hide it from them at all. You can tell the matter clearly, and these people will immediately understand the meaning of it. If Suning still leads the troops now, there is a great possibility that their governor Su will take them out of the city to die.
As soldiers, they are not afraid of death, but dying is another matter. Now that the superiors do this, they give them a chance to be reborn. What else do they have to say? And letting them act directly as personal soldiers of the military governors make them unable to pick up any thorns.
It was not that they did not trust them, nor did they punish their defeat this time, otherwise they would not have been transferred directly to the military governor's personal soldiers.
Seeing these soldiers accepting this result calmly, You Yong was relieved. These people were Suning's personal soldiers. Although the governor of Chengde, who has now removed Suning's military power, Li Anguo is Suning's brother-in-law, You Yong was still worried that some brainless guys would really make trouble and he had to suppress them.
These people are all soldiers. For the next battle, the combat power of each soldier is precious. If there is no need, You Yong would not want any soldier to die in his hands in vain.
"Okay, come with me. I still have some questions about some details of this battle." You Yong walked into these soldiers with his hands behind his back. The soldiers automatically made way out, and then followed You Yong honestly towards a row of houses on the other side.
Li Anguo stood on the city wall, beside him the thinner Gongsun Changming. On the city wall and outside the city wall, there were busy people everywhere. Outside the city, there were teams of people, led by a famous soldier, rushing from four towns and eight miles to Shenzhou. Two days have passed, Shenzhou City has seized all the time to prepare for the war, and all the soldiers from some places closer to Shenzhou City were mobilized.
All males over fifteen years old and under sixty years old are in the ranks of this recruitment.
"At the latest tomorrow, the war will begin." Li Anguo Dao: "Returning to the horse, Wang Feng did set up an ambush on the main road to Hejian Mansion, but after waiting for us for less than two days, he had already set up a camp towards Shenzhou. Three thousand soldiers, 30,000 soldiers in the palace, and 5,000 Khitan soldiers."
"It seems that Zhang Zhongwu is quite effective in integrating the Khitan. This time, he mobilized 10,000 Khitan soldiers to fight for him." Gongsun Changming sighed. "This battle is quite dangerous for us, and it depends on whether the reinforcements from Zhenzhou and Yizhou can arrive as soon as possible. The hope now is that Henghai Liu Chenglin can form a certain restraint on Shi Yi's troops, so that our pressure will be relatively less."
The expression on Li Anguo's face was gloomy and sunny.
"Zhu Shou is a guy who is cheap and gets out when the situation is not good. I am only worried that after he knows that we are defeated in Hejian, he will not only not send troops to restrain Shi Yi, but will turn around and run away. In this way, we will probably not only be Wang Feng's troops, but also Shi Yi's troops." Once we have completely entered the state, Li Anguo's former shrewdness and accurate judgment of form will come back to him.
"If there is no way, I can only agree to Chen Bang summoning Chengde." Gongsun Changming whispered.
Li Anguo took a deep breath: "As long as there is a little hope, I will not do this. When Chen Bang summoned him, will Cheng De still have the surname Li? Wouldn't I be in vain in my life? And Gongsun, how will Li take care of himself in the next years?"
Gongsun Changming remained silent. For him, as long as he could defeat Zhang Zhongwu, it would be fine, but for Li Anguo, it was absolutely not the case. Now, the Jiedushi in the Tang Dynasty was in control of the territory. Once the Li family lost Chengde, it would be equivalent to losing their status. In this case, they were attracted to the court's troops and horses into Chengde. I am afraid that they would not get any benefits from the court, and they would eventually become a chess piece of the court and be wiped out in the subsequent battles.
Li Anguo must have seen this very clearly.
"Gongsun, what is the combat power of the Khitans?"
"If the Khitans are in the ability to fight alone on horseback, they are extremely strong. But they lack discipline. They are soldiers of the whole people. If the war goes well, they are as fierce as tigers. If the war goes unsuccessful, they are as weak as rabbits. The two armies are fighting in the field. The well-trained Tang cavalry can easily defeat the Khitan cavalry. As for siege, I have never seen them. When it comes to Lu Long, Zhang Zhongwu always held them to fight."
Chapter completed!