Chapter 538 Shameless
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After a rain of arrows was shot, someone shouted on the top of the city: "I wish to descend, I wish to descend!"
Wang Xianzhi was angry that the city had resisted before and wanted to take the opportunity to increase morale. How could he agree easily? Gongqiu City, Yanzhou, was just a small county town south of Wenshui. Wang Xianzhi captured this city last time when he advanced west from Yizhou. At that time, he led his army to loot Gongqiu and even asked someone to take a side of Gongqiu City. Last time, the army passed by, and the Cao army subordinates who were left behind him were wiped out, and Gongqiu City restored order.
Unexpectedly, after a few days of stable life, Wang Xianzhi led thousands of troops to arrive. At first, the people in the city didn't know that Wang Xianzhi was coming, and they thought it was a thief. Therefore, the young and strong in the city organized to resist for a while, but unexpectedly, Wang Xianzhi came. After a few rounds of arrows, the city could not support it immediately.
Wang Xianzhi led his army to easily break into the city along the huge gap. Thousands of Cao Jun, who had been running away all the way, immediately turned into a brutal robber and began to rush into the city, burning, killing, robbing, and robbing, and robbing, in order to vent the tension since the escape during this period.
The raging fire burned all night before it gradually faded out. During this period, the young and strong people in the city saw that the thieves were cruel and organized to resist, but they were all killed and slaughtered by the thieves.
The city was screaming and screaming, and from time to time, someone ran out of the fire, and finally turned into a pile of ashes.
The Cao Jun ran constantly, and the burned ones ignored them, and the burned ones half to death made up for a knife.
The young women and their money and food in the city have been robbed. The remaining thieves cannot take them away and do not want to stay anymore. They burned them out with a fire.
Shang Ren held a bow and arrow in his hand and shot those who fled in panic to death one by one.
Only one person escaped from the house, not only did he not run away, but instead knelt down and kowtowed and shouted: "Brother, I am my brother!"
After Shang Rang finished shooting the arrow in his hand, he took the wolf-tooth arrow handed over by his personal soldiers. He laughed and said, "You are also called your brother!" He was about to shoot the arrow, and Shang Jun Chang stepped forward to stop him.
Shang Junchang said, "Brother, wait." He turned around and asked Wang Xianzhi, who was drinking, and said, "Master, why not listen to this person's identity as Chen Ming first. Maybe it's really possible that he is his own brother. Besides, you can also inquire about the situation here."
Wang Xianzhi took another big sip of wine, and even his beard and collar were covered with wine. He nodded, "The second brother Shang will decide this."
Shang Rang rolled his eyelids, put down his bow and arrow and shouted: "Bring it up!"
Several grass soldiers stepped forward, rushed over, raised their saddles, and beat the man, urging them to the front of the generals.
The man dared not get up, and crawled on the ground with a whip on his body, his head next to the ground, and walked to Wang Xianzhi and others with his head in his arms. He was covered in mud and soil, and his clothes were burned in several places. His face was burning and dark. He kowtowed and shouted in a trembling voice: "Little man Yang Biao, I have seen all the generals."
Shang Jun Chang asked condescendingly: "Who dares to call himself a brother?"
Yang Biao said: "The subordinate of General Meng Kai, under the command of the villain Deputy Chief Huang, is the leader of the left camp of the rear army."
As soon as he spoke, everyone present was shocked when they heard this. Unexpectedly, this man was actually Huang Chao's subordinate. But since he was Huang Chao's subordinate, why was he in Gongqiu City? Could it be that Huang Chao had been defeated?
Shang Junchang asked anxiously: "Don't talk nonsense, Vice President Huang is in Qizhou. Why are you here?"
Yang Biao replied tremblingly: "It was in Qizhou before, but Li Jing led the Zhenguo army from Jeju, and Song Wei led the Pinglu army from Zibo. Seeing that the situation was not good, General Huang and General Wang led the army south. The young man was in the back of General Meng Kai. After arriving in Laiwu the day before yesterday, he came out to search for food and grass, but was ambushed by a team of rural troops. Most of his companions and brothers died in battle, and the young man was taken here all the time."
"You said Deputy General Huang and General Wang Jingwu have led their troops south? Where have you gone? How many people have you brought?"
Yang Biao hurriedly replied: "Person Huang led his troops to 20,000 and General Wang Jingwu led his troops to 30,000, 50,000 troops, and another 150,000 auxiliary troops. 200,000 young and strong men went south. General Meng Kai said that the army was going to Yizhou."
The news was really amazing. Even Wang Xianzhi put down his wine bag and stared at Yang Biao like lightning, "How could you, a small team leader, know about such an important military situation?"
Yang Biao hurriedly said, "My fellow townsman is General Meng Kai's personal soldier. The news he told the villain about his trip to Yizhou was what he told the villain."
After asking someone to take Yang Biao down, all the generals were silent for a moment.
Everyone had fought two battles with the Li clan in Rencheng. Although the Li clan did not get any advantage, they also lost hundreds of brothers. Finally, everyone got news that Huang Chao had been chased by the Zhenguo Army and went to Qizhou to meet with Wang Jingwu, so they unanimously decided to go north to meet Huang Chao again. No one expected that Huang Chao would go south.
Wang Xianzhi frowned and asked, "Brothers, after hearing this news, what are your plans?"
Shang Jun stroked his beard and said, "I think what this person said is mostly true. Li Jing and Song Wei attacked each other from east to west, and Wang Jingwu and Huang Chao could not stop them at all. Taking the initiative to retreat south is a good idea. Now the six towns of the government army are concentrated in Caozhou, while Li Jing and Song Wei are in Qizhou. Xue Chong has been defeated by Huang Chao, and the Li faction is no longer able to fight again. At this time, going south, there are only two Huainan army Liu Ye and the rebel army Xue Neng. Compared to Li Jing and others, Xue Neng and Liu Ye are far behind. Going south is a good step."
Huang Chao and others have already gone south. Qizhou must have been occupied by the Zhenguo Army and the Ping Lu Army. At this time, going north will be a death sentence. All 100,000 soldiers and horses have been defeated by Li Jing. Now the more than 3,000 people in his hands cannot beat Li Jing.
In this way, if you can't go north, you can only go south.
However, Wang Xianzhi still looked worried. Last time Songzhou was defeated, he defected to Huang Chao. However, during the Juye War, he escaped twice. Although he felt that even if he did not escape, the situation would not change in the end, after all, this matter was not authentic, and Huang Chao must have hated him. If he went to Huang Chao again, he would be worried that he would not be as easy as last time.
Wang Xianzhi turned around and asked Shang Junchang: "What do you think Brother Shang?"
Shang Junchang understood Wang Xianzhi's concerns in his heart, but there was no other way to join Huang Chao. He replied softly: "I thought it would be better to go to Yizhou first, and then fight to Huainan together. After getting rid of the official army, you can make plans at that time." Finally, Shang Junchang specifically pointed out that Huang Chao only has 20,000 combat soldiers in his hands now. And they have more than 3,000 elite cavalry, and their strength is not much worse than Huang Chao. What's more, they are also known as the leader of the Cao Army. Even if they go to Yizhou, they don't have to worry about anything.
The opinions were quickly unified, and immediately went east along the Wenshui River, first to Xintai City at the northern end of Yizhou, and then along the river valley channel impacting the two rivers of Yishui and Shushui Rivers to Linyi City in Yizhou, and converged with Huang Chao and Wang Jingwu.
Immediately, gathered the troops and headed east.
Two days later, he arrived in Xintai. In Xintai, Wang Xianzhi had already caught up with the rear team Meng Kai left by Wang Xianzhi. Meng Kai led three thousand people to command the auxiliary troops to escort the young and strong men and the baggage, while Huang Chao and the others had already cavalry south.
After seeing Meng Kai, Wang Xianzhi was also happy and learned the specific information of Huang Chao and others from Meng Kai's mouth. Wang Xianzhi couldn't wait to rest for a long time and immediately continued to go south.
Two days after heading south, Wang Xianzhi arrived at Yishui City, a county in northern Yizhou, which had been occupied by Huang Chao at this time. Huang Chao also left some troops to guard the city and take care of the wounded soldiers. Wang Xianzhi rested in Yishui City for a long time and immediately rushed south again.
After leaving Yishui City, after three days of rushing all the way, Wang Xianzhi finally led more than 3,000 light cavalry to Linyi City, the Yizhou capital.
When Wang Xianzhi arrived, Huang Chao and Wang Jingwu had just captured Linyi City.
However, Wang Xianzhi saw that there were no traces of battle under the entire Linyi city. After asking a few grass army, he found out that Huang Chao and Wang Jingwu were all moving forward lightly, with only soldiers in front and auxiliary soldiers following behind.
When 50,000 soldiers arrived at the city of Linyi, the city seemed to be unprepared. They just attacked under the cover of bows and arrows for less than an hour, and Linyi was taken down, and less than a hundred casualties were left.
Wang Xianzhi was also very happy to hear this news. He immediately ordered the flag of his general and the governor of the country. More than 3,000 cavalrymen appeared under Linyi City in a swagger.
The news had already been reported to the city. Huang Chao heard that Wang Xianzhi was so shameless that he rushed over again. He was so angry that he chopped the table in front of him into pieces.
"Shameless, despicable!" Huang Chao was angry! "I just called someone to come and greet me, and I was uncomfortable."
When the other generals heard that Wang Xianzhi had actually come here, they all looked bad. Everyone remembered that if Wang Xianzhi had not escaped twice before the battle, they might have won the battle in Juye. They would have escaped all the way here. No one wanted to do so but Wang Xianzhi, and they all said that there was something wrong or that they were not in good health. Finally, Lin Yan happened to see Zhu Wen in, and immediately said, "General Zhu, take the headquarters to the east gate to welcome Wang Dadu into the city. He said that the general and the generals were both unwell and could not leave the city to greet him. Please forgive him."
After receiving this task, Zhu Wen had to go with a wry smile. Sure enough, when Wang Xianzhi, who was in front of the city gate, saw that he was just a pawn, his face suddenly turned dark. And he also vaguely remembered that the guy in front of him seemed to be a military army in the battle of Yucheng, Songzhou. Huang Chao and the generals refused to come to greet him, but instead sent this guy to come. Was it intentionally embarrassing him?
"The general and all the generals are not feeling well. The last general Zhu Wen comes to welcome the governor!" Zhu Wen bowed in front of Wang Xianzhi's horse.
Bi Shiduo shouted coldly: "The Grand Marshal is here, where is the Grand Marshal? Do you understand the rules?" As he said that, he threw a whip over directly. Zhu Wen couldn't avoid it and immediately got a whip on his face. A blood mark immediately appeared. Zhu Zhen and Zhu Cun both stared at him. Zhu Wen gritted his teeth and reached out to block the two brothers, pushed them behind, and gave way out.
Chapter completed!