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"Just because you want to stop the car with your own arms, you are really overestimating your ability. A group of thieves and prisoners dragged them down and chopped them down!"

Under a white flag, several burly officers sat on high horses, looking coldly at the dozen or so embarrassed officials who were dragged in front of them. These people were dressed in dishevelled and had whip marks on their faces. They were all former court officials in Tuo County, Songzhou. After the city was broken today, they were finally found.

The general under the command of Huang Wang under Bai's banner, Zhu Wen, the former general You Yi, held the sword in his hand and said in a cold tone.

Several "rebel soldiers" came forward and dragged down the officials who were screaming and begging, turning a deaf ear to him.

Zhu Wen let out a long sigh and looked around. White flags were flying around him. The continuous follow-up team was coming. The cavalry, wearing silver armor and wearing order flags on their backs, speeding among the queues, conveying military orders.

This is between Songzhou and Chenzhou, and is the southwestern county of the eight counties in Songzhou.

After the rebel army captured Sizhou, they went north and successively defeated Shenzhou and Ruzhou. The imperial court's defense line of the water collapsed without fighting, and the Zhongwu army was divided into three. At present, Qin Zongquan, Sun Ru, Zhou Ji from Xuzhou, Lu Yanhong from Chenzhou, Wang Jian and others retreated to the city, and did not leave the city, allowing Huang Chao's army to pass by. After the war of the army was massacred by Zhou Ji, the rest fled to Xuzhou in panic. The Taining Army Qike Ren retreated overnight, but the battle with Huang Chao's army was defeated again.

For a moment, except for Luoyang, Zhengzhou also had the gathering of Tang army, and the remaining vassal armies from various places were already under a proclamation from King Huang. They each occupied the prefectures and did not dare to attack.

While Huang Chao led his army to continue to approach the Eastern Capital, he sent Zhu Wen to lead his troops to plunder Song and Bian to collect food and grass for the army, and at the same time deterred Chen, Xu, Cai, Song and Bian states. At the same time, he threatened the eastern capital to the Eastern Capital. He wanted to respond to the Hebei rebels and put more pressure on the Luoyang defenders.

Zhu Wen set out from Ruzhou and passed through Xu, Cai and Xu. None of the generals of the original Zhongwu army fought, allowing Zhu Wen to lead his army to sweep by, plundering a large amount of food and grass, and abducting a large number of young and strong men. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Zhu Wen entered the territory of Xuanwu army. Not only did Mu Renyu not send troops to defend in advance, but instead transferred Xuanwu army back to Bianzhou to defend.

Zhu Wen entered Songzhou and in just one day he captured Tuoxian.

After robbing Tuoxian again and forcibly conquering all the young and strong men into the army, Zhu Wen now has a total of 50,000 troops, including 10,000 soldiers.

Zhu Wen won the Tuo County and rewarded the camps here, which made his troops very proud.

Three years ago, Zhu Wen rushed to Songzhou from Xuzhou and joined Li Jing's town in Songzhou. He even fought with Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao in Songzhou for a long time. He also met this woman who will never forget in his life. If there were no accidents, he might have become a good town officer, or, now he is already a military officer.

Time cannot go back, and there is no medicine for regret in the world.

He fought with Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao in life and death. He was once a subordinate of Li Jing and Mu Renyu, and he killed the enemy side by side with Zhen**, Zhongwu Army, Xuanwu Army and others.

He was once a warrior in the eyes of Songzhou people and a hero.

But now, he is a "rebel army" and a thief.

After three years, Huang Chao fought in the north and south of the Yangtze River, and the Central Plains Lingnan. He fought from Henan to Heji, from Heji to Xusi, then to Huainan, then to Shannan, Jiangxi, Liangzhe, Fujian, Lingnan, Hunan, Jiangxi, Huainan, and finally returned to the Central Plains.

More than a thousand days and nights are spent in the day by day.

During countless attacks, he almost died on the battlefield, but in the end he survived, but he had many scars on his body.

During these three years, Zhu Wen also relied on his own hard work and ability to finally climbed up from the rebel army step by step. Over the past three years, many of the former senior generals in the rebel army have died of battle, some have died of illness, some have been captured, and some have surrendered.

Zhu Wen did not die in battle or surrender, and eventually became a senior general in the rebel army, with ten thousand elite soldiers in his hands.

Huang Chao trusts Zhu Wen now. Although he is not as good as Lin Yan, Huang Ye, and Meng Kai, he is already considered the core general of the rebel army. Huang Chao has never asked for the more than 10,000 elite soldiers in his hands, but has given him many armor and equipment.

This time when attacking Luoyang, Huang Chao directly asked him to stand alone, led his army alone to fight, and drew him 20,000 young and strong. After the division of troops, Zhu Wen fought along the way and captured another 20,000 young and strong troops. Now he had 40,000 auxiliary troops and 10,000 combat soldiers, and his army of 50,000 troops, and his momentum suddenly became huge.

Because he had been in Zhenzhao for a while, Zhu Wen had been training his troops in the same mode as Zhenzhao. Until now, Zhu Wen has two armies, namely the two army of Zhifeng and the two army of Tabai, with 5,000 troops each, and Zhu Cun and Zhu Zhen were the leaders of the army. In addition, 40,000 auxiliary troops were also organized into eight armies. Zhu Wen also established a personal guard capital, with a total of 1,000 cavalry, named Luoyandu, and Dinghui was the envoy of the military horse.

Zhu Wen was the most generous in his treatment of his subordinates. Most of the gains from the city were rewarded to the soldiers, so he was very supportive of his subordinates. Moreover, Zhu Wen also valued literati very much. Every time he passed by, he would ask local literati for it and asked for it. To this day, Zhu Cun, Zhu Zhen, Ding Hui, Li Tangbin, Guo Yan, Zhang Ren and others under Zhu Wen, and Xie Tong, Liu Han and others, gathered a large force headed by Zhu Wen.

Zhu Wen's selection of the two army and the two army of Bai were 5,000, including each army with two wings, one wing and five battalions, and four infantry and one battalion of cavalry. Each army had 4,000 infantry and one battalion of cavalry. The equipment of this army was not different from Huang Chao's elite old battalion. Each infantry was wearing leather armor. Among the eight thousand infantry, six thousand were equipped with a set of leather armor, one on the side of the leather shield, one on the side of the spear, one on the side of the bow, and one on the side of the horizontal sword. Among them, two thousand were equipped with a single crossbow. The remaining two thousand infantry were equipped with a set of infantry iron armor, one on the side of the square iron shield, and one on the side of the spear.

The three thousand cavalry of the entire army were also equipped with leather armor, shields, sabers and bows.

In addition, the entire army also had a lot of heavy crossbows and large shields such as Fuyuan crossbows. Even the auxiliary soldiers were equipped with a spear, and some were equipped with horizontal swords. In addition, all the people were equipped with spear throwers and stone throwing ropes that Zhu Wen had contacted in the town. Each auxiliary soldiers carried twenty short spears and a bag of stone bullets.

If tens of thousands of auxiliary soldiers shoot spears at the critical moment, it will be a huge lethality. Even if the spear is gone, throwing stones with a stone casting rope, the attacks emitted by the huge group of auxiliary soldiers are as extraordinary. The simple tools of the spear throwing weapon and the stone casting rope will further enhance the power of the rebel army's human sea tactics.

The military discipline of Zhu Wen's troops was much stricter than that of other rebel soldiers. Although Zhu Wen could not help but plunder and rape. However, each plunder must be carried out after Zhu Wen's order. Once the troops were ordered to be withdrawn, the troops would be subject to orders. After several years, Zhu Wen's troops in his headquarters could basically have implemented such orders.

Although he had already betrayed the town**, the various systems of the town** have always been respected by Zhu Wen. What Li Jing said, without discipline, cannot be called the army, and at most it can only be regarded as the words of bandits, and it has been deeply imprinted in his mind. No matter how many people he has under him, he has never given up on the importance of military discipline.

Crossing the moat, a team of soldiers wearing black clothes appeared in the city ahead. Most of these soldiers were very small in size, and some were even disabled with broken hands and blind eyes, but each of them looked solemn. These were Zhu Wen's military police team, which was completely imitated by the town** to inspect military discipline, prevent spies and spies, etc. These people were originally elite veterans, but because they were injured and were not suitable for combat, Zhu Wen arranged them to be military police and gave full play to their talents.

As soon as Tuo County was broken, the military police immediately supervised military discipline in the county town. Although Zhu Wen was willing to plunder, he had regulations that 70% of all seized should be returned to the public, and the remaining 30% could be left. In the end, 30% of those who returned to the public were distributed equally to all tactics, and the rest were used as military funds.

Zhu Wen saw that the counselor Xie Tong was not far ahead, and led a group of literati staff who were following him now registering boxes of books. He caught up with a few steps and said with a smile: "Zi Ming, what are the gains?"

Xie Tong turned his head and saw that it was Zhu Wen. A slightly pale face immediately appeared on his slightly white face. He was originally from Fuzhou and stayed in Chang'an for three years. Unfortunately, he failed the exam for three consecutive years and finally returned to Fujian. But he happened to meet Zhu Wen's troops. After talking to Zhu Wen, he felt that this thief was not as good as he imagined, so he stayed there in the end. With his talent, he naturally shone quickly among the thiefs and gradually became Zhu Wen's most trusted strategist, and now he served as the chief secretary of Zhu Wen.

"The harvest is indeed quite a lot. The rich land of Bian and Song dynasties is a small county town, which is comparable to the money and grain gains of a state in Fujian and Hunan."

Zhu Wen smiled with satisfaction and said to Xie Tong: "A small and small county treasury will gain this. Then we will definitely gain even greater success by conquering Songzhou City."

Until now, Zhu Wen can't completely forget the woman he saw in Songzhou and Songzhou. When he came back this time, he found out that the woman had already married Li Jing and is now in Dengzhou. However, his father was still the governor of Songzhou and had never moved. Zhang Tailiu, who followed him, died due to the plague in Guangzhou. When the thought of Songzhou came, his mind would inevitably show the voices, appearances and smiles of Zhang Hui and Zhang Tailiu. After a while, he said fiercely: "This time, we must take Songzhou."

Xie Tong was a little worried when he heard Zhu Wen say this. He didn't know the grudge between Zhu Wen and the governor of Songzhou Zhang Rui. He stroked his beard and said, "This time our main purpose is to collect money and grain, and to shock the towns in Henan, so that they dare not gather to Luoyang. The city of Songzhou is strong and has enough food, but it is afraid that it is not easy to fight. If it is a tough city under the city, long-term battle will be unfavorable, it will probably make other towns ready to move."

Zhu Wen thought about it. Although the rebel army swept across Henan several times and invaded Songzhou several times, in fact, he had not really besieged Songzhou City. He knew the strength of Songzhou. If he was sure to deal with only the soldiers and horses in Songzhou City, what he was worried about was the reaction of other towns. Thinking of this, he hesitated and said: "The other towns are afraid that they will not have the courage to leave the town. There are not many soldiers in Songzhou City. If they can break through Songzhou City, they will definitely cause a greater deterrence effect."

Xie Tong pondered for a while, and finally nodded. If he could capture a state city, it would be of greater help to conquer Luoyang.

Thirty miles south of Luoyang is Yique, also known as Longmen Mountain.

Longmen is the Kairan Gate south of Luoyang. The two sides of the river are opposite Xiangshan and Longmen Mountain. The Yi River flows in the distance, and it looks like a natural gate. Therefore, since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there has been a very vivid name here, Yique. Luoyang, the capital of Emperor Yang of Sui. Because the gate of the palace is opposite Yique, ancient emperors regarded themselves as the true dragon emperor, hence the name Longmen.

Yique was one of the eight passes of Luoyang during the Han Dynasty.

The dense farmers were picking up soil and moving stones under the supervision of the Tang army in the Red Army, digging moats and digging trenches. At this natural dangerous Guanque entrance, the city wall was nearly three meters tall, and most of the city walls had been repaired. Many deep trenches and moats were dug in front of the Guancheng. In addition, on the surface of the river, many large and small ships were constantly sinking the stones into the Yishui River, blocking the river channel, forcing the ships to not be able to move. They also laid large iron piles on both sides, connecting three large iron chains as thick as arms.

At the pass of the west bank, there are also many pulley nooses. When the clutch is in progress, the iron cables can be squeezed across the river and blocked the Yishui River.

There are countless grain trucks carrying grain from Luoyang to Guancheng.

The Tang army was covered with red armor on the Guancheng. The big red flag was flying high on the 18-foot flagpole. Under the flagpole, a thin-body official with purple robe with thin faces was surrounded by more than ten male-looking generals and gorgeous armored officers.

This is the Minister of Personnel of the Tang Dynasty and the commander-in-chief of the camp in the south of Hebei. He was on the left and right, and the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Capital, Du Qing, the deputy commander-in-chief of the camp in the south of Hebei, the general of the left and right, and Zhang Zimian.

"Duke Cui, the emperor has issued an order to order Liu Yunzhang to stay in the east capital, and the eleventh order for us to lead our troops to Tongguan to guard the Guanzhong gate." Du Tao said to Cui Anqian helplessly.

Zhang Zimian also reported with a dark face: "The sent-out probe has been found out that Huang Chao will arrive at Yique in three days, with his troops of 300,000. In addition, Huang Chao also divided two troops, one led by Zhu Wen to march towards Song and Bian, intending to go around to the east of Luoyang to attack Zhengzhou and cut off the transportation of the Bian River. At the same time, Ge Congzhou led his troops to attack Ying, Hao and other places to prevent Huainan and the troops of Zhenhai Army, Liangzhe, Jiangxi and other towns from heading north. According to reports, Zhu Wen and Ge Congzhou were all about 50,000 people on Tuesday, and with Huang Chao, there were 400,000 thieves."

Cui Anqian's face was unstable, and after a long time he sighed: "Luoyang City, we are guarding the city of Guanyi City. The yellow thieves said that there are 400,000, and there are only a large number of mobs, and the real elite is no more than 70,000 to 80,000."

"It's a pity that at this time, the rebellion of the army, the Zhongwu army was even more rebellious, and the Hezhong army was in chaos. Qi Ke was defeated and the rebellion of the army, and the Huainan, Zhenhai, Liangzhe, and Jiangxi also stopped. Although we were determined to defend Luoyang, Chang'an was worried that Tongguan could not stop the rebels, and they were eager to let them retreat to Tongguan. There were more than 100,000 Shen Ce troops in the pass, but when it was really used, there were no soldiers available, and a group of waste." Zhang Zimian said a little resentful.

Cui Anqian was also very disappointed. The Zhongwu Army was also his old subordinate, but he didn't expect that this time he would perform like this. The three states under the army all killed their officials and rebelled, which was like a rebellion, causing the collapse of the defense line of the Yeshui. At present, he was determined to stick to Luoyang, but Chang'an had no confidence in it. The Zhongwu Army and the Hezhong Army were no longer reliable. The Taining Army and the Tianping Army were defeated by Huang Chao one after another. The influence of the army and the Huainan Army, Zhen** and others sat on the ground and watched again.

There are also Hebei rebels to the north. If Luoyang cannot defend it, even this army will be lost. With only those hundreds of thousands of imperial guards, they will be even more unable to defend Tongguan.

But if you don’t fight a battle, you will abandon Luoyang and retreat to Tongguan. I am really unwilling to accept it.

In the silence, another burst of rapid footsteps came.

Cui Anqian and others turned around and saw that a eunuch came up to the city under the escort of several imperial guards.

"Subordinates: Cui Anqian, Du Qing, and Zhang Zimian quickly led Luoyang troops to retreat to Tongguan, on the 18th day of the first lunar month of the sixth year of Qianfu."

The twelfth imperial edict within three days was, Cui Anqian gritted his teeth, but in the end he had no choice but to go forward to receive the imperial edict, then turned to look at the quietly flowing Yishui, and said for a long time: "I'll order the entire army to retreat to Luoyang immediately, and the entire army retreated to Tongguan early tomorrow morning."
Chapter completed!