However, Shi Shaoyong (Jian Huji) had almost no chance to stop when he escaped. Because, in the cities of Xiaoyi, Yong'an, Pingyao, etc. he passed through, he almost surrendered one after another under the soldiers that followed the Taiping Army.
And the many docks and turrets, including Zhang Nanbao along the way, seem to have suddenly changed their course, showing some undisguised malice and concealed threats to him; they seem to have begun to follow a certain tradition and spontaneously. Intercepting and looting these fleeing Jin army routs.
Therefore, when most ordinary villages and settlements were burned and looted in the tug-of-war, and there was basically no supplementation and rest from the wild, the remnants of Shi Shaoyong (臬捩鸡) quickly Shrunk to the last dozens of rides.
He didn't even dare to go along the Wengu Canal of the Fenshui tributary, and he was sitting in Xicheng (now Fenyang, Shanxi) against the enemy's Li Siyuan headquarters; because the Sicheng mooring located at the confluence of many tributaries upstream of the Fenshui also happened. Unknown anti-chaotic.
Therefore, he can only rely on killing horses and drinking blood to support him, passing through this area that has become very strange and full of hostility. Finally, he met Qixian, the southern hub of Taiyuan Prefecture, where he was ordered to follow the party. In the territory of Liaozhou, he crossed the Shihui Pass and Mangche Pass and returned to the headquarters of Qilangjun Li Si.
It was only when Shi Shaoyong (Jian Wuji) sighed for a sigh of relief. After he called the door to pat a horse and entered the city, he found that the streets were full of depression and killing and there were few pedestrians; there were many bloody heads hung on the inner edge of the city. , Judging from the dry and bloody smell in the air, it was still not long ago.
"These are all illiterate killers who want to respond to the thieves at this juncture; therefore, the people of the seven generals will become fans as soon as they come..."
The person in charge of leading the city into the city immediately explained:
"It turns out that Zheng Nai, the Seventh General, has acted vigorously and wisely in ruling the army! After all, we must rely on decisive killing to control the crowd at both ends of this generation's first rat!"
Shi Shaoyong (Jian Hu Ji) could not help but exclaimed in relief:
However, just above a confined restaurant not far from him, the former county lieutenant Wang Ruyi, who had managed to escape from Xizhou's post, stared at the hanging on the top of the city through the gap. Many of the first-levels; among them, he is familiar with and friendly, and even his fellow clan members and children of the same year.
Strictly speaking, these young people rushed together, and there was nothing to do in the future; the Jin army backup in the city had already arrived. Then, the wind direction changed completely overnight. Following the disappearance of several of his familiar family members one after another, a big raid suddenly swept the city.
Then, regardless of the irrelevant, blindly arrested and tortured, soon I couldn't stand it and bite indiscriminately; then, I was able to bite unscathed and reached a few people that Wang Ruyi had contacted and hinted at; and then? More and more companions are involved;
But after escaping from a secluded and occupied enemy territory, he did not report to the court of the northern capital in time and continue to serve? But Wang Ruyi, who hid in secret and moved around, naturally became the number one criminal for arresting rats in the street, and he was panicked all day long. .
However, at this moment, Wang Ling, the head of the house, whom he has always looked down upon, unexpectedly stood up and did not hesitate to spend a great deal of benefit and price? Tell the heads of the other rooms to give it together. The family grows up to say? Xiao has a strong relationship with his lips and teeth, and from the Northern Capital, he invited a Jin Wang Shizi (Li Cunxu) to attach an edict.
This made Li Si's office, who was torturing and pressing in the city, a little restrained and did not continue to expand the situation; but as a corresponding price and explanation, the guardian and clan elder of the former Wang clan who had lived in seclusion for many years was called "Pu Ban". "Public" Wang Yin took the initiative to go forward and went to death, becoming the oldest person in the city.
Although Wang Ruyi was lucky enough to survive? But he also fell into the strict guard, supervision and house arrest from the head of the family; and as an involuntary pawn? Continue to play a role. It's like what the great patriarch sent someone to tell him:
"You live and die in the royal family? Death is the royal family's expensive? Since childhood, you have been protected and blessed by the family, and everything nowadays is for the sake of dealing with the family? And don't want to abandon the family and do it yourself; the most unhelpful? A child or even more heads? The clan is not irresistible or incapable of sacrifice..."
Therefore? Wang Ruyi, who is now a prisoner of the same rank, can only wait for the final destiny in the midst of despair and suffering. Was it the scapegoat who was given the upper hand as the Jin army to quell the final situation and the dust settled; or was it the inner respondent and guide who welcomed the family into the city after the Taiping thief gained power.
And while Wang Ruyi mourned and blamed himself? Shi Shaoyong (Jianluji) was also introduced into the county hall in Qixian County; then he saw Li Siben, who was still sturdy and powerful, with his back facing him; Seeing the other party's back, he asked instead without looking back at the wall chart on the wall:
"Are you the eldest brother Shijin general who is rampaging the capital?..."
"I have seen the (Yizhou) defense envoy (Li Siben), and I am here..."
Shi Shaoyong (Jian Huji) dared not hold his hand and answered:
"Could it be that the situation in the south has been so bad that you even want to let the eldest brother take advantage of the decree left by the father? Summon me back to deal with the unexpected?"
Li Siben still didn't look back, but looked at the picture on the wall and said:
"Don't dare to hide your defense? The thief army is very powerful and the firearms are fierce and sharp. The marshal has repeatedly fought and has had to fight against each other with good location. Seeing that Fenzhou is already overwhelming, please prepare and respond early..."
Shi Shaoyong (Jian Lu Ji) still respectfully said:
"But I don't know what means and response?"
Li Siben, with his back to him, continued to ask:
"The only countermeasure in front of the army is to build strong strongholds in accordance with the dangers of mountains and rivers, relying on step by step to fight steadily and steadily, frustrating vigor and exhausting the benefits of its equipment, so there is a chance for victory..."
"According to the general's deployment and methods, as long as the thief army can be delayed to the time when the mountain is covered by heavy snow, and light soldiers follow the ground to disturb the back road, the thief will be weak and weak under the control. Our army really relies on the harmony of people who are familiar with the geographical position and the cold, and will fully counterattack."
After silently listening to Shi Shaoyong's explanation, Li Siben looked at the wall chart for a while before turning around and sighed:
"Unexpectedly, can these thieves actually push the eldest brother to such a step? Since you are familiar with thieves, you will listen to me under my command for the time being, thinking that it is necessary to give guidance and arming..."
"A certain is willing to work for the defense, but the general is still in Xicheng (near Linfen City, Shanxi) to prepare for the enemy, and the defense should send troops to respond quickly!"
Shi Shaoyong (Jian Lu Ji) answered without hesitation, and said:
"I'm self-examined, you go down for a good rest, and then you are making plans!"
Li Siben gave him a deep look before saying:
At the same time, there is still Xicheng (near Linfen City, Shanxi) where several tributaries meet in Fenshui. Seeing that the enemy army who had once approached the wall outside the city was repelled by the Jin army deployed under the city and fleeed away again, Li Siyuan, who stood on the wall and watched the formation, was not very happy;
Because the thieves who came to attack several times were traditional troops armed with swords, spears, spears and some bows and crossbows, and the thieves believed that they had never really invested in the battlefield of firearms in the world. It has appeared on a large scale.
Therefore, the Jin army, which was deployed under the city and thought that it was a corner, could be compared with the calm defeats and repulses, these three times of invading enemies; however, there is no way to form an organic annihilation and defeat of the opponent, and it still maintains a relatively complete integrity. The organization and order of the country have gone back and reorganized.
The Jin army didn't even dare to leave the cover of the city too far, for fear that it would fall into the battlefield ambushed and deployed by the thieves' firearms, and the rescue would be missed. Just when he led his troops to Xicheng, he sent a team of more than a thousand horses to take the initiative to kick the defeated thieves.
As a result, in the end, only a few less than a hundred riders were able to escape and return; and in order to catch up with the hundred riders, he had to lose and maimed at least three battalions of pawns outside the city; Ordinary thieves are kept in company, and the follow-up firearms battlefield will quickly cut off their retreat.
As a result, the repeated captures and exchanges gave Li Siyuan a strange illusion that these thieves seemed to be using the Jin army inside and outside the city as their opponents to conduct training and warfare in a certain sense. Therefore, when the next time it is killed again, it will become more tidy and calmer. (End of this chapter)