On the Shannan East Road, near Jingmen County to Xiangyang Town, in the Pingshan Valley with a mountain and a river backed by the river, corpses are spreading across the fields and fighting endlessly to smash the sky.
Liu Jurong, a born national face with thick eyebrows and a burly appearance, also instructed on the top of a mound where the Chinese army was temporarily set up to start a fierce battle on the spot, and he saw waves of peasants arriving in waves. The army was crushed and crushed on the spot.
From the perspective of seniority, he can be regarded as one of the few veterans of the imperial court who was born in the imperial examination. He was first in the eighth year of Xuanzong Dazhong as a Jinshi and No. 1 in Wushu, and served in the Xuzhou Wuning Army. Tang Yizong Xiantong followed the town’s army to defend Guizhou for three years, and served as the capital general Wang Zhongfu’s subordinate general; he also escaped the rebellion of the Silver Knife Party in which the Wuning Army expelled the Jiedushi. Later, Annan was trapped in Nanzhao, and he was there. Among the Guan Guibing who went to aid.
Tang Yizong's Xiantong ten years led to the outbreak of the Pangxun Rebellion in which Guilin's soldiers returned to the north. He did not participate in it but returned by himself. He was awarded the "Yongqiao Town Containment Envoy" (now Suxian County, Anhui) by the imperial court. But since then he has been unknown for more than ten years. Until the fifth year of Qianfu, when the son was reigning today, Wang Ying rebelled and attacked Mingzhou (now Wenzhou, Zhejiang). "Arrow" shot him to death, and won the merits of the Mingzhou provincial governor.
Then, with Huang Chaobing, he began to flourish in his official career. With the experience of chasing grass thieves, he moved to Chuzhou regiment training envoys, Qihuang recruits deputy envoys, Xiangzhou marching Sima, and inspection school Yousanqi as regular attendants. Most of the Huangchao who blocked the south have been marched by Sima Qianshan South East Road Jiedu (zhisuo Xiangyang) until now.
It can be said that he has experienced and witnessed from Xuanzong to Yizong, and then to most of the senior figures in the military affairs of the emperor of the three dynasties; his feats and future are also based on the bones of these grass thieves; so he is not inferior to the master of the eye. The Li family, or the Prime Minister Wang Duo, who had gone through three dynasties and didn't know about the military, would only flee, and he had no reason or room for compromise or retreat to these grass thieves, but could only fight to the death.
But what is reassuring at this moment is that in the critical situation, he did not fight against the grass thieves alone; the reinforcements led by Cao Quanzhu from Jiangxi’s recruitment have also reached the Xiangyang area first. After consultations with the soldiers, Liu Jurong was not reconciled to guard the Wengcheng passively, and even persuaded Cao Quanzhu to cooperate with him in implementing a rather bold and light-hearted trick.
First, the weak soldiers such as the local soil regiments drove them to the north before the grass thieves confronted them. They abandoned a lot of food, grass and money, so they gradually became contemptuous and arrogant; the various ministries competed for merit and gradually elongated and separated from each other.
Then, under his command, there was a feudal general called Ashina Yuelu, who was good at riding and shooting and was able to train horses; Liu Jurong ordered him to lead a number of feudal horses into the grass thief before the battle and after a few fierce battles, and then waited for the opportunity to abandon the mount and escape on foot. . Since then, the pirate army thought they were more timid.
As a result, on the second day, the leaders of the grass thieves rode out these trained horses to fight. As a result, these horses understood the call of the original lord, and they were yelled by Ashina Yuelu before the battle. Xiang ran back and the grass thief couldn't stop it. So the twelve thieves were captured on the spot, and their heads hung on the flagpole.
The remaining menacing grass thieves did not expect the officers and soldiers to take the initiative to go out of the city to meet them. Under the leadership of the group of dragons, they were caught off guard by the unprepared ones, and the entire tens of thousands of first arrays were turned into pits. The corpse is full of valleys; then, most of the follow-up men and horses who awakened from a dream came up and hurriedly challenged.
However, due to geographical constraints, although they are several times the number of officers and soldiers, they can only put a wave of people on the front with a limited width to fight attrition; and then endure the continuous rain of arrows. In front of the camp set up by the officials and army, the corpses piled up like a mountain of collapse and defeat again and again.
This is how Liu Jurong was thinking while watching the line that the officials and army insisted on. Under the continuous rush and onslaught of the grass thieves, he began to become shaky or shrinking, even unmoved; however, he refused the mountain several times. Requests for help and a change of defense.
Even if I heard that his nephew Liu Wanwan and his confidant general Zhang Deyi were blocking those grass thieves who tried to bypass the mountain, even if it was heard, it was just a cry of oh but just hard work. I grasped the whip handle in his hand tightly. This is not enough. He said this to himself in his heart, but it is better to retreat from the enemy than to take a heavy hit. He wants more than that.
At this time, it was as if things had become what he wanted, and the long-awaited news was finally sent to him by the horse and scouts. On behalf of the grass thief No. 2 figure and leader of the road, Shang Rang, has already appeared in the direction of the enemy's back. Liu Jurong couldn't help but breathe out a sigh of relief and threw his horse whip in the dust, and opened his voice as if he was seeing the sun in the clouds.
"Blow the trumpet and send a letter..."
With the sound of smoke pillars and snail horns lit up on the hills; at this time, the Jiangxi soldiers who had been ambushing in the nearby mountains and forests amidst the huge movement and noise of the forest birds flew into action; Under the leadership of Cao Quanluo, he rushed out with flaws and momentum like a rainbow, and in a moment he obliterated the direction of the back line where the grass thieves were carrying heavy food and grass family members;
It was like the variegated tide flooding most of the mountain and valley, and it was suddenly cut off and swallowed by the tens of thousands of Jiangxi soldiers who were dressed in gray and gray; these thieves who held the crowd were on the spot for a while. I couldn't pay attention to each other from the beginning to the end, and spontaneously messed up, and people's hearts floated up.
Then, someone reported that he saw that the banner of Shangzi behind the enemy line began to shake, and slowly backed away; at this time, Liu Jurong flew on his horse and screamed at his subordinates:
"All armies follow me to kill thieves... To make contributions and serve the court, it depends on the present..."
"Mighty... Mighty..."
"Defeat the enemy... Long win..."
The hills suddenly responded with a crash, and they rushed to raise their flags and guns, and the shouts were like thunder; then I saw the frontiers of the Yaqian soldiers led by Liu Jurong and the left and right Shenduying as the pioneers, and countless gatherings of armor sparkled and danced In the meantime, blood was dotted with a scarlet cloak; it turned into a large rush of silver-red mottled torrents, rushing fiercely into the chaotic and bewildered thieves, and the mountains swayed straight to disperse them. It collapsed into a deep chunk.
After a few more hours, only blood-impregnated mud and piles of corpses remained in this valley.
"Tens of thousands each was killed, this is an exciting victory..."
Cao Quanzhu, the beard and beard of Jiangxi contaminated with blood, was also a joyous expression that couldn't hide his face.
"Seeing the thief's momentum is going to a wing, but my generation has to continue to work hard..."
"One thinks that the country is too bad for others, that dangers are not hesitating to reward, but things usually offend..."
However, Liu Jurong, who was also the leader and blood-stained shirt, shook his head slightly and said something shocking:
"Rather than expecting a time for rewards, it's actually better to keep the thieves and hope for the future."
"It's a bad word for morality... There are people in the DPRK and China who are righteous..."
However, when he heard this rebellious remark, Cao Quanzhen couldn't help but his face changed slightly, but he turned into a complicated and bitter smile and said with relief.
"Why do you have to be so pessimistic... Otherwise, just give this opportunity to the old man..."
"It's just a moment ago that I felt a little bit of emotion, but it was a laugh."
Immediately, Liu Jurong also remarked. .
"There is not enough thieves on the road. I have left behind. Since then, I have done my best to eliminate evil for the country."
"My tooth soldiers and Xiangcheng navy forces, presumably they should have already crossed the river at this moment..."
Later, local historical records said:
Jiangxi recruits Cao Quanzhu and Shannan East Road Jiedushi Liu Jurong joined forces to fight the thieves in Jingmen, and the ruling army of the grass thief Middle Road, Shang Mou relied on the masses to advance lightly and defeated countless deaths and injuries, but the tribe was killed and captured seven or eight out of ten, and retired. Jiangdong: The official army chased the defeat and killed dozens of thieves. The thieves were scattered and only a thousand people were spared.
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Among the rebels who fled away, Zhu Cun, who was already the deputy commander and general of the Kokang Army, was also grinning with a few severed arrow shafts on his body, lying weakly on a mule and yelling. With.
"I've been hurt miserably by this scornful Shang Dato... I really regret not listening to the monk's message,"
"This trip to the north by the mid-passenger is really not that easy to fight..."
"If I hadn't kept an eye on it, I'm afraid that I won't be able to maintain this foundation after falling behind..."
Then he groaned and stood up from the mule back, shouting
"No way, I can't go with the crowd anymore, I'm going to Jiangling to find Cao Shishi to help out one or two..."
After the war, in the city of Xiangyang, where the martial law had been lifted and the streets of Zhu Jie had been released, it was in a mansion with carved beams and painted buildings. The servant servant, Shang Shu Zuo Pu shot Tong Ping Zhang Shi, Jie Du Envoy of Jing Nan, and Wang Duo of Jin Guo Gong, who had just escaped and not long ago, were the joy and excitement that was relieved without crisis.
Because, he was looking at some of the newly seized special objects without any worries; and then he made a bit of resentment amidst the stunned eyes or the frightened expressions of the surrounding subordinates and staff. :
"This is a demon book that confuses people's hearts... Ah"
"It has been widely spread among the grass thieves..."
"Why did Duke Jin come from here? It's just a mere rant..."
A squad who joined the army beside him felt relieved.
"It's fine if you order the Si to destroy the ban..."
"Stupid, it's all a bunch of idiots, it's because you are so careless and negligent that you have the country's declining power and the constant rebellion."
But Wang Duo scolded a little bit distressedly.
"What kind of nonsense, dare to instigate the people how to resist the government and how to gather the mountains and forests; dare to pretend the war of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty to insinuate the present day, and to spread the strategy of warfare in the troubled world..."
"Not to mention the comments that used this to slander eunuchs, families, courtiers, local government and gentry; it is even more deliberate and quite capable of bewitching... The world dares to make this horror to fight for people's hearts with the country Just now is the real evil thief who is doing harm to the world..."
"Not to mention that it is said that the big and small leaders of these grass thieves have already been handed a book and read them day and night, and they are often used as a rule..."
"Once the demon words spread with these grass thieves, the harm will be even worse than Huang Ni, the culprit..."
On the case, there are some booklets printed roughly and occasionally stained with blood. They are excerpts from "The Heroes of the Three Kingdoms" and "The Legend of Liangshan Heroes" seized from the defeated grass thief. "And "Xu Zhi Xing".
"It's rumored that my hall will be posted, so that there are ministers in the government offices in the southeast, and the monk Yuanxuan will be a traveler with a fame..."
Immediately he made a decision, and uttered a loud voice.
"Anyone who lives or lives is a matter of life and death. Once verified, a reward of 600,000 yuan, three hundred pieces of silk, will be given out by my public.
When this order was given, Wang Duo seemed to be relieved in his heart and let out a sigh of relief, then handed in his local singer in Xinna, and began to have fun; however, he guessed the next day. I received the news that the emissary of the imperial court had arrived. (End of this chapter)