"Subordinates are terrified..."
"What Xiang Gong told me was..."
"I should do my best to return to Beijing for the country..."
However, no one dared to say the real reason: after entering Chang'an, whether it was the army who had fallen in the four major cities in the northbound camp or the generals of the seven army in the three towns of Hedong, they were busy leading their own people to start looting and raiding. It is; naturally, it is not so effective for the follow-up pursuit and clearing of the thief army.
But in fact, Cui Anqian could not go against everyone’s wishes; since the Hedong Army under his command entered the imperial city, no matter it was in the camp, Zhang Yanqiu, the backyard army ambassador Zhu Mei, Ya Jiang Lun'an, Wang Chan, Xue Weizhi and the like. The general of, also without giving orders, spontaneously began to raid on the spot.
This is also a common problem of officials and soldiers. Killing the enemy and fighting under the leadership of competent officials is certainly as brave as a tiger, but every once in a while, it is also necessary to use enough rewards or indulgence to plunder to comfort and encourage them to turn. For exhaustion, fatigue and morale.
The only difference is the degree of raging in the hands of different people. Especially nowadays, relying only on the majority of Hedong Dao's support army is not enough, let alone count on them to work hard to get thief? Only two evils can only be held aloft and verbally beaten.
However, this gave the thieves who had retreated to Nanguo a chance to regroup and deploy defenses layer by layer. They even cut off the southern section of Zhuque Street for this reason, demolished many private houses to set up barriers, and used carts to connect the streets to seal the entrances and exits of those streets. As a result, they actually built several barriers on the spot for this generation. .
"Msang Gong, the former General Jin Wu, Zhang Zhifang, came to see you..."
However, at this time, someone reported again:
"Let's not see him... just say that I have gone to inspect Nannei (Xingqing Palace) in front of the formation..."
Cui Anqian shook his head without hesitation, and then added:
He doesn't need to think about what the other party's intentions are. It is nothing more than to ask him to fulfill the promise he had said before, to open the net and rectify the name of these old ministers who were forced to gangsters but still had the homeland in their hearts.
In addition, it is to restrain the officers and soldiers who are raging and looting in the city, thinking to preserve some of the weather and the heart of Beijing; if the former asked Cui Anqian, he would pinch his nose to admit it, but the latter was Cui Anqianwan. If you can't agree, you can't do it.
However, I still want to make contributions to the other party's initiative and cooperation, but it is difficult to tell how the other party is. It is more necessary to use such a role model who is familiar with the situation in the city to arrange the follow-up success and the aftermath. Therefore, he can only be out of sight for the time being.
However, in the advocacy pavilion behind Danfengmen, Zhang Zhifang, who had dried up with blood and blood in his uniform, couldn't help but face the aides who were speaking back and forth with a dreadful expression, muttering to himself:
"How can this be? How can this be? Didn't I say it at the beginning... I want to meet the savior Chen Qing..."
"Outrageous! Are you deaf or stupid? Xianggong has gone to the front of the army!!"
The staff who replied were scornful and said:
"The war in the city is fierce a few days ago, and there are still thieves who have remained entrenched and resisted until now, but do you want to add chaos to the overall situation here? Someone will give me this general to fork out..."
However, Zhang Zhifang couldn't help but feel anxious when he heard the words and wanted to burst into anger, but unexpectedly there was a quick voice shouting: "Let's stop." However, another old-looking general hurried over and shouted at the sergeants who were approaching:
"Zhang Jinwu is a man of meritorious service in the country. The minister still needs courtesy, so how dare you dare to be rude to him... I don't want to go back soon."
After the left and right sergeants retreated, he happily faced Zhang Zhifang, who was still unwilling, and continued:
"It's really fair and coincidental, I'm not in the big house, I can only make Jinwu go in vain. The people underneath are rough, and don't understand the relationship, I really ask Jinwu to forgive me, and Jinwu to stay. Get off the rankings and wait less when you return to your house, and you will come to your home to petition as long as you return it."
It wasn't until he saw Zhang Zhifang's staggering figure disappearing completely into the doorway that the old general couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and finally dealt with him. Then another voice came out of him unexpectedly:
"It's just an old minister who is a thief and anyway. Why should I wait for the troublesome prestige and respectful, and give up this face to appease..."
The old general shook his head and said:
"This is the meaning of Xianggong. Compared with Xianggong's grand plan, you and I have some gains and losses on the face, but what is it?"
But Zhang Zhifang, who had walked out of the entrance of Onei Quelou in disappointment, was immediately surrounded by many long-awaited figures; however, they soon showed disappointment, helplessness, and frustration such as mourning concubine.
However, Zhang Zhifang did not turn his head directly, instead he came to an abandoned guard house not far away. After lighting the candles and simply cleaning them up, a middle-aged man with long beard dressed as an official in a green shirt stepped into it and sighed:
"Why does Kingo come here..."
"For the sake of walking under the gates of the past, now I only need you to be accurate, why don't you want to call me? Is there any difficulties and inner feelings? Or is there someone in the middle of it?"
However, Zhang Zhifang stared at him without any concern, and said:
"My generation can never leak military aircraft..."
The subordinate official frowned in embarrassment and said:
The official named Wei Gong frowned in embarrassment and said:
"However, I can tell you another thing. The Xianggong has just dealt with and sent off dozens of sergeants who are clamoring for rewards. You must not touch this mold..."
"You mean..."
Zhang Zhifang reacted at once and lost his voice:
"Jin Wu should hurry back to the mansion, gather capable personnel, and be optimistic about his own family... the next thing, no one can say good about it!!!"
"Wei Gong" also sighed more and more:
And between their words, in Danfengmen on the side of Suzaku Long Street, finally a reorganized soldier and horse drove out, holding high the banners of "Hedong", "Jinyang" and "North Capital Shouchou". But violently killed to the other end of the Kuaida Long Street, the battlefield was shrouded in fireworks and fighting.
Wang Chucun, the Yiwu Army commanding the attack on the front lines of the street, was in a certain sense of distress; he was originally a general of the Shence Army, and his father Wang Zong was one of the few richest men in Chang'an, who was good at business. Caihuo, Prince Toby, was a military official of the Tang Dynasty, and he went to General Jinwu and Xingyuan Jiedushi.
Therefore, when he was a boy, he served Yushi and had many child slaves. Relying on his father's position, he obtained the position of Youjun Town Envoy, and later he was promoted to General Xiaowei, Dingzhou Zhizhi, and Inner Leisure Stable Palace. Later, he was able to transfer to Yiding Town on the border of Hedong and Hebei with the heavy gold in the tree, as an envoy of the Yiwu army and deputy envoy of Jiedu;
However, with Huang Chao's large-scale invasion of the two capitals, the three towns of Heshuo, which were originally considered safe in the feudal town, took advantage of the momentum. Among them, Li Keju of Lulong Town broke through most of Yiding Town and surrounded it. The last stronghold in Yizhou City.
In the end, under internal and external difficulties, Jie Du caused Cui Jikang to be killed again in the chaos. In the end, only Wang Chuzhi was able to break through and surrender to Cui Anqian in Hedong under the echo and threat from the Zhaoyi army; beginning a period of staying abroad. career.
Therefore, as the last of the few guest troops who are now under the fence, he can only be allocated to the southern part of the city where there is relatively little oil and water (rich family); and he has to recruit and send troops to clean up and seize one by one. Just work.
However, Wang Chuzhi soon discovered that he was still pitted. As his troops seized and captured one after another, as the barricade fortifications entrenched by the South City Bandit Army progressed from cloth to cloth, the level of damage reported by the Volunteer Army was, It's like a snowball that has increased dramatically with time.
Because these Taiping thieves and their surrendered thieves are too cunning and difficult; they use the city squares on the left and right of Chang'an Central Axis Street as their entrenchment and support points, within the seemingly extending streets and intersections. Countless obstacles and traps are set up, and hidden and ambushes are between the buildings.
And the officers and soldiers who are attracted to rush into it are like being filled into a bottomless pit; and like being poured into white-folded cloth, they will visit the area in a short time to contact or It just disappeared in the weaker and weaker fighting sound.
According to the reactions of those who escaped, they were first caught by the cramped terrain and obstacles, as well as the deadly traps, which elongated and disrupted the team and formation; then they were unable to prevent annoying sneak attacks and ubiquitous attacks. In the ambush, completely collapsed or escaped without hesitation.
Therefore, watching other people looting and making a fortune in the city, I am here to beat and kill the stubborn and stubborn thieves, this boring, hard bone; his Volunteers have recently made up more than a dozen battalions. After only supplementing and fighting rounds two or three times in succession, he was no longer willing to attack on the grounds of excessive casualties.
However, when Wang Chucun’s order was passed down, they were asked to shrink their forces and regroup; the thieves’ troops once again resounded through the whistle, and they came out from behind the barricades and fronts already occupied by the officers and soldiers. There have been waves of counter-offensive.
So amidst the ever-increasing fireworks and the sound of fighting, Wang Chuxun also heard a terrible sound of fighting behind his own street formation; then the heavy equipment piled in the open air on the street suddenly did not know what firearms were in it, and they were on the spot. The smoke billowed and burned.
At this time, although the Chinese army where Wang Chucun was seated was still unshakable, the several battalions of volunteer soldiers fighting in the front streets and lanes were unstoppable and panicked on the spot, and they evolved along the long street. And went to flee.
Even if Wang Chucun personally led people to hold up the Chinese army's big bow to stop and gather, he was swayed by the surge of routs; when his knife team chopped off hundreds of heads in a row, and slightly restrained and intercepted them. Fleeing, but was hit in the array by a cannon stone that far exceeded the shooting world and flew out of thin air, killing several people on the spot.
These even the screaming and shouting of the king could not stop the guards who had been shocked by the courage around him, struggling to entrain him and fleeing in the opposite direction; until he was faced with the help of the long street. The new force. (End of this chapter)