stubborn thief

Chapter 182 The Great Mutiny

Yang Yao eagerly climbed up the mountain, not hesitating to slip and fall, until he climbed to the top of the mountain, looking at the mountain pass of the Huanglong Mountains in the east, he finally showed a relieved expression.

The officers and soldiers in the camp went out to gather on both sides of the official road at the mountain pass, and then lined up to stand on the west side of the camp.

It took Zhang Tianlin a long time to climb up, complaining: "Why are you climbing so fast..."

Then he saw the changes in the officers and soldiers at the mountain pass on the other side, and he was startled and angry: "Grandma, it's time to fight the officers and soldiers."

Yang Yao shook his head and said, "The general is here, these people don't want to fight."

His expression was extremely excited, and he had some guesses about what would happen next, but he didn't dare to think about it in his heart.

He could only stare straight at the mountain pass.

A large army of officials and soldiers turned against the bandits, who in their right mind would dare to think in this direction?
Yang Yao just thought about it, and already felt that he had offended God.

Zhang Tianlin's reaction to the Ningxia soldiers was even more unacceptable. The bullish Ningxia frontier army, seeing her, wanted to have a shot, and seeing Liu Shizi became obedient?
On the other side of the battlefield, the generals from Ningxia watched helplessly as their army fell apart.

Some highly respected officers were surrounded by soldiers and left the camp.

Some officers who severely punished the military law tried to draw their swords to stop, but they attracted their subordinates to face each other with swords.

There are also some who have always been bad to the sergeants, and of course they were killed by the mutinous sergeants.

There is resentment for resentment, and there is revenge for revenge.

After leaving the village, the troops directly accepted the on-site reorganization of the Lion Camp.

When Liu Chengzong marched, he thought about the arrangements for them. He first sent the cold, fever, and injured soldiers to the supply post, leaving more than 500 people scattered and organized into various posts.

In an instant, the difference in military strength between the two sides was not that big, but in an instant, it became the lion camp surrounded by 300 people, and He Huchen still had more than [-] people in the village.

Everything happened so fast, before He Huchen of the camp even had time to order the soldiers to seal the gate of the village, all the troops had already filed out under the leadership of the grassroots officers.

Even the wounded soldiers with broken legs jumped out of the camp on crutches.

He Huchen had never seen such a situation during his wars in Beizhili and Shandong.

Fighting against the northern captives in Ningxia, Ningxia soldiers have always been loyal, brave, hard-working, and not afraid of death. Even King Qin, Ningxia's King Qin troops did not mutiny much under the leadership of You Shilu.

He Huchen couldn't understand the sudden large-scale defection. What kind of ecstasy soup was Liu Shizi pouring into his soldiers?

In a short while, there were only more than [-] people left in the camp.

These people are basically generals at all levels and some servants, and there are very few ordinary soldiers left behind.

He Huchen said to close the gate of the village: "We can still turn the situation around until Zongbing Du leads an army to help."

People from the Lion Camp shouted from below the city: "Marshal He, Governor Hong has called Marshal Du back to the side wall, you surrender!"

In fact, Liu Chengzong is still not sure whether Du Wenhuan has left or not, maybe he is behind their buttocks.

But this didn't stop him from breaking through He Huchen's resistance with his words.

He Huchen looked suspicious, and all the generals in the village were ashamed.

Especially Shen Guangxian said angrily: "Marshal, I knew that Du was unreliable!"

He Huchen didn't answer. After thinking for a moment, he turned his head and asked everyone: "There is not enough food and grass in the village. It won't be better if you stick to it for a few days. He wants to go out of the village to fight the bandits in the field. Today is the day to be loyal to your majesty. You will all be punished." Emperor En, would you like to go with me?"

A group of generals headed by Shen Guangxian prostrated themselves and shouted: "Follow the commander to the death!"

The gate of the village was opened, and more than [-] horsemen rushed out, forming two formations on the east side of the village, and then the middle sentry of the lion camp pressed up, and the two wings were covered by horse soldiers.

But before the two sides entered the fighting range, a red-haired horse with faded mane was riding in front of the formation with the rider carrying the flag.

Liu Chengzong tied the big flag with Liu characters on the ground, hung a shield on his left arm, and then shouted from a distance: "He Huchen, look at the people behind you."

"Do you know what they gave up to stand with you? You took them to die?"

In fact, to be honest, those who are still standing behind He Huchen really haven't given up anything.

Yinchuan had never suffered from drought before this year, and the servants had never suffered from hunger, but they were short of pay.

Not to mention the officers, their salaries have never been cut off, especially the officers with more than [-] officers, even if they enter the lion camp, their treatment may not be better than before.

Moreover, the family members of this group of people belong to the part of the average household size in Ningxia.

But He Huchen's mind was already confused, not to mention that in his position, he had no way of knowing what ordinary officers and soldiers could get from the Lion Camp.

On the contrary, Liu Chengzong's words made him relax his long-standing determination to die.

He Huchen turned his head and looked at his generals with guilty eyes, and his generals also breathed a sigh of relief.

If the commander-in-chief wants to lead them to charge, then they will charge towards the enemy line just like those heroes in ancient times, so the ending is not bad for the general.

But if the coach changes his mind, it will be a better thing for them.

After all, the guilt of surrendering will be borne by the general at that time, and they are only following orders.

But for He Huchen, this was not the case.

Liu Chengzong found that there were no arrows shot at him in the enemy's formation, and he knew that there was no will to die in the army's formation, so he continued to persuade him to surrender loudly: "Surrender, I will send you home and guard the border for the court. After dying today, how long will it take for Ningxia Town to recover?"

These generals are not dead, and Ningxia can't slow down!

There are only a few people in Ningxia in total, and King Qin walked a few thousand, and dropped a few thousand here, and the rest of the soldiers couldn't even pick up the sand.

He Huchen turned his head and bowed his hands to the generals who were following him: "The war has come to this point, He is responsible for all the crimes, you can surrender, let this lion thief send you back to Ningxia."

"As the commander-in-chief, He can win or lose, live or die, but he can't lower his prestige."

Shen Guang was in a hurry: "Master!"

Not only was he and He Huchen relatively close, but if He Huchen committed suicide here, the guilt of bringing the generals to surrender would fall on him.

He directly yelled out the words from the bottom of his heart: "Marshal, you can't die!"

Almost at the same time as he shouted, He Huchen drew out his sword from his waist, but before it lay across his neck, someone kicked the sword away.

It's He Zan.

He threw his father down and shouted: "General God, hurry up!"

The series of changes made Liu Chengzong extremely puzzled. He thought that his words had an effect, but he saw He Huchen drew his sword.

Just as He Huchen drew out his sword, he was thrown to the ground by his son again. In the last mess, the weapon fell to the ground amidst the sound of ping-pong-pong, and more than [-] generals and servants tied up He Huchen and surrendered.

Liu Chengzong pulled up the banner from the ground, feeling great satisfaction in his heart.

This is the first time, the first time that the official army, which is still capable of fighting, has surrendered to him.

Yang Yao and Zhang Tianlin also ran over with their troops. Yang Yao was very envious when he saw the troops recruiting recruits everywhere, and his mind was full of question marks: "General, what's going on?"

"What's going on? I won the fight."

At this moment, Liu Chengzong was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief, and sent people east across Huanglong Mountain to search for Du Wenhuan's news.

But the dispatched people hadn't gone far when they saw the messenger from the south.

To be precise, it was actually people from Liu Chengzu's faction in Shiziwan who sent the news that Yang Yao had sent Du Wenhuan eastward before the war with at least [-] troops from Fucheng to the east.

This is the third person sent by Liu Chengzu. The first person who walked out of the valley and bumped into Du Wenhuan's Tang Bing in the area of ​​Yunyan Town was killed; the second person did not dare to take the main road and got lost in Huanglong Mountain.

When the third person set off, Du Wenhuan's troops had already retreated from the east to the north, and entered the official road of Huanglong Mountain from Yichuan, but the muddy official road was too difficult to walk.

The news was sent only when the two troops were able to divide.

But there is nothing to complain about this kind of thing, if you want to blame, you can only blame the mountain road.

When Liu Chengzong came out of the mountain, he looked back at the deep valley road, and made up his mind that it would not be a last resort in his life, and he would never go into the official road of such a large mountain range again.

It's better to go to the country road on the hill.

Liu Chengzong was very optimistic about He Zan. After people put He Huchen and other generals under temporary custody, he sent someone alone to find He Zan.

The sentry troops of the Lion Camp camped on the east bank of the Luo River, and the two of them also found a dry ancient stone pavilion on the east bank of the Luo River, and sat in the pavilion and chatted for a while.

Liu Chengzong asked: "How did you figure it out?"

"I don't want to understand, it's just that I can't win, and it's meaningless to fight with you."

He Zan actually saw the situation of the Lion Camp clearly, and also understood the reason why the Lion Camp was able to gather the frontier troops.

It is because of this severe drought.

The imperial court has been indebted to the lower frontier army for too long. It is not that the Lion Camp is too strong, but that they are too weak.

This strength does not lie in the combat power and morale of the soldiers, but in the lack of a complete deployment of the troops... The imperial court has never regarded this as a war.

It is only to suppress civil unrest, the purpose is to kill the bandit leader.

However, He Zan, who stayed in the prisoner camp of Lion Camp for a short two days, already knew very well that what the imperial court was facing in Shaanxi was not a civil disturbance, but a war.

It can even be said to be a war between countries.

Using the old method, which the Western Army used to deal with the northern captives, will not work.

The imperial court used bloodletting to deal with the northern captives. The troops on each side of the wall selected elite soldiers and strong generals, and went deep into the vast sea to avenge the northern captives' looting by killing people with an eye for an eye.

Supplemented by the economic blockade of the Great Wall, the northern tribes were neither allowed to get money, food, ironware, nor allowed the children of the northern tribes to grow up.

But this set of things is useless against Liu Chengzong, not even killing him.

The most correct way is to trap the Yan'an Mansion, lock up the walls and clear the country, block off the main roads, and let the six departments of the imperial court plan the need to deal with the thieves, how many troops need to be mobilized, and calculate the money and food consumed.

Rather than crowding out a little more troops and filling an army in northern Shaanxi as it is now.

Originally, the morale of the frontier army was low due to arrears of payment, and if they were defeated again, they would get great comfort from the bandit soldiers after being captured.

This made He Zan think that Ningxia soldiers were like a group of boys giving money.

But He Zan couldn't solve these things, not even He Huchen.

Both their father and son are dead here, and it is of no benefit to the matter, so it is better to live.

"I don't think it makes sense. If you guarded the border in Ningxia well, you wouldn't end up where you are today." Liu Chengzong sighed: "The living and dead are all soldiers, why both sides suffer."

After all, he said to He Zan: "Let's go, the rebels are either crazy hungry people, or poor and crazy frontier soldiers, guard the frontier carefully, and don't bother with the affairs here."

Liu Chengzong easily let them go, which made He Zan a little unbelievable.

But then I also figured it out. In fact, whether they surrendered or ran away was of no practical significance to Liu Chengzong's Lion Camp.

Anyway, no one will work for the Lion Camp after surrendering, but the process of their surrender is very important to the soldiers of the Lion Camp.

Only if they surrendered, it would be considered that the Lion Camp had originally defeated a general army suppressed by the official army.

He Huchen led more than [-] Ningxia soldiers to travel thousands of miles, and came here in a mighty manner. In the end, he brought more than [-] generals and servants back defeated. .

Just a few days ago, they beat Li Laozhen at the corner of that mountain road.

At this rare opportunity, the Lion Camp also counted all the gains in the battle of Huanglong Mountain in the camp in the southeast of the Luohe River.

The loss was not small. In addition to the casualties and illnesses of the soldiers, a large amount of military rations were flooded, and seven heavy artillery pieces were lost. Only the red barbarian artillery pieces that had made great contributions were left, dragging slowly on the mountain road.

The harvest is also great. After the most dangerous and fierce battle, the Lion Camp now walks in line, regardless of the soldiers and auxiliary soldiers, without consciously holding their heads high.

The addition of a large number of Ningxia soldiers not only made up for the shortage of soldiers killed and wounded for the Lion Camp, but also expanded the strength of the six combat posts to more than [-]. With the addition of the transportation post and the work post, the force was close to [-]. .

The most important thing is the Tang cavalry team. He Huchen's 24 ponds and 280 eight Tang soldiers were all incorporated into Wei Qian'er's command. Combined with the original twelve Tang soldiers, they formed a Tang cavalry force of more than [-] people.

With a little training, this troop of Tang cavalry will gain a greater advantage for the Lion Battalion in future battles that cover the battlefield.

The force structure of each outpost has also undergone great changes with this replenishment of troops. The most notable feature is that the strength of the six combat outposts has increased from the original 800 to [-].

Afterwards, the sentries began to report their military exploits from the first level. In fact, it is difficult to accurately record their military exploits, and most of them report their performance during the battle.

In the end, all the auxiliary soldiers, except for less than [-] who really showed fear of war in the battle, were all promoted to combat soldiers, and the Ningxia soldiers who joined from the captives became auxiliary soldiers.

The structure of the Lion Camp has undergone a strange change, from one soldier leading two auxiliary soldiers to two soldiers leading an auxiliary soldier.

Moreover, the combat skills of auxiliary soldiers are no worse than those of combat soldiers.

In fact, there are some auxiliary soldiers whose combat ability is not enough to take on the role of soldiers.

Tianhou, Wang Wenxiu, Cao Yao and others have all reported this to Liu Chengzong, but Liu Chengzong still decided not to forget the old man.

Skills belong to skills, and merits belong to merit.

The new Ningxia soldiers have not accomplished anything, so why put them in the position of soldiers.

What's more, Liu Chengzong didn't intend to let the Lion Camp maintain this structure all the time. It was just a short-term expedient strategy for using two soldiers to watch a newcomer to the frontier army.

After the battle was over, Li Laojie sighed.

He was the second loser in this battle after He Huchen. More than 3000 people were beaten to more than 1000. All the food robbed in Qingyang Mansion was thrown into the ravine, and it rained.

He didn't catch anything, and he still owed Liu Chengzong three thousand shi of rice and grain.

What's more, Liu Chengzong...he couldn't afford to provoke him. On the day after the battle, he became a toolman and led the troops to move south to the central part of Yunzhou and Yijun counties to raise food for the Lion Camp.

When the rain stopped, Liu Chengzong was thinking about Du Wenhuan.

Du Wenhuan has indeed withdrawn from Yichuan, so what is he doing now?
　good afternoon!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)