Became a feudal lord in the late Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 96 Surrendering the Ever-Victorious Army

Gaoliang River, the camp of the Ever-Victorious Army.

Big people often need a reason to do things. For example, the sound of cups and axes is almost like flipping the table. Moreover, when one person takes the initiative, the people below may also want to learn from it.

Keep a line in everything.

When a small group of cavalry under the banner of Liu Zi arrived at the gate of the Evervictorious Army camp, Zhen Wuchen and other generals of the Evervictorious Army who stayed in the camp all stood up and looked at each other, but no one took the initiative to kill them quickly.

When Yaoshi Guo left, they no longer had a boss who could give orders to everyone to start doing things.

Prestige may seem illusory, but in fact, when you really need to use it, you absolutely cannot live without it. He, Zhen Wuchen, was also a confidant and subordinate of Pharmacist Guo, and had a high status in the army. However, he always worked for Pharmacist Guo, which made his prestige relatively average.

How is it like now - a scarlet Liu banner was erected in the army, which already caused many soldiers to cheer.

In two years, not only the commanders-in-chief and generals of the three armies knew Liu Ling, but who among the people in Yan State had not heard of General Liu's reputation?
  Zhen Wuchen looked at the flag and thought of what Yaoshi Guo said before leaving. He is now the nominal leader of the army, but at this moment, he chooses to bow his head to that flag.

The more than 15,000-strong Victory Army, which had been restless and threatening to collapse and mutiny since Pharmacist Guo left, actually calmed down at this moment, suppressing their irritability and waiting quietly.

March is about to pass, the cold has disappeared, and the ice on the Sorghum River is slowly melting, as if an invisible spring breeze has blown here first.

For some reason, there was a short knife stuck in the tree on the roadside. The handle was rusty. A soldier pulled it out and brought it back and handed it to Liu Ling.

"General, in the village in front of us, more than eighty people were killed. Most of them were old, weak, women and children."

"Then... go around."

"promise!"

With the destruction of Yanjing City and the departure of Pharmacist Guo, the framework of Yanshan Mansion that had been barely propped up completely collapsed at this moment. The three counties north of Yanshan Mansion soon surrendered Jin people, and rebels and bandits took advantage of the situation to wreak havoc everywhere.

The tragedy in the village in front of them is definitely not an exception. Yandi has been torn by war in the past few years, and now it is just a repeat of what happened two years ago.

Wang Anzhong rode up to him and asked, "Could it be done by the Jin people?"

"It's also possible that he's from Song Dynasty."

Wang Xuanfu also knew what the nature of his army was from top to bottom. He was choked by this sentence. After a while, he considered the words again and asked: "Why go to Gaoliang River?"

"I have no soldiers."

"Yes, I'm not saying you are sick, I just want to know." Wang Anzhong's voice had a strong Hebei accent and he added: "Now you can either continue to follow the Jin people, or you can quickly go back to Zhuozhou to guard Gaoliang. Across the river, I heard there is a victorious army.”

"correct."

"Aren't they Guo Yaoshi's troops?" Wang An felt anxious and shouted, "Are you going to die?"

Liu Ling waved to the side, and two soldiers came over, pulled Wang Xuanfu's horse back, then asked him to dismount and stuffed him directly into the carriage.

The city of Yanjing shrank into a small black dot behind it, until it completely disappeared. Walking southward along the upper reaches of the Gaoliang River, at noon, we finally met the Sentinel Cavalry of the Ever Victorious Army.

After being brought over, the sentry rider knelt in front of Liu Ling's horse and said that the camp was in chaos and asked Liu Ling to come over quickly.

Han Shizhong took a deep breath, raised the Liu banner, and came to the camp alone. He held the flag high and shouted: "General Liu is here. Soldiers in the camp, open the door quickly to greet him!"

After shouting three times, the camp door opened.

A group of soldiers were revealed inside, and their armor reflected a cold light in the sunlight. Han Shizhong thrust the flagpole into the ground with all his strength and shouted again: "General Liu has arrived, all the troops are waiting to greet him!"

Zhen Wuchen raised his head, gritted his teeth, and looked at more than a hundred cavalry slowly approaching behind the Zhuozhou Army cavalry. He seemed to feel a calm gaze falling on him.

The crowd parted, and Zhen Wuchen and two generals came out and shouted to Han Shizhong: "There are tens of thousands of troops in the Ever Victorious Army. Since General Liu wants me to surrender, I have something to tell him before I surrender." "

Han Shizhong did not turn around. He raised his hand, and the more than a hundred riders behind him also stopped advancing. Seeing this, Zhen Wuchen's eyelids twitched.

"Surrender first and then speak." Han Shizhong said calmly while riding on his horse.

Zhen Wuchen was silent for a moment, and before the two generals around him could react, he immediately bowed and saluted in the distance.

"The guilty general Zhen Wuchen and his three thousand subordinates are willing to die for General Liu!"

The two generals of the Victory Army beside them were stunned. Looking at Zhen Wuchen, who had bent his waist almost to the limit and raised his buttocks completely, they cursed in their hearts for being shameless. They bowed and saluted one after another, shouting that they were willing to surrender.

"We are willing to surrender and die for the general!"

The three leaders all shouted to surrender, and their respective subordinates immediately followed suit and bowed their heads.

"I am willing to die for the general!" The voice rose, and the Sorghum River stirred up a few waves and the water surface trembled.

The horse's hoofs stepped on the soft soil by the river, making a dull sound. All three of them saw the horse's hoofs stop in front of them.

Liu Ling turned over and dismounted, and said with a smile: "We are all colleagues, so there is no need to be polite. Today you accept me as a general, so you must serve with all your heart. Come, stand up straight and let me get familiar with you."

"promise!"

The three people stood up straight, and the large group of soldiers behind them also stood up. Liu Ling showed a smile at the corner of his mouth, but quickly restrained it. He motioned for the three people to lead the way, and he followed behind without squinting. Occasionally he saw the soldiers. He also looked over calmly, and then smiled slightly.

Without Pharmacist Guo as a promoter, he would have at least five to six thousand troops, and half of them would be soldiers who had experienced great battles. But, it’s not bad now.

There are fifteen thousand soldiers and horses. Even after today, there will be defections and desertions, but Liu Ling is confident that he can still retain most of them on the premise that he can still firmly guarantee the money, food and treatment of the victorious army.

Including his own Zhuozhou Army, there are 20,000 soldiers, of which soldiers account for the majority. With the addition of auxiliary soldiers and civilians, he can immediately claim to have a hundred thousand soldiers!
  When Guo Yaoshi surrendered, he took Yizhou and Zhuozhou with him and eight thousand victorious troops, but Liu Ling now claims to have one hundred thousand, taking over Yanshan Prefecture and several prefectures. It was not him who asked for surrender at that time.

Zhen Wuchen and others led the way, followed by Liu Ling, and came to the commander's tent. Several generals turned around and bowed to Liu Ling again.

Liu Ling didn't need to be taught by them and walked towards the seat where only the coach could sit.

The tiger-skin chair was quite comfortable to sit on. Liu Ling subconsciously glanced at the table in front of him and found that he had accumulated a lot of documents and military reports. Then he picked up one of them and read it for a while, holding it silently in his hand.

"Send the order and the whole army will break out of camp."

Now that Zhen Wuchen had bowed his head, he decided to play the role he admired well, but before he could say anything, behind him, the two generals who followed Liu Ling, one was thin and the other had a broken hand, stepped forward and bowed. Salute oneself.

"General, where are you going?"

Zhen Wuchen looked at Zhao Heshou and Gao Feng from behind who couldn't wait to stand up and steal his job: "."

Liu Ling slowly stroked the roaring white jade tiger on the table and said softly: "Yanjing."

(End of this chapter)