Han ride

Chapter 211 Dengzhou Ping

After Sun Yinglong led the navy to rush in, the rebels' defense line collapsed quickly. Although Sun Yinglong's navy was far inferior in land warfare, the rebel army was a rebel army. The soldiers in Zhoucheng were only temporarily recruited soldiers, some of them were stragglers who were defeated in Shandong. It might be okay to fight for a while, but after fighting for half an hour, they were exhausted. In addition, Sun Yinglong, a new force, was killed, and morale dropped instantly. .After being charged by Sun Yinglong for a while, he was quickly defeated.

"Kill over there, directly to the government office." Li Xin gave the order without even thinking about it.

"Kill!" Sun Yinglong may have wanted to repay his guilt. When Li Xin gave the order, he saw him leading the team to the front, with a desperate posture, and he would be the courage of the soldiers. The soldiers behind saw him. Sun Yinglong looked desperate, and each of them rushed in bravely.

And Mao Chenglu, who was running on the long street, also received the information that the enemy had entered the city. He quickly stopped the soldiers, and without thinking, he directed the team to retreat.The enemy has already invaded the city, which means that the own side has lost its geographical advantage. If the battle continues, it will be exhausted. The enemy is the regular army of the imperial court, and reinforcements may continue to flow, but what about our own side?However, once the thousands of troops are exhausted, he, Mao Chenglu, will be left with a bare commander. At that time, who else will speak for himself.

"General, the enemy in the city has been cleared." The army led by Li Xin fought until dawn before clearing out the enemy in the city.Sun Yinglong also led the brigade to come.

"My lord, Mao Chenglu has escaped. Some people say that he led 2000 troops and retreated fifty miles from Dengzhou." Zhang Wu hurriedly explained.But he looked at Sun Yinglong with dissatisfied eyes. In his opinion, if Sun Yinglong hadn't come to the rescue late, this Mao Chenglu would not have been able to gather so many soldiers and horses if he was caught off guard, and he might even be captured alive.

Sun Yinglong also seemed to feel Zhang Wu's angry eyes, but he lowered his head, his face flushed red, but he didn't give any explanation, obviously admitting some of the stories.

"It seems that he still doesn't give up!" Li Xin didn't seem to have seen all this, and finally thought about it, and said: "What is the result of our battle this time? How many rebels have we captured?"

"Returning to the lord, we have captured nearly a thousand people this time." Zhang Wu said quickly.

"Incorporate them, Zhang Wu, you come to command!" Li Xin thought for a while, and said: "And tell the wealthy households in the city to hand over all the servants in the family, select the strong and strong, and temporarily organize them into the army. Let Zhang Wu personally train, put our remaining brothers into the army, and form them into the army as soon as possible."

"The last general will do it." Zhang Wu said quickly.

"General Sun, our next move is to eradicate the navy." Li Xin glanced at Sun Yinglong and said calmly: "Since you are the navy of the imperial court, the first thing you need to do is to eradicate the navy of the rebel army and lose Dengzhou. The rebel sailors who supported him won't last much longer. You can stay with Gu Sanmazi, no matter what method you use, even if it's a surrender, as long as the rebel navy doesn't exist."

"The general understands." Sun Yinglong raised his head, a trace of struggle appeared in his eyes, but Li Xin waved his hand.Did not let him go on.

"Let's step back first!" Li Xin stood up, patted Sun Yinglong on the shoulder and said, "Your commander is stationed outside, on the one hand, it is to protect my rear, but more importantly, it is to guard against Su on Changshan Island. You have merit. Gu Sanmazi will help you. I am relieved to have the two of you on the sea."

"The general obeys orders." Hearing Li Xin's words, Sun Yinglong felt excited when he saw that he boldly left his rear to himself, and said in a low voice: "As long as the imperial court does not issue an edict, the general will always be the general Shandong Economic Strategy." Li Xin felt his heart move, and patted him on the shoulder again.In this way, Sun Yinglong retreated.

"Master, someone came to report just now that Sun Yinglong killed Sun Er." After Sun Yinglong left, Zhang Wucai whispered in Li Xin's ear.

"That's the end of this matter." Li Xin sighed for a while, and Fang said: "Actually, he is not wrong. Being able to do this shows that this person is still a person who can communicate. In the future, you can be with this person." It won’t be a bad thing if you get in touch with more people.”

"This subordinate understands." Zhang Wu nodded quickly.

"You go and ask Mr. Zhang to come over, and then you can recruit troops in the city. You will be in charge of this team in the future. You must know that there are few Han people on the grassland. This time we have pacified Shandong, and we must migrate some Han people to the grassland. Yes. This man will be merged into Jiang Yi's command." Li Xin thought for a while and said.

"Your subordinate will go now." Zhang Wu was very happy to hear that, and hurried to gather up the defeated soldiers. Based on the dozen or so guards around Li Xin, he gathered quite a few defeated soldiers.

"Sir, please sit down." After a while, I saw Zhang Cai slowly walking over under the protection of Zhou Chuyun and several guards. His expression was relaxed, but Li Xin could see it from the depths of his eyes. Feeling a little surprised, Li Xinxin smiled. Obviously, this Confucian expert was very surprised that Li Xin could capture Dengzhou so easily.It's just that he has already practiced the state of Taishan collapse as before without changing his face, even if he admires it a little in his heart, he will not show it in front of Li Xin.

Li Xin didn't care about it, but pointed to the table on one side with a smile and said, "This time I have to trouble the gentleman with something, and I want to borrow the gentleman's literary talents."

"The general was joking. The student is just a rotten scholar, so how can he talk about literary talent?" Zhang Cai sat calmly in the seat that originally belonged to the master.

"Dengzhou has just been settled, but there are still Mao Chenglu leading more than a thousand soldiers and horses fifty miles north of the city. Therefore, the most important thing right now is to stabilize Dengzhou. Please write a proclamation. Strictly, our army is serving the emperor. This is an imperial edict to suppress the rebellious thieves. This is to stabilize the hearts of the people in Dengzhou. You are a scholar, so you must not refuse this kind of thing!" Li Xin said, holding up the tea in front of him.His expression was extremely relaxed, obviously he had made up his mind, and Zhang Cai would definitely agree to this matter.

Sure enough, after hearing Li Xin's words, Zhang Cai said without even thinking about it: "For the sake of the common people, Zhang will naturally do it. Don't bother God. I don't know if your soldiers will be the same as those rebels." gone."

"Of course you don't need to worry about this, sir." Seeing that Zhang Cai agreed, Li Xin showed a smile on his face again, and said, "This second letter is a document to report victory. With the heart of the court, now Shandong is full of hungry people, I will soon Put down Shandong, so the imperial court must make preparations in advance to mobilize food and grass, relieve victims of disasters, and forgive taxes in Shandong. How do you think the people of Shandong will be stabilized?"

After hearing this, Zhang Cai gave Li Xin a deep look, finally nodded, and said, "I agree with you."

"Although there are many soldiers and horses in the imperial court in Shandong, such as Liu Yulie, the Minister of the Ministry of War, Wu Anbang, Zu Dabi, Zhang Tao, etc., who are not subordinate to each other, they will only be defeated by the rebels one by one if they stay in Shandong. This kind of thing can’t happen. Sir, you can tell them to let Liu Yulie leave Qixia and put troops on the front line of Xinhe. I don’t ask them to wipe out many enemies, as long as they take one step at a time. At worst, we must defend Weifang.” Li Xin thought want to say.

"I can also promise you this." Zhang Cai thought for a while, and this was also for the purpose of annihilating the rebels, so he finally agreed.

"Okay." Li Xin clapped his hands, and said with a smile: "One more thing, Mr. Zhang, I am a general who fights wars, not a governor who governs the people. This Dengzhou city has just returned to the court. I still lack a magistrate, so I don’t know if you can take over temporarily, and after the imperial court sends officials, you can just return it to him. The people in Dengzhou are waiting for your husband to distribute food!”

"You, okay, I'll just go ahead." Zhang Cai looked at Li Xin fiercely. He had never seen such a shameless person like Li Xin, who came to him one thing after another.Although these things are related to the common people, he doesn't want to be squeezed by Li Xin like this.

"In this way, there will be Mr. Lao." Li Xin cupped his hands and laughed.He knew that Zhang Cai's chances of rejecting him were getting less and less, and sooner or later he would sincerely join him.

Shortly thereafter, a notice was posted on the four gates of Dengzhou, in addition to appeasing the hearts of the people, the more important thing was to provide porridge and disaster relief.Of course, there are requirements for disaster relief, that is, work, such as building cities and the like.This is also Li Xin and Zhang Cai's joint effort to restore order in Dengzhou as soon as possible.At this time, Dengzhou City was ravaged by Mao Chenglu, and even the rich were not spared. Li Xin defeated Mao Chenglu, not only obtained Dengzhou, but also took the gold, silver and jewels obtained by Mao Chenglu as his own. A lot of food was lost, but with this money, I really don't know if I made a profit or lost it.

But no matter what, Dengzhou City stabilized quickly, and even recruiting troops with Zhang Wu went smoothly. When Mao Chenglu came to Dengzhou, most of the soldiers he recruited were from Dengzhou. The night Li Xin captured Dengzhou , Some soldiers simply hid in their homes. Now Li Xin recruited soldiers and horses again, with very high salaries. Coupled with Li Xin's food policy, these people gathered under Li Xin's command again.However, within two or three days, nearly 2000 people came to sign up.However, Zhang Wu is very strict in selecting soldiers. Although he can't compare with himself, he can't lose to those Guan Ning troops, so the income in two days is only nearly a thousand soldiers. Fortunately, they are all elites. Usable.

In today's Dengzhou, although there are more than a thousand soldiers of Mao Chenglu outside, the defense of Dengzhou City is not bad. In addition, there is also Sun Yinglong's navy, Mao Chenglu really attacks, and if he fails, he will be wiped out.Coupled with Li Xin's benevolent government, Dengzhou finally stabilized.

(End of this chapter)