8. Wu Shaocheng escapes
Immediately, Gao Yue was in a state of peace and walked into the courtyard.
"Three brother." Zhihui walked out of the corridor of the wing room and put the fur on him, worried that he would suffer from the cold.
"Zhihui, I have to leave Shouchun and go to Yancheng to command the final attack on Cai Zhe."
When Zhihui heard that he could not let his third brother go alone, she also asked to take care of Gao Yue's daily life, but Gao Yue refused to leave and said that Fang Tu was in the Huaixi war. After this turbulent time, he would take you back to Yangzhou.
As a result, in the yamen hall, two Bu Zuo officials suddenly came to represent Li Wanrong and Gao Yue to bargain.
Questions about Yingzhou.
Xuanwu Bu reported to the official: We will be under the jurisdiction of the government. In addition to the Bian and Song dynasties, there are also Bo and Ying prefectures.
"This person is well known." Gao Yue sat behind the table, a little impatient. He knew what Li Wanrong was going to say around the bush.
Sure enough, Xuanwu meant that Yingzhou had previously been taken advantage of by the main force of our army to reinforce Linying and Xiaoqiu River front and air defense, so it was the Cai bandits, which led to Ruyin, Chenqiu, Yingshang and other counties falling one after another. Now that Ji Duke has recovered it, please return Yingzhou to our town.
Gao Yue's views on this are completely different. "The court set up troops to build teeth to meet the needs of the war situation. How can the governor regard a certain prefecture and county as a ban? The final ownership of Yingzhou is also suitable for Li Situ Jing to wait for the court's ruling."
The two Xuanwu Bubu officials were very surprised and angry. Gao Yue actually relied on his identity as the governor of the court to seize the prefectures and counties in our town, but he did not dare to have an attack in person, so he could only bow down and say goodbye.
In fact, Gao Yue not only sent troops from Huainan Town, but also stationed in Shenqiu, Ruyin and Yingshang, but also directly requested the court to ask the minister Lu Zhi to arrange for the county magistrate to be placed in several counties in Yingzhou. The county magistrates came, and the personnel chose from the newly-elected Jinshi or former officials who had been elected last year.
Most of the cases that are dealt with in the same way as Yingzhou are Guangzhou and Shenzhou.
Gao Yue's behavior was very praised by the court. It can be said that he accurately grasped the contradiction between the bureaucratic group and the vassal town, thereby promoting the two groups to "make enemies" and allowing himself to gain more support.
For the bureaucrats, no matter whether their way to be officials is the family or the imperial examination, "one carrot and one pit" is an eternal rule. What originally caused the most painful Tang Dynasty bureaucrats was that there were too many monks and less porridge. Since the Anshi Rebellion, a large area of prefectures and counties in Helong fell, and then Heshuo, Ziqing, Huaixi, Biansong and other towns were "indifferent". Local officials were arranged by the governors independently - now it is different. Gao Yue restored more than ten prefectures in Helong and immediately conquered Huaixi, and could also take over twenty or thirty counties in the four prefectures of Shenguang and Cai'an into the court's version, allowing a large number of idle radishes. No, the bureaucrats can find a brand new "pit". Everyone has an official position. Isn't it beautiful?
So I came from Xuanwu Town to Yingzhou. What's the matter? What's the matter?
The Jinshi and bureaucratic groups are now in the capital, but they are all supportive of Gao Yue one-sidedly. They wish they could not stop after pacifying Huaixi, and then go to Pingziqing and Heshuo.
"You are so happy, I have formed a new conflict with Xuanwu Town." With such contradictory thoughts, Gao Yue set out from Shouchun on a boat.
In Xichang Temple beside the boatman lake, the entire shogunate and patrol officials were in groups to bid farewell to Gao Yue. For a time, the poems and papers were filled with baskets of poems and baskets were carried on the boat, which was so elegant.
When Gao Yue's ship entered the Daqi River, the government army's attack on Yancheng reached a white-hot state.
At the mouth of the Daqi River, Cai Fengyuan mobilized soldiers to dig out seven cannons along the river bank and laid a corresponding number of copper cannons. The shells were dragging the tails of blue-gray smoke trails, and roaring at the southern wall of Yancheng. Most of the tall buildings in the Huaixi army on the city wall were destroyed. Then Cai Fengyuan used ships to set up a floating bridge, mobilized jumping soldiers to push donkey carts, and went to the city wall, digging soil to form a stud, destroying the city wall, and climbing along the city in turn, carrying divine thunder gunpowder with small boats, preparing to stuff them into the excavated wall holes and blow the south wall.
The soldiers in the city were in panic all day long.
As for the north of the city, the official army under Du Huangshang calmly dug out the slanted Changyuan, walked two trenches in parallel, cut into the between Lingyunzha and Yancheng, and separated the connection between the two places. Then Du Huangshang ordered the Zhongwu Army and Shenwei Army to focus on attacking Lingyunzha with the vanguard.
On December 10th, the Zhongwu Army Qu Huan and the Shenwei Army Liu Chang, soldiers were crowded with ants, and they rushed to climb up the Yanyue Tower in Lingyunzha, chop down the wooden grid, fill the trenches with cut firewood bales, and then launched a fierce hand-to-hand battle with the Huaixi soldiers.
Du Huangshang was just a hundred steps away, supervising the battle and motivating him. He had a total of 300,000 guan of money behind him, which was allocated by the emperor from the inner warehouse to seize the rewards of Lingyunzha and Yancheng.
Two hours later, the Huaixi army in Lingyunzha was not supported. They fled to the hills in a hurry like beasts burned by smoke and fire. As a result, most of them fell into the trenches dug by the government army. The officials stationed on the earthen embankment shot arrows and threw stones like rain, killing them all.
In the rolling smoke, at the northeast corner of Lingyunzha, more than a hundred Huaixi soldiers shouted, holding their heads, and some bowed their heads and walked out from behind the woodenzha, screaming in a sarcasm, asking for subdue, and shouting: "We were originally soldiers of the Huaining Army. We have made contributions to the attack on Liang Chongyi, but were misled by Wu Shaocheng's thief..."
But the children of the Shenwei Army, twenty steps away, shouted "Revenge for Doctor Kong". The muskets in their hands flashed, and the lead balls that were shot were carrying angry flames, like the tail of a broom, swept down a large area of the rushing soldiers begging for surrender. The rest of them knelt down and were also rushed by Liu Chang's troops. They all swung their swords and cut off their heads and ears, and went to ask Du Huangshang for credit.
Not only did the two thousand Huaixi soldiers in Lingyunzha have all gone to Mo, but Wu Shaocheng's troops who went out of the city to fight against the enemy were also attacked by the official cavalry, with heavy casualties and could only escape into the city.
"From the festival, from the festival!" When the group of generals shouted that Yancheng could not defend, they ran to Zicheng and were about to ask Wu Shaocheng to retreat to Runan, they learned angrily:
When the Lingyunzha was in full swing, Wu Shaocheng and Li Yuanping were more than ten cavalry from the west gate of the city, left everyone and Yancheng, and ran to Huiquxing Bridge.
"Damn it!" All the generals of Huaixi shouted angrily, drew out their swords and cut the stone tablets and colonnades of the government so much that they were full of traces.
When Gao Yue's ship arrived in the south of Yancheng, he could see ladders set up in every corner of the city, and the officials and soldiers climbed up one after another, while the defenders seemed to be completely depressed but were either killed or jumped into the trenches below the city, and they fell to pieces.
After the city gate was attacked and opened, Yang Yuanqing, wearing linen, had red eyes, held a knife, led dozens of soldiers, searched the houses and houses, and killed them when they saw people. Many female members of Huaixi who came with the army were surrounded by the county hall, shouting that they did not want to "be captured by Gao Yue and Du Huangshang, and were humiliated as concubines", and they all hanged themselves.
Even Gao Yue, who was unwilling to forgive Huaixi, was deeply shocked. When he rode his horse to the county hall, he saw countless pale women's feet hanging on the beams, swaying in the cold wind. As for the bodies, they all covered their hair and looked like ghosts.
Chapter completed!