On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 383 Taking over Xiangzhou

Li Jing led tens of thousands of Mingzhou soldiers and Weizhou soldiers mutinied. They seized the arsenal and quickly armed themselves. When the five thousand Xiangzhou soldiers who stayed in Yecheng reacted, they could no longer stop their angry former comrades.

Because of Cui Che's trick, Li Jing had to take strict precautions against the Ming and Wei soldiers under his command, including confiscating their weapons and sending Xiangzhou soldiers to guard them. These actions aroused the anger of the soldiers of the two states.

Under the leadership of Li Jing, they quickly dispersed the Xiangzhou soldiers and took control of the north gate of Ye City.

At the same time, in the wilderness north of the city, the decisive battle came to its final moment.

After Wang Dangwan took charge of the tent and dispersed the right army of the Sui army, the Xiejie army, together with the Boling cavalry and the Pishi army, surrounded the middle army of the Sui army.

Qin Qiong even assigned Cheng Yaojin and Lu Mingyue to lead the army to support the Chinese army on the battlefield, preventing the Sui army's infantry from breaking through. Qin Qiong led the remaining 15,000 men to continue the Sui army's pursuit of the left army.

The left army of the Sui army was unable to escape, and a gap was broken for the middle army of the Sui army.

The right army of the Sui army was defeated, and the left army fought and retreated. Although it could barely maintain, it was at an absolute disadvantage. The central army was besieged, and the 50,000 infantry and cavalry of the Sui army fighting out of the city were already in danger. The balance of victory was undoubtedly tilted.

defeated the Yan army.

After experiencing a devastating battle, the morale of the troops in front of the tent led by Wang Dangwan was high. They launched an attack from the rear. The Sui army had no time to react, causing the rear line to gradually collapse.

Feng Xiaoci was still shouting hoarsely in the formation, hoping to lead the soldiers to break out of the encirclement south and return to Yecheng.

But the fall of Yecheng became the straw that broke the camel's back.

The Xiangzhou soldiers were worried about the safety of their families in the city and no longer had the will to fight. The surrender was like a plague, quickly affecting the remaining Weizhou soldiers in the Chinese army.

General Feng Xiaoci died in the rebellion.

Along with the right army, the central army was gradually destroyed, and Yecheng changed its owner again. The leader of the left army, Hou Mo Chenyi, did not dare to entangle with Qin Qiong anymore. He abandoned his soldiers and let them stop Qin Qiong's pursuit, while he fled alone.

However, he failed to escape from Hebei after all. While robbing the mountain people for food, he was killed by hunters and was reported to Yecheng.

Of course, this is all for later.

In this battle, apart from Cui Che's habitual tactics of attacking the enemy's morale and using the Boling Cavalry as a rear army to attack the two wings of the Sui army's center, the main reason for the Yan army's victory was that their own strength far exceeded that of the Sui army.

Knowing that Li Jing had captured Ye City, Cui Che immediately ordered Qin Qiong to take a short rest and command Cheng Yaojin, Liu Heitai, and Zhou Kan to select the Weizhou surrender soldiers who were willing to cooperate, and lead 20,000 cavalrymen to attack the guards.

state.

The Liyangcang that Cui Che longed for was located at the foothills of Dagong Mountain in the southwest of Liyang County, Weizhou (now Junxian County, Henan Province).

Seeing that the battle outside the city had settled, Li Jing immediately opened the north gate of Ye City, led Ming and Wei Erzhou soldiers to put down their weapons and went out of the city to ask Cui Che to surrender.

Cui Che helped him up and said with a smile:

"I knew the pharmacist would not let me down."

Li Jing felt ashamed and said:

"Ming Gong promoted the righteous army and put an end to the riots. Li Jing should have turned against the enemy, but because his relatives were all in Kansai, he could not join forces with Ming Gong. He even acted as an aide and almost missed Ming Gong's important event."

Cui Che said seriously:

"Pharmacist, please don't say that. I only regret that I can't bring the pharmacist's relatives to Hebei to eliminate the pharmacist's worries.

"Today the pharmacist has returned home. If he is worried about bringing disaster to his relatives, he can go to Liaodong to stay temporarily. There is no need to participate in the civil war to avoid being punished by the court."

Li Jing heard this and refused:

"Today I presented the city of Ye to Duke Ming. In the eyes of the imperial court, I have committed an unpardonable crime. If I really want to accuse Li's relatives, even if I go to Liaodong and draw a clear line with Duke Ming, it will not help.

"Now that Duke Ming wants to promote righteousness in the world, since Li is determined to follow him life and death, he should die for Duke Ming.

"If Ming Gong does not give up, Li Jing is willing to be Ming Gong's front pawn."

Cui Che was overjoyed and said with a smile:

"Even Yang Su praised the pharmacist as a talented person who supports the king. If the pharmacist is allowed to act as a pawn, wouldn't it make people in the world laugh at Cui for his lack of knowledge of people?"

While the two were chatting, the Yan army stationed in Yecheng had completely quelled the riots in the city.

Cui Che received the message, but was not in a hurry to enter the city. He came to the formation of Ming and Wei's two states.

The Mingzhou soldiers and Weizhou soldiers were disarmed again, but there was no anger as before, let alone fear.

They knew that Cui Che, who was also from Hebei, would not hurt them.

Sure enough, Cui Che faced everyone and said angrily:

"Although I captured the two states of Ming and Wei, I did not harm your families. You don't have to worry about this.

"Now! You can go home!"

When more than 30,000 soldiers heard this, they all cheered and kowtowed to Cui Che again and again.

Cui Che gave Li Jing the task of organizing Ming and Wei Erzhou soldiers to return home.

Then he rushed to appease Xiangzhou and surrendered the soldiers of Weizhou.

He immediately released the surrendered soldiers of Xiangzhou so that they could reunite with their families. Cui Che's strict order for the soldiers not to disturb the people of Xiangzhou undoubtedly won the gratitude of the soldiers of Xiangzhou.

As for Weizhou's surrender, Cui Che promised them that after Qin Qiong captured Weizhou, he would let them go home.

Prime Minister, all the soldiers from the two states of Wei kowtow in gratitude.

After appeasing the prisoners, Cui Che was escorted by Boling's cavalry and entered Ye City.

Cui Che still remembers the prosperous scene he saw when he first came to Yecheng when he was young, but it was burned down by Yang Jian.

The newly built Yecheng is still called Yecheng, but after all it is not as prosperous as the former Yecheng. After all, it was the largest city in the world, with as many as 80,000 monks and nuns in the city.

Today's Yecheng still has many temples.

After Emperor Wu of the Zhou Dynasty exterminated Buddhism, Buddhism suffered a great blow. However, after Yang Jian usurped the throne, in order to win over people's hearts, he ordered the relaxation of religious restrictions. Today, Buddhism is flourishing again.

Cui Che also wanted to seek alms from Buddha, but not now.

You have to be under your own rule and have a solid foundation before you can start to attack Buddhism and gain money.

Amid the heavy protection of Boling's cavalry, Cui Che was also thinking about moving the center of his rule from Jixian County, Youzhou to Xiangzhou.

Correspondingly, the families of the soldiers who followed him south also had to be moved here, otherwise being separated from their families for a long time would definitely affect the morale of the military.

It just so happens that Fang Xuanling is now in charge of Yandi, so it happens that he organizes the migration. Fortunately, when spring starts next year, the people migrating south can participate in spring plowing in time.

It's just that when someone comes, someone has to leave, otherwise there would be so much land to be allocated. Cui Che plans to move some people from southern Hebei to Yanland to alleviate the dilemma of Hebei, one of the Three Rivers regions, with more people and less land.

Now that the climate has entered a warm period, the Yan region is not as poor as imagined. Of course, this matter cannot be taken too hastily, at least before taking all of Hebei and stabilizing the rule of Hebei.

Also, before one o'clock in the morning

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