Chapter 106 Destroying the Bandits
Xu Huang shook his head desperately, suspecting that he was hallucinating due to fatigue, but the soldier quickly handed him the reins of the prairie fire, and then the dazzling big ax. It turned out that the soldier was originally
Instead of Xu Huang, who commanded the archers to suppress the defenders outside the city, seeing Zheng Teng, Yang Ling and others rushing to the front, they also knew that the rebel soldiers could not stand it any longer, so they thought of following behind to kill a few of the rebel soldiers. But when they saw
Xu Huang's war horses and big axes were troubled. He saw Du Peng gathering his cavalry team, obviously preparing to enter the city. Sure enough, the city gate was quickly opened, and Du Peng and others rushed directly into the city. Thinking of Xu Huang's usual
The mighty battles were all about horse fighting. At this moment, chasing the bandit soldiers was naturally indispensable without war horses and big axes. So I had an idea, abandoned the archers, mounted my horse and carried the big ax into the city to find Xu Huang.
When the soldier saw that his military lord was being blocked by bandit soldiers, he was so anxious that he shouted: "Marquis, mount your horse, the leader of Zibing is about to run away!"
Xu Huang was stunned for a moment, and then he was overjoyed. He didn't bother to praise the soldier for turning into a prairie fire. He took the big ax and slapped the horse's butt. The big ax took turns and fiddled around with the rebels, killing a bloody path in one go.
The soldier looked at the other companions who followed Xu Huang up the wall first, and proudly patted Pama's butt and followed Xu Huang. Obviously, he later had the opportunity to kill everyone.
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Du Peng and other three hundred cavalry entered the city and directly cut off the way for the rebels to return to the county government and the military camp. Han Xing also wanted to take a detour among the rebels, but was quickly found by Xu Huang, who had been keeping an eye on him before.
He, at this moment, doesn't know that his identity may have been exposed.
When Han Xun saw Xu Huang riding towards him, he became more courageous and ordered his soldiers to go up and trap Xu Huang. However, those soldiers were in a panic and couldn't stop Xu Huang. They basically used an ax one by one! Sweeping with the big axe.
There are several in a circle.
Although the thieves without horses around knew that Xu Huang was targeting Han Yu, but seeing how fierce Xu Huang was, they couldn't rush to help. They just regretted that there were too many people around and couldn't escape. Fortunately, Xu Huang's target was only Han Yu.
, so they were safe for the time being. Xu Huang sneered and looked at Han Xun who looked anxious. He pulled the reins with his left hand and held an ax in his right hand. He chopped down several people and then came to Han Xun. Han Xun could not hide anymore. In this case
Then he would fight for a few rounds before looking for an opportunity to escape, so he brandished his spear and stabbed Xu Huang.
Xu Huang sneered in his heart when he saw Han Xun not running away. He easily dodged the spearman's big ax and cut off the neck of Han Xun's horse. Han Xun barely supported himself with his spear and did not fall directly to the ground, but he also lost the opportunity. Very soon
Soon Xu Huang's big ax arrived and struck directly on his shoulder blade. The right shoulder and the lower half of his body were directly split open by the big axe.
Han Xing tried to support his body but it was impossible.
Xu Huangzheng didn't know who this armored general was, but he heard the surrounding soldiers exclaiming: "General Han is dead!"
When Xu Huang heard this, he was overjoyed. He quickly stepped forward and cut off Han Yi's head with a big axe. He raised it with the ax and shouted at the rebels: "Han Yi has already subdued Faler and so on. Do you still want to resist?"
As soon as Xu Huang said this, a large number of people fell to their knees.
Li Le took the lead in escaping, followed closely by Han Xun. Hu Cai was forced back by Du Chong. Especially after Yang Ling and others rushed to the city wall, the city wall was immediately occupied by officers and soldiers. The thieves even tried to climb up from the city.
The city wall was impossible, and the city gate was breached. Li Le and Han Zhou fled one after another, and Hu Cai was not a loyal person. Seeing that the situation was over, he had no choice but to take a detour and leave the city directly through the north gate with his soldiers.
But it was said that this was the first time Du Peng fought as a cavalry officer. After entering Yize, he was ordered to go to the county government. Although there were many rebels in the county government at this moment, they saw Du Peng leading the cavalry and fled in all directions after a little resistance.
Du Peng did not stay at the county government office for a long time. He left fifty people to guard the county government office. He led the remaining cavalry to the grain depot. This was what Wei Xuan had emphasized. He must not let the thieves take advantage of the chaos to set fire to the grain depot.
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The grain depot is guarded by Han Xun's men, and there are as many as a thousand people. However, there is a chaos in the city at this moment, and Xu Huang and Du Chong's troops have successfully entered the city and are chasing the thieves everywhere. Zheng Teng and Yang Ling
Then he led the troops along the city wall and went straight to the north and south gates. There were people in the city shouting everywhere: "General Han has been killed!"
Therefore, the more than a thousand Han Xing's confidants were also beating the drum in their hearts. When they saw Du Peng leading the cavalry, they knew that the situation was over, so they put up a little resistance and dispersed.
Xue Li did not forget that there was Wei Xuan outside the city. He asked Guo Ye to lead people to chase the bandit soldiers, while he led his troops back to the watchtower and then followed Wei Xuan into Yize.
It was already two hours later when Wei Xuan was sitting in the Yize lobby.
Because he had long thought of retreating, Li Le was the first to escape from Yize, and at least 3,000 of his men also fled from Yize. Although Hu Cai escaped last, more than 7,000 of his men were all at the west gate, so at that time
When he led his men out of the north gate, he still had more than 4,000 men. However, after Li Le and Hu Cai left the city, they faced the pursuit of Du Peng's cavalry.
Han Xing's troops had always regarded Yize as a base. Even when the city gate was broken and Han Xing was killed, many people still took advantage of the geographical advantage to resist.
After listening to the report from his men, Wei Xuan couldn't help but sigh, the reason why this battle went so smoothly was because of Yang Feng's help. Of course, Han Xun was self-righteous and self-righteous was also the main reason.
There were originally 17,800 defenders in the city, but about 7,000 escaped, more than 3,000 to 4,000 died in battle, and the remaining 7,000 people all chose to be prisoners.
Wei Xuan's one-day siege and the street fighting after entering the city also resulted in nearly a thousand casualties. When Du Peng and others came back, they found out that at least several hundred people had been killed on the way, but after the thieves fled into the mountains,
Du Peng also withdrew his troops.
The county magistrate, county magistrate and others in the city had been killed when Guo Tai destroyed the city. Wei Xuan had no choice but to write to the prefect Yin De and asked him to send people to guard Yize County Magistrate as soon as possible.
The battle was fierce, the losses were heavy, and the gains were substantial. This was the second base camp of Guo Tai and others. Han Xun gathered all the grain, grass and money here. A rough estimate showed that the grain was nearly 50,000 shi, and the gold, silver, and copper coins were as much as
Three hundred million.
Wei Xuan was also unambiguous. In addition to allowing the soldiers to eat three meals a day, each soldier who participated in the war was rewarded with two thousand dollars. The generals at all levels gradually accumulated it. This time, nearly thirty million was spent, and those who were injured received money.
10,000 yuan, and 20,000 yuan for family members who died in battle.
Of course, the settlement of financial accounts for the compensation of wounded and wounded soldiers must be accounted for by the prefect's mansion. In addition, the spare money of 30 million grains and 10,000 shi were seized to prepare for the prefect's mansion. The rest is naturally private money. Regarding the seven thousand prisoners in the city, Wei Xuan
Preparing to screen them one by one, Wei Xuan promised that they would help defend the city first and that they could go home after the war was over.
However, Wei Xuan did not intend to directly return the money and children to the local wealthy families like he did in Xiangling. It would be good if Wei Xuan could restrain his men from casually entering these people's homes.
It was confirmed that there were about two thousand people who belonged to the local people of Yize. It was normal to think that they were originally from Yize. The officers and soldiers had no intention of fighting when they came. When they saw that the city gate was breached, it was wise to surrender immediately.
Wei Xuan does not plan to collect all the remaining 5,000 prisoners. Firstly, these people have been thieves for a long time. Secondly, he is just a commander of another department, not a captain or a general. Now there is only an isolated city left with the thieves.
I will also have ideas for further expansion in Luoyang.
So he asked people to continue to select among the prisoners, and selected more than a thousand children belonging to various wealthy families in Xiangling City and sent them to Xiangling to Lin Yi. Anyway, he also needed people there.
Han Xun was killed, and Li Le and Hu Cai must have gone to Yi to join Yang Feng. The three of them joined forces, and their strength should be 17,000 to 8,000.
Just when Wei Xuan was discussing how to deal with Yang Feng, he unexpectedly received a letter from Yang Feng on the fourth day after the Battle of Yize.
Yang Feng's letter was very low-key, saying that he had no grudge against the imperial court or the Wei family. He originally joined Taiping Dao just to avenge his family. Later, due to the disaster in the northern part of the county, refugees were everywhere, and the prefect's mansion did not want to provide disaster relief, so more and more people gathered together.
, it was out of control. As for killing officials and rebelling, that was entirely the intention of Mrs. Guo, Han Zhou and others. He successively occupied Xiangling and Yishi, but did not touch a single county official.
Wei Xuan believed the last point, because Lin Yi, the prime minister of Xiangling County, was leading the young men to defend against the traitors in Xiangling.
Yang Feng's request for peace is something Wei Xuan really wants, because time is on his side. Now Yang Feng only has the city of Yi in his hands. If he wants to go north, he must break through Xiangling. As long as he blocks Xiangling and Yi
Ze, he can only stay in the isolated city or plunge into Wangwu Mountain.
I have enough money and food to continue to expand my troops and continuously strengthen the training of soldiers. If the eight or nine thousand men under my command are trained for another month or two, there will be no problem if they can be drawn out to fight against the traitors one on two or even three in a team. General
Although Zhao Yun has left, Xu Huangyong is unstoppable. Du Peng, Du Chong, Bai Shu and others are all light knights. Under Xu Huang's influence, they are now fighting for the lead. He still has three hundred cavalry, and he will have an entire army in the future.
Hedong's support equipment and weapons can be continuously replenished, but Yang Feng will definitely be left with nothing.
Regardless of Yang Feng's purpose, his eagerness to seek peace came from Yang Feng's sincerity. In addition to facing external difficulties, he also needed time to integrate Li Le and Hu Cai's subordinates so that he could have absolute leadership of the Bai Bo Army.
Only in this way can the combat effectiveness be exerted.
Wei Xuan sent Yang Feng's letter to all the military princes. Most of them remained silent, because they had just seen the war for the first time. Under Wei Xuan's unified command, they were definitely not afraid of the rabble. But when it came to strategy, they were all silent.
Chapter completed!