Chapter 37 Turn to Thousands of Miles

Wang Chongyin and Xu Tangju led 10,000 troops from Jiangzhou and marched into the west in several strands. More than ten days later, they successfully met in Yuqi Mountain in the south of Yuezhou. After the camp was completed, Wang Chongyin immediately summoned the generals to hold a military meeting. Wang Chongyin said, "This time we attack Yuezhou, we must fight quickly. I decided to take a night attack and break through the city in one fell swoop!"

Xu Tangju added: "The southwest of Yuezhou is the boundless Dongting Lake, which is suitable for sailors to fight. After our army captures Yuezhou, it should quickly expand its strength, especially to train the navy. In this way, when Li Tang's army comes to encircle and suppress it, we can rely on Dongting Lake to carry out long-term operations."

The generals listened and expressed their approval for the plan. Wang Chongyin stood up and announced the combat order: "Since the brothers agree with this plan, I will announce the specific deployment to attack Yuezhou. Tang Ju led 2,000 troops and posed to attack the east gate of Yuezhou. I led 8,000 soldiers and attacked the south gate. In the middle of the night, I must take Yuezhou City before dawn! For the Tang soldiers and Tang generals who laid down their weapons, they will accept the adaptation and expand the strength of our army.

The generals answered in unison: "Resolutely capture Yuezhou City!"

Wang Chongyin's eyes were shining, waved his hand hard and said, "All departments begin to act!"

The soldiers are very fast. Xu Tangju led 2,000 horses and walked day and night. The next night, he rushed to the eastern suburbs of Yuezhou City. Xu Tangju ordered the troops to hide, and then sent a small team to the Near East City for observation and choose the attack point.

The reconnaissance information was quickly fed back to Xu Tangju. He thought for a moment and decided to set up more than a dozen ladders brought by him in the weak area of the Tang army. A complete battle plan gradually formed in his mind: the volunteers in the first echelon of the siege each held a short knife, which was easy to move. After climbing the tower, on the one hand, he opened the east gate and let the Rebel cavalry enter the city to fight. On the other hand, he quickly inserted into the direction of the north gate, rushed fiercely, disrupted the deployment of the Tang army, and cooperated with Wang Chongyin's army to successfully enter the city and occupy the whole state. The plan has been settled. Xu Tangju sent two soldiers to quickly report the preparations to Wang Chongyin. After entering the East City, he raised the fire, and Wang Chongyin led a large army to attack Nancheng.

The fierce battle was imminent. At this time, the Tang army in Yuezhou did not know that the rebels had reached their eyes. Only a few Tang soldiers were on duty on the wall. Many Tang soldiers were sleeping soundly and dreaming all kinds of dreams. Tan Bing and Jiang Fei, the main generals of the Tang army, slept unconsciously with their wives in their homes. Xu Tangjun came to the scheduled attack position with the siege team.

Tang Ju ordered in a low voice: "Brothers, go!" The volunteers were as agile as apes, quietly touched the eastern city of Yuezhou and slowly approached the Tang soldiers guarding the city. Xu Tangju made an attack gesture. The volunteers suddenly flashed out of the crouching corner and solved dozens of Tang soldiers on the east wall with lightning, and opened the east gate and ignited a few on the east wall. Make a big fire. Wang Chongyin saw the fire in Dongcheng and knew that Xu Tangju had won, so he raised his double hammer and shouted, "The general attack begins!" Eight thousand volunteers roared and killed Nancheng, and soon broke through the Tang army's southern defense line and killed the Tang army in the outer city of Yuezhou.

Tan Bing and Jiang Fei were also awakened at this time. They opened the window and saw the thick smoke rolling around Yuezhou City. When they heard the sound of shouting and killing, they couldn't help crying secretly. I regretted myself, because I paralyzed the enemy and neglected to prevent it, which led to the current chaotic situation. Tan Bing and Jiang Fei quickly organized Tang Bing to carry out a counterattack and ordered to defend the inner city. However, it was too late to resist. The Tang army had already been killed and dispersed by the rebels, and it was difficult to organize an effective counterattack. By dawn, Wang Chongyin and Xu Tangju had already controlled the outer city of Yuezhou and began to organize an attack on the inner city.

The Tang army in Yuezhou City has only 6,000 or 7,000 people in total. After a fierce battle in the middle of the night, only 2,000 or 3,000 people retreated to the inner city. Tan Bing sighed and said to Jiang Fei, "Brother, we are going to have a big disaster this time. What do you think we should do now? Are you waiting for help? Or did Kaicheng surrender?

Jiang Fei shook his head gently and replied, "Brother Tan, think about it, ordinary soldiers can surrender. If you and I surrender, there will definitely be no good result. Even if Wang Chongyin and others let us go, the people of Yuezhou will not let us go. You and I usually indulge soldiers to grab the people's property at will. The people in Yuezhou hate us thoroughly. If we surrender now, you and I will definitely have no good fruit to eat!"

Tan Bing heard this and nodded: "Brother, it seems that there is only one way to fight to the death. I think so, you are guard here. I will lead 500 soldiers out of the inner city, break out to the north, stationed on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and become a horn with you, and then send messengers to the surrounding towns for help, especially Zeng Yuanyu for help. As long as you hold on for half a month, our reinforcements will arrive and we will have a way to live.

Jiang Fei promised Tan Bing to defend the inner city of Yuezhou. Tan Bing ordered 500 Tang soldiers to open the north gate and rush out. At this time, the rebels had not completely formed an encirclement of Yuezhou at this time. The northern army was insufficient, so Tan Bing killed Yuezhou, crossed the Yangtze River in the north, and sent messengers to the Tang army near Jiangbei for help. Zeng Yuanyu knew Yuezhou. The war.

Zeng Yuanyu's order to temporarily stop moving east on the river west of Ezhou and summoned the main generals to discuss the military situation. General Wu Yanhong said: "The army has arrived close to Ezhou. If we return to the division to reinforce Yuezhou now, it will happen to be Cao Shixiong's plan to transfer the tiger away from the mountain. My suggestion is that General Zeng continue to lead the army forward. I led 10,000 navy to the west and rendezvous with Tan Bing and the surrounding Tang army to counterattack Yuezhou. General Zeng stopped in Ezhou for a while. After rectifying the soldiers and horses of Duan Yanmo and Li Fu, he continued to march to Jiangzhou according to the original plan and take Jiangzhou, so that he could turn defeat into victory and avoid danger.

Most of the generals echoed Wu Yanhong's suggestion. Zeng Yuanyu turned his face to Yang Fuguang and asked, "Yang Jianjun, what do you think?"

Yang Fuguang's face was expressionless and answered without pain or itching: "General Zeng should be a big problem to plan a decisive victory for thousands of miles and eliminate this thief. I wish General Zeng a victory this time and a triumphant return.

Zeng Yuanyu was very unhappy when he heard Yang Fuguang's ridiculs, but Yang Fuguang and he were at the same level, and he couldn't help it. After a moment of meditation, Zeng Yuanyu said decisively, "I think Yanhong's plan is good. This time we are going to fight with Cao Shixiong! Judging from the current battlefield situation, on the east-west thousand-mile front, the main force of thieves is concentrated in Jiangzhou and Hongzhou in the east. Although Yuezhou is tight, I estimate that it should be able to hold it for ten days and eight days. If Yuezhou is lost, as long as our army can quickly take back, the initiative of the western battlefield will still be in the hands of our army. The key to this battle is whether Jiangzhou can be taken. If Jiangzhou is taken by our army, it can cut off the connection between the two armies of the north and south of the central plains, so that they can't take care of each other. Therefore, it is said that I will strictly order Zhang Zimian to dispatch the army on the North Road of the Central Plains, pestering the main force of Huang Chao, and dragging the main force of Huang Chao to the front line of Bianzhou and Songzhou, so that he can't look south. Yanhong, according to your words, I will allocate 10,000 troops to you, quickly march westward to join Tan Bing, and reinforce Yuezhou. You must fight a decisive battle with the main forces of Wang Chongyin and Xu Tangju. I authorize you the Tang army near Yuezhou, and you can use it at any time. Yang Jianjun and I led a large army into Ezhou to rectify the troops and horses, rectify military discipline, and then launched an attack on Jiangzhou.

Wu Yanhong replied loudly: "The last general will definitely establish new achievements for the Tang Dynasty and eliminate Wang Chongyin and Xu Tangju!"

After Tan Bing rushed out of the outer city of Yuezhou, Wang Chongyin and Xu Tangju immediately arranged the four warning lines of Yuezhou City, and then organized the people to attack the inner city and launched a fierce attack on the inner city of Yuezhou. In less than half a day, the Rebels tore a breakthrough. The army poured into the inner city like a tide. The Tang army was defeated like a mountain, surrendered without death, and the defense line of the inner city collapsed. Seeing that the general trend had gone, there was no way to escape. He looked at the direction of Tan Bing's breakthrough in the north and cried, "Brother Tan, Jiang Fei is incompetent and can't protect your family. See you in the next life!" After saying that, he drew his sword and committed suicide.

Wang Chongyin ordered the volunteers to search the treasury, open the warehouse to release grain, and then decided to take advantage of the victory to attack Langzhou. Xu Tangju said, "Yuezhou has just conquered, and people's hearts are not safe. I think the Tang army will definitely quickly fight back. It's not too late to run Yuezhou first and then take Langzhou.

Wang Chongyin waved his hand and said carelessly, "Tang Ju, don't worry too much. The Tang army has long become a frightened bird and is vulnerable. If you don't take advantage of the situation to attack Langzhou now, there will be fewer such opportunities in the future. Xu Tangju insisted, "Then you leave 3,000 people for me. I will be stationed in Yuezhou. You go to attack Langzhou. One side is attacked by the Tang army. The situation is critical, and the other side will quickly return to help."

Wang Chongyin smiled and said, "Well, Tang Ju, you are just too cautious. You look at Tang Jun too highly."

The next day, Wang Chongyin allocated 3,000 people to Xu Tangju to be stationed in Yuezhou and headed for Langzhou with his main force.

A few days after Wang Chongyin's main force left Yuezhou, Wu Yanhong joined forces with Tan Bing and gathered the nearby Tang army, reaching more than 15,000, and rushed to Yuezhou aggressively. Xu Tangju was organizing people to repair the wall of Yuezhou, and he was shocked to receive the news. I thought to myself: I expected that the Tang army would come to counterattack. I didn't expect it to come so soon!

Xu Tangju was so anxious that he quickly ordered the volunteers to guard the four walls of Yuezhou. He personally carried the square sky painting halberd, rode a horse to patrol the city, and urgently mobilized the people to help defend the city. Before the arrangement was completed, the dust rose in the distance, and countless Tang soldiers shouted to kill the north city of Yuezhou. Wu Yanhong personally supervised the array and ordered Tang soldiers to launch an uninterrupted attack. The Tang army's siege equipment is very powerful. What kind of first cars, hitchhikers, gun towers, hungry eel cars, ladders, siege vehicles, fierce oil cabinets, etc. are all used, especially the fierce fire oil cabinets, which can ignite stone fat water and fire to attack the city gate, which can effectively attack the city gate. In a long time, a blazing fire broke out at the north gate of Yuezhou, and the city gate was burned to death, leaving only a few pieces of wood. Wu Yanhong waved the King Kong flower knife, urged the big green horse, and ordered the Tang army to enter the city.

Xu Tangju commanded the army and the people to resist, but the Tang soldiers were quite strong and rushed to the city desperately, and the volunteers gradually could not support them. Tan Bing rushed into the city with an iron gun because he was eager to know the whereabouts of his family, but he and hundreds of Tang soldiers under him searched his house, but there was no one. Tan Bing was so anxious that he took Tang Bing to find people he knew and find out the whereabouts of his family. It's really a narrow road for enemies. When Tan Bing was looking around the city, he met a group of people led by Xu Tangjiu. Relying on the crowd, Tan Bing asked Xu Tangjun, "This thief general, where did you get my family?"

Hearing this, Xu Tangju guessed that this person should be Tan Bing who broke out from the inner city of Yuezhou, and replied coldly, "Your family? It has been dealt with by us for a long time! You are domineering in Yuezhou City and have done bad things with your family. You deserve retribution long ago. God ordered the righteous teacher to punish the wicked. Your family has gone through a public trial. According to the seriousness of the circumstances, the killing should be killed, the level of the level, and the level should be released. You ask the executive specifically, but let me tell you that your parents, wife and children have been beheaded by us!"

When Tan Bing heard this, his eyes darkened, which really blew up his liver and lungs and broke the teeth in his mouth. He screamed and killed Xu Tangju. Xu Tangju was not afraid and greeted him. The two generals were not tenable. Xu Tangju sold a flaw and exposed his left chest position. Tan Bing thought that Xu Tangju's martial arts were flat, so he used a move to "shuttle to spit" and stab Xu Tangju's left chest fiercely. Xu Tangju dodged sideways, dodged the deadly shot, and used the unique skill of "cold star chasing the moon". The tip of the halberd was like lightning, hitting Tan Bing's outstret neck, hitting half of Tan Bing's head hanging down. When Tang Bing saw that the master would be killed, he couldn't help but be terrmented and retreated. Xu Tangju rectified the team, calmly withdrew from Yueyang City, whipped the horse, and headed for Langzhou.

Wu Yanhong led the Tang soldiers and finally invaded Yuezhou. The army was going to ask him to take advantage of the victory and chase him in the direction of Langzhou. Wu Yanhong shook his head and said, "People suffer the most from greed and lack of greed. It is said that I will order to stabilize the hearts of Yuezhou first, rectify the team, and prepare combat equipment. I have my own way to break the thief!"