Chapter 68 Return to Luoyang

"The commander-in-chief, Luoyang urgent report! In the first month, Zuo Liangyu, the general soldier of Huguang, suddenly led 60,000 troops to attack Nanyang Mansion. When Zhang Chao, the general of Nanyang, resisted in the city, he was killed by the gun! Due to the disparity of troops in Nanyang City, the city was broken after five days of resistance. The people in the city were almost slaughtered inside and outside the city by the officers and soldiers under the command of Zuo Liangyu. Now Deputy Marshal Luo is personally leading his troops to Lushan, Nanzhao and other places to deploy defense!

At the same time, Nanzhili also sent a large army into Henan to attack our jurisdiction. Please make a quick decision!" A dusty rider was in the Xing Tianjun camp outside Linqing Prefecture. When he saw Xiao Tianjian, he told Xiao Tianjian a shocking news as soon as he opened his mouth.

After hearing this, Xiao Tianjian was immediately angry. Needless to think about it, it must have been planned by Zhu Youjian, the emperor of the current dynasty, and Yang Sichang, who was regarded as a minister of humerus.

With Zuo Liangyu's performance, after suffering such a big loss as Xing Tianjun, he did not dare to easily come back to find trouble with Xing Tianjun. Now that he suddenly gathered so many people into Nanyang Mansion, ordinary people can't transfer him. Even Yang Sichang may not be able to use this man, and this man works so hard. It must be that Zhu Youjian personally gave him an order. Otherwise, this guy would not work so hard, and what's more hateful is that Zuo Liangyu would actually slaughter the city. What's wrong with the people in Nanyang City? What an asshole.

In addition, Nan Zhili also sent troops to Henan. Obviously, he and Zuo Liangyu took the opportunity to lead his troops north to recover the lost land in Henan. Obviously, this was the idea that Zhu Youjian and Yang Sichang had made up a decision a few years ago and began to secretly arrange it long ago.

After listening to the news, Xiao Tianjian was not only furious, but also the people in the army were furious. They couldn't wait to step back to Henan and clean up Zuo Liangyu, an asshole.

Looking at the angry generals, they all pointed to the direction of the capital and scolded the current emperor. Xiao Tianjian immediately ordered the whole army to pull out the camp and return to Henan. After that, the generals were ordered to unify the extraordinary opinions of the whole army. They packed up their things at a fast speed and began to pull up the camp. Zhai, go in the direction of Henan.

In fact, Xiao Tianjian's anger was a little fake. Before Xiao Tianjian decided to take the Northern Expedition this time, he secretly considered what he could consider in advance. He also calculated all the possible reactions of the court. For this sudden, Zuo Liangyu led his troops to Henan, in fact, he had been In his expectation, he didn't expect Zuo Liangyu to come so fiercely. He used 60,000 horses to besiege Nanyang at once, and there was only one battalion left in Nanyangfu City. Even with the people and horses of the reserve battalion, there was a great difference in strength compared with Zuo Liangyu, and for the purpose of the Northern Expedition, he transferred absolutely in the army. The defeat of Nanyang in the elite battle camp was not an accident. Of course, if the general Zhang Chao was accidentally killed by the gun, Nanyang might have persisted for a period of time. It was also because of the death of the main general that the city lost its unified command, which made Nanyang City fall quickly.

And this time he went north to fight against the Jiannu army. In fact, he was also fighting a public opinion war with the imperial court, trying to win the hearts of the people of the world. At the same time, he also experienced the generals under his command, so that they could contact the salam soldiers first, so that they would suddenly meet the salam soldiers and couldn't cope with them.

Zhu Youjian did this, which shows that he is actually not too stupid. He can seize this opportunity to mobilize troops to counterattack. If he is in charge of the government, he can't sit back and watch such a good opportunity without taking advantage of it.

In this way, it happened to fall into Xiao Tianjian's pocket, which made Xiao Tianjian grab the biggest handle of the court.

You should know that before he went north this time, he sent articles about the construction of slaves all over the world, and he also took the initiative to stop the military operation in Henan and made a statement to the people of the world to help the court fight the tars first.

Now, the court first asked Gao Qiqian to lead troops to intercept the people and the refugees who went south in the Zhanghe River. Xiao Tianjian has already made a fuss about this matter. If the people in the world are not blind, they will stand on his side. In public opinion, he has already stood in the active position, and now he continues When the court had not yet withdrawn from the customs, and he personally led the Xingtian army to fight with the in the Jingfu area, he brazenly fought against the Xingtian military soldiers in Henan. At this time, I don't know how many people will secretly poke Zhu Youjian's backbone!

So whether it is a pretentious attitude or a serious desire to fight the saro, Xiao Tianjian can now be said to be on the moral commanding heights, and the court has been reduced to thousands of people, which can be said to be of great help to the development of his Xing Tianjun in the future.

Even Xiao Tianjian sometimes secretly thinks about this matter. Does he really want to beat the Jiannu army out of the gate this time, or do he want to win the hearts and minds of the people? Now he is no longer just a general who leads the war. More often, he can't help but start to think like a politician, rather than just from a military perspective.

As for this question, Xiao Tianjian himself did not come up with an exact answer, so he could only laugh at himself and put down this question. Is it right or wrong for him to do so? Is it demagoging the hearts of the people or really for the country and the people? Historians in the future will comment that anyway, he has a clear conscience, and he He really led the army to teach the people a lesson, and saved more than 100,000 people from the hands of the people, so that they would not become slaves. No one can say anything about this.

More importantly, because of the practice of the imperial court, it has completely angered the whole of the Xing Tianjun. The whole of the criminal army has been completely united to deal with the imperial court with the same hatred. Next, he believes that in terms of military affairs, his soldiers will have a better performance, Daming? I guess it will be over in advance!

On the way to return to Henan with Xiao Tianjian, he sent a biography back to Luoyang in advance, and wrote a pen for Niu Jinxing to denounce the court. What the court did this time was once again made public. He not only to publicize it widely in the jurisdiction of the Xing Tianjun, but also through various channels. It's so far as everyone in the world knows it. As for which is right or wrong, let the world think about it by themselves!

Fortunately, when Xiao Tianjian led his troops to the north, he still left relatively sufficient troops in Henan. Although Zuo Liangyu captured Nanyang, his people and horses were blocked by Luo Rucai in the Nanzhao area. The two armies fought in Nanzhao. Although Zuo Liangyu had a large number of troops, he failed to break through the Xingtian Army. On the line of defense, the two sides formed a confrontation between Nanyang and Nanzhao.

However, the officers and soldiers of Runing Mansion, who had not been taken down by the Xing Tianjun at this time, took advantage of this period to restore some vitality. After all, in Henan, the policy of Xing Tianjun was very unfavorable to some big landlords, so these big landlords regarded Xing Tianjun as a sworn enemy. Last year's punishment The heavenly army attacked everywhere in Henan and occupied most of the territory in Henan. At the same time, it also forced big landlords and dignitaries from many places to flee one after another. Some of them fled to the south of the Yangtze River, and a small number of people fled to the north. However, more people were reluctant to give up their family business and always wanted to fight back to take back what belonged to them. Those family businesses, so several cities that were still under the control of the government, such as Kaifeng, Runingfu and Gwangju, became the places for them to go.

When these people went to these places, they brought a lot of money, and also brought a lot of ethnic slaves, so that in a short period of time, the money provided by these people and people pulled up thousands of soldiers and horses, and restored considerable strength.

In order to take the opportunity of Zuo Liangyu's division to Nanyang, Fu Ru of Runing Mansion wanted to take advantage of the situation to conquer some surrounding counties and launched an offensive against the surrounding Xingtian Army-controlled area of Runing Mansion. These newly trained officers and soldiers are actually some ruffians bought with money and desperate people who want money. They have no army at all. Ji Keyan, they went out as a group and burned all the land they went through, killing them all, which greatly damaged the control area of the Xing Tianjun.

Even if Li Shuanzhu sent Zhao Erlu to lead three reserve battalions of soldiers to the area of Runing Mansion, he began to use troops again in Runing Mansion, which could be regarded as forcing these officers and soldiers from Runing Mansion back to Runing Mansion and curbing their fierce flames.

As for the officers and soldiers from Nanzhili, they were just pretending. They followed Zuo Liangyu to fight to Henan without real, but they didn't make much noise.

However, they fought against the Fifth Battalion of the Left of the Revolution in southern Anhui. The Fifth Battalion of the Left of the Revolution was inexorable, but they basically fell behind, and the forced Fifth Battalion of the Left had to move towards Henan.

And Xiao Tianjian led his troops back to Henan at the end of the first month. On this trip, they returned tens of thousands of refugees and a large number of materials captured from the Tatars from the north. In short, although they did not successfully shoot the Tatar out of the customs, at least they obtained a considerable amount of materials and manpower, which was also a lot of money. Full.

Like these things about the resettlement of refugees, Xiao Tianjian did not have to take care of it himself. He only stayed in Weihui Mansion for half a day and inquired a little about what happened during this period. He gave full affirmation to the performance of Li Jinde and others and praised them, which made the hard work these people have suffered during this period. They felt it was worth it and said they were ashamed. This is their duty.

And Xiao Tianjian never hesitates verbally or even material rewards for his subordinates if he does a good job, but he will never be polite to some people who are lazy and do not work. At this point, Xing Tianjun really has nothing to complain about, only doing things down-to-earth.

After making some arrangements in Weihui Mansion, Xiao Tianjian ordered the people of Luo Li's headquarters to sit in Wei Hui Mansion. While guarding against officers and soldiers, he assisted Li Jinde and other civil officials to receive and transfer refugees. As for Luo Li and Li Xin and other important generals, he followed him to cross the river back to Luoyang and summon Xiao Tianjian in Luoyang. A big battle meeting was held to decide the strategy of Chongzhen's military use in the twelfth year.