I Xiaoxiong

Chapter 263
In troubled times, for the common people, it means displacement, the separation of wives and children, and the destruction of families.

It is better to be a dog of peace than to be a person in troubled times.

And for some strategists and strategists with great ambitions and strategies, powerful warriors, troubled times are another opportunity for them to make a fortune.

For the people in Sichuan and Chu, although the government is still there, they have suffered from military disasters, and there are chaotic troops and bandits everywhere, which is no different from the chaotic world.

Similarly, for the powerful and powerful families in these places, they can run rampant in the countryside at most in peacetime, and they have to behave with their tails between their tails when they encounter tough local officials with harder backgrounds.

But right now, allowing the states and counties to organize group training is tantamount to giving many powerful families a step up.

These big families have a large number of people, and with the addition of the tenants who farm for them, there is no shortage of young people, and there is definitely no shortage of food due to the abundance of land.

In the "Strengthening the Wall and Clearing the Fields", the construction of fortresses in the counties and townships of the prefectures is allowed. Is it for ordinary people and ordinary people?

Allowing the establishment of regiments to train local soldiers everywhere, is it to let the poor come out to recruit manpower?

This is all for the local landlords, gentry, and powerful families.

Similarly, landlords, gentry and powerful families may also resist the government on weekdays. After all, everyone wants to pay less taxes and occupy more land.

Even if the government has some collusion with the local tyrants, it must always allow the people under its rule to survive, otherwise the local officials will have to be questioned first if there is a civil uprising.

Therefore, there are always contradictions between the imperial court and local tycoons.

But this contradiction is nothing more than a matter of benefit distribution.But Honglian Dao wanted to equalize the rich and the poor, and ransacked the house.They are born to stand against the imperial court, the aristocratic families, the local tyrants, and the landlords and wealthy businessmen.

Therefore, after the imperial court allowed local regiments to train, many local tyrants and gentry in Sichuan and Chu all sent people, food and money to form regiments to train local soldiers and fight against the Red Lotus Army.

And build a dock to prevent red lotus looting.

Yang Xingfang was born in a powerful man in Puzhou. He practiced martial arts since he was a child, and he has never met any opponents in Puzhou.However, although these people are brave and want to build a career, they have no way to do it.

Going to be a big soldier starts from a small pawn, and loses his status again.

Such an incident by Honglian gave Yang Xingfang a chance to make a name for himself in the troubled times.

Most of the [-] regiments of rural soldiers he led were members of the Yang clan, as well as tenants and servants in the family.I often practice on weekdays, and I can write guns, sticks, fists and feet in each.

After Honglian entered the bandits, Sima Chen Shi of Puzhou appointed him as a school lieutenant to lead his own trilogy, and allocated fifty large armors, ten thousand arrows, hundreds of spears, swords and shields from the arsenal.

Then Yang Xingfang had a whim, and used the most common bamboo slices in the middle of Sichuan as the armor. Therefore, although the entire Yang family's trilogy, although there are only a few hundred soldiers in regimental training, everyone has armor, and they practice every day. the elite.

When the Red Lotus Army was attacking Lezhi County, Yang Xingfang unexpectedly found that Xue Julin, a veteran on the battlefield, had made a mistake, and was so lax about the big and small Posuo Mountains behind him.

Could it be that he made up his mind that he dare not go down the mountain to fight with him?
On the other side, Chen Shi also realized this situation.

After thinking about it, Chen Shi understood.After all, he was in Puzhou before, and Chen Shi, the Sima of Puzhou, directly persuaded the governor and all the big families to abandon the city.

Because although Anyue City is not small, its walls are not high and there is no danger to defend it. If any troops are concentrated to defend the state city of Anyue, once Anyue falls, the Red Lotus Army can drive straight in and go straight to Jianzhou.

Jianzhou is the east gate of Yizhou. If the Red Lotus Army is allowed to kill it directly, it will definitely shake the middle of Sichuan.

So Chen Shi directly gave up the state city and retreated to the big and small Posuo Mountains. In fact, according to military law, if you abandon the land and don't defend it, you can be killed directly.

But Chen Shi felt that neither Fu Jinchuan, the Jiedu envoy, nor Yan Ting, the deputy envoy of the Jiedu, were mediocre people who did not know how to fight, so they could naturally understand his good intentions.

What he didn't expect was that the reinforcements would arrive so quickly.

In this way, more than [-] reinforcements guarded Lezhi, echoing and citing Chen Shi and Yang Xingfang on the big and small Posuo Mountains. In this way, the defense line of Puzhou will be very stable.

So Chen Shi quietly sent someone to contact Yang Xingfang, contacted the other party, and raised fire at night to raid the Honglian camp.

Yang Xingfang naturally readily agreed, he had this idea in the first place, and the two coincided with each other.

However, Xue Julin is also a famous general. After Wu Wang's uprising, he also defeated the army repeatedly, but he didn't set up a defense camp at the foot of the mountain, which seemed to be out of standard.

But sometimes, things are very coincidental.

The banner with the word "Xue" in the Red Lotus Army is still there, but Xue Julin himself is not.It was because the military adviser Pang Zhigu and the left marshal Fang Jiao returned from Songzhou, and the right marshal Xue Julin returned to Anyue to discuss matters.

As for the Lezhi front line, Xue Julin's younger brother Xue Juye, Fang Hu, Li Zichun and others were actually in charge of commanding the army.

Originally, before Xue Julin left, he also proposed to be prepared for a surprise attack by the army on the mountain.

But after he left, these people naturally slacked off. After all, there were only a few hundred "defeated troops" on the mountain, and they didn't dare to fight us.When attacking the city during the day, it is enough to send a battalion of soldiers to watch it.

As for the night, are you afraid that he will fail to attack the camp?
As a result, three torches stood high at night, and the five hundred state soldiers and four hundred regiments on the big and small Posuo Mountains rushed into the Honglian camp condescendingly.

None of them held a handful of thatch in their hands, and after lighting it, they threw it on Honglian's tent, causing fire everywhere in his camp.The bridge cannot be rescued at all.

As for the Red Lotus Army fighting in haste, they were the opponents of these "tigers descending the mountain". And Yang Xingfang's cousins, Yang Xingmi, Yang Xinggui, and his nephew Yang Gun are also brave.

Especially Yang Dagon, with a big gun in his hand, he was furious, killing dozens of people in a row.

Li Zichun, a brave general of the rebel army, was shot in the shoulder blade in a hasty fight. After being injured, he was hugged desperately by his personal guards and withdrew from the battlefield.

And Chen Shi's state and county soldiers are also extremely fighting at the moment. Compared with the brave Yang family's trilogy, they seem to have a certain degree of advancement and retreat.

Although there were only a few hundred people, the connections between the various ministries were very well organized, and they had the momentum of a thousand people.

The defenders on the top of the city did not go out to fight, but after hearing that the friendly army attacked the enemy camp at night, they immediately beat drums on the city to cheer.

The people of the Red Lotus Army paid the price for their negligence. Thousands of people were killed directly, or trampled to death in panic, and lost a lot of siege equipment, military tents, and luggage.

In this battle alone, the morale of the army naturally fell to the bottom. Naturally, the siege could not go on, so they could only retreat [-] miles, and urgently reported to the Shenggong and the marshals in Anyue City.

Xue Julin also didn't expect that he had just left for a few days, and there would be such a big mistake in front of him.After arriving at the military newspaper on the front line, he immediately embraced himself.

"It was my negligence."

This person has to bow his head under the eaves.

(End of this chapter)