Chapter 170: Fire (Part 2)

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Monk Luo immediately stood in front of the hall, touched his bald head with his palm as big as a cattail leaf fan, and looked around, feeling a little bored.

According to the information given by Aruhan, there is a hero in Chen Hu's store named Gao Yangge. This man has been on the battlefield for a long time, and has hundreds of heroes who can fight under his command. He is very vicious and cunning.

Monk Luo has a rough and subtle temper. He knows that since Guo Ning came to Shandong, the first requirement for pacifying the place is to be quick, and the second is to be clean and tidy.

Therefore, after he marched here in a hurry, he did not launch a hasty attack. Instead, he sent his elite subordinates to sneak into the villages and set fires. When they put out the fire and caused chaos, he then used his own troops to break through the wall in one fell swoop.

Monk Luo has been in the army for many years and has long been familiar with this kind of dispatching and coordination of a scale of three to five hundred people, and he can be called everyone.

Just in case, he also retained Monk Pei and two hundred elite soldiers as his successors. Once the battle ahead was unfavorable, Monk Pei led his men to detour from the tidal flat north of Chen Hudian, making sure that their head and tail were not in contact with each other.

result……

It's like fighting someone on the battlefield. Before you can unleash the tremendous power of your own arms, the iron rod is just stained with flesh foam, and the enemy is spitting out blood and dead.

Monk Luo just thought it was ridiculous. If I had known this, why would I have spent so much effort? Wouldn't this be a waste of time?

I thought that the powerful people in Laizhou had some powerful abilities if they dared to go against Guo Liulang. Result, that's it?

Among these miscellaneous soldiers, there are indeed some brave ones. But on the battlefield where the two armies were fighting, their bravery could only go so far.

Obviously, these powerful private soldiers were trained in accordance with military law, but the level of training was seriously insufficient, and they also seriously lacked the common sense of vigilance. So as soon as Monk Luo charged, they were defeated, as if they were no different from paper.

This is far from the first battle to pacify Laizhou that Monk Luo imagined.

Monk Luo shouted in disappointment: "Hurry up, hurry up! According to the list, kill when you find it, don't delay!"

The crowd responded loudly and scattered in all directions.

Not long after, several heads were brought back and thrown in front of Monk Luo's horse: "Commander, these belong to Shi Laosan and Bo Laowu, and those belong to Ma Bazi and Liu Twelve. These are all They are thieves who came out to fight against our Jiedushi!"

"Who is that..." Monk Luo opened the file and took another look: "Where is the one named Brother Gao Yang? Did he let him run away?"

"Oh, I forgot to mention it. This is the one you just killed with an iron rod. The back of his head was shattered, but his face is still fine."

"...I'm afraid you're not just entertaining Sajia!"

Several people said: "Turn it over, turn it over, and find someone to identify it."

Then someone turned Brother Gao Yang over, grabbed a prisoner and identified him: "That's right, it's Brother Gao Yang!"

"..." Monk Luo folded the file and stuffed it back into the leather bag on his waist: "Leave twenty people here to guard the prisoners and count the supplies. The rest of the soldiers continue to act!"

When Monk Luo's troops were on the rampage, Han Xuan and Ma Bao also marched separately, sweeping across Laizhou with a fan. Wherever they went, they were invaded and looted like fire, and there was no place that could even stop their attack.

Guo Ning gave them three days to clean up all parts of Laizhou, but according to the current momentum, about two days would be enough. Moreover, more time is spent on marching, and less time is spent on fighting.

This is good news for Guo Ning and others.

But for Xu Ruxian and other powerful people in Laizhou, it was terrible news.

The border between Shandong and Shandong has been a place where heroes have emerged since ancient times. As early as the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, when the Song Dynasty was at its peak, the so-called Jingdong thieves appeared in Qing, Ji, Pu, Yun and other states. At one time, thirty-six people were rampaging in Heshuo, with tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, but no one dared to resist.

Later, the people of the Song Dynasty united with the Jin Dynasty to destroy the Liao Dynasty. They had a beautiful idea, but they gathered all the people in the world and made their plans. When the army was raised, hundreds of thousands of people relied on Shandong's power for food, and the people were forced to live in dire straits.

So Prince Li from Yunzhou, Gao Tuoshan from Mizhou, Guo Jin from Yizhou, Zhang Xian from Leigushan, Zhang Zheng from Donghai, etc. all came together to gather tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people.

When Dajin rose and the Jurchens moved south, fighting continued in Shandong.

For example, Jinan Liu Wenshun, Shao Qing, Liangshan Zhang Rong, Yizhou Zhao Kaishan, Jinan Geng Jing and others are all great heroes and heroes who can rival the Jurchen tigers and wolves and dominate Shandong. His illustrious name is still recited by the people today.

Although the local people are miserable, they have many strong bones. Over the past decades or hundreds of years, local rebellions have become commonplace, with blood splattering every step of the way, and they are even more confident in their own force.

Therefore, Brother Gao Yang's ideas and Xu Ruxian's decision are indeed based on the strength of Shandong's local powerful families. You can't say they are stupid.

Unfortunately, it was wrong.

The folk customs in Shandong are indeed strong, but after all, they have not fought a real war in decades.

In the early years of Dading, there were still more than 173,000 troops placed under the command of several military commanders on the south road for the defense of the Song and Jin Dynasties. At the end of the Dading Southern Expedition, the number was reduced to 60,000. He was even transferred to the Criminal Division, and his main business became ensuring public security.

During the Taihe period, the nine-pronged attack on the Song Dynasty, although the momentum was earth-shattering, was actually just a few encounters on the border. Neither side had the intention or ability to continue. After the fight, all their energy was focused on criticizing the envoys on both sides.

The battle in the northern frontier trench was very different from that in the south.

When Dajin was at its most powerful, it had to build trenches and build barriers in the face of nomadic peoples on the grasslands in order to consolidate itself.

With the decline of Dajin and the rise of powerful enemies on the grasslands, outsiders only know that Dajin lost hundreds of thousands of troops in the Battle of Yehuling and suffered a huge loss. But in fact, before the battle of Yehuling, the strength and weakness were different, and it was difficult to maintain the offensive and defensive momentum. In which year did the northern Xinjiang defense line not fight? What year has not been filled with blood?

It's just that every chaos was put down by the Northern Xinjiang armies with all their might, so no one in Dajin took it seriously!

In recent years, the imperial court has signed troops and recruited troops one after another, forcing all the Han and Jurchen people in the world to complain and suffer unspeakably. Why? Could it be that the Gongun princes in the court were full and were deliberately causing trouble?

No, it's because without signing troops and recruiting troops, the troops along the thousands of miles of trench defense lines in northern Xinjiang cannot be maintained. Without the soldiers from northern Xinjiang rolling forward, the Mongols would have entered the Central Plains two years ago; and the posture of the Jin Dynasty would have been unsustainable two years ago!

The intensity of the Mongolian-Jin war has long been ten times that of the Song-Jin war.

The northern Xinjiang garrison finally collapsed. On the one hand, it was due to the increasingly dim command in the court; on the other hand, it was also due to the strength of the powerful enemies on the grassland, which had reached a level unimaginable by ordinary people.

The thousands of people under Guo Ning's command are truly the last elite of the Northern Xinjiang garrison. From top to bottom, this army is filled with warriors who fought to the death against the Mongols under the most difficult circumstances. When these warriors are effectively organized, they become an iron army!

The strength of their military force is far beyond the imagination of local politicians in Shandong.

Even Yang An'er didn't expect this enough.

Yang An'er's troops were the most ferocious among the bandits in Shandong, so they were organized by the imperial court into the Tiewagang Army, with the intention of using them to fight against the Mongolian army.

But Yang An'er was a smart man. He led his troops to Jiming Mountain outside Juyong Pass and stayed there for two years. Even if the emperor personally issued an edict, he would not move.

Although this preserved the strength of Tiewagang's army, it also caused him to lose the opportunity to truly see the powerful enemy in the north.

In Yang An'er's eyes, he only saw hundreds of thousands of northern Xinjiang garrison retreating with a roar...

Isn't this uncommon? When I, Yang An'er, was in Shandong, didn't I also defeat the 50,000 to 60,000 defensive troops on both the east and west roads of Shandong?

Based on this, Yang An'er only came to the conclusion that Dajin's armaments were depleted and on the verge of collapse, but he did not really understand what kind of difficulties Dajin faced in the north.

From this, Yang An'er also misestimated the strength of Guo Ning's troops.

In his memory, Guo Ning's troops were just a collection of broken troops from Northern Xinjiang. But he didn't know that this moment was the same as that moment.

Since Yang An'er misjudged Guo Ning, Xu Ruxian was naturally affected.

After all, Yang An'er fought in the north and south, and he was the most knowledgeable among the many rebels in Shandong. If Xu Ruxian doesn't believe him, who can he believe?

Xu Ruxian is not an incompetent person. He has been operating in Laizhou for many years. He can appease subordinates, contact powerful people, and can be entrusted by Yang An'er to handle Laizhou affairs. His methods are certainly powerful.

After he ordered everyone to prepare for the launch, he took a number of his troops and set off that night.

His strength was not fighting in battle, but he was also brave and talented. In the early morning of this day, he took more than ten people with him and entered Ye County as usual.

In addition, there were two hundred subordinates who were good at tearing and killing. They all wore daggers and had daggers hidden close to their bodies, and they acted separately. Some of them pretended to be ordinary bankers, some pretended to be woodcutters, and some pretended to be small traders who went to the city to make purchases, and sneaked into the city one after another.

The city had already made special arrangements, setting aside houses to accommodate them, and providing them with food, wine, and food.

At noon, two hundred tough men arrived.

Xu Ruxian stood proudly in the courtyard, waved his hand, and two of his trusted subordinates behind him unfolded a map of the city of Ye County.

"Everyone, let us confirm one last time! At the earliest tonight, or at the latest tomorrow morning, heroes from all walks of life we ​​have mobilized will gather outside the city. The prison army and grain shooting army in the city will go up to the city wall for defense. Let's not launch it yet. Wait and see what is real in the city... Haha, because all the officials have gone to Haicang Town, the city is most likely fake! By then..."

Just as he was about to enter the harbor, he heard the thumping of footsteps outside, and a servant rushed in with a pale face.

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