Chapter 572: Cheng Yaojin was killed halfway
Chapter 572 Cheng Yaojin is killed halfway
Northeast of Qinghai Lake, there is a heap of beef hearts.
At the foot of the mountain, Cheng Yaojin was sitting in a tent, cooking fire and dung, and sent someone to call Liu Lancheng.
Liu Lancheng, an old brother from Wagang, strode into the tent. In the cold winter months, this right-leading general, Duke of Pingyuan, and Sima of the Shanzhou Governor's Mansion carried a zhangbamo knife and a round-collared crotchless robe. The collar button was undone, and it became a small lapel, revealing the brocade half arm inside.
As soon as he entered the tent, he saw that there was a fire, so he simply unbuttoned the inner button on the right side, took off his right sleeve, and directly exposed his right side.
"Old Liu, how's the harvest?" Cheng Yaojin took off the sizzling mutton skewers grilled by the cow dung fire and handed them to him.
"Well, it's just right, it's charred on the outside and tender on the inside, especially the lamb tail oil in the middle of the meat is the best, which makes the lamb very tender, well, it also adds pepper and cumin, you can enjoy it Yes, this salt is also sprinkled with green salt, you old boy, where are you hiding so many good things!"
Cheng Yaojin chuckled, "I'm not the young master of that famous family, and I brought these things with me when I went out to fight. Isn't this what I got from raiding their famous king's tent after breaking through the camp of the Tuyuhun people. The Murong Xianbei people, I really enjoy it, not only green salt, pepper and cumin, but also Gaochang wine, Persian samurai, and Tang Dynasty wine, if not for the war, I really want him Damn, have a drink or two."
"Tell me quickly, how is the harvest?"
Old Liu San finished a bunch of mutton skewers in two mouthfuls, and unceremoniously stretched out his hand to pull out two more skewers from the fire, "The harvest is good, I guess the Tuyuhun people were also shaken by us, thinking that we will go west along the south bank of Qinghai Lake , who would have expected us to feint and come around to the north, this so-called famous king here is also an idiot, he only knows how to enjoy himself, and has no defense at all."
Cheng Yaojin led 5,000 troops to ride out of Hezhou across Chiling Mountains, and marched westward all the way. They marched rapidly, and near the southeast of Qinghai Lake, they raided and wiped out a Tuyuhun tribe of 1,000 people. The tribe, who was run away by a hundred riders, beat the grass to scare the snake.
After some discussions, Cheng Yaojin simply canceled the original planned route along the southeast to Fuqi City, and instead turned to the north.
This route around the north can be said to be completely unexpected for the Tuyuhun people. In fact, those Tuyuhun people who escaped fled along the south bank of Qinghai Lake to Fucheng City. The ministries on the South Bank.
On the contrary, the north has not noticed that there is a soldier and horse coming around from Hezhou.
At the foot of Niuxindui, a mountain northeast of Qinghai Lake, five thousand Tang troops suddenly appeared against the wind and snow, and launched a surprise attack at dawn.
"Twenty thousand cattle and horses were looted!"
Liu Lancheng's mouth was full of oil, and he was very satisfied.
"What about the beheading, what about the captives?"
"Thousands of people were captured, and only a few hundred were beheaded." Liu Lancheng told Cheng Yaojin with some regrets. Although they caught the Tuyuhun people by surprise this time, they also captured the leader Xuan Wang Liang Qucong here, but the Tuyuhun people are capable of escaping. Still very strong, King Xuan's brothers, nephews, etc. saw that the situation was not good, and even Liang Qucong didn't care to save him, and ran away with his men one by one.
Only cattle, sheep and horses could not be taken away, and most of the captives were women and children.
Seeing that Liu Lancheng was still going to get the mutton skewers, Lao Cheng quickly reached out and grabbed the last skewer in his hand, put it into his mouth and started chewing, "Damn, we marched five hundred miles for this battle and ate ice cubes in the wind and snow, but it turned out Is this the result of the battle?"
Liu Lancheng didn't eat the last string of mutton, so he reached out angrily and wiped off the oil on Lao Cheng's robe, "That's right, let's come out and march all the way. In this **** weather, we ran for five hundred miles in a row, and the front is still dry." It’s been a battle, and now I can be satisfied with this harvest.”
"Satisfied ass, although this King Xuan was captured, most of the young and strong men in his tribe escaped, so they must have gone to report to Fu Yun again."
"Prince Xuan is not going to flee, but the people from the tribe in the south have already reported to Fu Yun to let him know that we are here."
Liu Lancheng was quite content. In the battle of Dafeichuan, he wiped out more than a thousand enemies and captured more than ten thousand cattle and sheep. Turning around to the north, Niu Xindui captured more than a thousand prisoners, beheaded hundreds, and captured a famous king. Although there are more princes in Tuyuhun now, the king is a king after all, so he is quite valuable.
What's more, although there were not many enemies and prisoners captured this time, there were quite a lot of livestock captured, more than 20,000 cattle and horses.
In the final analysis, it was Cheng Yaojin's team, who went deep alone, with 2,000 light cavalry and 3,000 cavalry infantry. What's more, after entering Tuyuhun, the weather was already much harsher, and the terrain here was high, so marching and fighting were greatly affected.
"Wen Yu, you are too easily satisfied." Lao Cheng criticized him.
"Contentment is always a joy, old Cheng, do you know why your face has so many folds recently, do you know why you have been unhappy in recent years? It's because you are not satisfied, and you compare yourself with this and that all day long. We want to chase after Shubao Dou Maogong, but we don't need to compare this, it makes us unhappy. You see that Shubao married a daughter of the Cui family of Boling, so you have to rush to marry a daughter of the Cui family of Qinghe. You see that Shubao’s son Sanlang is promising, and he is also harsh on your own son, and you see that Shubao pays homage to his prime minister, and you always want to lead the army alone, hey, it’s over.”
Liu Lancheng had learned the Ming Jing in the Sui Dynasty, so his family is actually not bad, he was born in a small local tyrant, and his family background is similar to that of Cheng Yaojin and Qin Qiong, but a little bit worse. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the world was not good, and Liu Lancheng, who was born in Mingjing, had to be wronged and became a secretary in Poyang County, and was forced to return to his hometown Beihai County.
Liu Lancheng, who went back to his hometown in Beihai to avoid the chaos, met Qi Gongshun and led 30,000 horses to besiege the city. The outer city was quickly breached, and the inner city was about to fall. But at this time, the city is running out of food and grass. It can be said that this is extremely dangerous .
Liu Lancheng is a scholar who has passed the imperial examination Mingjing and served as a senior official in Poyang County. Although he is not a scholar with no strength, he has indeed shown extraordinary courage at critical times. He took the initiative to find the county officials and proposed a method of defending the city and retreating the enemy.
His method of repelling the enemy is also simple. He said that now that Beihai City is crumbling, I see that the bandit army is very lazy and underestimates the enemy. I am willing to recruit brave children from the city and go out of the city to attack at night.
At this time, if you dare to go out of the city, you are indeed a ruthless person. The officials in the city can't help it. Let the dead horse be a living horse doctor. Call the powerful and powerful merchants in the city and collect a sum of money for Liu Lancheng. After all, Liu Lancheng is also an official. Those of the scholar class are their own people, so they can give it a try.
Liu Lancheng awarded a heavy reward, and he really recruited a warrior. Seeing the opportunity, he led a hundred young men and killed them screaming. Qi Gongshun didn't expect that there would be people who would dare to come out of the city at this time. He underestimated the enemy. Carelessly, he suffered a lot, and was rushed into his camp by Liu Lancheng, and went straight to his central army.
Although Qi Gongshun said that he led an army of 30,000, it was actually 30,000 hungry refugees, some of whom were elite old thieves, and the rest were just enough to boost their numbers, and they were directly killed into the central army. I am not afraid of those who wear shoes, but I am also afraid of thieves.
When the bandit camp was in chaos, the officials in Beihai City rushed out of the city one after another when they saw the opportunity. At this time, they were also forced to rush out. Scholars and merchants contributed money, and ordinary people who had no money contributed their efforts and fought together.
Qi Gongshun fled in embarrassment, 30,000 horses were dispersed for a while, and Beihai turned the corner.
Liu Lancheng was naturally treated like a hero, and the Beihai prefect directly promoted him to be an officer of the Beihai Township Army, commanding one of the six battalions of the Beihai Township Army.
Originally here, Liu Lancheng was considered successful and famous, but the problem is that at that time, Shuzuo Song of Beihai County was jealous. When the bandits besieged the city, everyone was on the same boat, but now that the bandits have retreated, he is jealous of Liu Lancheng. Scholars who have read the Mingjing are all officials. Why do you, a runaway official in Poyang County, want to come to my Beihai County site to grab a job?
This guy is the secretary of Beihai County. Although he is a small official, the officials have always been divided. They always say bad things about Liu Lancheng, saying that Liu Lancheng is popular among the people now, and it will definitely be bad for me in the future, so it is better to kill him.
This reason is far-fetched, but in the turbulent situation at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Liu Lancheng was an outsider, and of course it was difficult to be accepted by the officials and powerful officials in Beihai, who had the same interests.
Although the prefect did not kill Liu Lancheng, he did feel that it was inappropriate to hand over one-sixth of the troops in the county to Liu Lancheng, an outsider, so he later took Liu Lancheng's military power and handed it over to Song Shuzuo to lead.
Old Liu is also a tough tempered, why?
Although he is a scholar, he is still a ruthless person who can rush into the camp of the bandit army with a knife and howl and slash and slash.
Old Liu went out of Beihai City and went directly to Qi Gongshun. At this time, Qi Gongshun suffered a defeat, and it was with great difficulty that he regrouped his men, but there were only more than 10,000 of the 30,000 people left. Seeing him chasing him last time When the old Liu came, he was startled. When he heard that he had come to join him, Qi Gongshun not only didn't ask someone to tie him up and kill him, but instead invited him to take the seat.
A reckless hero is also admired for a capable person, not to mention a scholar who can carry a big knife to slash people.
Qi Gongshun wanted to worship Liu Lancheng as the eldest brother, but Liu Lancheng refused. No one would come to grab the position of the leader, and finally pushed back and forth, and Liu Lancheng took the position of the second leader.
Liu Lancheng became the second master, and the first thing he did was to lead his troops back to Beihai. Only a month later, Liu Lancheng used tactics to lead his troops to capture Beihai City. He proved to everyone that my old Liu can bend and stretch, and can help Beihai Defending the city can also break Beihai City.
Later, Liu Lancheng suggested that his elder brother Qi Gongshun joined the most powerful elder brother Li Mi in the Central Plains, and he also became a member of the Wagang Group. Qi Gongshun also wanted to vote for Wang Shichong with the big brother Qin Qiong Cheng Yaojin in the group, but Liu Lancheng said that it was helpless for others to vote for Wang Shichong. We command troops outside, so why bother to vote for that boy Wang Shichong? If we want to vote, let's vote for Datang.
Wang Shichong is a son of a Hu merchant, and he has no personality. After the eight-pillar country of Tang Gong, this is the most dragon-like.
So Duke Qi followed Liu Lancheng's words by the way, and led his team to vote for Li Shentong, who was sent by Li Tang to operate in Shandong, and has since become a general of the Tang Dynasty.
Shortly after voting for Tang, Li Tang sent Li Shimin to start the Central Plains War in the Central Plains. Liu Lancheng led the team to listen to the order, and returned to the old Wagang boss Qin Qiong Cheng Yaojin and others.
Since then, he has become a member of Prince Qin's Mansion. Because of this, Liu Lancheng's official career has been smooth since then.
Before Qin Qiong was in Lingzhou, he was transferred to the Sima of the Governor's Mansion, and he was given many opportunities to make meritorious deeds.
Up to now, he is also the leading general of the right and the Duke of Pingyuan County. Although he is far inferior to Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin, Lao Liu is content.
Just like what he said, contentment is always happy. He was originally a child of the common people in a county. He was just a clerk in the Sui Dynasty. Official position, how can there be any dissatisfaction.
"If you want me to say, we've already startled the snake. There are no chances in the north and south roads. Now it's snowing heavily. It's not as good as the class teacher. Anyway, the harvest is good."
Cheng Yaojin shook his head, "You scholars are timid. Old Liu, you should show the courage you had in Beihai City back then. When you were in Beihai, you dared to carry a horizontal knife and rush into the city with more than a hundred young people. Hacking and killing in a barracks of 30,000 people, now you are also the right-leading general, why are you still timid?"
Old Liu chuckled, "I'm afraid of an egg, when have I ever been afraid? It's just that we came this time, but Saburo gave us a lot of favors, we can't harm them, right? People have been prepared for a long time, what chance do we have?"
"In case something goes wrong and the five thousand brothers are gone, we will feel sorry for Saburo and the trust of the five thousand brothers. We promised to bring them here to make meritorious deeds and earn rewards for meritorious deeds. We didn't bring them They sent them to die."
These words made Cheng Yaojin unable to refute, these soldiers were borrowed from Qin Lang by him.
"But it's like this. I'm really not reconciled. Didn't Saburo agree with us to cross the border? It's only five hundred miles now. I think we can fight two more battles."
"Old Liu, do you dare to fight again? If you don't dare, you stay, take the brothers who don't want to fight anymore, and send back the captured heads, captives, and captured cattle and sheep. Continue by yourself."
"Old Cheng, aren't you scolding people when you say such things? Since we came out together, we naturally have to go back together. Since you want to continue fighting, then I, Lao Liu, will accompany you. Let you, Old Cheng, be a lonely ghost!"
"Bah!" Cheng Yaojin was very dissatisfied with Liu Lancheng's words, "Why don't you expect something better?"
(end of this chapter)