Chapter 1287: Swearing an Oath to the Generals

Chapter 1287: Swearing an Oath to the Generals

On the school field, all the soldiers under Yang Lie's command were summoned, and the generals and captains of the reinforcements brought by Han Feng were also summoned to the city's school field.

A bonfire was burning under a large cauldron. Yang Lie stood on a high platform, wearing a suit of armor and overlooking the soldiers below. Han Feng and his close followers were all tied to one side of the high platform, their faces were ashen and pale. His expression was frightened.

"The thief Qi Gao's family is a bastard. In the past year, he took advantage of the soldiers to sneak into China, deceived the heavens, stole lives, stole talismans, and harmed the world. He caused great harm to China and our country! Fortunately, the heroic lord of the Tang Dynasty came into being. Defeat the thieves and revitalize China!

Both the former rebels and Qi were defeated by the Tang Dynasty King's Division, and the rebel dynasty was destroyed. Only a few remaining bandits fled to Qingzhou, taking advantage of the reach of the Wang Division's troops and lingering on, still wanting to bully the local people and abuse our people! I can't bear this feeling. Now I want to rally everyone to righteousness and surrender to the Tang Dynasty to fight against the Qi Dynasty. Are you willing to follow me? "

Yang Lie stood on the high platform, waved his arms vigorously and shouted loudly.

"Someone is willing to follow the envoy and surrender to Tang Dynasty and return to Yiyi!"

The Taigoat Clan people on the school field had known the inside story for a long time. Under their leadership, all the tribesmen and villagers also raised their arms and shouted to follow.

However, the reinforcement generals who had just arrived in Xintai City were a little confused about the situation. If they didn't come here to reinforce Langya County and fight against the Tang army, why did it become a mobilization meeting to surrender to the enemy?

However, most of these people are also strong men from Qingxu and Yanzhou. They were recruited after Gao Zhan came to Qingzhou. They don't have much recognition for the small court in Qingzhou. At this time, they feel surprised and suspicious, but they are also There was no rush to speak out clearly against Yang Lie's call, but thoughts were racing in his mind, trying to think of ways to protect himself and escape.

Yang Lie had already had an insight into the thoughts of these people. He was not in a hurry to threaten or force them to join the gang. Instead, he dragged Han Feng, who was tied up by Wu Huada, to the high platform, and then put the knife on Han Feng. On Feng's neck, he continued to shout: "This thief Hu was sent by Gao Zhan, the puppet leader of Qi, and came here to urge our local soldiers to use their lives to resist the Tang army's Wang Shi, so as to ensure that he can enjoy himself in Qingzhou. Now that my countrymen want to return to justice, but there is nothing to offer in a hurry to win their trust, I will kill this thief Hu and swear to be my master! I will cook his flesh and blood and share it with my disciples, and I will not live with the thief!"

"No, don't, spare my life, spare my life..."

When Han Feng heard that Yang Lie actually wanted to cook and kill him as a pledge of loyalty, he was extremely frightened and kowtowed repeatedly to beg for mercy.

He was originally a general, his grandfather Han Xian and his father were both representatives of Jinyang nobles, and he had always been proud of the Xianbei martial arts style and had a lot of dislike for the Han people. Yang Min during the Wenxiang Dynasty , Gao Dezheng and other Han ministers were killed, he also participated in it, and took pleasure and pride in it.

Yang Lie didn't know Han Feng's past deeds, so he happened to catch up with the sworn master who killed him today.

He ignored Han Feng's cry for mercy. In order to further intimidate the reinforcement generals brought by Han Feng, Yang Lie did not kill Han Feng with one blow, but focused on his fleshy arms, waist and hips. , cut it one by one.

The reason why Yang Lie was so cruel to Han Feng was because he held a grudge against Northern Qi for years of oppression, and now he finally got the chance to resist.

If the big families in Hebei were able to participate in sharing the political resources of the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi because they jointly opposed the hegemony of the Erzhu family, the people of Shandong have always been in a state of being suppressed and exploited, even the Taiyang family with a long history and rural origins. It was difficult for the famous families in Shandong to join the upper-class ruling class of the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi Dynasties. The states in Shandong once became the first choice for exploitation and extortion by nobles from Jinyang and famous families from Hebei.

Many aristocratic families in Hebei often have Fangzhi people in Shandong. This is not because of the close interaction between the two places, but because for a long time from the Six Towns Mutiny to the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi, due to the relatively weak local power in Shandong, It was once reduced to an area exploited and colonized by the upper class rulers.

Next, Yang Lie took out the slices of meat cooked in the cauldron and ordered the reinforcement generals to eat them one by one. These people had little recognition and loyalty to the puppet government in Qingzhou. Now they were intimidated and threatened, so they worshiped and defected one after another.

Although Yang Lie's method was a bit cruel, it still had an excellent effect on cohesion of people's hearts and expression of attitude. His subordinates, Buqu, and Qingzhou reinforcements joined his command one after another, preparing to welcome the king's army, and Yang Kun and other Tang army officers were also reluctant to do so. No longer doubting Yang Lie's determination, Shuofeng soon led an army to enter Xintai City, and then under the leadership of Yang Lie, they went straight to Qingzhou to kill.

In the south of Qingzhou, the defense line collapsed and the door was opened due to Yang Lie's defection to the enemy. The situation in the north was also not optimistic. Since ancient times, changing generals before battle has been a taboo in military operations, not to mention that the general Gao Zhan wanted to replace was from a powerful and powerful family in the country.

Bi Yiyun, who was born in the Bi family of Dongping, was not inferior to Yang Lie in the countryside. Although he was imprisoned by Gao Anagong in the city without any precautions at first, his relatives then bribed Gao Anagong with money, hoping that he would temporarily Don't send Bi Yiyun to Qingzhou, so that they can have time to go to Qingzhou to pray and strive for a lighter sentence.

Gao Anahu felt that his trip went well and wanted to squeeze more money from Bi Yiyun's family, so he temporarily left Bi Yiyun in Qizhou City and did not send anyone to Qizhou immediately. .

However, after nightfall, turmoil broke out in Qizhou City. The subordinates of Bi Yiyun Clan attacked the city lord's palace, hoping to rob Bi Yiyun, which caused great chaos in the city.

Soon, the turmoil in Qizhou City was noticed by the Tang Army on the north bank of the Yellow River. Soon the Tang Army arranged boats and rafts to quickly cross the river and attack Qizhou City directly.

At this time, Gao Anagong in the city was still commanding the troops to suppress the rebellion launched by Bi Yiyun's cronies. When the Tang army attacked the city, it was even more overwhelmed. Several parties fought and caused no order inside and outside the city. The fighting lasted from late at night until the next day. At dawn, the Tang army that continuously entered the city finally occupied Qizhou City.

However, Bi Yiyun, the governor of Qizhou on the Northern Qi side of the city, and Gao Anahu and others who came from Qingzhou were all missing. It seems that they had taken advantage of the fighting in the city last night and had already abandoned the city and fled.

Gao Le, the commander-in-chief of the Tang Army's North Route Army, ordered his men to clean up the battlefield and restore order in the city. At the same time, he also sent troops to pursue the Qi Army's retreating troops and inquired about the remaining friendly troops and horses.

The scouts sent out soon returned all the way, bringing back the body of the city's guard Bi Yiyun and a group of young local warriors.

The leader of this group of country soldiers was a heroic young man in his teenage years. After seeing Gao Le, he paid homage and said, "My name is Qin Ai. I am a native of Licheng in Qizhou. I am a villager who forms a village to guard each other's village." In the early morning, when the sky was still dark, there were sudden noises and disturbances from the soldiers outside the fort. The villagers did not dare to refuse and opened the door to let them in. After asking, they found out that it was Bi Yiyun of Dongping and his disciples. This beast relied on the strength of his hometown and suffered many robberies in the early years. The people in the plundered village were in trouble, but now they were driven away by the king's army and fled back to their hometowns. The common people took advantage of his fatigue and sleep to kill him and come to sacrifice him to the king's army!"

"But you are a young man from the countryside who understands things and has a clear mind. Although you are not a king's general, you have acted bravely and captured and killed thieves. You have also made meritorious deeds. You will record your merits in the book and report them to the Ming Dynasty one day. You will be rewarded together!"

For these village martyrs who came to serve on their own initiative, Gao Le also received them with a gentle attitude. He asked people to record the names of the young man and his fellow villagers, and also led them to eat and rest.

Unlike the unlucky Bi Yiyun who died halfway, Gao Anagong successfully escaped back to Qingzhou City, but only a hundred or ten remnant soldiers were left with him.

Gao Zhan was shocked when he learned that Qizhou had been lost. When he learned that there were enemy traces in the south of Qingzhou City, he was so frightened that his hands and feet went cold. He trembled repeatedly: "Go to Yanzhou quickly and summon Hulu." Taishi returns to the rescue, quickly, quickly!”

However, the situation in Yanzhou at this time was even more critical than that in Qingzhou. The Heluo brigade led by Han Xiong was trapped under the city, which made Han Xiong and all the soldiers feel anxious.

Their soldiers in Heluo had been active at the forefront of the battle against the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi for many years. However, Gao Zhan, a bastard, suddenly abandoned the city and fled, causing the main force to rush into Hebei. However, their Heluo division and brigade cooperated with the main force. There was a disconnect between the two, and ultimately missed the great success of destroying Qi.

Although Han Xiong led his army to successfully annihilate Gao Jun's enemy army before, it was still far inferior to his success in destroying Qi.

Han Xiong also knew that this attack on Qingzhou was an opportunity specially arranged by the Lord to compensate the Heluo division and brigade. He mustered up his spirits. After the division and brigade were trapped in Yanzhou, he personally ordered the soldiers to work day and night. He stopped and launched a strong attack on Yanzhou City.

Under the fierce offensive of the Tang army, although Hu Luping in the city was also trying hard to maintain defense, the defenders in the city were still unable to fight. In the end, the Tang army broke through the city and successfully surrounded Hu Luping in the city and captured him in one fell swoop. !

After capturing Yanzhou City, Han Xiong did not order the division and brigade to rest and recuperate. Instead, taking advantage of the victory, he led his troops to attack Qingzhou City in an effort to wipe out Gao Zhan's remaining enemy forces as soon as possible.