Chapter 277 The main forces of the Tianyuan Army were stationed in Tianguan, and with the arrival of Tang Yin, the Tianyuan Army, which had been recuperating for a long time, also began to regroup and march south.
At this time, Peng Haochu suggested to Tang Yin that his 400,000 troops should not be concentrated together, and there was no need for that, at present, the defenders of Lehu County were less than 50,000, so they could divide their troops into three ways and attack Lehu County from three directions, while dispersing the enemy's army, they could also fully capture Lehu County in the shortest possible time.
Tang Yin felt that Peng Haochu's proposal was reasonable, and immediately adopted it, and ordered the 100,000 Plains Army led by Xiao Muqing and the 50,000 Esa Army left behind to attack Lehu County from the west, and the 150,000 Chifeng Army led by Li Wei and Peng Haochu to attack Lehu County from the east, while Tang Yin himself commanded 100,000 directly subordinate troops plus 30,000 Besa heavy armored cavalry to attack the middle of Lehu County.
The strategists and generals of the Tianyuan Army had no opinion on Tang Yin's arrangement, and the military order took effect immediately, and the 400,000 Tianyuan Army began to drive out of Tianguan one by one, all the way south, to Zhilehu County.
As soon as the Tianyuan Army's side moved, Zhong Tian's side got the news.
During this time, the Tianyuan Army withdrew to Tianyuan County, Zhong Tianben thought that he could rest at ease for a while, and he could sleep peacefully for a while, but he didn't know that the Tianyuan Army, which was going to rest for a year, came back so quickly.
After Zhong Tian learned of this, he immediately brought the two brothers Zhan Wushuang and Zhan Wushu to discuss countermeasures against the enemy.
According to the meaning of the battle, the strength of Lehu County is less than 50,000, and it is impossible to resist the menacing Tianyuan Army, rather than staying in Lehu County to defend to the death, it is better to give up resistance, withdraw to Yancheng, concentrate their own manpower, and start a decisive battle with the Tianyuan Army in Yancheng.
Zhan Invincible disagreed with his brother, he thought that the Lehu Army should stay in Lehu County, relying on the geographical advantage, as much as possible to wear down the sharpness of the Tianyuan Army, in this way, even if the Tianyuan Army can hit the city of Yancheng, it will become a tired division, and then they will concentrate their manpower and go out of the city to meet the Tianyuan Army, and there may be a possibility of victory.
Zhong Tian didn't understand military strategy at all, and at this time, he felt that the words of the two brothers, Zhan Wushuang and Zhan Wuving, made sense, and he didn't know who to listen to.
However, most of the advisers under Zhong Tian's command supported the opinion of Zhan Wushuang, hoping that Zhong Tian could send the Lehu army back to Yancheng to strengthen the defense of the capital.
Zhong Tian did not listen to Zhan Wushuang's advice, but he did not accept Zhan Wushuang's proposal, but sent someone to Lehu County to ask the county guard Geng Qiang's meaning.
In Zhong Tian's opinion, no matter how much he discusses it, after all, he is sitting in the rear, and he can't fully grasp the situation, and whether the soldiers in front are fighting or retreating, he has to ask the commander in front.
There is nothing wrong with what he does, but only if the commander in front has at least the slightest talent.
And Geng Qiang was born as a corps commander, just because he was loyal to Zhong Tiancai and was exceptionally promoted to the position of county head, he was self-righteous and self-righteous, as a corps commander, it was okay to listen to people's orders, but as a commander, commanding operations, he was far behind.
After receiving Zhong Tian's order, Geng Qiang was also wondering whether he could withstand the Tianyuan army, whether to withdraw or hold on, or to withdraw after a few battles.
Thinking about it, he felt that it was a loss of face to choose to retreat before the enemy arrived, and he couldn't live with the heavy responsibility and expectations given to him by Zhong Tian, besides, he was the landlord of Lehu County, even if there was a huge difference between the strength of the army and the enemy, he could resist for a while with the advantage of geographical advantages, and the city defense of the western hundred cities of Lehu County was strong, since the Tianyuan Army raised his troops, he had also been strengthening the city defense, and the Tianyuan Army wanted to attack the county town, which was far from being so easy.
After careful consideration, Geng Qiang wrote a letter to Zhong Tian, which can be described as righteous and awe-inspiring, not only touting Zhong Tian, but also treating the pigs and dogs scolded by the Tianyuan Army as well, and finally showed his determination to fight to the death with the Tianyuan Army in Lehu County, and never retreated half a step.
After seeing Geng Qiang's recital, Zhong Tian couldn't help but nod his head again and again, he was very happy in his heart, and even circulated it to other civil and military officials, so that they could see what loyalty and talent were in the pillars, and Geng Qiang was a model Geng Qiang's performance also made Zhong Tian completely dispel the idea of retreating the Lehu Army, but instead concentrated the Central Army, prepared to transfer it to Lehu County at the first opportunity, assist Geng Qiang, and fight the Tianyuan Army to the end.
The army of Lehu County did not withdraw, Geng Qiang instead began to catch strong men in the West Hundred Cities, regardless of whether people were willing to join the army or not, first integrate them into the army, distribute armor and weapons, and if anyone dared to escape, they would be punished according to deserters, and there would be no mercy.
Geng Qiang's ability to grasp the strong man is as good as Zhong Tian's, just a few days, the Peng army in the West Hundred Cities has expanded from 30,000 to 80,000, and at the same time he ordered the blockade of the whole city, without his hand, no one is allowed to enter and exit, at this time, Geng Qiang has made a posture of defending the West Hundred Cities.
Let's talk about the army directly under the command of Tang Yin.
Almost all of the high-ranking civil officials and generals of the Tianyuan Army are directly under the army, even if the soldiers below have not been in the army for a long time, but with these generals, their combat power can also be improved by a grade invisibly, not to mention the assistance of the Besa cavalry with amazing combat effectiveness.
The army directly under the middle road will first face Shangbei County in Lehu County.
Lehu County is also a large county, with three counties, namely Shangbei, Qingshan, and Baoqing.
Commander Tang Yin's direct army arrived at the junction of Jinguang County and Shangbei County and was temporarily stationed there.
Lotte and Ai Jia both reported the information they had about Shangbei County to Tang Yin.
Because Geng Qiang arranged most of the troops of the Lehu Army in the west of the county seat, the strength of Shangbei County was relatively empty, but there were about 8,000 Peng troops stationed in the county.
After listening to the information of Lotte and Aijia, Tang Yin sneered and said proudly: "An enemy of only 8,000 dares to block our army of 100,000" As he spoke, he asked again: "Who is the head of Shangbei County?"
Ai Jia replied: "Lord Hui, the name of the county leader is Mao An, who was transferred to Shangbei County after Zhong Tian usurped the throne, and it must be Zhong Tian's confidence. ” "Regardless of whether he is Zhong Tian's cronies or not, anyone who dares to stand in the way of my army will be killed" Tang Yin turned his head sideways and said to Qiu Zhen: "Lord Qiu, you arrange an envoy to go to the county seat of Shangbei County to persuade this Mao An to surrender, otherwise, my army will let him die without a place to be buried."
"It's my lord," Qiu Zhen nodded in response.
According to Tang Yin's intentions, Qiu Zhen sent a civil official with a low position to Linqiao, the county seat of Shangbei County, to persuade Mao An to surrender the city.
After the envoy was sent out, it was like a stone sinking into the sea, and no news was sent back, until two days later, the Tianyan spies brought the news back, it turned out that although the envoy saw Mao An after arriving in Linqiao City, the latter not only did not accept his own persuasion, but also killed the envoy, and now the head is hanging on the head of Linqiao.
After Tang Yin heard this, his eyes widened, his anger burned from his heart to his head, he lifted his leg and kicked the table in front of him far away, gritted his teeth and said: "This thief dares to kill my envoy, I will definitely break his body to pieces" As he spoke, he gave the order to go down, and the whole army set up camp and marched to Linqiao City.
Seeing this, Qiu Zhen hurriedly stopped him and said, "Don't be impulsive, adults.
The two armies are fighting, and if they don't kill them, Mao An will not understand this truth, he is obviously provoking our army by doing this, and his purpose is likely to lead our army to attack, maybe he has set up an ambush on the way, and adults should not rush forward" "Ambush" Tang Yin smiled and asked rhetorically: "The enemy only has a few thousand, but our army has hundreds of thousands, even if the other party is ambushed in the middle of the road, what can I do?"
After listening to his questioning, Qiu Zhen couldn't answer, yes, the enemy only has a few thousand, even if he is ambushed, if he wants to sneak attack the army of more than 100,000, he will also attack the stone indiscriminately.
Seeing that Qiu Zhen frowned and stopped talking, Tang Yin asked Lotte and Ai Jia again: "Did you two detect the enemy army setting up an ambush halfway?"
Lotte and Ai Jia looked at each other, both shook their heads, and said, "I didn't notice that the enemy had ambushes."
"Hmph" Tang Yin sneered, even the Sky Eye and the ground net did not find the ambush, then there was nothing wrong, the enemy must be cowering in Linqiao City.
He waved his hand and said categorically: "March" Tang Yin gave an order, and the direct army and the Besa cavalry began to set off and went straight to the county seat of Shangbei County, Linqiao.
Along the way, under the leadership of Tang Yin, the directly subordinate army was like a bamboo, and successively captured several towns in Shangbei County, and these towns had little resistance, and most of them were captured without blood.
Tang Yin was bent on attacking Linqiao City, capturing Mao An, in order to eliminate the hatred in his heart, and repeatedly ordered to urge the whole army to move quickly, while he himself took the two Shangguan brothers and Wu Guanghe and the two generals of Zhanhu, and led 10,000 light cavalry to run in the front.
How can the infantry and Besa's heavy armored cavalry outrun the light cavalry, with Tang Yin's rapid charge, the camp of the entire direct army has been greatly stretched, often the light cavalry commanded by Tang Yin has already attacked a town, and there is also a direct army in the previous town has just set off, between the two cities, you can see the direct subordinate soldiers rushing forward everywhere.
Under Tang Yin's rampage, the advance speed of the directly subordinate army was indeed amazing, and it took only one day to reach Linqiao City from the junction of the two counties, which was quite a formation of three hundred and two six hundred.
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Linqiao City was already faintly visible, Tang Yin, who commanded the light cavalry, sat on his horse, sneered, and asked sideways: "Who is willing to take the lead and be the first to attack Linqiao City" As soon as Tang Yin's words fell, Shangguan Yuanbiao urged him to step forward, lift his spear, intervene in the salute, and said: "My lord, my subordinates are willing to go."
"Okay Yuanbiao, I'll leave it to you to take the lead, don't let me down" "Don't worry, my lord, if the enemy doesn't come out, it's fine, if you dare to fight, I'll kill one by one, and I'll kill a pair of pairs of one by one" Shangguan Yuanbiao shook his spear and pulled out three silver spear flowers.
"Haha" Tang Yin smiled on his back and nodded at Shangguan Yuanbiao.
When the latter was about to ride his horse and rush to the front of Linqiao City to fight against the enemy and scold the formation, he suddenly heard someone in the rear shouting in a long voice: "It's not good to report a big thing to the adult":