Chapter 279 Tang Yin sent an order down and posted a notice to collect grain and grass in the whole city, but the people of Linqiao City were too frightened to go out, and no one could see the notice, let alone pay the grain.
At this moment, Ai Jia led more than a dozen spies from the ground network to ride to Linqiao City, and after seeing Tang Yin, she first bowed down and saluted, and then asked, "Your Excellency is now going to collect grain in the city."
Hearing this, Tang Yin raised his eyebrows, as the head of his own intelligence agency, Ai Jia was unaware of the enemy's movements, and knew his every move well, which made people angry and funny.
He nodded, and said in a deep voice: "That's right, our army's logistics and supplies were attacked by the enemy, and most of the grain and grass were burned.
"Then someone can pay the grain now" "No one has to pay for it."
"What are you going to do?"
Tang Yin narrowed his eyes and said faintly: "The army can't be without food, even if it has to use coercive means, it must collect enough food."
When Ai Jia heard this, she couldn't help but secretly fight the cold war, not because of Tang Yin's decision, but because Qiu Zhen's prediction was accurate.
The reason why she hurried to Linqiao City was also assigned by Qiu Zhen, who was most worried that Tang Yin would use force to collect food after capturing Linqiao.
She swallowed and foamed at the mouth and whispered, "My lord, before I came, Lord Qiu repeatedly told me that I must stop my lord from using coercive means to collect grain. ” "Oh" Tang Yin was stunned, how did Qiu Zhen know that he was going to collect grain and grass, and how did he know that he would use coercive means Seeing his puzzled expression, Ai Jia explained: "Lord Qiu said that since the enemy dares to go out of the city to sneak attack the logistics of our army, it must be a nest dispatch, and the county head Mao An is so cunning, he will not leave the hoarding of grain in the city to our army, so if there is no food in the city, the adults will collect grain, and Lehu County has been controlled by Zhong Tian's cronies, the people live in poverty, and each family will not have too much food, and has been influenced by Zhong Tian's cronies for a long time, and has a deep prejudice against our army.
This may then be followed by the use of force to collect food, and in this way, you will be in the trap of the enemy."
After listening to Aijia's words, Tang Yin was startled and couldn't help but gasp.
Qiu Zhen not only figured out the enemy's intentions, but even his surname and style of acting were calculated by him at all, which was terrifying Tang Yin was silent for a moment, and Fang asked slowly, "What kind of trap did the enemy trap in the meeting?"
Ai Jia said: "The enemy army will make a big fuss about this, scare the people of Lehu County, make them more hostile to our army, in addition, the enemy army will also use this incident to tempt more people of Lehu County to join the army, causing a lot of resistance to our army's southward movement."
It turns out that Tang Yin is a smart person, and he can understand it at all, and after listening to Ai Jia's relay, he also roughly understood Mao An's intentions.
This person really can't be underestimated, although he is only a county head, but he is scheming, whether it is the use of troops or the overall strategy, it can be called unique.
He clenched his fists and muttered, "If we don't levy food, our army will run out of food."
Ai Jia hurriedly said: "Lord Qiu has sent someone to Jinguang County to urgently transfer a batch of grain and grass, and also sent people to find General Xiao and General Li, so that the other two armies can reinforce grain and grass, and it is expected that the reinforced grain and grass will arrive in two days at most." ” "Oh" Tang Yin responded, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief, with Qiu Zhen here, it really saved him a lot of trouble.
With Qiu Zhen's warning, Tang Yin immediately withdrew the order to forcibly requisition grain, and then ordered his corporal to temporarily station in Linqiao City, waiting for the grain and grass from the Plains Army, the Chifeng Army, and Jinguang County to arrive before making plans.
Since most of the grain and grass were destroyed, Tang Yin did not dare to go any further.
Mao An, the county head of Shangbei County, did not confront Tang Yin head-on, and he couldn't afford to fight, and his soldiers were only 8,000 people, but he firmly dragged the 100,000 directly subordinate troops and 30,000 Besa cavalry under Tang Yin's command in Linqiao City, which was delayed for more than two days, which also won more than two days of preparation time for the county head Geng Qiang.
In the past two days, the army directly under Tang Yin's command not only did not disturb the people in Linqiao City, but its main force did not even enter the city, but only camped outside the city, which deepened the understanding of the people in Linqiao City about the Tianyuan Army a lot, and greatly reduced their fear and panic.
Mao An ran away, the city lord ran away, almost all the officials in Linqiao City fled to the county seat Xibai, Tang Yin and Qiu Zhen, Zhang Zhe, Zong Yuan and other strategists discussed, and decided to set up another county head or city lord to stabilize Linqiao City, after all, Linqiao is the county seat, the city is large, the location is important, and it is said that after their own side wants to attack Xibai, the supply of grain, grass, materials, etc. will inevitably pass through Linqiao, and ensuring the stability of Linqiao is also very important for the operation of their own army.
However, if you arrange for your own cronies to take up important positions, I am afraid that you may not be able to govern it well, and the people in the city will not be convinced, but if you choose from the locals, you don't know who to choose.
Tang Yin was embarrassed by this matter, Zong Yuan gave him an idea, let him post a notice, and the people in Qiaolin City came to recommend themselves, there must be brave men under the heavy reward, and there must be no shortage of capable people who are greedy for fame under the high-ranking officials.
Tang Yin felt that Zong Yuan's proposal was reasonable, so he immediately sent someone to write a notice and post it.
Directly electing the county head from the people, it can be said that it is a precedent, no one believed it at first, but I just felt that Tang Yin was deliberately pretentious in order to win people's hearts, and waited until the next day, only to have people come one after another, Tang Yin treated these people politely, as long as he was willing to come, there was no one who returned empty-handed, even if he did not give him the position of county guard or city lord, he would be arranged to hold other official positions, and the most important thing was to give some silver taels and send people away.
With that, the news spread immediately.
By the third day, the people who had come to the county capital to apply for the draft were already crowded.
At this time, the grain and grass reinforced from the Plains Army and the Chifeng Army had arrived one after another, and Tang Yin began to prepare to continue the southward attack, so he handed over the selection of the county head and the city lord to Zong Yuan to deal with, and he himself commanded the army and marched south.
Less than 100 miles south from Linqiao City is Jicheng, which is also the city at the junction of Shangbei County and Baoqing County, as long as Jicheng is captured, Tang Yin and his group can enter Baoqing County, and take the west hundred of the county seat directly.
Jicheng is not big, but the defenders in the city are close to 20,000 people, of which 8,000 are Mao An's subordinates, and most of the other are people and slaves who were temporarily conscripted into the army, and the county head Mao An is now in Jicheng City, and is fully prepared to block Tang Yin's army here.
At the same time, Mao An also sent a letter to Geng Qiang, explaining his determination to defend Jicheng, and asked Geng Qiang to prepare for an attack, and wait for the second day of his battle with Tang Yin's army, while the enemy army was tired, Geng Qiang led the main force of the county army to come to reinforcements.
His letter was successfully delivered to Geng Qiang's hands, but Geng Qiang secretly grinned at his request, the reason why he dared to stay in Lehu County to resist the Tianyuan Army was mainly because the city defense of the West Hundred Cities was strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and now Mao An wanted him to go out of the city to meet the Tianyuan Army, and he really had no bottom in his heart.
The stakes are very high, Geng Qiang did not dare to be cautious, he discussed with his cronies overnight at this time, but the discussion came and went without a conclusion.
They were dragging their feet, but the direct army under Commander Tang Yin did not delay at all, and went all the way south, near Jicheng.
In a place away from Jicheng a stone's throw away, Tang Yin raised his arm, ordered the army to stop advancing, he raised his eyes to look at the city in front of him, the length and width are less than five miles, but the city wall is as high as three zhang three, this is the city wall built according to the specifications of the big city, look at the wall, the flag is displayed, the embroidery belt is fluttering, a big flag above the city gate, there is a big Peng character on it, look left and right, the armor is lined up, the red pressure is a piece, it is not clear how many Peng troops.
Since Tang Yin led the army into Lehu County, it was the first time he saw so many enemy troops, he narrowed his eyes slightly, urged his war horse, and moved forward.
The Shangguan brothers, Wu Guang, Zhan Hu, Gu Yue, Lotte, Ai Jia and others behind him saw this, and were afraid that he would lose, so they rode their horses and followed.
Tang Yin was riding forward, and suddenly, a piercing whistling sounded on the city, and a sharp arrow drew a long arc in the air, and threw it down, hitting the ground in front of Tang Yin's war horse's hooves.
Seeing that the enemy had shot at the position, Tang Yin's horse stopped, and he shouted loudly above the city: "I am Tang Yin's master who asked your master to come out and talk to me."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard someone in the city shouting: "Tang Yin, I have been waiting for you here for a long time."
Tang Yin looked closely, and saw a white-faced general in his thirties standing in the armor of the city, this person was wearing armor, wearing a long sword at his waist, and a mustache on his lips.
Tang Yin asked, "Who are you?"
"The head of Shangbei County, Mao An" Hearing the word Mao An, Tang Yin's eyes immediately widened, his eyes were full of light, and the murderous intent suddenly appeared, he laughed on his back, stretched out his hand and pointed at Mao An on the head of the city, and said with a smile: "Mao An, what I am looking for is you, it turns out that you are here, today I will take your dog's head" "Haha" Mao An was not afraid, but laughed out loud and scolded: "Tang Yin'er, a rebel and thief, openly raised troops to rebel, and now he still dares to speak wildly, if you have the ability, you can come."
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Tang Yin clenched his fists, turned his head sideways and said, "Lotte, shoot this person down the city for me."
"It's an adult" Lotte agreed, took out the bow and arrow, and then pulled out a silver arrow with his hand, and between the swings of his wrist, the silver arrow was spiritualized, and the inverted teeth grew on the arrow body.
He drew his bow and arrow, aimed at Mao An above the city, and suddenly it was an arrow.
The hissing arrow flew out, making a sharp whistling sound in the air, and the castration was as fast as lightning, heading straight for Mao An above the city
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