Chapter 57: The Heroes Gather
Zhu Li took the lead, Wang Chongying and Li Xiaochang followed suit and immediately began to surrender prisoners. These prisoners would be their strength in the future, so they could not help but care.
Although the coalition forces tried their best to surrender, Shang Rang still led a large wave of defeated soldiers and fled. The direction where the defeated soldiers fled was the direction of the Wei River that Meng Kai insisted on.
The coalition forces chased after dozens of miles and forced the Cao Army guards who could catch up to surrender, they stopped chasing. Everyone led the defeated soldiers back to Yiting. Zhu Li even pursued them personally, forcing a large number of Cao Army soldiers to surrender, and then reluctantly drove them back to Yiting.
In the second year of Zhonghe, late lunar month.
Zhu Li, Wang Chongying and Li Xiaochang burned the camps under Yiting City, defeating Wang Chongyin. The tens of thousands of grass troops led by Shang Rang completely lifted the siege in the south of Yiting, and changed the situation of the passive beating of the coalition forces. This news spread quickly throughout Guanzhong and then spread to all parts of the Central Plains.
From June of the second year of Guangming, Li Sigong, Li Xiaochang, and Zhu Li met to the first month of the second year of Zhonghe, after seven months of fierce fighting, the coalition finally achieved a breakthrough victory.
Especially Zhu Li's fire burned the camp stationed outside Yiting City, and the whole country was shocked. For a moment, the call for warlords from all over the country to serve the king was higher and higher. Even Li Keyong, a Shatuo man who had just been pardoned, rushed south and entered the pass to serve the king.
After the battle between Yiting, Zhu Li, Wang Chongying and Li Xiaochang began to reorganize the army in full swing.
Zhu Li harvested more than 18,000 prisoners from the Cao Army, which was the party that confiscated the most among the three Jiedu governors. This was expected by Zhu Li. After all, he had set his sights on the guards of the Cao Army since the beginning of his plan. In addition, the Shuozhou Army clearly knew where Zhu Li was, so his actions were naturally much faster and more effective than the other two.
Shi Yan did not disappoint and recruited two or three thousand people from nearby prefectures and counties. Zhu Li now has a very considerable army, with 3,000 Yue cavalry and more than 24,000 infantrymen, and his troops have exceeded Li Xiaochang, and they can all be compared with Wang Chongying. Of course, it is only in terms of quantity, and the combat power is still a little debated.
In March, Wang Chongrong joined forces with the elite troops of the governors of all directions to defeat Zhu Wen, who was intending to attack south, and forced Zhu Wen to defeat the Heshui River and huddled north of the Heshui River to defend to the north of the Heshui River.
Upon hearing this news, Zhu Li immediately allocated 10,000 people to Zhou Dewei, and handed over Wang Chongyin, who had no choice but to surrender, to him as his deputy, and asked him to lead his own army. While stepping up training, he also soldiered in the central and eastern parts of the Guanguan to prevent Zhu Wen from fleeing west, completely blocking Zhu Wen's return to the west, and would go with Meng Kai and others' retreat.
In April, Li Keyong, then the governor of Daizhou, led his troops into Guanzhong, entered Yiting City, and joined the coalition; in the middle of the year, Song Wentong, the general of the Boye Army of Zhenzhou, Dong Chang, the general of Shijing Town, and Yang Fuguang, the governor of Xuzhou, led his troops into Guanzhong, entered Yiting, and joined the coalition.
In late April, Gao Pian sent his generals Feng Shou and Dong Jin to lead troops into Guanzhong and join the coalition forces, intending to attack Huang Chao together.
The coalition forces worked with all parties to prepare to cross the Wei River and attack Chang'an. In a short while, countless warlords of all sizes arrived at Yiting one after another.
Of course, the food and grass brought a lot. Zhu Li gathered all the food and grass in her hands on the grounds of unified management and reasonable call.
As the warlords from all over the country arrived one after another, Zhu Li, as the commander-in-chief, decided to set up the camp south and forcing Chang'an after the arrival of the two generals under Gao Pian.
Allied forces camp
, in the central army's tent.
Zhu Li sat high on the main seat in the middle, and the rest of the people were all on both sides. There was no way. In terms of position, Zhu Li was the general of the Left Wu Guard and the commander of the camp, and among the people, he had the highest position. When it comes to the battle of Guanzhong, he won both battles. If he had such a record in the king camp, the only one of them had no semicolons.
Even Li Keyong, who is a Shatuo native, had no objection, and the others had no objection. Li Keyong knew Zhu Li. This man was in Weizhou and killed several generals under him. Even Xue Atan, a powerful general under Li Cunxiao, was not his opponent. He was brave and resourceful, and was definitely not an easy-to-dispute.
Li Xiaochang and Wang Chongying need not be said. In the first position on Zhu Li's right hand, there was a mighty and majestic middle-aged man with one eye. It was Li Keyong, the governor of Daizhou, Shatuo. Behind him were three generals, one of whom was thin and short, staring at Zhu Li with bad eyes. There were two people standing on the left and right of the general. Zhu Li recognized that it was Xue Atan who had once defeated him.
The person who could make Xue Atan stand behind him, with a respectful expression and a half-step in his body, his name was about to emerge. There is no doubt that he should be the number one general of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and he was the Li Cunxiao of Li.
Among the military generals of this era, he was the best in the world, and even once only. Now that Wu Dao exists, I don’t know how far these two people can fight; and another powerful general around Li Cunxiao must be An Xiuxiu.
Li Ke sat in the position of Zhenzhou Boye Town General Song Wentong. This man looked fair and handsome. If he had removed his armor, he would definitely be a handsome young man in the turbid world. Song Wentong might feel unfamiliar. If he said that he was Li Maozhen, the leader of the warlord who later ruled Fengxiang, everyone would be familiar with him. Li Maozhen's original name was Song Wentong.
Now he has not been appreciated by Emperor Xizong, so he is still called Song Wentong. Song Wentong started with the commander of Shijing Town Dong Chang. Dong Chang, a man who was once proclaimed himself emperor in Liangzhe and was also a heavyweight warlord at the end of the Tang Dynasty.
There was a person standing behind Dong Chang, his confidant Qian Liu. If you know a little about the Five Dynasties, you will know who this person is. Yes, he is the founder of Wu Yue Kingdom.
On the left hand side of Zhu Li, the first person sitting was neither Wang Chongying nor Li Xiaochang. This man's face was feminine. His name was Yang Fuguang, the fake son of the Tang court official Yang Xuanzheng. He is currently the governor of Xuzhou. The Yang family was an amazing family of power and power officials in the late Tang Dynasty. In the last dynasties, the powerful officials had control of important positions in the palace.
The two behind Yang Fuguang were the capital generals he personally granted, one named Wang Jian and the other named Lu Yanhong. Lu Yanhong was the warlord of the late Tang Dynasty who later drove away Niu Cong, the governor of Shannan West Road, and became the governor of the late Tang Dynasty. Wang Jian was even more amazing. He was the founder of Former Shu and the king of Sichuan and Shu.
Even Gao Pian had a man under his command. The person who attracted Zhu Li's attention through an introduction was Yang Xingmi. Yang Xingmi, who founded the Wu Kingdom, is now just a subordinate of Gao Pian's subordinates.
In the small camp, several heroes and figures from all over the world are gathered in the future. They are all heroes and are at a slight momentum. However, although these people are amazing, they are all things to come later. Zhu Li is not polite now.
"Shang Hang Bing Liangtianpo, Huang Ye Chen Bing Shidigu, Meng Kai defended the Wei River to the death. Do you have any suggestions for the defensive situation of the Cao Army?" Zhu Li looked around and asked directly.
Everyone here looked at each other, but no one spoke.
Zhu Li narrowed her eyes slightly, looked at Li Keyong, and called out directly: "Eunuch Li, do you have any suggestions?"
There are so many people here, Zhu Li asked him the first question, which made Li Keyong feel a little uncomfortable. In addition, the Shatuo people and Zhu Li had been hostile and suffered losses. Li Ke bowed in a tone and said in a stiff tone: "District, Li is just a general. Wherever the Duke refers to, he will fight wherever the Duke refers to. Everything depends on the Duke's ruling."
"Does other people think so?" Zhu Li said indifferently and looked at everyone and asked.
"We all rely on the decision of the governor." Everyone replied with a loud bang when they heard this.
When Zhu Li heard this, she laughed in her heart, "What are these guys who think they are? Are they gods? They all want to follow her to fight Qiufeng. If she really has such great skills, she wouldn't have worked so hard."
Since coming to this world, he has run from Tanzhou to Hongzhou, then from Hongzhou to Fanyang, and then to Tanzhou. He has not yet been warmed up in the small nest of Tanzhou, and has led troops to protect Weizhou, and then moved to Shuozhou.
Just as he was about to show off his skills in Shuozhou, Li Ke gave a transfer order, and he had to come to Guanzhong to serve the king again. Half of the Tang Dynasty was run by himself. He just luckily gained some achievements. These warlords flocked to him like evil dogs seeing flesh and bones. Isn’t it just to gain achievements in the war to regain Chang'an?
"Okay, since that's the case, Li Envoy." Zhu Li was disdainful, but had no expression on his face and looked at Li Keyong.
"Subordinate is here."
"Shang Rang, Zhao Zhang, Liangtianpo, I will let you attack, defeat Shang Rang as soon as possible, and relieve the threat to our army on the left side." Zhu Li instructed expressionlessly.
"No" Li Keyong responded with a blank expression. He was already speaking in front of him and would definitely not refute at this time. If not, wouldn't it be like slapping himself in the face?
"General Manager Li, Governor Wang, you two join forces to defeat Huang Ye as soon as possible to prevent him from attacking Fuping and cutting off our retreat." Zhu Li turned to look at Li Xiaochang, Wang Chongying, and ordered directly.
"No" and the other two happily received the order. With Zhu Li's record of winning two battles, they dared not take Zhu Li lightly like before.
The location of Huang Ye's troops was just north of the Wei River, sandwiched between Zhu Wen, Zhu Li and others, and threatened Fuping and Liyang, making Zhu Li and other coalition forces feel like they are stuck in their throats and are not happy.
"The rest of you go with me to confront Meng Kai and help the three of them carefully." Zhu Li looked around everyone and instructed.
"promise"
The reason why Zhu Li arranged this way was because he vaguely remembered that Li Keyong in history had also led troops to defeat Shang Rang.
Although Shang Rang was defeated in the Battle of Yiting, he took away most of the defeated troops. With Huang Chao's support, Shang Rang's troops were the strongest in the three sides of the Cao army. If he wanted to attack the Wei River in the south, he would have to defeat Shang Rang first.
For these Jiedu governors who came to aid, Li Keyong had the strongest troops, and the Shatuo people were known for their bravery in combat, which just happened to restrain Shangrang. Didn’t Shangrang like to charge and rush into battle the most? Let him and Li Keyong fight head-on.
Chapter completed!