Section 75: Win Xin'an
The reason why King Zheng believed that the military operation in Xin'an was done by the Tang army was actually another reason. Several boxes of gold and silver transported from the Eastern Front to Luoyang and a large number of weapons were just lucky to enter Xin'an. These things were all taken by King Zheng in recent years, and the weapons were used for Luoyang's defense.
At this time, these important things were lost, obviously because there were spies in the army, and they told the Tang army that, so the Tang army ran a hundred miles away and attacked Xin'an City.
King Zheng was heartbroken when he smashed everything he could smash. These things were all his efforts for several years. When transporting them, in order not to attract the attention of others, they were all escorted by the people and replaced the army after entering Xin'an City. For this reason, he did not even send heavy troops to guard it. Unexpectedly, these things were lost at the foot of Luoyang in Xin'an.
The army searched for no results for several days, and the spies sent everywhere also received no trace of the Tang army.
At this time, King Zheng wanted to give up this pursuit, but at this time, the defeated soldiers in Xin'an came to Luoyang in groups of three or three. In their mouths, Tang troops did appear in Xin'an. They could not defeat them. In the end, they tried their best and died many brothers before breaking out of Xin'an.
The danger between them was described by the soldiers using all the worldly words, and the Tang army's appearance was enlarged by infinite exaggeration.
In the mouths of the soldiers, this was a military operation against Xin'an that had been planned and prepared for a long time.
The search for the preparation of giving up continues.
At this moment, spies installed in various places of Zheng reported to the Qin King that the defense on the south, west and north sides of Luoyang was seriously insufficient at this time. Just a few days ago, King Zheng mobilized a large number of troops from these places to Xin'an. Heard that he would wipe out a huge Tang army that existed there.
The King of Qin and all the generals were very depressed. When a large Tang army advanced to Xin'an, the King of Qin even ordered the generals to go down to investigate quickly. As a result, there was no such thing at all. However, the news of the empty sides of Luoyang was well realized by the King of Qin and the generals.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
So, reinforcements from the rear continued to come, and the front line troops were immediately transferred to the south and north lines.
A huge clamp-shaped offensive, centered on Luoyang, was launched at the speed of wind, sword and rain in the Central Plains.
The Xuanjia cavalry ran day and night, and the elite soldiers kept pressing towards the southern and northern lines of Luoyang. Originally, at this opportunity, the front army of Zheng Wang on the Western Front could give the Tang army a powerful frontal counterattack. However, the Zheng Wang army, who was afraid of being beaten, dared to hide behind the city wall at this time. When some people realized that the western camp of the King of Qin was empty at this time, the troops urgently transferred from the rear to the front line had already arrived.
At this time, Liu Shan was sitting in the car, with boxes of gold, silver and treasures under his butt. Liu Shan also realized that these gold, silver and treasures could not be gathered by a small county magistrate, and his official position was too small. Just like a person who drove a small restaurant, he could not have the strength to enter Forbes.
After discussing for a long time, Liu Shan and Lin Yong finally came to a shocking conclusion. They snatched the treasures that King Zheng had accumulated over the years and prepared to transport them to Luoyang.
Even with Liu Shan's calmness, he sang with a weed.
The figures who stirred up the entire Central Plains were sitting leisurely in the car and singing songs. In front and behind him, there were dozens of carriages, pulling heavy weapons and equipment, and boxes of gold and silver.
In the next few days, the powerful offensive of the Qin King's army had approached Luoyang. The prefectures and counties and towns in the north and south were constantly losing. The Qin King's army was as powerful as a rock and rushed all the way. The defeated soldiers kept fleeing to the rear, and the wealthy vendors who were small families drove to Luoyang. The refugee trend flashed wave after wave on the road like waves.
When the mobilized troops went to reinforcements, it was too late.
After the more than 100,000 troops of Xia Zhu, who had rushed from Hebei, suddenly received the news that the Qin army had occupied several towns north of Luoyang, they could only detour behind Luoyang.
The final place to march was set at Huzhu.
At this time, the peasant army took a walk and returned to Mengjiagou. At this time, the peasants in the village heard about the Mengjiagou Uprising. These poor people who had been suppressed, exploited and forced by the government for a long time and were forced by harsh governments to sell their children and women, picked up their weapons and rushed to the place where the rebels were. Every day, hundreds of people were thinking about hoes and iron forks. The hunters in the mountains came with their bows and arrows that they had used for many years. The woodcutters came with their axes and machetes that they chopped wood. The fisherman came with their harpoons, and the butcher who killed pigs came with their blood-stained pigs came with their pigs.
A spark can start a prairie fire. At this time, after wandering around Xin'an, the rebel army finally ignited the prairie fire around Xin'an.
The banner of Wagang was supported again, and under the banner that was dancing in the strong wind, there were continuous people who signed up for the rebel army. These people who had been in charge of various professions and were oppressed in one breath finally awakened. In the camp of Wagang, the military strength was gradually increasing, and the number of people had already increased from less than two hundred at the beginning to thousands at this time.
Liu Shan also realized why Luoyang had not yet come to pursue him at this time.
At the beginning, Luoyang was concerned about the tens of thousands of Tang troops, and everyone was chasing the Tang army. Of course, Liu Shan knew that this was an army that did not exist at all. But Luoyang would not know that there were tens of thousands of enemy troops at the door of their house.
Later, the Qin King's army defeated the defenders in the north and south of Luoyang. At this time, the Qin King's army was restrained on the front battlefield. Luoyang wanted to wipe out himself, but the time had passed.
But these people who participated in the rebel army were surprised to find that the guys they took were useless because the rebel army gave them armor and weapons, and there were also people who helped train them. This was a luxury that some people who had experienced the rebel army had never had.
They would never dream of joining the peasant army. They originally thought of fighting with the official army in tattered clothes, hoes and forks, but at this time their equipment was even more elite than the left-behind army in the town.
This is an unusual army, and even more an unusual rebel army.
The day before, they were still working hard under the scorching sun. At this time, they had already picked up their weapons and were wearing armor to fight against the government army.
After the army around Xin'an was transferred away, the Wagang army, led by Liu Shan, surrounded Xin'an City again. At this time, the Wagang army was no longer the hundreds of peasant troops holding hoes and iron forks a few days ago. They had excellent equipment and had an advantageous force of nearly 3,000.
Just after the Wagang army surrounded Xin'an, the people in the city could not bear the long-term oppression and exploitation and revolted in the city. They attacked Xin'an's city gate and opened the city gate from inside. The uprising army swept through Xin'an like a tide. The government forces resisted a little, and faced the tide-like uprising army, and soon surrendered.
The two armies of the Mengjiagou Uprising and the Xin'an Uprising cooperated inside and outside and quickly captured Xin'an City. In a short period of time, Xin'an changed hands several times from the peasant army and the Zhengwang official army.
Taking the Xin'an War as the starting point, soon, a war will sweep around Luoyang.
Chapter completed!