Chapter 53: Battle

On the edge of the forest about a hundred miles away from Wanrong County, a fat hare emerged from the bushes and jumped through the grass. Finally, she stopped beside a green grass, pricked up her ears and listened carefully to the movements in the forest. After confirming that there was no danger, she quickly ate the tender grass beside her mouth.

The hare was eating happily, but she didn't see that not far from the left, a pair of green eyes had already stared at it. A big mouth with two canine teeth under her eyes was drooling. The eyes and the owner of the mouth were both a gray wolf weighing dozens of pounds. This gray was slowly approaching the hare with the cover of the bushes.

Just as the gray wolf was about to jump up and pounce on the hare, the ears of the two animals became firm at the same time. The hare quickly drilled into the bushes. The gray wolf looked at the disappeared bushes with reluctant eyes, put away his tail, and turned around and left.

There was a rustling sound from the dense forest in the distance, and dozens of ragged men stumbled into the figures. These people were carrying single swords and bows and arrows, and there was a strong smell of blood on their bodies. No wonder both the hare and the gray wolf turned around and left.

There are dense jungle here, and few people walk. Sometimes the people walking in front of this group of people sometimes have to open the way with a single knife and cut down the bushes blocking the front. This is a very physically consuming labor. The people in front have to exchange it every short time. When the people step out of the jungle and see the bright sky outside, many people are exhausted and sitting on the grass.

"Get up, get up quickly." The leader was furious and kicked the person sitting on the ground with his feet.

"Sir, let everyone have a rest. We have been wandering in the mountains for two days, so we are so tired." A person who was kicked begged.

The leader stopped and saw that everyone was unable to rush to travel anymore, so he had to reluctantly say, "Okay, after resting for half an hour, we must hurry up and go immediately. We must pass the news that Yu Wenxin has come to Wanrong and the valley has fallen to Your Highness as soon as possible. Otherwise, if Your Highness fails, we will be guilty of death."

These people were Yang Shi and others who were guarding the valley in Wanrong County. Two days ago, Yang Shi suddenly found several cavalrymen coming to the valley. When they came into contact with them, they realized that Yu Wenxin himself had arrived. The two sides immediately started fighting. In terms of the number of people, Yang Shi had more than 100 people. However, Yang Shi's men and horses were all government soldiers with little experience. Yu Wenxin's team was elite soldiers who had experienced many battles. The war began to be one-sided. Soon, the government soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and some government soldiers simply threw down their weapons and begged for mercy.

Yang Shi had no choice but to give up guarding the valley, and withdrew from the back mountain with the rest of the people, and was chased by Yu Wenxin. In the end, there were only more than twenty people left by Yang Shi, all of whom were the original guards around the prince. As for the hundreds of soldiers in the palace, the entire army was destroyed.

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Yang Yong and his guards temporarily moved into the nearest Xunyang County. The rebellion of Zhang Xu, Liang Shiyan, Yuwen Cheng and others, as well as the news that Yu Wenxin, Zhang Bin, Yuan Kai and others could be involved. Yang Yong has sent a quick horse to submit it to the court. The two censors, Yan and Fan, were also investigated. Their family is in Wanrong and they have a good deal with Yuwen Cheng. Although there is no evidence for the time being, they cannot be removed from the suspicion. The position of the censor must not be taken as the censor.

Ji Dun, the magistrate of Xunyang County, has been mixed in the past few days. Naturally, he made great contributions in this operation to siege Liang Shiyan, and he was praised by the prince himself. What he was worried about was that the county's prefecture soldiers were killed and injured, and they urgently needed a large amount of money to provide pensions. However, the final place for the encirclement of Liang Shiyan was near Xunyang County. The material supplement of all the troops had to come from Xunyang County. Soon, the inexpensive treasury of Xunyang County was exhausted. Although the soldiers from each county were now being repatriated one after another, he would take out some money to provide pensions to the injured and injured soldiers in the future.

Many soldiers in the palace are the pillars of their families. If there is no pension, there will be many soldiers in Xunyang County gathering, and no one dares to cause trouble. If the prince leaves and the other soldiers are disbanded, and the families of those who are killed and injured start to make trouble, what should we do?

On this day, when the Magistrate of Xunyang was wondering whether to find an opportunity to tell His Highness the Prince if he could allocate property from the court to the families of the dead and injured soldiers or reduce the money and food for several years, a soldier hurried into the county government office and shouted: "Sir, it's not good, it's back, it's back."

Ji Dun was shocked and grabbed the soldier in the palace: "The prince is here, who dares to rebel? They want to die." He was obsessed with the family members of the soldiers who were injured and killed, and thought that the families of the soldiers of the soldiers would dare to cause trouble now.

"Shangdang County, Yuwen Xin of Shangdang County has rebelled. Yuwen Xin's army has occupied Hedong Prefecture. Half of the county governments in the entire Hedong Prefecture have fallen into Yuwen Xin's hands. Now he is leading tens of thousands of troops to press towards Xunyang."

"What, tens of thousands of people?" Ji Dun was shocked. All the people in Hedong County gathered only 10,000 people. Yuwen Xin's regular army in the cavalry general's mansion had only 500 people. Where did tens of thousands of people come from? Then wouldn't Xunyang be very dangerous?

He stayed for a while before he remembered to inform the prince. But when he walked to the place where Yang Yong lived, he found that the prince had already learned the news. Li Shun, the governor of Fenzhou, Yiquan, the magistrate of Linjin, and the generals Lu Mulin, Duan Da, Qu Tutong and other generals were all present. Instead, he, the magistrate of Xunyang, came at the latest.

Ji Dun complained secretly. When Yuwen Xin rebelled, the prince sent someone to recover the dismissed army. Even if there was nothing to do in Xunyang County, he was really unable to support more than 10,000 troops. However, the prince and everyone were considering how to deal with Yuwen Xin's army, but he couldn't say anything, so he had to stand quietly.

"Dear friends, Yu Wenxin's rebellion, how should we deal with it?"

"Go back to Your Highness, I am not willing to lead my troops to fight Yuwen Xin." The person who asked for the order was Li Shun, the governor of Fenzhou. He was almost scared to death when he heard the prince was surrounded, but he hurriedly led his army to arrive. Liang Shiyan had already run away. He finally heard that Liang Shiyan was surrounded. When he led his army to rush, Liang Shiyan actually surrendered voluntarily. His two thousand men did not even move his swords and soldiers, so naturally there was no contribution. Now that he heard Yuwen Xin's rebellion, he suddenly thought that it was time to make contributions and couldn't wait to ask for his orders.

"Li Aiqing, I'll give you a reward. Yu Wenxin has tens of thousands of people. Are you sure of victory?"

"Don't worry, your highness, the so-called tens of thousands of people are mostly exaggerated words of rebels. Even if there are really tens of thousands of people, it is just Yuwen Xin who drives Liang into a bandit, so why are you afraid of?"

Li Shun responded carelessly and did not take Yu Wenxin seriously at all. In his opinion, Yu Wenxin's headquarters can be considered elite at most 500 people, and the rest are at most. Although Hezhong County has produced elite soldiers, the elite military soldiers have been drawn here in advance. Yu Wenxin wants to cover tens of thousands of people in a short time, and I am afraid that there are many old and weak people.

Yang Yong knew that since Yu Wenxin had taken over Wanrong County, he would definitely rescue the 2,000 elite soldiers in the valley. In addition, if Yu Wenxin had secret arrangements in Shangdang County, he might have a chance to gather 5,000 elite soldiers below. If Li Shun's two thousand troops rushed forward rashly, it would probably be sheep entering the tiger's mouth.

Yang Yong shook his head: "Li Aiqing doesn't know anything. Yu Wenxin had planned to rebel for a long time and secretly stored troops. It was not all about driving good people into enemies. You must not be careless."

At present, Li Shun's two thousand men are the most elite. Once these two thousand men are lost, even if there are still seven or eight thousand soldiers in the palace, it will be useless. Hedong County will fall in full. Yang Yong cannot take risks with these two thousand men.

When Li Shun heard this, he stopped talking. The Linjin County Magistrate Yi Quan said tremblingly: "The thief is so powerful, why don't your highness issue an edict to order the people of nearby states to encircle Yuwenxin."

"Well, this palace has issued edicts to Bingzhou, Rongzhou, Jianzhou and Yecheng, asking them to send troops quickly, but the distance water cannot quench their near thirst. Now Yuwenxin is approaching Xunyang County, so let's talk about how to deal with Yuwenxin's offensive first."

"Your Highness, I have something to say." Ji Dun gritted his teeth and stood up.

"It turns out that he is the magistrate of Xunyang County. Please say something if you have something to do."

"I thought it was better to abandon the city than to abandon the city." Ji Dun said tremblingly.

"Abandon the city?" As soon as Ji Dun finished speaking, everyone thought Ji Dun was crazy and started talking buzzingly. The officials were responsible for defending the territory. As the magistrate of Xunyang County, Ji Dun said this in front of the prince. Could it be that he was desperate?

"Oh? Tell me your reasons?" Yang Yong was not angry as others had expected. Yang Yong had seen so-called strategic transfers in later generations, so naturally he would not have ordered Ji Dun to push him out and kill him just because he said the abandonment of the city.
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