Chapter 168

When Hong Chengchou arrived at the foot of Ruzhou city with his army, Niu Er and Hong Ying were already in full readiness, and all the threats that should be eliminated in the city were eliminated.

Looking at all the anti thief flags flying at the head of the city, Hong Chengchou's face turned black into the bottom of the pot. While he was angry, he was a little excited.

He naturally knew that with the strength of this group of anti thieves, he could beat Ruzhou city. Maybe, and whether to fight or not were two different things.

With the style of those anti thieves, they will never bite such hard bones.

But now he not only laid down Ruzhou City regardless of casualties, but also made a defensive posture. In addition, more than 10000 anti thieves went south yesterday morning. Why don't you understand what Xiaohua Wang wants to do?

Obviously, the other party didn't want to escape like this. He chose to take risks, and he could only take risks with the soldiers.

In fact, Hong Chengchou wants to clean up the rebels in the city first regardless of the rebels going south. After fighting so many times, he has almost touched the details of these rebels.

According to the information obtained yesterday, although the soldiers and horses left by the other party in the city are only logistics and logistics troops and second rate troops without military uniforms, as long as these people are eliminated, they can not only obtain a lot of money, food and materials, but also cut off the arm of King Xiaohua.

This opportunity is very rare. However, as the governor of suppressing thieves, he can't help it.

In the past two months, not only did not achieve the slightest success, but also let the anti thieves break the city again and again. Now even Ruzhou has been captured, and your majesty has long been dissatisfied.

If even Nanyang is captured by anti thieves, it will be really hard to eat. Xiong Wencan's lesson is there.

The other party puts on this posture. He doesn't have to think that Xiaohua Wang must go to raid Nanyang.

Nanyang is located in the plain. Originally, he didn't expect the other party to sneak into Nanyang, so he didn't inform the defenders in the city to strengthen their defense. Now he sent a fast horse to send a message. If he went south, he would be intercepted by the other party, but it was too late to detour.

So now there are only two ways in front of him. Either divide the troops or go directly south regardless of the anti thieves in the city to pursue and suppress the king Xiaohua.

However, the other party is now in the city. Once this heaven given opportunity is missed, it will never happen again in the future. Coupled with the cunning of King Xiaohua, most of them have not caught up with him and will flee to the mountains. After weighing the pros and cons, they finally decided to divide their troops.

However, the division of troops also depends on how to divide them. If the cavalry and a few infantry are left to surround the city, the main force of the army will go south, or let the cavalry go to rescue Nanyang, and the infantry will destroy the anti thieves in the city first.

"My Lord, according to the description of the Tangma, all the elite that Xiaohua Wang took away are elite. With their feet, I'm afraid they will arrive at the foot of Nanyang city at noon tomorrow. Only by letting general Cao take the cavalry to rescue."

Seeing that Hong Chengchou was always hesitant, Qian Gao had to sigh and say.

"The governor naturally knows that it is most appropriate and powerful to let the cavalry go to rescue Nanyang and all the infantry stay to besiege Ruzhou City, but the thief clearly did it on purpose to lure me to send cavalry."

Hong Chengchou felt his beard and walked back and forth in the tent. He really couldn't figure out how the other party would ambush his cavalry.

"My Lord, I'm going to Nanyang. The terrain near Lushan County is a little complex. The rest are open. Commander Cao has been in battle for a long time. It's very difficult for the thief to ambush."

"I'm not afraid of anything. I'm afraid of ten thousand."

Hong Chengchou sighed.

Qian opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.

The Xiaohua King dared to leave all the logistics and logistics troops in Ruzhou city for the governor to attack, but the governor was too late to make up his mind to send cavalry to rescue Nanyang.

It can be seen that adults are slightly worse than the Xiaohua king in making a decision. They are really unwilling to take any risk.

But this is not an open war between the two countries. The other side is a thief and always takes the initiative. If you don't take any risks, you won't want to destroy the other side for a hundred years.

"I know you must think that the governor is too cautious and conservative, but have you ever thought that once the 20000 Qin troops and 3000 guanning iron cavalry of the governor are destroyed, who can cure the thief?

Now, although the governor is often led by his nose and passive, he can always suppress him in the mountains, so that he dare not rush into the plain to expand. "

Hong Chengchou said, looking up to the sky and sighing, not that he didn't dare to gamble, but that he couldn't afford to gamble.

"Adults have long-term vision and thoughtful thinking, and the students admire them. However, adults can't help themselves in the court!"

"Whatever!"

Hong Chengchou smiled bitterly, waved his hand, ordered someone to call Cao Bianjiao in and charged:

"Bian Jiao, I want you to take the cavalry to rescue Nanyang, but you must remember that you must not fight head-on with the thief army, let alone sneak attack. You just need to take the cavalry to the foot of Nanyang City, okay?"

"The end will understand!" Cao Bianjiao hugged his fist.

"Well, you must remember, no matter how good the opportunity is, don't sneak attack. After you lead the troops to Nanyang, the little thief will never dare to attack the city. If he runs elsewhere, you will follow him. If he escapes into the mountains, you don't have to take care of it. Just wait for the governor's order in Nanyang."

Hong Chengchou nodded and asked with a solemn look on his face. He was not at ease after saying that. He looked at his staff: "Zhiyuan, work hard for you, and go with Bian Jiao!"

"It's an adult. The students will not let the thief have an opportunity."

Qian Gao seemed to have expected that Hong Chengchou would let him go with Cao Bianjiao. There was no accident.

"When you change Jiao and encounter an emergency, you must consult Zhiyuan more and make a decision. You must not be reckless."

"Don't worry, I will remember."

Cao Bianjiao nodded seriously and replied, but he felt that the supervisor was too wordy and cautious.

Hong Chengchou relaxed his mind and explained to Qian Gao. Cao Bianjiao galloped south with 3000 guanning cavalry.

Hong Chengchou also got up his spirits and prepared to clean up the anti thieves in the city. He immediately ordered the army to start and surround the three sides of Ruzhou city.

Only there is no encirclement in the East, and it only takes more than ten miles to get out of the city from the East. Obviously, old Hong dog knows the truth that encirclement three lacks one.

He also knows that if he really wants to attack Ruzhou city with more than 20000 troops in his hands, he will be killed or injured in the end.

So while ordering people to build siege equipment, they also ordered loud people to publicize under the city.

He promised that as long as he was willing to submit to the imperial court, he would not only let bygones be bygones, but also the big and small leaders would be granted official titles. Ordinary thieves would be given ten acres of good land each, and tax-free for three years.

However, the reputation of old Hong dog has long been smelly in the righteous army, so even if it is exaggerated, Niu Er and the old thieves are indifferent.

He also greeted all the women in Hong Chengchou's family. The angry old Hong dog's face turned green. He had to talk again. He offered a reward of ten thousand liang of silver to the obedient, a thousand acres of fertile land, and granted thousands of official titles.

This made commander Niu nail the door to death when he slept at night and open it the next day.