Secretly to Liyang

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The southwest of Liyang City is the foothills of Dali Mountain and not far from the bank of the Yellow River. It is the Liyang Cang, one of the six major granaries of the Great Sui Dynasty.

Liyang Cang is bordered by the Yongji Canal in the west and the Yellow River in the east, and water transportation is extremely convenient. The rented rice collected from Hebei is first concentrated here, and then transported from the Yongji Canal or the Yellow River to Luoyang and Chang'an. When using troops in the northeast, the military rations transported from the Jianghuai River were first stored here, and then transported to the northeast, which is the only important granary in Hebei.

During the great cause, the imperial court marched eastward several times, and all the military rations were transferred to Liyang. When Yang Xuangan raised an army, he was in Liyang to supervise the transportation of grain and grass, and controlled Yang Guang's lifeblood. In addition, Liyang was close to the eastern capital Luoyang, and he dared to raise an army to rebel against the Sui Dynasty.

Liyang is captured, Jiuzhou is restored.

Although Liyang Cang is not the largest of the six major granaries of the Sui Dynasty, it is located in the center of the north and south mobilization, which is very important.

When Chen Ke was in trouble with Wagang, he once said to the generals of Wagang, "The world is in chaos, which was originally a famine. Now, Liyang Cang is even more successful." Later, Zhai and Li Mi had occupied Liyang Cang, and "the people opened the warehouse and were free to eat. Within a few days, they won more than 200,000 victorious soldiers."

It was because of Liyangcang that Wagang went from a small mountain village to a great cause of fighting for the Central Plains. However, after winning Liyangcang, after several major battles, Li Mi's reputation in Wagang became higher and higher, and gradually became the real commander of the Wagang army.

Li Mi's strategy was to seize the Eastern Capital and then to Guanzhong to unify the world. Therefore, after Li Mi captured Ji County, he did not continue to march towards Hebei. Instead, he regained some troops and sent only 8,000 troops to stay in Liyangcang City, Ji County. The army attacked Luoyang with all its might to compete for the political center of the world.

It is precisely because of this that when Chen Kefu was short of food, he had to risk going south to raid and rob Li Yangcang to succeed. Guo Xiaoke and Lu Shishen led 10,000 light cavalry south, advanced west along the Yellow River, and quickly passed through Wuyang County controlled by the peasant army, and suddenly appeared in Li Yang.

Taking advantage of the sudden attack on Liyang Cangcheng late at night, he used the cover of the siege to dig out several tunnels under Cangcheng, and then filled the large bags of materials, and opened a large gap on the wall of the Loess Cangcheng, which was not particularly tall.

After opening the gap, with the strong armor, powerful crossbows, and gunpowder weapons of the Liaodong Army, they quickly seized the 5,000 people stationed in Li Yangcang. Li Yangcang was immediately taken down, and Lu Shishen led his troops to quickly turn around and attack Li Yang and Jijun City and completely captured Jijun within one day. The 8,000 soldiers and horses of the Wagang Army were all captured except those who died in the battle.

Guo Xiaoke and Lu Shi captured Ji County, but they were still separated from the Pingyuan County occupied by the Liaodong Army and were Qinghe and Wuyang County. Although there were already court troops stationed in Qinghe County, there were still many peasant army forces along the way. Ji County suddenly became an enclave and was not connected everywhere.

Fortunately, Ji County is located in the southwestern part of Hebei, close to the Yellow River. The bearded Zhang Zhongjian sent dozens of naval warships to advance west along the Yellow River and directly to Ji County. Not only did he transport the seized one million stones of grain back to Pingyuan County and Shandong Qi County through warships, but he also brought 10,000 reinforcements.

The reinforcements who arrived with the ships in the fleet were disembarking at the Liyang Wharf. Ten thousand reinforcements were all infantry, and many engineers were among them. After taking down Ji County, considering the imperial court's plan to recover the counties in southern Hebei, Chen Kefu changed his previous combat plan. After capturing Ji County, he transported most of the food back to Qi County and Pingyuan County, but the troops did not evacuate.

Not only that, 10,000 reinforcements were dispatched to strengthen the defense of Jijun. He defended the north bank of the Yellow River with 20,000 people to strictly prevent Li Mi's troops from crossing the Yellow River. Therefore, the arrival of these 10,000 troops not only included a large number of engineers, but also transported a large number of city-guarding equipment and gunpowder weapons.

Teams of soldiers were walking down from the Qinglong battleship in an orderly line. On the dock, carriages were transferring the grain transported from Liyang Cang to the vacant warships. The Liaodong soldiers who had just got off the ship rushed the vacant carriages to transport large equipment such as crossbow beds and catapults that had just been unloaded from the ship.

On the pier, there is a busy life.

Lu Shishen and Guo Xiaoke also stood there and commanded constantly, and their faces were extremely happy. In the past, they were both left behind in the capital, or in Liaodong, and they were bored and had no passion except training troops. This time, due to the food shortage crisis, they had the opportunity to run to Ji County to fight. They were originally reluctant to leave and wanted to return to the capital.

Unexpectedly, His Highness King Chen actually changed his order and asked them to stay in Ji County. Not only that, His Highness actually sent 10,000 reinforcements. Seeing the soldiers from this team of soldiers coming off the ship and the brand new equipment, the two of them immediately felt the long-lost aura. It seems that this time, staying in Ji County was not only left behind, but also a big battle to fight.

The Qinglong warships were already loaded with food and began to leave the dock, and the dock gradually became empty.

Lu Shishen happily watched the engineer load all the equipment onto the vehicle, "Old Guo, go, go back and have a good drink, I'll do it."

"Okay, people feel refreshed when they are happy. They don't dare to drink too much and make trouble. If you drink two drinks, don't be afraid, leave."

The two of them were about to get on the horse and leave, but they saw another big ship on the river in the distance entering the dock. This was a big ship several times larger than the Qinglong warship. Guo Xiaoke frowned, "It's actually a five-tooth warship. Such a big guy, the entire Sea Dragon Guard Navy seems to have only about 30 ships, and they are all on the sea. Today, one of them came here. Could it be that the court sent a commander to command the troops to the court for the ten thousand reinforcements?"

When Lu Shishen heard that the newly arrived ten thousand soldiers and horses might not be under his command, he was immediately a little unhappy. Seeing the huge warship slowly sailing over, he deliberately shouted, "No matter which one he came, I have already accepted these ten thousand soldiers. How could I spit out what I, Lao Lu, eat?"

"Oh, then I have to be yours, too?" A relaxed and familiar voice came from the warship.

Lu Shishen and Guo Xiaoke immediately heard the owner of the voice, and their hearts were filled with surprise, "Why are you here?"

Chen Kefu jumped down from the warship and landed steadily on the dock. He smiled and stepped forward and pounded hard on the chests of the two generals Lu Shishen and Guo Xiaoke.

"If you eat it, you won't spit it out. This is awesome. However, you can tell the difference between the enemy. This can be done to the enemy, but it is a bit too domineering to your own people."

Lu Shishen smiled and stepped forward, "The general is just a joke, how dare you be so?" He said that, glared at Chen Lei who had just gotten off the boat, meaning that this kid would not notify him in advance, which made him lose face.

Seeing that the fleet that had been loaded and slowly set sail and left the dock and drove eastward, Chen Kefu nodded with satisfaction, "You did a good job. Ten thousand people captured Ji County, but the soldiers and horses only suffered hundreds of casualties. They captured a large county for the court and more than one million stones of food. This is a great achievement."

Guo Xiaoke kept looking at the five-toothed warship at the wharf. He saw that no one came down from the wharf for a long time. At this time, more than a thousand imperial guards gathered. He couldn't help but wonder, "Your Highness, aren't you in Hengshan County? Why did you suddenly arrive in Ji County and only bring such a few people here?"

Chen Kefu smiled, "Of course, like you, I haven't had a war for a long time. I heard that there might be a war in Ji County this time, so I couldn't help but come."

Guo Xiaoke thoughtful, and Ji County was quite prominent. Not only was it on the edge of the Yellow River, but the Yongji Canal also flowed through Ji County. Not only that, in the current territory occupied by various situations, the territory occupied by the Hebei court is now in the southeast of Hebei and in the eastern part of Shandong on the south bank of the Yellow River. The counties in the southwest of Hebei are now occupied by the newly established Yan State, and on the opposite south bank of the Yellow River is Li Mi's territory.

The court had readjusted its strategic plan last time, and the status of the southern counties of Hebei has been greatly improved. This is the gateway to Hebei. The court is ready to quickly recapture the counties and control the gateway to the hands of the court.

Now the court has seized Ji County, but has defended the enclave to the death. The intention is already very obvious, which is to insert a wedge between Li Mi on the south bank and Wang Xuba Yan Kingdom on the north bank, and to separate the two forces. It prevents them from being tied together so that the court can successfully remove Wang Xuba Yan Kingdom and recover the gateway of Hebei, so as not to fall into entanglement in the south.

"Your Highness, the last generals also understand the importance of Ji County, and they will swear to protect Ji County to the death and never let Ji County fall into the hands of anyone. However, Your Highness is the commander of the entire army and a body of gold. How can you easily go to such a dangerous place? If Li Mi or Wang Xuba heard of Your Highness's whereabouts, they are afraid that they will not miss such an opportunity. If their army comes to attack, they will be afraid that it will be unfavorable to Your Highness. Please return to the north to the best." Guo Xiaoke said with some concern.

"Don't worry, my big banner is still in Hengshan at this time. I'm here secretly. As long as I don't use the banner, how can they know I'm here? Ji County is very important to the court, and I'm a little worried, so I came to see it myself. You don't have to worry too much. General Zhang Zhongjian's 50,000 naval troops will come to reinforce. At that time, General Li Jing will also attack from the direction of Qinghe. With so many soldiers, what if Li Mi or Zhang Zhongjian comes in person?"

Hearing that in addition to the 10,000 infantry reinforcements that had just arrived, the court would immediately transfer 50,000 naval troops to come, and the troops of Duke Wei from the Duke of Wei arrived by land. Lu Shishen and Guo Xiaoke also felt some tension. So many soldiers came here, it was no longer just a simple way to divide the north and south of the Yellow River. I am afraid that a great war will be launched in Ji County.

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