Chapter 17 Forced to fight

Song Jingang hurriedly walked into Liu Wuzhou's Dingyang Palace. This was a palace built by Liu Wuzhou in imitating the Fenyang Palace. Although it covers a large area, it was not well-built. Without excellent craftsmen, it could not create a grand momentum, without strong financial resources, and could not see the magnificence of the palace. And it was only half built and stopped working. It gave people the feeling that this palace was like a monkey wearing human clothes. This has always been Song Jingang's private evaluation of Liu Wuzhou. (-< Shuhai Pavilion >-net.)

When he walked into the palace, he heard the miserable cry of a woman from afar. Song Jingang shook his head secretly. He knew that this was Liu Wuzhou's irritability and beat the woman to vent his anger. Although Liu Wuzhou was always good and reluctant to listen to the advice and was generous to win over others, he had a bad temper and used the palace servant to vent his anger if he was not satisfied.

However, it is no wonder that Liu Wuzhou was angry today. Liu Wuzhou gathered a large army to prepare for a decisive battle with Yang Yuanqing in Mayi. Unexpectedly, Yang Yuanqing sent troops to seize Fenyang Palace and Lishi County was also lost, which made Song Jingang secretly shocked.

In fact, in the eyes of Liu Wuzhou and Song King Kong, the military value of Fenyang Palace is not highly praised. Although it has certain military value, such as harassing the rear, destroying logistics transportation, etc., Taiyuan is not the rear of Liu Wuzhou, and Fenyang Palace did not cut off the Chi Road. It is still several miles away from the Chi Road. It is precisely because of this that Liu Wuzhou did not send heavy troops to guard it, and Song King Kong did not take it too seriously.

But Fenyang Palace was really taken away. Liu Wuzhou and Song Jin suddenly realized that its influence had a huge impact on the entire morale of the army, just like the enemy had already broken into the backyard, which made the morale of the army shake. The loss of Fenyang Palace gave people the illusion that their retreat had been cut off.

There were already many deserters in the army, which made Song Jingang really worried. He had already understood Yang Yuanqing's strategy and first destroyed the morale of Liu Wuzhou's army from the morale of the army to achieve the goal of defeating others without fighting.

It has to be said that Yang Yuanqing stabbed Liu Wuzhou's weakest part with a sword. Most of Liu Wuzhou's army was formed in less than two or three months, and they forced males to join the army, and their equipment and training were extremely backward, not to mention low morale.

Yang Yuanqing's strategy made Song Jingang extremely worried. He realized that they were not Yang Yuanqing's opponents, and that the initiative was already in Yang Yuanqing's hands, and they would lose sooner or later. (--net.)

Three naked palace maids were hung on the tree in the yard. They were furious for discussing the affairs of the Fenyang Palace in private and beat them with a whip.

The delicate bodies of the three palace maids were covered with shocking whip marks, almost completely lost. They were beaten to death, and there was no sound of screaming.

Liu Wuzhou held a whip soaked in oil in his hand, with his upper body naked, his chest and arms covered with thick hair, and his eyes were red, like a crazy beast. He vented his anger on these three innocent palace maids.

"The Palace of King Song is coming down!"

The guard reported that Song Jingang hurried into the yard. He obtained Liu Wuzhou's permission to enter and exit the palace without reporting.

Song Jingang looked at the three palace maids hanging on trees and couldn't help but shake his head. Liu Wuzhou was the dignified emperor of Dingyang, but he gave people the feeling that he had no emperor's aura at all. He even had to punish several palace maids, and he was naked. He sighed in his heart and bowed to salute, "See Your Majesty!"

Liu Wuzhou vented his anger halfway, threw away the whip, and walked towards the inner hall, "Let's come in and talk!"

Song Jingang ordered the guards to release the palace maids and send them back to the palace. He followed Liu Wuzhou into the inner hall.

Liu Wuzhou was already wearing a comfortable fine linen robe. He obtained a large number of emperor robes from Fenyang Palace, as well as countless luxury goods, including a golden ivory couch inlaid with gems in front of him. Liu Wuzhou was lying on the couch, holding a golden wine bottle in his hand, and was squinting his eyes and slowly enjoying the best Italian rosie wine.

Liu Wuzhou was once a strong and brave soldier, but his extravagant and extremely desireful life in the past six months has caused his physical strength to drop rapidly. After beating the palace maid, he also felt a little tired.

"You are doing something about Fenyang Palace!" Liu Wuzhou asked impatiently. He didn't want to listen to this matter now.

Song Jingang shook his head, "I'll tell you another thing. There have been more than 4,000 deserters since last night."

"How could it be?" Liu Wuzhou stood up suddenly, his eyes widening.

"It's just that you don't want to hear about this. The fall of Fenyang Palace has a great impact on the morale of the army." Song Jingang sighed.

Liu Wuzhou sat down dejectedly. He drank the wine in the bottle, threw the wine aside, and grabbed it deeply into his hair with both hands, "How could this happen!" he shouted in pain.

Song Jingang stared at him for a while and said slowly: "We are really not his opponent, please retreat south!"

"Transition south?"

Liu Wuzhou slowly raised his head and looked at Song Jingang in surprise, "What do you......What does this mean?"

Song Jingang smiled bitterly, "I thought Yang Yuanqing really had only 30,000 troops. I thought, maybe we could still compete with him in concentrating our troops, but I didn't expect that his army would cross the river from Lishi County, with more than 30,000 troops. His intention was very obvious, to block us in Mayi County and annihilate them all. Your Majesty, Mayi County will definitely not be able to save it. It would be better to give up Mayi County, preserve its strength, retreat to the south of Taiyuan, and let Yang Yuanqing attack Taiyuan."

"No!"

Liu Wuzhou roared like a wild beast, "I ran away before I fought. It was spread out and made the world laugh at me, Liu Wuzhou, no! I won't withdraw."

"But your Majesty, the first battle has been fought, we have lost. Yang Yuanqing occupied Fenyang Palace and seized Lishi County, which has seriously shaken the morale of the army. We have lost without fighting."

"I don't care!"

Liu Wuzhou was full of anger, "If you don't fight in a battle, let me escape with my tail between my legs. I, Liu Wuzhou, can't do it. I have an army of 200,000 and the other party has only 30,000. Why are you afraid of it?"

"But we can't afford to drag it down. The soldiers are constantly fleeing, and more and more. There will be more than 10,000 tonight. How could Yang Yuanqing not know that, and he will not fight us. His strategy is very obvious. He just wants to defeat others without fighting. Your Majesty, we are very passive now!"

Liu Wuzhou paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back. He was very clear about his situation and had lost the support of the Turks. Taiyuan City could not be captured. The wealthy families of the three counties of Mayi, Yanmen and Loufan did not support him and fled to Taiyuan City one after another. He could no longer support the supplies of more than 200,000 troops. However, Mayi County was his nest and his hometown. He gave up like this, and he was unwilling to give up. In any case, he had more than 200,000 troops, seven times that of Yang Yuanqing. How could he know that he would not be able to do it if he didn't fight? If he could defeat Yang Yuanqing, then he would be stable.

Thinking of this, Liu Wuzhou finally made up his mind and said coldly: "Yang Yuanqing doesn't want to fight me, so he's playing tricks on me behind his back. I'll come to him to find him."

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Shanyang City itself is not big, with a circumference of less than twenty miles, with a permanent population of more than 4,000 households and nearly 30,000. However, in order to create prosperity for the capital, Liu Wuzhou ordered all households and above in Mayi County, Yanmen County and Loufan County to move into Shanyang City. The population of Shanyang City increased sharply, from more than 30,000 to more than 100,000. In addition, there are tens of thousands of garrisons in the city, making the city extremely crowded and chaotic. Liu Wuzhou failed to expand Shanyang City, which could not solve this crowded and chaotic situation. All houses were full, and many families could only live in tents. The city became stinky, messy, and complained.

However, from today on, large-scale military mobilizations have occurred in Shanyang City. Tens of thousands of elite troops stationed in the city have all left the city and gathered on a large scale outside the northern city. Armed forces from all over the country have also come in a steady stream. Many ordinary people realize that a war is about to break out.

A long alley was also filled with tents. A middle-aged traveling doctor who was running around the world hurried between a narrow tent with a medicine box on his back, and walked to the end of the alley. At the end was a yard. He knocked on the door and the door opened. It was a young man. It was rare for young men to be seen in Shanyang County and even Mayi County.

"We came back so late, we thought you were arrested and used as a military doctor!" the young man joked in a low voice.

"Yes!" The middle-aged traveling doctor agreed vaguely, walked into the yard, and closed the door at any time.

"Why, have you got the exact information?" the young man asked.

"Go into the house and talk!"

The middle-aged traveling doctor walked into the room. At this time, the room was full of people, with thirty or forty people, all of whom were strong young men.

This is an intelligence point located in Shanyang City by the Fengzhou Army. It was originally only three or four people, but ten days ago, Fengzhou Army scouts kept sneaking into the city by various means, causing the yard to reach forty-two scouts. The leader was a scout captain named Luo Zhuo.

Everyone was gathering for dinner and discussing military information by the way. The large-scale mobilization of Liu Wuzhou's army made everyone alert. At this time, the middle-aged wandering doctor walked into the room. The middle-aged wandering doctor was surnamed Wu, and was a military doctor in the Fengzhou army. He obtained a lot of information in the name of practicing medicine.

Doctor Wu found a seat to sit down, put the medicine box down, and smiled at the captain Luo Zhuo and said, "I have obtained accurate information. Today I will treat Liu Wuzhou's assistant minister of the Ministry of War. He told me that this time Liu Wuzhou mobilized the army to go north to fight the Fengzhou army. Their desertion was too serious, so Liu Wuzhou could only take a single bet."

The captain Luo Zhuo nodded, and the other two received the same information. The information obtained from the three channels was consistent, which means that the information was credible. He immediately took out a thin piece of silk, dipped the sharp goose feather ink and wrote down the information on the thin piece of silk, blowd the ink traces, and took out a thin red bamboo tube from his arms, folded the thin silk and stuffed it in. He handed the information to the Eagle slave and said, "Send it back to Yulin City immediately!"

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A quarter of an hour later, a goshawk flapped his wings and flew into the sky and flew towards Yulin City in the northwest. At the same time, Liu Wuzhou's army was quickly gathering. Three days later, Liu Wuzhou gathered 200,000 troops, proclaimed himself General Pofeng, appointed Song Jingang as deputy commander, and ordered the general Huang Ziying to lead 10,000 people to defend Shanyang City. He personally led the army to fight to kill Yulin City. Liu Wuzhou made a desperate bet and wanted to defeat Yang Yuanqing.

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