The Cangtou nervously took off Shen's stomach from the horse's back and put on armor for the land.
The knights got off their original horses, and the other ones came to them with the new horses.
The knights in the Han Dynasty had horses or had horses.
An ordinary knight, a horse is used to carry himself, a horse is used to carry armor, a horse is used to carry cyan heads, and a horse is used to carry nothing, which is used when rushing to the formation.
If it is the most elite knight, it can even reach the level of five horses, six horses, or even twenty chaos.
Coincidentally, the Han Dynasty did not lack horses, nor did it lack elites who rode horses and shot archers left and right, nor did it lack armor.
In the past, Qi State's geographical location was really outstanding, with horses, people, food, and iron. If we included the southern part of the two Huai Rivers, there were actually ships, but the people of Qi didn't care much.
The current Han State has inherited these characteristics of Qi State and continued to develop on this basis.
Liu Taozi was now replaced by the Cangtou people with heavy armor, rode on the Black Wind, and picked up his weapon.
The knights were ready to go, and the horses of the knights who took the lead in breaking the formation began to wear armor.
The Northern Dynasties armored cavalry equipped with heavy knights were so terrifying that they stood in a row.
Compared to the time, Liu Taozi is more generous.
Under the sun, these fully armed knights stood in a row, with their horses covered with horses. The light shone on their armor and reflected cold light.
They kept a distance from each other, the knight's head was completely wrapped, and the war horse under his arms was completely a monster of steel.
And in the distance, the enemy was screaming in horror and hurriedly forming an array.
This is Zhongzhou.
After Wei Xiaokuan left with his army, there were only more than 2,000 soldiers left here, responsible for watching over the civilians and supplies, and guarding against thieves.
Liu Taozi came here like this, without hiding his own traces. These people were so scared that they were no longer looking shy. Liu Taozi raised his horse and at the command, the Knights launched an attack.
The heavy cavalry charged forward, the heavy sound of horse hooves gathered together, and dust rolled, and they crashed towards the enemy like a torrent of iron.
"Puff!!"
The enemy's formation had not yet been formed, but was hit head-on by the heavy cavalry, and was instantly broken. The speed of the heavy cavalry was not affected. They accelerated and continued to advance.
Their advancement is a real advancement. Just like this, Liu Taozi charges in the middle, with two powerful generals, Gao and Shi, respectively, on the left and right wings. Who can stop this?!
It's just a crazy attacking machine and a killing machine.
Liu Taozi waved his horse and the enemy kept falling down. Sometimes Liu Taozi didn't need to chop and kill him. When the war horse hit him, the man would be almost gone.
With just one round of charge, the enemy's formation completely disappeared, and even the enemy itself disappeared.
The Han army shouted that the surrendered people would not be killed, and the soldiers who were fleeing hurriedly knelt down to pray for life.
Liu Taozi stopped a round of attack and stopped, allowing the left and right to take over the camp here.
The camp here in Zhongzhou is very long. There are dozens of battalions, all along the official road. They are connected to each other and form the camp at Zhongzhou. Most of these camps are civil servants, and they store tools and food for building cities.
etc.
Liu Taozi ordered the Qingqi to go all the way forward and surrender the camps along the way.
Everyone was particularly busy. Gao Yanzong rode his horse panting to Liu Taozi. There were many heads hanging on both sides of his war horse. Not only him, but many other knights also looked like this. After ordering to stop the attack, the first thing was done.
Just cut your head and get military merits.
Before the war was over, we took military merit first, which was the old characteristic of Qi.
"Brother, I'm really convinced!"
"Did you think about tricking Wei Xiaokuan into the south when you first came to Zhongzhou and then dig out his hometown?"
"This cavalry is really used by my brother...perfect!"
"If I were Wei Xiaokuan, I would be pissed to death now."
"On the surface, it is attacking the south side, but in fact it is solving its own crisis."
"I thought my brother really wanted to take Chen Ren to beat Zhou Ren. It turned out that the real purpose was to solve the problem in Luozhou!"
"I accept it! Really!"
Gao Yanzong's eyes were shining when he looked at Liu Taozi. Gao Yanzong had always had lofty ambitions. He wanted to follow Liu Taozi and be as brave as he could fight.
But he gave up now, forget it, the difference between him and his brother is not a bit sporadic.
I'm afraid I can't catch up with this gap until I die.
When Gao Yanzong was in Chuzhou, he received an edict from Liu Taozi to rush to Yuzhou, he was still confused. He learned that he wanted to fight the Zhou people with Chen people. Although Gao Yanzong did not say anything, he was still very upset.
Care about it, he felt that his brother was just doing nothing and couldn't find anything to do, so he took Chen people to the south to cause trouble.
But now he realized that his brother's self was always clear, that is, people like Luozhou who might threaten his family, who pull Chen people to fight the enemy and stretch the front line, are all lies!
Shi Fangsui stood on the other side, smiling brightly at this moment.
"I've said it long ago, Your Majesty must have his own judgment."
Gao Yanzong scratched his head and whispered, "I told Wansui about this before, but I didn't expect that this guy would make the decision."
Liu Taozi just stared at the distance, "Where are the people in Luozhou?"
"It'll be here soon."
Gao Yanzong also corrected his face, "It was said that Yuan Wenzong came here in person. Brother, I see, the city defense here is weak,
Qianjian, we will directly attack the three surrounding cities and include Zhongzhou in Luozhou together. In this way, the enemy's defense line will have to go back again..."
"No need."
Liu Taozi looked around, "We expanded too fast before that things like this happened now...\n..\n
It may be possible to win Zhongzhou, but things will not be easy after taking it."
"In addition, there is no need to worry about the enemy's defense line. The Chen people occupy Mianshui, and the Zhou people dare to station troops here?"
"Just transport the things away, so that Yuan Wenzong can speed up the speed. The rest of the soldiers will set up more whistle cavalry, and the rest will rest on the spot to prevent the enemy's city from attacking."
"only!!"
Without Wei Xiaokuan, this place was open to Liu Taozi and allowed him to enter and exit.
The knights were resting in the local area, and Yuan Wenzong was soon there.
At this time, Liu Taozi and the soldiers of Moxia were stationed in the southernmost camp to rest.
When Yuan Wenzong walked in, he happened to see the knights under his devil gathered in the camp and were playing games.
They are playing, this is a war chess game. Gao Yanzong was having a lot of fun with Shi.
They had forcibly marched for a long time before, and then fought immediately. Now it was the time when they needed the most, so Liu Taozi did not prohibit them from holding entertainment activities.
After Yuan Wenzong asked someone to report, he quickly walked into the inner room.
In the room, a man who looked like an official from Zhou State sat carefully, Liu Taozi was holding the document in his hand.
Say something to him.
Seeing Yuan Wenzong coming, Liu Taozi signaled to him and asked him to sit down.
Yuan Wenzong didn't have time to pay a visit and sat aside in the wrong way.
Zhou Guan said with a look of horror and trembling, "Master... I'm just ordered to build a city. I really don't know the rest of the matter..."
"Okay, just pretend you don't know, but there is one thing you want to help me and I will let you go!"
"Please give me the order! I will definitely obey!"
"You go to Daning and tell the officials that I will limit him to five days to open the city and surrender. Otherwise, when the city is broken, the entire clan will be killed! If you can convince them to surrender, I will grant you an official title
!”
"only.
The official didn't seem very confident, so Liu Taozi asked him to go out.
Yuan Wenzong watched the man leave, squinted his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.
"The Lord Yuan is finally here."
Liu Taozi spoke, and Yuan Wenzong woke up immediately and hurriedly looked at him, "Your Majesty!"
"You're a little late."
"I was in the countryside, but after receiving the imperial edict, I rushed day and night, which delayed my time...:"
"Okay, there's no need to."
Yuan Wenzong is timid. Liu Taozi asked a few questions and started to tremble in fear. Yuan Wenzong really didn't expect his lord to take action so quickly. He told his lord about his concerns not long ago. It didn't take long before, and the lord had already
He didn't even react after helping him solve it.
Liu Taozi said softly: "Since you are here, let's start immediately and transport the things back, these things,
Is it useful to you?"
"It's useful! Very useful! These are the things that Luozhou needs the most, many of them... But, your Majesty, I think the matter of these civil servants...:.:"
"you say."
"Your Majesty, I think that for these civilians, we can release those who are interested in returning home and only take away those who are willing to follow us to Luozhou."
"Oh? Why?"
"Luozhou is exhausted and there are insufficient officials. If you forcefully take away these families in Zhou State and are unwilling to leave your hometown and return to Luozhou, these people will become unstable factors and may be used by the Zhou people in the future.
Or rebellion or something like that will be bad for Luozhou.”
"But if they are let go, they can not only break the false propaganda against Liu Han on the Zhou side, but also further damage the morale of the enemy..."
Yuan Wenzong explained a lot, and Liu Taozi listened very seriously.
"Okay, just do what you said, go."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!!"
Yuan Wenzong was naturally very happy and hurriedly started doing this.
But as soon as he issued an order here, officials came back again to inform the big news.
"Mr. Yuan, it's not good!"
Yuan Wenzong was counting a lot of supplies in the warehouse, but the chief minister who had just received his order suddenly came back, which surprised him quite.
"What's wrong? The civilians are in turmoil?"
"no."
The chief minister looked helpless, "These civil servants all hope to follow us, and they are not willing to stay in Zhou State!"
"ah??"
Yuan Wenzong was even more shocked.
Could it be that my great man’s reputation has improved to this extent?
The enemies are unwilling to go home, they all want to rely on my big man?
Looking at the confused look on his lord's face, the chief smiled bitterly, "Gui Shigong!! These civilians are not good things!!"
"What does this mean?"
"I have asked all of them. These people are all guilty people in Zhou State."
"They were implicated because of the previous innovations of Yuwen Yong, and were sent here as civil servants."
Yuan Wenzong suddenly realized, "I said, Yuwen Yong has always cherished national strength, but he insisted on sending civilians to come during the busy farming season. I just thought he was too afraid of the Han Dynasty. Now it seems that they are all sinners!"
The Chief Secretary lowered his voice, "Governor, the Zhou Kingdom has followed us in many innovations. Only these people, in the Han Dynasty, will be suppressed by us. How can we bring such people back to Luo?
Where is the state?”
The Changshi's meaning is very clear. These people are all garbage, either big clans or powerful men, or fucking noble men, or children of the Shi family. Anyway, they are all garbage that was arrested and thrown here against Yuwen Yong's reform.
, It's not good to go back with the garbage now, right?
Yuan Wenzong pondered for a long time, then started laughing.
"Actually not."
"These people can do evil in the place because of their own power, but now they are just a group of civilians who are dead. Where can they have any power?"
"Take them back and distribute the farmland for them to plant, then they are farmers. Don't worry about these things, take them back first, and after taking them back, I will make arrangements."
"only!!"
Lao Yuan continued to get busy.
At the same time, the Zhou official captured by Liu Taozi was also sent to Daning City. However, he did not persuade Liu Taozi to surrender according to Liu Taozi's idea, but instead informed Liu Taozi's instructions here one by one.
Officials, prepare them for defense.
The officials here were quite afraid. Without Wei Xiaokuan, how could they resist Liu Taozi's attack?
All they can do is to ask for help from the surrounding area, hoping to save the main city.
At this time, the five-day deadline was also here, and Liu Taozi summoned his troops again and made plans to go to war.
Gao Yanzong was quite excited.
Standing on the school ground, he wanted to take down Daning now and then headed straight to Chang'an.
But when I recalled my brother's words not long ago, Gao Yanzong was not sure if his brother really wanted to fight Chang'an.
Looking at the gathered knights, Gao Yanzong pondered for a long time, and then he looked at Liu Taozi.
"Brother, didn't you say we won't take Zhongzhou?"
"right."
"Then where are we going?"
"Go and fight Nanyang."
"ah??"
"Do you still have to go back?"
"If Wei Xiaokuan learns that there is an attack here, we are still preparing to attack the other cities, and maybe we will divide our troops to rescue them."
Gao Yanzong was stunned.
His lips trembled for a long time, but he stopped talking.
Brother, be a person!!!
Come again?
Just let Wei Xiaokuan run at both ends and then fight in two directions?
Gao Yanzong waited for a long time, and then asked, "But it has been so long, the Zhou people have already responded, right? The other reinforcements must have arrived...
"Yes, are Chen's reinforcements not coming?"
"Brother, wise!!!"
"I wish to be the pioneer!!"
"General!!"
"Zhongzhou!"
"Zhongzhou Daying!!!"
Wei Xiaokuan buzzed in his mind, and he wasted his whole body, took a deep breath, and stabilized his mind.
At this moment, Wei Xiaokuan was sitting in the Nanyang official office.
The decorations inside the house were quite luxurious. He sat in the upper position, his own generals and local officials sat on his side. Everyone was discussing the direction of the next war. The scout came in again, holding the documents in his hand, trembling.
He said what he said just now.
Almost when Wei Xiaokuan heard the word Zhongzhou, he understood in his heart.
He was fooled.
Liu Taozi's purpose has always been his own camp, colluding with the Chen people, forcing Nanyang, and then retreating.
This is all fake. The purpose is to let him leave Zhongzhou and stay in Nanyang obediently, and not walk around.
Wei Xiaokuan took the letter and looked down at it.
Sure enough, that's it.
The room was silent for a moment.
Grandpa Liu asked anxiously: "Duke? What happened to Zhongzhou?"
"It's Liu Taozi."
"He took advantage of my visit here and went back to break the Zhongzhou camp, snatched supplies and civilians, and prepared to capture several important cities and open the Chang'an gate."
For a moment, the house was in an uproar and everyone was talking.
"What should I do?"
"If there is any loss in Zhongzhou, wouldn't Chang'an be dangerous?"
Wei Xiaokuan sat in the upper seat, just listening to everyone's words and fell into deep thought.
The prefect Liu hurriedly said, "Duke! Zhongzhou cannot be in trouble. Go to rescue as soon as possible!"
Wei Xiaokuan suddenly narrowed his eyes, and a trace of ferocity flashed in his eyes.
"Yes, what you said makes sense."
"I have to go to rescue."
"Zhongzhou is the gateway to Chang'an. There is no loss. I have to go to rescue myself."
Listening to Wei Xiaokuan's words, the prefect always felt something was wrong, but he didn't know what was wrong.
But some generals disagree with this view. Some people said, "General, the reinforcements of the southerners are constantly rushing to Mianshui. If you leave and the southerners launch an attack, will Anzhou be completely destroyed?"
Wei Xiaokuan waved his hand and said loudly: "The reason why the southerners gathered their troops is not to attack us,
It is to capture Liang State. Liang State is the mortal enemy that Chen State dreams of getting rid of. Liang State is not prepared in the direction of Mianyang and does not have many infantry. This is the best time for the Chen people to attack Liang State. They are not
Will miss this opportunity,
Go north specifically.”
"Don't worry!"
Wei Xiaokuan comforted everyone and immediately issued an order. He divided an army to station in Nanyang, while he led his infantry and cavalry to leave here, claiming that he would be in urgent need of saving Zhongzhou.
He led the demon to walk north for more than twenty miles, then suddenly stopped, headed eastward, and deviated directly from the route.
The generals who followed him were particularly strange about this and asked.
"Haha, Liu Taozi had no intention of conquering Zhongzhou at all. Why did he act like this? He wanted to use the same trick again and trick us into Zhongzhou and then attack Nanyang again. How could I let him succeed?"
"This time, we will set up an ambush on his must-pass road...\n::.This time, we must shoot Liu Taozi!! To eliminate future troubles!"
Chapter completed!