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Chapter 958: The Great Destruction of Qiliang

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    In addition to attacking the two armies in the north, Yang Liang also ordered generals Yu Zhengzheng and Qi Liang to go south.

    Among them, Qiliang led his troops out of Fukou and rushed to Liyang. The purpose was to defend against the reinforcements in the Qingyanzhou area.

    Qiliang was originally stationed in She County, located at the junction of Hedong, Handan and Xiangzhou, monitoring the three places.  After Yang Liang's order arrived, Qi Liang immediately led 25,000 troops to attack Cizhou (later Cizhou, which governs today's Ci County, Hebei Province).

    Guan Zheng, the governor of Cizhou, was the son of Shangguan Xian, the great general of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. He was born as a general and was very good at strategy.  Qiliang's army besieged the city. Shangguanzheng mobilized civilians to defend the city and asked for help from Xiangzhou in the south.  Cizhou is also a fortified city, and Shangguanzheng is well versed in Tao strategy. In his eagerness, it was difficult for Qi Liang to capture it. In the end, seeing the delay, Qi Liang directly crossed Cizhou and attacked Xiangzhou southward.

    At this time, the commander of Xiangzhou was Xue Zhou.  Xue Zhou was originally the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment. When Gao Jiong was deposed, Xue Zhou interceded on behalf of Gao Jiong. He violated the will of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty Yang Jian and was directly imprisoned in shackles by Yang Jian's order. It took a long time for him to be pardoned.  Later, Xue Zhou was released, but he could not fulfill his post as Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, so Yang Jian appointed Xue Zhou to be temporarily in charge of Xiangzhou affairs.

    "This temporary charge of Xiangzhou's affairs can only be regarded as a temporary assignment, without rank or rank, almost like an imperial envoy."  However, Xue Zhou was born as a famous official and had great prestige and reputation. Therefore, Xiangzhou's civil and military officials also obeyed Xue Zhou's orders.

    After Xue Zhou took office, he did not care about his official position. Instead, he enforced the law loosely and paid attention to people's livelihood. Therefore, he accumulated a huge reputation and became the real person in charge of Xiangzhou.

    After the rebellion of the Han Dynasty, the imperial court transferred Yang Yichen, the Minister of Ceremonies of Zong Zhengqing who was originally training troops in Hebei, as the general manager of Xiangzhou, commanding the troops of the states east of the Taihang Mountains and defending the front line east of the Taihang Mountains.  At this time, Yang Yichen was still training troops and horses in Cangzhou and other places, and it was too late to take office. Therefore, the military and political affairs of Xiangzhou were still managed by Xue Zhou.

    The rebel Qi Liang's army pressed on the border and approached Cizhou.  Xiangzhou is just south of Cizhou, only fifty or sixty miles away from Cizhou, and can be reached in less than a day.  When everyone heard this, they were terrified.

    At this time, the governor of Cizhou asked Xiangzhou for help. Xiangzhou was a large county and the seat of the general manager's office, with many soldiers and horses.  Therefore, all the generals in Xiangzhou asked Xue Zhou to send reinforcements, citing their dead lips and cold teeth.

    Xue Zhou was originally a close friend of Prince Min and the King of Han. He was dissatisfied with Yang Guang. Although he was unwilling to join the rebellion of Han King Yang Liang, he would not be willing to devote himself to putting down the rebellion.

    Therefore, although the generals requested a battle, Xue Zhou pretended that Yang Liang's army was too powerful and did not dare to send troops to resist. He refused the generals' request for a battle on the grounds that Xiangzhou's defense was more important.

    I didn¡¯t expect that Shangguanzheng could defend Cizhou City with a group of civilians and a small number of government soldiers.  And Qi Liang was also crazy. He went straight to Xiangzhou regardless of his options.

    There were tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Xiangzhou City at this time. The generals requested to keep the enemy out of the city, but Xue Zhou refused.

    Seeing Qi Liang's army heading straight towards Xiangzhou, Xue Zhou was unwilling to fight with it, so he sent his confidant Lu Shifan to Qi Liang's army and persuaded Qi Liang: "The affairs of the world have not yet been decided. As a minister, Xue Zhou must decide whether to go or stay."  You get what you want, why are you so eager to attack me?" He clearly expressed his neutral attitude.

    Lu Shifan even promised Qi Liang on behalf of Xue Zhou that as long as Qi Liang withdraws his troops, Xiangzhou City will not send a single soldier, let alone make an enemy of Qi Liang's troops.  To show his sincerity, Lu Shifan also gave 20,000 shi of military rations from Linzhang County (southwest of Linzhang County, Hebei Province today) to Qiliang.

    After hearing this, Qi Liang was overjoyed and thought that Xue Zhou was leaning towards Yang Liang, but he was so coy because he was afraid of being known as a rebel.  Qi Liang knew that he could not attack Xiangzhou with the force he had, so he was happy to get 20,000 shi of military rations in vain, and bypassed Xiangzhou and went straight to Baima Jin in Lizhou.

    Baimajin is one of the most important ferries east of Hulao Pass. It is also close to Liyangcang, the largest warehouse in Hebei. If you control this place, you can control millions of stones of grain, and you can pull up an army of more than 100,000 in an instant.  Centaur.

    At this time, Qiliang was heading south, and Yang Yichen, who was far away in Cangzhou, was also heading west quickly.

    After Yang Yichen received the emperor's order, he didn't have many troops in hand. He ordered soldiers from all over Hebei to assemble on their own and rushed to Xiangzhou while concentrating the troops in his hands.

    Yang Yichen gathered 3,000 troops in Cangzhou and went to Xiangzhou.  It took more than 700 miles from Cangzhou to Xiangzhou. Along the way, Yang Yichen sent orders in advance to the soldiers from Dezhou, Beizhou, Weizhou, Jezhou, and Jizhou that he was going to pass through. By the time Yang Yichen arrived at Weizhou, he already had 100,000 troops on hand.  Twenty thousand people.

    When Yang Yichen arrived in Weizhou, he was shocked when he heard that the rebel Qi Liang's troops had bypassed Xiangzhou and headed straight for Baimajin.

      Yang Yichen immediately led his troops to Liyangcang with General Guo Xuan as the vanguard.  Yang Yichen ordered Xiangzhou soldiers and horses to pursue Qi Liang, and urged his subordinates to march.

    Qi Liang led his army to attack Liyangcang. At this time, Liyangcang only had more than a thousand defenders. Yuan Baobao, the warden of the warehouse, was shocked when he saw the rebels coming. He was about to abandon the city and flee.

    At this time, Wei Zheng, a junior officer under Yuan Bao, advised Yuan Bao: "At this time, Qi Liang's lone army is deep in, and reinforcements from all walks of life are bound to have come to rescue Liyangcang. Once the warehouse supervisor chooses to abandon the city and loses Liyangcang, he will be liquidated after the war.  We only need to defend Qiliang here for a day or two, then reinforcements will arrive, and my lord will be able to make great achievements."

    Yuan Baobao is overjoyed.

    Wei Zheng suggested that Yuan Baobao disguise all the civilians in the warehouse as soldiers and stand on top of the warehouse. There were ten thousand civilians in the city, which would definitely frighten Qi Liang.

    Wei Zheng also offered Yuan Baobao to pretend to surrender to Qiliang.

    Wei Zheng and Chen Ji, the general under Yuan Bao, led the only 800 soldiers in the city and pretended to escape from Liyangcang and surrendered to Qiliang.  Yuan Baobao pretended to be angry and killed several criminals, claiming that he had killed Chen Ji's relatives and friends.

    Chen Ji and Wei Zheng arrived at Qiliang's army and expressed their willingness to be the vanguard of the Han army and serve the Han king.  He also advised Qi Liang not to rush to attack Liyangcang for the time being. Yuan Baobao had already hidden thousands of elite soldiers in the city, waiting for the Han army to take the bait.

    Qi Liang was shocked and didn't believe it.

    Wei Zhengze said that Yuan Baobao's troops were soldiers from Huazhou and Yunzhou. However, because the follow-up troops did not come, they did not go north but camped in Liyangcang.  Chen Ji also surrendered because he offended Yuan Bao Bao, who had many troops to attack and kill him.

    Qi Liang reluctantly believed what they said, so he stationed his army twenty miles west of Liyang Cang.  At night, Chen Ji and Wei Zheng led eight hundred soldiers to suddenly attack Qi Liang's Chinese army tent. The rebels of the Han Dynasty were caught off guard and their positions were in chaos. Qi Liang in panic led his troops to resist vigorously.

    At just this time, the main force of Guo Xuan's army also arrived at Liyangcang and immediately launched an attack on Qiliang's army. Qiliang was defeated, so he abandoned his army and went to Xiangzhou to join Xue Zhou.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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