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Chapter 42: The City of Surrender in the East

Just as Yuchi Gong's personal guards gathered, Yuchi Gong and the soldier who came to report the news briefly introduced the cause of the civilian rebellion.

When he learned that it was Liu San, the father-in-law who was looking for a good face, killed the civilian husband, which aroused the fierce resistance of the civilian husband and led to the civilian rebellion. Yuchi Gong said with a gloomy face: "Damn it, all damn it!"

The soldiers of Tianxing Army around him lowered their heads and did not dare to show off.

They didn't know who the person Yuchi Gong scolded was, whether it was the civilians who deserved to die, or Liu San who deserved to die.

It was not long before the Tianxing Army's personal guard team had about 1,000 more than 1,000 people gathered. However, unexpectedly, Yuchi Gong did not order the departure. The Tianxing Army's personal guards listened to the shouts of killing from afar, and looked at Yuchi Gong in confusion.

The reason why Yuchi Gong did not give the order was actually very simple. Yuchi Gong's family of officials. However, after his father died, Yuchi Gong had a period of experience of making a living by making a living by making a blacksmith. As a member of the lowest class, Yuchi Gong knew very well about the nature of these civilians. If they had not been forced to survive, they would never take risks. Now these poor people will be forced to survive. The fact that officials and the people are forced to rebel appears on him, which makes Yuchi Gong feel very absurd.

In fact, Yuchi Gong was very sympathetic to the people. Of course, like countless passionate young people, he had a dream of a knight in his heart, hating corrupt officials, punishing the strong and helping the weak, and robbing the rich and helping the poor. Yuchi Gong never thought that one day he would stand against the weak. However, as the chief general of the Tianxing Army, it was Yuchi Gong's responsibility to quell the rebellion.

Therefore, Yuchi Gong stood outside the tent and was extremely confused. At this moment, Liu Yuantao, the general of the front camp of Tianxing Army, Wu Lingzhao, the general of the left camp, Zhang Zhonghai, the general of the back camp, and Zuo Siyuan, the general of the right camp, all arrived at the tent of the central army.

Seeing the generals arrive, Yuchi Gong's head flashed with inspiration, and finally thought of a way to achieve both worlds.

Yuchi Gong said: "Liu Yuantao, the former camp!"

Liu Yuantao stepped out and bowed his fists and said, "The last one is here!"

Yuchi Gong said: "In order to prevent the Tang army from stealing camp, your troops must be strictly guarded."

Liu Yuantao said: "The camp is there, and the camp is destroyed and the people are killed!"

Yuchi Gong said again: "Zhang Zhonghai, Zhang Zhonghai, and Zuo Siyuan, right camp!"

"The last one will be here!"

"You two units will each transfer two thousand people to strengthen the left-wing defense and temporarily return to the Wu Lingzhao to control the situation!"

Before Zhang Zhonghai, Zuo Siyuan and the others received the order, they saw Xunxiang running in an extremely embarrassed manner. At this time, his hair was spread out and his face was still stained with blood. Seeing Yuchi Gong, Xunxiang seemed to have encountered a life-saving straw, with a little panic in his tone: "General Yuchi, please order the troops to quell the rebellious army!"

Although Yuchi Gong wanted to hold the horse spear in his hand and smash Xunxiang's face to bloom. However, Liu Wuzhou did have the kindness of knowing him, and he could not make a mistake in Liu Wuzhou and Yuchi Gong. Although Yuchi Gong sympathized with these civil servants, he was an official, and those civil servants have now become bandits, and it is natural for officials to quell bandits.

Yuchi Gong said: "Look for the deputy general, don't you feel that this rebellion happened too suddenly?"

Xunxiang was about to say, "Suddenly, if it weren't for that waste of Liu San..." Xunxiang thought about it again. If he pursued it, Liu San should be damned, and he would have the guilt of being unknown. So Xunxiang followed Yuchi Gong's words and said, "What does General Yuchi mean?"

Yuchi Gong said: "The civil servants suddenly made trouble. I think it was because the civil servant camp had intervened in the Tang army's detailed work. The Tang army made careful work to deceive the civil servants' complex, and it must have been a big plan. If we were asked to burn my food, grass or equipment in the chaos, our army would definitely suffer heavy losses!"

Xunxiang wanted to quickly pick himself out of this civil rebellion incident and immediately agreed: "General Yuchi said very well, what he said very well..."

Yuchi Gong ignored Xunxiang and ordered to Zhang Zhonghai, the right camp Zuo Siyuan, "Zhang Zhonghai, the right camp Zuo Siyuan!"

"The last one will be here!"

"You two are strictly guarding against the granary and grass warehouse. If there is any mistake, come and see you!"

"Abide by the order!"

Yuchi Gong ordered the troops to defend strictly, and temporarily formulated code words and commands, which finally delayed the incense stick. Yuchi Gong sighed in his heart: "There is only so much that I can do. If you know the good deeds and run to Mianshan, you may be able to escape!"

This time Ma Sanbao's incident was very different from the peasant uprising in history. Although Ma Sanbao's preparation time was short, the soldiers following Ma Sanbao and the soldiers of the Detachment of Women were all the leaders of the original Guanzhong Rebel Army. They had rich experience in how to bewitch people's hearts and entangle the people.

Ma Sanbao led dozens of soldiers from the Detachment of Women sneaked into the civil servant camp and kept hiding it, just waiting for an opportunity to make an appointment. When Liu San repeatedly snatched the women from the civil servant camp to offer the Turkic people silver (harmony) fun, Ma Sanbao just waited for the public grievance to accumulate to a certain extent, and finally the public grievance broke out.

At the right time and place, Ma Sanbao began to take charge. Ma Sanbao took the lead in the old subordinates of the Detachment of Women as the backbone and organized the strongest part of the civilians and obtained more than 800 suicide squads. So Ma Sanbao led the 800 suicide squads to launch a fierce attack on the Tianxing Army, which guarded the civilians.

In a very short time, all the more than 300 Tianxing Army soldiers guarding the civil servant camp were annihilated. During the battle, Ma Sanbao showed a tenacious and fierce fighting style, which not only intimidated the soldiers of the Tianxing Army, but also gave the civil servants great confidence.

Unlike ordinary uprising troops, Ma Sanbao did not lead this mob, which did not even have a wooden stick, to launch an attack on the granary and forage warehouse of the Tianxing Army defenders.

Instead, it successively removed more than a dozen civilian camps outside the Tianxing Army camp.

When Yuchi Gong led his personal guard to the civil servant camp that was the first to invade, Ma Sanbao had already wrapped up tens of thousands of civil servants. Although Yuchi Gong's personal guard had only one thousand soldiers, he could face the tens of thousands of civil servants who had not even had a wooden stick led by Ma Sanbao. There was basically no problem of fighting. If suppressed, Yuchi Gong could say that he only needed a quick charge to defeat all the more than 10,000 civil servants.

However, Ma Sanbao had no interest in deciding with Yuchi Gong at all. He had already led the civilians into the endless Mianshan Mountains.

Looking at the last rebels who led more than 800 basically touching weapons, Yuchi Gong did not order an attack. Instead, he nodded at Ma Sanbao and said intimately: "He is really a smart person!"

Then he rushed to the foot of Mianshan and found that tens of thousands of rebels had all fled to the depths of Mianshan. He suddenly became furious: "Why don't you go into the mountain to chase?"

Yuchi Gong said lightly: "If this general leads his army to wipe out the rebels, the camp will be empty and the Tang army takes advantage of the situation, can you afford to be guilty?"

Xunxiang was speechless for a moment. He didn't expect that the Tang army was unable to counterattack at this time. However, as Yuchi Gong said, if the Tang army took the risk, he would really not be able to afford to be guilty.

...

To the south of the northeast of the Yellow River, there is a small hill that is only ten feet high and only two thousand steps in a radius. Chen Ying stood on this hill, looking at Tumochuan (Today's Hohhot Plain) on the north side of the Yellow River with emotion: "I'm afraid everyone thinks that this general will take advantage of the victory to attack Qingzhou and take down Liang Shidu in one fell swoop. They never expected that this general would appear here!"

Liu Tong looked at the inconspicuous small hill carefully and said, "General, this is located at the mouth of the Yinshan Valley. If we build a city here, if the Turks rushed out of Yinshan, they would first hit the city under the city and burst into blood. Even if they could not completely block the Turks' military front, they could still win precious time for the rear!"

Chen Ying suddenly realized that he felt that this place was extremely familiar. After Liu Tong reminded him, he realized that this place was not the Dongshoujiang City built here by Zhang Renyuan in the second year of Jinglong (702 AD).

Chen Ying shook his head and said, "No need!"
Chapter completed!
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