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"Empire Hegemony" Chapter 658
The sun was shining brightly, and on the potholed official road, a team of disheveled clothes was marching slowly.
A handsome flag embroidered with the word "Chen" led the team forward. The emaciated general Chen Ru was riding on a strong mule, and the surrounding generals were all walking with difficulty.
When the Qinghe Army was in Qinghe Province, they fought bloody battles with the Imperial Guards and the Black Cavalry Army, but they also captured a lot of soldiers and horses.
But when they went south, they lost a lot of soldiers and horses through the swamp area of ??Yunmeng Province.
Later, he was chased and intercepted by various troops from the imperial court, especially after the chased ones hid in the mountains, all the army horses were used to satisfy their hunger.
Now they have just come out of the mountains and captured two counties and some villages and towns, but the southern region does not produce military horses, and the only ones have been captured by the vanguard, so the commander Chen Ru can only find a mule to travel .
"How far is it from Pingyong Mansion?"
Summer is about to enter, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter. Although Chen Ru rides on a mule, those soldiers and their families are not as lucky as the commander-in-chief Chen Ru.
"Reporting to the commander, we have been walking for two days, and we are probably arriving soon."
?Wu Yanqing, the chief of staff, was wearing a round-neck Chinese dress. Although he washed up after leaving the mountain and trimmed his beard, he still looked handsome.
"Send a quick-footed brother to Pingyong Mansion to investigate and see if General Luo and the others captured Pingyong Mansion."
Marshal Chen Ru ordered Longxiang General Luo Dagang to attack Pingyong Mansion as the vanguard, and he himself followed with the main force, the old and the weak, women and children.
Because the troops led by Chen Ru had a large number of family members, their marching speed was very slow.
After the Chief of Staff Wu Yanqing responded, she immediately called Chen Xiaoyu, the acting head of the First Army Corps, and asked her to send someone to inquire about the news.
Not long after, several scouts from the Qinghe Army broke away from the slow-moving main force, and headed towards Pingyong Mansion to inquire about news.
Fortunately, although Pingyong Mansion is an important town in the western part of Yunshan Province, Luo Dagang took advantage of it because all the defenders were transferred away.
The scouts of the Qinghe Army rushed all the way to Pingyong Mansion, and saw that Luo Dagang's Fifth Army Corps had already occupied them. After they had a full meal, they hurried back to report.
"General, the people sent by the commander said that it is estimated that we will be able to arrive at Pingyong Mansion tomorrow morning, and we are asked to prepare for the response."
The news that the main force led by Marshal Chen Ru was about to arrive at Pingyong Mansion was soon reported to General Longxiang Luo Dagang.
"They came quite fast."
Luo Dagang, who was drinking with his arms around two beauties in the admiral's mansion of Pingyong Prefecture, was also quite surprised to hear that the commander-in-chief Chen Ru was about to arrive.
According to Luo Dagang's thinking, there are so many old and weak women and children in Chen Ru's team, and it will take two days to reach Pingyong Mansion.
Thinking of Chen Ru, the commander-in-chief, coming, and waiting to give up the admiral's mansion, Luo Dagang felt uncomfortable for a while.
But now Chen Ru is the commander-in-chief after all, he is only one of the five legion commanders, and he has no power to shake Chen Ru's position for the time being.
"General, please ask for instructions on how to meet the commander and the others."
? Seeing Longxiang General Luo Dagang drinking and having fun, a banner chief asked Luo Dagang for instructions.
"When they arrive, let them set up camp outside the city, and send some food over by the way." Luo Dagang ordered after thinking about it.
"No."
"By the way, don't send too much food."
When the head of the banner was about to take orders, Luo Dagang couldn't help adding one more sentence.
"General, we have seized a lot of food, why don't we give them some more, after all, they are all brothers of our Qinghe Army."
After hearing Luo Dagang's words, the chief of staff couldn't help asking questions.
"The food was snatched from the enemy by our brothers from the Fifth Legion. They didn't do anything, so why give it to them for nothing?" Luo Dagang couldn't help but snorted coldly.
"It is our benevolence to allocate food to them. If they want more food, they are capable of taking it from the enemy."
"General, although that's what you said, but after all, our Qinghe army has just stepped out of the mountains, surrounded by powerful enemies, and we still need solidarity and mutual assistance." The chief of staff persuaded.
Luo Dagang took a sip from his wine glass and said, "If you want me to feed them, that's fine too.?Unless you let me be the deputy commander. "
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"Otherwise, why should I give them food."
"The soldiers of our Fifth Legion have been seriously damaged, and the surrounding enemy situation is serious. Now there are only a few thousand people. We have money and food in our hands. We must recruit soldiers from the refugees as soon as possible. The more the better, this matter should be done as soon as possible. .¡±
"No!"
Marshal Chen Ru and the others didn't know that they were eager to have a good meal after arriving at Pingyong Mansion, and then take a rest.
But he didn't know that Luo Dagang, who occupied Pingyong Mansion first, had other thoughts.
Now Yang Hao's rebel army and Song Yu's Southern Army troops in Yunshan Province are attacking each other.
Countless people were also displaced because of the war, and they fled to various places to escape the war.
However, in this turbulent age, armies were attacking each other, and various bandits and bandits also took advantage of the situation.
Many people were looted by the rogues along the way while fleeing, and even many gentry families let their soldiers pretend to be rogues to target those fleeing people.
When the fleeing people left their homes, they still had some money and food, but they were looted as soon as they left the county.
?They had to rely on begging for a living, and became poor and white refugees, struggling to survive every day.
When the Fifth Army Corps of the Qinghe Army occupying Pingyong Mansion took out food to recruit soldiers, the hungry and dizzy refugees couldn't care about anything and directly joined the Fifth Army Corps.
In just one afternoon, the Qinghe army recruited thousands of refugees at various intersections.
At the same time, the Qinghe army's grain collection team, which was in charge of collecting grain from the countryside, also forcibly recruited a lot of young and strong men into the team, and the strength of Luo Dagang's troops grew rapidly.
Chen Ru and his team had many old and weak women and children, so they stopped and stopped along the way, and did not arrive at Pingyong Mansion until noon the next day.
Seeing the Qinghe Army standing on the top of the city of Pingyong Prefecture and the Qinghe Army's battle flag fluttering, the exhausted crowd broke out into loud cheers.
The city gate of Pingyong Mansion opened, and a group of cavalry galloped out. General Luo Dagang led the generals of the Fifth Army to welcome them out.
Seeing Luo Dagang and the others rode out to greet him, the commander Chen Ru, who was riding on a mule, also stopped.
After all, he is a handsome man, and his identity is here. If he continues to move forward, he will lose his identity.
Luo Dagang and others quickly rode their horses to the front, and then put their backs on the horses and saluted Chen Ru and others.
"Report to Commander-in-Chief, I, Luo Dagang, was lucky enough to live up to my fate. After leading my brothers in a bloody fight, I captured Pingyong Mansion!"
Seeing Luo Dagang saluting himself on a war horse, Chen Ru, who was riding on a short mule, looked a little stiff, but he managed to squeeze out a smile.
"Okay, General Luo is a strong general of our Qinghe Army." Chen Ru said.
Luo Dagang rode on the horse and said carelessly: "Please also invite the commander-in-chief and all brothers to enter the city. I have already prepared wine and food to clean up the dust for you."
Everyone is hungry now. Although they are not happy, they want to go to the city to have a good meal first.
But when everyone was about to follow Luo Dagang into the city, Luo Dagang added another sentence.
"By the way, the city is small and there are so many people living in it. If you wronged other brothers, they set up camp outside the city. I will order people to allocate food." (Remember the website URL: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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