Chapter 201 Du Ji
Guanghe six years, May 15th, noon.
This was supposed to be the hottest time of the day, but Wu Zi of the Taishan Army felt his feet were cold. Looking at Li Zou who was snatched back by the guards, he felt sad for his cold body.
Li Zou and Wu Zi are both from Dongpinglu, but their situations are very different. Wu Zi was from a wealthy family in Dongping, while Li Zou's parents were dead and he was just begging for food on Wenshui River. When he grew up, because of his courage, he gathered a group of evil young men like him to plunder on Wenshui River.
In the first year of Guanghe, Wu Zina would escort the grain to the river, and the ship's cost was very heavy. At that time, Li Zou and a group of evil young men did not know the seriousness of the situation and crossed the Wenshui River with his gang to plunder grain. At that time, Li Zou landed on the shore, took up his position on Hu's bed, pointed at the evil young men under his command, and arranged the situation well. At that time, Wu Zi was standing on the bow of the ship. He saw Li Zou's behavior and knew that he was very human. He waved to Li Zou from the bow of the ship:
"You are so talented, why should you be a thief? Come to me and I will give you a good background."
At that time, Li Zou was in his heart, and he immediately seized this opportunity and ordered all the party members to abandon their weapons. Then he boarded the ship and shed tears to express his gratitude to Wu Zi for rebuilding.
After that, with the support of the Wu family, Li Zou started the transfer of Wenshui River, and became a powerful man in Wenshui River, with two to three hundred dead warriors under his command. This time Li Zou joined the army, it was Wu Zi who called him.
When Wu Zigang entered Li Zan's court, he saw the son of Li Zan's clan, the hairpin family, and then defeated the weak yellow turban moth thieves. He only regarded this time as a step forward. As for such a good thing, Wu Zi naturally thought of Li Zou, and there were only five words in his letter:
"This time the enemy is weak and has many powerful abilities, so come quickly."
Li Zou came without thinking twice, and then he became a yellow turban moth thief, and even died under Xuchang City.
Wu Zi was still mourning, but the two warriors who sent Li Zou were already filled with righteous indignation and came forward to ask Wu Zi for help:
"General, if General Li suffers this fate, he must be sacrificed with blood. We two brothers are willing to wear strong armor and climb to Xuchang City first."
Wu Zi turned his head and saw that the two men were tall and strong, looking like brave men, so he asked them:
"What are the names of these two heroes?"
"A certain Lu Kuang."
"A certain Lu Xiang."
"I am willing to do the hard work of dogs and horses."
Wu Zi pondered for a while:
"What are your military ranks?"
Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang looked at each other, until the opportunity came, they must seize it, and the two loudly said:
"The two of us were originally sharp soldiers under King Dongping. Now we are swordsmen and swordsmen under General Li Zou."
Wu Zi heard that these two men turned out to be elite soldiers of King Dongping, and felt that they should have a few opportunities, and they were both soldiers from the same background as him, so he gave him this opportunity.
Wu Zi has always been willing to give people opportunities and promote heroes without any expense. Even if these two people fail to climb Xuchang, there will be no loss to him, Wu Zi.
Therefore, Wu Zi promoted Er Lu and said vigorously:
"Now I am going to appoint you two generals, each with ten soldiers, to climb to Xuchang City for me first. And as long as you two can stand firm at the top of the city, after the war, I will go directly to Commander Qu to serve you two People ask for credit.”
Brother Erlu was overjoyed and responded with a loud voice, and then went to select twenty soldiers, all wearing armor and carrying swords in their pockets, and rushed to the gate of Xuchang City in a row with their swords raised.
As the first to ascend, the two Lus were both wearing double armor, especially the younger brother Lu Xiang, who was also carrying a bow and following his brother.
As the elder brother, Lu Kuang naturally took on the dangerous task of climbing first. He glanced at his younger brother and said:
"If something happens, if there are more babies in the future, one of them will be adopted by me."
Then he ignored his younger brother's surprised expression, bit the ring-shou knife, and rubbed it upwards.
Lu Kuang is a warrior. He wears double armor but is still as strong as flying. If the soldier holds his ground, Lu Kuang might fall to the ground.
But it was so fierce that the two-foot-high city wall could not hold three breaths. Lu Kuang had already rushed to the top of the city. He dragged a Han soldier who was holding a gun and wanted to hook his armor off the top of the city, and then whipped him The sword was slashing at the Han soldiers on the top of the city, but he did not defend himself. He relied on his double armor to trade his wounds for death, giving the soldiers behind him time to go up to the city.
Just as more and more soldiers were gathering behind Lu Kuang, the big yellow crossbowman who originally shot Li Zou to death turned his crossbow and was about to shoot at Lu Kuang.
At such a close distance, with the power of the big yellow crossbow, Lu Kuang was in danger even if he wore two layers of armor.
But at this time, following the passage opened by Lu Kuang, Lu Xiang had already climbed up with a bow. He had been staring at this Huang Crossbowman for a long time, knowing that this thing was the biggest threat to the city this time, so he stepped on the ladder with one foot and hooked it with the other. Then he drew the bow with both hands and shot the Xuchang to death with one arrow. Huang Nu Shi.
Then Lu Xiang also jumped on the top of Xuchang City and stuck on the top of the city with his brother. Wu Zi, who was at the bottom of the city, was overjoyed to see the two brothers ascending to the top of the city. He hurriedly sent out his elite soldiers to assist the two Lu.
In this way, Wu Zi took the lead in defeating the enemy in the south, and Lu Xiang even killed the Han general Zhao at the southern gate. Then there was a fight from the two towers, and the east and west walls were broken down one after another.
This time, Wu Zi took the lead and rushed into the city and killed a group of Han soldiers to avenge Li Zou. The Xuchang Zhao family, as a local snake and the general of the garrison, still resisted stubbornly. Wu Zi, who caught up with him, led his troops and killed them through the wall of the house, and a massacre ensued.
By the time Zhang Chong found out from behind the formation, there was no one alive in the Zhao family. In this way, Zhang Chong could only sigh, Zhao's fate was bad.
Xuchang City was captured, and the 200,000 shi of millet hoarded by the Zhao family and the 200,000 shi of grain transported in the Jindu Caocang were seized. More importantly, dozens of ships were seized. Zhang Chong was about to cross Jishui and enter Dongjun with these ships.
After the war, an inventory was made and it was found that 60 of the four captains died and 200 were injured in this battle. This is already a very serious damage to a surrendered soldier with less than 2,000 men.
Zhang Chong recognized Wu Zi for his meritorious service in this battle, and allowed him to select 500 elite soldiers from his troops, named "Kechang Camp". He also allowed Gao Ya to continue to lead his 300 Jiangyi soldiers, named "Jiangyi Camp", and Zhao Shu He led five hundred elite soldiers and named him "Baxu Camp". The first warriors in this battle, Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang, both joined the collision team with merit and had a promising future.
In this way, after the battle of Xuchang, Zhang Chong added three battalions of 1,300 soldiers to his available troops, and his strength increased again.
Then Zhang Chong continued to seize time. On May 15th, he took out Xu Chang. On May 16th, Zhang Chong had already led the entire army with 8,000 victorious soldiers and the old battalion of 8,000 troops across Jishui, and then spent two more days. On the same day, after marching sixty miles, they finally arrived at Dong'a County, Dongjun.
And when the Taishan army bundled up their troops and rolled up their armor and brought smoke and dust to the outside of Dong'a City, they saw the scene of Han soldiers chasing each other to the north. I saw thousands of troops wearing yellow scarves, being chased by Han soldiers in crimson uniforms.
Dian Wei, who had been assigned as the vanguard this time, saw that the friendly troops were chasing and killing him. He didn't care about anything else. He hurriedly beat the military drum and sent orders to the rear. Then he led his armored soldiers to flank the Han soldiers leaving the city.
This Han soldier was actually a fish belly and not very good at fighting. The reason why he was able to force the Dongjun Yellow Turban Army to kill him was just because these Yellow Turbans were fatter than them.
Of course, this has little to do with these Yellow Turban Taoist soldiers. The main reason is that the person leading this Yellow Turban Taoist soldiers is the former Dong'e County Cheng Wangdu.
We are already familiar with Wang Du from the incident where Liang Zhongning used the power of Taiping Dao to protect Qiyuan. This person is Taiping Dao's internal correspondent in Dong'a. This time the counties in Dongjun raised troops, and Wang Du also responded to Dongjun Qukui Buji's order by raising troops.
Everything was going smoothly, thanks to Wang Du and Taiping Dao's long-term operation in Dong'a. At that time, as soon as he joined the army, he occupied the arsenal and granary, and Dong'aling was so frightened that he ran away across the city. Dong'aling all abandoned the city, and the officials in the city who had not surrendered to the thieves took their respective clans and rushed to the Quqiu Mountain in the east of the city to hide there.
When I came here, Taipingdao had already captured Dong'a. But there was a person here, and this person directly ruined Taipingdao's twenty-year operation in Dong'a Xiao.
This man is Cheng Li from Dong'a. He is eight feet three inches long and has a beautiful beard. He once dreamed of climbing Mount Tai alone and having the sun in his arms. In the future, this person will meet a man named Cao Cao, change his name to Cheng Yu, and start this person's road to becoming a prince. Cheng Li also used his own efforts to make the Cheng family of Dong'a rise from a humble family to a noble family with three ranks of nobles. Now, although his popularity has not yet flourished, he has already shown his prominence.
Just as Cheng Li was running eastward with his friend Xue Fang, he keenly saw that the Yellow Turban thieves behind him had also left the city, but instead of chasing them eastward, they traveled five or six miles westward to station themselves.
Cheng Li realized at that time that this situation showed that this group of yellow scarf thieves did not intend to occupy the city and defend it, but only wanted to rob money and food. In other words, these bandits just grabbed a handful and ran away without any intention of occupying the city.
Then Cheng Li immediately said to Xue Fang:
"Let's go back. The walls of Dong'a City are high and thick, and every household has plenty of corn. As long as we return to the city and hold on together, Wang Du will not last long."
Xue Fang naturally followed what his classmate Cheng Li said. He had long been impressed by his friend's cleverness. He said that if he could defeat a thief, then the thief would not survive.
But the problem is, how can Dongashili, who has escaped from the city, be willing to take the risk of going back just out of the tiger's den? Therefore, no matter how hard the Rao family's Cheng Li and Xue Fang talked, everyone still headed east.
Everyone is blind and stupid, and they are walking to death. But Cheng Li had his own way and sent only two of Xue Fang's men to ride around to Quqiu Mountain and set up the bandits' apricot-yellow banners on the mountain.
Then Xue Fang and all the officials shouted:
"Thieves are in Quqiu Mountain. If you want to survive, follow me."
After speaking, he ran back to Dong'e County first.
When the blind fools saw it, they immediately followed him, just like the leader, and fled back to Dong'a City.
But now Wang Du and the other Yellow Turban Army panicked.
Originally, they abandoned Dong'a City because they felt that the Han army had been defeated. They stationed outside the city and planned to go west to find the Taishan Yellow Turban Army. They had already received news that the Taishan Yellow Turban Army was heading north to camp with the Yanzhou Taiping Road Regiment. Then he made an effort to attack Chenliu to the west.
Wang Du got Bu Ji's secret order, and ordered him to hold the army when he and the Taishan Yellow Turban Army were encamped, so as not to be annexed by the Taishan side. If he really couldn't hold it back, let him tell their leader Zhang Chong that he Zhang Chong owed Dongjun Taiping Road is a big favor.
Four years ago, Zhang Chong returned to Mount Tai from Xue's wall. The reason why he had a smooth journey was because of the help of Yanzhou Taiping Road. At that time, the grandson who came to borrow the talisman from Bu Ji promised that Jinan Taiping Road owed them a favor.
But Wang Du didn't expect that while he was thinking about how to find the Taiping Road on Mount Tai, his escape route would be cut off. In this case, Wang Du could only return his army to attack Dong'a.
But it's a pity that Wang Du's conspiracy is fine, but letting him fight is really overthinking.
After attacking for more than ten days, Wang Du could not attack. Finally, they ran out of food and were about to retreat, but Cheng Li saw the opportunity and led the Han soldiers to pursue him again, turning Wang Du's retreat into a rout.
But his fate should not be cut off. At this time, he encountered Dian Wei's vanguard army and defeated the Han soldiers directly from the flank. Finally, Dianwei rolled back the bead curtain and directly destroyed Dong'a City. Except for a wave of people who escaped from the east of the city, all the others surrendered.
The city of Dong'a was destroyed.
Today is Xiao Chen’s birthday and he is going out to have dinner with his wife. Tomorrow’s update will be a little later!
(End of chapter)