Chapter 217 Landslide
In the sixth year of Guanghe, it was June 30th, early in the morning at Mao hour.
The Taishan Army, which had been ambushing on the side for a long time, rose up in two groups and launched a fierce attack on the Han soldiers on the north and south banks of Puyang. Along the way, three thousand infantry and cavalry troops from Ding Sheng, Zhao Liang, Zhu Ying, and Tian Jun attacked the Shanyang soldiers on the north bank of Pu River. Along the way, four troops led by Dian Wei crossed the Pu River. They did not directly go south to attack the soldiers of Rencheng. Instead, they hid and ambush at the communication lines between the two military stations in Hanting.
At that time, there were seven 4,000 Han soldiers in Shanyang stationed on the north bank of Pu River. These seven heroes are Wang Fang of Gaoping, one of the eight party members, as famous as Liu Biao and Xue Yu. There is also Tan Bin, one of the eight members of the party, who is as famous as Zhang Jian. At this time, the Tan family has not yet fully prospered. By the time of the Liu and Song Dynasties, the Tan family in Gaoping will become a high-ranking family in the world. For example, Tan Pingzhi and the boudoir Yongsu will be known to the world. There are also Tan Shao, Tan Zhi, Tan Daoji, etc., all of whom are famous generals. In addition to the first-generation party bosses, there were also powerful commanders such as Zhang Jiu, Liu Hu, Xue Qi, etc., all of whom were relatives of party members. For example, Zhang Jiu was the younger brother of Zhang Jian; Liu Hu was the relative of Liu Biao; Xue Qi was the younger brother of Xue Yu.
In addition, there are two people who are powerful local tycoons, such as Xi Lu and Li Jiang.
Xi Lu was a descendant of Zheng Xuan, who had not yet become famous at this time. In another dimension, he later became a censor. His achievements include framed Kong Rong to death, and leading his deputy Hua Xin to kill Queen Fu from the wall. He can be said to be the leader of Cao Cao. Effective minions. In the future, the Xi family will also become a famous family in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and their great-great-grandson Xi Jian will be a hero for a while. Of course, now, he is just an ordinary country tycoon with a good teacher, who has his own rhymes and wants to make contributions in this war.
Li Jiang, who has the same thoughts as him, is a local tycoon in Changyi and has a lot of people. He came here to see if he can take advantage and make some achievements. The reason why he was able to come was because this family was outside the Wang family in Gaoping. The Wang family was a party member and had few strong tribes, so he called Li Jiang here to help.
As an aside, this Li Jiang is the younger brother of Li Shuo, the Shanyang ranger who fought against Dian Wei outside Bo County. He is as brave as his brother, but I don’t know if his martial arts skills will be better than his brother’s. It's better.
The seven tribesmen in Shanyang regard Wang Fang as their commander-in-chief. He is a highly respected man and a leader of the party, so he naturally does his duty. But this does not mean that Wang Fang can integrate these seven parts. On the contrary, because the conflict between the Zhang family and the Xue family in Shanyang could not be resolved at all, each of the two groups stationed a battalion with familiar men, so the Shanyang soldiers on the north bank of Puyang were divided into three battalions.
The commander-in-chief Wang Fang, the famous scholar Tan Bin and Wu Qu Li Jiang formed one battalion; Zhang Jiu and Liu Hu formed one battalion; Xue Qi and Xi Lu formed one battalion.
And this branch camp was directly taken advantage of by the Taishan Army.
On June 30, at dawn in the morning, Ding Sheng was the main force, Zhao Liang and Zhu Ying were the auxiliaries, and they directly launched a fierce attack on Zhang Ju's camp. They threw the tallow grass and fire pots they had prepared into the Han army's camp and burned the tent. Zhang Jubu, who was sleeping, was unable to resist in the face of the raging fire. He broke out of the camp and fled to the Chinese Army Wang's Office. After that, Ding Sheng led his troops directly to Wang Fang's camp. After a day of fierce fighting, the Han stronghold was on the verge of collapse.
Wang Fang originally wanted to hold on, and sent ten messages to the Renchengguo camp on the south bank of the Pu River. However, they were all strangled by the Taishan army ambushing them, and none of them could come back.
Knowing that there were no reinforcements from outside, Wang Fang was disheartened and prepared to break out.
He discussed with Xue Qi from the outer camp and decided to break out of the encirclement at dusk at the same time, using Shanyang Camp Dazhai as the first gathering place and Lihu County as the second gathering place. Wang Fang originally thought that after the breakout time was determined, all the ministries would set off on time. However, at nearly dusk, the cattle and horses in the Zhenche Camp were frightened away by the rockets fired by the Taishan Army outside.
The cattle and horses kicked up dust here, which directly made Xue Qi in the outer camp think that the breakout was early, so he opened the wall of the village and rushed towards Pu River to escape.
This directly hit the trap of Tian Jun's sudden cavalry who was cruising in the periphery. They intercepted and outflanked them layer by layer. In the end, the two generals Xue Qi and Xi Lu failed to break through. They were both captured by the Taishan Army. The entire army had a thousand soldiers. Of the crowd, six hundred were captured, two hundred were killed, and another two hundred disappeared without a trace in the night.
But the above descriptions were all said by Wang Fang, who was finally captured. In fact, in the eyes of Xue Qi, who was captured, the facts were like this.
In the late afternoon, Xue Qi and Xi Lu received a military order from the Chinese army Tan Ma, who risked their lives to enter the camp, and ordered them to break out of the encirclement at dusk. But later, coach Wang Fang changed the plan temporarily. He was worried that it would be inconvenient to move at night and the army would fall apart, so he planned to break out in advance. So at Shenshi, they had already assembled ox carts to prepare to break out from the south of the camp. Talk to Xue Qi and the others.
So when it came to Shenshi, Xue Qi and other generals were still waiting in the camp. Suddenly they found that the Chinese army camp in the southeast was already noisy and boiling. , Zhang Jiu, and Liu Hu had all rushed south to break out of the encirclement, while Xue Qi and Xi Lu were directly regarded as abandoned sons.
In the end, Taishan Army generals Xue Qi and Xi Lu, who were unable to stop them, stayed behind. Wang Fang and other five main forces partially broke through, but unfortunately, when Wang Fang was riding an ox cart, a wheel broke on the road and he had to get off. Breaking out with the defeated troops, he was immediately spotted by the Taishan Cavalry because of his wide-sleeved clothes. If he hadn't revealed in time that he was fighting the Han army commander for this reason, his head would have been moved.
But even so, the general who captured Wang Fang threw him on his horse unceremoniously, and then sent him to Tian Jun in a bumpy way. The old man was not bumped to death on the road.
Wang Fang was unlucky to be captured, but there was someone even more unlucky, and that was Liu Hu.
As a younger brother of Liu Biao, he was quite brave. When he broke out, he wanted to kill one or two bandit generals to boost his morale. But unfortunately, as soon as he came out of the battle, Duotou met the Taishan Army cavalry general Wang Dang, who was holding a bow. Find the right target. When he saw Liu Hu, a good man with a shaved forehead, he was so happy that he shot him dead.
Therefore, this fierce general who was supposed to be killed by the Jiangdong Overlord in the Battle of Xiakou died inexplicably on the east bank of Pu River, which was considered a different way of death.
The ones who really broke through were Tan Bin, Li Jiang, and Zhang Jiu.
The three generals led the 200 defeated soldiers all the way to the Pu River. Looking at the turbulent Pu River, Li Jiang and Zhang took off their armor and crossed the river without saying a word. Their soldiers followed suit and all went into the water naked. But the old man Tan Bin was caught blind. He was already old and frail. During the escape, if his slaves had not given up and carried the chariot all the way, how could he have escaped and ascended to heaven?
But this time, faced with the Pu River blockage, Tan Bin's slaves, no matter how loyal they were, could not help him cross the river. In the end, Tan Bin had no choice but to let his slaves continue to carry the chariot upstream to the Pu River, where there was a ferry. .
But unfortunately, Tan Bin disappeared in the end, along with his four loyal domestic slaves. No one knew what happened after they left, and they disappeared.
The flight of Li Jiang and Zhang with the Shanyang soldiers was not over. After they swam across the Pu River, they had a direct disagreement over the meeting place.
The original military order of coach Wang Fang was that the first breakout point was the Renchengguo camp, but Li Jiang had a different idea. He wanted to take the troops to Lihu.
Zhang disagreed. He felt that Lihu was empty and had no soldiers. If he went there, he would be dead. The way forward is to the direction of Renchengguo. Li Jiang didn't explain much and took the remaining 60 people directly to Lihu. But Zhang still went south according to his original plan, and was directly ambushed by Dianwei's tribe ambushing on the traffic road.
So Zhang just ran away and died only a moment later than Liu Hu. Why bother! Therefore, in this battle, seven of Shanyang's soldiers and 4,000 soldiers were wiped out. In the end, only the local hero Li Jiang and the rest of his army survived.
From here, we can also see that a great turning point in the times has arrived.
When the order is still there, celebrities like Wang Fang and Tan Bin have their own set of rules. But once the order breaks down and everyone fights, they need to rely on their own abilities to survive. In the past, no matter how famous he was, no matter how good his knowledge was, no matter how high his morals were, they could not help him survive in danger. Only his alertness and wisdom were the key to survival.
For example, Li Jiang, compared with the Shanyang Party members, his status and power are no different than Yunni. But in the end, only this country man survived. Why? Just because Li Jiang and his brother Li Shuo are the first generation of entrepreneurs in the family, they have more fighting experience than those high-ranking officials. They are like wild wolves, they dare to gamble and fight, and they know how to win at critical moments. Make a choice.
After Li Jiang crossed the Pu River, why didn't he go to Renchengguo's camp? It was because he had sent several expeditions to the south to find the king, but he had found nothing. At that time, Li Jiang guessed that there was a high probability of an ambush by Taishan bandits in this section of the traffic line, so he knew that continuing to go south would be a dead end. The only way to survive at this time was in the seemingly empty Lihu City.
In fact, we can see here how utilitarian the moral character of local tycoons like Li Jiang is. The leader's decision made such a big problem, but he didn't say a word. Later, Zhang, who was in trouble with him, insisted on going south. Li Jiang knew that there was a dead end ahead, but he turned around and left without saying a word.
Why didn't he say more? He was just worried that if the Taishan army in front opened a beast net and failed to catch the prey, he would be furious and pursue him. Wouldn't Li Jiang be in danger then?
It seems that this Li Jiang is cruel and ruthless, and he may really have a future in the future.
Returning to the Pushui battlefield, the situation at this time was very clear. The Shanyang camp on the north bank of the Pu River had four thousand men, accounting for nearly half of the Yanzhou coalition forces. Therefore, when its troops were initially attacked, the Yanzhou soldiers on the bank of the Pu River had time to prepare and prepare to send troops.
But who knew that in just one day, the Shanyang camp would collapse like mud. Looking at the black smoke rising on the north bank of Pu River, the Renchengguo camp who stayed on the south bank was also making life and death decisions.
The Renchengguo camp was led by Rencheng soldiers Cao Hexu. He looked at the black smoke rising to the north and paced anxiously in the tent. After walking around for a long time, he stamped his feet and said to the generals in the tent:
"We still have to send troops. If the Shanyang camp is lost, our Yanzhou army will be lame. Before leaving, the emperor repeatedly told me to act with an open mind, saying that the Taiping Road has caused trouble in Yanzhou and the common people have suffered for a long time. This time It is time to gather troops from Yanzhou to pacify it in one fell swoop. Otherwise, we may not be able to control it again.”
He Xu said well, but none of the generals in the tent said a word. Especially the two largest powerful men in Rencheng's national army, Lu Qian and Jing Zhou seemed to have not heard what He Xu said. They looked straight at the ground without even making eye contact with He Xu.
He Xu saw that these powerful men were not talking to each other at all, and cursed in his heart:
"They are really as cunning as a fox. The cuckoo's cry of blood did not make these people raise an army. They really have lost their conscience and are full of loyalty in their hearts."
We can't blame He Xu for wanting to perform the above. Although he is the commander-in-chief, he only has 500 county soldiers, and these powerful soldiers have a thousand soldiers in total, accounting for two-thirds of the camp's strength. They don't send any troops. , He Xu brings people up, that is to die.
If the powerful men didn't come, why would he take the initiative to go? He directly talked to a strong white warrior on the lower right and said with a smile:
"Zike, you are brave enough to win the title of Commander, and your troops are superb. It is time to serve the Lord. As long as you take the lead in this battle, I will definitely seek filial piety and integrity for you this year."
This white warrior is none other than Lu Qian of Rencheng. He is seven feet eight tall, holds a sword in his hand, and has majestic weapons. He looks majestic in this big tent, and looks like a hero.
Indeed, Lu Qian also recognized himself in this way. When he was young, he cut off his hometown with his tribe, and because of his bravery and courage, he suppressed the bandits in Si River for a long time, and was praised by the country. He once obtained a precious sword, which is what he is holding on his waist now. Since he obtained this sword, Lu Qian has never left his body, because the person who has the appearance will be cut off, and the one who obtains this sword will definitely be ranked among the three nobles. So Lu Qian is a man with great ambitions.
But now when faced with He Xu's question, Lu Qian slowly said this:
"Who is the traitor to Cao? When called by the country, I, Lu Qian, will naturally do my duty. But I heard that a wise man will not stand under a dangerous wall. Although the Taishan thieves and others are rebels, they are experienced in using troops. After half a month of confrontation, once the troops are sent out, the invasion will be like fire. . Our army's combat posture is too obvious, it is to coordinate the Shanyang soldiers on the north bank of Pu River. How can they not be aware of it? How can they not ambush?"
These three people were speechless, but they still wanted to open their mouths, so Lu Qian continued:
"Of course, if we stick to Dazhai, we will lose the intention that Uncle Fang asked us to set up camp on the south bank of Pu River. Therefore, this soldier still needs to be rescued."
Hearing this, He Xu turned his sorrow into joy and nodded hurriedly. He had no idea that Lu Qian's words and turning his hands into clouds and rain had already dominated the entire scene, and He Xu's emotions had been unknowingly affected by them.
When Lu Qian saw that the time was almost up, he revealed all his strategies:
"What a thief Cao, we are going north for rescue. It can be said that we share life and death. If we can't work together as one, we will both die on the banks of the Pu River. So I ask thief Cao to allow me to take responsibility. Lu will pay for it himself. No matter what the future is, he will definitely Don’t let the blood of my sons in Rencheng flow down the river.”
After saying that, Lu Qian solemnly clasped his fists at He Xu.
As soon as Lu Qian finished speaking, Jingzhou from Rencheng and Fan Yan from Kangfu all came out in tacit agreement and bowed to Hexu together.
Looking at these tacit understanding of the tycoons of Rencheng State, no matter how dull they are, they know that these people are of the same mind. The thief Cao Zhang Hexu's heart was full of thoughts, but his face remained as usual, twirling his beard, smiling, and immediately helped Lu Qian, saying with a smile: < br>
"The safety of the fifteen hundred soldiers of Rencheng this time depends on Lord Lu."
After saying that, he handed the military talisman on his waist to Lu Qian without caring.
Today is the 30th, and I would like to send my New Year greetings to all my family members who love me. I wish that I can achieve great success and make a lot of money next year. In the new year, I will continue to bring you good stories. I hope my family will continue to love me! Keep supporting me!
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