Chapter 221 Killing Prisoners
Yingyang is located at the junction of Yingshui River, connected to Yangzhai to the north and Fenqiu to the south. It is the middle of the vast plain in eastern Henan. It is rich in products and has a prosperous population. This place has always been the highlight of the Han Dynasty. After the Ruying Taiping Army captured Yingyang, they used it as an important place to raise salt and millet, and had a long-term confrontation with the main force of the Han army.
Yingyang's heart was so important that he was naturally highly valued by Zuo Zhonglang general Huangfu Song. After Ma Yuanyi Hui Bocai went south to Yingyang and connected with Runan Pengtuo, Huangfu Song said to Zhu Jun, the right middle man:
"They were originally stationed in Changshe. Although they were daring, they were not worried. It was because they tried to go north to attack Luo. Although it was aggressive, it was harmless. But now it is not the case. They went south and gave up attacking Luo. They seemed to be retreating. But there is a dragon wandering into the sea. Don't catch it. It wanders around Yuzhou and destroys the world's elite. This is my worry. "
Huangfu Song was worthy of being the most outstanding military commander in the Han Dynasty. He keenly discovered the strategic taboos of Taiping Road.
The original strategic purpose of Taiping Road was very clear, which was to use Nanyang, Ruying, and Hebei Road as the main attack to conduct a semi-encirclement attack on Hanting Luoyang, hoping to enter Luoyang in one fell swoop and behead Hanting.
But this strategy was so clear that Hanting's coaches could see Taipingdao's intentions at a glance. That's why they decided to attack Ruying Taiping Road, cut off the connection between Taiping Road directly from the middle, and then defeat them one by one.
But now, the strategy of Taiping Road, at least Ruying Taiping Road, has undergone great changes. They no longer continued to march north to attack Luoyang, but began to move south, and even showed signs of swimming around.
This is not good news for Huangfusong. For Hanting, Taiping Road with clear intentions is the best to fight. Didn't they attack Luoyang? Then the Han Dynasty gathered troops around Luoyang, and then annihilated the Taipingdao who came here in one fell swoop, completing their victory in one battle. This is the method to defeat the thieves with the least loss.
But now that Taipingdao has no clear strategic intention and is even developing in the direction of rogue bandits, it will be a headache. As soon as the Han soldiers came, the Taiping Road was gone. In the end, the Han soldiers could only follow Taiping Dao to eat ashes, but Taiping Dao began to sweep the world. Even if Taiping Dao was eliminated, it destroyed production and still caused the people to rise up in rebellion again. In the end, the Han Dynasty was really finished. .
So when Taiping Road gave up Yangzhai, that is, gave up going north to Luoyang and chose to go south, Huangfusong was really worried that Ruying Taiping Road was about to start a mobile operation. Therefore, he directly selected eight thousand cavalry in the army to intercept Taiping Road. You must not let that generation flow and corrupt the world.
But the news from Yingyang once again made Huangfusong feel that he had underestimated these moth thieves. After these people captured Yingyang, they did not continue to swim. Instead, they began to dig trenches and build forts in the area, hoping to Hold on here.
This made Huangfu Song extremely happy. These moth thieves actually wanted to fight the main force of the Han army in his hands. They were really brave! I don’t know how to live or die!
Now that Taiping Road was preparing for the decisive battle, Huangfu Song naturally no longer rode out lightly, but led the main force of 40,000 Han troops step by step from Yangdi, and he used his troops quite quickly.
It won’t work if we don’t do it quickly. Yuzhou, especially the area in the east of Henan, is the center of the world and the most elite place of the Han Dynasty. If the Yellow Turban Army is allowed to develop here, it won’t take long to pull out hundreds of thousands of troops, and then there will be a decisive battle. Victory, Yuzhou will also be destroyed.
And more importantly, the court officials and ministers in the rear were urging Huangfu Song to use troops.
Among the ministers, the most were from Yuzhou. Now the hometowns of these ministers are being massacred by moth thieves. There are many famous families, and the officials in the country are in disgrace. How can this make them not anxious. The pressure naturally falls on frontline coach Huangfusong.
Because of these various reasons, the Han army used troops vigorously and resolutely. On June 23, Taiping Road went south to Yingyang. On the 24th, Huangfu Song received the news. On the 29th, he led the main force of the Han army to pursue Taiping Road south.
Once Huangfu Song went south, he would attack the outer camps of Yingyang with all his strength.
Of course, the fifteen armies of Ruying Taiping Road are not arranged together, and the small town of Yingyang cannot be arranged in such a large number. Because of the convenience of supplies, Ma Yuanyi divided the 150,000 army into three parts according to the original system.
Among them, Ma Yuanyi's 20,000 tribesmen were arranged to defend Yingyang City due to their lack of fighting power. In addition, Bocai's Yingchuan tribe of more than 50,000 men were divided into thirty camps and were densely distributed within ten miles north of Yingyang City. In addition, there is the absolute main force of the Runan Taiping Road Peng Tuo tribe, and the following six generals Wu Ba, Gong Du, He Yi, Liu Pi, Huang Shao, and He Man, each with more than 10,000 troops, stationed in the west of Yingyang City To the north, that is, on the west bank of Yingshui River.
Because of the long preparation time, each camp had to dig three roads, densely arranged with wooden fences, bamboo sticks, and deep pits, which were more than several feet wide. These small villages are densely scattered along the Ying River, and from time to time you can see wooden boats and bamboo rafts sailing from Yingyang, transporting supplies to the Jiahe villages upstream.
So when Huangfu Song led the main force of the Han army south to Yingyang on June 30, he had to camp twenty miles away from Yingyang.
I saw that the plains of eastern Henan in Ma Pingchuan were full of trenches and wooden villages, and there were small entrances everywhere that were constantly gaining food. The entire Yingyang and its surrounding twenty miles directly became a large military camp.
Huangfu Song's 40,000-strong army set up two giant camps, all stationed on the east bank of Yingshui River, directly facing Bocai's 50,000-strong army.
In the first two days, Huangfu Song did not choose to attack. Instead, he took advantage of his cavalry and continued to patrol the periphery of the battlefield to observe the situation.
Finally, Huangfusong discovered that in addition to some of the supplies captured by the troops along the Taiping Road on the Yingyang battlefield, more supplies came from the direction of Runan and Chen. After being raised by the local Taiping Road, they were continuously sent to Yingyang along the Yingshui River.
Huangfu Song didn't have a boat master in his hands, so he couldn't even break through the Jiahezhai defense line on the Taiping Road upstream of Yingshui River, let alone threaten the supply route downstream.
This gave Huangfu Song a headache. As long as the Yingshui River continued to flow, there would be no danger of food shortage in Yingyang. He finally saw the strategic intention of your Yellow Turban Army.
Yingyang is a small city, built along the north bank of Yingshui River. It is nine miles around and is one foot and three feet high. There are thirty-one wells in it. It can be said that it is so small that Taiping Road cannot be formed with the Han Dynasty. Confrontation.
Therefore, Taipingdao chose to defend Yingcheng on the one hand and increase the city walls. On the other hand, they dredged and built forts outside the city and built pontoon bridges in the river to connect the armies on both sides of the Yingshui River. There are four large villages and twenty-eight small villages on the east bank, all with deep ditches and strong walls. There are seven large villages and fourteen small villages on the west bank, all standing between the river. In addition, strong fortifications were built on both sides of the pontoon bridge, and more than ten blockades were built outside the fortifications. They were fortified layer by layer and policed at every turn.
However, Taipingdao's military strength is not without its weaknesses, and that is logistical supplies.
Even though the downstream is now continuously delivering supplies to Yingyang, it actually cannot last long. The reason is simple. As the main force of the Yellow Turban Army in Runan moves northward, the Taipingdao forces left in the local area are no longer able to expand and can only maintain the current situation. Fortunately for Runan, the main force of the Han army was annihilated, but as for Chen State, because the contemporary Chen King Liu Chong was good at fighting, he had already formed an overwhelming advantage in the region. Therefore, as time goes on, Runan and Chen Guo Taiping Road will be able to provide less and less supplies to the frontline Yingyang battlefield.
But this time is too slow, Huangfu Song wants to speed up the process.
He called Wang Yun, the governor of Yuzhou who was accompanying the army, and ordered him to take the various department officials to the offices of Runan and Chen State to call on the local powerful to raise troops and cut off the logistics of Taiping Road.
Wang Yun came from the Wang family in Taiyuan. He was loyal and capable of doing things. He claimed to be honest and upright, and he was at odds with the eunuchs and eunuchs. So when Huangfu Song gave him this highly dangerous task, he agreed without thinking too much.
Huangfu Song showed his courage and allowed him to have 600 cavalry as guards and personally escorted him out of the camp. Wang Yun then traveled during the day, bypassing the position on Taiping Road in Yingyang, and directly penetrated to the rear of Runan.
At this moment, the Han army in Runan is at a low ebb, but it does not mean that the strength of the Han Dynasty is not there. On the contrary, it is the strength of the Han army that has been lost, but the strength of the powerful Runan is still there. Now it is just leaderless, waiting for Wang Yun, the governor of Yuzhou, to hold the position. Come here to unite powerful forces. This place has both the Ruyang Yuan family, a famous family of four generations and three princes, and the Song Gong Kong family, one of the two kings and three princes. The Chinese etiquette system emphasizes the rise and fall of a country and the succession of the peerless world. In other words, after conquering the world, the descendants of the previous royal family must also be granted titles to show their inheritance. What Zi Guangwu of this dynasty was pursuing was Song and Wei.
Among them, Weiguo is located in the north of Puyang in Dongjun, and the inheritance of Zhou is inherited by the Ji family. The Kong family is the lineage after Confucius, who was named Song Gong and inherited the Shang heritage. As for the one thing that should have been left, which is the Xia Zhi inheritance, it has not been pursued, for some unknown reason.
As for Song Gong Kong's fiefdom in a county, this family alone can raise more than three thousand troops. Together with other wealthy families in Runan, as long as Wang Yun operates properly, Runan can change its color overnight.
Wang Yun just left with Huangfu Song's prayers. Although Huangfu Song felt that the possibility of Wang Yun's success was very high, he did not sit back and wait. After all, Wang Yun's move was only for the future, and at the moment, Huangfu Song still wants to drive his horse and have a real fight with Taiping Dao.
On July 2, the sixth year of Guanghe, Huangfu Song, with Sun Jian's tribe as the vanguard, Fu Xie's tribe as his successor, and the Three Rivers Knights as the two wings, began to launch a tentative attack on the Taiping Road outside Yingyang.
The direction of attack is exactly Bocai side.
Bo Cai's tribe had fought with Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song's tribe before, and their strength was severely damaged. Fortunately, as he went south to Yingyang, the remaining Taiping Taoist disciples in Yingchuan came to join him one after another. Therefore, although the strength is not as good as before, it has also slowed down.
Bocai's 50,000 soldiers had fought decisive battles with the main force of the Han army, and were more pragmatic and experienced. His layout in the northeast of the city was four major camps and twenty-eight small villages. Each large camp is the center of the seven small villages and provides support to the small villages at any time. The chief generals of the four villages, besides Bo Cai himself, are Bo Cai's three generals. They are Li Bin, Yang A, and Zhao Ji.
But although Bo Cai was prepared, he still did not clearly realize the power of the cavalry group.
When the Han army's vanguard invaded Bocai's outer front, Li Bin in the northeast was the support center, so he chose seven or eight thousand old brothers to fight out. However, as soon as he left the camp, he was attacked by the Sanhe cavalry on both wings of the Han army.
On the vast plains of eastern Henan, no force could stop the charge of thousands of cavalry, not to mention that Li Bin was attacked during the support process.
In the end, Li Bin fought to the death and suffered heavy casualties before he was able to return to Dazhai. Although part of the military strength has been preserved, it is no longer able to support the surrounding small villages.
Therefore, the main infantry regiment of the Han army began to violently attack the seven small villages in the northeast of Taiping Road under the cover of cavalry. Li Bin's regiment, whose support route was cut off, could only sit back and watch the peripheral villages being conquered one after another.
About three days later, that is, July 5, all the seven military fortresses outside Li Bin were destroyed, and the Han army killed all his surrendered troops. Sun Jian's troops alone killed and captured three thousand people.
The seventh Yellow Turban village that Fu Xie attacked was the one that held on the longest. Therefore, Fu Xie only had one survivor left in this battle, and that was Li Si, the commander-in-chief of his army and Li Bin's younger brother. As a strongman of Bocai's tribe, he was deeply trusted by Bocai. When he was captured alive by Fu Xie, he kept cursing Fu Xie. Later, his tongue was pulled out and he was still glaring.
Finally, Fu Xie took this man to the front of Li Bin's stronghold, where he was dismembered alive in front of the yellow turban soldiers in the stronghold. Moreover, because his tongue was pulled out, the silent torture was even more cruel. Fu Xie wanted to use this to tell these yellow turban thieves that resistance would be the result.
Li Bin, who was overwhelmed by the excitement of his brother's death, mobilized all his troops out of the stronghold in a rage, preparing to avenge his brother. However, he was ambushed by the well-prepared Han army. Li Bin died on the spot, and the rest of his troops were besieged outside the camp by cavalry.
On the left of Li Bin's tribe was Yang A. After the friendly forces were surrounded, they charged several times to open the Han army's encirclement and rescue Li Bin's tribe, but they were beaten back by the Han army's cavalry.
Finally, after holding on for two days in the wilderness, Li Bin's 8,000 men chose to surrender to the Han soldiers with 150,000 friendly troops on their side.
The former enemy commander was Zhu Jun, the right middle man. He was very worried that these moth thieves would choose to surrender, so he deliberately refused. But he was persuaded by his staff Xin Ping. The Xin family was a wealthy family in Yangzhai. Zhu Jun led his army to pass through Yangzhai, and he entered Zhu Jun's tent to serve as counselor at Jihua.
Xin Ping advised, no matter what, you can let him give up his weapon first, and when the time comes, he will be able to deal with it regardless of whether he surrenders in real or fake ways.
Zhu Jun followed his plan and ordered Li Bin's remaining army to abandon their weapons and surrender. In the afternoon of the same day, Li Bin's remnant troops handed over all their armor and weapons, including a thousand ring-headed knives, nine thousand wooden spears, a thousand bows, four hundred armor collars, and thirty large yellow crossbows.
This is the armament situation of Taiping Road. How can we fight the Han army in the field like this?
As soon as Zhu Jun took in eight thousand prisoners, he suddenly felt that there was not enough corn. But even if it was enough, he was not willing to waste the military food he had raised on these rebellious moth thieves. Finally, under Zhu Jun's hint, Sun Jian came forward and suggested against his will that it would be better to kill him directly without spending a drop of corn.
When Zhu Jun heard Sun Jian's plan, he hid his face and was speechless, and went directly behind the screen. When the generals didn't know what he meant, his staff Xin Ping explained:
"My lord is kind and can't bear to act like this, but he also knows that Sun Sima is speaking out for the sake of the country, so he can only avoid it. Let Sun Sima handle this matter."
Sun Jian was stunned for a moment, and then accepted the order with an expressionless face.
As soon as Sun Jian left the tent, Xin Ping came after him again, and he whispered:
"Killing must be done in a proper way, otherwise chaos may occur."
Sun Jian turned around, bowed to Xin Ping, and then hurried away without saying anything else.
Seeing Sun Jian behaving like this, Xin Ping snorted coldly and turned back.
After Sun Jian returned to the camp, he was full of evil spirits and had nowhere to vent. Hot girl, this happens every time. Once you encounter this kind of dirty work, let him do it. Just because he is the son of a melon farmer, does he not care about reputation? hot!
But he had no choice. No matter how angry Sun Jian was, he still had to execute it.
He selected a 300-strong owl-headed team, received 900 ring-headed knives, and went to the prison camp.
This is what Sun Jian did. He took ten Yellow Turban prisoners at a time and assigned them to an owl leader team, killing 300 people at a time. In just half a day, eight thousand yellow turban thieves were captured, and all of them were beheaded. Their corpses were all carried down the Yingshui River on rafts. For several miles in front and back, the corpses were resting on each other's pillows, and the coast was horrified.
After that, Sun Jian and other owl leaders didn't eat meat for ten days!
The next few chapters will cover the decisive battle of Yingyang. This battle is too important, and because it has never happened before in history, it is also a new plot. The protagonist's vision will appear at a very subtle point in time on the battlefield!
Can we win the battle at Yingyang? Let’s wait and see!
(End of chapter)