Chapter 659 Revenge
Sanchuigang Camp is ten miles away from Lu County.
It was noon, and the Taishan Army stayed outside the camp. Blood and flesh were flying everywhere, and the camp's defense line was in danger.
Looking upstairs, He Cheng, the deputy commander who stayed behind, looked down with a pale face.
There, an elite cavalry force of the Han Army was wreaking havoc in the Taishan Army's formation. The leader was a general, with a golden crown and hair, fine armor and Shu embroidery. He was holding a strange Fangtian painted halberd. With just one vertical strike, a general The infantry of the Taishan Army was cut off from head to tail, and then swept across, several Taishan Army soldiers were swept away.
At this time, in the Taishan Army Formation, no matter how good or low their martial arts skills are, they are all equal under that Fangtian Painted Halberd, and no one can block a blow.
Soon, the general led three cavalry generals and rushed into the general flag of the Taishan Army's phalanx. There was just a loud shout:
"General Taishan, Lu Gong died here!"
After drinking, the handsome man from Taihang Mountain died like this.
With just one blow, Lu Gong and the camp flag he was sworn to guard were cut off by the flying general, and he was even humiliated by him in the end:
"What kind of pig or dog has the same surname as me, Lu Bu!"
And with the death of the camp general named Lu Gong, the officials in the rear camp who had left the camp finally collapsed.
Seeing the disciples being mercilessly slaughtered by the Han cavalry, He Cheng, who was looking upstairs, had blood in his eyes and remembered Lu Bu's name firmly in his heart.
It all happened too fast.
He Cheng is not a mediocre general, but on the contrary, he is one of the old brothers who gathered in the forest. It can be said that he has experienced all the battles, large and small, since the formation of the Taishan Army.
He does not have the courage of a liger, but he must be a general who fulfills his duties.
It was precisely because of his persistence that Zhao Yun was so confident that he handed over the army's camp to He Cheng for protection.
Since the development of Taishan Army, it has a set of regulations whether it is marching, fighting or camping.
In terms of the military system, whenever a camp is stationed, it must be twenty steps away from the camp, and patrols should be lined up to call the time. This can not only guide the work and rest of the entire army, but also provide early warning.
At the beginning of the first watch, when the sun goes down, beat the drum three hundred and thirty times.
The drums are finished and the horn sounds.
The horn player blows twelve times in one round.
At the end of the round, the drumming starts again. Like three drums and triangles, it's night.
In addition to twenty steps outside the camp, there are drums and horn players to keep watch, and a hundred steps outside the camp, there is also a listening device.
There are two people outside each camp, one shift at a time, five shifts a night, that is, five shifts.
The task of these listeners is to lie on the ground with empty quivers on the ground and listen for movement on the ground. These people are equipped with fast horses, and if there is a police officer, they will immediately report to the Chinese army.
In addition to these fixed warnings, there are also scouts outside the camp. These people lie on high hills outside the camp to keep watch day and night. Once there is a warning, they will also notify the Chinese army.
In addition, there are fixed patrols and hidden sentries.
These patrols will patrol outside the camp at night, and there will be five watches a night. The patrols will be divided into five patrols, with one patrol per patrol, and each patrol will rotate in turn.
In addition, there are hidden sentries outside the camp. The positions of these hidden sentries every night are arranged by the general on duty that night, and no one knows except him.
And once a patrolman on patrol is encountered by these people at night, he must have a night call for that night. To confirm your identity and what is going on, just say the bugle call three times.
The so-called night bugle is actually the bugle of that night. If two teams meet and the bugle does not match the bugle, the consequences will be very serious.
Therefore, the selection of these bugles is all made by the garrison commander.
Generally speaking, the commander-in-chief is equipped with a stack of military call books, which are selected by the commander-in-chief himself at Xu time every day. The content is divided into one question and one answer. Patrolling at night, anyone who asks the wrong question or answers wrongly will be shot to death.
In addition to these hidden sentries, there are also open sentries stationed in the camp.
These outposts were placed at key points three to five miles away from the camp. Each post had three to five people and carried one or two large drums. If an enemy invades the camp at night, they will beat drums and shout to contain the enemy and wait for an opportunity to attack.
It can be said that with the camp as the center and within a radius of five miles, there are layers of sentries and guards to ensure that nothing goes wrong.
So why was such a foolproof security plan suddenly raided by Lu Bu's troops?
It turned out that since dawn, when Zhao Yun led most of the crane-controlling army out of camp to invite battle, heavy fog began to appear in the Sanchuigang camp.
Sanchuigang has a dangerous terrain and is shrouded in mountain fog all year round. On March 10th, the mountain fog on Sanchuigang was especially heavy, making it difficult to see clearly even five steps away.
It was under such circumstances that Lu Bu led Red Rabbit and led his core Bingzhou Cavalry to quietly reach the Taishan Army five miles away.
After the Jiexiu War, Lu Bu decided to lead his Bingzhou brothers to fight a way out.
And the direction he chose was to join the party.
He saw that the Taishan Army would definitely move south to join the party later, and since the Kwantung court was short of generals, he and his brothers would definitely be reused if they took refuge there.
At that time, Lu Bu and others only need to defeat the Taishan Army once here in Shangdang, and no one in the world will recognize him. If the Guandong court can be saved, then Lu Bu will serve well. If not, Lu Bu has such a famous name in the world, and who will not treat him with courtesy when he goes south to the Central Plains?
With this plan in mind, Lu Bu led eight generals Zhang Liao, Hou Cheng, Wei Xu, Song Xian, Wei Yue, Hao Meng, Cao Xing, Cheng Lian and 1,800 cavalry to Shangdang, hoping to join him. Liu Chong, the governor of Shangdang.
Lu Bu guessed correctly, that is, Liu Chong welcomed the arrival of Lu Bu and others. He not only reserved a place in the Shangdang's inner circle as a garrison for Bingzhou soldiers, but also expressed his merit to the imperial court.
But Lu Bu only guessed the beginning of the story correctly. When He Jin of Luoyang knew that Lu Bu had defected with the participating Bingzhou soldiers, his first thought was to suppress this Kansai tiger general.
Who would know Lu Bu's reputation on the battlefield of Xiaohan? He Jin was naturally happy for Lu Bu's surrender. But he wanted to suppress this person. On the one hand, this was He Jin's method of employing people. How could he survive without first starving the eagle? On the other hand, he decided that when he came with his army to help, Lu Bu would be the trump card in the decisive battle.
Therefore, Lu Bu did not wait for what he thought he was thirsty for talents. Instead, he was placed in the back of Tunliu, without food and grass, and ignored him.
It wasn't until Taishan's army really attacked Shangdang that Lu Bu knew that his opportunity had come.
In fact, when Zhao Yun's troops entered Shangdang, Lu Bu got the news through the dense sentries and arranged the raid.
Unexpectedly and an unexpected mountain fog, Lu Bu and others appeared in front of the Taishan Army like magic soldiers descending from the sky.
The outposts on the periphery were attacked by Bingzhou's sharp soldiers, and the drums around them died before they could be used.
As soon as these outposts were dealt with, Bingzhou's sudden cavalry mounted their horses one after another, and began to run towards the Sanchuigang camp without covering up their tracks.
When the sound of these horse hooves was heard in the local area, the figure of Bingzhou Army was already looming in the heavy mountain fog. It's already too late.
At the most critical moment, it was Lu Gong, the general of the rear camp, who rushed out of the camp with 500 soldiers, and then blocked Lu Bu and others.
But in order to resist Lu Bu and his men, who were advancing a hundred steps away, more than 500 battalion soldiers sacrificed their lives.
These people died unjustly. They had many means to restrain Lu Bu's cavalry, but they had no time to use them. They could only use their own flesh and blood to resist the Bingzhou Army's cavalry.
After the death of the battalion general Lu Gong, the remaining Taishan troops chose to form a circular formation to resist. This was a tactic tested in actual combat.
This really troubled Lu Bu. He had already killed the enemy general. Why were these Taishan soldiers still like ants, unable to be crushed to death no matter how hard they stepped on them?
Ever since Princess Wannian married Fatty Dong's son, Lu Bu's temper has not been very good, and sometimes he can even be violent.
At this moment, he patted the Red Rabbit horse on his crotch. The Red Rabbit caught his fancy and carried him directly to the camp. He saw him yelling at He Cheng who was upstairs:
"Boss, are you just going to watch your own children die in front of you? Come out and fight!" Faced with Lu Bu's shouting below, the Taishan generals in the camp shouted for a fight, but they were all stopped by He Cheng.
But those Taishan challenges to He Cheng exposed his identity.
Looking downstairs, Lu Bu laughed ferociously, drew his bow in his hand, and shot He Cheng with an arrow.
Under the angry scolding and panicked shouts of the generals, He Cheng was stabbed through the neck and fell outside the camp.
When he died, his eyes were still full of disbelief. He couldn't believe that Lu Bu could shoot him to death from this distance, and he couldn't believe that he survived the battle with thousands of troops, but in the end he would die in this three-threaded hillock.
This old brother who became sworn friends with Zhang Chong ended his young life before he could see the kingdom of heaven on earth.
At that time, twenty-nine.
He Cheng died unexpectedly in battle, causing the battle situation that should have been unpredictable to win or lose to suddenly fall into the abyss.
At this time, He Cheng was put on a pole by Lu Bu to show off to the public, which greatly affected the morale of the troops in the Sanchuigang camp.
Immediately afterwards, Lu Bu's army also carried ladder attacks and attacked at once.
Three generals, Zhang Liao, Cheng Lian, and Wei Yue, climbed the wall one after another. Each led dozens of armored soldiers to charge and kill them repeatedly. Finally, the morale of the Taishan army was greatly reduced and they collapsed.
Not a moment after Zi Hecheng's death, the Sanchuigang camp fell.
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The real cruelty came when the camp was broken.
As a military-level camp, there are a large number of military staff, attachés, and baggage inside. Dozens of military and military staff made different choices in the last moments of their lives.
For example, before his death, the commander of the march, Shi Lixun, ordered the general to burn all the Chinese books so that they would not remain in the enemy's hands. Afterwards, the man committed suicide by jumping into the fire.
However, Xue Heng, the commander of the military warehouse, took the documents and flattered Lu Bu to ask for life. Not only did he leave all the savings in the warehouse to Lu Bu, but he also persuaded Lu Bu to surrender many documents.
What's even more terrible is that the military seal that was originally hidden was also found by Xue Heng. Fortunately, Zhao Yun took all the banners with him when he went out into battle.
Otherwise, the Controlling Crane Army would become the first leader of the Taishan Army whose flag was captured.
In fact, in the battle of weapons, there were not many people like Li Xun who died and Xue Heng who lived alone, and more of them were running around like headless flies.
These civil servants who accompanied the army were powerless and couldn't fight even if they wanted to, and they didn't know where they could survive.
For example, Xun Shu, a scholar from Bingzhou, followed the trend and joined the Taishan Army after the city of Taiyuan was destroyed. Later, he was assigned to serve as a writer in Zhao Yun's army. However, because of his good looks, when he was running away in a hurry, he suddenly encountered two men from Bingzhou. army, and an abnormal violence occurred.
Even though Xun Shu used her local accent to express her identity, it still didn't help.
The spring breeze should have been warm, but at this moment in the Sanchuigang camp, it was intrusive.
The sound of swords, shouts, horse hooves, broken walls, banging on doors, crying, and begging were all terrifying to the ears and soul. The entire camp was like a purgatory on earth.
When the chaos gradually stopped, Bingzhou soldiers began to clean the camp. After taking everything away, they burned the Sanchuigang Camp to the ground.
But when Zhao Yun came with his sudden cavalry, all he saw was the wreckage reflected by the fire.
Looking at the corpses of Pao Ze scattered inside and outside the camp, Zhao Yun was in agony. He drew a dagger and drew a blood mark on his forehead, pointing in the direction of Mount Tai and swearing:
"I, Zhao Yun, will not be a human being unless I take revenge for this!"
Its voice is like an owl, crying blood and wailing.
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The fall of the Sanchuigang camp left Zhao Yun without a foothold. More importantly, he lost a large amount of grain and military supplies, which made it impossible for him to continue to establish another battalion.
And Zhao Yun was unwilling to withdraw his troops like this. Because not only would their deaths be in vain, but the results they had previously achieved would not be preserved. At that time, if we try to attack Baiguling again, there will be casualties.
Therefore, Zhao Yun ordered You Yi to go to the rear to report the military situation, and then collected the bodies of the dead soldiers and transported them all to the Baiguling camp.
He decided to wait there until the king arrived.
Zhao Yun always remembered what Zhang Chong once said:
"If you do it, do it to the end. If you give up halfway, you will lose twice."
Therefore, Zhao Yun used the materials from the Baiguling camp to begin to strengthen the camp, dig trenches, and wait for Zhang Chong's arrival.
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At this time, what are the troops at the rear doing?
They had just crossed Xuancheling and officially entered Wuxiang, the northwest gate of Shangdang area.
This speed is not slow. Those huts in Taiyue Mountain have committed some evil acts and have been harassing the main force of the Taishan Army along this stretch.
Although these people would not pose a threat to Zhang Chong's team, the huge rocks piled on the mountain road would always slow down their progress.
The army left Taiyuan on March 6 and arrived in Wuxiang within four days.
During this process, You Yi sentry detectives from various places continued to report information to Zhang Chong. He Jin personally led the army out of Beijing, and Xie Bi had already arrived at Huguan with his army and was working on the key issues. What was happening ahead was that Zhao Yun had already conquered several cities one after another and was surrounding the Shangdang prefect in Lu County. Zhang Dan's side has also entered Hanoi and surrounded Ji County.
Seeing that the situation was looking great, Zhang Chong suddenly received an express request from Zhao Yun.
"The king personally initiated the attack, but the final general was incompetent. Lei Hecheng and Li Xun's troops died tragically."
Afterwards, Zhao Yun told the story of the battle in detail, and finally he wrote a sentence in blood:
"I deserve to die. I have failed the king's kindness."
His thoughts are quite desolate, and he almost has the ambition to die.
After reading this military report, Zhang Chong could no longer bear it and cursed angrily:
"Zhao Zilong, Zhao Zilong, you are so confused."
After cursing these words, he jumped out of the obstructing car and shouted to the back:
"Cai Que, take your Hengchang and set off with me."
After that, he said to Xun You and Yu Jin without looking back:
"I will take two thousand cavalry to set off first, and you will march at the predetermined speed."
After saying that, Zhang Chong shouted to Ma Chao, who was patrolling over there:
"Go and call Xu Huang and ask him to take the two guards on the left and right of the Flying Tiger Army to prepare three days of rations. Follow me first. And you will come too. It's your turn to take revenge."
When Ma Chao heard this, he was stunned for a moment, then grinned, and the scars on his face wriggled like centipedes.
revenge!