Author: Child Chen

Wars in the classical period often present a rule: that is, to prepare for a long time, to prepare for a war for several months or even years. But when the real battle is really done, it often determines the rise and fall of the regime in half a day.

And this half day is also the longest half day, no matter who is against both sides of the enemy and us, it is the case.

At this time, the Battle of Xingyang is nothing like this. This decisive battle that determines the trend of the world will be decided in a short time, but I don’t know who will be the loser.

On September 10, 2016, when the Han army's county and county ranks and the Youzhou cavalry army went out five miles east of Xingyang, the provocateurs in front directly fought against the Taishan Army's cavalry.

On the way to patrol, a ten-man cavalry of the Han army happened to hit the Taishan Army who was trying to spy on the Han army's march. Seeing that there were only six cavalry opposite, my Han army cavalry took the lead in attacking. But who knew that there was still a six-man cavalry hidden in the dark, and then the Han army cavalry was surrounded and killed by the Taishan army. It was not a Youzhou cavalry that arrived, but the ambushed Han cavalry would have to explain there.

This small encounter between the two sides ended with four corpses left by the Taishan Army. But neither the Han cavalry nor the Youzhou cavalry had any intention of underestimating the Taishan cavalry team because six of them died.

The battle report of this encounter was quickly delivered to the hands of the Han army commander Huang Wan. Huang Wan immediately wrote a feudal report to Liu Hong in Kyoto based on this battle. It was not that Huang Wan was a very happy person, but that he needed to give Liu Hong constant good news to inspire the country to have the confidence to eliminate moths.

But Huang Wan wrote good news, but he didn't dare to be careless at all. He realized that the Taishan Army opposite had chosen to send troops today. Now the two armies are on the big plain on the east side of Xingyang.

Originally, Huang Wan planned to take the initiative to attack and seize the lead, and besieged the Taishan Army in the barriers of the Yan clan with the advantage of numerable people. At that time, there were 10,000 powerful coalitions in the east camp, 3,000 Youzhou cavalry, 3,000 Hedong county soldiers, 2,000 Yanzhou soldiers, and 2,000 Yanzhou soldiers, and 2,000 Xingyang remaining troops, with a total of 20,000 troops, which seemed to be similar to the number of Taishan Army opposite. However, Huang Wan also recruited Zhuangwang and Guanshi disciples from various places. Although these could only be used for logistics, the total number was more than 20,000. Now, the eastern camp was under 50,000, claiming to be 100,000.

In order to maintain such a large scale of manpower, Liu Hong even directly started Taicang, Kyoto. These wheat and rice that were transferred from the fertile land of the world were once again transported along the Luo River to the Xingyang front line.

But now the Taishan Army on the opposite side has also been dispatched, and Huang Wan has shrunk instead. It’s not that he is cowardly, but that he has fought with the Taishan Army, and he dare not underestimate it. Moreover, he also knows how much the country has paid to form the eastern camp, and he dare not fight in a hurry.

So as soon as he learned that the Taishan Army had also been dispatched, Huang Wan urgently ordered the troops not to advance again, and all camped and built a fortress on the spot, and first stood invincible.

Not bad, Huang Wan is a first-class person after all. She was just a famous scholar who kept talking about his heart. However, after having experience in fighting a large army, she became familiar with some common sense of military wars and knew that she could not order a retreat at this time.

If the entire army had retreated at that time, although the distance was less than five miles, tens of thousands of troops were lined up, crowded with people, unable to see the front and back, and people's hearts were different. When they saw the front army retreating, they naturally felt that the front army was defeated. At that time, they would strive to retreat first, and a retreat would collapse.

Huang Wan is also suffering. He was the first time he led troops in Yanzhou. He was all under his command, and he was still haggard when he tried hard to maintain it. This time he was the head coach of the east camp, and his command was still under his command. Moreover, this time the components were more complicated and the soldiers in each system were more difficult to control.

His command can be divided into three systems, which are ranked according to the combat power. The first-class ones are naturally the Youzhou Tuqi, the second-class ones are the Hedong and Yanzhou soldiers, and the third-class ones are the Jingji Haoshi troops.

But I don’t know whether it was intentional or unintentional, but Liu Hong did not actually arrange the Youzhou Cavalry Army, the clan, to the east camp sequence, but was under the command of Lu Zhi, the former general of the Northern Central Army.

This made Huang Wan embarrassed. In other words, the number one combat force in Xingyang at this time was just a friendly army, not the original army. The difference in this word is very different.

But even so, Huang Wan still didn't dare to ask too much, because he was worried that the country was doing this on purpose, and he was worried that all the troops in the capital would be given to him by Huang Wan. Huang Wan didn't think that the country could not trust him, and these were just the emperor's instincts.

Since he had no command over Youzhou cavalry, many things needed to be discussed with the opponent, so what Huang Wan thought was to rely on was the core Yanzhou soldiers and the county soldiers transferred from Hedong. Because the Yanzhou soldiers were with him for a long time, especially the general Lu Qian he accepted, he was even more inappropriate, and were a core force. There were also Hedong soldiers, who were indeed from the most victorious place in the world, and were elite. Many county soldiers even brought their own armor and war horses. After a little training, the Hedong soldiers formed combat power.

In fact, this is also the protection of Huang Wan from his predecessors. Hedong has always been like the six counties in the north, and they all have good families. But unlike the northern part, the economy of Hedong is much stronger than that of the six counties in the north. Therefore, the Hedong warriors here are more skilled in bows and horses, and often bring their own vests when they join the army, thus becoming one of the core military equipment of the Han Dynasty.

The land of Hedong has been a place of success since ancient times. In the past, the people of the Tang Dynasty were Hedong, the people of the Yin Dynasty were Henoi, and the people of the Zhou Dynasty were Henan. Therefore, the Sanhe area was the place of royal career in ancient times.

One reason for Hedong's wealth is that there are Fen River and Jing River in the territory to nourish agriculture. But more importantly, Hedong has the benefits of salt and iron, Hedong has the best iron office in the world, and the two pools of salt with the highest quality in the world can be said to occupy all the wealth in the world. What's more exaggerated is that the benefits of salt and iron are controlled by local private individuals in Hedong, and the country only extracts the tax on salt and iron.

It is precisely because of the richness of local salt and iron that the rich people in Hedong are inherited. Every year, warriors who retire and return to their hometown train their children and nephews and villagers when they arrive in their hometown, which allows generations of Sanhe Knights to continue to inherit the inheritance.

Before the yellow scarfs rose, Hedong had contributed a group of high-quality soldiers to the Han Dynasty. Now the country has called again, and these long-trained Wu family men picked up armored soldiers and went to war for the country. Therefore, Huang Wan also received the shade of his predecessors. It was the peace and stability of the Hedong region for a hundred years that the warriors in the Hedong region could have enough growth environment. Of course, human resources will also be exhausted. With the arrival of troubled times, no one knows how many of these high-quality Hedong warriors can be left.

But unfortunately, there were too few soldiers from Hedong. In addition, the Yanzhou soldiers in Huang Wan's hands were only 6,000, which was far from suppressing another group under his command, namely the army of the rich troops of the Jingji. Although the latter was not very elite, it could not withstand many.

In fact, at the beginning, Liu Hong planned to send 10,000 Hedong soldiers to the south. Don’t be surprised that a county could gather tens of thousands of soldiers, because there was really a special regiment under his command, namely the Wubi soldiers.

During the reign of Emperor An, the Qiang people once fought to Hedong and even fought to Henoi along Hedong, so the Han Dynasty had to set up thirty-three dock walls in Tonggu Chong within Hedong, each with fifty soldiers and drums.

So Liu Hong initially wanted to transfer these troops to the south together. However, Liu Hong's suggestion was directly stopped by the ministers from Hedong, and of course they also had reasons.

They said that before the yellow scarfs rose, there were moths in the Hedong area. Later, Bian Zhang led the Qiang people to attack the border and again raided Hedong. The reason why the Thirty-Three Dock Wall, which was originally arranged in the Hedong area, was established in the north of Kyoto, along the Yanyuan County, Pingyin, Jixian County, Biyang and Wushe areas of Hanoi, was built. If all these troops were drawn away, if the Qiang people drove straight down, the story of the Western Zhou Dynasty being destroyed by the Western Rong will be repeated.

Liu Hong was so angry at these words that he thought about it that these people were just using these as reasons. The more important reason was that the Hedong tyrants did not want the Hedong troops to be drained. At that time, whether the Yellow Turbans or the Qiang people entered Hedong, they would be the first to suffer.

But what can Liu Hong understand this? He has compromised with the nobles once, and this time it is not bad. So in the end, only three thousand Hedong soldiers went south.

Originally, Liu Hong planned to let Hedong prefect Dong Zhuo lead his troops south, but he had already led his troops to the Hebei battlefield before, so he gave up.

At this time, Dong Zhuo was also a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty. He came from a good family in six counties and joined Yulinlang. Later, he moved to the Western Xinjiang for the country and made military achievements. He was a rising star of the Han Dynasty and was expected to replace Sanming, Liangzhou and become a new benchmark for the entire Han Dynasty warriors.

Because of this trust, Liu Hongcai appointed Dong Zhuo as the prefect of Hedong. You should know that as the head of the Three Rivers, Hedong has always been the minister who is most trusted by the emperor because of its geographical location and economic advantages.

The Han Dynasty relies on the administration of officials. This is the so-called "If the people are at peace and have no complaints, the government is peaceful and the officials are good. If you share this with me, only two thousand stones of goodness."

Therefore, Dong Zhuo was able to serve as the prefect of Hedong, which was a reflection of this trust. But this was also related to Dong Zhuo's good luck. He happened to catch up with the transformation period when the Han Dynasty promoted a new group of military officers as the governing civil officials. Since the former Han Dynasty, the Hedong region has been the base camp of the Legal civil servants, but because of this, in order to check and balance, all Hedong prefects in all dynasties were counted and the other were Confucian officials. For example, Li Wen, Shi Bi, Kong Biao, and Wang Yi were all Confucian officials. If it were not for the national turmoil, the local area would become increasingly difficult to govern. Liu Hong needed more military officers with military experience to manage the local area for him, and Dong Zhuo had no chance at all.

So Dong Zhuo's current status was promoted by Liu Hong, but I don't know what kind of emotion would be if Liu Hong knew that the great man was buried in Dong Zhuo's hands.

When he returned to Huang Wan, although Huang Wan had many difficulties, he had one thing that could be known and used well. He made such arrangements based on the situation of his soldiers.

First of all, the most difficult to mobilize Youzhou Tuqi. After negotiation, it was arranged in the northeast of this plain battlefield, guarding the transportation line in the Ao Cang area behind. The reason why the clerk agreed to arrange it here was also related to the fact that it is closer to Ao Cang and more convenient for supply.

Then were the Yanzhou soldiers and Hedong soldiers that Huang Wan relied most, and were arranged on more than a dozen slopes on the east side of Xingyang. These camps were either on the edge of the Ze or on the Dao. In short, they wanted to support each other and block the movement of the Taishan Army to the west and north.

As for the remaining soldiers from the richest people in the Jingjin area, this is Huang Wan’s most worried about it.

One of these soldiers was unclear in discipline because they were all powerful tribes. They were usually domineering in charge. They were now in the Xingyang area. Like those outside the Youzhou soldiers, they were in the Yuru Township.

The second is that these soldiers are still powerful and ineffective. Because they are private soldiers of the wealthy clan, especially the heads of each family are big bosses in the court, these people think they are self-righteous and do not take the commander Huang Wan seriously. They usually do things like this, but most of these wealthy clan tribes will not respond.

It is precisely based on these factors that Huang Wan is worried that he will fight with the Taishan Army and that these wealthy tribes will wait and see and prolong. At that time, there will be dozens of camps and dozens of ideas. Whenever there is something, you will look at me, just want others to stand up and get the bargain.

How can these soldiers be used on the blade? After experiencing Fengqiu's defeat, he no longer wants to put success or failure on these moms.

Therefore, Huang Wan arranged the more than 10,000 powerful tribes behind the Yanzhou soldiers and Hedong soldiers. His idea was to take the lead, let his direct line lead them, set an example to inspire these heroic consciences and act for the country.

As for whether it will work, Huang Wan is not very confident, but this is already a solution. If he dares to arrange the more than 10,000 tribes on the front line, these tribes may wonder whether Huang Wan wants to eliminate dissidents and use the blood of their tribes to dye his Huang Wan's ribbon. At that time, Huang Wan is really afraid that these tribes will give him a "campaign".

In this way, Huang Wan worked hard in the face of difficulties, and Zhang Chong on the opposite side was not feeling well.

Not long after he left the camp on September 10, Zhang Chong learned that the Han army opposite was stationed and digging deep trenches and building the camp, and decided to stop the army and set up camp five miles away from the Han army camp.

In fact, Zhang Chong led the Taishan Army to take the initiative and attacked. Because according to the information obtained in recent days, the Han army on the opposite side had a force of about 50,000, while the only one side had less than 30,000.

According to general military common sense, such as the Taishan Army taking the initiative to attack or even attacking the tough situation, in order to form a large-scale encirclement against the enemy, one must have an advantage in terms of military strength.

But now? The Taishan Army is at a disadvantage in the number of people, has no internal response in Xingyang City, and has lost the opportunity to rush to attack, which has made a very aggressive decision to a certain extent.

But Zhang Chong all understood that he knew that the reasonable tactic should be to first stick to the Yan family barrier, and then wait for the Han soldiers to fail to capture for a long time and their morale fell, and then look for an opportunity to go out for a decisive battle.

Originally, Zhang Chong made this plan, but the two military newspapers received from the south and north in the first two days disrupted all plans and forced Zhang Chong to take huge risks to lead the army to fight the main force of the Han army opposite.

And what exactly did these two letters say?
Chapter completed!