On the road from Xiong County to Zhending, there is an endless stream of refugees. Although King Yan attaches great importance to the support of the people and has strict military discipline and does not allow any infringement with the people, everyone knows that the city occupied by King Yan will soon be invaded by the imperial army.
Come to attack and fight together, God knows whether we will suffer a disaster. I heard that in addition to the original local garrison, plus Changxing Marquis's troops, there are a hundred thousand people. It is expected to be as stable as Mount Tai, so the refugees agree to it.
, and headed straight for true concentration.
Suddenly, the sound of hoofbeats sounded in the distance, and the refugees who were on the way were like frightened birds. When they looked closely, they saw dust flying, and a group of officers and soldiers came in. The soldiers and horses had their helmets crooked, their bodies stained with blood, and their flags were rolled upside down.
There were about a hundred or so people, all of them looking disgraced, obviously defeated by the imperial court.
"Stop, stop!"
Two people suddenly jumped out from among the fleeing people on the roadside, blocking the group of cavalry and waving their hands desperately.
"Xu..."
A general who was in front quickly reined in his horse and shouted angrily: "You are so bold and unruly, why are you blocking my way? Xiongxian and Mozhou have fallen, and Gu Cheng has rebelled against Yanni. I will report this news immediately."
Marquis of Changxing, you unscrupulous people dare to block the road, if it delays the military plane, can you afford the punishment?"
"We are not common people, we are not ordinary people!"
The frail man tore off the sweat towel on his head, took out a big seal from his arms, showed it to the general on horseback, and said with tears of joy: "I am the magistrate of Zhuozhou, Wei Chunbing, Xiongxian was lost, and General Yang Song died in the battle.
, I made a promise with the magistrate of Xiong County, Mr. Xu, to disguise himself as a commoner, and we escaped. We are also going to see General Geng. I don’t know who the general is from. Please give us a ride, the two of us.
They are all weak scholars, and they really can’t go far.”
"Ah, it turns out to be Lord Wei, the magistrate of Zhuozhou, Lord Xu of Xiongxian County!"
The general dismounted hurriedly, clasped his fists and said: "The last general is Zhang Bao, the deputy general under the command of Gu Cheng, the commander-in-chief of the rear army. Gu Cheng defected to Yan Ni. The last general was helpless and unable to resist. He was unwilling to abandon the imperial court and join Yan Ni, so he had to take advantage of the opportunity.
Sneaking away in the chaos, I didn't expect to meet two people here. It's just... I don't have any extra horses here, so I can only bear with the two adults and ride with my personal entourage for the time being. "
Magistrate Wei and Magistrate Xu only wanted to get out of danger quickly, but they didn't care much. They nodded in agreement. A knight on a horse next to them bent down and smiled at Magistrate Wei: "Master Magistrate, please put away your big horse."
Yin, please ride with me on the same horse."
Wei Zhifu looked up and saw that this man was not very old, but he had a beard under his chin, handsome eyes and thick eyebrows, and a heroic spirit. In normal times, how could Zhifu Wei take a deputy general's personal soldiers seriously?
But he felt quite flattered. He quickly put away his seal and stretched out his hand. The knight on the horse raised his arm and lifted Magistrate Wei onto the horse. He smiled at him and said, "Sir, please sit still."
Magistrate Wei grasped Ma'anqiao tightly with both hands and said gratefully: "I haven't asked for advice yet. Please give me your first name."
The man behind him took hold of the reins, shook his hand, and smiled in his ear: "This is General Zhang's personal school captain. My surname is Xia Mingxu. You can just call me Xiao Xia!"
Why did these two adults escape here? It turns out that the nine thousand soldiers and horses guarding Xiong County are the elite of the southern army. Yang Song's ability to lead troops is indeed not ordinary, but his reinforcements have been exhausted. Yan
The king concentrated his superior forces and could attack Xiongxian without any scruples. At the same time, Yang Song voluntarily gave up a city gate in order to lure Zhu Di into an ambush. From beginning to end, Zhu Di never gave up the city gate and kept it firmly under his control.
In the end, it was this city gate that played a big role. At dawn, Zhu Di's army invaded Xiong County.
Magistrate Wei and Magistrate Xu had not seen reinforcements arrive for a long time, so they already realized something was wrong. As soon as the North City Gate fell at dawn, they fled quickly. These two people did not fight unprepared battles. In the middle of the night,
Before reinforcements arrived, the two of them had quietly gone back and changed into casual clothes, carrying all the important things with them.
At this time, as soon as the official clothes were taken off, the common people mingled with the common people and fled south. King Yan's troops entered the city. Because they were busy controlling the whole city, and King Yan issued a strict order not to harm the people, no one pursued them.
Only then did he successfully escape. On the way, some soldiers under Yang Song's command came one after another. From their mouths, the two adults learned that after General Yang Song fell in Xiong County, he wanted to lead his troops to break through and rush to Mozhou.
Unfortunately, at the gate of the city, he met Zhu Neng, a general under the command of King Yan, who shot him under his horse and died for his country.
Zhang Bao talked about how Gu Cheng led his army to defect to the King of Yan, and assisted the Yan King's general Zhang Yu to attack Mozhou and capture Governor Pan Zhong alive. In just one night, the King of Yan took over the food and grass supplies of Xiongxian and Mozhou.
, recruited more than 20,000 troops to surrender. Speaking of the misery, the prefect of Wei, Magistrate Xu and Zhang Bao couldn't help but sigh at each other.
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Geng Bingwen first received the news from Yang Song who had sent troops at the beginning of the war. He knew that Yang Song was in close combat with Zhu Di in Xiong County. Only two hours later, he received the news that Pan Zhong from Mozhou sent troops to aid Xiong County. Unexpectedly,
He felt relieved. Although Gu Cheng had not sent any information, according to his expectation, it was just that the messenger had gone astray on the road. Gu Cheng should have sent troops to help at this time. If the three armies could successfully contain Yan
King, he will have the opportunity to accomplish everything in one battle.
Geng Bingwen's troops were originally stationed on the north and south banks of the Hutuo River. He ordered his troops on the north bank and meandered towards Xiong County. As a result, just two hours after leaving, Pan Zhong's defeated troops fled in panic.
It brought a series of bad news: Xiong County had been lost, Pan Zhong was ambushed and his life or death was unknown, and Gu Cheng rebelled and surrendered to King Yan.
Geng Bingwen, a battle-hardened veteran, was stunned by a series of bad news: "How could King Yan be so powerful? How could the Northern Army be so powerful?"
Geng Bingwen was a seasoned general. He suddenly heard such news. How could he dare to move forward? He had been working hard on both sides of the Hutuo River for a long time. The trenches and battle walls were like copper and iron walls. At this time, knowing that King Zhu Di of Yan was unstoppable, Geng Bingwen made a decisive decision.
He immediately ordered his troops to retreat, returned to the bank of the Hutuo River, and set up a position in his original camp to prepare for the arrival of King Yan.
As a result, in the future of the King of Yan, Zhang Bao, the deputy general under the rebel general Gu Cheng, took more than a hundred soldiers to protect the two treasures of Wei Zhifu and Xuzhi County and fled like a bereaved dog. According to Zhang Bao, the generals under the command of the King of Yan were simply
They are like wolves and tigers, one can fight a hundred. Xiongxian held on for less than an hour, and the north city gate was breached. Pan Zhong led an army of 20,000, but it fell apart with just one move, frightening the southern general under the command of Changxing Marquis.
Stunned for a moment.
Wei Zhifu and Xu County Magistrate deserted, so how could they say that the Yan army was weak? They wanted to describe the Yan army as heavenly soldiers and generals to cover up the fact that they fled without fighting. Naturally, they loudly echoed and added jealousy to the situation.
In addition, they are literati, and their adjectives are much richer than the general Zhang Bao. According to their description, King Zhu Di of Yan is simply a peerless warrior with a height of eight feet and a waist of eight feet. With a roar, the wall of Xiong County collapsed, and with a sword
Pan Zhong's army was defeated. It would be an insult to say that King Yan was an enemy of ten thousand people.
Of course Geng Bingwen had met the King of Yan Zhu Di. He did not think that no matter how powerful the King of Yan was, he could be so brave as a million men. However, the facts before him clearly showed that the fighting power of the Yan army was indeed more than one level higher than that of the imperial troops. This
It is an indisputable fact. I heard from Zhang Bao that the King of Yan came south and recruited troops all the way. The total strength of the troops actually reached 50,000. After Gu Cheng surrendered, the King of Yan summoned the Mozhou garrison to surrender. The total strength now is 70,000.
Geng Bingwen couldn't help but feel horrified.
Geng Bingwen divided his troops on both sides of the Hutuo River. Originally, he could advance and attack, and retreat and defend. They could coordinate with each other and advance and retreat freely. However, when he heard that King Yan's army was so powerful, it was obvious that dividing his troops was not as good as joining them together. Geng Bingwen first told Wei Zhifu and Xu County Magistrate
After appeasing Zhang Bao, he greatly commended Zhang Bao's loyalty for refusing to obey the general and rebelling against Yan. He immediately ordered the troops stationed on the south bank of the Hutuo River to cross the river north immediately and join forces to defend Yan.
army's attack.
Why did Geng Bingwen not retreat, but instead dropped all the troops on the south bank to the north bank?
Because he was not a local garrison, but was sent by the imperial court to encircle and suppress the rebellion of the King of Yan. He led an army of more than 100,000 people to Zhending. The former army was swallowed up in one go, and then huddled in the city of Zhending. How could he report to the court?
Explain? How to explain it to the world? For King Yan, this battle is inevitable. For Geng Bingwen, why not not fight? However, the one who originally did not want to fight was King Yan, but now it is a matter of host and guest.
, replaced by Changxing Hou Geng Bingwen.
The constant flow of exploring horses is like shuttling back and forth.
As expected, King Yan came, and King Yan's army was stationed in Wuji City. Wuji City was only a few dozen miles away from Zhending, and it was within a short distance of Geng Bingwen's camp stationed on the north bank of the Hutuo River. Geng Bingwen did not dare to neglect.
The layout of the patrol camp was carefully planned and carefully built by the most famous general of the Ming Dynasty. This already impeccable military camp supplemented the 50,000 soldiers and horses originally on the south bank of the Hutuo River, reaching a total of 100,000.
A hundred thousand troops, a ten-mile company, are as majestic as an iron wall. Geng Bingwen, a sixty-six-year-old veteran, is covered in iron armor, with his hand on the hilt of his sword, standing majestically on the high watchtower, with scarlet red on his shoulders.
His cloak trembled in the wind.
The old general, with his white hair fluttering, overlooked the impregnable camp under his careful deployment for a long time, and his heroic spirit arose spontaneously: "King Yan, come on! When I was ordered by Taizu to guard Changxing in the past, I guarded the city of Changxing.
Ten years have passed since Zhang Shicheng attacked me. Ten years later, he has been unable to make any progress. Today I want to see how you, King Yan, compares to King Cheng!"
In the southwest corner of the rebel camp, Zhang Bao and a group of his soldiers were arranged in the Dizi Camp. The prefect of Wei and County Magistrate Xu originally wanted to ask Changxing Marquis to send troops to escort them to Zhending City, but Geng Bingwen was busy dispatching troops and generals.
To deploy defense, the two of them were really embarrassed to speak, so they were temporarily arranged here.
In front of the camp, the idle Magistrate Wei and Magistrate Xu were lazily basking in the sun. Zhang Bao's personal soldier, Captain Xia Xuxia, was smiling at Magistrate Wei and said: "Your Excellency, you just left Xiongxian County like this? The war is in chaos, Your Excellency, you have to leave the new army."
I'm afraid it would not be appropriate for Mrs. Ru to stay alone in Xiong County."
Wei Zhifu said sternly: "When the national crisis is facing us, what does personal honor and disgrace count? In the past, when Zhang patrolled Suiyang, he could kill his beloved concubine, cook it and share it with the soldiers. How could Wei Chunbing be greedy for women because he was favored by the emperor?
, captured by Yan Ni? The big deal..., after Yan Ni is wiped out, all I have to do is buy another concubine."
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