This was supposed to be the hottest time of the day, but Wu Zi of the Taishan Army felt his feet were cold. He looked at Li Zou's body that was snatched back by the guards and felt sad in his heart.
Li Zou and Wu Zi were both from Dongping land, but their situations were very different. Wu Zi was from a wealthy family in Dongping land, while Li Zou's parents died, and he only begged for food in Wenshui. When he grew up, because of his courage, he
He gathered a group of bad boys like him and robbed people on the Wenshui River.
In the first year of Guanghe, Wu Zina would escort the grain to the Jishui River, and the ship's fare was very heavy. At that time, Li Zou and a group of evil young men did not know the importance of the matter, and crossed the Wenshui River with his gang to plunder the grain. At that time, Li Zou landed on the shore and occupied Hu bed.
He waved his finger at the evil young man under his command, and he was well-organized. At that time, Wu Zi was standing on the bow of the ship. He saw Li Zou's behavior and knew that he was very human, so he waved to Li Zou from the bow of the ship:
"You are so talented, why would you want to be a thief? Come to me and I will give you a good background."
At that time, Li Zou came to his heart, and he immediately seized this opportunity and ordered all the party members to abandon their weapons. Then he boarded the ship and shed tears to express his gratitude to Wu Zi for rebuilding.
Afterwards, with the support of the Wu family, Li Zou started to carry out the transfer of Wenshui River and became a powerful man in Wenshui River. He had two to three hundred men fighting to the death. This time Li Zou joined the army because it was Wu Zi who called him.
When Wu Zi just entered Li Zan's court, he met the son of Li Zan's clan, the hairpin family, and then defeated the weak yellow turban moth thief. He only regarded this time as a step forward. And such good things, Wu Zi naturally thought about Li Zou, and he also thought about Li Zou.
There are only five words in the letter:
"This time the enemy is weak and has many powerful abilities, so come quickly."
Li Zou came without a second thought, and then he became a yellow turban moth thief and died under Xuchang City.
Wu Zi was still grieving, but the two warriors who had sent Li Zou there were already filled with righteous indignation and came forward to plead with Wu Zi:
"General, if General Li suffers this fate, he must be sacrificed with blood. We two brothers are willing to wear strong armor and advance to Xuchang City first."
Wu Zi turned his head and saw that the two men were tall and strong, looking like brave men, so he asked them:
"What are the names of these two heroes?"
"A certain Lu Kuang."
"A certain Lu Xiang."
"I am willing to do the hard work of dogs and horses."
Wu Zi pondered for a while:
"What are your military ranks?"
Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang looked at each other, until the opportunity came, they must seize it, and the two loudly said:
"The two of us were originally sharp soldiers under King Dongping. Now we are swordsmen and swordsmen under General Li Zou."
Wu Zi heard that these two men turned out to be elite soldiers of King Dongping, and felt that they should have a few opportunities, and they were both soldiers from the same background as him, so he gave him this opportunity.
Wu Zi has always been willing to give people opportunities and promote heroes without any expense. Even if these two people fail to ascend to Xuchang, there will be no loss to him, Wu Zi.
Therefore, Wu Zi promoted Er Lu and said with great enthusiasm:
"Now I am going to appoint you two as generals, each with ten soldiers, to climb to Xuchang City for me first. And as long as you two can stand firm at the top of the city, after the war, I will go directly to Commander Qu to fight for you two.
People ask for credit."
Brother Erlu was overjoyed and responded with a loud voice. Then he went to select twenty soldiers, all wearing armor and wearing pockets, and they rushed to the gate of Xuchang City with swords in their hands.
As the first to ascend, the two Lus were both wearing double armor, especially the younger brother Lu Xiang, who was also carrying a bow and following his brother.
As the elder brother, Lu Kuang naturally took on the dangerous task of climbing first. He glanced at his younger brother and said:
"If something happens, if there are more babies in the future, one of them will be adopted by me."
Then he ignored his younger brother's surprised expression, bit the ring-shou knife, and rubbed it upwards.
Lu Kuang is a warrior. He wears double armor but is still as strong as flying.
If the soldier held his ground, Lu Kuang might even fall to the ground.
But it was so fierce that the two-foot-high city wall could not breathe for three people. Lu Kuang had already rushed to the top of the city. He dragged a Han soldier who was holding a gun and wanted to hook his armor off the top of the city, and then whipped him
The sword was slashing at the Han soldiers on the top of the city, but he did not defend himself, so he relied on his double armor to trade his wounds for death, giving the soldiers behind him time to go up to the city.
Just as more and more soldiers were gathering behind Lu Kuang, the big yellow crossbowman who originally shot Li Zou to death turned his crossbow and was about to shoot at Lu Kuang.
At such a close distance and with the power of the big yellow crossbow, Lu Kuang was in danger even if he wore two layers of armor.
But at this time, following the passage opened by Lu Kuang, Lu Xiang had already climbed up with a bow. He had already stared at the Huang Crossbowman, knowing that this thing was the biggest threat to the city this time, so he
He stepped on the ladder with one foot, hooked it with one foot, then used both hands to draw the bow, and shot the Xuchang Huang Crossbowman to death with one arrow.
Then Lu Xiang also jumped onto the top of Xuchang City and stood on the top of the city with his brother. Wu Zi, who was downstairs, was overjoyed when he saw that the two brothers had indeed climbed to the top of the city. He hurriedly ordered his elite soldiers to come out to assist the two brothers.
Lu.
In this way, Wu Zi took the lead in defeating the enemy in the south, and Lu Xiang even beheaded the Han general Zhao at the southern gate. Then they fought from the towers on both sides, and the east and west walls were also broken.
This time, Wu Zi took the lead and rushed into the city, killing a group of Han soldiers in order to avenge Li Zou. As a local leader and the general of the defenders, the Zhao family of Xuchang still resisted stubbornly, and was killed by Wu Zi who caught up with his troops.
Through the house wall, a massacre ensued.
By the time Zhang Chong found out from behind the formation, there was no one left alive in the Zhao family. In this case, Zhang Chong could only sigh, the Zhao family was unlucky.
Xuchang City was captured, and the 200,000 shi of millet hoarded by the Zhao family and the 200,000 shi of grain transported in the Jindu Caoguang were seized. More importantly, dozens of ships were seized.
Zhang Chong was about to cross Jishui and enter Dongjun with these ships.
After the war, an inventory was carried out, and it was found that 60 of the four captains died and 200 were injured in this battle. This was already a very heavy damage to a surrendered force with less than 2,000 men.
Zhang Chong claimed that Wu Zi had performed meritorious service in this battle and allowed him to select 500 elite soldiers from his troops, named "Kechang Camp". He also allowed Gao Ya to continue to lead his 300 Jiangyi soldiers, named "Jiangyi Camp", while Zhao Shu
He led five hundred elite soldiers and named them "Baxu Camp". The first warriors in this battle, Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang, both joined the collision team with merit and had a bright future.
In this way, after the battle of Xuchang, Zhang Chong added three more battalions of 1,300 soldiers to his available troops, and his strength once again greatly increased.
Then Zhang Chong continued to seize time. On May 15th, he took out Xu Chang. On May 16th, Zhang Chong had already led the entire army with 8,000 victorious soldiers and the old battalion of 8,000 troops to cross Jishui, and then spent two more days.
On the same day, after marching sixty miles, they finally arrived at Dong'a County, Dongjun County.
When the Taishan army bundled up their troops and rolled up their armor and brought smoke and dust to the outside of Dong'a City, they saw the scene of Han soldiers chasing people to the north. They saw thousands of troops wearing yellow scarves, being chased by Han soldiers in crimson robes.
Killing.
Dian Wei, who was assigned as the vanguard this time, saw that the friendly troops were chasing and killing him. He didn't care about anything else. He hurriedly beat the military drum and sent orders to the rear. Then he led his armored soldiers to flank the Han soldiers who were leaving the city.
This Han soldier was actually a fish belly and not very good at fighting. The reason why he was able to force the Dongjun Yellow Turban Army to kill him was just because these Yellow Turban soldiers were fatter than them.
Of course, this has little to do with these yellow turban Taoist soldiers. The main reason is that the person who led these yellow turban soldiers was the former Cheng Wangdu of Dong'e County.
We are already familiar with Wang Du from the incident where Liang Zhongning used the power of Taiping Dao to protect Qiyuan. This person is Taiping Dao's internal correspondent in Dong'a. This time, the counties of Dongjun raised troops, and Wang Du
In response to the order of Dongjun Qukui Buji, he raised troops to respond.
Everything was going smoothly at first, thanks to Wang Du and Taiping Dao's long-term operation in Dong'a. At that time, he occupied the arsenal and granary as soon as he joined the army. Dong'aling was so frightened that he ran away across the city. Dong'aling also abandoned the city.
The officials in the city who had not surrendered to the thieves took their respective clans and rushed to the Quqiu Mountain in the east of the city to hide there.
When we came here, Taiping Dao had already captured Dong'a. But a man appeared here, and this person directly destroyed Taiping Dao's twenty-year operation in Dong'a.
This man is Cheng Li from Dong'a, who is eight feet and three inches long and has a beautiful beard. He once dreamed of climbing Mount Tai alone, and the sun fell into his arms. In the future, this man would meet a man named Cao Cao, and he would be renamed Cheng Yu, and start this journey.
The road of becoming a marquis. Cheng Li also made his own efforts to make the Cheng family of Dong'a jump from a humble family to a distinguished family with three ranks of marquises. Now, although his popularity and luck have not yet flourished, he has already shown his prominence.
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Just as Cheng Li was running eastward with his friend Xue Fang, he keenly saw that the Yellow Turban thieves behind him had also left the city, but instead of chasing them eastward, they traveled westward for five or six miles to station themselves.
Cheng Li realized at that time that this situation showed that this group of yellow scarf thieves did not intend to occupy the city and defend it, but only wanted to rob money and food. In other words, these thieves just grabbed a handful and ran away, without any intention of occupying the city.
Then Cheng Li immediately told Xue Fang:
"Let's go back. The walls of Dong'a City are high and thick, and every household has plenty of corn. As long as we return to the city and hold on together, Wang Du will not last long."
Xue Fang naturally followed the advice of his classmate Cheng Li. He had long been impressed by his friend's cleverness. He said that if he could defeat a thief, then the thief would not survive.
But the problem is, the Dongashi officials who have escaped from the city have just come out of the tiger's den, how can they be willing to risk going back. So no matter how hard Rao Cheng Li and Xue Fang talked, everyone still went east.
Everyone was blind and foolish and committed suicide. But Cheng Li had his own plan and sent only two of Xue Fang's troops to ride around to Quqiu Mountain and set up the traitor's apricot-yellow banners on the mountain.
Then Xue Fang and all the officials shouted:
"Thieves are in Quqiu Mountain. If you want to survive, follow me."
After saying that, he rushed back to Dong'a County first.
When the blind fools saw it, they immediately followed him, just like the leader, and fled back to Dong'a City.
But now Wang Du and the other Yellow Turban Army panicked.
Originally, they abandoned Dong'a City because they felt that the Han army had been defeated. They stationed outside the city and planned to go west to find the Taishan Yellow Turban Army. They had already received news that the Taishan Yellow Turban Army was heading north to camp with the Yanzhou Taiping Road Regiment.
Then he made an effort to attack Chenliu to the west.
Wang Du got Bu Ji's secret order and ordered him to hold the army when he and the Taishan Yellow Turban Army camped, so as not to be annexed by the Taishan side. If he really couldn't hold it back, let him tell their leader Zhang Chong that he Zhang Chong owed Dongjun
Taiping Road is a great favor.
Four years ago, Zhang Chong returned to Taishan from Xueshibi. The reason why he had a smooth journey was because he had the help of Yanzhou Taiping Road. At that time, the grandson who came to borrow the talisman with Bu Ji promised that Jinan Taiping Road owed them a favor.
But Wang Du didn't expect that while he was thinking about how to find the Taiping Road on Mount Tai, his escape route would be cut off. In this case, Wang Du could only return to attack Dong'a.
But it's a pity that Wang Du's conspiracy is okay, but letting him fight is really overthinking.
After attacking for more than ten days, Wang Du could not advance. Finally, he ran out of food and was about to retreat, but Cheng Li saw the opportunity and led the Han soldiers to pursue him again, turning Wang Du's retreat into a huge rout.
But his fate should not be cut off. At this time, he encountered Dian Wei's vanguard army and directly defeated the Han soldiers from the flank. Finally, Dian Wei rolled up the bead curtain and directly broke through Dong'a City. In addition to letting a wave of people
They fled from the east of the city, and the rest surrendered.