Just as the Taishan Army and the Han Army were fighting in the wilderness of Puyang, a military report from Beizhonglang General Lu Zhi was also sent to Liu Hong in Kyoto.
Lu Zhi wrote three things in his memorial:
The first one is about the war in Hebei. Since Lu was implanted in Hebei, he first fought with the Yellow Turban Army in the military envoy, and then joined forces with four thousand cavalry from the Wuhuan School Wei Zong to defeat the Yellow Turban Army in Handan. However, the main force of the Yellow Turban Army was not lost, but retreated to
Qu Liang continued to fight with Han soldiers.
The second is about the war in Dongjun. Lu Zhi himself saw through the Taishan Army's strategy of marching westward to Aocang. On the one hand, he sent Zhongshao south to guard Puyangjin. On the other hand, he wrote down the possibility of the Taishan bandits attacking Aocang westward during the war, so as to allow
The central government made preparations early.
The third one is Lu Zhi's suggestions on how to pacify Taiping Road now. He pointed out in the military newspaper that the current administration can no longer keep up with the development of the war. In the past, civil unrest and bandits were all small-scale, and only one prefect could coordinate the counties in the county.
Unified suppression. But now the Yellow Turban thieves have invaded all directions and have already joined the counties across the state. If the Yellow Turbans are still in the territory of the prefects, they can suppress them carefully. But if the Yellow Turbans break into other counties, the prefects of the county will ignore them. Even
Some eunuchs also regarded their neighbors as borders and focused on driving the Yellow Turban thieves to other counties. In the end, the Yellow Turban thieves also took advantage of this disadvantage and kept running back and forth in the border areas, destroying them endlessly. Therefore, Lu Zhi suggested that the original governor should be changed to Mu.
Bo, he is dedicated to the military affairs of a state, and selects important cities to occupy his posts, so that he can coordinate with the governors in the state and suppress the bandits.
Liu Hong read Lu Zhi's military report and thought of the joint military report from Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun he had received a few days ago. He was worried. Because the news sent by Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun was not very good either.
The main force of the Han army on the South Route left the border in May, and now the first military report has been sent in June, and they have been defeated in succession.
Huangfu Song's military report stated that Zhu Jun first attacked Yingchuan's Bocai tribe, suffered a small setback, and retreated to Yangdi. Then Huangfusong's tribe came and joined forces to attack Yingchuan's Bocai tribe, but the battle was unsuccessful. Later, Huangfu Song observed the formation and discovered that Bocai's troops were defeated.
Caibu actually set up a stronghold on the grass and immediately attacked Caibu with fire.
Especially in the summer, the weather is dry and the fire is burning. But just when Huangfusong thought that he had won the battle, a heavy rain in summer suddenly hit the general. Except for a little baggage being burned, the Bocai tribe was unharmed. In the end, Huangfusong could only continue.
The stalemate with Yingchuan Taiping Road ended in Yangzhai.
Not only that, Zhao Qian, the prefect of Runan, was defeated by Taiping Dao in his county. Chu Gong, the prefect of Nanyang, was attacked and killed by Zhang Mancheng's troops. The Yellow Turbans of Guangyang killed Guo Xun, the governor of Youzhou, and Liu Wei, the prefect. It can be said that there is no good news.
Because of the current situation, Liu Hong had to seriously consider Lu Zhi's suggestion, which was to establish a state pastoralist. But he also knew that this matter was of great importance, so he said that why the Han family made the prefect the head of the place was to absorb the chaos of the Six Kingdoms.
The lesson is not to make the place powerful.
After thinking about it, Liu Hong called Yang Ci to discuss the matter. Yang Ci meant that he could only set up a prefecture in Yanzhou first. The area where the four battles were fought really needed a Fangbo to unify the counties and provide a good solution for the situation.
The empire held Xingyang to the east.
Finally, Yang Ci recommended the capable minister Huang Wan to be the Fang Bo of Yanzhou.
Huang Wan came from the Huang family in Anlu, Jiangxia. Like Yang Ci, they were both descendants of the public clan. His great-grandfather Huang Xiang was a famous official, and his grandfather Huang Qiong was the third Duke. He himself was famous when he was young, but later he was banned from serving as an official because of party restrictions.
Ten years have not been wasted, but his fame has spread all over the world.
Liu Hong had no objection this time because Yang Ci was able to predict the current affairs, so he agreed to Huang Wan Chijie as the shepherd of Yanzhou and in charge of all military affairs within the territory.
Huang Wan sent the order on June 4th. The next day, he immediately set off, and the bandit general Zhou Shen also set out with him. He led 800 Liangzhou soldiers to serve as Huang Wan's troops and marched eastward together. June 10th
On the 6th, Huang Wan and others arrived at Chenliu Fengqiu. It was also at this time that news of the destruction of Puyang City reached here.
They were too late, and Puyang, the county seat of Yanzhou, was captured.
What's going on? Puyangjin was defeated on the 11th, but Puyang City fell on June 15th. How is this possible? How did Zhang Chong capture it?
This is all thanks to one person, Zang Rong, the left-behind lieutenant of Liyang camp. After Zang Gong, the famous general of Guangwu Zhongxing, he has been the lieutenant of Liyang camp. The chief general of the camp has to go out of Zhongshan Kingdom to guard against Xianbei.
Let me tell you the story of these four days first.
Puyang City has said a long time ago that this fortified city that has been renovated in the past is surrounded by a large river, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. And because it is a crossing of a large river, there are sufficient supplies of food, fodder and military supplies. And then there are high walls on all sides.
The east city is two feet five feet high, the south city is three feet high, the west city is two feet six feet high, and the north city is two feet seven feet high. They are generally one foot taller than county towns at the same level.
Originally, the Puyang Fort, supplemented by the Puyangjin Barrier not far away, could form a limited and deep defense system, which was more effective than simply defending the isolated city. Because if the stronghold outside the city could be stabilized, it would be able to defeat the Yellow Turban Army.
Fighting a positional battle outside the city will make it easier to ensure the safety of the city.
But unfortunately, due to Cao Shao's cowardice and arrogance, he refused to leave the city, causing the Yellow Turban Army to calmly remove the Puyangjin stronghold. Of course, there is a theory that the excessive superstition of Puyang City's defense by the wealthy families in the city, such as the Tian family, may be the key.
Puyang Jin broke through the wall at noon on the 11th. In the afternoon, Cao Shao felt that the situation was unsafe, so he posted a list in the city to recruit troops. Puyang is a big city. The entire fifteen cities of Dongjun have a household of 140,000 and a population of 700,000. In Puyang, there are 700,000 households.
It has a population of 30,000 and a population of 160,000, of which 20,000 or 30,000 people live in Puyang City. It is truly a big river city.
So when the prefect Cao Shao posted a list to recruit soldiers, he should be able to recruit a lot of people. But in fact, there were only a few applicants, and he only collected 500 soldiers, which is five villages. In order to stimulate more people to join the army, Cao Shao became ruthless, first
The reward for recruiting soldiers was increased every other day. It was even posted that those who could defeat the thieves would be rewarded with a reward of 100,000 yuan. However, the people of Puyang were unmoved at all and no one responded. This is the result of Cao Shao's abuse of the people in the past.
At the end of the day, no one is willing to sacrifice their lives for him.
With no choice, Cao Shao could only send county soldiers to force the people of Puyang to go to the city, promising a reward of three hundred a day, but in reality the people of Puyang received the reward in vain, and then fled home. In the end, after working for a long time, Cao Shao just refused.
Five hundred new soldiers were in great embarrassment.
But fortunately, at this moment, Lihu County Lieutenant had received the military order from the county governor Cao Shao, and he finally led five hundred Shanshan troops.
Due to their limited strength, the Taishan Army did not surround Puyang on all sides, but only camped in the east of the city to attack. Therefore, Lihu's 500 soldiers entered the city directly from the south.
As the saying goes, it is a good time to come. In the next two days, Cao Shaoshi arrived. Soldiers from Baima, Yanxian and other places entered Puyang City one after another. In particular, the Yanxian soldiers also borrowed foreign soldiers, namely Chenliu jujube soldiers, eight hundred. In this way
As a result, by June 13th, the number of troops in Puyang City had swelled to four thousand, and they were able to compete with the Taishan Army outside the city.
But chaos also arose as these foreign soldiers entered Puyang.
There is a common phenomenon among the soldiers of this apocalypse, that is, they become angry when they are attacked by thieves, and they become more ambitious when they loot the people's belongings. They are not good at fighting, but they are good at looting.
The soldiers from Lihu, Baima, and Yanxian County were not bad. After all, they were local soldiers from Dongjun County. They had the nostalgia of the countryside and it was hard to go too far. However, they also drove away a large area and gave it up to use it as a place to stay.
When they come to save Puyang, do they let them sleep on the street? Is this reasonable?
The eight hundred soldiers of Suanzao went too far. Depending on whether they were reinforcements or foreign soldiers, they raped and looted wantonly. When they found someone they liked, they were kidnapped into the military camp, which made the public opinion in Puyang boil.
But Cao Shao ignored it and just entertained the generals every day, drinking and singing. Cao Shao had reason to be happy, because he suddenly discovered that fighting could actually make a fortune.
As long as a false article is published in the book, thousands of money will come rolling in.
With the help of several old officials, he continued to falsify accounts and inflate losses. Although there was no battle outside, he had already lost hundreds of thousands of arrows here. And Cao Shao did not keep the money for himself, but
Share it generously with these foreign soldiers.
He, Cao Shao, is not stupid. Only by catching these soldiers can he be safe.
But unfortunately, on June 15, a group of cavalry claiming to be Liyang Camp appeared in the north of the city, saying that they would enter the city to provide assistance.
The North Gate garrison was from the Ji clan in Weiguo County, and they were also the first powerful soldiers to join the army to aid Puyang. His family had been in the Weiguo Kingdom since ancient times, and had always enjoyed food rations and shared weal and woe with the Han family.
This man looked at the talisman and the printing plate representing Zang Rong of Liyang Camp from the hanging bamboo basket, and there was no mistake. He knew that Zang Rong was a strong general of Liyang, and his Liyang Camp was a powerful force that had repeatedly gone out to the fortress, so there was not much
After hesitating, he lowered the suspension bridge and let the group in.
But then these cavalrymen began to charge at the city gate opening and entered the city directly, followed closely by endless enemy soldiers.
Now Puyang is finished.
It was naturally the Taishan Army's cavalry that rushed into the city, but what happened to Zang Rong's talismans and seals? This is not a lie.
It is true that this thing is genuine, and it was obtained by Zang Rong.
It turned out that when many reinforcements entered Puyang, Zang Rong of the Liyang camp also went south. With only a hundred Youzhou cavalry, he confidently passed the Baima and quickly marched eastward to Puyang, taking twice as long as the road.
On June 14, he arrived outside Puyang but did not enter the city, because the cavalry entering the city would not be of much use, but it could play a decisive role outside the city.
Then he discovered the loopholes in Puyangjin and decided to take the risk to raid Qiaozhai. The man was really brave. He led a hundred cavalry and rushed forward. He really hit the Taishan army by accident. Many of them didn't have time to put on their clothes and armor. Then Zang Rong
Killing is coming.
But unfortunately, the camp Zang Rong attacked was the southern camp, and Guan Yu was in that camp.
Seeing that the officials had not had time to prepare, Guan Yu himself put on his armor and rode out of the stronghold with a silk stocking. Before Zang Rong could react, Guan Yu had already killed him in front of Zang Rong. Then, without waiting for anyone to react, Guan Yu stood up and fell from his horse.
, and then the man was trampled to death by the horse behind him.
But Guan Yu killed these hundreds of horses by himself, and was soaked with sweat, but he was not hurt at all.
These Youzhou assault cavalry were all blinded. In the blink of an eye, the general was gone, and then in the blink of an eye, they were surrounded by thieves. They were all whip-haired Wuhuan people, and they were chirping in desperation. What they said was the Taishan Army.
I didn’t understand a word, and when I got tired of hearing it, I immediately cursed:
"Abandon your weapons and surrender."
The Wuhuan people understood this and immediately dismounted their horses and knelt on the ground. They always knelt down easily in front of the Han people.
This is the main theme of this era, one Han serves as the five barbarians.