Not long after the Taishan Army entered the city, a riot broke out in Puyang City. The already oppressed people of Puyang were all in groups hunting lone foreign soldiers from the Han army.
Puyang City has four thousand Han soldiers and eight camps. They are Cao Shao's county soldiers, one thousand, Baima Chenggong's family soldiers, three hundred, Wei Guo Ji's soldiers, 200, Puyang Tian family and other families' soldiers, 500.
Later, there were 300 Lihu soldiers, 500 White Horse soldiers, 400 Yanxian soldiers, and 800 foreign soldiers, Suizao soldiers, for a total force of 4,000.
As for the five hundred soldiers Cao Shao recruited in the past two days, they dispersed as soon as Taishan's army entered the city. Not only that, they also took the weapons issued by the arsenal and went home. Cao Shao's thousand county soldiers were about the same.
They are all from Puyang City, and because of Cao Shao, they are often disliked by the people in the same area. If it weren't for the stable position of Shi Gao, they might not be able to continue.
Originally, when the moth thieves entered the city, they were going to fight to the death to block it. However, they found that after the moth thieves entered the city, they did not loot and set fire everywhere, but acted in a very well-organized manner. After entering from the north gate, a group of them went to the top of the city.
Taking control of the suspension bridge, they rushed to kill the assembled Han soldiers and headed straight for the arsenal. Seeing this, the county soldiers looked at each other, took off their uniforms, and went home.
However, the resistance from the military tribes of other families was particularly fierce, especially the Chenggong family. Their family was from the Wu family, their tribes were bound by military laws, and they were all good at fighting. Therefore, when the Taishan Army's cavalry rushed into the city first, they
Although they were invincible, but Cheng Gong's family failed to charge twice, the leader of the team, Wang Dang, roared, and his fifty cavalry bypassed Cheng Gong's soldiers and chased the scattered Han soldiers behind.
The Assault Cavalry has developed its own tactical characteristics. When encountering a strong formation, they will charge if they can and leave if they can't. They will not hesitate to fight because there are soldiers behind them to follow them and deal with them.
Sure enough, the soldiers of the Chenggong clan thought they had repelled the bandits and all fought hard. However, they unexpectedly encountered a group of enemy soldiers, especially the leader, a warrior holding a double halberd.
Can't stand it.
Poor Chenggong soldiers were also good at fighting, but they met Dian Wei. What Dian Wei was best at was this kind of small-scale fighting. He was already at the peak of his fighting skills and courage. In less than a moment,
Dian Wei and his soldiers had already killed the Chenggong soldiers, and their leader Cheng Gonggao had become another trophy for Dian Wei.
The Chenggong clan had strong soldiers, but that was all. Seeing that Puyang could not be defended, other tribes broke out from the west and south gates one after another. Among them, 800 jujube soldiers protected Cao Shao and went straight to the west gate to retreat to Yan County. Unfortunately, the west gate
Zhang Chong had already set up an ambush along the way, and Xie Bi and Li Damu's troops had already moved here to wait for the Han soldiers who were fleeing to the west.
In the end, Cao Shao was captured, and the jujube soldiers knelt down and surrendered after a slight resistance. Afterwards, Xie Bi and Li Damu took Cao Shao's eunuch's talisman, put on the uniforms of the jujube soldiers, and easily defrauded Baima and Yan counties, and directly captured Dongjun.
The western region is connected.
In fact, Dongjun could no longer mobilize any troops. The 4,000 troops assembled in Puyang City were the entire military strength of the Han court in the west of Dongjun, but when Puyang fell, they were all reduced to nothing.
In the Battle of Puyang, Taishan's army was counted. Six hundred of the Northern Army officials were killed and 400 were captured. Three hundred of the river bandits were killed and 700 were captured. Then the biggest gain was the Puyang soldiers, with a total of 4,000 soldiers. They could not annihilate 400.
Two thousand were captured, and another thousand were dispersed without a trace. Then the three cities of Puyang, Baima, and Yan County were all occupied by the Taishan Army and were not owned by the Han.
The great victory in the Battle of Puyang quickly spread in the surrounding areas. More and more Taiping Dao armed forces and anti-Han forces came to Puyang to camp with Zhang Chong. They either had a bloody feud with the Han court, or they were jealous of the Taishan army. In short, Zhang
If you go to Puyang, you will find it has the potential to embrace hundreds of rivers.
Over the past few days, Pan Da, the remnant leader of the Taiping Road in Baima, with 600 people, came to defect one after another. They defected directly to Xie Bi who was stationed in Baima. Then came the hundreds of thieves from Pingyang Pavilion, led by Ling Gai. They were old bandits before.
For the purpose of suppressing arrests in Dongjun, he hid near Pingyang Pavilion. When he saw Xie Bi occupying the White Horse, Ling Gai brought his old brothers to join him. In addition, there were brothers Liu Hai and Liu Ba from Yan County. They actually preserved the local Taiping Road.
There are thousands of people, but there are too many old and weak people. In addition, Wei Xian, Wei Chang and others, the righteous citizens of Wei Township, went straight to Puyang with 600 rioting villagers. There are also people from Wating and Taoxiang.
Thousands of volunteers, led by Shi Nai, also came to Puyang to pay homage to General Chongtian.
In this way, after the capture of Puyang, the strength of the Taishan Army expanded again. The original main force was 6,000 soldiers. After the war, 4,000 volunteers defected, and nearly 3,000 Han soldiers were captured. It can also be seen from this that the current counterattack
The situation in Han Dynasty has become more and more intense after two months. There are more than ten armed groups in the western part of Dong County alone. Originally, they did not have the strength to attack the county seat, so they could only burn down the local tyrants in the countryside. But now the Taishan Army, the founder of the first rebellion, has arrived.
, and he lived up to expectations and captured Puyang, so why should he hesitate? Take the whole family to eat him!
Zhang Chong naturally accepts all comers. He will set off a new round of craze in the western region of Dongjun to defeat the powerful. The more these alliances come, the better.
Zhang Chong understands a truth: as long as there are many friends and few enemies, things will go smoothly. On the contrary, no matter how capable you are, time will be wasted. Naturally, these armed forces who have defected are mixed, but Zhang Chong does not rely on these people to fight.
They value their manpower more, and they are incompatible with the Han court. With these, they can help with many things.
For example, leading the way and contacting places.
The majority of the Taishan Army are from Taishan, Jinan and other places, and have basically never been to Puyang. Originally, if people from these places had not defected, it would have been difficult for the Taishan Army to take root in the place. Even if you are a foreigner, you will not be able to speak.
If the locals don't understand, they won't support you.
Why does Zhang Chong continue to attack foreign countries, and even make himself a rogue bandit to a certain extent? He is not unaware of the shortcomings of rogue bandits. In this battle in Puyang, its shortcomings are undoubtedly revealed, that is, there is no basis for support, and the army cannot fight at all.
War. For example, the consumption of arrows. The arrows they carried before going out have long been used up in previous wars. There are also various military supplies, which are like a bottomless pit when consumed, and these need to be replenished during the march.
Very difficult.
Why must Zhang Chong take the initiative to attack away from the base area? In addition to leaving Aocang in the west, mobilizing both wings, and preserving the strength of Taiping Road, another important reason is to attract more people from other places.
Originally, the main body of the Taishan Army were people from Jinan, Taishan and other places. The team was pure and widely supported in the Taishan area. But if the Taishan Army wanted to continue to develop, the original local color would be too strong. If the group wants to
To move from a local perspective to a world perspective, the team must have people from all over the world. These people can provide real information about the local area, and can also make the strategy smoother.
But this still could not prevent the evils of rogue bandits, so after Zhang Chong obtained Puyang, a large and excellent city, he began to establish a base in the Heji Plain.
The Taishan Army set out from Bo County in April and fought for two months. Although they won successive victories, in the end the veterans of the division were exhausted. All materials were also consumed a lot. Although the soldiers were silent, the pain of marching was not without them.
Therefore, Zhang Chong also planned to make repairs here in Puyang and began to establish the Heji base area.
The first step is to establish a joint city defense system for Puyang City. The original city defense is naturally complete, but there are only internal city walls. On the outside, there are obvious loopholes, because there is only one peripheral stronghold in Heyangjin. Zhang Chong has already sent troops to occupy the north bank of the river.
In this way, the passage on the north bank of the river was temporarily blocked by the Taishan Army. In the east, there was the Yellow Turban Army of Buji in the direction of Dong'a. Although they had some conflicts with the Taishan Army, they could still block the east side for themselves.
The enemy. Now that Zhang Chong has occupied Yancheng and Baima in the west, it can be said that there is temporary resistance in the west.
The most important thing was to build fortifications on the south side of the city to form a tight deep city defense together with Puyang City. Therefore, Zhang Chong decided to deploy all the main forces in strongholds outside the city, leaving two thousand soldiers in the city, namely Zhang Chong's headquarters.
Thanks to the guidance of the local Taiping Road in Puyang, Zhang Chong learned that from the south of Puyang to Pushui, there are six li communities that can form fortifications, namely Fushanli, Pinganli, Changshouli, Beishuili, Doushili, and Sansheli.
Huli.
Among them, Beishuili is the southernmost and can be the southern gateway of the entire city defense system. Then Fushanli and Sanhuli are close to Puyang City and can be at the angles with Puyang. Ping'anli, Changshouli, and Doushili are all in the middle.
It can be considered as a countermeasure.
There were no troops stationed in these places. On June 16, Zhang Chong ordered Ding Sheng, Li Bi, Yu Jin, Dian Wei, Gao Ya, Zhao Liang, and Zhu Ying to march to these six communities. They dared to build camps day and night and dug deep trenches.
Three roads, vertical and horizontal roads. In addition, each local community also built side roads as marching walls between each other.
Zhang Chong planned to build the entire defense system with Puyang as the general rear, Beishui Village as the gateway, and the other villages as the supporting ones. They would be connected by corridors and provide mobile support, which could be said to be impregnable.
In terms of troop allocation, Zhang Chong almost deployed most of his elite troops outside the city. For example, Dianwei was stationed in Beishui Village, Li Bi, Yu Jin, and Ding Sheng were stationed in Ping'an and Changshou later.
Dou Shili, Gao Ya, Zhao Liang, and Zhu Ying were stationed in Fushanli and Sanhuli, which are closest to Puyang, showing a pattern of emphasizing the outside and undervaluing the inside.
In addition, these six tribes not only have to be stationed in Liuli Society, they also have to allocate land to households, divide and dismantle the local tyrants, and establish a field guard army controlled by the Taishan Army. In short, Zhang Chong is not
They are not required to defend the city wall, but to rely on it to continuously extend their tentacles to the Pu River area. Let the people who have been allocated the land become the Taishan Army's informants and reserve personnel.
All in all, when another round of anti-Han upsurge started in the Puyang area, Huang Wan, the herdsman of Yanzhou who was stationed in Chenliu Fengqiu, was in a sad state of mind.