In the sixth year of Guanghe's reign, it was June 30th, early in the morning at Mao hour.
The Taishan Army, which had been ambushing for a long time, rose up in two groups and launched a fierce attack on the Han soldiers on the north and south banks of Puyang. Along the way, three thousand infantry and cavalry led by Ding Sheng, Zhao Liang, Zhu Ying, and Tian Jun attacked Shanyang on the north bank of Puyang River.
Soldiers. Along the way, four soldiers led by Dian Wei crossed the Pu River. They did not directly go south to attack the soldiers of Rencheng. Instead, they hid and ambush at the communication lines between the two military stations in Hanting.
At that time, the Shanyang Han soldiers stationed on the north bank of Pu River had a total of seven troops and 4,000 troops. These seven commanders were Wang Fang of Gaoping, one of the eight party members, who was as famous as Liu Biao and Xue Yu. There were also Tan Bin,
One of the eight members of the party, he is as famous as Zhang Jian. At this time, the Tan family has not yet fully prospered. By the time of the Liu and Song Dynasties, the Tan family in Gaoping will become a high-ranking family in the world. For example, Tan Pingzhi and his boudoir Yongsu will be known to the world.
There are also Tan Shao, Tan Zhi, Tan Daoji, etc., all of whom are famous generals. In addition to the first-generation party bosses, there are also powerful commanders such as Zhang Jiu, Liu Hu, Xue Qi, etc., all of whom are relatives of party members. For example, Zhang is known as Zhang Jianzhi
Brother; Liu Hu, relative of Liu Biao; Xue Qi, younger brother of Xue Yu.
In addition, there are two other powerful local tycoons, such as Xi Lu and Li Jiang.
Xi Lu was a descendant of Zheng Xuan, who had not yet become famous at this time. In another dimension, he later became a censor. His achievements included framing Kong Rong to death, and leading his deputy Hua Xin to kill Empress Fu from the wall. He could be called Cao Cao's successor.
Effective minions. In the future, the Xi family will also become a famous family in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and their great-great-grandson Xi Jian is even a hero. Of course, now, Xi Xi is just an ordinary country tycoon with a good teacher.
Made great achievements in the war.
Also thinking the same thing as him is Li Jiang, who is a local tycoon in Changyi and has a tribe. He came here this time to see if he could get some bargains and make some achievements. The reason why he could come was because his family was Gaoping.
Outside the Wang family, the Wang family is a party member and has few strong tribes, so Li Jiang was called in to help.
As an aside, this Li Jiang is the younger brother of Li Shuo, the Shanyang ranger who fought against Dian Wei outside Bo County. He is as brave as his brother, but I don’t know if his martial arts skills will be better than his brother’s.
It's better.
The seven tribes of Shanyang have Wang Fang as their commander-in-chief. He is highly respected and a party leader, so he naturally does his duty. But this does not mean that Wang Fang can integrate these seven tribes. On the contrary, because Shanyang
The conflict between the Zhang family and the Xue family could not be resolved at all. Each of the two groups stationed a battalion with familiar men, so the Shanyang soldiers on the north bank of Puyang were divided into three battalions.
The commander-in-chief Wang Fang, the famous scholar Tan Bin and Wu Qu Li Jiang formed one battalion; Zhang Jiu and Liu Hu formed one battalion; Xue Qi and Xi Lu formed one battalion.
And this branch camp was directly taken advantage of by the Taishan Army.
On June 30th, in the early morning, Ding Sheng was the main force, Zhao Liang and Zhu Ying were the auxiliaries, and they directly launched a fierce attack on Zhang Ju's camp. They threw the grass and fire pots they had prepared into the Han army's camp and burned the tents.
Zhang Ju's troops, who were sleeping, were unable to resist in the face of the raging fire. They broke out of the camp and fled into Wang Fang's camp of the Chinese army. After that, Ding Sheng led his troops to Wang Fang's camp and fought fiercely for a day.
The village is crumbling.
Wang Fang originally wanted to hold on, and sent ten consecutive messages to the Renchengguo camp on the south bank of the Pu River. However, they were all strangled by the Taishan army ambushing them, and none of them could come back.
Knowing that there were no reinforcements from outside, Wang Fang was disheartened and prepared to break out.
He discussed with Xue Qi from the outer camp and decided to break out of the encirclement at dusk at the same time, using Shanyang Camp Dazhai as the first gathering place and Lihu County as the second gathering place. Wang Fang originally thought that after the breakout time was determined, all ministries would set off on time , but who would have expected that at dusk, the cattle and horses in the Zhenche Camp were frightened away by the rockets fired by the Taishan Army outside.
The cattle and horses kicked up dust here, which directly made Xue Qi in the outer camp think that the breakout was early, so he opened the wall of the village and rushed towards Pu River to escape.
This directly hit the trap of Tian Jun's sudden cavalry who was cruising in the periphery. They intercepted and outflanked each other. In the end, Xue Qi and Xi Lu failed to break through. They were both captured by the Taishan Army. The entire army had a thousand Of the crowd, six hundred were captured, two hundred were killed, and another two hundred disappeared without a trace through the darkness of night.
But the above descriptions were all said by Wang Fang, who was finally captured. In fact, in the eyes of Xue Qi, who was captured, the facts were like this.
In the late afternoon, Xue Qi and Xi Liu received a military order from the Chinese army to break into the camp, and ordered them to break out at dusk. However, the coach Wang Fang changed the plan temporarily. He was worried that it would be inconvenient to move at night, and he would not be able to move at all. They would immediately fall apart, so they planned to break out of the encirclement in advance. So at Shenshi, they had already assembled the ox carts to prepare to break out from the south of the camp, without even telling Xue Qi and the others.
So when it came to Shenshi, Xue Qi and other generals were still waiting in the camp. Suddenly they found that the Chinese army camp in the southeast was already noisy and boiling. , Zhang Jiu and Liu Hu had all rushed south to break out of the encirclement, while Xue Qi and Xi Lu were directly regarded as abandoned sons.
In the end, Taishan Army generals Xue Qi and Xi Lu, who were unable to stop them, stayed behind. Wang Fang and other five main forces partially broke through, but unfortunately, when Wang Fang was riding an ox cart, a wheel broke on the road and he had to get off. Breaking out with the defeated troops, he was immediately spotted by the Taishan Cavalry because of his wide-sleeved clothes. If he hadn't revealed in time that he was fighting the Han army commander for this reason, his head would have been moved.
However, despite this, the general who captured Wang Fang threw him on his horse unceremoniously, and then took him to Tian Jun's place in a bumpy ride. The old man was not bumped to death on the road.
Wang Fang was unlucky to be captured, but there was someone even more unlucky, and that was Liu Hu.
As a younger brother of Liu Biao, he was quite brave. When he broke through the encirclement before, he wanted to kill one or two bandit generals to boost his morale. But unfortunately, as soon as he came out of the battle, Duotou met the Taishan Army cavalry general Wang Dang, who was holding a bow. Looking for a suitable target. When he saw Liu Hu's good head with his head shaved off, he was overjoyed and shot him directly.
Therefore, this fierce general who was supposed to be killed by Jiangdong's little overlord in the Battle of Xiakou died inexplicably on the east bank of Pu River, which can be regarded as a different way of death.
The three generals who really broke through were Tan Bin, Li Jiang, and Zhang Ju.
The three generals led the 200 defeated soldiers all the way to the Pu River. Looking at the sluggish Pu River, Li Jiang and Zhang took off their armor and crossed the river without saying a word. The soldiers followed the same example and all went into the water naked. But the old man Tan Bin He was caught blind. He was already old and frail. How could he have escaped and ascended to heaven if his slaves had not given up and carried the chariot along the way?
But this time, faced with the Pu River blockage, Tan Bin's slaves, no matter how loyal they were, could not help him cross the river. In the end, Tan Bin had no choice but to let his slaves continue to carry the chariot upstream to the Pu River, where there was a ferry.
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But unfortunately, Tan Bin disappeared in the end. Also missing were his four loyal domestic slaves. No one knows what happened after they left. In short, they disappeared.
The flight of Li Jiang, Zhang and the Shanyang soldiers did not end. After they swam across the Pu River, they had a direct disagreement over the gathering place.
Originally, coach Wang Fang's military order was that the first breakout point was the Renchengguo camp, but Li Jiang had a different idea. He wanted to take his troops to Lihu.
Zhang disagreed. He felt that Lihu was empty and had no soldiers. Going there would be a dead end. The direction of Renchengguo was the way to survive. Li Jiang did not explain much and went straight to the 60 remaining troops with him.
Lihu. But Zhang still went south as planned, and was directly ambushed by Dianwei's tribe who was ambushing the traffic road.
So Zhang just ran away and died only a moment later than Liu Hu. Why bother?
Therefore, in this battle, seven of Shanyang's 4,000 soldiers were wiped out. In the end, only the local hero Li Jiang and the rest of his army survived.
From here, we can also see that a great turning point in the times has arrived.
The outline of order is always still there, and celebrities like Wang Fang and Tan Bin have their own set of rules. But once the order breaks down and everyone fights, they need to rely on their own abilities to survive. In the past, no matter how famous they were, how good their knowledge was, and how moral they were.
Gaodu can't help him save his life in danger. Only his alertness and wisdom are the keys to survival.
For example, Li Jiang, compared with the Shanyang Party members, his status and power are no different than Yunni. But in the end, only this country tycoon survived. Why? Just because Li Jiang and his brother Li Shuo are all the first in the family.
This generation of entrepreneurs has more struggle experience than those high-ranking officials. They are like wild wolves, they dare to gamble and fight, and they know how to make choices at critical moments.
After Li Jiang crossed the Pu River, why didn't he go to the main camp of Rencheng State? It was because he had sent several expeditions to the south to explore the south, but found nothing. At that time, Li Jiang guessed that this section of the transportation line was very important.
There was a chance that there would be an ambush by Taishan bandits, so he knew that continuing to go south would lead to a dead end. The only way to survive at this time was in the seemingly empty Lihu City.
In fact, here we can see how utilitarian the moral character of local tycoons like Li Jiang is. His decision to establish the emperor had such a big problem, but he kept silent. Later, Zhang, who was in trouble with him, insisted on going south, and Li Jiang knew it
There was a dead end ahead, but he turned around and walked away without saying a word.
Why didn't he say more? He was just worried that the Taishan army in front of him would open a beast net and fail to catch the prey, so he would be furious and chase him. Wouldn't Li Jiang be in danger then?
It seems that this Li Jiang is cruel and ruthless, and he may really have a future in the future.
After returning to the Pu River battlefield, the situation at this time was very clear. The Shanyang Camp on the north bank of the Pu River had 4,000 troops, accounting for nearly half of the Yanzhou Allied Forces. Therefore, when its troops were attacked at the beginning, the Yanzhou soldiers on the Pu River bank had a good time.
, prepare to send troops.
But who would have known that in just one day, the Shanyang camp collapsed like mud. Looking at the black smoke burning on the north bank of the Pu River, the Renchengguo camp on the south bank was also making a life-or-death decision.
The leader of Rencheng State's camp was Captain Hexu of the Rencheng Army. He looked at the black smoke rising to the north and paced anxiously in the tent. After walking around for a long time, he stamped his feet and said to the generals in the tent:
"We still have to send troops. If the Shanyang camp is lost, our Yanzhou army will be lame. Before leaving, the emperor repeatedly told me to act with an open mind, saying that the Taiping Road caused trouble to Yanzhou and the common people had suffered for a long time. This time
The time to gather the troops from Yanzhou is to pacify it in one fell swoop, otherwise, we may not be able to control it again."
He Xu said well, but none of the generals in the tent said a word. Especially the two largest powerful men in Rencheng's army, Lu Qian and Jing Zhou, seemed to have not heard what He Xu said and looked straight at the ground.
, not even making eye contact with He Xu.
He Xu saw that these powerful men were not talking about each other at all, and cursed in his heart:
"You are really as cunning as a fox. The cuckoo's cry of blood did not make these people raise an army. I really have lost all conscience and my heart is full of loyalty."
We can't blame He Xu for wanting to perform the above. Although he is the commander-in-chief, he only has 500 county soldiers, and these powerful soldiers have a thousand soldiers in total, accounting for two-thirds of the camp's strength. They don't send any troops.
, He Xu brings people up, that is to die.
If the powerful men didn't come, why would he take the initiative to go? He directly talked to a strong white warrior on the lower right and said with a smile:
"Zike, you are brave enough to win the title of Commander, and your troops are superb. It is time to serve the Lord. As long as you take the lead in this battle, I will definitely seek filial piety and integrity for you this year."
This white and strong warrior is Lu Qian of Rencheng. He is seven feet eight tall, holding a sword in his hand, and his weapons are majestic. He looks majestic in this big tent, and he looks like a hero.
It is true that Lu Qian also recognized himself in this way. When he was young, he cut off his hometown with his tribe, and because of his bravery and courage, he suppressed the bandits in Si River and was praised by the country. He received a precious sword, which is what he is now
Holding the sword on his waist, Lu Qian never left his body since he got the sword, because the one who has the appearance will be cut off, and the one who gets the sword will be ranked among the three nobles. Therefore, Lu Qian is a man with great ambitions.
But now when faced with He Xu's question, Lu Qian slowly said this:
"Who is a traitor to Cao? When called by the country, I, Lu Qian, will naturally do my duty. But I heard that a wise man will not stand under a dangerous wall. Although the Taishan thieves and others are rebelling, they are experienced in using troops. After half a month of confrontation, once the troops are sent out, the invasion will be like fire.
.The combat posture of our army is too obvious, it is to coordinate the Shanyang soldiers on the north bank of Pu River. How could the thieves not know, how could they not be on guard, how could they not ambush?"
These three people were speechless, but they still wanted to open their mouths, so Lu Qian continued:
"Of course, if we stick to Dazhai, we will lose the intention that Uncle Fang asked us to set up camp on the south bank of Pu River. So this soldier still needs to be rescued."
Hearing this, He Xu turned from sadness to joy and nodded hurriedly. Little did he know that Lu Qian's words, turning his hands into clouds and rain, had already dominated the entire scene, and He Xu's emotions had also changed.
I was affected by it unconsciously.
When Lu Qian saw that the time was almost up, he revealed his strategy in detail:
"What a thief Cao, we are going north for rescue. It can be said that we share life and death. If we can't work together as one, we will both die on the banks of the Pu River. So I ask thief Cao to allow me to take charge of my side. Lu will pay for it himself. No matter what the future is, he must
Don't let the blood of my sons in Rencheng flow down the river."
After speaking, Lu Qian solemnly clasped his fists at He Xu.
As soon as Lu Qian finished speaking, Jingzhou from Rencheng and Fanyan from Kangfu all came out in tacit agreement and bowed to Hexu together.
Looking at these tacit understanding of the tycoons of Ren Chengguo, no matter how dull they are, they know that these people are of the same mind. The thief Cao Zhang Hexu's heart was full of twists and turns, but his face remained as usual. He twirled his beard, smiled, and immediately helped Lu Qian, saying with a smile:
"The safety of the 1,500 Rencheng soldiers this time depends on Lord Lu."
After saying that, he handed the military talisman on his waist to Lu Qian without caring.