Yingyang is located at the junction of Yingshui River, connected to Yangzhai to the north and Fenqiu to the south. It is the middle of the vast plain in eastern Henan. It is rich in products and has a prosperous population. This place has always been the highlight of the Han Dynasty. The Taiping Army of Ruying conquered it by itself. After conquering Yingyang, they used this as an important place to raise salt and millet, and engaged in a long-term confrontation with the main force of the Han army.
Yingyang's heart is so important, so it is natural that it is highly valued by Huangfu Song, the general of Zuo Zhonglang. After Ma Yuanyi Hui Bocai went south to Yingyang and connected with Pengtuo of Runan, Huangfu Song said to Zhu Jun, the general of Right Zhonglang:
"They were originally stationed in Changshe. Although they were daring, they were not worried. It was because they tried to go north to attack Luo. Although it was an aggressive move, it was harmless. But now it is not the case. They went south and gave up the attack on Luo. It seemed that they were retreating. But there is a dragon wandering into the sea, so don't catch its intention. It wanders around Yuzhou and destroys the world's elite. This is what worries me."
Huangfu Song was worthy of being the most outstanding military commander in the Han Dynasty. He keenly discovered the strategic taboos of Taiping Road.
The original strategic purpose of the Taiping Road was very clear, which was to use Nanyang, Ruying, and Hebei Road as the main attack to conduct a semi-encirclement attack on Luoyang, the Han court, with the intention of entering Luoyang in one fell swoop and beheading the Han court.
But this strategy was so clear that the Hanting commanders saw Taiping Dao's intentions at a glance. So they decided to attack Ruying Taiping Dao, directly cutting off the connections between Taiping Dao in the middle, and then defeating them one by one.
But now, the strategy of Taiping Road, or at least Ruying Taiping Road, has changed greatly. They no longer continue to go north to attack Luoyang, but begin to go south, and there are even signs of moving around.
This is not good news for Huangfu Song. For the Han court, it is best to attack Taiping Dao with clear intentions. Didn't they attack Luoyang? Then the Han court would gather troops around Luoyang and then annihilate the Taiping Dao who came here in one fell swoop. , to accomplish all the results in one battle, this is the method to neutralize the thief with the least loss.
But now Taiping Road does not have a clear strategic intention, and it is even developing in the direction of rogue bandits, which is a headache. As soon as the Han soldiers come, Taiping Road will leave. In the end, the Han soldiers can only follow Taiping Road to eat dust, but Taiping Road It began to sweep the world. Even if Taipingdao was wiped out and it destroyed production, it would still make the people rise up and rebel again. In the end, the Han Dynasty was really finished.
So when Taiping Road gave up Yangzhai, that is, gave up going north to Luoyang, and chose to go south, Huangfu Song was really worried that Ruying Taiping Road was about to start a wandering battle. So, he directly selected 8,000 cavalry in the army and prepared to intercept them. Kill Taiping Dao. Don't let that generation wander around and corrupt the world.
But the news from Yingyang once again made Huangfusong feel that he had underestimated these moth thieves. After these people captured Yingyang, they did not continue to swim. Instead, they began to dig trenches and build forts in the area, hoping to build a stronghold in the area. Hold on here.
This made Huangfu Song extremely happy. These moth thieves actually wanted to fight the main force of the Han army in his hands. They were really brave! They didn't know whether to live or die!
Now that Taiping Road was preparing for the decisive battle, Huangfu Song naturally no longer rode out lightly, but led the main force of 40,000 Han troops step by step from Yangdi, and his troops were also deployed very quickly.
It won’t work if we don’t do it quickly. Yuzhou, especially this area in the east of Henan, is the center of the world and the most elite place of the Han Dynasty. If the Yellow Turban Army is allowed to develop here, it won’t take long to pull out hundreds of thousands of troops, and then there will be a decisive battle. Victory, Yuzhou will also be destroyed.
And more importantly, the court officials and ministers in the rear were urging Huangfu Song to use troops.
Among the ministers, the most are from Yuzhou. Now the hometowns of these ministers are being massacred by moth thieves. There are many famous families, and the officials in the country are in disgrace. How can this keep them from being anxious? The pressure is naturally placed on the frontline coaches.
Huangfu Song.
Because of these various reasons, the Han army used troops vigorously and resolutely. On June 23, Taiping Road went south to Yingyang. On the 24th, Huangfu Song received the news. On the 29th, he led the main force of the Han army to pursue
Taiping Road went south.
Once Huangfu Song went south, he would attack the outer camps of Yingyang with all his strength.
Of course, the fifteen armies of Taiping Road in Ruying were not arranged together, and the small town of Yingyang could not arrange so many troops. And because of the convenience of supplies, Ma Yuanyi divided the army of 150,000 into three parts according to the original system.
Among them, Ma Yuanyi's 20,000 tribesmen were arranged to defend Yingyang City due to their lack of fighting power. In addition, Bocai's Yingchuan tribe of more than 50,000 men were divided into thirty camps and were densely spread within ten miles north of Yingyang City. The other ones were the absolute main force.
Pengtuo's tribe at Taiping Road in Runan, together with the six generals Wu Ba, Gong Du, He Yi, Liu Pi, Huang Shao and He Man, each with more than 10,000 troops, were stationed in the northwest of Yingyang City, that is,
The west bank of Yingshui River.
Because of the long preparation time, each camp has three roads dug, densely packed with wooden fences, bamboo sticks, and deep pits, which are more than several feet wide. These small villages are densely spread along the Yingshui River, and you can see them leaving Yingyang from time to time.
The wooden boats and bamboo rafts transported supplies to the Jiahe villages upstream.
Therefore, when Huangfu Song led the main force of the Han army south to Yingyang on June 30, he had to camp twenty miles away from Yingyang.
I saw that the plains of eastern Henan in Ma Pingchuan were full of trenches and wooden forts, and there were small entrances everywhere that were constantly harvesting grain. The entire Yingyang and its surrounding area of 20 miles had directly become a large military camp.
Huangfu Song's 40,000-strong army set up two huge camps, all stationed on the east bank of Yingshui River, directly facing Bocai's 50,000-strong army.
In the first two days, Huangfu Song did not choose to attack. Instead, he took advantage of his cavalry and continued to patrol the periphery of the battlefield to observe the situation.
Finally, Huangfu Song discovered that in addition to some captured by the troops along the Taiping Road on the Yingyang battlefield, more supplies came from the direction of Runan and Chen Guo. After being raised by the local Taiping Road, they were continuously sent to Yingyang along the Yingshui River.
Huangfu Song didn't have a boat division in his hands, so he couldn't even break through the Jiahe Village defense line on the Taiping Road upstream of Yingshui River, let alone threaten the supply route downstream.
This gave Huangfusong a headache. As long as the Yingshui River continued uninterrupted, Yingyang would not be in danger of being short of food for a day. He finally understood the strategic intention of your Yellow Turban Army.
Yingyang is a small city, built along the north bank of Yingshui River. The city is nine miles around and one foot and three feet high. There are thirty-one wells in it. It can be said that it is so small that Taiping Road cannot be formed with the Han Dynasty.
Confrontation.
Therefore, Taiping Road chose to defend Yingcheng on the one hand and increase the city walls. On the other hand, they dredged and built forts outside the city and built pontoon bridges in the river to connect the armies on both sides of the Yingshui River. There were four Dazhai and Xiaozhai on the east bank.
The twenty-eight villages are all built with deep ditches and strong walls. There are seven large villages and fourteen small villages on the west bank, all standing between the river. In addition, strong fortifications are built on both sides of the pontoon bridge, and more than ten blocks are built outside the fortifications. They are fortified layer by layer.
There are police.
However, Taipingdao's military strength is not without its weaknesses, and that is logistical supplies.
Regardless of the fact that the downstream is now continuously transporting supplies to Yingyang, it actually cannot last long. The reason is very simple. With the main force of the Yellow Turban Army in Runan heading north, the Taiping Road that stayed in the local area has been unable to expand and can only maintain its strength. The current situation. Runan is not bad, the main force of the Han army has been annihilated, but as for Chen State, because the contemporary Chen King Liu Chong is good at fighting, he has formed an overwhelming advantage in the region. Therefore, as long as time continues, Runan and Chen State's Taiping Road can be the front line The supplies provided by Yingyang battlefield will become less and less.
But this time is too slow, Huangfu Song wants to speed up the process.
He called Wang Yun, the governor of Yuzhou who was accompanying the army, and ordered him to take the various department officials to the State of Chen in Runan to call on the local powerful to raise troops and cut off the logistics of Taiping Road.
Wang Yun came from the Wang family in Taiyuan. He was loyal and capable. He claimed to be honest and upright, and he was at odds with the eunuchs. So when Huangfu Song gave him this highly dangerous task, he agreed without much thought.
Huangfu Song showed his courage and allowed him to have 600 cavalry as guards, and personally sent him out of the camp. Then Wang Yun traveled during the day, bypassing the position on Taiping Road in Yingyang, and penetrated directly to the rear of Runan.
At this moment, the Han army in Runan is at a low ebb, but it does not mean that the strength of the Han Dynasty is no longer there. On the contrary, it is the strength of the Han army that has been lost, but the strength of the powerful Runan army is still there. Now it is just leaderless, waiting for Wang Yun, the governor of Yuzhou, to hold the throne. Come here to unite the powerful forces. Here there is the world famous Ruyang Yuan family, the fourth generation and the three princes, and the Song Gong Kong family, one of the two kings and three princes.
The Chinese etiquette system emphasizes the rise and fall of a country and the succession of the peerless world. In other words, after conquering the world, the descendants of the previous royal family must also be granted titles to show their inheritance. What Zi Guangwu of this dynasty is pursuing is Song Guohe Defending the country.
Among them, Weiguo is located in the north of Puyang in Dongjun, and the Ji family continues the Zhou inheritance. The Kong family is a lineage after Confucius. That is, the inheritance of Xia has not been honored for some unknown reason.
As for Song Gong Kong's fiefdom in a county, this family alone can raise more than three thousand troops. Together with other big and small wealthy families in Runan, as long as Wang Yun operates properly, Runan can change its color overnight.
Wang Yun just left with Huangfu Song's prayers. Although Huangfu Song felt that the possibility of Wang Yun's success was very high, he did not sit back and wait. After all, Wang Yun's move was only for the future, and at the moment, Huangfu Song still wants to drive his horse and have a real fight with Taiping Dao.
On July 2, the sixth year of Guanghe, Huangfu Song, with Sun Jian's tribe as the vanguard, Fu Xie's tribe as his successor, and the Three Rivers Knights as the two wings, began to launch a tentative attack on the Taiping Road outside Yingyang.
The direction of attack is exactly the same direction as Bocai.
Bo Cai's tribe had fought with Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song's tribe before, and their strength was seriously damaged. But fortunately, as he went south to Yingyang, the remaining Taiping Taoist disciples in Yingchuan came to join him one after another. Therefore, although his strength was not as good as Before, but it has slowed down.
Bocai's 50,000 soldiers had fought decisive battles with the main force of the Han army, and were more pragmatic and experienced. His layout in the northeast of the city was four camps and twenty-eight small villages. Each large camp was the center of seven small villages. , to support the small village at any time. The chief generals of the four large villages, in addition to Bo Cai himself, are Bo Cai's three important generals. They are Li Bin, Yang A, and Zhao Ji.
Although Bo Cai made preparations, he still did not clearly realize the power of the cavalry group.
When the Han army's vanguard invaded Bocai's outer front, Li Bin in the northeast was the support center, so he chose seven or eight thousand old brothers to fight out. However, as soon as he left the camp, he was attacked by the Sanhe cavalry on both wings of the Han army.
On the vast plains of eastern Henan, no force could stop the charge of thousands of cavalry, not to mention that Li Bin was attacked during the support process.
In the end, Li Bin fought to the death and suffered heavy casualties before he was able to return to Dazhai. Although he retained part of his military strength, he was no longer able to support the surrounding small villages.
Therefore, the main infantry regiment of the Han army began to violently attack the seven small villages in the northeast of Taiping Road under the cover of cavalry. However, Li Bin's army, whose support route was cut off, could only sit back and watch the outer villages being conquered one after another.
About three days later, that is, July 5, all the seven military fortresses outside Li Bin were destroyed, and the Han army killed all his surrendered troops. Sun Jian's troops alone killed and captured three thousand people.
The seventh Yellow Turban village that Fu Xie attacked was the one that held out the longest. Therefore, Fu Xie only had one survivor left in this battle, and that was Li Si, the commander-in-chief of his army and Li Bin's younger brother. As a powerful general of the Bocai tribe, he He was deeply trusted by Bo Cai. When he was captured alive by Fu Xie, he kept cursing Fu Xie. Later, his tongue was pulled out and he was still glaring.
Finally, Fu Xie took this man to the front of Li Bin's stronghold. In front of the yellow turban soldiers in the stronghold, he was dismembered alive. Moreover, because his tongue was pulled out, the silent torture was even more cruel. This is what Fu Xie wanted to tell you. Yellow Turban Moth Thief, this is what will happen if you resist.
Li Bin, who was stunned by the death of his younger brother, was so angry that he mobilized all his troops out of the camp to avenge his brother. However, he was ambushed by the well-prepared Han army. Li Bin died on the spot, and the rest of his troops were besieged outside the camp by cavalry.
On the left side of Li Bin's tribe was Yang A. After the friendly troops were surrounded, they charged several times to open the Han army's encirclement and rescue Li Bin's tribe, but they were beaten back by the Han army's cavalry.
Finally, after holding on for two days in the wilderness, Li Bin's 8,000 troops, flanked by 150,000 friendly troops, chose to surrender to the Han soldiers.
The former enemy commander was You Zhonglang General Zhu Jun. He was very worried that these moth thieves would choose to surrender, so he deliberately refused. However, he was persuaded by his staff Xin Ping. Counselor machine painting.
Xin Ping advised, no matter what, you can let him give up his weapons first, and when the time comes, he will be able to deal with it regardless of whether he surrenders in real or fake ways.
Zhu Jun followed his advice and ordered Li Bin's remnant army to abandon their weapons and surrender. In the afternoon of that day, Li Bin's remnant army surrendered all their armor and weapons, including a thousand swords, nine thousand wooden spears, a thousand bows, four hundred armor collars, and a large yellow crossbow. Thirty.
This is the armament situation of Taiping Road. How can we fight the Han army in the field like this?
As soon as Zhu Jun collected eight thousand prisoners, he suddenly felt that there was not enough corn. But even if it was enough, he was not willing to waste the military food he had raised on these rebellious moth thieves. Finally, under Zhu Jun's hint, Sun Jian came forward and suggested against his will that it would be better to kill them directly. It doesn't cost a drop of corn.
When Zhu Jun heard Sun Jian's plan, he hid his face and was speechless, and went directly behind the screen. When the generals didn't know what he meant, his staff Xin Ping explained:
"My lord is kind and can't bear to act like this, but he also knows that Sun Sima is speaking out for the sake of the country, so he can only avoid it. Let Sun Sima handle this matter."
Sun Jian was stunned for a moment, and then he accepted the order with an expressionless face.
As soon as Sun Jian left his tent, Xin Ping came after him again, and he whispered:
"Killing must be done in a proper way, otherwise chaos may occur."
Sun Jian turned around, bowed to Xin Ping, and then hurried away without talking to him.
Seeing Sun Jian behaving like this, Xin Ping snorted coldly and turned back.
After Sun Jian returned to the camp, he was full of evil spirits and had nowhere to vent. Hot girl, this happens every time. Whenever he encounters such dirty work, let him do it. Just because he is the son of a melon farmer, doesn't he care about his reputation? Hot!
But he had no choice. No matter how angry Sun Jian was, he still had to execute it.
He selected a 300-man owl-headed team, received 900 ring-headed knives, and went to the prison camp.
Sun Jian did this. Each time he took ten Yellow Turban prisoners and assigned them to a team of owl leaders, killing 300 people at a time. In just half a day, eight thousand Yellow Turban prisoners were all killed by owl leaders. Their bodies were all carried down the river on rafts. For several miles in front and back of Yingshui River, there are corpses leaning on each other, and the shore is terrifying.
After that, Sun Jian and other owl leaders did not eat meat for ten days!