In the sixth year of Guanghe's reign, November 7th, was also the second day after the winter snow melted.
Lu Zhi's army in Handan also moved south as scheduled.
The vanguard was the 4,000 Hedong soldiers of Dong Zhuo, the prefect of Hedong. After marching for two hours, the leading sentry met the flying troops of the Taishan Army.
Since the Battle of Xingyang, the Feijun suffered heavy losses due to blocking Youzhou's sudden cavalry.
After the war, although Zhang Chong recruited a group of elite Han soldiers and military warriors to Meng Ju, reconnaissance sentries and martial arts were different, and they were all trained.
Therefore, after the war, Meng Ju put a lot of effort into training new assault cavalry, but even so, the flying army's reconnaissance and interception capabilities could not be restored to those before the war.
Meng Ju also knew that training flying troops was not easy, so after a brief contact with Dong Zhuo's outpost cavalry, he broke away from the battle and returned to Liang Qicheng.
Liangqi City is fifty miles away from Yecheng and is the latest northern defense town built by the Taishan Army. Compared with the small town of Fujin on the Fu River, Liangqi City is stronger and closer to Handan, allowing it to build a deeper defense depth.
But Liang Qicheng also had a shortcoming, that is, there were no rivers around it, so it was difficult for the Taishan Army in Yecheng to supply Liang Qicheng. Therefore, Liang Qicheng did not have many defenders, with a total of a thousand people.
The defender of Liang Qicheng was Wei Xian. When the Taishan Army captured Yan County east of Puyang, he and his brother Wei Chang led 600 rioting villagers to Puyang and defected to the Taishan Army.
After that, the Webster brothers were selected into the collision team, and then went to the military academy and were sent to the generals, and then to the senior military officer training school, and then they were sent to the army to become generals. It can be said that they made rapid progress.
This actually reflects a trend in the promotion of Taishan military officials, which is to pay attention to the upright and the young. The more hard-working you are, the more you have experience in riots, and even have leadership skills, you will be vigorously trained by the Taishan Army.
Since the Xingyang War, the Taishan Army has gradually taken an independent development route in strategic development. In other words, the Taishan Army has focused on cultivating the basic base of its own values.
The Webster brothers belong to such a basic structure. One of the latter two led two hundred soldiers and eight hundred to protect the land and guard Liang Qi. The other served as a trainer and stayed in the military academy. Each has a bright future.
Shortly after Meng Ju returned to Liangqicheng with 200 flying troops.
Dong Zhuo's troops came from the north, and then formed a large formation directly under Liang Qi City.
Wei Xian and Meng Ju looked down from the top of the city. On the melting ground, they saw Dong Zhuo's troops dancing in various colors, with "Hu", "Yang", "Niu" and "Dong" standing on the top of the city.
The army is majestic and the generals are gathered together.
Wei Xian and Meng Ju didn't know that among the Xizhou warriors under the city, which one would not be a trend-setter of the times in the future? It can be said that any of the following warriors were all outstanding heroes.
But individuals are always consistent with the times, such as Guo Si, Li Jue, etc. Can they still be like history, where one hostages the ministers and the other the emperor?
No one can say for sure. In short, no matter what, in the eyes of Wei Xian and Meng Ju on the top of the city, these people are just ordinary people. Even their general Dong Zhuo is just a slightly powerful warrior from the Han Dynasty.
That's all.
While Wei Xian and Meng Ju were observing the formation, Dong Zhuo's army under the city had also set up a large formation.
I saw Dong Zhuo riding on a majestic Liangzhou BMW, galloping all the way in front of the formation. He raised his whip and pointed at it for a while, and shouted for a while. After riding for a while, he raised the flag for the formation.
In this way, Dong Zhuo's fat body rode his horses left and right in front of the battle. Even in the severe winter of November, Dong Zhuo and his horses were still sweating profusely.
After Dong Zhuo rode his war horse back under the banner, the guards who had been prepared quickly removed Dong Zhuo's armor and wrapped him in a tiger skin cloak.
Dong Zhuo pushed off his cloak, took off his outer clothes, wiped his sweat casually, and left his upper body bare, revealing his muscular body.
He said to Li Meng, the general beside him:
"How? Is the military strength available?"
Li Menggong worshipped and said:
"My lord, you are so majestic. When I finally see my lord bathing in the golden light, I will only think that a heavenly being has come to this world."
Dong Zhuo stretched out his palm as thick as a futon and waved it casually, pretending:
"Just talk about these things in private. How are the generals feeling?"
As Dong Zhuo's general, Li Meng was responsible for the generals' requests, so he said to Dong Zhuo:
"My lord, all the generals are vying to climb up first. In particular, Fan Sima and Guo Sima got into a fight because they were vying to climb up first."
This is not like Li Meng giving eye drops to Generals Fan Chou and Guo Si. In other places, these two people would definitely be punished by military law if they had a private fight in the Chinese army, but in Dong Zhuo's army, this is a symbol of bravery.
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Sure enough, when he heard this, Dong Zhuo laughed wildly and joked:
"A horse thief, a mediocre dog, imitates other people's behavior, shows off his power, and seeks a fight."
Although he said he was looking for a fight, Dong Zhuo was smiling all over his face, obviously very satisfied with the mood of the generals in the army.
Later, Li Meng was about to ask Dong Zhuo when he would attack the city.
But seeing Dong Zhuo wearing a tiger skin cloak, he turned around and walked back, giving the order:
"Order the whole army to camp, bury the pots for cooking, and then send people to tell Lu Zhi behind him that he is blocked in Liang Qi, and he will wait for his reinforcements to come before making other plans."
Li Meng was stunned when he heard this, thinking that he heard wrongly. Wasn't he still under Xuanwei City just now? Why did he set up camp again?
Just as he was about to ask in confusion, he saw Dong Zhuo in front of him stop walking, not moving, then turning his neck and looking sideways at Li Meng.
Li Meng knelt down and shouted back:
"General, obey your orders."
Then Dong Zhuo turned his neck again and said calmly:
"Go ahead."
So, Li Meng was sweating and went to deliver the order. His lord was so powerful that he almost leaked urine just by looking at him.
Dong Zhuo was a master of his subordinates, so after receiving the military order, the generals obeyed the order honestly even if they were confused. They chose a slope five miles outside the city and set up camp.
After that, Dong Zhuo's various ministries settled in camp as before, and sent their cavalry out to fetch food and catch Dingkou. Then the generals continued to play with women in the big tent.
Li Huan, Li Jue's younger brother, volunteered this time and also led a small cavalry team of 20 people out of the stronghold to collect grain. Because there had never been any trouble in collecting grain in the past, Li Huan carelessly did not bring his armor when he left the stronghold.
As a result, in a small settlement a few miles away from the main camp, Li Huan's twenty cavalry were directly ambushed by the Taishan Army.
This Taishan Army is the field guard of several nearby settlements.
After the Taishan Army conquered the Fu River, they began to allocate fields on the north bank of the Fu River. They attacked nearby village tyrants, distributed all the mature fields to the wandering poor, and directly pulled out the field guards.
Moreover, the people of Hebei have long heard about border police, are often trained in military preparation, and have good fighting qualities. At that time, Yuan Shao refused and led one hundred thousand Hebei elites across the river to fight Cao Cao. In the end, Guandu was defeated, and only eight of the one hundred thousand elites were defeated.
Return a hundred.
In this way, Yuan Shao and his sons still relied on Hebei's rich wealth and victorious soldiers to survive Cao Cao's attack for seven years.
This is the foundation of Hebei.
And now the Taishan Army enjoys such a heritage. Although these field-protecting soldiers are hungry and weak, they dare to fight with swords in their hands. The bravery of Yanzhao is indeed well-deserved.
Li Huan faced about 200 field-protecting soldiers. Under the command of more than a dozen Taishan Army commanders, they surrounded Li Huan and others.
Li Huan was at the last position, and before he was surrounded, he retreated wildly with his horses. Seeing that the general had run away, the remaining twenty horsemen no longer wanted to fight to the death, so they quickly followed Li Huan and retreated.
However, the area where they were surrounded was thick with bushes and rugged. When they fled in a hurry, seven or eight of the horsemen fell down and were stabbed to death by the field guards who caught up.
Seeing that they could not escape, five of Dong Zhuo's cavalry simply used their horses as a barrier and formed a circular formation, preparing to resist. But unfortunately, under the impact of the tide of field guards, they even killed several people with their own hands.
Dismembered.
Li Huan completely ignored the robes behind him and galloped towards the military camp.
The seven or eight cavalry behind him looked at the back of Li Huan's cavalry, and then at the pursuers running behind him. They gritted their teeth, turned around and charged towards the violent field guards.
As soon as Li Huan arrived at the camp, he shouted:
"Awei, Aying, bring the brothers and follow me."
Li Wei and Li Ying were both Li Huan's disciples. When they heard their elder brother shouting, they rushed over with their men. They didn't say anything and just followed Li Huan out of the stronghold.
In the North, the Li family is like this. If one person is in trouble, the whole clan will go to battle. It is precisely because of this unity that the local tycoons in the North can resist the Qiang Hu who are eyeing the surrounding area.
So they didn't ask anything, as long as they had something to do, it would be fine.
When Li Huan led two hundred elite men to the bush where the field guards had ambushed him, they saw that the field guards had long since disappeared, leaving only eighteen corpses that had been chopped into pigs.
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There were also some dead horses, with most of their flesh chopped off, and then laid bloody and steaming on the frozen soil.
Facing the tragic situation of Paoze, Li Huan was furious and shouted to the sky:
"It hurts me."
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On that day, Dong Zhuo's squadrons who went out to collect food from the stronghold were more or less ambushed. Finally, they returned to the camp. Not only did they get nothing this time, but they also killed 64 people.
Dong Zhuo's troops were all arrogant and powerful generals, so they couldn't bear this bad temper. At that time, they sent out large numbers of soldiers and began to raid the surrounding settlements.
However, the nearby settlements had already been arranged by the Taishan Army to evacuate to the ancient Zhao and Wei city walls in the south. There were city wall beacons built during the long-term confrontation between Wei and Zhao.
Due to nearly five hundred years of wind and rain, these protective structures are only left with earth slopes. But they have also become good hiding places.
Therefore, when the generals of Dong Zhuo's tribe swept away the troops aggressively, there was only one settlement in Shekong. In the end, they had no choice but to burn these huts, unwilling to return to camp.
But that night, Dong Zhuo's camp was attacked by the field guards who were not dispersed nearby. They threw fire poles at the camp to vent their hatred for the destruction of their homeland.
Many Dong Zhuo sergeants in the camp were so angry that they rushed out of the camp with their companions.
But the night swallowed them up, and these people never returned.
It was not until Sergeant Dong Zhuo, who was about to collect firewood, carefully left the camp on the second day that he saw these robes.
It's just that they can no longer recognize these people, because their heads have been cut off, and they have been pulled out and turned into pigs.
At this time, these Dong Zhuo sergeants realized that the situation seemed to be a little different.
These weak and weak gangsters no longer seem to be the sheep that they get whatever they want. Apparently, they have transformed into hungry wolves under the organization of the Taishan bandits.
Because they were familiar with the terrain, they would often ambush Sergeant Dong Zhuo who was leaving the camp. They often ambushed and killed the Han army in surprising ways.
Even some sergeants who went out to fetch water from the camp were ruthlessly dragged into the deep lake by the arms protruding from the water.
These Qin Hu from the deserted borderland were so frightened that they all thought they were facing a group of water ghosts.
All these situations were sent to Dong Zhuo.
Dong Zhuo got up from the group of naked women and thought of a way to completely solve the problem.
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On November 10, Wei Xian, who was patrolling Liang Qitou as usual, suddenly discovered that Dong Zhuo's army under the city had withdrawn from the siege.
Wei Xian was puzzled and quickly called General Meng Ju, who was in the city.
After Meng Ju arrived, he looked at the scattered retreating Dong Zhuo army and said firmly:
"This is a decoy attack. It's done casually to lure us out of the city to attack, so we don't have to worry about him."
Wei Xian pondered, in fact, Meng Ju was much older than him in terms of merit, status and seniority. Meng Ju was one of the four pillars of the Taishan Army and had outstanding achievements. Moreover, what Meng Ju said was quite reasonable. So, You should obey both emotion and reason.
But the same words can be heard by different people and at different times, and the effects are different.
Wei Xian pondered for a moment, then turned to Meng Ju and said:
"Captain Lieutenant, what you said makes sense. But as a defensive general, I will let the enemy come and go as they please without firing an arrow. Will the Han army underestimate me in the future? Therefore, I plan to send troops to pursue. If we win, it will be good. If we lose, I also ask the captain to lead the flying army to suppress the battle for me."
After hearing this, Mengju fell silent.
Theoretically, he did have a more senior position than Wei Xian, but he had no control over Wei Xian. The reason why Yecheng chose Wei Xian as the Liang Qi garrison was that naturally he would be in charge of all the defenses in the city.
He can indeed overstep his authority. With his seniority in the military, it is not difficult to refuse Wei Xian. But this will intensify the relationship between him and Wei Xian. What is even more embarrassing is that intervening in the decision-making of foreign generals is a big deal for the inferior. avoid.
But, that’s the but.
None of the above is discussed by Meng Ju. He was expelled from Taishan Lao and trained by Commander Qu, and he has long regarded Taishan Army as his home. Therefore, he must be responsible for the cause of Taishan Army.
So, Meng Ju shook his head and said to Wei Xian calmly:
"It's better not to leave this city. Your responsibility is to guard Liang Qi. Others will be taken care of by others, so you don't have to worry about it."
Wei Xian, who had always been going smoothly, never expected that Meng Ju would reject him directly. He was a little embarrassed, but he knew that Meng Ju was a veteran in the army, so he still explained:
"The Han army under the city is approaching fiercely, but it suddenly retreats at this time. There must be changes in the rear. The art of war says that it hurts people but does not kill them. This is the situation at this time. Since the enemy wants to retreat, then I will not let him
Retreat, this is the way to use troops."
But Meng Ju directly interrupted him with a wave of his hand. He was very disgusted with these people who came out of the military academy. They often talked about the art of war, and they all sounded like everyone was using the military.
Meng Ju and other elders are all practical warriors, and all their battle experience and consciousness are honed from life and death. Naturally, they can't stand those who talk on paper.
Originally he was restrained and polite to Wei Xian, but now he heard this man's words and immediately interrupted him rudely. He pointed at the deputy general behind Wei Xian, Jin Sheng, and ordered:
"Take Wei Xian down. If I can't tell you, I won't tell you."
Jin Sheng was an old Taishan soldier, so he naturally listened to the military orders of the Mengju veteran faction, so he sang "O", took off Wei Xian's saber, and then invited him to go down to the top of the city.
Wei Xian blushed and murmured Lao Ge's crazy nonsense before being dragged down.
After all, this Taishan Army still belongs to their old Taishan people.
After Wei Xian was dealt with, Meng Ju in the city sighed and looked at the retreating Dong Zhuo army with disdain.