Chapter 800 Zhao Wang Liushe and friendly negotiation
Originally, these rebels felt that they could make a fortune in the collective farms, and that the collective farms were their big granary, but who would have thought that they would hit the iron plate like this.
A group of people hit their heads on the iron plate and suffered bloody injuries.
The self-defense forces in the collective farms are really not vegetarians. Some representatives of the collective farms saw that the number of invading enemies was relatively small, and deliberately let them in, closed the door and beat the dogs.
Some rebel squads of thirty or fifty people were completely wiped out by the Self-Defense Forces composed of several hundred people in the collective farms.
After a close-door annihilation operation, the rebels would often kill more than ten or twenty people, while the self-defense teams of the collective farms generally only suffered single-digit casualties, and battle deaths were relatively rare.
Even more outstanding results occurred in Zhao State. A rebel team of more than 100 people wanted to go to a collective farm to fight the autumn wind. They were set up a trap by representatives of the collective farm and got into the pocket formation. The farm self-defense forces attacked from all directions.
, wipe out all this rebel team.
More than thirty people were killed in the rebel team, but only one member of the Farm Self-Defense Force sprained his foot because he ran too fast, and there were no other casualties.
Because of the outstanding performance of the collective farms, the harm caused to the city by the rebels' siege of the city was still relatively great, but the secondary disasters caused were not as great as imagined. When the wave of rebellion hit the collective farms, it was abruptly contained
Living.
In the end, this wave of rebellion failed to harm the agricultural foundation of southern Jizhou.
This has to be said to be an unexpected surprise for the imperial court, and also for Xu Huang.
Xu Huang originally thought that the southern part of Jizhou must be full of wars and chaos, but after he led his army into Wei County and collected various information, he found that the situation did not seem to be as bad as he thought.
The city was indeed breached a lot, and many rebels surrounded the city and attacked fiercely. However, the secondary disasters in the surrounding areas were contained, and the scattered rebel teams were killed by the self-defense teams of the collective farms, making the rebels
The army was only entrenched near the city and failed to develop smoothly into the surrounding areas.
Moreover, due to the active performance of the self-defense teams of the collective farms, there was also a lack of direct contact between the rebels in various counties and counties, making it difficult to achieve coordinated operations. Each of them fell into a strategic stalemate and failed to further expand the results of the war and failed to further increase the rebels' strength.
power.
The farmers in the collective farms believed in the imperial court more than they believed in the lies of these landlords and would not help them. Although they did not receive further organization from the government, their spontaneous battle to defend their homes had already helped the imperial court a lot.
Even some daring farm representatives who want to make meritorious deeds will send people out to conduct reconnaissance. After discovering the traces of the rebels, they will lead a team to conduct a sneak attack. If they find the rebel team transporting logistics supplies, they will scream and rush to attack.
The transportation team brought great trouble to the rebels' logistical supplies, making it impossible for the rebels who surrounded the city on the front line to fight at full strength.
So when Xu Huang brought his army to Wei County to participate in the war, although the Wei County rebels he faced were large in number, with more than 30,000 people, the fighting conditions and situation were very bad.
On the way to the north, Xu Huang had already issued a general order, requiring the soldiers of the three northern counties of Jizhou who were more receptive to the Dutian Order to listen to the order and go south together to help in the battle.
The Changshan Kingdom, Zhongshan Kingdom, and Hejian Kingdom have a total of seven to eight thousand soldiers. Although they are still not at full strength, they still have combat effectiveness.
Xu Huang asked the soldiers of the three kingdoms to move separately. The soldiers of the Changshan Kingdom went south to the Zhao Kingdom to assist in the battle, while the soldiers of the Zhongshan Kingdom and the Hejian Kingdom joined forces and went south to the Anping Kingdom.
Xu Huang himself first quelled the rebellion in Wei County, then went north to Zhao State to join forces with the Changshan State soldiers. After quelling the Zhao State rebellion together with the Zhao State soldiers, he then headed east together to Julu County and Anping State to quell the rebellion.
The arrangements were all laid out, and Xu Huang had nothing to worry about. He directly sent his generals to lead a cavalry raid, cut off the logistics of the Wei County rebels, and divided his forces to destroy their lair.
The Huben army first made rapid operations against the lair, and then led its troops to the battlefield of Yecheng to confront the main force of the rebels.
The main force of the rebel army was cut off from the Han army due to its logistics, so there were only five days of food reserves left on the front line. In the face of insufficient food, the rebel army's morale was shaken, desertions occurred, and the threat to Yecheng was greatly reduced.
The leader of the rebels in Wei County was Tian Yong, the former Jizhou Biejia. After he learned that the logistics had been cut off by the Han army, he was shocked and sent people back to rescue the logistics. However, the troops sent to rescue the logistics ran into the troops who were rushing to lead the troops.
Xu Huang of Yecheng, the two sides fought an encounter.
Then the rebels were wiped out.
Xu Huang continued to lead the troops and arrived near Yecheng on June 27th of the first year of Zhenguan. He built a military camp near Yecheng and continued to send people to explore and observe the movements of the rebels.
Tian Yong was a little nervous when he heard that the Han army had arrived. He became even more nervous when he heard the "Hu Ben Army" bugle on the Han army's flag.
"The leader of the Huben Army is Xu Huang himself. Xu Huang is here in person. Xu Huang is calm with his troops. He is one of the important generals that Liu Bei trusts very much. He is very difficult to deal with. We must be careful! We must not rush into anything impetuously!"
Tian Yong knew how powerful Xu Huang was, but others did not. Out of panic about their logistics being cut off, they believed that they must gather the main force to open up the logistics channel, otherwise they would be attacked from both sides by the invading Han army and Yecheng defenders, and the situation would be disastrous.
More dangerous.
When they further learned that the invading Han army was only 10,000 men, they relaxed their vigilance, thinking that I had the advantage of 30,000 men against 10,000 men. No matter how good Xu Huang's troops were, could they really win with less?
So many people advocated pressing forward with the army, defeating Xu Huang's troops, opening up the logistics channel, and then turning around to intimidate Yecheng, making the defenders of Yecheng desperate and surrendering to Kaicheng, which would further intimidate the court and make the court compromise and transfer benefits.
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Tian Yong felt that this was too risky and strongly opposed it. He believed that the possibility of defeating the regular Han army in the field was relatively low. He should use the existing situation to hold on and attract the Han army to attack. He was in a defensive position.
However, too many people feel that the chances of success are too low to continue the siege of Yecheng, and the defense of Yecheng is strong. They continue to fight for a long time, and the logistics are not sustainable. In a few days, everyone will be drinking from the northwest wind. Can they still defend?
Although we are not short of money and food, we don't want the losses in one battle to be greater than the tax amount of ten or twenty years. If we really get to that point and are defeated, we might as well just pay taxes to Liu Bei honestly.
Tian Yong could not resist everyone's request, so he was forced to agree, so he personally led his troops to fight Xu Huang. Xu Huang led his troops to confront him head-on. The two armies met on the north bank of the Zhang River west of Yecheng, and a fierce encounter began.
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It is indeed intense, because there are more than 40,000 people on the battlefield, with cavalry and warriors roaring. It is indeed intense, but to be honest, the Han army may not think it is really that intense.
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It probably took less than half an hour for the Han army to fight the opponent with all their strength, and then the rebel front army was defeated by the Han army's front army and ran back howling.
The collapse of the front army led to the collapse of the middle army, and the collapse of the middle army led to the collapse of the rear army. Then the rebels collapsed themselves, which was tantamount to self-destruction.
Tian Yong seemed to have set up a team to prevent the soldiers from collapsing and escaping. However, the team's swords were all cut off, and he himself was crushed to the ground and trampled to death. He was unable to hold back the rebel soldiers who were collapsing like crazy.
Obviously, in their eyes, the combat effectiveness of the Han army was far greater than that of the supervisory team.
After less than an hour of hand-to-hand fighting, even before Xu Huang ordered the cavalry to outflank the rebels' retreat, the rebels had almost collapsed, and the mountains and fields were full of fleeing rebel soldiers.
Xu Huang thought Tian Yong was really capable, and wanted to keep the cavalry as his last trump card, just in case the opponent had a back-up plan. However, at the end of the fight, the entire opposing army collapsed and there was no back-up plan. Xu Huang shook his head.
Order the cavalry to attack, outflank the opponent's retreat, and eat the opponent in one go.
Ten thousand people surrounding thirty thousand people is a rare spectacle on the battlefield, but in this place and at this moment, it really suits the occasion.
On the main rebel side, except for a small number of front army and some soldiers in the middle army who protect the gentlemen, who are fully armed or even wearing armor, most of them are not wearing armor, or they only wear simple light armor or leather armor.
Weapons are of various kinds, of different lengths. Regular military weapons such as swords and spears do not account for a high proportion. Farm tools account for a large part, and wooden sticks and wooden guns also account for a large part. They are a hodgepodge of weapons from the classical era.
This kind of equipment can fight the Han army for forty or fifty minutes. Thanks to Xu Huang's caution, he did not attack the whole army at the beginning, but carefully tested the combat effectiveness and fighting will of the rebel army, and waited for him to discover
Some time has passed since this rebel army was indeed defeated.
But the result was good. The rebel army was wiped out. Not many people escaped, and not many were killed. Most of them were captured by the Han army, including Tian Yong, and the entire leadership of the Wei County rebels.
Being served from a pot.
After that, the siege of Yecheng was lifted and the safety of Yecheng was restored. A ashamed Qiao Mao and the prefect of Wei County expressed their gratitude to Xu Huang.
As for the captured Tian Yong, Qiao Mao drew his sword directly in front of Xu Huang. If Xu Huang hadn't stopped him, Qiao Mao would have almost killed Tian Yong.
"I hired you as my chauffeur on the bus. I respected you very much. I never lacked all kinds of care for you. I valued your opinions very much. But in the end, you repay me by sieging the city with an army?!"
Tian Yong lowered his head and said nothing. Qiao Mao became even more angry, blushed, and raised his knife to kill Tian Yong.
Xu Huang stopped him.
"Ordinary people will kill him, but he is from Jizhou. He has a higher status and cannot be killed casually. He will be sent to Luoyang for trial. He is also a trophy of our army. Mr. Qiao, please calm down and don't get so angry.
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Xu Huang tried to stop him, but Qiao Mao had no choice.
He felt that as the governor of the state, he had reached the end of his game. There was such a big chaos in Jizhou, and the Jizhou Biejia beside him actually became the leader of the rebellion in Jizhou. An unknown person can throw him into the bottomless abyss, and there will be no more in the future.
What political future is there?
He was not the Liu Bei of the past. Even though he was stabbed in the back by Gongsun Zan, with his own ability, he was able to use more than 700,000 prisoners to turn the situation around and successfully overcome the crisis of trust.
With a sad mood, Qiao Mao sighed deeply and began to prepare a resignation memorial.
The pacification of Wei County was just the beginning of this war. Later, Xu Huang led the army into Zhao State.
Compared with the situation in Wei County, the situation in Zhao State is actually worse. The badness is not the bad war situation, but the bad political level.
Because the current King of Zhao, Liu She, was dissatisfied with Liu Bei's land transfer order, he actually openly shouted slogans asking the court to think twice and to persuade Zhao Guoxiang to open the gates of Handan City and "friendly negotiations" with the rebels outside the city, openly going against the will of the court.
He believes that it is meaningless to continue fighting like this. In the end, this matter is still a chaos caused by the court's policy. The court needs a person in charge. The responsibility should not lie with the local government. Therefore, the local government should not fight for life and death. It should sit down and negotiate and then submit them to the court.
will.
In a word - open the door!
So the rebels outside the city were overjoyed. A group of former officials and landlords openly responded to the slogans of King Zhao Liu She. While besieging Handan, they shouted to the city, asking Fu Qian to stop resisting, open the city gates, and be "friendly" to everyone.
Negotiation".
Of course it is impossible to open the city gate if you obey Qian.
He knew very well what the situation was now, and he also realized what King Zhao Liu She was thinking. He knew that once he opened the city gate, his political life and biological life would come to an end, and the Fu family would almost be finished in the Third Reich.
So he would rather die than open the city gate and do something wrong.
However, Zhao Wang Liu She really didn't just shout slogans and do nothing. This guy seemed to have made up his mind to go against Liu Bei.
When the rebels raided Handan City, Liu She also sent people to cooperate with the rebels inside and outside. Thanks to Sun Xiang, the captain of the Zhao State Army, he got the news in advance, closed the city gate urgently, and led people to surround and kill the rebels sent by Liu She.
, and then mobilized troops to surround Prince Zhao's Mansion as a deterrent, and then managed to stabilize the situation in Handan City.
Despite this, the news that King Zhao Liu She openly opposed the Dutian Order had a very significant impact on the political situation in Handan City, and some officials who originally wanted to obey the Dutian Order began to waver.
They felt that King Zhao and Liu She, as members of the clan, were all opposed to the Du Tian Order. People of such high status were dissatisfied. So when the situation was so unclear, was it really necessary for them to side with Liu Bei?
If everyone really succeeded in swaying Liu Bei's will, wouldn't it be nice to pay less?
So more and more voices asked Fu Qian and Sun Xiang to withdraw the soldiers and horses surrounding Zhao Wang's Mansion, open the city gates, and have peace talks with the rebels, and not continue to make unnecessary resistance. Many people went to the Prime Minister's Mansion to see Fu Qian and give Fu Qian
pressure.
Fu Qian had no allies in such an attack, and the most reliable person around him was Sun Xiang, the commander-in-chief of the army.
Sun Xiang was determined and had no idea of compromise. Not only did he not withdraw the manpower surrounding Zhao Wang's Mansion, he even added some more men. He also launched several symbolic feint attacks to intimidate King Zhao Liu She who was about to make a move in the manor, and also to shock the city.
of opposition.
He is loyal to Liu Bei and will never give in to these bastards in the city, but he only has himself, and the help Fu Qian can provide him is relatively limited.
Fu Qian was gentle in governing the place and had a relatively weak character. He could not intimidate his subordinates, nor could he intimidate King Zhao Liu She.
When the city was in chaos, he personally went out to persuade the opposition to calm down, but the results were relatively small. As a result, the situation in the city became worse and worse, and it was only possible to maintain it by the force of more than 2,000 county soldiers.
Even so, Handan City is also full of dangers.
For more than half a month, the soldiers of the county and state defended the city. Dozens and hundreds of people were injured or killed every day. Sun Xiang could not bear it anymore, so he could only urgently recruit strong men in the city to join the army and defend the city.
Then the casualties became even greater.
Seeing that Handan couldn't hold on anymore.
Moreover, just the day before Xu Huang led his troops to Handan, there was an assassination attempt against Sun Xiang in the city, but it was unsuccessful.
The assassin was desperately caught by Sun Xiang's men, who wanted to interrogate him as to who sent him. Unfortunately, the assassin was a dead soldier, and he committed suicide by taking poison after being caught.
It is impossible to know who assassinated Sun Xiang.
But it didn't matter, because Xu Huang came the next day and wiped out all the rebels outside Handan City on the third day.