When General Yu Jin briefly narrated the detailed process of Geng Yan's attack on Zhang Bu, it aroused heated discussion among the people.
After all, although there are rebellions nowadays, after living under the rule of the Han for so many years, most of them still identify themselves as Han people in their bones.
The twenty-eight generals of Yuntai, the founding fathers of the country.
For such a big shot, almost everyone is convinced that his strategy must be excellent.
The only exception is naturally Wang Zheng.
Wang Zheng is also a Han, but this Han is not that Han.
The key is that Easterners like Wu Sheng think Yuntai Twenty-Eight is great.
Wang Zheng didn’t think so.
From the perspective of future generations, among the founding generals of the unified dynasties in the past, the twenty-eight generals of Yuntai should have the lowest sense of existence.
And after hearing the specific circumstances of this battle, Wang Zheng vaguely felt that the chance of success was low.
First of all, Yu Jin knew about this allusion, but what about Xu Xuan?
Does the Sheriff know this?
Unlike Zhang Bu, Xu Xuan had already sent out troops once, and suffered a huge loss, directly killing his own family.
As the saying goes, one learns from one's mistakes. According to Sun Ting, this person is not a mediocre person.
Under such circumstances, it is more likely that Xu Xuan would have been more vigilant and guarded against death, or would he have been careless and given the Heavenly Army an opportunity for a sneak attack?
Secondly, times have changed.
When Geng Yan attacked Zhang Bu, Zhang Bu was a rebel and Geng Yan was the vanguard of Liu Xiu's expedition to Shandong.
It had been five years since Jianwu. The siege force could be said to have great righteousness and momentum, and had great intangible advantages.
The so-called "He who wins the hearts of the people wins the world" refers to this situation. The right person defeats the unjust person, and it is the middle and late stages of the competition. Everyone in the world can see that the final winner is Liu Xiu. It is not unusual to attack the city in half a day.
At that time, the Linzi wealthy families and the common people were probably looking forward to Master Wang's status, and had no intention of fighting for a long time.
Neither the royal government nor the heavenly army possess these factors.
Now Wang Zheng is the villain in the eyes of everyone in Linzi.
When these people faced him attacking the city, they probably only had one thought.
persist in!
Persistence is victory!
As time goes by, there will definitely be support from officers and soldiers!
These rebels don’t have long to live in peace!
It may even be that not only Cao Cao's troops, but also Yuan Shao's troops may come to help.
After all, the Yellow Turban Thief is the public enemy of the world, and he is also the kind of bluffing paper tiger.
When Wang Zheng came up with these ideas one by one, everyone thought about it for a long time and expressed their agreement one after another.
"General." Xu Fang, who was originally full of confidence, couldn't help scratching his head:
"Then how should we attack Linzi?"
"Since we have the wisdom of our predecessors, we should follow the flow of good deeds."
Wang Zheng smiled and said: "Just because the moat on the north wall can be easily filled, Captain Yu's suggestion is worth a try."
"We don't need any military strength or speed at the moment, so we can just go to Xi'an County. It will only cost us a few more days."
"What I just said is just to remind you not to be blindly optimistic. It is very likely that there will be a tough battle to conquer Linzi."
"Linzi's defense is too strong and it is difficult for our army to defeat it with its absolute strength. It is appropriate to try to take risks."
At this point, Wang Zheng had made a decision and said seriously:
"Now that it's settled, we'll take the route to Xi'an County and attack Linzi from the north!"
“Before setting off, make all preparations!”
"Yu Jin, I will appoint you as the temporary equipment manager. All equipment that is beneficial to our army's siege will be collected directly in the city. If there is no local raw materials, they will be made immediately on the spot. All the personnel and resources of the Heavenly Army are at your disposal.
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"Xu Fang, I will appoint you as the temporary baggage manager. I will carry out several more raids on the whole city and nearby villages and towns. All the money, rice and young labor will be brought back to the city for me. Not a drop of it will be retained among the people."
"Pan Zhang, you must not stop daily drills before departure, but pay attention to the intensity so that all soldiers are ready for war without consuming too much energy."
"Zhang Rao, you and your men will be responsible for informing the whole city and asking all the people to prepare and set off with us when the time comes."
"promise!"
When everyone agreed in a loud voice, only Xu Fang asked hesitantly:
"General, those folks in Zhao County were left homeless and without rice to eat because of the burning, killing and looting by Captain Yu's army that day. Moreover, they are from the same hometown as the general, so they have some good impressions of our Heavenly Army.
That’s why you are willing to come with us.”
"I'm afraid the people in Guangrao County may not have the same intention."
Before Wang Zheng spoke, Yu Jin said in a deep voice:
"Major Xu, as long as you take all the food and money, they will have no choice but to follow us whether they want to or not."
"If you really don't want to, if you raise your sword, you will naturally be willing."
"Isn't this kind of coercion a form of coercion?" Xu Fang looked at Yu Jin and said dissatisfied: "It may not be a good thing for such a person to join our army and not agree with us."
"Who said we want them to join our heavenly army?" Wang Zheng said calmly:
"I want people from Guangrao County to follow me, it will be useful."
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Finally, half a month later, Guangrao County, which had been closed for many days, opened its gates again.
An army of over ten thousand people walked out first, and after joining Zhang Rao's troops in the camp outside the city, they rushed to the front in a mighty manner.
Following closely behind was the newly added battalion headquarters of the Heavenly Army, the civilian battalion.
The main members include nearly 10,000 people in Zhao County, as well as all craftsmen in the two counties, including blacksmiths, carpenters, and stonemasons.
As long as they had skills, these craftsmen and their families were recruited by Wang Zhengtong to join the army and incorporated into this camp.
This group of people is responsible for escorting all the food, grass and baggage accompanying the army.
Wang Zheng also had his own intention in arranging for them to mix with the people of Zhao County.
After all, these people in Zhao County are the villagers and elders of the original owner. In addition, Wang Zheng's methods in Zhao County were not too harsh. After spending time together, this group of people in Zhao County have a certain sense of belonging to the Heavenly Army.
Wang Zheng hopes to use the words of these people to help those craftsmen integrate into the heavenly army more quickly.
After all, as a time traveler, he also valued craftsmen more than most of the Eastern Han Dynasty princes.
At the back of the team were more than 30,000 people from Guangrao County.
Almost the whole city was mobilized, but everyone was forced to do nothing.
Not just because the food was plundered...
Because corresponding siege equipment had to be made, under Wang Zheng's order, most of the residential buildings in the city were demolished into rubble.
The former Guangrao County is now more dilapidated than Zhao County.
Almost in ruins.
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As time went by, the team heading to Linzi continued to lose members along the way.
They are basically from Guangrao people.
This was Wang Zheng’s intention.
From the first day, he required the team to advance at a marching speed of nearly twenty miles per day.
However, they were treated differently in terms of food supply.
The soldiers of the heavenly army naturally have two meals a day.
The people of Zhaoxian and Guangrao live on one meal a day.
But the former eats rice, while the latter eats gruel.
Wang Zheng knew that such a situation would definitely arouse the dissatisfaction of these 30,000 people.
But he doesn't care.
So when the third day started, there were passive stragglers, most of whom were old, weak, sick and disabled.
Wang Zheng welcomes you and allows you to stay or leave as you wish.
After all, his purpose is just to reduce the number of worthless people in the team, not to actually force these people to death.
On the fifth day, there was an active escape.
The majority are still old and weak, but young and strong are also beginning to appear.
Wang Zhengke could no longer remain in a state of ignorance.
When he discovered this sign, he immediately ordered the second-order elite light cavalry from the Tianzhu Battalion to roam on both sides of the last head of the team.
Once you find a young and strong person, drive him back to the team directly.
Under such pressure, there were naturally die-hard elements who wanted to resist, which was exactly what Wang Zheng wanted to do to scare the monkeys.
After dozens of corpses were thrown in front of Guangrao people.
They finally understood Wang Zheng's intention.
There are still people falling behind and fleeing, but there are almost very few young and strong people.
After this, by the tenth day, there were finally only more than 15,000 people left in Guangrao.
At this time, Wang Zheng began to slow down the pace of the team.
He also began to treat people from Zhao County and Guangrao equally.
Let's all eat delicious rice.
Because this kind of refugee team is what he most hopes to follow in his footsteps.