Cao Cao's 50,000-strong army was defeated by Xu Rong and was completely wiped out. Yuan Shao knew that the Central Plains troops were of no use, so he sent him to Danyang to recruit troops. Cao Cao cheered up and stayed in his hometown to recruit troops. Cao Hong, Xiahou Dun and other brothers went south to Yangzhou. Cao Hong's family
He was wealthy and well-known in Jianghuai. He was also the head of Qichun County in Jiangxia County, Jingzhou, which is adjacent to Yangzhou. I had an old relationship with Chen Wen, the governor of Yangzhou, and the latter was from the same hometown as Yuan Shao and Runan.
Danyang soldiers. The prefect Zhou Xin was a student of the party leader Chen Fan. He had always been on good terms with Yuan Shao. He received a handwritten letter from Yuan Shao and ordered his brother Zhou Xin to send more than two thousand soldiers to meet him.
During the crusade against Dong, Cao Cao did not return to his hometown of Qiao County in Peiguo, but stayed in Chenliu County where his eldest brother Zhang Miao was to recruit troops. He was not afraid of hurting his family. Dong Zhuo's decree would not work in the Central Plains, so there was nothing to be afraid of. Chenliu was the center of the crusade against Dong at that time.
He didn't want to leave for too long. When he came back this time, Cao Cao recruited thousands of troops, and then moved impatiently to Xiangxian County. Cao Cao's hometown Peiguo was close to Jiujiang County of Yangzhou, and Yangzhou was not more than a few dozen miles south of Xiangxian County.
Cao Cao waited hard day after day, and finally waited until his brother Cao Hong came back. Looking at the more than 4,000 strong and powerful Danyang soldiers behind him, Cao Cao was so happy that he was so happy that the two sides met. The number was nearly 6,000, more than he had before.
The strength of the army is even more extraordinary in terms of the quality of its soldiers.
What made Cao Cao even more happy was the arrival of Zhou Xin, the younger brother of Danyang Governor Zhou Xin. With this person by his side, he would no longer have to worry about soldiers in the future. This was also the case. In the following years, Danyang Governor Zhou Xin
More than ten thousand Danyang soldiers were sent to help Yuan Shao one after another. Cao Cao conquered the world and was eventually killed by Yuan Shu.
When the army marched to Longkang, news suddenly came that the jujube coalition had disbanded. Cao Cao was shocked and didn't know why. The Danyang soldiers were as famous for their rebelliousness as they were for their bravery and prowess in battle. He immediately proposed to Zhou Chao that since the coalition had been disbanded, Cao Cao could no longer advance.
If necessary, it is better to break up the team.
Although the coalition was disbanded, the alliance leader Yuan Shao was still there, wasn't it? Cao Cao flatly rejected the Danyang soldiers' request. He finally reunited his troops, so how could he let them go home?
The Danyang soldiers continued to quarrel regardless of whether they were leaders or not. Cao Cao gritted his teeth and beheaded several leaders. The iron-blooded methods frightened the Danyang soldiers for a while. However, in the evening, some dissatisfied Danyang soldiers suddenly mutinied and set fire everywhere while attacking and killing Qiao.
The county soldiers set fire to Cao Cao's commander's tent, intending to burn Cao Cao to death.
The situation became extremely critical that night. Cao Cao killed dozens of people and fought his way out of the siege under the protection of Le Jin, Dian Wei, and the Xia nobles Cao family. At dawn, Cao Cao retreated to Zhi County, with only a few hundred people left by his side.
What makes people laugh or cry is that most of these people were Danyang soldiers, subordinate to Zhou Zhe. The people who wanted to kill him were Danyang soldiers, and the people who rescued him were Danyang soldiers. And the soldiers he recruited in his hometown Qiao County died or fled, and the rest
Very few.
He was defeated first, then encountered a mutiny, and the alliance was disbanded. The future was bleak. Others might have been disheartened, but Cao Cao was a very human being after all. He had an iron will that allowed him to survive even in the face of devastation.
He was able to get back up again after being hit, and eventually became the famous Emperor Wu of Wei in history.
Cao Cao stayed in Qi County for two full days. Danyang soldiers and Qiao County soldiers came to join them one after another. The number increased to 1,500. Then Cao Cao returned to his hometown of Qiao County and recruited more than a thousand people to complete the three-man army.
Qian, passed through Liang State and entered Chenliu County.
Zhang Miao, the prefect of Chenliu, came out of the city to greet him personally. The two long-time friends were separated for more than a month, but they were relatively speechless.
Zhang Miao let out a long sigh and spoke first: "Yuan Wei is dead. He was killed by Liu Gongshan."
Cao Cao's eyes suddenly widened. Yuan Wei was Qiao Mao, the prefect of Dongjun. As we all know, Cao Cao was ostracized by the scholars in his youth due to the ban of the party and could not make friends. Only Qiao Xuan, the prefect, valued him and repeatedly publicized him to others. Qiao Mao was
Cao Cao, a son of the Qiao Xuan clan, became friendly with Qiao Mao through this relationship. When he suddenly heard that Qiao Mao had been killed, he was extremely shocked.
"Yuan Wei has the merit of being the leader, how dare Liu Dai?" Cao Cao was furious and called Liu Dai by his name.
Zhang Miao was under the rule of Liu Dai. He couldn't say much. Seeing that Cao Cao's army was not strong, he asked about the recruitment process. Cao Cao briefly explained. Zhang Miao was very sad and sighed and donated 2,000 soldiers to bring the number of soldiers to 5,000 to avoid being destroyed.
Yuan Shao reprimanded.
Cao Cao was extremely grateful, said goodbye to him, and led his troops to Hanoi to pay tribute.
Although the Kwantung jujube coalition was dispersed, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu were massacred because of the Yuan family in the capital. They won the sympathy of the world's heroes and rose up one after another. Each gathered tens of thousands of people, looking north and south, making Dong Zhuo feel like a light on his back. But the two of them did not
A piece of fixed territory, relying on people to rely on others, for the time being, it is more than stable but not enough to make progress.
When Cao Cao returned, Yuan Shao was not in the camp and was watching the scenery of Qishui, so Cao Cao rushed to the Qishui River alone.
The ancient and beautiful Qi River gurgles as clear as jasper. The wind blows in the water, mandarin ducks chase the waves, and occasionally small boats pass by like swallows. Flowers and plants on both sides of the bank emerge from the cracks in the rocks, and the roots and vines of shrubs climb up the green moss. The scenery is everywhere.
With the fragrance of apricot blossoms.
However, Cao Cao had no time to appreciate the beautiful scenery, and his expression became more solemn as he moved forward. The last time he came, the banks of Qishui River were densely populated with people picking mulberry leaves, plowing the land and growing vegetables, setting up nets to catch fish, or cutting wood on the banks.
Chai, it was a busy scene, no one was idle. After more than a month, he actually walked for several miles without seeing a single person. Why was this?
Cao Cao passed by many guards, and when he saw Yuan Shao, he also saw Liu Biao's figure. The two stood side by side, whispering. The latter saw him coming, exchanged a few words, and then left on his horse. Judging from his expression and words, it seemed that he was going to travel far.
Yuan Shao explained: "Wang Tongyao, the governor of Jingzhou, was killed by Sun Jian, the governor of Changsha, and Liu Jingsheng will succeed him."
Cao Cao's eyes narrowed. Wang Rui and Wang Tongyao, the governor of Jingzhou, joined the alliance to challenge Dong on behalf of Jingzhou. Yuan Shao, the leader of the alliance, is certainly qualified to appoint new candidates. The problem is that Yuan Shu is stationed in the southern capital and is eyeing Jingzhou. Can Liu Biao be able to deal with him?
Yuan Shao understood what Cao Cao was thinking and said: "With Jingsheng's talent, he is more than enough to handle the highway."
Cao Cao no longer paid attention to the Jingzhou matter, looked around, frowned and said: "Brother, here..."
"Did you also notice that they all ran away?" Yuan Shao's calm voice contained a hint of emotion.
"Escaped?" Cao Cao understood somewhat.
"I have more than 30,000 people under my command, but the Korean Festival only provides food for 10,000 people."
"..."
The history books only have an understatement of "the soldiers looted, and the people were half dead", how can it match the bloody reality. Fortunately, Gai Jun was added as a variable, and Ye Wang, Bo County, and Zhi County, located in the west corner of Hanoi,
The four areas of Qinshui are protected by Gai Jun and are very stable. Behind them is the vast Bingzhou, where people can move anywhere they want.
Gai Jun not only aggressively gathered the people of Hanoi, but also turned his attention to Hengshan (Taihang Mountain) again. Bingzhou is vast and sparsely populated. The population of Shangdang, Taiyuan and Yanmen counties accounts for 80% of the total population of the nine counties of Bingzhou, but there are only 900,000 people.
, this is the result of recruiting more than 200,000 mountain residents. To be honest, even if all the millions of people in Bingzhou were packed into Shangdang County, it would not be too crowded.
At the end of April, when the wheat settled down, the food pressure in Bingzhou was greatly relieved. Gai Jun immediately transferred 10,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry from the counties in Bingzhou, and the original Hengshan mountain people recruited 10,000 of them. Gai Jun originally wanted to bring the Heishan tribes in Hedong
He was transferred back, but when his eyes turned to Xu Huang, he made a new decision, and ordered Yang Feng, who was good at walking in the mountains, to lower his troops to five thousand, and use them as Sima, and then go to the school captain Xu Huangtong. The so-called line means that
Temporary generation means temporary photography.
The armies met in Jinyang in mid-to-late May, with a total of 28,000 troops. The cavalry captain Pang De was the leader, the first colonel captain Hu Che'er was the deputy, and the Sima Zhang Baiqi was the vanguard. With Gai Jun's consent, on the 15th
At the age of 18, Ma Chao also joined the army and officially began his military career.
Gai Jun's order to Pang De was that as long as there were people in Hengshan, don't come back. It seemed that he wanted to kill all the millions of people in Hengshan.
Pound clasped his fists and promised, with a solemn look on his face. Since Gai Jun became Bingzhou Mu and led Hussar General, he had the right to appoint people, and the official positions of his generals rose like rockets, and he stayed in the position of Zhonglang General for five or six years.
Gai Yin became a general in one fell swoop and was once the governor of Shuofang. Ma Teng was even more exaggerated. In a blink of an eye, he was the general of Du Liao who commanded the entire northern military. Yang Aruo, Guan Yu, and Huang Zhong were also promoted to generals of Zhonglang. Gai Jun this time
Choosing him as the commander-in-chief means giving him the opportunity to make meritorious deeds.
After the army entered the mountain, Pang De found Zhang Baiqi, who liked riding white horses as much as he did, and asked for specific strategies. Zhang Baiqi briefly introduced the situation in Hengshan: In the past, although Zhang Yan was the leader of the alliance and gave orders, he could not interfere with the internal affairs of the leaders.
Affairs, that is to say, he only had a good reputation. After Zhang Yan's death, various heroes rose up and merged with each other to form several relatively large forces. Among them, Yu Du in the south of Hengshan Mountain was the most powerful, claiming to have more than 100,000 elite soldiers.
"How dare you brag?" Pang De grinned when he heard that. He took charge of the hussar general and merged the state. Dong Zhuo was in Guanzhong, and his subordinates were no more than this. He hummed and said: "Okay. Isn't Yu Po the most unruly? Let's beat him first.
Kill him and everyone else will obey."
Zhang Baiqi advanced and said: "This time when we enter the mountain, the first priority is to collect the people, and the war is the second priority. It is an exaggeration to say that there are more than 100,000 poisonous elite soldiers, but there are still 30,000 to 40,000 strong soldiers. We can kill them in one battle."
, will definitely be a trouble in the future, fearing to affect the general plan of the hussar general. In my opinion, we should use large troops to defeat the strong ones. Each strong force will work on its own affairs. If the soldiers are small and the generals are few, we must look up to the heavenly soldiers, who will descend like clouds. By then, we will gather all the people in Hengshan.
, Even if the force is strong, there is only one way to surrender. This is called a soldier who subdues the enemy without fighting."
"Eh? Have you read the book of war?" Pound couldn't help but look at Zhang Baiqi with admiration.
Zhang Baiqi shook his head and said: "Mo was born in a poor family and relied on the hussar generals. He has only recently started to become literate. However, Mo often asks his literate subordinates to read military books and historical books for me, and I occasionally gain some income."
After hearing this, Pang De couldn't help but sigh: "There must be a place for you under General Hussar."
Last year, Guan Yu led 8,000 troops and Huang Zhong led 5,000. A total of 13,000 people entered Hengshan and fought for two months, capturing more than 200,000 people. This time Pang De led 28,000 troops, twice as powerful as before.
It was even more vast, and there were like clouds of people descending on the road, personally guiding the way. After climbing over an unknown number of mountains, I finally met the first resister. This man was nicknamed Qing Niu Jiao, and he wore the same horns as Zhang Niu Jiao, the leader of Montenegro in the past.
He is famous for his nickname and has thousands of troops, making him a hero.
This battle attracted the attention of hundreds of thousands of people in Hengshan. Unfortunately, Qing Niujiao did not live up to his expectations and was killed after only resisting for two days. It was not the Han army that killed him, but his top general, because Pound claimed,
The one who takes the green ox horn head is the Sima of the Beibu Department. The Sima of the Beibu Department is a big official and has a strong attraction to the mountain bandits.
Then it was smooth sailing again. Huang Long made the second "negative material". He was stronger than Qing Niujiao and resisted for more than ten days. The reason why it was so slow was because Pound was reluctant to use the Han army and only ordered to recruit the surrendered Black Mountain bandits.
attack.
It is said that with the two lessons from Green Ox Horn and Huanglong, Hengshan's canal commanders should be more knowledgeable. To Pound's surprise, the third resister came earlier than he thought. On the third day after capturing Huanglong, Zuo Mouzhang
Eight stood up.
"A mantis uses his arm as a chariot, and he does not overestimate his own capabilities." Pound cursed loudly. In order to frighten the newcomers, he led the Han army to attack Zuo Xiaozhang's eighth tribe. Ma Chao bravely advanced in this battle, beheaded more than ten people, and stabbed Zuo Xiaozhang's eighth brother to death. The Han army
He personally went into battle and defeated them in two days. Pound slaughtered more than 4,000 of them with ruthless hands and threw them into the Zhang River. The river was full of zombies. Everyone for hundreds of miles around was shocked and fell in fear.
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In history, Dong Zhuo said: Kill two Yuan, Liu Biao, and Sun Jian, and the world will obey Guer.
Dong Zhuo learned a lesson from the Kwantung uprising and was reluctant to appoint Liu Biao, who was a party member and closely related to Yuan Shao, as the governor of Jingzhou. In fact, Liu Biao always called Yuan Shao the leader of the alliance and worked closely with him for more than ten years. So I guess Liu Biao was Yuan Shao to challenge Dong Zhuo.