The 213th Battle of Dongwuyang

Yangzhai is the county seat of Yingchuan County, about 100 miles away from Yangcheng, during which it is Wuyang, Kunyang, Dingling and other cities, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yingchuan County is located in Yuzhou, which can be described as the most populous and richest state in the country, Yingchuan County is the richest county in Yuzhou, Kong Ling this person is just as Zheng Tai said, "good talk", empty ambition to serve the country, but did not take practical action. Since the text of the crusade against Dong Zhuo came www.biquge.info although Kong Ling sent an envoy to express his willingness to join the rebel army, and at the same time recruited troops in Yangzhai City, Yingchuan County was rich in population, and he soon recruited an army of more than 30,000 people, but he did not take any action.

Its chief Shi Xunjing persuaded and said:

"Now the Shandong soldiers are rising, Zhang Mengzhuo (Zhang Miao) and others are stationed in sour jujubes, and Han Wenjie (Han Fu) and Yuan Shao and others are stationed in Liyang to observe the changes in Luoyang. Dong Zhuo went against the grain, burned Luoyang, excavated the emperor's tomb, and heaven and man were angry. Why are adults hesitant? Now we should send troops quickly, merge with the volunteers of all roads, and fight this evil thief together! ”

Kong Ling listened for a while, and thought so, so he mobilized troops and horses, and set off from Yangzhai, originally he planned to march quickly and join Sun Jian's army in the south as soon as possible, but Yingchuan Taishou Li Min admonished:

"Sun Jian is fierce and ambitious, I heard that he recently killed Wang Rui, the assassin of Jingzhou, and attacked and killed Zhang Zhi, the Taishou of Nanyang, and did his best, this person can not be trusted, and he joined forces all the way, just afraid that he would do what he wanted at any time, it is better to suspend the march, but to write to him."

Kong Ling listened to Li Min's words and was wary of Sun Jian, and he himself secretly thought: Although Nanyang Taishou Zhang Zhi was very close to Dong Zhuo, he was only named Nanyang Taishou, not Dong Zhuo's henchman, but he didn't expect to be beheaded by Sun Jian. He was at odds with Dong Zhuo, but was appointed by Dong Zhuo to the important position of Yuzhou Assassin, but he was afraid that Sun Jian would kill him, and the most worrying thing was that after Sun Jian killed himself, he said that he was a person from Dong Thief's side.

So Kong Ling just wrote a letter to Sun Jian and asked him to wait in Nanyang, but Sun Jian was brave and impulsive, and sure enough, without waiting for the convergence with Kong Ling's Yuzhou army, he hurriedly entered Sili and was defeated by Dong Zhuo's army in Liang County. After Kong Ling heard the news that Sun Jian was defeated, he was afraid that he would be blamed by the righteous army of all roads for not making efforts, so he hurriedly took his soldiers and horses to Nanyang, and on the third day of the second month, his Yuzhou army happened to go to the boundary of the area around Dongwuyang, and heard that Dong Zhuo's army appeared in Yangcheng, Kong Ling was immediately frightened and stationed the army in the vast dense forest.

Yingchuan Taishou Li Min and cavalry captain Zhang An and others were in the rear, just entered Dongwuyang, and did not know that Kong Ling had ordered the army to stop, and when the news of camping on the spot came from the front, the two were so anxious that they turned around: they actually stationed their troops in the dense forest! If Dong Zhuo's army uses fire to attack, the masses of 30,000 or 40,000 people will collapse without a fight!

Li Min and Zhang An ordered the soldiers and horses of their headquarters Flying Eagle Battalion to camp near the river, and immediately led dozens of horsemen all the way to Kong Ling's main camp.

When they hurried to the Chinese military tent, they were almost so angry that they vomited blood: Kong Lingzheng was talking with a group of literati, drinking and having fun, without the slightest nervousness of marching and fighting. Especially Kong Ling, his face was red when he was drunk, and he refused to let go of the wine glass in his hand, and when he saw Li Min and Zhang An entering the account with panicked expressions, he blamed them a little.

Li Min didn't care about anything else, so he immediately arched his hand and said:

"My lord, if we camp in the dense forest, if Dong thief uses fire to attack, our army will definitely collapse without a fight!"

Kong Ling drank a little too much, his head was a little dizzy, at this time Li Min's impatient and sharp voice made him feel very harsh, and his heart became more and more uncomfortable, he waved his hand angrily:

"Stand down! Don't mess up Lord Ben's Yaxing! ”

It can also be seen from his attitude towards Li Min and others that Kong Ling, who is a scholar and a great writer, looks down on people from martial arts at all. At this time, he was very drunk, and he didn't even have the hypocritical smile he usually had, so he was angry, so he shouted angrily at Li Min.

Li Min's face was slightly red, and his sword eyebrows were tightened, but he still asked for a statement:

"My lord! Please move the camp quickly, don't delay...... The art of war is cloudy......"

Kong Ling interrupted him aggressively:

"The Art of War, the Art of War...... What the art of war! Don't you know that reading military books to death is just repeating Zhao Kuo's mistakes! Besides, you...... You're just a martial artist, dare you say what books you've read? Can you compare the books you have read in this history of assassination? ”

Li Min was so angry that he stomped his feet: "Rotten Confucianism can conspire!" ”

After speaking, he ignored Kong Ling's roar and angry scolding and strode out, Zhang An saw that Li Min had touched a hard nail, and before leaving, he angered Kong Ling, he sighed, shook his head, and followed Li Min out of the main camp.

"I hope we won't meet Dong Zhuojun today!"

Li Min looked up at the sky that was sinking in the west, and muttered to himself.

Sometimes, however, the more unwilling you are to face something, the more something will come. In fact, Kong Lingjun was negligent in probing, although Li Min and Zhang An later assigned some scouts, but it was too late, until this time, the Yuzhou army did not know that Dong Zhuojun had broken through Yangcheng as early as the second day of the second month of February, creating the "Yangcheng Massacre".

It was night, and the moonlight was bright, reflecting the dense forests in the Dongwuyang area, and the light was as bright as day. The wind roared, blowing sand and rocks on the plains beyond the dense forest.

As early as the afternoon, the patrol post of the Xiliang Army had already arrived in Dongwuyang, and even Xinyi brought several maids with fast feet to pretend to be village girls who went up the mountain to pick up the woods, and they had already found out the bottom of Kong Ling's army.

Xu Rong smiled coldly: What Zheng Tai said is true, Kong Ling is really not a commander, and he actually hid most of the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the dense forest. Could it be that he thought that he would not meet Dong Zhuojun if he hid in the woods?

Xu Rong made a decision immediately, such a good opportunity, how could he let it go? She ordered all the soldiers and horses to launch a fierce attack on the camp of Kong Ling's army in the middle of the night, and when attacking, each holding a torch and setting fire everywhere! Fan Chou, Gao Shun, Gao Ya and others geared up one by one, with their 17,000 troops against Kong Ling's 40,000 Yuzhou army, although there was a great disadvantage in numbers, but the quality of the soldiers, the combat experience was enough to make up for it. This attack can be said to drive the wolf into the flock.

That night, the Xiliang army marched in separate ways, surrounded the East Wuyang regiment where the Yuzhou army was located, with a trumpet, the Xiliang army secretly fired crossbows together, and shot all the patrol troops of the Yuzhou army, and then went straight into the various camps, because the Xiliang army moved quickly, many Yuzhou troops were still asleep and were slashed to death by the Xiliang army.

Soon several camps on the outskirts were slaughtered, and then Xu Rong ordered the soldiers to set fire to the camp, and the fire instantly turned over like a giant dragon, engulfing the entire dense forest in raging flames. Kong Ling's army was really in chaos, most of the recruits had already lost their will to fight, and they fled everywhere, and most of the recruits died tragically under the trampling of their own footsteps.

The fire spread quickly, starting from the ignition of the camp on the periphery, and in less than half an hour, Kong Ling's own camp also burned. The Xiliang army even released a large number of cattle that were burned by the flames to impact the camp gate that was not hard in itself, these cattle were cultivated cattle raised by the people of Yangcheng, Yangcheng has now become a dead city, except for this part of the cultivated cattle, the rest of the cattle and sheep were brought back to Luoyang by Huaxiong as trophies. Originally, Fan Chou and the others didn't quite understand why Xu Rong insisted on keeping more than 100 cows, but they didn't expect to be able to see the "fire ox meter" used by Tian Dan at this time!

Under the collision of the fire bull array, the fragile camp gate collapsed, and a large number of Yuzhou troops guarding the front line of the Chinese army camp were trampled to death by the fire ox, or stabbed to death by the sharp knife tied to the top of the fire bull's head, and the area around the gate was full of dead bodies of people and animals. Kong Ling drank high in the first half of the night, and was resting on the Hu bed at this time, when suddenly a group of personal soldiers rushed in.

"My lord, Dong Zhuojun has come in!"

"What!?"

After Kong Ling was woken up, he suddenly felt chills all over his body: Dong Thief's army was killed in front of him so quickly? How could that be possible, his large camp was guarded by dozens of military camps, even if all the troops on the periphery collapsed, they wouldn't be able to hit their own camp so quickly, right?

"My lord, Dong Zhuojun set fire to the wind, now in the dense forest, there is a sea of fire everywhere, let's run for our lives!"

The soldiers shouted noisily, and Kong Ling only realized the seriousness of the situation at this time, and it was already urgent, and he had to flee for his life immediately!

So he came out of the Chinese military tent with dozens of personal soldiers, at this time the whole camp had been burning, the fire was raging, the flames were soaring, a large number of Xiliang troops rushed into the camp, and were fighting with the remnants of the Yuzhou army, surrounded by bloody stumps and burning corpses, and the smell of blood lingered. Kong Ling was originally a literati, when had he ever seen such a purgatory-like tragedy? He panicked, and his feet didn't even have the strength to take a step, and he barely fell to the ground by relying on the two soldiers around him to lift him up.

"Run, run!"

Kong Ling shouted in horror, the situation was completely out of control, where could he take care of any country and Han family, what he wanted to save at this time was his Kong Gongxu's life! It's life that counts.

Just when Kong Ling and dozens of others were about to kill a bloody way to escape, several bulls with flames and two sharp knives on their heads screamed and crashed into them......

At this time, Li Min and Zhang An, who were in the rear, also took care of themselves, although their camp was not attacked by fire, but more and more Xiliang troops swarmed in front of them, completely surrounding their only 2,000 people. Judging from the battle, Li Min was keenly aware that the fire in front was fierce, and it was estimated that Master Kong Ling's troops had all collapsed, and only they were left. Do you want to fight to the death or surrender on your knees? Li Min was undecided.

At first, the two armies fired at each other for a while, but soon Li Min's arrows were exhausted, and because of his haste and lack of armament, there were simply not enough arrows left for them. So, the Xiliang army drums sounded loudly, marched side by step, and broke through the gate of the Flying Eagle Battalion in a moment, as soon as the white-knuckle battle began, the strength of the combat effectiveness of the Xiliang army was revealed, often a Xiliang army could cut down several Yuzhou troops, and the remnants of the Yuzhou army were defeated and retreated, and the number of people who fell was increasing.

"Those who descend will not be killed!"

Soon, the words came out of the Xiliang army: "Kong Ling is dead!" Those who descend will not be killed! ”

Li Min looked around unconvinced, he was shot three times, and blood soaked his armor. Zhang An's soldiers and horses have already been defeated, Zhang An, who was covered in blood, broke a leg and was carried by two guards, none of them wanted to surrender, but the number of people who could fight again was only a few hundred, and after a moment of fighting, they fell a lot, and they were already cornered.

Li Min wiped the blood on his face and asked, "How many soldiers are left in our Flying Eagle Battalion now?" ”

"Lord Hui Taishou, there are not many people killed in the battle, but there are many wounded, and only less than twenty percent of the people can fight again!"

Li Min smiled bitterly, after all, the other party was Dong Zhuo's man, I don't know if it could be seen that he and Zhang An were also subordinates of General He Jin, and left their lives?

"Those who descend will not be killed! Those who descend will not be killed! ”

The shouts in the Xiliang army became louder and louder, and a large number of Yuzhou troops who were still fighting on the periphery immediately dropped their weapons and knelt down to surrender after hearing this. This battle can't be fought at all, and Li Min and Zhang An both know it.

The two of them ordered all the horses to drop their weapons:

"I'm waiting for my wish to surrender!"