Chapter 545: The second-in-command of the general of the chariot cavalry

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Seeing Wang Ling and Nanlou, singing and harmonizing, praising each other, Huang Zhong was not in a hurry, while sipping tea, he patiently watched them perform, until these two people were a little embarrassed, and closed their mouths "ashamedly", and then asked lightly: "Liu Xuande's family is here, if Jian Xianhe learns that Tan County is broken, what will he do?" ”

Wang Ling was a little thirsty just now, and after closing his mouth, he also took a sip of tea, and when he heard Huang Zhong's words, he almost squirted out the tea, and asked in surprise: "Senior brother means that Jian Xianhe will lead the army back and recapture Tan County?" ”

What does Jian Yong want to do, where does Huang Zhong know? If you guess wrong, wouldn't it look very shameless?

So Huang Zhong said something quite sincere and unfathomable, but in fact, it was equivalent to saying nothing: "Not necessarily." Maybe, maybe not. But we don't care what he does, we just do what we have to do. ”

Huang Zhong is older, and Wang Ling always mixes with him, just like leaning on the mountain next to his father and brother, so he will skin it from time to time, but at this moment, he put away his laughter and thought about it seriously, and then said: "Yishui." Let's fortify in Yishui, if Jian Xianhe leads the army back, we can attack it halfway, if we go west to Xiapi, we will pursue across the water, if he dares to stay in Xiangben and wait for reinforcements, although the delay may be longer, but sooner or later it will become a piece of meat in our mouths! ”

Huang Zhong nodded with satisfaction, but Wang Ling himself seemed to have just woken up, and suddenly asked in surprise: "So, what does senior brother mean...... Let's not go to reinforce the sub-chamber pavilion? ”

This time, Huang Zhong replied with certainty: "No." Rest the soldiers and horses, hoard grain and grass, and send a message to Deputy Marshal Wang, Commander Guan, and Division Commander Yu, saying that we will defend Tan County to the death! ”

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Knowing that Tanxian County was broken and the eldest brother's two little wives were taken prisoner, Jian Yongden wanted to draw his sword and kill himself, but he was stopped by the crowd around him. Then everyone worked together to persuade Jian Yong, immediately led the army back, and recaptured Tan County, because everyone's family members are also in Tan County, who doesn't have a few wives and babies in the city?

However, after some "deep thinking and anxiety", Jian Yong cried and said to everyone: "I can't go back, I can't go back." If we go back at this time, we will definitely be intercepted head-on by the Han Zheng army in Tanxian County, and when the time comes, these people outside the city will chase and kill again, and we will inevitably fall into a heavy encirclement. ”

Then everyone can't help but ask, if we don't go back to Tan County, where else can we go? If you don't show loyalty, when the lord comes back from Yangzhou, he will see that the old nest has been copied and the little wives have been robbed, so we must not be strung together and bled one by one?

Jian Yong said: "While the enemy has not yet been encircled, let's hurry forward to Xiapi, unite with the Mizi soldiers, defend Xiapi, wait for the lord to lead the army back, and then counterattack." ”

Army?

We're an army!

Even if there are no 100,000 now, then it will have to be eight to eight and eight and not leave nine, so this will make the family run away, and wait for the lord to come and then counterattack? Anyway, you are the brother of the lord, as long as you are willing to take on this matter, we will listen to whatever you say.

So, Jian Yong ordered people to loot Xiangben, mainly to grab some grain and grass to eat, and take away everything that could be taken away, and then suddenly left the city and went straight to the southwest.

However, because of the order of the military pigeon, the news of the breaking of Tan County, Yu Banke knew earlier than Jian Yong, and he no longer wanted to fight Xiangben, but gathered all the donkeys that could be found together, and finally made up two or three thousand horses and handed them over to Gao Ran and Li Jin together. Because Gao Ran came from Hebei, he had more experience in commanding cavalry than these generals in the south. So Yu Ban planned to let the two of them make scissors and follow Jian Yong all the way to cut all the way.

Zang Ba has an opinion, I am a good reinforcement division, and after a battle, it is almost "normal" to be beaten, Commander Yu, you are my old superior, you can't let me hold this breath and not get out!

Yu Ban said: "Did I let you hold back? No matter how sharp the blades of their cavalry are, don't we have to clean them up? You go ahead of me, and if there is meat, you will eat it first! ”

So again, Jian Yong's sudden departure turned into a run, and the soldiers walked all the way down, and the scene was as if they were preparing to marry a new daughter-in-law and sprinkle candy outside, followed by a large group of little babies swarming and grabbing.

The first to be defeated was Chen Lan's department, after these people left Qingzhou, few of them were willing to fight anymore, and now they were being chased and slashed by Gao Ran and Li Jin on donkeys, and it would be strange if they could withstand it.

Not only that, because of the large number of Chen Lan's troops, their rout directly led to turmoil in the entire army, and then when Cao Hong was trying to stabilize the morale of the army and restrain the troops and horses, Li Jin, who was brought up, kissed him with a revenge steel lance, and followed by Cao Hong's troops also collapsed.

Gan Ning wanted to turn around and fight with Li Jin, but Jian Yong didn't allow it, and by this time, the escape had turned into a big rout. Because there are still Wang Ling and Nanlou leading the cavalry brigade on the south bank of Yishui to follow all the way, who knows if they will rush to the front and cross the water to attack?

Finally, when he arrived in Xiapi, Jian Yong's army was less than 30,000 people, and this was thanks to the fact that when he was in Xiangben, he handed over a part of Gan Ning's soldiers and horses. It was these people who were kicked and kicked by Gan Ning and got them back.

However, Liangcheng, who was also on the south bank of Yishui, between Xiapi and Tanxian, saw the defeat of Jian Yong's army, and directly surrendered to Wang Ling and Nanlou, a cavalry team in Kaicheng, so that even Xiapi was lost in foul language!

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First learned that Wang was making trouble with the soldiers in Xuzhou, followed by an emergency on the whole front, and the news of Xubei came one by one, which quickly made Liu Bei's head twist, but the letter sent by Zhou Yu was to ask Chen Deng to defend Guangling and not to cross Huai for reinforcements. Liu Bei hadn't been able to think through this question yet, whether he should do it or not, but the news that Tan County was broken came again.

This time Beibei is really angry, my "two clothes" are in Tanxian, the new one, I haven't worn it a few times, you snatched it for me?

The most important thing is that the jade seal of the country is still hidden in Tan County!

Because when he set off, he was to send his father-in-law Yuan Shu to Huiji County to take office, so "Mrs. Yuan" also came with Liu Bei, but there was no need to worry about Liu Bei "having no clothes to wear". But after arriving in Yangzhou, things changed a lot. The situation in front of him is that Yuan Shu doesn't have to go to Huiji anymore, and he has to take Yang Hong, Ji Ling and others to Wuchang to be the ruling Jinwu. This is an appointment directly issued by the "Han Family Zhengshuo", even if Beibei is not satisfied in his heart, he can't tear his face at this time and disobey the order.

Then, because Xu Gong was condemned as a rebel thief, Liu Bei could not raise people to eat for nothing, so he handed over the soldiers and horses to Liu Feng and Chen Zuo, and continued to the south to levy Xu Gong. The record was good, and after Xu Gong was defeated again, he had fled to Baihu Mountain and defected to the bandit Yan Hu who was entrenched here.

Yan Hu was originally a native of Wucheng County, belonging to the local heroes, and a few years ago, the world was not peaceful, so he recruited troops and horses to defend himself. But feeding soldiers and horses and feeding domestic servants is not a concept at all, only in and out, and no one can stand it after a long time. Anyway, at that time, the world was in turmoil, Yan Hu simply took advantage of the situation, not only painted the land to defend himself, but also worked part-time as a bandit, robbing places, thus completely evolving from a strong man to a bandit, and gave himself a very yellow and violent nickname: White Tiger!

It stands to reason that Xu Gong and Yan Baihu, that is the relationship between officers and soldiers and robbers, should be incompatible, but although Xu Gong is appointed by Liu Pet, he does not want to bow down to Liu Pet, but obeys his orders, so he and Yan Baihu became "good friends", and they can be regarded as raising a Kou, and when necessary, they can be used to prevaricate Liu Pet.

Therefore, it is still Confucius who said, wow, not afraid of a white tiger, afraid of using idiots!

But the problem in front of Liu Bei was that although Liu Feng and Chen were victorious, they couldn't transfer the soldiers and horses back for a while, so they thought of Wu Jing and Sun Ben. Previously, Liu Pet was in Yangzhou, and you were not happy, crying and shouting that you wanted me to be your boss. Now that Liu Pet is dead, you are satisfied, but my boss is in trouble, you have to express it, right?

Originally, these days, Liu Bei also recruited a lot of Jiangdong heroes through Wu Jing, Sun Ben and others, and ordered them to send troops and generals who had soldiers and generals, and those who had money and grain to quickly form a large army and prepare to cross the river to fight. However, Zhang Zhao also advised Liu Bei at this time: "Xubei cannot be defended, and Huainan cannot be lost." This remark echoes Zhou Yu's meaning, they all want to tell Beibei that we can't save and can't save the north of Xuzhou, but south of Huaishui can't afford to miss anything.

Zhang Zhao was originally a native of Pengcheng, Xuzhou, but the world was not good a few years ago, so he fled to Jiangnan, but Liu Bei was generous and benevolent, and Corporal Lixian appreciated Zhang Zhao's talent and learning. Especially when his father-in-law Tao Qian died, Zhang Zhao also wrote a eulogy, which is not to say how beautiful Zhang Zhao's eulogy was, but when he was in Xuzhou, Tao Qian wanted to promote Zhang Zhao as Maocai, but Zhang Zhao did not agree. According to Tao Qian's bastard temper back then, he felt that he was being despised, so he directly arrested Zhang Zhao and threw him in prison. Later, it was my friend Zhao Yu who interceded and fished it out. Parenthesis, perhaps in front of Tao Qian, Zhang Zhao and Zhao Yu are more appropriate to call them "difficult friends".

Liu Bei felt that Zhang Zhao was a good person, not only had real talent and learning, but also dared to give direct advice and was open-minded. Especially his dead ghost father-in-law, before he was old and faint, his eyes were still very vicious, and he looked at people accurately. So Liu Bei directly appointed Zhang Zhao as the chief historian, and after he led the army to cross the river, he was responsible for all the civil and military affairs in Jiangnan.

In other words, Zhang Zhao suddenly became the second-in-command of the "Che Cavalry General's Mansion".

Ruthless or not?

Who will take this job and not sell your life?

But not only that, Liu Bei also appointed Gu Yong and Lu Kang to serve as the left and right Simas respectively, responsible for Jiangnan political affairs and military logistics.

As soon as this trick came out, Liu Bei's reputation of "generosity and benevolence, corporal courtesy" became even louder, and it was like a day in Yangzhou. Not long ago, when Liu Bei first arrived in Yangzhou, he had to make friends with local heroes in Yangzhou through Wu Jing's acquaintances, but now no matter whether he is famous or talented, or powerful and wealthy, even if he feels that he eats a lot and has great strength, everyone rushes to tell each other, and they come to vote one after another.