Chapter 53: Xingyang
Kaocheng was lost, the defenders of Daliang did not send an arrow and directly surrendered the city, and Chen Qingzhi's troops had arrived in Xingyang.
When the news reached Luoyang, the government and the opposition of Wei were really in a panic.
The southeast road Daxingtai, the general Yang Yu who was captured, did not have time to delay any longer, and led the newly recruited Yulin Lang to rush to the aid of Xingyang, and then converged with the division of the Quartet Qinwang, and the garrison of Xingyang's headquarters, counting 70,000 people, which is not small. Yang Yu is quite practical, as soon as he arrives at the ground, he doesn't have time to rest, he rushes to repair the city overnight, prepares the city defense equipment, and orders to clean up the trees and bushes outside the city, so as to facilitate the vision and prevent the Liang army from hiding in it.
Although Yang Yu went, the ministers of Wei in Luoyang Palace still felt that they were not very relieved--- there was no other, because Chen Qingzhi's white-robed army was too prestigious, and so far it was invincible and invincible. So he led 5,000 guards to the general of the army, Zhu Shilong, the Duke of Leping, and went to the town to guard the Tiger Prison Xiongguan, thinking that Xingyang was the back, and they were all Luoyang barriers.
On the Taiji Palace, Emperor Yuan Ziyou "missed" Yuan Tianmu for the first time: "Where did the King of Shangdang go?" ”
It turned out that Yuan Tianmu rode to it, and Xing Gao could not match it, and he was defeated in successive battles. On April 20, Xinggao's army was defeated and captured, and soon Luoyang was the first to be announced, and Qingzhou was pacified. Yuan Ziyou urgently summoned Yuan Tianmu to return to the division to deal with the white-robed army, and as for the Han Building, which was still entrenched in Youyan, he had to let it go for the time being.
It's just that Qi Di was initially decided, and there were a lot of aftermaths, which delayed Yuan Tianmu for some time, and he was afraid that Han Lou would take advantage of the situation, so he divided a group of elite soldiers and Gao Huan, and ordered him to pacify outside Shandong, and cross the big river at any time to enter Hebei and Youyan to deal with Han Lou.
Yuan Tianmu also heard the prestige of Chen Qingzhi's white-robed army, and heard that Yuan Hao was powerful and did not dare to support the people, so he forcibly recruited more than 100,000 people from Qingzhou to enlist in the army, and joined forces with 200,000 troops, known as 300,000, and went south.
As the number of people grew, so did the pace of the march. Stop and go all the way, at this time, Yuan Tianmu's department is still detouring Juye Daze, and it is still a little far away from Luoyang. . .
After hearing this, Yuan Ziyou was very anxious, so he ordered the official department Shangshu and the general of the Chinese army Fei Mu to make a detour to Hebei, cross the big river twice, and personally go to Yuan Tianmu's army to supervise the speed.
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"How is Jing Xiu's injury? Is there a danger to your life? In the east of Xingyang City, in the white-robed barracks, Chen Qingzhi's face was not good, and his voice was even more anxious.
It turned out that the white-robed army had won many battles, and they gradually became arrogant, and when they went to Xingyang City, they rushed to attack without saying a word. Everyone only thinks that most of this Xingyang City is also attacked immediately, and they don't want Yang Yu to be very strict with the whole army, although he is leading a new army, he is actually in chaos and fights quite orderly. Yang Yu was originally a scribe, but he also wore sharp armor and personally went to the city to supervise the battle.
The main general is powerful, and his subordinates will naturally use their lives, not to mention that the Wei army still has the advantage of defending the city and the superiority of numbers?
On the first day of the onslaught, the white-robed army left more than 100 corpses, and no one climbed the city.
Fighting again in the coming day, the sunrise hit noon, and there was still no breakthrough. Chen Qingzhi was furious, and ordered the brave generals Song Jingxiu and Yu Tianshu to lead the people who dared to die, and then marched to attack.
The two generals fought bravely, slashed arrows and stones, and each climbed to the top of the city. Unexpectedly, Yang Yu commanded properly, and he had already had a backhand, and with an order, he soon knocked the Dengcheng Liang army to the city. Song Jingxiu was injured by knives and arrows in many places, and he fell into a coma on the spot, but fortunately Yu Tianshu desperately rescued him.
After two days of fierce fighting, the white-robed army made no progress, and after careful calculation, it lost more than 400 soldiers. Since the expedition of Wuyang, all the way to the city of Xingyang, the victory of 7,000 white-robed troops along the way was really easy, and the total number of people killed in the battle was less than 200 people, I don't want to lose more than twice as many people in just two days, and even the fierce general Song Jingxiu was seriously injured, how could it not make Chen Qingzhi sad? Not only that, Xingyang City cheered, and the morale of the Wei army was a hundred times greater, how could it not make Chen Qingzhi angry?
Anger is anger, Chen Qingzhi will eventually become a famous general in the world, now I also know that Xingyang is difficult to overcome for a while, this is called Yang Yu in person, he is really a strong enemy, not to mention the side, just watching him cut down the trees and bushes outside Xingyang City, it can already be seen, but it is careless. So Chen Qingzhi calmed down and ordered the troops to be collected to slow down the attack, and then seek other strategies.
A strategist admonished: "Our army is only 7,000, all of them are noble, and it is sad that they will be damaged in vain." I heard that Yuan Hao has 100,000 troops, so it is better to ask for help. ”
Chen Qingzhi also cherished Liang Jun's life, he thought that Xingyang was easy to fight, so he might as well grab a jackpot, but now that this is the situation, there is no need to be stubborn, so he nodded and agreed.
So the fast horse sent a letter to Daliang, telling the enemy in Xingyang to send troops to help.
At this time, the news of Yuan Tianmu's pacification of Qi had already reached Henan, and Yuan Hao also knew that the military situation was urgent, and he did not dare to slack off when he heard the news, but divided 50,000 soldiers and horses, and drove the royal gold and jade mica car, and raised the dragon flag of nine and seven dragons, and came to help in person. The remaining 50,000 people were left to Hou Xuan to guard the beam and block Yuan Tianmu's army. In addition, the history of the East Yuzhou Thorn and the general of the Jianjie Festival, Qiu Daqian, still the town of Suiyang.
Although there were more than 50,000 troops in front of the battle, and there was a Yuan Hao Dragon Banner to supervise the formation, the effect was still not good. Every day, at sunrise, the southern army flocked to the city, and at sunset, they left a place of corpses and retreated in panic. It was the same for seven or eight days of fighting.
The morale of the northern army in the city is higher, while the southern army outside the city is disgraced and dwarfed.
It was probably because the southern army attacked Xingyang that there were so-called "Qin Wang's divisions" in all directions, either for the county garrison, or for the local heroes, or out of public intentions, or for personal interests, they came to Xingyang to send food and people. Xingyang is not as good as Kaocheng, Yang Yu came in a hurry, there are really more soldiers and less food, since someone has sent things here, he is getting his benefits.
Chen Qingzhi has long had the heart to cut off the grain road in Xingyang, how can he allow this "Qinwang's teacher" to succeed? At that moment, Pei Guo, Yang Zhong, Yu Tianchou and other generals led the team, and the white-robed army attacked from all sides, defeating more than ten or twenty so-called "Qinwang's divisions" within a few days, and even connecting the six small cities around Xingyang, cutting off the passage of people from all over the world to Xingyang in one fell swoop, and the white-robed army regained its morale.
Before and after, there were no less than 10,000 "Qinwang's Division" captured by the white-robed army. The war situation was urgent, and the white-robed army itself was small in number, so they didn't have time to settle these prisoners. With Chen Qingzhi's approval, the white-robed army was vicious to the side of the guts, and they opened a killing ring, slaughtering them with one shot, leaving no one alive. Those who could take away the goods they had obtained were taken away, and those who could not be taken were burned to the ground.
For the white-robed army, the children of the Liang people, all the people killed were northerners, and they didn't see soft-heartedness.
But the news was about to come out, and the Sifang Prefecture was shocked. The family Gaomen is better, and there is not much to say, about to observe the situation, but the people are long and can't stop it: "The southern army is fierce, and it is not good, so there is no way to vote for it." Unconsciously, the voice of resentment against the southern army filled Henan.
Shangshu's left servant shot and Zu Ying in the service went to Yuan Hao. Yuan Hao had the intention to dissuade him, and the envoys were all sent out, thinking about it again, it was really inconvenient to offend Chen Qingzhi and the white-robed army, so he sighed, chased back the envoy, and waved Zu Ying back.