Chapter 67 Capture of Dongwuyang

Huangfu Jiu explained: "My general said that Xu Fujun would definitely ask this question, so let me tell Fujun that this Ma, Yuan, and Yi were temporarily transferred by Zhang Jiao from the north to replace Zhang Liang to preside over the battle on the southern front.

It's just that the main forces of the Yellow Turbans such as Ruyang Peng Tuo were quickly wiped out by us, so they stayed in the area of Dongjun to help Bu Ji grow his power. However, because Bu Ji is a party commander and independently supports many soldiers and horses, Ma, Yuan, and Yi have just arrived, so they can only absorb the Yellow Turban bandits alone in the rear and gather soldiers and horses. ”

After listening to Huangfu Jiu's explanation, Xu Ding finally understood.

Although this Ma, Yuan, and Yi have a high status in the Yellow Turban, they don't have any real power, so they can only help Bu Ji to do logistics in the back and accumulate strength.

After thinking about it, Xu Ding said: "You go back and tell General Huangfu, just say that I Xu Ding understands and will take Dongwuyang." ”

Huangfu Jiu said goodbye and left, Xu Ding ordered to turn north to find a ferry, and the 4,000 army quietly crossed north.

Soon, the army approached Dongwuyang in a roundabout way, and Xu Ding personally led people to investigate the situation clearly.

After returning, Xu Ding summoned everyone and said: "The situation in Dongwuyang is similar to what Huangfu said, there are a lot of Yellow Turban materials hoarded here, and it is the Yellow Turban Southern Commander Ma, Yuan, and Yi who preside over the overall situation here, this person uses his identity and prestige to continuously absorb the scattered Yellow Turbans of Dongjun and Qinghe County, and train them and then provide a steady stream of soldiers for the servants, so if you want to break the Cangting, you must first break Dongwuyang, otherwise General Huangfu and others will fall into a bitter battle and stalemate." ”

After finding out the situation, Xu Ding partially affirmed Huangfu Song's original judgment, and of course there were some negatives.

"Then how can we marry Dongwuyang, there are many yellow turbans in the city, and it is difficult to attack." Tai Shi Ci thought of several offensive plans in his heart, but he was vetoed.

Others, too, don't know how to solve this thorny problem.

"Our army has few troops, so naturally it cannot attack by force, so we still give full play to our army's guerrilla superiority as before, lure the enemy outside the city, gather and annihilate him, and wait for an opportunity to break the city." Xu Dingyi had a draft, and then said:

"Have you noticed, there is a city called Yangping not far north of Dongwuyang, and this city is now in the hands of the Yellow Turban, if someone attacks this city, will Dongwuyang's horses, Yuan, and Yi sit idly by?"

Everyone understood this, and their eyes shone brightly.

Then Xu Ding arranged his troops and first asked Tai Shici and Li Dian to take 2,000 people to attack Yangping City.

The Yellow Turban guarding Yangping City is not very vigilant to the south, but it is only guarded against the east and north, where did he think that the Han army bypassed Dongwuyang and killed from the west, and was directly attacked by Tai Shici and the two of them, and took Yangping City in one fell swoop.

Tobu Yang!

"What? A Han army attacked Yangping City. Ma, Yuan, and Yi were a little surprised, and hurriedly asked the people who came back to report:

"How many Han troops are there? Where did it come from? ”

The person who replied only said: "I don't know where they came from, but they only have 2,000, and they are under the banner of the Northern Army of the Imperial Court." ”

Northern Army?

Huangfu Song's subordinates.

Ma, Yuan, and Yi spread out the map, glanced at it and muttered: "It should have come from the east, damn it, this Bu Ji has so many men, and he can't stand Huangfu Song, so he let him secretly cross the river." ”

But after thinking about it, Ma, Yuan, and Yi breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, there were only about 2,000 smuggled by the Han army, and if there were too many, it would be Dongwuyang who was only afraid of a sneak attack.

These 2,000 Han troops must be dealt with as soon as possible, otherwise it will be a threat to Dongwuyang.

Thinking of this, Ma, Yuan, and Yi arranged for the generals who defended the city to personally take 10,000 troops to capture Yangping City.

As soon as Ma, Yuan, and Yi left, the scouts immediately reported the situation to Xu Ding, and Xu Ding took Zhang Fei, Dian Wei and other 2,000 people to Dongwuyang.

The night in midsummer is very short, the wind at night is gentle like water, and the yellow turbans of Dongwuyang never dreamed that there were Han troops who dared to fight them, and they were only 2,000 soldiers and horses.

So there are very few people on duty, and the vigilance is also very poor.

Because most of the Yellow Turban Army are ordinary people, they all uphold the habit of working at sunrise and resting at sunset, and basically never fight at night.

Xu Ding, who had experience in Yuzhou, and others seized this loophole and approached the city wall at night.

Countless black shadows approached, and even the ladder was quietly erected, and the yellow scarves in the city were not found.

Most of the generals and soldiers on duty rested at the city gate and on the city tower, and no one wanted to move more when they were ugly.

"Quick!"

Climbing up the ladder to the top of the city, Zhang Fei landed softly and waved his hand to let the ones behind follow.

It turned out that this time it was Zhang Fei and his two hundred elite fellows who took the lead.

has rich experience in fighting in Yuzhou, and with Zhang Fei's boldness and carefulness, if Xu Ding does not come in person, then only he is more suitable.

After all, it is obviously not suitable to let a big old man like Dian Wei play a sneak attack.

"Who!"

A yellow scarf who was about to pee far away had just taken off his pants when he heard the sound and couldn't help but let out a soft sigh of courage.

But he was greeted by a Grim Reaper spear serpent.

A spear stabbed the heart, and Zhang Fei drew his spear and rushed towards the city tower.

Hearing the movement, but some of the dazed yellow scarves stood up one by one, and before they could understand what was going on, a black shadow popped out in front of them.

Then one by one there were screams.

"Not good! There are enemies ......"

"Kill!"

Zhang Fei picked stabs left and right, killed the yellow scarves on the city tower, and rushed directly up the stairs, and the yellow scarves that had just rushed up were killed one by one.

Zhang Fei's 200 elites followed, quickly captured the city, and rushed down from the two stairs.

Zhang Fei jumped to the city cave a few times, then raised the wooden bolt of the city gate with one arm, and then pushed open the city gate, and the Donglai soldiers gathered at the city gate swarmed in and met the yellow turban who rushed to help.

The two sides fought in the streets, and the Yellow Turban Army was defeated and retreated.

The morale of the Donglai soldiers was like a macro, shouting horses, yuan, and righteousness to death, Bu Ji was beheaded, and the yellow scarves in the city did not know whether they were true or false, and they were suspicious of the faith, and they had no intention of fighting, so they had to run to the north gate.

"Tell Yide not to chase him, take over the city defense immediately, and count the spoils." Captured the base camp of Ma, Yuan, and Yi, and looked at the correspondence and some contentious requirements and orders left by Ma, Yuan, and Yi, Xu Dao immediately said to a personal guard:

"Take two people with you, cross the river for me overnight, and send the news to General Huangfu."

"No!" The guards went out, picked two guards, and then rushed to Cangting overnight.

On this side, 10,000 people from Ma, Yuan, and Yi attacked Yangping City, and only waited for dawn to launch an attack, and they were awakened as soon as the sky was bright.

"What? Dongwuyang was captured by the Han army. Ma, Yuan, and Yi spurted out a mouthful of blood.

Tobu Yang!

The city he managed to run was captured by the Han army.

There are also supplies for seventy or eighty thousand troops, which he has worked hard to collect, so it will cheapen the Han army.

Ma, Yuan, and Yi wanted to scold the generals defending the city, even if the city was captured, they had to burn the supplies first.

This idiot, how can he be an enemy.

But this idiot was killed by the Han army, and he had no place to scold if he wanted to.

But it didn't matter, and after calming down, he hurriedly asked, "What about Miss?" What about the eldest lady? ”

It turned out that Zhang Jiao's daughter Zhang Ning also followed him, in fact, in order to appease the Taiping Taoists who unified the south, Zhang Jiao let Zhang Ning follow him to increase the prestige of Ma, Yuan, and Yi.

The person who replied hesitated for a moment but said truthfully: "Bing Dashuai, the holy woman didn't escape with us, and she is probably still in the city." ”

After hearing this, Ma, Yuan, and Yi fainted directly.