Chapter 81: Expedition to Jizhou (Second Update)

Because the first batch of cadets of the Shaling Military Academy had not yet graduated, Lu Bu decided to send the 1st Brigade of the 1st Honorary Division and the 3rd Brigade of the trapped camp as the first batch of troops to participate in the battle and rush to Jizhou.

Officers who are missing from each brigade are seconded from their respective divisions and regiments, and in the end, it is necessary to ensure that a brigade is fully staffed. said that it was the first batch of troops to participate in the war, because Lu Bu wanted to take the opportunity of exterminating Taiping Dao to allow his troops to take turns to fight once and increase some actual combat experience.

In the first batch of troops participating in the war, Lu Bu appointed Gao Shun as the commander in charge of the team to command the two brigades in a unified manner. The two brigades had already been replenished, each with a full strength of 4,500 men, and were fully equipped with weapons, armor, and personal belongings.

After the parade, the two brigades set off directly, but not on foot, but on horseback. Yes, you read that right, although it is two infantry brigades, but when it comes to mobile marching, as long as conditions permit, they are all on horseback, and only after entering the war zone, do they dismount and walk.

This not only maintains the physical fitness of the soldiers, but also increases the speed of the march. This method of riding horses was implemented as early as the time of Jiuyuan, but later for a while, after the army grew, there was a shortage of horses, and it was interrupted for a while.

However, after the battle of Liangcheng, not only did he steal a lot of horses from the old camp of Kebineng, but also purchased a large number of horses after the border market was opened. Anyway, it's just a pack horse, not a war horse for cavalry, and the requirements for horses are not so high, which is easy to meet and easy to buy.

Just after the mobilization of the Bingzhou army, to the time when the troops were finally dispatched to Jizhou, the battlefield in Jizhou had already changed for a long time.

At the beginning, the elite of the Northern Army of the Han Army led by Lu Zhi clashed with the Yellow Turban Army led by Zhang Jiao many times. Although the Yellow Turban Army had a large number, as many as more than 100,000 people, the elite of the Northern Army was worthy of being a standing army of the Han Dynasty, well-trained, and experienced in combat.

Therefore, in these battles, Lu Zhi won and wiped out more than 10,000 people of the Yellow Turban Army, Zhang Jiao could only retreat to Guangzong, and sent a letter of help to other Yellow Turban rebels.

Lu Zhi has few soldiers and many Yellow Turban soldiers. Therefore, Lu Zhi was just outside the city of Guangzong, and he was not in a hurry to attack the city, but waited for the arrival of reinforcements from all walks of life. He heard that He Jin had already said that Lu Bu, the general of Dongdu Liao, had sent troops from Bingzhou to help.

Although the Northern Army under his command was already the elite of the Han Army, he didn't think that the Northern Army could play the same record as Lu Bu against the Xianbei Iron Cavalry. He has been guarding the border for a long time, has fought with the steppe peoples many times, and knows the power of the nomadic cavalry.

Therefore, he admitted that Lu Bu's men were indeed elite soldiers, so he was looking forward to the arrival of the state army. But he didn't wait for Lu Bu's reinforcements, but waited for Xiaohuangmen Zuofeng, the inspection envoy sent by Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty.

Zuo Feng was ordered to inspect Lu Zhi's work and battle situation. Eunuchs like Zuo Feng have become accustomed to being powerful in Luoyang, and he came to Lu Zhi's army, thinking that Lu Zhi, as the commander of an army, must have a lot of silver, so he openly asked Lu Zhi for bribes.

Lu Zhi, what a character, the great Confucian of the world, a high-spirited and bright person, originally hated eunuchs, and when he saw a little yellow door, he dared to ask for money from himself, where did he give him a good face, and responded coldly, "The military food in my army is still insufficient, where is the spare money to flatter the angels?" "Blatantly refused.

This Zuo Feng, the villain, is also holding a grudge. After he made a round of inspections and returned to Luoyang, he framed Lu Zhi in front of Liu Hong, saying that according to what he saw, the city of Guangzong was thin, and the Han army could easily break through, but Lu Zhi did not move, did he want to wait for God to kill Zhang Jiao?

Liu Hong was originally a suspicious person, and he believed what the eunuch said. In a fit of rage, he ordered Lu Zhi to be relieved of his military duties, escorted back to Luoyang in a prisoner car, and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Then, He Jin had no choice but to worship his henchman Dong Zhuo as the general of Dongzhonglang, and led his troops to Jizhou to take over the northern army of the Han army.

Dong Zhuo fought against various ethnic minorities in Liangzhou, with more wins and fewer losses, so he had some arrogant mentality, and the Xiliang cavalry to which he belonged was indeed elite, and he looked down on the Kwantung Han Army at all, and even more down on a rabble like the Yellow Turban Army.

After he succeeded Lu Zhi, he continued to attack regardless of his own lack of troops. However, although Guangzong is a small city, the Yellow Turban Army in it is numerous, and the great sage and good teacher Zhang Jiao is in the city, and the people in the city are very popular.

Dong Zhuo lost his troops but could not conquer Guangzong, and then fell into Zhang Bao's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, using his eagerness to fight, pretending to transport grain and grass from Julu, Zhang Bao led the army out of the city to respond.

Dong Zhuo thought that the opportunity had come, so he personally led the Xiliang cavalry to rob the grain, and eliminated Zhang Bao by the way. As a result, he was ambushed by Zhang Bao, and most of the casualties were killed, but fortunately he was protected by several subordinates to the death, and he broke out of the encirclement.

After this battle, the central officers and troops in the direction of Jizhou suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat. Dong Zhuo also lost the trust and reuse of Emperor Han Ling because of this defeat. The siege of Guangzong was lifted, and the Yellow Turban Army immediately made a comeback, and the momentum was even more victorious.

Yunzhong is far away from Jizhou, Gao Shun led the army from Yunzhong to the east into Yanmen County, and then continued eastward, across Yanmen County, into Dai County, and then from Dai County to the south, from Changshan Pass into the land of Jizhou.

According to the requirements of the Bingzhou Army, the reconnaissance troops went out hundreds of miles to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and encountered several Yellow Turban troops or bandits along the way, stubbornly resisted to the end to eliminate them, and those who surrendered were temporarily handed over to the local government for custody, so the road was very smooth.

After entering Jizhou, what Gao Shun saw along the way was a remnant of the troubled times, with ten rooms and nine emptiness, and there were ruins and broken walls left after the war everywhere.

Some villages are still on fire. The people in the village were either taken captive or killed by the government as rebels, and they all fled to Bingzhou and Sili.

As soon as the Gaoshun army arrived at the Zhongshan country's administrative office, Lu Nu received news that Jizhou Prefecture Gaoyi was besieged by the Yellow Turban army, and the soldiers in the city were few and the food was less, and the Yellow Turban army was composed of more than 100,000 people. Jizhou Assassin Shi Wang Fen sent multiple messengers to ask for help from all over the country, and 100,000 were in a hurry.

Gao Shun sent the messenger away, so that Cheng Lian and Zhu Ling could discuss the next march route. At that time, there were two routes, one was through Jinding, to Gaoyi. The other route is from Hanchang and Xiaquyang to Gaoyi.

Zhending had been occupied by a Montenegrin army of the Yellow Turban Army at that time, and the Montenegrin army was numerous, and the two leaders headed by it, Zhang Niujiao and Chu Yan, were both highly skilled.

The other road needed to pass through Julu County to govern Gauntao County, which was still under the control of the Han army at that time, but the other counties of Julu County were all under the control of Zhang Jiao's Yellow Turban Army, which was also blocked layer by layer.

In the end, everyone agreed that it was better to go south from Hanchang and Xiaquyang, and there were mostly plains along the way, which was more conducive to the state army to exert its strength.

Among the various units of the Bingzhou Army, there is only the Second Brigade in the camp, and there are many soldiers from Shouyang Mountain in the army, who are good at mountain warfare. In peacetime, Lu Bu also specially formulated mountain combat training subjects for them, which were trained in the direction of mountain infantry brigades, but they were not included in the first batch of rotational combat troops.