Chapter Twenty-Six, Beacon Fire
Zhou Jin wanted to take all the defenders of Suyi to rescue Haoyang, and when the county magistrate heard this, he couldn't help but be shocked - I don't have many soldiers here, and they are all children of county people, how can I go with you to die!
So he smiled bitterly and persuaded: "The defenders are only five hundred, and most of them are old and weak village soldiers, and the city protection is still insufficient, how can you fight with the general?" And when he heard that Hu Kou had no less than 100,000 people and besieged the city of Haoyang, the general led these hundreds of soldiers to go, which was tantamount to a sheep entering the mouth of a tiger, and An could save Da Sima? In the humble opinion of the last official, the general will live and rest in the shelter, and will raise the soldiers, I will send an envoy to Pinyang to report to Guo Shuai, and wait for Guo Shuai's general to order. ”
Zhou Jin also said that, in order to show his loyalty, in fact, he didn't want to save Haoyang at this time, and he didn't even have the strength to turn around and go out of the city. So he got off the donkey, nodded and said, "What Your Excellency said is very true, since you should not be reckless, and it will not help you to lose the lives of the soldiers in vain...... The mountain people who brought me and others, please send him some goods with him. I'm hungry, so I'll be satisfied......"
Zhou Jin rested in Suyi City for three days, eating and drinking, and finally regained his strength. Guo Mo's general order also came from Pinyang, asking him to leave the wounded soldiers who were difficult to fight in Suyi to recuperate, and to take his own initiative and go south to Pinyang to rendezvous. Zhou Jin didn't dare to delay, so he immediately resigned as the county magistrate and led his troops out of the city.
Yang Qing felt that the small soldiers in Suyi City were weaker than Xia Yang, and he was afraid that as soon as Zhou Jin left, if the Hu army came to attack, there would not be many, there would be one or two thousand rangers, and the city would not be able to defend it. The doctor on the leg wound saw it, re-dressed, bandaged, it is said that there is no worry about life, so he crutches and crutches, chased after Zhou Jin, with a righteous and awe-inspiring face, and said: "A little injury, it does not prevent me from serving the governor of the capital, and I hope that Zhou Governor will bring the villain...... Weekend. The Metropolitan Governor is besieged in Haoyang, how can I rest assured in the border towns? ”
Zhou Jin bowed his head and said: "True loyal and brave people." If I am lucky enough not to die, I will be promoted to you! "As long as you can move, follow along.
Pinyang is in the southwest of Suyi, and the straight-line distance is only 100 miles, but because of the mountains and the tributaries of Shangluoshui, it is forced to detour nearly twice the distance. Therefore, after they left the city, they first followed the road to the southeast, walked to the evening, and set up camp not far from Shangluoshui.
Although the number of people was small, Zhou Jin still had high standards, strict requirements for himself, in accordance with the norms of the army, digging trenches and setting up camps, and sending out sentries to patrol in all directions, and arranging for non-commissioned officers to stand guard in shifts. Yang Qing was assigned to the first shift, pressed his saber in his hand, and patrolled back and forth in the camp - he was already the captain - since the Yuanmen, it took a moment to circle the camp, and suddenly saw a famous sentry stumbling into the camp and shouting: "No, no......"
probably wanted to shout "not good", and was afraid that it would affect morale, so he swallowed his words halfway, and then plunged his head into Zhou Jin's big tent. Yang Qing hurriedly crapped to a no-man's land, quietly approached the big tent, eavesdropped, and listened to the sentry report: "On the west bank of Luoshui, even the camp and the village, are all Hu soldiers!" ”
Yang Qing couldn't help but be taken aback, and said in his heart: Why am I so unlucky, is there really a disaster star's fate? I knew that I wouldn't have followed Zhou Jin to leave Suyi!
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It turned out that in order to lure Guo Mo out of the city, Liu Cang specially ordered Liu Kui and Jin Kang to lead more than 10,000 troops to advance west along the foothills, pretending to cross Shangluoshui to attack Suyi. He instructed the second general to be careful in marching affairs, not to be taken advantage of by the enemy's cavalry, once they encounter the enemy, they will either fight and retreat, or stick to the spot, and strive to attract all Guo Mo's troops over, firmly stumble, and wait for me to send reinforcements, surround them on three sides, and destroy them.
The second general was really vigilant on the road, although he did not carry much baggage, and it was on the great plains, and the daily journey was only fifty miles. Three days later, they arrived at the west bank of Shangluoshui, repeatedly sentry, but did not see the enemy, so they dared to wade, and immediately set up camp after crossing the river. Jin Kang said: "I was afraid that Guo Mo would send troops to attack me halfway, although he didn't come today, or he would come in front of me when I was back...... It is necessary to strengthen the barrier and be ready to retreat to Luodong at any time. Liu Kui thought so.
So on the one hand, the deep ditch and high fortress, on the other hand, the sentinel cavalry was sent to the west to inspect, since Zhou Jin's department could find them, then Hu Jun could naturally find Zhou Jin, and hurriedly reported to Liu Kui. Liu Kui asked the approximate number of the other party, knowing that there were only hundreds of people, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and said: "This must be Guo Mo's front army, if you don't take advantage of this to break it, when will you wait?" Without consulting Jin Kang, he personally led the cavalry out of the camp and rushed straight towards the Jin army.
The news that Zhou Jin got was that the Hu army was overwhelming, and the number was incalculable-in fact, the spies didn't have enough points, so they fled back with a lot of urine - before they passed Luoshui, they were setting up camp, and they were less than ten miles away from the army! He panicked on the spot, after all, the disparity between the outnumbered was too great, no matter how much he wanted to kill Hu Ligong to atone for his sins, he didn't dare to directly attack the front of Hu Jun, so he urgently ordered the village to be pulled out...... No, let's abandon the village, and leave all the tents, grain and grass, flags, and vehicles we got from Suyi, and let's run for our lives!
It's just that except for Zhou Jin and the governor and the deputy governor of the ministry, who were given horses by the governor of Suyi County, the rest are all foot soldiers, how can these two-legged ones outrun four-legged? In addition, Zhou Jin finally brought these hundreds of remnants to life, and he was really unwilling to flee first, so the speed was naturally even slower.
Therefore, before it was dark, he was caught up by Liu Kui. Hu Cai saw the Jin soldiers from a distance, and did not wait for the order, so they pulled their bows and released arrows, and the governor was careless, and he was hit by an arrow in the back, and immediately leaned back, and fell down, seeing that he could not live.
Yang Qing ran on his side with his legs, seeing this situation, he didn't know where to puff up his strength, his legs suddenly exerted force, jumped forward, and then caught the horse's reins, and then stepped on the stirrup with his right foot, and jumped on the horse's back. However, although he can ride a horse, his riding skills are just getting started, so he jumps on a running war horse like this, and it is the first time since he hit his mother's womb, and he is more panicked and busy...... Stepping on the saddle bridge, I suddenly realized, hey, why did I ride backwards, and my head was on the horse's buttocks? I should step on my left leg first......
Hu Qi only shot a round of arrows, and shot over more than a dozen people on the spot. Zhou Jin turned around and shot back on his horse, but he couldn't hit two arrows in a row. Fortunately, at this time, the sky had gradually darkened, and although the two sides looked closer, the accuracy of Hu Cai's galloping shot was also much worse. And Jin Kang came in time to stop Liu Kui: "General, be careful not to chase again, please retreat." ”
Liu Kui said angrily: "But hundreds of Jin people, seeing me and fleeing, I can't chase them for five miles, so I can completely kill them, and first frustrate Guo Mo's prestige, why do you stop me?" But then his expression softened, his tone was calm, and he asked, "General Jin is blocking me, and I want to have a reason, so I will listen to the teachings." ”
Jin Kang is Jin Zhun's younger brother. Jin Zhun is a Huns, and he was promoted to the middle guard army as a Lang official, and then entered the second daughter Jin Yueguang and Jin Yuehua in Liu Cong, and won his favor, and established Jin Yueguang as the queen and Jin Yuehua as the right queen, and the Jin family was therefore noble. Later, Jin Zhun Party attached Liu Cang, trying to seize Liu Yi's crown prince, although because of Liu Yao's request, he was dismissed and demoted to a commoner, but soon after, Liu Yao was defeated in Feng Yi and could no longer threaten the Pingyang regime, Liu Cang brazenly murdered Liu Yi in solitary confinement, and reinstated Jin Zhun Guan. This expedition to cross the river to the west made Jin Zhun ride a general and leave him behind.
The three Jin brothers: Jin Zhun, Jin Ming, and Jin Kang, who were in power for a while, acted recklessly, and were secretly scolded by the people of Pingyang as "the three bearded dogs under the prince's door" - although they had already "raised the flag" to slaughter each and could no longer be regarded as a Hun - and said: "Jin Zhun is as cunning as a fox, Jin Ming is as ruthless as a jackal, and Jin Kang is as embarrassed." "In short, these three brothers are all the same goods, treacherous and deceitful, and cause chaos to the government.
However, the court and the central government have a more fair evaluation, in comparison, Jin Zhun really has the talent to stabilize the country, and Jin Ming is wise and can be a good assistant - but unfortunately the cleverness is not used in the right place - Jin Kang is only a little smart, far from his second brother. This time, Liu Cang went west to conquer, leaving Jin Zhun and Jin Ming to defend the country, and only brought Jin Kang out, that is, Jin Zhun felt that because this little brother was still young and his thinking was not meticulous, he really should go to the bloody battlefield to have a good experience, so that he could support the clan business with me in the future, so he recommended it to Liu Cang.
The generals in the army generally looked down on Jin Kang, but based on the power of the Jin family and the favor of Liu Cong and Liu Cang's father and son, they all had to greet each other with a smile on the surface, and they didn't dare to have any conflicts with them. Therefore, Jin Kang stopped Liu Kui from continuing the pursuit, and Liu Kui just shouted angrily, and immediately reacted, quickly lowered his posture and softened his attitude, and said: "Kui Gong listens to the teachings." ”
Jin Kang reminded him: "I am waiting for this to come, not to fight with Guo Mo, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has devised a plan to lure the enemy. Please be careful not to advance lightly, but be tempted by the enemy army - the general thinks, there are no less than 20,000 people in Pinyang Jin, even if Guo Motuo is big, stop sending one of them to oppose me, and there is a reason that the striker is only a few hundred foot soldiers? I expect an ambush to follow! ”
When Liu Kui heard this, he was shocked, and hurriedly restrained his troops, stopped the pursuit, and hurriedly withdrew to the camp next to Shangluoshui with Jin Kang. Zhou Jin, Yang Qing and others escaped the catastrophe, but they didn't dare to stop, and stumbled and fled until midnight, running all of them with soft bones and muscles, and then they lay down in the field and rested for two hours.
The next day, before dawn, they set off, and in the early morning, they finally came to Pinyang and opened the city gate. Guo Mo and the others were all surprised when they saw it, and asked Zhou Jindao: "Why is Qing so embarrassed?" ”
In fact, the news of the killing of the Hu army had already spread to Pinyang City, and Xie Feng suggested sending an army to the east to block Shangluoshui, in order to attack the enemy in half a crossing. Guo Mo smiled and said, "Liu Cang is very light on me." ”
Then he explained: "I used to deal with Hu Kou in Hanoi, and my department was only five or six thousand, and there were many farmers in the township, and the good and the bad were mixed, so I didn't dare to win a decisive battle with Hu Kou, so I was forced to stack up tricks and look forward to fighting, so Liu Cang thought I was cowardly. He now sent an army to the west, clearly luring me out of the city, but I was afraid that if I sent a large army, I was afraid and retreated into the city and did not dare to move, so I stopped sending thousands of people. If I see that his army is weak, and go out of the city to fight against each other, and fight on Luoshui, he will go west from Haoyang, and he can gallop to it in a day and a night, and he will just encircle our army......"
Lu He asked: "With Guo Shuai's intentions, shouldn't we wait to fight?" Although the governor of the capital has an order, temporarily guarding Haoyang, waiting for the beacon smoke, but if the thieves really attack Suyi, there are only a few hundred soldiers, and they can go down every day. If Peter Suyi, I am afraid that after threatening the frequency of the sun, I will not dare to come out again, but what? ”
Guo Mo smiled: "Liu Cang is really afraid of me...... Afraid of the metropolitan governor, so he did not dare to divide the troops easily, otherwise he would have to have each city, and it would be easy for our army to break them one by one. I intend to temporarily let him wade across Shangluoshui, so that General Beigong will lead the cavalry to copy him, then Hu Kou will not dare to really attack Suyi, and he will not be injured. ”
But he didn't expect that he ordered Zhou Jin to lead the remnants of the army from Suyi to join, Zhou Jin moved quite quickly, and then coincidentally, he bumped into Hu Jun on the road......
hurriedly welcomed Zhou Jin into the city, so that he could be comforted. Zhou Jin saw Lu He, Xie Feng, Wang Tang and other old people, almost like a wanderer returning to his parents, he couldn't help but cry on the ground. Lu He just patted him on the shoulder, but didn't speak; Xie Feng gritted his teeth and said: "I will kill Liu Cang, Liu Ji and others to avenge Qing!" Wang Tang had a cold face, turned his face sideways, and only glanced at Zhou Jin with the corner of his eye.
Zhou Jin was defeated, and it seemed that he was defeated quite miserably, Wang Tang could not say that he was gloating, but he might not be able to feel the same hatred for the enemy.
Because although they all followed Pei Gai from Xuzhou, they were Yuan Cong's people, but the army was divided into four battalions at the beginning of its establishment, and they had a strong sense of competition with each other. In addition, the governors of the "Lifeng Battalion" were influenced by Liu Yetang, and they were generally cautious in their use of troops, unlike the "robbery" battalions, most of them liked to rush and fight. The so-called "good fighters have no outstanding achievements", generals like Liu Yetang are not visible, not dewy, not easy to win, but they will not be defeated, Zhen Suiliu is generally disdainful - although Wang Tang is in "Pengshan", in fact, in terms of personal temperament and military style, it is quite similar to Zhen Sui, and even more "robbing fire" than Wang Ze and Xie Fenglai, so how can he get close to Zhou Jin?
Pei should have traveled all the way from Xuzhou, the tide has risen, and the brave have not encountered a big defeat, but now it is the cautious who suffer first, so in Wang Tang's view, this is a matter of course. In what year and month will it take for Hu Kou to be wiped out in a way like yours? If I were to be in Xiayang City, I would inevitably lead the soldiers and rush into the Hu Array - anyway, with the outnumbered enemy, the city would definitely not be able to hold it, so it was better to survive in the death, maybe I would be able to take the risk and succeed.
Even if you fail, you won't run back like you. If I had changed places, I would have committed suicide a long time ago, how could I expose my ugliness to my colleagues?
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Besides, after Liu Kui and Jin Kang retreated to the west bank of Shangluoshui, they sent people to Pinyang to investigate, but they didn't see the Jin army out of the city - this is why I don't want to be fooled, so the Jin people who set up an ambush last night have all retreated, right? The second general couldn't help but hesitate. Immediately, I heard that "Liangzhou Dama" had the intention of copying the back road of the army, and quickly retracted back to the east bank of Shangluoshui.
Returning to Liu Can, Liu Cang couldn't help frowning, and said: "Guo Mo is really cunning...... "I was thinking about what else I had, and suddenly the soldiers came to report that there was a beacon fire burning at the head of the city of Haoyang!"
Liu Cang couldn't help but be overjoyed: "It must be Pei who is not patient to defend for a long time, and beckons all the troops to come to the rescue." I expect Guo Mo to see this, and he won't dare not move! "Calculating the itinerary, Feng Yi's Jin people will be able to reach the vicinity of Haoyang in less than two days, and Pinyang is a little farther away, and it is estimated that it will take three days. So he assigned the generals, inside and outside, to take strict precautions, and to be ready to go out at any time to besiege the Jin army that came to the rescue.
He was originally secretly transferred, but Tao Kan had been in battle for a long time and had rich experience, and soon found out the truth in the city, and came back to report to Pei Gai and said: "Liu Cangguo wants to besiege Haoyang and fight for my help." Then he smiled faintly and said: "It's too late to start plotting today - the fighter plane has arrived, and Hu Kou will be defeated!" ”
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