At this time, the two battalions of "Wulin" and "Pengshan" that had been killed from the north and south gates had also arrived at the battlefield, and the advantages of the Jin army were further strengthened. Of the seven forts in the west of Chenggao City, four of them have been easy to defend, only Tianshu, Kaiyang and Shaoguang are still resisting, but Liu Xun has cut off the flag, and the morale of the defenders has plummeted, and it is estimated that it is only a matter of time before they are broken. After Pei Gai received the report, when he and Tao Kan urged their horses forward, they entered the nearest Tianji Castle.

I saw that there were still many raging fires outside the fort, still burning fiercely - the fires that were extinguished in those places, half of them were crushed by corpses - the fort was full of the remains of Hu soldiers, all of them were naked, and there were many Hu soldiers lying in the corner with their heads in their hands, surrounded by Xuzhou soldiers with swords and spears.

Let's say that when the plan was made at dusk, Wang Ze asked: "If the fort is broken today, if Hu soldiers surrender, will they accept it or not?" Zhen immediately shouted: "What is the surrender, you can kill it all!" But then he wrinkled his brows again: "Wait, leave a few hundred, so that the governor can splash blood to paint my fire flag!" ”

Pei Wei shook his head: "If you don't surrender, you will inevitably be trapped in the beast and fight, which will increase the casualties of our army." If there is a surrender, it will be temporarily accepted, and in the future it will be a hanging, and then it will be decided by the envoy. ”

Although Liu Xun's Hu army was elite, after all, most of the soldiers only ate food for food and clothing, and did not have a very clear sense of family and country. According to post-war statistics, only 30 percent of those who died of stubborn resistance were killed, and 70 percent of them either left or surrendered.

This is also the norm of the feudal army in this era, the Jin people are like this, and the Hu people are not necessarily able to be more loyal and brave.

Let's say that Pei Gai and Tao Kan got off their horses, walked into the Tianji Castle, climbed to the top of the mountain, and looked south from afar together. Sure enough, on the horizon, at the bottom of the dark sky curtain, three bright stars faintly flickered. Of course, it is not a star, the star will not be so red, and it will not fall to the ground for no reason, it is the beacon fire that ignited in the Yuzhou Army's Bixi Fort.

According to the prior agreement, if there is nothing to do in the south, there will be a smoke during the day and a fire at night; If there are three smokes or three fires, it means that Liu Cang's main force has moved and is heading in the direction of Yangcheng Mountain. Pei Cai couldn't help but be overjoyed, lifted the bamboo cane in his hand and knocked on the fort wall, and said repeatedly: "Count the sale, count the sale!" Tao Kan arched his hand beside him: "Congratulations to the envoy - when the day is bright, our army should take Gongxian County in a hurry according to the previous decision." ”

Pei Gai smiled: "Why bother with Tianming." "Immediately ordered the herald, saying that you should hurry up and find the "Lifeng Battalion" of Liu Yetang's headquarters who came down from Chenggao Pass overnight to help, and ordered him not to come to the battlefield, but to go west directly to attack Gong County.

After the order was completed, I looked around, only to see that the remnants of the three forts had also fallen one after another, and the Xuzhou soldiers held torches high, shouting and screaming, searching for the remaining Hu soldiers everywhere on the battlefield. Pei Gai couldn't help but feel proud in his heart - this is the first battle I won against the enemy Hu Army!

You must know that in the previous battle of Gutter Water, before Pei Cai arrived at the battlefield, Liu Yi and Liu Dan fled in the wilderness, Pei Gai always felt that the victory was a bit false, at least he couldn't say how much credit he had...... This time it was different, although the Hu army was only 3,000 people, and his own side was more than three times as large - more than twice as many directly participated in the battle - plus the surprise attack, the victory was expected, but after all, the battle situation was always under his own control.

couldn't help but point the bamboo stick to the west, and chanted loudly: "The Big Dipper is high, Chief Hu fled at night, and wanted to chase away the light horseman, the big ......" He plagiarized the third song of Lu Lun's "Shooting with Zhang Servants" in the Tang Dynasty, but the first sentence should have been "The moon black goose flies high", because he was in the Seven Star Castle, so he naturally grafted the first sentence of the folk song "Geshu Song". In fact, at this moment, the moon and stars are scarce, and the Beidou in the sky is fixed, but it is basically not seen, but the seven stars in the ground are compared to the seven stars in the sky, which is also suitable for the situation. It's just that the last sentence was originally "heavy snow full of bow knives", the question is where does the snow come from here?

Pei Gai choked on this, and when he glanced sideways, he saw Tao Kan looking at him with interest, probably waiting for him to finish reciting the whole poem. Pei Gai's head swirled repeatedly, after all, there was no poetic talent, and he had to ponder for a long time before he finally continued-"The moonlight is full of bow knives." ”

Tao Kan stroked his palms and praised: "Wonderful, it's poetry." ”

Pei Caixin said that it's just you, if you change someone who is better educated than you, you must just smile and be silent - is this poem good? It's really a tiger's head, but it's a pity that the snake tail, the word "moonlight", even I feel vulgar......

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Liu Cang first pushed the camp from the foot of Shouyang Mountain to Yanshi. Although the location of the camp was very good, it could only take a defensive position, which was equivalent to putting the entire Henan Plain and letting the Jin army gallop vertically and horizontally, and once the Jin army successfully captured Yanshi and Gongxian, the Han army would completely lose the initiative.

Liu Cang's situation at this time is a bit like Sima Yi in Longshang, although he defends with his fortification, deep ditches and high bases, he can be undefeated, and wait for the enemy's army to retreat when his food is exhausted, as far as the art of war is concerned, it is really the best policy. If the problem is like this, he will be ridiculed for cowardice, Sima Zhongda is used to it, he can not care, he Liu Cang and Liu Shiguang are dignified Hu Han Xiangguo and Da Dan Yu, but he will never dare to make this decision.

Previously, Liu Yi was defeated, and Liu Cang was overjoyed, so he wanted to take this opportunity to completely knock down the imperial brother. If he can't stay now, how can he show the difference between him and Liu Yi? If he can only force the Jin people to retreat, and after a year and a half, they will come to harass again, what face does he Liu Shiguang have to go back and grab the position of prince?

Besides, although this is similar to Sima Yi's in Longshang, it is not the same, because the Jin army's transportation route is much more convenient than that of Shu Han out of Hanzhong, in case they can solve the problem in the rear, and the grain will be transported in a few days, and it will be difficult to avoid a long-term hard battle. If you don't take advantage of this opportunity, the Jin people will be overstretched, and the opportunity of low morale will inevitably break it, or at least hit it hard, maybe you won't get such a good opportunity in the future.

Therefore, Liu Cang will inevitably not be able to stay at the foot of Shouyang Mountain for a long time, and he will purely take the defensive. Of course, Pei should not be left aside for the time being, Zu Ti's Yuzhou army is said to have 30,000 or 40,000 people, while Liu Can's headquarters only has 20,000, which is inferior in numbers. However, Liu Cang had seen a battle with Zu Li, and knew that the Zujia army only had six or seven thousand people in the headquarters who could endure hard fighting, and the other temporarily requisitioned dock fort forces could only follow up and fight some tailwind battles, and the combat effectiveness was really difficult to guarantee. Liu Cang's relatives who crossed from Mengjin to the south this time were all the elite of the Xiongnu headquarters, and he always regarded himself very highly, and felt that he had a great opportunity to face the enemy head-on and defeat Zu Li.

Of course, we must also send someone to Hongnong to urge Hu Yanyan to come to help quickly, so as not to make a careless move, because the number of soldiers is insufficient and it is difficult to achieve all the success.

Liu Cang sent Liu Xun to lead 3,000 cavalry to try to attack Chenggao, and sent Liu Ya to lead 7,000 men to advance into Yanshou City to get a glimpse of the movements of the Yuzhou army - once the Yuzhou army had the intention of coming to the north, it would go east to stop it. He himself was in Yanshi, and ordered people to build more pontoon bridges on Yishui, ready to reinforce Liu Ya at any time.

First of all, he was rewarded by Liu Xun, saying that the Xuzhou army had given up the unfinished fort outside the city and retreated to the city, and was clearly depressed and did not dare to resist the enemy. Liu Cang waited for news from Liu Ya, but did not see any movement of the Yuzhou army, and Liu Xun's second letter came again, saying that I almost broke through Chenggao and asked for reinforcements.

Liu Cang immediately replied, saying that if you think Cheng Gao can attack, he will attack, and if he can't attack, he will block it outside the city for me, and he will not let the Xuzhou army go south to meet Zu Ti - I can't send reinforcements, I have sent 3,000 to help defend Mengjin, and I don't have many soldiers and horses at hand now. Immediately, he left Yanshi, crossed Yishui, and joined Liu Ya to invite Zu Li.

After this transfer, when the news reached the foothills of Yangcheng Mountain, Zu Ti quickly ordered the dock fort in the west of the city to light a beacon fire to remind Pei Gai that as soon as he came and went, it was late at night on the second day of Liu Xun's attack on Chenggao. Just as Pei Gai took the Seven Star Castle, the news was smoothly conveyed to Cheng Gao through the beacon fire.

Pei Gai couldn't help but look up to the sky and sighed: "The reason why this day blesses me is China, and the luck of Hu is also eliminated!" ”

He didn't believe in ghosts and gods, and believed that the current situation was in people's hearts and not in the destiny of heaven, but once he traveled back, many of his past ideas were shaken because of this, and he always felt that there was a deep meaning in the underworld...... Heaven sent me to this world to reverse the history of hundreds of years of blood and fire in China! It doesn't matter whether this so-called "Heaven" is conscious or unconscious.

So he immediately ordered the whole army to march west to fight Gong County.

The first was the "strong wind" three battalions led by Liu Yetang, they came down from Chenggao Pass, and before they arrived outside Chenggao City, they received the general order, so they turned to the southwest, crossed Yishui, and took Gongxian directly. After arriving at the city, he first set up a camp, cut down trees, built attack tools, and at the same time sent people to shoot archery books into the city and demand that the other side surrender.

Unfortunately, the letter was lost and no reply was received.

The Hu and Han regimes had ravaged Henan before, besieged Luoyang, burned, killed and looted everywhere, and did all kinds of evil, so they did not think about consolidating the occupied territory - because from the Han lord Liu Cong and below, they all delusionally thought that as long as they captured Emperor Huai of Jin, the world would naturally be at their fingertips, and it would not be too late to send people to receive the cities at that time. Therefore, when the Jin army arrived, there were only about 1,000 defenders in the famous cities of Henan, and half of the local armed forces were also in Thailand, and they only temporarily accepted the title of Hu Han.

As a result, Pei's army entered the Gao Pass, and the Chenggao guards immediately opened the city to welcome the surrender. It's just that the situation at this time is different from that time, Liu Yi's army was defeated that day, and after abandoning Chenggao Pass, he didn't even dare to enter Chenggao City, so he fled from the suburbs, and then the Jin army covered the sun with a banner and appeared on the horizon...... How dare Cheng Gao guard the heart to resist?

However, after Liu Cang led his army to cross the Yellow River in the south, he sent generals to Yanshi, Gongxian and other cities to take over the defense, and the thick dark clouds that originally hung over Henan became even more turbid. The strength and weakness, and even the strength of victory and defeat, are not something that those fierce and inward-looking local snakes can see clearly, they only see that the Hu and Han armies are large, and most of them are cavalry, well-equipped, and their morale is high—of course, compared to themselves—all of them are terrified. Now, although the Jin army has been killed from the east, it seems that there are only thousands of people, and although Liu Cang's main force has gone south to Yanshou City, it is only more than forty miles away, and reinforcements are coming quickly, in this case, how can there be any reason to surrender?

Besides, at this moment, the defenders in the city were replaced by Hu generals, although he only led into the city a dozen horsemen, and it was not something that the old defenders with low organizational strength dared to disobey.

Gong County's refusal to surrender was also expected, and Liu Yetang was not in a hurry. He rested under the city for the night, and only the next morning did he want to attack, and Pei Gai arrived with a large army.

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Why did Pei Gai come so late? The battle of the Seven Star Fort under Chenggao City was only a little more than an hour, and it was not much time to delay, and the problem was that after the war, it was necessary to clean up the battlefield and arrange for the aftermath, plus the soldiers had been fighting for a long time, and they were all tired, and it was impossible to let them hurry by moonlight.

The only cavalry led by Wen Lang who really "moonlit with bows and knives" was Wen Lang, who went out for more than 30 miles, searched and killed many fleeing Hu soldiers and Hu generals on the road, and won more than 10 heads - according to Xuzhou Military Law, only generals who command more than 100 people are eligible to be cut off to repay their merits - but unfortunately they failed to hold Liu Xun. When Wen Lang returned to the vicinity of the Seven Star Fort, he saw that the battlefield had been basically cleaned, and Pei Yuanjun was sitting in front of the Tianquan Fort, surrounded by dense torches shining like day.

Pei is in the process of accepting prisoners.

Liu Xun's Hu army of 3,000 people was lost more than one in the two-day siege battle, and the remaining thirty percent were killed in battle, and two percent escaped—it was difficult to distinguish the direction in the dark night, and many of them directly hit the knife edges of the second battalions of "Wulin" and "Pengshan"—and nearly forty percent were taken prisoner. Although for those who were missing arms and legs among the captives, or who were seriously injured and dying, Wang Ze and other generals ordered to be cut directly - "With such a shape, how can it be presented to the governor?" In the end, there were thousands of people who were escorted to Pei Gai and Tao Kan.

These generals and soldiers all tied their hands behind their backs, and were tied into a string with ropes, no longer arrogant and domineering in the past, and they hung their heads one by one, just like little beasts shrunk and shivering in the grass in the winter night. In front of De Pei Gai, the escorted Xuzhou army shouted in unison, and the captives fell to their knees one after another - a few who were slower to move were inevitably beaten with spears and knives, and were beaten with blue noses and swollen faces. Pei Gai's face was gloomy, and he slowly glanced at these captives, and then shouted:

"Your ancestors originally lived in the grassland desert, because of the internal dumping, five orders in disputes, Hu Han evil began to lead your ancestors into China. China has given you land, allowed you to work for food, and regarded you as its people, how can you not be grateful for virtue and follow Liu's rebellion? Now it's in my hands, still want to live?! ”

The captives kowtowed like garlic and begged for forgiveness. Pei Gai looked at a Hu man and asked, "Why don't you worship, but want to die?" The Hu man seemed to have some identity, and immediately replied with a stiff neck: "If the king is defeated, if the king allows me to live, we will serve the king, if not, don't humiliate, give a happy knife." Shall you live and live? ”

Pei Gai smiled slightly: "Well said, so you will do what you want." Immediately, with a wave of his hand, dozens of Xuzhou soldiers jumped out, and they all raised their knives and fell, including this person, those Hu soldiers who refused to beg for mercy were slashed to the ground.

This was a pre-negotiated drama, but Wang Ze was also deliberately mixed in it, slashed over a Hu soldier with a knife, and then took out a lacquer cup from his arms, and took a full cup of plasma from the cavity, and returned to Pei Gai's side diligently. Pei Cai couldn't help but glance at him: "What does Qing want to do?" ”

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