Chapter 44: Cao Ren counter-planned to help Sizhou
In fact, Wang Kuang received Cao Ren's documents, and Cao Ren said that he was reasonable, so he raised troops and left. Wang Kuang no longer guarded the east side, but unexpectedly, Cao Ren's infantry came with a cloud ladder, went directly to the city wall, killed the city and opened the city gate, and the army swarmed in. There was a great chaos in the city, and Wang Kuang's soldiers and horses were attacked on both sides. The ladders are all over the city wall, Pang Tong's army kills on the wall, Pang Tong watched the battle for a while, saw that the city gate had been opened, and ordered to beat the war drums, and the army's offensive was more ferocious.
Wang Kuang's army was attacked from both sides, and he knew that he was not long dead, so he wholeheartedly followed Wang Kuang to continue to resist the enemy, and some picked small roads and alleys, abandoned their weapons and surrendered. Wang Kuang was finally stabbed to death with a single shot, half of the men surrendered, and the rest died in the streets and alleys. Wang Kuang's body was carried to the gate of the city, and after Pang Tong rode a horse, he said, "Bury him." Then he went deep into the city and met Cao Ren, seeing that his face was like the bottom of a pot, his body was straight, and his face was full of tendrils, and he said: "Thank you Lord Cao for helping you in the battle today, otherwise it will be difficult to capture." Cao Ren laughed and said, "That Wang Kuang should have died." Unexpectedly, he sent me a paperwork, so I lied to him to hasten his downfall. ”
After Pang Tong occupied Chaoge City, the whole of Sizhou was under his rule. But just like he once said to his subordinates, Sizhou is the smallest state, how can he be satisfied for a while and forget the size of the world. But he can't be easy yet, Tongguan is still on guard, so Li Ru and Zhang Xiu don't plan to withdraw their troops. Pang Tong and Dian Wei led a hundred horsemen to gallop, and arrived at Tongguan within six days, only to see the smoke of gunpowder everywhere, and just resisted a wave of attacks. Pang Tong went up to the city wall, and Zhao Yun, Gao Shun, and Lu Su all discussed at the head of the wall. Seeing Pang Tong's arrival, all the generals felt a sense of relief. Pang Tong saw everyone: "Why is it all smoke?" ”
Lu Su arched his hand and said: "I ordered the soldiers to chop firewood into bundles and burn them and throw them down." There is a lot of firewood piled up under the wall, and the ladder of the enemy soldiers is not easy to erect, and people dare not approach. Pang Tong nodded and said, "Really take advantage of the geographical advantage." ”
Lu Su shook his head and smiled: "The oil soup has been poured, these two parties are really stubborn." ”
Pang Tong sighed lightly: "It's a pity that I'm here, and they have to leave too." The crowd was puzzled. Pang Tong said: "Half a month at most." If they knew that we had repelled Liu Biao and Zhang Yang, and had easily taken Chaoge City, they would definitely have left. Otherwise, they will be broken by a sudden attack. ”
As Pang Tong expected, six days later, the two sides saw that they still couldn't capture Tongguan, so they pulled out of the village and left. As a result, the three states are all broken.
In late August, Cao Cao broke through Changyi County, Shanyang County, and due to the rebellion of Yuan Yu, the Taishou of Shanyang County, Liu Dai was captured and sent to Cao Cao, and Cao Cao ordered Yuan Yu to continue to defend Shanyang County. Liu Dai scolded Cao Cao when he saw him, and Cao Cao had no choice but to behead him. Cao Cao led the Yanzhou pastor himself, and the imperial court was under his control, so he had to issue an edict to seal his post.
On the other hand, Yuan Shu broke through Lujiang County, and his power grew stronger. And his brother Yuan Shao is still confronting Gongsun Zhan.
At this time, Pang Tong had stationed an army of 150,000 people outside Pingyang County. Under the account, there are Dian Wei, Lu Bu, Lu Su, and Jia Xu in the list. Pang Tong said: "And the territory of Lord Naiding." was taken away by that Yang, and I will definitely get it back this time. ”
Lu Su said: "If you go now, you can still surround his city." ”
Pang Tong raised his hand and said, "Don't worry. I'm waiting for someone. The crowd was puzzled. A few days later, the spies came to the tent and reported: "I have infiltrated the city, and Huang Wei has been missing for more than half a year. ”
Pang Tong was shocked, his hands were full of sweat, and he seemed to have expected something terrible. For a commander-in-chief, it really shouldn't have an expression. But he still ordered the three armies to go north, and six days later they reached the south gate of Hyunshi County, Bingzhou, and the army pressed down to the city. On top of the wall, heads swayed, and crossbowmen stood in a row. Zhang Shou, the general defending the city, actually pushed an old man to the wall. Pang Tong fixed his eyes and saw that it was his mentor Huang Wei.
Pang Tong's teeth trembled, and he kept polishing, and his hand pressed on the hilt of the sword.
Zhang Shou said loudly: "Pang Shiyuan, your master is here, and he hasn't come out to kneel and beg for mercy!" ”
Pang Tong leed his horse forward, reached the front of the military formation, and said loudly: "Zhang Shou, you are just a county order, dare to move my master, I will raze your three clans!" ”
This is perhaps the most hated thing Pang Tong has ever said in his life.
Zhang Shou laughed: "To be an apprentice is to be a son, do you want to see your master die directly in front of you?" ”
Lu Bu came out of the battle holding Fang Tian's halberd, his face was full of anger, and he said: "Dog thief, there is a kind of competition in the lower city!" ”
Huang Wei was old but not weak, and said angrily: "If you want to kill, kill!" ”
Zhang Shouyi threw him off the city wall and smashed him to pieces. Pang Tong gritted his teeth when he saw it, and tears rained down. He pulled out the seven-star sword in his right hand, pointed at the city gate and said, "Kill the past and destroy this unrighteous man!" ”
The army urged and attacked the city directly. However, there are 80,000 guards in the city, which can be regarded as prepared. Pang Tong's army attacked for most of the day without results, so he had to withdraw his troops and go down to the village twenty miles away. Some infantry under his command snatched back Huang Wei's body, and Pang Tong ordered a thick burial. At night, the soldier held a torch, and Pang Tong personally kowtowed in front of the grave, kowtowing a full ninety-nine times, and his head was bleeding, and Dian Wei was moved to see it on one side. Pang Tong got up in front of the grave, looked at the tombstone and said: "One day as a teacher, a lifetime as a father." I Pang Tong has no relatives and no reason here, and Lai De's teacher loves to live so far, and he has this small business. But he hasn't repaid his teacher's kindness, but he has been separated from two lives. I am not filial, for my own great cause, I killed my master, how can I have the face to survive? How do you stand between heaven and earth!? ”
I cried while talking, but I didn't leave, and I was only taken away by Dian Weila when I stood on the fifth watch. Dian Wei sent him to the tent and said, "My lord is the commander of our army, not a single person!" After saying that, Pang Tong woke up and wiped his tears. At this time, Lu Bu opened the curtain and approached, Pang Tong saw that there was blood on his forehead and his eyes were red, so he said: "My great cause has killed my master, does my brother complain about me?" ”
Lu Bu shook his head and said, "The soldiers have been ordered, the second watch can be released, and the virtuous brother will give the order." ”
Pang Tong ordered people to dig a hole ten miles outside the east gate of the city, but this hole did not lead to the city. Instead, he went to a mile outside the city gate and dug a total of three passages. 1,000 people took shovels and dug them from the second watch to the fourth watch, and three holes were opened.
Lu Bu personally went to a hundred people to hook the wall with ropes and quietly went up to the wall. At this time, Dian Wei led 10,000 people to attack the door on the west side, and the crashing car smashed the gate loosely, but due to the boiling oil and water pouring down, all the people in the cart burned to death.
Pang led the soldiers to wait in the passage, and he walked to the outside of the passage to look. Lu Bu quietly climbed up to the top of the wall, with a heart of revenge, and moved forward. When I saw a patrol, I first pretended to be a serious walker. Those people didn't care, and if you looked closely, it wasn't your own family. Lu Bu was already close, the short dagger in his hand was unceremoniously, and the three of them fell to the ground. Others have already shouted. However, due to the danger of Simon's army, not many people heard the shouts here, and only ten guards came. And Lu Bu's men also climbed over the wall. After a fight, all the patrols were killed, and they were about to go down the city wall, when a hundred people from below came up. Lu Bu held the halberd he had just captured, swept left and stabbed right, and the enemy soldiers could not go up, died on the stairs, or rolled down. He and his companions forced this group of guards to the ground, and there were only a dozen people left at this time, and when they saw Lu Bu's bravery, they all fled. Lu Bu opened the city gates.
When Pang Tong saw the city gate open, he immediately led the infantry out of the cave, and three groups of men and horses poured into the city. By the time Zhang Shou noticed the abnormality, more than 10,000 people had already entered the city. Zhang Shou was cunning, and ordered 2,000 people to guard the west wall and 2,000 people to defend against soldiers coming from the east side. He led more than 50,000 soldiers from the north gate.
Its defenders were killed and retreated, and when they saw that the army had abandoned the city and was defeated, they knelt on the ground and begged for mercy. Pang Tong put up a list to calm the people and rectify the people. The next day, he waved his army north, aiming at Jinyang County. He seemed to be in a hurry, and an impulse flowed through his five organs, so that his hatred for that Zhang Yang became more and more profound.
Marching all the way, only four days to reach the city, Pang Tong waved his sword and scolded: "Thief, you must have ordered your subordinates to kill my teacher, and I will not share the sky with you!" ”
He pointed at Zhang Yang on the wall. Zhang Yang pressed his hand against the wall and snorted coldly: "Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, and destroying your nine clans can also be just to make you angry." Pang Shiyuan, you are too tender! ”
Pang Tong pretended to laugh and said, "Come on, there's a kind of fight with me for a while!" ”
Zhang Yang said calmly: "Why do you want me to go up, I'll just wait for you to come." "After all, there were cavalry rushing out of the east and west gates, about 5,000 horsemen each, rushing at the two wings of Pangtong.
Zhang Yang smiled on the wall: "You came from afar, I'll give you a greeting gift." With that, the south gate opened, and all the armed infantry rushed into battle.
The war drums sounded at the head of the wall.
Pang Tong knew that this was to deceive them into coming from afar and being tired from three sides. However, when they moved, Pang Tong had already mobilized the three armies to deal with it, and the cavalry of the Chinese army was scattered to the two wings, and the front army did not move. When the enemy approached from three sides, the war drums thundered, overshadowing the drums on the wall, and the drummers sweated profusely.
The cavalry on the left flank was led by Lu Bu, and the cavalry on the right flank was led by Dian Wei, and they rushed over, and the soldiers and horses of the two sides collided together. In the center of the Chinese army waiting for the enemy, there stood a horse Nai Pang Tong, with an iron sword in his left hand and a seven-star sword in his right hand, waiting steadily for the soldiers who charged.
The cavalry on both flanks was in high spirits, and the enemy soldiers were in disarray. However, the infantry in front of the front, because of the large number of sword-wielding men, was at a great disadvantage in a battle with the spearmen. Seeing this, Pang Tong Mingjin withdrew his troops, and the cavalry on both wings continued to kill Zhang Yang's cavalry, and then killed behind the spearmen in an arc path, and when they didn't have time to reflex, they killed all the way back and kept up with the retreating men.