Chapter 317: The First Achievement of Taishi
Fifteen days later, Lu Suqin, commander of the Third Field Corps, led 60,000 troops, including the 11th Infantry Division, the Marine Division of the Navy, the Second Fleet of the Navy, the 3rd Independent Cavalry Brigade, and the 1st Independent Brigade of the Navy, to Danyang.
The army was slightly trimmed, two days later, the army was divided into two routes, attacking Wu County from the east and west directions, and the east route was led by Gan Ning, including the first fleet of the navy and the two elites of the first independent brigade of the navy, tracing down the river, landing in Qu'a, and re-attacking Biling and Wuxi after capturing Qu'a, and reaching Wu County directly; The Western Route Army was led by Lu Su, including the Second Fleet of the Navy, the Marine Division of the Navy, and the Eleventh Infantry Division, which went straight to Taihu Lake by boat, and then the Eleventh Infantry Division landed on the south side of Taihu Lake to capture Wucheng, and the Second Fleet of the Navy and the Marine Division of the Navy sailed straight to Wu County, landed in Wu County, and joined forces with Gan Ning to uproot Yan Baihu. The 3rd Independent Cavalry Brigade remained in Danyang, on the one hand to deter Liu Xuan, and on the other hand to guard against Yuan Shu on the other side of the river.
Yan Baihu only has more than 10,000 rabble in his hands, why does Lu Su need to move his army so vigorously and attack on both sides with an army of 70,000? This is really too much to lift Yan Baihu! In fact, Lu Su's move was not for Yan Baihu, but for another reason. Stationed in Yuzhang for several years, Lu Su is already familiar with the situation in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, although the strength of the three counties in the south of the Yangtze River is not enough, if he only defeats the enemy and retreats, he only needs 20,000 elite soldiers to sweep the three counties, but if you want to incorporate the three counties into the territory of Shu, then after defeating the three enemies Taishou, the trouble has just begun. Originally from the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Pan Lin, Peng Shi, Fei Zhan, Shi Dan and others rose up, occupy the mountain as the king, the history books call these separatist forces collectively called Shanyue, and the powerful in Shanyue is known as Yan Baihu, the king of Eastern Wu De, most of these people take the mountain as their home, usually their whereabouts are erratic, and after the food in the mountain is exhausted, they will rush out of the cottage to rob the house everywhere, which greatly endangers the safety of the lives and property of the people everywhere. In line with Liu Zhang's principle that the outside must first be at home, Lu Su raised an army and prepared to solve the problem of Shanyue immediately after solving Yan Baihu and Wang Lang.
Gan Ning landed in Qu'a without the slightest resistance, Yan Baihu appointed the county commander of Qu'a called Chen Ze, this Chen Ze only has a thousand fish and meat neighbors of the rabble, when Chen Ze saw the mighty Shu army fleet on the river, his face was dark, he endured fear, and said loudly at the head of the city that the city was in the people, and after the city was broken and the people died, he handed over the task of defending the city to one of his subordinates, but he himself went back to the county government to pack up the softness and was ready to run away. This subordinate is not stupid, you ran away and let me take the thunder? Dream on! As a result, when Jiang Qin led a thousand elite soldiers to the city, before he could call for battle, the flag was erected at the head of the city......
Jiang Qin couldn't help but be very depressed, since the establishment of the Marine Division, there has not been a serious battle, just persuaded Gan Ning, who was also eager to fight, and asked Gan Ning to sit in the rear, and he led the troops to attack Qu'a, but it was this result, looking at the slowly opening city gate, I couldn't help but secretly annoyed that the defenders were as timid as mice!
Chen Ze's subordinate saw that Jiang Qin's face was not good, and he couldn't help but worry about his life for some reason, in order to atone for his crimes, he immediately took a group of henchmen to carefully search every place in the city where Chen Ze might be hiding, and finally captured Chen Ze in front of Jiang Qin, looking at Chen Ze's resentful eyes, this former "love general" who caught him with his own hands secretly thought, "It's only to blame you for being unkind, I'm just a tooth for a tooth." ”
It's a pity that these two people didn't escape in the end, and they took dozens of lives, not to mention the two who were otherwise responsible for the crime were publicly executed by Gan Ning on the same day. After the execution of Chen Ze and his henchmen, the people of Qu'a applauded, and the Shu army, as the savior, quickly gained a firm foothold in the city.
The next day, Gan Ning, Jiang Qin, and Tai Shici continued to advance and attacked Piling. The general of Biling is Yan Yu, the brother of Yan Baihu. Although there are only 2,000 people in the city, but I heard that the enemy army that broke through Qu'a reached 30,000 or 40,000 people, but he still had no fear, but took the initiative to lead a thousand men and horses out of the city to meet the attack, intending to give the vanguard of the Shu army a painful blow and frustrate the spirit of the Shu army.
Tai Shi Ci, who was temporarily appointed as a staff officer by Gan Ning, won the position of vanguard from Gan Ning, and led a thousand elite soldiers to take the lead, more than 20 miles away from Piling, and saw a road on the horizon in front of him rushing towards him quickly, Tai Shi Ci couldn't help but be happy in his heart, the new Shu State was eager to justify his name, and he was most worried about the fact that Piling was also the same as Qu A, and directly opened the city to surrender, but he didn't expect the enemy to be bold enough to go out of the city to meet the attack, not to say, on!
Yan Yu also discovered the advance of the Shu army, seeing that there were not many soldiers and horses on the other side, Yan Yu was even more arrogant, and he led a thousand soldiers to rush towards Tai Shici without rectifying the soldiers and horses at all. Yan Baihu's subordinates were originally a group of uncompromising people, at this time, the formation, no, there was no formation anymore, if it weren't for the fact that they were still holding all kinds of weapons in their hands, maybe others would treat them as a group of fleeing people!
Tai Shi Ci is just the opposite, first of all, he is not familiar with the thousand soldiers and horses under his hands, and he does not know much about their combat power; Secondly, this is the first battle he threw into Shu, and the people are so flattering, if there is a problem in this first battle, he will really have no face to see! Because of this, he suppressed his urgency and ordered his soldiers to line up in place to meet the enemy.
Tai Shi Ci gave the order, and a thousand soldiers immediately began to move in an orderly manner, and in the sound of footsteps, the soldiers quickly found their positions in silence and solemnity, and a moment later, a glaive array was formed. As soon as Tai Shi Ci swept away the awe-inspiring soldiers, he immediately knew that this was definitely a well-trained elite army, not to mention that Yan Yu had only a thousand people, even against all the 10,000 rabble under the command of Yan Baihu, he would have the power to fight!
Not long after, Yan Yu led the crowd to rush closer, seeing that the opponent's archers had already put out of the Chen shape, as long as he took another step forward, he would inevitably be attacked by a fierce rain of arrows, Yan Yu immediately ordered the whole army to stop advancing, he didn't want to try whether the arrows of the Shu army were sharp, but he was also more arrogant at the moment, how could the other party make a big fuss, didn't it mean that the other party was afraid of himself? In that case, why should he be afraid?
I saw Yan Yu urging him forward, erecting a long knife and looking at Tai Shici with disdain, and shouted: "I am Yan Yu, the younger brother of King De of Eastern Wu, who are you, why did you commit my brother's land?" ”
Tai Shi Ci snorted coldly: "A grass coward, dare to be the king? My Donglai Taishi Ci was ordered by the King of Shu to crusade against you and other rebellious ministers and thieves, you and other crimes are numerous, and now I see that the righteous master is not tied up, begging my lord to spare his life, but he wants to use his mantis arm as a car? ”
"Hmph, Liu Han has no way, my brother obeys the heavens, occupies the position of the king of Eastern Wude, and in a few days he will lead the righteous army to the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains and establish my Eastern Wu Wannian Kingdom!"
"Foolish people talk about dreams...... Tai Shici didn't say more, and stepped forward: "Yan Yu, dare to fight with me?" ”
Yan Yu laughed and said, "I'm afraid you won't make it? As he spoke, he stepped forward and took Tai Shici's head with a long knife in his hand.
Tai Shici lowered his head to avoid Yan Yu's knife, and after the two horses staggered, he returned the horse pistol and hit Yan Yu's back with one move.
Yan Yu saw that Tai Shi Ci didn't dare to take his knife, and turned his head to mock Tai Shi Ci, but when he saw that the spear in Tai Shi Ci's hand had already stabbed him, he couldn't help but tremble.
Tai Shi Ci missed a shot, there was no different color, and he turned his horse's head and rushed towards Yan Yu again.
Yan Yu's mount had already run away, and when he saw Tai Shi Ci killing, he had to pick up the long knife and fight Tai Shi Ci on foot.
Tai Shi Ci snorted coldly and stabbed Yan Yu in the chest with a shot. Yan Yu, who was born as a bandit, has always thought that it is much more convenient to be down-to-earth than to sit on horseback, but in order to show his identity, he only uses a horse to travel when he goes out. At this time, facing the condescending Tai Shi Ci, he felt a lot more relieved, only to see his footsteps trending, dodging Tai Shi Ci's shot, the long knife waved a cold light, and slashed at the front hooves of Tai Shi Ci's mount.
Tai Shi Ci pulled the reins unhurriedly, stepped off the war horse and immediately took off, Yan Yu could only watch one person and one horse leap over his long knife.
Tai Shi Ci rushed out of the horse for three or four feet, and then pulled the horse's head again, and slowly walked towards Yanyu. Yan Yu crossed his chest and said, "But so, no wonder Liu Miao has always been reluctant to use your ......"
"Hmph......" Tai Shi Ci snorted coldly, and the gun in his hand stabbed Yan Yu three times in the chest like lightning.
Yan Yu gathered his breath and concentrated, and took Tai Shici's move from the left and right. It's a pity that he is not allowed to breathe, the gun in Tai Shi Ci's hand is another sweep of thousands of troops, only to hear the sound of "dang", Yan Yu's strength is not as good as Tai Shi Ci, and just blocked Tai Shi Ci's three consecutive shots has almost reached his limit, his soft arms can't hold the long knife at all, the long knife flew out of his hand, and after rotating twice in the air, the blade went down, piercing deep into the ground. Tai Shici was merciful, put away the gun and stabbed again.
Yan Yu saw the cold and shining spear head stabbing again, instinctively raised his hand to protect his chest, and suddenly felt a heart-rending pain coming from the palm of his right hand and his chest almost at the same time, "Ah......" Yan Yu couldn't help but let out a miserable scream and fell to the ground in an instant, and after a few convulsions, there was no movement.
Between the rabbit and the falcon, the enemy general had already died under Tai Shi Ci's gun, but Tai Shi Ci did not have the slightest sense of pride, he pulled out his bloody spear and pointed it directly at the sky: "Those who abandon their weapons and squat on the ground will not die, and those who resist will not be killed, and they will attack ......."
"Kill ......" the Shu army shouted in unison and rushed towards the enemy army.
The archers on both flanks were at the forefront of the Glaive Formation, and as a long-range force, they only took a few steps forward to bring the enemy into the attack, and in an instant, a rain of arrows fell on the bewildered enemy.
"Ah......" Not only did the enemy fall to the ground with arrows, but the crowd resounded with endless screams.
After the archers had five arrows, the melee soldiers led by Tai Shici had already torn apart with the enemy, and the archers did not need to be ordered, and immediately scattered in all directions, besieging the enemy army.
It was a group of rabble, and it was even more unbearable after Yan Yu's death, Tai Shi Ci took the lead, and a few charges completely disintegrated the fighting spirit of the enemy army, and the enemy troops who wanted to save their lives threw their weapons far away, and lay on the ground with five bodies.
After Tai Shici ordered the battlefield to be cleaned, he escorted the prisoners and carried Yan Yu's body to Piling.