Chapter 121: Sending Off
In the middle of the first month of the sixth year of Zhongping, the great battle that took place in Hanoi shocked the world. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
At the beginning of the first month, the Kwantung princes raised tens of thousands of troops, with Yuan Shao, the general of the chariot cavalry, as the leader of the alliance, and threatened Luoyang from the southeast and north, but it was only 15 days, and even a few princes had not yet set up camps, and their alliance leader Yuan Shao had been defeated!
The 20,000 soldiers and horses on the North Road, which threatened Luoyang recently and posed the greatest threat to Dong Zhuo, were gone!
Whether it was the Kanto region or the Luoyang court, all the people who were following this battle couldn't help but be shocked by Dong Zhuo's thunderous attack.
After the news came out, the morale of the Kwantung princes was urged!
At the same time, an unknown name shook the upper echelons of Kanto and Rayo!
Zhang Liao Zhang Wenyuan, a native of Yanmen Mayi, was twenty-one years old, led 3,000 soldiers and horses to break Wang Kuang, Cui Jun, and Yuan Shao within three days, and robbed the grain and grass escorted by Jizhou Mu Hanfu, which can be said to have swept the princes of the North Guanbei Road!
However, Zhang Liao's reputation was limited to the upper echelons of the Kwantung princes, and in order to prevent morale from being suppressed, the Kwantung princes kept this battle secretive and did not spread Zhang Liao's name to the outside world.
As for Luoyang, because of the struggle between the two forces under his command and Liang, and Zhang Liao was punished for beating Hu Zhen and was demoted to Sima of another department, Dong Zhuo did not publicize Zhang Liao, and under the advice of Li Ru and Jia Xu, he deliberately hid Zhang Liao, a young general who had not really grown up.
It was because Zhang Liao's reputation did not spread all over the world as expected, and ordinary people still didn't know who he was, and only those upper-class people knew his reputation for being good at fighting.
At this time, Zhang Liao had no time to pay attention to these false names, he was lying dormant in Xiaopingjin and was concentrating on training his cavalry.
After the battle of Heyangjin, Hanoi Taishou Wang Kuang continued to return to Taishan County to recruit troops, Dong Zhuo appointed Zhonglang General Dong Yue as Hanoi Taishou, leading 3,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Hanoi, although the situation in Hanoi is mediocre, there is no danger to defend, but there is a counterpart across the river Mengjin echoes, and now Yuan Shao and Wang Kuang are defeated, Jizhou Mu Hanfu hesitates, Hanoi is empty, and there is no obstacle for a while.
Dong Yue's ability is mediocre, but the key is that he is a member of Dong Zhuo's clan and will not betray Dong Zhuo. After the Kwantung princes raised their troops, Dong Zhuo was now very wary of scholars, so he did not hesitate to appoint his relatives.
Maybe this position was originally Hu Zhen's, but unfortunately Hu Zhen lost this opportunity because he first secretly communicated with the enemy, and then died of greed in Heyangjin.
Hu Zhen can be described as a mistake this time, in fact, he has always been domineering, coupled with his high status, he thought that dealing with Zhang Liao would be easy to capture, but he didn't expect Zhang Liao to be so bold that he didn't follow the routine at all, and directly beat him up, and secretly summoned Dong Zhuo. Hu Zhen was greedy for merit, but he didn't expect that Jia Xu's apprentice could also calculate?
Although Zhang Liao also suffered a loss, it was only because of his impulsiveness, and Hu Zhen obviously suffered a greater loss.
Moreover, Chun Yuqiong, the general of Yuan Shao captured by Zhang Liao in this night attack, was originally detained by Gao Shun alone, and he also took advantage of the chaos to escape because of Hu Zhen's wanton behavior, which made Dong Zhuo even more angry with Hu Zhen.
Dong Zhuo returned to Luoyang on the same day, and the four generals who attacked at night, the governor Wang Fang, were beheaded by Zhang Liao, Dong Zhuo did not make any inquiries afterwards, as if there had never been such a person, Zhang Liao's exploits were enough to cover up a mere Wang Fang.
Sima Fan Chou of the other department went to Mengjin to take office on the same day, while Zhang Liao and Gao Shun returned to Xiaopingjin, Gao Shun did not return to Luoyang, but Zhang Liaoqiang stayed in Xiaopingjin to recuperate.
After Zhang Liao returned to Xiaopingjin, he first went to meet his master Jia Xu, and the two had a secret conversation and distributed the prisoners and war horses. Originally, there were 2,500 soldiers in Xiaopingjin, although there were losses, but with the soldiers captured in the two raids, there were now 6,000 people, and the strength of Xiaopingjin suddenly rose sharply, but because most of them were surrendered, Dong Zhuo did not transfer them, and all of them were handed over to Zhang Liao and Jia Xu for reorganization.
Of the 6,000 soldiers and horses, Zhang Liao led 3,000, including his original 1,500 soldiers and Zhang He's 800 Jizhou soldiers
Jia Xu received 3,000, and as for the more than 4,000 war horses, Jia Xu knew Zhang Liao's thoughts, and forcibly handed him 3,000, leaving only 1,000 for himself.
And several captured generals, Zhang Liao left Zhang He, he felt that he might not always stay under Jia Xu in the next step, considering that the master had no generals, so he left Han Hao to Jia Xu.
Zhang He is young, and has always respected heroes, that day I saw Zhang Liao stand out for Gao Shun, beat up the Zhonglang general Hu Zhen, and even forced the domineering Dong Zhuo, so he lost his post, at that time the shock in his heart and his admiration for Zhang Liao was indescribable, coupled with Zhang Liao's attitude of calling him a brother and a brother and not treating him as a prisoner at all, so that Zhang He, who was already depressed under Han Fu, returned to obedience.
As for Han Hao, his background is better than Zhang Liao and Zhang He, his age is older than Zhang Liao, and his knowledge is wider than Zhang Liao, although he also respects Zhang Liao, but it is not so easy to return to his heart, Zhang Liao handed him over to Jia Xu, for Zhang Liao, there is not much difference between the talent and Jia Xu, and he believes that with Jia Xu's means of imperial people, Han Hao's submission is a matter of time.
As for Guo Tu, Zhang Liao felt a headache when he thought of this person, this is a big scourge, it's a bit unreasonable to kill it, keep it and be afraid of harming yourself, let it go and be a little unwilling, Zhang Liao called it a poisonous chicken rib, and finally he simply locked up this guy first, and slowly thought of a way.
In the early morning of the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, on the school field of Xiaopingjin Guannei, Zhang Liao gathered a group of soldiers, all of whom were his old troops who raided Hanoi this time, including Gao Shun's soldiers and horses, but none of them were captured.
In front of the school field, Jia Xu and Zhang Liao were all there, and even the injured Gao Shun and Fan Chou, who had just arrived in Mengjin to take up their posts, also came, standing on Jia Xu's right side.
There was a solemnity in the field, and all the soldiers present, including Jia Xu, Zhang Liao and Gao Shun, were wearing white cloths on their shoulders, and today they were going to see off the sacrificed soldiers.
This is what Zhang Liao personally asked Jia Xu, the soldiers of other armies who died in battle were generally buried hastily, and even some would not be buried and fed wild dogs and crows, but Zhang Liao demanded that his army must hold a funeral for the sacrificed soldiers! This is not only his attention to life and death from later generations, but also his regret and respect for the dead soldiers.
In this raid, more than 500 soldiers under Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, and Fan Chou died, and their bodies were all transported back and placed on the school grounds at this time.
After Jia Xu signaled, Zhang Liao took a few steps forward, swept past a group of solemn soldiers, and said in a deep voice: "After a few days of fighting, Ben Sima knows that everyone is very tired, and there are still many soldiers who are injured, so we should let everyone rest and recuperate, but we still call everyone over first, because our sacrificial comrades need us to see them off!" ”
The soldiers below were silent, without the slightest noise, for this kind of funeral, it was the first time they had seen it, but there was no doubt that their mood at this time was throbbing inexplicably.