Volume 4 Enthronement Chapter 25 Runan Rebellion (continued)
In a few months, Adou led the Seven Guards to sweep away the entire nine tuntian formations in Runan, and indirectly killed more than 20,000 tuntian soldiers, of course, most of these tuntian soldiers became deserters. (*UC e-book*Chinese Net*Overspeed update latest chapter*) However, there are more than 100 tuntian military camps in Runan, and there are 300,000 tuntian soldiers, so the loss of nine tuntian barracks is just a cause of some chaos for the tuntian soldiers in Runan, and it does not hurt the fundamentals.
But in half a month, 40,000 or 50,000 people were gathered for Adou, and since Song Jiaji's first battle, there were more than 10,000 bandits following Adou, and Adou also ordered to slow down the march, leading this group of bandits to attack the next camp of the Tun army, all the way down, there were more than 40,000 bandits and robbers gathered around the Seven Guards.
Shan Zai tasted the sweetness in the battle of Song Jiaji, and all the bandits who charged with Adou Qisha Guard were given food, and those who were far away and did not charge together were not distributed.
When attacking Song Jiaji, the losses of the bandits were not very large, and in the face of the mighty attack of more than 10,000 people, the Tuntian soldiers did not resist much at all, especially after the death of the captain, the Tuntian soldiers quickly gave up resistance and fled in all directions. During the entire battle, the bandits who charged with them lost only more than a hundred people.
For those bandits who rushed to the front, Adou not only gave them a lot of food, but also gave them weapons and armor.
For these bandits, who usually only rely on farm tools to fight, it is already a very happy thing to be able to use knives, guns and armor. Because of the weapons and armor, the chances of surviving on the battlefield are several times greater, even if it is a robbery in the future, the confidence is much more.
Only those who rushed behind, with armor and blades, but also food. Because these people rushed to the rear, many of them ended the battle without touching the battlefield. It can be said that they just followed and got several days' rations. This makes these bandits now, it turns out that it is not a dangerous thing to fight with the Seven Evil Guards, as long as they follow and rush, they can get food.
When you get weapons and armor, people will naturally show off, even the most ordinary knives, guns and leather armor will make those who don't have them envious fiercely. In the eyes of these bandits, this simple set of infantry equipment is also very valuable. Some people even regret that if they had known that there were weapons and armor in front of them, they would have run faster in the first place.
As for the people who did not follow the charge of Songjiazhuang, they were full of regret, seeing that people were eating hot food, holding blades in their hands, and wearing armor, while they could only watch from the sidelines, those who did not charge with them were very unhappy in their hearts.
So when attacking the camp of the next army, the bandits fought bravely for the first place, for fear that they would run to the back and lose what they would get. There were more of them, and they were still very imposing when they charged, so in the next few days, the battle went very smoothly, and almost a simple charge could kill a military camp.
People are always inert, those Tun get up early and greedy all year round, only to be able to get two meals of porridge, and then look at this gang of bandits, only need to simply fight, you can eat dry food, many Tuntian soldiers are present, it turns out that being a robber is easier than being a Tuntian soldier, and can also eat and drink well, many Tuntian soldiers after escaping from the Tuntian barracks, but turned around and joined the team of bandits. lived a good life robbing the barracks.
In just a few days, this gang of bandits and the astonishing speed swelled, this Runan lacked soldiers and food, but there was no shortage of bandits and robbers, if it was in peacetime, it would take a lot of effort to recruit forty or fifty thousand people, but now, the bandits organized themselves, and soon reached fifty thousand.
With more and more people, all kinds of problems have appeared one after another, more and more people, where there are people, there are contradictions, these bandits are not regular soldiers, their temperament is more than one wild, not to mention that there is no restraint of military discipline, there are contradictions, many people choose to solve them by force, so within a few days, vicious brawls have occurred repeatedly, and several lives have occurred. If it weren't for the fierce god Niu Dameng who shook these bandits, Kong would have had a large-scale fight.
On the other hand, the per capita food can be distributed less, originally captured a Tuntian military camp, one person can be divided into a month's rations, but now only a few days of rations, which makes many thieves feel dissatisfied.
Adou also understands that so many bandits seem to be very powerful, but in fact they are all rabble. Now that we have been fighting a good fight, and the loss is not large, everyone will gather together, and it will be relatively harmonious, and if there is any setback, the people will definitely be disheartened, and then these rabble will become trouble.
Judging from the current situation, Runan has not yet been chaotic to the point that Adou hopes, but it is only his own group of people who are making trouble, when will the huge Runan be able to really mess up.
If it were time, Adou might have selected these bandits and trained them, but now that time was too late, Cao Cao should return to Xudu soon, so Adou would not be able to spare time to train the bandits.
So Adou immediately ordered Xiang Fei to divide the bandits into several groups and let them go out to attack the camp by themselves.
Xiang Fei followed Adou's instructions and specially selected some well-equipped robbers and sent them out, and the equipment on these robbers was naturally given to them by Adou, and those who could be equipped were all those robbers who fought bravely. Xiang Fei asked them to attack the weaker camps by themselves. The supplies seized from the attack on the cantonment camp were distributed by themselves.
These bandits and the Seven Evil Guards were already a little unhappy when they saw that the food they could get was getting less and less, and now they were dispatched, and they couldn't ask for it. In the past, everyone had no equipment and a small number of people, so they naturally didn't dare to trouble the tunjun camp. But now that so many people have finally gathered, and the equipment is also available, in the face of the Tuntian soldiers, the bandits are stunned.
What's more important is that you can keep the things you grab, instead of waiting for others to share them with you. It's always good to be able to make your own decisions, and when there are fewer people after the distribution, the things that can be divided will be much more behind the Seven Guards.
These bandits really did not disappoint Adou, although this group of bandits gathered together or six or seven thousand, or more than 10,000 together, and began to attack the nearby Tuntian army camp, and some of the most vicious bandits did not even let go of the villages in Mintundi, after all, it was much easier to attack Mintun villages than to attack the military camp.
Within a few days, both the military and the people within a radius of 200 miles were sacked by this gang of bandits. At this time, the deeds of the Seven Guards also spread to other places in Runan.
The predecessor of the guard was originally the bandit of the crested village, and this crested village was used as . One of the three bandits, he is still very famous. When the news of the Seven Guards breaking through the camp of Cao's army reached the eastern part of Runan, the other two bandits finally couldn't sit still.
These two great bandits are not as well-armed as Crested Village, but they are superior in numbers. When the Seven Guards broke through several large camps in the western part of Runan, their reputation gradually spread, which made the bandits in other places feel that there was a huge benefit here. For the robbers, the only thing that restricts their development is food, even if it is exterminated by the Cao army, but in a place like Runan, as long as there is food, they can pull up tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in a very short time.
In the past, these robbers took care of Cao's forces, and no one dared to attack Cao's Tuntian army camp, mainly because they were afraid that Cao Cao would send an army to retaliate, but now that Adou is the leader, everyone's care is much less.
In the eastern part of Runan, the first difficult is Qinglongzhai, which is one of the three major robbers in Runan with Fengtou Village. Qinglongzhai sent more than 7,000 people to attack a large camp of the Tuntian army with lightning speed, and seized all the grain and grass inside.
Next, other bandits also began to send troops to attack the nearby Tuntian military camp. In the eyes of the bandits, if there is a advantage, they will naturally take advantage of it, and if it is too late, this benefit will be taken by others. When encountering a large number of Tuntian army camps, then four or five groups of bandits or even a dozen bandits gathered together to attack.
In just one month, the smoke of Runan was everywhere, and the military and people's tuns in various places were attacked by bandits one after another, and the bandits' attacks caused a large number of deserters and homeless people, who had no way to make a living, and finally became bandits and robbers. In such a vicious circle, except for some places that are relatively close to the cities, ninety percent of the Bingtun and Mintun in Runan have been attacked to varying degrees.
There is a saying that when the water is clear, there is no fish, and after a month of rage, the bandits and robbers in Runan suddenly appeared that they had nothing to rob. Everywhere in Runan that could be robbed, everyone robbed it, and many people who had lost their homes became new robbers in order to survive, which made the scale of robbers bigger and bigger, and the number of robbers increased, but there were fewer and fewer places to grab food.
Finally, both the military and the people have robbed the mighty bandit army, but the robbers are still expanding, the largest group has gathered 80,000 people, in order to survive, these robbers finally aimed at the nearby city.
Generally speaking, the bandits of Runan will not go to trouble the city, and there are county soldiers stationed in this city, even the smallest county town, there are one or two hundred county soldiers to guard. The bandits had no equipment or siege weapons, and they could only sigh in the face of the city wall, so the bandits had never attacked the city before.
But now it is different that hundreds of thousands of robbers suddenly appeared in the whole Runan for more than half a month, and it is still increasing, and the robbers have no food, so they have to choose to take risks and attack the city.
The first city to be attacked was a small county town with only 10,000 people, and there were less than 200 county soldiers in the small county. However, there were only more than 2,000 robbers who came to attack. It stands to reason that it should not be very difficult to attack the city with ten times the number of troops, but this gang of robbers came without even bringing siege weapons, and as a result, facing the tall city walls, the consequences can be imagined.
The robbers attacked the city as if it were a barracks, and a large crowd rushed up and slashed at the gate with their swords, the thickness of which could not be easily broken. The soldiers defending the city threw large stones, fire oil and other sharp weapons to defend the city, and those soldiers who were still cutting the city gate suffered countless casualties, leaving a corpse and retreated.
The combat effectiveness of the county soldiers stationed in various places of the Cao army is still relatively good, after all, they are professional soldiers, with complete weapons and equipment, and the training is also up to date, so a county soldier can often fight against three or four bandits without equipment at the same time, if it is in a large-scale battle, the cooperation between the county soldiers and the infantry formation, is not possessed by the robbers, so the less than two hundred robbers easily held this small county town, and the robbers could not break through the city gate after attacking for three days, so they had to retreat.
Although the robbers did not capture this small county, but it opened the prelude to the robbers attacking the county, in the following days, robbers from all over the country began to attack some small cities, as time went by, there were more and more robbers in the siege area, and the techniques became more and more mature, from the beginning of the only use of knives to cut the city gate, to later hit the city gate with a giant tree, and then to later make a long ladder from the attack on the city wall, the robbers gradually grew up, although this growth was accompanied by huge casualties, but it is precisely because of this growth, It made it more and more difficult for Cao Cao's county soldiers to defend the city.
In the past, the robbers would only attack the city gate, at that time there was basically no scene of hand-to-hand combat, the county soldiers only needed to send people to resist the city gate to defend the city wall, and then the bow and arrow boulder beckoned to the city, such a battle, the county soldiers in addition to consuming some supplies, there would be no casualties among the soldiers at all.
But later, he built a long ladder and began to attack the city wall, and once the time came to the city wall, there would definitely be casualties. In comparison, there are as many robbers as a cow, and there are far fewer county soldiers, so even if one county soldier goes to exchange five robbers, Cao Jun will lose.
Eventually, a group of robbers managed to capture a city. Although it is only a small county town, it makes the robbers full of brains.
The materials in the city are naturally much more abundant than those in the barracks, and the first thing the robbers who captured the city after rushing into the city is to rob everywhere, and the robbers are all poor and crazy, and they rob everything they see, whether it is food, livestock, or clothes, bedding, but pots and pans on the stove, and even oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, the robbers are all snatching into their arms.
The defenseless people in the city are unlucky, these robbers will not easily take a city, naturally they will not let go of a little bit of value, and they are even more adulterous and plundering, doing everything, and the slightest resistance of the people will invite trouble.
The stake in the capture of the city is enormous. The robbers not only snatched the much-needed food, but also many other household items.
The first city was captured by bandits was just the beginning, and in the next time, those smaller cities were broken one after another, and with the city being breached, the robbers of Runan also ushered in a big exhibition, and the number of robbers in Runan exploded to 500,000, among which some people were originally robbers, there were Tuntian soldiers, and there were also Tun people. If you are walking in Runan and you meet a random person on the road, you will seem to have a gangster spirit on you.
As those little cities were breached one after another,
The inhabitants of his city also began to panic, and many of them chose to flee, while those who did not flee were constantly on the lookout for fear that the robbers would attack them.
In contrast, the inhabitants of the big cities will feel a little safer, the walls of the big cities are tall and strong, and there are many garrisons in the city, so they don't have to worry about being attacked by bandits, but the inhabitants of some small cities are terrified, and many of the young and strong people in the cities are organizing themselves to resist the attack of the bandits.
The whole Runan is really in chaos.
Although Adou didn't want to see a large number of casualties of innocent people, in order to be able to make trouble for Cao Cao and cover his escape to Shu, Adou couldn't care so much.
At this time, the Seven Guards quieted down instead, camped in a remote Tuntian military camp, and quietly waited for the opportunity. At the same time, Adou didn't listen to the outside intelligence and waited for Runan's gang of robbers to take a bigger step.
Adou very much hopes that the bandit wind can blow to Yingchuan, and if it can cause chaos in the whole of Yuzhou, it will be even better. But Adou also knew that this was just a luxury, and after calculating the time, Cao Cao should also arrive in Xudu.
Cao was afraid that Cao Zhang would suddenly attack Xudu, so he didn't dare to fight Runan, but once Cao Cao led the main force of Cao's army back to Xudu, then he would inevitably immediately attack Runan to suppress bandits, and then the days of Runan's gang of robbers would come to an end.
But there's a big one in it. According to historical records, Cao Cao fell ill and died a month after returning to Xudu. Judging by the normal situation, Cao Cao's physical condition has been very bad since he returned to Xudu, and his life is in danger at any time. At this time, Cao naturally did not want Cao Cao to send out the army, because once Cao Cao died, the army of Xu Du would be directly taken over by Cao, and the army outside Xu Du would be nominally under Cao's jurisdiction, but it was still a long process to collect military power specifically. There is a saying that the general is outside, and the king's order is not subject to it. This has not yet been grasped in the hands of the local troops, and it is not safe on Cao's side.
The movement of the army is necessary, for example, there are hundreds of thousands of bandits in the south, and Cao Cao needs to send at least 100,000 people if he wants to pacify the south of the country in a short time. The transfer of 100,000 people is not an easy thing to do with a single sentence, it takes a lot of time, if this crusading army has not yet come out or has just reached the middle of the road, Cao Cao will fall ill and die, then it is another situation.
Now all of Adou's will is placed on Xu Du, because Adou doesn't know when Cao Cao will die, so Adou needs to pay attention to Xu Dulai's intelligence to see whether the army of robbers will go out first, or Cao Cao will die of illness first.
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Xu Du.
The chamberlain moved the mountain-high text in front of Cao, Cao frowned when he saw so many documents, and then stepped forward and looked through a few books slightly, all of which were now documents from Runan asking for help.
Cao clenched his fists slightly, in fact, he was also very anxious in his heart, but Cao knew that he had to hold back now.
Sima Yi had already come to report that Cao Cao was in very poor physical condition on the way back from Xiangyang because of the fatigue of the boat. In the past, Cao Cao rode a horse when he went on expeditions, but now Cao Cao is in a car.
Sima Yi once secretly observed that the chamberlain brought food to Cao Cao, and Cao Cao only ate a few bites each time. In Sima Yi's opinion, his health is not good, and he has little to eat, which is a bad omen, according to Sima Yi's judgment, Cao Cao is afraid that it will be difficult to survive this hurdle, even if Cao Cao can survive this time, he will need to recuperate for several years before he can recover. Therefore, Sima Yi sent someone to return to Xudu quickly and informed Cao Zao to make preparations.
Cao sighed softly, that Liu Chan has not been caught yet, Runan is also in a mess, Cao Zhang in the north is even more eyeing, Cao Cao is afraid that his life will not be long, the situation is getting more and more complicated, at this time, if you take a wrong step, I am afraid that you will lose everything.
The so-called more to do more wrong, less to do less wrong, not to do good, not to do anything, although reactive, but also not at fault. Now it's a critical time, and the best choice for Cao Cao is to wait, wait until Cao Cao comes back, and then hand over this matter to Cao Cao to deal with.
Thinking of this, Cao gritted his teeth fiercely, put down the urgent report from Runan in his hand, and walked out.
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The ancient city has always been a small city.
Speaking of which, this ancient city still has some relationship with Liu Bei. At the beginning, Liu Bei's three brothers were scattered by Cao Cao's army, Liu Bei took refuge in Yuan Shao, Guan Yu took refuge in Cao Cao, and Zhang Fei ran to this ancient city, slaughtered the county order of the ancient city, and did the work of robbers. Later, the place where the three brothers reunited was in this ancient city.
At that time, there were only 10,000 people in the ancient city, and after more than ten years of exhibition, the ancient city only reached 30,000 or 40,000 people, and the defenders in the city were only 500.
In ancient times, there were many tuntians in the ancient >, and now, Deng Ai's mother and son live in this ancient city.
Deng Ai is now a bachelor of the Dian Nong Lieutenant, and he can also be regarded as a civil servant under Cao Cao. This pawn farmer lieutenant and the county official are of the same level, and Deng Ai, the pawn farmer lieutenant, is just a minor official.
But it is not easy for Deng Ai to be such a petty official. After all, this Deng Ai was originally just an ordinary tun citizen, and he was able to stand out among tens of thousands of tun people, and it was far more difficult to become a bachelor of the pawn farmer and a lieutenant than the current civil service exam.
At this time, all the people who could be called officials in the land gathered in the county office. Everyone sat there with a sad face and without saying a word.
The small cities in Runan have been breached one after another, and in the past few days, near the ancient city, there have also been scattered small bandits in Youyou.
Everyone knows that this ancient city is probably being targeted! All of today's prefectural ordinances brought everyone together to discuss countermeasures.
But where can these people come up with any countermeasures, looking at this group of people with sad faces, Deng Ai in the corner smiled slightly, these big men are very beautiful on weekdays, but now this enemy has not come, and it is so unbearable.
"My lord, it's not good!" Just then, shouts came from outside......
The text is 6170 words. I am not in a good state today, and I have only finished writing until now, probably because I slept late yesterday and had a slight lack of rest. Speaking of which, I was a little tired yesterday.,Just now.,I didn't write the chapter number in the last chapter.,Mistakes, mistakes.。 Now the gluttonous worm has been thinking about the plot of Adou Vs Deng Ai in his head, but at present, his mind is still half flour and half water. Finally, ask for a recommendation and a commuter pass as usual!