Chapter 615: Those who cut off the grain are ambushed
Jincheng County, the first six years of the Han Dynasty, Yunwu County, the first jurisdiction of six counties, belongs to Liangzhou, later the establishment due to the situation has many changes, so far has been led Yunwu, Zhiyang, Jincheng, Yunjie, Yuzhong, Hao, Lingju, Poqiang, Anyi, Linqiang ten counties, because there are Huangzhong attached to the county of various kinds of Qiang, the number is quite a lot, the strength is not weak, it is also regarded as the key point of Liangzhou.
Of course, the name of Jincheng County benefits from its Jincheng County in the county, which was located in the second year of the former Han Dynasty Yuanzhen, that year, the former Han Dynasty famous general hussar general Huo Quai, crossed the Yellow River twice, and rushed thousands of miles to attack the Xiongnu in the Hexi Corridor, realizing the strategic goal of "breaking the right arm of the Xiongnu". On the way back after Huo Quai's attack on the Xiongnu, he sent a large luggage to build a castle in the area of present-day Xigucheng on the south bank of the Yellow River, and set up a county.
As for the origin of its name, why it is called Jincheng, there are different theories, and there are probably three theories: first, the saying that digging the ground to get gold, legend has it that people "dug the ground to get gold when building the city", so there is the saying of the golden city; Second, the terrain is dangerous, Jincheng is a strategic place since ancient times, is the throat leading to the Hexi Corridor and Qinghai, because one side is the river, the other side is the mountain, the terrain is dangerous, people therefore take the terrain dangerously, solid as the meaning of the golden soup and named "Jincheng"; Third, Jincheng is in the west of Chang'an, the former Han Dynasty, and from the direction of the five elements, the west belongs to Jin, so it is named Jincheng.
Now, as Fuquan led his troops to pull out Jincheng and Yuzhong counties, regardless of his back, he went straight to Yunwu County, and held Han Sui, when the Huangzhong Qiang and Han rebels who were hiding in the west of Jincheng County and evaded the Han army's layers of scouts and control, appeared outside Jincheng County, Yang Ding, the guard of Jincheng County, was suddenly frightened into a cold sweat.
Fortunately, Yang Ding was also experienced in a hundred battles under Dong Zhuo and Fu Quan, and was arranged by Fu Quan to stay in Jincheng County in the rear, so that he could protect the grain road, and he was not careless, and he has been sending troops to martial law.
"The envoy led his troops to attack Jincheng, how did tens of thousands of rebels outside the city come here? Jincheng has few soldiers, how can it be defended? Looking at the outside of Jincheng County, Yang Ding was frightened and said to the left and right, it stands to reason that Fuquan led the main force of the army to confront Han Sui in Jincheng County, even if the rebels sent troops to attack the grain road, there should not be so many soldiers and horses, could it be that the main force of the Han army in Fuquan is dead and can't see that the rebels are missing so many cavalry?
"General, it is imperative to recruit the people, prepare to defend the city, and report to the envoy." Seeing this, the confidant deputy general hurriedly reminded Yang Ding that there were only 2,000 soldiers in the city, most of which were food transport auxiliaries, and if the rebels attacked the city, they could not defend it at all with their troops, so they had to prepare early.
"Exactly! Yes, extremely! Quick, do what you do! ”
Yang Ding quickly ordered the adjutant general to arrange that he would be in the city tower to observe the rebel offensive in response.
However, the rebels saw that the defenders in the city were so cautious, and did not stay under the city for long, originally with their troops, if they attacked the city, they could obviously take it, but for this rebel army, their task was not to break the city, but to cut off the food route of the Han army, and the siege of the city, which was very labor-intensive and time-consuming, was obviously not their first choice.
Therefore, the rebels did not stop outside Jincheng County, but continued to march eastward around the city, going to Jincheng County and Yuzhong County, the vast open plain area in between, looking for the Han army's grain transportation team.
Seeing this, Yang Ding realized that the enemy was not coming towards Jincheng County, and then worried, such a large force of cavalry suddenly appeared in the rear, did not break the city, and cut off the retreat of the main force of the Han army, what was it going to do?
In the East, there will be some twists and turns, but does the envoy who is far away in Jincheng County know?
In fact, Yang Ding's worries are not unreasonable, the Han army is already insufficient, and now the battle line has been lengthened, and the Han army is now not only more lacking in troops, but also has to arrange heavy troops to guard the retreat and grain routes along the road, which is a big burden on the Han army itself, and now a rebel army of tens of thousands of people appears in the rear, which is undoubtedly very dangerous.
The rebels rode swiftly and galloped forward, and after an hour they entered the depths of Jincheng and Yuzhong counties, which were already the hinterland of the enemy, and their luck was good, so they searched a little and found a convoy slowly eastward a few miles to the east, according to the scouts, it was a convoy of hundreds of large carts, with soldiers on the flanks.
Seeing the convoy of the Han army, the leader of the rebel army, Huangzhong Qiang Hu Wuge, judged that this must be the grain cart of the coalition army, the time is urgent, and there can be no delay, so he ordered to lead 5,000 cavalry from the back to attack from the back with the Han deputy general Cheng Gongying, and the Han deputy general Cheng Gongying led 5,000 cavalry to the front of the convoy to block and intercept the fish that slipped through the net.
With the order, the two soldiers and horses went to the front and back of the grain team, and Wu Ge Haojian was in the same place, looking coldly at the Han army food team that was about to become the soul of his army.
Wu Ge good sword, listen to his name is that he is a great nobleman of Huangzhong Qiang, the distant ancestor can even be traced back to the pre-Qin period of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period Huangzhong Qiang general leader Wu Ge sword, Huangzhong Qiang people called slaves Wu Ge, Jian Jian was a slave, and Wu Ge Sword has this name, naturally because he was born as a slave.
When Qin Li was in power, Wuge Sword was captured by the Qin people and used as a slave, learning the more advanced farming technology and animal husbandry experience of the Qin State at that time. Later, Wu Ge Jian took the opportunity to escape and escape from the pursuit, married a woman whose nose had been cut off, and came to the Yellow River, Huangshui, and Datong River to cultivate and raise livestock. The descendants are all over the Liangzhou land, such as the descendants of the Wuge good swordsman, they are all the leaders of the Qiang people in Huangzhong for generations.
The ancestors were born as slaves, and the Qiang people in Huangzhong naturally hated being treated as slaves, which was also the reason for the three previous Han-Qiang wars and repeated rebellions in Huangzhongqiang.
And Wu Ge good sword is like this, he wants to fight with the Han people, he let Huang Zhongqiang become the master of Liangzhou again, this is also the reason why Han Sui seized power at the beginning, he agreed with Han Sui, and led the troops to support it, Beigong Boyu, Li Wenhou and Bian Zhang, those people were all frightened by the Han army, and they didn't have any strength, these people didn't want to fight with the Han army, so they had to die, and change to another person who dared to fight and had a strategy to lead them, and the Han army commander Fu Quan had a lot of Duan Gong style, Wu Ge Hao Jian would not be willing to let the Qiang people experience the killing god of Duan Cheng againFor everything Liangzhou has done, that is not what he and all the Qiang people are willing to see.
When the rebel coalition army was ready to attack the grain transport team before and after, the latter also found the other party, the Han army grain transport team was protected by soldiers, but the number of people was not more than five hundred, and it was more to play the role of guard and protection, driving away thieves and hungry people, and dealing with the rebels, the strength of the regular army was similar to that of the soldiers and horses, especially the elite cavalry of the rebel Qianghu, there was some more than enough strength and insufficient strength.
"Kill!" Seeing that there was a change in the Han army's food team in front, Wu Ge Haojian did not hesitate, and when the soldiers and horses in front and behind were not ready, he led his troops directly into the Han army's grain transportation team, originally wanting to be safer and not let the grain team lose a single person, so that their whereabouts would be exposed in Yuzhong County, but since the Han army found out, in order to avoid the Han army from escaping in advance, he could only attack first.
As far as Wu Ge Haojian is concerned, he deliberately left the scope of Jincheng County and Yunwu County, and did not set up scouts, in order to let the Han army in Yunwu County know the news that their back roads were cut off and the grain route was robbed, causing chaos in the army's mind. And between Jincheng County and Yuzhong County, Wuge Haojian has arranged a lot of scouts, that is, to prevent the news from leaking, to let Yuzhong County know that their army is false, and to arrange reinforcements from Hanyang to ask for help, because the ultimate goal of Wuge Haojian is to occupy either city of Jincheng County and Yuzhong County, and completely occupy the only grain route of the Han army.
The cavalry of the rebel army behind him received the order, and after lighting a lot of torches, they followed the Wuge good sword and charged, it was obvious that they had cut off the enemy's food routes, and they did not intend to take the food with them.
As soon as the enemy attacked, the grain losers who had never experienced the war were terrified, and their bodies were like sifting chaff, shaking non-stop, and some of them were bold, taking advantage of the unpreparedness, and quietly slipped into the night, and there were one and two, and more and more people fled in all directions. At this time, the soldiers of Hanyang County of the Han army had no time to take care of them, in the face of this enemy who did not know where to appear, all they could do was to form a chariot formation, resist desperately, and at the same time send people to ask for help from the nearby army, and quickly come to the rescue, but the rebel cavalry that looked at tens of thousands of people undoubtedly made them a little desperate, in Liangzhou, in addition to the main force of Fuquan, which Han army had such strength to deal with them.
"Boom...... Boom ......" more than 10,000 cavalry galloped in, and the bright fire of the grain convoy was undoubtedly an excellent target in their eyes, and in the darkness, a fierce long arrow came with a roaring sound.
"Uhh......hh Uh-a-ah......"
Although the soldiers of the Han army used the grain cart as a shield, there were still people who were hit by arrows and fell to the ground, screaming one after another, and among them, there were only a few pairs of bows and crossbows, which was undoubtedly a drop in the bucket for the surging rebels. When they came to transport grain money, they never thought that there would be so many rebels in the grain road, and they didn't make too many preparations, if these bows and crossbows were not worried about accidents, they wouldn't have brought them, no thieves, if they brought up equipment, they used grain and grass as cover, in fact, they could resist for a while.
The war progressed rapidly, and the rebels not only rained down arrows, but sometimes torch-bearers threw them onto their carts, setting fire to the grain and grass, and then avoided the grain and grass and waited for it to burn.
At the beginning, the Han soldiers were still able to deal with it, quickly extinguished the fire to prevent the destruction of grain and grass, and the rebel cavalry charged directly, but as the rebel offensive became fierce, the fire was pervasive, and they soon lost the other, and in the end they did not dare to hide in the car formation, so as not to be burned to ashes by the fire.
Seeing the Han soldiers scattering and rushing out, Wu Ge Haojian laughed, in order to preserve his strength, he didn't want to do more unnecessary casualties, so he didn't plan to let Wan Qi step through the grain cart formation together. With the strong attack on the grain cart, relying on the sprinting power of horses and human lives as a price, it is obvious that Wuge Haojian prefers to use the fire generated by burning grain and grass to force the Han army to come out by itself, after all, this not only saves effort, but also saves soldiers.
After the Han soldiers rushed out, they could only choose thieves to break through or fight, and after a while, the shouting and killing stopped, only dozens of wounded Han soldiers, seeing that there was no way to choose, knelt down and surrendered, waiting for the arrival of fate, hoping that they were also Liangzhou people, these people saw that they were just insignificant grain transporters around them once.
Before long, the people who controlled the fate of these dozens of Han troops came straight to the place where the fire was soaring into the sky with a few horses, quietly watching the flames, but it was not immediately clear how to deal with those people.
"Big brother, this matter needs to be concluded quickly, together with the fire, Yuzhong County will send someone to investigate, if you know our military strength, I am afraid that something will happen!" Wu Ge Taijian reminded beside Wu Ge Haojian that as his brother, Wu Ge Taijian naturally knew the goal of this action, and he couldn't bear to watch his brother waste time again.
Wu Ge Haojian said directly: "It's okay, add more scouts, even if Yuzhong County sends someone to investigate, what about it?" He returned to the city without scouts, and An can know the truth of our army? ”
"What the general said is reasonable, but how should these dozens of Han troops be?" Cheng Gongying hurriedly echoed the leader of the Qiang people, although he was a little dissatisfied with the arrogance of Wu Ge Haojian, but he still fulfilled the trust that Han Sui gave him, since he was a scout before, he was favored by Han Sui when he reported the news, he has quickly become a general, and has entered Han Sui's henchmen, so he is still very grateful for Han Sui's kindness.
"What General Cheng said is reasonable, everyone who comes will be killed!" Wu Ge Haojian knew that the other party was already a Han Sui celebrity, so he naturally restrained himself, and Cheng Gongying was right, if he didn't find a way to deal with the burdens of the Han army, would he still stay in Liangzhou and continue to plague the people?
Of course, in his heart, Wu Ge Haojian also despises Cheng Gongying a little, the main force of the Han army is now outside Yunwu County, and Hanyang County does not have too many troops, how can they make up a large army to deal with them?
From the very beginning, their 20,000 cavalry who attacked the grain road were already in terms of strength, and they had traveled far away from all over Liangzhou, so they never worried about Wuge Good Sword.
As the soldiers got the order, they were about to behead the Han soldiers who knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, there was an incredible sound of horns in the distance, and then between heaven and earth, there were bursts of horses' hooves, but the momentum was almost the same as the 20,000 cavalry of the rebels, and it was obviously a lot of cavalry on the opposite side.
As if he had been injected, Wu Ge Haojian looked at the direction from which the voice came with a surprised face, clenched his fists and feet, and said fiercely: "Lu Shuihu...... Frustrated Muhan...... Pengdang ...... There is no good sword and you in Huangzhong, and the power is incompatible, and the armies obey the order and kill ......"
The sound of the horn in the distance, there are horns of the Han people, but more like the horns played by the Hu people, look closely, you can see countless cavalry charging over, most of them are Hu people who are obviously not Han people, they are Lu Shuihu, they are still in Anding County to obey the Han Dynasty education, Lu Shuihu has not rebelled.
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