Chapter 521: Who became famous under the city of Changshe
Changshe, originally the Changgeyi of Zheng Guo in the Spring and Autumn Period, according to legend, because of Changgeyi, the trees of the temple grew violently, so it was renamed Changshe, to the former Han Dynasty, placed in the county, belonged to Yingchuan County.
At this moment, at the head of Changshe City, after defeating several waves of siege attacks by Yellow Turban Moth thieves in a row, thousands of remnants of the Han Army stared blankly at the city, and the Yellow Turban soldiers besieging the city like ants looked at each other, all feeling an inexplicable fear for their future fate.
Why is this happening? Why were they defeated? Could it be that the big man is really going to die?
Thinking that a few days ago, more than 40,000 of their elites from all over the Han Kingdom received the reward from His Majesty's Kaixi Mansion, under the leadership of Huangfu Song and General Zhu Jun, they divided their troops into two routes, each commander more than 20,000 people, and attacked the Yingchuan Yellow Turban Thieves first, but I didn't expect that their soldiers led by General Zhu Jun were defeated by the thieves, and more than half of the soldiers were killed and wounded, and in the end, only thousands of people were besieged by more than 100,000 Yellow Turban Thieves, trapped in the small city of Changshe.
In this situation, these Han troops can't help but feel confused, the gap between the strength of the enemy and us is too big, and their only hope is another Han army led by Huangfu Song. It's just that even if Huangfu Song's other Han army comes to help, the combined forces of the two Han armies will only have more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, which is still too few compared to the Yellow Turban thieves outside the city.
The man of the city wall, Zhu Jun, the right middle general of the Han army, looked at the city with a look of chagrin, if it wasn't for his rash attack on the enemy, he only thought that these yellow turban thieves, like the ordinary rebels he encountered when he was quelling the rebellion in Jiaozhou before, faced with the elite soldiers drawn by the Han Dynasty, there was no strength to fight back at all, and he only needed to fight, and he could decide the thieves in a battle.
It's just that Zhu Jun, who used to recruit 5,000 new soldiers and transfer tens of thousands of rebels in the big war, decided in a war, and forced tens of thousands of people to surrender, this time in Yingchuan, he failed to replicate the miracle again.
The Yellow Turban Moth Thieves are obviously different from other mud-legged rebels who are causing trouble, they have been planning for a long time, and at the beginning of the rebellion, they have already targeted several arsenals of the Han Dynasty in Yingchuan. Later, with the sudden rebellion, the county and county offices in various places could not react at all, so they were attacked by the Yellow Turban Moth Thieves and plundered the arsenal, and the final result was the Yellow Turban Moth Thieves everywhere, who were not inferior to the Han army in terms of weapons and equipment alone, and may even be higher than the original Han army that put down the chaos.
And since he got the news that the Yellow Turban Moth Thieves of Nanyang County, under the leadership of Qu Shuai Zhang Mancheng, captured Nanyang, Zhu Jun did not dare to delay the progress of quelling the rebellion, he was afraid that the Yellow Turban Moth Thieves of the Yingchuan Army would get the news, and the Yellow Turban Moth Thieves of Nanyang County joined forces all the way, went straight to Sili, and attacked the imperial capital Luoyang.
With the new defeat of the soldiers of Nanyang County, and the new Taishou Qin Jie, there is not too much disadvantage of soldiers and horses, it is very likely that it will really be defeated in Nanyang County and Yingchuan County, the two counties of the Yellow Turban combined, and finally occupied Nanyang County by the Yellow Turban thieves. In that case, Nanyang County will definitely not be protected, and the neighboring Si Li, the end will be more encountered, when the time comes, the final result is that no matter whether he and Huangfu Song can quell the chaos and make great contributions, but it will definitely be punished by the imperial court, and the country will be attacked by thieves, even if the two have the first merit in quelling the chaos, it is impossible to offset it.
This is also the reason why Zhu Jun took the risk of rushing forward, he was ready to defeat the main force of the Yellow Turban Moth Thief in Yingchuan County before the Yellow Turban Moth Thief in Yingchuan County and the Yellow Turban Moth Thief in Nanyang County were defeated, so as to reverse the predicament of the Han army in the early stage and gain a certain advantage.
It's just that Zhu Jun was careless and underestimated the enemy, and the Yellow Turban Moth thieves were no less than the ordnance and equipment of the Han army, which completely made Zhu Jun, who was accustomed to crushing traitors in weapons and equipment in the past, suffer a silent dumb loss when he was fighting.
Of course, if even so, Zhu Jun is actually unlikely to be defeated, after all, the two warring armies, in the case of close equipment, in the end are the elite of the soldiers, as long as the Yellow Turban Moth thieves can't resist, then Zhu Jun's Han army is still likely to win.
However, the Taiping Dao believers in Yingchuan County can be said to be one of the most loyal believers of the Taiping Dao, and most of these Taoists may not be as good as the Han army in terms of physical fitness, but their willpower is definitely not lower than that of the Han army, and even far exceeds that of the Han army.
Yuzhou is located in Henan, since ancient times, it has been a rich place in the world, with a large population and countless fertile fields. However, in the Han Dynasty, when all parts of the world are powerful, in a place, with a large population and good land, it is inevitable that there will be strict land annexation, and the family will continue to expand the interests of their clans in the local area under the condition that the imperial power is gradually weakened, which will also lead to a sharp increase in the number of landless poor and displaced people in Yuzhou.
In the feudal dynasties, if there were many landless poor people and displaced people in a place, it would inevitably produce countless social contradictions, the first of which was the resentment of the dynasty and the hatred of the local powerful clans.
In the name of preaching, they came to propagate the ideas of "to peace", "common property, self-reliance", and "egalitarianism and equality ideals", which were naturally extremely sought after by the grassroots people in Yingchuan County, a place where there were many landless people.
Taiping Dao has taken root in Yuzhou for more than ten years, Yingchuan County is the essence of Yuzhou, and in the past ten years, Taiping Daoming is a missionary, but in fact, it is actually using brainwashing language to maliciously instill the belief of overthrowing the Han Dynasty and defeating the powerful family who exploits the people. Only by defeating the Han army can the relatives who joined the Taiping Dao with them live a better life.
To a certain extent, these clay-legged believers of the Taiping Dao are completely comparable to the various warriors of the Celestial Empire who forcibly inculcate political ideas in later generations. And these brainwashed Taiping Dao fanatics, in the face of the Han army with equipment similar to their own, or even inferior to their own, under the frantic battle of using human lives for lives, it is strange that the Han army can withstand the attack of the Yellow Turban Moth thief.
Looking at the yellow turban moth thieves who couldn't see their heads at a glance under the city in front of him, and spread for more than ten miles, Zhu Jun looked sad and clenched his teeth, if he had enough soldiers and horses, he really wanted to kill all these yellow turban moth thieves.
Thinking that when he fought with Bocai at that time, he only had 20,000 soldiers under his command, and the opponent's soldiers and horses were several times his, if you count those old and weak women and children, I am afraid that the number of people has exceeded him by ten times. However, a large number of people is nothing, Zhu Jun has experienced a lot of peaceful wars with fewer victories, but this time it is completely different.
During the war, there were forty or fifty thousand armorers of those Yellow Turban Moth thieves, and there were not a few of them who held the crossbows of the Han army, and they were not weaker than the Han army in terms of equipment alone, and even because of the numerical advantage, with the help of several major arsenals, the opponent's long-range firepower had surpassed their own. And although the opponent is not as good as the elite of the Han army trained by the border army, as well as the five school soldiers in Kyoto, and the elite of the Han army drawn from all over the world, it is a fanatical believer who has been brainwashed by the Taiping Dao, and the army is all fathers and sons, brothers, fellow townsmen and neighbors, the so-called "father and brother are annihilated, and the children are raised", they are really not afraid of death, kill one person and cause public anger, and the Han army will never die.
There are few Han soldiers, the Yellow Turban Moth thieves are numerous, Zhu Jun is rash against the enemy, and there are no reinforcements behind him, even though the Han army is elite, but they are already few, and there is a great hope of defeat if one person dies. As long as the weapons are sufficient, they can easily pull out an army of the same size, and use the method of ants swallowing elephants to grind with the Han army, so the result of Zhu Jun's first battle with the Yellow Turban can be imagined.
When nearly half of his own casualties were lost, and the Yellow Turban Moth Thief only killed more than twice the number of himself, Zhu Jun played his true character as a famous general and ordered the whole army to retreat and retreat to Changshe, after all, if you persist in the end, the final result can only be ground to death by the Yellow Turban Moth Thief, so it is better to retreat.
However, even though the elite Han army retreated in an orderly manner without collapse, and did not give the pursuing Yellow Turban Moth Thieves too many opportunities to drill, the Han crossbow captured by the Yellow Turban Moth Thieves still made Zhu Jun's troops pay a lot of casualties when they retreated.
So that when Zhu Jun retreated to the Changshe and counted the soldiers and horses under his command, there were only more than 7,000 Han soldiers left of the more than 20,000 Han soldiers who originally went out, and there were many external injuries on their bodies, which was really a heavy loss, and this battle also made Zhu Jun from a small official of a poor family to a marquis official The reputation accumulated in the Han Dynasty was completely lost.
"Hey! I don't know when Huangfu Zhonglang will come, otherwise today's situation will be dangerous! ”
Although he had defeated several attacks by the Yellow Turban Moth Thieves, Zhu Jun was still worried when he looked at the Yellow Turban Moth Thieves who seemed to have not decreased in number under the city. Because he knew that if there were no reinforcements, the remaining 4,000 soldiers and horses in this small city of Changshe would definitely not be able to defend against the attack of the more than 100,000 Yellow Turban Moth thieves after defending the city several times.
Here Zhu Jun looked out of the city, with a sad face, and the Yellow Turban Moth thief camp outside the city, from the Yellow Turban Qu Shuai to the ordinary thieves, were all excited, the reason was very simple, naturally they had defeated the famous general Zhu Jun of the Han Dynasty and besieged it.
I think that as long as a few days later, when they have exhausted the Han army defending the city in the city, this Changshe City will be taken by them, and the famous general Zhu Jun of the Han Dynasty will also be awarded the head by them, they don't believe that Zhu Jun, who was besieged by more than 100,000 people, can still escape from Changshe.
In the Yellow Turban Moth Thief Formation, Qu Shuai Bocai looked at the weak Han army at the head of the city with a proud face and said with a smile: "Zhu Gongwei's old man is just like this, within a few days, it will be broken!" Then, he shouted to the group of Taiping Dao believers around him: "Second and third sons, the great sage and good teacher have a saying, the Han will die, the world will be peaceful, Wang'er and others will encourage each other, first destroy Zhu Gongwei in the city!" ”
"Destroy Han!"
"To the Peace!"
"Destroy Han!"
"To the Peace!"
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For a while, all kinds of shouts outside the city came and went, which not only excited countless believers of the Taiping Dao, but also made the Han soldiers at the head of the city of Changshe even more worried.
Listening to the shouts in his ears, Bo Cai looked proud, and secretly said that his strategy should make the next capture of Changshe, defeat the Han army, and create an opportunity.
Bocai was poor when he was young, wandering the world, and then because of chance, he was taken in by Zhang Jiao and carefully cultivated. He is about thirty years old, of medium stature, with an ordinary appearance, compared with those powerful children of the world, there is nothing outstanding, and it can be said that he really can't really be a mud leg.
However, it is such a person with an average appearance and low background, but he can defeat the famous general Zhu Jun in a battle, which makes the court of the Han Dynasty talk about it, although there are many reasons for this, but it cannot cover up Bocai's own ability, if it is replaced by someone else, even if there are so many reasons, I am afraid that it may not be able to defeat Zhu Jun, a famous general of the Han Dynasty.
After the shout, Bo Cai ordered his soldiers and horses to continue to attack the city, and in an instant, in the rapid sound of horns and drums, the Yellow Turban thieves attacked Changshe City like ants.
Changshe City is a small city, and it is located in the Central Plains, so it is difficult to have wars, so naturally there will be no moat. Moreover, Bocai has always been in the spirit of a quick victory, and then a narrow victory, with the intention of a decisive battle with Huangfu Song, so he did not hesitate to continue to order all troops to attack the city from all sides.
As for the "siege of three missing one" recorded in the art of war that Bocai learned, Bocai was not ready to use it at all, for him, it would take too much time, and it would also allow the Han army to save troops and attack the city more vigorously. Moreover, the hatred for the Han Dynasty made him not want the prisoners of the Han army at all, and the Han army was under Zhu Jun, and it was impossible for the Han army to surrender, so it was better to die directly, anyway, with the advantage of numbers, it was impossible for the Han army to hold Changshe City.
Looking at the Changshe county town with the gate tightly closed, as well as the trembling Han soldiers on the city wall, Bo Cai's heart was very happy, and he couldn't wait to look up to the sky and howl a few times, today, it will be the peak of his life after defeating Zhu Jun, because he will behead Zhu Jun, a famous general of the Han army, and become famous.
In the fierce sound of the horn, looking at the dense yellow turban moth thieves outside the city, countless Han soldiers were full of despair, and they themselves did not know whether they could defend this Changshe City or not.
The black clouds crushed the city and wanted to destroy it, and the horn of the attack sounded violently, passionate and long, and the drumming of the yellow turban moth thief, every impact, for the soldiers of the Han army, was the call of death.
The black clouds crushed the city and wanted to destroy it, and the horn of the attack sounded violently, passionate and long, and the drumming of the yellow turban moth thief, every impact, for the soldiers of the Han army, was the call of death.