Chapter 372: The Little People Are Never Taken Lightly
Two days later, an incomplete lineup of "rebel" soldiers, the formation seems to be lazy, in fact, the soldiers in the middle are all vigilant and abnormal, around this army, there are many rangers back and forth to explore, and the surroundings are also full of Hou cavalry scouts to investigate, people who are interested can see at a glance that this "rebel army" is not at all like the real rebels.
The "rebel" Chinese army, a young general with loose hair and some tattered clothes on his body, was discussing things with several men on horseback beside him. Those men were also like this young general, with their clothes open and their hair scattered, and one of the red-faced men had a long beard that was very eye-catching, and of course, inside their half-open clothes, they were all wearing black iron armor, which was the standard armor of the Han army.
The young general was naturally none other than Fuquan who came to support with the troops, but the few men around him were Guan Yu and other generals, and the reason why they dressed like this was also to not reveal their identities. In fact, not only them, but the entire 3,000 soldiers of the Han army are so casual but meaningful rebel dress, in order not to let the rebels who may appear at any time have any suspicion, after all, if the eyes are all wearing the Han army standard armor, it will undoubtedly look too public, and they who have already played the rebels once are naturally a little familiar with this.
Since leaving Zongyang and going straight to Shu County for rescue, Fuquan's troops and horses have been cautious, because the waiting scouts sent to investigate in advance detected that Huang Sui had sent a lot of soldiers and horses to garrison hundreds of miles away in the south of Shu County. Therefore, Yan Yan, as the vanguard of the army, was instructed to disguise himself when exploring the road, and find a route for the army behind that is not easy to encounter the rebels, otherwise if Fuquan ignores it after leaving Zongyang, and marches to Shu County in a hurry, it will definitely be discovered by the rebels, and in the end, the fate of the Han army under his command can only be entangled by the rebels who are more numerous than his own, and it will be a problem whether he can break away at that time.
Therefore, there is a scene where Fuquan ordered his soldiers to pretend to be rebels and march, after all, if he was discovered by the rebels on the way, then how could he rescue, so he must avoid being discovered by the rebels.
These rebel soldiers who were sent by Huang Sui in the south of Shu County were naturally those rebel soldiers who guarded the grain and grass at the rebel grain storage place in Fuquan, plus several rebel soldiers and horses who came to the rescue later, there were more than 10,000 people.
They are stationed here, but because Huang Sui is afraid that some of these soldiers know the specific inside story of the army's grain and grass being burned, if they are allowed to stay in the army, it will naturally be difficult to implement his blockade After the grain and grass are burned, they will not be able to supply the army for a long time, so in order to ensure that the news will not leak, Huang Sui sent them to search for Fuquan, the Han army, and let them be stationed here, called to search for the remnants of the Han army, to prevent the army's grain storage from being attacked again, in fact, they are isolated and confined here. Don't let them spread the bad news throughout the rebel camp.
Along the way, even though Fuquan ordered all the troops to be cautious, he still encountered several waves of rebels wandering patrol and search for small groups of soldiers, fortunately, there were no "acquaintances" in these rebels who Fuquan broke into the rebels' food storage that night, otherwise maybe he would be recognized and completely exposed when he sent Qin Chuan and other soldiers who were familiar with the rebels' various departments to talk and deal with them.
Of course, even those people in Qin Chuan don't dare to use their real names when talking to the rebels now, after all, at this moment, the rebels must have already let Huang Sui spread the name of Qin Chuan, the rebel anti-bone boy, it is said that Huang Sui specially opened a generation of 100,000 yuan in order to claim Qin Chuan's head. After Fu Quan learned the news, although he didn't know whether the news was true or not, he still used this to make a good joke of Qin Chuan, saying that he, the Han Taishou, was not as good as Qin Chuan, an unknown scribe, and it was really a waste of time to be an official, because it was rumored that Huang Sui only offered himself a price of 80,000 yuan.
Although this road is a little cautious and frightened, but fortunately, the army has deceived the monitoring of more than 10,000 rebels without danger, maybe those rebels are afraid that they will not believe it, and the Han army, which has already fled, once again played a game of "confusing the real with the fake" and deceived them to go to Shu County.
However, Fuquan believes that the arrogance of the rebels is also related to the fact that they ran into the mountains and forests and organized troops to go deep into the mountains to capture the fleeing people. Because he had seen the patrolling soldiers tie up some uneasy young men with ropes and forcibly pull them into the army, and the rebels' wooden carts still contained the looted goods and food. What's more, there were several crying women on some wooden carts, and their clothes must have been robbed, and some women's clothes were torn, and their messy faces and painful expressions had obviously been humiliated by the rebel soldiers.
Perhaps this is the reason why this rebel army, which has suffered losses, is still not vigilant and does not investigate in detail when it sees Fuquan's army. Of course, this is the main reason why all the rebels who rebel in the name of justice, and most of them ultimately fail.
"Shu County is not far ahead, if it is correct, our army should arrive in the afternoon." Huang Zhong took the map in his hand, looked to the north, and said in a positive voice.
"Hmm!" Fu Quan responded, and then said behind him: "Quickly order all the troops to ride, be careful to investigate, and don't expose the things of the army." ”
"No!"
With a loud "no" from Qi Qi, several knights rode away behind Fu Quan, and went to give orders to inform the scouts. After leaving Zongyang, Fuquan also looted the horses in Zongyang City early. Not only did he not have to suffer from the barefoot march for days, but he also gathered a useful scout for the army, although the horses in the south were certainly not the best horses, but at least he could rely on the mobility of these horses to ensure that the army would not be easily discovered.
The further the Han army went, the more solemn Fu Quan's eyes became, not that he was found by encountering rebels on the road, but because of the thick smoke rising from the sky in the north, the closer he looked, the more he could see that although the smoke was constantly drifting, he could not finish dispersing, but more and more.
Seeing this scene, Fu Quan naturally understood in his heart that it was not the smoke of ordinary people's cooking and cooking, after all, now is not the time to eat, and second, now under the rule of Shu County, because of the rebellion, where are there still many people who stay at home to eat? Therefore, if these smoke are not cooking smoke, then it can only be the smoke of war floating from the county seat of Shuxian County in the north.
Looking up at the smoke so thick, it was obvious that the battle to defend the city in Shu County must be very fierce, and he didn't know if Lu Kang could hold it, Fu Quan's heart became more and more worried. Although in memory, this Lu Kang is also an expert in defending the city, under the siege of Yuan Shu's army, he has been struggling for a long time with weak soldiers, but after all, with his arrival, everything is changing, and I don't know if this newly appointed Lu Kang, who has no foundation in Lujiang County, can hold on, if not, then where should he go?
However, as the army got closer and closer to Shu County, the news from the scouts gradually reassured Fuquan, because according to the news of the scouts, the head of Shu County has not been broken by the rebels so far, and Huang Sui's army even dispatched the whole army for this purpose, leaving only a small number of soldiers and horses to guard the rebel camp.
On the battlefield in the afternoon, Huang Sui's rebels were still fighting with Lu Kang's Han army under the city, and the sound of killing was all over the sky, whether it was the rebels besieging the city or the Han army defending the city, they were all red-eyed at the moment, and they vowed to completely destroy the other party. The city has been piled with blood-red corpses, and countless foul smells have come, in this hot summer weather, those dead corpses are rotting very quickly, some of the corpses have long since rotted into black, and there are countless wriggling maggots wandering on it, which is very disgusting, but it is enough to show the cruelty of the war.
In the distance, Fu Quan took Huang Zhong, Xu Huang and more than a dozen soldiers to lurk in a half-cut forest in the south of Shu County to watch the battlefield. Many of the trees in this forest that were once towering are now only the roots of the tree rings, and the branches on them must have been cut down by the rebels to build siege equipment.
Fortunately, Huang Sui's army did not cut down all this area, otherwise they would not have found a good place to hide and observe the situation on the battlefield today. Although because the rebels are probably stationed in the south with their own troops, there are very few scouts scattered around to patrol, so that outsiders wander here and rarely encounter rebel soldiers, which is relatively safe, but even so, Fuquan does not dare to take it lightly, otherwise, who knows if he will be unlucky to meet the wandering rebel soldiers, if he exposes himself, it will be a loss?
As for the army under Fu Quan's command, it was still lurking in a hidden place in a mountain a few miles away at the moment, and after walking so many mountain roads in the past few days, Fu Quan was sincerely grateful to the south of this mountainous tomb for the first time, otherwise, he really couldn't find a suitable place to hide the three thousand soldiers under his command for a while.
Looking at the head of Shuxian County in the distance, although the rebels fought bloody battles one after another, the Han army still guarded the head of the city to the death, and from time to time repelled the rebel soldiers who climbed the head of the city sporadically and rushed to the bottom of the city. Seeing countless pieces of wood flying sideways, arrows all over the sky, and all kinds of gold juice and fire oil being dumped, and from time to time there were fires rising, the soldiers of the two armies seemed to care about nothing else at the moment, as if they only had the blade in their hands in their eyes, and in their minds they could only completely destroy the enemy on the opposite side, just like a hand-to-hand combat machine without any consciousness, and the battle situation was unprecedentedly tragic.
Frankly speaking, Fuquan felt that this was the most tragic offensive and defensive battle he had ever seen in his life, and that city head was like Shura Hell, becoming a meat grinder for human life. Even if he fought with the Xianbei people in Youzhou and the Banyu barbarians in Yizhou, there was no such tragedy, because neither the Xianbei nor the Banbei barbarians had the determination to die with themselves, and they fought just for their own interests.
Fu Quan knew that most of the soldiers of those rebels were forced to live, and they were exploited by local tyrants and corrupt officials to survive before they took risks, and there were some discordant national historical reasons between the Han and the barbarians, so that their rebellion and uprising were not just for the sake of profit, they were desperately stumbling, and they were using their lives to win the glimmer of hope for survival.
This is the most terrifying part of the rebels, and when people reach a place where they are cornered, they will burst out with unlimited power. Even if the rebels on the opposite side now have weapons and equipment and the natural disadvantage of being a sieger, this will not make these rebels who are desperate for survival retreat at all, but even more desperately, because they are fighting for survival.
The small people are never to be taken lightly, this is a truth that all dynasties and dynasties should recognize, but unfortunately, there are always those in power who forget it, which will eventually cause the collective desperate resistance of the small people, which will lead to the destruction of the dynasty......
"Ming Gong, there are not many soldiers and horses in the rebel battalion, can you attack it to aid Shu County?" Xu Huang, who was beside him, pointed to an empty camp behind the rebels and said, Fuquan looked at it, although it was far away, he could still see the emptiness in the camp.
I saw that there were actually a lot of people coming and going in the big camp, but there were a lot of male soldiers who really held weapons, and most of those people seemed to be women and children, who were all looking forward to the battle at the head of the city in Shu County at the moment, thinking that these were the families of the rebels who were besieging the city. After all, these rebels are a mud-legged army of outcasts, many of whom dragged their families before the uprising, and when the men went out to fight, the women and children naturally stayed in the camps. Unless Huang Sui is really completely mad and wants to let those women and children be cannon fodder to attack the city, he will do this.
Of course, it is not that no one has done this in history, at least there are not a few invading alien races who have done this, the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Liao, Jin, Yuan, and Qing invaded the Central Plains, and they have also done this, they used the blood of the Han people to complete the hegemony of aggression, and finally relied on a bunch of kneeling literati to whitewash, and the joy of praising the great unification was achieved, and it was artificially interpreted as the inevitable sacrifice of national integration, which is really ridiculous.
The black is said to be white, and the white is said to be black, the literati are the most shameless, and the government of the current dynasty is also extremely indifferent, and history is like a stripped girl, who is allowed to be used by others.
Without much gossip, Fu Quan saw that in addition to the women and children in the camp, there were only a few old and weak soldiers guarding the camp, and he had already made up his mind that since Huang Sui left such a big flaw for himself, then he didn't mind coming to save Zhao from Wei and giving it to him.
"Let's go, gather troops and horses, and break the camp!" At the sound of the order, Fu Quan left first, leaving to the hiding place of his army, followed by the others.
At this time, Fuquan is not allowed to say anything, normal people will know how to choose to break the situation when they see the current war in Shu County, and if they don't take advantage of the fact that the main force of the rebels is not in the camp, burn his camp, do they want to directly fight with the rebels who killed the red-eyed army who are several times the number of their own?