Chapter 298: Breaking Handan City
Those family brothers are riding on tall horses, naturally they don't understand the hard work of walking dozens of miles with their legs in armor and weapons in hand, they will only pick up their horsewhips and whip them hard at those soldiers who stopped to catch their breath, and some tyrannical family generals even directly picked up their sabers and cut off the heads of those soldiers who stopped slightly. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
From dawn to sunset, relying on whipping and slashing, the rebels of the family walked sixty miles unprecedentedly, and there were still forty miles from Handan, and the rebel soldiers were so tired that they had no strength in their bodies, and everyone used their knives and guns on the ground as crutches, moving forward step by step.
Seeing the tired appearance of the soldiers, Tian Yu said to Liu Hui with some worry: "Deputy Alliance Leader, the soldiers are tired and difficult to fight, if you encounter the Central Army at this time, what should you do, it is better to stop and rest." ”
Liu Hui pointed to the official in front of him and said, "Well, beyond that slope, there is a village, and we will rest there." ”
There is a straight official road together with Xiangyang and Handan, after the official road passes 30 miles of water, it turns from a flat and boundless flat land to such a slightly undulating hill, and the official road in front of it is opened up from a hill, and the slopes on both sides are lush with vegetation.
Tian Yu suspiciously pointed to the barren grass and trees on the slopes on both sides that were more than one person tall and said, "I'm afraid there is an ambush from the Central Army above." ”
Liu Hui said disapprerovingly: "Listen carefully, the sound coming from the hillside." ”
Tian Yu listened attentively, there were crisp bird calls, cooing insects, and dog barks on the slope, and the rebels of the family got closer, and dozens of wild birds flew up in shock, not looking like there were ambushes at all.
Tian Yu was still not at ease, he knew that Jin Liang was too cunning and wise to be taken lightly, so he sent some soldiers to explore the way, those soldiers were already exhausted in the process of rushing just now, and now they were forced by Tian Yu to climb the dirt slope and search for ambushes in the thorns and barren grass, they were too lazy to work hard, walked a few steps a little, and saw that there seemed to be nothing unusual, so they climbed down the dirt slope and replied to Tian Yu that there were no ambushes.
Tian Yu told Liu Hui that Liu Hui ordered all the 110,000 rebels of the family to quickly pass through this official road with two slopes and one ditch seven or eight miles long.
The wild flowers blooming on the hillsides on both sides are purple and red, and the spring light of May is extraordinarily bright, and the warm spring breeze blows on people's bodies very comfortable, and then listening to the birds and insects on the hillside, so that Liu Hui, who is known as a talent, can't help but be poetic, and wants to sing a poem.
Only Tian Yu stared at the bloody remnant sun, the dark cloud in his heart has been thick, although he agreed to pass through this valley quickly, but he kept an eye on it, and quietly put the only remaining 3,000 soldiers of the Tian family at the back of the team, and when something went wrong, he would turn around and escape.
After walking for another half an hour, the sun has set, the moon has hung in the sky, the night begins to be low, the 100,000 rebels of the family have entered this dirt slope, the 110,000 rebels have been exhausted after a hard day's journey, more than five hours have passed since the last meal, they are hungry again, plus more than 1,000 soldiers were killed because of their slow walking on the way, and most of the remaining rebel soldiers were resentful, but they dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, lowered their heads, and walked forward without saying a word.
Suddenly, several loud noises rang out on both sides of the valley, and the men and horses in front of the family's rebels screamed: "The way is blocked!" The men and horses who remained behind also shouted: "The retreat is blocked!" "Several huge clods of earth rolled down the slope, and dozens of thick tree stumps pushed down the slope, firmly blocking the official road in front and behind.
In an instant, countless central soldiers appeared on the hillside, they wore grass rings, their robes dyed grass green, lying on their stomachs in the wild grass more than one person high, no wonder the rebels of the family did not notice at all, these central army soldiers were either holding crossbows, or holding big bows, or carrying javelins, countless arrows and javelins flew into the rebel camp.
The first few waves of arrows flew towards the generals of the family who sat on their tall horses and waved their horsewhips proudly to urge the soldiers to hurry, and those high-ranking generals and their mounts became undoubted targets for arrows, and they were all shot into hedgehogs by arrows if they were a little inferior in martial arts.
The 110,000 family rebels are composed of 38 family soldiers from Jizhou families, and under the random arrows of the central army archers and crossbowmen who broke out just now, most of the generals of the 38 families were sniped to death, and the rest were almost all family soldiers, who were originally tenant farmers and slaves.
Wearing a brocade robe and riding a white horse, Liu Hui, the deputy leader of the alliance, is the most eye-catching, his martial arts are not high, and his reaction is not fast, some of the fast-eyed generals of the family turned over and dismounted and hid under the belly of the horse, Liu Hui also rode on the white horse and looked up to the sky and sighed: "I boast of unparalleled wisdom, but I am good at gold and tricks, both Hui He Shengbu!" ”
Several of Liu Hui's family members were about to pull Liu Hui off his horse to avoid the strong crossbow of the Central Army, but when they saw a crossbow arrow in the middle of Liu Hui's throat, they turned over and fell off the horse, and they didn't need to help them.
Cao Xuan handed over the crossbow machine to the soldier next to him, and said with a sneer: "Such a natural stupid talent, and dare to compare with my lord, I really don't know whether to live or die!" ”
The deputy alliance leader was shot off his horse, and the morale of the rebels of the family collapsed, and there was chaos.
The central armies on both sides took the opportunity to shout in unison: "Liu Hui is dead!" Liu Hui is dead! Disarm and don't kill, surrender is rewarded! The prince will have a kind of Xiangning! Those who kill the first generation of brothers will be rewarded with 10,000 dollars, and they can join the Central Army, share the military merit field, and turn over to be a landlord! Kill! They cried incessantly, and these demagogic cries resounded throughout the valley.
These deafening calls were accompanied by the sniping of those high-ranking generals. It aroused a strong reaction in the hearts of those hard-pressed family soldiers, and more than half of the young family soldiers were puffed up with blood, and they remembered the days when they were oppressed by the family brothers in the past. With blood red eyes, he picked up his knife and spear and stabbed at the generals of the family who had once picked up the horsewhip and whipped it on him.
Especially those generals of the family who once raised their sabers to cut off the heads of poor soldiers, they were all stunned to see the poor soldiers who were originally as docile as sheep picking up their knives and shooting at themselves. And then he died without looking at his head in a different place.
Now the battlefield has become very strange, those tenant farmers and slaves who have been oppressed, ravaged and exploited once they have been aroused to resist the will to resist, they have never had the courage to slash and stab the swords and spears in their hands at those family brothers who once rode on their necks for power. The archers of the Central Army, on the contrary, became a supporting role on the battlefield, continuing to shout slogans loudly, while unleashing cold arrows at every turn, shooting the desperately struggling family brothers and their loyal dogs.
The three generations of officials can be called families, and these families have been entrenched in this area of Jizhou for hundreds of years. A considerable number of those family soldiers are ancestors and grandchildren who follow these masters for more than three generations, and their slave bones have been very solid under the indoctrination of hundreds of years of doctrines conducive to the rule of the family, which can not be disintegrated by Jin Liang's propaganda for seven or eight months, nor can it be shaken by the slogans shouted by the Central Army, these loyal dogs can account for more than 20% of the family soldiers, although their masters were mostly shot by the crossbowmen of the Central Army, they were the lost dogs with tears. Wailing for the revenge of their master, they wrestled with the tenant farmers and slaves who were in battle.
Jin Liangce stood on the hillside, looking at the loyal dogs below who were wailing and fighting, and his heart was not pity, not sympathy. It's disgust. Whether it was in the Harmony period or in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Jin Liang, who was born at the grassroots, hated the kind of unprincipled loyalty, this kind of wolfdog-like loyalty.
Jin Liang's conscience is as clear as a mirror that if he wants to weaken the poison of the family's rule on Greater China, and if he wants to liberate the productive forces of all the people, he must abolish this system of tenant farmers and slaves for generations, and he must implement the short- and medium-term employment system of the civilized society of later generations. Only when everyone is not dependent on others, recognizes their own value, and gives full play to their own value, can this society progress.
The battle lasted all night, and it was only at dawn that the battlefield settled down.
After the civil strife in Xiangyang, Jin Liang's heart hardened a lot, and he watched the soldiers of the family who were on the verge of the battle kill the generals of the family and their loyal dogs, so that after the battle, except for the tenant farmers of the Shun family and the soldiers from the slave family, there were no prisoners, and more than 50,000 of the 110,000 rebels were killed on the spot, and more than 50,000 were alive.
The reason why Jin Liang was able to watch so many people die in front of him ruthlessly was because he became more and more aware that the thoughts of those family brothers and loyal dogs who had been influenced by the environment for decades would not be so easily influenced by themselves.
Jin Liang's rectification campaign in the Central Army was also a secret eradication of dozens of stubborn generals, just like the rectification of a certain group in history, if it had not been rectified, it would definitely not have survived and developed for nearly a hundred years. Although unjust, false and wrongful cases are inevitable, for the purity and stability of the entire team, and in order not to be stabbed in the back again, the ruthless hand that should be taken is still necessary.
Jin Liang also had another consideration, since he had already incited the hatred of those family soldiers against the family brothers, it would not work if they were not completely released, so Jin Liang had no choice but to watch the more than 20,000 family brothers and their loyal dogs who were originally going to be sent to mining die in the hands of the poor family soldiers who were despised and oppressed by them.
There are more than 2,000 family brothers and their loyal dogs climbed up the hillside, trying to escape, but were caught up by Jin Liang's elite cavalry arranged on the periphery, and were killed, Tian Yu of the Julu Tian family was captured alive, and most of the 3,000 Tian family soldiers under his command surrendered on the spot, and the recalcitrant ones were slaughtered.
Jin Liang handed over Tian Yu to Tian Feng to send down, Tian Feng activated the Tian family law, beheaded Tian Yu in public, and other Tian family brothers who followed Tian Yu to participate in the rebellion were also executed by Tian Feng's killers, Tian Feng realized the profound intention of Jin Liang's rectification in these days, he wanted to maintain the purity and stability of the Julu Tian family, and did not want to be dragged down by the black sheep in the family.
During this period of time, Zhang Ren, Wu Anguo, and Lu Peng had already come to this valley with the 20,000 field guards, Jin Liang asked Wu Anguo and Lu Peng to clean up the battlefield with the field guards, and asked Zhao Yun and Zhang Ren to lead the troops to reorganize the more than 50,000 poor soldiers who were on the verge of battle, and the other soldiers camped to rest.
After resting for three hours, the army marched to Handan City.
Because Jin Liang had sent 2,000 elite cavalry to block all the roads from Fushui to Handan in advance, the news of Liu Hui's fiasco did not reach Handan City, so Jin Liang was given a lot of room to operate.
There were still ten miles to Handan, and Jin Liang called Frustration to the horse.
Standing in front of Jin Liang in frustration covered in blood, he wondered why Jin Liang had not allowed his 6,000 soldiers to wash and clean up their military appearance.
Jin Liang glanced at Fu Fu and his remaining more than 4,000 soldiers of the Frustrated Family and said: "It's very good, all of them are bloodstained and embarrassed, just right for a wonderful show!" ”
The second monk was puzzled by Jin Liang's words, but he didn't dare to ask directly, so he could only make his eyes look at the clan brother and give him help.
Fu Zhu smiled and said: "Lord, do you want Fu to pretend to be a deserter to enter the city, so as to wait for the opportunity to capture Handan?!" ”
Jin Liang nodded, smiled and asked: "Give Liu Hui's corpse to you, you will say that you were ambushed by the Central Army, but you snatched Liu Hui's corpse, we will not be too close to you, after you enter the city, you will seize the city gate and hold on for a quarter of an hour, do you have the confidence to do it?!" ”
Frustrated knowing that this was his last chance to turn over, he couldn't miss it, and hurriedly said loudly: "The last general has confidence!" ”
Jin Liang smiled slightly and said, "Since that's the case, then you guys can run!" ”
Fu Fu used his own mount to support the corpses of Liu Hui and several other family heads, and ran to Handan City with the more than 4,000 remnants of the Fu family's soldiers, and when he ran out of more than two miles, Jin Liang ordered the whole army to be dispatched.
The frustrated remnants ran to more than a mile away from Handan, rested for a while, and then continued to make the appearance of being chased by the central army, ran to Handan City in a hurry, stood under Handan City, frustrated with tears in their eyes, and cried at Zheng Tai at the head of the city: "Our 120,000 horses were ambushed by the Central Army, and the deputy alliance leader was shot by Jin Liang. ”
When Zheng Tai heard the news, his head was buzzing, and there were Venus in front of him, if it wasn't for Ruan Yu beside him to support him, I am afraid that he would have fallen from the head of Handan City.
Zheng Tai was in a hurry, spit out a mouthful of dirty blood, and after a heart-rending cough, he stabilized his mind and stared at the frustration under the city and said: "Jin Liang's men and horses should not exceed 100,000, how can we ambush our coalition army to just over 4,000 people?!" ”
Frustrated, he told Zheng Tai everything that happened on the battlefield, Zheng Tai closed his eyes in panic and said sadly: "Let Jin Liang rebel bewitch the hearts of the lowly people, and our family has no place to stand!" ”
Frustrated, he looked at the wind and dust that was gradually rising behind him and said, "Gong Zheng, please let us into the city quickly, Jin Liang's pursuers will come soon!" ”
Zheng Tai carefully examined the frustrated people and horses, all of them were covered in blood and looked embarrassed, there was nothing unusual, so he ordered the people to open the city gate and let the frustration in.
After Frustration led more than 4,000 people and horses into Handan City completely, Frustration shouted: "The Central Army is here, disarm and not kill, surrender will be rewarded!" The 120,000 rebels have been annihilated, do you still have to resist?! ”
More than 4,000 soldiers of the Fu family rose up and fought with one blow, killing all the rebels defending the south city gate and taking the south city gate.
Zheng Tai fled into the inner city in a hurry under the protection of the doorman, he was anxious and angry, and hurriedly sent people to recapture the south city gate, how could he be frustrated by the 4,000 soldiers of the family under the bewitchment and shouting, the more than 25,000 county soldiers who stayed in Handan City were agitated, raised their swords and guns, and attacked those family brothers and their lackeys.
A quarter of an hour later, Jin Liang's army came to Handan City, and more than half of Handan City had fallen into the hands of the soldiers of the Frustrated Family and the county soldiers of Handan County, Zheng Tai led more than 10,000 lackeys loyal to him to retreat to the inner city of Handan, and resisted stubbornly.
Handan is the capital of Zhao State, Zhao King Liu Liang hereditary here, the inner city of Handan is the royal city of King Zhao, the city wall is tall, the moat is quite deep and difficult to attack.
Jin Liang sent generals to firmly control the four gates of the outer city of Handan, and could not let the family brothers in Handan City get away with it, and then led the army to surround the royal city, preparing to catch turtles in an urn.
Jin Liang didn't want to pile up the lives of his descendants, so he led 40,000 horses to block the four gates of the inner city, and sent people to quickly inform Zhao Yun and Zhang Ren to lead the 50,000 troops to Handan to participate in the siege.
A day later, Zhao Yun and Zhang Ren led the assembled poor soldiers into Handan, and Zheng Hun also came to Handan with the sapper auxiliaries.
The day before yesterday, the ambush lured more than 54,000 poor soldiers to surrender, and this time when they attacked Handan City, more than 21,000 county soldiers surrendered, plus more than 3,000 soldiers who were left behind, a total of more than 78,000 soldiers surrendered, and nearly 30,000 were wounded. The rest of the troops were all taken as the lead by Jin Liang, and with the assistance of a hundred thunderbolt vehicles urgently assembled by Zheng Hun's armament department, they attacked the inner city day and night.
After three days and nights of repeated bombardment and attack. More than 49,000 soldiers were killed in the battle, and more than 8,000 people were killed, and the thunderbolt finally smashed through a city wall, and more than 40,000 soldiers who killed the red eye poured into it. The inner city of Handan has finally been broken.
Liu Liang, the king of Zhao supported by the rebels of the family, was captured and escorted to Xiangyang, where he was handed over to the Son of Heaven Liu Bian.
Most of the heads of the rebellious families in Jizhou were cowered in the inner city, captured by the soldiers of the family who had been oppressed and ravaged by them, and the generals of the other families were either killed or captured, while Zheng Tai, the leader of the rebel family, and Ruan Yu, who wrote the text to ask for gold, seemed to have evaporated from the world, and could not be found.
Jin Liang knew that Zheng Tai, who was good at fooling, and Ruan Yu, who was good at dancing and writing, would be more harmful to the Central Army than tens of thousands of horses, so he ordered the blockade of the four gates of the inner and outer cities of Handan. No one is allowed to go out of the city, dig three feet in the city, and be sure to catch these two guys who are good at demagoguery, and by the way, eliminate those evil families and their henchmen who follow Zheng Tai. (To be continued.) )