Chapter 59 Retreat Hongnong and face Ma Chao
A ferry port to the south of Dayang is called Maojin, although it is not as narrow as Fenglingdu, which is convenient for crossing, but at least it is a good ferry. www.biquge.info Although the river is wide, at least the river flows gently, and when the wind and waves are calm, even a small boat can cross the river safely.
Yang Feng was stationed in Dayang, and had already prepared more than twenty small boats in case he needed them. But he said that he couldn't imagine that the soldiers and horses in Hedong would be defeated so quickly. Moreover, Emperor Xian actually escaped from Anyi and went all the way to himself. Yang Feng knew that this was almost given to him by God, and he couldn't miss it in vain.
Now there are only 3,000 cavalry in Liangzhou outside Dayang City, and Yang Feng originally intended to lead troops to hold on, but when he heard Emperor Xian say that Tian Jing was defeated in Hedong, almost the entire army was wiped out. Moreover, there were originally more than 2,000 cavalry soldiers who had been chasing after Emperor Xian, but they did not rush to Dayang because they lost their way in the mountains. Yang Feng was a little worried.
His subordinates plus Han Xianam's remnants were only 4,000 people, plus Dong Cheng's more than 1,000 soldiers and horses, and there was no chance of winning against Liangzhou soldiers and horses. Therefore, Yang Feng had the idea of crossing the river and retreating south.
But now there are more than 5,000 horses, and the number of people who defend is too small, but the number of people crossing the river is too many. The small boats prepared before could carry 30 people each, and the 20 boats could cross the river at a time for 600 people.
If you cross the river, you don't know how many times it will take to transport it, and if the soldiers and horses of Liangzhou chase after it, then the soldiers and horses who don't have time to cross the river will be the end of the whole army.
For the sake of today's plan, the only way to do this is to take the lead in withdrawing to Maojin while the enemy has not yet discovered it, and to cross the river overnight from tonight to tomorrow morning. If you wait for the enemy to come, it will be too late. However, Yang Feng will never let go of any opportunity to get benefits, and after this side is ready to stop, he will go to Xian Emperor Chen to tell the benefits.
Emperor Xian didn't know what he meant by inviting merit, but he thought that Tian Jing was dead, and Dong Cheng's soldiers and horses had been wiped out again, and now he could only rely on Yang Feng, so he had to promise to be a high-ranking official. Yang Feng is already a general, and this time Emperor Xian added Yang Feng as a chariot general, and his power was only under the hussar general Zhang Ji. As for the last named chariot general, Guo Yan is still there, but Emperor Xian can't manage it so much.
What Emperor Xian thinks, Yang Feng doesn't care, as soon as the title of this chariot general came, Yang Feng immediately began to order other departments to come.
Yang Feng left Han Xian's 1,000 men and horses and the troops and horses of Dong Cheng's troops who had just withdrawn to defend the city, but he took 3,000 soldiers and horses from his headquarters to escort Emperor Xian and 100 officials to Maojin and prepare to cross the river overnight.
The situation of crossing the river at night is unknown, so naturally he did not dare to let Emperor Xian suspect first. Yang Feng let 600 men and horses cross the river as the vanguard. However, the river was wide, and the wind was strong at night, and the water flow was relatively fast, so the crossing of the river was not smooth.
Emperor Xian and the hundred officials were a little timid, but Yang Feng couldn't, so he had to let his soldiers and horses do a good job of guarding, and decided to put the time for the second river crossing after dawn.
But Yang Feng didn't expect anything, just when Emperor Xian and the hundred officials were about to cross the river, the Liangzhou cavalry appeared.
Originally, there were only more than 2,000 soldiers and horses on the riverbank, but these soldiers and horses were bent on crossing the river and retreating to the south bank, and they had no fighting spirit at all. As soon as they saw the Liangzhou cavalry coming, their first reaction was to scramble for boats to cross the river.
Emperor Xian had just boarded the boat, and when he saw this situation, he couldn't quickly order the boat to sail. But even so, there were still a lot of routs who jumped into the river and swam over to grab the side of the boat and try to board the boat. At first, the guards were ready to rescue a few people, but when they saw that there were many people who wanted to get on the ship, they had no choice but to use their knives to scare off the routs who boarded the ship. He was so frightened that he had to cut off the arm of the person who boarded the ship with a knife, just so that the ship dedicated to the emperor could leave safely.
Yang Feng was originally going to wait on the riverbank and only board the boat next time. Now when he saw the Liangzhou cavalry coming, he didn't care about the men and horses under his command, so he brought his own guards to board the nearest ship and evacuate.
The entire Maojin ferry was in chaos, and the Hedong army was either killed by cavalry, or driven into the river and drowned, and of course there were also those who were trampled or cut by their own people because of the scramble for boats. Even among the hundred officials, there were those who were lost in the battle or drowned in the river because they were slow to board the boat.
Emperor Xian was worried and a little sad when he saw this scene, and after the ship left the ferry to stay away from the enemy's attack, Emperor Xian's face did not ease.
Look at the hundreds of officials around you, scattered on the boats, one by one with sad faces. Emperor Xian thought to himself that the current situation of the imperial court was not like this. I am like the person in charge of this broken ship, I really don't know what will happen to Hongnong this time, and whether the Sheji of Dahan Jiangshan will really be lost in my own hands.
In any case, all the dozen or so boats crossed the Yellow River unharmed. Arriving at the south bank, the nearest city is Shaanxi County. The hussar general Zhang Ji had already received the news and personally rushed to meet the emperor's chariot.
Zhang Ji asked Emperor Xian to lead hundreds of officials to rush to Hongnong with him, Hongnong City is high and deep, with sufficient grain and grass, which can be used as a temporary capital.
Although Hongnong County used to be one of the places where the plague was most severe, after a winter snowfall, the plague was extinct, and the people began to slowly return to Hongnong and gradually start a new life.
Zhang Ji is also a wise person, and as soon as he arrived in Hongnong County, he transferred Wang Yi from Lushi County to Hongnong County, and temporarily took over the post of county guard. Whether it was the resettlement of displaced people, the reclamation of fields, or the expropriation of grain and grass, Wang Yi handled it in an orderly manner, and it was precisely because of him that Hongnong County was able to recover from the plague so quickly.
Except for civil affairs, everything else was managed by Zhang Ji's general's office.
The generals under Zhang Ji's command were naturally headed by Zhang Ji's nephew, Jianzhong General Zhang Xiu. However, Zhang Xiu is now competing with Liu Biao for Nanxiang in Nanyang County, but he is not in Hongnong. Tongguan was handed over to Zhang Xiu's generals Lei Xu and Zhang Xian to defend, and the defense of Tongguan was originally impregnable, coupled with the defense of 3,000 defenders, Zhang Ji thought that it was impossible for Liangzhou soldiers and horses to threaten Hongnong's comfort.
Emperor Xian fled all the way, so he had no idea and didn't know what to do next, so he had to obey Zhang Ji's arrangement.
Zhang Ji is a real person, you respect me a point, I respect you a foot, since the emperor is not thin on him, and he is named a hussar general, he is also happy to be a loyal general. Now he is bent on supporting the emperor.
Baiguan now has no food and clothing, so he naturally has to rely on a big warlord to protect their interests and lives, so he also wants to go to Hongnong to settle down.
Only the chariot general Yang Feng has his own abacus in his heart, no matter how many people died in the matter of crossing the river and retreating south, but saving Emperor Xian is the first achievement. He didn't want to share power with Zhang Ji after making such a great contribution, not to mention that Zhang Ji had a wide range of soldiers and abundant resources in the Hongnong Land Realm, if something happened in the future, he couldn't fight Zhang Ji. Therefore, Yang Feng has been pushing this emperor and the hundred officials to move east and return to Luoyang.
Emperor Xian couldn't make up his mind for a while, and asked Zhang Ji's opinion, Zhang Ji said, "The minister also knows that Hongnong's geographical location, population, city defense, etc. are not as good as Luoyang; But Hongnong is, after all, in our hands now. The situation in Luoyang is very unclear, when a fire in Luoyang burned to ashes, now the reconstruction will take time and go back a lot of money, we are now not strong, it is better to temporarily live in Hongnong. When to move east, it is better to ask the opinion of Tian Jing, the general of Zhendong. ”
Emperor Xian asked, "Didn't General Zhendong disappear in the chaos of the army?" Could it be that you have arrived at Hongnong? ”
Only then did Zhang Ji tell Emperor Xian what his scouts had discovered. It turned out that Tian Jing was not only not defeated in the battle of Xie County, but also won the victory. In particular, Xu Huang's department burned Li and Guo's grain and grass, and now Li and Guo's soldiers and horses have withdrawn to Guanzhong.
After hearing this, Emperor Xian shouted pity, "Li Le mistakenly, Li Le Wu Zhen!" If it weren't for our advance and retreat, the battle situation in Hedong would not be what it is today. ”
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Tian Jing led the soldiers and horses south, and did not catch up with Emperor Xian's car, but ran into the cavalry of Leping, who had been sent to rescue Emperor Xian. Although they returned to help one step earlier, due to their unfamiliarity with the geography, it took many more days to find the whereabouts of the soldiers and horses in Liangzhou.
As soon as they fought with Ma Chao and Cheng Gongying's soldiers and horses, they suffered a lot. had to turn the pursuit into a tracking behind the ass of the Liangzhou soldiers and horses.
How do you know that after chasing, the enemy army in front of them was not eliminated, and when the time came, more than 3,000 cavalry came out behind them to kill them, and Wu Fang, the captain of Shangjun, was captured. It turned out that it was the wolf cavalry led by Wu Xi, who had withdrawn from Anyi City, who copied their back road.
Wu Fang never thought that he would meet his brother Wu Xi in this situation this time, but he chose to stand firmly on the side of the Hedong Army, mainly because of Tian Jing's grace in saving him that day. Wu Xi didn't have time to pay attention to him, but just took Wu Fang south to continue to pursue Emperor Xian.
After Tian Jing learned about the situation from Leping, he judged that Emperor Xian would go to Dayang. Let the guide take a detour and go south quickly, no longer running behind the enemy. And Tian Jing personally took the remaining more than 1,000 cavalry and Leping, Xiaoliu, Lu Wen and others, and rushed to Dayang non-stop.
When Tian Jing's soldiers and horses arrived, Wu Xi had already gone to Maojin to intercept Emperor Xian. Ma Chao and Cheng Gongying have just successfully turned out of Wushan, and they are besieging Dayang and are about to be attacked.
Tian Jing didn't know what the situation was in the city, let alone whether Emperor Xian was in the city, so he had no choice but to lead the cavalry to kill him.
Tian Jing saw at a glance that the best skill in the enemy army must be the young general in brocade, so he killed him with one man and one horse. That person is none other than Jinmachao. Tian Jing knew that he was powerful, and used all his strength to fight against Ma Chao.
Who knows that although he is proficient in marksmanship, his age and strength are insufficient, and he is not Ma Chao's opponent in less than thirty rounds, and he gradually misses defeat.
At this time, Xiao Liu didn't want Tian Jing to be in danger, and he didn't care about his injuries, so he slapped his horse and raised his gun to attack. The two of them are barely evenly matched.