Chapter VII History of the Pingzhou Thorn Cao Cao's Northern Expedition
On this day, Tian Jing showed Gongsun Gong the development strategy for Liaodong that he had prepared with Xu Shu, Gongsun Xu, Lu Yu and others. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Gongsun Gong was very excited to see it, because in this way, even if his life is short, he will surpass his father's achievements in the history of Liaodong, and as the fourteenth state in the history of the Han Dynasty, he will definitely be remembered by history.
But he also thought of a question, Tian Jing's true identity has always made him guess. Whether it is the danger at the Hongmen banquet or the current far-sightedness of Liaodong's planning, it is not something that can be achieved by oneself. And now both Gongsun Xu and Lu Yu seem to be dominated by Tian Jing, which makes Gongsun Gong even more worried. He thought that time was running out anyway, and it was better to be able to understand it, so he asked, "Who are you?" ā
Tian Jing knew that he would have this question sooner or later, and said calmly, "The next surname is Tian Mingjing, and the word Zi'an is the general of the current dynasty." He has 100,000 soldiers under his command and currently leads four counties in the state. ā
Gongsun Gong suddenly realized and said, "I should have thought of it a long time ago, otherwise how could there be a young hero like a general in the world." I don't know anything now, since you are interested in seizing Liaodong. I've been poisoned, wouldn't it be clean for me to die, so why bother to find a famous doctor to save me. ā
Tian Jing said: "I live in the adult's house, get along day and night, know that the adult is kind by nature, you and I have a moral intersection, I will definitely not be able to live up to the adult." ā
Gongsun Gong said, "That's a good story, after I die, who will be the lord of Liaodong?" The general may be kind to the descendants of my grandson? ā
Tian Jing said, "My goal is to dominate the Central Plains, and Liaodong is just a temporary place to live." I have promised Gongsun to continue to be the lord of Youzhou in the future, this Liaodong is too guarded, as long as Gongsun Yuan is an adult, I will hand it over to him. As long as I am in one day, I will allow you to Yongzhen Liaodong of Gongsun Clan. ā
Gongsun Gong said, "If there is no basis for words, how can you believe it?" ā
Tian Jing ordered someone to bring silk silk and wrote on it, "When Gongsun Yuan inherits the position of Liaodong Taishou when he is an adult, as long as Tian Jing is in one day, Gongsun Yuan and his descendants will Yongzhen Liaodong." "After writing, he took out the seal letter of the general of Zhengbei and stamped his big seal on it.
Gongsun Gong folded the silk silk and put it in his arms, and then said, "Since the general has already decided on a long-term strategy for the development of Youzhou, even if I am a puppet, I will be the assassin of Pingzhou for this groundbreaking." Let's do everything according to the general's arrangement. ā
Ten days later, Gongsun Gong presided over the morning meeting and convened all civil and military officials in Liaodong to discuss the meeting. Although it was a discussion, it was directly announced that the four counties of Liaodong would be changed to Pingzhou, and Gongsun Gong would lead the history of Yunzhou. Xu Shu is engaged in governance, and is in charge of hundreds of officials and civil affairs; Take Huaxin as a different driver; Wang Qing (Tian Jing) is engaged in the soldiers, and the soldiers and horses are mobilized; Liu Yong was engaged in the clerkship of money and grain for Bo Cao.
These people are all Tian Jing's confidants, only Hua Xin was directly promoted from the literary Cao Peng to the Zhizhong, one reason is that Tian Jing knows Hua Xin's personal ability from later history, and the other reason is that Hua Xin did not stand in line casually in the previous political struggle, neither Gongsun Kang's nor Gongsun Gong's people.
In terms of the candidates for the Taishou of each county, the Liaodong Shu State was changed to Changli County, and the Yangle of Liaoxi was included in the jurisdiction of Changli County, and Gongsun continued to be the Changli Taishou. Leading 10,000 troops, the main goal is to pass through Liaoxi and Xutu Youzhou in the future. With the original Flying Eagle Captain Yan Rou as the Xuantu Taishou and Zhang Liao as the Xuantu Captain, leading 10,000 troops, the goal is to attack Goguryeo, Fuyu, and expand the territory; With Lu Yu as the Liaodong Taishou, Xu Liang as the Liaodong Commander, and Lu Qilin as the Captain of Xiangping, responsible for the defense of Xiangping; Lelang County takes Liangmao as the Taishou and Zhang Quan as the captain of Lelang.
Liang Mao was originally appointed by the Han Dynasty as Le Lang Taishou, but because he had always refused to be loyal to Gongsun Du, he had been under house arrest in Xiangping. This person still has a certain amount of ability in history, so Tian Jing still takes Liang Mao as Lelang's guard.
In this way, the subordinate officials of the Assassin Mansion and the four county guards and the commanders have all made arrangements. At present, there are still two battalions of infantry troops, two battalions of cavalry, and no arrangements have been made for the ownership of the two battalions of buildings and boats. In the end, it was decided that Wu Da, the left commander of the infantry army, was placed under the command of Yan Rou, the right commander of the infantry army, Liu Tong, the right commander of the infantry army, was placed under the command of Xuantu Taishou Liangmao, Sun Meng, the left captain of the cavalry, was placed under the command of Gongsun Xu, the commander of the Changli Taishou, and He Mao, the right captain of the cavalry, was placed under the command of Lu Yu, the Taishou of Liaodong. He Sheng, the left lieutenant of the navy, rebelled and abandoned the city and beheaded him, but his family was not affected. With the deputy general Sun Mo as the left lieutenant of the building boat, the garrison of the Yu clan (near present-day Lushun), the right lieutenant of the building boat, Liu Yi garrisoned the Liaohekou (near the present-day Yingkou), and the navy was all under the unified dispatch of Wang Qing (Tian Jing) engaged in the Bing Cao.
Just when Tian Jing's recovery of Liaodong was in full swing, several major events also occurred in the Central Plains.
Liu Bei, who said goodbye to Guandu at Guandu, later met Guan Yu and Zhang Fei in the ancient city, went south to Runan, and defected to Runan Chen Palace. After everyone joined forces, Zhang Yun led Lei Bo, Chen Lan was ready to vote, Chen Gong planned to let Lei Bo and Chen Lan pretend to surrender Jiangxia Huangzu, and then the two sides should cooperate to seize Jiangxia. Huang Zu didn't know what the plan was, not only lost Jiang Xia, but gave his life. Chen Gong asked Liu Bei to give Huang Zu's head to Sun Quan to form an alliance with Sun Quan. At the beginning, Sun Jian died at the hands of Huang Zu, and the generals of Jiangdong did not want to take revenge all the time, which was in line with Sun Quan's wish, and the two sides formed an alliance to jointly attack Guangling County, Xuzhou.
Liu Bei now occupies the two counties of Runan and Jiangxia, and allied with Sun Quan to the east. Liu Biao sent generals Cai Mao and Zhang Yun to attack Liu Bei, but they were defeated by Guan Yu's troops. Liu Bei took the opportunity to express his willingness to serve Liu Biao as the lord of Jingzhou, and Liu Bei took Ma Yongzhen Jiangxia as the eastern barrier, and the two sides jointly attacked Nanyang County, which was guarded by Cao Ren.
For a while, the originally stable south became very unfavorable to Cao Cao because of Liu Bei's accession.
Cao Cao's eloquence lies in his courage to make decisions the more he encounters problems. Cao Cao originally planned to wait for Jizhou to settle down and digest it for a while before going north, but Liu Bei forced him to speed up the pace of the attack.
Just a month after the Spring Festival, Cao Cao gathered 100,000 troops to attack Youzhou.
Today's Youzhou has long since lost Yijing Jiancheng, and the city defense of Jixian County is not much better than that of the original Gongsun Zan period. To be honest, Yuan Xi has basically made no achievements in military defense in the past two years of governing Youzhou.
After Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi retreated to Youzhou, they naturally realized this problem. And Youzhou has less than 50,000 soldiers and horses, and compared with Cao Cao, there is a lack of generals who can fight well. Therefore, Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi set their goal at the beginning to gather foreign aid. The first thing they thought of was Wuhuan in the three counties of Youzhou.
When Gongsun Chan was attacked at the beginning, Yuan Shao's people did not have less contact with the people of Wuhuan in the three counties, and Bang Dun did find a lot of trouble for Gongsun Chan behind his back. Now Yuan Shang ordered the envoy to bring a heavy gift to ask for a blessing, and Wuyan sent troops to help, and promised that once Cao Cao was defeated, more land in Youzhou would be handed over to the Wuhuan people to manage.
At the beginning, the four major Wuhuan lords of Youzhou, Su Fuyan, the Wuhuan King of Liaodong Shu State, died in Youzhou that year, and his younger brother Su Fumaru inherited the tribe, but his strength was weakened and had already been annexed by Bundun. Now it has 40,000 troops and garrisons in Liucheng. After the death of Lord Wuhuan in Shanggu, the throne of Gongsun continued. As a result, after Wuyan conspired to drive away Gongsun Xu, he actually controlled Shanggu Wuhuan under the command of Nanlou, and now there are 30,000 horses.
Badun agreed to send 20,000 troops, and Wuyan agreed to send 15,000 troops to support Yuan Shang.
These Wuhuan people are all cavalry, and they have a very strong advantage on the battlefield of Youzhou. Therefore, Yuan Shang decided to put the main battlefield in the plain area in the south of Jixian County and start a decisive battle with Cao Cao.
Yuan Shang has always been brave, so this time he personally served as the commander. The 35,000 cavalry of Wuhuan was the vanguard. Yuan Shang led 50,000 Chinese troops to sit behind.
Yuan Shang dared to fight a decisive battle, but it was unexpected by Cao Cao, but it was also in Cao Cao's arms. Cao Cao was afraid that Yuan Shang would stick to the city, and attacking the city one by one would be unfavorable to Cao Cao in terms of time. After all, there are too many uncertainties in his rear.
The Wuhuan cavalry has always been known as brave and invincible outside the Saiwai, but back then, Gongsun Zhan's white horse cavalry was able to overwhelm Wuhuan, and Cao Cao had the invincible tiger and leopard cavalry in the world, so he naturally would not take the Wuhuan cavalry seriously.
Although there were only 5,000 tigers and leopards led by Cao Chun, they were all elite men selected from more than 100 generals. The horses are all war horses in the Western Regions, and the people are full-body chain mail, a cavalry spear of eight feet, a seven-foot short spear behind the back, a hundred steel knives on the waist, a slanted back treasure carving bow, ten wolf arrows in the pot, and the horses under the crotch are also fully armor protection, and the sword is not as good.
In addition to Cao Chun's tiger and leopard cavalry, Cao Cao also had 10,000 light cavalry of Xiahoudun on the right flank on both sides. The remaining infantry phalanx, Dian Wei Xu Chu led 10,000 jumping knife hands to rush forward as the vanguard of the infantry army, Cao Cao led the Chinese army of 35,000 people under the command of generals such as Zhang He, Gao Lan, Hou Cheng, Song Xian, etc., Zang Ba led 20,000 troops for the right wing, and Le Jin led 20,000 troops for the left wing.
Yuan Shang saw that Cao's army only placed 5,000 cavalry on the front, and did not arrange pikemen for defense, he was very contemptuous, and thought that Cao Cao was nothing more than that. Immediately adjusted the formation, allowing the Wuhuan cavalry to take the lead in the charge, and the 35,000 cavalry charged in black pressure.
Cao Chun's 5,000 tigers and leopards rode neatly and uniformly, with strict discipline, and gradually accelerated, until they reached the best charging distance of the cavalry, and then they started at full speed, and among the 35,000 cavalrymen who killed 5,000 people, it was like a wedge opening a hole in the earth. And gradually expand until it is complete, broken and torn apart. When the tiger and leopard rode by, the Wuhuan cavalry was strewn with corpses all over the field and could not be defeated. Just when the Wuhuan cavalry was in chaos, Xiahoudun's light cavalry decisively came up to outflank and harvested the enemy's lives with bows and arrows and spears. Those cavalrymen who were lucky enough to be caught and rushed to the front, because they had lost the advantage of speed, were either cut off horses or people by the jumping knife hands, and most of them were killed, and almost nothing was caught.
As soon as the Wuhuan cavalry was defeated on this battlefield, Yuan Shang panicked. However, he still thought that he had a chance to fight, and immediately adjusted the infantry offensive formation to a defensive formation, hoping to save the situation. But at this moment, the tiger and leopard cavalry, which had just completely defeated the Wuhuan cavalry, launched a second attack on the infantry formation.
The 5,000 cavalry suffered almost no casualties. But in the attack, there is basically no way to use the spear twice. Now attacking the infantry camp again, the cavalry first fired a round of Langya arrows at a distance of a hundred paces, then took off their mounted spears and charged the infantry camp with the strength of their horses.
At this time, Cao Cao's command flag waved, and the Chinese army and the left and right flanks of the infantry launched a charge at the same time, and the sound of these nearly 100,000 people shouting together was enough to make the enemy frightened. Before Cao's army even rushed to him, Yuan Shang's men and horses had all been defeated.
Now I can't go back to Jixian anymore, because the guards in the city don't dare to open the door. Yuan Shang could only retreat north with the rout.
Cao Cao asked Xiahoudun to lead his troops to chase after him, not allowing Yuan Shang to have any rest, and then led his own army to surround Jixian.