Chapter Forty-Eight: Jinyang Arrives

Rumors have been difficult to guard against since ancient times, especially if there are many people who say it, what is false will become true, this is the power of rumors. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info In all dynasties, similar things have happened, and there will be people who have been recruited and dismissed. The rumors spread by Tian Chou's faction in various towns really made Ding Yuan and Lu Bu at a loss, and it was difficult to come up with a way to deal with it.

Lu Budao: "Father-in-law, you said that we still have to apologize to that kid Tang Hua?" Is this necessary? Tang Hua's kid is a scoundrel, why don't you care what outsiders say. ”

After hearing this, Ding Yuan shook his head and said with a wry smile: "What's the use of just apologizing, not only to apologize, but also to send him money, food and other materials quickly, and send more, so as to see if you can get his forgiveness." Otherwise, he will still sue the court, then it will be a big trouble, if there are no these rumors, no one will care no matter how he sues, now it is different, there are many people staring at me, I am jumping into the Yellow River now and can't wash it. ”

After Lu Bu left, he was very depressed, so he went to the house to drink and dispel his sorrows.

Ding Yuan, who sighed alone in the room, wondered how could he provoke Tang Hua, a madman, this kid was completely unreasonable, and dared to mess around with anything, but there were still people in the court to help him speak, and even the general He Jin and the eunuch Zhang Rang said good things about him. What the hell is going on? Doesn't this kid have any background in the background? Why did the two big bulls in the DPRK and China say good things for him?

Although those Confucians looked down on Tang Hua's background and didn't want to give him any high-ranking officials, they also hoped that someone could go to fight the Tartar Iron Horse, besides, Tang Hua, this kid, still took the initiative to fight the Tartar Iron Horse, and he didn't want the court to give him anything, of course the court was willing to do it, and the emperor was even more willing, and someone was unhappy to help him guard the border pass.

In Yanmen Pass, more than 20,000 soldiers of Tang Hua rested for a day and a night, and now they are full of energy and energy. After breakfast, the snake army set off to Jinyang, galloping all the way, for the small towns passed on the way, the snake army did not care, did not stay, most of the magistrates did not dare to do much after seeing it, but also made them depressed, how could the snake army go to Jinyang, is it to attack Jinyang?

The local officials with a slight sense of responsibility still sent fast horses to report to Jinyang, but their fast horses were not as fast as the march of the Serpent Army. Moreover, the snake army cleaned up all the idle people wherever it went, and fast horses could not pass.

Twenty miles away from Jinyang, the Snake Army dismounted to rest, and the soldiers had to eat, replenish their energy, and restore their strength. In order to ensure the success of the raid, the Serpent Army controlled all the roads to Jinyang in the scouts, and not even a single mosquito flew in.

By the time of the fifth watch, the Snake Army was all in place, waiting for the lurking personnel in Jinyang to send a signal to the outside.

Tang Hua and they hid and waited at a distance of three or five miles from the city gate, and just after the fifth watch, Zhang Liao saw that there was a fire on the Jinyang wall shaking, and Zhang Liao immediately asked the soldiers to signal to the city wall and shake the torch in his hand.

Tang Hua's five hundred soldiers lurking in the city had already been fully prepared, and now that they saw that the Snake Army had safely arrived at the designated location, the soldiers in charge of liaison immediately went down the city wall, led the soldiers to sneak towards the city gate, and wiped all the Ding Yuan soldiers guarding the city gate.

Tang Hua's lurking soldiers opened the city gate, lowered the drawbridge, guarded the city gate, and waited for the arrival of the army.

When the city gate was opened, an enemy soldier defending the city who got up to pee found out, the soldier rubbed his eyes, and found that it was not a dream, but someone who was really opening the city gate, and reflexively ran, shouting that the enemy was attacking as he ran, and then the snake army lurking soldiers rushed forward and cut him down.

The shouts of the soldiers guarding the city still woke up some of the other soldiers guarding the city gates, but most of them didn't get up, and said something, his grandmother's, what are you shouting, the enemy attack at this time.

However, there were still a few soldiers who were slowly dressing and ready to check, and at this time, the loud noise of the drawbridge falling made them all hear clearly, and they realized that there was really an enemy attack, but what awaited them was death.

Tang Hua's lurking soldiers said to them loudly, kneel and surrender without killing, kneel down and surrender without killing, we are the Fierce Snake Army, we are here to kill the big **, **thief Ding Yuan and Lu Bu, and we have nothing to do with others.

In order to survive, many soldiers still chose to kneel and surrender this road, after all, the snake army is too much of a deterrent to them, last year their 20,000 people could not beat the 5,000 people of the snake, they will pee their pants when they hear the snake army, plus the prestige of the snake army on the prairie is too loud.

Tang Hua They saw that the city gate was opened not far from the city gate, Tang Hua waved his hand, 10,000 flying snake troops galloped away, Tang Hua asked Zhang Liao and Zhao Yun to control the enemy soldiers and horses in Jinyang first, although Lu Bu lost 20,000 soldiers and horses last time, but there were still 20,000 wolf horsemen in the city who were not damaged, and the remaining 20,000 or so infantry were mostly recruits, as long as Lu Ning first controlled the soldiers and horses in the city, or controlled most of the soldiers and horses in the city, no matter how brave he Lu Bu was, it was difficult to speak alone.

Tang Hua and Dian Wei, Li Jin, Heizi and others led 10,000 infantry to kill the relevant important departments and state capitals in the city, this is the key, as long as the relevant officials are controlled, then the overall situation is preliminary, and it is best to capture Ding Yuan, which is more perfect.

With such a big military operation, it is impossible that there is no movement, and the soldiers in Jinyang are all awakened, they are all awakened by the loud vibration sound in their sleep, and they all know that it is a cavalry unit.

The soldiers of Ding Yuan's army were in a mess in the shouts of the generals, some could not find clothes, some could not find armor, and some did not even find the weapons in their hands, and when they ran out in a hurry, the Snake Army had also been killed in front of them, and when the soldiers of Ding Yuan's army saw that it was the Snake Army that killed them, their morale plummeted.

The soldiers of the Snake Army shouted: Surrender on your knees and don't kill, surrender on your knees and don't kill, we are just here to kill Ding Yuan and Lu Bu, who have nothing to do with others.

Many soldiers in the state know that there is only one way to surrender if they want to survive, and they are all small soldiers, is it necessary to work for **.

The soldiers surrendered on their knees, of course, there were still stubborn and desperate resistance, but it did not play a big role.

An hour later, the wolf cavalry and infantry in Bingzhou were completely controlled by Zhang Liao and Zhao Yun.

At that time, Lu Bu's generals Hao Meng, Cao Xing, Hou Cheng, Song Xian, Xue Lan and others in the military camp were killed and retreated, among them, Xue Lan was shot through by Zhao Yun and died, Song Xian and Hou Cheng were seriously injured by Zhang Liao and fled for their lives.

Hao Meng and Cao Xing saw that the situation was not good, and immediately ran to Lu Bu's mansion.

At this time, the big fool Lu Bu was still in a dream, and when the two arrived at Lu Bu's mansion, they found that Wei Xu was shaking Lu Bu non-stop, hoping to shake him awake, but he still couldn't wake up. A few of them were as big as cows, and later they were still Lu Bu's own soldiers who said that they were filled with cold water, and they would definitely be able to wake up, and Wei Xu had no other way when he heard it, so he could only bring a basin of cold water and splash it on Lu Bu's face.

After Lu Bu was woken up by the cold water, he first rubbed his eyes, and when he saw several generals standing beside him, he asked at the exit, "Is it raining, why are you here?" ”

Wei Xu shook his head after hearing this, and sighed: "Lord, the fierce snake has entered the city. ”

After hearing this, Lu Bu shook his head, glared at Wei Xu and said, "What nonsense are you talking about?" The snake is killed, how can this be, didn't he send troops to the prairie? He's still capable of attacking us, you're not going to be drunk, are you? ”

Hao Meng sighed and replied seriously: "Lord, it's true, the fierce snake is coming into the city, let's run away quickly." ”

Lu Bu pinched his thigh, and after sobering up a little, he said, "What you said is true, that kid from the fierce snake is really killed?" ”

Wei continued: "Yes, my lord, let's run away quickly." ”

Lu Bu laughed out loud when he heard this, and shouted loudly after laughing: "Isn't this right, if he doesn't come, I'll go to find him, and now that he's here, it's to send him to death." Change my clothes for me, bring my Fang Tian painting halberd, and I'll go to take Tang Hua'er's dog's life. ”

Lu Bu's own soldiers were putting on armor for him, and Hao Meng next to him continued: "Lord, let's hurry up and protect your father-in-law and go out of the city together, it may be too late to be late, and I have already finished the state soldiers." ”

When Lu Bu heard this, he was dumbfounded, and said in a panic: "How is this possible, I have about 40,000 soldiers and horses in Jinyang. ”

Hao Meng hung his head and said dejectedly: "Lord, it's really all over, Xue Lan died in battle, Hou Cheng and Song Xian were seriously injured, and now only General Gao Shun is not clear about the situation, because his injuries have not been completely healed, so he is not in the barracks." Most of the soldiers in the city dared to resist when they heard that it was the Serpent Army, and they all fled and surrendered on their knees. ”

When Lu Bu heard this, he knew that it was true, and although he was panicked, he still ran towards Ding Yuan's inner room with Hao Meng, Cao Xing, Wei Xu, and dozens of soldiers, and saw a mess of subordinates and soldiers.

Lu Bu and the others covered Ding Yuan's family and fled outside the door, and when they went out, they found that there were three or four thousand soldiers of the Snake Army surrounded by the door, which was more than three thousand infantry led by Tang Hua and Dian Wei.

When Tang Hua saw Lu Bu, he said to the soldiers: "Brothers, use the bows and arrows in your hands to shoot at the Tartar Lu Bu. ”

Thousands of archers shot at Lu Bu together, and Lu Bu, the birdman, was really powerful, although Ding Yuan's family basically did not escape, and many of them were shot on the spot.

Lu Bu was also hit by more than ten arrows, and Tang Hua didn't know how injured he was, anyway, Tang Hua just didn't fight with him alone. Tang Hua, they just shoot with bows and arrows, can you block them all?

After a while, Lu Bu was shot with a few more arrows, but Lu Bu and Ding Yuan still fought their way out of the city under the desperate cover of Wei Xu, Hao Meng, and Cao Xing.

Two hours later, the battle was over, Gao Shun was wounded, and after the siege of the Snake Army, he was captured by Li You and his soldiers, and everyone else who wanted to resist was killed.

More than 3,000 enemy soldiers were killed in this battle, more than 35,000 soldiers were captured, and the rest of the more than 1,000 were missing. All the money and grain in the city were seized, and the family property of Ding Yuan and others was also confiscated.

The Serpent Army suffered more than 1,000 casualties and more than 200 dead or seriously wounded.

The next thing is Sima Lang's work, and the first thing they do is to post a notice to defend Ding Yuan and Lu Bu for the crimes of collaborating with the enemy, embezzlement, and disobeying the holy decree.

In general, after the city of Jinzhong was conquered, the busiest thing was Sima Lang and their civilian officials, they had a lot of things to deal with, Tang Hua used to be doing it alone, but now it's okay, Tang Hua can rest, just watch Sima Lang and they are busy.

Tang Hua said to Heizi: "Heizi, give you 3,000 infantry, in addition to maintaining order in Jinyang, you must also be responsible for the reorganization of prisoners, meet the requirements, meet the conditions, and are willing to participate in the recruitment of our army, and let the rest of the captured soldiers be coolies for five years, who told them to follow Ding Yuan and Lu Bu, this is not to blame others, it can only be said that their lives are not good." ”

After listening to Tang Hua's nondescript words, everyone laughed.

Kuroko replied, "It's the lord." ”

Then he said to Zhang Liao: "Wen Yuan, hurry up and let the other soldiers who are about to set off rest, hurry up and get food, and move forward as soon as they are ready." ”

Zhang Liao said: "It's the lord." ”

Dian Wei said: "Lord, what to do with Ding Yuan's old thief's family." ”

Tang Hua thought for a while and said: "Let's all be slaves, men go to dig coal, mine, and women go to work in factories, and people at the moment." As for the families of the other generals, let's talk about house arrest first. ”

Zhao Yun said: "Lord, is it appropriate to do this to Ding Yuan's family, will you let those Confucian scholars gossip." ”

Tang Hua said: "What's so terrible, he even dares to beat Lao Tzu's messenger, and I still have something polite to him." Besides, even if you arrange his family well, he won't appreciate it, and he will hate me the same. ”

Zhang Liao said: "We don't have to be afraid, he Ding Yuan is now a lost dog." ”

Tang Hua said to the guards: "Go and invite General Gao Shun in." ”

After a while, Gao Shun was brought in, and he didn't salute anyone, but stood there with his head held high.

Tang Hua looked at Gao Shun's appearance and really wanted to laugh, but he still couldn't help but laugh and said to him: "General Gao Shun, please sit, what are you doing standing." ”

After Gao Shun sat down, Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun and others began to persuade them to surrender.

Zhang Liao said General Gao, how can you recognize Tartar as the lord, aren't you my Han people?

Zhao Yun said again, General Gao, if you follow the Tartars and follow the corrupt officials, you don't want to think about the people on the border of the Han Dynasty, the common people are burned, killed and plundered by the Tartar iron cavalry every year, they Tartar soldiers don't do any bad things, ** women, do all kinds of evil, how can you talk to such people? Anyway, it's a mess of one person who said a lot.

Gao Shun asked rhetorically, "Aren't these rumors made up by you?" ”

For Gao Shun's rhetorical question, Tang Hua had already been prepared. Knowing that he can only continue to sprinkle sewage on Lu Bu's body, there is no doubt about it, and only in this way can the people of the world believe that Lu Bu is a Tartar. When the time comes, no one in the world will believe Lu Bu's words.