381 Battle of Anping
Yuan Shang said angrily: "Luan Ziqi also underestimated me Yuan Shang. There are nearly 100,000 people in armor in Jizhou, and more than 100 fortified cities. At that time, he will be the one who will bring humiliation on himself. ”
Xi Zhicai smiled coldly, "General Yuan really doesn't surrender?" ”
Yuan Shang said with a hideous face: "A gentleman is hard to chase after a horse!" I'm going to let Luan Ziqi taste the humiliation of himself now. Someone came, cut off the nose of the Confucian opera Zhicai for me, and sent it to Luan Ziqi together with the opera Zhicai. The order was conveyed, but he found that no one responded after a long time, so he repeated again, "Someone! Trick Zhicai dragged me down. Still no one answered, "Where are the samurai?" "Still no one answered. He then moved his gaze to Guo Tu and Feng Ji, "Guo Gong, Feng Gong, what do you want!" I will not send anyone to take this thief down to me. ”
"Oh!" Guo Tuba clicked his lips, as if he had just woken up from his sleep, smiled and bowed to Yuan Shang, and shouted at the door of the hall: "Come on, there is an order on the peak, cut the thief's nose and escort him down." ”
After "......" echoed loudly, the tall figures of Yan Liang and Wen Chou appeared in Yuan Shang's sight at the door of the hall, and he also said that the two fierce generals were going to personally go out to deal with the drama Zhicai, but then found that behind Yan Liang and Wen Chou there were hundreds of armor-clad sword and axe hands. A group of soldiers rushed into the hall with swords in hand to surround the hundreds of officials in the hall, while Yan Liang and Wen Chou directly bypassed Xi Zhicai and walked towards the high platform with a fierce momentum.
"You ...... What do you want to do? Yuan Shang was shocked.
"What for?" Yan Liang snorted coldly, "By the order of the sect master-rebellion." ”
Poor Yuan Shang didn't know until this time that Guo Tu, Feng Ji, Yan Liang, and Wen Chou, the people he trusted the most on weekdays, had turned their backs on him. Rushing to the civil and military officials for help: "Come and save me!" ”
But at this time, most of the Tang Chinese Wu were Guo Tu's henchmen, even if they weren't ...... In the face of the bright blades in the hands of hundreds of armor soldiers, he was also trembling, where did he dare to come out. watched Yuan Shang being twisted by Yan Liang and Wen Chou and dragged out of the lobby.
Poor Yuan Shang didn't know until this moment that he had betrayed his relatives. At the last moment when he was about to be punished with a severed nose, he couldn't help but think of the trial-the person who always likes to find fault with him and never estimates his face.
Good medicine is good for disease, and good words are good for deeds, that is the person who is truly loyal to himself!
It's a pity that he made the same mistake as his father, listened to Guo Tu's slander, belittled the trial again and again, transferred him out of Yecheng, and guarded any small county in Anping County.
"Judging Zhengnan, I'm sorry for you!"
The blade slashed, leaving a hideous wound on Yuan Shang's face, which was as handsome as his father's.
Yuan Shang was captured and imprisoned, and Guo Tu waved his arms and called on all counties in Jizhou to surrender to the church.
Within three days, 76 of the 147 cities in Jizhou hung the blood red cross banner on the city's head. The fifty-seven city guards close to the two states of Youhe had an ambiguous attitude, and they were in a wait-and-see posture and made a choice between surrendering to the church and defecting to Yuan Tan and **. In addition, the fourteen cities of Anping County, which judged Tong Yuxia, resisted stubbornly and swore not to surrender.
In response to this situation, Luan Yi immediately led the 140,000 church army stationed in Guandu to cross the Yellow River north and enter the territory of Jizhou.
Those Jizhou guards with an ambiguous attitude learned that the church army was pressing, and immediately asked for help from Bingzhou and Youzhou, but after the messenger returned, they learned that Yuan Tan was afraid of the church's power, and he didn't have time to go to Jizhou to rescue them.
The Fifty-Seven City Guards were forced to do so, and immediately made a wall grass to the wind, and swore that they would be willing to join the Church and become part of the diocese.
The banner of the Blood Red Cross bloomed everywhere in the vast territory of Jizhou, and the only way to do so was to try to confront the church with the land of Anping County.
Speaking of Anping County, it was the junction of Yan and Zhao during the Warring States Period. The two countries often fought here, and in order to resist the invasion of Zhao, Yan built a fortified city here, which is the predecessor of the current Anping City.
Therefore, Anping has been an important military town in a dangerous area since ancient times, easy to defend and difficult to attack. At the same time, it is also the traffic artery from Jizhou to Youzhou.
In order to open up the passage to Youzhou, Luan Yi entered Jizhou, did not enter Yecheng, went straight to Anping, and camped in Anyang Hebei, fifty miles away from Anping City. Dazhai settled by 140,000 people, stretching for more than ten miles, the blood red cross flag is like the morning glow in winter, and it is impossible to see the edge at a glance.
In the early morning, Su You, the judge and the deputy general, inspected the city defense at the head of the city, and when he saw the magnificent barracks array of the church army and heard the monstrous command in the military array, Su You's face turned pale, and his legs trembled involuntarily. At this time, the judge called out to him, but he didn't hear it.
The judge immediately realized that Su You was afraid, and because of fear, he had a different heart, so he privately sent someone to guard against Su You.
As expected, late that night, Su You led more than 400 of his henchmen to steal the West Gate and want to go out of the city to join the church. Seeing that the city gate drawbridge was about to be lowered, the trial led 8,000 soldiers to rush out from both sides of the city gate at this time, surrounded Su You and his party, and threatened to arrest him.
Su Youbi knew what kind of ending he would usher in after being imprisoned, gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, "Brothers, fight with Zhengnan!" If you go out of the city to Luan Ziqi's tent, you can live a good life for a lifetime. ”
As soon as he heard this, Su You's four hundred soldiers came to his senses. I think that when Yuan Shao was there, they couldn't share the salary, Yuan Shao finally died, and it was Yuan Shang's turn to inherit Jizhou, it stands to reason that the father and son should pay off the debt and make up the silver salary!
But Yuan Shang didn't, saying something like "My father is dead, let's pass the past!" "Just write off the past debts. The soldiers can forcibly endure a write-off, but the next salary should be paid as scheduled, right? Yuan Shang didn't ...... His behavior was a little better than his father's, and he only paid half of the agreed salary.
Although it is better to pay than not to pay, the soldiers' silver salary is only that much, and they count on that bit of money to feed a large family on weekdays. After deducting half of it, the family is struggling, and they have eaten the last meal without the next meal.
In stark contrast to them, the 60,000 Hebei soldiers who followed Zhang He and Gao Ran to the church in the Battle of Guandu. Some time ago, they sent someone to bring oral training to their family in Jizhou, saying that they were doing very well in the diocese of Henan. He can receive a salary of 500 wen per month, which is equivalent to 25 times the agreed salary of Yuan Shao in Hebei Province and 50 times the actual salary. In addition, every three or five days, they can get meat to eat every Sunday, and there is wine to drink during the festival, this kind of life is something they can only dream of in the past.
In addition, the priests of the church in the army also helped those old bachelors who were over 30 years old to match and start a family. As for those veterans who are over fifty years old and dying, they will be abolished.
Touchingly, after the church resigned them from the army, it did not ignore them, but sent them to the Xuzhou Canal to help dig the canal. Not only can you get a lot of wages every month, but you can also learn the craft, killing two birds with one stone.
The priest in charge of the canal also told them that when they join the church and become true believers in the church, they will be able to rent the holy field from the place where they are in the church at a low price, and the church will help raise them if they have children in the future.
Hearing these news, the Hebei soldiers who served under Yuan Shang's account initially thought that the robe Ze who had defected to the church was bragging, but over time, there was more news coming back, and Fang knew that what Pao Ze said was the truth.
In the face of such superior conditions in Henan, how can they not yearn for it? Therefore, when Su You invited them to go out of the city and ask for surrender, they agreed without hesitation.
Now, seeing that he could live a good life when he stepped out of the city gate, he was blocked by the trial at the city gate. The four hundred soldiers who followed Su You were all filled with righteous indignation, "Mother, fight with them and go out of the city!" ”
The momentum of the four hundred soldiers is like a rainbow, but after all, they are prepared for the unprepared enemy, and the soldiers and horses under the trial are twice as many as theirs, they are not opponents at all.
In an instant, they fell to the upper hand, and hundreds of people died after just one round of arrows.
At the critical juncture of life and death, a gentle and elegant Su You burst out with unprecedented blood. Holding a spear to block left and right, he rushed out of the encirclement and killed at the mouth of the drawbridge under the escort of a group of personal guards.
Subsequently, several guards armed with steel knives slashed at the ropes of the suspension bridge.
The drawbridge fell in response, and the judge watched Su You rush out of the city, but because there were church soldiers and horses outside the city, he didn't dare to chase him, so he had to let Su You throw himself under Luan Yi's command.
Su You entered the church camp, Luan Yi personally met with him, and after learning that many soldiers in Anping City had the heart to surrender, he suddenly felt that people's hearts were available.
Early the next morning, he arranged for the labor propaganda team to go to Anping City with Su You, and Su You was responsible for shouting and explaining the church's policy of treating the soldiers well. The propaganda team held all kinds of slogans welcoming the Jizhou Army to the church.
For many days in a row, the gongs and drums outside Anping City were noisy and lively.
At this time, the trial of this advisor who was loyal to Yuan Shao showed his stern and ruthless side. He first beheaded all the captured Su Youyu party at the head of the city, and deprived the people who had different thoughts in the city by killing chickens and monkeys. Subsequently, he heard that his brother-in-law, his wife and brother, had made "apostasy" remarks in public, so he did not hesitate to kill his relatives, cut off his head and hang it above the city gate to show the public, and dug out his heart and liver to feed the dogs.
In this way, the soldiers were all in awe of him, and they did not dare to have any other thoughts.
Luan Yi saw that he could not persuade him to surrender, so he had to attack forcibly.
This time, in order to reduce casualties, Luan Yi sent the Thunderbolt convoy out at the beginning. More than 60 vehicles, escorted by more than 30,000 church guards, stopped a hundred steps away from Anping City. With the order of the commander, the boulder fell towards the city.
As early as in the battle of Guandu, the trial had tasted the power of the thunderbolt car, so early in this campaign, he thought that Luan Yi would take advantage of the thunderbolt car to attack the city, so he built several high platforms not far from the city wall in the city. There were a number of people left on the high platform, and when they saw the thunderbolt coming out of the battle, they immediately ordered the defenders to withdraw from the city wall.