Chapter 67: The Wolf Smoke Rises
Reward farming, the land belongs to the people, the enthusiasm is greatly improved, there is no war outside, the people's livelihood is solid, the people from other places, many of them are famous for moving to Youzhou, in just two years, the population of Youzhou is about to exceed 10 million! In the past, Youzhou, which was barren for hundreds of miles, has become fertile land. Merchants continue to come and go, the counties under the state are vying to follow suit, and carry out reforms, although it is a troubled era, here is a song and dance, like a peaceful and prosperous era. Even if they are far away in Jiangdong, Jingzhou and other distant merchants, there are many figures in Youzhou.
The people rushed to join the army, and in just two years, there were more than 250,000 elite soldiers! Among them, 100,000 regular troops are stationed in the frontier, and 150,000 field troops can be randomly transferred, and vigorously purchase war horses, more than 30,000 good horses, and form a wolf heavy cavalry army. That is, an army of 150,000 had 80,000 cavalry, and among the 80,000 cavalry, there were 30,000 heavy cavalry. There are also a large number of blacksmiths recruited to forge armor and armor, and hoard food to bring time.
Recruit wise men, many celebrities and like-minded people, such as? The military generals are rarely supplemented and silver, and the civil servants have Qi Zhou, Yan Rou, Wei You, Yan Zhong, Tian Yu, and Tian Chou, but it solves the dilemma of lack of officials. It is worth mentioning that Yan Zhong also transferred from the command of Huangfu to his command. It's just that Zhao Yun and Zhao don't know where to go.
Militarily, on the borders of Youzhou, there is a wolf smoke for ten miles, and each stronghold has ten people, as long as there is a foreign invasion of the territory, the nearest garrison army can be sent to support. Guan Yu and other generals were stationed in Shanggu, Liaoxi, Liaodong, Lelang and other four counties.
Later, due to the frequent invasion of small groups of Xianbei on the border, there were many casualties in Youzhou in the long run. Later, a martyr's cemetery of more than ten acres was built in the northeast corner of Zhuo County, which was also considered spectacular.
I remember the first time to bury the fallen soldiers of the battle is very large, thousands of dead soldiers at the same time out of the funeral, and the accompanying relatives are all tears, and these people have to follow the neat army, I personally carried the coffins for the soldiers, when the team arrived at the cemetery, the horn sounded, after a while the dead soldiers were buried, each tomb stood in front of a stone stele, which wrote the age of a certain birthday and life deeds, looking at these tombstones my heart was dripping blood, these people were buried by his Xianbei dog, Although the ministers and soldiers didn't say anything, but he couldn't get over it in his own heart, looking at a living person, lying in the dirt because of defending his homeland, my body seemed to be pressed from above, I cried, my hands that had never knelt before people finally knelt on the ground, I saw the emperor did not kneel down, today I finally knelt on the ground, and it is in the eyes of thousands of people, thousands of soldiers. The people and soldiers all watched the fat Chu king kneel in front of the fallen soldiers, they also cried, they cried happily, because they had a good prince, and my unintentional move this time also made the officials under Youzhou willing to fight for me.
In October of the fourth year of Zhongping, that is, in 187 AD, the autumn harvest was completed.
Thick wolf smoke wafted in the distance, Guo Jia hurriedly came to my house and said to me: "Lord, look at this. ”
I took it and looked at it, smiled slightly, Xianbei dog finally came, it turned out that the battle report said that Guan Yu originally led the army to garrison Liaodong, and just happened to meet the Xianbei people who were plundering the people, and now Guan Yu is resisting, because the opponent's army is several times larger than his own, so he asked me to send reinforcements. Why did the Xianbei people attack Youzhou at this time? That is the leader of Xianbei Tan Shihuai knows that now the people have just finished harvesting grain, and Youzhou is now rich, Tan Shihuai is a very smart person, he feels that the Han Dynasty is happy with the harvest now, and he should relax his vigilance, and he also heard that most of the army of the king of Chu is stationed in the western counties, this time the attack is on the eastern Liaodong county, only the speed is fast, and the king of Chu has no time to react. Originally, he was going to go out to plunder in December, but he was two months ahead of schedule and wanted to make a big profit, but he didn't think that the army of the King of Chu was so large, and he didn't need to farm and harvest wheat at all.
After reading the report, I thought for a while and quickly made a contingency, ordering Guo Jia and Zhang Fei to lead 80,000 soldiers in the field army to support Guan Yu, and then ordered Chen Zhi in Shanggu County to lead only 20,000 light cavalry under his command to Xianbei to plunder, implement the three-light policy, kill all, rob the light, burn the pass, and order Xu Chu to obey the instructions of the frustrated, test the car in the center, and then let Tian Feng have full authority to deal with the affairs of Youzhou.
The generals nodded, indicating that they understood what I meant. I also said to the generals: "Ladies and gentlemen, you don't have to spare your hands on the foreigners, give me a hard beating, try to beat them to be afraid, and try not to take them prisoners." ”
Everyone said: "I know, my lord, after so many years, I can finally teach the foreigners with my own hands, and we will definitely kill them." ”
I also looked at everyone's resentful expressions and said, "Okay, this time we will teach these foreigners a good lesson and let them know that we are not easy to mess with." And this time you can only rely on yourselves, I hope you will be cautious when fighting. ”
The generals said, "Yes, my lord, we will be careful. "After saying that, seeing that I had no orders, he withdrew from the council chamber and prepared to go.
After that, I took a thousand tiger guards and went to Liaodong to see those Xianbei dogs.
In Xiangping City, a vassal country in eastern Liaodong, Guan Yu stood on the city gate and looked at the dense Xianbei army below, there were a lot of people in Tanshihuai's plundering this time, there were 200,000 people, he felt that Chuxiong's army was scattered everywhere, and most of them were in the west, and there was not much resistance, but he still underestimated Guan Yu, a few days ago, the generals of the two armies were single-handed, and several of their Xianbei warriors were slashed by Guan Yu, and in the end they were scared to see this red face, he could only rely on the soldiers to rush with more lives, Guan Yu also knew that Xianbei had 200,000 people, But for himself, who only has 40,000 people, that's still a lot, so Guan Yu is also waiting for help. Looking at the Xianbei cavalry below, Guan Yu was very envious, he had long heard that the Xianbei horse was stronger than the Wuheng horse, and when he saw it today, most of the cavalry led by Guan Yu were cavalry, and the defenders of the city were only 10,000 standing troops, and in the absence of backup, Guan Yu would not take the 30,000 heavenly wolf cavalry to go deep.
The sun is scorching, and the walls of Xiangping City are full of dense people, but the people above the city are obviously Han people, and the people below the city are Xianbei people in different clothes.
I saw that the blood of both sides had been killed.
It is now the fourth day of Guan Yu's defense of the city, Chu Xiong's reinforcements have not yet come, Guan Yu can easily defend in the face of several times the enemy, but the Xianbei people are good at salvo, Guan Yu's infantry is just a standing army, the equipment is average, and there is nothing to do. If you really can't defend it, you can only use cavalry to defend the city, and this city wall is strong enough after years of construction by Bingyuan Taishou.
Fortunately, those Xianbei people are cavalry, not good at attacking the city, every time they are just shooting at a hundred paces away, Xianbei people are good at shooting, just shooting from the bottom to the top, and they can't take advantage of the Han army that shoots from the top down, each time can only leave a few thousand corpses, this is the tenth attack of the Xianbei people.
In front of the enemy formation, Tan Shihuai said angrily: "Xianbei warriors, step up your attack and take this Xiangping City today, the beauties inside are up to you to choose, and the treasures are up to you." ”
When the Xianbei soldiers heard this, their spirits were even more uplifted, on the other hand, the defenders on the city tower were demoralized, if Guan Yu hadn't been here, they wouldn't have known where they would have gone.
Guan Yu was also helpless, cut down a Xianbei soldier with a knife, and said loudly, "Brothers, hold on, the lord's reinforcements will arrive soon." "
Although Guan Yu is very arrogant, he treats the soldiers very well, so the soldiers respect Guan Yu very much, although this sentence has been said countless times, but when Guan Yu says it, it still plays a certain role.
It's nearly afternoon, the time of the day has passed, Xianbei's army has finally not broken through, and Shi Huai has no choice but to retreat, seeing that it is going to be dark, it is impossible to take it down, the two sides are also very tacit truce, the battle needs to rest for a day, and the night is not suitable for archery, when Guan Yu returned to the place where he lived, he took off his Qinglong robe and was about to rest, when the guards came. "Commander Qiqi, the Lord Lord's reinforcements are here." The guard said excitedly, Guan Yu was also very happy when he heard it, where can he still take care of rest, and said: "Where is it, take me quickly." ”