Chapter 112: Chenzhou Attack and Defense (1)
Chenzhou is the capital of ancient Chen, with a long history, since the Spring and Autumn Period, it is a famous city in the Central Plains. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the demon king Huang Chao led 100,000 Liukou to surround Chenzhou, and it took a year. The rogues did not carry military rations, but accompanied the army with hundreds of stone mills, filled the people into stone mills, ground them into minced meat and ate them. After the city was destroyed, 100,000 people were reduced to minced meat. After this catastrophe, Chen Zhou's vitality was greatly damaged. There is a Song generation, a hundred years of life, and Chenzhou is a big city in eastern Henan. There are also hundreds of thousands of people inside and outside the city. The Protector Army rose in Yingtianfu, winged Chenzhou, and the number of people in Chenzhou increased instead of decreasing.
However, if you can't hold Chenzhou this time, it will inevitably reappear the tragedy of the late Tang Dynasty. Zhang Xian stood at the head of Chenzhou City, his hands tightly clasped on the city bricks, his red eyes full of anger. In the past few days, Zhang Xian didn't dare to close his eyes at all. As long as you close your eyes, you will be awakened by a bloody light.
Under the scimitars of 7,000 alien cavalry, villages were turned into ruins, towns were turned into blood swamps, and the people of the Central Plains were trampled down by horses' hooves and cut down by scimitars.
The people who shouted to the sky, the women in tattered clothes, the babies hanging on the tips of their guns, the young men who spontaneously rallied the crowd to resist, they resisted, they resisted extremely fiercely, but in the face of the seven thousand foreign robbers who had been planning for a long time, their resistance was only a powerless tragedy.
Their eyes were angry before they died, because these alien races that had transformed into beasts had lived in the Central Plains for more than a hundred years, and in ordinary days, they had also called them brothers. Their eyes were desperate before they died, especially when they saw that the First Division of the Protector Army could not stop these beasts.
Starting from Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, the Hu people of the Western Regions who came to pay tribute were settled inside and outside Bianliang City, in order to symbolize that although Yanyun has not recovered, the Emperor and Song Dynasty have come to the dynasty.
The status of these Hu people in Bianliang is not low, and it can even be said that the status is higher than that of Bianliang citizens. When they were doing business, the white city management that was rampant all over the streets did not dare to find fault with them. In the northwest corner of Bianliang, there are three main streets, all of which are owned by the Hu people.
The Hu people who came to Bianliang were a complex group, including bankrupt merchants from Europa, white-hat Huihui from Central Asia, blue-hat Huihui (i.e., Jews) who made their home from all over the world, Dangxiang people who came from Western Xia, and Japanese people, Koreans, and other chaotic Hu people. Anyway, the Emperor Song didn't care where these Hu people came from, as long as these Hu people put on a hat and sent some strange animals and plants, the reward of the Emperor Song would definitely make them satisfied.
In the 11th century, Bianliang was the most prosperous city on earth, and almost none of these Hu people chose to leave when they arrived in Bianliang. Of course, no one will leave. Most of these wealthy people who came to Bianliang were businessmen who did not get along well in their own country. Now that I can settle down in a paradise-like place, I am high above, and of course no one thinks that heaven is too good.
It is precisely for this reason that the Hu people in Bianliang City have changed from hundreds to tens of thousands at the time of the founding of the country. The three streets could no longer accommodate them, so they had to be resettled on the outskirts of Bianliang City.
When the Jurchens besieged Bianliang, these Hu people were not attacked by the Jin soldiers. This made Zong Ze, who was in charge of guarding Bianliang, suspicious of these Hu people and Jin people colluding in private. But the great Song monarchs and ministers who were so happy forbade Zong Ze to arrest these Hu people. Not only are they not allowed to be arrested, but they are not even allowed to monitor these Hu people. In the words of the Great Song Dynasty monarchs, "The Emperor and Song Dynasty are great powers, and they have always used virtue to convince people, how can they use swords against these Hu people who admire the Emperor and Song Dynasty!" ”
These blind Song monarchs did not seem to see that in the place where the Hu people lived, there were all churches built by the Hu people, and in them were dedicated to their Allah God, Jesus Rulai, but none of them were dedicated to Confucius.
When Du Chong was guarding Bianliang, these Hu people began to gather the crowd to protect themselves, building barricades on three streets and training young and strong. When Li Cheng entered Bianliang, he wanted to expel the Hu people according to Zong Ze's secret letter, but somehow he was persuaded by Wang Jun with a few words, not only did not expel the Hu people, but instead of expelling the Hu people, he put all the 7,000 young men trained by the Hu people into the military camp.
As a result, Li Cheng died tragically under Wang Jun's assassination, and the 7,000 Hu people suddenly attacked the military camp at night, killing all the 3,000 and 7 pawns loyal to Li Cheng, successfully forcing down the other rebels and controlling the entire Bianliang City.
After mastering the situation in Bianliang, these Hu people who had lived in the Great Song Dynasty for more than 100 years suddenly turned into beasts, although the original citizens of Bianliang were mostly taken captive by the Jin people, but with the town of Zongze, hundreds of thousands of displaced people fled into the city. Now the Hu people have begun to attack these homeless people. Like a trick, they conjured up tens of thousands of war horses from Huren Street, galloped down the street with scimitars, and cut people when they saw them. After a year, Bianliang City became a blood city again. In just a few days, at least tens of thousands of displaced people were killed, and others either held on to their dangerous positions or burrowed into the sewers that extended in all directions under Bianliang City in order to avoid these red-eyed Hu people.
Zhang Lei led 5,000 cavalry to Bianliang first, and when he heard that the Hu people were killing in the city, he was immediately furious, and led the cavalry and the 7,000 Hu cavalry who went out of the city to meet the enemy.
Zhang Lei originally thought that these Hu people would rush into the army, and they would be a rabble and vulnerable, but as a result, the 7,000 Hu people not only rode and ejaculated, but also had a kind of ferocity that did not want to die. In particular, the 500 Hui troops under Wang Jun's command each held a Damascus saber in their hands, and with one sword, they could cut the best steel knives of the cavalry of the Protector Army into two sections.
In the end, the two sides fought hard for most of the day, and the 5,000 Protectors lost 1,700 people, and finally broke out. Wang Jun led the cavalry rank to chase closely, and ran into Zhang Xian's more than 10,000 infantry troops a day later.
Zhang Xian met with a fish-scale array, and Wang Jun responded with a gallop shot. The two sides fought hard again for a day, each injuring more than 1,000 people, but there was no winner or loser. If Zhang Xian is given another two days, Zhang Xian is confident that he will defeat Wang Jun's iron horseman. However, with the news of Zhang Lei's defeat, the tens of thousands of bandit troops who originally belonged to Du Chong's jurisdiction but were defeated by Ying Tianfu and scattered among Bianxu once again mustered up their courage and joined Wang Jun's command. Wang Jun also played his own banner in a timely manner, known as the Loyal and Righteous Army. Wang Jun took out a secret decree in front of many bandit generals, saying that he was Zhao Gou's personal general, and his only task was to eliminate the Protector Army. As long as the Protector Army can be eliminated, Wang Jun will not be restrained by military discipline, and let the bandit army burn, kill and loot.
Such conditions suddenly made the bandit army, which had been trapped for more than ten days, go crazy. On the second day, when King Zhang fought again, Wang Jun rushed straight to the Protector Army with his cavalry, and nearly 50,000 bandit troops attacked from all sides, which caught Zhang Xian a little off guard. However, the First Division of the Protector Army is the elite of the world, and of course it is not so easy to be defeated. After a hard day, he still held his position. Although in the end, even Zhang Xian raised a spear and stood on the first line of defense of the fish scale array.
In this battle, the 10,000 Protectors lost more than 2,000 people. And the bandit army on the opposite side has increased instead of decreasing. Zhang Xian judged the situation and immediately withdrew overnight. But on the second day, he was chased by Wang Jun's cavalry. The two sides fought again, but they still couldn't take each other. When the bandits on foot came up, Zhang Xian retreated overnight again. After stopping and stopping, he retreated to Chenzhou City, and finally stabilized his position under the response of Yue Heng's scout group. Zhang Xian led the infantry army to retreat into Chenzhou, and Yue Heng's 2,000 elite cavalry were stationed in Liulin Street, echoing Zhang Xian from afar.
The soldiers under the command of the flying eagle Wang Jun have exceeded 100,000. He divided 30,000 people to surround Liulin Street, and led 70,000 people to Chenzhou City.
The city of Chenzhou is tall, easy to defend and difficult to attack. However, except for Zhang Xian's 5,000 infantry, there were no other soldiers in Chenzhou City, only more than 10,000 militiamen. Wang Jun was right at this point, and on the first day he came to Chenzhou City, he launched a bandit army to attack Ximen without stopping.
A complete sea of people offensive. But it's also the best way to attack. Anyway, it wasn't the Hu cavalry that died, it was all bandits who wanted to get a piece of the pie. Such an attack has been going on for three days, and Chenzhou City has been warned several times. At the most dangerous time, there were Hu elites who climbed the city wall, and Zhang Xian dispatched Li Heng's infantry armor to repel these Hu people.
At this moment, the defenders of the city, plus the militia, are less than 10,000 people. Although the major gentry also knew the fate of the city after the break, they sent their own family Ding Qingzhuang to Zhang Xian, and added more than 10,000 soldiers to Zhang Xian, but in front of the more and more bandit troops gathered in the city, it was still a drop in the bucket.
Qi Fang, the general under Du Chong, led 50,000 bandit troops to the city yesterday and joined Wang Jun, and there were more than 100,000 bandit troops outside the city.
Looking at the alien iron horsemen galloping outside Chenzhou City, and looking at the smoke rising from the villages in the northwest, Zhang Xian pursed his lips tightly and didn't say a word.
On the contrary, several generals around Zhang Xian were still angry.
Li Heng pointed at the iron horsemen under the city with his finger, and scolded loudly, "These beasts, the Great Song Dynasty is so good to them, let them live in Kyoto, let them live a better life than the people of the Great Song Dynasty, but as a result, the Great Song Dynasty is in trouble, not only do they not help, but they take advantage of the fire to rob, which is more ruthless than the golden dog!" ”
"It's not that they're ruthless, it's that we're stupid!" Zhang Xian finally spoke, his tone was cold, revealing boundless murderous intent. "Look at these beasts outside the city, all of them have high noses, blue eyes, and a stray face, but they are even a little similar to us Han people! Our intelligence officers were too stupid to see that Wang Jun was a party dog, and they didn't see that these lustful beasts were fighting to protect themselves, but they were preparing for the massacre. As a result, not only Li Cheng was killed, but thousands of old soldiers loyal to Li Cheng were killed, and the people of Bianliang, who had been looted and slaughtered by the Jin, were slaughtered again. We are known as the Protector Army, not only could not save the people of Bianliang, but were beaten back to Chenzhou by these beasts. Zhang Xian is ashamed of the people who were killed, and he is also ashamed of Yue Shuai! ”
Zhang Lei saw that Zhang Xian's eyes were red and his emotions were almost out of control, so he immediately whispered, "Deputy Marshal Zhang, don't blame yourself too much." The first reason for the defeat in this battle is me. If my 5,000 cavalry can block Wang Jun's dog thief's cavalry, the Du Chong bandit army scattered in the Bianliang area will not regroup. In that case, our army will not retreat again and again. However, Vice Marshal Zhang, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers. These beasts can slaughter my people and destroy my homeland, and we can also fight for a tooth and kill for a tooth! ”
"General Zhang Lei is right." Xu Xuan, the regiment commander who was born in Jinshi, also said loudly, "Fuck repay grievances with virtue, and the Protector Army only pays attention to repaying grievances directly." ”
Zhang Xian swore to the sky, Zhang Xian punched the city wall hard, breaking bricks and splashing bricks, and blood flowed on his hands, "After this battle, there will not be a living person in the Central Plains!" ”
"They're all underfed wolves! They don't deserve to live in the Central Plains! Li Heng shouted.
Zhang Lei asked a little confused, "In the Liao Kingdom, except for the Khitans, everyone else is inferior, regardless of the Han Jurchens or these hybrids!" It's good that Da Song actually offered these people with colored eyes! Are the officials of the Zhao and Song dynasties stupid pigs? ”
Zhang Xian sneered, "They are not stupid, they just want to put gold on the face of the Zhao family and create the illusion that Yao Shun will come to the dynasty in the next generation." ”
Xu Xuan saw that Zhang Lei didn't seem to believe Zhang Xian's words, and immediately added, "Vice Marshal Zhang is right." They're just putting gold in their faces! The officials of the Zhao and Song dynasties were all soft eggs, and Yan Yun couldn't get them back, so he could only use the illusion of Wanbang coming to the dynasty to anesthetize himself. I saw it through, don't look at every emperor scolding Emperor Sui, in fact, they are all goods all the way! I want to use the color people to set off the grand scene of the Wanbang Dynasty! This is also the reason why there are more and more Semu people in the Song Kingdom. Some shameless Confucian scholars also claim to have assimilated the Semu people, but whether it is the white hat return, the blue hat return, or other messy Europa return, which one does not have its own temple view, people believe in their ancestors. After assimilating others for more than 100 years, but one of them replied to Confucius? Assimilation, I phew! Li Heng suddenly exclaimed, "Alas, we also have hundreds of Hu merchants in Yingtianfu. In case they also suddenly rebelled, Ying Tianfu would suffer a great loss. ”
Zhang Xian said coldly, "Which city in the Central Plains does not have any trace of these Hu people. But Li Heng, you don't have to worry. Brother Yue has never had a good impression of these Hu people. The hundreds of Hu merchants in Ying Tianfu were already under the strict supervision of Xu Jinshi. As long as they dare to mess around, it's a dead word. ”
Speaking of this, Zhang Xian paused for a moment, and said in a colder tone, "But even if they don't make trouble, after this battle, I will let them get out of Yingtianfu." ”
No one doubted Zhang Xian's words. There were more than 100 Hu people in Chenzhou City, and after Zhang Xian entered the city, he tied up these Hu merchants as soon as possible and threw them into Chenzhou Prison. Zhang Xiancai will not be as stupid as the Ming generals of later generations. In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, many cities were broken by the Manchus in the city who opened the gates. However, such things happened again and again, and no official thought of controlling all the Manchus in the city. Of course, perhaps the city defender has already saved his mind to surrender.
Xu Xuan spat and scolded fiercely, "These dogs are attacking again." ”
In the camp of the bandits, more than 10,000 people appeared again, holding swords and shields, carrying ladders, pushing and crashing cars, and attacking the west gate of Chenzhou one after another. Although the formation of the bandit army was chaotic, the generals in the city did not dare to be careless.
It was the rebel army that drove them back to Chenzhou from outside Bianliang City. It was such a chaotic army that caused Chenzhou City to be in a hurry several times. These are rabble, but also outlaws. What's more, behind these rebels, there is also Wang Jun and Qi Fang's supervision team. The retreat of the rebels is also death. It was precisely for this reason that the rebel army ignored the layers of corpses under the city of Chenzhou, and rushed towards the city wall with a posture of looking at death as home.