Chapter 53: After the Battle of Puyang
The battle report of Puyang City quickly spread. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Jizhou, Guangzong City.
Since the uprising, Guangzong City has become a holy place in the true sense of the Taiping Road. Almost all of the entire Guangzong city, from the city guards to the ordinary people, joined Zhang Jiao's Yellow Turban Army, and every decree of Zhang Jiao was also distributed from Guangzong to the Yellow Turban Qu Marshal all over the country.
As a city where Zhang Jiao personally sits, the Yellow Turban Army in Guangzong City naturally would not do anything to burn, kill and loot. However, when the Beizhong Lang of the imperial court brought Lu Zhi with the counterinsurgency army of the imperial court into Jizhou, the Yellow Turban soldiers in Guangzong City were deployed to the front line to participate in the battle in batches, and with the victory of Lu Zhi's army, countless spirit flags were erected in Guangzong City, and almost every day there was news of the death of Guangzong soldiers, and the cry and the countless spirit flags standing in the city made Guangzong seem to be a ghost city at night.
Inside the main altar of the Yellow Turban Army of Guangzong.
Since the day when Tang Zhou's rebellion **** Yi was torn apart, Zhang Jiao's physical condition has deteriorated. Now Zhang Jiaoquan relies on the elixir he refined in his early years to survive, and most of the complicated teaching affairs are handed over to his third brother Zhang Liang to handle, and the army in Jizhou is handed over to his second brother Zhang Bao and the first disciple Zhang Niujiao to jointly command.
Zhang Bao and Zhang Niujiao were defeated by Lu Zhi several times before, but Zhang Jiao was not too worried. Lu Zhi is the great Confucian of the world on the Ma Ke army under the Ma Ke to govern the people, but the imperial court is only one Lu Zhi, from the news back from all over the country, Yuzhou Yingchuan's Bocai has besieged Huangfu Song in Changshe, Jingzhou Zhang Mancheng Zhu Jun's army is blocked outside Nanyang City. As long as his side uses the numerical advantage in Jizhou to drag Lu Zhi's military horses, and when Bocai and Zhang Mancheng annihilate their respective opponents and counterattack Luoyang, Lu Zhi, who is alone in the depths, wants to withdraw his troops when he wants to withdraw his army, and he has to ask himself if he will let him go back.
"Brother, the latest news has come that the Yu Poison Department in Yanzhou East County has been wiped out, and Yu Poison himself only took more than a thousand guards to Zhang Niujiao." The person who spoke was Zhang Liang, the general of the Yellow Turban Army, who was the younger brother of Zhang Jiao, the general of the Heavenly Turbans, and was responsible for assisting Zhang Jiao in handling daily teaching affairs.
Zhang Jiao, who was sitting cross-legged on the futon, silently recited the Taiping Qing Collar, and after hearing Zhang Liang's report, his scalp was numb and there was a sudden cramping pain in his chest: "It hurts me!" ”
"Brother!!" Zhang Liang hurriedly dropped the silk book in his hand and helped Zhang Jiao, who had fallen to the ground, up.
Several of Zhang Jiao's personal disciples rushed in outside the door, and when they saw Shizun's face turning pale and trembling hands and feet, they understood that Shizun was suffering from heartache again. Hurriedly took a gourd from the back hall, opened the stopper, poured out three black pills from the gourd, and fed it to Zhang Jiao.
After taking the elixir, Zhang Jiao's frowning brows slowly relaxed, and after another half an hour, he finally opened his eyes. Zhang Liang, who had been stroking Zhang Jiao's chest and back, saw his brother wake up, and hurriedly beckoned Zhang Jiao's personal disciple to carry Zhang Jiao to the bed to rest.
"Didn't Yu Poison send a letter just some time ago saying that he had surrounded Puyang City and attacked it day and night, and the time when the city was broken was only within ten days? Why is it that not only Puyang City has not been captured today, but tens of thousands of elites have been wiped out? The first thing Zhang Jiao did after regaining his consciousness was to ask about the cause of Yu Poison's defeat, and he didn't understand how Yu Poison lost his troops and fled back to Jizhou with tens of thousands of troops and stormed the lonely city.
"It is said that Wu Yi, the captain of Chen Liu's Fu army, led the army to rescue Puyang, but Yu Poison fought with him but fell into Wu Yi's plan to lure the enemy, and was led to the forest to carry out a fire attack, most of the tens of thousands of troops were killed and wounded, except for more than 1,000 guards around Yu Poison, the rest of the people scattered and fled." Zhang Liang still remembered the content recorded in the silk book before, and when he heard Zhang Jiao's inquiry, he told him 1510.
"The deity had said to a group of Qu Shuai before the incident, every time Lin Mo entered the poor Kou Mo chase, this Yu Poison forgot the words of the deity, not only failed to detect the enemy's plan to lure the enemy, but also chased people all the way into the woods and fell into the ambush circle that others had prepared for a long time. It's really a general's incompetence to affect the three armies! What is the use of such mediocrity? Passing on the deity's teachings, Zhang Niujiao was cut off at the head of poison to pay tribute to the Yellow Turban soldiers who died in this battle. Zhang Jiaoqiang endured a dizziness and gave his own order in a very weak voice.
Zhang Jiao was resentful that Yu Poison did not listen to his own warnings and caused the army to be destroyed, and with a wave of his big hand, he was about to take off Yu Poison's head, but Zhang Liang thought more, not only stopped the disciples who were about to go to preach, but also persuaded Zhang Jiao: "Brother, the official and general of the army who is facing Yu Poison this time is the Chen Liuwu Yi who defeated Bian Xi with less victories and more victories. The defeat in this battle is mainly due to this Wu Yi being too cunning and cunning, and he actually used the lives of thousands of soldiers to play a bitter trick to deceive the poison.
Maybe Yu Poison is indeed a little careless, but Yu Poison himself is reckless, and it is inevitable that he will get a little carried away after killing thousands of enemy soldiers on the battlefield, so in my opinion, although Yu Poison is guilty, he is not guilty to death. Now that our army is on the battlefield in Jizhou, it is the time to employ people, if my brother can let Yu Poison make meritorious service in the army, that is, punish him without causing our army to lose a general, isn't it the best of both worlds? ”
To be honest, Zhang Jiao really wanted to be directly executed by the defeated army. But now that Yanzhou Bian Xi and Yu Poison have fallen apart, and Jizhou Zhang Niujiao and Zhang Bao have been defeated by Lu Zhi one after another, and the Yellow Turban Army really lacks generals who can lead the army to fight at this moment. Although Yu Poison was defeated in Puyang this time, he had developed well in Dongjun before, which shows that Yu Poison still has some talent, but his opponent is too strong, and he successively used strange and dangerous tricks to defeat the Yellow Turban Army of about 100,000 people in Dongjun of Chenliu County.
"Then who is Chen Liuwu Yi, the good situation in Yanzhou was actually destroyed by one of them, could it be that this person is really the disaster of my Taiping Dao?" Zhang Jiao has heard Wu Yi's name for the second time, but in the list of famous generals of the Han Dynasty that he collected before, there is no general surnamed Wu at all.
However, Zhang Liang, who recently took over the intelligence system of the Yellow Turban Army, has already collected a lot of information about Wu Yi: "Brother Hui, that Wu Yi was born in the Chen Liuwu family and is a son of a family. This person was famous at a young age, and was later accepted as a closed disciple by Chen Yu, a great Confucian of Yingchuan Academy. Last year, this person had just completed all the studies of Yingchuan College and returned to his hometown, and after returning to his hometown, he happened to meet Bian Xi and lead the army to attack Chen Liu. So Wu Yi recruited thousands of rebels in Chenliu, cooperated with the defenders of Chenliucheng to break Bian Xi's department with the method of night attack, and killed Bian Xi in the battle array.
Later, Zuo Zhonglang of the imperial court led Huangfu Song out of the customs, and took Wu Yi under Chen Liu's command and moved Wu Yi to the captain of the Fu army. When Huangfu Song went to Yuzhou, he placed Wu Yi in the rear of Chen Liu's garrison, but he never thought that Puyang would be besieged by poison, and sent people to Chen Liu to ask for reinforcements when Dongjun County Shouqiao Mao abandoned the city and fled. This Wu Yi led thousands of soldiers to Puyang at night, and used the lives of thousands of soldiers to make a bitter plan, lured the poison to the ambush site, and used fire to attack the poison department. According to the latest news, after learning of the battle in Puyang, Huangfu Song had transferred Wu Yi's troops to Yingchuan County, Yuzhou, perhaps to use this person's wisdom and courage to deal with the siege of Bocai. ”
Knowing that Wu Yi was a teacher of the great Confucian Chen Yu and wise and brave both dared to fight, Zhang Jiaocai had some understanding of the failure of the poison: "Such a character is indeed not comparable to the reckless man Yu Poison." Well, according to your wishes, cut off the position of the commander of the poison canal, and let him serve under Zhang Niujiao. ”
"Obey the Teachings!"