Chapter Twenty-Three: Wangping the Thief

In the sixth year of Zhongping, in 189 AD, on the 12th day of August in the autumn, Liu Yu marched to the city of Wangping in Liaodong to pacify the bandits. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoJust when Liu Yu was about to give the order to attack the city, Tian Yu stopped him.

For Tian Yu's statement, Liu Yu was afraid for a while, it seems that he is still not cautious enough, he has thought too little, if Liu Yu orders a strong attack, I am afraid that the pacification of such a bandit will also make him suffer heavy losses, and what will he do to compete with the heroes of the world in the future.

After Liu Yu thanked Tian Yu, he immediately ordered Zhang Liao to lead 2,000 soldiers and horses to challenge and lure the bandits out of the city.

The leader of the mountain thieves in Wangping City is named Daniel Zhang, who used to be a relatively large mountain thief force outside this Wangping City, and later Zhang Chun and others killed the county officials of Wangping County when they rebelled, and Daniel Zhang took the opportunity to annex some small mountain bandit gangs around him, and then occupied this Wangping City as his base.

When he heard that Zhang Liao, the commander of Liaodong's Taishou tent, sent troops to attack him, Daniel Zhang was shocked in his heart, and he was a little at a loss, when he saw that the leader was a twenty-year-old young general, and there were only more than 2,000 horses, and the soldiers he led were not like the elite and strong generals he had met before, he suddenly became contemptuous, and under the encouragement of the thieves under his command, Daniel Zhang laughed: "Brothers, follow me out of the city to meet the enemy, don't they want to destroy us?" Today we will let them see, who killed whom? ”

Daniel Zhang obviously did not have any good military talents, did not understand how much benefit it would bring him to defend the city, and completely despised the officers and soldiers by relying on the large number of thieves under his command, because no officers and soldiers had dared to come to suppress him before this, and it also increased his pride.

Daniel Zhang's subordinates were also a group of mindless people, and when they heard that Daniel Zhang said that they were going out of the city to fight, they were eager to try, and they shouted that they wanted to make meritorious contributions to Daniel Zhang.

Daniel Zhang led more than 6,000 people out of the city, Zhang Liao stood on his horse, holding a big knife in his hand, Zhang Liao said privately: "This thief is arrogant and arrogant, he actually abandoned the city, and today it will be broken." ”

At the moment, when the two armies were facing each other, Zhang Liao took out his horse and raised his whip and scolded: "Wait for the traitor, why don't you surrender early!" ”

Daniel Zhang was burly and strong, more than seven feet long, and now in his Chinese New Year's Eve, hearing Zhang Liao speak like this, not only did he not get angry, but laughed, and then said loudly: "I thought that this Taishou would send a powerful figure over, but I didn't expect to send you such a yellow-mouthed child, today I want to see how you make me surrender?" ”

After speaking, looking at the more than 6,000 minions behind him, the minions understood, and they laughed non-stop, constantly mocking the people on Zhang Liao's side.

Zhang Liao rode forward and said angrily: "You dare to underestimate me, there is a kind of one-on-one confrontation with me, a showdown." ”

Daniel Zhang laughed even harder, "Single-handed? I heard you right. Okay, grandpa is happy today, so I'll play with you. Rest assured, grandpa won't be too heavy. ”

If Liu Yu is here now, Daniel Zhang will definitely feel sad, what kind of person is Zhang Liao, how to say that he is also a famous military general in the Three Kingdoms period, and countless military generals have died under his sword, this Daniel Zhang is nothing, but a mountain thief leader. But it's no wonder that whoever makes Zhang Liao so young now, it is hard for anyone to believe that Zhang Liao is an out-and-out fierce man.

Zhang Liao said no more, and took Daniel Zhang directly with the horse dance knife. Daniel Zhang laughed loudly and was about to ride his horse to meet the battle, when a small marshal behind him said: "Killing chickens with a cattle slaughtering knife? Chief, let me meet this guy. ”

Daniel Zhang knew that this person was brave, and he was one of the best masters in this Wangping City, so he nodded at the moment.

Pretending to be forced does not end well, especially in front of such a master. The little handsome was not self-sufficient, the longitudinal horse waved the knife straight to Zhang Liao, the two war horses galloped towards each other, and the two horses intersected in an instant, only to see a flash of the knife, and the two horses staggered. I saw that Zhang Liao was still arrogant on the horse, and the big knife raised in his hand was still dripping blood, and the little handsome man still landed on the ground and saw the king of Hades.

The people on Zhang Liao's side applauded in unison, and when Daniel Zhang's side had seen such a scene, they stood on the spot one by one, at a loss, until Zhang Liao's horse was like a shock, and when he ran straight to Daniel Zhang's side, he reacted, and raised his weapons to prepare to block.

Zhang Liao shouted, and the big knife swept over, and several bandits flew out sideways, dying on the spot. Daniel Zhang was shocked, and he couldn't retreat from the horse, and was already slashed under the horse by Zhang Liao.

Originally, this Daniel Zhang also had two strokes, at least there was no problem with ten moves under the current Zhang Liao, but the bad thing was that Daniel Zhang was too light at the beginning, and his side was easily killed by Zhang Liao A person whose martial arts were not much worse than his own, Daniel Zhang was unsettled at the moment, and was directly killed by Zhang Liao.

As soon as Daniel Zhang died, Zhang Liao shouted: "Daniel Zhang is dead, you wait to lay down your weapons and surrender early, but you will not die, if not, no one will be left." ”

The bandits were leaderless, and they were all frightened, and they didn't dare to stop them, so they crowded towards the city gate, trampling on each other, and killing and injuring countless people.

Zhang Liao gave an order, and the two thousand cavalry shouted and galloped out, and in the blink of an eye, they entered the enemy formation of the mountain thieves, killing the mountain thieves who fled back to their horses, and they all shouted: "Daniel Zhang is dead, wait for the early surrender." "The shouts of killing shattered the sky.

Liu Yu stood on top of the mountain bag, saw all this clearly, and his heart was a little settled. Immediately ordered all the armies to take advantage of the situation to chase and kill the past, Dian Wei, Tian Yu and others rushed straight to the thief army.

Liu Yu's momentum is like a rainbow, the sound of killing shook the sky, and the thieves have no intention of fighting, while blocking, while retreating, only retreating to the city gate, everyone shouted to open the door quickly, but no one opened the door after the throat was broken, the thieves saw the heavy losses, and after the city gate was closed, they chased the soldiers, threw down their weapons, knelt on the ground, and shouted "We are willing to surrender, don't kill me." ”

Liu Yu also rushed over at this time and shouted loudly: "If you come down early, how can you kill and injure so many people." ”

In this battle, Liu Yu easily eradicated the bandits in Wangping County, killed more than 2,000 enemies, captured more than 4,000 people, and suffered more than 100 casualties on his side.

Tian Yu said happily: "Most of the soldiers led by Wenyuan are strong soldiers, and they are not used to warfare, but fortunately, the thief leader is light on the enemy, otherwise the casualties will be more serious." ”

Liu Yu said sadly: "I blame me for this matter, and ordered the soldiers to be buried and their families to be committed." And personally bandaged the wounds of the wounded soldiers and soothed them.

These soldiers had never seen such a thing before, and they were all grateful to Liu Yu at the moment, and swore to follow Liu Yu to the death.

Zhang Tong did not make any contribution this time, and expressed his willingness to help Liu Yu continue to crusade against the bandits in Wuxian County, Liu Yu refused, Zhang Tong insisted again, and Liu Yu had to let him help clear out the other small bandits in Wangping County.

Entering Wangping City, Liu Yu had a chill, this is like a county seat, the city is chaotic, the people have closed their homes and do not come out, there is no life, Liu Yu captured all the thieves in the city, a total of 5,780 people.

These thieves were originally local kind people, forced by the tax pressure of the squire's government, and finally forced to go out to steal and rob, Liu Yu gave the older or younger of them money and food to let them go home, obey the discipline in the future, live a good life, and the rest of the remaining more than 4,600 people were divided into two parts, which were commanded by Tian Yu and Zhang Liao's brother Zhang Fan.

Liu Yu sent someone to ask why the city gate was closed and not opened when the bandits retreated to the city, and after asking, he learned that it was the people in the city who killed all the bandits guarding the city, and Liu Yu immediately ordered them to be summoned.

This person is in his twenties, dignified, extraordinary, heroic, and the sergeant led him to see Liu Yu, bowed down and said: "Villain Li Yin, Zi Yuanba." I've seen Lord Fujun. ”

Hearing the name Li Yuanba, Liu Yu almost laughed, this is the first good man in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Liu Yu also learned from this population that the remote side branch of the Li family in Longxi, the ancestral home of Zhiyang County, Jincheng County, the family was poor, good at spear shooting, arm strength was outstanding, and moved to Zhuo County with his father during the Xiping period, and took refuge in Wangping County during the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

Since Zhang Chun's rebellion, the county order was killed, the county officials either died or fled, Daniel Zhang and other thieves gathered in the mountains and forests, lawless, and finally directly occupied the county seat of Wangping, after Daniel Zhang arrived in Wangping, he did not change his true character as thieves, colluded with the rich people in the county, bullied the people, looted the people's fat and ointment, and the people suffered unspeakably.

Li Yin secretly gathered hundreds of like-minded people, and secretly hoped that Gongsun Zhao could come to conquer and suppress him many times, and he should cooperate with the outside world, but Gongsun Zhao never acted. Today, Li Yin heard that Liu Yu sent an army to attack, and seeing that the thieves were losing and retreating, Li Yin led people to kill the thieves who defended the city, and closed the city gate to prevent the thieves from entering.

Liu Yu saw that this person was heroic, jealous and hateful, and righteous all his life, and he had done himself such a big favor today, and he had a good feeling in his heart, and said immediately: "Your Excellency, young hero, this is the time when there is a shortage of people to govern the state and county, I don't know if you can intentionally join my command?" ”

Li Yin saw that although Liu Yu was young, he also dared to act, unlike the previous state officials and county officials, and said happily: "Yin Zheng has this intention, Yin also has some like-minded friends, and he is willing to introduce them to Lord Fujun." ”

Liu Yuxi said: "This is very good. ”