Chapter 45: Puyang Asks for Help

In 184 A.D., in the first year of Zhongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Taiping Dao rebelled in the Tang and Zhou Dynasty and rebelled in a hurry after the rebellion was split by the car, for a time in the thirteen states of the world, except for the remote area of Jiaozhou and Liangzhou, the rest of the states have the Taiping Taoist people with yellow scarves on their heads, and more than 100 cities of all sizes were breached, but all the court officials who refused to surrender were executed, and the wealth and food of the families and ordinary people in the city were all plundered, and the women were abused by the men and were coerced into the army. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Emperor Liu Hong, who was frightened by the fierce Yellow Turban Rebellion, first ordered people to set up Duwei cloth guards in the eight passes on the outskirts of Luoyang: Hangu, Taigu, Guangcheng, Yique, Hujiao, Wuguan, Mengjin, and Xiaopingjin. In the case of ensuring that Luoyang was temporarily worry-free, he worshiped He Jin as the general of the thief, Lu Zhi as the general of the Beizhong Lang, Huangfu Song as the left Zhonglang, and Zhu Jun as the general of the right Zhonglang, and recruited nearly 100,000 county soldiers to crusade against the Yellow Turban thieves in three ways.

In mid-April, with the completion of the preparation of grain, grass and ordnance, the counterinsurgency army of the imperial court officially went out to quell the rebellion. Beizhonglang general Lu Zhi led more than 40,000 troops out of Hedong to attack the Jizhou Yellow Turban, left Zhonglang general Huangfu Song led more than 30,000 troops out of the Tiger Prison to attack the Central Plains Yellow Turban, and right Zhonglang general Zhu Jun led more than 20,000 troops out of Wuguan to attack the southern Yellow Turban.

Chen Liucheng, as the grain and grass transit place selected by Zuo Zhonglang and Huangfu Song, countless grains, grasses and ordnance transported from Luoyang were hoarded here, and Huangfu Song, who was the main general of the Middle Route Army, left 5,000 military horses to garrison Chen Liucheng, and he took the remaining more than 27,000 soldiers into Yingchuan to meet the 100,000 Yellow Turban main force of the Yellow Turban Qu Shuai Bocai.

After Wu Yi responded to Huangfu Song's recruitment on that day, he was recruited into the army by Huangfu Song the next day, moved to the position of military captain, responsible for training the 5,000 military horses left behind and assisting the captain Zhang Chao to guard Chen Liucheng together, and the more than 1,000 surviving soldiers of the righteous army were also recruited by Huangfu Song, but in order to respect the money and food that Wu Yi spent before, more than 1,000 people joined as Wu Yi's own army.

Taking advantage of the fact that there were countless armor and ordnance and sufficient food and grass in Chen Liucheng at this moment, Wu Yi recruited hundreds of young men from the camp to increase the number of guards to 2,000, and purchased the best equipment for his 2,000 guards. If it weren't for the fact that all the war horses in the army were requisitioned and transferred to the Yingchuan battlefield by Huangfu Song, Wu Yi might have given his own guards all war horses.

With 5,000 counterinsurgency troops in the imperial court, more than 2,000 Wu Yi's personal guards, and more than 2,000 county soldiers under Chen Liu's lieutenant Zhang Chao, there are nearly 10,000 horses in Chen Liucheng at this moment, and with the deep city walls of Chen Liucheng, even if he deals with the siege of 100,000 Yellow Turban troops, he may not be without the strength to fight.

On this day, Wu Yi was discussing military affairs with Zhang Chao in the Chenliu Garrison Mansion, when a messenger from Dongjun suddenly asked to see him outside the door.

"From East County? Let him in. "The only image of Zhang Chao in Dongjun is that tens of thousands of yellow turban thieves came from there some time ago, Zhang Chao is a little curious about who in Dongjun will meet him.

However, when Wu Yi heard the word Dongjun, he suddenly remembered the unlucky ghost Fan Xiang before. This guy was the leader of Chen Liujun for only a few days after Zhang Miao's death, but he was recruited by the Dongjun County Shouqiao Mao to Dongjun to block the knife for him, and was finally besieged to death by Bian Xi's Yellow Turban Army.

The man was dressed in a civilian official uniform, but the blood stains and mud stained on the official uniform made him look quite embarrassed. Before Zhang Chao could open his mouth to ask, the person who came fell to the ground and shouted: "Puyang City is in danger, please send troops to rescue quickly!" ”

"Puyang City is in danger again? It's not the first time, is it? And wasn't the gang of yellow turban thieves who ravaged Dongjun before annihilated by our Chen Liu? Why is there another war in Puyang? Zhang Chao was a little puzzled why Dongjun always had accidents, and as soon as the accident happened, he came to Chen Liuqian to rescue the soldiers.

The civil official coughed lightly: "Your Excellency doesn't know, the leader of the group of Yellow Turban thieves who came from Dongjun before was named Bian Xi, and he was originally the Yellow Turban Qu Shuai who was driven out of Chen Liu by Lord Fan Xiang. And now the gang of yellow turban thieves who led the crowd to besiege Puyang City was named Yu Poison, but this guy was the yellow turban commander who started in Dongjun. ”

Wu Yi snorted coldly: "Could it be that you mean to blame us Chen Liu, who didn't take care of that Bian Xi, but drove him to Dongjun to harm you?" Even so, we, the Lord of Chen Liu's garrison, also died in order to rescue you, and Bian Xi's tens of thousands of Yellow Turban troops were also exterminated by us outside Chen Liucheng. When Bian Xi came to attack Chenliu before, we sent people to ask you for help, and your county guard Qiaomao avoided our messenger, and now Yu Poison is besieging your Puyang City, won't you be ashamed when you come to Chenliu for help? ”

"Don't misunderstand this descendant, this official has no intention of blaming, and our county guard Qiao Mao of Dong County has now abandoned the city and fled, this time this time the official is here for the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Puyang City, not for him Qiao Mao." The civil official saw that Wu Yi was young but came to interject, and he didn't dare to scold him because he thought about maybe he and Zhang Chao, but the official frame was also put up.

Zhang Chao saw that this person seemed to be a little dissatisfied with Wu Yi, and couldn't help but sneer and said: "Maybe you just came to Chen Liu and don't know very well, the surname of the descendant in your mouth is Wu Mingyi, who was taught by the great Confucian Chen Zhonggong, and Bian Xi's tens of thousands of troops were all broken by him, and now he was moved by Zuo Zhonglang to the captain of the Fu army, and most of the people in the city are under his command." It doesn't matter if you county guard Qiao Mao really abandoned the city and fled, if you really want to find a rescue soldier in Chenliu, only he can help you. And under the experience of Lord Fan Xiang, it is difficult for the captain of this school to mobilize the 2,000 soldiers of Chen Liujun under his command in Qidong County. ”

The civil official was dumbfounded when he heard Zhang Chao's words, he had been living in Puyang, but he had heard that Bian Xi's tens of thousands of Yellow Turban troops were destroyed by a family named Wu Yi by Chen Liu. But who would have thought that Wu Yi and Wu Ziyuan, who broke Bian Xi on a rainy night, were actually the young man in front of him!

What made this civil official even more devastated was that he seemed to be preaching in front of him just now, and now Zhang Chao said that the only soldiers and horses that Chen Liunei could use were under the command of this Wu Yi, so how could he ask for help.

Seeing the embarrassed look on the man's face, Wu Yi shook his head and took the initiative to speak: "Before, you said that the Dongjun County Shouqiao Mao abandoned the city and fled, what is going on?" ”

Seeing that Wu Yi didn't mean to delve into it, the civil official secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't help but reply with some embarrassment: "The incident happened a few days ago on the night, after learning that the Yellow Turban thieves in Dongjun led the people to attack Puyang, the county guard Qiaomao took gold and silver and dozens of relatives to forcibly open the north gate and escape from the city in the middle of the night. By the time I heard the news of his escape from the city, I couldn't catch up. And with the county guard fleeing overnight, some families in Puyang City also shouted to go out of the city for refuge, and we and other officials tried their best to barely stop these people, but there were only three or four thousand soldiers in Puyang City, and the camp set up by the thief in the city was heavily guarded, and I waited several times to try to attack at night, but they were all seen through by the thief and buried the lives of more than a thousand soldiers. In order to break the city as soon as possible, Yu Poison attacked Puyang on all sides of the city wall, if it weren't for the wealthy families in the city to send thousands of soldiers to help, maybe Puyang would have been broken long ago. I waited until I saw that the city would be broken sooner or later, so I had to come to Chen Liu to ask for help to relieve the siege. ”