Chapter Forty-Eight: Soldiers Trapped in Luoyang
Let's say that on the Yingchuan side, in the face of more than 400,000 Yellow Turban Army, like mountains and seas, there are only more than 40,000 officers and soldiers, even if it is an elite division, it is difficult to defeat four hands with two fists, and the tiger can't stand up to many people.
First, Liu Bei and Liu Xuande of Zhuo County brought his younger brother Guan Yu to suppress the thieves in the name of Lu Zhi, and then Cao Mengde, the cavalry captain, brought 5,000 horse infantry to help the battle.
This Liu Bei has not been very good at reading since he was a child; The surname is generous, few words, and never moody; Known for his great ambitions, he specializes in making friends with heroes in the world; He was born seven feet five inches long, with two ears hanging down his shoulders, his hands above his knees, his eyes could take care of his ears, his face was like a crown of jade, and his lips were like grease; After Liu Sheng, King Jing of Zhongshan, the great-great-grandson of His Excellency Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, surnamed Liu Mingbei, the word Xuande. Liu Zhen, the son of Liu Sheng in the past, was named the Marquis of Zhuolu Pavilion during the Han Dynasty, and then sat on the Marquis of Zhuo Jin, so he left this branch in Zhuo County. Xuande ancestor Liu Xiong, father Liu Hong. Hong once raised filial piety, but also tried to be an official, and died early. Xuande is young and lonely, and his mother is filial; The family is poor, and he sells and weaves mats for his business. He lives in Lousang Village, this county. In the southeast of his home, there is a big mulberry tree, more than five zhang high, looking at it from afar, the child is like a car cover. Xiangzhiyun: "This family will produce nobles." When Xuande was young, he played under the tree with the children in the village, and said: "I am the son of heaven, and I should take this car cover." Uncle Liu Yuan said strangely, saying: "This is a very human being!" "Because I saw that Xuande's family was poor, he gave it regular funds. At the age of fifteen, his mother traveled to study, tried to teach Zheng Xuan and Lu Zhi, and became friends with Gongsun Zhan.
But said that Liu Bei heard the yellow scarf up, knew that it was the time for him to show his ambitions, and under great joy, he planned to go to the army, and happened to meet the murderer Guan Yu, and the two were righteous and became brothers, so they went to the city gate to unveil the emperor's list, and with the help of the big businessman Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping, he trained some soldiers and horses to create weapons and armor. Even if you go to help Liu Yan.
The two of them also got it, and they fought bravely to kill the enemy along the way, and killed the thief general Cheng Yuanzhi with the strength of the little end. Later, he was sent to Yingchuan by Lu Zhi.
But Cao Ying came on the orders of the general He Jin.
As the saying goes: "When a person spends one night, there is no boundary." "These more than 400,000 Yellow Turban soldiers gathered in one place, and the scene was so big that you can imagine it.
However, just when Huangfu Song and Cao were at a loss, news suddenly came. Luoyang was besieged by thieves. The emperor ordered the soldiers of the Quartet to enter the king of Jingqin.
Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun and others were shocked and were about to leave, but more than 400,000 troops were eyeing each other, so how could they leave easily.
After a few more days like this, just when Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun were anxious, Cao Ying suddenly broke into the camp tent, and the Chinese generals were about to scold, when they suddenly heard Cao Ying shouting: "Two generals, there is, Cao has a plan to break the enemy!" ”
Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun were overjoyed when they heard this, and asked anxiously: "Where did the plan come from, but it can be sent quickly!" ”
Cao Ying immediately elaborated. When the people heard this, they were really good at what they planned, and they were immediately overjoyed.
It turned out that Cao Ying was bored in the camp tent, and went out to check the barracks, but when he saw a strong wind suddenly rising, and saw that the enemy army was camping according to the grass, he had an idea, so he came up with a plan to burn the company camp.
That night, the whole army of Huangfu Song set out, the layout design, and waited until the second watch, the sky was dark, the wind and clouds changed abruptly, the wind rose, Huangfu Song was overjoyed, and the orders of the Chinese army were handed down one by one.
After a while, the Yellow Turban General Zhang Bao Zhang Liang and others were sleeping peacefully, in their sleep, they were woken up, and they were about to drink = scolding, when they suddenly heard the sound of killing outside the tent, and got up quickly, they saw a fire outside the tent, and there were chaotic soldiers everywhere, and they heard that the officers and soldiers were killed in all directions. The two men were shocked, took the reins of their horses, and stepped on their horses to escape.
A red-faced general suddenly flashed in his face, a yellow horse under his crotch, and a green dragon glaive knife in his hand. shouted loudly: "Guan Yu is here, where will the thief escape?" ”
Bocai was furious, "The thief dares! "If you come forward with a sword, you will fight.
Guan Yu smiled coldly, and didn't speak, when Bo Cai rushed to the front of him, when the knife light was about to fall, he suddenly lifted the reins of the horse, and shouted "Tai", the sound was like thunder, Bo Cai was shocked, and he was stunned for a moment, and then he saw the knife light flashing, swaying for a while, and suddenly, Bo saw a headless corpse falling from the horse, but why did the corpse look so much like himself!
Before I could think about it, I felt as if I had lost my strength. Immediately lost consciousness.
Guan Yu flew forward, caught Bocai's head, and when he looked around, he saw Zhang Bao and the two brothers rushing to escape. The prancing horse immediately chased after him.
Zhang Bao and the others took some of their own soldiers to panic like lost dogs, and Bocai, the most capable general under them, was slashed and killed by Guan Yu, which really made the two of them scattered. However, there was a slaughter in all directions ahead.
The soldiers and horses hugged together, they were not familiar with the road, and the bad thing was that there were more and more people gathered around them, the goal was obvious, and after a while, they were chased by Guan Yu to the front.
Zhang Baoyin gritted his teeth and said to Zhang Liang: "Third brother, you go first, and then break off for your brother." ”
Zhang Liang was anxious, "Second brother, you are a brother, I am a brother, how can a brother abandon his brother and go alone!" The elder brother went by himself, and the younger brother was willing to break off. I only hope that the two brothers will one day achieve great things, overthrow the Han Dynasty, and avenge their brother! ”
Zhang Bao's eyes flashed, and he suddenly stabbed Zhang Liang in the buttocks, the horse was frightened, galloped away, and Zhang Liang's shouts came from the wind.
Zhang Bao glanced at the guards beside him and said, "Let's go and disperse!" ”
Hundreds of people around him said: "If the general doesn't leave, how can I just escape!" Swear to follow the general! ”
Zhang Bao laughed, "For the common people in the world, I can die with all my brothers today, I Zhang Bao is like a place, sons, kill the enemy with this general!" The sky should die, the yellow sky should stand, the age is in Jiazi, and the world is auspicious! ”
Hundreds of people were put into a bunch of canghai in the sea of people, and they were submerged in an instant, and Zhang Bao also died under Guan Yu's knife, but unfortunately the uprising did not succeed, but he died.
In this battle, Xu was besieged in Luoyang, more than 400,000 Yellow Turban soldiers were burned to death, 60,000 were killed, tens of thousands were killed, and 780,000 were captured, which was much less than the original history, and the rest were scattered as birds and beasts.
Seeing that the enemy was gone, but the remaining 100,000 captives had become a burden, and he was afraid that he would become thieves again, and there was no extra grain and grass and officers to take prisoners of war. Although the generals couldn't bear it, they couldn't.
Just as Huangfu Song gave the order, news suddenly came from the Beijing Division, and someone asked to see him.
"The last general Guan Hai has seen several generals, and the last general is ordered by my lord to send a letter. Please take a look. ”
Huangfu Song was in the mood to ask other questions at this time, so he immediately opened the letter, only read a few lines, his face flickered with joy and sorrow, and finally he was very happy.
Cao Ying hurriedly asked why, Huangfu Song saw everyone staring at him, and laughed twice, "Princess, the saint is in trouble, all of them are incompetent, and Luoyang was attacked by thieves." ……
Several people in the tent were shocked and hurriedly asked the reason, Guan Hai got up and said something, which only made the generals in the hall sigh.
It turned out that a few days ago, Zhang Jiao set an eight-week concurrent strategy to take Luoyang directly, which was to let the peripheral disciples attract the attention of the imperial court, and secretly let the chief disciple Ma Yuanyi lead the troops all the time, and arrived near the Beijing division half a month ago to stand by.
Seeing that the imperial army was taken away by Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun, and Lu Zhi, there were only more than 20,000 people in Luoyang.
At that time, the soldiers were in the city, the emperor was frightened and hid under the table, fighting in a flash, all the officials were shocked, the generals who could conquer and fight in the DPRK and China had already been sent out, and those civil officials were usually fighting in the house, and they were all sick at this time, and the court was not up.
Emperor Ling was furious and beheaded several officials one after another.
Ma Yuanyi stayed this time are carefully selected elite soldiers, after besieging Luoyang, the army rested for a while, the second said, an order, the army attacked the city, the general He Jin personally put on the battle to kill the enemy, although the Luoyang defenders were idle, but also knew that this was the time of life and death, seeing the general fighting bloodily, morale was immediately aroused. From the morning to the evening, because Ma Yuanyi's light troops went straight forward, there were not too many siege equipment, and there was nothing to be done for a while, and at the end of the day, after throwing thousands of corpses on both sides of the city, they all retreated.
At night under the city, March in Luoyang is still a little cool.
Ma Yuanyi, looking at a note in his hand, his eyebrows were full of smiles.
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