Section 16 Lejin Breaking Array Crossbow [II]
However, victory is victory, in fact, in this big victory, the real gains of the Tianping Army are not much.
Since most of the enemies are powerful private soldiers in the surrounding areas, they are in their hometowns and have convenient supplies, so they don't even need to carry much baggage. As a result, some of the materials captured by the Tianping Army were valuable, that is, some swords and armor, as well as nearly a hundred crossbows.
The flat terrain around the battlefield not only allowed the Tianping army to attack without hindrance, but also made it possible for Yuan Shu's army to disperse in all directions once it wanted to escape. Not to mention the Tianping Army, which is not familiar with the terrain, it is not an easy task to pursue the enemies gathered in these places.
What's more, after the victory of the battle, the Tianping Army did not stop to clean up the battlefield and count the results. Because, the battle just now is just the beginning. Not far away, there are still several enemy armies waiting for the Tianping Army to destroy them!
After only a quarter of an hour, the Tianping Army moved non-stop, and despite the fatigue, it launched another attack on the enemy who appeared in other places.
In the first battle, the Tianping Army defeated nearly 2,000 private soldiers of the Hao clan commanded by Yuan Shu with a strength of 700 people, and beheaded about 300 people.
In the second battle, the Tianping Army took advantage of the power of a great victory, and with a slight contact, it defeated 500 powerful private soldiers who were the flanks of Yuan Shu's army, and beheaded more than 80 ranks.
In the third battle, as soon as another private soldier of the Hao clan saw the Tianping Army, he immediately fled. The Tianping Army pursued for a while, beheaded twenty levels, and gently spared the enemy.
In the fourth battle, the Tianping Army found the volunteers of Tao Qian's department who came to encircle. The 400 people who were the vanguard of the volunteers also lost their fighting spirit because they heard that Yuan Shu's army had completely retreated, and after resisting for a while, they began to waver and retreat. Zhang Mad seized this opportunity, ordered Zang Ba to fight, chased and fought fiercely, and finally completely defeated these veterans with rich combat experience.
Tao Qian, who was supervising the battle in the rear, heard this series of bad news and knew that his morale had been depressed, so in desperation, he took the initiative to retreat and retreat to his own camp. In the face of Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, who were sent by Tao Qian to meet the defeated soldiers, Zhang Qi did not have the idea of fighting to the death with these volunteers, but accepted it when he saw it, and led the Tianping army, whose physical strength was about to be exhausted in the continuous rush, and returned to the camp by the Yellow River at night.
In one day, from early morning to evening, he traveled more than 50 miles and fought the enemy four times in a row, leaving the Tianping army exhausted one by one. If it weren't for the fact that when Zhang Mad was stationed in Taishan County, he often organized his subordinates to do long-distance training, and he would have persevered.
However, no matter how tired the warriors' bodies were, their spirits were extremely excited!
With 700 people, they resisted nearly 10 times the enemy, and they also took the initiative to attack and beat the enemy to the ground. Such a record, even if it is called a "famous general", I am afraid that it will be deserved!
The monster of the army, as long as there is a lot of victory, money and honor, can grow rapidly.
In today's Tianping Army, no matter who they are, they are convinced that their leader is arrogant, and he is truly the stars in the sky. As long as they follow Zhang Qushuai closely, under the leadership of Zhang Qushuai, the great cause of "peace in the world" preached by Taiping Dao will definitely be realized one day!
On the second day, with the help of yesterday's brilliant record of 700 to 6,000, the Tianping Army advanced to a medium-sized dock fort by the Yellow River. The fort was built on the banks of the Yellow River, and a water gate was built on the side near the bank of the river to dock ships. The master of the dock fort, who was originally relying on the strong barrier and did not take the Tianping Army to heart, was immediately frightened into two trembling forces.
The Tianping Army came, of course, not to be idle and bored to find something to do. The scale of the county seat is too large, and the Tianping army is naturally unable to conquer it. However, the dock fort in front of him, which was backed by the Yellow River, was only defended by more than 200 strong men, and if he really attacked, he might not be able to defeat it.
Faced with the approach of the Tianping Army, the lord of Wubao Fort was willing to break the fortune and eliminate the disaster. In order to curry favor with the Tianping Army, this dock fort took the initiative to donate 500 pieces of military rations, 10 pigs and sheep. Of course, the castle owner is also a smart man, and he knows that what the Tianping Army needs most at present is not those meager grain and grass, but the more than ten ships that are still kept in the dock fort. As soon as the envoy of the Tianping Army spoke, the owner of the dock fort immediately and simply offered seven small boats and one medium-sized ship that had been carefully collected by chayexschayexs in the fort.
In this way, the problem of crossing the river, which had plagued the Tianping Army for a long time, was immediately solved. Presumably, that wealthy family also wished that the Tianping Army would cross the river as soon as possible, and stop making them afraid, so they happily offered their precious boats, right?
Taking advantage of the lack of morale under the blow of that battle between Haoqiang and the volunteers, Zhang Qiang hurriedly urged his subordinates to cross the river quickly. Fortunately, the shock left by the previous battle was strong enough for the enemy, and the Tianping Army was given two days to rush to the crossing. When the volunteers, whose morale was re-boosted, rushed to the camp of the Tianping Army, all they were left with was a raging fire.
In the face of strategic failure, Tao Qian didn't see any reaction, but Yuan Shu hated Chun Yu, who was unfavorable. Of course, the mood of these two is arrogant and has no intention of studying. After crossing the Yellow River, it was no longer possible for Yuan Shu, Tao Qian and others to follow and pursue. At least until Guan Haishuai, who was guarding Gucheng County, was defeated, Huangfu Song would not let Yuan Shu and Tao Qian go to Hebei.
When he came to the south bank of the Yellow River and guarded the beachhead on the south bank, Dian Wei's first words when he saw Zhang Qiang were:
"My lord! Such a good thing, why not wait for a certain family! ”
Zhang Mad was confused, and Wang Guo, the military advisor on the side, explained with a smile:
"Lord, Chief Dianbai, this is to blame you for not letting him participate in yesterday's battle! Tsk, seven hundred to six thousand, the brothers who crossed the river have gone crazy, and there is no one who is not jealous! ”
Hearing this, he laughed wildly:
"What is this? As long as we keep fighting, are we afraid that we won't fight in the future? In the future, we will have to command thousands of troops and destroy tens of thousands of troops in a single battle. What is this little battle? ”
After a while of laughter, he asked about business.
After crossing the Yellow River, Wang Guo established a beachhead and sent a scout team to investigate the battle situation of the Yellow Turban Army in Jizhou. The Hebei region, especially the Jizhou area, was the base camp of the Taiping preaching. Both in terms of quantity and quality, the Yellow Turban Army far surpassed the area south of the Yellow River. Therefore, in terms of obtaining news, Wang Guo feels quite convenient.
While drinking the thirst-quenching soup, Zhang Madness listened to Wang Guo's latest news:
At the end of last month, the Han court dismissed Lu Zhi, the chief general of the Han army in Jizhou, from his post and escorted him back to Luoyang for prison on the charge of "fighting unfavorably and raising his own self-respect". The current chief general of the Jizhou Han Army is Lu Zhi's original deputy general, Dong Zhuo, a native of Liangzhou who was the general of Dongzhonglang at the time.
Dong Zhuo is one of the famous generals who still serve in the imperial court in recent years. There are only a handful of generals of the Han army who can be compared with him. As soon as he heard this familiar name, Zhang Qi suddenly had a sense of trance when he had just crossed over.
As long as you know a little about the Three Kingdoms, who doesn't know who Dong Zhuo, the traitorous minister who was scolded by later generations of literati as "stinking for 10,000 years"?
Of course, the current Dong Zhuo is not a traitor. On the contrary, this brave general, who was famous for his cavalry and archery in the Han Dynasty, was one of the two most praised by the world among the new generation of generals in Liangzhou after the late Taiwei Duan Cheng. Dong Zhuo of Longxi and Emperor Fu Song of Anding, when the Yellow Turban Rebellion first arose, the two were collectively called "Liangzhou Shuangbi".
Although, now Huangfu Song has far surpassed the rest of the Han army commanders because of his successive defeats of the Yellow Turban Bo Caishuai, Bu Jishuai, Guan Haishuai and other departments. However, just looking at the Han court's direct appointment of Dong Zhuo as the commander of tens of thousands of troops after Lu Zhi was imprisoned, it can be seen that Dong Zhuo, a famous Han man, will be valued by the Han family.
Since taking over as the chief general of the Great Han Jizhou Crusade Army, the Han army under the command of Dong Zhuo has become obviously active. According to the description of the small force of the Yellow Turban Army flowing from Jizhou, the Han army, under the command of Dong Zhuo, seems to have changed the defensive strategy set by Lu Zhi and turned to a large-scale battle.
In fact, this information is not a secret. However, now the Central Plains is in turmoil, and most of the original post road trade routes have been cut off. Coupled with the blocking of the rising water of the Yellow River in recent months, the Tianping Army has been fighting south of the Yellow River for several months, but it has not received such basic information in time.
Of course, as a traverser, insolence is in my memory, and I vaguely remember such a thing. Moreover, according to the insolent memory, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" seems to say that Dong Zhuo decisively fought against the Yellow Turban Army after replacing Lu Zhi, but he returned defeated. This was the last relatively big victory of the Yellow Turban Army before its annihilation.
Now, Dong Zhuo has not led his troops to fight, and the Yellow Turban Army is still holding on to the Han army. At this time, if the Tianping Army continued to move north, it was afraid that it would encounter the main force of the Han army.
However, since the Tianping Army has marched thousands of miles and has come to this point, there is naturally no reason to give up halfway. Combined with the incident of the Yellow Turban Army's defeat of Dong Zhuo in his memory, Zhang Qiang had his own considerations in his heart, and decided to still follow the original plan and go north to join the main force of the Yellow Turban Army of "Tiangong General" Zhang Jiao.
Zhang Qi has already set a rough plan of action for the next step of the Tianping Army. However, whether or not this general plan can be smoothly implemented requires the help of some objective conditions. And the person who is most likely to provide enough help for Zhang Mad's next step is among the main forces of the Jizhou Yellow Turban Army. If he can take the opportunity to defeat Dong Zhuo and get some material support from the Jizhou Yellow Turban Army, it will definitely be of great help to the Tianping Army to tide over the difficult situation in the future.
As a result, the Tianping Army, which had experienced many major wars and kept its number at about 2,000, once again embarked on a long journey. This time, they will take the initiative to enter the most critical battlefield of all the Yellow Turban battles - Guangzong!