Chapter 109
Yuan Hao's march was slow all the way, and the emperor who was sitting in Luoyang was in a hurry, so he sent Yang Yu, the servant of the Yellow Gate, to the Yuan Hao army to urge Yuan Hao to rescue Fengzhou quickly. According to the laws of the imperial court, people without official positions can be killed in peacetime, and officials under 2,000 stone can be killed in wartime.
Yuan Hao saw Yang Yu, did not dare to continue to grind, sent the governor to follow Yang Yu to rush to Fengzhou (Zhiding'an County, now Ningxian County, Gansu) rescue, the rebels who attacked Fengzhou were also interesting, thinking that they could not deal with the regular field army of the imperial court, in order to preserve their strength and retreat without a fight, Fengzhou was relieved. Li Shuren breathed a sigh of relief. However, to Li Shuren's frustration, the emergency request for help from Yongzhou was actually sent to Fengzhou.
It turned out that Xiao Baokui, who was in charge of the front line of Yongzhou, led the army westward, and confronted Mo Zhe Tiansheng across the river in Heishui, and the Shu thieves Zhang Yinglong and Jiang Shenda near Chang'an saw that Yongzhou was empty, and then took advantage of the chaos to encircle Yongzhou, and Yuan Xiuyi, who retired from the commander of the Western Expedition and served as the assassin of Yongzhou, could not stand it, and quickly sent people to ask for help from the Taiwan army, Xiao Baochun did not dare to act rashly, so Yuan Xiuyi sent people to Yang Yu in Fengzhou for help. Yuan Xiuyi was also anxious enough, and sent nine urgent documents in one day and one night.
Li Shuren's ministry is subordinate to Yuanhao, according to the will of the imperial court, the main attack is to attack the Xia and Feng line, according to the system, even if Yongzhou falls, he will not be held responsible, and once the defeat and loss of troops will be a big sin, so Li Shuren does not want to go, Yang Yu is annoyed: Chang'an is the foundation of Guanzhong, Chang'an does not defend is equivalent to cutting off the back road of the Taiwan army, and the army of the Western Expedition will naturally collapse, what is the use of leaving us.
Yang Yu is a prison soldier, holding a scepter in his hand, if Li Shuren is disobedient, he can correct the law on the spot. Therefore, Li Shuren saw that Yang Yu's intentions were determined not to listen, so he had to follow Yang Yu to Yongzhou. The so-called Shu thieves, refers to the Jin Dynasty to destroy the Shu Han Dynasty when the Yizhou Hao people migrated to the Yongzhou area, their descendants because they have maintained the customs of Bashu (I don't know if they are not afraid of spicy), so they have been independent of the mainstream society to live outside, in the vicinity of Chang'an called Shu people, in the Shangluo area of the Ba people, in the Fen area of the called Shu.
Yang Yu and Li Shuren led the army to attack, and the regular army fought against the civilian regiment, which naturally took the advantage. In the first battle, he killed the rebel leader Jiang Shenda. Another leader, Zhang Yinglong, saw that the field army was really not easy to mess with, so he ran away with his subordinates. The alert in Yongzhou was lifted.
Yang Yu should be competent, but the imperial court was still not satisfied, and it didn't take long for him to be removed from his position. But. This short experience in the army is not a bad thing for Yang Yu. It was this expedition to the west that he had a lot of friendship with Yuan Hao, in the near future. This friendship also saved his life.
Looking back, Mo Zhe, who won a great victory in Qizhou, continued to advance eastward on the west wind of victory, and met Xiao Baochu's army of the Western Expedition in Heishui, and the two armies looked at each other across the river.
Mo Zhen naturally did not dare to underestimate Xiao Baochun, and built a camp in Hexi to put on a posture of long-term combat. Xiao Baokun has 50,000 elite soldiers under his command, and the deputy general Cui Yanbo, Xi Kangsheng and Yang Dayan are the three fierce generals of the Great Wei.
Cui Yanbo came from the Boling Cui clan, with great courage and strategy, and belonged to the Wei Dynasty since the Taihe period, and had many achievements.
Liang Dynasty general Zhao Zuyue sneak attack on the gorge, Cui Yanbo with the governor Cui Liang to discuss, Yan Bo and don't take Yi Yongsheng as a camp, he asked people to go to the rim of the wheel, sharpen the spokes, connect two by two, wear a rope with a bamboo pole, cross the river, more than ten before and after, the two ends are fixed with a big wheel, this thing can not be damaged by cutting and burning, so it cut off Zhao Zuyue's retreat, and the Liang Dynasty naval army could not be rescued, so Zhao Zuyue's whole army was captured.
Later, he became the general of Zhennan, the assassin of Qizhou, and the general of the western expedition. With such a fierce general by his side, Xiao Baochun is full of ambition and ambition to succeed in this expedition.
However, Cui Yanbo's attitude gave him a blow to the head. Xiao Baochun summoned all the generals to discuss the offensive strategy, but Cui Yanbo thought that Mo Zhen was born with strong morale after the new victory, and it was difficult to compete with him.
The generals echoed the voice, in short, everyone didn't want to fight. Xiao Baochun saw Cui Yanbo taking the lead in making sabotage, and he was very angry, Yuan Hao marched all the way slowly, and the imperial court sent a prison army, and if he was cowardly, the imperial court would definitely blame.
Xiao Baochun is also experienced in a hundred battles, he knows where the crux of the problem is, regardless of age or seniority, Cui Yanbo is the head of this group of big-headed soldiers, as long as Cui Yanbo is done, it is easy to say. Therefore, Xiao Baochun turned his face on the spot, and he roared at Cui Yanbo: The old general has always received great favor from the country, and since he was ordered to beg for thieves, it is the safety of the country.
Now it is said that thieves and soldiers are not pleased, so cowardly, to destroy their own prestige and grow the enemy's ambition, the sins of the king. Xiao Baokun's words were righteous and awe-inspiring, which made Cui Yanbo blush, and he retreated unhappily. In the early morning of the next day, Cui Yanbo came to Xiao Bao's tent to apologize.
Hey, it's easy to know it's wrong, and you have to encourage it. Xiao Baochun said: I have heard that the general is brave, but it is better to see it than to hear it. Xiao Baokun's agitation method played a role, Cui Yanbo's arrogance surged, and he said loudly: Let you see and understand today, and test the enemy's courage for Ming Gong.
As he said, at the moment, Cui Yanbo selected thousands of elite soldiers to cross the black water to the west, and marched in formation to the camp of Mo Zhe's natural nature, and Xiao Baokun's army watched the battle on the east bank of the water. Cui Yanbo went straight to the Tiansheng camp and scolded loudly.
Mo Zhen couldn't figure out Cui Yanbo's intentions and didn't dare to attack rashly, so he let him be insulted in every way, and closed the camp door and didn't come out. Cui Yanbo scolded tired and led the team to slowly retreat.
Mo Zhen was born to understand that the feelings are two hundred and five, you think this is a vegetable market, you can come and go as you want, so you ordered the whole camp to go out. The generals of the Qin army had already been suffocated, and with an order, everyone rushed out of the camp, and tens of thousands of people covered up and killed them, and there was a great tendency not to eat Cui Yanbo and vow not to give up.
Xiao Baochun on the other side of the river was startled, thinking that Cui Yanbo was really going to finish the game now. However, Cui Yanbo was calm and calm, and after the palace in person, the team maintained a strict formation and slowly crossed the river, and the natural army was intimidated by Cui Yanbo's composure, although the killing sound shook the sky, but suddenly stopped in front of Cui Yanbo. After the brigade crossed the river, Cui Yanbo followed slowly, and the Qin army who was watching the play also retreated back to the camp. Xiao Baochun was overjoyed: Cui Jun's bravery, although Guan Zhang is not as good.
Cui Yanbo was angry, and replied with a smile: These thieves are not the opponents of the old slaves, and Ming Anxin is sitting in the camp. Watch how I break the enemy. Xiao Baochun was relieved and had a good night's sleep that night. The next day, Cui Yanbo led his troops first, and Baokun led the army to follow.
Charge! Cui Yanbo took the lead in the soldiers, and the officers and soldiers were like tigers descending from the mountain, and they lost the vanguard camp of Mo Zhi Born by dividing by two, and Mo Zhi was born to rout, and the Qin army was captured and beheaded more than 100,000 people. Mo Zhe naturally fled to Xiaolong Mountain, and blocked the road into Long with earth and stones. Defend the dangerous place. only then did they block the westward march of the officers and troops.
Xiao Baochun took advantage of the victory to break Wanchuan (i.e., Chen Cang), used the city's citizens as slaves, and rewarded the Qizhou Thorn Shi Wei Langen with ten beauties. With Wei Langen's knowledge, he naturally knew that Xiao Baochun's approach was very inappropriate: the people in this county were coerced by robbers. The reason for the thief is nothing more than to save his life. Officers and soldiers should be appeased. How to be the same as a thief.
In the last years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Liu Yu went on a northern expedition, and the people of Guanzhong, who had been ruled by the Hu people for decades, welcomed the Jin army with food. However, the Jin army plundered property and women were more fierce than the Hu people, so the disappointed people welcomed Helian Bo to the east, and the Jin army was almost completely annihilated. Wei Langen's words, Xiao Baochun naturally couldn't listen. Since you can't change your boss's decision, you can only do what you can.
Welangen accepted ten beauties and returned them to their father and brother. The rebellions in Qizhou, Longdong, and Yongzhou were all put down, but with Xiao Baokun's actions, how could stability be maintained. One wave has just flattened, and another wave has risen. Just when the Qin army temporarily lost its ability to attack, another rebel army, the Gaoping army, came again. Hu Chen, the king of Gaoping, sent the generals Wan Qian Chounu and Su Qin Mingda to attack Jingzhou.
There is an officer army stationed near Jingzhou. At the beginning, Lu Zuqian, Yi Zhisheng and Yuan Zhi sent troops from Yongzhou at the same time, Yuan Zhi traveled west to meet Mo Zhi Tiansheng, and the rest of the people marched from Liumo Road to Gaoping, after the defeat of Yuan Zhi's army, the people will stay in the stability of Jingzhou.
Lu Zuqian and others fought against Wan Qian Chounu, the war was unfavorable, and Xiao Baochu, who was in high morale, rushed to the aid of stability. Xiao Baokun and Lu Zuqian and other victorious divisions, the official army has 120,000 sharp soldiers and 8,000 heavy armored cavalry, which can be described as huge.
Wan Qian Chounu set up camp in the northwest seven miles of Anding, and from time to time sent light cavalry to provoke, and when the army of officers and soldiers was dispatched, he immediately closed the camp and defended it.
Cui Yanbo was brave and brave, and he had just defeated Tiansheng, so he couldn't help but be a little underestimated, so he asked for the order to take the lead for the vanguard. Cui Yanbo built a batch of large shields, connected by lock posts, and walked in unison with strong sergeants on their backs, this thing has a name called "Paicheng", like a mobile camp.
The officers and soldiers put the baggage in the middle, and the soldiers were outside, carrying the city from Anding North to the north along the Tugang north. Cui Yanbo was in the camp step by step, with almost no flaws, and he was getting closer and closer to the Gaoping army camp.
Just as Cui Yanbo was commanding the advance of Paicheng, hundreds of cavalrymen suddenly shouted with documents to surrender and asked the Taiwan army to suspend the attack. Is the enemy frightened by the might of my city? Surrendering without a fight is the style of a general, and Cui Yanbo is very happy. Cui Yanbo ordered to stop advancing, Paicheng opened a door to let everyone in, everyone handed over the letter, Cui Yanbo opened it to watch.
It was also at this time that Su Qin Mingda retreated and led his troops to kill from the northeast, and the person who sent the surrender document immediately responded, Cui Yanbo was attacked by the enemy on his back, Paicheng lost its barrier effect, and the Taiwan army was in chaos.
Cui Yanbo got on the horse and fought hard, the Qin army was all light cavalry, the Yanbo army was mostly infantry, the Qin army attacked the city, the Taiwan army was defeated, and more than 20,000 people were killed and wounded.
Xiao Baochun cleaned up the remnants and the army retreated to Jingzhou. Suddenly suffered such a defeat, the veteran Cui Yanbo was ashamed, and he recruited brave soldiers and repaired the armor soldiers, intending to take revenge. In a short period of time, Cui Yanbo experienced cowardice, victory, pride, and defeat, and his heart could be described as mixed, to put it bluntly, we can't afford to lose this person, so the old general secretly decided to do his best to fight a beautiful turnaround battle to save face for himself.
The consequences of rushing to achieve results are always unsatisfactory. Cui Yanbo suddenly advanced westward from Anding, and set up camp seven miles away from the enemy, according to the military order, if he wanted to attack, he must first obtain the approval of the commander. However, Cui Yanbo was eager for revenge, acted without asking for instructions, and suddenly sent troops with the intention of attacking the enemy camp. Regardless of whether you are married or not, if your husband has a good child, everyone will forgive you at that time.
As long as you win, who will hold you accountable for whether you have asked for instructions? What's more, how can the boss push the credit of the money he has received? Wan Qian Chounu was also a little lax after his new victory, he expected that it would take time for the official army to organize an attack again, so he didn't pay attention to it when he learned that Cui Yanbo's troops were moving towards him, how could Cui Yanbo attack rashly? You must know that he has 100,000 elite soldiers, and Cui Yanbo is no more than 10,000 troops.
However, I can't think of a reason, the officers and soldiers came to kill, and the rebels who were not mentally prepared were in chaos at that time, and they couldn't organize a counterattack for a while, and several camps were flattened by the officers and soldiers, and the rebel soldiers only cared about fleeing, and things were thrown everywhere.
Seeing that victory was in sight, there was chaos again at the critical moment. It turned out that although Cui Yanbo's soldiers were brave in battle, their organizational discipline was extremely poor, and seeing the jewels and property scattered everywhere in the thief camp, they didn't care about continuing to kill the enemy, and began to stuff things into their pockets one by one.
Wan Qian Chounu gasped, packed up the soldiers and suddenly killed a horse pistol, the officers and troops were caught off guard, the battlefield was reversed, the officers and troops were defeated, more than 10,000 people died, and the main general Cui Yanbo was killed.
When the news of Cui Yanbo's glorious sacrifice reached Luoyang, the government and the opposition were shaken. Xiao Baochun is unlucky, no matter whether Cui Yanbo asks for instructions or not, he will be responsible for leadership. However, what is surprising is that despite the rampant discussions inside and outside the court, Xiao Baochun actually has nothing to do, and even the court has no intention of criticizing education.
It turned out that the Empress Dowager Hu in power was really not a good bird, and after the second time she took the throne, she indulged herself even more, transferred her old lover Zheng Yan back from Xiao Baochu's army, and promoted him to the counselor doctor, Zhongshu Sheren, in order to facilitate dating with her lover, Zheng Yan was appointed as the Shang Shi Dian, and since then she has been on duty in the palace day and night, and the Queen Mother has been in and out of pairs.
Zheng Yan introduced Xu Su again, and the two wolf bèi manipulated the Great Wei court. Empress Dowager Hu is a lord who likes good news, everyone votes for her, everyone says that the thief is easy to peace, and no bad news can reach her ears, and Empress Dowager Hu continues to have fun without restraint. The situation in Kansai continued to deteriorate, and due to improper handling, Yuan Yuan's fears became a prophecy, and the rebellion in Beizhen, which had just been quelled, was revived, and Hebei was once again in turmoil. (To be continued......)