This massacre went from Liuzi to Fangcheng, and along the way, all the 10,000 soldiers of Yao Zhou, the "pillow of the dead", were lying here, and he only took more than ten horsemen to Suzhou.

"Suzhou guard Liang Pisu has a gap with him, and Kaicheng listens to it and kills it." - "Zizhi Tongjian" This means that Yao Zhou once married Liang Pi, and was slaughtered after entering the city.

Liu Zi's defeat spread to Xuzhou City, making Pang Xun stunned and trembling, and even wanted to die. He hurriedly brought his cronies Xu Ji, Zhou Chong, Zhao Keli and others one by one to discuss countermeasures. The strategist Zhou Zhong couldn't cry anymore, and said: "Liu Zidi wants soldiers, Yao Zhou is brave and strategic, and once he is destroyed now, he will be in danger." For today's plan, there is only a desperate bet, and if you don't succeed, you will become a benevolent! ”

Zhou Chong's words, "everyone thinks so".

Next, Pang Xun said that there was a new personnel arrangement to announce: "I have been a well-known filial son in the township since I was a child, I believe everyone here has heard of it, right?" My father's Pang Ju is very scheming, which is also obvious to all, right?

Therefore, the position of Da Sima belongs to him in both public and private, what do the generals think? ”

When the head said this, everyone had to echo and say: "Exactly, exactly, the Heavenly Book General Shengming!" ”

Someone suggested: "If we achieve great things, there should be no loss of courtesy between father and son." ”

Pang Xun also thought so when he heard it, so he solemnly issued an order: "The big Sima Pang is straight, and the deputy general Xu Ji listens to the order!" ”

Pang Juzhi and Xu Ji knelt on one knee, clasped their fists with both hands and said, "The minister is here!" ”

"After I leave with the main force, Xuzhou will be handed over to the two of you, remember, you must hold it! Hold on no matter what! If I lose it - I'll be angry. ”

"Yes!" The two looked at each other. Cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

Pang Xun continued: "Starting tomorrow, we will recruit as many young and middle-aged men as we can. Then he went to find the main force of the government army for a decisive battle; then drink Ma Wei water and set foot in Chang'an; And then share the rich ears with you. ”

The crowd shouted in unison, "Yes!" At the same time, he stood upright, and his right hand was stretched out towards the front and upward. gave Pang Xun a German Nazi-style military salute.

Pang Xun held a distress letter from the north in his hand, and his heart was full of unspeakable troubles. In recent days, letters like this have been coming one after another. After a while, it was said that Feng County and Xiao County were tight; After a while, Teng County and Pei County are besieged, can't you have some exciting news for me? Also, since he fought a few big defeats, Pang Xun's mood has never been comfortable, how he hopes that the news of victory will come from the north, south, and east from time to time! His psychological quality is still good, and he quickly found a balance: Isn't this exactly what people often say? Nine times out of ten, things don't go well in life.

He looked at the recruit registration form on the table again, and in the past few days, it took about 30,000 recruits to recruit about 30,000 recruits, alas! Thirty thousand is thirty thousand. The next day, he left Xuzhou with 60,000 horses and marched towards Feng County.

The army besieging Feng County was Wei Bojun, one of the three rebel towns in Hebei. Tian Chenghei, the first envoy of the festival, was originally An Lushan's sworn friend. On the eve of the end of the Anshi rebels, he saw the wind and surrendered to the imperial court. Due to the appeasement of Fugu Huai'en, Tian Chenghe's time bomb was finally detonated more than ten years later in 780, becoming the main culprit in the secession of feudal towns in the middle of the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, it can't be said that Webber Town is useless, but it still has a shining point to be proud of. That is, among the successive envoys of Weibo Town, there is a person named Tian Hongzheng, who was elected as the envoy of Jiedu during the Yuanhe period of Tang Xianzong, and returned to the imperial court the land of the six states of Weibo Town. This is undoubtedly an unprecedented and heavy gift to the Tang Dynasty, which has been plagued by rebellion.

Seven years later, Tian Hongzheng was ordered by the Son of Heaven. He led Wei Bo's army to sweep away Ziqing Town, which had been divided for 50 years, and killed the rebel general Li Shidao. Tian Hongzheng - a well-deserved loyal and good general of the Tang Empire, he should be the first choice to move China - the top ten people in 812 and 819! I hope you will vote for him.

Later, the Muzong court adjusted the commanders of the feudal towns, and Tian Hongzheng was transferred to Chengde (one of the three rebel towns in Hebei) as the envoy of the festival. This is where he had met in battle. The imperial court is weak, isn't it? What's wrong with it? just sent this counterinsurgency hero to the tiger's mouth. As a result, Tian Hongzheng was killed by the rebels, and the good situation was in vain.

Is the sun coming out of the west this time? Wei Bozhen, who has always been arrogant and untamed, unexpectedly responded to the call of the central government and sent troops to join the ranks of encircling and suppressing Pang Xun's rebellious party. Could it be that Wei Bo produced a second Tian Hongzheng? Let's see who He Jintao is?

He is the envoy of the current Weibo Festival. However, this term of office is quite long, not ordinarily long - a full forty years. According to the practice of separating feudal towns in the middle of the Tang Dynasty. It is not difficult for us to come to the conclusion that Weibo Jiedu makes this position definitely a high-risk industry, and it is not easy for people who can stay in this position for 40 years!

After he received the edict of the Son of Heaven. The first reaction was to formulate a "three wants" policy for himself: first, to win the name of a loyal minister; Second, it is necessary to prevent the thieves from invading Weibo Town; Third, we must preserve our strength from being damaged. Therefore, he sent his subordinate general Xue You to lead a large army and gave him 25,000 soldiers and horses.

Before leaving, He Jintao instructed him thousands of times: "Sun Tzu's art of war is cloudy, and he retreats from the battle, understand?" Don't look at the ferocity of the enemy army, in fact? It is a boom, then decline, and three exhaustion. Got it? ”

I don't know if Xue You understood? He nodded respectfully, and said in his heart: To put it bluntly, isn't it just that you can't work? There's nothing I don't understand about this.

Wei Bojun was the first to arrive in Feng County, and Xue You set up five camps around Feng County, in line with the principle of not fighting, not encircling, not advancing, and not retreating. People who don't know the details must have thought that a large tour group was having a picnic here.

Pang Xun led the army to Feng County in the evening of the next day, and 60,000 horses sneaked into Feng County, and Wei Bojun was unaware of it. I wonder if they really don't know or pretend not to know?

Pang Xun still had two brushes in the military, and he used the strategy of encircling and reinforcing the nearest battalion to Feng County, and then set up ambushes on various major roads. Wei Bo's army really hit the plan, and the reinforcements were ambushed. More than 2,000 people were annihilated. "The thieves will not attack the village, and they will go until night and break the siege."

Xue You saw that the enemy was outnumbered. Hearing that Pang Xun came in person, he naturally thought of He Dashuai's earnest teachings. "Retreat from the battle". So before dawn they came from and quietly went back to whence they came.

It didn't matter if he left, he left Cao Xiang, the deputy commander of Teng County, under the threat of the enemy. Vice President Cao scolded fiercely: "Niang Xipi, Xue You, this pig, you might as well not come, what kind of play?" Bah! After scolding, he had no choice but to lead his troops to retreat north and retreat to Yanzhou, so as not to be shot while lying down.

Pang Xun relieved the siege of Fengxian and summed it up with his cronies. decided to carry out a "decapitation operation" first, and went south to defeat Kang Chengxun's general headquarters. A spy had already sent this information to Mr. Kang's desk, so he set a trap on the traffic artery north of Linji, and waited for Pang Xun to fall in, and he really fell in.

In fact, the headquarters of Kang, which surrounded Pang Xun's 60,000 horses, including the Shatuo Army, Tuyuhun, Dangxiang and other soldiers, was less than 60,000. Please don't be busy saying that this is a fantasy, 30,000 of Pang Xun's 60,000 horses are strong men who have just been captured, "Run before the battle." Forty thousand people died. ——New Tang Dynasty Shukang Chengxun Biography. That is to say, before the battle began, they had already fled, and 40,000 people were killed and trampled on each other. The remaining 20,000 horses returned to Xuzhou City.

Cao Xiang, who retreated to Yanzhou, saw Pang Xun leading his army south, and also reorganized his troops and horses to follow. Teng County, Feng County, Pei County and other cities were taken in a package. Well done! Know who his teacher is? Peng Yue. What he played against Xiang Yu was this guerrilla tactic: "When the enemy advances, I retreat, and when the enemy retreats, I chase." "The overlord of Chu, who made the hero of the world, tired and helpless.

In the east, the deputy commander-in-chief, the Huainan Jiedu envoy, and the southern camp all the armies were all under the command of Ma Shiju (also known as Ma Ju) and the Sizhou guard general Xin Yanli should join forces to break the seven-month siege of the thief. Wang Hongli, who came to Sizhou for meritorious service. I didn't make an inch, and I died here.

By this point, government forces had recaptured most of the area. The rebels were all compressed in the isolated cities of Xuzhou, Suzhou, Haozhou, and Dicheng. Now all Pang Xun has to do is desperately defend these four last strongholds. He sent Wu Zhen to strengthen the defense of Haozhou; sent Zhang Xingshi to strengthen the defense of the first city; He sent Zhang Xuanzhi to strengthen the defense of Suzhou, and sent Zhang Ru and Liu Jing as his deputies (as if to be surveillance).

After Pang Xun dispatched these three powerful generals. He let out a long breath, then closed his eyes and tried not to think about anything, but he couldn't stop a wave of ominous shadows from hitting his heart......

The Tang Dynasty government army sounded the rallying cry for a general attack on the Pang bandits.

Commander-in-Chief Kang Chengxun led 80,000 infantry cavalry composed of various feudal towns and soldiers to the first city, and the leader was naturally the Shatuo army. This is exactly what it is: the red flag is half rolled out of the gate, and the dark clouds are pressing down on the city.

Through the first few famous battles, the bandits finally saw the horror of the Shatuo Army, especially Zhu Xie Keyong - at such a young age, he was so heroic! Therefore, his partners gave him the nickname "Flying Tiger", and since then, the name of "Flying Tiger" has spread to all corners of the Huaibei region. As soon as the enemy saw the familiar "dark cloud", he exclaimed: "Oh no, the flying tiger is coming!" ”

What is a "copycat"? The word "cottage" comes from the ancient bandits who gathered in the mountains and forests and robbed houses, and has now evolved into the antonym of "original". The copycat version of the goods is also called "parallel goods", and those who accidentally buy "parallel goods" are worthy of sympathy.

In terms of the equipment of the Tang government army and Pang Xun's rebels, the difference between the two is the difference between the "original" and the "copycat", and the difference in the quality of the goods!

The equipment of the officers and soldiers is all armor and weapons, such as: Mingguang armor, horizontal swords, horse lances, bows and arrows, crossbow machines, swords, spears, shields, etc. It is the standardization of equipment and the specialization of production.

The equipment of the Pang bandits is disorganized, there is no uniform uniform, and there is no decent armor. In his hands were rusty, mutilated blades, swords, halberds, axes, and forks...... They also had a weakness: the lack of bows and arrows (to make arrows requires an arsenal. This brought great convenience to the siege of the city by the officers and soldiers.

Zhu Xie led Keyong and the Shatuo cavalry to "play" unscrupulously near the city wall, they stretched their bows and arrows against the city tower, sometimes "shooting the wolf on their backs", sometimes "looking back at the moon", the shape was really cool, and left a deep impression on the people at that time.

The guards standing at the battlements of the towers became live targets, and from time to time those who were hit by arrows fell to the ground or fell off the city. "Woo, woo, woo" - a short sound of horns came from the command center, followed by the sound of drums that did not stop for a moment, this was the siege order!

Rows of ladders were erected on the city walls, and the infantry were agile and swift. At the same time, the loud sound of the car crashing against the city gate, the shouting of killing, and the sound of the collision of weapons converged into an earth-shattering "symphony"!

This is a siege battle without suspense! After a while, the "symphony" stopped, and the city returned to its former peace.

The guard general Zhang Xingshi stumbled and fled in the direction of Suzhou with more than ten horses, and as soon as their group stepped into the city gate with their front feet, Kang Chengxun's army then arrived, surrounding the Suzhou City in the core.

The name of the Suzhou guard general was Zhang Xuanni, who was originally a general of Cui Yanzeng, the observation envoy of Tang Xusi, and surrendered to Pang Xun on the day of the destruction of Xuzhou. He often reminded himself in his heart: This is just an expedient measure, it is in Pang Ying's heart in Tang, I want to wait and wait for the day when I will contribute to the imperial court.

Another surnamed Zhang, Zhang Xingshi, is a die-hard fan of Pang Xun, and he wrote in a letter to Pang Xun: "The official army is as sharp as it gets, and the west is empty, and the general goes straight to Song Hao, surprises, and extricates himself from the siege." ”

This means that the elite main forces of the official army have been attracted here by me, and the troops of the Song and Hao Erzhou in the rear are empty, so please take the army by surprise and attack it unprepared, and the siege of Suzhou will naturally be solved.

Zhang Xingshi selected a soldier from the army who was good at stealing chickens and dogs, and asked him to send the letter to Xuzhou and hand it over to Boss Pang in person. That night, this soldier was not ambiguous, I saw him wearing a night coat, with a single knife in his back, leaping down from the city tower, disappearing into the vast night, disappearing under the noses of the besieging officers......

Pang Xun, who has been depressed and sad recently, received the letter, as if he had been injected with chicken blood, and his spirit came up with a "poof". He said repeatedly: "Good plan, good plan, good plan to save Zhao from encircling Wei!" If we capture Songzhou and Haozhou, we will be alive and well, and that will be another village! Xingshi, this guy also has two brushes, and he thought of one with me. ”

After that, he asked Pang Juzhi and Xu Ji to guard Xuzhou, and he, Zhou Chong, Zhao Keli and others led 20,000 horses out of the West Gate and went all the way to the west. This is the third time Pang Xun has left Xuzhou to go out for "tourism", and the first two times have come back in disgrace. This time when he went out, he looked back at the majestic and tall city tower and said silently: "Goodbye, Xuzhou!" Goodbye, dear! I'll come back in case it doesn't go well. ”

He never thought that this time he went out was completely different from the previous two times, and he no longer had the opportunity and ability to come back. (To be continued......)