Chapter 1322: Take Yulin County lightly
After leaving Jianning, the Han army turned southeast and passed through Yelang County before entering Yulin County in Wu State. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
In the Han Dynasty, the land of the seven counties of Lingnan was called Jiaozhou, until the five years of Sun Wu Huangwu of the Three Kingdoms, Sun Quan divided the north of Hepu in Jiaozhou for Guangzhou, and governed the four counties of Nanhai, Cangwu, Yulin and Hepu, governed Panyu, and ordered Lu Dai to be the history of thorns; The south of Hepu is still Jiaozhou, and it has jurisdiction over three counties of Jiaozhi, Jiuzhen and Rinan. This is the beginning of the name of Guangzhou. A year later, Jiao and Guang were governed. In the seventh year of Wu Yongan, Jiao and Guangzhou were divided again, and they were still placed in Guangzhou, with jurisdiction over the four counties of Nanhai, Cangwu, Yulin and Gaoliang, and the seat of governance was in Panyu.
This time, Liu Yin took the lead in attacking Yulin County, Guangzhou.
Compared with the wolf smoke in the northern border counties, it has been repeatedly harassed by Huyi, and the Jiaoguang area can be called a peaceful paradise. Although there are Yi people on all sides of Jiaozhou and Guangzhou, compared with the fierce of the northern nomads, these Yi people in the south are much weaker, because the terrain is more complicated, these Yi people are also relatively closed, and they rarely take the initiative to attack and disturb the localities, so the situation in the Jiaoguang area has always been stable.
Although Wu controlled the two prefectures of Jiaoguang, for a long time, their defense focus has been maintained on the line of the Yangtze River or the area north of the Yangtze River, and for the land of Lingnan, they are relatively contemptuous, only sending a small number of troops to garrison, and most of the soldiers and horses of the counties and states are also recruited from Benzhou, and their combat effectiveness is naturally not comparable with the regular army.
Although Liu Yin's army had traveled thousands of miles of long-distance marches, because its marching routes were all in the territory of Ji and Han, and Liu Yin's implementation of a high degree of secrecy about this operation, even the soldiers of the Han army did not know where they were going on this trip before reaching their destination, let alone Wu's meticulous work.
Before arriving at the border of Wu in Yulin County, Liu Yin informed the whole army that the target of their attack this time was the Jiaoguang Erzhou of Wu State.
Since most of the people of this era could not read the map, at best, they could only judge the east, west, north and south according to the position of the sun, this kind of great march across thousands of miles, many people simply lost their sense of direction, because they did not know the destination in advance, so they just followed the instructions and marched, and now what position they have reached, absolutely how many people know.
Therefore, after Liu Yin announced the goal of the attack, except for those generals who knew in advance, all the soldiers were in an uproar, and even they didn't expect to run to Jiaozhou after running around for so many days, which is really incredible.
However, obedience is the duty of a soldier, the Tiger Cavalry Army and the White Tiger Army have followed Liu Yin to fight for many years, no matter how far away they have been, no matter how hard the battle has been, for this attack on Jiaozhou Guangzhou, their fighting spirit is still extremely high.
The western part of Yulin County is all mountainous and hilly, and most of the people living here are also Baise and other Yi tribes, and it is four or five hundred miles away from Lingfang County, Yulin County, the closest to the Wu-Han border.
Liu Yin decided to divide his troops into two routes and capture Yulin County and Guilin County at the same time. According to the previous intelligence, Yulin County and Guilin County did not have many Wu soldiers stationed, if the Han army concentrated its forces to attack a certain county, a bit of a chicken with a knife, now the main force of the Wu army in Jiaoguang, concentrated in Guangxin and Panyu east of Yulin, the former is the former Jiaozhou office, the latter is the current Guangzhou office.
Fu Zhao led the White Tiger Cavalry to the northeast and launched an attack on Guilin County, while Liu Yin led the Tiger Cavalry to advance to the southeast of Yulin County.
Even if the troops were divided into two routes, Liu Yin did not plan to concentrate his forces to fight Yulin County, and after arriving at Lingfang County, Liu Yin only sent Luo Shang, the general of Annan, to lead 3,000 light cavalry to march to Bushan overnight.
Before arriving in Lingfang County, the whereabouts of the Han army can be said to have never been exposed, but after occupying Lingfang County, the Han army can no longer keep this secret, after all, there are countless pairs of eyes to see the cavalry of the Han army, and within a few days, the news of the Han army's attack on Jiaoguang will inevitably spread throughout the counties.
Of course, Liu Yin can't block the mouths of Youyou, but he can take Yulin County before the news spreads, after all, relying on word of mouth, this speed is impossible to be faster than the Han cavalry in any case.
From the territory to Bushan, only two or three hundred miles away, Luo Shang led the light cavalry is only a night's journey, than in the early morning, Luo Shang led the troops under the guidance of the guide, can already see the city of Bushan hazy.
At this moment, Bushan City is still shrouded in tranquility, because it has not yet reached the time to open the city gate, the gate of Bushan City is closed, except for a few sporadic sentinels, there is hardly any figure in the city and under the city.
If you launch an attack at this time, it is a good time, but because Luo Shang is a light horse, he did not carry any siege equipment at all, if he attacks at this moment, he can only rely on the soldiers' ladder to attack, but Luo Shang visually measured it, the city wall of Bushan, the county city, is still relatively high, only by taking a human ladder to attack, if you don't encounter the enemy, you can climb up unconsciously, but once it is detected by the defenders, the sneak attack becomes a strong attack, and only the Han army suffers.
So Luo Shang was not in a hurry to attack, he hid all the three thousand cavalry, fortunately there is a large area of dense forest here, and there is almost no problem in hiding, and now the gate of Bushan City is closed, even if someone gets the news and wants to notify the city, I am afraid it will not be possible.
Luo Shang sent a few soldiers, took off their military uniforms, changed into the clothes of ordinary people, and stood at the city gate in groups of three or five, waiting for the city gate to open.
Generally, the time of opening the city, is when the rooster crows, during the Warring States period, Meng Weijun was trapped in Hangu Pass, can not get out of the city, just his doorman is good at learning the rooster to crow, causing the whole city to crow, the guards do not know the inside, heard the rooster crow and opened the city gate, Meng Weijun can be regarded as escaping with his life.
Of course, no one in the Han army will pretend to be a rooster, but this time should also be when the rooster crows, and after hearing the rooster crow three times, the sergeant guarding the gate lazily opened the city gate.
Usually when the city gate is opened, it is rare to see a human figure, but today just opened the city gate, the soldiers guarding the city saw groups of "people" gathered outside the city, and the guards were so strange how could so many people come early in the morning.
However, Yulin County has not had military intelligence for a long time, and these guards don't care at all, and they open the city gate and let people in.
These Han soldiers who entered the city immediately showed their weapons, killed the guards, and took control of the city gates, and then Luo Shang led a cavalry brigade into the city.