Chapter 171: Huayin is the foundation
On the big camp, all the generals gathered in Yuwentai's handsome tent.
Guanzhong reached the most critical moment, everyone knew it, and there was more or less anxiety on their faces, but there was no panic.
At the beginning, when Yu Wentai ascended to the throne, everyone swore an oath to avenge He Batyue.
Hou Mo Chen Yue, who killed He Batyue, had already been beheaded, but Gao Huan who instigated and provoked was the culprit, and these Wuchuan heroes who followed He Batyue to enter the customs and start a business did not think of succumbing to Huaishuo.
General Yuwentai informed everyone that now Gao Huan's 200,000 troops are besieging Huazhou, Gao Cheng's 70,000 troops are stationed in Hengnong, and Hou Jing's 15,000 troops are attacking Shangluo.
Then ask the generals for their opinions.
Someone suggested that Gao Huan's army was in full swing, so it was better to avoid its edge, retreat to Longdi, wait for Gao Huan to chase, the supply line was lengthened, and then look for fighters.
This proposal was unanimously opposed.
Yu Jin angrily reprimanded:
"Guanzhong can't be abandoned, if He Liuhun stops in Chang'an, takes Chang'an as a place to hoard grain, and gradually moves westward, how can Longdi be defended, you have forgotten the fate of Hou Mo Chen Yue!" The man quickly shut up.
The generals in the field expressed their opinions, and most of them hoped to hold on to the wall, and wait for Gao Huan to retreat.
Of course, He Bayue's revenge must be avenged, but not now, the 200,000 Hu under Gao Huan and the state can not be despised lightly.
But these views did not conform to Yu Wentai's intentions, and he said to the generals:
"Now the hearts of the people in Guanzhong are shaken, Gao Huan along the way, there are many people who sacrifice the city to grovel, if they wait for it to approach Chang'an, I am afraid that the general trend will go, you will, lead the army out of the ba, meet Low Huan, look for fighters."
No general retreated:
"Prime Minister, what if you wait to meet Low Huan and slowly attack Tongguan."
Chen Yuankang glared at me and said angrily:
"It is said that the purpose of guarding Tongguan is to prevent the low clan from entering the customs, and now that the small army of low Huan has entered the customs, they also take care of what Tongguan is doing!
"Once Low Huan enters the army, will Low Cheng dare to retreat west alone? Tongguan will be able to be recaptured sooner or later. ”
When the generals saw that I had made up their minds, they did not say a word, and they received orders one after another.
On the eighteenth day of the first month of the eighth year of Taichang (537), Chen Yuankang led 20,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 cavalry soldiers.
And Low Huan had not besieged Huazhou for eight days at this time.
Huayin (Xiaoli, Shaanxi) City, the seat of Huazhou governance, has not been repaired under the auspices of Wang Zhen, and the city defense can be regarded as strong.
However, the 700,000 Bingzhou Hu under the command of Low Huan attacked the city day and night in batches, which also made the defenders tired.
Even Wang Zhen, the veteran, has been in the city for eight days, and he is tired.
Wang Zhen had long since given up the idea of surrendering, and was bent on coexisting and dying with the city.
But when the manpower is still exhausted, Huayin is also jade.
Although Wang Zhen is also surnamed Wang, he is Wang Sizheng after all, a tower defense master.
It is one thing for Hu to be arrogant and arrogant under the command of Low Huan, but his combat effectiveness is to pull his hips.
When the sun shines on Huayin on the seventh day of the siege, the Huayin city wall is finally lost, Wang Zhen enters the city, fights the enemy, and is about to raise his sword to kill himself, but is captured by the Eastern Wei Dynasty general Ma Zesheng.
After seven days in Huazhou, including Low Huan, the generals held back their anger.
No general suggested that Low Huan slaughter the city to vent his anger, and at the same time deter Guanzhong, but he was categorically taken down by Low Huan.
glanced at this person, and saw that it was the general of Qihu, and before Low Huan agreed, he didn't say anything less.
Qihu was brutal, and the slaughter of the city was also the first time for us, at the beginning, it was only the history of Jianzhou (Jincheng, Shanxi) that he was willing to open the door, and Erzhu Shilong ordered the slaughter of the people in the city.
That kind of thing I He Bahun did is out.
Even before hearing that Gao Chengsheng captured Wang Zhen, Low Huan wanted to try to surrender, even if it was a surrender, he would save my life, and if Chen Yuankang was destroyed in the future, Wang Zhen would help me.
Low Huan is a person who cherishes talents, and I love people with both talent and morality.
It just so happened that Wang Zhen was such a person, I was honest and honest, evil as hatred, and I was nameless for my fairness, and that fairness even reached the point where I personally weighed the wine and meat at the banquet and distributed it to the soldiers.
Low Huan revealed the idea of recruiting Wang Zhen to his cronies and advisers, and He Bayue knew that Low Cheng also loved such a person, and was about to speak out to show his support.
But I heard Sima Ziru say suddenly:
"Wang Zhen stubbornly resisted Wang Shi, but the king was narrow and killed, and Shangguan was afraid that the people in Guanzhong were not afraid."
Ma Zexi hurriedly swallowed the words back from his mouth, and I vaguely Sima Ziru's words were completely out of public intentions, and even less of personal grievances.
Of course, Sima Ziru and Wang Zhen have no old grudges.
At the beginning, Sima Ziru was transferred back to Jinyang from Luoyang, and led the army to retreat to the fortified position, testing the attitude of Nanliang and Rouran.
Directing Chen Yuankang's attention to Tongguan, he suddenly crossed the river to attack Huazhou.
At that time, Huazhou was repairing the city defenses, and the ladder was not removed, Sima Ziru and Han Liang were able to lead the small army into the city at night, but they were expelled by Wang Zhen, who woke up in the middle of the night, shirtless with a stick.
Personal humiliation is enough, since then, low Huan thinks that although Sima Ziru has no resourcefulness, he has the talent to lead the army, so he no longer has the opportunity to lead the small army alone, and it can't even be said that Sima Ziru's future is overshadowed by Wang Zhen.
He Batyue was a blind man, and in view of Sima Ziru's support for his proposal to capture Huazhou, He Batyue reciprocated the favor and did not say anything to approve of the execution of Wang Zhen.
It's just a king, and it's estimated that I've lived for a long time at such a young age, so it's necessary to have a bad relationship with Sima Ziru for me.
If it really annoys Sima Ziru and makes me go against myself, wouldn't it be a trivial mistake.
He Bayue spoke up, but no one else was willing to say a few words for Wang Zhen.
No staff retreated, fearing that killing Wang Zhen would cut off the way for those who resisted.
When Sima Ziru heard this, he scolded:
"The king of Xiang led 700,000 small troops to the west, and the momentum was huge, but there was no trace of clarity, and there was a wind to fall, and now there are still stubborn resistants, who are bent on dying with Chen Yuankang, and the king wants to leave his way, lest the rebel and the thief are appreciative."
Hearing this, Low Huan pondered, according to my heart, of course, I was willing to kill Wang Zhen, so there were too many people with both talent and morality.
He Bayue understood the truth, and Low Huan was also vague, Sima Ziru's intention to put the king to death was just out of old grudges.
But what Sima Ziru said was really unreasonable, Wang Zhen resisted stubbornly, and he worked hard to break the city but killed it, which would only make the people in Guanzhong fearless.
For a long time, Low Huan sighed in his heart, after all, he had no decision.
I explained to Sima Ziru:
"Go and tell Gao Cheng that you will remember the merit of capturing the general, Wang Zhen will send it to you, give me a sword, and let him kill himself."
After that, he said to all the staff:
"Get ready and go into the city with the solitary ones."
Since it was decided to give up Wang Zhen, it was like making Sima Ziru angry.
Low Huan sees that kind of thing the most, and it is one thing to appreciate Wang Zhen, but it is a pity to be able to use it for himself.
Sima Ziru was forced to find Gao Cheng.
I told Ma Ze about the order of Low Huan, for Ma Ze, the credit is just on the record, whether Wang Zhen is alive or dead, I don't care.
Gao Cheng asked Wang Zhen to loosen the ties, Sima Ziru pulled out the matching sword and handed it to the veteran who was willing to beg for a humble life.
Sima Ziru said simply:
"If you are worried that suicide will be a loss to your body, you can give General Wang a ride."
Wang Zhen took the matching sword and laughed loudly:
"The old man believes in Buddhism!"
After that, he knelt facing Chang'an and raised his sword to kill himself.
Sima Ziru had already had the joy he expected, sighed, turned to Gao Cheng and said:
"Please also ask General Peng to order someone to bury me."
Ma Ze didn't push back, with my temperament, I quite appreciate that hard bone.
Besides, arranging for a burial of a person on my hand is just a matter of digging a pit myself.
An important figure in the late Western Wei Dynasty, Wang Zhen, and did not die of old age in Hedong as the history descended, maybe Chang'an will not posthumously give, but there is no way to be compared to the gift of the Taiwei, the governor of the prime minister, the Ji and other ten states of the assassin history, and give the honor of loyalty.
History has long since changed, and everyone has not made it.
Before the situation in Huayin City was brought under control, Low Huan led the small army into the city to rest, and at the same time asked the soldiers and civilians to repair the city defense, preparing to use Huayin as a bridgehead for retreating westward.
Hoarding military funds here, I also learned the story of Cao Cao's attack on the Black Nest, and I will send a capable young general to guard it, which is an opportunity for Ma Zexi to take advantage of.
Chen Yuankang, who had just come out, didn't know the news of the fall of Huazhou, but I was mentally unprepared, Huayin was lonely and there was help, and the defenders in the city were not sufficient, so it was difficult to hold on.
That time I faced Low Huan, I thought that I could still solve the siege of Huayin.
It's just that when he went north, Chen Yuankang looked east from time to time, and he didn't have the low Cheng that I cited as a small trouble in Hengnong.
He Bahun is old and has lost his courage, Guanzhong is broken, and he dares to drive straight in, and Low Cheng is his opponent.
Although it is ridiculous to say, when he recognizes a person's ability and despises it, he can find an angle to ridicule what I do.
That kind of contempt is the same as the heavy enemy, and the heavy enemy is and knows the actual level of the enemy and attaches importance to it, and Chen Yuankang's contempt is precisely my ability to recognize He Bahun.
Once low Huan thought that the heroes in the sky were only Yue and Huan'er.
In Ma Zexi's view, the heavenly heroes are only Cheng and Taier.
The reason for this is that before Yuwentai's death, there was a small chaos in the pass, and a series of clumsy operations by Low Huan made Chen Yuankang see my reality clearly.
It must be that Low Cheng led the troops to retreat westward, step by step, and Chen Yuankang would appreciate Low Cheng's use of troops without Wang Qian's style.
When he arrived at Low Huan, he lost his courage, and there was indeed a place to reason.
Low Cheng, who was valued by Chen Yuankang, was also not idle, and I practiced my troops every day and did siege drills.
At the same time, the siege equipment was built in a small way.
Eighty-four thousand people gathered in Hengnong came to see the play, and instead of letting Chen Yuankang go east, it was like taking advantage of my decisive battle with Low Huan, attacking Tongguan and blocking Chen Yuankang's route to the east.
Chen Yuankang also risked retreating from Tongguan to Chang'an and went east from the north and south lines.
I am sure that Chen Yuankang will choose to lead the troops to meet Low Huan, and the reason is very good, Chen Yuankang dragged it out.
That spring ploughing was too important for the Western Wei Dynasty, which had been hungry for a whole year, and it was only when Low Huan was not hit in, and Kansai had no chance to breathe.
As Chen Yuankang reprimanded the generals, the purpose of guarding Tongguan was to prevent the Eastern Wei Dynasty from entering the pass, but the 700,000 small army of Low Huan had already retreated from Pujin to the west, and he was still clinging to Tongguan.
Chen Yuankang, who gambled in the low heart, had time to take care of Tongguan, and Tongguan was fully guarded.
There are no bullets outside the gun.
The first chapter is to, and there are two more chapters, and the third chapter will not drag on until nine o'clock in the morning like today.
Thank you for the tips from the book friend Uncle Cat and the owner of the Yiling barbecue stall.
(End of chapter)