Just in the field of Puyang, when the Taishan army and the Han army were in a good fight, a military report from Beizhong Lang sent Lu Zhi to Liu Hong, the country in Kyoto.

Lu Zhi wrote three things on the note:

One is about the war in Hebei. Since Lu was implanted in Hebei, he first fought with the Yellow Turban Army and the military envoys, and then joined the Wuhuan Captain Sect with 4,000 cavalry, and defeated the Yellow Turban in Handan. However, the main force of the Yellow Turban Army was not damaged, but retreated to Quliang and continued to fight with the Han soldiers.

The second is about the war in Dongjun. Lu Zhi saw through the strategy of the Taishan army to advance westward into Aocang, on the one hand, he sent Chongshao south to defend Puyangjin, and on the other hand, he wrote down the possibility that Taishan thieves might attack Aocang in the west during the war, so that the central government could prepare early.

The third is Lu Zhi's suggestions on pacifying Taiping Dao now. He pointed out in the military newspaper that the current administration could no longer keep up with the development of the war. In the past, the civil unrest and thieves were all small in scale, and as long as they were guarded, they could coordinate with all counties in the county to suppress them in a unified manner. But now the Yellow Turban thieves are in all directions, and they have already crossed the state and county, and if the Yellow Turbans are still in the territory of the Taishou, they can also be suppressed with their hearts. But if the yellow turban escapes into another county, the county will ignore it. Even some Taishou even took their neighbors as their borders and deliberately drove the yellow turban thieves to other counties. In the end, the Yellow Turban thieves also took advantage of this disadvantage and kept running back and forth in the border area, killing them endlessly. Therefore, Lu Zhi suggested changing the original assassin history to a shepherd, focusing on the military of a state, choosing a major city, and taking his position, so as to coordinate the various governors in the state and suppress the thieves.

Liu Hong read Lu Zhi's military report, and thought of the joint military report of Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun that he received a few days ago, and he was worried. Because, the news sent by Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun is not very good.

The main force of the Han army on the South Road was out of the customs in May, and now the first military report has only been delivered in June, and they have all been defeated.

Huangfu Song's military report said that Zhu Jun was first attacked by Yingchuan Bocai, suffered a small setback, and retreated to Yangzhai. Then the Huangfu Song Department came and combined forces to attack the Yingchuan Bocai Division, and the battle was unfavorable. After that, Huangfu Song watched the formation and found that the Bocai Department was actually standing on the grass, and immediately broke the fire to attack the Bocai Department.

Especially in the summer, the weather is dry and the fires are burning. But just when Huangfu Song felt that the battle was a big victory, a summer rainstorm suddenly led the generals, and the Bocai Department was unharmed except for a little baggage burned. In the end, Huangfu Song could only continue to hold on to Yingchuan Taiping Road in Yangzhai.

Not only that, but Zhao Qian, the Taishou of Runan, was defeated by the Taiping Road of the county. Nanyang Taishou Chu Gong was attacked and killed by the local Zhang Mancheng troops. Guangyang Yellow Turban's killing of Youzhou assassin Shi Guo Xun and Taishou Liu Wei can be said to have no good news.

Because of the current situation, Liu Hong had to seriously consider Lu Zhi's suggestion, that is, to establish a state pastor, but he also knew that this matter was very important, so he said that why the Han family took Taishou as the head of the place was to learn the lessons of the rebellion of the Six Kingdoms and not make the place strong.

After thinking about it, Liu Hong called Yang Ci to discuss, Yang Ci meant that he could only set up a state pastor in Yanzhou first, and the land of the four wars really needed a Fang Bo to unify the counties and defend Xingyang in the east for the empire.

In the end, Yang Ci recommended Huang Wan, a capable minister, and asked him to be the uncle of Yanzhou.

Huang Wan is from the Lu Huang clan in Jiangxia, and like Yang Ci, they are all children of the Gong family. His great-grandfather Huang Xiang was a famous minister, and his grandfather Huang Qiong was the third duke. And he himself had a high reputation when he was young, and later because of the party, he was banned for 20 years, but it did not let him stumble, but his fame spread all over the world.

Liu Hong did not object this time because Yang Ci was able to anticipate current affairs, so he agreed that Huang Wan would be the pastor of Yanzhou and should be responsible for all military affairs in the territory.

Huang Wan was sent on June 4. The next day, he immediately set off with Zhou Shen, the general of Dangkou, who led 800 Liangzhou soldiers to be Huang Wan's festival soldiers, and marched east together. On June 16, Huang Wan and others arrived at Chenliu Fengqiu, and it was also at this time that the news of the destruction of Puyang City reached here.

They were late, and Puyang, the county of Yanzhou, was broken in this way.

What's going on? Puyangjin was broken on the 11th, and on the 15th of June, Puyang City fell, how is this possible? Zhang Chong: How did he lay down?

This is all thanks to one person, Zang Rong, the deputy general left behind in the Liyang Battalion. After Zang Gong, a famous general of Guangwu Zhongxing, he has always been the deputy general of the Liyang battalion, and his battalion master will need to go out of Zhongshan to be guarded against Xianbei.

Let's start with the story of these four days.

Puyang City said a long time ago that this fortified city that has been renovated in the past dynasties is surrounded by a big river, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. And because this is a big river crossing, the grain and military resources are very sufficient. Then there are high walls in four places, the east city is two zhang and five feet high, the south city is three zhang high, the west city is two zhang six feet high, and the north city is two zhang and seven feet high, which is generally one foot higher than the county seat of the same level.

Originally, the fortified city of Puyang, supplemented by the Puyangjin barrier not far away, could form a limited defense system in depth, which was more useful than simply defending the isolated city. Because if you can stabilize the stronghold outside the city, then you can fight a positional battle with the Yellow Turban Army outside the city, and in that case, the safety inside the city will be easier to guarantee.

But unfortunately, because of Cao Shao's cowardice, Zhang Huang refused to leave the city, causing the Yellow Turban Army to calmly pull out the stronghold of Puyangjin. Of course, there is one thing to say, the over-superstitious defense of Puyang City by big clans such as the Tian clan in the city may be the key.

Puyangjin broke the wall at noon on the 11th, and Cao Shao felt unstable in the afternoon, so he posted a list in the city to recruit troops. Puyang is a big city, the entire East County 15 cities, there are 140,000 households, 700,000 mouths. Puyang has 30,000 households and 160,000 mouths, and there are 20,000 or 30,000 people living in Puyang City, which is a veritable big river city.

Therefore, when Taishou Cao Shao posted a list to recruit soldiers, he should be able to recruit a lot of people. But in fact, there were very few responders, and only 500 soldiers were gathered, that is, five tuns. In order to stimulate more people to join the army, Cao Shao was ruthless, first raising the reward for recruiting troops every other day. even posted that those who can return the thief will be rewarded with a reward of 100,000 yuan. But the people of Puyang were not moved at all, and no one responded. This is the consequence of Cao Shao's abuse of the people in the past, and at the end of the day, no one is willing to give him his life.

Helpless, Cao Shao could only send county soldiers to force the people of Puyang to go to the city, promising to give 300 money a day, but in fact, the people of Puyang received the reward in vain, and then fled home. In the end, after working for a long time, Cao Shao still only pulled 500 new pawns, and he was embarrassed.

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But fortunately, at this moment, before the county lieutenant Lihu got the military order of the county guard Cao Shao, this will finally lead the army of five hundred Shanshan.

Due to the limited strength of the Taishan army, it did not encircle Puyang on all sides, but only camped in the east of the city to attack. Therefore, the five hundred soldiers of Lihu entered the city directly from the south of the city.

As the so-called no pole Tailai, in the next two days, Cao Shaoshi came, and the soldiers from Baima, Yanxian and other places have successively marched into Puyang City, especially the Yanxian soldiers also borrowed foreign soldiers, that is, Chen Liu's sour jujube soldiers 800. In this way, by June 13, the army in Puyang City had swelled to 4,000, and it was able to compete with the Taishan army outside the city.

But chaos also arose with the entry of these foreign soldiers into Puyang.

In this apocalyptic army, there is a common phenomenon, that is, when encountering thieves, they have been angry, and they have turned their hearts and minds into ambitions. They fight wars, but they plunder the best hands.

It's okay to say that the soldiers from Fox, Baima, and Yan County are also local soldiers in Dongxian County, and the township is nostalgic, so it's not easy to do too much. But it also drove a large area out of the house and kept it as a foothold.

They came to save Puyang, did they let them sleep on the street? Does that make sense?

And the 800 soldiers of the sour jujube are excessive, they rely on whether they are reinforcements or foreign soldiers, wantonly rape and plunder, and when they meet those they like, they are tied to the barracks, which makes the public opinion of Puyang boiling.

But Cao Shao didn't care about it, he just feasted the generals every day, drank wine and sang, Cao Shao had reason to be happy, because he suddenly found that it was possible to make a fortune in war.

As long as the books are opened, thousands of dollars will roll in.

With the help of several old officials, he continued to falsify accounts and open false losses. Obviously, there was no battle outside, and he had already lost hundreds of thousands of arrows here. And Cao Shao did not swallow the money by himself, but generously shared it with these foreign soldiers.

He Cao Shao is not stupid, only by catching these soldiers can he be safe.

But unfortunately, on June 15, a group of cavalry claiming to be the Liyang battalion appeared in the north of the city, saying that they would enter the city to help.

The North Gate garrison is a member of the Ji clan in Weiguo County, and it is also the first Haoqiang soldier to enter Puyang. After his family was Gu Weiguo, he has always enjoyed food and shared weal and woe with the Han family.

This person looked at the talismans and seals representing Zang Rong of the Liyang Camp from the bamboo basket under the curtain, and there was no mistake. He knew that this Zang Rong was a strong general of Liyang, and the Liyang battalion under his command was a strong force that had repeatedly gone out of the jam, so he didn't hesitate to put down the drawbridge and let this group in.

But then the cavalry began to charge through the gates and into the city, followed by an endless stream of enemy soldiers.

Now Puyang is finished.

Naturally, it was the cavalry of the Taishan army that rushed into the city, but what happened to Zang Rong's talismans and seals? This is not a fake.

It is true that this thing is genuine, and it is what Zang Rong got from him.

It turned out that when many reinforcements entered Puyang, Zang Rong of the Liyang battalion also went south. He only took a hundred Youzhou Raids, and confidently passed the white horse, and quickly entered Puyang eastward, and doubled the road.

On June 14, he arrived outside Puyang but did not enter the city, because the cavalry entering the city would not have much effect, but could play a decisive role outside the city.

Then he discovered the loophole of Puyangjin and decided to take the risk of raiding the bridge. His people were really brave, and they rushed forward with a hundred horses, and they did hit an accident with the Taishan army, and many people didn't have time to put on their armor, so Zang Rong was killed.

But it's a pity that the camp that Zang Rong rushed to was the southern camp, and Guan Yu was in that camp.

Seeing that the officials had not had time to prepare, Guan Yu put on his armor and held the horse out of the barrage, and before Zang Rong could react, Guan Yu had already killed in front of Zang Rong, and then without waiting for his reaction, he fell off the horse, and then he was trampled to death by the horse behind.

And Guan Yu killed these hundred horses alone, sweating heavily, but unharmed.

These Youzhou raiders were blinded, and in the blink of an eye, the main general was gone, and then in the blink of an eye, they were surrounded by thieves. They are all whipped Wuhuan people, and they are chattering in a hurry, and they can't understand a word of what Taishan Jun says, and they are tired of listening to it, so they immediately scolded:

"Surrender."

Wu Huan people understood this, and immediately obediently dismounted and knelt on the ground. In front of the Han Chinese, they always knelt down so easily.

This is the main theme of this era, one Han is five hu.