In the sixth year of Guanghe, on June 23, the two Yellow Turban Armies of Ma Yuanyi and Bocai, which were entrenched outside Yangzhai City, suddenly moved southward and directly joined the Pengtuo Department of Taiping Road in Runan, which was going north in the area of Yingyang, and the army was greatly boosted for a while. After the confluence of Ruying Taiping Road, there are 150,000 soldiers, and the company camp is more than ten miles, filling the wilderness of Yingyang.

All this was planned by Ma Yuanyi, who used his prestige in the sect to promote the joint army of Ruying Taiping Dao.

It turned out that when Runan Taiping Dao defeated Runan Taishou Zhao Qian in Zhaoling, Ma Yuanyi moved this idea. In the battle of Zhaoling, Runan Taiping Road won a great victory, defeating the main force of the Runan Han army in one fell swoop, and the essence of the county was exhausted. For example, Yuan Yuan of the Yuan clan in Runan, who was the county gate at the time, attacked from Taishou, and he and the county officials were all killed by Chen, and only Zhao Qian was spared.

At that time, Ma Yuanyi gathered the Taiping people in the Yangzhai area, heard the great victory of Runan, and was busy as the Taiping Taoist envoy to spread the message of Runan Pengtuo, and ordered him to go north quickly and join the decisive battle with the main force of the Han army in Yingchuan.

Peng Tuo's Zhaoling is between Rushui and Yingshui, and between Yingyang, a horse Pingchuan, which got the name of Ma Yuanyi, and immediately took 80,000 Runan Yellow Turban Army to the north.

Peng Tuo is a disciple of Zhang Bao, and he has always been Geng Jie like his teacher, and he has always ignored the chaos in the church, only obeying the fatwa, and whoever is there will listen to whomever he is. So Ma Yuanyi sent the order to him, and he didn't think much about it and went north with all the combatable soldiers of Runan.

Runan is a big county, with a million household registrations, and the Taiping Road rooted here is even stronger, Peng Tuo himself has Wu Ba, Gong Du, He Yi, Liu Pi, Huang Shao, He Man Six strong generals, all have brave martial arts, commanding 10,000 people. After that, he defeated the main force of the Runan Han army in another battle, and he was even more complacent.

In Peng Tuo's view, he has 80,000 soldiers, and he is not holding a handle on the Han soldiers? In this way, he killed Yingyang.

And the Bocai Department originally got a letter from Yang Zhai and asked him to go west to join forces with Ma Yuanyi, but Bocai and the Han soldiers fought again and again, and were bitten to death, and finally broke their tails and brought 50,000 remnants of soldiers to the west of Yangzhai, and joined forces with 20,000 troops of Ma Yuanyi's Department here. And taking advantage of the fact that the Han army failed to figure out their intentions, they quickly went south and joined forces with Peng Tuo.

After the merger, with Ma Yuanyi as the highest prestige in the sect, the Ruying coalition army promoted Ma Yuanyi as the commander of the canal, preparing to fight to the death with the Han soldiers in Yingyang.

Yingyang, as the name suggests, is in the Yang of Yingshui, and Ma Yuanyi chose this place as the place of merger, because it is located between Nanyang and Runan, which is more convenient for everyone to join forces. But Ma Yuanyi may not have thought of it, that is, this Yingyang was surrounded by a horse and a flat river, which was very conducive to the gallop of the main force of the Han army.

Cao Cao, the commander of the cavalry, combined 2,000 cavalry with Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun's army, and the Han army already had about 8,000 fine cavalry, which was a very terrifying number in the entire Central Plains battlefield, and these Ma Yuanyi did not take it into account.

Yingyang City fell soon under the siege of 150,000 Yellow Turban Army, and on the day of the city break, the Taiping army slaughtered the wealthy clans in the city, such as the sacrifice clan and the Wang clan, all of whom were after the Guangwu Fathers.

After that, Ruying Taiping Road took Yingyang City as a base, stationed in deep trenches, accumulated grain, and prepared to make long-term plans with the Han army. At the beginning, the Qu Kui of Ruying Taiping Road did not put the Taishan side that was still in Puyang in the plan, not because they felt that they could not fight, but because they were four hundred miles away.

But in the end, it was Ma Yuanyi who overrode the public opinion, selected ten teams of horses, and went north to Puyang, so that Puyang could go south and attack the main force of Ruying Taiping Road in the north and south. Of course, Ma Yuanyi did not pin all his hopes of victory on Mount Tai, and he also sent a message to Zhang Mancheng of Nanyang Taiping Road, inviting him to go north together, join forces with Ruying Taiping Road, and threaten the main side of the Han army.

At this time, Nanyang Taiping Road was also strong and strong, with 150,000 soldiers, and won great victories one after another. First attacked and killed Nanyang Taishou Chu Gong in Wancheng, and then besieged Wancheng several times, and has been compressing Nanyang Taiping Road in the city, holding the initiative on the battlefield.

Originally, Ma Yuanyi was full of confidence in the transfer of Nanyang Taiping Road to the north, because these were his old subordinates, and many important generals in the party were led by Ma Yuanyi back then, and now Ma Yuanyi is calling, how can they not go north? But Ma Yuanyi still underestimated the differences within the church.

When the book was sent to Zhang Mancheng in Nanyang Taiping Road, Zhang Mancheng was noncommittal.

Ma Yuanyi was the divine envoy in the sect before, but later he was deprived by Zhang Jiao because of his protection of Zhang Chong, so Zhang Mancheng was appointed as a divine envoy. The status of the divine envoy in the sect is similar to that of the Yellow Angel, and he has the power to induce the will of the Yellow Heaven, in other words, he can help the beggars.

And later, Ma Yuanyi went out of the mountain again and became a divine envoy again, so naturally Zhang Mancheng couldn't do this. This one went wrong, and the estrangement came out.

Another reason why Zhang Mancheng didn't want to go north was that he was worried that he would make a wedding dress for others. If he goes north, it will be to use his own soldiers to make meritorious service to Ma Yuanyi. Originally, he had a competition with Ma Yuanyi, if Ma Yuanyi broke the main force of the Han army in Yingchuan because of this, then he would no longer have the opportunity to drink his people and rob the heirs in the sect.

Therefore, Zhang Mancheng is still strong with the Han soldiers in Nanyang, if he can't take advantage of this to be eliminated, he is afraid that it will become a climate again, so he is allowed to two more months, and when the millet is harvested in September, he Zhang Mancheng will become a general and command 100,000 soldiers to go north and fight with the Han army in Ruying. And during this period, Ma Yuanyi can only be coped.

In fact, the reason for all this is Zhang Mancheng's vision, not that he has a narrow vision in fighting for power and profit, but that he misjudged the true strength of the Han army. What he fought in Nanyang was nothing more than the inner county soldiers of the Han soldiers, and it was also when the heroes and powerful people in Nanyang were not organized, and the elite of the main force of the Han army in the south was not at all what Zhang Mancheng could imagine, and he might wonder if Ma Yuanyi called him north to go north, whether he just wanted to annex him.

All in all, because of these and some limitations of vision, Nanyang Taiping Dao rejected Ma Yuanyi's suggestion to go north, and this made Ruying Taiping Dao once again have to face Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun's army alone.

But the turning point came in Puyang.

On both sides of Pushui, which had been confronted for half a month, the Taishan army once again took action.

The Han army, which originally besieged Taiping Road in the north and south of Pushui, ushered in a Kyoto messenger ten days ago, with the second battalion of Huya and Fufeng stationed in Chang'an, and 2,000 soldiers out of the customs. This is a trick that the state Liu Hong arranged when he received Lu Zhi's letter in June.

The person who led the troops was called Yuan Peng, from the Yuan clan of Chen State, and his person took Huya and Fufeng Second Battalion out of the customs as a confessor in the army, assisting the Yanzhou Mu Huangwan who arrived earlier, and accompanied by 200,000 stone millets sent by Ao Cang.

And the arrival of Yuan Peng directly made Huang Wan understand that the original set of so-called strategies for sitting on the war failed to pass on the side of the country Liu Hong. Also, just for the sake of the Taishan thief, he spent a huge amount of money to repair the wall, and your money as Liu Hong was blown by the wind?

So Liu Hong's meaning is obvious, the elite soldiers, the soldiers, the grain, the armor and the weapons are all given to you, call me now!

Yuan Pan and Huang Wan do not have a deep relationship, Huang Wan is a staunch anti-eunuch faction in the DPRK and China, and Yuan Pan is a centrist, the two do not have much personal relationship, and because of this, Liu Hong chose Yuan Peng.

As soon as Yuan Peng entered the Fengqiu camp, he began to feel the situation of the Yanzhou Army, and three days later, he played to Liu Hong:

"When the servant arrived in the army, everything was not well understood. And he brought few soldiers, so he didn't discuss lightly. ”

Yuan Peng's cautious report just didn't make Liu Hong worried, but in fact, he already knew about the problems existing in the Fengqiu camp. In a private message to Yuan Kui, who is of the same clan and has a different room, he expressed his true emotions:

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"On June 25, our line arrived at Fengqiu, meeting Huang Wan and Zhou Shen, both of whom said that the Taishan army was fierce and uncontrollable. I thought he was such a giant, but when he visited carefully, the thieves were only more than 10,000 women, and even if they dared little, they were just a rabble. And now I have sealed the hill camp, and there are 12,000 soldiers, all of whom can make a journey, but only because Huang Wan is patrolling and blindly seeking to defend, which makes the army's morale slack. The veteran general in the army bravely asked for battle several times, but Huang Wan refused. I thought that the thief who broke Mount Tai was easy to hear, please behead Huang Wan. ”

Yuan Kui is Situ, and when he received Yuan Peng's private message, he used his own identity to apply for a letter to Huang Wan of Fengqiu, accusing Huang Wan of having the courage to do things, not spending the country's money and food, and achieving nothing.

This application directly made Huang Wan feel sad and frustrated.

In fact, not long after Yuan Peng entered the camp, he was also dissatisfied with it, and the essence was to stand up in front of Huang Wan, Zhou Shen and others. Therefore, Huang Wan did not invite Yuan Peng to participate in the military meeting, but only informed him of the results, which deepened the gap between the two sides.

In the end, Yuan Peng even used the Fengqiu camp to be narrow, so he moved to Suozao with the second battalion of Huya and Fufeng, saying that he wanted to block the thieves of the Taishan army in Yan County.

And now Yuan Peng has fallen down and hit a rake, and he has also attracted Sikong's help to apply for him, which directly hit Huang Wan, and he fell ill all of a sudden.

On the one hand, it is indeed a heart disease, but on the other hand, since entering Fengqiu, Huang Wan has pulled out this Yanzhou army from scratch, and the camp is full of troubles. The food he eats on weekdays is only three liters of millet, and he is already haggard and his vitality is greatly damaged.

As soon as the inside and outside intersected, Huang Wan directly vomited blood and fell unconscious.

Huang Wan's illness directly exacerbated the chaos of the Fengqiu camp, originally with Huang Wan's mediation, these powerful soldiers can also endure each other for the country, but now the backbone of the backbone has fallen, and the generals are not in harmony, which makes the army's heart disintegrate more and more.

This was reflected in the Pushui front, that is, the Han soldiers had no fighting spirit, and they were defeated in several small-scale sabotage battles with the Taishan army.

In fact, in the past half a month of sitting and fighting, the Taishan army and the Han soldiers are not waiting. Instead, there are clashes on the north bank of Pushui from time to time. Scouts on both sides often go deep behind each other, sneaking up on the woodcutters who are ambushing them or diverting the team. This kind of skirmishing is the elite invested by both sides. In the past, the victory and defeat of the two sides were half, although the Taishan army was strong, but the Yanzhou soldiers were more aware of geography, so they could be regarded as having contacts.

However, in the past few days, the Han soldiers not only attacked less often, but even became more and more abrupt, and often after being attacked, they broke up and returned to the camp without resistance. These changes were noticed by the flying army of the Taishan Army and reported to Zhang Chong in Puyang.

Zhang Chong had just received a letter from Ma Yuanyi, urging him to go south to fight with the main force of the Han army. Zhang Chong was still hesitating, because the original plan was that he would be the last living force to defeat Yanzhou here, so he would use Puyang as an advance base and attack Xingyang Aocang all the way to the west, threatening the supply of Lu Zhi's army in the north of the Han army.

But there is a huge change in the current situation, that is, Ruying Taiping Road in the middle of the road has developed better because it started earlier than in history, and it has even played a balance of power with the main force of the Han army. The turning point of the burning of the Chosha took place, but because of the advance of time, a heavy rain that had not been there suddenly fell, which changed the outcome of the war. It can be that all wars are the result of the right time, place and people, and all of them are indispensable.

In addition, a major change is Ma Yuanyi, because Ma Yuanyi successfully escaped and went south to Yingchuan, with him, a leader with high prestige, the Taiping Road in Runan actually went north, which has never appeared in history.

In this way, the current situation is that Ma Yuanyi has gathered 150,000 troops and has set up camp in the Yingyang area, preparing to fight to the death with the Han army. And now, if he Zhang Chong leads his troops south and flanks Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun's army, will it really be decided in a battle?

Although this prospect seems very tempting, Zhang Chong is soberly aware of the risks.

First of all, Puyang is about 400 miles away from the Yingyang battlefield, and he poured his main force of 10,000 to the south, traveling 40 miles a day, and it will take 10 days to arrive at the earliest. And along the way, there are three rivers wading in Bianshui, chasm, and Weishui, and it takes time to build bridges.

In case, when he led the Taishan Army south to the Yingyang battlefield, Ruying Taiping Road had been defeated, then he was surrounded by Han soldiers when the veterans of his division were tired and had no baggage, wouldn't that be the overthrow of the army and kill the generals?

And even if he arrives, will he really be able to defeat the main force of the Han army?

Ma Yuanyi said that there were 150,000 Taiping Dao gathered in Yingyang, but to be honest, Zhang Chong did not believe it, and from the situation of Yanzhou Taiping Dao, the proportion of Taiping Dao's capable troops was about one-third. In other words, there are roughly more than 50,000 capable soldiers stationed in Yingyang now. And if the Taishan army goes south, it will be about 10,000 people. In such a comparison, I have 60,000 against 40,000 Han troops, and it seems that I have the advantage.

But the difficulty of this matter is that the 150,000 people on Ma Yuanyi's side did not organize the army according to the soldiers who could fight, but mixed the old, weak, and strong together, which directly dragged down the combat effectiveness of his troops, so it was really difficult to say about the fight.

Moreover, there are nearly 10,000 Yanzhou Haoqiang coalition troops opposite Zhang Chong, and with them blocking the road, it is more difficult for him to go south, so at the beginning, Zhang Chong also planned to continue to act according to the original plan, and could only silently pray that Ma Yuanyi could hold on until he went south.

But the front-line military information sent by the flying army detectives directly made Zhang Chong realize that a huge fighter plane was placed in front of him. Something must have happened to the Yanzhou Legion on the opposite side, otherwise the decline in combat power would not be so obvious.

Regardless of whether he wanted to go south or continue to advance westward, the four Han army stations along Pushui were all to be eliminated by the Taishan army, and Zhang Chong immediately made up his mind to launch a surprise battle, at least first crushing the Shanyang soldiers on the north bank of Pushui and the Rencheng soldiers not far from here.

Therefore, Zhang Chong sent a military order to Ding Sheng, Zhao Liang, Zhu Ying, and Tian Junzhi's assault cavalry, counting 3,000 soldiers and horses, to directly attack the Shanyang soldiers on the north bank of Puyang. He also ordered Dian Wei, Yu Ban, Li Bi, and Gao Ya to send troops to cross Pushui, interspersed with the south bank of Pushui, and wait for an opportunity to eliminate the Rencheng National Corps.

For a while, the feathers outside Puyang City flew around, and a big war was about to begin.