In the sixth year of Guanghe, on June 30, the Taishan army won a great victory in the battle of Pushui.

When Tian Jun led the cavalry to capture the empty camp of Renchengguo, its sky-high flames made the soldiers of Renchengguo, who were only four miles away, see clearly.

In the dark night, the fireworks that filled half the sky represented despair rather than hope.

Everyone knew that this meant that even if they defeated the Yellow Turban Thieves who came up here, they would be trapped and killed here. There are no supplies, no water, no reinforcements and they can only wait for death.

Therefore, the car formation is still the same car formation, but it can no longer bring a trace of safety to these Rencheng soldiers. The rout at the beginning was the northernmost one, where there were no siegers of the Taishan army, and they still did not encounter the pursuers after running dozens of steps, which made the Ren Chengguo soldiers who were still in the car formation no longer have any scruples, and they all fled to the north.

The drums of war on the battlefield continued, but the soldiers of Rencheng had no resistance, and the way to survive was in the north, who would be willing to stay here and wait for death.

But unfortunately, as they looked north and fled, the Taishan army also adjusted its military formation and began to drive the Han soldiers to the north in a semicircle.

The Han soldiers also had the opportunity to be vigilant, knowing that the north was Pushui, and if they went further north, they would definitely be driven into Pushui, so not long after running north, they began to run diagonally to both sides.

But these people died, by the swords of the roaming Tarzan sentry horsemen. Their death clearly told these Han soldiers who ran north that it was okay to go north, and to go to other places was death.

In this way, no matter how unwilling they are, these defeated soldiers can only go north. Soon, they saw Pu Shui, some of the soldiers of Rencheng grew up by Surabaya, they could swim, and when they saw Pu Shui blocking the road in front of them, they threw away all the heavy objects on their bodies without any hesitation, and then a Meng Zi was stuck in Pu Shui, shuttling in the water like a swimming fish.

But the lucky ones who can swim are only a few after all, and they are the foot soldiers of the city and not the sailors. So most of the people gathered on the south bank of Pushui, looking at the lucky ones with envy.

The Taishan army that caught up did not shoot arrows at the Han soldiers swimming in the water or anything, after all, the arrows can be recovered, and shooting them into the water is still too wasteful, and it is not worth the cost of arrows for these people.

And even if these people swam past, would they survive? I don't know that there is a man named Ding Sheng on the north bank of Pushui, who never receives Han soldiers on the battlefield? They will die "heroically" on the North Shore.

The Taishan army held torches and surrounded these Han soldiers. Under the firelight, the faces of the Han soldiers were frightened and desperate, and they begged for forgiveness from these Tarzan thieves.

Dian Wei came coldly at this time, his armor was full of blood, but he didn't see Lu Qian's head, it was obvious that Lu Qian ran away.

This is also the reason why Dian Wei is angry, there are still too many people, especially after the Han soldiers retreated, the first Lu Qian took his companion to kill him from the gap in the southwest. Dian Wei chased for a long time, and finally found only Lu Qian's armor and iron spear, and found nothing.

Dian Wei's anger needs to be vented, and the object is these Han soldiers. He wants to drive all these people out of Pushui and avenge the dead Zhao Pet and Xu Xi.

So he waved the military flag and ordered the whole army to continue to move forward and drive the Han soldiers down the water. The military order was like a mountain, no one had an opinion, and the Taishan sergeants lined up in a neat military column, holding a spear, and began to squeeze the Han soldiers.

The Han soldiers were desperate, crying everywhere, and the last ones squeezed forward, and the front ones had half of their legs in the water.

At this moment, a horse rushed from the west, and it was Yu Ban.

Yu Ban found Dian Wei under the banner of the word "Dian", and persuaded him as soon as he got off the horse:

"Awei, you can't go any further, force these Han soldiers down, force them down, and give them a way to live."

Dian Wei asked coldly:

"Give them a way to live? Who gave it to us? When the two generals under me, Zhao Pet and Xu Xi died, who gave them a way to live. I've released these Han soldiers now, who am I up to? Is it against you, or is it against me? is still worthy of the dead Zhao Pet and Xu Xi. You're going to tell me? ”

Yu Ban was silent, sure enough, because of this, he knew that Dian Wei was not a person who loved to kill, and now he must have suffered heavy casualties, but unfortunately, he didn't expect that in the first battle, Dian Wei's two generals were killed.

But Yu Ban still replied:

"The forced landing of this group of Han soldiers is worthy of Qu Kui and the cause of Huangtian!"

As soon as these words came out, Dian Wei was furious, he pulled out the iron halberd, pressed it on Yu Ban's shoulder, and reprimanded Sen Ran angrily:

"You dare to threaten me?"

Yu Ban felt the oppression and sharp edge of the iron halberd, and a sweat flowed down, but he gritted his teeth and continued:

"Awe, we've reached a very dangerous point now. We are all senior officers in the army, and we know that whether we are in the north or in the south, we are facing huge casualties. And our Taishan side won all the way, but the strength declined very quickly, our enemy is getting stronger and stronger, and our losses are getting heavier and heavier, so we need this batch of soldiers, and we will need it in the future, only in this way can we fight stronger and stronger. ”

Seeing that Dian Wei was thinking, Yu Ban took a step further and said:

"Moreover, only if we achieve a real victory, can we be worthy of Zhao Pet and Xu Xi. If we lose, like them, like you and me, all of us in the Taiping Dao will be falsely accused of being thieves, and who will remember that we are righteous teachers who do the right thing for heaven and hang the people to fight crimes? At that time, Zhao Pet and Xu Xi died in vain. And only when we win, can we make the people of the world and future generations understand that sacrifices like Zhao Pet and Xu Xi are precisely for all the poor people in the world to live as individuals. In that way, the deaths of Zhao Pet and Xu Xi will be meaningful. At that time, they will be dead, but they will live in the hearts of all. ”

In the end, Yu Ban sighed:

"Awe, I once heard Qu Shuai say that history cannot be tampered with. But only if we win. ”

Yu Ban grabbed Dian Wei's rough hand and said emotionally:

"Stop, Awe!"

Dian Wei was in tears at the moment, and a lot came to his mind:

That afternoon, he killed the harmful Haoqiang and fled to the lake and sea. While he was resting on the left side of the road, an army drove up, and the leader saw that he was strong and asked:

"Dare to join the army, fight for wealth and wealth."

Dian Wei did not hesitate and nodded in agreement. It's not for any wealth, but he doesn't know where to go, so why not join the army.

Later, he met this Zhao Pet, and this was the first time he and Zhao Pet met. Then he took a soldier from Zhao Pet's hands, was appreciated by Qu Kui, and became Zhao Pet's leader. At first, Dian Wei himself felt embarrassed, but on the contrary, Zhao Pet was always maintaining his authority, helping him stand firm, and helping him to be a qualified commander.

This is Zhao Pet, as long as he serves one person, he will help him all the time and support him!

and Xu Xi, he and himself are both rangers in Yanzhou.

What is Ranger? It is said to be majestic, and it is a righteous death, but in fact, it is just a group of marginal people who are not respected, and only believe in force. Therefore, Xu Xi was unruly at the beginning, and he was brave all day long, but after being beaten by Dian Wei, only Dian Wei was the first to look forward.

He Lao He Dian Wei said that there was a wide and long river where his family lived, and his mother only single-handedly pulled him up by washing people's pulp and clothes, and his mother wanted him to farm the land well, saying that the land is the root and the foundation that can be passed on. So all the money my mother had was to save a piece of land, so that Xu Xi could marry a wife and have children, and spread out the branches.

But in the end, my mother was deceived, and all my savings only bought a piece of gravel land on the river beach, which could not be planted at all, and in a fit of anger, my mother died. And Xu Xi killed the whole family of the crooks and became a wandering ranger.

Later, he joined the Taishan Army, and here, he learned that someone would actually divide land for the poor. Since then, Xu Xi has always said that if Taishan Army had appeared earlier, his mother might not have died. It was also at that time that he always dreamed of his mother and told him that our family had land. Since then, Xu Xi's pursuit is to follow the Taishan army, so that the poor people have land to plant, and they can spread their branches and leaves, and pass on the ancestry.

But it's a pity that Xu Xi's pursuit stops at this waterfront shore.

Thinking of this, Dian Wei couldn't control it anymore, squatted on the ground aggrievedly, and cried. The emotions are so intense, people really can rarely perceive their emotions in ordinary life, and once they are really absent, the emotions will hit like a landslide and tsunami.

Yu Ban caressed Dian Wei and comforted him, and his heart was also sad.

Dian Wei cried fast and stopped fast, he knew what to choose.

He said to the soldiers beside him:

"Go and shout at those Han soldiers to surrender."

Hu Bing took the order, began to send a unique surrender flag to the front of the army, and for a time the south bank of Pushui was full of Taishan local dialect, so that these soldiers of Rencheng surrendered.

The soldiers of Rencheng in the circle were not very sure at first, after all, the language barrier, but when some of them were bold and threw away their weapons and walked in front of the Taishan army, and the Taishan soldiers picked up the rope and began to tie him, these Rencheng soldiers were really sure that they could live.

So, on the south bank of Pushui, he cried with joy.

Dian Wei listened to the crying and joy on the river beach in front of him, looked leisurely in the direction of Zhang Chong in the north, and muttered:

"Qu Kui, we must win!"

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The crash continues!

On the north and south banks of Pushui, the Rencheng state-owned barracks and the Shanyang state-owned barracks have been on fire. The nearest camp in Jiyin County has been discovered, and the soldier Cao Bian Chong discussed with Li Qianyi of the Cheng clan, pulled out the camp overnight, and returned to Dingtao.

As soon as Jiyin County left, Fengqiu already knew about it. That night, there were strong soldiers who burned and left, and the chaos lasted until dawn, and the last checkpoint of Zhou Shen, the general of Dangkou, only had 2,000 soldiers.

Three days later, on July 3, the Taishan army led the army to come, breaking the twelve small bars around the sealing mound, and the Han army would lead Huo Yan, Li Cun, Zhang Neng, and surrender with the army. Yang Zhou, Zhu let the remnants go to the sealing hill.

On July 4, the Taishan army crossed the Jishui and encircled the mound. Han Dangkou general Zhou Shen tried his best to resist the battle, and Dian Wei, the front of the Taishan army, led the army to climb first, and Fengqiu was lost.

In this battle, the Taishan army got 200,000 stone of grain and straw from the Yanzhou legion, 6,000 men and women from Dingfu, more than 1,000 cattle and mules, and won the Han Yanzhou herdsmen, magic objects, runes, and battles.

Han Dangkou general Zhou Shen led the remnants of 600 people, protecting Yanzhou Mu Huangwan to flee to the north of the sour jujube, Taishan army general Li Fu hurriedly tiptoed his army, and then encountered the sour jujube to come from the Huya, Fufeng two battalions, the battle could not be defeated, and the south was also sealed.

At Fengqiu, Zhang Chong summoned the generals and above in the army to discuss the strategic necessity of going south to fight with Yingchuan Taipingdao.

Zhang Chong told the generals that the anti-Han situation has now reached a critical period.

In Yingyang, Ruying Taiping Dao was facing off against the main army of the Han army. And now, if they can go south to join the Yingyang battlefield and fight with the north and south of Ruying Taiping Road, they will have a chance to eliminate the main force of the Han army in one fell swoop.

And if it really can, then it will take at least three months for the Han army to gather such a large number of main legions. At that time, Taiping Road will have a three-month window period for development, and the situation in the world will be repeated immediately.

The Taishan Army was established by Zhang Chong, although all the generals will express their opinions in peacetime, but in terms of grand strategy, all the generals of the Taishan Army will unconditionally support Zhang Chong's ideas.

Now that the strategy of going south to support Ruying Taiping Road has been set, the whole army has begun to move and prepare. Zhang Chong and He Kui's staff discussed several sets of response plans together.

If the Taiping Road is still in a stalemate when you arrive at Ruying, it will naturally strike at you. If by the time of arrival, the Taiping Road has already retreated, the Taishan army needs to see if there is an opportunity to carry out a sneak attack on the Han soldiers, and reduce the strength of the main force of the Han army when it goes north in the future. If the main force of the Han army has already won a great victory when they arrive, and the time is not there, then it is necessary to decisively go north and attack Xingyang directly.

In short, the goal of this battle was that, no matter what the situation was, once the army was dispatched, it was necessary to further attack the strength of the Han army and increase the probability of victory for the future Armageddon.

Subsequently, Zhang Chong had to solve the problem of how to march quickly.

It is more than 300 miles south of Yingyang from Fengqiu, and it takes ten days to march urgently, and the time is too tight.

For this reason, Zhang Chong decided to try the march of mules and horses.

The Central Plains region, where Fengqiu is located, is rich in mules and donkeys. Zhang Chong ordered the baggage team to go into the countryside, and used the millet in his hand to collect the surrounding mules and donkeys at twice the market price, and obtained a total of 3,000 mules and donkeys. Coupled with the original mules and horses in the army, Zhang Chong gathered a team of 5,000 mules and horses.

But don't think it's a good decision to march on mules and horses!

You must know that almost two-thirds of the entire army of Taishan cannot ride, even if it is a docile mule and donkey, it is not easy. When the march arrived, people were basically tied to mules and donkeys, and the road was bumpy, and if they didn't die, they would vomit to death. Therefore, the Taishan army arrived in Yingyang, did not repair for a few days, and had no combat effectiveness.

There are also three hundred miles here, and the amount of grass that the donkey and horse Rijue spent on cutting grass is huge, and the Taishan army has no supplies along the way, and how many donkeys and horses can be seen to die of starvation at that time.

In other words, in order to save time, Zhang Chong's mule and horse march was basically throwing money.

But this is Zhang Chong's courage, in order to seize the fighter, it is worth paying a big price, not to mention these thousands of cattle, even half of the Taishan army's attrition, it is worth it!

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After deciding on these, Zhang Chong arranged for a series of marches south to Yingyang, with a total of 4,000 people, 5,000 mules and horses, and prepared dry food and millet balls for 15 days. The remaining 3,000 Taishan troops cleared the remnants of the Han soldiers and the four wild heroes around Fengqiu on the spot, launched a new round of field division movement, and encouraged Ding Zhuang to join the army and join the field guards to defend their fields.

Everything is ready, on July 8, the sixth year of Guanghe, the Taishan army went south to Yingyang to create a new destiny.