On August 23, the sixth year of Guanghe, an army of 2,000 men rushed between Jingsuo.

This army is naturally the Runan Yellow Turban He Yi Department who decided to attack.

But before they could attack Xingyang, they had to first lay down a small Yisuoting in the middle. Speaking of which, this section of the road from Gyeonggeup to Sojeong is also known as the Gyeongseong Ropeway.

In the confrontation between Chu and Han, which determined the mandate of the Han Dynasty, there was a small battle between Jingsuo that determined the development of the war, that is, the Battle of Jingsuo.

In May of that year, Liu Bang, who had just experienced the defeat of Pengcheng, fled all the way to Xingyang. Xiao Hefaguan all supported Liu Bang on the front line, but he still couldn't resist the attack of the overlord of Western Chu. It was at this time that Han Xin led his troops to support Liu Bang, and fought with Xiang Yu between this Jingsuo and won a big victory. This is the first time that the Han army has defeated the undefeated mythical Xiang Yu on a frontal battlefield, and it can be seen how much impact Han Xin's battle had on the spiritual world of the Han army's soldiers. After this battle, the Chu soldiers could no longer advance westward.

It can be said that the Battle of Jingsuo was the beginning of Liu Han's Mandate of Heaven. And this time, after nearly four hundred years, a Yellow Turban Army is once again waving its arms at the behemoth enemy here, but what is the result this time? ——

He Bo, who was running in the team, couldn't hold back anymore at this time, he asked Qu Shuai He Yi on the side, and asked:

"Nephew, what the hell do you think. It's safer to act with the Tarzan Army, so why take the risk? ”

There are only He Yi and He Bo here, and there is no one else. So He Yi told the truth in the end:

"Uncle, do you know the allusion that 'the one who enters the customs first is king'?"

"What's that?"

"Uncle, I told you a long time ago to listen to more useful ones. There is still something that those who read the book say. ”

"What are you doing with this, just tell your uncle what you want to say."

He Yi sighed and said:

"Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, was a pavilion chief like me back then. But in the end, he won the world, and the most crucial turning point was ......"

He Yi was about to say, but He Bo suddenly interrupted:

"What, the founder of the Han family is a pavilion chief like you? How is it possible, aren't the emperors of the Han family all sons of heaven and earth? I have heard the story of the Red Emperor beheading the White Snake since I was a child. Do you now say that the Son of Heaven is actually a little pavilion chief? ”

He Yi was a little unhappy when he was interrupted, and he complained:

"Uncle, that's why I'm telling you to listen to more people talk about the ancients. Which of those things you listen to all day long is true, but what other readers see at random from books is the secret that you and I don't know in my life. So, if you can't read a book, listen to it. ”

He Bo smiled, meaning He Yi continued.

He Yi was helpless and continued:

"At that time, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu were enshrined in the king of Chu together, and the king of Chu made an appointment with the two of them at that time, if anyone can enter the customs first and destroy the tyrannical Qin, he can be the new king of Qin. Then the two of them used their own way to fight for entry. At that time, the strongest was Xiang Yu, and it was impossible for Liu Bang to look at it. But the final result was that Liu Bang entered the customs first, do you know why? ”

"Why?"

"It was because Xiang Yu was the strongest that he attracted all the attention of the Qin army. And Liu Bang was in the battle between Xiang Yu and the Qin army, and he sneaked from Wuguan and took the lead in entering Guanzhong. ”

"Uh, nephew. What are you trying to say about this? ”

He Yi's eyes lit up, and he said in a deep voice:

"Don't you think that's how we and the Tarzan Army are like this now? The Taishan army was indeed stronger, but it was also supposed to be strong, so it attracted all the attention of the Han army. And now Xingyang must be empty, if I fake two thousand light soldiers, double the way to attack it, I can get it at my fingertips. Think about it, what will the credit for defeating Xingyang bring us? When the time comes, the yellow turbans all over the world will regard me He Yi as the greatest hero of the overthrow of the Han family. For a hundred years, I can't compete for that position. ”

The corners of Uncle He's mouth were astringent, and he muttered:

"I see, but ......"

"What's wrong?"

"I told Zhang Chong about our attack on Xingyang."

"You ....... That's it, in short, if the Taishan army wants to stop it, it's too late. ”

——

Suoting is only less than fifteen miles away from Jingxian.

After only half a day, He Yi marched to the outside of Suoting City with an army of 2,000.

Suoting Castle is small, but because the city is a military fortress, it is not the county commander who is in charge of defense, but a military commander. Suoting served as the outer military fortress of Xingyang, so there was a battalion of 200 people stationed there.

But because Suoting is in the inner abdomen, he has not heard of the beacon fire for a long time. During the Yanxi period, there was an earthquake in the Xingyang area, which caused the city wall of Suoting to collapse for a while, about a mile or so. The commander at that time reported to Xingyang Ling several times and asked him to allocate funds for repairs, but the above always prevaricated with various reasons.

After all, in the final analysis, the world is peaceful, and the city wall collapses for a while. I didn't see the county town in the south, and there was not even a city wall, but it was just surrounded by a fence and thorns.

But at this moment, this collapsed city wall became a talisman for the top and bottom of Suoting.

As soon as He Yi arrived with the army, the Suoting opened the wall, and the commander of the Suoting fled directly from the north wall with his female dependents. But how could this run, and in the end, Suoting fought to exhaustion and was captured by He Yi.

He Yi needs this person to tell him the reality in Xingyang City at this moment. When the commander of Suoting was pulled forward for questioning, it didn't take long to surrender. In the final analysis, he is just a small official who does not enter the stream, this big man can't take his turn to be loyal, and he is not worthy of it.

With the help of the commander of Suoting, He Yi quickly recruited 200 soldiers in the city. Some of the nearby mountain squatters heard that the Yellow Turban Army had killed Suoting, and they came to vote one after another.

There is no shortage of wise people in the world. These Shanliao people who voted for He Yi knew that the next target of the Yellow Turban Army was to fight Xingyang. Isn't playing Xingyang just fighting Aocang? What kind of place is Aocang, it is Sushan Suhai, as long as you grab a handful with the Yellow Turban Army, will there be a shortage of food to eat in the future?

After that, He Yi asked the commander of Suoting about the situation in Xingyang carefully.

From this, I learned that Xingyang at this moment is indeed empty. It originally had 2,000 soldiers, but half of the people had already gathered the county soldiers from several nearby counties and went south to manage the city, intending to block the Zhang Chong division of the garrison in Yuanling.

Obviously, Xingyang did not expect that there would be a thief army that would fly to Songshan and attack from the secret cableway.

He Yi, who got this information, was overjoyed and decided to speed up and seize the fighter, so he did not repair in Suoting, but only slightly rectified the two hundred soldiers who had just surrendered, and headed towards Xingyang, which was twenty-five miles away.

On the day of Shen, before the sun went down, his troops marched to a plain less than ten miles away from Xingyang City, and the garrison was repaired. In this way, from the ambush of the reinforcements from Jingxian County on the 22nd to the siege of Xingyang on the 23rd, He Yi only took one day to arrive, which can be said to be quite smooth.

In fact, the development of things is indeed as the surrendered Suoting Commander said, and Xingyang at this moment is extremely empty.

Regardless of whether He Yi's private message was too heavy or not, he led the army to go alone, but there is one thing to say, the timing of his capture is really good. At this time, He Yi broke through the two places of Jingxian and Suoting, and drove forty miles in a day, so there was no enemy who should be together, which proved that taking the Beijing Cableway really avoided the real and was the magic of the art of war.

In addition, He Yi's resolute use of troops is also an important factor. After He Yi ambushed and killed the soldiers of Jingxian, he had the idea of attacking Xingyang, and when Jingxian was successfully defeated, this idea was directly executed by him. This is the quality that an excellent general should have.

And in order to ensure that the raid was not discovered and to achieve the goal of surprise to the enemy, He Yi specially chose a remote path in the mountains to walk, and if he met a woodcutter from Qiao Cai along the way, he was also taken captive to the army to prevent him from reporting to the official.

Of course, He Yi's successful completion of this raid is also inseparable from the two thousand subordinates under his command. Before he received an ambush mission from Zhang Chong, he selected 2,000 elites from the 6,000 soldiers under his command, and he did not bring his family members and baggage. It was this capable armament, and light equipment, that accomplished the strategic purpose of the raid on Xingyang.

It was all of the above that when He Yi led his troops to be stationed less than ten miles away from Xingyang City, the Xingyang Commander in Xingyang City received an alarm from the merchants outside the city.

These caravans told the Yellow Turban Army ten miles outside the city.

Xingyang Ling didn't believe it at all, and directly beheaded these merchants for the crime of bullying the army, and their heads were still hanging at the head of the city outside.

Just when these heads were still dripping with blood outside, the county governor who was patrolling the county hurriedly fled into the city with the public opinion team, and brought a desperate news to Xingyang Ling:

"Yellow Turban Moth Thief, Soldier Press."

The Xingyang Commander of this appointment is called Yang Yi, from the illustrious Hongnong Yang family. He has the habits of the traditional children of the Gong family, that is, he is extremely confident and has no one in his eyes. But the education of the Gong clan made this person quite capable.

But it's a pity that Yang Yi has been promoted for the selection of Shangshutai. He has completed three years of county service and is going to Beijing to take up his post. Of course, this treatment that can be promoted as soon as the seniority is full, and it is only available to the children of these public clans. If this is the case, then there will not be so many old officials who have spent their lives in the county office.

It is precisely for this reason that Yang Yi does not want to have more complications, ignores the defense army in the city, and only waits for the new Xingyang Order to arrive, and as soon as he is handed over here, he can return to Beijing to be his councilor.

But who knows, at this juncture, the Yellow Turban soldiers are coming, and at this time, the new Xingyang Order has not yet arrived. Helpless, Yang Yi could only take over this mess again and take over Xingyang Defense again.

Yang Yi is still very capable. He has been the Xingyang Order for three years, and he knows very well that the focus of Xingyang's defense is the water gate on the north side of Xingyang. This water gate leads straight into the Yellow River, then down to Luoshui, and then all the way to Kyoto. In other words, Xingyang is lost, and this water gate cannot be lost. Yang Yi must guard the waterway of Xingyang Water Gate. Aocang and Guangwu City in the back are all on this waterway.

So, in the name of the Xingyang Order, he sent a levy to transfer 8,000 Xingyang Dingkou, up to the elderly, down to the age of the hair, as long as he could hold the spear, all of them were among the levies. Even the Ding women were requisitioned and used to transfer supplies to the Ding men in the city.

Yang Yi is really ruthless this time. As Gyeonggi County, Nam-gun has a population of about one million. But among them, Luoyang alone crossed out 300,000. And Henan County has 21 cities. In other words, excluding Kyoto, the remaining cities have an average of 20,000 mouths per city. Xingyang City is big, a little more, but it's only about 30,000 people.

And Yang Yi directly recruited 8,000 Ding men this time, it can be said that Xingyang City was swept away as soldiers, if it weren't for the large number of clans here, all of whom also supported Yang Yi, this kind of levy scale would not have been possible.

You must know that this world is not the militaristic system of the Qin and Han dynasties after all, and you can use administrative orders to mobilize resources across the country. Although he was a Han in the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was different from the Western Han Dynasty in the end.

Yang Yi recruited these 8,000 men, and then combined with the more than 1,000 county soldiers in his hands, so he made the following arrangements.

While the enemy has not yet besieged the city. Immediately build three fortifications in the south of the city, and use the crossbowmen on the city walls as horns. Then, at the most important North Gate, three huge boats were sunk to block the waterway.

Regarding this decision, many big clans in Xingyang City resolutely disagreed. To the public, the waterway of Xingyang is the waterway of Caoyun, or the most important channel, and the boats come and go every day, which can be said to be the flow of gold. Once it sinks here, the daily cost will be more than 10,000 gold.

To be selfish, although this is not on the table, it is the most important. It's you Yang Yi who blocked this waterway, in case Xingyang City is broken behind, how can these big clans escape?

But Yang Yi knew this, so he secretly scuttled three giant boats at night, in order to cut off the back roads of these big clans in the city and force them to stick to Xingyang with Yang Yi.

Of course, Yang Yi knew the backlash of this move, and the Zheng clan in the city was not inferior to their Hongnong Yang clan. He offended the Zheng family by doing this, and his future is estimated to be bleak.

But what, he Yang Yi cares about this?

Don't say it, before the Three Kingdoms, the children of the Han family still had their own ethics and ideals, do you say they have selfish intentions? There must be, but for the Han family, their loyalty, I don't say.

After this arrangement, Yang Yi sent three more letters to the captain of Tiger Prison Pass behind him.

After doing this, Yang Yi consciously made twelve points of effort, and the rest depends on how the yellow turban thief on the opposite side makes a move.

Stationed ten miles away, the strength of He Yi's department is also expanding rapidly.

As I said before, the poor people in Xingyang are miserable because they have to be conscripted and sent to serve every year. And now that they heard that the yellow scarf had killed Xingyang, they were both excited and hesitant.

The excitement is not difficult to understand, but the reason for the hesitation is that they don't know anything about the Yellow Turban Thieves, in case these people are also a gang of bandits, although they are not as rich as the villagers' families, they also have some rations in the end, and they also have a body of clothes on their bodies, so they are also worried about being robbed by these bandits.

But after a night of observation, they no longer had any doubts about the yellow turban thief in front of them. After this soldier entered the country, Ding Nan had nothing to plunder, and Ding Nu had nothing to do, and he could be called a disciplined king's army.

This is also He Yi's shrewdness. He felt that although the troops in his hands were fine, they were limited in the end, and he knew that if he did not win the hearts of the local people, it would still be a little difficult to attack Xingyang.

So he and all the soldiers under his command ordered them not to offend the surrounding settlements.

At that time, He Yi's subordinates did not agree, if they could be controlled, they would not burn and loot in Jingxian before.

But He Yi told them that the people in the nearby settlements are all poor, and the most valuable thing in the whole body may be the calf-nosed hakama, what can you grab by robbing them?

But please look north, yes, it's that Xingyang City. There is nothing in Xingyang City, as long as they capture Xingyang, he He Yi promised that he would not seal the sword for three days, and the soldiers robbed as much as they wanted, all of which were their own.

At this moment, these tigers and wolves under He Yi believed it, howled, and vowed to defeat Xingyang and make a fortune.

It's a pity to say that the ingredients of the Runan Yellow Turban are the best among the Taiping Dao parties. It is because the old Qu Shuai Peng Tuo is the son of a farmer, and the original intention of joining Taiping Dao is to find a way to live for a leader like him.

Because of this, he has promoted countless low-level leaders like him in the sect, and the powerful faction in the sect has no chance at all in the south of Ru. The six strong generals in the south of Ru are slightly better in terms of He Yi and Liu Pi's family backgrounds, but one is a pavilion chief who is not in the stream, and the other is just a rural wanderer.

But with the death of Peng Tuo in battle, the small marshals of the Yellow Turbans in Runan were also divided because of the competition for the position of Qu Shuai. Like Huang Shao, the new Qu Shuai selected by Peng Tuo, although he is at the bottom enough, he is poor enough. But it is precisely because he is only spinning at the bottom and has no talent and talent that the vision of the pattern is very small.

For people like He Yi who try to get their hands on his status, Huang Shao hates it to the core. If Huang Shao can be a little more generous, maybe the Runan Yellow Turban will not be like this.

But if it's only if, after all. He Yi finally led the army away, and the Runan Yellow Turban finally split the two armies.

As for He Yi, he has ambitions. But his people lack ideals and believe in profits. If he is like this, then he will naturally use people to drive them with profit.

That's what happened to his men. Most of them are peasant leaders, and they are also poor people, so it stands to reason that they understand the hardships of the poor better, and generally speaking, they will not rob the heads of the poor.

But looting is a strong and exciting thing, and once you do it once, it's hard to stop. They found that they could bully others like the owner of the village tycoon back then, and they had an illusion that they were no longer poor, but people with power, and people who could decide the life and death of others.

It is this psychedelic sense of power that fascinates them. They're not nobodies, they're just people. And when that happens, they plunder and the poor even more.

Such a story will also be repeated again and again in countless peasant uprisings in the future. In the final analysis, it is because human nature is more or less similar.

But no matter what, no matter whether He Yi was a liar or something else, relying on the promise not to seal the knife, He Yi's subordinates restrained their behavior in the end, and made it look like Qiu had not committed any crimes.

In order to further win the local leader, He Yi even took out the magic weapon of the Taishan Army. All the way to the march, He Yi carried the slogan of dividing the land for the people of Xingyang, and wanted to give Xingyang Qianshou a peaceful world.

These various strategies really made those Qiantou leaders in the nearby countryside who could not survive join the army one after another. For a while, He Yi's military strength directly swelled to eight thousand.

Then, like this, he took this patchwork miscellaneous army and killed Xingyang City.

The first battle of Xingyang officially began.

Later, I will take the time to make a map of the march north during this time. The geography of Henan County is not clear to many students, so I still have to draw it. Family, the monthly pass continues to go.

(End of chapter)