Chapter 262: Begging
Light and 6th year, September 15th.
Ten miles east of Xingyang, the Great Plain outside the river, the big camp of Yuegang.
Since the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Period, the vast plains south of the Great River have been called Hewai, and the mountains north of the Great River are called Hanoi, and I don't know how many decisive battles related to the rise and fall of political power have taken place here, and on this day, the pendulum of history has once again swung here.
At this moment, in the east of Xingyang, on the plain of the south of the Great Henan, the two super-large armies of the Taishan Army and the Han Army are facing each other here, and the war is about to break out.
A huge crow in the sky looked down on the absurdity of human beings, and after sweeping around, it landed on the apricot yellow big silk that covered the sky on the side of the Yuegang camp of the Taishan army.
This big camp is located in the middle of the vast camp, everything in this camp is apricot-yellow, yellow clothes and yellow scarves, yellow armor and yellow skin. On the edge of the big crow where the huge crow sits, there is an even more magnificent tent.
This big tent is surrounded by hundreds of military vehicles around the huge gate of the gate, and there are two sides of the gate of the gate, one side of the book "the great general of the sky", the other side of the book "for the way of the sky", this is the core of the Taishan army, the shogunate of the general Zhang Chong.
Outside this shogunate, 500 armor soldiers with long halberds and axes formed a long corridor, spreading from the gate to the big tent, and they were the soldiers of the Taishan army, the most brave and loyal officials.
At this time, they solemnly guarded the big tent behind them like a sculpture, where Zhang Chong, the commander of the Taishan Army, was making the final oath to the generals of the whole army.
I saw that his person was wearing a military uniform with a helmet and armor, holding a military uniform, and he was in high spirits, reading a text:
"The Han family will decline, and heroes will rise everywhere. The Lord is desolate, and the destiny is no more. At that time, the Han ancestors stood upright, gathered the heroes of the martyrs, punished the tyrannical Qin, and cut down no way, so there were four seas, and the world was safe. Later, there was Emperor Wu, who fought for the rule of three generations, conquered the four Yi and the vast land, refused to accept the conquest, and raised his prestige all over the world. Therefore, Wang Mang usurped the country, and he still had the luck of glory.
However, in the future, the heirs will be famine, the eunuchs will be greedy, the ministers will build power, the priests will be deceitful, and the villagers will be poisonous, and the people will not be able to fill the desire for meat, and the sale of fields and bad weaving will not be exempt from the poison of whipping. As a result, tens of millions of heads, the liver and brain of the dead are smeared, and the flesh and blood of the living are not protected, which is the crime of the Han family.
Since Guanghe, it has been six years, and the world has not seen the act of helping the people and it is unbearable. The royal road is no longer there, and the domineering is sprouting. The strong bully the weak with strength, and the treacherous humble with deceit. The strong and the strong are longitudinal and horizontal, and the poor have no size to trust. The mansions are connected, and the poor are only in brown clothes. Therefore, the people are separated from the cold and summer, and they are in the company of birds and beasts. There was an eight-foot man who starved to death on the road, and a three-foot boy froze to death in the ditch. A handful of soil has not dried, and a three-foot childishness is innocent. Looking at the previous generations, the suffering of Li Shu is not as bad as it is today.
Liu Han regards the people as cattle and horses, and the people regard themselves as enemies. Personnel are like this, and the sky is tired of its virtues, so our Taishan army rose up in response to the order.
I am a cloth in Heshuo, short in wisdom and sparse, and I am pushed by the public, all because I do the right thing for heaven and conform to the hearts of the people. In the past, I swept through Heshuo, turned to the Central Plains, invincible, invincible, why not? Those who have attained the Tao will be given more help, and those who have lost the Tao will be given less help. If I have a way, the fierce man will fight for his life, and the wise man will love him. If there is no way for the Han Dynasty, everyone will betray their relatives and leave, and the whole world will be enemies.
Today, I will raise the soldiers to fight a decisive battle with the Han in the field of Xingyang. Han Shuai Huang Wan, ambitious and talented, more scheming and less decided, with soldiers but no power, although he raised 100,000 soldiers, it was easy to break. This battle is self-defeating, and it should be decided to the death, so as not to disappoint the world. ”
After Zhang Chong finished reading the Han text, the generals and staff on both sides bowed down:
"I am willing to follow the Qu Shuai, sweep the Han demon, and build this immortal achievement."
Then the crowd began to sing:
"Raise the sword soldiers, change the peace, and call the world back to Qingming."
"There is a field to plough and a house, and only to leave peace and well-being to all people."
After singing, Zhang Chong raised his arms high:
"Gentlemen! For this cause, why should you and I die? ”
The officers bowed and bowed:
"I wish to open peace again with Qu Shuai!"
As a result, the morale and faith of all the people in the big tent were condensed into a sky-high ambition, which went straight to the sky, like an eagle pecking at the red dragon in the north.
Among the kneeling people present, Dong Zhao was impressively listed.
At this time, his mood was swaying, and he was excited for Qu Shuai's begging for a book. He knew that as soon as this book came out, it would be completely spread all over the world with the battle of Xingyang. When the time comes, people of insight in the world will know the proposition of the Taishan Army and will have a choice.
Moreover, Dong Zhao also found that this time it was the Taishan Army that appeared in the Han Shu Book, not the Yellow Turban Army. Although this is a detail, the significance is extraordinary, and the so-called teacher must be famous. This time, the name of the Taishan Army appeared separately in the book, indicating that the Taishan Army would go out of its own way both in terms of system and proposition.
It's just that Dong Zhao is not sure if this is a complete split, or if he wants to open another one outside Taiping Road. But it doesn't matter, Dong Zhao already has a certain grasp of the Taishan Army to win the world, although there will be waves when Juntian is later, but it is certain that following Zhang Chong can have great wealth.
So Dong Zhao's balance once again intensified and fell towards Zhang Chong, and he was thinking of what way to make another contribution and improve his status in the Taishan Army.
There is another person who also pays attention to the details of the book with a complicated mind, and that is Ma Yuanyi, the divine envoy.
This will make Ma Yuanyi's indifferent look on his face no longer holdable, anger and fear appeared on his face at the same time, he can't believe that this Zhang Chong would abandon Taiping Dao at this time.
How dare he? At this time, at the moment of the decisive battle, he didn't worry about his backlash? You must know that now in the Yuegang battalion, the actual army is 23,000 soldiers, 20,000 infantry troops, and 3,000 cavalry troops. But in this, the Yellow Turban Army in Runan and Yingchuan had 10,000 feet and 1,000 horses. In other words, half of the strength of the entire battalion. Where did Zhang Chong come from to dare to abandon Taiping Dao?
In fact, Zhang Chong did have confidence, and his confidence was in the thick letter of allegiance in a wooden box on his desk. Just the day before, many young marshals in Runan and Yingchuan went to Zhang Chong's shogunate to ask for a meeting in private after they were on duty.
After they came, they either swore by swearing, or teary-eyed, or arrogant, but they all said the same thing, they wanted to follow the Taishan army, or more accurately, they wanted to follow Zhang Chong to do it together.
What exactly did Zhang Chong promise these military leaders to make them so loyal? Even those Taipingdao of Yingchuan abandoned their divine envoys.
In fact, Zhang Chong didn't promise anything, but he promised everything.
In the past six months of fighting, these military leaders know too well how to live in this last days. If they're just ordinary bandits, then just find a puddle to live. But they are not, they are the Yellow Turban Army that is not at odds with the Han, and they have no way out.
Since there is no way back, who can take them to live?
The Yellow Turbans of Runan originally had Qu Shuai Peng Tuo in their hearts, they were impressed by their ethics and beliefs, and were willing to follow them, but Peng Tuo Daqu died, and the in-situ Huang Shao and Huang Qu Shuai couldn't tolerate them. Therefore, Zhang Chong is the best candidate.
The same situation is true in the Yingchuan Yellow Turbans, their original old Qu Shuai Bocai is good at fighting, they thought that under the leadership of Bo Cai, they would enter Luoyang, but Bocai died, and the divine envoy who recruited them was a soldier who did not know how to fight. Although he was kind, well-spoken, and skillful in doctrine. But how does this benefit them? They are going to use swords, they are going to die on the battlefield, and no one really thinks that shouting a few slogans will make them invulnerable. And Zhang Chong, who is good at fighting, is the best candidate.
So Zhang Chong didn't give these little marshals of the two sides to the leaders, but everyone got it. That is life, and the wealth that will be lost in the future.
Of course, Ma Yuanyi didn't know this, when he was still struggling to preach at the grassroots level of the Taishan Army, all the little marshals had already abandoned him, so the result was already doomed.
Ma Yuanyi was angry and puzzled here, and when Dong Zhao was turning around over there, a voice came from outside the big tent:
"Qu Shuai, there is a giant crow parked on our big crow outside, I don't know if I want to drive it away."
Then, Dong Zhaoluo stood up with a bang, and after he got up, he said to Zhang Chong with great joy:
"Qu Shuai, you can't expel it, this Wu is the holy bird on the public opinion of the king of Taishan Mansion. In the past, Emperor Ming toured Mount Tai in the east, returned to Kyoto, and when he passed through Xingyang, there was this giant black flying above the emperor, which was the feedback of Taishan Mansion to Emperor Ming's sacrifice to Mount Tai. And now the same divine bird does not fall on the Han army but on our big river, which shows the transfer of the world's virtue and fortune, and the king of Taishan Mansion is blessing us. With this god, this battle will be won. ”
Dong Zhao's words made Zhang Chong's heart condense, because the name Taishan Fujun appeared too many times in his life.
Taishan Mansion Jun is the mountain god of Mount Tai and the controller of the underworld, originally Zhang Chong just regarded it as the primitive worship of all things, but as he integrated this era, the more he could feel some strange places.
At that time, Yu Ban prayed at the sacrificial temple of Taishan Fujun, and used copper coins to encourage the soldiers to drive back to Mu County overnight to fight. Later, Zhang Chong also laughed too forbidden, saying that he still used trickery, did he glue the copper coins on both sides together?
But who knew that Yu Ban replied to him with a serious face, all the copper coins were real at that time, and that time it was really all positive copper coins. After the war, he also specially took Zhang Chong back to the ancestral temple. It's sealed off by the forbidden plank, and it still retains its original appearance.
Later, Yu Ban personally opened the plank, and Zhang Chong saw that these copper coins were indeed normal, with positive and negative. At that time, Zhang Chong was terrified, it turned out that Yu Ban covered the wooden boards for these copper coins, not because he was worried that his trick would be exposed, but because he wanted to keep this miracle for him to show Zhang Chong.
In the subsequent battles, Zhang Chong would meet some people who were inspired by the so-called Taishan Mansion from time to time, such as Hu Muban, such as Xu Yan, these people's experiences and encounters made Zhang Chong doubt his past materialist worldview, but when he thought that he could cross over, there was a golden finger, maybe there were some secrets in this world that he didn't know.
Of course, all this will not make Zhang Chong a good ghost and god person, but in addition to his firm dialectical materialism, there is a little more awe.
Now Taishan Mansion Jun once again showed his miracle in Xingyang, adding another boost to the morale of the generals of Taishan Army.
In this way, the fierce Taishan army generals took the battle table, and returned to their respective camps, and they should reorganize the army as soon as possible, because Qu Shuai had already ordered that three minutes later, that is, at the end of the day, the battalion heads participating in the exit should all be lined up on the plain and arrive at the designated position.
So that is, in the sixth year of Guanghe, on the fifteenth day of September, the time of the day.
The huge and complicated Yuegang battalion woke up as a whole, and there were constantly battalion leaders holding high their own battalion flags and ordering flags to the corresponding positions on the plain.
The main corps of this battle were Zhang Chong's 4,000 Chinese army armor soldiers, 3,000 cavalry troops, 2,000 infantry armor of Guan Yu of the left lieutenant regiment, 2,000 infantry armor of the right lieutenant Zhang Dan, and four battalion heads and 2,000 soldiers of the Runan Yellow Turban, and six battalion heads and 3,000 soldiers of the Yingchuan Yellow Turban.
After these battalion leaders opened from the barrier, they handed over the corresponding defense to Ding Shengbu, the commander of the rear military academy, although he did not want to be the queen, but also knew that the gain or failure of the battle barrier was related to the rear road of the whole army, and there must not be a trace of slackness, so he did his best to take the remaining 2,000 soldiers of the Runan Yellow Turban, and the remaining 3,000 soldiers of the Yingchuan Yellow Turban to guard the camp.
As for what you said, is it necessary for Ding Sheng to spy on the yellow turbans in Runan and Yingchuan? Thinking about it, with Ding Sheng's wisdom, he understands, after all, he has just said that there is no room for a little uncontrolled power in this battle. Maybe Ding Sheng is still self-conscious, and it is his trust that gives him this important responsibility.
The Taishan army left on time, but it didn't mean that it was over. 16,000 people have to walk for a while to get to the formation, not to mention complete the corresponding formation. So the formation was laid out for an hour until noon.
In this battle, Zhang Chong's military formation was arranged in the front by Guan Yu with the two new battalions of Dian Wei and Li Damu, and then Zhang Dan's corps was arranged in the left rear, and in the right rear, 5,000 people from Runan and Yingchuan were arranged. In the end, it was Zhang Chong's headquarters that left 4,000 armor soldiers at the end.
As for the 3,000 cavalry, 2,000 were the assault cavalry of the Taishan army, which was more powerful and was arranged separately on the right side of the battlefield to protect Runan and Yingchuan Yellow Turbans. There are also 1,000 horsemen from Runan and Yingchuan, although these people are not in a dense formation, but they are quite brave and brave to fight, so they are arranged on the right side of Zhang Chong, and he is directly under his command.
When the Taishan army was arranged, the Han army on the opposite side also opened a large camp, obviously they did not intend to stick to the barrier, sat and were beaten, and decided to line up in a large formation, and fought to the death with the Taishan army in this Xingyang field.
From this point of view, Huang Wan, the commander of the Han army, does not lack the courage to fight.
The formation arranged by the Han army on the opposite side was a slightly strange large formation, which looked like a crab from Zhang Chong's point of view.
I saw that the middle of the big array was Huang Wan's own army, with the Yanzhou flag on the left and the Hedong flag on the right, and there were more than 20 small flags in this array, or write "Anyi", or write "Yangxian", "Pingyang", "Linfen", "Puban", "Jiang"...... Apparently the counties under the rule of Hedong.
Then on both sides of the Yanzhou soldiers and the Hedong soldiers, many tentacles were divided.
On the left side of each tentacle, there are "Hongnong", "Shaanxi", "Huangchi", "Xin'an", "Yiyang", "Luhun", "Lushi", "Lake", "Huayin" and other flags. They made a tentacle for each of them, which divided into four formations. From these banners, it is clear that they are the county officials and powerful troops of Hongnong-gun in Gyeonggi.
And on the right side of each tentacle, there are "Ping", "Liang", "Xingyang", "Juan", "Yuanwu", "Yangwu", "Pingyin", "Gong", "Chenggao", "Yanshi" and other flags, the same is every two sides of a tentacle, but also divided into four columns. These flags were apparently the heroic tribes of Henan County in the counties west of Xingyang.
It seems that this time, Liu Hong really swept the floor and sent everything that could be requisitioned.
Zhang Chong, who was sitting on the nest car, looked at the Han array from afar, and soon understood the reality of this array, and he was also distressed by Han Shuai Huang Wan.
Why is it distressing? Because this array was all Huang Wan's helpless move.
Zhang Chong understood at a glance that the central part of this formation was the soldiers of the Han Court, while the two wings were the powerful soldiers of various places, and they were clearly distinguished, as if they were guarding against each other. In particular, some of the central soldiers were secluded in front of the battle, as if they had to take the lead in order to inspire those powerful troops to work hard.
But Zhang Chong watched it again and couldn't help snorting coldly. He had already seen the deeper layers of reality in this array.
At first, this array looks like an intrigue between Han soldiers and powerful soldiers, but it actually hides a mystery. If it is just an ordinary soldier who sees this scene, he must think that there is internal discord on the opposite side, and if he makes this judgment, he may directly send troops to attack the most prominent central part of this formation.
But in fact, if you really fight like this, you will inevitably fall into the trap of the Han army. When attacking its center, as long as it cannot be attacked for a while, the two wings of this array will be directly outflanked, forming a three-fold situation, and when the time comes, the attack will be dead and lifeless.
And what if you don't hit its middle, but attack the two wings first? Zhang Chong thought about it for a while, and felt that it was not okay to be afraid. Because he saw the order flag of the central army of the Han army opposite, corresponding to the regimental flag on the left and right. When hitting the left and right flanks of that formation, the opposite side must move accordingly to the left and right to ensure that the central part can withstand the attack of the Taishan army.
Thinking of this, Zhang Chong also understood why the heroes would line up with the Han soldiers. Because according to this method of warfare, most of the attacks of the Taishan army will be carried by the Han army, and the heroic forces on the left and right flanks are mostly outflanked, with small casualties and large results, no wonder they can agree.
The more he thought about this, the more Zhang Chong admired the coach Huang Wan opposite, this sewing and mending technique is not easy! In fact, which is Zhang Chong's appreciation, if Huang Wan on the other side knows that he has painstakingly arranged the big array, and is directly understood by this thief, I am afraid that he will cry again.
But what if Zhang Chong just wants to understand? In the end, he still has to break this formation. And this array of virtual and real is just a coincidence, I'm afraid it's not easy to break.
But how could Zhang Chong be afraid? I had already thought about the battle schedule in my heart, so I had a good time to continue to observe the opposing military formation.
Zhang Chong was calm here, and the Taishan army was also lined up, which would be erected by the vast spears in the sky, and the entire battlefield would be filled with the murderous atmosphere before the war.
This murderous aura quickly soaked into the large array of the Han army opposite, and at this time, the old Huang Wan stood on a military vehicle, looking at the Taishan army opposite, and his mood was full of heaviness.
Huang Wan and a cadre of staff did not choose to sit on the nest car like Zhang Chong, not because they didn't want to, everyone knew that the nest car was high, on top of it, with a wide field of vision, and the coach could have a full view of the battlefield situation and calmly make corresponding arrangements.
It can be said that when the two armies fight, the commander with a wider field of vision will naturally have an advantage.
But it's a pity that he can't do it, because his physical condition does not allow it, in the end, he is old and has been seriously ill, which will raise and integrate the formation of a large array, which has already consumed a lot of effort, and this will blow a wind in a high place and bask in the scorching sun, I am afraid that he will die on the nest car.
And as soon as he died, the eastern camp was finished.
Of course, some of the things that are not good for outsiders are that these are also the staff who persuaded Huang Wan in this way. But the purpose of these staff's persuasion is not pure, and there is a little fear of dying inside.
You must know that the nest car is high, and it is naturally very eye-catching. When these staff members came to the stage with Huang Wan as counselor, they were directly exposed to the attention of the Taishan thieves. When the time comes, they will act like a bonfire, attracting the frenzied attacks of the battlefield rangers. At that time, their safety had to depend on the Han soldiers below.
But it's a pity that the staff members who know the noise of the Hedong soldiers don't believe them, and they don't dare to rely on the Hedong soldiers below who ask for money in front of the battle.
Therefore, Huang Wan and his staff watched the Taishan military formation on a military vehicle like this, which was better than nothing.
At noon, the scorching sun was covered by the canopy on the military vehicle, and Huang Wan's eyes were sour, so he asked a staff member beside him:
"Xenomorph, what do you think?"
This staff member called Xenodu is burly and very majestic, like a samurai and more like a staff member. His person is not a mortal, it is Kuai Yue, a native of Jingzhou South County. He was originally the general He Jin in the shogunate of more than 400 stone of Dong Cao Peng, and was later transferred by He Jin to the east camp to assist Huang Wan.
Kuai Yue and Huang Wan are from the same state, he is from Nanjun, and Huang Wan is from Jiangxia, and the two counties are close to each other and can be regarded as fellow villagers. But that's not why Huang Wan appreciates Kuaiyue. It was Kuai Yue who talked to the noisy Hedong Soldiers Association before, and in the final analysis, it was Kuai Yue's wits that attracted Huang Wan, so he asked this question in the array.
Kuai Yue's protrusion naturally attracted the attention of many staff, but this little official who was more than four hundred stones did not care about the jealousy of those people and colleagues, and said to Huang Wan confidently:
"My lord, the giant thief on the other side should not be underestimated. Look, when there is a huge formation first, not to mention the strict front, just look at the giant spears in their hands, which are much longer than our normal. Once it is on the line, he can hold me, but I can't, and I will inevitably suffer heavy casualties. Moreover, this array is in the great sun, and there must be many armor soldiers, and it is a strong force that can only attack and defend. Before, Deputy Marshal Zong sent a military report, saying that they had confronted a unique military formation on the edge of Xingze, and they thought it was the formation in front of them. ”
Huang Wan nodded as he listened.
Then Kuai Yue pointed to the northeast, that is, to their left:
"Lord, look at the outermost cavalry, the same shining sun, now they are all leading horses and standing on the edge of the battlefield, seemingly slack, but in fact they are like arrows leading the bow, and they are fired when they see the opportunity. It could give us a fatal blow at any time. ”
Hearing Kuai Yue say this, Huang Wan subconsciously stomped off a beard, which was really a headache.
This was not over, Kuai Yue pointed to their right, that is, to the southeast, where Zhang Dan was located. He said:
"This army is standing there, it is the character array, and it can be copied or supported at any time according to the situation in the front formation. And these soldiers are also in a tight line, and from time to time there are fast horses running by, which is obviously to boost morale and strengthen the formation. ”
At this moment, Huang Wan's face collapsed, and he complained:
"Xeno, how can you grow the ambition of a thief and destroy your own prestige. I also tolerated you, let go of the rest of the commanders, and would have beheaded you for the crime of rebellion. ”
Kuai Yue Shi Ran bowed to Huang Wan, although he knew that his words were indeed exaggerated just now, but he didn't care, and then he pointed to the Taishan army in the distance, and said proudly:
"Don't be impatient, don't be impatient, break this thief, it's right there."
Huang Wan was overjoyed, and hurriedly looked in the direction of Kuai Yue's finger, which was where the Yellow Turban of Runan and Yingchuan was located.
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