Chapter 278: Martial Arts
said that after Lu Zhi received Zhang Wen's letter, he snorted coldly and handed it to Dong Zhuo.
At this time, Dong Zhuo's Hedong Army was the main force second only to the Han Army in Hebei, and it was necessary to share Lu Zhi's military report with this person.
So after Dong Zhuo looked at it, he remained silent and passed it down. In this way, the military report you passed on to me, I passed it on to you, and finally everyone knew the situation.
Lu Zhi complained in his heart, he didn't plan to discuss it publicly, but just let Dong Zhuo know, who knew that this person was so naïve, and he actually told all the generals present about the military situation, but the matter has come to this point, so let's discuss it.
Lu Zhi cleared his throat and asked Dong Zhuo first:
"Zhong Ying, what do you think of Zhang Zhendong's strategy?"
Dong Zhuo didn't move, patted his round belly, and said with a smile:
"Lu Shuai, how does my old Dong understand these temple calculations? But, in my opinion, it looks good."
Lu Zhi snorted, did not comment, and then asked the sect members sitting below.
After the sect member fled back from the defeat in Xingyang, he was a little down, and he mentioned the performance of the Hebei cavalry generals on the battlefield to Lu Zhi, but Lu Zhi said that it was not conducive to unity.
So, the sect member could only swallow silently in his stomach, because he also suddenly realized that our Lu Zhi and Lu Shuai are also from Hebei.
At this time, hearing Lu Zhi ask him about his opinion on this matter, the sect member said in a deep voice:
"Zhang Zhendong's strategy is quite insightful. The Tarzan thieves are not good at water warfare, and do not march by water, which is self-inflicted. If we can go south and block the Tarzan thieves in the waterway, we may not be able to annihilate this giant."
Then the rest of the generals also expressed their opinions, basically maintaining three.
One is that it doesn't matter, listen to the old marshal's orders, these are some of the Northern Army officials led by Lu Zhi. Their northern and southern armies have always recognized symbols and do not recognize people, and now as long as Lu Zhi still holds the talisman granted by the state, then we will only look at him.
There is also a kind of ignorance and first leveling the Hebei Yellow Turban. Those who hold these opinions are all military officials from Hebei, and every time the Hebei Yellow Turban wreaks wreak havoc in Hebei, their losses will be greater, so how can they manage the south. When the time comes, the Han soldiers of Hebei will go south, how will their homeland be recovered? So no, you can't go south.
The last is to go south to intercept, which is the attitude of the Hanoi military officials and the Youzhou cavalry generals who have fought with the Taishan army. The former is a good pass, if the Taishan thieves cross the river from the north of Xingyang, it will definitely pass through Hanoi, and then they will be miserable? Are your sons and nephews still in their hometown? So be sure to go south. As for the latter, he simply has a clear understanding of the combat power of the Taishan thief, and wants to seize this fighter to take down this giant thief.
In short, under the shogunate, there was a faction of people with one point of view, and they were all making noise for their own interests.
In the end, Dong Zhuo couldn't see it, and snorted:
"What's the noise, it's your turn to decide? Give me Lao Dong a quiet time, and listen to Lu Shuai."
Not to mention, Dong Zhuo's figure and that rude words have a kind of wild powerhouse, and these military officials in the army eat the taste of this kind of strong, so as soon as Dong Zhuo said it, the noise on the scene was really quiet one after another.
Everyone stared at Lu Zhi at the top and heard the decision.
Lu Zhi looked at everyone with satisfaction and snorted coldly:
"Is that Zhang Zhendong's move good, I won't talk about it first, just say that this Taishan thief is going north, I can't think of Er'er?"
Gongsun Zhan, who had been silent all this time, suddenly asked:
"Master Lu, I don't know how to say that, we have seen the combat power of the Taishan thieves. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is an unprecedented rival of my great man."
Gongsun Chan has not been reprimanded by Lu Zhi since he left the battle last time, because this is what Lu Zhi meant. When he went south, Lu Zhi mentioned Gongsun Zan and other Hebei generals and asked them to pay more attention to protecting the strength of the Youzhou Raiders. Because, he also has to use the Youzhou Raid to win the Hebei Yellow Turban.
In fact, when Lu Zhi lent troops to Huang Wan, he thought that maybe Huang Wan would borrow but not pay it back. Because he was a little uneasy about the sect member, because the sect member was from Nanyang, and he was from the same state as Huang Wan, maybe he would really take Youzhou to ride down the death force.
As a result, as Lu Zhi expected, this sect member has already been riding in Youzhou
After suffering an important blow, he still chose to stay in Xingyang to help Huang Wan. It is obvious that the blood of Hebei people is used to dye ribbons for Jingzhou people.
Lu Zhi said that it is not impossible to do this, although he is from Youzhou, he is also the minister of state, and his interests are more consistent with the interests of the Han family. But the question is, do I still need to use these Youzhou cattle and horses? You consume it for me now, why should I hit the Hebei Yellow Turban?
So, he asked Gongsun Chan to bring people back.
At this time, Gongsun Zhan praised him, and Lu Zhi then scolded Fang Xuan:
"The Tarzan thief is strong when he is strong, but the transformation of strength and weakness is sometimes in a moment, in a decision. And I watched the thief of Mount Tai turn from weak to strong in this so-called north. Why? Just because at this time, the only way for the Taishan thieves to break the game is not in the north but in the west, that is, to merge the troops to the west, or there may be a glimmer of life. At this time, our troops in the Gyeonggi area were empty, and the soldiers who could fight were either in Hebei, Henan, or Kansai. If the thieves of Mount Tai can take advantage of the power of victory and victory, they will lead more than 100,000 people gathered in Aocang to the west. My temple is in danger."
What Lu Zhi said depicted a tragic consequence for the military officials, and everyone held their breath and continued to listen to Lu Zhi say:
"And once the Tarzan thieves can occupy Gyeonggi, or even attack Kyoto. Where can the country go? It's nothing more than going west, and going north."
Speaking of this, Lu Zhi didn't talk about it, but changed his words. Continued:
"At that time, the Taishan thieves continued to enter Guanzhong in the west, or went south to Nanyang to join the remnants of the Yellow Turbans, maybe it really happened."
"Then you see, this Tarzan thief has chosen to go north. Hebei has 20,000 elite Han soldiers, and 20,000 Henan Han soldiers in the south. Even if this Taishan thief goes north, he will be mired in the quagmire. This is not to mention that he still has to deal with the relationship with the Hebei Yellow Turban. In short, I will leave aside the words here, this Hebei is the burial place of the Taishan thief."
The generals who said Lu Zhi suddenly realized that this victory was just around the corner. I can't help but admire the old man's foresight.
But Dong Zhuo, who was sitting on the side, heard some meaning from Lu Zhi's unfinished meaning just now.
Just now, Lu Zhi said that once the Taishan thieves occupy Kyoto, the country will go out to hunt, and he also said that it is either northern or western. Dong Zhuo thought about it carefully, afraid that what he didn't say was the core of Lu Zhi's entire paragraph.
If it is not to the west or to the north, then the country will definitely hunt north. Why? Because Liu Hong was born in Hebei, and Hebei at this time has abundant troops, and if it goes west, it will be blocked by Qiang thieves and Taishan thieves.
So once Liu Hong hunts in the north, who will benefit the most? That is undoubtedly a powerful military official from Hebei. When the time comes, they will support Liu Hong, follow the story of Guangwu, and then kill back. But at that time, didn't they Hebei people occupy the center of power once? And this time, who can drive them away?
Dong Zhuo, who understood this, glanced at Lu Zhi deeply, it turned out that this person blamed the Taishan thieves for being in the north, and it was the Taishan thieves who didn't create opportunities for them in Hebei.
Dong Zhuo smashed his mouth, and once again sighed that there are so many people in the Kanto region, it seems that he must be guarded against in the future, otherwise he will feel that others are good to him if he is sold.
In addition to Dong Zhuo on the field, Sun Zhan, Cui Jun and others all heard Lu Zhi's unfinished meaning, so there was no regret in that voice.
After Lu Zhi said this, he was still unsatisfied, and he wanted to continue, but at this time, someone diverged again, and Lu Zhi looked at it again, and it was a giant deer again, this time it was frustrated.
I saw frustration hugging fists:
"Ming Gong, I think it's not unreasonable for the Taishan thieves to go north."
Lu Zhi said lightly:
"Oh, that's right."
Frustrated with few ambitions, good at strategy, most like to discuss these grand strategic things with people, originally he saw Tian Feng's experience before, and he didn't want to disturb Lu Zhi's conversation, but this matter is in his itch, not vomiting unhappy.
So he really analyzed seriously:
"If the Tarzan thieves really continue to move westward, they may be in chaos. One is that Taishan thieves entered Gyeonggi, and wherever they went, they would not be welcomed by the Gyeonggi heroes at all, because this was a thief, not a king's teacher. Therefore, it can be seen that if Taishan thieves enter Gyeonggi, every city must be attacked and defended. Tarzan's thieves entering Gyeonggi will not only not grow in strength, but will fall into a real quagmire. This is one of them.
The second is that if the Taishan thieves continue to advance westward, although their crowd is 100,000, they can only recruit 20,000 good fighters. Once you enter Gyeonggi, you are entering the middle of the city. The eight passes of Gyeonggi will be surrounded by iron stabs, and after the Taishan thieves enter, the divisions of the kings of Qin in various places can trap the Taishan thieves as long as they surround these eight passes. And the Taishan thieves have no foundation, they can only drift in the Gyeonggi area, and the more they fight, the less they fight, while the Han army is stronger and stronger.
Besides, the Taishan thieves may not be able to enter Gyeonggi, and they may be blocked at the Tiger Prison Pass. At that time, the Taishan thieves were blocked under the Xiongguan, and behind them were my Henan Han soldiers, and the defeat was also instantaneous.
Third, it is also more serious. It is that Gyeonggi is a prosperous place in the world, such as Taishan thieves who come out of the poor mountains, how many can not be chaotic? When the time comes, the military discipline will be ruined, and the military officials will be corrupted, so how difficult will it be to deal with such a thief."
In the end, Fu Zhu smiled faintly and said confidently:
"Ming Gong, so in the opinion of the grant, this Taishan thief has a master. I know that entering the customs is a dead end, and now I am trying to survive in death. Ming Gong, such a giant has seen it like this, and he can't let it go. Please send troops quickly to annihilate the Taishan thieves on the waterway into the river."
The three reasons for frustration are really convincing, so as soon as they finished speaking, they whispered and talked to each other.
But in fact, Fu Zhi is really much worse than Lu Zhi. Because he only understands military affairs, not politics. All of Lu Zhi's methods are to condense the military spirit and issue their victory declaration politically, but what about frustration? Still too young.
In this way, Lu Zhi's efforts to restore the military spirit were half collapsed by this smart man, and it was too difficult for Lu Zhi.
Lu Zhi was not angry this time, he nodded and motioned for frustration to sit down, then glanced at the military officials in the audience, sighed, and then supported the desk with both hands, and leaned forward with his whole body, like a devouring tiger, exuding a raging fighting spirit, he said:
"Regardless of whether he is a thief or a thief, he is an enemy now. And what we need to do is not to speculate about the reality of the person here, or to waste time debating whether to go south. Instead, they must defeat the Hebei Yellow Turbans in one fell swoop before the Taishan thieves go north to join the Hebei Yellow Turban Regiment."
After saying this, Lu Zhi stood up directly, pointed to the map screen behind him with a handbag, and ordered:
"Now the Hebei Yellow Turbans are stationed in the east of the Lieren. I intend to divide my troops into three routes, and I will attack the Yellow Turban in Hebei."
He drew an arrow and said:
"Where are the sect members?"
The sect member lifted his hem, walked to the front of the hall in small steps, and bowed:
"Yes."
"Sect member, you take the Youzhou Raiders and 3,000 troops under my command, go straight to the Column Guangzong, and cut off the reinforcements from the two places."
"Why?"
So, the sect member bent down and bowed his head, raised his hand above his head to receive the arrow, and bowed down.
"Where's Dong Zhuo?"
As soon as these words came out, Dong Zhuo stood up with a bang, strode down the front of the hall, and hugged his fist at Lu Zhi:
"The end will be."
"I ordered you to take the Hedong Legion, as the vanguard, to the east to bite the Qingzhou Yellow Turban in the direction of the Lieren. Without my order, not a single soldier is allowed to return north."
"Whoa!"
Dong Zhuo took the arrow with his fists in his fist, and resolutely retreated from the hall with the generals of the Hedong Department and the Liangzhou Department, but was stopped by Lu Zhi from the top, and he didn't finish speaking.
The tiger eyes swept the generals, Lu Zhi said a thousand words, and said:
"I will lead the Northern Army, the Zhao State, the Wei State, and the Hanoi Army to follow Dong Zhuo's army, and once I bite the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, I will launch a general attack on it. In this battle, all the generals must go all out, and I also know that this battle is difficult, but if not, how can I not be loyal to you and me? This is the autumn of our meritorious service, and I wish you a long military fortune here."
The generals also shouted:
"I wish Lu Shuai a long and long martial arts."
"Then let's disperse."
"Whoa!"
As a result, there was a thunderclap in the military palace. All the generals withdrew and returned to the barracks to prepare for the battle ahead.
When the Han soldiers in Hebei were rubbing their hands, not far away, Sun Zheng, the commander of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army in Jinan, looked at the yellow scarf forehead band in his hand with sadness, and there was a pool of blood on it.
This forehead is a Taiping Dao general who has died in battle
Jun Zhang Liang brought it, and the blood stains were also the general of Rengong, and he passed his forehead band to his disciples to worship his grandson before he died, so that he could inherit his will and not forget the cause of Huangtian.
Something happened in the past two months, which made the sacrifice grandson a little like a dream.
Since April, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army has deep human resources and power because it is rooted in the countryside. Therefore, once the incident started, it successively took the three county towns of Dongpingling, Gaotang and Linji, controlled the countryside pavilions around the cities, and established barriers at various intersections, which can be said to connect the entire northern area of Qingzhou.
At that time, it was the most desirable thing for the grandson, and there would be people coming to run every day, and every day there would be a heroic township, and there would be fields and grains everywhere, so unhappy. Jinan, Pingyuan County, and Le'an are all places where iron officials are enriched, and once the Yellow Turban Army breaks the county seat, it will immediately be able to arm a group of troops, so only three months after the incident, the Yellow Turban Army in the three counties in the north of Qingzhou has 100,000 troops.
Together with the Taishan army of Du Man and Yang Mao, they successively attacked Linzi and other cities, and there was a tendency to say that the entire Qingzhou had turned into an earthly Taoist country.
It was also in this kind of time in full swing that in July, the Hebei General Road came to the messenger and asked the Qingzhou Yellow Turban to organize troops to cross the Yellow River north to support the Hebei battlefield.
At that time, the commanders of all parties decided to send troops after a little discussion. Anyway, it was their ideal to establish the country of the Yellow Sky, and they went north to overthrow the Han family. And now they are in an absolute advantage in Qingzhou, and the troops left here are too wasteful, so it is better to go north to support the Hebei battlefield, which can not only help the general road cope with the difficulties, but also reduce the pressure on Qingzhou's outer line.
As a result, the three counties of Jinan, Le'an, and Pingyuan, which are close to Jizhou, were used as the main force to the north. At that time, there were a total of nine armies in the north, totaling 70,000 people.
Under the joint leadership of Jinan's sacrificial grandson, Zhang Rao of Pingyuan County, and Xu He of Le'an, 70,000 Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou began to cross the Yellow River north.
Qingzhou's defense on the front line of the Great River was mainly garrisoned by Gaotang. Originally, the big river was not here in the former Han Dynasty, but later the big river was diverted in the Xinmang period, and it passed into the sea from the north of Gaotang. Therefore, there is a river soldier here to guard the Gao Tangjin ferry. But unfortunately, the number of this river soldier was not large, and it was not able to resist the surging Yellow Turban in Qingzhou.
After the whole army crossed the river, the most important thing behind was Juancheng, an important city in the Qinghe Kingdom. This city is in the north of the big river, and it is the necessary place to enter the Qinghe country of Jizhou. Therefore, the yellow scarves in Qingzhou are also ready to bathe in this city.
However, when the Qingzhou Yellow Turban crossed the river and attacked Juancheng in three ways, the Han army in the city collapsed when they saw its smoke and dust, and the whole army abandoned the city. By the time the Qingzhou Yellow Turban arrived, there was no soldier in the city. In this way, this important city in Hebei fell into the hands of the Yellow Turban of Qingzhou.
After that, the priest ordered the destruction of the city walls, and then continued north, preparing to penetrate deep into the territory of the Qinghe Kingdom.
If the Qingzhou Yellow Turban is a victory in Juancheng, then Xiajin in the northwest is a big defeat that the Qingzhou Yellow Turban has never had.
Xiajin is the land of the ancient Zhao Dynasty, where the Qi and Jin Dynasty met together, but because of the diversion of the river, the city has long been decayed, and most of the population has moved from here to the city not far away. But just such a big small city has caused Qingzhou Yellow Turbans to suffer heavy losses.
Guarding Xia Jin is our old acquaintance, Judge. After the accident of Yang Qiu that year, this person was released as Xia Jinchang, a dilapidated and almost abandoned city keeper.
But in the end, the trial is the trial, and the will is stronger in the face of adversity. After taking office, he continued to recruit people and reclaim land, but he took good care of this small city.
The Taiping Road incident in April this year was again due to the deterioration of the situation in Qingzhou on the other side of the river, and the trial predicted that the Qingzhou Yellow Turban would definitely go north to join the Hebei battlefield. Although Xia Jin is dilapidated, it is close to the big river, and it is the only place for the Yellow Turban Army to go north, so he raised strong men and built equipment, focusing on repairing Xia Jin's city defense again.
Many people in Xia Jin City are landless people who have been recruited by the trial, and they have settled here with the help of the trial, and they have regained their land, so they are naturally willing to die for the trial.
Therefore, when the sacrificial priests, Zhang, and Xu Sanqu led their troops to approach Xiajin, they were greeted by a fortified city that was harmonious inside and outside and had strong city defenses.
The battle went very smoothly at the beginning, and when the Qingzhou Yellow Turban entered Getang in the south of Xiajin, it was defeating the trial match who led the brave out of the city. The trial and distribution responded to the battle in a hurry, and the defeat returned to Xiajin, and the Qingzhou Yellow Turban took advantage of the victory
In pursuit, the soldiers entered the city.
But all of this is a trap set by the judges. His people had already piled up firewood and grass in the southern city of the city, filled with oil, and as soon as the Yellow Turban Army entered the city, the trial and others had already entered the inner city dock wall.
So under the order of the trial, the rockets were fired four times, and the fire in the southern city was soaring, and the more than 3,000 yellow scarves that rushed into the city were all burned to death.
Not only that, but there is also a team of 100 horses, which he built by selling his business, with his own brother Xiandai as a horseman.
Before the start of the war, this horse team was hidden in the root of the north city, and when the fire in the city was together, Shen Dai led a hundred-man cavalry to tie up the branches, stir up smoke and dust, and rushed towards the Yellow Turban Army outside the city.
The Yellow Turban Army outside the city was already frightened by the monstrous fire in the city, and suddenly saw the smoke and dust rising from the north, and thought that the Han army was coming to ambush, so they ran around in fear.
If it weren't for the fact that the priest himself led the soldiers to block the front and defeated the attack of Xiandai, the Yellow Turban Army might have collapsed. But Rao is like this, the Yellow Turban Army also suffered heavy losses in this battle, and they don't want to bother attacking Xia Jin anymore.
They hurriedly gathered up their troops, and burned and plundered some dock walls along the way in retaliation. After that, he abandoned Xia Jin and continued to march towards Ganling, the county governor of Qinghe State.
In the end, the trial in Xiajin City has limited troops, and they dare not go out of the city to confront the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans, so it is up to the Yellow Turban Army to continue to go north.
The defeat of Xia Jincheng also woke up the overly optimistic mentality of the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans. Originally, they had a smooth ride in Qingzhou, on the one hand, they had accumulated enough, and the Han army had great contradictions. On the other hand, there was also the Taishan army that stayed behind in Mount Tai as a strong attack force, and repeatedly defeated the Han army head-on.
And now that it has left the local advantage and there is no Taishan army to attack the fortifications, the color of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban was immediately tried in the battle of Xiajin. It shows that the actual combat ability of the current Qingzhou Yellow Turban is not strong, and the military discipline is not good, so it cannot stabilize the military formation. Once you encounter an opponent like Trial, no matter how many troops you have, you will be beaten.
It is precisely with this understanding that the three of them urgently sighed, under the auspices of the grandson, the two Qu Shuai were very honest in facing the true strength of their own side, so they decided that they would not attack if they could not attack the city along the way, and they would not attack, but also feint to cover the main force to go north, and never love the gains and losses of a city.
It is precisely with this mobile strategy that the Qingzhou Yellow Turban has been smooth sailing. They crossed Ganling, traveled a hundred miles north, and were stopped at the boundary bridge.
The boundary bridge is a permanent bridge on the Qing River outside the city of Guangzong, and it was a Han soldier who besieged the main force of the Yellow Turban of Guangzong who guarded the boundary bridge at that time.
At that time, the Hebei Han soldiers had besieged the main force of the Hebei Yellow Turban in Guangzong. The two sides fought repeatedly in the fortifications outside the city, and each was short of taking a breath.
At this time, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban was the first to arrive, which directly made the Hebei Han soldiers think that the general trend was over, and the thief reinforcements had arrived. Therefore, the Han soldiers on the boundary bridge were defeated before fighting, and then retreated to infect the whole army, and the Han soldiers in Hebei knew that it was difficult to resist the enemy and fled in all directions. This retreat was retreated to the giant deer.
After that, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban successfully merged with the Hebei Yellow Turban in the city. The two armies joined forces, and their eagerness was high, and everyone was really full of yearning for the future, but they didn't know that most of their martial arts had not yet started to break the soul of the giant deer city.
Driven by optimism, the three Zhang sent troops together, with more than 100,000 yellow turbans in Hebei and Qingzhou, and chased the Han army all the way to Julu.
The rest of the story, everyone knows. At the critical time, Dong Zhuo came out of the Taihang Mountain Road and attacked the Yellow Turban Army under Julu City. The Yellow Turban Army was defeated, and Zhang Liang was killed.
This great victory, the Han soldiers took advantage of the victory to pursue, but when the giant deer was repairing, Ao Cangsu was cut off by the Taishan army, and the Hebei Han soldiers could only move the army to Handan to eat, until today.
During this period, the Yellow Turban Army also eased up, and also tentatively deployed its military forces to the east of Handan, a fortified fortress on the Zhangshui River.
So, it can be seen that before the arrival of the Taishan army, a Hebei war will also begin.