In the summer and June of the first year of Taiwu, Zhang Chong decided to go on a northern expedition and take over the secluded land.

First, the Northern Expeditionary Military Government was moved to Handan, and then Zhang Dan, the marshal of the Right Army, was the commander of Changshan and the town of Xiangguo. Worship the former army marshal Ding Sheng for the Qinghe Taishou, the town Guangzong; After worshipping the marshal of the army, Dong visited Zhongshan Taishou, and the town of Julu was a holiday. And Zhang Chong personally stationed 10,000 people in Handan.

As a result, the strategy of the Northern Expedition is very clear.

It is a three-way concurrent, attacking in the north and defending in the east. With Zhang Dan and Dong visiting the two roads, each of the generals set out for the northern expedition from Xiangguo and Julu, and defended against the attack of the Han army on the right side with Ding Shengtun Guangzong.

After the dispatch of the various armies, Zhang Chong personally led the Central Protector Army to move forward to Xiangguo, and decided to use this place as a breakthrough.

On June 10, 20,000 troops of the Taiping Kingdom arrived at the house and broke through the city without blood.

In fact, this is thanks to the hometown return team that Zhang Chong originally arranged in the Changshan area.

Originally, Zhao Yun was transferred back to the Changshan area as a standing team to pull the team, but later the Guangzong Incident broke out, and Zhang Chong left Zhao Yun in the army, so that he could participate in this battle and accumulate meritorious achievements.

So, the team to return to his hometown was made by Liu Hui, who was the king of Yuan Zhending, and a group of companions. Liu Hui's ability is really extraordinary, and after only a few months of returning to his hometown, he relied on connections and bribes to get through the relationship between the house and the city.

So, on June 10, when tens of thousands of troops surrounded the house, it didn't take much effort at all, and the house ordered Zaojun to open the door and surrender.

Zhang Chong met with Liu Hui, Guo Shu, Zhang Xiang and others, and saw that his skills were really extraordinary, so he pulled Liu Hui into the left and right, and made Guo Shu and Zhang Xiang join the Flying Dragon Army as cavalry generals, and they were still the vanguard of the whole army.

After taking the house without much effort, Zhang Chong ordered the army to quickly send Changshan Chongyi Yuan.

As the hub of the east and west divisions of Guangyang Road, Yuanshi can go to the west to Daidi, and to the east can enter the swallow thistle. It can be said that if Zhang Chong wants to defeat Youji, this Yuan clan is the city that must be attacked.

It is precisely because this euphen is an enemy that it is an important defensive fortress in the original defensive plan of Fu Zhixian and Lu Zhi.

But this was the original, after the front Xiangguo was besieged, although Changshan Taishou Feng Xun did not have the troops to go south to rescue, but in his heart he was not looking forward to Beizhong Lang's general Lu Zhineng to lead the army south to rescue.

But until the city of Xiangguo was broken, he didn't see a single soldier in the north, and he didn't even have any news. Feng Xun's heart was cold, and what was even colder was that he couldn't avoid the city being broken if he fought so well in Xiangguo, so how could he be virtuous?

So Feng Xun was reluctant to stay in the Yuan clan, he took most of the county soldiers directly to the north to garrison Jiumen in the north of the county, which is located on the north bank of the Hutuo River, and east of Jingcheng Pass, which is a natural defensive fortress.

In addition to Feng Xun leaving because of this, it was also because of the matter of sacrificing to the mountain gods, and his relationship with the local heroes of the Yuan clan had reached a freezing point.

In fact, Feng Xun also regretted it a little, he knew that there would be this day, so why would he offend these local heroes to death for some money?

Not to mention that Feng Xun slipped away, the seven powerful families on the Yuan side directly coerced Wang Yi, the county commander of the Yuan family, and held the authority of a county, acting as a prestige.

And when they learned that the thieves of Mount Tai went north, they were not willing to give up their foundation and wealth, and decided to defend under the Yuan City.

As an important place in Changshan, the Yuan family has a shortcut to Yan, and the Han family naturally attaches great importance to the defense of this town.

As early as the Feng Xun period, he recruited troops and fortified together with Liu Wei, the king of Changshan. A total of 600 campers were recruited before and after, and six forts were built in the outer ten miles of the Yuan clan.

After the city of Xiangguo was broken, the families and heroes of Changshan Country panicked, and they began to arm their troops, and a total of 3,000 soldiers were won before and after. This number is also the total number of troops in Yuanshi City now.

The other county soldiers had already retreated to the area of Jiumen with Feng Xunbei. And the local heroes in this city have to rely on 3,000 soldiers and 600 battalions outside the city to guard the Yuan clan, and the difficulty can be imagined.

The first year of Taiwu, June 12.

The Flying Dragon Army, the vanguard of the Taiping Kingdom, was the first to arrive at the outer defense line of Yuanshi City.

Taking advantage of the early morning when the battalion soldiers came out of the woods, Li Hu, the leader of the Flying Dragon Army, directly took advantage of the weakness to enter. The battalion was already weak and was taken by surprise and defeated.

The battalions guarding the rear saw that the robes in front of them were running north, and they had no fighting spirit, and the whole battalion abandoned and fled. The Flying Tiger Army pursued the victory, and then the six garrison walls were all uprooted by Li Hu in one morning, and the remnants of the Changshan State Battalion could not resist and fled into Yuanshi City one after another.

In this way, in just one morning, the Northern Expeditionary Army of Taiping Kingdom used one to pull out the outer defense line of the Yuan clan and clear the obstacles.

It can be said that the weakness of the Yuan side is all exposed in the eyes of the Taiping side.

And over there, although it is in the rear of the nine gates, but the attention has been on the Yuan family's Changshan State Minister Feng Xun, seeing the Yuan family fighting like this, he also scolded:

"The local tyrants of their generation are brave and fierce with their own faces on weekdays. I thought that these people were really characters, but I didn't think about it, and when the thieves came, they tended to avoid the fear and run away. Jin Yu is ruined on the outside. ”

After that, Feng Xun no longer had hope for the Yuan family, but with the help of the country's first-rate powerful Zhang family, he made great efforts to prepare military supplies. At the same time, he flew to Lu Zhi and said that his lips were dead and his teeth were cold.

On the side of Taipingguo, Zhang Chong led a large army to garrison under the Yuan city, but did not attack the city.

Instead, he began to count the generals in the tent, and ordered the battalions to plunder the surrounding cities of the Yuan clan. These cities were all flanked and reared by the army, and if they were not taken, their supply lines would be in danger.

Therefore, Zhang Chong ordered Pan Zhang to lead 1,000 troops to attack Luancheng, Xie Bi to lead 1,000 troops to attack Gaoyi, and Wang Zhang to lead 1,000 troops to attack Pingjiao.

After that, the army rested under the Yuan City for two days, built a nest car ladder and crashed, and prepared to attack the Yuan Clan.

It was also in these two days that the remnants of the Yellow Turbans and the hungry people in Changshan came to the Yuanshi City to defect to Zhang Chong.

Now Zhang Chong's prestige can be described as the sky. The remnants of the Yellow Turbans, who originally lived in Taihang Mountain, under the leadership of Xiaoshuai Sun Qing and Yu Poison, joined the disabled party and the weak people to run.

And the same is true of the hungry people nearby, after knowing that the military discipline is strict and the Taishan army is the leader of Qian, they also converge here.

It has been two years since the Great Chaos in Hebei, and there have been natural and man-made disasters, plus this year, Changshan Country has missed spring ploughing, so it can be said that there are hungry people all over the field, and they are all over the road. For the hungry people, Changshan Country in the stable period will still think about giving them a relief, but this will be a troubled era when food is more important than life, and no one can help them.

Therefore, they could only put their hope on the general who did the way for the sky.

They didn't know that at this time, the general had become the lord of Taiping, or was called by his past name. But no matter what the Taishan Army is called, the heart of serving the people has never changed.

In the face of an endless stream of hungry people, Zhang Chong managed them with the Shiwu system on the one hand, and on the other hand, stepped up the allocation of grain and grass from the rear to the front.

Soon, many Taishan generals who were divided into other counties came with good news and sent grain and grass to the Yuan's camp.

In fact, Changshan State's troops in the southern counties have long been exhausted by the Minister of State. He felt the lesson that in the battle of Xiangguo, the Han army was fortified everywhere, and finally there was no defense everywhere, so he decided to gather the troops of the whole county together and hold it for a long time.

Therefore, such as Luancheng, Gaoyi, Pingjian and other counties, the troops have long been empty, and each city only has a daily patrol of 100 people to maintain daily law and order.

And when Pan Zhang and other tiger wolves will lead thousands of elite soldiers to appear outside the city, the final result is naturally self-evident.

The local tyrants of the three cities either fled in fear a long time ago, or hid far away, and the rest also lost all their money and food to the army, in exchange for peace. As a result, the three cities were conquered without a fight.

In addition, after Wang Zhang broke through Pingjiao, he encountered Dong's army that had traveled north from Julu. At this moment, they also pulled out the gall Tao and Yang clan one after another, and were heading towards the area of Xiaquyang.

They will break through Xiaquyang as planned, and then wait here for the next military order.

At the same time, the flying cavalry of the three battalions of Flying Tiger, Flying Dragon, and Flying Leopard also bypassed Yuanshi City and quickly headed north, trying to attack Chongyi Zhending on the south bank of the Hutuo River.

There, they will join up with the 2,000 infantry from the Marshal's Mansion and launch an attack on Zhending.

It was at a time when this kind of good news was frequently reported that Zhang Chong ordered an attack on the Yuan clan.

After full preparation, the elite soldiers with the Zhonghu Army as the backbone stood at the head of the Yuan City after an hour of siege.

Almost all of the guards in the Taiping army are dressed in full-body iron armor, and once they stand at the head of the city, they are like reefs. As the flags of the Han army were cut down, in the Three Calls Long Live, the Taiping Army took the Yuan clan.

The Yuan clan was broken, and Zhang Chong did not rest, leaving Li Wu to guard and sort out, and most of them continued to go north, preparing to join the forward army.

But on the way, Zhang Chong got a military report from the front, and the five vanguard armies led by Li Hu, Xu Huang, Xi Shen, Zhang Ying, and Li Xian were frustrated under Zhending City.

Although the loss of troops is not much, it undoubtedly has a huge impact on the situation of successful results since the Northern Expedition.

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At that time, when Dong's army broke through the empty Xiaquyang, there was the Hutuo River on the opposite side, and Zhongshan on the other side of the river.

At this time, the Zhongshan group was leaderless and chaotic, but after learning of the Northern Expedition of the Taishan Army, several local tyrant forces in the southern counties still united together to jointly defend the Hutuo River.

However, Dong Yu saw that the Hutuo River was wide and there was no boat to cross it, and he saw that the opposite river was well guarded, so he did not dare to go deep alone. So, he temporarily left Quyang to reorganize the army.

Later, Dong visited the base camp of the Flying Army Tiqi to send a military report, ordering him to divide his troops to march west along the Hutuo River to Zhending, where he joined the Flying Dragon, Flying Tiger, and Flying Leopard armies to attack Zhending together.

Subsequently, Dong Wan ordered Zhang Ying, the captain of the left army, and Li Xian, the deputy lieutenant, to lead the 2,000 officials of the department to the west to Zhending.

On June 14, Zhang Ying and Li Xianbu arrived in the east of Zhending City.

At this time, the three armies of Flying Dragon, Flying Tiger and Flying Leopard had already uprooted all the outer cities of Zhending City, leaving only Zhending City waiting for Zhang Ying and Li to attack first.

At the beginning, the Flying Dragon, Flying Tiger, and Flying Leopard armies were still angry, and they felt that they had spent half a day to let the cubs of the rear army marshal pick peaches.

But when Zhang Ying and Li Xianbu really attacked the city, the three generals knew how lucky they were.

It turned out that the true order at this time was not an ordinary subordinate, but a loyal person named Sun Jin.

This official is not very famous now, but in history, this person later belonged to Youzhou Mu Liu Yu, when Liu Yu was killed by Gongsun Zhan, this gentleman was loyal and righteous, scolded Gongsun Zhan more than once, and finally died under the knife with his master.

The opposite bank of Zhending is the Nine Gates, which is the place where Feng Xun, the prime minister of Changshan State, is stationed at this time. It can be said that Zhending is the bridgehead of the Nine Gates on the other side of the river, and the location is extremely important.

Therefore, Feng Xun promoted Sun Jin as the true order, and used his loyalty and courage to defend the true order.

It is really a big city, and it is a rare city of 10,000 people in Changshan. Moreover, with the destruction of Xiangguo City, many families in the south of Changshan Country have withdrawn to Zhending in the north, which made the population of Zhending City reach about 20,000 people at one time.

With such abundant human resources, coupled with the fear of the Taishan army, Sun Jin was able to expand his forces aggressively.

And in order to eliminate the rout of the powerful families who fled in Zhending City, Sun Jin sealed the four gates of the city on the one hand, and invited Feng Xun on the other side of the river to order, all those who cross the river will be killed!

Feng Xun didn't expect Sun Jin to be so resolute, and finally felt his loyalty and righteousness, so he allowed this order to be played. He also specially dispatched a river patrol army of 2,000 men to cruise the Hutuo River day and night, shooting and killing those who dared to sneak across the river.

After cutting off the back road in the city, Sun Jin asked the border general Tian Kai to be a general, and the troops in the city were unified into Tian Kai.

Sun Jin had a deep understanding of this fellow villager for a long time, and knew that Tian Kai was a fierce general, so he asked Feng Xun to let Lu Zhi let Tian Kai go south to keep the truth.

Sun Jin and the others have long known that almost none of the local governors of Changshan Country are accustomed to military affairs, even if there are one or two who can be loyal, in the end, because of their ability, they will inevitably die in the city.

Therefore, Sun Jinnai flew to Lu Zhi, and Zhun Tian Kai entered the city to assist in the defense and enrich the defense of Zhending.

Tian Kai was still a middle-level officer in the Youbei Army at the moment, and he only commanded a hundred troops, so he never imagined that his fellow countryman Sun Jin would hit him with his head.

But Tian Kai needs this opportunity, he is unknown at this time, and he urgently needs a tough battle to make a name for himself. So, after obtaining Lu Zhi's consent, Tian Kai led 200 people from his headquarters, and Lu Zhi sent 200 people to gather a group of troops to go south.

On June 10, the city of Changshan Kingdom fell, and on June 12, the city of Yuanshi was in an emergency. On the same day, Tian Kai led 400 northern soldiers from his headquarters to Zhending and entered the city from the cradle.

As soon as Tian Kai entered the city, Sun Jin entrusted the military in the city, so that the civil and military forces in the city were below him, and all war and defense matters were subject to Tian Kai's temperance and dispatch. Anyone who does not comply with the dispatch shall act in accordance with military law.

In this way, Tian Kai was ordered to be in danger, and he felt the grace of Sun Jin's knowledge, and decided to live and die with the city. And Sun Jin also worked with the wealthy officials of the Zhending family, standing in the southwest with Tian Kai, beheading the chicken, making an alliance with blood, and living and dying together.

After Tian Kai took over Zhending, he ordered the headquarters to go down to the north of the city and burned all the grass markets outside the city. He knew that this work was only capable of these foreign soldiers under his command, and the local soldiers were unwilling to do it.

It has always been hated to burn people's houses and destroy people's grass markets.

But Tian Kai can't help it, as a thoroughfare city in the north, business travelers from Youzhou, Bingzhou, and Qingzhou have to pass through here, and it has also become a commercial city in the north.

Therefore, not only is there a large population in Zhending City, but there are also large areas of hedgehog houses outside the city, which are for business travelers to stay overnight.

And Tian Kai found the drawbacks here on the day he entered the city, once this is a nest for Thai thieves, he has to use it to attack the city, and it will inevitably become a weak point in the city's defense.

So, Tian Kai burned all the houses outside the city.

Then he had five thousand soldiers. Among them, he arranged 1,000 people to guard the four gates in the southeast, four north, and one more, and he took his headquarters and more than 1,000 people, stationed in the city, acting as a maneuver.

And for all this, Zhang Ying and Li Xian, who had just arrived, did not know that they had no trouble breaking the city all the way from the Northern Expedition, and they only thought that they would blow their horns, beat the war drums, and rush their subordinates, and they would really take it.

Subsequently, they suffered a big loss in Zhending, and the 500 soldiers in charge of the main attack suffered a terrifying arrow rain blow in Zhending City, and finally lost 100 soldiers and had no choice but to retreat.

Don't look at the hundreds of people who died, but since the Northern Expedition, the Marshal Department of their rear army has taken the entire northern part of Julu without so many deaths, and in Zhending, it reached this number in the first battle.

At this time, the second general knew that this must be really not easy to fight!

So, he closed the camp and called out the troops, waiting for the next military order from the base camp.

The monthly pass is gone, family, rush.