Volume 3 Chapter 5 The Dust Has Settled
Kill, kill, kill! Those who retreat without permission will be killed! ”
Liu Bai brandished the long knife and roared like thunder. He has been here for two days, and Pingyuan City has not yet been captured, and Liu Bai can't help but feel anxious.
"Kill! Those who kill Xun Yan will reward thousands of acres of fertile land......"
Liu Bai drove a team of soldiers forward, saying that it was a soldier, but in fact, just a few days ago, many people were still holding hoes and sickles in their hands. Liu Bai had already ordered someone to forcibly recruit all the young adults in the vicinity to attack the city. Liu Bai didn't expect them to be of much use, as long as they exhausted the defenders of the plains, consumed the arrows of the plains, and even if they died in the Hucheng River under the city, it would be the same.
Driven by long knives and stimulated by heavy rewards, these rebels climbed up the ladder like ants to the top of the city, and were then chopped/shot/smashed/pushed by the defenders, and let out a miserable cry, and fell back to the city.
Tai Shi Ci stood on an unobtrusive corner and quietly drew his longbow.
"Closer, closer......"
This guy with teeth and claws, he has coveted it for a while, but he shot and killed seven or eight big and small leaders in a row yesterday, and today the rebels are hiding far away, Tai Shici suddenly pulled the longbow full, and the long arrow tore the air with a "whoosh".
Liu Bai shouted and cursed, and before he knew it, he was getting closer and closer to the city. Just as he was swinging his knife and roaring, he suddenly felt someone behind him pull him, he ignored it, but then someone pulled his clothes, and he couldn't help but look sideways impatiently and asked:
"What's going on?"
"My lord. It's too close to the city......"
Behind him was his retinue, cautiously persuading. Liu Bai didn't care, and was about to say something, but he felt a hot and cold in his ears, and a hot burning pain hit, and he couldn't help but snort in pain.
At the moment when the arrow left his hand, Tai Shici found that Liu Bai moved, and couldn't help but sigh regretfully. But he still had a glimmer of hope, and the long arrow really failed to hit Liu Bai, and he only vaguely saw that the target was injured. Tai Shici slapped his thigh and shouted loudly:
"Liu Bai is dead! Liu Bai is dead! ”
The soldiers standing beside Tai Shici also shouted with him.
"Liu Bai is dead! Liu Bai is dead! ”
"Let it go...... Ay...... Sizzle"
Liu Bai saved his life on the side of his head. A triangular eagle arrow swept past the side of his head, tearing off a large chunk of his left ear and the flesh of the belt. Hearing the shouts of the city, Liu Bai was furious and scolded loudly, but as soon as he shouted a word, the sharp pain in his cheek made him swallow the "fart" back.
Liu Bai was quite famous in the plains, and he also had a great prestige among the private soldiers, and when he heard that he was dead, the morale of the besieging party was greatly depressed, and they retreated like a tide. Tai Shici took advantage of the situation to lead his troops to chase all the way down the ladder. The rebels broke up and retreated to the camp four miles away. Solemnly see this situation. did not dare to open the gate of the village, which made people shout and command the rout to go around the village. The troops in the plain city are meager. The enemy army was routed but not chaotic, and Tai Shici did not dare to chase after him, so the two armies stopped fighting and returned to their respective troops.
After spending a lot of effort to settle the defeated army, he solemnly heard that Liu Bai was injured and returned, and hurried to visit. found that Liu Bai was fine, so he was relieved. But. Then worry drowned out solemnity. Zheng Zheng is not an uninformed person, the Qingzhou army set out to fight Mount Tai. There are doubts, and besides, the combat strength of the Tuntian soldiers is not good, but there are tens of thousands of people, and it is not something that can be humiliated. However, the rumors are spreading more and more, and the situation is no longer under anyone's control.
Cen Tao's actions made Pingyuan's Haoqiang extremely disgusted. As long as they can take advantage of the chaos to capture Plains City, the heroes of Plains will inevitably respond en masse, and the chaos in Plains County will be irrepressible. At that time, Zheng Chong was able to pull up 100,000 soldiers and horses, and no matter how much preparation Zhang Han had, it would be useless. In addition, Zheng Zheng also contacted Bohai Yuan Shao. Zhang Hanxing's troops attacked Taishan County and offended the Kwantung heroes. When the time comes, as soon as Yuan Shao announces that Zhang Han is the remnant of the eunuch party and is dependent on Dong Zhuo's rebellion, Zhang Han will be attacked by a group......
Every time I think of this, my solemn heart will feel like a ball of coals. However, the plot was somehow leaked, and Xun Yan took the lead and wiped out the internal response in Plains City. The heroes were forced to raise troops in a hurry. Fortunately, he was well prepared and also took Leling and West Pyeongchang. I thought that the troops in the plain city were weak, so I went down with a drum. I didn't expect to lose my troops......
It took three days to march all the way, and another two days to attack the city, and without any results, the general Liu Bai was seriously injured first, and he couldn't help but feel worried.
Thinking of this, Zheng Zheng didn't care about Liu Bai, so he left in a hurry, re-appeased the grouped soldiers, and prepared to attack the city again. However, the morale can not be discouraged, the private soldiers have been ordered to go out many ways, and the young and strong people who have been captured have no training, no matter how anxious they are, they solemnly know that it is impossible to attack today.
Zheng Zheng didn't feel a little depressed, the situation was not good......
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"It's not good!"
Guo Jia sighed. As soon as these words came out, they immediately attracted a lot of white eyes, although everyone knew that they couldn't talk nonsense. Zhang Han walked up to him, looked up and down for a while, stared at Guo Jia's white neck, and asked:
"What should those who disturb the morale of the army do?"
"......" Guo Jia shrunk his neck and stopped talking.
"Alright! It's really not good, we have to speed up......"
This time, the chaos was originally a trap formulated by everyone. Zhang Han's attempt to disarm the private soldiers of Pingyuan County was met with unexpected resistance and had to be declared a failure. On the contrary, it has aroused the vigilance of the wealthy family, and the gains outweigh the losses. However, the private soldiers of the plains must be solved, and the unstable heroes must also be eradicated. Otherwise, once there is a war with Yuan Shao and others, the plain will be unstable and people will be killed.
So, the Qingzhou Army sent troops to Mount Tai, and Guo Jia formulated this "hoeing" plan. The implementation of the plan is going very smoothly, and the situation in Qingzhou seems to be dangerous. The combat effectiveness of the Tuntian soldiers was inferior to that of the Qingzhou army. However, the number of more than 40,000 people is enough to make up for all this. All the hundred generals are the children of the clan, and the displaced people feel Zhang Han's kindness, and they are loyal and have absolutely no problems. However, Tuntian had the most soldiers in Donglai, followed by Beihai State, and there were also many Le'an Kingdom, and Zhang Han mobilized a group of people to Qi State. As a result, the distribution of troops in Qingzhou is more important in the east and less in the west, and there are more in the south and less in the south. In this way, Beihai, Donglai, Le'an and Qi will not have much chaos, while Jinan is small and close to Qi, so there is no need to worry about loss. But he emptied the plains and gave a chance to those who had a heart. In order to hide people's eyes, Zhang Han's only support was to use various names, such as servants, to prepare 500 elite soldiers for Xun Yan in the plain city.
As expected, the plains rebelled. However, the situation developed rapidly beyond everyone's expectations, and in just a few days, the number of rebels in the plains almost doubled, reaching as many as twenty-three. Wrap? After the rebellion, the number of troops exceeded 50,000. Even in Jinan Licheng and Donglai Muping, there were rebels, although they were subsequently flattened, which was also a danger signal.
It should be noted here that it was the twenty-three families who rebelled, not the twenty-three families. Even the Liu clan and the Leling Zheng clan in West Pyeongchang are not all against each other, and a few 'righteous men' who hid the officials in the county have emerged. This is also the usual self-preservation strategy of the family, and when the time comes, no matter whether it wins or loses, it will not affect the continuation of the family.
All in all, Zhang Han wanted to solve the problem of private soldiers, not to flatten the heroes of the plains. That kind of impact is too bad, Zhang Han can't help but consider the aftermath. To put it bluntly, Zhang Han wants to kill chickens and monkeys,
People leave a way to live. The heroes and powers in various places have mastered public opinion and resources, and completely eradicated the heroes and powers of the plains. His future campaign will be at least ten times more difficult.
No one in the room spoke, and someone couldn't help but glance at Cen Tao, wondering what he had done to cause such a big backlash. Cen Tao was wronged to death in his heart, and he didn't do anything, just strictly enforcing the law.
"Ahem!" Zhang Han coughed, attracting everyone's attention, "Okay, we must solve the rebellion in the plain in the shortest possible time, and after a long time, the situation in the plain will not be easy to clean up......"
This is not difficult, the situation in the plain, the staff office has long anticipated, and according to the situation, it has made real-time adjustments. At the first time of the rebellion of the plains, Qingzhou got the news that Zhang Han's slow action was just appeasement and nurturing traitors, and he was ready to arrest a few more, and as soon as the matter was ordered, Liu Wenbiao, who had arrived at the thousands, immediately crossed the river -- now there are many medium-sized boats in Qingzhou, and Liu Wenbiao led 6,000 state soldiers and 5,000 cantonment soldiers, a total of 11,000 people, and it only took a day and a half to cross the river. At the same time, after sneaking to Gaoshun in Licheng through the Taishan Trail, after quelling the rebellion, he also led more than 5,000 state soldiers to arrive in Gaotang.
On July 20, Liu Wenbiao recovered Leling, beheaded 1,200 people, beheaded 27 people including Song Huimin, and captured more than 10,000 prisoners.
On July 22, Gao Shun crossed the river at night, and suddenly appeared behind the rebels, and the rebels were defeated. The Qingzhou army shouted "Surrender on your knees and don't kill", chased and killed thirty miles, and beheaded three thousand seven hundred people. Thirteen people, including Liu Bai and Zheng Chong, were beheaded and more than 12,000 were captured.
On 24 July, Liu Wenbiao took West Pyeongchang lightly. The sensational Plains Rebellion is over.
Zhang Han dealt with the rebellion severely: all property such as land was confiscated, all the participating Haoqiang were executed, most of the men in the participants' families were also executed, and only boys under the age of six were sold into slavery along with the women.
The rebel privates were similarly dealt with harshly, and all rebel leaders, large and small, were put to death unless he could prove that he was being held hostage. The rest of the private soldiers also wore heavy shackles and became slaves of the government. They can only be freed when they have completed the required work. However, the required workload requires ordinary people to work for more than ten years.
The ordinary people who were coerced were treated leniently, after being confirmed by the township officials. The vast majority were acquitted, and a small amount of food was provided for them to eat on the road. Those who were at the forefront of the rebels were disposed of with the private soldiers as slaves.
Subsequently, under the pretext of the Pingyuan Rebellion, Zhang Han announced a ban on soldiers in the name of Qingzhou Mu - "It is strictly forbidden to possess private soldiers regardless of who or what ethnic group, and reiterated the restrictions on weapons, and violators will be punished as rebellion."
This is how things happened in the plains, and there were many twists and turns. Zhang Han finally established absolute authority in Qingzhou. Of course, Zhang Han slapped a sweet date. The fait accompli was acknowledged and the land annexation was not to blame. In the future, Yunyun will be strictly prohibited. This Dongdong is still too sensitive, there is a rebellion in the plains, and it is natural for Zhang Han to restrict private soldiers, but he does not dare to touch here.
As for the war in Taishan County, there is not much to say.
The flood of thieves in Mount Tai is due to the fact that the yellow scarf in Xuzhou was broken last year, and it was impossible to enter Qingzhou, and a large number of people were scattered in Mount Tai. The large and small Taishan thieves absorbed a large number of young and strong queens. The number skyrocketed. For the Tarzans, this would have been a good thing. The team has grown a lot. However, in this way, there will not be enough food on the mountain. Regardless of the cold and freezing, the thieves of Mount Tai have continued to plunder the mountain since the end of last year.
The Tarzan thieves are not the same as the Yellow Turban Army. The Yellow Turban Army dragged its families and led its mouth, many old and weak, 300,000 people traveled for more than ten miles, their movements were slow, they could not conceal their whereabouts, and there were flaws everywhere, and once they broke through a little, the whole army would be shaken. Therefore, Ying Shao led the soldiers of Taishan County to fight several battles, and then found an opportunity to break the Xuzhou Yellow Turban Army. But this Taishan thief is different, there are six or seven hundred people, and there are thousands of people, and the backbone is all robbers who have accumulated years, and those who absorb are young and strong, and their combat effectiveness is very different. From east to west, the thieves of Mount Tai were divided into hundreds and ten shares, rushed all the way down the mountain, attacked the village, and ran back to Mount Tai when they grabbed the money and grain. After a short rest, they will come again to loot as soon as they have the chance.
Ying Shao was overwhelmed, and after several victories in a row, he couldn't suppress the thief's momentum. The people are not afraid of death, so why should they be afraid. Again, people have to eat if they live. If there is no food to eat, a man is not afraid of death. Beaten to death and starved to death, all of them are one death, and the former is better. Ying Shao was forced to divide his troops to defend in several ways, and fought with the Taishan thieves from winter to summer, but he couldn't get a result.
It was supposed to be May and June, so it should be a little easier. Taishan thieves also farm in the mountainous areas, not only by robbery for a living, mountain people have more or less dealings with the bandits. Every year in the busy season of farming, the thieves of Mount Tai will be greatly reduced. However, this year is not as good as before, the Taishan thieves are huge, and they refuse to give up when they get cheap. can grab food, who is willing to work hard to farm.
Whether Zhang Han did anything in it, needless to say, sparrows don't eat white rice.
Taishan County is originally mountainous and flat, and although the area is large, it is not rich. Yanzhou Assassin Shi Liu took another group of troops and sent troops to attack Dong Zhuo -- according to reliable information, Liu and the other four led an army of more than 100,000 people to garrison sour dates for more than two months. Of course, the efficiency is a little low, but it can't erase the great significance of the murderer's crusade against Dong Zhuo and Kuang Fu's Han land.
The strength of Taishan County was greatly reduced, and Ying Shao had no choice but to recruit soldiers again, and re-increased the number of soldiers in Taishan County to more than 10,000 people, but the combat effectiveness decreased a lot. Moreover, in order to deal with the looting of Taishan thieves, Ying Shao was also forced to divide his troops to protect the township pavilions in various places. It is said that Ying Shao's work is beyond reproach. Taishan County is located in the hinterland of the Great Han Kingdom, the North and the South are not next to each other, and it is quite far away from Guanzhong, Dong Zhuo can't beat it, and the Kanto Heroes will be in the alliance, and the momentum is not trivial. Ying Shaowan did not expect that Zhang Han would risk the world's condemnation and attack Taishan County. Ying Shao didn't realize that when the Kanto heroes sent troops to attack Dong Zhuo without authorization, the Great Han Kingdom had fallen apart and entered the era of the heroes cutting dramas.
Because of these reasons, when Zhang Han gathered 50,000 troops at the beginning of June, and attacked Taishan County from Lu, Beihai and Qi, Taishan County had almost no way to fight back.
On June 6, Zhang Huan commanded 20,000 troops to set off from Lu County, and the troops pointed northward, Liankecheng County and Liangfu, and attacked Fenggao. Originally, Zhang was not ready to attack the two counties, but Taishan County did not have many troops, so Ying Shao transferred all his troops to the north of Mount Tai to resist the Taishan thieves. The two county towns were empty, with only two or three hundred men and horses, and they saw tens of thousands of troops murderous and orderly advance and retreat, all of which surrendered without a fight.
On 11 June, Zhang Huan arrived at Fenggao and surrounded him. At this moment, the Taishan army in Fenggao City was only 3,400 people.
The Qingzhou army set out from Beihai, one entered the Lang Evil Country, reinforced Zhang Huan of the Lang Evil Country, and most of it passed through the Lang Evil Country and entered Mount Tai. The Qingzhou Army claimed to help Taishan County and exterminate the Taishan thieves, but there was no resistance in Gai County. After that, Zhang was not in a hurry to attack the city, and slowly assembled and manufactured a number of trebuchets, and together with Wu Zifang Youzhi, sent a large number of cavalry to the southern plains of Mount Tai to encircle and reinforce. Under the threat of trebuchets and without reinforcements for a long time, Ying Shao had no choice but to surrender the city after defending it for twenty-seven days.
As for the reinforcements led by Zhang Ying, and the Tuntian soldiers sent later, they did not enter Taishan County at all, but instead arrived at Kaiyang, the seat of the Lang Evil State, and threatened the garrison, that is, Zang Ba, the commander of the Qiu Di Cavalry, which was located twenty miles south of Kaiyang.
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