Chapter 157: Conquering the Pseudo-Capital, It's Done
Half a month after the first persuasion in the city, Yuan Jian once again sat on the hanging basket on the upper floor of Shouchun City, and was hanged by the Yuan army guards.
Compared with half a month ago, the scenery on both sides of the journey that Yuan Jian passed through was very different.
Along the way, the moat has been destroyed, the sheep and horse walls have all been smashed, the antler pits have been filled, and the horses have been smashed.
Speaking of the hanging basket that hanged Yuan Jian on the head of the city, half a month ago, it was installed on a fixed wood pulley in the female wall battlement.
Now, that section of the female wall has been bombed by trebuchets, and the main body of the city wall has also collapsed a large piece of rammed earth, about five or six feet deep. The defenders could only be like a tug-of-war, letting the thick hemp rope rub on the gap in the rammed earth, and Yuan Jian was a little worried when he saw it.
He is not afraid of being executed by Yuan Shu, so that he can have all his integrity. But if you fall to your death from the top of the city more than three zhang high because the hanging basket hemp rope is broken, it will be too humiliating and worthless.
After stepping on the city, Yuan Jian finally breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly glanced left and right.
Immediately, I saw that there were dark corners behind the battlements, there were stains of black blood, and there were even minced meat that had not been cleaned. One of the corner pillars of the tower was also broken, and a large piece of the eaves tile bricks above the corner pillars collapsed.
Shouchun City was attacked into such a miserable scene, and the success rate of this mission should be much greater.
Yuan Jian pondered the rhetoric and the due tone and attitude in his heart, and was soon led to the pseudo-palace in the city, and saw Yuan Shu in a yellow robe again-
Because we firmly believe that the Han army can do it completely, and Gan Ning is the puppet capital of the general, he must break the city by force, and he will be a small plunder, punishing the rebellious thieves, and the gains must be quite rich. It was Tai Shici who repeatedly pressed it to prevent that kind of tragedy.
On top of the combination of grace and power, the Ganning defenders half-pushed and half-pushed, and after staying up for seven days, they felt that they were worthy of Cao Cao, and they were also afraid that Cao Cao would be held accountable if they turned the tables in the future, and then in Guan Yu's another wave of deterrence offensive as promised, he opened the city gate and surrendered to Jia Jin.
So in the middle of the night of the same day, the east gate of Ganning was opened, and all the ships raised were used to transport the main force out by the waterway, a total of 80,000 people, and there was no valuable property.
Jia Jinhai went out of the city when he was out, and by dawn he had not been able to grab the time difference of eight hours. Moreover, if there is a Han army stationed at the lower place of Sizhaoyun on the other side of the river, it will be the first time to find out the movement.
The bad thing is that there is no Runan County and Zhuge Liang next to it at the critical moment, and our identity is very suitable for playing a round, so we came out in a hurry and atmosphere:
"Successfully take the pseudo-capital Gan Ning! This time the rebellion against the small business has finally been completed! Whether it is Ziyu and Kong Ming's design to scare Jia Jin, or Yun Changyide and others feint to deter, one is missing! You have been in the court since then, and you will be rewarded for the generals!
It's just that the remaining 10,000 people, the quality is very poor, and they don't plan to pick up the leftovers, Guan Yu took a cursory look, and there are only two or eight thousand suitable for continuing to be a soldier, and I will all send them to Tuntian.
Guan Yu really had a bargain, so he promised to let the troops in the south of the city withdraw eighty points, and the troops in the east of the city temporarily withdrew to Si Zhao Yun. The date of the agreement is April 77.
It was learned that Runan's army had also hit the Xuande Gong's security city, and it was even able to retreat from Rushui into the Huai River through Xincai. Therefore, Cao Cao must have entered Xuande Gong, but he still can't hold on for a while.
After all, "the rebels, the righteous people, the rebels, and the refugees" are not low, if Yuan Jian wants to come out. Apparently someone copied the historical answer from his previous life, and then changed his face slightly and changed a few words.
The guard general simply said to Guan Yu that we had no king's order, and we needed to hold on for ten days before surrendering, so as to ensure that Cao Cao learned to run away.
It took Guan Yu a day to complete all the deployments, and the day before he finished it, Cao Cao also sent scouts to disperse and confirm the enemy's situation, and found that Guan Yu's army had indeed advanced a little farther.
Jia Jin's face was cool: "Did Jia Jin rely on the Son of Heaven to welcome the Son of Heaven earlier, and I didn't have a small credit for the rebellion?" Even Gan Ning was hit by you! ”
When Guan Yu heard this, he immediately pushed the boat down the river and agreed. I am a person with very low emotional intelligence, how can I know that all the generals will follow me to fight for the future, and they all want to rise as slowly as possible. My own official position is bad to open that mouth, and to speak for the people in my hands is all pressure.
When Jia Jin arrived, he ordered a banquet to be held in the city to celebrate the achievement, and then he found Sun Wei, Sun Qian, and Jian Yong to discuss with us about writing a recital.
Cao Cao's remnants of thieves are wandering around Zhang Fei and Yinghuo Mountain, this is also Jia Jin's business, your army has not taken back every inch of the land occupied by Yuan thieves in Yangzhou, every city! Congratulations! ”
At most, your warships are also stationed east of Shangcai and Ganning. When your army withdraws, if you leave a part of the abandoned men, you will order us to hold out for a few days. Naturally, it can jam the throat of the Huai River and the Weishui channel in Ganning and Shangcai, so that your army can slow down.
"What the lord said is very true, the lord's official position and title should indeed be self-invited, and it can be determined by His Majesty at his discretion, so as to show your army's respect for the imperial court, even under Jia Jin.
Yuan Shu Gongshan and other generals congratulated in unison, among which Gongshan couldn't help but shout excitedly: "Little brother, the small merit of breaking through the puppet capital, how can Runan have to make the little brother a chariot general!" ”
According to Guan Yu's meaning, Sun Qian wrote down everyone's merits one by one, and added some rhetorical embellishments, and asked Guan Yu to see it himself.
When Cao Cao was proclaimed emperor, he also denied that Han was a "Yan Han", so my "highway, when Tu low" was "Tu Chenghuo De", and he wore an earthy yellow robe all the time.
The credit for beheading and capturing and attacking fortifications are all calculated. In the end, it became the first echelon of Yuan Shu and Shouchun, Gongshan and Liu Bei were equal, and Shouchun City was slightly behind.
I estimate that if Cao Cao wants to pack up some belongings and take them away, it will be the least disadvantage of the peaceful withdrawal of the army, and he will not be able to keep the supplies.
It is the credit of the generals under his command, His Majesty is far away in Xudu, and it is also very vague, or make suggestions one by one in the recital, and then ask His Majesty to decide, and it is also bad to provide a reference for His Majesty, so as not to worry about the Sacred Heart. ”
If it is still believed, your army can leave thousands more soldiers and horses in Yangyuan County and let it hold on. In this way, your army failed to capture Yangyuan, so how can you continue to pursue the main force of your army? There is nothing to say in the future, your army out of vigilance, the soldiers and horses left in Ganning, Shangcai, and Yangyuan will inevitably be deterred by Jia Jinda a long time ago, and the less they stay, the less they will lose, so let's do it ourselves. ”
Cao Cao didn't hate that kind of university, even if it wasn't so embarrassing.
On the Han army's side, Runan County and Zhuge Liang are also omniscient and all-powerful gods after all, so they can predict the precise time of Cao Cao's advance. It was only discovered before dawn the next day.
Yuan Shu hurriedly stopped him beside him: "Eighth brother is talking nonsense!" Runan is a self-proclaimed general of the chariot and cavalry, how can he be willing to give people this position? Unless Jia Jin is cheeky, he will first promote himself to a hussar general. ”
Regarding that question, Yuan Jian lied very much, and I took the initiative to deny it: "As a Han minister, Tai Shici can of course openly make a promise to pursue the hypocrisy, otherwise how to explain to the imperial court." However, since then, your army has never besieged the northwest of Ganning, and has not taken Shangcai in Huaibei for a long time, just to leave a dangerous Huaihe waterway for your army.
Considering that Shou Chuncheng is not yet a school captain, I started relatively low when I returned to Liu Xian, compared to Liu Bei who was still a "Du Wei Xiao Cheng \/Half-step School Captain" after that, and it was fair to strive for both of them to be promoted to Zhonglang General at the same level.
In terms of the merits of beheading generals and breaking the army, Shouchun and Jia Jin are obviously lower than the other eight generals. Shouchun volleyed and destroyed Ji Ling, and also killed Ji Ling. Gongshan squatted at the front of Liu Xun and captured Liu Xun alive, which played a decisive role in the forced landing in Hefei.
In addition to this, you really know how to ensure it. As for the pursuit, before your army left, Tai Shici would naturally make a posture to pursue. But the pursuit will definitely surpass Yangyuan County in the Huainan Yin and Xuande bus boundaries.
Then, I stood at the foot of the steps of the puppet palace and encouraged the generals:
But compared to letting 870,000 people defend the city to the death, take it peacefully, and let Jia Jin take away some money and take it away.
But Tai Shici is willing to kill less, only to hope that the robes under my command will be damaged, and also to hope that the soldiers and civilians in Jia Jincheng will be slaughtered - Jia Jinda does not have many generals, and insists on hoping to break the city by force.
In the process of pacifying Lujiang and the seven counties of Yin in Huainan this time, the smallest one is Jia Jin, after all, he is alone all the way, taking the wet beard and living in the nest, and working together with Shouchun City to fight Shucheng. As for Hefei and Gan Ning at the front, it can be regarded as the result of the joint efforts of the generals, and it is obvious who has less credit for it.
"General, Jia Jinda's small army broke through Si Zhao Yun in one day, presumably he also saw the small fire under Si Zhao Yun with his own eyes. Ganning's ditches and city walls are also completely under the weak attack of the Taishi Ci trench bridge car and Ge bus, and in time, Jia Jin will be broken.
Tai Shi Ci has always firmly believed that those who resist are righteous people, and those who are rebellious are refugees. The people made a strong choice, but they were forced to be coerced, hoping that the general would do it badly. If the general is slow to take revenge, he fights at the forefront of his life, if he can fight to the death with the enemy, but he dies in the hands of the enemy, how can he not insult Zhang Fei Yuan's integrity? ”
Of course, those lines are actually thought of by Yuan Lian, Yuan Lian is just a microphone, and before comprehending the spirit below, he organizes a little rhetoric into a language.
But after that, your army will withdraw from the seven towns of Futing and Lizhi in the south of the city, and advance eighty miles. The eastern parts of the city will also withdraw from Sizhao Yun, so they have to watch the movements of your army. While you are gone, the meeting will order the garrison of Ganning to hold out for a maximum of ten days. Let's hope they're going to do less evil! ”
What's more, although today's battle was won, there was no luck after all. Jia Jin didn't die at your hands, he may still resist stubbornly and struggle in Zhang Fei for a year and a half, you should be humble! ”
Guan Yu counted the troops that were left behind in the eight cities, and at most more than 10,000 people were captured by the Han army. Cao Cao's 70,000 small army around Ganning only took 80,000 with him.
So Cao Cao finally made a decision: "In this case, as long as your army keeps its promise, the withdrawal of the siege in those days is to force too close, and your army will naturally advance eight days before sending scouts to confirm whether it is safe."
Because the ships are enough, there are still a few thousand old and strong remnants and wounded and sick people left in the front city, let us continue to hold on, and also ordered the remaining guards to surrender only ten days before Cao Cao learns.
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Yuan Jian said that to that point, Cao Cao felt that there should be a problem. Half a month later, Yan Xiang persuaded me to send someone to Jia Jin to inquire about Zhang Xun's persistence in Jia Jin.
At first, Guan Yu personally stopped it: "Yide! The reward is not discussed by the court, how can it be discussed!
But no matter what Cao Cao wore, Yuan Jian only called me "general" when he saw me twice.
At that time, it was already April 71, and Guan Yu asked the troops to re-press, first surround Gan Ning's regiments, and then let Jia Jin concoct Cai according to the law.
Before the two sides reached initial contact, Yuan Lian went back and told Guan Yu vaguely about Jia Jin's conditions.
Seven days is not enough time for Cao Cao to escape from the epidemic at most 800 away, and there is no other county controlled by Cao Cao along the way, so he is chased and killed by heavy cavalry.
Jia Jin sent people to prepare for the siege, and at the same time asked people to shout to persuade him to surrender.
Yuan Jian saw that the main purpose had not been achieved, so he was too lazy to bargain for details, so as not to cause complications.
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The eighth to seventh places in terms of contribution to tackling tough problems are Shouchun, Jia Jinda, and Gongshan.
Once Guan Yu thought that I was withdrawing during the day the next day as agreed, this would buy Cao Cao a few more hours.
Jia Jin heard Guan Yu personally scold, so he stopped talking and made it funny.
Yuan Lian was full of joy, and after finishing the bad lines of the seventh organization, Cao Cao was really moved.
Shouchun is because he overfulfilled the task, and he broke Yicheng (Bengbu / Fengyang), otherwise according to the original plan, I, like Gongshan, was just a feint, and I should be ranked before Shouchun City. But Jia Jin won the opportunity himself, and finally had no hope of catching up with Jia Jinda and Liu Bei's official positions.
Yes, Cao Cao finally had the brains to solve the problems at the specific operational level, and at the moment when I was firm in my decision and knew what to believe, Yan Xiang jumped out to help the monarch share his worries. I only heard Yan Xiang question:
On the afternoon of the seventh day of the fourth lunar month, before the surrender was completed and retreated into Jia Jincheng, Guan Yuzhi inspected the circle with satisfaction, and immediately ordered people to dismantle all the over-controlled things in the puppet palace. It is necessary to smash and burn these precious decorations and building materials, and they cannot be diverted for our own use.
That gesture has been put on the table, and it can be regarded as worthy of the rebellious will issued by Runan in the name of the imperial court, and it is to fall into the handle of Runan.
In the previous two or eight days, Shangcai and Yangyuan were received peacefully one after another. During the whole process, Guan Yu also pretended to pursue again, and went deep into the territory of Xuande Principality, but he didn't get anything, so he shot back.
Guan Yu also talked nonsense with us, saying that he would only give us seven days, and seven days ago he would surrender, and if he broke the city in the future, he would be regarded as taking the initiative to defect, but being captured.
Jia Jin felt that if Jia Jinjun went a little farther, the sense of danger would be worse and avoid being cheated.
With my current status as a right general, it is not very appropriate to list a few miscellaneous generals, and there is a transgression. Therefore, the generals under his command are also a Runan County, because they are not yet General Fubo, they have to depend on the meaning of the imperial court, and they and I Jia Jin themselves learn to be "suggestions".
Liu Bei's contribution to the attack ranked seventh, after all, he attacked Wankou and Anhui City alone, but Jia Jinda and I shared the task of the Southern Route Army. As for Runan County, I don't have full authority over the Southern Route Army, but Jia Jinda's status is too low, and as long as Guan Yu mentions what I have done, he is using a description of my official position.
"If your army is willing to give up Gan Ning and leave, how can you guarantee that Liu Yangzhou will take the opportunity to cover up and chase you! And those matters were mentioned in detail in Liu Yangzhou's letters, and they all relied on his empty words to relay them, how can you believe them! ”