"...The imperial court sent magicians from the city to look for magic soldiers born on the first day of the lunar month to defend the city. Liu Junhou knew that the situation was over, so he secretly came to me and contacted Gu Cong, Liang Wenjiang, Xu Pu and other generals to plan a breakout..."
Although it had been some time since they had broken out of Bianliang and headed south, and although Xie Zhong had survived many catastrophes, he still had lingering fears in the Xiangcheng Prefectural Government Office Hall when talking about the many details of their breakout from Bianliang.
Speaking of their successful breakout, the most important thing is that as the main combatant generals, in addition to actively rectifying their troops and training the generals, they did not dare to relax at all. During the period when Wang Xun was in charge of the defense of the capital, they built a large number of
The shield carriage, side carriage and iron pulley have certain capabilities of going out into the city for field battles.
In addition to Liu Yan, Liang Wenjiang and others who are good at commanding troops in combat, they have gone through so many twists and turns in the past few years, and their ability to judge the situation and capture fighter opportunities is no longer the same; and during the period when Wang Xun was in charge of the defense of the capital,
They were also able to break the rules and promote brave and capable soldiers and military officials.
When Zhu Hang, Wang Fan and others left the capital one after another, the peace faction regained control of the court and the defense of the capital. In addition to the fact that Xie Zhong, Liu Yan and other troops definitely had no chance to participate in the defense of the inner city and the palace, they also had no chance.
He was in charge of the defense of the outer city gate, but was idle in the camp in the southwest corner of the outer city.
This provides them with geographical convenience for breaking out.
Another factor that cannot be ignored is that during the first northern expedition to Yan, Jie Zhong participated in the breakout from Datong; while Liu Yan and his victorious military generals successfully fought against the red cavalry in the second northern expedition to Yan.
Under siege and interception, they withdrew from Datong into Xishan.
They had long predicted that Bianliang was destined to fall, and made full preparations in advance. They also had rich experience in successfully breaking out and evacuating when the cavalry was chasing and intercepting them. On the night when the two main gates of Bianliang fell, they decisively crossed the city.
Then he went out and led his troops to break out in the direction of Caizhou.
Of course, an extremely critical factor is that before the attack, the Chihu people had no idea that the defense of Bianliang City was already incredibly fragile.
In this southern invasion, the Red Husbands attacked the outer city of Bianliang for the first time. Not to mention that they had completed the encirclement of Bianliang and the Gyeonggi area, their main force was even crossing the river, and only a small number of their forward troops approached the Nanxun Gate in the southern city, and began to attack.
A tentative attack, even trying to lure the defenders out of the city, kill hundreds of soldiers and horses, and win the jackpot.
Who would have thought that the defenders on the Nanxunmen Gate Tower were all so-called "magical soldiers and generals". After being shot and wounded dozens of people, they dispersed and ordered hundreds of soldiers to seize the opportunity to enter the city.
, opening the Nanxun Gate easily.
Inside Nanxun Gate is the Royal Street, which is more than 200 paces wide, which is convenient for cavalry to launch direct attacks. The Red Husbands quickly gathered 2,000 elite forwards and attacked through Nanxun Gate.
The city tried to organize soldiers and horses to recapture Nanxun Gate, but it was too late; and all the soldiers and horses that tried to counterattack basically collapsed at the first touch.
The Red Husbands were a little confused at the time, but they did not care about any cost. They quickly gathered all the soldiers and horses from the south bank and like a tide, they passed through the Nanxun Gate and killed them deep into Bianliang.
Subsequently, the main force of the Japanese soldiers who urgently crossed the river quickly launched an attack from the Guzi Gate and Yichun Gate in the northwest and northeast of Bianliang. They also quickly defeated the defenders and entered the city easily.
When Liu Yan, Xie Zhong and others led their troops to break through the southwest city wall at night, the Red Husbands did not fully react. They just thought of occupying Bianliang as soon as possible and did not think of dividing their troops to pursue and intercept Liu Yan, Xie Zhong and other troops.
Subsequently, a large number of Forbidden Army generals followed suit and tried to break out of the encirclement and flee. However, the Red Husbands had already controlled the outer city of Bianliang and were free to surround and kill the fleeing soldiers.
The Forbidden Army generals who subsequently broke through naturally suffered heavy casualties, but to a certain extent, they also blocked the sword for Liu Yan, Xie Zhong and the others.
Liu Yan, Xie Zhong, Gu Cong, Liang Wenjiang, Xu Pu and other troops withdrew southward, mainly by day and night. Unavoidably, a large number of soldiers became separated, but they gathered the fleeing soldiers along the way and were finally able to lead more than 7,000 soldiers.
Ma successfully withdrew into Caizhou and joined Hu Kai and Yang Lin.
King Jing Zhao Tuan, Zhou He, Gao Chunnian, Qian Shangduan, Zhu Hang and others arrived in Xiangcheng two days later than Xu Huai and others. They were also sad to hear Liu Yan and others recount the details of the fall of Bianliang City and the breakout.
Endless.
"When Liu Junhou and you broke out from Bianliang, did you have any news about my mother-in-law and my brother?" Princess Yingyun sat next to King Jing. After hearing Liu Yan talk about the breakout, she couldn't help but interject and asked.
The hall suddenly fell silent.
Liu Yan, Xie Zhong, and Gu Cong knelt down in panic in front of King Jing Zhao Tuan's seat, kowtowed and said: "The general is incompetent and hastily fled. He did not take into account the concubine and the prince. Please punish your highness..."
Xu Huai, Zhu Hang and others sat in the hall, also silent.
Except for Zhu Tong, Zhu Zhi was already working abroad. Of course, Zhu Hang had no way to bring his wife, the head of Ronngle County, his eldest daughter Zhu Duojin and many people from the Zhu family out of Bianliang City in advance.
However, Zhu Hang had already considered the worst case scenario. When he left Bianliang, he asked his wife, the head of Rongle County, and Zhu's nephew to move into the house in the southwest corner of the outer city.
At that time, Zhu Hang was considering that after Bianliang fell, people in the Zhu family could ask Liu Yan for help nearby, and Jie Zhong and others would lend a helping hand.
As a core member of the main war faction, Zhu Hang had a close relationship with Liu Yan, Xie Zhong, Gu Cong, Liang Wenjiang, Xu Pu and other generals.
Liu Yan and the others were determined to break out of the siege at night, and of course they would not forget about the Zhu Mansion. They even secretly took Zhu Han's eldest daughter, Zhu Duojin, from the inner city. The head of Rongle County and his eldest daughter, Zhu Duojin, had already sent people to escort them there.
When he went to Cai, he reunited with his son Zhu Tong first.
Under the circumstances at that time, Liu Yan and others were unable to bring everyone out of Prince Jing's Mansion.
To be honest, Xu Huai did not expect that the majestic Bianliang City would fall in such a ridiculous and ridiculous way, so suddenly and urgently. He thought that even if he had some back-ups in Bianliang City, he should
It’s too late to react, right?!
"What kind of crime do you have in this matter?" King Jing Zhao Tuan suppressed the loss and sorrow in his heart, helped Liu Yan, Xie Zhong, Gu Cong and other generals up, and said, "This is the fate of the imperial concubine and A Bao.
, is also the fate of our Zhao royal family. If you can bring seven thousand strong men out of a desperate situation, you will have done a great service to the country and to our Zhao royal family! You must not blame yourself for this matter!" Zhao Yingyun said.
The princess reprimanded, "Why did you bring this up? This is a fate that the Zhao family cannot escape. Do you still want to blame me, General Zhao Xiong?"
Princess Yingyun was already very sad, so tears fell down her cheeks when King Jing made such a stern rebuke.
Everyone comforted King Jing and said: "The princess is also worried about the safety of the imperial concubine and the imperial son. Although the red warriors are cruel, they will not harm the imperial concubine unprovoked. The imperial concubine and the people in the clan will be saved when His Highness reshapes the world."
The Crown Princess, the Crown Prince!"
King Jing motioned to Qiao Jien to help his daughter, whose face was full of tears, and not to interfere with their discussion.
After a while, King Jing took the initiative to start the conversation and asked Hu Kai for his suggestions on the current battle situation and subsequent defense deployment.
Hu Kai will go to Xiangyang with King Jing to take up the post of Sima of the Grand Marshal's Office of the Army of the World. He will assume the important task of assisting King Jing in presiding over the military affairs of the world. The subsequent strategy to resist the Red Husbands should also be drawn up by him and his troops after offering sacrifices and wine.
King Jing’s determination.
Xu Huai arrived at Xiangcheng two days in advance and had a full discussion with Hu Kai on the current world situation and subsequent resistance strategies.
This was not the time to be humble, so Hu Kai stated everything in his mind.
Shaanxi and Heluo are currently guarded by Gao Junyang and Zheng Huaizhong. In principle, there is no big problem, but considering the stimulation of the Taiyuan battle, it is likely that the Chihu people will give priority to solving it after they gain a foothold in Hehuai.
Threats from the flanks, large-scale battles will soon break out in Shaanxi and Heluo.
Even if most areas of Shaanxi and Heluo could be defended, it would still be necessary to evacuate the people along the Sichuan-Sichuan Road in advance to prevent a large number of people from fleeing hastily to the city and consuming the limited food reserves in the city when war is imminent.
This is a lesson that must be learned from the defensive battles in Taiyuan, Zezhou and other cities.
The successful experiences in defensive battles in cities such as Taiyuan and Zezhou also told them that as long as they were well prepared, it would not be so easy for the Red Husbands and Horses who dominated the world to capture a city in a dangerous terrain.
The strategy of shallow attack and fortification summarized by the Western Army in the long-term battle with the Dangxiang people is not outdated.
To the east of Nanyang, with Tongbai Mountain and Guangzhou as fortresses, King Jing handed it over to Xu Huai for guarding. Hu Kai ignored it, but advocated that the defense focus of Caizhou in the north of Nanyang should be retracted back to Wuyang north of Fangchengkou.
Pu Ban first discussed the major strategy and decided to rebuild the Xiao Sheng Army in Caizhou, with Yang Lin as the capital commander. Hu Kai advocated that Liu Yan and Yang Lin be placed in parallel to control the left and right sides of the Xiao Sheng Army.
King Jing Zhao Tuan went to Xiangyang to open a government office. In addition to raising money and food, the most important thing was to do everything possible to expand the army. In the future, King Zhao Tuan of Jing will ascend the throne in Xiangyang, and his jurisdiction will only be Xiaosheng Army, Xuanwu Army, and Tianwu Army.
The three forbidden brigades of the heroic army are far from enough.
In Hu Kai's opinion, it is now necessary to at least directly set aside the expansion structure of the Xuanwu Army on the left and the Xiaosheng Army on the left and Xiaosheng Army on the left, and authorize the generals to garrison, recruit Jianrui, and train at the same time.
Hu Kai suggested that Liu Yan, Xie Zhong, Gu Cong, Liang Wenjiang, Xu Pu and other troops should be unified into Zuo Xiaosheng's army, with Liu Yan as the main general, stationed in Wuyang and the villages at the eastern foot of Funiu Mountain, as a defense outside the entrance of Fangcheng.
The first line of defense.
The Caizhou Army was organized into the Right Xiaosheng Army, with Yang Lin as the main general, and was stationed at Caizhou Prefecture to govern Cai.
Shangcai is located to the east of the north of Qingyi Ridge and Queshan County. Its position is relatively breakthrough, but it needs a force of troops to stop the enemy from approaching Wuyang and Guangzhou unscrupulously.
Although the Chushan camp led by Xu Huai was the most elite and capable of fighting, its total strength was only 7,000, including the captured soldiers of Tianxiong's army, which was still far from the full strength of Tianxiong's army.
At this time, Guangzhou City must be included in the Chushan camp's defense area, which is equivalent to extending the defense line 200 miles east of Shicheng Ridge, and the Jiuli, Wusheng, and Pingjing passes south of Xinyang are must-defend areas.
It is impossible for Xu Huai to really hold such a large defensive area with only 7,000 troops.
The Chushan Camp and the Tianxiong Army must recruit immediately for the next step. At least in addition to the local Xiang Army and rural soldiers, the Tianxiong Army must be expanded to at least 15,000 people even if it is not full, in order to basically guarantee this
Defense needs of large defense zones.
Recruiting troops and horses requires a process. At this time, it is even more necessary to have a troop of troops stationed in Shangcai and other places to buy time for Xu Huai's defense line construction in Guangzhou.
The most critical point is that Hu Kai suggested that King Jing send envoys to Qizhou to see King Lu now, so that he could also control Henan and set up envoys in Huainan.
Hu Kai's suggestion actually assigned all Huainan East Road and Huainan West Road, except Guangzhou, to the King of Lu, in order to jointly resist the Hulu.
Regardless of whether King Qing and King Lu are facing each other, the current reality is that they are temporarily unable to deploy defense lines east of Guangzhou along the Huaihe River north and south, but King Lu is in Qingzhou, and Qizhou has a hundred thousand troops.
Hu Kai suggested that he immediately ask Lu Wang Zhao Guan to lead his troops south to Shouzhou or Xuzhou to take control, so as to prevent the captive soldiers from having the opportunity to invade Xuzhou and cut off the connection between Lu Wang Zhao Guan and Jianghuai.
Once Lu King Zhao Guan's troops were reduced to a lone army and eventually eliminated by the Chihu people, perhaps no one was qualified to compete with King Jing for the throne, but where would they deploy troops and horses to deploy defenses on both sides of the Huaihe River east of Guangzhou?
Therefore, you have to compromise when you need to compromise...
