Guan Cheng and Yuan Shao did not expect that the Baibo Army, which once stretched across Guandong, would suddenly fall overnight. Then Linqu fell and the Han army entered, almost completely cutting off Linzi's connection with Beihai and Donglai counties.
This caused people in Qingzhou to sway, and the entire situation in Qingxu was tipping towards the hegemony.
Throughout March, Guan Yu's department wanted to help the refugees return to their hometowns.
They have not yet joined up with Liu Bei's troops, but after the Taishan bandit tribes received the news, Liu Bei's old acquaintances such as Zang Ba and Chang Xi came to surrender one after another, asking for orders from Ba Mansion to surrender.
Although the Taishan bandits were forced to temporarily surrender to the Qi and Han Dynasties in recent years due to the situation, they only stayed in one county of Taishan and did not serve the Qi and Han Dynasties. In addition, they had made great achievements in the war against Dong a few years ago.
Therefore, Liu Bei was extremely lenient to them.
In addition to directly transferring Chang Xi to his subordinates,
The rest of the people were appointed as governors of Qingzhou County: among them, Zang Ba was the prime minister of Qi, Sun Guan was the prime minister of Beihai, Sun Kang was the prefect of Donglai, Lu Qian was the prefect of Le'an, Yin Li was the prefect of Pingyuan, and Wu Dun was the prefect of Jinan. Liu Bei made this arrangement mainly because he was considering how to govern Qingzhou after the war. In addition to Chen Chong's suggestion of transferring Xun Yu to be the governor of Qingzhou, he also planned to use the Taishan bandits as the basis to build the imperial court's influence in Qingzhou. But now I think about these
, obviously it’s too early.
Even though the situation was over, the Qi people still resisted fiercely. After the Taishan bandits surrendered, the Qi people only had one city in Taishan County, Fenggao. According to Zang Ba, there were only 6,000 men and horses in the city. Cao Cao led 30,000 troops to capture it.
Surrounded by people, they built huge mountains, and attacked fiercely day and night, but they couldn't conquer it. This was not because Cao Cao was in trouble in attacking the city, but because the Qi people's will to resist was as stubborn as a stone. Even though many people in the city had lost their limbs, they still stood firm on the city, despite the rain of arrows.
If he doesn't come down, he keeps throwing wood and stones. This is Cao Cao's fierce generals like Dian Wei.
It’s also difficult for ants to get attached to it.
Things didn't go well for Liu Bei either. Xu Shu originally planned to pacify the two counties east of Linqu, stabilize the flanks, and then try to conquer Linzi. Who would have expected that he would send an envoy to surrender to Beihai and Donglai?
After the two prefectures and counties, eight envoys came back empty-handed.
Among them, Gongsun Fang, who went to appease Jimo, was particularly unfortunate. He said that he could not surrender to the Qi people, so he cut off one of his ears. When he returned, the Qi people specially attached a white cloth letter and wrote in blood: "In the battle of Surabaya, the whole state will be defeated."
Everyone criticizes the letter, what do you want? The hatred is as deep as the sea, and death can only repay it!" After reading it, Liu Bei felt offended by it, so he circulated this letter in the army and sighed to all the generals: "
It is said that people from Kansai have courage,
But compared with the people of Qi, Yang Feng and his like are just deceiving the world and stealing their reputation."
Then Liu Bei was silent for a long time,
After careful consideration, he said to Xu Shu: "The hearts of the people are not with me, so the war is inevitable, but we must not kill indiscriminately! Yuanzhi, you draft a military order for me, saying that if there are people who come to the army and cause trouble, they must not be killed, but they must be returned to them."
Just send someone to look after the township. If anyone disobeys, we will reduce the title to the people!" Xu Shu agreed and retreated.
But in this case, the original strategy of pruning branches and weak branches could no longer be used. The Bafu counselors re-planned and quickly decided on a new strategy of "encircling the capital by water and setting up a network from east to west". Even if the main force of the army was to drive directly to Linzi
Under the city, the surrounding water network was used to trap the Linzi defenders in the city. While besieging the city, ambushes were set up on the east and west roads to lure the Qi people to rescue. Once something was gained, Linzi could be frightened and frustrated.
At that time, if we launch a fierce attack again, we are not afraid that we will not be able to enter the city.
Although the plan was good, it was a pity that God did not go well with it. When Guan Yu came to join Liu Bei and was about to send out troops to besiege the city, it suddenly started raining from heaven to earth. It was just a steady rain at first, but it continued for more than ten days and became heavier and heavier.
The general trend. The Han army had only advanced for forty miles, and the road was already muddy and difficult to navigate. Looking around, the sky and the earth were hazy. All we could see were large and small puddles embedded in the mountains, and the trees, grass and rocks on the mountains and down the mountains were all gone.
Wet, as if they had all turned into water, with a dark watery glow on the outside.
Under this environment, some people in the Han army soon became dizzy and feverish, and then became dizzy and vomited. In the past few days, a large number of fevers occurred in the Bafu army, with a rough count of more than 3,000 people. Seeing this, Liu Bei even
I was so anxious that I could only order the entire army to stay temporarily and boil large amounts of hot water and medicinal soup in the army to wait for the rain to stop.
But the more I thought about it, the more serious the weather became. On the morning of April 12, Liu Bei was in his tent with his subordinates discussing the fortifications needed for the siege. During the conversation, everyone heard a faint noise, which was not human voices.
It was not the sound of rain, but it could not be ignored. Immediately afterwards, the ground beneath the feet shook slightly. Some people said that the Qi people took the opportunity to rob the camp? But as soon as the words fell, everyone knew that it was not the case, because the sound continued to rise, like rumbling thunder.
Then a series of huge sounds rushed from the west, like a flood tidal wave crashing on the earth.
Liu Bei lifted the curtain and looked to the west. He saw a stream of yellow water pouring into the camp from the mountain, overthrowing more than ten tents. Then he slowly stopped the flow. The pouring sand and soil piled up, and he didn't know what happened to the soldiers below.
How. This mountain flow was a heavy blow to the morale of the Han army. Although the mountain flow only crushed more than a hundred Han soldiers to death, such a way of death inevitably made people think of God's will. Therefore, some people said privately:
Now that we have the East China Sea, how can we look at the North Sea? The greed will never end and the color will never end.
This rumor spread quickly, which made Liu Bei very angry. But he also knew that this sentiment did not come out of thin air.
He planned to send a carriage and horses to Yanzhou to invite him. But unexpectedly, there was a twist of fate. Before the messenger was sent, Zhang Xian brought someone to see him, saying that he had a way to cure the disease.
It turns out that Zhang Xian had a younger brother named Zhang Ji, whose courtesy name was Zhongjing. He was very talented and had studied medicine since he was a child. He had not only studied various medical books such as "Suwen", "Lingshu", and "Nanjing", but he had also been able to understand them thoroughly.
Ji Zhu is especially good at treating typhoid fever. Now he is only thirty years old, and he is already known as a miracle doctor. However, for many years, he followed Zhang Xian and treated diseases in Changsha, Lingling and other places. However, Jiangnan is far away from the Central Plains, so everyone knows him.
There are very few, and the reputation is far less than that of Hua Tuo.
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Liu Bei was overjoyed and immediately asked Zhang Ji to join the army to see and practice medicine. Zhang Ji and Liu Bei accompanied him around. After seeing more than a hundred patients and checking their pulses, Zhang Ji smiled at Liu Bei and said, "My lord, you are not in a hurry. There is no one in the army yet."
No matter what serious illness, I can make the soldiers recover within seven days."
After that, he led dozens of people in the army to cook ephedra soup. After the patients drank it, they added the medicinal soup to bathe their feet. After the patients broke out in hot sweat, Zhang Ji stewed mutton in Guizhi soup.
Boil it until it is cooked, chop the mutton into pieces, mix it with medicinal materials to make meat fillings, wrap it in dough to make dumplings, and cook it for the patients to eat. After three days of this, the fever in the army was greatly improved, although most people
He is still weak, but he is fine when walking on the ground. I think he will be able to regain his strength in a few days and start fighting.
Strike while the iron is hot, Liu Bei took the opportunity to summon his sergeants and conduct a divination in front of everyone. He used yellow and black ants to fight in a formation to predict the outcome. The yellow ants represented the Qi army and the black ants represented the Han army. The two sides fought in the bowl for two quarters of an hour.
As a result, all the yellow ants died, and the black ants also suffered heavy losses. Liu Bei said in public: "We will win this battle!" It is said in the world that ants possess magical powers. When the Han soldiers saw this result, they all believed it. They were hesitant and timid before.
It’s all gone.
By April 24th, the rain finally stopped, and Bafu regrouped and marched forward. The defenders of Guangxian County had already been withdrawn into Linzi City, which was now just an empty city, and was then occupied by Bafu. Then they crossed the Zhuang River to the north.
About ten miles east of the water, Linzi will be clearly visible.
Since the Zhou Dynasty replaced the Shang Dynasty, and the Jiang family was granted the title of Qi for thousands of years, Linzi has always been the capital of Qi, because it has the benefits of fish and salt from the Bohai Sea to the north, the danger of large rivers to the west, and the support of Jimo and Donglai to the east.
, there is Mount Tai in the south, and Muling is in the way. Therefore, even though it is located in the Five Battles of the Central Plains, it can still defend itself in danger, which is the foundation of the Qi people and becomes the famous Emperor of the East.
Even though Bafu currently occupies Muling and controls the south gate of Qingzhou, it is not easy to attack Linzi. Linzi has been operated by the Yellow Turbans for six years and has been expanded several times. Today, Linzi has become an area covering dozens of miles.
It was a huge city, not to mention the outer walls, the inner city, the Wengcheng and other fortifications. They also built Sanbao mountain camps along the Guishan Mountain and high mountains, and built high walls and deep ditches on three sides except the Zi River. According to the investigation of the Han army
It is estimated that if the common people, old and young are included, the city can accommodate nearly 200,000 people.
Not to mention that there is Dong'an Ping City to the east of Zi River. Dong'an Pingzhong is also well-equipped for defense. It's just that the city is not as big as Linzi, and the walls are not as high as Linzi, but there are still ten thousand people holding on to it, which is different from Linzi.
The cities face each other across the water. There are also ships that can travel between each other.
Liu Bei and his men had just crossed the turbid water. When they saw from a distance such a huge city standing on the water, stretching the mountains to the south and facing the swamps to the north, they felt frightened. He turned to Xu Shu and others and said, "When we decide on the strategy, say
If you want to besiege a city based on water, how can you besiege such a huge city without an army of 200,000?" I hesitated for a while, and even thought of withdrawing my troops.
When Xu Shu saw Linzi, he couldn't help but exclaimed: "They say that what you hear is false and what you see is true. I don't even think much of it. Only when I saw this big city today did I know why." But in the blink of an eye, he also strengthened his determination and said to Liu Bei.
"Ming Gong, now that you have arrived here, you cannot retreat. Otherwise, if you don't fight this year, it will be even more difficult to fight next year. Now that Ming Gong has led the royal army here, he has the task of reviving the thieves. All the princes in the south of the Yangtze River say that destiny is here."
Sir, if our army gives in and Youyan falls, the situation will change drastically."
After Liu Bei heard this, he calmed down, pointed his whip at Linzi and said: "Yuan Zhi is right, even if it is extremely difficult, I will break this city." He immediately ordered all the troops to camp in the east of the Zi River, and then sent troops to attack.
Guishan wiped out the mountain fortress, and then attacked Dong'anping City. After wiping out the outer areas of Linzi one by one, they finally attacked the city in general.
That night, I looked around in the Han army camp and saw moving fires all over the mountains and down the mountains, east and west of the river, as if someone was setting fire to the clouds.