In September of the fifth year of Yanxing in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the envoy Chi Jieyi and the general Fenwu of the Three Divisions, Liangzhou Muxing, the Western Region Protector, Wenxian Hou Lu Bu Lu Fengxian arrived at Yuzhong in the upper reaches of the Yellow River.
At this time, the territory under Lu Bu's rule had been greatly improved compared to the sizeless land situation in the first year of Yanxing.
The north is roughly centered on Lingzhou, passing through the Lingwu Valley along the river, directly bordering Shuofang. Since he opened the road, the Huns often went south to trade with it.
To the northwest, it has penetrated deep into the hinterland of the Hexi Corridor. Zhang Chang recruited Qiang people here to confront Zhang Heng of Xiliang. If he goes further, he can cut off the Hexi Corridor. However, most of the Qiang people are here, and supplies are scarce.
It is also far away from Lingzhou, Lu Bu's base camp. If it is forcibly cut off, it will be easily attacked by the rebels from the north and south, thus cutting off the retreat, so Lu Bu has no further plans.
The southwest is Lu Bu's current main attack direction. In the past two years, he has attacked cities and plundered territory along the river, and has captured Sanshui, Zhuanyindu, Zuli, and Yuwei. Later, he built Fengfeng at Fengyi Mountain in Anding.
Yibao. Lu Bu was able to occupy the main transportation road and block the mountain fortress to protect the left and right sides. The rebels had no choice but to let him advance to Yuzhong.
The location of Yuzhong is built adjacent to the river, at the northern end of a huge basin, within which is the Yuanchuan River Basin. During the reign of Emperor Sejong Xiaowu, the largest priest garden in the country was located here. Further south
A few dozen miles away is Dingxi Road, the only important road from Hanyang to Jincheng, and a few dozen miles to the west is the Lanzhou Basin, the second richest area in Longshang. The so-called gateway to the three counties and the important Silk Road town came from this.<
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But Lu Bu had no intention of attacking such a crucial place.
The reason is similar to not attacking Wuwei: Although Yuzhong is important, the rebels also attach great importance to it. Once they attack, they will inevitably face a desperate resistance. While Lu Bu's army is still at a disadvantage, the rebels will definitely be able to gather heavy troops in Yuzhong, so it is difficult
Achieve results.
Therefore, Lu Bu's original plan was to continue to attack Gaoping. Although Gaoping is not an important transportation route, it is also a very rich place in Longshang. Once captured, he can open up another important route to Guanzhong and wait for the imperial court's supplies to be doubled.
After being transported in, Lu Bu continued to expand his army and practice martial arts. How could the other counties resist?
But in the middle of this year, the situation changed. Under pressure from Lu Bu, the heroes of Liangzhou reiterated their alliance with Yu Didao to discuss countermeasures, and even Heshou Ping Han King Song Jiandu, who had been at peace in Heguan for many years, came to participate.
Naturally, Lu Bu also received the news, and sent many Anjian to spy on the information. However, Didao was Han Sui's base camp, and there were many obstacles on the mountain road from Yuzhong to Didao, so none of the Anjian succeeded.
Even so, the final result of the conference was to break up unhappy. First, the Heshou King Song Jian led his troops back to Heguan westward, but there was no response. Then Liang Xing, Zhang Heng, Cheng Yi and other tribes who faced Lü Bu directly sent troops one after another.
People came to contact Lu Bu and inquired about Lu Bu's words. He seemed to be willing to surrender. There were countless other Qiang and Di thieves who came to Lingzhou to seek refuge. Counting the Qiang people who came to seek refuge, there were as many as ten thousand households.
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Among the people who came to seek refuge, there was a man named Liu Xiongming, who was highly valued by Lu Bu. Liu Xiongming was originally a jade picker in Lantian, but because of his tall stature and extraordinary resourcefulness, he was respected as a leader by the bandits and participated in the Liang Rebellion.
He was also involved in the Didao discussion, and Lu Bu got the news from him.
To put it simply, the various ministries in Liangzhou were dissatisfied with Han Sui's repeated defeats and proposed to elect Song Jian as the new commander-in-chief. Han Sui refused to give up his position, which led to a great dispute between the two rebel parties, which divided people's hearts and divided them.
Find a way out.
After reviewing Liu Xiongming's remarks, they are consistent with the current situation, so Lu Bu firmly believes them.
Then Lu Bu asked Liu Xiongming if he should accept Liang Xing and other troops. Liu Xiongming analyzed that the Liang Rebellion had lasted for more than ten years, and its duration was unmatched by other parts of the country, and the situation was definitely not the same.
Among the leaders, there may be those who are desperate and are ensnared by chaos. But in today's Liangzhou, those who can still control an army with more than 10,000 troops are all heroes and heroes who are difficult to serve as subordinates. Even if they surrender now, they will definitely rebel in the future. In view of this situation, Liu Xiongming offered advice to Lu Bu, saying that the current plan is to accommodate the poor people, refute the big thieves, and make the soldiers and civilians return like water, so that the culprits have nowhere to hide. For this reason, he specifically emphasized that if the people were to travel to the countryside,
Pavilion refers to the unity of the army, it must be like this.
Lu Bu was convinced of this and praised Zhang Liao and others: "Although there are many warriors in my palace, today I have a wise man!" So they all acted according to this strategy.
Liu Xiongming took the opportunity and said to Lu Bu: "Yuzhong is a key place in Xiliang. Now it is stationed by my good friend Jiang Zheng. He has long wanted to serve the court, but because of the key location, it is difficult to come like me.
Before I came, he had made an agreement with me that as long as the general could go to Yuzhong, he would open the door to welcome him. Is he interested?"
Lu Bu was greatly excited when he heard this and couldn't help but clapped his hands and said: "Now that the achievements are in front of us, how can we not ignore them?" He immediately ordered him to go to the state capital and mobilize 40,000 troops. He sent troops in mid-August and arrived in Yu in early September.
Under the Central City.
As expected, Yuzhong did not fight Kaicheng, and its guard Jiang Zheng went out ten miles to meet Lu Bu. His words were extremely humble, and his behavior was like a slave. He actually said that Lu Bu had the courage of an overlord, but he was despicable and no one dared to look up to him. This made Lu Bu very happy.
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Then he led Lu Bu to the city, where he saw mountains of rice and grain piled up in the treasury, and rows of swords, which were enough to support the whole army for a year. Going south to the priest's garden, Lu Bu got another 16,000 horses. Such a harvest can be called Lu Bu's best harvest in all his years.
Finally, he publicly appointed Jiang Zheng as the captain of the state capital, and drank with him to show his favor.
During the Double Ninth Festival, Lu Bu held a banquet in the city to reward the three armies. At this time, the news of Linzi's fall had just come. Everyone couldn't help but put down their wine glasses and talked about it. They analyzed the impact of this battle on Guandong and thought that the whole world would be informed. Let's talk about it again.
Afterwards, the imperial court rewarded the generals of the Bafu, and they all thought that the general Liu Bei had made the arrangements properly and deserved the most credit.
This really made Lu Bu unhappy. Since the Battle of Jinyang, Lu Bu had always thought that Liu Bei's battle was nothing more than a casual battle, and he just relied on Chen Chong for support. But at this time, all he heard were praises for Liu Bei, and he couldn't get angry.
At this time of celebration, he could only lower his head and drink a few more glasses of wine.
At this time, Lu Bu suddenly noticed that Jiang Zheng and Liu Xiongming were whispering at the table. Occasionally they looked over, as if they had something to say but had concerns. Lu Bu asked them: "Today is a day to celebrate achievements."
Sun, both of you have made great achievements, what else are you afraid to say?"
Liu Xiongming and Jiang Zheng looked at each other and then reported to Lu Bu in detail. It turned out that Liu Xiongming's friend Yang Ming was stationed in Jincheng and wanted to surrender to Lu Bu. But now that Yuzhong was lost, Han Sui immediately strengthened the defense and led 30,000 soldiers.
When the army entered Jincheng, they were undecided whether they should advise and attack Jincheng.
When Lü Bu heard that Jincheng also had inner chambers, his drunkenness immediately dissipated, and he quickly asked Jiang Zheng for details. Jiang Zheng replied that in order to keep the city gate safe, Han Sui had always ordered all units in the army to change their defenses every day, and Jincheng was a big city, with eight in total.
At the city gate, Yang Ming's troops had more than 3,000 men, and they could only occupy one section. If Lu Bu wanted to capture Jincheng, he needed to identify the flags of each ministry, contact Yang Ming, and then open the door to welcome him when Yang Ming changed defenses for the second time.
It was a military matter. But if it was not handled properly, not only would Jincheng not be captured, but Yang Ming would also find it difficult to survive, so they hesitated.
Lu Bu couldn't help but laugh and said to them: "What's so difficult about this? Just leave the contact to Liu Jun. As long as Yang Jun opens the door first and Liu Jun helps defend behind, and the door is not closed, can I still be defeated?" Zhouzhou
The rest of the government heard this and agreed.
So Jiang Zheng was allowed to continue to garrison Yuzhong, while Lu Bu raised his troops again to the west.
On September 14th, Lü Bu led his army to the gates of Jincheng. The Liang army in the city came out of the city with more than a thousand cavalry to challenge Lü Bu. However, Lü Bu personally led the camp and defeated him. The Liang army then retreated into the city and could not leave. Only then could Lü Bu get a full view of Jincheng.
I couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. Renshou Mountain surrounded the city to the northwest, and the river surrounded it to the southeast. There was only a piece of land no more than twenty miles long and three miles wide for them to form their array. There was also river water under the city to protect the outer walls. If they wanted to attack the city head-on, it would be really difficult.
I don’t know how long the fight will take.
That night, Lu Bu and Liu Xiongming observed around the wall. When they walked to the southeast corner, Liu Xiongming pointed to a section of the city wall and said, Yang Ming is here. Yang Ming's flag is a white wolf flag with a yellow background, which is easy to identify. Lu Bu looked and saw that it was indeed
So, he immediately took out the three-stone bow, reached the corner of the city, and shot the arrow book written in advance into the city. When whispers sounded on the city wall, Lu Bu and others quietly left again.
In the early morning of the next day, when the city had not yet changed its defenses, Yang Ming's troops quietly set up two unmarked yellow flags. These were Lu Bu's secret signals in the arrow book, indicating that Lu Bu had promised to open the city gates the next time he changed his defenses. At this point, the entire army
Morale has soared, and everyone thinks that Jincheng will be secured soon.
On the night of September 16th, Lu Bu was digging mountains outside the city, pretending to attack the outer walls of Jincheng. In fact, he ordered all the troops to hide among the civilians. Countless people cast their eyes on the city wall, almost setting fire to it. Finally, they discovered that
When the White Wolf Banner appeared in the southwest corner, Lu Bu was overjoyed and immediately ordered Liu Xiongming to lead more than 2,000 troops to attack him.
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Liu Xiongming held high the banner with the word "LV" and rushed towards the city gate like a black tide.
As expected, the city gate opened in response, allowing Liu Xiongming's troops to file in. Upon seeing this, Lu Bu immediately ordered the drummers to play the marching drum. Everyone in the state capital thought that the city was about to fall, cheered the army, and then ran towards the southwest gate.
Unexpectedly, the situation suddenly changed. Liu Xiongming's troops entered the city, but no one was left to guard the gate. Instead, they all disappeared behind the city gate. Before the follow-up Lu Bu army arrived, the city gate had been slowly closed.<
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All the ministries in the prefecture were astonished. Before their cheers had stopped, several large flags with the word "Lu" were thrown down from the city wall. Someone on the wall shouted: "Thank you so much, Commander Lu, for sending me off!" Then there was a burst of laughter.
Sound. The officers and soldiers of the prefecture suddenly realized that Liu Xiongming's claim of surrender was a lie, and he was the real one who deceived the army to come to the city. He is the dead end of the Liang people!
Then someone on the city shouted, saying that Jiang Zheng in Yuzhong had rebelled again, and the way back to Liangzhou Prefecture had been cut off. When Lu Bu's subordinates heard this, their morale suddenly dropped. Soon, some people in the army rushed eastward one after another, causing a wave of
The commotion was like an avalanche.
Seeing the arrival of the fighter plane, Han Sui made an immediate decision and led all his soldiers out of the city. Although Lu Bu tried his best to organize the army, it was to no avail. Han Sui pursued him for nearly thirty miles. Along the way, there were corpses on pillows and flags floating with blood. Lu Bu's men were killed, injured and captured.
There are tens of thousands of people.
Such a great victory was unprecedented since the death of Dong Zhuo. And the planning and planning were all done by Jia Xu.