Jinyang, the first city in Taiyuan, is also the first city in Bingzhou.
Looking back on the past, Jinyang was originally the place where Emperor Taizong of the Han Dynasty Liu Heng hid the dragon, and was a great defense in the northern frontier of the country. Since the founding of the Han Dynasty, and since the Emperor Gaozu defeated the King of Han Dynasty, there has been no war in Taiyuan County for more than 300 years. Although Jinyang City had a prominent position during the Warring States Period,
, the peace lasted for a long time, and the status naturally declined day by day, so much so that now that the Huns are in rebellion, Jinyang has a high wall, but no good generals and no strong army, and Xu Bu fell down in ten days.
But today, no one except Chen Chong knows that this Jinyang City will dominate the fate of the Xia in the next eight hundred years: it will be a pillar city for the Han people in the north, and a place where the Xianbei cavalry can whip the world.
The origin of the Sui and Tang empires and the carnival capital of the five generations of warlords.
But now, in the Han border defense system, it is still just a state that is gradually declining. The court has seen too many such cities, and it will neither be indifferent nor go to war over it. It is great to remove a few corrupt officials.
, refresh the official administration.
But for Liu Bei, conquering Jinyang is the biggest challenge in his life so far.
Liu Bei had never seen Jinyang City, but fortunately Gao Shun and Lu Bu, who were from Bingzhou, had seen it. Lu Bu's opinions were radical. He believed that Jinyang was a huge city with a long battle line and could not be defended without a large army. Today, the Huns have only six thousand defenders in the city.
If you can attack from both sides, you will be able to break the city. Gao Shun's opinion is a little more conservative. He analyzed that Jinyang City is more than four feet high and about ten feet thick. Although it is in disrepair, it is enough to defend itself. It is not five times as high as the enemy.
Win.
Anticipating that the enemy would be lenient, Liu Bei was determined to prepare according to Gao Shun's suggestion.
To be five times larger than the enemy, 30,000 troops would have to be raised. Even counting Xiangyong and Jicheng County soldiers, the Han army could only raise more than 20,000. However, Liu Bei came up with an ingenious idea. He remembered that after the Xiongnu army went south, 30,000 Black Mountain bandits went straight to the enemy.
After occupying Yangyi, the leaders were Yu Du and Bai Rao.
Although there were a lot of gold, silver, cattle and sheep seized in the Qixian battle, Liu Bei was not greedy for gold and silver, and he was not short of food and grass, so he simply sent them all to Yangyi and asked the two of them if they could attack Jinyang with him.
Afterwards, the wealth and goods in Jinyang City were divided between Yu Du and Bailao with 30% and 30% respectively. Seeing this sudden windfall, two commanders, Yu Du and Bairao, how could they not agree? Within three days, they went north together with Liu Bei.
As a result, the number of Liu Bei's men increased to more than 40,000. It was the first time in Liu Bei's life that he had such a large army. He looked back at the clouds under his command and the fighting was gleaming. He felt proud in his heart, secretly thinking that he would be able to capture the city this time.
After bypassing Gangyang City and approaching Jinyang City, Liu Bei realized how absurd his idea was.
Marching to twenty miles south of Jinyang City, the first thing that caught the army's sight was not the city wall of Jinyang City, but the rugged brown-black ridges, like the broken palm prints of Pangu, extending from the sea of clouds to the sky and the earth.
In the dividing line, the lush pine forest puts a layer of immature green gauze on it, but it cannot hide the scars on the tree surface that have gone through the years.
The farther you go, the closer the mountains are, and the east and west are pinched together. It is hard to breathe, but you feel that the world is vast. After walking ten miles, a green river flows from the north. The water is higher than the horse's back.
It was difficult for the army to cross the river. Cheng Lian said: "This is the Jinshui River, which is also the river that protects the city of Jinyang. Five miles to the north, our army can cross the river on a bridge."
Meng Jian followed the army all the way to this place. He saw that the riverbeds on both sides of Jinshui River were dry and cracked, with ravines and crisscrossing ravines, and the clear water rushing past. He put his army on both sides of Jinyang. He couldn't help but sigh to Liu Bei: "There have been droughts for many years, but Jinshui River is still so clear and refreshing.
There are hundreds of thousands of people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. The sky and the earth are vast, and people are as small as sand. As Zhuang Zhou said, 'If you look carefully at the big, you will never know it; if you look at the small when you are arrogant, you will not understand.' I know it today."
Before Liu Bei responded, Yu Du couldn't suppress his annoyance. He rode his horse to Liu Bei's side and asked again: "With the mountains and rivers in such a situation, is it really easy to conquer Jinyang City?"
Liu Bei calmly replied: "Commander Yu, we rely on the strong to bully the weak, and use the masses to bully the few, so we also need a stable morale. It should be noted that the weather is not as good as the right place, and the right place is not as good as the people. The only thing that the barbarians look up to is the right place. As long as our army is united, we will win."
What should we fear if there are six thousand people?"
After organizing the army to cross the bridge, Liu Bei immediately built a camp along the river. While he ordered the entire army to rest, he waited for the night to inquire about the defense layout of Jinyang City. The scout left at Xu Shi and returned at Mao Shi, and reported to Liu Bei: The walls of Jinyang City are now
It was full of firelight. Looking down from Luliang Mountain, the city was full of ruins, and crows could be vaguely seen flying around. It turned out that the Huns demolished the houses in the city, used all the beams, pillars, door plaques and plaques as firewood, and boiled the pots on the wall.
Oil.
Fortunately, when the Huns conquered Jinyang, they had already filled in all the trenches and ditches at the foot of the city, eliminating this most time-consuming and laborious task. Liu Bei only needed to build ladders to attack the city.
According to what the scouts said, Liu Bei made the following response: In addition to making ladders and chariots, he quickly made a batch of wooden frames from non-flammable fir wood, wrapped them in cowhide and tied them, soaked them in Jinshui overnight, and distributed them to the soldiers in the front line.
The soldiers were ordered to make fire arrows. If there was a favorable wind, thousands of arrows could be fired at once, causing a fire on the wall.
Unexpectedly, Liu Bei also followed Xu Bu Shanyu's example and hung Dugu Sukelan's head on the Han military flag, handed it over to the Poison Department, and asked him to send a cavalry team to roar back and forth under the city to persuade him to surrender. He did not go to Japan.
Knowing that he would act like this, Guan Yu said to Zhang Fei at night: "Jinyang is really a strong city in the world, and my brother is not sure about it. When you go into battle tomorrow, you must not show your anxiety and affect the morale of the army."
At about six o'clock the next day, Liu Bei finally completed preparations and ordered the entire army to launch the first attack on Jinyang City.
The person guarding Jinyang is Huyan King Huyan Yuledu. He was originally the deputy commander of the Eastern Route Army. He was quite famous among the Xiongnu tribes and was well versed in Sinology. He made many contributions during the siege of Jinyang and was the first to express his loyalty to Xubu.
Chanyu is reused by Xubu Chanyu.
Xubu Shanyu ordered him and more than 6,400 people from the Huyan tribe to garrison here. Yesterday, they heard that Han troops were crossing the Jinshui River. The number was as high as 40,000. The tribesmen were frightened and came to ask for advice. Only he forced it.
He reprimanded his subordinates and said: "We rebelled against the imperial court and went south to kill our fathers and brothers and neglect our children. We killed many famous people and destroyed their clothes. It was useless. Now the situation between the enemy and us is the same as water and fire, and we are enemies. You
When you come here to ask for advice, are you planning to surrender as a sacrifice of the city?"
"If our army returns and surrenders, Shanyu will be trapped in two mountains, unable to move forward, and will seek death if we retreat. We will be surrounded and killed by the Han army, and the Xiongnu elite will be wiped out. We will be like a wolf dog with its claws cut off. It should be noted that the seven Han soldiers
There are only seven thousand of us who are twice as many as me. Do you think that the Han army is all saints? Now I occupy a strong city and occupy an important place. All I need is for you to work together, stand firm and wait for reinforcements, defeat the Han army, and achieve complete victory soon!
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All the Huyans in the Huyan tribe felt sad and had no luck, so they each led their troops to prepare for war. After sending six envoys out of the city to ask for help, Huyan worked with his tribe in Ledu all night. At Yinshi, he and his tribe were leaning on the gate tower.
He fell into a deep sleep, and when the sentry woke him up, Liu Bei's front camp was only three hundred feet away from him. When he opened his eyes, he saw the cloud-patterned flying tiger flag, which was being blown by the strong wind from the northern grasslands. It's the north wind! Liu Bei's heart trembled, and he immediately ordered no fire arrows today. He let Yu Du frighten the defenders as planned.
Yu Du happily agreed and ordered his younger brother Yu Feng to go out. Yu Feng rode six carriages with crimson muzzles, and fifty fine cavalry guarded them. They all held Zhang Xu's hooked halberds and three-pronged spears, which penetrated five double layers.
The armor was combined, and the majesty was very great. Yu Feng stood under his command, waving the Han flag in his hand, and Su Kelan's head rolled like a honeycomb on the head of the pole. The Xiongnu tribesmen on the wall all felt sad and mourned for themselves, but instead aroused their fighting spirit and rushed to the pole.
Yu Feng draws his bow and shoots an arrow.
Yu Feng was thirty feet away from the city at this time. Most of the arrows missed and only a few hit the cap. Yu Feng was not injured at all, but seven or eight of his guards died in front of him. The horses were startled, and there were actually three of them.
The horse broke free from the reins and rushed into the Montenegrin army formation, causing a commotion among the soldiers.
When Liu Bei saw the Black Mountain bandits jostling and scolding each other, he sighed in his heart: They are just a mob after all. In such a situation, only by taking the lead and gaining the upper hand can these people make a difference.
Upon thinking of this, Liu Bei immediately ordered Zhang Fei to lead a thousand soldiers to form a circular formation and cover the ladder to the city wall. Zhang Fei did not hesitate, ordered his troops and horses, raised the wooden pillars he had made last night, and placed fifty soldiers on top.
They formed a formation and marched quickly towards the foot of Jinyang City. Although arrows were raining down on their heads, the Huns soldiers were helpless and could only watch the Han troops under the city transport the ladders to the city like duckweeds.
Huyan Yuledu restrained his emotions at this time and patrolled back and forth among his troops. He saw that many of the residents were unbearable and anxious and wanted to roll down the hot oil. He hurriedly persuaded them one by one: "Now the clothes of the Han army are all wet, and they are in a state of disgrace."
It is definitely not the right time to pour oil after the wooden rafts. Now that the rising sun is shining, it is better to wait for another two hours, when the clothes are dry and the people are dry, it will definitely work wonders!"
Liu Bei also sent people who were good at shooting at the rear to exchange fire with the barbarians on the city. He ordered the Black Mountain bandits to build a mountain of earth thirty feet away in front of the city. Just by shooting against the wind, 34 out of 10 barbarians in the Han army were barbarians, and 10 out of 10 barbarians were Han.
Ninety-eight times out of ten, more than two hundred soldiers were injured in just one hour.
Fortunately, Zhang Fei set up the ladder at this time, and the Huyan tribe had to devote its energy to fighting the climbers, which gave the Han army archers a little breather. Unexpectedly, not long after the ladder was set up, eight or nine people climbed on it.
It was so difficult to set up the ladder that it collapsed on the spot. All the soldiers on the ladder fell down and crushed several waiting soldiers. Four or five people died in an instant.
The knowledgeable soldiers of the Han army discussed one after another: Our generals have never conquered the four-foot-long city, so how can they build a ladder to climb Jinyang? At this point, the morale of the army gradually declined. Liu Bei, Lu Bu and others were speechless.
We can only hold on to the horse's reins tightly and summon the soldiers back to the formation to regroup in vain.
Just as the order was being issued, Huyan Yuledu hurriedly ordered four jars of hot oil to be poured into the crowded area under the city wall. Wherever the oil passed, there was a sizzling sound. The Han soldiers screamed in agony, and fried food floated in the wind.
The smell of meat, striking while the iron is hot, Huyan and Yuledu threw down the firewood for boiling the hot oil. The hot oil ignited immediately when it hit the firewood. Under the howling north wind, the wooden rafters, ladders, and leather armor all burst into flames.
As a result, the screams of the Han army gradually turned into howls, hoarse and shaking people's hearts.
When Liu Bei finally gathered his scattered soldiers, he looked at the smoke and bones under Jinyang City. His throat was choked for a while and he couldn't say a word.