Chapter 447 Qin and Yi merged with the state to come to help, Shicheng spied on Jiujiang
"Huang Chao is really cautious. He saw our army holding a banquet and didn't attack us secretly. He just watched helplessly."
At this moment, Qin Xu, who was sitting on the main seat, drank a glass of strong wine and said helplessly to the young scribe below, the military advisor Xi Zhicai.
"General, isn't this what you expected? After all, Huang Chao is Zhang Jiao's disciple, and he is also a wise man in the Yellow Turban Army, second only to my brother Su." Xi Zhicai also drank a glass of medicinal wine.
Knowing that Xi Zhicai likes to drink, and it can be said that he is not happy without alcohol, Wang Yu specially prepares this medicinal wine for him. In this way, even if he drinks, it will not cause any bad effects, but will be good for the body.
Qin Xu also smiled when he heard this. He really expected that Huang Chao would not be fooled, so he celebrated grandly. This was also to encourage the soldiers and people of Qingzhou to fight against the Yellow Turbans.
Of course, it would be better if Huang Chao came to attack at night. After all, Qin Xu also arranged for the general to set up an ambush, and he liked to be prepared for everything.
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"Report..."
Just as everyone was drinking and drinking, a messenger in black quickly ran into the tent and said anxiously: "Report to the prefect, there is news from Bingzhou that the lord has sent General Qin Yi to command 10,000 cavalry.
Heading south, we expect to arrive in Qingzhou soon."
When Qin Guang heard the words, he immediately stood up and said happily: "I didn't expect that my nephew would send my eldest brother here. With the addition of these ten thousand cavalry, we will be more confident in dealing with Huang Chao."
Qin Guang, Qin Xu's second son, is naturally a local figure. Although his ability is not as good as that of his elder brother Qin Yi, the gap is not much. Moreover, Qin Guang's internal affairs level is far higher than that of his elder brother Qin Yi.
It can be said that Qin Guang is a general similar to Li Wenzhong. When he mounts his horse, he can manage the army, and when he dismounts, he can calm the people. Qin Guang also takes a lot of credit for the development of Yanmen County to the point where it is now.
Qin Xu has three sons in total, the eldest son is Qin Yi, the second son Qin Guang, and the third son is Qin Chuan who is stationed at Yanmen. He is the most comprehensive among the three.
Not only is he highly skilled in martial arts, but his intelligence and internal affairs are also high. All his five-dimensional attributes have reached over 90, making him a hexagonal warrior.
When the generals in the hall heard that there were reinforcements and that the leader was the eldest son Qin Yi, they were all excited. After all, Qin Yi's ability was not inferior to that of his father.
Unlike the generals who were beaming with joy, Qin Xu, who was sitting in the main seat, had no expression on his face. He had been fighting on the battlefield for many years and had experienced countless intrigues.
A state of mind that remains unchanged.
Moreover, if even he revealed his inner thoughts to him, it would easily lead to the thought of underestimating the enemy. After all, the reinforcements coming this time were 10,000 cavalry.
"Why, you are so happy after the arrival of 10,000 reinforcements. After these days of frustration, have you forgotten that our opponent is the cunning fox-like Huang Chao. If he is not careful, he will die without a burial place.
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"Therefore, I hope you all can stay awake and don't get carried away because of these 10,000 reinforcements." Qin Xu said slowly, without any expression on his face.
When the generals saw that their eunuch was so calm, they felt ashamed in their hearts, and their originally impetuous hearts gradually calmed down.
Seeing that Qin Xu did not forget about the arrival of Bingzhou reinforcements, Xi Zhicai couldn't help but secretly nodded in his heart. He was indeed Ziying's grandfather. No wonder he could give birth to such excellent offspring.
Perhaps, this support army can be put to good use.
Just when the Yanzhou battlefield and the Qingzhou battlefield were in a stalemate, the Yangzhou battlefield in the southeast changed again.
After Zhang Shicheng successively captured one Wu County, half of Danyang County, and three counties in Kuaiji in Yangzhou, he did not choose to continue attacking these places, but instead attacked Jiujiang County.
Jiujiang County has fourteen counties under its jurisdiction. The original administrative seat was Yinling. However, Qian Daoji, who was the governor of Jiujiang at the time, concurrently served as the governor of Yangzhou, made Shouchun the county seat of Jiujiang and the administrative seat of Yangzhou.
If you want to attack Shouchun City, you must capture Liyang, which is close to the south bank of the Huaihe River. This is one of the gateways to Jiujiang County.
Zhang Shicheng's army is currently in Wuhu, Shicheng, Danyang City and other places in Danyang County.
Zhang Shicheng was originally in Wu County. The reason why he attacked the three counties of Kuaiji in the south and Danyang County in the west was to capture some Danyang people.
And this, we have to mention, a military unit that appeared in history hundreds of years ago.
That’s Danyang Bing!
At the beginning, Li Ling was able to fight against the Xiongnu's 80,000 elite soldiers with only 5,000 men, precisely because these 5,000 dead soldiers were elite soldiers from Danyang.
However, few people know that even with the bravery of the Xiongnu cavalry, Shanyu was still frightened and almost retreated when faced with five thousand Danyang soldiers.
In the end, a traitor appeared under Li Ling, which made the Xiongnu Chanyu know that Li Ling was fighting alone without any reinforcements, so he dared to attack. It was evident that Danyang soldiers were good at fighting.
Moreover, even though the Danyang soldiers had no arrows, they still relied on the remaining two thousand elite soldiers to hold off tens of thousands of Huns cavalry, and fought to the death without reinforcements.
In the end, deputy commander Han Yannian died in the battle, and commander Li Ling was forced to surrender, leaving only 400 people withdrew to the pass. However, even in such a desperate battle, the Han army still achieved horrific results, killing thousands of Xiongnu.
It was precisely because of this performance that the Xiongnu Chanyu valued Li Ling particularly and wanted to recruit him to surrender.
In the original history, Yuan Shu, who dominated Huainan, once commented on Danyang as "this place is famous for its elite soldiers."
Perhaps many people don't know that the Baihuo Army that followed Liu Bei in his conquests was actually based on Tao Qian's Danyang Army.
For example, Sun Ce, who lost his base due to the death of his father Sun Jian in battle, even recruited 500 Danyang soldiers to join his uncle Wu Jing.
Later, Shen Ying, the prefect of Danyang of Wu State, led only more than 500 Danyang soldiers in the battle against Jin. They wore green scarves on their heads and only held giant hammers. They charged at the Jin army's positions several times and broke through the Jin army's strong defense.
The bravery of Danyang soldiers is frightening.
Although what happened later did not happen, Li Ling's case alone was enough to prove the terror of the Danyang soldiers.
Therefore, under the advice of military advisor Zhang Bianhe, Zhang Shicheng only captured the three counties of Kuaiji, which were closest to Wu County, and then gave up attacking Kuaiji and instead attacked Danyang.
The governor of Danyang in this era was Tao Qian, the governor of Xuzhou in original history.
According to the development of original history, Tao Qian still serves as Yilang now. However, this era is not the original historical period after all, because the development of Taiping Road is really amazing.
Tao Qian felt something was wrong, and Yang Ci and others wrote many times, requesting the Han Emperor to target Taiping Road, but in the end nothing happened.
Therefore, Tao Qian took the initiative to go abroad and served as the prefect of his hometown Danyang County. He also felt the power of military merit from Wang Chong.
His thoughts were somewhat similar to Qin Xu's. He felt that the Yellow Turban Army was just a bunch of bastards, a group of rabble, while the people of Danyang had strong folk customs and could form an army of their own with a little training.
Influenced by the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, many people think that Tao Qian is a loyal old man. In fact, this view is completely wrong. Not only is he not a loyal person, but he is a cunning and cunning person.
Moreover, although Tao Qian's military ability cannot be said to be strong, it is definitely not weak.
In the original history, in March of the second year of Zhongping, Beigong Boyu and others led the Qiang and Hu invaders to invade Sanfu. Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty sent Zuo Chaoqi General Huangfu Song to lead an army to attack.
Huangfu Song asked military generals to accompany him, and summoned Tao Qian to join him as Captain Yangwu to defeat the rebels. If Tao Qian did not have certain military capabilities, how could Huangfu Song, the most famous general in the empire, choose him.
In August of the fifth year of Zhongping, the Yellow Turbans resurrected in Qingzhou and Xuzhou and attacked counties. The imperial court appointed Tao Qian as the governor of Xuzhou to suppress the Yellow Turbans.
As soon as Tao Qian arrived in Xuzhou, he appointed Zang Ba, a Taishan native who fled to the East China Sea, and his fellow countryman Sun Guan as generals. As a result, the Yellow Turban Army was defeated in just one battle, and the remaining Yellow Turban Army was forced to flee Xuzhou.
It can be seen that Tao Qian's military ability is definitely not weak.
And this is also true. After Tao Qian arrived in Danyang County, he began to strengthen training. It took about a year to finally train an elite force.
It is precisely because of this army that Tao Qian has been able to persist under Zhang Shicheng until now. Danyang County has a total of sixteen counties, and there are eight counties in Tao Qian's hands.
It is precisely because Zhang Shicheng's goal has been achieved, and Tao Qian is also a hard nut to crack, that Zhang Shicheng personally led the army to attack Jiujiang County and capture Qian Daoji, the governor of Yangzhou.
Liyang City is the gateway to the south of Jiujiang. Only by capturing this city can Zhang Shicheng's hundreds of thousands of troops march straight into Jiujiang County.
Therefore, in order to capture Liyang City, Zhang Shicheng personally commanded an army of 130,000 people, with the invincible general Lu Gu of Jin Bor as the vanguard, and Lu Yong, Lu Meng, Yan Baihu and others as subordinate generals. They set out from the present Danyang City all the way to Liyang City. Kill him in Yangcheng.
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At the same time, Shouchun City.
Just when Zhang Shicheng's army was heading towards Liyang City, the battle report from the front was also sent to Qian Daoji.
"Everyone, please take a look. This is the battle report from the front. Yangzhou Yellow Turban thief Zhang Shicheng is now personally leading an army of 130,000 people to kill in the direction of Liyang." Qian Daoji looked at the generals in the army and said.
After hearing the news, the generals became uneasy immediately. After all, Liyang City is one of the gateways to Jiujiang County.
Nowadays, most of Xuzhou is still in the hands of the Han army. Only the Xiapi and Pengcheng states are raging with the Yellow Turban Army. However, under the joint efforts of the two brothers Wang Rui and Wang Dian, they can only retreat steadily. There is no such thing. With great energy, he led the army to attack Shouchun.
Under such circumstances, Zhang Shicheng wanted to attack Shouchun. Only by capturing Liyang could he lead his army north to attack Shouchun, or advance eastward from Runan County.
However, the current battlefield in Yuzhou has not yet been declared over. Most of the main force of the Yellow Turban Army is still concentrated in Yingchuan, preparing to eliminate the last Han army in Yuzhou. Therefore, the west of Jiujiang County is not affected for the time being.
Now, as long as Liyang is preserved, there will be no problems in Jiujiang.
After figuring out the key point, Qian Daoji personally led 30,000 troops south to Liyang, leaving General Lu Xida to garrison.
Lu Xida, a famous general in the Nanchen period and a famous filial son, was the son of Lu Yizhi, the prefect of Yiyang.
During the Southern Liang Dynasty, the successor king of Nanping (Xiao Ke) started his career and joined the army. After the Pinghou Jing Rebellion, he surrendered to Emperor Yuan of Liang and was awarded the rank of Disciple Rider and the Governor of Beijiang Prefecture.
After Emperor Jing of Liang came to the throne, the Northern Qi Dynasty sent Murong Shaozong to Taipei with an army of 30,000 to attack the towns of Yukou. The soldiers were very aggressive. Lu Xida fought with him and defeated the Qi army in Taipei. Murong Shaozong had to escape to save his life.
Just this one battle was enough for him to be ranked Silver. After all, his opponent was Murong Shaozong, the famous martial arts general.
However, because of this, Lu Xida was feared by the general Wang Lin. Wang Lin wanted to plot to attack Nanjing eastward, but Lu Xida was guarding the middle stream of the Yangtze River, so she was worried that he would become an obstacle to her advance, so she repeatedly sent envoys to lure her. Recruit.
However, Lucida did not choose to obey in the end.
Wang Lin could not go east, so she joined forces with the Qi people to look after and support each other. The Qi people sent Gao Yue, king of Qinghe, to help Wang Lin. The two sides were in a stalemate for more than a year. When they happened to encounter the guilty general Mei Tianyang and others who were afraid of punishment, they led The Qi army attacked the city.
Lu Xida led thousands of troops to cross the Yangtze River and surrendered to Chen Baxian.
After the establishment of the Chen Dynasty, Lu Xida served as the governor of Beijiang Prefecture, was conferred the title of Marquis of Pengze County, and moved to Wuzhou as the governor.
Faced with the death of her mother, Lu Xida was ultimately overly sad and died of illness at home at the age of thirty-eight. She was awarded the title of General Anzuo, the governor of Jiangzhou, and the posthumous title of Xiao.
It is worth mentioning that Lu Xida and Lu Su were of the same clan in this life. Lu Su was born in a noble family in the late Han Dynasty. His family was well-off and he was a prominent local family. Naturally, the same was true for Lu Xida.
When Lu Su was eight years old, because his father died early, he was raised by his grandmother's side. At this time, Lu Xida, who was of the same clan as him, heard about this and started to express his displeasure to Lu Su, his nephew of the same clan.
Provide financial support.
Because of this, he developed a philanthropic character.
Although Lu Su is only twelve years old now, he is already studying with a little adult, and he is now studying with Lu Xida.
Since the governor Qian Daoji led the army southward, only Lu Xida, the Jiujiang commander, was the largest in the entire Jiujiang County. After the governor Qian Daoji left, he immediately arranged defenses to prepare for emergencies.
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As for Qian Daoji, after receiving the news from Liyang, he immediately commanded an army of 30,000 and quickly supported Liyang.
Shouchun is not close to Liyang, covering more than three to four hundred miles. If we travel on dry roads, even if we march in a hurry, it will be difficult to reach the destination without five or six days of effort.
Therefore, after some thought, Qian Daoji decisively chose to take the water route. If nothing unexpected happened, he could reach Liyang in three days.
Liyang guard general Jin Chengwu was Qian Daoji's confidant. He was not only highly skilled in martial arts, but also had the ability to lead. Even if Zhang Shicheng's troops pressed the enemy, Jin Chengwu would be able to hold on for about three to five days.
As long as the reinforcements arrived in time, Zhang Shicheng had no choice but to retreat.
