In the spring of the twelfth year of Daye, King Junlin of Qin'an sent his general Wei Dao'er to lead the Steel Knife Battalion of the Far East Army. They marched thousands of miles and defeated the notorious bandit Zhang Jincheng and his group at the junction of Shandong and Henan.
During the war, more than 70,000 enemies were killed, and only one prisoner was captured, the murderer Zhang Jincheng.
After Zhang Jinsheng was escorted to Hebei, Wang Junlin executed Zhang Jinsheng in front of thousands of people with the most cruel punishment of being cut into pieces with a thousand knives.
Zhang Jinsheng had been entrenched in the Hebei area for a long time and caused many harms to the people of Hebei. Therefore, the people of Hebei clapped their hands and cheered, and rushed forward to eat Jinshen's meat.
And after Zhang Jinsheng was killed by a thousand cuts, it was also the summer of the twelfth year of Daye.
Today's Sui Dynasty has fully entered the era of great competition for power. The situation in the world is gradually becoming clearer and no longer so chaotic.
Wagangzhai in Henan Province in the Central Plains has become a dominant family. What is a bit ridiculous is that the left-behind imperial court led by the emperor's eldest grandson in Luoyang, the capital of the Sui Dynasty, and tens of thousands of regrouped soldiers became the key to Wagangzhai's complete unification of the Central Plains.
The last obstacle that needed to be cleared on the road was, of course, related to the fact that the person who commanded these tens of thousands of soldiers was Wang Shichong. He was also a powerful character. After Yang Guang led most of the imperial court to Yangzhou, he was able to quickly stabilize the situation in Luoyang and stabilize the situation in Luoyang.
Wang Shichong played an important role in controlling several counties around Luoyang.
The Hedong area has been completely controlled by the Li Yuan Group. Li Yuan wanted to expand to Mayi County and Pingliang County in the northwest, but was blocked by Mayi County. Only then did he realize that the group of horse thieves who occupied Mayi County turned out to be ruthless, and they were beaten
After several battles, Li Yuan's men failed to win a favor.
Although Wang Junlin kept it a secret, Li Yuan's group gradually realized that the group of horse thieves who occupied Mayi County were related to Wang Junlin.
Luo Yi, who was on the border of Youzhou to the east of Hedong, had a hundred thousand soldiers and horses, who were also Wang Junlin's people. In this way, Li Yuan found that he was unknowingly sandwiched between Wang Junlin's people.
It can only expand and develop southward to Shanxi and Guanzhong.
Then there was Zhu Can, who was even more ferocious than Zhang Jincheng, but he occupied the wealthy Jingxiang land. Unfortunately, over the past few years, it had become a deserted land thousands of miles away.
In Jiangnan, except Yangzhou,
In addition to the part of the territory controlled by Guang, Lin Shihong's family was the dominant one. In history, at the end of this year, he would proclaim himself emperor in Yuzhang, the country would be named Chu, and Jianyuan Taiping would be established.
In addition, in Shandong, Hexi, Guanzhong, Sichuan and Sichuan, there are still large and small rebel armies and Sui armies. Not to mention the rebel armies, but the Sui army itself is also very complex, and neither listens to the court nor listens to propaganda.
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Zhai Rang and Li Mi of Wagangzhai obviously did not want to destroy Luoyang and become the key target of the imperial court, nor did they want to arouse the vigilance of Wang Junlin and Li Yuan prematurely, so they focused their expansion on Shandong.
However, Shandong was guarded by veteran generals Zhang Xutuo and Qin Qiong, who refused to give in. The two led Shandong County soldiers to hold off the massive Wagang Army.
For a time, the two sides fought endlessly, and the entire world's eyes were focused on the border of Shandong.
Although Zhang Xutuo is powerful, the military strength of the counties in Shandong is limited. What's more, Zhang Xutuo is only the governor of Xingyang County, not even the governor of one of the seven counties in Shandong. The troops he can control are really limited.
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Even with the assistance of powerful generals like Qin Qiong, they were gradually exhausted. There were fewer and fewer soldiers and horses. Local officials and aristocratic families were also trying to make trouble, and food and grass were becoming increasingly scarce.
Wang Junlin ordered Luo Shixin to lead the Tornado Battalion and be ready to fight at any time. However, in order to prevent Zhang Xutuo from misunderstanding and being distracted, he could not enter in advance. Fortunately, Wang Junlin had already occupied Donglai County and Gaoxuan County in Shandong. From here
Starting from the two counties, the cavalry is only a day's journey away.
Even though Wang Junlin ordered people from the Military Intelligence Bureau to remind Zhang Xutuo and Qin Qiong in a clever way, just like in history, the Xingyang County soldiers led by the two still fell into Li Mi's trap and fell into the trap of hundreds of thousands of Wagang troops.
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Wang Junlin had been plotting against Zhang Xutuo and Qin Qiong for a long time. Naturally, he could not let the two of them go to Wagang Village as happened in history. One died in battle and the other was deceived by Li Mi.
Just when Zhang Xutuo and Qin Qiong were fighting hard for a day and night, and were about to be annihilated, Wang Junlin personally led the whirlwind battalion cavalry to suddenly attack, easily tearing a hole in the encirclement of Wagang Army, and killed Zhang Xutuo, Qin Qiong and
More than 4,000 remaining soldiers were rescued.
However, Zhang Xutuo didn't know if he wanted to die, so he
However, in order to save his subordinates who were trapped in the encirclement, he led others to kill them.
Wagangzhai has Xu Shiji who is only half as good as Li Jing in history. He has trained troops and coordinated the army. The combat power cannot be underestimated. Moreover, this time more than 100,000 cavalry were dispatched. Wang Junlin only brought 20,000 cavalry.
, but did not want to lose too many men and horses for Zhang Xutuo, so it was impossible to accompany Zhang Xutuo, and he only rescued Qin Qiong and other three thousand remaining soldiers at the last moment.
Wagangzhai learned that Wang Junlin had arrived in person for the Far East Army. Although there were only 20,000 troops, they were too frightened to pursue Wang Junlin and allowed Wang Junlin to rescue Qin Qiong and the three thousand remaining soldiers.
Wang Junlin had mixed feelings about Zhang Xutuo.
Perhaps Zhang Xutuo was tired of his many years of fighting bandits. The more banditry he suppressed, the more bones he saw exposed in the wild, and the sight of no roosters crowing for thousands of miles, which made him feel discouraged. Of course, it might also be that he was too proud.
I can't bear a failure.
In any case, in the autumn of the twelfth year of Daye, Zhang Xutuo, who had a chance to escape, died in battle while serving as Tongshou in Xingyang. His death was full of tragic heroism.
In Wang Junlin's view, there is no need to say more about this person's merits and demerits, nor to give him too high a rating. In fact, he is just a burial object of the Sui Dynasty when the sun sets in the west.
But to Qin Qiong, Zhang Xutuo was both a teacher and a friend. It was Zhang Xutuo who set an example and taught him the responsibilities that a general should shoulder. It was Zhang Xutuo who patiently taught him how to gain the support of his soldiers.
Zhang Xutuo is a model of military generals, Zhang Xutuo is the pillar of the Sui Dynasty, and Zhang Xutuo protects the homes of hundreds of thousands of people in Shandong with an iron shoulder.
But Zhang Xutuo died in battle, and his death was unclear...
Zhang Xutuo, who was the general of Shangzhu Kingdom and the doctor of Zuo Guanglu, actually committed suicide in order to rescue his subordinates. The news spread to Yangzhou. Pei Shiju, Yu Shiji and others looked at each other and could not believe that Zhang Xutuo had obviously died.
He was rescued by Wang Junlin, but he had to die.
Instead, Yang Guang shed a few tears for the veteran who was most loyal to him, and decreed that Zhang Xutuo would be rewarded heavily for his posthumous achievements, and his son would also be rewarded heavily.