Four thousand people and horses galloped eastward like a gust of wind.
Each person carries thirty Hu cakes, a small amount of salted soybean paste and a bag of beans, and walks along the Liangjing Great Post Road.
Huazhou is known as the first state in Jingdong. It stretches from Chang'an in the west, to Luoyang and Taiyuan in the east, to Shangluo in the south, and to Yifang and Xia Sui in the north via Tongzhou. Therefore, there are many business travelers along the way, and there are also people who support the elderly and the young. Refugees flocked from Kanto to escape the war.
If Marshal Shao were here, he would have to pretend to say, without me, the people in Guanzhong would be fleeing at this time, and the people in Henan would have no way to escape, and they would all die on the side of the road.
Yang Hongwang was politically savvy, so he asked people to quickly notify the cavalry troops who were still behind to come and receive the refugees and send them to Huazhou Mahang for resettlement.
The commander-in-chief may not be happy if you win an insignificant battle, but if you save countless hungry people and send them to Lingxia and Hewei, the commander-in-chief will remember it in his heart. In the future, you will compete for a certain position. The two men have similar fighting achievements, and the commander's inclination can play a key role.
To the east of Huazhou, there are actually some garrisons. There are dozens to more than a hundred soldiers guarding Dongshiqiao, Han Shenyang Ancient City, Xingdejin, Yehuquandian, Yongfengcang, Weijin Pass, etc. .Well, they are more like tax collectors than town soldiers. They only stare at the merchants and ask for money, turning a blind eye to their murderous cavalry.
The imperial army in Guanzhong is so "weird". It's like a decoration. It doesn't matter who comes, it has nothing to do with them. You can wander around as you like, even if you go to the Daming Palace, it doesn't matter. We can live in peace.
Perhaps, Guo Zhang, the governor of Tongzhou who went out to fight Wang Chongrong more than two years ago and was ultimately defeated, was the last local general who still had some sense of responsibility, right?
It only took the Leopard Cavalry one day to reach Tongguan. They did not pass through Guancheng, but took the side road to enter Shaanzhou.
It is impossible to completely block the road in Guancheng.
If the defenders only dare to huddle in the city and dare not go out to fight, then this majestic and dangerous pass will lose its due role.
Because the enemy can calmly transport people and materials nearby, it is as if your barrier city does not exist. Of course, this is an extreme situation. Generally speaking, the soldiers guarding the city are not so useless, and the attacker cannot leave your barrier city alone. If you don't attack the city, you must at least send troops to defend it. This is what the art of war says. When you encounter a big city on the middle road, you must attack it or prepare for it.
There are not many defenders in Tongguan now, and they don't bother to pay attention to the Leopard Cavalry passing by. They are only interested in the passing businessmen, troops, refugees, whatever you like.
Yang Hongwang shook his head at these useless sergeants. From now on, if the king wants to seize all the land in Guanzhong, he must replace all the sergeants guarding Tongguan, otherwise it will be a road for anyone to pass at will.
On the evening of the seventh day of April, the troops rested on the outskirts of Wén Township (now Lingbao Township, Henan Province), thirty miles southeast of Tongguan.
Que Township is already one of the six counties in Guo Prefecture, and is only a hundred miles away from Hongnong County, the prefecture's administrative center. It is three miles away from the river to the north. There is a large-scale post station. There are many business travelers coming and going during the peacetime, making it a prosperous place. But in these turbulent times, all we see are refugees with their families.
In fact, Shaanxi and Guozhou cannot feed these refugees for a long time, and they must know it themselves. When Huang Chao was wreaking havoc in Henan, the people ran to Guanzhong, and it seems that Zhu Wen's wife ran to Tongzhou.
Yang Hongwang was young after all, and he couldn't bear to see the hardships of these people. However, they didn't bring much food with them, so they could only tell these people to go on and survive after passing Tongguan.
"General, someone from the horse shop wants to see you." Just as he was about to feed the horse some fodder and beans, someone suddenly came over to report.
"Let him come over." Yang Hongwang threw the horse to the soldiers and said.
"Tao Jiu of Ma Xing in Guozhou met General Yang."
"How many people are there in your horse shop? You can even discover the whereabouts of our Leopard Cavalry." Yang Hongwang smiled and said: "If Zhu Quanzhong and Li Keyong's soldiers and horses are so agile, I will be impressed."
"General Yang was joking. Ma Xing sent people nearby to see if they could gather the people. They happened to meet the general's men. They were discovered as soon as they arrived and were almost killed by the iron kites." Tao Jiu smiled sarcastically and said.
: "There have been too many people running over recently. The horse bank is short of manpower, and many people have been missed. We can only walk more along each road, and maybe we can gather another hundred or ten households."
"What's the situation in Luoyang now?"
"Zhang Quanyi made a sneak attack on Heyang and captured Li Han's family. Li Han was furious and attacked with a large army. Zhang Quanyi was defeated repeatedly. Now he can only stay in the city and resist with all his strength. The walls of Luoyang are in ruins. Without foreign troops,
Rescue and collapse are a matter of time."
It should be said that the early relationship between Zhang Quanyi and Li Hanzhi was relatively good. After Sun Ru retreated, the two occupied Henan Prefecture and Heyang Town, and took refuge with Li Keyong. Li Keyong represented him as the leader of Henan Province respectively.
Yin and Heyang's military governor, Marshal Shao, also named Zhang Quanyi as Henan Yin.
Li Hanzhi was a warrior in troubled times and had great ambitions. After he gained a foothold, he began to plot the wealthy Hezhong.
Li Hanzhi only had a few thousand soldiers in total, but he liked gambling and had the ferocity of a desperado. He gathered all his troops and attacked Jiangzhou. Wang Youyu, the governor of Jiangzhou, could not resist, so he simply surrendered.
After taking Jiangzhou, Li Hanzhi coerced Ding Zhuang into joining the army and attacked Jinzhou. Hezhong Jiedushi Wang Chongying led his army to fight with them and curbed the offensive of these cannibals. At the same time, he tried to contact Zhang Quanyi and planned to attack Li Han from a flank.
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Originally it was impossible for this to happen. Li and Zhang became allies and brothers, supporting each other and showing extraordinary affection.
But Li Hanzhi was distracted, and his attitude towards Zhang Quanyi gradually became bad. Not only did he frequently ask for food and grass, exceeding the supply capacity of Henan Prefecture, he also whipped and scolded the officials of Henan Prefecture, treating them completely as subordinates.
Zhang Quanyi looked calm and ingratiating.
Li Hanzhi called him a "useless farmer", and he did it.
Because the supply of food and grass was not sufficient, Li Hanzhi sent people to arrest the officials of Henan Prefecture and tortured them in public. Zhang Quanyi also kept himself low, tried to comfort them, and then tried his best to provide food and grass.
Just like a masochist!
But when Wang Chongying's envoy arrived in Luoyang, Zhang Quanyi took action. He gathered troops from several surrounding counties and took advantage of the favorable opportunity when Li Hanzhi's main force was in Jin and Jiangzhou to attack Heyang at night. Li Hanzhi was unprepared.
, fled in embarrassment and climbed over the wall, but his family were all captured and suffered a big loss.
Zhang Quanyi's military ability was finally weak. After Li Hanzhi returned to the army, he immediately counterattacked. Zhang was defeated and retreated to Henan Prefecture. He was defeated again, and in the end he could only rely on the dilapidated Luoyang City to hold on.
Wang Chongying was also not interesting enough. After Li Hanzhi's main force went south, he only calmly attacked the remaining troops of Li Army in an attempt to regain the lost ground, but did not send troops to rescue Zhang Quanyi.
Co-writing means that an honest person suffers! Being betrayed by two allies one after another, Zhang Quanyi's mood at this time must be very unusual.
"Didn't the Xuanwu Army rescue Zhang Quanyi?"
"It is true that Zhang Quanyi sent his wife to Bianzhou as a hostage to ask for help from Zhu Quanzhong. But after Zhu Quanzhong sent out troops, he found that he could play a big game, so he left Zhang Quanyi and attacked Huaizhou northward, trying to go north to occupy Ze, Lu
, cut off the return route of Li Keyong's army." Tao Jiu said: "Kang Junli has 7,000 cavalry, while Ding Hui has more than 30,000 cavalry, and there are also many cavalry. The situation is difficult to control. Recently, Kang went crazy in Heyang.
, Zelu recruited Ding Zhuang to try to block the Xuanwu Army."
"It's all Li Keyong's own trouble." Yang Hongwang, an arrogant young man, was very disdainful of Li Keyong's incredible operations and said: "In other words, when we enter Henan Prefecture, we won't meet anyone.
Did Li Ke use his troops?"
"The Hedong Army is currently in the area of Meng and Huai, and Zhu Quanzhong's main force is also advancing there. When we go to Henan Prefecture, we will only have Li Hanzhi's troops, and maybe some Qin Zongquan's troops."
"Qin Zongquan?" Yang Hongwang was stunned.
"Previously, Qin Zongquan fell into Zhengzhou. At that time, Zhu Quanzhong was fighting with the Zhu Xuan brothers and had no idea. After returning from Yunzhou, Zhu Quanzhong clashed with Wei Bo again, and Qin Zongquan was able to continue to occupy. This time he learned that there was a change in Heyang, and the Xuanwu Army
When the main force arrived, Qin Zongquan led his army south to Caizhou, but in Zhengzhou and Henan Prefecture, there were still many Cai soldiers wandering in the countryside, raping and plundering everywhere. We on the horse army were accidentally killed, and many of them were killed."
"These Cai people!" Yang Hongwang said angrily: "Let's rest here tonight, and tomorrow I will lead an army into Henan Prefecture. Where are you going to collect the refugees?"
"The nearest one is in Mianchi County."
"Mianchi is not close to Luoyang, right? Why not near Luoyang?" At this point, Yang Hongwang decisively stopped talking. Of course he didn't dare to talk nonsense!
Luoyang is now the core area of the war and the area with the most intense destruction, but it is also the area where Zhang Quanyi recruits the most densely populated refugees. Datong Mashi certainly knows that the closer to Luoyang, the easier it is to recruit people, but they do not have the strength, so what can they do.
"Let's rest first. I'm looking for two lieutenants to sum up."
On the eighth day of April, thousands of people from the Leopard Cavalry continued eastward. They passed through Pandouyi, Hucheng County, Choosangdian, Lingbao County, and Xindian to Shaanzhou, which took about a day and a half.
There is a branch of Datong Horse Racing in Shaanzhou, which covers a wide area. After many years of operation, it has a large number of employees, but most of them are not here at this time and have gone to the two refugee camps in Mianchi and Xin'an.
Most of the soldiers and horses in Shaanxi and Guo Town have been transferred north to the river. At this time, there are only more than 2,000 people in Shaanzhou City. The large influx of Leopard Cavalry made them a little panic, especially when news came from the west that there were about 5,000 more cavalry. Driving along the main road, I became more and more panicked.
If the shogunate hadn't sent word in advance that an army that was determined to be in trouble was going to cross the border, the people of each county might have been recruited to start a fight.
The Leopard Cavalry rested in the horse stable for half a day and one night. Early in the morning on the 11th day of the lunar month, after replenishing water, they continued along the main road. Passing through Shi County (xiá), Shihao Town (referred to in "Shihao Li") (place), Qianhao Town, Huguo Village, Tuhao, and arrived at a place called Nanguan in Mianchi County on the afternoon of the 12th. This is the refugee resettlement camp set up by Datong Horse.
At this moment, an infantry group of thousands of people was rapidly advancing towards the Mianchi camp.
The leading general's name was Li Duo, and he served under Li Han's tent in Heyang. They came here because they heard that there was food in Mianchi - yes, in a war-torn land, people are also "food".
After walking for three full days, the people Li Duo brought with him were almost out of meat and food. After seeing the dilapidated low wall of the South Hall from a distance, Li Duo breathed a sigh of relief, finally having something to eat.
"General, look!" Lieutenant General He Yi (yīn) galloped over on horseback, pointed at a small slope in the southwest, and said.
Li Duo put up a pergola with his hands and looked against the sunlight, only to see several horses standing on the soil slope.
The knights and horses were all wearing heavy armor, and under the sun, their whole bodies shone with silver light.
The helmet was very tight and his face could not be seen clearly. He was holding a long horse in his hand, standing there like a sculpture.
"This is..." Li Duo took a breath of air and swallowed subconsciously.
More than ten horses appeared on the slope, all wearing heavy armor.
Soon, like magic, dozens of riders appeared on both sides of the slope, and the number of people was still increasing slowly.
"Don't you come here for us?" Li Duo put down his right hand, his eyes almost unable to open due to the dazzling sunlight.
"General, they are moving!" He Wei suddenly screamed, and at the same time quickly drew out his horse's trunk, intending to meet the enemy.
It’s hard to fight in the sun!
"Let's go!" Li Duo also saw it clearly, but he didn't intend to fight. Instead, he took He Chen's horse's rein and walked away.
More than two hundred riders rushed out from both sides of the slope.
Their horses have a strong load-bearing capacity and seem to have good physical strength. They are constantly accelerating during the run.
The protection of their armor was very solid, and the horseshoes in their hands were even more chilly.
Scattered bows and arrows shot at his body, but they were all blocked by the heavy armor.
The horse's speed had reached its peak, and more than two hundred people were like silver axes, striking at them fiercely.
Like hitting rotten wood, debris will fly everywhere.
This battle is really no challenge to the Iron Kites.