I'm busy, so I'll post a single chapter in the evening for the second update.
I just came back from seeing a client and haven’t coded it yet. After reading the book review, I was convinced.
Some people say that the losses in defending the city were more than others. I said that I carefully considered this when I wrote this paragraph, just to prevent others from not understanding it, so I wrote it very clearly from beginning to end, but in the end I still couldn’t understand it.
It has been 4 months since the Battle of Ha Ching.
In the first stage, Xia Army's main attack was against Zhang Shensi.
During the attack on three strongholds in Heqing County, 11,000 people were lost and 5,000 Bian troops were wiped out.
In the second stage, the Bian army increased its troops and the Xia soldiers took the lead.
The defense of the city lasted for more than a month, with Xia's army losing 6,000 people and Bian's army losing 15,000.
Flank Huaizhou battlefield: Xia army lost 500, and Bian army lost 2,000.
Just like this, someone can actually think that the defense of the city has suffered more losses than others?
Some people also talked about Yang Xingmi. In fact, he had played against him before, but he avoided talking about how Yang Xingmi won the Qingkou battle. Maybe he was a fan of Yang Xingmi.
1. When the Battle of Qingkou broke out: December 897.
2. General background
(1) In October 894, Zhang Jian, the governor of Sizhou, surrendered to Yang Xingmi. At the end of that year, Yang Xingmi sent people to Bianzhou to sell tea and was detained. This was the cause of the deterioration of the relationship between the two parties...
(2) In the first month of 895, Yang Xingmi took advantage of Zhu Quanzhong's main force in Shandong and suddenly sent troops north to attack and occupy Haozhou and Shouzhou. He also sent troops to plunder the neighboring areas. At the same time, he attacked Duhong, Zhu Quanzhong's vassal in Ezhou, and the relationship between the two parties officially broke down.
(3) Zhu Quanzhong sent his adopted son Zhu Yougong to lead an army of 10,000 people south to rescue Du Hong, and defeated the Huainan soldiers in Huangzhou. "At that time, the Huai bandits occupied Huangzhou, and Yougong captured its wall, captured the bandit general Qu Zhang, and captured and killed thousands of people."
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(4) In 897, Zhu Xuan was defeated and killed. Zhu Jin, Shi Yan, Li Chengsi and others went south to join Yang Xingmi.
(5) After the two towns of Tianping and Taining were destroyed, Zhu Quanzhong decided to consume miscellaneous names. In September of that year (897), he ordered the southern expedition to Yang Xingmi.
3. The war breaks out
Bian army strength:
(1) There are 70,000 people in the ancient tribe of Pangshi, composed of "Xu, Su, Hua, and Song soldiers", that is, Xuzhou surrender troops + Hu Zhen's Huazhou regiment on the second mountain of Bianjun army + Songzhou troops.
(2) Ge Congzhou's 10,000 troops were composed of "Yan, Yun, Cao, and Pu soldiers", which were the surrendered troops of the Zhu brothers who had just been recruited.
(3) In fact, there was a third route. Zhu Quanzhong led his own army to sit in Suzhou to support the two routes.
In fact, it is obvious that Zhu Quanzhong led the main force of the direct line of the Bian Army, stationed in Suzhou.
Pang Shigu led part of his direct lineage (Songzhou soldiers), plus Huazhou soldiers who had a hint of mountainousness in the Bian military system, plus Xuzhou surrender troops. Ge Congzhou led more fresh and warm surrender troops.
Zhu Quanzhong's elite main force served as a reserve force and did not go out to fight. He drove a mixed group of 80,000 people southward. It is unclear what the purpose was.
When Cao Cao marched south, the composition of his troops was: direct lineage + troops surrendered by Hebei + troops surrendered by Jingzhou. Isn't it very similar?
Huai army strength:
(1) 30,000 "returners from the north", mainly Sun Ru's surrendered troops, including 5,000 Heiyun Changjiandu composed of strong surrendered troops;
(2) The governor's soldiers under Yang Xingmi are relatively scattered and distributed in various places, about 20,000 to 30,000.
(3) Zhu Jin, Shi Yan, and Li Chengsi brought less than 10,000 troops, mainly cavalry.
war process
At first, Pang Shigu advanced rapidly. He fought several small battles and won them all. He plundered a large amount of goods and obtained more than 100,000 cattle.
"When Taizu of Liang Dynasty crossed the Huaihe River, his soldiers plundered hundreds of thousands of cattle from the people. Taizu of Liang Dynasty gave them all to the people of the various states and paid rent tax. This lasted for more than sixty years. As time passed and generations changed, the cattle rent still existed, and the people suffered."
After arriving at Qingkou, Yang Xingmi launched a navy defense and Pang Shigu set up camp.
Qingkou is low-lying and located at the intersection of the Sishui River and the Huaihe River. Some people advised Pang Shigu that this place was easily flooded and that he should camp somewhere else, but Pang Shigu refused to listen.
Later, the scouts discovered that the Huai army had built a dam upstream to block the water, and wanted to attack by water. After reporting back, Pang Shigu thought that he had disturbed the morale of the army, so he beheaded the scouts.
After the Huai army launched a water attack, someone reported to Pang Shigu that the water was coming this way and how long it would take to order the soldiers to retreat, but Pang Shigu refused to listen.
We all know the outcome later. Floods flooded the Bianjun camp, and 70,000 people shivered in the freezing winter water. Yang Xingmi took advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack. Pang Shigu was beheaded by Zhu Jin with 5,000 cavalry. The Bianjun army lost its command and fought independently. They were defeated.
And back.
In this battle, the Bian army directly lost more than 10,000 people.
But the matter was not over yet. On the way to escape, it suddenly snowed heavily, and many people in the Bian army froze to death.
The loss was more than 30,000 yuan.
4. The aftermath of the war
Although it was distressing to lose half of the 80,000-strong army, the Bian army was not injured. Zhu Quanzhong still led the main force of his direct lineage in Suzhou.
At this time, Yang Xingmi overestimated the combat effectiveness of his troops and took advantage of the situation to attack Xuzhou and was severely defeated.
The war is over.
Zhu Quanzhong led his troops north to attack the three states of Zhaoyi and bullied Li Keyong.
Yang Xingmi went home and continued to fight with Qian Liu.
(I will write about the Battle of Luzhou when I have time. Zhu Quanzhong changed commanders three times and everyone thought victory was certain. Li Cunxu paralyzed the enemy and took advantage of the heavy fog to make a sneak attack, causing the Bian army to lose more than 10,000 people.)