It was just dawn, and most of the soldiers in the Jizhou rebel camp had not yet gotten up.
Except for a few soldiers patrolling and standing guard, only a few people in the ordinary soldiers' camps got up to wash up, because they were the next batch of people standing guard.
It's just sunrise now, which is between 5 and 7 o'clock. Although the Han people work at sunrise and rest at sunset, going to bed early and getting up early is a good habit of agricultural civilization.
However, it is very important to maintain good physical strength when marching and fighting, and the spirit of fighting is tense, so the soldiers are given a good rest. Generally, the soldiers are not woken up until after sunrise, that is, after 7 o'clock.
It's only six o'clock in the morning, the sky has just dawned, and the morning mist is floating in the mountains and forests of April in late spring. The gentle breeze is blowing, rippling the mountains and forests, and the branches and leaves are making a rustling sound.
The early birds were flying around in the forest, constantly crowing, almost hoarse at the top of their lungs, and the entire Jizhou rebel camp was boiling in an instant.
"Enemy attack!"
The secret whistle hidden in the forest dutifully gave out its last scream before having its throat cut.
Chen Mu frowned. The quality of the rebel army formed by the powerful men was indeed more than twice as strong as that of the Yellow Turban Army. There were exposed posts and hidden sentries everywhere in the mountains and forests, making them impossible to guard against and impossible to attack by surprise.
"Discovered."
Zhang Fei came over with an eight-point steel spear and asked: "Fourth brother, what should I do? Should I go into the city to find my elder brother first, or should I kill him?"
A fierce look appeared on Chen Mu's eyebrows: "Now that we have been discovered, we will not stop doing anything to kill him."
Zhang Fei said with great joy: "My spear has been thirsty for a long time."
Guan Yu's phoenix eyes were actually the same as Li Ronghao's. He tried his best to open his eyes wide and said: "Why don't you give the big brother a signal first and let him send troops to rush together?"
Chen Mu shook his head and said: "The rebel soldiers are still resting, and my eldest brother's soldiers are also resting. When my eldest brother is ready to go, the rebels will definitely be alert, and they will miss the best time. It is better to attack now, as for my eldest brother,
Bian will soon notice and lead his troops out of the city."
"It makes sense, then attack."
Guan Yu urged his horses, waved his long sword, and roared: "Kill!"
"kill!"
Tens of thousands of people emerged from the mountains and forests, shouting in unison.
The Jizhou rebels' camp was not built at the foot of the mountain. After all, they were not stupid enough to follow the example of Bocai and build a camp based on grass.
The geographical location is east of Yewang City, at the foot of Taihang Mountain, about three miles away from Yewang City and one mile away from Taihang Mountain. It is a plain and open space, and the location is pretty good.
Because of this, when the secret whistle hidden in the mountains and forests made a cry, other secret whistles in the nearby mountains and forests beat gongs and drums one after another, and at the foot of the mountain outside the camp, there were also patrolling soldiers, who quickly reported the situation.
Arrive at the camp.
For a time, although the entire Jizhou rebel camp was not in chaos, under the urging of officers at all levels, they quickly got up from the bed in a panic, put on their armor, picked up their weapons, and quickly got out of the tent.
As the sound of ping-ping war drums and horns echoed, in several camps that were horns with each other, groups of soldiers emerged from behind the crenellations of the rammed-earth village walls, bows unsheathed, and armored leaves were everywhere.
There were clashing sounds, anxious and angry urgings, and uniform shouts.
Min Chun rushed out of the camp and asked the people around him: "What happened."
"The secret post was attacked by an enemy. There is an enemy attack."
"All troops on alert."
"only."
When the officer next to him went to convey the order, the trial officer over there also came over.
Seeing him, Min Chun immediately said: "The situation is not good, the secret post was attacked, and someone attacked us."
Shen Pei had just slept for less than an hour. He was still a little dazed, but he still cheered up and said: "How is it possible? Where did the army and soldiers come from to attack us?"
Henan Yin Liu Bei's army is still in Yewang City, but I heard that Liu Bei's sworn brother Jinan Lieutenant Guan Yu and Qi State Lieutenant Zhang Fei arrived with reinforcements from Qingzhou, but yesterday Zhang and Geng Wu had already gone to intercept.
Moreover, even if Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's troops bypassed Huai County on the Taihang Mountains and advanced rapidly, covering three days' journey in one day, they would not be able to get out of the mountains behind them.
The only possibility is that either Liu Bei sent troops from Yewang City to sneak into the mountains, or Zhang He and Geng Wu were defeated...
Both of them thought of this possibility and looked at each other, full of disbelief.
Min Chun shook his head to get rid of this fantasy thought from his mind, and made a decisive decision: "Now is not the time to talk about this. The main thing is to quickly rectify the troops and horses to meet the enemy."
"exactly."
The judge nodded in agreement, and the two got on their horses. Surrounded by many servants, they immediately commanded the military officers sent by the powerful families and ordered them to fight.
The components of the Jizhou rebels are composed of powerful people, aristocratic families, and clans who own a large amount of land from all over Jizhou.
These people's private soldiers are not under the control of Shen Pei and Min Chun. They belong to the nature of a joint army. Shen Pei and Min Chun only serve as commanders, and the actual controllers of the soldiers are representatives of each family.
For example, although the soldiers and horses of the Chen family in Xiapi were not Chen Gui and Chen Deng in person, they sent Chen Deng's younger brother Chen Ying. Chang Lin in Hanoi did not come either, but Chang Lin's uncle Cui Qinghe came.
At home, Cui Yan and Cui Lin were naturally not here, and it was also one of their clan uncles who came.
These are the middle and high-level generals. Each of them can command an army of one or two thousand, or three to five thousand. There are far more than a dozen powerful people in Jizhou. Those who can send three to five thousand people are already top-notch families, and more are
Ordinary tycoons can only send out hundreds of people.
For example, the Zhang family of Puyin who was killed by Chen Mu at the time had an area of tens of thousands of acres but only had more than a thousand slaves. Compared with the top tyrants like Mi Zhu who occupied hundreds of thousands of acres and had thousands of slaves.
It's not even close.
Under the urging of Shen Pei and Min Chun, many powerful generals ordered their soldiers to form formations. Before they could leave the camp, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's army had already reached the entrance of the camp.
After all, it was only a mile away. From the time he was discovered to the short distance of four to five hundred meters, it only took three to five minutes to rush all the way and disperse the defensive patrols along the way. This period of time was just enough to set up camp.
The soldiers inside had to get up, put on their clothes and pick up their weapons, but they were not given time to form effective formations.
What's more critical is that the enemy launched the attack from the direction of Taihang Mountain behind them. The crossbows arranged on the camp towards the direction of Yewang City could hardly play any role. They had no choice but to rush out from the gate of the camp at the rear to meet the enemy.
The two torrents soon collided with each other. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei took the lead, fighting everywhere, and strangled the Jizhou rebels near the entrance of the camp. However, Shen Pei and Min Chun responded well, and a steady stream of soldiers were coming out, even if Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were fighting.
Fei's men were all elite men, but it was difficult to break into the camp in a short period of time.
"It's not good, the officers and soldiers in Yewang City have also been killed."
At this time, a spy reported to the judge, Minchun.
Shen Pei's face darkened: "It came really fast."
Min Chun immediately said: "Let Sun Hua lead people to defend the city wall."
This Sun Hua was the leader of the Sun family in Bohai. It is worth mentioning that he was also one of the ancestors of Sun Zi, a later Wei official, and Sun Kang who read Yingxue in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Sun Zi was Sun Hua's grandson.
Later, Yuan Shao started in Bohai and after occupying Jizhou, he exploited many powerful people in Jizhou, so the Sun family moved to Bingzhou, which is also the origin of the Sun family in Pingyao.
Sun Hua took the order and went up to the walled city with the soldiers and horses of the Sun family and some ordinary and powerful soldiers and horses.
In the distance, I saw a massive army of officers and soldiers coming towards Yewang City.
A large flag was erected at the front with the word "Liu" written on it. It was Liu Bei, Yin and Liu Bei of Han Dynasty. He was surrounded by a thousand cavalry. Behind him, dust and smoke billowed, and ten thousand officers and soldiers came like a tide.
, as if carrying the power of thousands of troops.
"Shoot the crossbow!"
Sun Hua gave an order, and the huge bed crossbows on the wall made a creaking sound. Along with dozens of bed crossbows, there were iron-tipped crossbow arrows as thick and long as tree trunks, with howling sounds like ghosts and wolves.
He suddenly rose and fell away towards the onrushing army.
"spread!"
Liu Bei was shocked and angry when he saw that the enemy also had bed crossbows. You must know that apart from the army, only local powerful men could make such things as bed crossbows. Not even Zhang Jiao, who swept the world during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, could see these powerful men.
How abominable.
In fact, Liu Bei didn't know that when Yuan Shao occupied Jizhou later, most of the powerful people in Jizhou were exploited by Yuan Shao, so many powerful people moved around, some went to Bingzhou, some went beyond the Great Wall, and some defected to Xianbei.
Later, when the Five Hus invaded China, many Xianbei people were not only literate, but also well-equipped with weapons and equipment. This was because these powerful men brought civilization to Xianbei after they defected to them.
A person can be upright, but for class, there is no such thing as integrity and moral character, but only about the interests of one's own class.
Why Xiang Yu has always had a good reputation in history is because he was essentially a restoration slave owner and belonged to the aristocratic class.
The aristocratic class who also have the right to speak are of course willing to speak for him, erase his bad qualities, and retain his good qualities.
And what happened to the emperors who planned to abolish slavery?
Totally hacked.
Because the emperor betrayed his own class, it was equivalent to "why did your majesty rebel?"
As a person in power, do you still want to free the slaves?
Can the slave owner, who is also in power, agree?
Just look at the Civil War in the United States and you will know that one side is the capitalist and the other side is the slave owner. Neither side is a good bird, and they are essentially the exploiting class.
Therefore, when the emperor began to attack these exploiting classes, these powerful powerful men who had been in power for a long time were naturally unwilling to sit back and wait for death. They even dared to openly use strategic weapons such as bed crossbows against the imperial officials and troops.
The power of the bed crossbow was obvious. Dozens of spear-like iron-tipped crossbow arrows were carried by the force of wind and thunder, and swished through the army formation, aiming directly at Liu Bei's banner at the front, hoping to shoot the general to death first.
Fortunately, Liu Bei reacted quickly and evaded the attack in time. The soldiers behind him suffered like a candied haws on a stick. Each arrow took away at least two people, giving the officers and soldiers a great shock.
"keep going!"
Liu Bei roared loudly and waved the double swords in his hands to boost morale.
Zhang Liao roared angrily, clapped his horse and charged forward.
The bed crossbow was invented during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Although it was very lethal, there was no major improvement until the Eastern Han Dynasty. The slow loading speed was still a big problem.
Although the infantry was still some distance away, the Bingzhou cavalry led by Zhang Liao had already arrived at the entrance of the camp first.
The village gate was closed tightly, and Zhang Liao shouted: "Throw away the anointing oil!"
The crossbows on the camp were unable to fire for a short time, but thousands of archers rained down arrows.
The Bingzhou cavalry under Zhang Liao used their superb equestrian skills to flee in all directions to avoid the rain of arrows, while they all took out the fish ointment from their horse side pouches and poured it on the wooden fence of the camp.
Why are the walls and fences of many camps made of rammed earth to prevent fire? But after all, the Jizhou rebels had only been stationed for more than ten days and only built a few sections of walls, and the gates were all wooden, so they could not prevent fire.
As the fire sickle ignited the small torch, and then used the torch to light the camp wall, the rebel camp was instantly ablaze.
Although Zhang Liao's Bingzhou cavalry lost more than half after a burst of arrows, this loss was nothing at all in order for the army to successfully enter the camp.
The fire on the fence was burning, and the rebels on the cloud platform of the camp did not dare to stay on it, because with the help of fish oil, the fire burned very fast and had spread to the cloud platform behind the fence. If they did not leave, they would be burned alive.
.
Boom!
After a while, the fire burned a big hole in the gate of the camp. Without support, the gate fell to the ground. The rebels and the government troops at the main gate of the camp finally fought head-on.