As soon as Guo Daxian died, his troops were instantly defeated.
Some people knelt down and surrendered, some were at a loss, some fled in all directions, and some resisted and wanted to avenge their master.
But the commotion was quickly brought under control as Lu Zhi's ambush troops left in the city came out.
Liu Bei's more than 300 cavalry only charged once and killed one or two hundred people. When they were about to continue charging back, the battle was already calmed down.
It took two-quarters of an hour to escort all the prisoners back to Quliang City. Lu Zhi said to Prince Wu Lan and others: "Soldiers are very fast. Taking advantage of the great victory tonight, we should continue to set off and capture the six counties of Henan in one fell swoop."
, I will rest in Guangnian early tomorrow morning, and the army will appear at the gate of Guangping City in the evening."
All the soldiers said in unison: "Wei!"
The six counties of Henan do not refer to the later Henan Province, but generally refer to the south bank of the river. To the south of Mingshui River and to the north of Fushui River are Feixiang, Lieren, Diannong, Kuizhang, Quliang and Yiyang counties.
The Horned Faction's former military barrier here.
After these six counties are conquered, across the Ming River, there will be Zhangjiao's rear camp, namely Guangping, Julu, and Quzhoujiao. As long as these three places are conquered, the Yellow Turbans will be pacified.
For a time, Lu Zhi's troops were full of momentum. Although after a day of traveling and fighting continuously, all the officers and soldiers arrived very tired, but thinking that they would soon put down the rebellion and get promoted to the highest ranks, all the officers in the army were very excited and urged
The soldiers continued to advance and attacked four more counties.
In fact, being promoted to an official rank has nothing to do with ordinary soldiers. After all, unless they make great contributions on the battlefield, it is difficult for lower-level soldiers to get promoted. But they can make a fortune. They will plunder along the way and everyone will be extremely rich. Once you have wealth, you will naturally want to
Gather your courage and march forward.
Overnight, Lu Zhi's troops launched a rapid offensive against Kuizhang, Lieren, Diannong, Feixiang and other counties. The combat method was also very simple. Yan Zheng pretended to be a defeated army, pretended to open the city gate, and then swarmed in. If not
If you can pretend to open the city gate, you can encircle it first without attacking. After the heavy troops from behind arrive with ladders, chariots and other siege equipment, launch a fierce attack.
By daybreak, all six counties in Henan had been captured. The rear army's baggage troops and the Chinese army's support troops could not even keep up with the front army's siege speed. At dawn, after breakfast, Lu Zhi went
After crossing the Ming River, the city of Guangnian was surrounded. With more than 20,000 horses and more than 40,000 soldiers, they quickly captured Guangnian, a short city with few soldiers.
If Lu Zhi let his troops watch the show from behind and forced the soldiers to attack the city, a mutiny would easily occur. But he was very smart and ordered the soldiers to feign attack at the south gate in front, just waving flags and shouting, and the main force attacked from the left, right and east gates.
Liu Guan and Zhang's troops took the lead, rushed to the tower, opened the east gate, and let the officers and soldiers in.
Guangnian City is located on the north bank of the Ming River. It is already considered the rear area. It has a small number of troops, only more than 8,000 people. Many of them are afraid of the large number of officers and soldiers and do not dare to fight to the death. As a result, the siege ended quickly and only
In the first wave of attacks, Guangnian fell quickly.
Although this place is behind the six counties on the south bank of the Ming River, it is the front camp position of Guangping, Julu, and Qu San. When he heard the news of the fall of Guangnian, Zhang Jiao, who was at the county magistrate's office in Guangping City, quickly called in all the troops.
Will discuss matters.
Zhang Bao was brave and reckless. As soon as he entered the meeting hall, he shouted loudly: "Brother, Guangnian City is gone. Let me lead the army to kill the generals and destroy the official army."
Zhang Jiao's face turned pale and he waved his hand for him to sit down.
After a while, the generals sat down. There were about ten people, including Qushuai, the big and small leaders, most of whom were later generals of the Montenegro Army, such as Zuo Zhaozhangba, one of the thirty-six Qushuai. After Zhang Jiao's defeat, he led
His subordinates hid in Heishan and were later killed by Yuan Shao. Yu Du, Zuo Xiao, Liu Shi, Yang Feng, etc. were all quite powerful and became the leaders of Fangqushuai.
However, the biggest problem in the Yellow Turban Army, apart from organization and discipline, is the lack of a strategist. Among them, only Zhang Jiao can read and write. The others, including his two younger brothers Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao, are all big and strong men, so in
After Zhang Jiao's death, his troops were quickly defeated and dispersed.
When Zhang Jiao called these people to come, he never thought about discussing matters, because they couldn't come up with any effective opinions and plans. Zhang Jiao looked around, suppressing the desire to cough, and said slowly: "Guangnian City has been lost, Guangping
The city is not as good as Julu, so I want to move to Julu."
Zhang Bao was shocked and said: "Brother, why is this? We still have more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and the official army is only more than 30,000. We are afraid that he will do something worse."
In fact, Zhang Bao never understood why they had conquered the city with such great momentum before. Why Zhang Jiao was completely defeated after meeting Lu Zhi in Yecheng. He even abandoned Handan, which was already under siege. He lost consecutive battles and retreated to Guangping. Completely
I don't understand why there are so many of them, but they are afraid of fighting head-on with the army.
But only Zhang Jiao himself knew that his health had deteriorated seriously and he could no longer bear the bumps in the army. He had no choice but to retreat to Guangping to recuperate. As a result, he found that no matter how much medicine he took and how much talisman water he drank these days, his condition remained stubborn.
There is no sign of improvement at all.
This made him feel that he had been punished by God and that there was no way he could recover.
Zhang Jiao couldn't help but smile bitterly. It seemed that his slogan "Heaven is dead, Huang Tian shall stand" angered God, and God punished him. Otherwise, how could his talisman water, which used to be very effective, fail?
However, if Chen Mu were here, with his modern knowledge, he would definitely be able to tell that Zhang Jiao must have a lung disease.
In ancient times, the lung disease was called tuberculosis, which was almost incurable and had a very high fatality rate.
Zhang Jiao knew medical skills, so his talisman water was mixed with a large number of herbal medicines.
There is no problem with these herbal medicines in treating ordinary colds and fevers, but it is impossible to treat lung diseases. Even if he drinks it as water every day, it will have no effect, and naturally it cannot save his life.
Zhang Jiao understood that as soon as he died, the vigorous Taiping Road would completely collapse and the Yellow Turban Army would be completely defeated.
If this continues, the rolling torrent that I have set off may be dangerous.
Thinking of this, Zhang Jiao felt sad and could not control himself.
But he still had to consider his brother and generals. His sad mood only lasted for a moment, and he still said with a strong face: "Although we have many people, our soldiers are not trained, and our weapons and swords are not as sharp as those of the officers and soldiers."
, we should avoid their sharp edges and defend the city first. Anyway, we have countless provisions and baggage, which we can afford to use against them. When the officers and soldiers are unable to follow up, we can attack in one fell swoop, and then we can annihilate the enemy in one battle."
Qu Commander Liu Shi asked: "Good Master, although Julu has a high city and abundant food, it is not a long-term solution to defend it like this. How about mobilizing Quzhou's troops and horses, so that hundreds of thousands of troops can gather together, and wait for the officers and soldiers to
If the offensive is exhausted and the entire army attacks, will the chance of victory be greater?"
Zhang Jiao's third brother Zhang Liang is now stationed in Quzhou, and he also has 50,000 troops. When the Jizhou Yellow Turban uprising just started in February, it was like a spark that ignited a prairie fire. The momentum was very huge, and there were more than 200,000 soldiers in one night.
Including Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou and other places, the main force of the Yellow Turbans was no less than one million. Originally, the troops were divided into thirty-six groups to march towards Luoyang at the same time. However, one Lu Zhi, one Huangfu Song, and one Zhu Jun sent his million troops Keep out of Sili.
Now Lu Zhi's troops were sharp and won consecutive battles. He defeated the main force of the Yellow Turbans in Jizhou by as many as 70,000 to 80,000 men. Zhang Jiao only had more than 100,000 men in his hands.
After listening to Liu Shi's suggestion, Zhang Jiao shook his head: "Quzhou's soldiers and horses must not be moved lightly. I predict that after Lu Zhi captures Guangping, he will definitely use Guangping as a granary for the rear. Once Lu Zhi besieges Julu, Quzhou's soldiers will The horses can respond at any time. When they advance, they can be used as reinforcements to break the siege of Julu. When they retreat, they can make a surprise attack on Guangping's Duanlu Zhiliang Road. They must not be transferred here."
It has to be said that Zhang Jiao does have a certain strategic vision. After all, someone who can launch such a big offensive is certainly not a fool.
Guangping has a special geographical location. It is located on the south slope of Julu, a curved beam. The three places form an inverted triangle, which is the protruding part of the triangle.
If Zhang Jiao retreats to Julu and Lu Zhi captures Guangping, he will definitely use Guangping as a base to launch a fierce attack on Julu. At that time, Guangping will be the best granary base, and transportation to the front will be very convenient.
Even if Lu Zhi did not put the granary in Guangping, Guangping was still the only food route. Only through Guangping could food be sent to the front line.
In this way, Quzhou on the other side of the Mingshui River is very important. It is located on the right side of Guangping and Julu. As long as you cross the Mingshui River, you can attack Guangping and cut off the Lu Zhi grain road at any time, or cooperate with Julu's defenders to attack Lu Zhi. 's military camp.
This is the common cornering situation in ancient wars.
And Lu Zhi still has nothing to do.
Because Lu Zhi has a total of more than 30,000 men, no matter whether he is besieging Quzhou or Julu, he cannot divide his troops. Unless he divides his troops at the risk of being defeated by each, he will definitely be beaten by Zhang Jiao.
This is a strategy that Zhang Jiao has been thinking about for days.
"Guiguzi" once said: "A villain seeks a life, a gentleman seeks a country, and a man seeks the world."
Zhang Jiao has obviously reached the threshold of seeking a country and is able to formulate a certain strategic plan. This will lead to tactical failure and can only defend the city. Strategic victory without being passively beaten will lay a solid foundation for winning future battles.
However, what he never dreamed of was that Lu Zhi was more skilled than him and had already studied the map and terrain. In order to prevent such a situation, he sent cavalry troops to intercept.
Therefore, Zhang Jiao's plan obviously cannot succeed.
In this fight in the air, Lu Zhi was victorious.
In fact, from this aspect we can also see the importance of counselors in ancient times.
Before Liu Bei got Zhuge Liang, he didn't have a counselor to plan a strategy for him, so he had been wandering around for more than 20 years without achieving anything.
After Zhuge Liang helped him formulate a plan, he quickly captured Yizhou and gained a position.
This shows how difficult it was to have a top counselor with strategic vision in ancient times.
Just like playing chess, stupid people only focus on their next move. Smart people, on the other hand, are already thinking about what will happen after a dozen or even dozens of moves.
But when playing chess, one only pays attention to the countless people in front of him. However, the number of people who can see dozens of moves ahead at a glance is extremely rare.
Although Zhang Jiao had a strategy, he was still not far-sighted. He did not think about whether his retreat would be cut off. In the end, he had to give up Julu and retreat to Quzhou. It was normal for him to end up defeated.