Chapter 192 Zhu Jun is seriously ill and the day of the siege
In the wilderness, countless Jizhou prisoners were tied up with ropes, connected in a string, and driven towards Anyang.
As the saying goes, soldiers are valuable and they are quick. It was already the second day of the Battle of Huanbeiting. The people in Yecheng had just received the news and were quickly sending people to the plains to report the news to Yuan Shao. If Yuan Shao came back, it would not be that simple.
In the era of cold weapons, morale is the most important thing. In the Battle of Sarhu, why did Nurhachi defeat three Ming armies in five days and annihilate 50,000 enemies? It was not because of their high morale.
Therefore, even if the soldiers are tired after fighting for days, as long as they maintain sufficient morale, they will be brave and capable of defeating all enemies.
Neihuang is not far from Anyang, only more than a hundred miles away. Although the march was delayed, after their victory over Yan Liang yesterday, they immediately tied up all the enemies and broke out of camp immediately.
After walking more than 40 miles in the afternoon and resting in the wild overnight, we arrived before this evening.
On Anyang City, Zhang He looked far into the east of the city toward the plain area from the lower reaches of Huan River. He only saw thousands of black dots appearing on the horizon. He couldn't help but feel very puzzled. He couldn't tell whether they were enemies or friends, so he had to call Xin.
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When Xin Ping reached the city wall, the two of them looked up and watched for a moment. Zhang He asked, "Mr. Zhongzhi, what do you think? These people came from the east. Could it be that they are Guan Yu's army stationed in Naihuang?"
They still didn't know that Yan Liang Wen Chou had been defeated. In the battle of Huanbeiting, the Luoyang army killed 6,000 enemies and captured more than 20,000 people. Only 10,000 people escaped.
Everyone knows that Anyang is surrounded by Zhu Jun's army. No fool would run to Anyang. If he had to run, he would go to Yecheng in the north.
As a result, Yecheng side only got the news, but Anyang side was still in the middle of an information gap.
Xin Ping was quite puzzled and said: "That shouldn't be the case. The news from Neihuang is that Guan Yu only has 20,000 troops. I am familiar with military affairs. Although I can't tell how many people there are at a glance, this overwhelming number of people, even if I don't know military affairs,
People should also see that there are more than 20,000 people, how can there be so many people?"
The difference between 20,000 and 40,000 people is as big as the difference between fifty people and two hundred people. The ratio is indeed different, but in the army all year round, excellent generals can roughly estimate the number of opponents with a rough look.
Not more than too much.
The Luoyang army itself had more than 20,000 troops, plus the prisoners being escorted. Since they were tied up in vertical columns, they could not see the actual situation clearly from too far away. People on the city thought it was a large army advancing in single file.
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Zhang He scratched his head and said, "I'm afraid this number must be more than 30,000 to 40,000. Didn't Yecheng send a document a few days ago, saying that General Yan and General Wen had sent an army of 40,000 to go south to attack Guan Yu?"
Xin Ping suddenly laughed: "That's right. It seems that General Yan and General Wen returned with a great victory. After defeating Guan Yu's army, they immediately came to Anyang to relieve the siege of Anyang. I don't know if they plan to fight today or what.
Let’s take a look at the situation first.”
"Um."
Zhang He nodded, and the big stone that had been tense in his heart fell to the ground, and said with a smile: "I am not surprised that the two generals can defeat Guan Yu. Guan Yu is just a common man. Zhu Jun outside the city is a tough opponent, but not
If you are restless, you need to send someone to talk to the two generals first so that they don't get too impatient."
Xin Ping sighed and said: "Yes, that Zhu Jun has been fighting in the south and north for many years, and he is a famous general in the world. The entrance of Linlu Valley, which we have worked hard to manage, was also breached by him. We are afraid that he will imitate Chen Zigui and flood the upper reaches again to flood the city. Now There are two generals, so it shouldn’t be a problem.”
In fact, Zhang He and Xin Ping have not been having a good time these past two days. Although Zhang He is a good general, and the old Zhang He can be said to be so wise that he is almost a monster, he has been able to compete with Zhuge Liang and even defeated the invading Shu army many times.
But the problem is that people are not so powerful right from birth. Being famous in history does not mean that he has reached the peak of his achievements in history when he was young.
At least Zhang He's early level was very average, that is, he was valued by Yuan Shao only because of his good force value and being a descendant of the Zhang family in Hejian.
This can be seen later when Gao Lan led a force many times larger than Cao Cao's to attack Cao Cao's camp but lost his troops and generals.
But Zhu Jun is different.
As one of the three generals of the late Han Dynasty, he is as famous as Huangfu Song and Lu Zhi, which already represents his ability.
And it is said that Jiang is the best with old age. As a person ages, not only does his mentality and wisdom improve, but more importantly, Zhu Jun's decades of battlefield experience are far beyond what Zhang He can compare with.
These days, while Guan Yu and Yan Liangwen Chou were fighting on the Neihuang side, Zhu Jun was not idle either. While dealing with the harassment from time to time in Anyang City, he sent Zhao Yun to cooperate with Xu Huang to attack Linligukou, and captured the A stronghold on the edge.
Anyang has already been flooded once, and the ditch dug last time has not been filled in yet. If Zhu Jun starts to store water and flood the city again, I am afraid history will repeat itself, and what will happen to Yan Liang, Wen Chou, and Zhang He will be the same.
Therefore, Zhang He has been feeling a headache during this period. The stronghold at the entrance of Linlu Valley is very important. He even wants to take people there to station himself, but he cannot be left out in the city, which leads to a dilemma.
Now Yan Liang Wen Chou actually defeated Guan Yu and led an army to support him. This suddenly made Zhang He's heart drop to the ground, and he felt a lot more relaxed.
"Old Zhu Jun is indeed difficult to deal with, but with the help of Generals Yan and Wen, he may not be unable to be defeated."
Zhang He was in a good mood and said with a smile: "As long as we can defeat these two men Guan Yu and Zhu Jun, Luoyang will not be able to hold on for long even if it is trapped in the Eight Passes. Then we can plow the courtyard and sweep the holes, go straight to Luoyang, and capture Ming Gong alive. That emperor."
Xin Ping put up the awning with his hands, and was about to agree with Zhang He's point of view, when he suddenly said suspiciously: "Junyi, something is wrong."
"What's wrong?"
"There was something very wrong with a group of people in that group."
Xin Ping saw that at the front of the team were all cavalry, which were the black armored heavy cavalry protecting Chen Mu. He asked: "I remember that there are not that many horse equipment under Duke Ming's command, and our heavy cavalry are all there." On Duke Ming's side, Wen Chou only has Qingqi under his tent."
Zhang He also saw something was wrong. In fact, those people were still far away from them. The limit distance that a person could see was related to the height and the size and brightness of the other person. For example, stars hundreds of millions of light years away from the earth could still be seen from the ground.
But being able to see and seeing clearly are two different things. If you want to see clearly who is coming, including the words on the flag, without a telescope, no matter how good your eyesight is, you have to be one or two hundred meters away to see clearly.
The reason why they saw something was wrong was because a few kilometers away, in the afternoon sunlight, Chen Mu's black-armored heavy cavalry, from warriors to war horses, were all reflecting dazzling light.
The sunshine was already blazing at about three or four o'clock in the afternoon. Not only the soldiers of the Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry were fully armed, but even the horses were all in silver armor.
Anyang City is located in the west. They came from the east, and the sun was just over the northwest of Anyang City.
In this way, you can just see the light reflected from the black armored heavy knight.
"How is this going?"
Zhang He's voice began to tremble: "I remember that there was no such bright battle armor under Ming Gong's tent. This...could it be the Qingzhou Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry?"
Xin Ping's expression also changed slightly. Many of their soldiers' armors were dark in color, and many of them were even directly black.
The reason may be known to many people, because the steel-making technology in the Han Dynasty was not very developed, so most armor weapons were made of iron, and the appearance of iron was black, so the armor at that time was black.
And in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the chain armor commonly used by the army was bright silver? This is because by the Ming and Qing Dynasties, steel-making technology had been very developed, so the armors at that time were already made of steel.
This is also the reason why the later the dynasty, the lighter the armor worn by generals. For example, chain armor is very light, but its defensive power is no worse than that of Dazha armor.
Qingzhou's Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry is full-body heavy armor. These heavy armors are not made of iron, but steel armor made through local steelmaking methods.
The color of the steel armor is silvery-white, which causes the Black Armor Heavy Cavalry to reflect light. Otherwise, if it were ordinary armor, they would only see dense black dots at the top of the city, but not the reflected light.
At this time, the only princes with large-scale steel production were Liu Bei and his family. Even Yuan Shao, who was rich in Jizhou, owned very little steel and did not have the luxury to build heavy cavalry.
When the two of them discovered through the reflected light of the enemy's armor that it might be Xuan Jia's heavy cavalry, Zhang He and Xin Ping both turned pale for an instant, and a chill arose in their hearts.
"Don't worry, let's take another look. Maybe the two generals Yan and Wen defeated Guan Yu in one battle, and even the Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry was defeated by them."
Xin Ping suppressed his fear and said comfortingly: "These armors were all captured, what do you think?"
Zhang He also barely suppressed his ups and downs, and followed Xin Ping's words: "I guess so. With two generals leading tens of thousands of troops and ten thousand cavalry, there is no way they can be defeated like this. Let's wait and see.
look."
Both of them continued to look into the distance nervously.
In fact, they were not the only ones. Zhu Jun's army outside the city had almost seen Guan Yu's army when they appeared on the horizon, and the scout posts placed around the city had already seen them.
However, compared to the uneasy moods of Zhang He and Xin Ping, Zhu Jun was much more relaxed, because yesterday Chen Mu had already sent someone to deliver a message to him quickly, reporting all the battle reports and their next plans to him.
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As the frontline general, Zhu Jun is the boss of Guan Yu and Chen Mu, and all military actions of the two must be approved by him.
Although Zhu Jun would not interfere with them, after all, Zhu Jun knew better than anyone else the principle of "the general is out and the army is not protected", but the necessary respect must still be there, so every time he took action, Chen Mu would quickly report the battle report and the method of action. Send it to him.
After learning that Guan Yu and Chen Mu defeated Yan Liangwen's Chou army, Zhu Jun was so happy that he couldn't help but have no objection to Chen Mu's method of driving the prisoners to attack the city.
After all, it's not like he hasn't seen Huangfu Song Dongze massacre the entire city, kill all the Yellow Turbans in the city and put them on display for public viewing.
Driving prisoners into the city?
There is nothing more compassionate than this in these troubled times.
When the army was less than twenty miles away from the city and Zhu Jun's camp, Wu Anguo, whom Zhu Jun sent to greet him, had already galloped towards him.
"Second General, Fourth General!"
Wu Anguo got off his horse and knelt down on one knee in front of Chen Mu and Guan Yu.
Chen Mu smiled and said: "Get up, where is the old lieutenant?"
In fact, this was just a casual question. Everyone knew that Zhu Jun would definitely be waiting for them in the camp at this time.
However, what people didn't expect was that Wu Anguo said with a solemn face: "The Taiwei was sent to the rear overnight to have sex yesterday evening."
Sent?
Chen Mu keenly noticed this word and quickly asked: "What happened?"
Wu Anguo said: "The Lieutenant was overjoyed when he heard the news yesterday. He drank two more sips of wine in the evening and fell down soon after. The military doctor saw it and said that he needed to rest more and that he should not be overjoyed or sad."
Chen Mu frowned.
How did Zhu Jun die in history?
Because he was imprisoned by Li Jue and Guo Si, he had a strong personality and fell ill and died.
This condition is generally called high blood pressure and can easily lead to stroke, cerebral infarction or cerebral thrombosis.
To put it simply, when one becomes emotionally excited, one's blood pressure rises, eventually leading to sudden death.
Therefore, Zhu Jun is actually a cardiovascular and cerebrovascular patient. Once he is emotionally overjoyed or sad, he will die easily.
The reason why the old man is not dead now is because history has changed, and Li Jue and Guo Si did not imprison him, which caused extreme anger.
But now he didn't expect that a big victory would actually make him sick.
Chen Mu was not a doctor, so of course he didn't know what diseases Zhu Jun had. He concluded that Zhu Jun had cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases because he remembered the way he died in history and the news of Zhu Jun's collapse.
Now it seems that the old man's time may be running out.
Chen Mu shook his head.
Old Man Zhu is over sixty years old, which is not too young in ancient times. In addition, he is a military commander and has been fighting on the battlefield for many years. It is not easy to live for a few more years.
It is indeed very hard to go to the battlefield at this age. After all, not everyone is honest and honest, and they can go to the battlefield even when they are 70 or 80 years old.
It's just that the old man is the heart of the Luoyang Army. It can be said that having an old man in the family is like having a treasure, like a divine needle that fixes the sea.
Although Guan Yu is rising like a new military star, he still cannot replace Zhu Jun's position. If the old man falls, it may be a little unstable for the military morale.
Forget it, the old man is so old, he really shouldn't work so hard. If the military morale is not stable, then it is not stable. I hope he can persist for a while.
Chen Mu took a deep breath and said to Wu Anguo: "The old lieutenant is in poor health and really needs a good rest. His lifelong wish is to help the Han Dynasty and restore the Han Dynasty. We, the juniors, can only risk our lives to fulfill it for him. I have made my wish. Send the order to drive away the prisoners and prepare to attack the city!"
"clear."
Wu Anguo got on his horse again and ran towards the military camp.
Now that the armies of Guan Yu and Zhu Jun have joined together, and the prisoners are attacking the city, there is no fear of not taking Anyang.
At least the siege equipment required for the confrontation has been built for such a long time.