The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 765

Now Sun Jian led the Han army to fight and win victories all the way to Huangcheng in Wei County, Jizhou. It is only a hundred miles away from Yecheng, the capital of Wei State, and it can be reached in a few days.

In order to support the war in Xianbei in the east, Yuan Shao dispatched a lot of troops, and even recruited a lot of cavalry from Wuhuan, the three counties, in order to contain Xu An's deployment and strategy in northern Xinjiang.

Moreover, in order to stabilize the situation in Qingzhou, Yuan Shao not only ordered Ju Yi to take five thousand of his most elite soldiers to go to Qingzhou, but also asked Lu Zhao to lead Youzhou to ride four thousand to the south. Ta Dun led [-] Wuhuan fine riders to the south to help Qingzhou, and all the new tiger and leopard riders were also handed over to Tian Feng by him.

It's just that after thousands of calculations, no one figured out that Wang Xiu would choose to rebel in the end, causing the entire Wei army to collapse on the Qingzhou battlefield and slide into the abyss of extinction.

In the Luoyang area, a lot of soldiers were assigned to guard, which further dispersed the strength of the Wei army.

So now the entire Wei County still has Qinghe County and Dong County in the east. The Wei Army has a total of more than [-] infantry, and the cavalry army still has [-] cavalry.

However, among them, [-] were Wuhuan cavalry, and they were not equipped with much new-style riding equipment, so their combat power was relatively weak. Only [-] were cavalry from the Han army in Youji, and their cavalry was no more than [-]. .

However, the Han army had more than [-] infantry, more than [-] cavalry, and more than [-] cavalry, which was more than [-] more than the Wei army.

This time Sun Jian led the army to the Northern Expedition not on a whim, but after careful consideration, and Guo Jia, Xun You and others were beside him to make suggestions and formulate an incomparably detailed plan.

At the beginning, the Han army on the East Road was frustrated, lost the ability to advance, and was unable to form a siege with the Han army on the West Road.

The Han court quickly made a countermeasure, and Liu Bei was secretly transferred from Jinan State in Qingzhou to Yanzhou. In addition to Liu Bei himself, more than [-] Youzhou cavalry under his command were also in the sequence of recruitment.

In order to avoid the evil spies in Wei Tingzhong, more than [-] Youzhou cavalry followed the logistics transportation troops and planned to evacuate Jinan in batches. The messenger's attention.

The main reason why the Han army on the West Road did not act rashly after they invaded Jinan is that there are still many Wei troops in the Yellow River in the north. Once they go too deep into Qingzhou, the rear road may be cut off. Caught in Qingzhou, and finally completely wiped out by the Wei army.

But the more important reason is that Liu Bei and his Youzhou cavalry have left Qingzhou's Jinan Kingdom, and Cao Cao's command does not have many cavalry that can be mobilized.

Liu Bei's departure did not attract the attention of the Mei Mei spies. The Embroidered Cloth Messenger was only established for more than a year shorter than the Eagle Wolf Guard.

Yingwei also became more and more difficult to move because of the gradual growth of the embroidered clothes envoy.

With Liu Bei's [-] fine cavalry from Youzhou, Sun Jian also had the capital to fight in the field. Although the new equestrian equipment in the Han army was not fully installed in the entire army, it had already covered more than [-]% of the cavalry, at least two feet Stirrups are all owned.

Although the Wei army still had more than [-] more cavalry, Sun Jian didn't take the Wuhuan cavalry who didn't have much armor at all.

In the Battle of Daguguan, how many cavalry did he lead the Yuzhou soldiers? Facing the incomparably elite Xiliang iron cavalry under Dong Zhuo's command, he was able to win the battle, let alone Wuhuan cavalry?
The only thing Sun Jian was afraid of were the cavalry of the Jiyou and Wei Army who were equipped with new-style riding gear and had greatly improved their impact and combat effectiveness.

Therefore, Sun Jian not only summoned Liu Bei to lead the Youzhou cavalry to go northward, but also ordered workshops in various places to make a large number of strong bows and crossbows, made arrows in a hurry, and installed a large number of long spears side by side, in order to suppress the cavalry in the Wei army.

The workshop system implemented by Xu An in Taiping Road was also learned by the Han and Wei courts, but the workshop system implemented by the Han and Wei courts was different.

Naturally, the Han and Wei courts did not give workers better treatment like Xu An did.

Their method is very simple and rude, classifying all craftsmen as craftsmen, and then expropriating them in the name of corvee, and concentrating them near the raw material fields for centralized management.

Taipingdao gave workers a certain amount of salary in the workshops, but in the workshops of the Han and Wei Dynasties, some craftsmen in places with serious exploitation and corruption could not even be guaranteed basic necessities of life, even food rations. Skimp.

This is also a helpless thing. It is almost impossible to hope that the enemies are all idiots, a group of brains who don't know how to adapt.

In the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods of old, the feudal lords competed for hegemony, and the feudal lords stood side by side.

Seeing that reforms can strengthen a country, all countries are scrambling to be the first to reform, doing everything they can, and innovating in various places.

A hundred schools of thought contend, just to show off what you have learned in troubled times.

The law of the ancestors is immutable, it is just a joke.

The low-secret things such as the new riding equipment were quickly learned by the Han and Wei courts.

Even in the Xianbei tribe in the north, the same riding equipment appeared. After all, both the central Xianbei and the eastern Xianbei saw the cavalry of the Yellow Turban Army and the Wei Army Cavalry Army. The double-footed stirrups and Takahashi saddles are extremely conspicuous. It is impossible not to notice .

However, due to the backwardness of ironmaking technology and the scarcity of raw materials, they only assembled stirrups, and they were made of leather and grass. The saddles have also been improved to a certain extent, and horseshoes basically do not exist.

Although the counterweight catapult has undergone strict secrecy and has not revealed its secrets, Hanting has developed a human-powered catapult machine that is more powerful than before.

Although the power is less, and its range is not comparable to that of the counterweight trebuchet, such a catapult already poses a considerable threat to the city walls made of rammed earth.

The destruction of the revolving door pass and the destruction of Liyang and other ferries originally occupied by the Wei army on the north bank of the Yellow River have proved the power and actual combat effect of its trebuchet.

And according to the information sent by the Eagle Wolf Guard, it seems that the Han Army and the Wei Army have begun to practice queues and redefine the military formation during this period, and many places have begun to resemble the original training mode of the Yellow Turban Army.

The training method of the Yellow Turban Army is not static, but constantly improved.

In the beginning, Xu An compiled the company on his own based on some military books he had read before and based on the experience of later generations.

But later, it was Xu An, Yan Zhong, Xu You, Jia Xu and others who jointly compiled the "Infantry Manual" to guide the basic training of the army.

The book of infantry drills is owned by almost every army commander in Taipingdao, and the secrecy is still acceptable.

But you don't need to know all the content written in the infantry drills, you just need some people to mix into the barracks, and after receiving the training, you can also sum up some experience.

Wei Jun and Han Jun basically only learned the superficial.

And even if the "Infantry Exercise Code" is put into the hands of the high-level officials of the Han and Wei courts, I am afraid that this method of military training will be difficult to implement.

The reason why the Yellow Turban Army was able to implement the content of the "Infantry Exercise Code" was based on the continuous improvement of the literacy rate, as well as the joint role of the officers and officers in the army, and the requirements for the quality of the officers were quite high.

This officer does not only refer to officers at the first level of the army Sima, but also at the first level of the team leader, the first level of the commander, and even the commander.

The book "Infantry Exercise Code" is a military basic training manual tailor-made for the Yellow Turban Army, but it is not applicable to all armies.

Xu An can send all military officers, regardless of their military ranks or backgrounds, to a specially established military academy for training and study.

But in the Han and Wei courts, this is absolutely impossible.

How can those filthy mud legs and ordinary people of humble background deserve to receive the same education as them?
The family learning they cherished can only be taught to the children of the same clan, people with a different surname are people with a different surname after all, and family learning must not be passed on to the outside world.

So even if Xu An openly opened a school, opened a military academy, and a hospital, the Han and Wei courts never followed suit.

There were tens of thousands of officials in the Han and Wei dynasties, but no one raised this issue in the court, and everyone tacitly avoided this somewhat sensitive issue.

It's just that although the Han and Wei armies have only learned the surface of the Yellow Turban Army and learned the superficiality, their combat power has still improved a lot.

After the queue training and various targeted training methods are learned, the most intuitive thing is that the military appearance has been greatly improved.

Recruited recruits can also go to the battlefield faster because they have queues and other training.

While Xu An was studying the Han and Wei courts, the people in the Han and Wei courts were also studying the Taiping Dao and the Yellow Turban Army.

They can't copy Taipingdao, but they can learn a lot of useful things from it, things that can be used on themselves.

Brocade Clothes and Jade Food is the luxurious food and clothing of a powerful family.

Singing and dancing to raise peace, is the singing and dancing of the aristocratic family.

Changle Weiyang is the powerful Changle Weiyang of the aristocratic family.

Those prosperous and hypocritical scenes have nothing to do with the low-level Shengdou people.

Ordinary people are as small as ants walking on the ground in the eyes of most powerful families. In the past hundreds of years, there have only been a few times when those powerful families have put small people in their eyes.

The Yellow Turban Uprising really terrified the aristocratic family.

Only at this time did they discover that those ignorant and ignorant people they had always thought were just ants had the power to change the world after uniting.

With the powerful "carriage throwing", the solid walls of Yecheng would no longer be a problem.

During this period of time, Sun Jian led the Han army to attack Yecheng.

Yuan Shao was able to mobilize the army of King Qin to help Yecheng in Yecheng, but there were very few troops.

If Yuan Shao wanted to transfer troops, he could only transfer troops from three places.

One is to dispatch troops from Luoyang area and Hanoi county.

The second is to transfer troops from Pingyuan County in Qingzhou, that is, to transfer the support of Qingzhou Wei Army and the rushing reinforcements to the north bank.

The third is Wuhuan, the three counties of Youzhou, and the native soldiers of Youzhou.

Troops were dispatched from Luoyang area and Hanoi County, but enough personnel were left for defense, so the army that could be recruited was only a few thousand, which was a drop in the bucket.

The deployment of troops from Pingyuan County, north of the Yellow River in Qingzhou, just gave the Han army still in Qingzhou an excellent opportunity to attack.

Once Ju Yi leads the main force under his command to rush to aid Yecheng, then Qingzhou Han army can cross the North Expedition without any scruples, and take the whole Qingzhou into their pockets in one go.

And the last way is to recruit soldiers from Wuhuan, the three counties of Youzhou, and recruit soldiers to guard Youzhou.

This road is indeed credible. The Yellow Turban Army has not made any moves southward for the time being. With the Eastern Xianbei stabilizing the northern border, there is no need to worry too much about Gongsundu and Xu An attacking Youzhou.

But how could Sun Jian have never imagined that this way, all the counselors in the Han court are all dead money?

Now the local defenders of Youzhou, and the three counties of Wuhuan, are completely unable to go south to help Yecheng.

Because there was one person who blocked the Youzhou army's return to defense, and not only blocked the Youzhou Wei army and the three counties Wuhuan's southward movement, but also greatly threatened the Juyi tribe now stationed in Qingzhou Pingyuan County.

That person didn't appear out of nowhere, he was Gongsun Zan, Duyi Hou who was originally entrenched in Youzhou and was known as the White Horse General.

It all started in the second year of Chuping (191).

After Gongsun Zan beheaded Liu Yu, he also aroused the resistance of Wuhuan of the three counties, and Wuhuan of the three counties raised troops to avenge Liu Yu.

When Yuan Shao was at a stalemate with Gongsun Zan at that time, he reached a consensus with the then King Wuhuan Qiao and Xian Yufu to lure Gongsun Zan to go north to rescue Zhuojun.

King Wuhuan Qiao therefore joined forces with Xianyu Fu and went south to attack Zhuojun.

Gongsun Zan then led the army to the north, intending to wipe out the rebels in Youzhou first, and then go against Yuan Shao.

Gongsun Zan led his troops all the way north, and encountered the armies of King Huan Qiao and Xian Yufu in Baoqiu, and a big battle broke out between the two sides.

Just at the time of the fierce battle, Qu Yi led the army to arrive.

Gongsun Zan's army was defeated and defeated. In the battle of Baoqiu, Yuan Shao's army beheaded more than [-] ranks.

Repeated battles resulted in repeated defeats. Gongsun Zan's trilogy was also due to repeated disastrous defeats. Their morale was low, the morale of the army was low, and they were unable to fight again. In the end, Gongsun Zan had to lead the remnant troops and fled back to Yi County.

The most elite Baima Yicong under Gongsun Zan's command was also completely lost and all died in battle.

At that time, Gongsun Zan had already lost most of his territory, and the rear was also occupied by Wuhuan, the three counties, and there were only more than ten thousand soldiers following him.

Yi County is adjacent to Yishui in the south. Due to geographical conditions, Gongsun Zan ordered his soldiers to dig a dozen trenches outside the city to surround them, and pile up mounds, each five or six feet high, to build camps and garrison troops.

The hill in the center is as high as ten feet, and a building is built on it. Gongsun Zan lives by himself. He uses iron as the gate, and the left and right sides are closed, so that men over seven years old are not allowed to enter, and they only live in it with their wives and concubines. A million dendrobium thought it was self-protection.

Zan said: "I used to drive the Hu in front of Saibiao. At this time, it was said that the world's command and command can be determined. As for today, the military revolution has just begun. Seeing that this is not my decision, it is better to stop the army and cultivate it to save the evil years. The art of war is one hundred. Buildings are not attacked. Today our camps are thousands of miles away, and we have accumulated three million dendrobiums of grain, which is enough to wait for the changes in the world."

Yuan Shao wanted to attack Yi County several times, but in the end they all failed, and lost a lot of soldiers.

Gongsun Zan was famous for his cavalry, but in the end he suffered repeated defeats under Yuan Shao's men, and finally recovered his face in the battle of defending the city.

Yuan Shao only ordered Cui Juye to garrison troops north of Yi County to guard against Gongsun Zan's further troops.

During the four years from the second year of Chuping (191) to the sixth year of Chuping (195), Gongsun Zan remained silent, as if he really wanted to stay in Yijing for the rest of his life.

But it was precisely at this time that Gongsun Zan led the troops to fight out.

When Gongsun Zan's troops left Yijing, it was the third day after Sun Jian captured Liyang.

The reason why the time is so close is naturally no coincidence.

All of this was premeditated...

Cui Juye had been guarding Yi County for a long time, and he never thought that Gongsun Zan would lead the army to fight. The embroidered messenger who was lurking took advantage of the chaos and set fire to the camp.

Gongsun Zan personally led the cavalry out of the city to attack the Wei army's camp. The Wei army was caught off guard and was defeated by Gongsun Zan.

Gongsun Zan's remaining prestige remained undiminished, and he beheaded Cui Juye in the midst of the chaotic army, and the Wei army guarding outside Yijing collapsed.

Afterwards, Gongsun Zan began to retaliate and expand wildly.

Within a range of nearly a hundred miles radiating from Yi County as the center, a large number of cities were plundered.

Not only that, Gongsun Zan coerced a lot of strong men and forced them into soldiers.

Now that Gongsun Zan is in the north, the Wuhuan and Youzhou armies in the three counties in the north are really not easy to rush to the rescue of Yecheng.

　I know, everyone must have forgotten Gongsun Zan.

　　Don't call me black Gongsun Zan, everyone. Gongsun Zan is indeed a famous general in history, and his military exploits are also considered outstanding.

　　However, after he was defeated in the confrontation with Yuan Shao, he was indeed building a capital in Yi County for self-defense, storing food, and these are all recorded in historical records.

　　Historically, from the second year of Xingping (195) to the fourth year of Jian'an (199), which is also four years, they have always stuck to Yijing.

　　The following is the ending of Gongsun Zan in history.

　　In March of the fourth year of Jian'an (199), Zhang Yan, commander of Heishan, and Gongsun Xu led [-] troops to rescue Gongsun Zan in three ways.Before the reinforcements arrived, Gongsun Zan secretly sent a letter to Gongsun Xu, asking him to lead [-] cavalry in Beixi and raise torches in response, and Gongsun Zan went out to fight from inside the city.Yuan Shao got the letter by robbing him, so he used his plan and raised the torch.Gongsun Zan thought that reinforcements had arrived, so he led his troops to attack.Yuan Shao set up an ambush to attack Gongsun Zan. Gongsun Zan was defeated and returned to the city to stand firm.Yuan Shao then dug a tunnel under the city tower, destroyed its watchtower, and gradually reached the central mound.Gongsun Zan knew that he would be defeated, so he set himself on fire.

　　
　
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