I, Liu Bian, the hero

Chapter 41 The Battle of Hanyang ([-])

Five days later, because Guan Yu sent cavalry to deliver news about the battle of Hanyang, Liu Bei led [-] Henan troops under his command to rush and quickly arrived in Ji County.

Upon hearing the news, Fu Xie went out of the city to greet him with Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Fang.

Guan Yu introduced to Fu Xie: "This is my brother, Henan Wei Liu Xuande. Brother, this is Fu Nanrong and Fu Taishou."

At this time, Fu Xie had learned from Guan Yu and Zhang Fei that Liu Bei was the successor of King Jing of Zhongshan, a disciple of Shang Shu Lu Zhi, and a senior brother of Shihou Liu Bian. Regardless of his official position being higher than Liu Bei, he saluted first: " Someone met Liu Duwei."

Liu Bei quickly supported Fu Xie and exclaimed, "Why did Prefect Fu do such a great gift?"

Fu Xie said with a smile: "This time, thanks to Liu Duwei's two sworn brothers, otherwise Fu would have escaped death."

Liu Bei also knew what happened, shook his head and said: "Fu Taishou is upright and upright, and vowed not to surrender to the traitors, Bei is deeply admired. My brother rescued in time, because God does not want such loyal ministers as Fu Taishou to die unjustly, this is the destiny."

The two sides exchanged some polite greetings, and then Fu Xie invited Liu Bei into the city, and Liu Bei's [-] Henan troops also entered the city to garrison.

At this time, in addition to the original soldiers in Jixian County, [-] infantry and archers and about [-] cavalry were added, and they finally had the strength to fight the rebels.

When Fu Xie held a banquet in the city to welcome Liu Bei, he asked Liu Bei, "I heard from Guan Sima that the three lords of the imperial court, Huangfu, Zhang Wen, and Zhu Jun, are jointly hunting for thieves. Zhu Zhonglang will be the front-line coach. I don't know what Zhonglang will do now." place?"

Liu Bei thought for a while and replied: "When I arrived at Chencang earlier, it was reported that Zhonglang will just arrive in Chang'an, and it may take a while before he arrives in Hanyang."

After finishing speaking, he saw Fu Xie's worried expression, and asked again, "Could it be that the rebels have made any changes?"

Fu Xie nodded, and said with a sad face: "On that day, Xiaowei Zhao, Guan Sima and Zhang Sima came to help in time, and temporarily frightened the rebels back. However, the rebels have shown signs of advancing again in the past few days. If Zhonglang will not be able to lead the army in time Come to help, I'm afraid..."

Liu Bei suddenly realized, and immediately exchanged glances with Zhao Fang, the captain of the Tunqi school. Seeing the latter shaking his head, he guessed that Zhao Fang hadn't told Fu Xie the specific strength of the imperial court's troops to hunt down the thieves.

So he tactfully said to Fu Xie: "General Zhu Zhonglang led most of the troops, in fact, they are already here. Under General Zhu Zhonglang's command, there are only infantry and the second battalion of Shesheng, which are less than 2000 people."

Fu Xie was startled, with a horrified look on his face. Seeing this, Liu Bei informed Fu Xie of the imperial court's arrangement for Huang Fusong, Zhang Wen, and Zhu Jun: "...the imperial court wants to allocate [-] million yuan, and ordered the three Zhonglang generals Conscript soldiers from Hanyang, Sanfu, and Chang'an respectively, first resist the rebel attack, and then attack together when the rebel army is weak."

Only then was Fu Xie relieved, and after carefully listening to Liu Bei's narration, he said in amazement: "It takes ten or twenty years to attack one state with the manpower and force of thirteen states. suggestion?"

"Actually, it was Shihou's suggestion." Liu Bei said with a smile: "It is said that Shihou was the first to see the memorial to the imperial court when Fu Taishou played. Dong Zhong of Sui, Ma Teng and others finally made His Majesty determined to conquer the rebels."

Fu Xie didn't bother about why Shi Hou saw his memorial first, and said with emotion: "If it wasn't for Shi Hou, I wouldn't be able to come back to life."

Liu Bei and Zhao Fang laughed without saying a word.

One of them had the label of 'Shihou' on their heads, and the other was from General He Jin. They were naturally in the same camp at present. Seeing that Fu Xie was grateful to that Shihou, he was naturally happy to see his success.

Afterwards, the three of them discussed the strategy to deal with the rebels outside the city. Liu Bei followed Liu Bian's suggestion to the court and said to Fu Xie: "It is not appropriate to fight the rebels on a large scale for the time being. We only need to send a small group of elites to harass the rebels. My younger brothers Yun Chang and Yi De are quite brave, and they can lead the Henan cavalry to harass and sneak attack the rebels, and Captain Zhao and I will assist the prefect in recruiting troops and training the soldiers."

Fu Xie nodded repeatedly.

So from this day onwards, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei each led about 250 Henan cavalry to wander around the territory of Hanyang County, specifically attacking small groups of rebels who were alone.

If you encounter a rebel army occupying the countryside, and the rebel army has a large number of troops, you will call on Zhao Fang's cavalry.

After a few days, the kingdom lost many manpower, which made him very angry.

He summoned Li Cang, the Qiang general under his command, and ordered Li Cang to lead [-] Qiang cavalry in pursuit.

I don't know whether to say that Li Cang was lucky or not, but in less than half a day, he discovered the whereabouts of Guan Yu's cavalry team, and rushed over when Guan Yu attacked a rebel stronghold.

When the scouts in Henan Qizhong reported the news to Guan Yu, Guan Yu asked calmly, "How many troops does the other side have?"

The scout replied, "About five hundred riders."

There are only 250 cavalry on your side, but there are [-] cavalry on the other side. Can this be fought?

Of course you can!

The Henan knights under Guan Yu's command wanted to fight one after another. From their point of view, with Guan Yu as a fierce general, so what if they fought one against two?
But Guan Yu shook his head and said: "In this way, even if I win, I will not escape military punishment."

Could it be that Guan Yu was afraid?

Of course it is impossible. In fact, Shangguan Yu also thought that he could fight and was confident that he could win. However, before he and Zhang Fei led troops to fight, Liu Bei repeatedly told them that if the number of rebels exceeded them, he would ask them to retreat temporarily, otherwise the military order disposal.

Guan Yu was arrogant and fearless of power, but he dared not disobey his elder brother's words, so he led his cavalry to retreat temporarily.

Unexpectedly, when Li Cang saw Guan Yu retreating, he felt complacent and chased after Guan Yu, which made Guan Yu's heart suddenly angry: In view of my brother's strict order, I will spare your life for the time being. Dare to pursue? !
He had a plan in mind, led his cavalry to ambush behind a forest, and waited for Li Cang to chase him. He suddenly rushed out and beheaded Li Cang on his own. The Qiang under Li Cang's command were terrified. Henan Qi killed a big defeat.

Afterwards, Liu Bei learned that Guan Yu was naturally reprimanded. Guan Yu remained silent and had no intention of defending himself, but the Henan cavalry under Guan Yu's command were somewhat unfair to Guan Yu.

On the other hand, the Kingdom was even more frightened and furious, and sent Liang Qi, a Qiang general, to lead cavalry to pursue Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

This time, Liang Qi bumped into Zhang Fei, and Zhang Fei led 250 cavalry to defeat Liang Qi with [-] cavalry without saying a word, and Liang Qi himself was beheaded by Zhang Fei.

When Liu Bei blamed Zhang Fei afterwards, Zhang Fei opened his eyes and argued, "The thief general bumped into me, but he didn't surrender. He dared to lead the crowd to attack, so I killed him and defeated the thief army with all the knights. What's wrong?"

Liu Bei looked at Zhang Fei, a bastard, speechless.

When this matter reached Guan Yu's ears, Second Master Guan stroked his beard with one hand, and suddenly realized that he had learned a trick from his third brother.

So from that day on, Guan Yu was no longer constrained by attacking rebels with a similar number as himself. As long as he judged that he could win, he would dare to attack even if the opponent's number was twice or three times that of theirs. The matter—once the master general dies, what fighting spirit do the rest of the people have?

In such a short few days, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei made countless achievements, and Fu Xie, the prefect of Hanyang, was even more amazed: "The two Sima are so fierce!"

No wonder he was amazed. After all, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei defeated no less than 5000 rebels with just five hundred horses in the past few days, and beheaded more than a thousand horses. The efficiency is really amazing.

After a few days, the rebels memorized the appearance of the two of them, and knew that there were two fierce generals on the side of the imperial court, one with a red face and long beard, and the other with a leopard head and ring eyes.

The kingdom urgently summoned Huang Yan, the former Empress Dowager of Jiuquan, to discuss: "Among the officers and troops sent by the imperial court, there is a red-faced general and a black-faced general who are fighting outside. The knights went after him, but they were all defeated by him, Li Cang, Liang Qi and others were also beheaded by him, so what can we do?"

Huang Yan thought deeply: "There are few officers and soldiers, so we use this to weaken our army. Instead of entangled with him, it is better to attack Ji County. As long as Ji County is defeated, Hanyang will be in the hands of the general."

Wang Guo believed so, and the next day, in the name of General Hezhong, he led his rebel army to attack Ji County together with Huang Yan.

It is a pity that at this time Ji County added 500 Henan soldiers from Liu Bei, and Fu Xie also recruited 3 soldiers from the city. Together with the militia, there were nearly [-] soldiers defending the city alone. Low, but Liu Bei's Henan soldier was an old soldier who had experienced the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Even if the rebel army had as many as [-] to [-] people, they couldn't attack it for a while.

When the rebel army could not attack Ji County with three drums, Liu Bei and Zhao Fang took the opportunity to fight out, and Guan Yu and Guan Yu attacked the rebel flank.

It is worth mentioning that in this battle, Zhang Fei was thinking about taking the head of the kingdom, and as soon as he appeared on the battlefield, he led his cavalry straight to the main formation where the kingdom was located, scaring the kingdom to abandon the army and flee, thus escaping the catastrophe so that Zhang Fei returned to the army cursing.

On the contrary, Guan Yu, who deliberately gave up the head of the kingdom to Zhang Fei, happened to run into Huang Yan, the former governor of Jiuquan, beheaded him without saying a word, and went back to see Fu Xie with his head. He also went to the city to persuade him to surrender, but today he was beheaded by Guan Yu, a fierce general.

Around the end of May, General Zhu Jun of You Zhonglang and Sun Jian, who joined the army, led the two battalions of infantry and Shesheng with about 500 people to Jixian County.

Fu Xie, Liu Bei and Zhao Fang led the crowd out of the city to meet them.

In the reception banquet arranged for Zhu Jun, Fu Xie played the contributions of Liu Bei, Zhao Fang, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei. Apart from Zhu Jun's admiration, Sun Jian was also quite envious.

There is no way, who let Liu Bei have connections and can directly lead the Henan army to go out, but he has to start from scratch and start training soldiers.

In addition to his praise, Zhu Jun also granted Liu Bei and Sun Jian a new army establishment of 5000 men each, and ordered them to recruit soldiers in Hanyang.

Fu Xie, the prefect of Hanyang, was also granted the right to conscript [-] soldiers by Zhu Jun.

Riot!Riot!Riot!

This is the first thing Zhu Jun did when he arrived in Ji County.

As for the second thing, it is to announce the rebellion document issued by the imperial court, to accept the family members of Wang Guo, Han Sui, Ma Teng and others, and to participate in the rebellion of the generals and leaders of the armies, regardless of Han, Qiang, Hu, Di, Xiongnu , all executed.

He said to the generals under his command in a deep voice: "There are orders from the imperial court and words from Marquis Shi. Those who commit treason and conspiracy are guilty of unforgivable crimes. Anyone who participates in the rebellion will not surrender unless he voluntarily submits before the battle. The family members will also be held accountable!"

Although Fu Xie, the prefect of Hanyang, was pleasantly surprised by the court's decision to hunt down the bandits, he never expected that the court's efforts to suppress the bandits would be so strong. Bao, it is difficult to break for a while."

Zhu Jun’s personality is very agreeable to the decision of the imperial court and Shihou this time. He shook his head and said: "Liangzhou has been rebelled for a long time, and the Qiang and Hu made profits wantonly. Peace in all directions, just by crusade against the Kingdom, Han Sui, and Ma Teng, we can completely solve the harm of the Qiang and Hu, so that Liangzhou will never rebel again!... As Shi Hou said, I would rather this war last ten years and cost countless, and I would rather Let the world know the court's determination and will to suppress the rebellion!"

After all, he ordered the publication of the call to action.

A few days later, Wang Guo, Han Sui, Ma Teng and others were shocked when they heard the call to action.

They realized that the Han court was going to get serious this time.

(End of this chapter)