The Infinite Heavens Run Away

Chapter 263 Chapter 7.19 The strength of Guangzong Dongzhuo increases again
Chapter 7 I forged the soul of Han in the Three Kingdoms
7.19 Military strength increases again, Guangzong Dong Zhuo

Because of Deng Feng, the Changshe War ended much earlier than in real history. Basically, as soon as Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun were surrounded, Deng Feng went on a long-distance attack to solve the problem.

Therefore, the time was still in late April, and after another month of repairs, plus the journey back to the military camp near the capital, by the time Deng Feng had arranged everything, it was already late May in the seventh year of Guanghe.

Since it was impossible to take advantage of the opportunity to perform meritorious service, Deng Feng wisely stopped talking and spent his time on his only troops, but it was only some daily maintenance training.

Because Deng Feng was extremely distressed to discover that, in addition to the grain and grass allocated by He Jin according to the standard of 5000 cavalry, he even wanted to provide money to sell grain and buy meat to let the troops strengthen training.

As soon as he did this, Zhang Rang went to the military camp in person, nominally to "labor the army" on behalf of the emperor, but actually gave Deng Feng a warning, that is, his training method was too unrestrained, making other military camps look ugly, and must be controlled in the future. a little.

In desperation, Deng Feng had no choice but to conduct some maintenance training.

However, it is not without benefits. It should be regarded as "beating a stick to give a sweet date". A cavalry that had suffered heavy losses in the battle to exterminate the Yellow Turbans and had a serious shortage of personnel was merged into Deng Feng's Shangdang County soldiers.

The total establishment is nearly 2000 people. This is an order personally issued by the General's Office based on the emperor's wishes.

Deng Feng was overjoyed. He took out part of the spare equipment, eliminated some old and weak people with very high severance pay, changed all the original infantry under his command to formal cavalry, transferred some horses from Shangdang to supplement, and finally The number of cavalry was expanded to 3900.

Among them, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun and Huang Zhong each led 1200 troops, which was two cavalry troops, and the remaining 300 followed Deng Feng as direct soldiers and necessary reserves.

About 400 more people were recruited on the spot, all of which were considered horse crossbowmen, and were handed over to Shi A. In the end, there were no professional infantrymen under his command.

Including engineering troops, baggage troops, medical troops and other professional troops who arrived later, Deng Feng's garrison in the capital barracks reached approximately 5600 people, the vast majority of whom were combat soldiers.

As for the problem of insufficient supplies, it is necessary to recruit civilians on the spot when necessary. The regular army only does some management work or exists as guards, and it also needs to be paid.

In this era, transporting military supplies actually fell into the category of "labor". In many cases, not to mention paying, you even had to bring your own food and wages to work. Deng Feng's approach can be said to be extremely conscientious in this era.

By the time everything was smoothed out, that is, the equipment of all newly recruited officers and soldiers, preliminary training of personnel, and the general integration of combat capabilities had been completed, it was already more than a month later, entering July of the seventh year of Guanghe.

Seeing that the army was on track, Deng Feng stopped wasting time and handed over the army's training and management to four commanders respectively. Chen Gong controlled the general direction and logistics management, while he himself returned to the Shangdang with his two girls.

After all, Xiao Longnu is pregnant and has not seen her for half a year, so she can't go too far no matter what.

"Long'er!" Changing horses and running wildly all the way, Deng Feng and the others arrived at the Shangdang Prefect's Mansion on the morning of the third day.Deng Feng rushed into the backyard without caring about any repairs.

Seeing Xiao Longnu sitting alone in the garden pavilion, holding her chin in thought, Deng Feng rushed forward desperately and hugged his lover tightly in his arms.

"Husband, you're back." I don't know if it's true that "one pregnancy makes you stupid for three years". With Xiao Longnu's cultivation in the golden elixir stage, she only discovered it when Deng Feng was close to her, which made him a little nervous. , "The two sisters are back too. Is the war over?"

"Not yet, and it won't happen in a short time. I just miss you." Deng Feng hugged his lover affectionately and said loving words.

"Long'er also wants a husband." Xiao Longnu has never known what it means to be reserved or roundabout.

In the next 10 days, Deng Feng mostly stayed with Xiao Longnu, and of course he did not forget Cheng Lingsu, who had been the housekeeper and worked hard to develop the rear.

"Girl Ling, has nothing happened in the past six months?"

"There are no big things, but there are a lot of small moves. The main reason is that the Ding family and Zhang Yi had a lot of conflicts. It seems that they are eyeing the position of governor." Cheng Lingsu answered with a smile.

"Isn't this just right for us?" Only when the snipe and the clam fight can the fishermen benefit.

"Yes, I also ordered a batch of weapons to be given to the Zhang family privately, so that they can hold out against the Ding family longer." Cheng Lingsu smiled and replied, "My husband is not here, so we don't have the strength to deal with them for the time being."

"It doesn't matter, it will be much easier to handle after the Yellow Turbans. During this period, you should work harder and recruit and train at least 2000 infantry. The cavalry will not be used for the time being." Although he knew that his lover was working hard, Deng Feng still had to increase his burden, "I Let the ghost girl stay and help you."

"Husband, are you in a hurry? As far as I know, the war has been going very smoothly during this period, and even you are already in a semi-idle state." Cheng Lingsu didn't quite understand.

"When the Yellow Turbans are wiped out, I will definitely be promoted. Expanding the army by then will be too late on the one hand, and inconvenient on the other.

In the past few months, you'd better let some of the remaining Yellow Turban soldiers come in, don't take it too seriously, and lead them to deal with a few small aristocratic families that are not obedient, and then send out troops. If you wait longer, you can find some excuses to expand the army. "

Deng Feng smiled and said the famous strategy of "raising thieves to respect themselves".

"Husband, are you going to be in trouble?" Cheng Lingsu naturally didn't think things were that simple.

"There will definitely be trouble, but it won't be too big. If we develop cavalry, the problem may not be easy to explain; but if it's infantry, it can be said to be for appeasement."

Deng Feng didn't pay much attention to this, because the biggest effect of the Yellow Turban Uprising was to reduce the Eastern Han Dynasty's control over the local area to an irreversible level.

"In that case, I'll start as soon as possible."

"I will arrange for Zhao Feng to transport a batch of seized property to save money for military training.

Don't be reluctant to spend money. We don't lack these things anyway, so there is no point in bringing them.

Even if you spend it all now, as long as you have the troops and horses, you will definitely be able to get it back in the future. "Deng Feng knew very well the truth of "no money, no soldiers", so he specifically asked Cheng Lingsu.

"Don't worry, husband."

After dealing with family matters and spending a few days with the girls, Deng Feng took the little fox back to the military camp in the capital, and then spent most of his time on military training. Of course, some necessary work was also indispensable.

The palace, the queen's bedroom.

"Prefect Deng, don't you need to continue training your troops? Speaking of which, you are really weird. You have been in the capital for such a long time and you haven't interacted with any other officials. You are focused on training and fighting.

Many people thought you were arrogant at first, but no one thinks so now. "Queen He said feebly.

"My dear, in the eyes of most people, I am just a capable general. Even if I try to make friends, no one will take me seriously. Only when I truly reach a high position can we start real relationships.

Apart from anything else, the second young master of the Yuan family has just obtained the qualification to go to court, but he has the courage to look down on me. Although the others have shown little performance, why not? "

Deng Feng is not a young man who has just entered the world. Although he has never been good at these aspects, how many have he seen in so many years?It’s not that you can’t tell if you’re not good at handling it.

"No wonder you came up with such an unexpected way when you wanted to buy an official position." Queen He glanced at Deng Feng with a strange expression.

She now believes that the man who dealt with her directly after entering the palace and dared to propose cooperation after several days of tossing was really that simple and crude, instead of pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger.

"Empress, you didn't suffer, did you?" Deng Feng shamelessly gave a very shameless explanation and prepared to start "work" again.

"Deng Zifeng, are you crazy?" Queen He struggled desperately, but in the end she had no choice but to cater to her, "Where is your sister from the Han family? Why don't you go find her?"

"Xiao Zhao went home early." Deng Feng was also helpless about this.

Generally speaking, the physical needs of masters of physical training will increase significantly in all aspects, including men and women.

Apart from anything else, the girls of the Deng family also practiced the "Dragon and Elephant Prajna Kung Fu" intensively. In addition, under the influence of Deng Feng, they were not as conservative as ordinary women in feudal society in interacting with their lovers. On weekdays, everyone was very affectionate. Deep and harmonious life.The problem is that the little fox Deng Feng is reluctant to eat, and the other girls are thousands of miles away. However, Queen He is just an ordinary person, and there is no way she can withstand Deng Feng's torment.

In desperation, Deng Feng had to pick up the "Baopu Immortality Technique" which had no use for him. Although it was useless to him, for ordinary people like Queen He, the effect of double cultivation with Deng Feng was still very significant. of.

Deng Feng also generously passed on some of his routines to Queen He, such as the "Wudang 72-Style Continuous Life-Destroying Sword Technique", "Huashan Jade Breaking Fist", "Ancient Tomb Sect Bird Catching Technique" and other techniques.

He even generously passed on the "Shen Zhao Jing" to her. On the one hand, to make the future "sex life" more beautiful, the main purpose is to strengthen the common interests of both parties.

Queen He had been "fighting" in the inner palace for many years, and her desire for strength far exceeded Deng Feng's imagination. Her initiative in this regard was so frightening that Deng Feng later wondered who was the one who suffered the loss.

However, the effect of the practice is still very significant. In less than two months, with the full cooperation of Deng Feng, a strong man in the Golden Core stage, Queen He has reached the level of a third-rate master, including internal skills and routines.

Empress He even put on fancy clothes and deliberately performed a sword dance alone in the back garden in an attempt to attract Emperor Han Ling, but it had the opposite effect. Emperor Han Ling was already worried about the He family, and now he was even more worried.

The reason why he only practiced for less than two months was because the war situation changed again in September, and Deng Feng's opportunity came again.

After the tragic defeat of Changshe, the life of the regular Yellow Turban Army can be said to be getting worse day by day. Basically, the news on the battlefield is that the Han army has won, and the territory controlled by the Yellow Turban Army has been shrinking again and again.

Even the main force of the Yellow Turban Army, led by the three brothers of the Zhang family, was defeated and was chased by Huangfu Song, Lu Zhi and Zhu Jun.

From June to August, Zhu Jun and his allies defeated Zhao Hong, and then killed Zhao Hong's successor Han Zhong. Finally, they surrounded Han Zhong's successor Sun Xia in Wancheng, and they are still anxious.

During the same period, Huangfu Song fought with the main force of the Yellow Turban Army led by Zhang Jiao, and won many victories, forcing Zhang Jiao to retreat to Guangzong.The early leader, Lu Zhi, was captured by them as a snitch because he was unwilling to bribe the eunuchs.

The trusted general Dong Zhuo replaced was of average ability and could not defeat Zhang Jue's army. He transferred Huangfu Song over and the two teamed up to fight against Zhang Jue. So far, no substantial progress has been made.

Finally, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty became impatient and remembered the Shangdang County soldiers under Deng Feng who had been "repairing" in the capital. Naturally, Deng Feng would not be pretentious at this time, and in the court he looked like "I finally have the opportunity to be loyal to the country." expression, ecstatically accepting the imperial edict.

Then it only took one day to assemble troops and horses, and on the second day a total of 5000 cavalry (outsiders regarded the mounted crossbowmen and the medical soldiers specially increased to 50 as regular cavalry) and nearly 7000 horses galloped straight towards Guangzong.

The old rule is to bring your own five-day rations. Zhao Feng's baggage battalion and the engineering battalion continued to follow slowly.

This was truly a thousand-mile journey. Five days of rations were not enough anyway, so Deng Feng followed his habit and ate wherever he arrived.

The price was that after all this, a snowstorm of impeachment memorials piled up on the desk of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, which actually made the emperor feel more relieved.

"This Deng Zifeng is too impatient. He completely ignores the attitude of all the prefectures and counties, and even threatens them that he will enter the city to steal food." Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty threw a memorial on the ground, but his expression was full of happiness.

"This Governor Deng is eager to achieve great results, but he is not very good at people." Seeing Emperor Ling's attitude, Zhang Rang also joined in the fun.

"That's all, the Yellow Turbans are rampant at the moment. If anything happens, we'll talk about it later." As for what to say in the future, if we can win a big victory, it will probably be "three drinks as a penalty, and we won't do it next time."

"Your Majesty, your Majesty!" Zhang Rang naturally saw the problem and smiled, clasping his fists and patting the horse.

Ten days later, outside Guangzong City.

"General, the main force of Lord Huangfu Song should be in front, and there is another army of horses, fighting fiercely with the Yellow Turban bandits." The scouts sent in advance ran all the way to Deng Feng, rolled their saddles and dismounted, and reported to Deng Feng.

"I know, let's go down and rest." With Deng Feng's sensing ability, even if there was no report from the scouts, he knew what happened ahead, so he didn't bother to rest and immediately started arranging the battle.

"Wen Yuan and Han Sheng, each of you will lead your own troops and enter the battle from the left and right wings respectively. Use mounted archery to kill the enemy as much as possible."

"The last general takes orders!" Zhang Liao and Huang Zhong immediately left to prepare.

"Mingyuan, you immediately lead all the crossbowmen to dismount behind the friendly troops, suppress the enemy with upward fire, and support our army in the battle."

"General, take your orders!" Shi A led the men off with a ferocious expression.

"Hong Lin, you and I will serve as the general reserve team. When the Yellow Turbans retreat, we will take advantage of the situation to cover up and kill the enemy as much as possible."

"Lord, don't worry!" Gao Shun naturally clasped his fists and accepted the order.

The Han army in front is under the banner of the Chinese army.

"Haha, it's Zifeng's cavalry who has arrived. Master Dong, we can have nothing to worry about!" Huangfu Song laughed loudly, watching the cavalry on both sides passing quickly from the flanks, using flying crossbows in the middle to cover the Yellow Turban Army.

Coupled with the heavy crossbow firepower passing overhead, it was equivalent to the concentrated fire coverage of more than [-] crossbowmen.

Even if the total strength of the main force of the Yellow Turbans exceeds 20, they cannot withstand the huge losses under such firepower, especially when they have almost no protection and rely entirely on physical resistance.

"Did Lord Huangfu exaggerate?" Dong Zhuo, who was standing next to him, didn't quite agree. "It's just that there is no shortage of money, so we have bought some more powerful crossbows."

"Master Dong will find out later." Huangfu Song did not explain, and he did not like this boss.

After only half a stick of incense, the Yellow Turban Army, which could no longer withstand the huge casualties, began to retreat in an orderly manner. However, the Han army in front was not stupid. Even Dong Zhuo didn't say much at this time and immediately ordered the troops to follow up and fight.

The result was that the Yellow Turban Army could not withdraw no matter what.The crossbowmen covering the retreat were quickly covered by the overwhelming crossbow fire from Shangdang County soldiers, and the main force of the Yellow Turban Army, which had originally retreated in an orderly manner, gradually began to collapse.

"It's time, send a signal and order Wen Yuan and Han Sheng to attack from the flanks; Hong Lin, follow me and attack from the front!"

The fierce assault of nearly four thousand cavalry was completely devastating on a battlefield where the number of people was no more than tens of thousands.

What's more helpless is that this cavalry didn't just rush over, but turned around and continued to charge. In the end, the formation of the main force of the Yellow Turban Army was completely broken up.

More than an hour later, as the gate of Guangzong closed, less than 6% of the troops withdrew, and the rest remained on the battlefield outside Guangzong. The brutal loss of more than [-] troops severely wounded the main force of the Yellow Turban Army. vitality.

"Hahaha, dear brother Zifeng, you still look good after not seeing each other for so many days!" The other officers and soldiers were cleaning the battlefield, but Huangfu Song, completely ignoring the difference in status, laughed and stepped forward and hugged Deng Feng, "Brother Zifeng is here today!" Here, winning is just around the corner!”

"Lord Huangfu, that's ridiculous. If it weren't for the two of you fighting these days, Deng wouldn't have seized such a good opportunity." Everyone was carrying the sedan chair, and they must say something nice at this time.

"It seems you are a little self-aware." Of course, not everyone is so good at things.

"Who are you?" Others were not discerning, and Deng Feng was not interested in spoiling them.

"I, Dong Zhuo, am the general of this land!"

"What right does a mere unknown person have to bark!" Deng Feng replied in one sentence, which was not considered arrogant. At least at this time, Dong Zhuo had a much worse reputation than him.

"You——" Dong Zhuo was furious, his right hand already on the hilt of the sword.

The atmosphere instantly became tense!

(End of this chapter)