I, Liu Bian, Sanxing Han Dynasty

Chapter 12 Boyi today

The rebels have already reached the capital of Ji County, the capital of Hanyang County.

The rebels arrived faster than anyone expected, including the prefect Fu Xie.

Fu Xie even received no news of Geng Bi's defeat at all.

Fortunately, since Geng Bi left, Fu Xie had often sent scouts around the counties, so that he could close the city gates in time before the rebels raided.

It turns out that Geng Bi was determined to achieve a great cause, but he hired the wrong person.

He attached great importance to Zhi Zhong Cheng Qiu, but Cheng Qiu himself was treacherous, greedy for money, uninterested in human affairs, and was not liked by the locals. But Geng Bi didn't care at all and allowed Cheng Qiu to do whatever he wanted with his power.

When Geng Bi led his army to Didao County, Longxi County, conflicts finally broke out and internal strife broke out in the army.

Geng Bi and Cheng Qiu were both high-minded and unpopular. No one was willing to protect them due to internal strife, and they all died in the rebellion.

Without its backbone, the army, whose main body was originally recruits, dispersed in an uproar.

In this way, Geng Bi's army collapsed before encountering the rebels in Jincheng County.

Li Shen and Li Xiangru, the governor of Longxi County, had planned a rebellion, so they took the opportunity to join forces with Ma Ma Teng, the commander of Geng Bi's army, and led his troops to defect to the rebels.

It happened that the rebels had elected a new leader, the Kingdom, and were about to plunder Sanfu again. The two sides hit it off immediately, and after taking Longxi, the next stop was Hanyang County.

The kingdom led the rebels to attack, but there were few soldiers and food in Ji County, so Fu Xie could only hold on.

Fu Xie is a man who knows the military. The defenders include only a thousand people temporarily recruited. Plus more than a thousand civilians, this is the entire strength of Ji County. He knows that Ji County cannot defend Ji County simply by relying on the power of the city. live.

After Ji County withstood the first wave of sudden attacks by the rebels, the Qiang people who were originally attracted by Fu Xie's expansion of farming also joined the rebels as Huangfu Song expected.

There were also several thousand Huns cavalrymen from Beidi County. They knew Fu Xie's reputation and character, and they repeatedly promised outside the city that as long as Fu Xie was willing to leave the city and surrender, they could ensure that Fu Xie returned to his hometown of Beidi County safely.

The Qiang people who had been favored by Fu Xie's farming were also willing to support the requests of these northern Huns.

But how could Fu Xie be willing to lose integrity?

Fu Xie's son Fu Qian was thirteen years old and lived with his father in Ji County. When he heard the Huns shouting, he always knew that his father had a strong temperament, but he still tried his best to persuade him: "Today the eunuchs are in power and the country is in chaos. My father was pushed here." Now that Liangzhou is controlled by the rebels, it is not my father’s fault. It is better to return to my hometown in the north and be useful!"

Fu Xie's moral character is not comparable to that of Shui Tailiang. Fu Qian found a very good reason for him, but he refused without thinking.

As a prefect, but unable to defend the county, Fu Xie was determined to die.

He sighed with emotion and said his last words to his son: "Don't tell me, you know that I will die for evil? It's because of the 'Shengda Festival, the second time to keep the festival'. In addition, because of the cruelty of King Zhou of Yin, Boyi could even die without eating Zhou millet. The nun called him a virtuous person. Today, the imperial court has not reached the level of King Zhou of Yin. Can my virtue be inferior to that of Boyi? How can I retreat in distress if I eat the king's salary? I am a prefect. Since I am in such a situation, I can only die. That’s all!”

At this point, Fu Xie took Fu Qian's hand and handed it to the chief clerk Yang Hui, saying: "You have little talent, so you should encourage it. The chief clerk Yang Hui is my Cheng Ying. You From now on, you have to rely on Him.”

Fu Qian was already crying.

How can a pity child not be a husband?

Fu Xie heard the sound of drums outside the city, took one last look at Ai Zi, and stood up suddenly.

When he stepped onto the city gate tower, he saw Huang Yan, the Jiuquan prefect who had been sent by the kingdom to persuade him to surrender, and he immediately cursed him angrily.

The kingdom knew that it could not be persuaded to surrender, so it ordered the army to attack.

Ji County has few soldiers and mostly new soldiers. Facing tens of thousands of rebels, there are gradually more and more omissions on the city wall.

The rebels had just arrived, and they only built some temporary ladders during the recruitment period. There were insufficient siege equipment, otherwise Ji County would have been defeated long ago.

Fu Xie once again drove off the rebels on a city wall. Finally, he couldn't hold on any longer and gasped. He could only keep himself from falling by leaning on the ground with his long spear. This round of rebel offensive is finally over, but no one around the soldiers is cheering, there is no backup, and everyone is exhausted.

Fu Xie understood that it would be difficult to resist the next round of rebel attacks.

He straightened his back with all his strength.

The drums of the rebels' march sounded again, and Fu Xie skillfully called on the soldiers to lean against the outer city wall to avoid arrow feathers, but strangely, they didn't wait for a long time.

"Reinforcements? It's reinforcements! Mr. Fu, reinforcements are coming!" Someone boldly looked outside the city.

Fu Xie heard someone shouting next to him, and a force seemed to surge from his spine.

He looked through the parapet wall and saw red flags representing the virtues of Yan Han.

That's a color he'll never forget!

Hope was rekindled in Fu Xie's heart. He watched this red streak pass through the rebel flank, causing chaos. Then the Han cavalry army divided into two groups, weaving back and forth among the rebels, taking advantage of the chaos in the rebel formation to look at them.

Fu Xie understood the intention of the reinforcements. They wanted to drive away the rebels on the flanks and attack the kingdom's central army.

But the rebels were raging in Liangzhou, how could they be so easy to defeat? The Kingdom's archers in the central army did not care about their comrades. The rain of arrows and spears did not distinguish between friend and foe, forcing the reinforcements to retreat.

Fu Xie raised his spear and shouted: "Those who still have some strength left, follow me to open the city gate and welcome the reinforcements!"

He understood that without the advantage of a surprise attack, the reinforcements could no longer pose much of a threat to the kingdom's central army, which was well prepared.

This supporting army is naturally the forward led by Huangfu Li and Liu Bei.

They never expected to encounter rebels attacking the city in Hanyang County, but after a brief period of shock, they found an excellent opportunity - the rebels also did not consider their sudden arrival.

Unfortunately, there is no shortage of generals in the rebel army who know how to organize their troops, and the Chinese army has a tight formation. Huangfu Li and Liu Bei could only choose to break into the rebel vassal from the flanks.

They first charge the enemy formation with unmanned horses, followed by cavalry. After that, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei each took the lead and led a group of troops to charge into the battle.

After their attempt to defeat the rebels in one go failed, they did not hesitate and rushed directly to the city they were still holding on to.

The Hun cavalry, which was active on the periphery and was not affected by the rebellion, was intimidated by the Han army's combat power and did not dare to pursue it.

Fu Xie opened the city gate in advance, and the forwards entered the city smoothly. Under the arrangements of Fu Xie and Huangfu Li, some elites climbed the city wall with bows and arrows.

When the cavalry sent by the kingdom chased them to the city, only a closed door greeted them, and they could only stop outside the range of bows and arrows.

Huangfu Li and Liu Bei inspected the city wall. In the short term, the kingdom should not organize any more attacks.

They looked at the exhausted soldiers defending the city...with blood and wounds.

"Master Fu, I'm too late!"

"It's not too late, it's not too late, it's not too late yet!"

(End of this chapter)