Three Kingdoms: I will act as a substitute for the Hunjun

Hanoi County governs Huai County, and thieves came from all over the mountains and plains. It was impossible to count how many people there were, and they went straight to the county seat with strange screams.

These were Black Bandits and White Bandits who had spent half the winter in the deep mountains. They were all sallow and thin, and their clothes were thin. Some even had their toes exposed from their shoes, and their feet were covered with frostbite.

They ran down the hillside quickly. Their bodies were too weak and they staggered as they ran. Some of them slipped on the snow and fell to the ground, and then rolled down, not knowing whether they were alive or dead.

On top of the city of Huai County, Zhu Jun was wearing armor, pressed his hand on the hilt of his sword, sneered, and said: "It seems that Zhang Yan and Mrs. Guo are still unwilling to accept your majesty's conditions, but they came just in time. Zhu has been waiting for them for several months. Hao Meng, send someone to ask for help from Chief Xing Gaixun!”

"Yes!" A young general next to him clasped his fists in salute, then turned around to make arrangements.

Last year, Liu Ming lifted the siege of Huai County and put down the Baibo and Heishan rebellions. Zhu Jun's main focus was on recruiting soldiers and horses and gathering grass and crops. Moreover, with the deterrent of the previous massacre of the Shan clan, all the local wealthy families were He didn't dare to resist and was extremely cooperative.

It can be said that people were needed to give people and food to be given, and thousands of Black Mountain bandit prisoners were transformed. After several months of preparation, Huai County was now impregnable. It was no longer what it used to be, with a total of five thousand troops stationed there.

He also promoted two new Hanoi local generals, one named Han Hao and the other Hao Meng. Together with Fang Yue, the famous Hanoi general, Zhu Jun now had all the troops and generals in Huai County.

It is a bit difficult to go into the mountains and wipe out the Black Mountain bandits, but if it is to defend the city, Zhu Jun is still very confident.

Moreover, the heavy troops of Chief Xing Gaixun had just left Jiguan and entered Hedong, and they could send troops back at any time to support them.

As long as he stays in Huai County for a few days, reinforcements will arrive. By then, no matter how many bandits there are, it will be in vain. With the combat power of the Black Mountain bandits and the Baibo bandits, and with the cooperation between the government and the army, they have no possibility of victory.

Previously, the Baibo Army and the Black Mountain Army could no longer survive in the mountains, so they asked the court to surrender. Liu Ming gave them three conditions for recruitment.

The most important thing is that they must come out of the mountains and forests, destroy their camps and live on the plains, and everyone must accept the unified arrangements of the government, either joining the army, farming or doing business.

This avoids Zhang Yan's repeated back and forth of surrendering and then rebelling, and rebelling and asking for surrender again. It is to completely cut off their retreat from repeated jumps.

Zhu Jun saw these three conditions at that time and felt that these three conditions were actually extremely friendly to ordinary thieves, but the leaders lost their power. It depends on how they choose.

In order to prevent the worst outcome from happening, Zhu Jun rushed to prepare for the war and even sent a message to Gai Xun to communicate that if there was an accident in the inland river, he would immediately send troops to come back for reinforcements.

Zhu Jun and Gai Xun had a pretty good relationship on weekdays, and since it was related to family and country affairs, Gai Xun naturally agreed.

"Lord Sikong, Zhang Yan and Mrs. Guo must have fainted from hunger." Fang Yue asked doubtfully, "Although it was expected that they would not accept His Majesty's recruitment conditions, they would just go down the mountain to attack Huai County. It’s quite unwise. Don’t they know that we are already prepared?”

"When a person is hungry, he can do anything." Han Hao said next to him.

"Why don't you accept the recruitment when you're hungry?" Fang Yue retorted, "If you ask me, I'm still hungry enough."

"Don't worry about what we don't know about behind the scenes." Zhu Jun said solemnly, "Go check the city defenses again immediately and prepare for battle."

"Follow the order!" Fang Yue and Han Hao agreed, and walked along the city wall to both sides.

Fang Yue muttered as he walked: "The city defense has been set up early, and we are just waiting for these thieves to come."

This time, the Black Mountain bandits and the Baibo bandits were obviously well prepared. Many of them came carrying siege equipment with the intention of attacking the fortified county town.

When the thieves came to the city, they did not attack the city directly. Instead, they began to gather and form square formations.

Zhu Jun frowned slightly. The thief had made great progress compared with his performance half a year ago. Although he was still disorganized when rushing down the mountain, he actually started to form a formation before attacking.

However, the formation was very crude. It seemed that it had been trained in a hurry, but it was obvious that the soldiers were not very skilled in using it.

Zhu Jun secretly rejoiced. Fortunately, the thieves were short of food and clothing, so they had to come down from the mountains to plunder and attack the city. If they were allowed to recharge for a while, their combat effectiveness might be greatly improved.

After a while, Han Hao, Hao Meng, and Fang Yue all returned to Zhu Jun.

"It is roughly estimated that there are more than 20,000 bandit soldiers." Han Hao said.

"This should be all the thieves have available to fight. It can be said that they are all out in force. The thieves have a big plan. They want to complete their success in one battle." Fang Yue said.

After several major defeats in battles with the government troops last year, the main forces of the White Wave Army and the Black Mountain Army have been exhausted. The 20,000 people are almost all the capable warriors after the two teams merged.

"Haha, the thieves want to finish their work in one battle, why don't we want to completely quell the banditry in Hanoi through this battle?" Hao Meng said with a smile.

"Look at the middle of the bandits." Zhu Jun raised his hand and pointed to the center of the bandit array.

Everyone put up awnings and looked over, and saw a bright scene there, a wonder caused by the reflection of the armor - there were more than five hundred men in armor!
There are so many armored men among the thieves! Everyone's heart twitched when they saw it. The more thieves are beaten, the poorer they get, and they can't even open the cooking pot. Where can they get the money to buy iron armor? Moreover, in last year's battle, the thieves had not seen so many soldiers.

"I'm afraid it's not just the Black Mountain Bandits and the White Wave Bandits, there are people behind them." Zhu Jun's face became solemn, "It seems that this battle is not as simple as we thought, so cheer up!"

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Among the thieves below the city, Mrs. Guo and Zhang Yan were riding side by side. Looking at the general in front who was surrounded by soldiers, the two looked at each other again, with deep worry in their eyes.

"Old Zhang, do you think we will be used as guns?" Mrs. Guo lowered her voice and said, "The man named Xu seems to have no reputation. Can we leave the army under his command?"

"I have watched him train troops, and he is well versed in the art of war. He is much better than us." Zhang Yan said, "At this point, I can only take a gamble. It was originally an adventure."

"I sometimes wonder, is it Dong Zhuo who pinned down the army and succeeded us, or is it us who pinned down the army and succeeded Dong Zhuo?" Mrs. Guo said to herself doubtfully.

"The best situation is mutual success, otherwise Dong Zhuo will not be so kind. If we can hold Hanoi, we will have the right to speak." Zhang Yan said with a solemn face, "Ignore other things, just capture Huai County for a meal Let’s talk after eating. I hope Xu Rong won’t disappoint us.”

The general surrounded by armored men was Dong Zhuo's general Xu Rong!
Dong Zhuo was retreating steadily in Hedong, and seeing that the situation was over, counselor Li Ru came up with a strategy, which was to encourage the Black Mountain bandits to attack Hanoi and force Gai Xun to return reinforcements to reduce the pressure on Hedong.

So he sent General Xu Rong to lead 500 people, squeeze out a small amount of food, and take a detour into Heishan to contact Zhang Yan and Guo Tai.

This was also the time when the Black Mountain bandits and the Baibo bandits were in the most difficult time. They were short of food and clothing. Mrs. Guo and Zhang Yanzheng were discussing whether to agree to the three conditions proposed by the emperor. They would change from being the dominant party and calling the storms to becoming submissive people who obeyed the court's arrangements. .

The food Xu Rong brought was only enough for the Shanren soldiers and horses to have a full meal, but even so, the thieves were grateful.

After that, Xu Rong explained his interests, saying that Dong Zhuo would contain the main force of the imperial army. Now that Hanoi was empty, it was the time for the two leaders to use their troops.

Moreover, the powerful combat power of the armored men he brought was demonstrated at the scene. Zhang Yan and Guo Tai were completely impressed and decided to let Xu Rong assist in training the army and choose the opportunity to go out to attack Huai County and then seize the entire Hanoi.

That's why today's battle happened.

Xu Rong, wearing a red cloak and holding the command flag and arrows in his arms, glanced at the neatly arranged formation of traitors with a stern expression, and couldn't help but frown.

With his military literacy, he can naturally see that the formation formed by these thieves has its appearance. But fortunately, it is not a formation contest with the official army, so it does not matter. The formation is just for the convenience of mobilization. .

Being used to the fierce style of the Xiliang army, he really looked down upon the fighting power of these thieves, but he had no choice. Dong Zhuo was under great pressure, and he was still waiting here to share the pressure.

For Xu Rong, it doesn't matter whether Huai County can be captured. What is important is that Gai Xun can return his troops, or at least let him divide his troops. The goal will be achieved.

Otherwise, Dong Zhuo really couldn't hold on anymore. Unless he gave up Hedong and continued to flee north, it would be difficult to make a comeback. Maybe then I will have to stay with these bandits for a long time.

"Attack!" Xu Rong raised his command flag and pointed forward, shouting loudly, "If anyone retreats, military law will be engaged!"

The sound of war drums suddenly rumbled and spread throughout the countryside.

"Attack!" the thieves shouted, rushing forward like a tide.

In front are the shield soldiers, behind are the siege teams carrying ladders, then behind are the archers, and behind them are the siege troops.

Seeing this arrangement, Mrs. Guo showed a satisfied look.

"Xu Rong still hasn't grasped the temper of the brothers." Zhang Yan said with a sneer, "If there is a good encouragement before the war, the effect will be better. What about robbing food, money, women, etc., brothers believe it the most This, this is bullshit military law, who knows what’s going on!”

Mrs. Guo also nodded when he heard this and said: "But looking at his attack, it seems that there is something wrong with pretending. Let's see what the effect is."

It is not yet clear how effective the siege will be. At least the order of this attack will be much better than their previous ones. It will no longer be a swarm of swarms, but mutual cooperation will be achieved to a certain extent.

It's a pity that the intensive training time is too short. If you train a few more times, the team's combat effectiveness will soon be strengthened and improved. Now it can only be sharpened with blood and fire in actual combat.

On top of the city, everyone could not help but look solemn as they looked at the orderly advance of the bandits.

"What did the rebels eat during the New Year?" Fang Yue asked in surprise, "Why do you feel different after a new year?"

"Fire the arrow!" Zhu Jun shouted loudly. (End of chapter)