A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 224 Tianhan Rebellion
The second year of Tianhan
March rd
Fan Sheng, a native of Hanoi County, gathered hundreds of people to start a rebellion in the countryside. Within three days, as many as a thousand people supported him.

A few days later, Fan Sheng captured Yewang County and opened the official warehouse to store grain. For a time, responders gathered, and his rebel army numbered thousands. He called himself a general. After resting for a few days, he sent troops south to prepare to capture Wen County.

"General, why don't we go to the west? The west is the farthest from the county." A rebel general asked.

"You know what the heck, since that dog emperor moved the Hangu Pass eastward, he built a pass in Zhi County. What are you going to do here? Hit the wall!" Fan Sheng said, looking at this general who didn't know a word of Chinese characters.

The general scratched his head, and another general said: "Let's take Wen County first, so that our troops will have ten thousand people, and then we will have the strength to compete with the county soldiers.

We must know that Hanoi County is not a long-term stay. If it is too close to Guanzhong, it will be targeted by the entire imperial court. Therefore, we should attack the county as soon as possible, obtain its armaments, and then quickly escape into the Taihang Mountains and turn to develop elsewhere. "

Fan Sheng said with satisfaction: "What the former captain said makes sense, you guys should learn from it."

March
After two or three days of marching, Fan Shengjun was not far from Wen County.

"General, the news of our uprising has not spread widely yet. It is better for me to lead an elite force and attack the city first. This is worse than attacking the city with a large army." Yuan Zhuang suggested.

Fan Sheng thought about it and said, "Okay, that's it, you must be careful."

"General, don't worry."

"Dong Ma!" Fan Sheng shouted.

"Here, the general called me." Dong Ma came in immediately. Dong Ma was a hunter of the Wild King. He was brave and was discovered by Fan Sheng and promoted to a school captain with five hundred people.

"Immediately select a hundred warriors and a group of former captains to attack Wen County first. The army will arrive soon," Fan Sheng ordered.

"Yes, General, just look at my old Dong!" Dong Ma immediately patted his chest and said.

Fan Sheng's army has more than 5,000 people, but most of them are unarmed, either holding farm tools or sticks. They don't even have a leather armor. Only some elites have a knife, and the leather armor collected from the county arsenal A can only equip junior officers.

Originally, Fan Shengjun did not have such a formal organization. As long as they came, Fan Sheng would accept them, regardless of whether they were useful or not.

Since Yuan Zhuang arrived, he reorganized the army according to the structure of the Han army and stayed in Yewang for a day or two. Fortunately, Yewang County is remote, close to the Taihang Mountains and far from the county seat of Huai County, so there is no news of Fan Shengjun's uprising. It spread so fast.

Yuan Zhuang and Dong Ma, with a total of 1,000 people, are Fan Sheng's direct troops, with the highest armor and weapon rates, about 40%. The other captains are all local powerful men, and will obey Fan as long as it is not a matter of principle. Health orders.

Yuan and Dong selected 300 people to form a vanguard and march ahead of the army to occupy Wen County.

Since the Han Dynasty turned a lot of attention to the barbarians in all directions and the internal peace was lasting for a long time, the drills in counties and counties were relaxed, and the city defense alert was also lowered.

Yuan Zhuang and Dong Ma first selected fifty people, disguised themselves as a caravan, and put their weapons on ox carts and donkey carts. When they approached the city gate, they immediately drew their weapons and rushed into the city gate. The Wen County defenders were not prepared at all. , was killed by surprise.

The following 250 people saw that the city gate had begun to move, and hurried forward to support. Soon, the 300 people completely occupied the city gate. However, the Han army's equipment was still much better than them, and they also lost dozens of people. people.

Since he had few people, he did not dare to enter the city. He only dared to guard at the city gate, waiting for the army.

Just when the defenders in the county arrived, Yuan and Dong fought hard to resist. Fortunately, Fan Sheng's army arrived not long after. The army marched into Wen County and completely occupied Wen County. Then they opened warehouses and released weapons. Food, recruit troops and horses.

After occupying two counties, Fan Sheng's army came to more than 10,000 people, and his direct lineage of 2,000 people, almost all of them were wearing armor and holding swords. He also took out more than a dozen weapons from the arsenals of the two counties. The crossbowmen and those who knew how to shoot bows and arrows formed a fifty-man crossbow camp, under their own direct control.

And since he had more than 10,000 people, he should start to promote himself, so Fan Sheng called himself General Tiandao, which means to do justice for heaven. Five more generals were promoted, namely Yuan Zhuang, Dong Ma, Jian Lu, Zhao He and Zhang Yang.

Among them, Yuan Zhuang and Dong Ma were direct descendants of Fan Sheng, and Jian Lu and the others were all local powerful men. Several generals commanded about 2,000 troops each, and their own direct troops had 1,000 troops. At the same time, they collected all the horses in the two counties and formed a cavalry team of 50 people.

The standard equipment of a rebel officer is a leather armor, a knife, and a horse.

March 10
"I got news that Gan Jian, the prefect of Hanoi, has learned about our uprising, and has sent a thousand county soldiers led by County Commander Ma Wenzhao here, so we should prepare as soon as possible." Fan Sheng After obtaining Kurei Liang's information, military discussions began without stopping.

"General, our army has just expanded at this time and we have not had time to train. It is not easy for us to confront the imperial court head-on." Yuan Zhuang said.

"How can it be so serious? Let me tell you, the entire Hanoi County has only 5,000 soldiers and horses. As far as I know, the county only has 3,000 soldiers and horses, while other counties only have 300 to 500 soldiers each. No wait.

Now that Gan Jian actually dares to send a thousand men, but we have ten thousand people, so we should drown him even if we just spit out the foam! Sooner or later, we will face the imperial army. It is better to fight early than to fight late.

And I think that confronting him directly can also promote our reputation and let the world's heroes see that today's imperial court is vulnerable. "Jianlu said disdainfully.

"I agree," Zhao He and Zhang Yang also echoed.

Judging from Dong Ma's expression, he also agreed with the idea of ​​confronting them head-on.

Seeing that most people agreed to confront the imperial army head-on, Fan Sheng said: "Okay then, let me order the whole army to break out of camp. The target is Huai County. We want the emperor sitting on the throne to know that we, the low-level people, are , nor are they pigs and sheep left to be slaughtered.”

"Order!"

March 14

The Hanoi army passed through Zhouxian and headed west along the Qinshui River. Fifty miles west of Zhouxian, they encountered the rebel army.

The two sides lined up along the narrow mountains and rivers on the west bank of Qinshui River, 10,000 against 1,000. The advantage was mine, but because the terrain was inconvenient for an army of 10,000 to deploy, the rebel army's formation was very thick. Fan Sheng looked at the military positions of both sides. In contrast, if he wanted to improve his morale, he said confidently: "Which general dares to charge with me!" "General, let me go!" Zhao He said.

"Okay, I order you to lead our troops and go forward to invite a fight." Fan Sheng ordered.

"Yes!"

Zhao He led his two thousand men and slowly moved forward, preparing to attack the Hanoi army.

However, since they were not a professional army, the formation broke up after just a few steps forward. What was originally intended to be a slow advance in formation turned into a swarm of charges without any discipline.

When Hanoi Army Sima Wen Zhao saw this, he was disdainful. It turned out to be a mob.

"The crossbowmen are ready!" Wen Zhao ordered.

Wait until the rebels are within range, "Let go!"

The slightly denser arrows hit Zhao He's troops and caused serious damage. The rebels, who had no protection at all, were almost instantly injured or killed by the arrows. The only protection was an irregular small piece of wood made by themselves. shield.

"Ah!" In a hail of arrows, Zhao He's troops lost nearly fifty people.

"Keep rushing, just rush over." Zhao He kept encouraging.

So the soldiers rushed forward bravely. When they reached the Hanoi army formation more than fifty steps away, the second round of arrow rain came. This time, they shot down more than a hundred people at once. Fortunately, they were already close.

However, the Hanoi army's formation was tight, and Zhao He's troops would die if they went up.

Under the blow of the extremely high mortality rate, Zhao He's department collapsed. No matter how Zhao He scolded him, it was of no use.

So the battle, which lasted for a few quarters of an hour, ended, with the Hanoi army suffering several casualties and Zhao He's troops suffering hundreds of casualties.

"This..." All the generals watching the battle were stunned. No way, Zhao Hebu's combat effectiveness is not weak!

Seeing the collapse of Zhao He's troops, County Commander Ma Wen Zhao immediately ordered the army to advance slowly.

After the Hanoi Army entered the firing range of the rebel army, the rebel army began to fire sparse arrows, but fortunately there were many people, regardless of the strength and accuracy, there was still some damage.

"Royal!" Wen Zhao ordered.

In this way, the Hanoi army braved the rain of arrows and successfully marched to the rebel army's formation.

The rebel army was first led by Zhao He's tribe, then Jianlu's tribe, Dong Ma's tribe, Fan Sheng's tribe, Zhang Yang's tribe, and Yuan Zhuang's tribe. The Zhanghe tribe collapsed, and the first one to bear the brunt was the Gianlu tribe.

The gap between the regular army and the irregular army was huge, so a thousand Hanoi troops defeated the 10,000 insurgent troops in this way until Fan Sheng's headquarters was defeated, and the entire insurgent army collapsed on the spot.

Originally, Wen Zhao wanted to lead his army to pursue them, but when they reached the mouth of the gorge, a group of cavalry suddenly rushed toward the Hanoi army. Wen Zhao was so frightened that he immediately gathered his troops and prepared to resist.

But these fifty cavalrymen of the rebel army were really cavalry and mounted infantry, so when they approached the Hanoi army, they immediately turned around and fled.

Because of the threat of cavalry, Wen Zhao did not dare to pursue him and led his army towards Wen County.

16th

The defeated people gathered in Yewang County, but now there were only about five or six thousand of the original 10,000-strong army, and they also lost a lot of ordnance, so their strength was directly halved.

At night, everyone gathered together.

"It seems that we have underestimated the imperial army, but the county soldiers are so elite. If the imperial army comes, we might as well just surrender." Zhang Yang said discouraged.

"Yes! Yes!" Other captains also said the same.

It was really the Hanoi army that scared them.

"Bang!" Lu Jian shot several cases, stood up and said loudly: "What, this is just a failure? Why did we rebel in the first place? There is no way to survive. I remember King Zhang Chu said: To rebel is to die, and not to rebel is to die. You are all going to die, so why not die with great vigor?

They are all human beings. They only have a year or two more training than us. As long as we don't confront them head-on, won't we still be able to defeat him with our numerical superiority when our soldiers gain experience? "

"I think General Jian is right!" Yuan Zhuang stood up and supported.

"Okay! General Jianlu is worthy of being a son of the Jian family. His words are just to boost his morale. Everyone, you must know that we have no way out. How can a real man just wait for the slightest setback? I don't believe that Wen Zhao's army is Made of iron?" Fan Sheng also said something.

"Now Wen Zhao has gone to attack Wen County. We will not confront them head-on. In this case, Jian Lu, you lead your headquarters to attack Bo County. Wen Zhao will definitely come to support after getting the news. In this way, we will ambush halfway, We will definitely take it down.”

"Don't worry, general, just look at me!" After saying that, he went out to gather the troops.

(End of this chapter)