Chapter 8 Ratcheting Swords Section 3
At dusk, Li Hong stood at Yanmen Pass in a heavy mood, looking at the winding mountains in the twilight, speechless for a long time.
Today, he first received news that the Yellow Turban Guo Tai's troops captured Pingyang City. After the military discussion, Zhu Mu and Song Wen immediately found him and advised him to suspend going north and see the development of the situation.
Then he received an urgent letter from the General Guard of the Huns. Qu Yi said in the letter that since the emperor issued an order to conscript the Huns' Iron Cavalry and the Zuo Xianwang led his troops to the expedition, rumors began to fly all over the Huns' tribes. The rumor that the Emperor of Han would conscript more Huns soldiers to the battlefield in Youzhou to quell the rebellion, saying that the purpose of the Emperor of Han was to completely eliminate the Huns. The Huns were panicked and their hearts were floating. The leaders of various tribes often gathered for meetings, and the atmosphere seemed very tense. Qu Yi also heard from the Great Shanyu Qiangqu that the slaughtered all races recently, and the right tribe and the Xianbei Tuoba tribe had close contacts, and the two sides had frequent contacts, as if there was any conspiracy. Qu Yi meant that he would suspend going north and wait.
But with the emperor's imperial edict, he arrived. The emperor urged him to go north immediately. Liu Yu, the governor of Youzhou, had already gathered 20,000 troops and set out. He was attacking Zhuo County. The emperor warned him not to miss the opportunity to fight, so as not to let Liu Yu's army go deep into the dark.
Li Hong was worried about the safety of Bingzhou and was also worried about the battle situation in Youzhou. He was unable to make a choice for a while and was swaying between walking or not.
"Dongding, has Yanmen County been so desolate?" Li Hong asked suddenly.
Zhu Mu shook his head and said, "There was a period of prosperity here. It was the Yuan Emperor of the dynasty. At that time, our dynasty used the strategy of "marriage" to exchange for peace on the border. The two sides had not fought for decades. It is said that at that time, "the city of Yao was closed, the cows were built in wild, the cattle and horses were deployed in the wild, and the police did not bark for three lifetimes, and the common people had no battles for war. The people lived a prosperous life and lived in peace and worked in peace, but unfortunately..."
Zhu Mu sighed: "After the former Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms, he sent general Meng Tian to lead 300,000 troops from Yanmen to attack the Huns in the north, and captured all the lands in Henan (i.e. Hetao area), drove the Huns to the north of Yinshan Mountain, and built a Great Wall, but still failed to stop the invasion of the Huns. In this dynasty, the lands in Yanmen were even more volatile. During the reign of Emperor Gaozu, the Huns had crossed Gouzhu south many times, invaded Jinyang, and entered and exited the territory of our Han like an uninhabited. It was not until the reign of Emperor Wu that Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, Li Guang and other peerless generals galloped across the ancient Yanmen Pass, attacked the desert, defeated the Huns many times, and barely stabilized the situation in the northern border."
"But, my juniors are incompetent. Hundreds of years have passed, and the disaster of the Huns has not been eliminated, but has added to the disaster of the Xianbei. Now it is the time when our Han Dynasty is in turmoil, this northern border..."
Li Hong smiled helplessly and asked, "If the Huns take the opportunity to rebel and the Xianbei people take advantage of the situation, can we defend the northern border?"
Zhu Mu and Song Wen looked at each other and smiled bitterly.
"If you leave, don't leave, you should leave early and make a decision." Song Wen said, "It is far more important to defend Bingzhou than to suppress the rebellion in Youzhou. In my opinion, it is not the best time to go north to suppress the rebellion."
"Sir, once we cannot take care of both the beginning and the end, we may lose both places." Zhu Mu reminded in a low voice.
Li Hong sighed to the sky.
"The Holy Order cannot be violated, so go north."
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There is a place called Feiyan Valley on the southern foot of the Luliang Mountains, which is the gathering place of the Baibo Yellow Turban Army. This place is very hidden. In the past, when Hu Cai and Li Le were bandits, they were their nest. All the preparations for the uprising of Guo Tai raised the flag and raised the uprising were completed here. After the Baibo Valley uprising was successful, Feiyan Valley immediately became a stronghold for the Yellow Turban Army to hoard materials.
Last fall, the Yellow Turban Army was defeated by Yan Rou and fled to Luliang Mountain. Then, the Baibo Valley located in the lower reaches of the Fen River was occupied by Qu Yi. In desperation, they had to hide in Feiyan Valley and try to make a comeback.
At the end of last month, Guo Tai learned that General Li Hong of Zhenbei formed a northern expedition camp at Yanmen Pass and gathered a large army to fight the rebellion north. He was very happy and believed that the opportunity for a comeback had come, so he immediately ordered the army to prepare to go down the mountain to attack Hedong.
Sure enough, not long after, the Cavalry Camp stationed in Anyi hurried to Yanmen, and what surprised him was that three thousand soldiers from Hedong had also left.
Li Hong was busy in Hedong for half a year and suddenly pulled out all his troops, which was very abnormal. Guo Tai was a little worried and sent someone down the mountain to secretly contact several old acquaintances in Yang Feng's army, hoping to confirm whether his news was accurate. The person who was exploring the news came back soon and said that Li Hong handed over all the defense in Hedong to Yang Feng and took the army to Youzhou. The news was true.
Guo Tai was very happy. Yang Feng's 200,000 military troops were still the Yellow Turban Army. As long as he did not take the initiative to conflict with Yang Feng, Yang Feng would not care about him. Moreover, Yang Feng did not dare to provoke him as long as 20,000 soldiers had weapons. Guo Tai was very ambitious. He not only wanted to occupy Anyi and plunder Hedong, but also wanted to cut off the transportation to Bingzhou and force Zhang Yan and his Yellow Turban Army to rebel again. As long as Zhang Yan rebelled, he was still afraid that Yang Feng, the nine-headed bird, would not rebel?
In early March, he led a 50,000 army to take the lead in attacking Pingyang City. The one who stationed in Pingyang was Li Yao, a young coach under Yang Feng. He was handsome and had good martial arts skills. He was lustful. He seemed to be unable to survive without a woman. Li Yao took a maid with a strong martial arts skill everywhere and sometimes did some bad things. Guo Tai met his preferences and gave him a few outstanding women. He immediately ran back to Linfen camp with his troops happily.
After Guo Taibing took Pingyang City without bloodshed, he immediately left Yang Feng with 5,000 people to defend the city. He and Han Xian (Xian) and others led their troops across the river to attack Xiangling City, and cut off the land and water transportation to Bingzhou. When merchants from all over the country saw that there were ants thieves in Hedong, they immediately stopped the transportation of materials to avoid major losses.
Liang Baiwu, the one who guarded Xiangling City, seemed to have taken the wrong medicine and did not sell Mr. Guo’s account at all. Not only did he not let him go out of the city, he also started fighting with Mr. Guo. Mr. Guo was very angry and pointed at Hu Cai and scolded: "If you hadn't stopped him and slaughtered him with one knife that day, how could there be the trouble today?" Hu Cai didn't dare to talk back, thinking to himself, if you slaughtered him, the one who beat you today would be Yang Feng.
Guo Tai's Yellow Turban Army was defeated by Yan Rou just as soon as he started the rebellion. He had no chance to get replenished weapons, so it was difficult to attack the city and could not be defeated for a few days. Time was dragged down day by day.
Mrs. Guo didn't know that his nest, Feiyan Valley, was now surrounded by the cavalry camp.
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When the Cavalry Camp was stationed in Anyi last month, Li Hong repeatedly urged She Yingtong to prepare for attacking Baibo Yellow Turbans as soon as possible, and asked him to solve the Yellow Turbans by the end of March.
She Yingtong discussed with several subordinates every day, and several people thought it was unrealistic to directly encircle and suppress Luliang Mountain. So where can I find the Yellow Turban Army? Even if I find it, the cavalry cannot display their specialties. If I fight in the mountainous areas, the cavalry will definitely suffer. If I want to fight, it is better to lure the Yellow Turban Army across the Fen River and annihilate them in the plains on the south bank of the Fen River.
At this time, Xiaolan, who had been taking scouts around to find the main force of the Yellow Turban Army, came back. He was a hunter and had worked as a scout, and he was familiar with this. He found several hunters around Luliang Mountain, and then called himself a soldier of the Yellow Turban Army. After beating indirectly, he knew about Feiyan Valley. He led people to Feiyan Valley, found out the situation, and rushed back immediately.
She Yingtong told him about luring the enemy south and asked him for his opinion. Xiaolan said that luring the enemy south is OK, but Yang Feng’s cooperation is not possible without his cooperation. But the question is, will Yang Feng and his men inform him? In addition, if we can’t eat Guo Tai and he run back to Luliang Mountain, what should we do?
Hu Zi smiled and said, "She Yingtong and the others are all Xianbei people. They are not familiar with our Han Dynasty. If you have any ideas, just say, don't hesitate."
Xiaolan thought for a while and said, "The Yellow Turban Army stayed in Luliang Mountain, which is always a threat to the transportation between water and land, so we must drive them out of Luliang Mountain no matter what. To drive them out of Luliang Mountain, the most thorough way is to destroy Feiyan Valley, attack them from behind the Yellow Turban Army, drive the Yellow Turban Army south, and towards Zhongtiao Mountain."
Xiaolan talked about his plan, and several people planned it together, and then decided to act according to the plan.
"Do you want to tell the General Mansion of Zhenbei?" She Yingtong asked.
"No need." Xiaolan smiled, "Just complete what the adults have told me. If you ask for everything, what else do we need to do?"
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Xiaolan immediately visited the Hedong Prefect Wang Han, and revealed the strategy of suppression a little, then said: "We will return to Bingzhou tomorrow, and also said to go north to Youzhou to quell the rebellion. If the lord heard something, don't be surprised, just have it in his heart."
When the Cavalry Camp passed Linfen, Xiaolan greeted Yang Feng, saying that the Cavalry Camp was going to Bingzhou and wanted to lure Guo Tai out of Luliang Mountain. He hoped that Yang Feng could send people to guard Xiangling City for a few days in order to cooperate with the Cavalry Camp to defeat Guo Tai's Yellow Turban Army. Yang Feng was not good enough to agree, but he asked the Cavalry Camp to surround Guo Tai as much as possible, and then he came forward to urge him and not kill him at will. Xiaolan agreed.
No one knew that he was going to raid Feiyan Valley.
After entering the Bingzhou territory, the Cavalry Camp immediately turned around and rushed to Xihe County along the road to Shangjun, and then slowly moved south from the northern foot of Luliang Mountain and quietly surrounded Feiyan Valley. At this time, Guo Tai had already led the Yellow Turban Army to attack Xiangling City.
The scouts returned that Feiyan Valley had only 5,000 Yellow Turban soldiers except for 10,000 to 20,000 old, young, women and children. She Yingtong and others were very happy and gathered together to discuss how to attack Feiyan Valley. Xiaolan had already made up his mind and arranged it calmly.
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The next morning, Beard, Xiaolan and Shooting Tiger suddenly appeared at the entrance of Feiyan Valley with a seven thousand army.
The Yellow Turban Army was shocked and the valley was in chaos.
Xiaolan was calm and ordered all the cavalry soldiers to dismount and form three attack arrays at the entrance of the valley. The front-line attack array consisted of two thousand men from the Mu Tao Mu Li brothers.
After the Mutao Muli brothers were arrested, they knew that they could not go back. If they were to chop their heads, they would rather surrender to the Wuye Tribe than to save their lives. So they became two military marquises of the Cavalry Camp.
The three square formations stood quietly at the entrance of the valley, waiting for the attack order. Their huge lineup and strict momentum made the Yellow Turban Army in the valley frightened.
The horn of the attack was not sounded, but the murderous aura that enveloped the Feiyan Valley was getting colder and colder. Many Yellow Turban soldiers could not bear the suffocating murderous aura and gasped heavily.
The two sides confronted each other for a full hour.
At this time, a whistlebrating thunder suddenly shot out from Feiyan Valley. Xiaolan suddenly roared, and in an instant, thousands of arrows were fired at once, and the attack began. Mu Tao, Mu Li and others held the shield in their left hand and raised their swords in their right hand, and led their teams to call forward.
The Yellow Turban soldiers rushed out of the woods in the valley shouting loudly. They held up all kinds of weapons, some even a stick, but everyone was afraid of death and rushed forward.
As soon as the two sides entered a melee, there were dense sounds of horse hooves in the back of the valley. Shooting tassels, Arc Ding and Qi Chen led three thousand cavalry to the rear of Feiyan Valley and killed from behind the Yellow Turban Army. The Yellow Turban Army was attacked from both sides, and suddenly ran away, killing and injured.
"Kill, kill all, no one left." Xiaolan shouted loudly while slashing his sword, "Get rewards with your head."
The soldiers of the Cavalry Camp heard Shangguan's call and were full of energy. The killing became even bloody. They all had red eyes, chopped everyone when they saw them, and snatched their heads when they saw them.
Soon, the family of the Yellow Turban Army hiding in the cave in the southeast corner of the valley was discovered. The Iron Cavalry soldiers had long been red in their eyes. They were so concerned about whether they were old, young, women and children, and they rushed in and chopped them.
Shooting Tiger and Pegasus found Shootingtong and shouted loudly: "That's a refugee, a refugee, you can't kill him."
She Yingtong turned her head to look at Xiaolan. Xiaolan sneered and waved her hand hard, "Kill, no one will be left."
"Little lazy brother..." Shehu looked at him in horror, unable to believe his ears.
"We don't have time to kill the matter." Xiaolan said with a expressionless face, "After killing, he burned the valley and attacked Pingyang City overnight."
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The Cavalry Camp surrounded Pingyang City overnight.
Sho Yingtong and Hu Zi launched a fierce attack at the west gate with their army. Yang Feng, caught off guard, led his army to defend the death. At this time, Xiaolan led his men to dive and cut open the East Gate gate, occupying the East Gate that Yang Feng thought was the safest. The east gate was opposite the Fenshui River. The east gate was lost, and there was no hope of crossing the river and escaping. Arc Ding, Qi Chen and Shohu immediately rushed into the city with two thousand iron cavalry, slashing and slashing in a wild way, and blood flowed into a river.
Seeing that the situation was over, Yang Feng jumped into the moat and fled. The five thousand Yellow Turban troops in the city were all killed.
The Cavalry Camp captured Pingyang City in just half a day.
"Cross the river, cross the river immediately, and attack Guo Tai." Xiaolan refused to let the soldiers rest at all, and immediately issued an order to cross the river.
She Yingtong looked at the tired soldiers, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Teacher Guo must have known that we are attacking Pingyang. He will come to support him immediately. At this time..."
Hu Zi stroked his beard and smiled, "What are you doing in such a hurry? Didn't you just say that you just block Guo Tai south of the Fen River?"
"Teacher Guo would never have thought that Pingyang would be lost in half a day. After he got the news of our attack on Pingyang, he must think about what is the purpose of our attack on Pingyang? Should we block him south of the Fen River or lure him back to help and carry out a surprise attack while he crossed the river, so he would never arrive at the Fen River tonight, and it would be tomorrow for rescue." Xiaolan said calmly, "We cross the river now and attack his camp in the early morning."
Hu Zi patted his head and praised: "You kid holds military books every day, and it turns out that he has really learned some skills. Yingtong, what do you think? I think Xiaolan has a good idea."
She Yingtong pondered for a moment and nodded, "Okay, let Shehu stay to defend the city, and we will lead 6,000 people across the river."
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Xiaolan miscalculated this time, and Guo Taiyuan was smarter than he thought.
After receiving the news that the Cavalry Camp attacked Pingyang City, Guo immediately knew that he had fallen into a trap. Yang Feng was no longer the Yellow Turban Army, but the complete rebellion of the Yellow Turban Army. He was an unforgivable person who used a knife to kill his brothers. He chose to retreat without hesitation and retreat to Zhongtiao Mountain in the southeast. As long as he went up the mountain, as long as there were still people and as long as he did not die, the Yellow Turban Army's banner would not fall. When he arrived at Zhongtiao Mountain, if he contacted the Yellow Turban Army in Hanoi, he could still get support from all sides, and it would be absolutely no problem to persevere. He directed the troops to set up camp overnight and set off.
In the early morning, when Sho Yingtong, Xiaolan and others drove to Xiangling City, there was no Yellow Turban Army. Due to the continuous battle, the soldiers of the Cavalry Battalion were exhausted and had to stop to rest. They could only watch Guo Tai run away with the Yellow Turban soldiers.
"Stay on a day off and start chasing tomorrow. I don't believe that four legs can't catch up with him." Xiaolan said hatefully.
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The day after the Cavalry Camp defeated the Baibo Yellow Turban Army, the Hedong Prefect Wang Han received the news. He immediately issued a notice everywhere, and the materials transported by Bingzhou immediately gathered into two long transport dragons again.
Yang Feng was very unhappy. Not only did Xiaolan not tell him the truth, she also deceived him and killed Feiyan Valley and Pingyang City Yellow Turban Army. He was furious and wrote a letter to scold Xiaolan, saying that you, Lord Li Su, are more powerful than Huangfu Song, and you don’t even let go of old, young, female and child. How could General Zhenbei teach you, a bloody butcher? After seeing the letter, Xiaolan sneered and threw the bamboo slips into the valley in front of Yang Feng’s subordinates. "You go back and tell Jiutou and ask him to think about it yourself. How many old, young, young, female and child did he kill when he killed people in Jizhou? Was he killed more or I killed more?"
The Cavalry Camp chased him wildly, biting Guo Tai's Yellow Turban Army. Guo Tai had no choice but to order Han Xian, Li Le and Hu Cai to bring a group of troops, and everyone fled in different ways. However, Xiaolan was a hunter and his sense of smell was too sensitive. He was about to judge Guo Tai's escape direction and chased him wildly with the Cavalry Camp.
At the end of this month, the Cavalry Camp surrounded Guo Tai and his five thousand soldiers near Xicheng Mountain. Guo Tai led his troops to break through and was shot dead by arrows, and his entire army was wiped out.
Han Xian and others successfully fled to Zhongtiao Mountain, and Han Xian became the leader of the remaining white waves and yellow turbans.
Chapter completed!