On August 9, news of the death of Huan Wei, the governor of Jingzhou, arrived, and everyone marveled at Yang Anxuan's foresight.
However, things did not develop as Yang Anxuan expected. Two hours later, Feng Gai also received an urgent report from Jingzhou and learned that Huan Wei was dead.
After Huan Wei's death, the governor of Jingzhou became vacant, and Feng Gai couldn't help but think about it. Feng Gai had been under Huan Xuan for more than ten years and was Huan Xuan's most useful general, helping him capture Jingzhou and Yongzhou.
Huan Xuan led his army eastward to Jiankang, and Feng Gai made great achievements in battle, defeating Sima Shangzhi, the king of Qiao, and captured Liyang City, clearing the way for Jingjiang troops to station in the capital.
However, when Huanxuan granted him the reward, he only granted him the title of Dutinghou and the governor of Yongzhou. At this time, Yongzhou had been occupied by Yang Anxuan, and his title of governor was just an empty title.
What made Feng Gai even more frustrated was that Fu Hong, whose military exploits were far inferior to his own, was appointed as General Jianwei and Governor of Liangzhou. Feng Gai knew the reason. Huan Xuan was employed by his family, and his own family was from a humble background. He was not as noble as Fu Hong, who was the prince of the former Qin Dynasty.
He finally waited until Huan Xuan ordered him to go and capture Yongzhou, but was taken advantage of by Yang Anxuan in Bian County and was defeated and fell ill. Huanxuan accepted the treasures sent by Yang Anxuan and actually awarded him the governorship of Yongzhou.
Feng Gai was secretly distressed, often thinking of Li Guang, and no longer focused on recruiting troops and training in Jiangling.
On July 26, Feng Gai was overjoyed when he received Huan Xuan's order to lead his army to capture Xiangyang. He left only 6,000 troops and horses in Jiangling, and the remaining 50,000 people followed him northward.
When Yangcheng left five thousand soldiers and horses to garrison, Feng Gai arrived at the south of Bian County on August 4. He originally thought that with 45,000 troops, he could capture Bianxian County in one fell swoop, but when he saw the Yongzhou military camp, Feng Gai was shocked. Yongzhou's military strength was not inferior to his own army, and this battle was difficult to fight.
The two armies tentatively clashed several times, and Feng Gai discovered that the Yongzhou army was not only well-armed, but also not weaker than his own army in combat effectiveness. The shadow of the previous defeat began to spread in Feng Gai's mind.
Feng should know that during his lifetime of fighting, he would only rely on his soldiers, and he did not want to end up like Liu Laozhi.
When the news of Huan Wei's death came, Feng Gai began to think about quitting. The position of governor of Jingzhou was vacant. Jiangling was far away from the capital and the news was not smooth. It would be at least half a month before the appointment arrived. Most of the soldiers and horses in Jingzhou were brought out by himself. If there was a change in Jingzhou, Huan Xuan would definitely punish him.
Feng Gai had no extravagant hopes for the position of the governor of Jingzhou. Jingzhou was the foundation of the Huan family, and the governor must be the member of the Huan family that Huan Xuan trusted most.
However, Huan Wei also serves as the captain of the Nanman School. This position is second only to the governor. It is not easy for him to seize Xiangyang. He can serve as
After thinking over and over again, Feng Gai decided to send 10,000 troops back to Jiangling City. He would stay here and fight several battles with the Yongzhou Army, and wait for the new Jingzhou Governor to take office before deciding where to go.
Tan Ma sent intelligence that the Jingzhou Army had withdrawn more than 10,000 troops. Yang Anxuan and other generals analyzed that Feng Gai had already intended to withdraw. This was different from Yang Anxuan's preconception that Feng Gai would hastily withdraw only after the changes in Jingzhou.
Wang Zhen said evilly: "We must adapt to changing circumstances. Since some of Jingzhou's troops have withdrawn and their strength has weakened, our army might as well step up the attack to contain Feng Gai."
Flying arrows covered the sun, and the sound of killing shook the sky. Soldiers formed in square, circular, and conical formations fought each other. Flags were intertwined. Horses were rushing to and fro. Bugles and drums were beating from morning to night. The land outside the county town was stained with blood. red.
Iron cavalry charged into formation, light cavalry raided, and night raids on camps were carried out. Both sides used their own methods, causing casualties on each other, and the war became stalemate.
Yang Anxuan looked at the standing flag on the opposite side and sighed: "Feng should be worthy of being a veteran on the battlefield. His attack is sharp and his defense is tight. There are almost no opportunities to take advantage of him."
Under the banner, Feng Gai looked at the battlefield expressionlessly, feeling bitter in his heart. Yongzhou's soldiers and horses were as powerful as tigers, and those sharp weapons were like claws and claws, tearing the Jingzhou army bloody. If he hadn't used more than two thousand crossbows to contain the Yongzhou army's offensive, the casualties would have been more than doubled.
The setting sun was like blood, and the trumpets sounded sadly. The soldiers and horses from both sides slowly retreated, leaving behind the wounded soldiers and corpses who were crying and struggling on the battlefield.
The soldiers returned to their own camp with a strong smell of blood. The infantry cleaning the battlefield began to rescue the wounded soldiers, collect the corpses, and pack up the ordnance.
The battlefield fell silent, the wind blew across the vast battlefield, and flocks of birds flew down
, pecking at the flesh and blood splashed on the ground. …
On August 12, Huan Xuan received an urgent report from Jingzhou that his fifth brother Huan Wei was dead. The submission fell from his hand, and Huan Xuan burst into tears.
Huan Xuan had five brothers. In order to fight for the throne, the eldest brother Huan Xi and the second brother Huan Ji took advantage of Huan Wen's serious illness and conspired with the fourth uncle Huan Mi to kill the fifth uncle Huan Chong. After the failure, they were exiled to Changsha; the third brother Huan Xinhao He has no talent, and the fourth brother Huan Yi is even more of a fool. The four brothers are all much older than Huan Xuan. In addition, Huan Xuan is doted on by Huan Wen, and they are not close to him. Only the fifth brother Huan Wei was kind-hearted. He often played with me when he was young, and he had a close relationship with me. He was the person he trusted the most.
Huan Xuan was deeply saddened by the impermanence of the world. Two relatives had passed away in the past three years. When Jiankang was captured, luckily his cousin Huan Shisheng had tipped off the news, and he later appointed Huan Shisheng as the governor of Jiangzhou. Unexpectedly, Huan Shisheng died of illness soon after he took office; this time it was Huan Wei's turn to pass away.
Jingzhou is a business that was founded by our fathers for forty or fifty years, so of course we had to send our own family members there. Huan Xuan asked Huan Xiu, the governor of Xu Yan, to take over as the governor of Jingzhou and engage in the admonishment of Zhonglang Cao Jing. Huan Qian and Huan Xiu were both sons of Huan Chong. Now Huan Qian is the minister Zuopushe and the general of the Chinese army. He is in charge of the minister's province. He held a high position in Beijing, so it was inappropriate for his brother Huan Xiu to serve as governor of Jingzhou again. The two brothers, one internal and one external, had too much power and would be difficult to check and balance in the future.
Huan Xuan then promoted Huan Shikang, the son of his second uncle Huan Huo, the Prime Minister of Nanjun, to be the governor of Jingzhou, and the Nanman Colonel was awarded the title of Bie Jia Yang to increase his longevity.
Before the imperial edict reached Jiangling City, Yidu Governor Yu Ping responded to Yang Anxuan's suggestion and raised an army in Yiling to resist Huanxuan. He gathered 7,000 troops to attack Zhijiang and threaten Jiangling.
Nanjun Prime Minister Huan Shikang and Biejia Yang Zengshou quickly closed the gates of Jiangling City and sent people to Bianxian County to ask for help from Feng Gai. Feng Gai ordered the garrison stationed in Dangyang City to rescue Zhijiang City.
The court's decree was issued to Jiangling City, Huan Shikang took over as the governor of Jingzhou, and Yang Zengshou was appointed as the Nanman Colonel. The people in Jiangling City were somewhat calm.
On the one hand, Yu Ping sent people to Changsha County to unite the nobles from the north and south to attack Jiangling; on the other hand, he secretly contacted his brother Yu Bin, who joined the army in Nanman, Yang Daohu, who joined the army in Anxi, and Deng Xiangzi, the Jiang'an Ling, who cooperated internally and externally to remove the new Jingzhou governor Huan Shikang; then he sent an envoy He went to Bian County to ask Yang Anxuan to contain Feng Gai's army.
The Changsha County was headed by Tao Yanshou, Prime Minister of Changsha. The nobles responded to Yu Ping's call and elected Huan Liang as the leader of the alliance. In the name of crusade against Yu Ping, they prepared to send troops from Luo County to Jiangling.
Huan Liang was the son of Huan Xuan's second brother Huan Ji. After Huan Ji and others failed to assassinate Huan Chong, he was exiled to Changsha. Of course, Huan Liang was unwilling to be relegated to his fate. He proclaimed himself General Pingnan and Governor of Xiangzhou in order to regain the power his father had lost.
Before the troops left Luo County, news came that Yu Bin and others had been arrested. Yu Bin and others conspired to go to the Governor's Mansion to attack Huan Shikang. His brother Yu Hong informed Huan Shikang first. Huan Shikang immediately sent people to arrest Yu Bin. Also arrested were Yang Daohu, who joined the army in Anxi, and Jiang'an ordered Deng Xiangzi and the chief secretary Fu Hongzhi and others.
The news reached the ears of Tao Yanshou, Prime Minister of Changsha. Tao Yanshou realized that the rebellion was doomed to fail, so he took the initiative and captured Huan Liang and others and imprisoned them in a cell to wait for the court to deal with them.
After Huan Shikang stabilized Jiangling, he prepared to lead eight thousand troops with Nanman Colonel Yang Zengshou to reinforce Zhijiang. Yu Ping was unable to attack Zhijiang for a long time. When he heard that Jiangling was sending troops, his rebel army fled and hurriedly asked for help from the Yongzhou army in the county.
Yang Anxuan expected that Jiangling would be in chaos, but he did not expect that Huan Shikang quickly stabilized the situation, and Feng Gai still showed no sign of retreating.
No matter what Yu Ping's intentions were, he was the first to respond to Yang Anxuan's challenge to Huan Xiwen. Yang Anxuan could not sit back and watch Yu Ping's defeat.
Let the secret guards spread the news that Tianmen and Jiangxia counties will rebel against Huan, delaying Huan Shikang's dispatch of troops. He sent envoys to persuade Yu Ping to lead his army northward, and sent Meng Longfu and his heroic battalion to cross Jingshan Mountain to meet him.
Yu Ping's 7,000 men and horses now had less than 6,000 left. They went north from Zhijiang to Dangyang City, and met 3,000 men and horses from Dangyang south to rescue Zhijiang. They fought fiercely for half an hour, and when they were about to retreat, Meng Longfu led The brave battalion arrived and quickly drove back Dangyang's soldiers and horses.
Seeing that Yongzhou's soldiers and horses were brave and good at fighting, Yu Ping felt a little at ease, so he organized his troops and horses and went to Dangyang together with Meng Longfu.
After Dangyang's defeated army fled back, he immediately asked Feng Gai for help. Feng Gai heard that Yongzhou had sent reinforcements to join Yu Ping, and was afraid that his retreat would be cut off. As Yang Anxuan expected, he ostensibly led the way.
The army fought fiercely with Yang Anxuan, and secretly ordered more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to return to Dangyang first with their baggage.
Yu Ping camped in the south of Dangyang City, and Meng Longfu led the brave battalion to sneak into Jingshan Mountain again that night and ambush near Changban.
At the beginning of Shen Dynasty, Jingzhou soldiers and horses appeared and set up camp in Changban, but Meng Longfu did not move.
At the end of the year, Meng Longfu took Xiaoyongying and sneaked into the camp at night. Because they were between Dangyang and Bianxian, Jingzhou soldiers and horses relaxed their vigilance. According to their daily training, the soldiers of the heroic battalion climbed into the stronghold with rope hooks, found the supply camp and set fire to it.
Huo caused chaos in the camp. Meng Longfu and others had already changed the leather armor of Jingzhou soldiers and horses, shouted that Dangyang City was broken, and took advantage of the chaos to attack and kill Jingzhou soldiers and horses in a rout.
At the time of Mao, Feng Gai was preparing to lead his troops in batches to leave Bianxian County and return to Dangyang. His troops fled and claimed that Dangyang City had been destroyed. The heavy supply camp was attacked by Yu Ping's army in the Changban area.
Feng Gai was shocked. The baggage camp carried a large amount of food and grass. If it was taken away or burned by Yu Ping, it would collapse without a fight. He immediately ordered 5,000 light cavalry to rush to the aid of Changsaka.
When the defeated troops fled back, it was the time when Jingzhou soldiers and horses were having a meal. The soldiers gathered together to receive the meal were whispering to each other. Rumors spread. Feng Gai urgently ordered Sima to patrol the camp and forbid the soldiers to gather to discuss.
Before breakfast was even served, trumpets sounded in the sky, and Yang Anxuan mobilized all Yongzhou soldiers and horses to attack the camp from all sides. The soldiers and horses in Jingzhou were unstable and reluctantly relied on the stronghold to defend under the constraints of the generals.
At the beginning of the war, Yang Anxuan asked the other three sides to feign attacks to contain the enemy, and personally led Kuai En to break through the wall of the west village with punching wood and rush into the camp.
When Feng Gai learned that Xizhai had been conquered, he brought his personal guards to meet the rebellion and met Yang Anxuan.
When the enemy met, he was extremely jealous, and Yang Anxuan urged his horse to take Feng Gai directly. Feng Gai's personal guards rushed forward and surrounded Yang Anxuan and Kuai En.
As long as Yang Anxuan can be killed, defeat can be turned into victory. Feng Gai shouted an order not to let Yang Anxuan go. Whoever can kill Yang Anxuan will be promoted to the third level.
Feng Gai was paying too much attention to Yang Anxuan, but he didn't see Yu Fei waiting behind Yang Anxuan with his bow ready. He saw the opportunity and shot an arrow at Feng Gai. Feng Gai screamed and fell from his horse. Seeing that the general had fallen from his horse, the personal guards turned around to protect him.
There is no such thing as benevolence, justice and morality on the battlefield. Yang Anxuan swung his spear into the back of a personal guard, picked him up and shouted: "Feng Gai is dead, and those who surrender will not be killed."
Kuai En smashed the iron spear in his hand, and worked together with Yang Anxuan to kill the besieged soldiers.
Feng Gai was hit by an arrow in the chest and was held back by his guards. At this time, screams came from the north gate, and the North Village was also breached.
The situation was over, Feng Gai closed his eyes and let his guards carry him to escape to Nanzhai. When the soldiers and horses of Jingzhou saw their general fleeing, they abandoned their weapons and fled.
Yang Anxuan ordered the soldiers and horses of Jingzhou to be surrendered, and he led four thousand light cavalry to chase Feng Gai to death.
About ten thousand soldiers and horses from Jingzhou guarded Feng Gai as he fled towards Dangyang. Changbanpo Menglongfu captured the Jingzhou camp and piled the camp's baggage in a mess on the road, blocking the way for the Jingzhou army to escape south.
Leaving hundreds of lives behind, the Jingzhou army seized the road and headed south. Yang Anxuan and Meng Longfu met up and continued to pursue the Jingzhou soldiers and horses.
It was not until the beginning of Hai that the deserters from Jingzhou fled back to Dangyang City with Feng Gai and urgently summoned a doctor to diagnose Feng Gai's injuries. Feng Gai was wearing iron armor. The arrow penetrated half an inch and injured his heart. Feng Gai fell unconscious.
At midnight the next day, the Yongzhou army had arrived at the north gate of Dangyang. The general was in a coma. Sima Linyi decided to take advantage of the season when the Yongzhou army was camping to abandon the city and leave.
When Yangcheng opened the south gate, nearly ten thousand soldiers and horses rushed out. Yu Qing thought that the Jingzhou soldiers and horses were going to attack the camp, so he ordered to guard the camp tightly. As a result, the Jingzhou soldiers and horses left directly. qδ
When Yu Ping realized that the Jingzhou soldiers and horses had never returned, he ordered his team to go into Dangyang City to check, only to find out that the Jingzhou army had escaped.
Yu Ping occupied Dangyang City and opened the north gate to welcome Yang Anxuan into the city.
Yang Anxuan learned that Jingzhou soldiers and horses abandoned the city and fled, so he stopped pursuing them and asked Meng Longfu to lead eight thousand troops and Yu Ping to march west to Zhaoyang.
Huan Shikang, the governor of Jingzhou, learned that Yongzhou's troops were approaching, and he urgently summoned troops from Nanjun, Wuchang, Wuling, Jianping, Guiyang, Changsha and other counties to reinforce Jiangling. At the same time, he asked Jiangzhou and Jiankang for help.
Yang Anxuan had no intention of attacking Jiangling, so his army rested in Dangyang for two days and then returned to Xiangyang with more than 13,000 Jingzhou surrender troops.
