Before dawn, the captured people were brought to the camp of Liang Army, along with several Bingzhou Sima. Lu Bu ordered people to give water to the governors and let them sit on the ground to rest. Lu Bu had no intention of questioning the remaining more than 600 people who were captured. They were all beheaded and pushed into the ditch.
The reason why Lu Bu kept these commanders was mainly for two reasons. One was that he wanted to inquire about the details inside Bingzhou so that he could make follow-up arrangements; the other was that he himself was from Bingzhou, and speaking of them, they could be considered fellow townsmen, so Lu Bu still had some To solicit.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he opened his mouth to ask, a person who had been restrained and squatting next to him suddenly jumped up and shouted at Lu Bu: "Lu Fengxian, I recognize you. Back then, when Longshou and the general were waiting for us to invade Xijing, , you were lying in the city like a dead dog. As soon as you heard that we had won, you were not even able to recover from your injuries, so you had to rush to the dragon's head to ask for your position. For those who didn't know, I thought you were going to recognize your father again. Come on! Are you worthy of being a general?!" After saying this, he burst into laughter.
When the servants dragged the man down to be executed, Lu Bu looked a little embarrassed, and the rest of the people lowered their heads, as if they heard nothing. Speaking afterwards, it seemed that the man was a miscreant from Xihe named Bisi or something like that.
At dawn, the snow is falling. The ground was full of charred ruins, and there was smoke everywhere. Captain Hao Meng rode a horse and carried a wealthy woman through the ruins. The woman was naked and covered with a soldier's leather robe. She was shivering, not knowing whether it was fear or cold. The state soldiers along the road, who were sitting on the roadside to rest, all smiled and said hello to him. Hao Meng also chatted with people from time to time, while riding his horse slowly away. Looking up at their backs again, I saw that the horse slowly stopped walking, and the woman suddenly jumped to the ground with her bare feet and ran away in a panic. Look at Captain Hao, he is still sitting on his horse. After a while, he seemed to be unable to sit still, staggered, swayed five or six times, and fell off the horse! People were shocked and rushed up to take a look. They saw Hao Meng had a short knife stuck in his chest and the scabbard was still on his belt. He opened his eyes and looked up to the sky, completely exhausted.
When I looked for the woman again, she had already disappeared. Someone said: "What the Huns couldn't do was done by a weak woman." After discussing for a while, they still dispersed.
Lu Bu's army stayed in Jiangyi for three days and plundered more than 5,000 people. They were all tied up with ropes and brought back to Puban. They were ordered to build mountains around Puban. The remaining people would be treated as slaves after the war. People from Chang'an were sold into slavery in the market. At this time, Jia Xu wrote to ask about the battle situation on the front line, and Lu Bu replied truthfully, saying that a thousand people had been left to defend the city, and Hedong was within his grasp. At the end of the letter, he proudly said: "At this time, Jiangyi needs to find a way to defend the city." It’s not easy to live as a dog.”
The defenders in Puban City were heartbroken when they learned that they were defeated in the battles of Yanchi and Jiangyi. _o_m Looking over the city wall now, there are countless refugees like ants being driven to besiege the city. Many officers have lost the determination to fight. They privately said: "The city cannot be defended. Could our guards be better than Is there much Jiangyi? Jiangyi cannot be defended! If you are wise, you should rectify the sergeants now and break out at night to go north."
By this time, I was hesitant to even take action. After all, no matter how outstanding a general is, it will be difficult for him to achieve anything if he violates the military's will. However, I also took into account that Chen Chong had led his army westward and was missing. If I disobeyed Chen Chong's arrangements, I was afraid that he would be put to death. I really didn't know what to do for a while.
So everyone held a military meeting again at night to discuss the coming and going of this trip.
Qian Zhao first asked several military commanders in the army for their opinions. One military commander came forward and said: "Chen Shijun has promised beforehand that we will wait here to hold on and reinforcements will come to save us, so that Lu Bu can retreat without a fight. But." After waiting for twenty days, it is now the twelfth lunar month, and there is no sign of reinforcements. Without reinforcements, this is a dead end, how can we defend it? It is better to withdraw. "
But Li Yi, an official in Jingzhao of Sili Mansion, refuted it and said: "How can Jiangyi be compared with Puban? They were not well prepared, and the city wall was lower than Puban. It is said that the rebels did not use ladders, one person held the head of the cannon, and the other held the cannon. The tail can push people to the wall. The Puban city wall is four feet high, how can it be compared with Jiangyi? The bandit army had been attacking for three days in vain, so it is too early to leave now? So what? Are you worthy of your trust?"
As soon as he finished speaking, someone retorted: "No matter how high the city wall is, it is just delaying time. If we don't leave as soon as possible, we will naturally not be able to leave when we are exhausted. Besides, it is just a city. , so what if you lose it? If you are worried that the city will be taken away by others, it is better to let it go before leaving. (This chapter is not finished yet!)
Chapter 19 Retreat from Hedong
A fire will leave a ruin for them. "
This statement won the approval of most people, who thought it was a trick. But some people noticed that neither Chen Deng nor Qianzhao expressed their stance. Their silence meant that there was still room for change. Update without error@
The first one to speak was Chen Deng. He thought carefully and said to Qianzhao: "If we just talk about defending the city, it can actually be defended. It's just that the rebel army has won one victory after another and its morale is high. Without strong reinforcements from outside, our army's morale will be very low." Feeling depressed, it is actually impossible to think about defending the city as before." The implication was that he still agreed to abandon the city and go north.
Qianzhao actually had the same idea, but when asked to give the order, he found it difficult to make up his mind. He looked at the eyes of everyone looking at him and couldn't help but think: The envoy entrusted the city to me. If I retreat, I don't know what will happen to the envoy? He couldn't help but think of the scene of Chen Chong's instructions when he left. Suddenly, he had an idea and said to everyone: "Please wait a moment."
While everyone was puzzled, two moments later, he took Chen Zhang into the camp, and Chen Zhang said softly in front of everyone: "The bandit army is surrounding me more and more tightly. The generals are afraid that they will not survive. I want to lead the army." I’m leaving the city, I wonder if you would like to go out of the city with me, sir?”
After everyone listened, they couldn't help but feel a sense of absurdity. After all, Chen Zhang was only a four-year-old boy. What decision could he make? Just escort him away afterwards. But seeing that Qianzhao was so solemn, they couldn't say much. At this time, they could only calm down and wait to see how Chen Zhang would answer.
Under the gaze of everyone, Chen Zhang did not hesitate at all. He clenched his fists, shook his head slowly at first, and then said decisively: "My father said before he left that I should stay in the city and wait for him to come back. You want to Go, just go by yourself, I won’t leave.”
Everyone was shocked when they heard this. Someone advised him, "Young master, you don't have to be like this. After I leave, I will set fire to the city and leave nothing to the thieves."
Chen Zhang still shook his head and said: "Then I will stay in the city, and you can just set fire to it yourself."
Seeing that the young boy was so determined, everyone couldn't help but feel a little ashamed. At this time, they heard Qianzhao and stood up and said: "When the envoy left, he said that he would entrust the young master to me. Although I am scared, I am not very grateful. But if we go north like this, If there is a spirit after death, how should I face the envoy? In ancient times, there was Cheng Ying[1] who killed himself to repay the kindness of the Lord Zhao, so as to save his descendants. I want to imitate him, but I don’t know what you think?"
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help being greatly moved, and they all said: "I am willing to die with the general!" Then the military morale was resolute, and everyone made plans to live or die with the city, but they would wait until Lu Bu came to attack.
One day later, Lu Bu's army began to attack the city. After suffering the last loss, Lu Bu did not immediately set up a ladder to attack the city. Instead, he concentrated on waiting for the earth mountain to besieged the city to be built, and then built a watchtower on the earth mountain. After nearly a hundred watchtowers were erected in the east, west, north, and south, he ordered his soldiers to climb onto the towers and fire thousands of arrows at the city. Not to be outdone, the defenders on the city fired at each other. Arrows came and went, often making the sound of "Zeng Zeng" collisions in the air. When they fell, it was like a layer of black was sprinkled on the sky. snow.
But as a result, the arrows in the city were rapidly consumed. In just three days, nearly 20,000 arrows were shot in the city. After the arrows fell outside the city, Liang people secretly collected them outside the city in the middle of the night. As a result, the number of arrows lost by the Liang army continued to increase, while the city was unable to sustain itself. .
Qianzhao once wanted to send people down to the city in the middle of the night to collect the missing arrows, but it was clear from the Tushan watchtower. As soon as he saw someone coming down to the city, someone from the watchtower blew a horn to warn, and the Liang army's cavalry followed. Before he even got to the city, he was stabbed to death by the Liang army. After playing this game for three or four times, Qianzhao had no choice but to stop and no longer compete with the enemy. When the enemy's arrows missed again from the watchtower, they would crawl on the ground and build a ditch on the wall to block the arrows.
When Lu Bu saw this, he knew that the time was ripe to climb the city, and immediately ordered the entire army to attack the city.
As soon as the drums sounded, Liang Junjiu rolled up to the top of the city like a strong wind. Even though there was still ice on the top of the city that made it difficult for people to exert force, the number of people swarming up at the same time was several times greater than before. The defenders had no choice but to fight hand-to-hand with the soldiers of the Liang Army who climbed up. However, after the soldiers occupied the place, they only defended but did not attack. They could not kill them. They could only watch more and more soldiers coming to the city, and the situation became tense. Extremely critical.
Fortunately, Chen Deng came up with an idea at the last minute, thinking that the Liang people were climbing the city wearing heavy armor, and the weather was still cold and it was difficult to bend and extend their fingers, so the defenders simply used poles with hooks to hook their feet directly. The victims all fell down and could not get up. The defenders then poured boiling water on them, and these people were stunned. (This chapter is not finished yet!)
Chapter 19 Retreat from Hedong
He screamed in agony, unable to resist anymore. @essence\/书馆·无码第一~~The defenders no longer cared about the people who had climbed onto the city, and took advantage of the situation to overthrow the erected ladders, thus repelling the attack. Looking back at the people lying on the ground, I tried to take off their armor and stomach, but found that because of the hot water, their skin and flesh and armor and stomach were stuck together, making it impossible to take them off.
The attack was repulsed, but no one was sure how long they could hold on. He could only recuperate in the city while reorganizing the city defenses and preparing for the next Liang army's siege.
But what is strange is that Liang Jun did not move for several days, but fell into astonishing silence. Seeing this, Qianzhao became more vigilant in his heart, thinking whether it was a suspicious plot, and patrolled the city with fire every night. On the fourth day, we finally saw about a thousand cavalry coming from the northeast of the city and joining Lu Bu's army.
When Qianzhao saw the smoke rising from the enemy camp, he was startled and thought, was he finally going to fight to the death? Unexpectedly, after cooking, the Liang army packed up their gear, gathered their camp and gathered their horses, and marched in columns to the west. Seen from a distance, their backs in the snow seemed like a long glance, which unexpectedly brought the war to Hedong to an end.
Could it be that Chen Chong has already gathered his troops and set off? Qianzhao quickly sent people to the other side to inquire about the news. Unexpectedly, he found that it was not the case. Instead, what came was the news that Shuzhong was sending troops to Guanzhong.
【1】Cheng Ying: A righteous man of the Jin Kingdom in the Spring and Autumn Period, who has been praised by the world for thousands of years. According to legend, he was from Shaoliang in ancient times and was a friend of Jin Qing Zhao Dun and his son Zhao Shuo. In the third year of Duke Jinggong's reign in Jin Dynasty, Tu'anjia, a senior official, killed Zhao Dun and destroyed his clan. Gongsun Chujiu, a guest of Zhao Shuo's family, conspired with him. He carried Zhao's real orphan as an infant and hid him in the mountains. He deliberately informed the generals and ordered the generals to kill Chujiu and pretend to be a child. Later, After Jinggong listened to Han Jue's words and established the Zhao family, he killed Anjia, while Ying committed suicide in retaliation. .
Chapter 19 Retreat from Hedong
