Yuzhou, Liangjun, Chenxian.
When Xu Zongwen went north to Qingzhou and entered Linzi City, the Jin Army's Northern Expedition Middle Route Army was marching in full swing in Yuzhou.
The main force of the Central Route Army, the cavalry general Xie Xuan, commanded an army of 60,000 men. The champion general Liu Laozhi led a partial force of 5,000 men. In November, Xie Xuan's army occupied Ruyin, Shenxian, Yuanlu, Songxian, Gushi, and Baobao. Xin Zhuxian, regained the entire Ruyin County, and then divided the army into three groups.
Two routes went west to capture Runan and Nandun counties. In Runan County, Longxiang General Xie Yan went all the way north to regain Yingchuan County, and continued to sweep north across the counties in Xiangcheng County. The other route led Sun Wuzhong and He Qian to join the army. They led the troops eastward to Liang County and attacked Chen County, where the governor's office of Yuzhou was located.
Xie Xuanqin led the main force from Ruyin County, took navy boats up the Ying River to the north to defeat Xiangcheng, and marched towards Chen County, preparing to encircle Chen County and capture the last Liang County in Yuzhou!
Jianwu General Liu Laozhi's 5,000 partial divisions successively attacked Jian County, Longkang County, and Hong County. After surrendering most of the cities in Qiao County such as Qixian and Zhi County, they began to attack Pei County eastward. Within a month, Defeated Qiaocheng and Xiangxian, and captured more than 20 cities in Qiaojun and Peijun in succession!
Liu Laozhi's siege speed can be said to be comparable to Xu Zongwen. If Xiapi hadn't surrendered on his own initiative, Xu Zongwen might not have been able to rush to Pengcheng to join Zhu Xu!
Liu Laozhi captured Ku County and Ningping City in mid-December, and marched westward to encircle Chen County with Xie Xuan. However, he did not wait to rendezvous with the main army and issued the siege order without authorization!
Liu Laozhi's 5,000 men gathered the Qin army to surrender 3,000 troops, and 8,000 men launched an attack on Chen County.
The guard general of Chen County is Mao Dang, the general of the Qin State's town army. This man is as famous in the Qin State as Shi Yue, the general who conquered the west, Zhang Hao, the hussar general, and Liang Cheng, the general who conquered the south, who died in the battle. Mao Dang had served him ten years ago He led his army to capture Liangzhou and Yizhou. Less than thirty years after Sima Huanwen of Jin State regained Shu, it was taken away by the Qin people. The loss of large areas of territory in the west of Jin State was due to Mao Dang, the general of the army!
After the Battle of Feishui, Mao Dang was ordered to lead 4,000 troops to Luoyang, under the command of Yuzhou Mu and Pingyuan Gong Fuhui, to help defend Luoyang City. Later, he heard that Xie Xuan's Northern Expedition was attacking counties in Yuzhou, so he volunteered to guard Chen County. !
Pingyuan Gong Fuhui was not easy to refuse. He was the shepherd of Yuzhou. If all ten counties in Yuzhou were lost, the King of Qin would definitely have to issue an edict and hold him to account. However, Pingyuan Gong Fuhui was arrogant and wanted to save face. Mao Dang was ordered to lead his troops to assist Chen County, while he himself led 30,000 troops to defend Luoyang.
"Can we get close to the city within the three-way drum?" Liu Laozhi asked the captain under Chen County, holding up his riding whip.
The captain patted his chest, raised his head and replied: "We can't take the outer city within an hour of burning incense, so I'll come here with my head raised!"
At this time, Liu Laozhi had not yet learned that Mao Dang had led troops to assist Chen County. He thought that this time the Beifu soldiers would be able to take advantage of the remaining power of attacking more than 20 cities in Qiaojun and Peijun. Break the city!
Liu Laozhi nodded lightly and encouraged: "If we can break the city, I allow your troops to enter the city and plunder before others!"
"General, please wait and see!"
Not long after, the Beifu soldiers set up the Hao Bridge and pushed the ladders and began to attack the city. Unlike Xu Zong's Wenbu, Liu Laozhi's Beifu soldiers were mainly infantry, supplemented by a small number of cavalry. Everyone carried repeating crossbows and started from Luo Jian. Since the war, Liu Laozhi's troops have been invincible and victorious. The morale is high and the public sentiment is excited. Especially after the military order was issued that the troops could enter the city first and loot first, the sergeants were excited and the steel swords in their hands became more and more intense. The ground is tight!
"Beat the drums and attack the city!" Liu Laozhi looked at the huge city of Chen County in the distance with greedy eyes!
"Dong dong, dong dong, dong..." The sound of dozens of cowhide drums was thunderous, and the soldiers' hearts were tense. After the order to attack the city was issued, the front team braved the arrows and stones to approach step by step.
When the Chen County defenders faced the menacing Beifu soldiers, they showed no sign of cowardice. Instead, they methodically prepared rolling wood and thunder stones to greet the attacking Beifu soldiers. Most of them had heard that the Beifu soldiers massacred the city and sold prisoners of war. news, so everyone is determined to die and will never surrender!
After several battles between the archers and crossbowmen of the two armies, the Beifu soldiers' ladder finally approached the city wall of Chen County. The screaming Beifu soldiers climbed up the ladder desperately!
We are about to climb the city wall!
"Zi la la -" A large pot of boiling hot oil was dumped from the top of the city, and it was poured on the heads of the Beifu soldiers on the ladder. After a burst of crying, each of the Beifu soldiers on the ladder fell down one by one.
It was far from over. The Qin army fired rockets, igniting the hot oil on the Beifu soldiers. For a while, most of the ladders near the city wall were engulfed in fire. At the same time, hundreds of Beifu soldiers were buried in the fire and killed by the flames!
The Qin army's crossbows kept coming, and the captain at the outpost of the Beifu soldiers could only order the crossbowmen to cover, while the shield soldiers treated the wounded soldiers and returned to camp. The Beifu soldiers were frustrated in their first attack on the city!
"Continue to attack the city!" Without blinking an eye, Liu Laozhi beheaded the captain who boasted about the failed attack on Haikou. He personally approached the city wall and ordered another attack!
A large number of war supervisors armed with long swords came to the back of the formation. Everyone in the Beifu soldiers was in danger, but they had no choice. They could only move forward and kill the Qin army at the top of the city to have a chance of survival! Once you take half a step back, you will be immediately killed by the supervising team as a deserter!
The Beifu soldiers' crossbowmen stepped forward to release arrows for cover, and the sergeants continued to attack along the ladder. At this time, the Qin army had run out of hot oil, and a large number of boulders and heavy wood were thrown down the tower, hitting the Jin army sergeants who were climbing the city. , the person who was hit immediately rolled down the city wall and fell to death!
The huge boulder on the ladder will use inertia and gravity to smash down all the Jin army sergeants along the ladder channel. The howls of the Jin army sergeants who were affected can be heard endlessly. The same is true for the rolling logs, which rolled down from the top of the city and directly hit them. Several Jin army sergeants were hit. Because the rolling log was relatively long, they could not escape within a short period of time once they rolled down. Several captain's sergeants who were running slowly were hit in the head or chest and abdomen. After falling to the ground, they immediately expired and could not die. Die again!
The screams of the Jin army sergeants echoed below Chen County. Many people began to retreat behind the formation and gathered together, hesitating but not daring to advance... Seeing the Jin army's numerous casualties, the Qin army seemed to have seen victory. The thunder stones and rolling logs in their hands were thrown even more vigorously!
Seeing the heavy losses of the Jin army at the top of the city, Liu Laozhi felt a sudden pain in his heart. Many of the soldiers who died under the city had followed him from the Battle of Huainan, the Battle of Luojian, and the Battle of Feishui. Many of them looked familiar. I can still call him by name, but I didn’t expect that he would all fall under Chen County today!
"Drum, come on!" Liu Laozhi was like a crazy beast. He climbed onto the chariot, kicked the soldiers away, and beat the drum himself: "If Chen County is not broken today, we will never withdraw! For the sake of our dead brothers , for the mountains of coins and the tons of women in the city, brothers, charge me!"
The recruits of the Beifu soldiers are the refugees who fled Jiangzuo. These refugees escaped from the barbarians' swords with a narrow escape. They have blood on their hands. They are all masters who are not afraid of death. They are prone to private fighting and murder like crazy! It is precisely because of this that refugees have become a fixed source of soldiers for the Jin court.
Starting from Zu Ti, Su Jun, Yu Ji, and Huan Wen all recruited refugees in Jingkou for the Northern Expedition. Xie Xuan's Beifu soldiers were no exception. They also recruited refugees in Jingkou and practiced for seven years before entering the battlefield.
Once on the battlefield, the Beifu soldiers composed of refugees were invincible and won many battles.
Hearing the woman, these Beifu soldiers once again launched a desperate attack on the city for the third time!
Liu Laozhi was very satisfied. He used the drum hammer in his hand harder, and the Jin army began to reorganize their ranks and march towards Chen County step by step...
"It's not good, it's not good, General!" The scouts came galloping from behind on horseback, and when they approached Liu Lao, they reported: "The Qin Army's Guanzhong Army came from nowhere and suddenly appeared behind our army. At this time, it was less than five years old." Miles away!"
The so-called Guanzhong Army is an army composed entirely of Di people who were born near Linwei in Lueyang. Later, they absorbed the Di people scattered from various places and formed an army of tens of thousands. The Guanzhong Army was originally the ace army of the Qin royal family, and its combat power was not high. As a saying goes, he is brave and not afraid of death, he is very brave!
The Guanzhong Army, led by Fu Jian, Emperor Jingming of Qin, fought vigorously in the Sanfu area, wiped out the princes in Guanzhong, pacified Chang'an, and laid the foundation of the Qin State. When King Fu Jian of Qin came to the throne, he relied more heavily on the Guanzhong Army, and at the same time assigned the main force of the Guanzhong Army to guard key points in various places. Prevent alien races and stabilize the overall situation!
The four thousand troops led by Mao Dang to assist Chen County were part of the Guanzhong Army. When the defenders of Chen County heard that General Mao Dang of the town army was leading the Guanzhong Army to assist, their morale was high. They all believed that Chen County was impregnable and that the Jin army would never be able to capture Chen County. county!
Mao Dang had been in the army for twenty years and was trusted by King Fu Shi of Qin. He never wanted to take the initiative to release Yuzhou and let the Jin army's Northern Expedition go so smoothly. Once Yuzhou was lost across the board, it meant that Sizhou and Luoyang would become the next battlefield. Only then will the Qin army truly fall into passive position!
Mao Dang's idea was to turn from defense into offense and use the Chen County defenders to hold back the main force of the Beifu soldiers. He personally led four thousand Guanzhong troops to bypass Chen County and move behind Liu Laozhi's troops, waiting until Liu Laozhi and the Chen County defenders When the battle was in full swing and the outcome was in doubt, he led his army to suddenly charge out and caught the Jin army off guard. He cooperated with the defenders of Chen County inside and outside to attack from both sides and completely ate up Liu Laozhi's main force!
After taking Liu Laozhi, Mao Dang gathered troops from other counties in Liang County and used Chen County as his base camp to defend Yuzhou. Chen County had sufficient food, grass, ordnance, and hundreds of thousands of people. He had already massacred the Jin army. When the news spread, the Qin and Jin armies would be almost the same in strength, and the Jin army encircling Chen County could only look at the city and sigh!
By that time, the Jin army was unable to capture Chen County for a long time, their morale was frustrated, their morale was dispirited, and when the situation reversed, he could take the opportunity to leave the city to attack the camp and defeat the Central Army of the Jin army's Northern Expedition to relieve the crisis in Luoyang!
"So what about the Guanzhong Army?" When he received a military report that a large number of elite cavalry from the Guanzhong Army appeared behind him, Liu Laozhi sneered and dismissed it.
Not to mention the Guanzhong Army, the 50,000 elite Qin Army in the Battle of Luojian was defeated by his 5,000 troops, making them cry for their fathers and mothers! What about the Qin army’s 300,000 vanguard troops? Later, they were buried in Feishui, fed fish and shrimps, and went to see the Dragon King of the East China Sea.
"The rear army will follow me to fight," Liu Laozhi threw down his drumsticks, jumped off the chariot, got on his horse and shouted: "Brothers, come up here, let them see how the steel knives in the hands of the Beifu lords are used to chop." Whoever takes their heads off, kill Hulu!"
Liu Laozhi took the lead, followed by two thousand Beifu soldiers without hesitation, and rushed towards the large number of Qin Guanzhong troops who were suddenly coming from behind, regardless of their own safety!
