After the rebels in Yuzhong City were cut off from internal and external communication, they were naturally very panicked and had no choice but to launch an external operation to open up internal and external communication channels.
They went out to fight five times in three days, and were beaten back by the Han army five times, losing troops and generals, without success.
The Han army did not attack the city, but instead waited for work. When they turned to the offensive, the rebels began to feel uncomfortable.
In addition, on Sun Jian's side, Sun Jian carefully escorted the grain and grass back and forth twice, without encountering any threat from the rebels. Therefore, the Han army's grain route and retreat route are still safe at present.
The best news actually came from Dong Zhuo.
To be more precise, this good news was brought by Guan Yu and Xiahou Dun.
Dong Zhuo fought with the rebels composed of Qiang and Huns near Wangyuan. The two sides fought for five or six days, with no outcome in sight.
As a result, on July 8th, rebel reinforcements suddenly arrived.
The arrival of more than 20,000 reinforcements immediately changed the balance of forces between the enemy and ourselves. The rebels surrounded Dong Zhuo's army overnight. Dong Zhuo led his troops to attack several times, but failed to break the rebel blockade. He was about to run out of food. .
At the critical moment, Guan Yu and Xiahou Dun, who were assigned by Liu Bei to ensure the safety of Dong Zhuo's grain road, arrived with one thousand cavalry and two thousand infantry.
After observing the situation, Guan Yu immediately decided to unite his troops to attack the rebel blockade, and Xiahou Dun also supported Guan Yu.
Guan Yu was extremely brave, and his soldiers were willing to risk their lives. They followed Guan Yu and charged left and right, maximizing the energy of his sudden cavalry. Finally, Guan Yu saw the right time and stabbed a Qiang tribe leader to death, finally breaking the blockade.
When Dong Zhuo saw this, he was overjoyed and led the besieged and very restless Han army to meet Guan Yu. Dong Zhuo's troops and Guan Yu's troops, desperate for survival, worked together and finally broke out of the siege.
When the rebels saw the Han army coming for reinforcements, they thought it was the main force of the Han army that came to support them. They were shocked and retreated. In the chaos, they abandoned their helmets and armor and their baggage and fled Wangyuan. Even Hanyang County did not dare to do so. After staying too long, he fled directly to his hometown in Longxi County.
Guan Yu and Xiahou Dunxia were on the rise, and they led their troops to pursue the rebels for ten miles. They made great gains and made military exploits.
Faced with such a brave action, Dong Zhuo admired the bravery of Guan Yu and Xiahou Dun very much, and then took the initiative to write a letter to Zhang Wen to express merit for Guan Yu and Xiahou Dun.
Zhang Wen was overjoyed to learn that, and he recorded a lot of military achievements for Guan Yu and Xiahou Dun.
Of course, at this time, news from Liu Bei's headquarters was also sent to Zhang Wen. Only then did Zhang Wen learn that something dangerous had happened on the Yuzhong front line, and Liu Bei was in danger himself, leading 10,000 troops to carry off 20,000 rebels. The attack cut off the rebel supply lines and directly reversed the situation of the battle, allowing Zhou Shen, who was originally preparing to withdraw his troops, to maintain the battle situation.
Now, Liu Bei is still fighting hand-to-hand with the rebels on the front line. It is said that the situation is full of dangers, and the general Dong Huang around him has been injured and retired to recuperate.
Zhang Wen was instantly frightened out of his mind. Thinking of his tragic ending if something happened to Liu Bei, he immediately sent a reserve team to Yuzhong County to meet Liu Bei.
Fortunately, when the 10,000 reinforcements he dispatched arrived in Yuzhong County, Liu Bei's side was still fighting and there was no major problem, but the Yuzhong rebels were already shaken to their core.
After five defeats in three days, some conflicts seemed to have broken out among the rebels in Yuzhong City. There were some sounds of weapons clashing at night, and the order in the city began to be unable to be maintained. This indicated that the rebels could no longer hold on.
Zhou Shen was very happy and continued to besiege the city.
Throughout the whole second day, the rebels in the city attacked the Han army's defense line seven times in an attempt to break through, but were blocked by Zhou Shen himself. The Han army fired thousands of arrows, and the rebels could not even lift their heads. All seven operations failed. , cannot break through.
The rebels in the city became more and more manic, and constantly sent troops out of the city to attack the Han army's defense lines. However, apart from the loss of troops, the damage to the Han army who was waiting for work was always very limited.
When things got to this point, Zhou Shen also felt at ease. He led the Han army to sit firmly on the Diaoyutai, insist on defense, and refused to take the initiative to attack. He waited for the rebels to take the initiative to attack, repelled the rebel attacks with arrows, and continued to reduce the rebel army. of military strength.
When the reinforcements sent by Zhang Wen arrived in Yuzhong City, the rebels in the city completely collapsed.
Han Sui and Bian Zhang couldn't bear it anymore, so they sent messengers to negotiate with Zhou Shen, hoping that they could surrender the city and just want to survive. Otherwise, they would insist on defending the city and be burned together.
Presumably the Han army didn't want to see a ruined city that insisted on guarding until the end and refused to surrender, right?
You don’t want so many casualties, right?
Then the fantasy of Han Sui and Bian Zhang was slapped to the ground by Zhou Shen, shattering it to pieces.
Do I care about the lives of these big-headed soldiers?
Would I care about the life and death of the people in the city and the survival of the city?
What does it have to do with me whether they die or not? Will the imperial court reward me for the few soldiers under my command who died in battle?
What I want is not the number of casualties, what I want is the results! is the result! !
I want you to die! ! !
The rebels' sneak attack on the grain road almost caused Zhou Shen to lose all his previous efforts and bear a heavy responsibility. He had long hated Han Sui and Bian Zhang to death, and wanted to beat their muscles and skin them, so why would he care about such a thing?
So he did not accept the surrender of Han Sui and Bian Zhang. He wanted to watch Han Sui and Bian Zhang fall, even if it cost his own side huge casualties of the same scale.
It doesn't matter, he doesn't care how many Han soldiers die, nor how many people in the city die. As long as he gets victory and military honors, he can be promoted to a higher position, make a fortune, and honor his ancestors.
As for how many soldiers under his command died, does it matter?
It is not nonsense to say that kindness does not command troops.
Seeing that their last hope was shattered, Han Sui and Bian Zhang became ruthless and wanted to die with the Han army. They declared to the rebels in the city that the Han army wanted their lives. If they wanted to survive, they would fight to the end, never surrender, and break out with all their strength. , fight for your life!
To be honest, the rebel soldiers really wanted to survive, but the problem was that they didn't have much physical strength after being cut off from supplies.
Everyone wanted to survive, everyone wanted to break out, and everyone needed to eat to gain strength. As a result, the order in the city could not be maintained soon, and fierce civil strife broke out. The rebel soldiers in the city did not hesitate to use swords against their comrades in order to fight for a bite to eat. .
They fought with themselves first, killing them to pieces and bleeding like rivers. Then they snatched the food from the dead man's hands and ate it themselves, in order to replenish their physical strength and strive to survive until the end.
There is no such thing as comradeship between them. At this time, it is impossible for them to think about cooperating to fight and survive together. What they think about is to die as a fellow Taoist rather than to die as a poor Taoist.
Finally, the rebels in the city came out in large numbers to fight to the death with the Han army. The Han army was ready, and a large number of bows and arrows hit the rebels' heads like raindrops. An unprecedented fierce annihilation battle began.
Zhou Shen didn't care at all how many casualties the Han army had, so when he saw the frontline Han army and the frontline rebels fighting each other and dying in rows, Zhou Shen's heart was unmoved, only because the rebels were about to be completely destroyed and he The intense pleasure that comes from the fact that I am about to obtain a major military achievement.
He is so happy, so happy.
For this day, he felt that everything he had done before was worth it.
On the other hand, the 10,000 troops who arrived in Yuzhong County to meet Liu Bei were intercepted by Zhou Shen and 5,000 were used to annihilate the rebels in the city. The remaining 5,000 rushed to support Liu Bei.
When these five thousand people arrived at the bloody battlefield where Liu Bei was, the Han army led by Liu Bei burst into cheers.
They did not know that the annihilation operation in Yuzhong City was ongoing. They only thought that reinforcements were coming from the rear, which meant that they had won.
Liu Bei didn't know whether the battle in Yuzhong City had been won, but that was not important. What was important was to boost morale.
He immediately sent people to announce to the soldiers that the battle in Yuzhong had been won, the army had won, and the Yuzhong rebels had been wiped out, so General Zhou sent people to support them!
Brothers, follow me and kill all the rebels in front of us!
So the Han army, which had been suppressed and beaten for more than ten days, finally broke out. Under Liu Bei's call, it unleashed all its strength. The soldiers shouted excitedly and ran wildly, as if they were filled with inexhaustible strength. .
(End of chapter)
