Chapter 15: A Way to Live
Guan Hai is a giant bandit entrenched in the Qingzhou area, in the early years, he followed the great virtuous and good teacher to raise troops against the Han Dynasty, Yanbei was still in Jizhou when he was a general, he was the commander of Daqu, the most majestic when he had more than 100,000 believers, attacking cities and destroying cities, doing everything. Later, the mighty Yellow Turban fell apart with the death of the three generals, and he led the remnants of the Yellow Turban under his command to live a life of hiding in Tibet.
Fortunately, Qingzhou is mountainous and close to the sea, and his brother Guan Cheng has 3,000 disciples in the Linhai area, and he is also a well-known sea coward. For a while, the two brothers were able to survive in Qingzhou. At that time, Kong Rongtun's troops were in Duchang, so he besieged Guan Hai and led the army, wanting to grab some military rations and go north to join the army in Montenegro, and later Liu Bei Chi aided Kong Rong into the main Qingzhou and defeated Guan Hai. In order to take refuge, Guan Hai led his troops to flee overseas, and survived.
It's just that Haikou is also getting more and more difficult to do, from Yanbei to Liaodong Lishui Village, through Wenxian, the islands from Wenxian to Donglai to do the water village, the fleet is frequent, the ship is strong and crossbow, and the soldiers are fierce, completely cutting off the entire Bohai Sea, where is there still a chance for Haikou to plunder under the Yan's flag?
The Bohai Sea is full of Yan's merchant ships and warships, and where can others be involved, and if the water thieves in charge are all bandits on land, even the battle formation is not conceded by the county soldiers, but if they encounter Yan's warships on the sea, they can only retreat.
Naval warfare is not like land warfare, and land warfare still has the merit of battle formation and overall planning, but naval warfare is strong and weak is weak.
The Guan brothers have long had the intention of taking refuge in the princes of a place, but they are afraid of not being accepted. Earlier, they planned to defect to Zhang Yan, who was recruited by the imperial court in Montenegro, but was defeated by Liu Bei, and the only one who could let them take refuge in the north was Yanbei in Youzhou.
On the occasion of Yuan Shao's raid on Donglai, their brothers are Donglai people, and after receiving the news, they lit up all the soldiers and horses to break the waves from the offshore island, and just saw the scene of the Yan warship besieging Donglai Port, which is ...... Chill.
The Guan brothers have not done this before, but it was all small boats attacking the port, and a large number of people and horses rushed to the shore, in the final analysis, it was a field battle on the seaside. Where is it like the Yan Clan's naval army, only relying on the advantage of the bow and crossbow to defeat the defenders, nearly a hundred big ships on the coast, a piece of spear will be projected over, who dares to stay on the shore to resist this formation.
Where is this war, it is clearly as easy as an adult fighting a baby!
Seeing that the defenders were almost defeated, the water thieves couldn't hold their breath anymore, although they were small, there were thousands of them, and they were too conspicuous on the sea, if the general of the navy who taught the Yan clan found that he couldn't figure out whether it was friend or foe for a while, in case they were the first to attack, only those crossbows would not be something they could resist!
At that moment, the water thieves didn't say anything, and after passing through the air to the Yan clan's naval army, they landed on the coast, and rushed to the city of Huangxian with fire in formation...... After all, Guan Cheng has the intention of taking refuge in the Yan family, and they don't have the ability to storm the port with the Liaodong Naval Army, but if they attack the city, it is their old job. If you want to take refuge in the Yan family, you must always show some skills to speak!
Tian Yu didn't say much, he had heard the reputation of Guan Cheng and Guan Hai, and he could guess what these two thieves were thinking in their hearts. Although his original intention was only to take the port and not march again, but now that there were water thieves besieging the city of Huangxian for them, he was naturally happy to do so, and instead ordered someone to move to the bow of the flagship ship to sit on the bed, as if he was out of the way, watching the battle.
As the old saying goes, the speed of the soldier is noble, but this speed has now achieved his goal, and it is enough to be able to take the port of Huangxian County by raiding, as for whether he can take the city of Huangxian County in one go, it is not important to Tian Yu.
This battle was actually over in Tian Yu's heart.
They won.
Yuan Shao's raid on Donglai was a dangerous move, he did not have many soldiers and horses, and he had to occupy Qingzhou and defend the Bohai Sea respectively, and his manpower was not enough.
Nearly 100 warships were parked off the coast of Huangxian Port, and there were not many options left for him...... It's not a matter of whether he can't fight or not, but where he wants to lose and where he will keep.
The battle has just ended, but the war has only just begun. Tian Yu knew very well that a few days later, from Donglai to Bohai, all the thousands of miles of land would become battlefields, all of them were the targets of the Youzhou Navy Army, and there was smoke everywhere, where did he Yuan Shao protect and where did he lose it?
At least in Tian Yu's eyes, he didn't dare to lose anywhere. If Donglai is lost, Qingzhou will be unstable, and if the Bohai Sea is lost, the back road will be lost, regardless of Le'anguo, and the connection between Qingdao and Hebei will be cut off by the Yanbei Army from the Yellow River; If he doesn't dare to lose anything, he will divide his troops, and if he divides his troops, he will not be able to keep anywhere!
The chaos caused by the Yuan clan wants them to eat the consequences!
Guan Cheng and Yuan Shao did not let Tian Yu wait too long on the coast, but in half an hour, a horse came from the shore, and more than 2,000 defenders in Huangxian abandoned the city, all the way to the west and retreated, before leaving, they burned down the arsenal and granary in the city, Guan Cheng sent someone to ask for the flag of the Yan family, saying that it was to be planted in the head of Huangxian County.
It seems that Yuan Shao has made a choice.
Tian Yu waved his hand and sent someone to send out the Yan flag, and then invited Guan Chengguan to meet him on his ship.
At this time, Huangxian County was also surrounded, and the battle was fought, so it was reasonable to meet each other, and many tacit things could be discussed.
A small boat carrying the bandit leader and the leader of the pirates on the Qingzhou territory boarded Tian Yu's ship, Tian Yu had already ordered people to prepare wine and food in the baggage, and invited the two to sit down with a smile, facing the salty smell of sea water in the air, Tian Yu smiled and said: "Thank you two, the two Qu Shuai have helped this time." In Shimoda Yu, it is a subordinate general of General Duliao, please take a seat. ”
At the time of the Yellow Turban Incident, the Guan brothers were not very old, but they were all past the age of standing, and now they are both nearly forty years old, and they are very surprised to see Tian Yu, a young general who has only been crowned for a few years.
The Guan brothers were born just like their reputation, Guan Hai is a big belly man with five big and three thick, and he looks like a fierce general at first glance; Guan Cheng is a little thinner, but with a fierce look between his eyebrows and eyes, these two brothers are not good-looking characters.
"General Tian, Donglai is our hometown, and his Yuan clan said that he would fight and occupy it, which is inappropriate." Guan Cheng responded with his hand, and said straight to the point, the perennial sea breeze and sun brought a body of wind and frost to this Haikou leader, and frowned and said: "You don't have to drink wine, you don't have to eat food, our brothers come here today, just ask General Yan, it depends on whether the general can respond." ”
"Oh? I don't know what to ask for, when the war is calmed down and the road is smooth, Tian can repair a letter to the general on behalf of the two. ”
"There are 3,000 sailors, 8,000 foot soldiers, and 100,000 civilians on the island, so it depends on whether General Yan will give us a way to live."