Chapter 34 Sanxikou
So after Zhang Tong rebelled, he wantonly forcibly recruited the local people, coerced them into the army, and forced these people to kill people, forcing them to follow him to rebel, and at the same time he was not stingy with money, and kept rewarding his subordinates with the money and goods he had robbed, and the result soon grew stronger, and now he seems to have become the emperor of the soil in this area, and he is very happy. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
At the same time, he also caused heavy disasters to the local area, many people refused to join them, and resisted their looting, as a result, many people were killed by the rebels, Zhang Tong himself also knew that after the matter reached this point, it was no longer under his control, so he had to continue to expand his power and confront the imperial court, otherwise, even if the imperial court recruited peace, maybe when he would settle accounts in the future and kill him.
So after Zhang Tong raised the army, his thoughts changed many times, and now he has made up his mind to fight against the imperial court, if it really doesn't work, he will also follow the example of Wu Phosphorus back then, and simply surrender to the Jin State to pull down, if he can't stand it, he will flee to the Jin State for refuge.
At present, this Liang Tietou in Tongjiang County is his hardcore supporter, and he ordered Liang Tietou to defend Tongjiang no matter what, and not let the imperial army enter Lizhou from Tongjiang County and copy their butts.
After this Liang Tietou won a battle, he unconsciously forgot who his surname was, and he got carried away for a while, thinking that he was a natural general, and the soldiers and horses of the court were really nothing, and he began to be arrogant.
After the great victory over the Jinzhou soldiers, Liang Tietou began to be powerful in Tongjiang County, playing with women in the county government all day long, and from time to time he also sent people to attack some walled forts that refused to surrender to them, and plundered a large number of property.
But it didn't take long for his good days to get an urgent report from Jinzhou Xizuo, saying that the imperial court had sent a large army and had arrived in Jinzhou, and he would march into Tongjiang County in a few days.
However, Liang Tietou was not too afraid, anyway, now he controls the main road to Tongjiang County, the last time the Jinzhou soldiers were defeated by his ambush, if the imperial army still comes this time, he can continue to lead the troops to repel them, so that he can ask Zhang Tong for more rewards and more beautiful women.
After hearing the news, Liang Tietou immediately gathered his subordinates, gathered about 5,000 soldiers and horses, and immediately left Tongjiang County, and stationed in Shiren Town, where he was stationed in a place called Sanxikou.
Sanxikou is the only way to pass through from Jinzhou to Tongjiang County, there are three streams gathered together, so it is called Sanxikou, the terrain is very dangerous, if you want to pass here, you must go uphill from a very narrow official road, in order to bypass this place, and Liang Tietou is very familiar with the terrain here, Chen Bing is here, the pass is controlled, and soon a stone barrier is built here, the waist is cut off from the road to Tongjiang County, condescendingly controls here, there is a posture of a man who is not open.
And Liang Tietou arranged some troops around him, firmly controlled some key passes that might pass through the men and horses, set up barriers, and ensured that no one could bypass Sanxikou and launch an attack from behind them.
And just when Liang Tietou was busy arranging defenses, Gao Huaiyuan led his troops to approach Sanxikou.
After having the experience of the Jinzhou soldiers, Gao Huaiyuan also put away his contempt for these chaotic soldiers this time, and after entering the mountain, he was a little more careful, and constantly sent local Jinzhou soldiers who were familiar with the terrain along the way to lead the scouts to investigate, so as to prevent the situation of encountering rebels in ambush again.
After several days of trekking, there were no large-scale rebel ambushes along the way, but several small groups of enemy troops attacked and harassed, which was not a threat to Gao Huaiyuan's army, and was defeated by the vanguard battalion that came forward.
It wasn't until they reached a few miles east of Sanxikou that the scouts reported that the road ahead had been cut off by the rebels, and Sanxikou was all occupied by the rebels, blocking their way.
Gao Huaiyuan then ordered the army to stop, personally led the generals to go out to Sanxikou to check the terrain, through the lens of the telescope, Gao Huaiyuan watched the terrain of the entire Sanxikou, this is really a dangerous place, although the rebels are disorganized, but they have blocked every place that can be used to attack, it seems that the enemy is very familiar with the terrain of this place, just from here to look at the past, almost no flaws.
In addition to Sanxikou, is there any place where we can pass through the army to Tongjiang County? Gao Huaiyuan asked about the utility of a Golden State that acted as a guide.
The utility hurriedly replied: Lord Qiyu Taiwei, take this road to Tongjiang County, Sanxikou is the only way, surrounded by some mountains, there is no way to go, only through here, can you arrive!
Gao Huaiyuan stood on a boulder, raised his binoculars and looked at the arrangement of the enemy army at Sanxikou on the opposite side, nodded and said: So that means that the only way for us to pass through this place is to storm it?
The effect nodded and said: "Back to Lord Taiwei's words, there is no other way!
Gao Huaiyuan put away the binoculars and said to Zheng Bingjie who was following him: It seems that we can only forcibly attack this place, just now we have also looked at the terrain, the enemy general is not a fool, he has already found out the news of our troops in advance, mobilized his main force to go out here, intercept our army from entering Tongjiang County, and this is indeed a dangerous pass, after the enemy controls here, it can be said that it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the biggest problem here is that the army cannot attack, only send a small force of troops to force a surprise attack, General Zheng, how do you think we should attack?
Zheng Bingjie is also a good general under Meng Heng, and the art of war is not ambiguous at all, but after seeing the situation of the enemy army today, he didn't feel scratching his head, and bowed down with a wry smile and replied: Lord Minister, his subordinates are incompetent, and after seeing the situation here, there is no good plan, and it seems that the subordinates can only send troops to attack!
There is no way left and right, and there is only a hard attack next, Gao Huaiyuan immediately raised troops to Sanxikou, and sent troops to control the two wings of the hill to prevent the enemy from using both sides to sneak attack, and then ordered Zheng Bingjie to send a battalion of soldiers, and sent an archer battalion to cover them, after preparing the shield and the half-cut boat temporarily built by cutting down trees on the spot, as soon as the order was given, the Chuzhou soldiers of this battalion immediately roared in unison, and in the sound of war drums, they brazenly launched an offensive against Sanxikou.
Although Liang Tietou boasted about Haikou two days ago, saying that he was not afraid of the officers and soldiers coming to attack, but after he really saw a large number of officers and soldiers marching to the opposite side, he was still nervous, after all, his troops were far inferior to the officers and soldiers, and the equipment and training were not as good as the officers and soldiers, and this officer and army was different from the garrison of the Jinzhou Metropolitan Division, whether it was morale or equipment, it was much higher than the Jinzhou soldiers, and from a condescending view, the officers and troops were dispatched in an orderly manner, although the terrain was not conducive to them, but it was not chaotic at all, and there was no intention of cowardice at all.
The other party acted very quickly, and soon controlled all the important places outside the mouth of Sanxikou, leaving him no chance to sneak attack at all, and the camp quickly took root, and continued for a long distance along the mountain, and the flags flashed with swords and guns, which made him tremble and frightened.
A big banner was erected in the official and military camp, and several big characters were written on it, and he didn't know a few big characters, so he immediately asked someone to read it to him, and after a little explanation, he understood, it turned out that the person who came was actually the most popular official in the imperial court, and he knew that Gao Huaiyuan of the Privy Council!
He didn't expect that he would meet such a big man just today against the official army, and he didn't expect that such a big official would personally lead the troops and attack them directly, in his opinion, even if the big officials of the Song Dynasty went on the expedition, they often sat in the safest place, remotely commanding the soldiers and horses in front, and it was generally impossible to command the battle in person, but today's situation seems to be different from usual, The biggest leader of the official army also came to the front line this time.
Don't be afraid, they can't attack, we just need to hold the mountain pass, even if they have wings and become immortals, they can't fly over, prepare more rolling wood and stones, push up the made fireballs, and the archers are also in place, as long as they dare to come, they will definitely have no return!
Liang Tietou waved his waist knife and commanded his rebels to work in the mountain pass, and under his supervision, these rebels who were a little frightened were a little more stable, and they were busy transporting all kinds of imperial guards to the pass and piling them up on the pass wall.
As soon as the war drums sounded, I saw a group of Song troops shouting and holding shields, half-boats and other objects, and rushed towards the pass.
Beat! Hurry up and let them go, don't let them get close! Roll wood! Hurry up and put the wood down! Liang Tietou, who was wearing two layers of armor, jumped up and immediately commanded the hundreds of rebels guarding the pass to start resisting.
From the heights on both sides, rows of rebel archers stood up and fired their arrows at the Song army below the pass.
Although the rebel archers are really not flattering, but on such a cramped mountain road, the Song army is very close, and there is no room to dodge, except for the shield in their hands and the half-cut boat to protect the top of their heads, they have no way to deal with these enemy archers above, and such a dense formation, the rebel archers above do not need too good accuracy, even if it is Meng, they can shoot the Song army.