Chapter 67: Zhu Gongwei escaped
However, although this battle was won, it could not change the overall situation, the main force had been submerged in the Han River, even if these Yellow Turban cavalry were defeated, but there was still a strong city to retreat, Nanjun had not been subdued, and it could not wait for a while, the main force of the Yellow Turban gathered, and I am afraid that the whole army would be annihilated.
Now, he can only retreat, Zhu Jun understands the consequences of this retreat, this retreat, the crime of losing his teacher will belong to him, and his career is even likely to end here, maybe there will be a prison sentence.
However, this also has to be retreated!
With the order of his commander, the attacking Han army infantry suddenly retreated, and the remaining cavalry of more than 100 people in the Han army camp was killed, and Zhu Jun began to cross the river with the Han army infantry soldiers.
Zhu Jun understands that he must first go to the other side of the Han River, after all, although there is Huang Hansheng's bravery, but the Yellow Turban cavalry is more than 10,000 people, Huang Hansheng with a hundred horsemen, will inevitably be defeated in the end, and once this remaining cavalry is defeated, after the Yellow Turban cavalry is reorganized, if he is not afraid of death and continues to squeeze forward, his Chinese army may also have to retreat, which means that this battle is a complete failure, and even he has to die here.
This will become a shameful record of the Great Han, in the suppression of the traitors, the Lord will die, this is not only the shame of the Great Han, but also the shame of Zhu Jun and his generals, the military exploits that were within reach are also impossible, Zhu Jun will offend countless scholars, because he cut off their ladder of advancement.
In the battle with the Yellow Turban, the Han army had never suffered such a defeat, so Zhu Jun had to retreat, and at this time, after all the foot soldiers attacked the Yellow Turban battle formation in the cavalry, the Chinese army camp of the Han army began to move to the other side of the Han River.
Although there are many people on the other side of the river, they are all foot soldiers, no matter how many there are, the Han army will not be wiped out, at this time, Pei Yuanshao was impotent and glared at Sun Zhi in front of him, and muttered:
"So much...... So many brethren ......"
Sun Zhi deceived him, in Sun Zhi's mouth, more than 50,000 people had been gathered to ambush along the way, Pei Yuanshao actually believed it, but he didn't know that Sun Zhi was actually only more than 10,000 people, plus he brought about 20,000 foot soldiers.
These foot soldiers are naturally not the opponents of the Han army, so Sun Zhi set up this vicious strategy, exchanging the lives of 10,000 yellow turbans for the lives of at least 30,000 Han soldiers.
It's just that Pei Yuanshao was kept in the dark, he thought there was an ambush, but he didn't expect that the ambush was a flood!
To destroy the Han army in one fell swoop, this is not an easy task, especially when the strength is not dominant, the Yellow Turban is based in Nanjun, defeated in the scattered villages, turned to the people, and is waiting for the order to gather, the same is true for the Han army, if it is defeated, it will go north, and there will be convergence, of course, it may also be caught by the Jingxiang clan and become a hidden household.
This is the result of the attack on both sides in the past few months, but this time it is different, the Han army thundered a thunderbolt, and realized that the Yellow Turban was scattered in the countryside with a probe horse, and the main force went to attack Yiling, with the intention of plotting Bashu, Zhu Jun waited until the emergency report of Yiling came, and then brazenly sent troops to the newly built Jiangling City of the Yellow Turban, ready to capture the thief and capture the king first.
And the Yellow Turban intends to destroy the Han Army in one fell swoop, not just a simple annihilation, but to annihilate the entire Han Army here, reverse the overall situation of the Yellow Turban, the enemy of the Yellow Turban, now there are three, Zhu Jun is one of them, if this person is removed, the Yellow Turban will once again shock the world, and even the great cause will be revived is unknown!
Zhu Jun this person, lost his father at a young age, his mother used to sell and buy silk for the family business, Zhu Jun is famous for his filial piety to his mother, he is a good person and light on money, the township respects him, and he is famous in the township since he was a child.
Although Zhu Jun was born in a poor family, he was able to make a name for himself in the state and county, and he was naturally resourceful, for example, there was a Zhou Gui in the same county as Zhu Jun who had borrowed millions of money from the government to decorate his clothes when he was expropriated before, and later Zhou Gui's family was poor and could not be repaid, but Zhu Jun used his mother's silk to repay Zhou Gui's debts.
Zhu Jun's mother was very resentful and blamed him, but Zhu Jun comforted her with the truth that he was poor first and then rich, and the name of Zhu Jun's wealth spread, and the length of the county was still deeply surprised by Zhu Jun, and recommended him to the county guard Wei Yi, so Zhu Jun was recommended to start serving in the county, which was considered to be out of class, and the later Taishou Yin Duan appointed him as the main thin, at this time Zhu Jun was already a official, and he stood out from the cold door.
In the second year of Xiping, Taishou Yin Duan's conquest of Xu Zhao failed, and he was assassinated by the state, and should be beheaded, Zhu Jun quietly went to Beijing, spent hundreds of gold, and bought off the officials who presided over the chapter to change the chapter of the assassination history, so Yin Duan had to lose as the left colonel, Yin Duan saw that the sin was reduced, and he was overjoyed, but he was puzzled, and he didn't know why he had to reduce his guilt, and Zhu Jun never mentioned it to others.
So, Zhu Jun had to be recommended by Xu Jue as filial piety, appointed as the commander of Lanling County, Zhu Jun has embarked on the right path of officialdom, Zhu Jun still has extraordinary bravery and talent, when the East China Sea is recommended again, just Jiaozhou group of thieves and up, the state pastor, the county guard is weak and incompetent, can not be banned, in addition, Jiaozhi Liang Long led 10,000 people, and the South China Sea Taishou Kong Zhi rebelled together, and broke the county.
In the first year of Guanghe, the imperial court appointed Zhu Jun as the assassin of Jiaozhou, to quell the rebellion, Zhu Jun was appointed, returned to the county to check the soldiers, transferred the soldiers, got 5,000 people, and went straight to Jiaozhi in two ways, after arriving at the state border, Zhu Jun packed the soldiers, stationed still, sent envoys to Nanhai County to inspect the reality of the truth, preach Weide, in order to deter the enemy's heart, and then mobilized the soldiers of the seven counties, and marched together, easily killed Lianglong, forced tens of thousands of people, and between the ten months, the state and county were pacified.
The court rewarded meritorious deeds, named Zhu Jun as the marquis of the capital, 1,500 households, gave 50 catties of gold, and recruited him into the court to serve as a doctor, at this time he was already a 2,000 stone official, and then there were meritorious deeds or a few years of hope, it may not be impossible to enter the phase.
In the seventh year of Guanghe, the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, and the minister recommended Zhu Jun, so the imperial court appointed him as the right middle general, holding the festival, and going out with Huangfu Song.
Zhu Jun first fought with the Yellow Turban Army Bocai Department, failed, and Huangfu Song retreated to Changshe, Bocai led a large army to besiege the city, at that time, there were few soldiers in the city, the disparity in numbers, and the army was terrified.
Huang Fu Song and Zhu Jun comforted their subordinates, and planned to use the fire meter, that night the wind suddenly rose, Huang Fu Song ordered the soldiers to tie torches to climb the city wall, first sent the elite to sneak out of the enclosure, set fire to shout, and then lit the torch on the city, echoing it.
Huangfu Song led the troops to take advantage of this momentum, the drum rushed out, the Yellow Turban lacked combat experience, panicked, and was forced to retreat, at this time, Zhu Jun secretly contacted the local rebels have also arrived, so Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun joined forces to pursue the victory, and tens of thousands of Yellow Turban troops were slaughtered.
Then, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun together to take advantage of the victory to suppress the Yellow Turban Army in Runan and Chen Guo areas, and pursued Bocai, attacked Pengtuo, won successive victories, and pacified the land of the three counties.
At this time, the Central Plains Yellow Turban only left Zhang Mancheng's department gathered in Nanyang, Zhang Mancheng had tens of thousands, killed Nanyang County to guard Chu Gong, stationed in Wancheng for several months, and later appointed Nanyang Taishou Qin Jie array to behead Zhang Mancheng, but Wancheng was still occupied by the Yellow Turban, most of the Nanyang Yellow Turban was thrown in, and the remaining soldiers raised Zhao Hong as the commander, about 100,000 people, all of whom were warriors.
And Zhu Jun and Nanyang Taishou Qin Jie's joint army, and the Central Plains rebellion, also less than 20,000 people, but Zhu Jun still led the army to attack Zhao Hong, from June to August, stretching for more than two months, has never been able to win, someone in the court played, to summon Zhu Jun back to Beijing, fortunately Sikong Zhang Wen on the dissuasion, so as not to fall short, Zhu Jun after the plan, the first to kill Zhao Hong.
However, the remaining Yellow Turban Army took Han Zhong as the commander, still occupied Wancheng, Zhu Jun's soldiers were few and invincible, so they disbanded the siege of the city, set up a camp, built a soil mountain, faced the city, beat drums and shouted, and put on a posture of attacking the southwest of the city, the Yellow Turban Army all rushed to meet the enemy, but Zhu Jun led 5,000 elite soldiers to attack the northeast, the soldiers were brave, and entered the city, Han Zhong retreated to the small city, frightened very much, and asked to surrender.
Zhu Jun refused, let go of the siege, Han Zhong saw the siege solved, and really led the army to fight, Zhu Jun took advantage of the situation to attack, broke his army, pursued more than ten miles, killed Han Zhong and others, the remnants of the Yellow Turban took Sun Xia as the commander, and also stationed in Wancheng, Zhu Jun attacked again, Sun Xia was defeated, Zhu Jun killed tens of thousands, so far, the Central Plains Yellow Turban was scattered and scattered, and Zhu Junyong was taken by Zhu Junyong, and no longer rebelled.
You must know that when the Central Plains Yellow Turban was at its peak, it was also more than a million people, and Qingzhou and Jizhou were the same, but the first to be pacified, the best one to be pacified was the Central Plains, and the million yellow scarves in Qingzhou and the million yellow scarves in Jizhou have lasted for several years.
The name of Zhu Jun has been bravely spread all over the world and is known as the Great Han Pillar Stone, of course, at this time, the Great Han Pillar Stone also has Huangfu Song, the two can be called the Imperial Double Wall, and Lu Zhi is a Great Confucian, and the two of them are different from the position of the general.
If Zhu Jun is mourned, then the Central Plains Yellow Turban will be in chaos again, more than 100,000 people in Nanyang will be taken by his brave name, and the Yellow Turban who does not dare to resist will be in chaos again, and at that time, the north and the south should be reconciled, and the whole county of Jingzhou will fall into the hands of the Yellow Turban.
Therefore, Zhu Jun wanted to retreat to the other side, but the Yellow Turban naturally would not agree, just when he saw the Han army foot soldiers start to cross the river, at this time in Jiangling City, more than a thousand Yellow Turban foot soldiers also gathered, the city gate quietly opened, and more than 1,000 Yellow Turban foot soldiers poured out, and the target was naturally Zhu Jun.
At this time, the Yellow Turban Foot Soldiers, who were crossing the river, quickly stopped and began to form a formation.
"Come down!"
Huang Zhong, who was avoiding the enemy's brave blow, watched this scene, and suddenly smashed the horse lance in his hand upward, and the Yellow Turban General who was fighting with him screamed and fell to the other side.
"Tell the general to retreat to the other side first!"
Huang Zhong turned his head at this time and said, he had gathered the only remaining hundred or so horsemen of the Han army around him, he was in Jingzhou, and his home was located in Nanyang, Huang Zhong naturally understood the pain of the war, and also understood what the consequences would be if Zhu Jun died here, and the entire Jingzhou would be in chaos.
Among the cavalrymen who were stabbing the Yellow Turban cavalry off their horses with their spears, a Han knight hurriedly agreed.
Huang Zhong immediately urged the war horse and galloped towards the Jiangling City Gate, at this time he rode alone to the camp, coupled with the courage of the Han army's foot soldiers, the morale of the Yellow Turban cavalry at this time dropped greatly, and they had no fighting spirit at all, and if they wanted to recover, they could not do it in a moment and a half.
The Yellow Turban did not have such brave generals, and a brave person who wanted to stop Huang Zhong was easily killed by Huang Zhong, so at this time, even if there were more than 8,000 Yellow Turban knights, they were chased and killed by more than 100 Han army cavalry!
Huang Zhong also understands that this time will not last long, after all, there are many Yellow Turbans, and it is enough to retreat and reorganize the army, mainly because there are too few Han soldiers, and they must not surrender, otherwise these Yellow Turban knights would have already dismounted and knelt down at this time to surrender.
Although there are still Yellow Turbans on the other side, but after retreating to the other side, they are all foot soldiers, and they can always escape if they fail, and they will not be chased and killed by the cavalry, and on the other side, there are also some Han troops who have not died, but they are scarce, and when the Chinese army passes, they have the ability to fight with the Yellow Turbans.
The ice floe in Hanshui has already been broken, and there is only this pontoon bridge in traffic at this time, as long as the pontoon bridge is destroyed, Zhu Jun will at least have no worries about his life, at least he will not be cut off by the yellow scarf and hang the city's head!
Huang Zhong blocked, Zhu Jun will not hesitate, immediately with the army across the river, soon, the vast majority of the Han army foot soldiers have crossed the river, at this time, Cao Cao and others trapped in the high ground, have gathered at the bridge, at this time the entire battlefield on the bank of the Han River, at this time are completely killed, both foot soldiers and knights are fighting frantically, the two sides of the river stretch for nearly two miles everywhere dead corpses, blood stained the Han water, shouts of killing resounded throughout the field.
"Destroy the pontoon bridge and march north!"
Huang Zhong killed a team of Yellow Turban knights, let the remaining more than ten Han horsemen cross the river first, and then he rushed to kill again, quickly crossed the river, after seeing Huang Zhong's crossing the river, Zhu Jun did not hesitate anymore, and immediately ordered the destruction of the pontoon bridge, on the other side of the river, although there were still some Han troops who could not be withdrawn, but at this time they could not take care of it.
If the pontoon bridge is not destroyed in time, wait for the Yellow Turban Knight to react and chase it up, and at that time, everything will be over!
His Chinese army immediately issued an order, and among the various units of the Han army that were fighting with the Yellow Turbans on the vast battlefield, those generals also issued orders to their subordinates to turn north.
The battle formation of the Han army slowly advanced to the north, but the reinforced Yellow Turban cavalry also began to attack its flank, of course, this cavalry only had a few hundred people, just used to delay the speed of the Han army, Sun Zhi did not expect that the Han army would have such a fierce general, with its own strength, horses and horses!
There are less than 10,000 Yellow Turbans here, and there are only these hundreds of horsemen, so the attack power is not strong, and it can't change the direction of the battle.
Although the Han army suffered heavy losses, it still has more than 10,000 people, and the 8,000 Chinese army lost more than 1,000 people in the process of crossing the river, but Cao Cao and others have thousands of people here who have not been swept into the Han River by the flood, so plus the strength of this Later Han army is almost similar to that of the Yellow Turbans, and it would be a joke if a Han army with a similar number could not defeat the Yellow Turbans, especially at this time when the Han generals were all gathered together, and there were top generals such as Huang Zhong.
"Shoot the arrows!".
Sun Zhi, although he has a Zhi character as his name, but he really faced failure, but he lost his mind, watching the Han army resolutely march north, and seeing that he was about to escape, he roared angrily at this time.
The archers of the Yellow Turban immediately shot sharp arrows into the sky, and then the feather arrows that reached the apex fell in a parabola, of course, such arrows did not really hurt the Han soldiers, just like the arrows shot by the Han army in the same way would be of little use to the Yellow Turbans, both sides were armoured, at this time, this way of fighting was like child's play.