Linfen City.
Linfen City at this time was not the Linfen City of later generations.
It was a county seat on the west bank of Fen River northwest of Jiangyi, ten miles northwest of Baibo Valley where Guo Da launched his army.
Guo Da's main army was originally in Wenxi, but it was not suitable for fighting after the winter came.
Therefore, Guo Da led the main army to retreat to Linfen City, leaving only a small number of troops in Wenxi, Jiangyi, and Yicheng, preparing to wait until the spring of next year.
After that, he went south to attack the Ji'an city of Hedong County.
Guo Da is a follower of Zhang Jiao.
After the failure of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, he led the remnants of his troops to retreat into the Taiyue Mountains and hide for two years.
Later, he sneaked into Baibo Valley to secretly plan the riot, and therefore radiated to the surrounding areas with Baibo Valley as the center, spreading influence. force.
There are many wealthy families in Hedong, and ordinary people live in extreme poverty, which is far worse than in other areas.
The idea of resisting oppression and exploitation is rising day by day.
Guo Da leads Li Le, Yang Feng, Han Xian, Hu Cai and others to incite everywhere, and soon in The surrounding villages and towns centered on Linfen City raised a large number of farmers who could not survive.
Under their organization, these people gathered in Baibo Valley to kill animals to worship the gods, to comfort the world, and formally launched their troops.
The first to conquer was Linfen County, which was only ten miles away from Baibo Valley.
Guo Dazheng led some people to use talisman water to treat the sick bandit soldiers and civilians accompanying the army.
A knight with a yellow scarf tied on his head came galloping on horseback, shouting along the way: "Get out of the way, get out of the way, military situation, "Emergency military situation" The bandit soldiers and the common people gave way one after another.
After a while, the yellow scarf knight reined up his horse and stopped next to Zhang Jiao, clasping his fists at him and saying, "Chief, urgent military information.
We have just received news that Brother Hu Cai's men were attacked by the imperial army in Guyuan. , Brother Hu Cai died in the battle, and not even one of the ten brothers who escaped survived."
"What?"
The pottery bowl filled with talisman water in Guo Da's hand fell to the ground and broke into pieces.
His expression changed and he asked eagerly: "First, Han Xian was defeated by the imperial army, and then Hu Cai was killed.
What did the imperial army have?"
How many people are there?
How could they continuously attack Han Xian and Hu Cai here in the cold weather?
How did the imperial army enter Shangdang?
Why didn’t I receive any news?"
The knight who reported the news clasped his fists and said: "Chief, according to the reliable information we have received, Brother Yang Feng's troops were besieged and attacked by the imperial army in Linlu County, Hanoi.
The entire army was annihilated and even the Huns were defeated.
It is said that the escaped Huns were in Countless people froze to death in the Taihang Mountains, and only a few hundred people were able to escape back.
Because the roads were blocked by heavy snow for more than ten days, news was blocked, and we didn’t get the news until just now."
Hearing this, Guo Da kept shaking and looked like he was about to fall down.
Several of his close men around him immediately supported him.
Someone said: "Chief, you must not let anything happen to you.
If something happens to you, we will all It’s over” "I'm fine."
Guo Dad calmed down and waved his hands, then asked: "Where is Han Xian now and where are the people of the imperial court?"
The knight who reported the news replied: "When we received the news yesterday, Brother Han Siam was leading his people to retreat to Yang County, but there were soldiers and horses from the imperial court in hot pursuit.
This morning, there was another news.
Brother Han Siam was leading people to retreat to Yang County.
The remaining troops arrived at Yang County and garrisoned the city.
The imperial army did not attack the city.
It is reported that the imperial army was small in number, only 3,000, but they were all cavalry."
Guo Da said angrily: "Cavalry, cavalry again, why are these official and army cavalry always lingering?"
Ever since Du Kai led 3,000 light cavalry into Hedong and constantly harassed the bandits, Guo Da has been troubled.
These cavalry are too cunning and march too fast.
They want to pursue but cannot catch up.
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They have no idea of their next target.
Where will it be.
A man who looked like a scribe next to him touched his goatee and said to Guo Da: "Chief, if your guess is correct, the imperial army should have divided its forces to attack Han Xian and Hu Cai.
According to what our spies in Luoyang reported.
The news said that the entire Northern Army was dispatched, which was a total of 30,000 troops.
How could they be able to do so in such a short period of time?
In a short period of time, he first destroyed Yang Feng, defeated the Huns, and braved the cold wind and snow to cross the Taihang Mountains.
This kind of strength is really frightening.
The top priority is to understand the specific movements of the imperial army, so that in the future, We should shrink our troops now and not spread them out any more.
Spreading out our troops can easily be defeated by the officers and soldiers individually."
Guo Da nodded after listening to the scribe's analysis: "Sir, what you said makes sense.
Come here, send all the spies to find out the movements of the imperial army, including the imperial cavalry in the south and the imperial cavalry chasing Han Xian.
I want to know their details.
Where is the location?
Also, where are the imperial officers and soldiers in Shangdang, and how many people they have now, I know everything."
"yes" Liu Cheng couldn't laugh or cry when he got the news that Hu Cai's troops actually came out of the city to fight against Chen Dao's army.
They were defeated and killed in the end.
His men and horses also died and fled, and many others were captured.
His original intention was to let Chen Dao capture him.
Hu Cai rushed to the territory of Hedong.
Unexpectedly, Hu Cai dared to go out of the city to fight Chen Dao with only 5,000 men.
He was really ignorant and fearless.
Although this result was very different from what he planned, it did not affect the overall situation.
He could not blame Chen Dao for this matter.
Before he could see Zhang Yang, he led the main force of the army from Huguan City to the west to the Taiyue Mountains.
At the same time, Chen Dao was ordered to lead his army westward to Fenshui River.
Yong'an on the bank of the Fenshui River, and then went south along the Fenshui River to join his army in Yang County.
When he left, he left Wang Cangping with a thousand soldiers and horses and 3,000 surrendered captives to garrison in Huguan City, and appointed him as Shangdang Commandery.
Cheng, this is an official whose official position is second only to that of the prefect.
He is ordered to While training these prisoners, he closely followed and monitored the movements of Zhang Yang and others.
Wang Cangping took advantage of Zhang Yang's absence in Huguan City to coerce, bribe and win over other officials in the Prefecture, and controlled most of the officials.
When these officials saw Behind Wang Cangping His backer was Liu Cheng.
None of them dared to resist and could only obey orders.
By the time Zhang Yang led his army back to Huguan City, he had lost control of the prefect's mansion.
He could not blatantly deal with Wang Cangping and anger Liu Cheng.
The consequences were not something he could bear.
A few days later, Guo Da finally got some useful news.
He learned that the main force of Liu Cheng's army was marching in the Taiyue Mountains and moving towards Yang County at a very fast speed.
At this time, Chen Dao's troops who had defeated Hu Cai's troops were also Approaching Yong'an, the remnants of Han Siam who had retreated to Yang County had to abandon Yang County and retreat to Xiangling.
After listening to the report, Guo Da asked the scribes around him: "Sir, we were able to defeat Niu Fu in the Luliang Mountains.
Can we defeat Liu Cheng's army in the Taiyue Mountains this time?"
The scribe thought for a while and shook his head: "Chief, it's impossible.
The reason why we were able to defeat Niu Fu was not because our army was stronger than Niu Fu's Xiliang army, but because Niu Fu committed greed for merit.
The mistake of advancing rashly resulted in a major defeat due to our ambush.
The situation at this time was different from the previous situation.
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The imperial officers and soldiers had vanguards to serve as outposts, and the main army was behind.
We had no chance to get close to their main force, and we had no chance to get close to them.
A way to bypass their forward cavalry and set up an ambush."
Guo Da said solemnly: "Then what should we do?
Now that the army is coming in force, we must come up with a charter to deal with it."
The scribe touched his goatee and cupped his hands and said: "Chief, for the current plan, we can only order the troops stationed in other cities to be transferred back to prevent them from being defeated by the army.
If Liu Cheng's army continues to move south, we can only go to the south.
We attacked Anyi fiercely in the south.
After capturing Anyi, we quickly crossed the Yellow River to the south and went to Hongnong County.
As far as I know, Hongnong County is now Without much force, we can threaten Luoyang after entering Hongnong County.
If we can fight, we will fight.
If we can't, we will continue to Henan Prefecture to the south.
Further south are Nanyang and Jingzhou, where there is a wide space and the terrain is relatively flat.
The weather is warm and the products are abundant.
Not to mention an army of 100,000, even an army of 200,000 or 300,000 can be fed."
Guo Da thought for a while and thought that this strategy was really good, but he immediately thought of a question and asked: "Sir, if after we captured Anyi, the imperial court reacted quickly and deployed troops to garrison Hongnong, wouldn't our army be surrounded on all sides?
"surround" The scribe took out the map and pointed at one place and said: "If Dong Zhuo reacts and deploys troops to garrison Hongnong to stop our army from going south, the only troops he can mobilize are Li Jue and Guo Si stationed in Guanzhong. , stationed at Zuofeng Ling is Niu Fu's army.
He has been defeated by our army before and suffered heavy losses.
He has a certain fear of us, and Niu Fu's army cannot deal with it with peace of mind.
We, because he wants to guard against Xu Rong and Zhao Yun's troops.
These two people are Liu Cheng's people.
Liu Cheng and Dong Zhuo are not the same people.
There are rifts and conflicts between them.
We can take advantage of this.
When the time comes, Being surrounded on all sides, we marched across the river and marched westward.
Although Liangzhou is barren, it is also vast and will not be easily pursued and intercepted by the imperial army."
Guo Da was relieved now.
With a way out, he no longer worried.
However, his face gradually turned cold and he said: "Since we can't stay in this land east of the river, we should clean up before leaving. , capture all the Wubao that were not captured before, and snatch them away All the property and food and grass inside, kill all the nobles in Hedong, and leave nothing for Liu Cheng to pass on.
The defenders from all over the place attack the nearby Wubao with all their strength.
I want the property and food and grass in Wubao within five days.
No matter what the outcome is in five days, we must rush to Lafen City to meet up."
"Yes, Chief" As a result, the troops of the Baibo Army in the central and northern parts of Hedong began to violently attack the nearby Wubao of the aristocratic families.
The aristocratic families who were taking advantage of the winter to rest and lick their wounds were once again subjected to the most violent attack.
Many Wubao were destroyed within a day or two. was captured, all the people in Wubao were killed, and all their food and property were looted.
In just five days, the central and northern areas of Hedong were looted and almost turned into a white land.
A large amount of food and property were concentrated in Linfen City.
However, this was exactly the result that Liu Cheng hoped for.
This time Guo Da I really fell into the trap
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