The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

Zhao County currently has two giant thieves, one with yellow beard and one with Wang Dang.レm♠思♥Road♣客レ

There are more than 1,000 people in the Huangbeard group, and there are more than 3,000 people in the Wangdang group.

One of these two is a new thief, and the other is an old bandit. Who should be attacked first this time?

At the military meeting before the dispatch of troops, everyone argued endlessly about this.

There is a suggestion to attack Wang Dang first, because Wang Dang is powerful and has deep-rooted power in the mountains west of Zhao County, and he has close contacts with Chu Feiyan. If he is not defeated first, then he may cause trouble with Chu Feiyan. Second, he may also join forces with Chu Feiyan to attack Xunzhen while Xunzhen is attacking Huangbeard. In this way, Xunzhen will be defeated by the enemy on both sides.

But more of it is a strong request to hit Huang Beard first. There are two reasons. One is that Huang Beard surrendered and revolted first, which angered everyone, and everyone wanted to "pit" him. Another secondary reason was Huang Beard. The troops were all rabble, and it was easy to strike. It was just a chance to let two thousand new soldiers fight in actual combat. Even the best soldiers who had not experienced actual combat and had never seen blood in training could not be called a good soldier. ..

These two opinions were debated endlessly, but Xun Zhen, Xun You, and Xi Zhicai had already made up their minds.

At the military meeting, Xun Zhen remarked that he, Xun You and Xi Zhicai repeatedly discussed the agreed strategy, and everyone praised it.

After dispatching troops to serve as rì, Xun Zhen left only 500 soldiers to guard Handan, and led the remaining 4,000 cavalry to leave the camp and head towards the west mountain.

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This time, Xun Zhen had no intention of concealing his whereabouts at all. With more than 4,000 paces riding on the flag, they walked on the road. Thousands of people walked along the way, and the smoke was billowing. The villagers along the way saw it, and there were rumors that "Lieutenant Xun Gong" came out of the city and rode tens of thousands of paces into the mountain to attack the thieves.

On Yunding Peak, Huang Yan learned the news.

His old ministries swarmed him into the council hall, panic-stricken and rubbing their hands together.

When Huang Yan saw their appearance, he despised them. Last year, these old ministries coerced him into chaos, saying that they had the support of Wang Dang and discussed whether to vote for Wang Dang or Chu Feiyan to change their positions. At that time, each of these people was more happy than each other, and each one was more able to blow, but now the matter is approaching, they are sitting like chickens.

Although he despised them, Huang Beard had to fight with spirit and ask Xun Zhenbu's direction of advance.

You know, he betrayed Xun Zhen, and burned a villager under the rule of Xun Zhen, and was caught by Xun Zhen, he thought that he would die. In order to survive, he must take Xun Zhen's attack seriously.

"According to reliable information, the thief Xun came out of Handan, all the way to the west, straight to my Yunding Peak. Looking at his posture, he is coming to destroy me!"

The Yunding Peak where Huang Yan and others are located is in the middle of the mountain in the west of Zhao County, while Wang Dang is in the north of the mountain in the west of Zhao County. Since Xun Zhen came in the direction of Yunding Peak, she could only come to them, not to Wangdang.

"How many men and horses did Duke Xun bring?"

Huang Man became a defeated general under Xun Zhen once, and he was beaten by Xun Zhen.

His old department didn't have time to care about his words at the moment, and one person replied: "Bring tens of thousands of horses, look at them from afar, the dust is thick, and the armor is shining."

Huang Hu had served in Xun Zhen's army and knew the realities of Xun Zhen's army. Hearing this man said that Xun Zhen had brought tens of thousands of horses, he said to himself: "Xun Zhen's minister has a total of 5,000 cavalry and horses. How come there are 'tens of thousands of horses'? I think there are about 10,000 soldiers and civilians together." If the number of civilians is 6,000, then Xun Zhen brought out 4,000 horses and horses this time, and he gasped. With a sigh of relief, he said, "Duke Xun is aggressively marching into the army. This is because it is necessary to destroy me and wait!"

He asked, "Are you waiting to send a letter to Wang Dang?"

"A few days ago, when the thief Wen Xun dispatched troops, he sent people to look for Wang Dang for help."

These "old minions" clearly didn't take Huang Beard seriously. They sent someone to look for Wang Dang a few days ago, but only told Huang Beard today. However, just as these "old minions" didn't have time to care about Huang Yan's words, Huang Yan didn't have time to care about their neglect at this moment, and asked, "Did Wang Dang reply?"

"Not yet."

While he was talking, a report came from outside: The person who went to deliver the letter to Wang Dang has returned.

Huang Yan hurriedly called in, and the man came in and bowed down to the ground, offering Wang Dang's reply.

Huang Beard started to watch, and saw Wang Dang's letter saying that he had found out that Xunzhen was indeed going to Yunding Peak, and told Huang Beard and others to rest assured, he knew the truth of the death of lips and teeth, and would never sit on the wall to watch, saying that he had invited Chu Feiyan to lead the troops. Entering the country, he prepared to use the forces of all the ministries to destroy Xun Zhen, and said that if Xun Zhen stayed in the county town and could not come out, with the city wall to protect him, he would worry about how to deal with him, but he did not expect that "this thief" would have a way to heaven. Go, there is no way to go to hell, and they actually take the initiative to leave the city and enter the mountain. Don't they know that the mountain is their world? This time, "this thief" must be beheaded, and he will make an appointment with Huang Beard: after Xunzhen and Huang Beard start the battle, he will join forces with Chu Feiyan to come to the rescue, and attack him from the rear, attacking from both sides. Finally, at the end of the letter, Wang Dang said: After destroying the "Xun Thief", I would like to share a great deal with Huang Beard.

After Huang Yan finished reading it, he handed the letter to everyone. Most of the people were illiterate. Those who could read simply took the letter and stood in the hall and read it to them.

After hearing this, everyone was overjoyed and said, "With Wang Dang and Chu Feiyan coming to help, Xun Thief is dead!"

Swept away the gloomy clouds just now, everyone was beaming with joy.

Some even imagined the scene after Xun Zhen was destroyed, and said: "After destroying the thief Xun, and avenging General Tiangong, we will be famous, and we will raise our flag and call out, and the rest of our Dao who are scattered all over the place will surely come. Yun Lai, wait until then, you can revive the glory of last year!"

Looking at the joyful scene in the hall, Huang Yan secretly sighed, although this Wang Dang said in the letter that he would come to the rescue, can the bandit's morality be believed? What if he doesn't come? Taking a step back, even if Wang Dang and Chu Feiyan brought troops, would they be able to defeat Xun Zhen? You must know that Xun Zhen is a fierce general under Huangfu Song's account.

All in all, Huang Yan was not optimistic about this war, and he had already made up his mind to run away if the defeat was unfavorable.

The mountain road is not easy to walk. Xun Zhenbu has a lot of chariots, people, and luggage. After leaving Handan, it took more than ten days to reach the foot of Yunding Peak and the foot of Defeng. After attacking the mountain, he did not attack the mountain for three times, and the offensive was not launched until the fourth.

Huang Beard was quite puzzled by Xun Zhen's actions of not attacking the mountain for three times. Xun Zhen is a good general with soldiers, so he should know that soldiers are expensive and quick, and he knew that Wang Dang might rush to help Yunding Peak, but why did he not move? Could it be that he hoped that the mountains would cause chaos and win without fighting? This is a bit possible. In the three rì where Xunzhen surrounded the mountain and did not attack, the group of thieves in the mountain was indeed chaotic. They were originally many small groups of thieves merged together. As soon as the strong pressure from the outside came, it suddenly became chaotic.

Just when Huang Beard was about to give up coordinating the conflicts between the various thieves, Xun Zhen finally started to attack the mountain.

As soon as the battle started, Huang Beard noticed that Xun Zhen's troops who attacked the mountain this time seemed to have changed their appearance. When they attacked the mountain last time, Xun Zhen's troops, regardless of their generals and soldiers, were unstoppable and unstoppable, but this time the attack was slow. The offensive was not sharp, and there were always problems with the coordinated operations of the ministries. Huang Yan is a veteran of the Yellow Turban Army. He fought for half a year last year, and he is more experienced in battle formations. After a little thought, he can guess that Xun Zhen sent this time to attack the mountain, not his Yi Cong old team, but him. New recruits recruited at the end of last year.

Huang Yan guessed Xun Zhen's thoughts, Xun Zhen wanted to use him as a sharpening stone to sharpen the two thousand new soldiers he recruited at the end of last year.

Although he guessed Xun Zhen's thoughts, Huang Beard only smiled bitterly.

There are nearly 2,000 of his subordinates, which seems to be quite a lot, more than his former subordinates, but these nearly 2,000 people are composed of more than a dozen thieves and bandits, and they are pure rabble. I won't miss this training opportunity.

After attacking the mountain for two days in a row, the two thousand new soldiers under Xun Zhen's subordinates paid nearly 100 casualties, and gradually found the feeling. They had the appearance of being on the battlefield, the use of various weapons, the coordination of various attacks, and the various types of attacks. The use of tactics is gradually taking shape.

Although there were one or two thousand thieves in the mountains, one was formed by the merger of several groups of thieves, and the other lacked formal training. After the attack of the two thousand new soldiers recruited by Xunzhen gradually became stronger, they could no longer resist. After retreating, they retreated little by little from the mountainside to the point where they approached the top of the mountain. Nearly 2,000 bandits were killed and injured nearly half, but the reinforcements from Wang Dang and Chu Feiyan, who were eagerly awaited by the old Huangbeards, have yet to arrive.

Huang Yan was not as naive as his "old minions", and had already expected that Wang Dang would not come to rescue them.

Since Wang Dang won't come to rescue them, Huang Yan said in his heart, "I should also find a way back for myself."

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The place where Wang Dang hides is called Crouching Tiger Mountain, which is the largest mountain in the north of Zhao County and belongs to the Xishan Mountains.

Wang Dang was a giant thief in Zhao County. He had been entrenched in Zhao County for many years. He was well-informed. On the third day after Xun Zhen left Handan, he learned about it.

After learning that Xun Zhen was going to Yunding Peak, he immediately sent people to Changshan to find Chu Feiyan.

After sending away Wang Dang's messenger, the messenger he sent came back.

"What did Chu Feiyan say?"

"Chu Feiyan said that there was a famine last year, and today there is a great epidemic, and the thief court has transferred Huangfu Song. This is a good opportunity to start a rebellion. He has persuaded Zhang Niujiao and other state leaders, as well as Yu Du, Sui Gu and other mountain heroes, and agreed to In the middle of this month, they attacked together. Zhang Niujiao led the crowd to attack Julu, Chu Feiyan attacked Changshan, Yu poisoned Wei County, Sui Gu attacked Hanoi, and Liu Shi, Sun Qing, Qing Niujiao, Zuo Xiao, Li Damu and others attacked Zhongshan, etc. County, please ask the general to join him before the middle of this month, either in Zhao County or in Changshan."

Some of Yu Du, Sui Gu, and others were tycoons from various counties in Jizhou, some were giant thieves from various counties along the Heishan Mountains, and some were Commander Qu of the Yellow Turban Army. Chu Feiyan is a man of great ambition and resourcefulness. In these months, he not only had close contacts with Wang Dang, but also kept writing letters with Zhang Niujiao and Yu Du. opportunity.

"Go to Changshan to meet him?" Wang Dang snorted and said, "He has tens of thousands of people, and I only have more than 3,000 people. I went to meet him, not to give meat to my mouth and wait for him to swallow me. What? Didn't it have been agreed before that when the uprising came, he borrowed a thousand soldiers from me to help me take down the land of Zhao? Why did he go back on his word and ask me to go to Changshan to join him?"

"It's not that I'm going back on my word. Chu Feiyan also said that if the general wants to stay in Zhao County to start a rebellion, then he will follow the agreement and distribute a thousand soldiers to the general to assist the general in capturing Zhao's land."

"That sounds like a real thing. . . . Where is Thief Xun? Where is Thief Xun now?"

"We are marching towards Yunding Peak."

"Do you think the yellow beard can stop the thief Xun?"

Huang Yan's subordinates were all rabble, and no one would believe that he could stop Xun Zhen.

All the young marshals in the hall said: "I can't stop it."

One person said: "Yesterday, Huang Yan's people came to ask for help, and the general promised him that he would send troops to help. Now that we have received a reply from Chu Feiyan, I don't know what the general plans to send troops?"

Wang Dang sneered twice and said, "I never planned to help him!"

After Huang Beard was defeated by Xunzhen, the reason why his old troops who escaped not only did not die in the mountains, but was able to make a comeback, was all because of the help of Wang Dang, including the fact that they wrapped Huang Beard and forced him to surrender when Huang Beard entered the mountain for surrender. The rebellion, and the growing reputation of Huang Beard in the mountains, are also the "credits" of Wang Dang.

He did this, just as Huang Yan guessed, in order to use Huang Yan to absorb Xun Zhen's attention, so as to reduce the pressure on his side, so that he could calmly discuss matters with Chu Feiyan. count.

Now that Huang Beard was attacked by Xun Zhen, and the interior of Zhao County was empty, it was when he took the opportunity to rise up, but how could he be willing to rescue Huang Beard?

He ordered: "Go to Chu Feiyan immediately and tell him that Xun thieves have rushed out of their nests to attack Huangbeard, and now there are only a few hundred guards left in Handan County. Great opportunity, ask him to hurry up and send the thousand soldiers who promised to allocate to me, and as soon as the people he lent me arrive, I will go out to attack Handan!"

Most of the people in the hall did not know about his plan, and they were all surprised when they heard the words at this time.

One person asked, "The general is going to attack Handan?"

"That's right! Xun's soldiers and horses are very sharp. Even if I go to help Huangbeard, I may not be able to defeat him. If I can't defeat him, he will escape back to Handan. The thieves of the Heavenly Sect are arrogant and arrogant, and they came out of their nests. This is the best time for us to wait for Handan. As long as Handan is captured, Xun thieves are trees without roots, water without sources, and it will not be difficult to destroy them."

Everyone was surprised and delighted, and they all said: "General's trick!"

Wang Dang laughed, and he was very satisfied with this "trick" of his own.

At the moment, the messenger who had come to send Chu Feiyan's reply to the letter again led the order out of the mountain, and went to Changshan in the starry night.

Chu Feiyan was in the mountains to the south of Changshan County. Although it was located in two counties from Crouching Tiger Mountain, where Wang Dang was located, they were not very far apart, just over a hundred miles away. The courier only took a day and a half to go, and it took three days to return, but because he was not alone when he came back, the thousand soldiers that Chu Feiyan had promised to lend to Wang Dang also came.

Seeing the arrival of these 1,000 men, and hearing that Xunzhen had arrived at the top of Yunding Peak, and launched an offensive, it was not too late. Wang Dang did not delay much, and immediately ordered the troops and horses, bringing with him more than 3,000 troops, plus Chu Feiyan lent him. The thousand dead, a total of more than 4,000 people, went out of the mountains and rushed to attack Handan.

Wang Dang is a very determined person who knows the importance. In order to seize the time, he ran all the way to Handan to restrain his followers. He did not commit any crimes to the counties and towns he passed by. Most are mountainous.

On the marching road, while marching, Wang Dang always paid attention to the news from Xun Zhen's side. What reassured him was that Xun Zhen had been besieging Yunding Peak these days and never left.

After marching for a few days, this time we reached the border of Yiyang County, and a river blocked the road ahead.

After crossing this river, and going for dozens of miles is Handan.

With Handan in sight, even though they were exhausted from the march, thousands of bandits were still in high spirits.

Wang Dangchuan ordered to go and ordered the whole army to cross the river.

At this time, in March, the chūn water was beginning to rise, and the river water was a little deeper than in winter, but it was still possible to cross the shallow places on foot.

More than 4,000 soldiers filed across the river.

Just halfway through, more than 1,000 people boarded the other side, and there were about 1,000 people in the river. When there were still nearly 2,000 people on the other side of the river who had not yet entered the water, they suddenly heard the sound of drums on the other side, and two ambush soldiers began to kill.

The two ambush soldiers, one with a "Liu" flag, and one with a "Wen" flag, were the part of Liu Deng and Wen Pin, who rushed to kill the one in front of his two men. With long beards and broad faces, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei respectively drove good horses, each with a spear, and went straight to kill the thousand or so thieves who had crossed the river.

Wang Dang hadn't crossed the river when he saw soldiers in ambush on the other side. He was shocked. He thought that this must be Xun Zhen's ambush here. withdraw!"

Before he finished speaking, the drums on the river side were also loud, and an ambush came from the valley seven or eight miles away.

The ambush on the other side of the river were all infantry, and there were hundreds of cavalry in the ambush on the other side of the river.

The cavalry ran at a fast speed, and they arrived in an instant, seven or eight miles away. I saw a cavalry leader wearing a black background and red leather armor with a mask on his face and speared straight to take the king.

When Wang Dang arrived, the man laughed and said, "My lieutenant knew that Er was going to attack Handan. I've been waiting here for a long time!"

Wang Dang was so devastated that he fled on horseback.

The leader of this cavalry was Xin Ai. He divided most of the knights to attack Wang Dang's army, and brought dozens of knights to chase after Wang Dang, killing his personal soldiers, drawing arrows, and hitting his back. .

Wang Dang was stunned.

When he fell from the horse, the morale of his troops immediately dropped, and everyone was unwilling to fight, and they all fled, but how could they escape?

There were more than 2,000 ambush soldiers on both sides of the strait, all of them were Xun Zhen's righteous congruents, and they were all fierce and fierce. Halfway through, the thousands of thieves and bandits were wiped out, and the river was dyed red.

This fight was clean and beautiful.

When the news of the victory reached the top of Yunding Peak, Xun Zhen no longer delayed, and urged the soldiers to attack fiercely. It only took half a minute to reach the top of the mountain, but Huangbeard was not found. When the generals were annoyed that Huang Yan had escaped, Chen Wu grabbed a person with a face full of joy, Xun Zhen looked, this person was wearing the clothes of ordinary thieves, but with a thick beard and a dignified appearance, but it was Huang Yan.

Chen Wu said with a smile, "This stubbly face changed his clothes, dressed up as a pawn, and wanted to escape from the back mountain, but I just ran into it, grabbed it, and gave it to the lieutenant." After speaking, he ordered Huangbeard to kneel on the ground. , kicked him on the body, and scolded, "Shuzi! Dare to rebel against the lieutenant!"

The yellow-bearded face was as pale as earth, and he knelt down on the ground, not daring to say a word.

Xun Zhen laughed and stepped forward~www.wuxiaspot.com~ bent down, grabbed his beard, and asked, "Lao Qian, Lao Qian! I fled from the front mountain to the back mountain, where do you want to move to?" Qian, Xun Zhen's words were making fun of his name.

Huang Yanfu was in his heart and heard that Xun Zhen didn't seem to have any intention of killing him, and said hurriedly: "Lieutenant Shenwei! How dare the villain dare to rebel? This time I entered the mountain under the order of the lieutenant, and I was sincerely recruiting the rest of the lieutenant for the lieutenant, but who knew that he was caught by him. Wait for the thieves to take the hostage and be forced to rebel. The villain is convicted and willing to be punished."

Xun Zhen grabbed his beard, turned around, smiled and said to Chen Bao, Dian Wei, He Yi, Li Xiang, Chen Wu and the others: "With such a beautiful beard, it is inevitable that one in a thousand people can have one. It is a pity to kill." He loosened his beard and said with a smile, "Get up, I know you're being coerced, so I don't blame you."

Huang Yan was overjoyed, so happy that he almost burst into tears. He kowtowed again and again and said, "Lieutenant's great kindness, it's hard to repay this life!"

"You don't need to report it, you go and recruit all your recalcitrant old troops to surrender...don't be coerced this time!"

Huang Yan respectfully complied with his promise, and hurried to recruit the old troops.

After defeating Huang Beard and Wang Dang in the first battle, there will be no more giant thieves in Zhao County, and even the chaos in Jizhou will be free from worry.