At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

The fact that Cao Ren leads more troops is not because he has a higher status, but because he still has a force to deal with.

This power is very interesting.

The leader is Song Jian.

In the year of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, that is, the seventh year of Guanghe, he rebelled with a group of Longxi locals, responded to the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and recruited Qiang and Hu Haoqiang to rebel against the Eastern Han Empire.

Then shortly thereafter, when his partner Wang Guo died, not only did he not disband the rebels and run away, but instead became king in his hometown of Fanghan County.

Yes, he is king.

He has nothing, and he is king.

He called himself King of Heshou Ping Han, changed his year name, and installed hundreds of officials. He is equivalent to becoming the king of the kingdom.

Chapter 674 .680 Three Guo Peng does not need the cooperation of Liangzhou people

Guo Peng was very angry when the spies sent by Guo Peng to Liangzhou brought back the news.

I have worked hard for 18 years to become an individual, and another two years to become Duke Wei and the monarch of a principality. Fortunately, you have been called the king from the very beginning!

Is there such a reason in the world?

Kill you, must kill you.

And for good reason.

You are too courageous, really too big. When Guo Peng first found out about this, he was stunned for a long time. He didn't know where this guy got the confidence to dare to be king.

But after getting to know the details, Guo Peng also understood.

He was the only force in the area of ​​Fanghan County where he ruled, and he recruited the powerful Han Chinese and Qiang tribes near Fanghan County. He assembled more than 3 soldiers and horses. Get up and be king.

Some of the other forces were unable to protect themselves, and some felt that Fanghan County was really difficult to fight, so starting from the year of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, they let him be the king at ease for as many as 15 years.

The vicinity of Fanghan County is really surrounded by mountains. The whole situation is easy to defend but difficult to attack. There is only one road. As long as this road is blocked, it is basically difficult to get in.

The [-] soldiers he had included Han Chinese, Qiang people, and other miscellaneous Hus, and they were considered to have some combat power when combined together, and the combat power was not weak, so he was left at ease for a long time.

Even so, Guo Peng doesn't intend to let him continue to enjoy himself, this guy must be eliminated.

So Cao Ren led his troops there. Before he went, he made clear about the surrounding geographical environment and Song Jian's military garrison. armaments and such.

Cao Ren and Chen Gong didn't plan to do any tricks, so they went directly to them. They set up a defense, and Cao Ren used a trebuchet to destroy them. They confronted each other head-on to see who was stronger.

It would be too contemptuous of Wei Jun's combat effectiveness to deal with a small Caotou King.

If Song Jian was taken down, Longxi County would have no opponents worth caring about, and Cao Ren and Chen Gong would not pay attention to the remaining Qiang Hu miscellaneous soldiers and Han Chinese tyrants.

Guo Peng's order was to kill all these local powerful families who had participated in the rebellion, including famous local powerful families such as the Ma family and the Han family.

One of these people counted as one, and all of them had betrayed the Han Empire. As a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, Guo must avenge the death of the late emperor and make these tyrants who participated in the rebellion pay the price.

Cao Ren and Chen Gong deeply understood Guo Peng's utter loyalty, so they upheld the idea of ​​killing them all and marched northward to show them some color.

The era of freedom and chaos for more than ten years has passed, and now, the strong are coming back!

While Cao Ren was marching, Guan Yu and Xiahou Yuan had achieved great victories. Basically, they were victorious. The counties and counties had no power to stop the Wei army, and the counties were quickly taken down.

Many of the powerful manors around the county were damaged, and some were intact. Guan Yu and Xia Houyuan followed the orders to destroy them, loot them, kill the owner of the manor, capture and take away all the people in the manor, thinking that they will use it for farming in the future. .

The actions to wipe out the strong and powerful in other states and counties need some names, and some of them cannot be easily launched.

But Liangzhou is different.

There are rebels everywhere, and I have lost my own way. Basically, there is one who can be labeled as a rebel and kill them all, and Guo is the best at making troubles. At this time, a big rebel can be labeled as a rebel That's ransacking the family and exterminating the clan, there's nothing to say.

This group of tyrants living in the Shura field should also be killed, otherwise they will be kept, and no one knows what disaster will happen in the future.

The chaos in Liangzhou has been too long and too violent. Without the use of force, the authority of the new central government cannot be established. Whether the authority of the central government is strong or not will determine whether the Guowei regime can establish a stable state in Liangzhou. rule.

What Guo needs are farmers who are good at farming, tool people, not a group of unstable elements who can not only be self-sufficient in food, but can even make their own weapons or even armor.

Since the announcement of the official salt and iron operation, Mr. Guo no longer allowed private iron smelting, and only allowed iron smelting in official directly-operated stores.

Ordinary people need kitchen knives and agricultural tools at home, so they have to go to the official stores to buy them. Other places are not allowed to buy and sell, and there will be records of who bought them.

Strictly restrict civilian force, in order to reduce the prevalent atmosphere of heroism among the people since the Western Han Dynasty, reduce the number of private armed fights among the people and the harm they caused, and reduce the pressure on public security.

At the same time, beware of someone making a rebellion, and beware of someone setting Guo's backyard on fire while Guo was mobilizing the army to threaten the rule of Guo Wei's regime.

At this point, Guo has perfectly inherited the family's legal tradition. Although he will not learn from Qin Shihuang's casting of twelve golden men, he will not be far behind.

This is the case in all states and counties in the mainland, especially in Liangzhou.

Even those manors that have been reserved are no longer allowed to smelt iron. Local officials will lead people to search the iron smelting equipment in their homes one by one, and then sell them all to the government at market prices.

In order to better implement this policy, Guo also let his important officials take the lead.

If the family has a manor, they will hand over the iron-smelting equipment and blacksmiths in their manor, and Guo Peng will not snatch them, but will give a sum of money to buy them.

The Li Dian family was still the best performer, and took the lead in obeying. They handed over 130 blacksmith households, iron smelting equipment and more than 500 catties of smelted iron, and Guo Peng commended them.

With Li Dian's family taking the lead, other powerful manors also cooperated one after another, handing over their blacksmith households and blacksmithing equipment, not daring to disobey Guo Peng's orders.

Guo Peng gave an order, and if he didn't hand it in, it would be regarded as a rebellion against the imperial court and he would be dealt with together.

Now these big families in Liangzhou have iron smelting equipment and blacksmiths. They forge iron, make weapons and armor, and produce food. They usually have private armed groups, and all of them are small armed groups.

At that time, if there is a change in Liangzhou, if someone raises his arms and shouts, this powerful stick will be able to pull up an army in minutes and start attacking the city.

There are thousands of days to be thieves, but there is no thousand days to guard against thieves. Guo doesn't have so much energy to guard against them. The best way is to abolish their martial arts across the board.

So how could someone like Guo allow such powerful people in Liangzhou to exist?

Wherever the army went, all Han Hu Haoqiang's manors in Liangzhou were razed, those who surrendered voluntarily were given preferential treatment, and the stubborn Yiqi tribe burned their manors.

The powerful forces in Hanyang, Anding, Longxi and other counties were smashed by Wei Jun's swift blows, and they were almost wiped out and uprooted. Wherever Wei Jun went, no powerful family could retreat completely, and they were all detained. A thief's hat settles accounts.

Unlike other states and counties, Guo Peng's rule of Liangzhou no longer requires the cooperation of Liangzhou people.

After more than ten years of development, he already has enough officials, ruling experience, and enough ruling ability to send enough people to destroy Liangzhou's original political and economic ecology, and rebuild his own political economy on the ruins Ecology, the establishment of Liangzhou belongs to the Guo Wei regime.

He no longer needs the cooperation of Liangzhou people.

So the fight was extremely fierce.

This is the case in Liangzhou now, and it will be the same in Liaodong in the future.

These frontiers lack the existence of gentry, lack the pressure of public opinion, and have rebelled before. Guo has a clear reason, such a good opportunity, such a good opportunity to destroy the powerful and seize the population, Guo will not let it go .

Guan Yu and Xia Houyuan marched smoothly, and Cao Ren's side also approached Fanghan County smoothly. According to the report from the eyeliner, Song Jian's side had detected Cao Ren's army coming to attack, and was preparing to resist urgently. Cao Ren should be careful not to capsize in the gutter.

Cao Ren sneered again and again, leading the army to advance directly, and encountered resistance from Song Jian's army on the way.

The leader of this army is Song Jian's eldest son, Song Wei. Song Wei came to fight Cao Ren with [-] soldiers. He probably wanted to defeat Cao Ren at his own gate and show his might, so that Cao Ren would realize that he was not to be trifled.

This is Song Jian's usual method of maintaining the separatist regime for more than ten years.

But this time, they hit the iron plate.

Literally an iron plate, because Wei Jun's equipment is heavier, harder, and more sophisticated, and ordinary people and weapons can't do anything to Wei Jun.

Chapter 675. 680 The Four Wei Army has always been very active on the battlefield

It seems that Song Jian's army is not very bad.

"Looking at the army, the queue is neat, the equipment is not too bad, and the flag is clear. It can be regarded as a strong army in Liangzhou. No wonder it can be separated for 15 years without being wiped out in such a place. This is a hard bone, not good. Chew, let's be careful."

Chen Gong said so.

Cao Ren's opinion was different.

"They haven't fought many battles in the past 15 years. Relying on the terrain and numbers, they can often directly push the enemy back. Therefore, they lack combat experience. Although the formation is neat, the formation of the recruits we have just trained is much more tidy than theirs. Our Elites have experienced hundreds of battles and have rich combat experience, can this group of people be compared?"

Chen Gong felt that Cao Ren's opinion was a bit interesting. They were separated in these places, and there were not many opportunities to fight, and the combat experience of the large corps was even rarer. If they really fought, were they really opponents?

That's hard to say.

With such an idea, Chen Gong also supported Cao Ren to have a face-to-face fight with them.

So Cao Ren immediately lined up his troops and asked Cao Xiu to be the front supervisor, directly leading the troops to fight against Song Wei, thinking about using this enemy army to train Cao Xiu and see how Cao Xiu has improved over the years.

Guo Peng was still very optimistic about Cao Xiu, so he asked Cao Ren not to forget to give Cao Xiu the opportunity to lead the army to fight during the march, so that Cao Xiu could also practice to increase his experience.

Soon, Song Wei also began to line up troops, and the battle between the two sides was imminent.

Wei Jun has always been very active on the battlefield.

Wei Jun has never been afraid of facing the enemy. The battle victories over the years have filled them with the will to fight and the confidence to win, so there is no doubt that Wei Jun took the initiative to attack in this battle.

The mode of attack remains the same as before. The first is to use a large number of crossbows to launch long-range fire strikes to severely hit the enemy's arrogance.

"put!"

Cao Xiu gave an order, and a large number of strong crossbowmen let go of the bowstrings they were grasping, and shot out the thick, long and hard arrows in one go.

Countless bows and arrows pierced the sky, rushing towards Song Wei's army formation with an indomitable momentum, covering it, Song Wei never expected that the Wei army had such a large number of crossbows with such a long range, and the arrow rain of the Wei army was instant In an instant, Song Wei's army formed a gap.

A large number of soldiers without the protection of a large shield died tragically under the rain of arrows and were nailed to the ground.

Those who died were considered lucky, at least for a moment, without any pain, while those who were not killed but were pierced by an arrow to a certain part of their body were sad and howling, but no one could Save them, most of them can only die miserably on the ground.

Wei Jun's arrow rain kept hitting, Song Wei was dumbfounded, he never expected Wei Jun's arrow rain to hit so fiercely.

Seeing that his army was losing men and horses, and people were trying to retreat, Song Wei could only grit his teeth and beat the war drum, ordering the army to move forward at full speed, and collided with Wei Jun, forcing Wei Jun to stop using the crossbow in hand-to-hand combat.

To say that Song Wei is not a coward, and his army is not weak, and he really rushed forward against the rain of arrows, and he really didn't collapse so quickly, it seems that he has some skills.

In this army, there are Han people, Qiang people, Huns, and other people who don't know the ethnicity.

Facing Wei Jun's attack, they were not afraid at first.

This kind of army also exists in the Central Plains. During the process of Wei Jun's strong development, it has repeatedly encountered elite troops under the command of major warlords, and fought fiercely with these elite troops. Without exception, they have persisted with stronger combat effectiveness.

Wei Jun has fought against many opponents and armies in many regions, and has accumulated rich combat experience. The more he fights, the stronger he fights, and the stronger he fights, this is experience that many armies have never had.

Song Wei's army quickly rushed to the front of the Wei army's formation. What they faced was the Wei army's neat formation, tall shields and sharp spears.

The spearmen desperately stabbed with their spears, and the shield soldiers tried their best to protect their comrades. The Wei army's battle formation was as stable as Mount Tai under the impact of Song Wei's army, and they continued to inflict a lot of damage on Song Wei's army, killing them all. Blood flowed into rivers and corpses piled up into mountains.

Wei Jun also never liked to stay in place, he must move forward, advancing forward while killing the enemy, pushing the enemy's army formation on the opposite side back step by step, until their steps were disordered and they could not maintain a unified and orderly formation. In this way, the enemy will be defeated.

Wei Jun's tactics have been practiced quite well. Whether facing infantry or cavalry, Wei Jun has a strong ability to deal with it, especially when facing the army in front of him.

During the brief confrontation, Chen Gong has already seen the weakness of this army. It looks strong and the formation is neat, but the cooperation between each other is indeed very rusty, and it does not look like it has been battled for a long time.

The excellent geographical location did allow them to segregate safely, but the lack of opponents due to this is also a problem that cannot be ignored.

Without a real fight, the army and soldiers cannot grow. When this army, which called itself king behind closed doors, faced the experienced Wei army, it was able to face the Wei army head-on with bloody courage at first. With the passage of time, the problems of coordination and strength began to become prominent.

After fighting for an hour, the Wei army was still full of strength, the spearmen were still stabbing with their spears, the shield soldiers were still resisting with their big shields, and their combat effectiveness was still maintained.

But Song Wei's army couldn't hold on anymore.

Facing the continuous attack of the Wei army, they were exhausted and unable to keep up with their physical strength. They were stabbed to death by the spearmen of the Wei army after only a little trance. A large number of soldiers who persisted in the front line were stabbed to death.

They began to be unable to resist the sharp attack of the Wei army, and began to retreat.

At the right time, Cao Ren joined the cavalry and began to threaten Song Wei's wings. Song Wei also threw the cavalry into the battle, but they were not the opponents of the Wei army's cavalry.

After some fighting, Song Wei's cavalry retreated, and the Wei Army cavalry began to outflank from both wings, which tended to cut off Song Wei's retreat.

Song Wei discovered this trend, and immediately sent the rear army to the rear to ensure the safety of the rear, and sent his own soldiers to the front as a supervisory team, trying to ensure the rear and at the same time curb the retreat of the front army. Keep fighting.

The superintendent team slashed and killed the rout to stop the rout, but the result was not good. The Wei army's attack became more and more sharp, and the physical strength of Song Wei's army was rapidly exhausted. fear.

They swarmed up and overwhelmed the superintendent team, and quickly fled backwards.

The situation on the battlefield could not be reversed since then, Cao Xiu led the army to make a quick assault, Song Wei was shocked, and immediately retreated under the protection of his own soldiers.

Song Wei ran away, and the army naturally couldn't continue to resist, and soon they were defeated. Cao Ren swung his army to cover up the killing, and Song Wei's army was defeated.

This frontal battle caused Song Jian's army to suffer heavy losses. The 3000 troops lost nearly half, and two to [-] people were captured. Only a few people retreated with Song Wei.

Song Wei was forced to retreat, and Cao Ren took advantage of the situation to advance the army to the main road of the only way to Fanghan County, which was also the place where Song Jianzhuo heavily fortified.