Chapter 650 Zhao Zhuan ascended the throne in Tai’an City, and Fengnian visited the minister in Yanzhi County.
If he didn’t speak, no one could get up. Because from now on, Emperor Liyang will be Zhao Zhuan! He glanced in the northwest direction intentionally or unintentionally, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly without notice.
During the eventful autumn of the first year of Xiangfu, the battle situation on Guangling Road was really heartbreaking and complaining. Yang Shenxing’s troops were caught in a turtle in a jar when they left Jizhou. Yan Zhenchun’s 30,000 elite cavalry were wiped out. Although the ending was unbearable, they were still fighting against the Western Chu rebels. In contrast, the hesitation of several Jingnan Kings’ troops made the court and the country feel ridiculous! After leaving the jurisdiction, Zhao Ying, the King of Huainan, stationed Mount Huashan without moving; the six thousand cavalry of King Zhao Xun of Jing’an, did not move after reaching Haoao Lake; as for the prince of the Prince of Yanla, except for causing chaos on his way north, he was completely gone to the south of Guangling Road. It turned out that your highness was not for Jingnan at all, but was swaying to raise the autumn wind and gaining weight in autumn
But in a few days it was the end of the second year of Xiangfu. The King of Huainan sent troops to make people feel energetic. Li Yang greatly improved the view of this vassal king who was known for his weak character, and he defeated the three levels of Huangyang, Xiaoyan and Hen east of Mount Huashan in one fell swoop!
Among them, Song Wuyang, the guardian of Huangyang Pass, had already participated in the rebellion and raised a large flag of Jiang character at the pass. However, King Zhao Ying of Huainan was a mile outside the pass, and a cavalry came out alone to surrender Song Wuyang. The latter ordered the city crossbow to shoot, but was killed by Deputy General Wang Xi suddenly drew his sword and killed it on the spot. Wang Xi opened the door to welcome the army under King Zhao Ying of Huainan. The King of Huainan took the surrendered general Wang’s orders to 3,000 soldiers as the vanguard, and rushed to Xiaoying Pass overnight, and the guard general Ji Yun refused to surrender. Zhao Ying ordered a strong attack and personally supervised the battle. Wang Xi’s soldiers braved the rain of arrows to fill the trenches first, then set up a ladder to attack the city with the power of ants. They attacked the city twice, and more than 500 people were killed. Wang Xi, who was trapped in the battle, was covered in blood and requested a truce. Zhao Ying refused and asked Wang Xi to watch the battle, and ordered his own army to launch an attack. At dusk, a steady stream of crossbows, catapults and city-hits rushed to the battlefield one after another. The two sides fought bloody battle until night fell. The Huainan infantry died in battle at 800 people under the city. Zhao Ying always held a whip and rode a horse under the Zhao flag, and remained indifferent. At dawn on the second day, the siege was launched again. Zhao Ying’s confidant general Xia Ping led eighty dead soldiers to attack the city for the first time, and all of them died in battle. Xia Ping’s body was stabbed by the guard Ji Yun with an iron spear. Wang Xi asked for a fight in anger, and the ant came up, and his iron armor was embedded in six or seven feather arrows. He was rubbed by a huge rock on his shoulder and smashed back to the ground. He stood up and climbed up the ladder. He was poured down from the ladder and fell back from the ladder. His personal guards risked their lives to lift him back.
Zhao Ying, wearing the python robe of the Ming Huangfan king, looked at the extremely stalemate and tragic battle situation, and his ears were filled with the wails and shouts of killing on the other side of the city, the sound of drums beside him, and of course the sound of the cold wind blowing the Zhao banner. This man surnamed Zhao, who had always been the target of ridicule in the Liyang Dynasty, slowly raised his head and looked at the word Zhao embroidered by the flag, his lips pursed, as if he had finally felt relieved after carrying a heavy burden for many years.Take off your smile.
The siege of the city hammers were replaced with the fourth one. The huge crossbow that can reach up to 300 steps and still has considerable lethality was destroyed most of the crossbow machines on the Xiaoyanguan crossbow platform, and there were no dense crossbow arrows to shoot, with scattered stars and no more arrogance. However, Xiaoyanguan, who swore to live and die with the city gate, was still struggling to death, with fierce defense, and more than 2,000 nails with a full length of five inches and six taels, and wolves with blades on all sides to increase their killing were all broken. The yaksha squats and chariot squats that could be reclaimed and broken, but there were still brave soldiers on the top of the city throwing down the “iron owl” composed of sharp iron hooks and long iron chains. After throwing them out, they could hook the armor and even the bodies of the squat soldiers, hanging the hooked person in the air like fishing.
More with strangely shaped files, axes, hooks, or shovels to cut the arms of people who climb the city.
Zhao Ying, who was riding a horse and approaching the battlefield, saw with his own eyes that the entire arm of a soldier was broken, and that arm fell from the top of the city before the soldier.
Zhao Ying was indifferent to this and turned his horse’s head indifferently.
The precarious Xiaoying Pass was in a hurry, and Ji Yun had to quickly ride out of the East City Gate to ask for help from Yu Hen. He agreed that both sides would attack the Huainan King’s Camp together at the early morning. Xiaoying Pass would open the city gate and rush out of the two hundred cavalry that were raising energy. Ji Yun led the way to the formation, and the cavalry would be followed by only four hundred people left in Xiaoying Pass. Zhao Ying ordered his masters to lead the elite scouts of ten cavalry to chase after him, but unexpectedly they were injured and escaped. The next day, Ji Yun, who knew that Xiaoying was definitely unable to defend her, really had the intention to die. He appeared at the gate of the city with two hundred cavalrymen. No matter whether he hated the Lord of the Pass or not, he would die in battle for the sake of the Great Chu. Ji Yun, who was in his prime, did not spare his life or did not understand the current affairs. However, when he was twenty years old, he did not have a father who should have won the crown, nor did he celebrate the ceremony. He was the one who had put a black cloth crown on himself, because Ji Hai, a general of the Great Chu, had already died in the battlefield, and the three uncles and uncles were also killed one after another.
Sitting on the war horse, Ji Yun asked his subordinates to open the city gate, looked back at the faces shining under the torches, and did not speak, but just clasped his fists suddenly.
On this day, Ji Yun, the governor of Xiaoxingguan of the Western Chu rebels, left the city at the time of Mao to actively attack the King of Huainan. But the “Zhao Ying’s army” seemed to have been expected and lined up in an orderly manner. The most cavalry among the three passes, hated this pass, regardless of the orders set by the Western Front General Xie Xiqiu at that time, and dispatched all the troops. Eight hundred cavalry and 2,500 infantrymen quickly rescued. Zhao Ying, who was waiting for the rabbit, was caught off guard halfway. The vanguard, 800 cavalry, suffered heavy casualties under the powerful crossbow shooting. The army was about to collapse. The main generals and deputy generals were shot and killed by the King of Huainan in chaos, leaving only the hatred of the old and weak soldiers. The front of the pass was earlier than Xiaoxing Pass. A surprise soldier was replaced with the Zhao flag. He hated that the infantry commander of this pass led 700 soldiers back to the city and committed suicide.
After three charges, Ji Yun died in a feather arrow from General Hou Datong, the king of Huainan.By the way, he fell off his horse and died.
Two hundred cavalry and four hundred sergeants at Xiaoyingguan were all killed in the rushing formation.
Zhao Ying, wearing an eye-catching python robe, got off the horse and walked over the corpses, walked slowly up the city, looked at the rising sun in the east, and said with a smile: “The sunrise is bright, and the lamb is as soft as wet.”
The Huainan King, who had won successive victory and three passes, did not convey even a good news to Tai’an City, or even occupied the dangerous pass, one of the western gates of Guangling Road. In fact, after breaking through the pass, the vassal king had no intention of dividing his troops to digest the victory, but only allowed the seriously injured Wang Xi and his remaining troops to stay in Huangyang Pass. After planting the Zhao banner at the top of the city of Sanguan, he led all the Taoist sects in Huainan to continue to walk east, and his troops were aimed at the steep and difficult Yaoyou Pass. Between the two passes of Hen, Yaoyou, there is a rare plain area to the west of Guangling Road with dense water networks.
After a little rectification of the hatred level, the King of Huainan brought all the war horses for riding and slowly advanced. This posture seemed to be the head coach of the Western Front of the Great Chu who was quietly waiting for the urgent rush to Yaoyou Pass, the genius general who made the entire Liyang Dynasty remember his name at a young age – Xie Xiqian.
Closer to the plains of Yaoyou Pass, the two armies, which both sides had enough time to rectify and scout reconnaissance, began to confront each other far away. After dismounting the horse, King Zhao Ying of Huainan put on an exquisite armor outside the python robe and carried an arrow bag that had been treasured for many years. This vassal king named Zhao, who was ridiculed as a talented man, was a poor man who had been drinking and pretending to be crazy and stupid for many years after his vassal. This man who had been without a child after his eldest son died of Dantong Pass for no reason, turned over and looked straight ahead, and laughed at the two generals who had been following him for many years and said, “Hou Datong, Yu Qianshan, Xia Ping was one step ahead of us, and agreed with us to die on the battlefield like that when we were young. Now it is the three of us. After so many years, you have been living so frustrated.”
Hou Datong laughed and said, “Life is really frustrating, it’s so frustrating. I’ll kill a few more remnants of Western Chu to make sure I’m angry. Haha, forget that this guy is dead!”
Yu Qianshan is more like a gentle strategist shaking a feather fan than the rough-looking Hou Datong, but he is also wearing armor and swords. He smiled and said, “You are so happy, it’s hard for me, a scholar.”
Before ordering the charge, Zhao Ying closed his eyes and whispered, “Father, my son is unfilial. I have never had the opportunity to toast the imperial tombs these years. Today I will replace wine with blood.”
King Zhao Ying of Huainan was in front of him, two thousand armored infantry lined up to resist horses, and there were one thousand elite cavalry on both wings of the infantry, and nearly a thousand cavalry were cruising far away, waiting for an opportunity to move.
On this day, except for the 4,000 soldiers recruited from various places in Huainan Road, the vassal king Zhao Ying, together with the two generals of Hou Datong and Yu Qianshan, as well as all the guards’ personal troops, everyone fought until they were killed. No one died of arrows behind them, and no one was killed by the cavalry behind them.
On the same day, I heard the news and rushed all the way from Haoao LakeThe six thousand cavalry of King Zhao Xun of Jing’an arrived at the battlefield at dusk. Knowing that the situation was gone, and knowing that there were still a thousand cavalry of Yaoyou Pass, when he saw with his own eyes that the body of King Zhao Ying of Huainan was taken off by a spear by a military general of the Western Chu, the young vassal king Zhao Xun still led his army to charge!
Six thousand Qingzhou cavalry, and in the end only two hundred cavalry left to guard Zhao Xun to escape from the battlefield.
In this battle, the two major vassal kings who participated in the Jingnan region were killed and injured.
It was the end of the year, and the great victory of the rebels of the Western Chu army in Yaoyou Pass meant that the already thick encirclement opened wide, and the air leaked from both sides, which was even worse for the Liyang court. The former can bid farewell to the old and welcome the new with joy, while the latter is once again covered with a thick layer of haze after Yan Zhenchun died in battle. Fortunately, after Yang Shenxing and Yan Zhenchun, another valiant veteran general who became famous in Chunqiu led his troops south after a long talk with the head coach Lu Shengxiang. The army of 30,000 was approaching the Qingyang Basin, not seeking to defeat Western Chu, but only tried to rescue the 40,000 Ji Nanjian soldiers trapped by General Yang Shenxing.
General Lu Shengxiang, who had been stagnating in Youlu Pass, finally made some noise in the eyes of everyone and led his army to march south along the eastern Henan plain.
But the thing that can calm people the most is not the mobilization of nearly 100,000 troops, but just because the two people appeared in Tai’an City.
One is the emperor who asked the chief minister to issue an edict after returning to Beijing after patrol and returned to Beijing, and the other is the general Gu Jiantang who accompanied the emperor.
The monarch who once punished the King of Huainan for a trivial matter only issued two imperial edicts after returning to Tai’an City. The previous one made Zhang Julu die in a miserable state and would not be given a posthumous title. The latter part was to let the vassal king Zhao Ying die with great grief and posthumously posthumously “Yi”, and say, “If I lose my power.”