Chapter 112 Confrontation Across the River
The mutiny of the entire Southwest Army dealt a heavy blow to Zhong Yu. The southeast direction of his imperial kingdom will become without the slightest defense, and they will be allowed to attack the entire city of the imperial kingdom at will, as if they were in no one's land.
Following Sun Jian's rebellion, all the territories in the southwestern region that Yuguo had previously won were all taken over by Sun Jian in an instant, and the soldiers headed straight for the Luoyang City headquarters.
At this moment in Luoyang, there are only Tian Feng, Zhang Liao and others, and the 5,000 cavalry brought back are standing firm. The recruits around Luoyang City are young and strong, totaling more than 5,000 people, and they are integrated with the cavalry to form an army of 10,000 people.
Together, they stationed in a new city thirty miles west of Luoyang City, with a population of 3,000 and Pingyin City, whose walls were ten meters high.
Pingyin City was built on the mountain, right at the foot of the mountain, and to the north of it was a thousand-meter-high mountain. The mountains around the mountain stretched for tens of miles, and there were clusters of small peaks hundreds of meters high.
It is said that there are monsters living in the mountains, miasma is everywhere, poisonous insects and snakes are lurking everywhere, it is difficult for ordinary people to approach, it is an inaccessible place!
With such dangers, the northern part of Pingyin City is completely a natural danger, and the army cannot cross it, so it can be said that there is no worries.
And to the west of Pingyin City, there is a river that meanders for dozens of miles, irrigating the surrounding hundred miles of plains, and the abundance of water and soil is all due to the merits of this river.
The river is several kilometers wide, and ordinary people cannot cross the river without a large boat. You only need to send troops to garrison at the dangerous river beach, and use bowmen to shoot arrows at the river beach. Sun Jian's army will definitely not be able to cross this river, nor can it go up shore!
Therefore, the strategy implemented by Tian Feng and others was to stand by the river and wait for help, waiting for the news to reach their majesty the emperor, and then the majesty the emperor would send an army back to help, and then slowly deal with the traitor Sun Jian!
But now, they have recruited 5,000 new recruits and 5,000 brave cavalry. It should be no problem to defend him for a month or two. This period of time is enough for His Majesty to get news and send troops back in time!
As for if you really can't hold it, you can still retreat to Pingyin City. The current ten-meter-high city wall of Pingyin City has been continuously strengthened after one or two months of holding on to it.
They have built countless defensive facilities, with his army of several thousand, and there is no shortage of bows, crossbows and arrows. They still have confidence in guarding him for a month or two.
In this way, Sun Jian's army can be delayed for more than three months, and the confidence of Tian Feng, Zhang Liao and others is still sufficient.
After all, all of them are famous heroes who moved the Three Kingdoms for a while, and they are talented among them. It can be said that they have stirred up countless storms and changed the fate of history!
After Sun Jian's rebellion, the army went all the way to attack everywhere. Originally, they plundered barbarians in the southwest region, built more than ten cities, and initially ruled the area.
At this moment, the king's flag was changed at the top of the city, and one after another, they changed their flags and hung up Sun Jian's military flag with the character "Da Sun", completely announcing the disappearance of Zhong Yu's rule in the southwest direction, which had been established for less than a month!
After that, Sun Jian's army left only one or two thousand people to guard the city, maintain the most basic law and order, and suppress the dissatisfaction of those tribes and those who had just surrendered.
After that, he continued to march with the army at ease, and prepared to take advantage of the situation that Tian Feng and others were not ready to attack those fertile hells around Luoyang that had undergone preliminary development as much as possible.
Why is Sun Jian so relieved! That's because the entire southwestern region, which he ruled, originally had a population of 30,000.
And before he captured 8,000 of his people to be cannon fodder, all of them died in the siege battle against the Vogo tribe, and none of them came back alive.
After that, Sun Jian took advantage of the fact that the news had not reached the tribes in the rear, so he immediately and decisively killed the remaining strong men of those tribes.
The barbarians used to maintain the most basic livelihood and used as guards, and the last three thousand young and strong, were all forcibly conscripted into the army and captured into the barracks to serve as forward cannon fodder!
I plan to add the last essence of these barbarians, or the last male blood of the barbarians, all of which were consumed in the war with Tian Feng and others.
Then the remaining barbarians, women, children and children can safely send their own soldiers to receive them, as a reward for their bravery and skill in fighting, and their great achievements for themselves!
With such a lucrative business, he got a batch of cannon fodder for war, and got some women and children as slaves, who turned them into military supplies for his own army, rewarding and rewarding those hard-working soldiers, how could Sun Jian not like it, why would he not do it? !
In this way, Sun Jian only left one or two thousand people as caretakers to guard the slaves, and used them to suppress a group of weak women without any men, even though they were weak compared to barbarians.
But in the tribe, all the men over one meter tall were taken away to share a handful of wood as weapons, and Sun Jian used them as cannon fodder. Under this extremely cruel reality, what kind of disturbance can these women create?
He could only obediently obey his fate, marching towards Luoyang City along the way, and captured several original cities of Luoyang City on the way.
But now there is no trace of people in the city, and they were dismissed by Tian Feng and others, or taken to the rear. In short, it is impossible to stay for Sun Jian to carry out the crowd cannon fodder tactics.
If they couldn’t be taken away, Tian Feng and others directly ordered them to be killed by the ruthless Tian Feng and others. In short, they would not stay to benefit Sun Jian and others.
It was to put logistical pressure on Sun Jian. His military rations were originally provided by Luoyang City, but now he rebelled, and he and others cut off the food route from Luoyang to Sun Jian's army.
The rations in Sun Jian's army at the moment, based on the experience of Tian Feng and others in his army, can only support him for less than 20 days. Now they have consumed some along the way, and it is estimated that the rations are only ten days!
Moreover, most of Sun Jian's army's military supplies and siege equipment have been lost in the previous city of Wogo, especially the extremely important crossbow, which is the most deterrent long-range weapon in the era of cold weapons.
Although not many were damaged, he didn't have many arrows in stock, and the crossbow without arrows, if used to smash people, is not as good as a stone, how can it be used as a murderous weapon Woolen cloth!
When Sun Jian's army came to the other bank of the river opposite Pingyin City, Tian Feng and the others had already built a dense defensive front on their own bank, and various defensive measures were placed on it to keep the enemy's army safe. Broke the halberd and sank into the sand, and suffered so much!
No, Sun Jian looked at the defensive measures on the opposite side, his brows were wrinkled, his whole face was crying like a bitter gourd, he didn't know what to do!
I could only photograph one or two envoys to persuade them to surrender and came to the other side of the river. I wanted to rely on my previous status as the commander of the army on the opposite side to persuade them to surrender obediently, so that they could abandon the dark side and turn to the bright side, and return to my command again.
However, Tian Feng and others who had been prepared for a long time directly killed him in the middle of the river. Before the messenger crossed the river and reached the shore, he was sent directly to see the gods and Buddhas.
This kind of decisiveness not only made Sun Jian and the others furious, but also reminded the soldiers under Tian Feng, Zhang Liao and others that there was no way out at this moment, and the only way to find a chance was to fight to the death!
Even before the war, they told those soldiers that their wives and children were still in the hands of His Majesty the Emperor. If they rebelled now, even if they could win, their wives and children would have no physiology, which completely cut off their other thoughts!