Chapter 157: Strategies for Danyang (3)

She County.

In the 26th year of Qin Shihuang, she county was established. "Xin'an Zhi" records: "Sometimes she is called Xi, which means that mountains and rivers gather together." Because the area is surrounded by high mountains, the peaks and ridges, the rivers are lingering and twisting, it is called "there are rivers and rivers, and the forests are dense, and the biodiversity is diverse. It is commonly known as "seven mountains, one water, one branch of fields, one branch of roads and manors."

At this moment, the flags on the city walls of She County have changed. They were originally the "Wang" flag with yellow and black characters, but now the "Zhou" flag with black and red characters.

Sima Dong Xi, another unit of the Lujiang Army, was wearing bright armor and stood solemnly on the city wall, with flags flying. Looking back at the Shexian County town bathed in the sun, Dong Xi couldn't help but remember what happened yesterday.

Just yesterday, Dong Xi led a thousand soldiers from Jingxian to attack Shexian from Jingxian. At night, he rushed to the city of Shexian. He did not care about his fatigue and then launched an attack. Wang Hong, the magistrate of Shexian, took almost all the soldiers in the county to Jingxian for reinforcements, leaving only more than 100 old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers. Although Wang Hong recruited hundreds of young and strong people from the people in the city to help defend the city, these people did not even have armor or weapons. They took kitchen knives, chop firewood and axes, and iron forks to climb the city wall. When Dong Xi's army attacked the city, their calves were trembling. How could they defend the city?

Half an hour later, Dong Zhi's army invaded She County.

According to Gao Shun's advice, Dong Xi ordered his troops before the war: "Now we are all regular troops under the command of Zhou Yu, the prefect of Lujiang. We must strictly abide by the military discipline of the troops. We can no longer burn, kill and loot after breaking the city like a bandit. These eight major military disciplines are: "

"The first major discipline: obey the command of all actions."

"The second major discipline: never give up, never give up."

"The third major discipline: fair business, no deception."

"The fourth major discipline: not taking the people one needle and one thread."

"The fifth discipline: not live in a house and not harass a woman."

"The Sixth Discipline: All seizures must be handed over."

"The Seventh Discipline: Don't Damage to Crops."

"The Eighth Discipline: Don't abuse prisoners."

Dong Xi finally added: "If anyone violates the order, behead him!" Dong Xi appointed another confidant as the assassination, who was specifically responsible for the supervision and execution of military discipline to shock the entire army.

Under strict discipline, Dong Xi's troops entered the city without any harm to the people. He just opened the county government's baggage warehouse, transported all the money, grain and military supplies and equipment that Wang Hong had accumulated over the years, and opened a warehouse to provide relief to the people. The people of She County immediately came to collect the food happily, and praised the army of Zhou Yu in Lujiang and said that it was good, and he knew that he felt sorry for the people.

Seeing such a scene of support from the people, Dong Xi couldn't help but smile happily.

A scout hurriedly walked up the city wall and reported to Dong Xi: "General Dong, our army's probe found people returning to She County fifty miles away."

The scout interrupted Dong Xi's memory. He suddenly woke up and asked repeatedly: "Have you seen clearly? Are they indeed the original She County people? How many people are there?"

The scout clasped his fists and replied: "According to our calculations, this group of people are the ones that She County originally reinforced Jing County, about a thousand people."

"That's great!" Dong Xi waved his fist excitedly. He turned his head and asked a small school beside him: "Brothers are all gathering, are you ready?"

The school was also excited and his face turned a little red, as if a hunter saw that the prey he wanted to capture was about to fall into the trap he set up. He hurriedly replied: "It has been assembled, and you can set off at any time!"

"Okay!" Dong Xi waved his hand and ordered loudly: "Tell me the order, the whole army will set off immediately, target Foling!"

Foling, located ten miles northeast of Shexian City, is a deep river valley. There are dense woods on both sides of the valley. Changyuan River rushes through the valley, and the turbulent rivers constantly wash away the huge rocks in the river channel. Although the river water is not deep, the water flows very fast, and people and horses cannot trek by.

There is a not-so-spacious official road on the east side of Changyuan River. From Jingxian to Shexian, this is the only way to pass.

Dong Xi hid all his troops in the mountains and forests next to the official road. The people were silent and the horses were tucked in their mouths. The whole valley was quiet, and only the sound of the Changyuan River running echoed in the valley.

Suddenly, a sharp-eyed soldier stabbed Dong Xi in the waist. Dong Xi looked north and saw a group of people lined up in two columns and walked along the official road in the valley. In the middle of the team, there was a big flag with yellow and black characters with a big word "king" written on it.

Dong Xi knew that this team must be the men who returned to the rescue by Wang Hong, the magistrate of She County.

Wang Hong sat upright on the horse, looking a little tired, and looked quite annoyed. Since receiving a quick report from his friend Liu Bo, the magistrate of Jingxian County, he did not dare to neglect at all, and all the people from She County rushed to Jingxian to reinforce. Unexpectedly, when he arrived in Jingxian, the enemy army was powerful, with more than 10,000 people surrounding Jingxian, and wanted to rush into the city, but he was afraid that his thousand people were not enough for others to get stuck in the teeth, so he had to station outside the city as a side army to restrain the enemy.

The Lujiang army that attacked Jingxian this time was also very strange. They surrounded Jingxian but did not attack, and they were in prison but did not fight. If they didn't fight, they would not fight. Anyway, they had so much strength. They rushed to help Jingxian so desperately. I think the magistrate Liu County would not blame him in the future.

Two days later, Wang Hong got the news that he least wanted to hear: She County was captured! Originally, when he went to help Jing County, he thought that She County was empty in defense, and was afraid that the enemy would attack him by the enemy, but he had no choice but to have only one thousand soldiers under his command, and the county and state soldiers who had not fought for a long time. If Jing County was not rescued, it would be difficult for She County to defend after Jing County was captured. It would be better to concentrate troops to fight with the enemy. There might be a chance. Besides, the surrounding counties would also send reinforcements, so Wang Hong arrived in Jing County with a nervous heart.

Now that She County has fallen, there is no foundation. Wang Hong can't help but be in chaos. He heard from the people who sent the message that there were only about a thousand enemy troops attacking the city. It turned out that they were all bandits from Danyang County, so he wanted to kill someone and retaliate. He first took down the enemy troops and then went back to help Jingxian.

The soldiers brought by Wang Hong were all from She County. When they heard that their hometown was in a fall and they were thinking about their family, they were anxious to kill them. They marched day and night along the way, but no one complained, but they all had their physical strength overdrawn and were exhausted.
Chapter completed!