Chapter 14 Weizhen Qilu

The Huang Chao Uprising Army captured Yunzhou, causing panic in the surrounding vassals. They were afraid that the next target would be their turn. For the interests of their rule, the vassal towns temporarily united to deal with the Huang Chao Uprising Army. Among them, Cao Quanyu, who was stationed in Qingzhou, was the most active. After Song Wei led the army to Haozhou in the Central Plains, he appointed Cao Quanyu to defend the front line of Qingzhou and Yizhou.

Cao Quanqi did not dare to neglect and arranged his son Cao Yi to defend Yizhou. He and Ma Biao strengthened the city defense in Qingzhou and prepared to fight against Huang Chao. Cao Quanyu sent an envoy to Weizhou and urged Han Jian, the governor of Weizhou, to send troops across the Yellow River and surround Huangchao. Du Qian and Xue Neng also received urgent documents from Cao Quanyu, requiring them to lead troops to encircle and suppress the Huangchao Uprising army.

However, these three governors were afraid of the prestige of the Rebels. In order to preserve their strength, they all held a wait-and-see attitude and symbolically sent a small Tang army to attack the rebels. In response to this battlefield situation, Huang Chao held a combat meeting in Yunzhou and decided to attack Cao Quanyu first.

After some discussion, Huang Chao issued a combat order: "If you attack the enemy, you must be saved. I, Chai Cun, Meng Kai, Lingfei, Si Ye and Lin Yan led 50,000 main forces to attack Qingzhou, Huang Kui and Ji Zhong led 10,000 troops to defend Han Jian, Sun Mei and Cao Min led 10,000 troops to defend Du Yu, and Qiao Qi and Niu Feng led 30,000 troops to hide near Yizhou, waiting for Cao Yi. When he led the troops out of the city to rescue Cao Quanyu, he quickly occupied Yizhou. After winning, he quickly transferred the main force and attacked the Qingzhou army to attack Cao Yi and strive to completely annihilate the enemy. After this battle, he completely defeated Cao Quanyu's main force, and then swept west to occupy Lunan.

The Rebel soldiers acted quickly according to the deployment of Huang Chao, and the troops quickly entered the designated position.

Qingzhou explored the horse and reported to Cao Quanyu: "General Cao, the Huangchao thieves have been mobilized frequently recently, and the army is moving in the direction of Qingzhou. Many siege equipment and heavy grain and grass are transported to the camp outside Qingzhou, and they are going to attack Qingzhou soon!"

Cao Quanyan was shocked and urgently summoned the generals to discuss it. Yao Qing, a staff member of Xue Chong, who narrowly escaped from Yuncheng to Qingzhou, hated the righteous army to the bone. He shook his head and made a "high theory": "General Cao, Qingzhou soldiers have long been an elite division under your training. This time, they defeated the Yellow Nest Thieves and established immortal merits for the Tang Dynasty. It is the Yuzhu of the Tang Dynasty. Don't miss such a great opportunity! General Cao, open the city to fight, inspire the three armies, and decide the universe in the first battle!"

Ma Biao couldn't help interrupting: "General Cao, Huang Chao's cloak must not underestimate the enemy! I think it's better to stick to it." Cao Quanhan waved his hand and sighed: "Why don't I want to defend Qingzhou, but if I am trapped in the city, the city itself is already short of food. If it is besieged by thieves for a long time and will collapse without fighting, so I must open the city to fight, so there is a way to live. We can't rely on heaven and earth, and we have to rely on ourselves. We quickly notified Yier to mobilise elite soldiers to participate in the battle. This time, Huang Chao and I fought to break the net!"

Huang Chao led his army to arrive outside Qingzhou, set up dozens of battalions, and sent a letter of war to Cao Quanyu. Cao Quanqi put on his whole body, ordered 30,000 soldiers, and refused to go out of the city. Cao Quanhan raised a whip and scolded: "The rebel Huang Chao gathered a crowd to rebel and committed a great crime. Aren't you afraid of Cao Quanhai's invasion of my territory today?"

Huang Chao looked up to the sky and laughed: "Cao Quanyu, you don't know when you die. The court you are serving now has long been rotten. I think you are a loyal minister and good general. Now that you have surrendered to our army, I will definitely not treat you badly. If you are stubborn and stubbornly resist to the end, it is bound to be burned!" Cao Quanyan was furious and said to the generals: "Who will capture this rebel with me?"

A general shouted loudly: "Gai Hui is willing to go!" Suddenly, the horse supported the halberd and took the yellow nest directly. The yellow nest waved the dates and Yangqi. The two horses intersected and raised the halberd at the same time. There were more than 30 battles, and there was no victory or defeat. In the Tang army, Gai Hui's righteous brother Mei Qiang was afraid that Gai Hui would be lost. He rode and a knife and went straight into the battle. He attacked Huang Chao. Huang Chao was the two enemy and was not afraid at all. He fought for more than ten times. Huang Chao rose up his power and forced the two generals to retreat in a row with one move to "sweep thousands of troops". Next, "Xiang Wang picked up the car" to pick Mei Qiang under the horse, and one after another I ended up with my life.

When Cao Quanyu saw this, he was furious and waved two whips to fight against Huang Chao. In the Rebel array, Meng Kai shouted, "Don't hurt my lord!" With a nine-ring knife in his hand, the Pegasus went out and intercepted Cao Quanyu to fight. Lin Yan also fought with a gun, and Ma Biao came forward to fight against the enemy. Soon, a general fell from the horse. It turned out that Gaihui finally couldn't resist the enemy of Huang Chao. He was swept on the front door by Huang Chao and died on the battlefield.

Cao Quanyang saw that the momentum was not good, so he returned to this array. Ma Biao abandoned Lin Yan and wanted to return to this array, but he was unlucky. The horse's hoof suddenly pulled Ma Biao off the horse. He was caught by Lin Yan and stabbed him with a cold shot. Huang Chao waved Zaoyang: "Kill!" The Rebels killed the Qingzhou soldiers with the momentum of platooning mountains and seas. There was a scuffle between the two sides. Cao Quanxuan defeated more than half of his soldiers and fled back to the city in confusion. He closed the door and never dared to fight again. Huang Chao commanded the rebels to attack for several days, and the city of Qingzhou was strong and difficult to capture.

After receiving his father's urgent documents, Cao Yi from Yizhou immediately ordered 20,000 troops and went to Qingzhou. Before leaving, he handed Yizhou over to Vice General Bi Shiduo for defense. Qiao Yu and Niu Feng detected that Cao Yi had left Yizhou and quickly marched into the army. Under the city of Yizhou, Bi Shiduo thought that there were only a few thousand horses and could not be able to defend it. He simply led his troops to surrender to the rebels. Qiao Yu and Niu Feng won the city of Yizhou without blood.

Coincidentally, Liu Hanhong, a Tang general in Yanzhou, was ordered to escort grain and grass to Qingzhou. On the way, he met Cao Min and Sun Mei's troops to intercept them. Liu Hanhong saw that the grain and fodder could not be preserved, and it was not easy to cross when he went back, and he also surrendered to the rebels.

Cao Yi led the troops halfway and met Huang Chao leading a large army to kill. Later, Qiao Yu and Niu Feng's fresh troops rushed to attack. Cao Yi fought hard and killed them with crooked armor. Only 3,000 or 4,000 remnants of the defeated soldiers fled back to Qingzhou. Cao Quanhai saw that Cao Yi was stained with blood and damaged most of the soldiers. The father and son cried in the Qingzhou government office, and the sound shook the house, and the surrounding soldiers also cried one after another.

Cao Quanyu had no choice but to write an emergency document and let Cao Yi lead 500 iron riders to go out of the city at night to ask for help from Song Wei in Haozhou, and urged the nearby Tang army to rush to Qingzhou for reinforcements. Cao Yi's square painting halberd was quite powerful. He kicked five or six volunteer camps in a row. The rebels couldn't stop them and watched Cao Yi leave the siege.

The Huangchao Uprising Army won one after another, which shocked Qilu, and a large number of people came to participate in the uprising team. After a period of rest, the strength of the Rebel Army was further strengthened. At this time, Huang Chao received a letter from Shang Rang. It turned out that Shang Rang was entangled by Yang Fuguang's Tang army in Lushan Mountain, and the situation became more and more difficult. Wang Xianzhi was stared at by Zeng Yuanyu's army, and it was difficult to transfer reinforcements to Shang Rang's place. Therefore, Shang let him think of Huang Chao and sent his own soldiers to the Qingzhou camp to submit the letter quickly.

After reading the letter and thinking about it, Huang Chao decided to move to the Central Plains. The monk asked the monk to meet with Yang Fuguang's Tang army together. Although Qizhou and Wang Xianzhi have separated, after all, they are all old friends and poor people. This time, Lunan's victory, Huang Chao and others have almost subsided, so they reunited with Wang Xianzhi's team to fight against the enemy.

As soon as Huang Chao led his troops to Lushan, the monk immediately let the troops. The Tang soldiers who killed Yang Fuguang could not find the north and occupied Lushan, the military important place, in one fell swoop, which greatly improved the situation in the Central Plains. Yang Fuguang led the remnants to retreat to Dengzhou, and repeatedly urged Zeng Yuanyu, Song Wei and Cui Anqian to encircle and suppress Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao uprising troops.

Since Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao had a quarrel in Qizhou, she has not been idle and actively deployed to attack Ezhou. Pei Wo and Wang Yu took advantage of Wang Xianzhi's lax guarding. Late one night, they went down to the city and lost their shoes. They fled to Ezhou barefoot, and then turned to Chang'an. Wang Duo saw his brother and Pei Wo return safely. However, after the warm reception and the re-establishment of the court's arrangement of official positions, I will not elaborate.

After careful deployment, Wang Xianzhi and the generals decisively sent troops from Qizhou to attack the Tang army, occupied Ezhou, Anzhou and Suizhou, and Suizhou, and captured Cui Xiuzheng, the governor of Suizhou. Li Fu, a general of the Tang army in Xiangzhou, sent his son to reinforce Suizhou. He was intercepted and killed by Wang Xianzhi's army halfway. Li Fu was heartbroken and asked for reinforcements.

Li Yong was really anxious this time. He personally promoted the general, sent General Li Changyan, led Fengxiang's special contingent to reinforce Li Fu, and strictly ordered Song Wei, Zeng Yuanyu and Cui Anqian to besiege Wang Xianzhi. Otherwise, they will be dismissed and be investigated, and will never be pardoned!

Under Li Yan's strict order, the Central Plains Tang army came out one after another, especially Zhang Guan, the general of Cui Anqian, who was the most active. Zhang Guan led the elite Tang soldiers in the Zhongwu war zone to reinforce Xiangzhou, and were ambushed by the rebels on the front line of Shenzhou and Caizhou, with heavy losses. Zhang Guan saw that there was no hope of reinforcements and fled for his life. He led the Tang soldiers to run to his defense area. Seeing that it was getting closer and closer to Xuzhou, his soldiers came to report: "General Zhang, Lord Cui came to the barracks to visit the general!"

Zhang Guan was stunned and scared. He thought: Did I withdraw from the army without authorization and was found out by my boss to punish me? Thinking of this, Zhang Guan was so confused that he didn't know what to do.