Chapter 33 Zhu Wen's Plan

Sun Mei's persuasion letter angered Zeng Yuanyu. He vowed to destroy Sun Mei's righteous army first. At this time, Zeng Yuanyu received the news that Du Qian, Cui Anqian, Zhang Yang and Yang Yan's four Tang troops were coming to Kaocheng day and night, and they could all reach Kaocheng in less than three days. Zeng Yuanyu was determined to fight a hard battle with the Huang Chao Uprising Army, so he led more than 80,000 Tang troops to rise up on the north bank of Bianshui and went straight to Kaocheng to fight with Sun Mei.

The righteous army flew into the camp. Huang Chao was considering how to fight with Zeng Yuanyu at this time. He heard that the four Tang troops of Du Qian, Cui Anqian, Zhang Yang and Yang Yan rushed to Kaocheng. They came fiercely, no less than 100,000 people, and there was a tendency to annex the rebels. Huang Chao quickly raised the account and ordered the generals to come to discuss the military situation. After a while, Chai Cun, Meng Kai, Huang Kui, Zhu Cun, Zhu Wen, Cao Min, Lin Yan, Qiao Yu, Niu Feng, Huang Siye, Lu Jingren, Bi Shiduo, Wang Fu and other major generals all came to the Chinese military tent. After a little cold from each other, they began to get to the point.

Huang Chao said: "According to the Ma Feibao, Zeng Yuanyu is leading a large army to go straight to Kaocheng to fight with Sun Mei and Lingfei's all the righteous troops. Du Yu, Cui Anqian, Zhang Yang and Yang Yan are also stepping up their actions. They will gather in Kaocheng within three days. We must deal with these five enemy forces within two days. Brothers, if you have any good advice, please come one by one.

Niu Feng roared: "I'm afraid it's a bird, kill all these five Tang troops!"

Meng Kai said, "This time, the Tang army adopted the tactics of joint attack and key breakthroughs in an attempt to destroy the main force of our army in one fell swoop. We have a great appetite. Our army must be fully prepared. If we don't fight, we will win! I want to fight against Zeng Yuanyu's Tang army all the way, cooperate with Brother Huang, and strive to completely destroy his main force.

The generals have different opinions and are unsettling. Zhu Wen quietly sat in a remote corner, without saying a word, and looked out of the window.

Huang Chao knew Zhu Wen not long ago. It was Meng Kai who introduced Zhu Wen's bravery to Huang Chao, so in Huang Chao's heart, his impression of Zhu Wen was a martial artist. At this time, when he saw that Zhu Wen was silent, he casually asked, "Brother Zhu Wen, why don't you speak?" Zhu Wen heard Huang Chao's voice and quickly stood up and said, "General, I'm analyzing the characteristics of these Tang troops."

The generals turned their faces to look at Zhu Wen. Huang Chao asked, "What do you think are the characteristics of these Tang armies? You might as well tell everyone."

Zhu Wen raised his leopard head, his thick eyebrows were locked, his eyes were shining, and he looked particularly energetic. He analyzed: "In these four Tang army, Du Xiaojiu's town is in Huazhou. Although he is brave, he has always preserved his strength and has not carried out a big battle with the righteous division. Our army sent a partial division to rush to the front line of Fengqiu and Kuangcheng to seize several strategies. The point is that if he does not take the initiative to fight, I expect that Du Yu will not launch a strong attack, but wait and wait and see, and the offensive of the Tang army will be wiped out on this road. Cui Anqian has always been old and has a deep plan, and his relationship with Zeng Yuanyu is relatively tense, and he will certainly refuse to make a desperate effort to reinforce Kaocheng, but the strength of the Tang army is strong all the way, and our army sent a strong brigade to attack with a bold action. Attacking its leading troops and then building a camp to defend itself, Cui An's hidden troops will certainly not launch a general attack on our army, so the Tang army is not enough to worry about this road; Zhang Yang's new Tianping governor came from afar. Seeing that Du Yu and Cui Anqian's second Tang army on the second route were blocked, they would not dare to go deep alone. After our army solved Zeng Yuanyu's army, Zhang Yang naturally led the rear Withdraw, you only need to send a few suspects to deal with the Tang army all the way. As for Yang Yan, hehe, as we all know, is a literati and can't fight at all. He is the same as Yang Zhiwen in Jiangling. To deal with him, you only need to send a general to take one or two thousand horses to scare him. Yang Yan absolutely does not dare to embarrass the righteous teacher.

Huang Chao nodded frequently and said, "Xiao Zhu's analysis is very reasonable. I think it can establish the combat deployment of our army in response to the scattered and beautiful situation of the Tang army. These five Tang troops, plus the Tang army in Kaocheng, I estimate that in the direction of 200,000, are comparable to our army. Whoever wins or loses depends on their respective troop configuration. If our army wins this battle, the main force of the Central Plains Tang army will be severely damaged, and it will be difficult to pose a threat to our army in a short period of time, and our army can take advantage of the victory to develop rapidly. Therefore, this battle is related to the survival of the righteous teachers, and everyone must go all out to resolutely complete their respective combat tasks. I would like to emphasize that in this battle, I will send all the troops at one time, and there will be no other reinforcements during the battle. Therefore, after assigning the task, we should fight independently, make bold breakthroughs, and resolutely disrupt the operational deployment of the five Tang army. For the specific arrangement, it is difficult to unify opinions when there are more people. I think let the Chai Military Division deploy it.

Chai Cun pondered for a while and said, "Since Brother Huang entrusted me to arrange this military operation, everyone just discussed it, especially the Zhu Wen brothers, who have unique insights and strategic vision, which is worth learning from the brothers. Next, I will announce the combat deployment of this battle of Kaocheng, and the generals will listen to the order!"

The rebels and generals all stood up, with resolute faces and looked at Chai Cun. Chai Cun said slowly, "Meng Kai, the owner of the first village, you lead your troops to face Zeng Yuanyu's army from the front. Remember, 30,000 to 80,000, this is a life-and-death duel. You have to use your brains, just like Xiang Yu, the king of Chu, who destroyed Zhang Handan's main force, to wedge into the enemy's array and disrupt the formation of Zeng Yuanyu's army. The enemy was killed and wounded. Brother Huang, you led the Chinese army and divided the army into two routes and moved to the left and right sides of Zeng Yuanyu's army. When Meng Kai's army and Zeng Yuanyu's army were in a stalemate, they suddenly killed. The Tang army must be defeated. After that, they must chase after them. They can't stop until they win completely. They rushed all the way to the north bank of the Bian River and must annihilate the army. Cao Min led the second village people to fight against Cui An's hidden troops. After winning the first battle, he could not hold on. After the Tang army retreated, he returned to the division to besiege and annihilate the remnants of Zeng Yuanyu's troops, cleaned the battlefield, and then entered the city. Huang Siye led the third villagemen and divided his troops into three ways to block Du Yan, Zhang Yang and Yang Yan respectively. He did not fight and did not pursue them. After the enemy retreated, they arrived Kaocheng drinks gong wine. Sun Mei and Yue Lingfei were notified that after our army annihilated Zeng Yuanyu's main force, they launched a general attack on Kaocheng and must take it within a day. After entering the city, open a warehouse to release grain, release the list of the people, prepare banquets, and reward the three armies.

The generals answered in unison: "Resolutely obey the order of the general and act according to the deployment of the military division!"

Huang Chao punched on the table and shouted, "I order that the battle of Kaocheng officially begins. This is a life-and-death duel between the righteous division and the main force of the Tang army in the Central Plains. You can only move forward, not retreat; you can only succeed, and you are not allowed to fail. Whoever retreats and fails, come to see me!"

Zeng Yuanyu strictly ordered the Tang army to march quickly. At noon the next day, more than 80,000 Tang troops were less than 30 miles away from Kaocheng. At this time, the Tang army was hungry and thirsty. Zeng Yuanyu ordered to bury the pot to make rice and go to the nearby river to get water to drink. Tang Jun took the order to stop marching and began to prepare lunch. A male division was killed by the Tang army in the distance. Meng Kai urged the green horse and waved the nine-ring knife. Huang Kui, Zhu Cun and Zhu Wen followed him and went straight to Zeng Yuanyu's banner from the middle. The shouts of the rebels were shocking. Zeng Yuanyu was shocked and quickly got on the horse to command the battle.

In a hurry, the Tang army had not yet formed a formation. Meng Kai had led the first villager to kill him. In less than a bag of cigarettes, the Tang army had killed thousands of casualties. Zhu Cun held a wind knife, wore a lotus leaf helmet, ** yellow fat horse, Zhu Wen's hand-handed dragon gun, wearing bright armor, ** silver mane horse, the two brothers shouted all the way to kill Zeng Yuanyu's middle army, so they were wearing a mi. Yang Fuguang, Zhang Zimian, Qi Kerang, Qin Zongquan, Lei Yinfu, Duan Yanmo, Zhu Jingmei, Gao Long and other troops were rushed by the rebels. They had already fought separately and lost contact with Zeng Yuanyu's Chinese army.

Zeng Yuanyu and his distant uncle Yin Chao organized an army to fight back. This war made the sky dark and the sun and moon dull. The Rebels all take one for ten, and they will not retreat to the death. During the melee, only a few cannons were heard from the two sides of the Tang army. Huang Chao was from the left and Chai was from the right. He commanded the righteous army to kill. The Tang army could no longer resist it. It abandoned its armor and ran away. The three-way army of the Rebel Army rampaged, like the autumn wind sweeping away the fallen leaves, killing the Tang army crying father and calling his mother, and the corpses were all over the field and bleeding into a river.

Zeng Yuanyu looked up to the sky and sighed: "It's over, it's all over. The elite of our army is empty today. Kill me!" After saying that, Zeng Yuanyu pulled out his sword, closed his eyes, wiped it off his neck, and was hugged by several soldiers and took the sword. Zeng Yuanyu shouted, "Why don't you let me commit suicide? I just want to kill myself today!" I was defeated today and lost so many people. How can I have the face to see your majesty!" Words, tears rained down. At this time, Qin Zongquan and Lei Yinfu rushed to front of Zeng Yuanyu. Lei Yinfu shouted with a gun: "General Zeng, keep Qingshan here, don't be afraid of firewood!" With my Lei Yinfu gun, Huang Chao can't seize the Central Plains!" When Zeng Yuanyu saw that the general under his command came to rescue him, he couldn't help turning sadness into joy. Then he turned over his horse, urged the green mane beast, carried a wind knife, and took the Tang army south to kill.

Yang Fuguang, Zhang Zimian, Qi Kerang, Duan Yanmo and Zhu Jingmei led their troops to kill a bloody road and fled to the Bian River. Gao Long was fighting hard, and his head wound broke out. His eyes were black. He hit his horse and was killed by the righteous soldiers. Huang Chao led the Rebel Army to chase and kill all the way to the north bank of Bian River. More than 80,000 Tang troops were left in this war. After several rushing, Zeng Yuanyu fled to the south bank of Bian River and count the people and horses. There were only six or seven thousand soldiers left. They retreated to Fugou and Fang camped for rest.

After receiving Zeng Yuanyu's order, Cui Anqian only allocated 20,000 horses to Zhou Wei and drove to Kaocheng. On the way, he was killed by Cao Min's second village. Zhou Qian panicked and quickly collected the people and retreated to the south bank of the Bian River, and did not dare to enter the north.

The other three-way Tang army was blocked halfway by the people deployed by Huang Siye, so they had to camp and wait and see. After receiving the news of the defeat of Zeng Yuanyu's army, they retreated without fighting and returned to their respective defense areas.

Sun Mei and Yue Lingfei laughed happily after receiving the report of the victory of the Rebel Army. Sun Meisheng sent an order: "I ordered the army to go to the four sides of the city to prepare to attack the city!"