Chapter 2335 Battle of Bashu
Brazil.
Langzhong.
Here was Zhang Fei’s garrison in history, and also the place where his soul died. The three waters converge, and it is an important place for water and land transportation. It has always been a place for military strategists.
From Langzhong to the north is Bazhong, and further up is Micang Road, and from Langzhong to the southwest is Chengdu. It can be said that the location of Langzhong is the key link between Sichuan and Sichuan. In Langzhong, you can either choose to attack Chengdu, or you can directly go south to invade the hinterland of Sichuan and Shu!
Brazil''s defense system is not very sufficient. After all, strictly speaking, it does not belong to the front line. It is a relatively inner area. In the front, there is Bazhong to Micang Road in the north, and Padang in the east. , the northwest direction is Guanghan, and further northwest is Jinniu Road.
Therefore, the soldiers and civilians in Langzhong never thought that suddenly, there would be a large number of Ji people, Di people, and even some Ba people rushing out of the river ditch, all the way down from Bazhong, as if directly It jumped on Langzhong''s face!
What happened in Bazhong?
Could it be that Bazhong fell?
The flames of war have directly reached Brazil County!
It was Xiang Lang who was stationed in Langzhong City.
When Xiang Lang was in Jingxiang, he studied under Sima Hui for a period of time and had some friendship with Xu Shu. Later, he became an official under Liu Biao and served as a small county magistrate. There was something wrong in the book, after thinking about it again and again, he resigned and went to Sichuan, where he found Xu Shu.
After arriving in Sichuan and Sichuan, Xiang Lang first worked in Chengdu, and then came to Langzhong as a county magistrate.
Originally Langzhong was garrisoned by Lei Tong, but Lei Tong was just a swindler who knew six things about people''s livelihood and government affairs. It can be said that most areas are rotten, and Langzhong is no exception.
Later Xu Shu transferred Lei Tong back to Chengdu and assigned Xiang Lang to deal with the mess in Langzhong.
When Xiang Lang arrived in Langzhong, he found that the officials and captains in Langzhong were simply jerks. Among other things, the soldiers alone received more than 60% of their salary!
Except for the few soldiers around the county government office that look like they are, the rest are not soldiers at all. I am afraid that these guys will run away at any time when they go into battle, or they will be dragged back by these guys. …
Therefore, after arriving in Langzhong, the first thing Xiang Lang did was to take down the corrupt officials and remove these mediocre soldiers. At the beginning, there was a very interesting phenomenon, which was to announce to Lang that he would remove all these useless soldiers. , Then when recruiting again, from the officials in the county to the village elders in the local area, they seemed to be complaining, very embarrassing, and even terrified, as if these soldiers would rebel if they were cut off.
But in fact, after the official reduction order was issued to Lang, these county soldiers who returned to agriculture rarely caused trouble, and almost silently picked up the **** and went to the fields...
Compared with being in the army, not only do you have to farm for the military master, but you also have to deduct the military salary. If something goes wrong, the strict military law will fall on your head. Soldiers with little combat effectiveness are more willing to return to farming, or seek other livelihoods to live.
As for the so-called rebellion and rebellion, they were actually just used to threaten Xiang Lang by those who ate and drank the blood of these soldiers. Dare to throw it out.
After Xiang Lang cleared out these weak soldiers in Langzhong, he recruited some soldiers again. After two or three months of training, he gradually got some appearance, and started to attack these local officials in Langzhong.
Most of these small local officials have some connections with some local wealthy families, but because Xiang Lang had their hands and feet cut off, they fell into a passive state. The military power is in Xiang Lang''s hands. Even if these silverfish want to turn their backs, they have to consider whether they can turn over, and it may be more troublesome if the movement is too loud, so most of them exited the scene cursing, saying that Xiang Lang is a bastard, and reminded them You don''t recognize people when you put on your pants.
After this series of actions, although Xiang Lang cleared out the corrupt officials in Langzhong, reinjected new blood, and indeed took control of the authority in Langzhong, doing these things is not easy, and it will also take a certain amount of time. Therefore, when the Diren Wuyangyang rushed to the vicinity of Langzhong, there was no way for Xiang Lang to say that he could pull the troops in the city and go to the field. After all, both the number of soldiers and the speed of training were still lacking.
It is already very good to be able to control the city of Langzhong so that there is no chaos because of this. As for the outside of the city...
Therefore, the land of Brazil fell into panic and chaos!
At the city gate of Langzhong, many terrified and exhausted people gathered outside the city of Langzhong, crying and begging at the same time, hoping that Langzhong would open the city gate and let them enter the city.
The Langzhong soldiers above the city wall were also nervously looking at the chaotic people below the city.
Most of these people are from some villages in Bazhong and Brazil. Not all the villages where these people lived may have fallen, but they fled one after another because they were afraid of being spread by the war, and some even fled all the way from Bazhong to Brazil, already exhausted and haggard.
When they arrived in Langzhong, they were close to Chengdu. These fleeing people seemed to feel a little safer. After all, no matter what, Langzhong would be guarded anyway? I just want to have a shelter in the city, and then the government can give me some porridge to survive the day, at least to survive the current military disaster...
Thousands of ragged people cried and begged around the city wall, and the sound of their prayers was earth-shattering.
Xiang Lang stood on the top of the city, pulling on the battlements and looking down.
The people outside the city seemed to have seen Xiang Lang''s figure, and guessed that it was the person in charge, but the sound of wailing suddenly rose again, and they started yelling and crying indiscriminately...
『Good job! Let us enter the city! We are old, weak and young at home, we can''t walk anymore, and we don''t have food, so let''s take a break, please! Sir, please do me a favor! 』
『We can help build cities, move soil, transport bricks and tiles! Do anything! Just ask for food! Give a roof to shelter from the cold! Have mercy! Let''s go to town! 』
『Open the city gate! They are all from Central Sichuan, so they can''t leave their lives alone! Open the city gate and let us enter the city! 』
『Go to town! We want to open the door! 』
『Open the door! 』
『Good job! 』
『…』
Xiang Lang frowned deeply.
『When did these people come? Xiang Lang asked in a deep voice.
"Reporting to the county, these people from the countryside came one after another last night. At first I thought there were not many people... But at dawn, I saw that there were so many..." The city guard at the side said somewhat incomprehensibly Then, "Xianzun, this... what should we do now?" 』
Almost everyone''s eyes were on Xiang Lang.
The ragged people in the city cried, shouted, jumped their feet, raised their heads, and some even knelt down on the ground and kowtowed. The chaotic voices were like waves, rushing against the city wall of Langzhong.
Xiang Lang raised his head, looked left and right, and made an estimate, "There are probably more than 3,000 people..."
If there are three thousand well-trained soldiers, they can enter the city in an orderly manner in less than an hour, but right now there are three thousand people, once the city gate is opened, there will be congestion, and countless people will be squeezed on the suspension bridge and the city gate There are definitely people who will even be squeezed out of the moat, and then drowned, trampled, I can''t say...
Unless you send out all the soldiers in the city, and then cut these refugees into parts one by one, and slowly enter the city according to the area. The number of soldiers sent out must not be small, and it is basically useless if there are fewer, and they will be overwhelmed by the crowd of people.
But the question is, if I send out all the soldiers, what about the city?
The number of soldiers recruited by Xiang Lang is not many, as of now, there are only 540 soldiers, even if Xiang Lang''s own guards are included, they are in the early 600s. This number protects Langzhong City. There are some shortcomings, how can I get out of the city?
Even if these people can be welcomed into the city, even if there are no spies among these people and all of them are civilians, who can guarantee that these refugees will obey the rules when they enter the city? Can you resist grabbing food when you see it, don’t take clothes when you see it, don’t defecate in the middle of the street, and won’t break into ordinary people’s homes to steal and rob?
If I could have earlier...
Xiang Lang closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and said in a deep voice, "Call some soldiers with loud voices to come over." 』
After a while, shouts sounded from above the city wall, overshadowing the chaos and noise below the city...
『There is going to be a war here! 』
『If you escape, someone must guard you! 』
『If you lose this place, Chengdu will be in danger! 』
『If someone blocks you here, you can escape to Chengdu! 』
『As long as we don’t fall here, no one will hunt you down! 』
『Go! Go to Chengdu! There is going to be a war here! Go to Chengdu if you don’t want to die! 』
After a short pause, the people under the city shouted loudly again. If it wasn''t for the moat to stop them, some of these people would even rush down to the city to pat the city gate.
On weekdays, money, taxes and taxes are collected in the house, and now there are so many people here, they won’t let us enter the city? What''s the point? What are you going to do in Chengdu? Ge Laozi''s violent temper will enter Langzhong today!
『Go west! go west! There is feeding at the West Gate! 』
Amidst the noise and confusion, there was another chorus of shouting from the city gate.
Xianglang sent people to put food in small bags at the west gate and throw them across the moat. Although some bags landed in the moat, most of the food bags still landed on the other side, and many refugees fled. They looted one after another, and then ran away quickly in order not to be robbed of their food by others...
But even so, there are still some who are unwilling to leave, or have not got the food bag, howling, crying, and wandering around the city.
At this time, at the end of the road in the distance, there was gradually a large cloud of smoke and dust, which was flat and scattered, and there were some faint crying voices...
At the top of the city, Xiang Lang''s eyes suddenly focused, and he looked towards the place where the smoke and dust rose. I saw figures swaying in the smoke and dust, and not long after, some people were faintly seen running and crying in panic, stumbling towards them in embarrassment!
And the Di people behind these people, with their painted skin naked, wrapped in turbans and robes with feathers, brandishing knives and guns, scattered and shouted to drive these people towards The location of Langzhong is here!
There are also some Di people who are riding on horseback, staggering. I don''t know if there are horses in the past, or they were snatched after they left the mountain.
These horses are of course Sichuan horses, and they are not tall, but the same Jinren Di people are not tall, but these Jinren Di people who ride horses are quite proud of shaking their bodies on their horses, shouting "Small" Call.
These Jin people and Di people, like driving a flock of sheep, shouted and rushed into the crowd of people who were behind from time to time, brandishing their knives and guns to knock down one or two, and then screamed and held up the blood-stained knives and guns in front of them. Laughing wildly and roaring, aroused the cheers and applause of the rest of the Ji people and the Di people, and made the people even more flustered. Many people fell to the ground with weak hands and feet because of this, and were ignored by the rest of the people trampled into the mud...
What about the defenders in Bazhong?
How did these Jin people and Di people invade so easily?
Could it be...
At this moment, even though Xiang Lang had thousands of thoughts in his mind, he didn''t have time to think about it, so he shouted and pointed in the direction of Chengdu, and shouted outside the city, "Go west!" quick! go west! 』
The remaining thousands of people exploded in coaxing, and the sound of crying and roaring was several times louder than before. Amidst the sound of crying and shouting, the crowd became chaotic, pushing and trampling each other, while the people in the distance Those people riding horses also noticed the movement here, and immediately roared, and rushed over with their horses!
roared at Lang: "Archer! step forward! Prepare! 』
Xiang Lang''s guess was not wrong, these Jin people and Di people came here looking for opportunities to grab the city.
This problem, in fact, some of the blame is on Liu Zhang''s head.
It''s not that Liu Zhang still has any influence now, but because Liu Zhang has almost no control over Sichuan and Shu after taking over Sichuan and Shu, so that the local government affairs management is extremely chaotic, and the relationship between Pang and Zhao The disputes between Brazil and China and Padang are even more chaotic.
In the follow-up, Fei Qian and Liu Bei competed for Sichuan and Shu, and the flames of war spread to central Sichuan. Some cities were damaged in the war. Although Sichuan and Shu were pacified and people''s livelihood restored, the best and fastest recovery is still in central Sichuan, which is relatively remote. One is that Xu Shu’s influence has not yet spread to these areas, and the other is that Sichuan and Shu are not like Guanzhong, where there are relatively sufficient backup management manpower to replace them, just like Langzhong, where Thunder Copper was overused in the early stage. , and Thundercopper made a mess...
Before Zhuge Liang arrived in Sichuan and Shu, Xu Shu took Zhuge Liang to walk all the way to see, from the vicinity of Chengdu to the remote mountain village, that''s what it means.
So when the Ji people and the Di people rushed out from the Daba Mountain, the cities along the Jialing River were either captured, or they had the same choice as Xiang Lang, locking up the cities and letting the Ji people and Di people plunder outside!
This method is not so strange, because in the more than one hundred years of Dahan, most areas have done this...
Youzhou, Wuhuan looted.
Guard the city and wait for the barbarians to retreat.
Bingzhou, Xianbei looted.
That poor place is no longer needed.
Liangzhou, Xiqiang looted.
Is it necessary to spend huge sums of money on this place, Your Majesty! Cut it off!
Yangzhou, South Vietnam plundered.
Don''t worry, talk to them, whoever leaves the city will be the grandson!
Chuan Shu is no exception. In the early days of Liu Yan, these people in Sichuan and Shu even used these Di people to threaten Liu Yan and raise their own dignity. Therefore, it is not surprising that in the land of Sichuan and Shu that Xu Shu and others have not yet fully sorted out, there are passive defenses and even intentional release of water.
The man rode crookedly, rushed directly under the city gate, and rushed into the crowd of refugees!
Xiang Lang commanded the archers to shoot at the cavalry of the Di people, but it is a pity that on the one hand, there are not many archers in Xiang Lang, and on the other hand, these archers are ordinary people. The training has only just started, and it is not a good marksman, but the shooting effect on long-distance moving targets can be imagined.
The arrows shot down, but only hit three or four riders, the damage was not enough to see, so the Di people did not flinch at all, roaring, trying to gather the people under the city together, or preparing to attack the city Cannon fodder, or the cloth and property that these people want to carry...
Xiang Lang also took a bow and arrow, bent his bow and shot, but it didn''t achieve any good results. He saw the Di people rushing into the crowd crazily, trampling and hacking wantonly, screaming and crying for a while. The sound soared into the sky.
On the city wall of Langzhong, the defenders and the people were strong, staring blankly at the tragic scene in front of them, the bows and arrows in their hands gradually stopped, and if they shot again, they would hit their own people...
『The county lord...save them! 』
『We can’t look like this…』
『County respect! 』
The soldiers on the city wall couldn''t help shouting, and cast their eyes on Xiang Lang.
Gritting his teeth, Xiang Lang gripped the battlements tightly with both hands, without even noticing that his nails were snapped.
Suddenly, the sound of some horn whimpers came over...
Everyone in the city and the city was slightly taken aback.
Xiang Lang stared blankly to the southwest, and suddenly his eyes widened.
A military horse suddenly appeared on the horizon, with red helmet tassels, hunting and dancing.
The first general raised his long knife and pointed it obliquely at Langzhong!
Behind the general, a three-color battle flag fluttered high!
Hussar soldiers!
Hussar soldiers are here to help!
Xiang Lang laughed loudly, "Beat the drums! Beat the drum! Reinforcements are here! You must lose! 』
This big man, not everyone can only retreat, only defend!
Still someone will stand up!
Finally, let these people know that there are still people who will fight hard in this great Han world! Will defend the country, will not be afraid of life and death, will lead us, and pursue the glory of victory together!
(end of this chapter)