Chapter 595: Easily Conquer Jing County
In addition to the supplies in Xingyang City when the princes attacked Dong Zhuo, in addition to the grain and grass from several cities around Xingyang that have been transported to Xingyang for more than a year, the current Xingyang City can be said to be sufficient. Everyone defended the city for several years. Regarding this county, Hua Xiong was also very confused about whether to attack by force.
Zhao Yun nodded. The Shadow Guard had informed everyone of Xingyang's situation as early as Luoyang.
However, now that Nanyang and Sizhou have reached a consensus, if the generals in Xingyang City are sensible, they should still cooperate. Of course, it is not ruled out that Xingyang and other city guards are stubborn, so Zhao Yun does not mind killing a few county towns. Officials. Thinking of this, Zhao Yun motioned to Hua Xiong to continue.
Seeing this, Hua Xiong continued: "It's easy to say that the rest of the cities have basically maintained around 6,000 to 8,000 soldiers, and they are basically all newly recruited soldiers more than a year ago. In addition, they have not been diligent in recruiting soldiers. Training, so the level is not very high.”
Upon hearing this, Zhao Yun also understood the situation in Zhucheng. This was basically consistent with the news sent back by the Shadow Guards years ago. It seemed that these people were really confident.
After Hua Xiong introduced the situation of the cities in Guandong, the generals discussed it and decided to send troops to Xingyang tomorrow. If the defender of Xingyang surrendered the city, that would be fine. If the Nanyang army did not cooperate, then the city of Xingyang would be besieged and not attacked. Let’s capture the cities south of Xingyang first. At that time, the captured generals were taken to the gate of Xingyang City, their heads were beheaded in public, and chickens were killed to honor the monkeys.
As for the troops and horses to be dispatched, Zhao Yun intended that the military camp at Hulao Pass be led by Zhao Cen and dispatched together with Hua Xiong's Xiliang cavalry. Zhao Yun transferred a school of troops and horses from the 15,000 garrison soldiers brought by Zhao Yun from Luoyang. The guards at Hulao Pass guard the pass together to prevent anyone from harming Hulao Pass.
After everything was arranged, all the generals took their orders. After resting at Hulao Pass for a night, the army marched to Xingyang County the next day.
Sure enough, as Zhao Yun expected, Xingyang defenders Qiao Rui and Zhang Ling refused to hand over the city on the grounds that they had not received military orders from General Nanyang. Zhao Yun was not angry, and just ordered the army to camp. He led the white horse Yi Cong and the 10,000 dragon camp troops to guard outside Xingyang City, while the rest of the troops were handed over to Hua Xiong's command and headed to Jingxian County in the south.
As for Xingyang's 10,000 defenders, Zhao Yun had 5,000 white-horse Yi followers and 10,000 dragon-mounted soldiers, so he was not afraid of the army in the city going out to fight. If Qiao Rui and others lead the army to fight, they will play into Zhao Yun's hands.
Sure enough, the Sizhou army besieged Xingyang without attacking, but sent Hua Xiong to lead tens of thousands of troops southward. Qiao Rui and others' expressions changed greatly. Originally, they thought that the Sizhou army would attack Xingyang in anger, and they would definitely teach them a lesson. However, they did not expect that the other party would leave fifteen thousand soldiers to guard outside the city, but would send the army elsewhere to attack other counties.
In other words, the reason why General Qiao Rui was unwilling to hand over the city quickly was because of Yuan Shu's petty temper. Secondly, for more than a year, the two of them could be said to be the local emperors of Xingyang City. It can be said that it is true and comfortable, but now I suddenly received a general order saying that Xingyang City will be handed over to the people of Sizhou for management, so I feel a little unhappy, and I just want to delay it for a few days.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Yun would put the two of them in such an embarrassing position. If the two of them were to fight, they would not have the courage at all. The war in Luoyang had already been reported, and Ji Lingzhi was defeated and captured by the Sizhou army. , the two of them thought they were far inferior to Ji Ling, so they didn't have the courage to fight at all.
Moreover, there are five thousand white horse retinues outside, and that is five thousand cavalry. There are only more than ten thousand soldiers and horses in the city, and all of them are infantry. Even if they don't have the courage to go out, they will not dare to go out.
While Zhao Yun led the army to camp under the city in a leisurely manner, Hua Xiong and the others led tens of thousands of troops to Jingxian County south of Xingyang in high spirits. The two of them had not experienced any war since they joined Huangfu Chaobo. If it had not been for Huangfu Chaobo's appointment as Pingdong General Sizhou Mu, the two of them would have had no chance of promotion. This time, the lord obviously took care of the two of them. He only needed the two of them to fight a few battles and capture a few county towns.
There are a lot of military achievements.
The army marched all the way and arrived at the foot of Jingxian County at noon the next day. After the army had lunch, Hua Xiong sent people to persuade him to surrender. Unexpectedly, the Jingxian County Magistrate and County Lieutenant both ignored him and thought that they were behind him. Being the fourth generation and the third prince of the Yuan family, Huangfu Chaobo didn't dare to do anything to him.
What, you said that little Yuan Gonggang and Huangfu Chaobo had a fight in Luoyang. A fight was good, but you didn't see that although Huangfu Chaobo was lucky enough to capture General Ji, the general of Yuan Gong, he did not dare to kill him. Now he is just in Is it closed in Luoyang City? What does this mean? It means that Huangfu's son does not dare to really offend Mr. Yuan. Moreover, although Gong Yuan has ordered several cities in Guandong to be returned to Sizhou this time, doesn't it mean that we can't hand them over too happily?
The attitude of the officials and generals in the capital made Hua Xiong and Zhao Cen overjoyed. Yes, they were overjoyed. They looked at each other and smiled, and finally the war could begin.
The three schools have 15,000 soldiers. Hua Xiong, Zhao Cen, and Long Xiangying's deputy general, Zuo Xiao, each lead one school of soldiers and horses, and are each responsible for attacking one side of the city wall. In their opinion, they have tens of thousands of elite soldiers and only five thousand soldiers in the city, so there is no need for any detailed arrangements. If there are three of them around and one missing, just get started.
Following Hua Xiong's order, the war drums of the forward Chinese army beat. The soldiers of the war camp, who had already prepared siege equipment, led by three generals, launched an attack on Jingxian under the stunned gaze of everyone in Jingxian.
Although the county magistrate and the county lieutenant fought desperately, facing the Sizhou army that was three times their number and more than twice as strong, the battle in Jing County ended in less than an hour. Hua Xiong killed the county lieutenant in battle, and then the county soldiers were defeated. With the cry of "those who surrender will not be killed", all surrendered, and Jing County announced a change of ownership.
Afterwards, the army entered the county. Hua Xiong sent people to temporarily take over the city, and sent people to Xingyang City to report the victory to Zhao Yun. Then it was to count the losses of their side and count the gains in various places in the city. Although Hua Xiong was impatient to do these things, he was the vanguard commander, and these things had to be done patiently.
After the army rested in Jing County for a night, the next morning, Hua Xiong sent a thousand Xiliang cavalry to escort all the nearly 4,000 soldiers captured in Jing County to Zhao Yun's army camp outside Xingyang City, and drew 3,000 soldiers from the 10,000 defenders he led to defend Jing County.
Hua Xiong himself led the army southwards, heading for Mi County. Of course, the heads of the generals of Jing County who resisted the enemy were also sent with the army, and the county magistrate and his men were sent to Zhao Yun's army along with the captives.