Chapter 859 Tragic
Linxi Prefecture, Hekou Village.
Because it is located at the intersection of Honghe River and Nanxi River, it is called Hekou. Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, several dynasties have established counties here and sent troops to guard them.
At the beginning of Zhenguan, Li Daliang led Jiaozhou soldiers to go up the Red River to open up trade routes leading to Dianchi Lake and Erhai Lake.
Jin Sang in Han Dynasty, Linxi in Tang Dynasty.
Li Daliang stood by the Nanxi River, looking at several wooden rafts floating down from the upper reaches of the Nanxi River.
The wooden raft was full of **** heads, but it was still recognizable that they were Jiaozhou soldiers.
Gritting his teeth tightly, staring angrily.
Teams of soldiers are stopping these wooden rafts from the river and salvaging these heads.
The entire bank of the Nanxi River was full of Jiaozhou soldiers. Everyone was silent, angry, and their eyes were red.
Li Daliang was holding a head, and could not help but burst into tears.
"Mr. Zhang, I'm sorry for you!"
Behind Li Daliang, a young army soldier fell to the ground crying, "Grandfather!"
In Li Daliang's hands is Zhang Bi, governor of Aizhou. He led the elite of Guanzhong to support the Emperor Taizhu of the Eastern Capital, and together with Wang Shichong crusade against Wagang Li Mi.
After a battle, Pang Yu's army was defeated, and Li Daliang and his subordinates were captured. Li Mi's general Zhang Bi killed all the more than 100 people who were captured together, but only Li Daliang remained. After being captured, he also showed generosity and fierceness and was not afraid of death, so those who begged for mercy were killed, and those who did not beg for mercy stayed instead.
Not only did Zhang Bi not kill Li Daliang, but he admired him very much, made him his confidant, and recommended him as his lieutenant general. Later when Li Yuan entered Chang'an and Li Daliang went to defect, Zhang Bi found out that he led his troops to catch up with him, but finally let him go. For this reason, Zhang Bi was severely punished by Li Mi after returning.
A few years later, although Wang Shichong of the Eastern Capital defeated Li Mi, Wang Shichong was eventually defeated by Li Tang. Zhang Bi retired to his hometown after Li Mi's defeat, but Li Daliang was highly valued in Datang. Soon, with his talents, he was promoted all the way to the positions of general manager and governor.
After Zhenguan, he met the nobleman Qin Lang again, and got the support of Qin Lang and his son in the court. Li Daliang's official career was also very smooth, all the way to the top, and finally he became the long history of the Annan Metropolitan Guard and the governor of Jiaozhou. Before Li Daliang took office, he approached Qin Lang and asked Qin Lang for one thing, hoping to find an errand for his old friend Zhang Bi.
After Li Tang defeated Wang Shichong, Li Daliang looked for Zhang Bi several times, but Zhang Bi was always unwilling to see him. The higher Li Daliang's official position, the more Zhang Bi avoided seeing him.
Later, Li Daliang came to block people repeatedly, and finally saw Zhang Bi again.
Qin Lang gave Li Daliang a lot of face. First, he transferred Zhang Bi to work under his command, and after he made achievements, he strongly recommended him.
So a few years later, Li Daliang transferred his eldest brother Zhang Bi to his Annan as he wished, and Zhang Bi served as the governor of Aizhou in the southeast of Jiaozhou.
This time, Zhang Bi led an army as a vanguard in the suppression of the barbaric chaos.
Unexpectedly, in a blink of an eye, his head was chopped off and flowed down the river.
Li Daliang regretted it very much. If he hadn't insisted on asking the eldest brother to come out to share the wealth, this man would not have put on his battle robe. Originally, he had done a good job as an official in Chang'an, and he had already been promoted to the general of Zuowei Zhonglang, but he himself I have to arrange for him to go to Aizhou to be the governor, just want to have a companion together.
This time, Zhang Bi worked very hard to repay Li Daliang. He wanted to avoid people saying that Li Daliang was acting selfishly for him. He wanted to prove it to others with his actual achievements.
Therefore, Zhang Bi, who worked extraordinarily hard, even broke away from Li Daliang's battle plan, and got farther and farther away from Li Daliang's team. At that time, he was attacked by the Meng family and Man in Jianshan.
A general stepped forward.
"At the moment, I only know some inaccurate information. When Governor Zhang was chasing Juding Man in Nongren River, he encountered a sneak attack from He Man's back. The soldiers were exhausted and the army was exhausted, and finally the entire army was wiped out."
Li Daliang felt dizzy for a while, staggered, and almost fainted.
Chi Mengbiao hurriedly stepped forward to support him, and several other brothers Wu Xiaokuan, Zhu Shuyu, and Fan Chengye who had been sworn brothers together also came up to support him. These are Li Daliang's sworn brothers who had been sworn brothers to Jinlan, and they lived and died together for many years , and now they are all in Annan or serving as the governor or joining the army. This time, everyone put on armor and went into battle together, brothers.
"Are you sure, the whole army is wiped out, and there is no one left?"
Wu Xiaokuan sighed, "Mr. Zhang chased too fast at that time. He chased all the way for seven days and seven nights without stopping. He fought along the way, and when he reached the bank of the Nongren River, he was already at the end of his strength. However, Nanong Sanniang jumped over the wall in a hurry and personally led the elite rear guard to fight to the death. Covering the old and the weak and retreating across the river, they fought with their backs. The two sides fought for half a day. Originally, Mr. Zhang would have beheaded Nong's head immediately, but at the last moment, Meng and Man came..."
Nong's last stand was to be put to death.
But who knew that when Heman arrived at the end and made a surprise attack from behind, the death of the townman became the death of Annan and Zhang Bijun again.
Nong Sanniang led the Judingman Jedi to fight back, desperately charged, holding back the spearmen of the Annan Army, and finally turned into a big melee.
Many Juding barbarians who had crossed the river returned to cross the river and joined Nong Sanniang's Jiaolong King to fight. The battle lasted from dusk to night.
In the end, it was Zhang Bi's Tang army whose morale collapsed first. The crazy fighting style of the barbarians made them afraid, and they were exhausted. They have already shot all the arrows and crossbows they carried...
Chi Mengbiao's four generals all sighed long.
If it wasn't dark, there might still be a glimmer of life.
After dark, new reinforcements from Judingman, Mengshi and Man arrived, and Zhang Bi was shot dead again. The whole army lost the last chance to retreat and break through.
Without the commander's order to retreat, the Tang army persisted in fighting in the dark until dawn. In the end, none of them escaped and were wiped out on the battlefield.
Li Daliang burst into tears and remained silent for a long time.
The former army led by Zhang Bi had a total of 8,000 soldiers, well-equipped and well-trained, but the entire army was wiped out, and the halberd fell into the sand in the Nongren River.
Wu Xiaokuan comforted Li Daliang, "Mr. Zhang was careless for a while, but he didn't insult the name of Annan's Tang army. He wiped out all 8,000 soldiers, and exchanged at least 20,000 sentences for the casualties of the barbarians and the barbarians. The barbarians are already injured. Now, the two barbarians have retreated southward in a panic."
Zhang Shaozong, the son of Zhang Bi, stepped forward and knelt down to ask for orders.
"Please let me lead an army, I would like to go to Baping City immediately to stop the two barbarians and avenge their blood hatred."
Hekou Village is located at the mouth of the Nanxi River into the Red River, and the Nanxi River is also the main commercial route from Annan to Kunming. Before that, Li Daliang sent troops several times to conquer the barbarians in this area. He established Linxi Prefecture, Langmang Prefecture, Tangquan Prefecture, Lusuo Prefecture, Longwu Prefecture, Baping Prefecture, Dongzao Prefecture, etc.
Granted the official position of the barbarian chieftain, and at the same time sent troops to station, built cities and forts, set up post stations and forts to garrison.
It was through the Nanxi River valley road that Li Daliang opened up the Annan Red River and the Yunnan Nanpanjiang River, and then connected to Kunming, and then connected to Erhai Dali to the west through Kunming, Qujing to the northeast, and then connected to Jiannan respectively. and the hinterland of Central Guizhou.
It can be said that the short line of Nanxi River is the most important section of Annan Unicom to the Nanzhong area.
It's just that the time is short. Annan is not yet stable in this area. Now that the barbarians are in chaos, those newly established Zhuzhou cities are actually very dangerous.
Nongren River is in the northeast of Nanxi River. If Judingman and Hehe River want to retreat to the south, they must pass through Nanxi River, especially Baping City.
Baping City in the Western Han Dynasty was one of the twenty-four counties under the jurisdiction of Yizhou, and it was Bengu County. During the Sui Dynasty, the Yunnan Cuan clan rebelled. Although the Yunnan Cuan clan surrendered to the Central Plains in name after several conquests, in fact the Sui Dynasty completely abandoned the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau area.
After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, he returned to Yunnan by sending Cuan Hongda again, and began to intervene in Yunnan affairs. During Zhenguan, Li Daliang traveled upstream from Jiaozhou, focusing on the barbarians along the Nanxi River, and barely opened up this trade route.
But together with the riots, the barbarian villages along the Nanxi River rebelled one after another, blocking trade routes, robbing merchants, and even attacking the established villages and fortresses in prefectures and counties.
Li Daliang pondered for a long time.
"Before, we were always too lenient to them, so that they didn't know what fear is, and what power is!"
"Pass my order, the whole army goes north."
"Wherever you pass along the way, if you rebel against the various tribes, you will kill the men who are older than a horizontal sword, the women who are over 30 years old, and all the old ones."
"A stone is better than a sword, and a house is better than a fire!"
Li Daliang stared at the blood-red eyes and said, he once thought of beckoning the barbarians.
But now the facts tell him that the barbarians have no credibility at all.
Zhang Shaozong responded loudly, "Yes!" The young soldier who had just lost his father was full of anger at this time, and he just wanted to kill all the barbarians.
Wu Xiaokuan carefully reminded, "My lord, along the 380 miles along the Nanxi River, there are hundreds of barbarian villages, and there are 60,000 to 70,000 barbarians. Basically, they are all involved in the rebellion this time."
Li Daliang stretched out his hand and patted his brother on the shoulder, "Xiaokuan, don't always think about those savages. No matter how much we think about them, they don't appreciate it. They don't know how to be grateful. The conditions we gave them were too good. See Look at Mr. Zhang, you can't rest in peace, look at the Nanxi River, how many brothers died in battle, and there are more brothers, their bodies are still by the Nongren River, who will take pity on those bones by the river?"
"A total of 8,000 soldiers died in battle. Someone must pay a heavy price for this. This blood debt must be paid back. I have to explain to Shaozong, I have to explain to the parents, wives and children of the eight thousand soldiers, and I have to tell Wei. Wait, tell His Majesty, if you don’t take them under the knife, what should I tell you?”
"If they understand the current affairs and are willing to surrender, I promise to only pursue the culprits and the rest. But if the barbarians want to die and insist on fighting to the end, then I don't mind changing the land of Nanxihe this time." " Li Daliang said through gritted teeth.
He was really angry.
Eight thousand soldiers were killed in battle, and the entire army was wiped out.
How long has it been since Datang suffered such a big loss?
I'm afraid that since Zhenguan, Datang has never had such a record of an entire army being wiped out. He, Li Daliang, was actually in Annan, where he was wiped out by a group of southern barbarians with 8,000 soldiers.
What a shame.
Blood debt must be paid in blood!
(end of this chapter)