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Chapter 947: Fighting the Rebels Outside

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    On August 30, Huang Mingyuan led more than 60,000 main troops to leave Beijing, and Yang Guang personally sent them to Baqiao.

    Although Huang Mingyuan has more than 65,000 men and nearly 50,000 horses under his command, and most of the soldiers are elite Guanzhong soldiers, the biggest problem is that this unit lacks joint training and lack of coordination with each other.

    Lack of cooperation was actually the biggest problem in the military system of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.  Soldiers in the Sui and Tang Dynasties never lacked elite combat capabilities, but because in the past there were one government and one organization, the largest combat organization was just a hussar and chariot government of more than a thousand people. Suddenly gathered together, it looked like tens of thousands of elites.  , there are also a lot of people, but compared with the battle group troops in the border towns who cooperate with each other tacitly, it is not the same thing at all.

    There was a strange disease during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. In foreign wars, the smaller the number of people, the stronger the combat effectiveness and the more battles won.  In history, it was not uncommon to see scenes like Xi Junmai chasing tens of thousands of Tuyuhun troops with just a hundred cavalry.  However, as long as the Tang army was outnumbered, there were also many defeats. Defeats involving more than 100,000 people abounded. Famous generals of the Tang Dynasty, including Xue Rengui, Wang Xiaojie, Lou Shide, Guo Ziyi, etc., all had examples of major defeats.  A famous general of this level and a defeat of this scale would be unimaginable in other dynasties.

    For this reason, Huang Mingyuan wished he could find a place to reorganize his troops for a month before setting off, but soldiers were very fast, and what the Sui army lacked most was time.

    This time the army went out to quell the rebellion. The deputy commander was Zhou Luohu, who was an old acquaintance and good friend of Huang Mingyuan.  The long history is Yang Guang's uncle, Xiao Cong, Duke of Ju.  Xiao Cong was kind-hearted, generous, suave, and bohemian. Because he was the crown prince of Xiliang, he was cautious in the army. It was considered that Yang Guang deliberately sent him to the army to promote his brother-in-law.  However, due to the previous turmoil between Huang Mingyuan and the Xiao family, although there was no hatred between the two parties, the Xiao family paid a huge price at that time. Therefore, Xiao Cong and Huang Mingyuan were not close, and the two parties just dealt with each other.

    Huang Mingyuan had no time to deal with Xiao Cong, so all the government affairs in the army were entrusted to Sima Wei Shaoqing Fan Zigai and Feng Deyi, the chief official of the army.  Fan Zigai is a veteran minister with both civil and military skills, while Feng Deyi is a bad dog, but an even more useful one. With him around, Huang Mingyuan doesn't need to worry about anything in the tent.

    And the marching Sima Huang Mingyuan specifically asked Yang Guang for Zhang Zhenzhou, the minister of the army.  Other generals under his command include Cui Hongsheng, Cui Peng, Dugu Lan, Shi Xiang, Zhou Fashang, Jing Yuanheng, Duan Wenzhen, Xue Shixiong, Mai Tiezhang, Wang Rengong, Qu Tutong, Wang Bian and others, who can be regarded as the most skilled warriors in the entire Sui Dynasty.  A group of generals can be called a heavenly group.

    Huang Mingyuan left Chang'an and headed east.  When Huang Mingyuan led his army to Zheng County (near Huazhou Street, Huazhou District, Weinan City, Shaanxi Province today), news came from the direction of Pujin Pass (east of today's Dali County, Shaanxi Province) that the rebels of Han King Yang Liang had captured  In Puban City (today's Yongji City, Shanxi Province), the troops approached Pujin Pass.

    Huang Mingyuan was shocked. He could imagine the panic of the Pujin Pass defenders.

    Pujin Pass is an important ancient ferry crossing of the Yellow River and a dangerous place between Qin and Jin Dynasties. It can be said to be "the key point of Guanxi and the convergence of Hedong".  Once Pujin Pass is lost, the Yellow River defense line originally envisioned by Huang Mingyuan will inevitably collapse completely.  The Han king's hundreds of thousands of troops could then cross the Yellow River, bypass Tongguan, and approach Guanzhong all the way.  From Pujin Pass to the west, there is a fertile field, eight hundred miles of Qinchuan, and no danger to defend. When the time comes, the rebels of the Han Dynasty can march straight in and approach the city.  By that time, unless Yang Guang chooses to enter Shu, he will inevitably be captured alive.

    In fact, this is just a good idea. Once the Han rebels enter Guanzhong, I am afraid that the states and counties in Guanzhong will flee.

    To put it bluntly, the Sui army simply could not afford to lose Pujin Pass.  Even now, Huang Mingyuan can guess Chang'an's panic when he learned that Pu Ban was lost. The emperor and his ministers were probably shocked three times a day.

    At this time, all the pressure fell on Huang Mingyuan's hands.

    Huang Mingyuan was worried that Pujin Pass would fall before he could arrive with his troops. Therefore, in order to seize time, he selected all the 20,000 forbidden troops who had participated in the Northern Expedition, selected soldiers who were good at riding, and reorganized them all.  As cavalry, a total of eight thousand cavalry were handed over to the commander-in-chief of Youwuwei General Dugu Lan, who was ordered to rush to Pujin Pass and take over the defense of Pujin Pass regardless of the cost.

    Huang Mingyuan was worried that the rebels of the Han Dynasty would leave Shaanzhou to cross the river and cut off the connection between Chang'an and Luoyang. Therefore, he ordered Zhou Luohu to lead 10,000 soldiers to cross Tongguan and set up defenses along the river in the direction of Shaanzhou.

    Of course, even so, Huang Mingyuan doesn¡¯t know whether Pujin Pass can be defended.  If Pujin Pass is lost, Huang Mingyuan will have to defend the enemy in Zheng County.  Therefore, he left three thousand troops with Cui Hongsheng and ordered him to dig ditches and build a city in Zheng County, set up defense lines, and command all the government troops coming from the rear to prepare for the retreat of the army.  Cui Hongsheng is Yang Zhao's father-in-law and Huang Mingyuan's distant cousin, which can be believedappoint.

    Huang Mingxiang realized that he was inexperienced before, so he decided to go on an expedition with his ninth brother Huang Mingyu to follow his elder brother to gain more experience.  At this time, he was surprised to see his brother actually setting up a defense line in Zheng County.

    "Brother, is it true that Pujin Pass cannot be defended?"

    "Hard to say!"

    Huang Mingyuan shook his head, feeling a little irritable.  Knowing that he couldn't get too distracted, he took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down.  When marching and fighting, the most fearful thing is to encounter such an elusive battle. All the advantages are not in your hands, and you have to resign yourself to fate.

    The army continued to advance eastward, and Huang Mingyuan recruited Wang Bian to take charge of the scouting affairs.  He was asked to send out all the scouts on hand, and he was to send back a battle report on Pujin Pass every hour without allowing any omissions.

    Wang Bian immediately accepted the order.

    Huang Mingyuan divided the 15,000 soldiers in his hands into three, each with about 5,000 men, and gave them to the command of generals Zhou Fashang, Jing Yuanheng, and Shi Xiang respectively.  With its three parts divided into left, right and middle parts, they crossed the river from the northeast of Zheng County, followed the Weishui River to the north, and rushed to Pujin Pass. They ordered the three people to reorganize their troops in time.

    At this time, the only army in Huang Mingyuan's hands that could really be considered capable of fighting was the Xiaoguo Army.  The 20,000 Xiaoguo Army had experienced the Duliu Rebellion, and more than a third of the troops had participated in the Northern Expedition.  At this time, the former left commander Xue Shixiong had not yet gone to Diezhou to take office, so he also followed him on the expedition.  The new left commander was Duan Wenzhen, who, like Xue Shixiong, was close to Huang Mingyuan. In addition, Huang Mingyuan's second uncle, Huang Jie, was an old general, so Huang Mingyuan could not help but not rely on him.

    Huang Mingyuan ordered Duan Wenzhen and Xue Shixiong to lead the two armies separately, acting as the central army, and also ordered Mai Tiezhang and Xin Shixiong to be two deputy generals respectively.

    Huang Mingyuan ordered the veteran Cui Peng to take command of the remaining nine thousand forbidden troops as his rear army.

    Huang Mingyuan led his troops to continue eastward and crossed the river north of Xingde Palace (now Huayin North, Shaanxi).  The army had just arrived on the north bank of the Weishui River, and at this time, battle reports had been sent from Pujin Pass.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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