On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 378 Capture Weizhou
Shenzhou, governed in Shenxian County (now Shenxian County, Shandong Province), has jurisdiction over four counties: Shenxian County, Linhuang, Wuyang, and Wushui. Compared with Xingzhou, which governs eight counties, Shenzhou is undoubtedly a small state .

Therefore, although the soldiers of Shenzhou supported Weizhou in time, the governor of Shenzhou only gave 7000 people to Sima Zhang Qi of Shenzhou.

Some soldiers should always be left to guard the city. After all, if Weizhou fell, he would not be to blame, but if Shenzhou was lost, the governor of Shenzhou would not be able to escape punishment.

Zhang Qi led [-] Shenzhou soldiers to march all the way, and finally arrived at Guixiang County (now Hebei Daming), the government of Weizhou, before Mai Tiezhang.

Liu Xuan, governor of Weizhou, rushed out of the city to greet him. Since he was in an emergency in Maozhou, Liu Xuan had been transferred to Yecheng because of all the elite soldiers under his command.

However, the more he was afraid of something, the more he came. After learning that Cui Che's general Mai Tiezhang had crossed the Zhang River and was heading towards Weizhou, Liu Xuan even thought about running away.

After all, he didn't have the confidence to use a group of old and weak to contend against the elite soldiers under Mai Tiezhang's command, and because his family members were all in Kansai, he didn't dare to participate in Cui Che's rebellion.

On the way, Mai Tiezhang heard the news that Shenzhou reinforcements had arrived, so he simply slowed down. Passing a town, he asked the middle-aged man beside him:
"Weizhou is prepared now, so don't rush. If Mr. Cui wants to meet his old friend, Mr. Mai will camp here today."

The name of the middle-aged scribe was Cui Yanwu, who came from the third house of the Cui family in Boling. There was a member of the Cui family in Qinghe with the same name as him, but he was a figure in the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Cui Yanwu shook his head and said:

"Now I am a seven-foot man, not a woman, so why should I go see him again.

"Besides, when I met him back then, I left a lot of money, and I settled the previous affairs. I still have to focus on the important affairs of the suzerain."

Mai Tiezhang saw that he had made up his mind, so he gave up.

Cui Yanwu used to be the governor of Weizhou, he had many old friends in Weizhou, and he was even more familiar with the situation in the city.

Now that Cui Che sent Mai Tiezhang to attack Weizhou, it is natural for Cui Yanwu to join the army.

As for the old man Mai Tiezhang just mentioned, it is an interesting story.

It turned out that when Cui Yanwu was the governor of Weizhou, he visited the territory once and came to the place they passed by today.

It was clearly the first time I came here, but it always felt familiar. When I walked somewhere, I suddenly recalled the things in my previous life, and said to the left and right:

'I once married here as a woman, and I still remember where my home is. '

So he rode his horse into the alley and came to a house. The protagonist was old, but Cui Yanwu said that the person was his husband in the previous life.

This matter is so far-fetched that no one dares to believe it, but Cui Yanwu can respond to the old man's death of his wife.

According to Cui Yanwu's guidance, the old man even found many things buried by his wife, and everyone believed his statement.

Cui Yanwu finally left a lot of belongings and left.

This incident has been circulated in Hebei, making many people believe in the theory of the afterlife, but there are also many people who doubt the authenticity of this incident, and Mai Tiezhang is one of them.

He made insinuations along the way, but Cui Yanwu always insisted that he had really awakened the memory of his previous life, which led to the absurd thing that Mai Tiezhang passed by today and asked Cui Yanwu if he wanted to meet her husband in the previous life again.

Cui Yanwu, the former governor of Weizhou, came forward, and the cities along the way were persuaded to surrender one after another. When the army arrived at the city of Guixiang, Liu Xuan, the governor of Weizhou, and Zhang Qi, the Sima of Shenzhou, had been waiting for a long time.

Liu Xuan poked his head on the city wall, looked at the Pi Shijun who were showing their might outside the city, and couldn't help cursing:

"Cui Che actually lured Hu Bing south, it's really shameful!"

Among the soldiers who followed Mai Tiezhang to the south, there were [-] Pishi troops whose appearance and clothes were very different from those of the Han army.

Zhang Qi, Sima of Shenzhou, did not go along with it. It is true that Cui Che and Han Wang Yang Liang started civil strife, but as far as the matter is concerned, the Hu soldiers Cui Che drove were all Khitan people attached to him.

If he really wanted to attract Hu people for help, there would be more than just a few soldiers and horses. I am afraid that all ethnic groups in Monan will flock to follow him to participate in a feast of plundering the Central Plains.

It's just that Zhang Qi was very puzzled, why Mai Tiezhang came from the north, but he had to stand in the east.

This doubt was soon answered, the Pishi army was in the north of the city with great fanfare, but the chief general Mai Tiezhang was not in the formation.

When the Weizhou defenders were all focused on the east gate, the west gate guard secretly opened the city.

It turns out that after Mai Tiezhang learned of the arrival of the Shenzhou soldiers, he hurried on his way so that Cui Yanwu could have time to contact the old people in Weizhou City.

After all, with the army approaching the city, once Weizhou was under martial law, it would be extremely difficult to contact the city.

Although Weizhou's elite soldiers were transferred to Xiangzhou, the four gate guards led the old and weak to stay in the city. The west gate guard had received Cui Yanwu's great kindness, but few people knew it.

During the time when Mai Tiezhang went south, Cui Yanwu had already sent someone to get in touch with the guard general of the west gate. Only then did the infantry of the Pishi army attract the opponent's attention in the east of the city, while Mai Tiezhang personally led the silver saddle Khitan to the west of the city. .

When the west gate opened slowly, Mai Tiezhang charged forward with a spear in his hand.

Unlike the aging Wang Dangwan, Mai Tiezhang was in his prime and his strength was not exhausted. He took the lead and led [-] Khitan horsemen with silver saddles into the city and charged straight to the east gate.

Shenzhou Sima Zhang Qi learned that Mai Tiezhang had entered the city, so he hurried down the tower and ordered his troops to follow him to stop him, trying to drive Mai Tiezhang out of the city.

Although Yinan Khitan Zhi was a Hu soldier, he was also a warrior who had been carefully selected from the [-] Khitan infantry at the beginning, and the number of them was superior.

Seeing this, Zhang Qi knew that the only way to save the defeat was to kill the general and capture the flag. He rode out and went straight to the most conspicuous Mai Tiezhang in the crowd.

Mai Tiezhang was born in poverty, unlike Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, Wang Dangwan and other generals who were born in noble families, he can't use a horse, but he has a long spear that should not be underestimated.

Seeing Zhang Qi coming to kill, Mai Tiezhang did not hold up his spear to fight people like in the past, but raised his spear and threw it at Zhang Qi, nailing Zhang Qi off the horse alive.

Only then did Mai Tiezhang ride his horse forward, grabbed the gun barrel sideways, and lifted Zhang Qi up from the ground. At this time, Zhang Qi had already lost his breath.

"The enemy general is dead, and those who surrender will not die!"

The sound of the wheat iron staff was like thunder, and the battlefield fell into a short period of silence. Afterwards, a large number of Shenzhou soldiers put down their weapons, and the soldiers of the Yinsan Qidanzhi did not go to kill and surrender.

Civil wars are different from foreign wars. Cui Che had explicitly prohibited such things as killing and surrendering before dispatching troops.

Since Cui Che raised his troops, the first resistance he actually encountered ended in such a hasty way.

Liu Xuan, governor of Weizhou, walked down the tower and asked Mai Tiezhang to surrender.

Mai Tiezhang occupied Weizhou city, and then according to Cui Che's order, he handed over all the government affairs to Cui Yanwu, and he posted an Anmin notice to find the families of Weizhou soldiers who rushed to aid Yecheng.

(End of this chapter)