The fierce fighting continues.
Despite the heavy losses, Lu Junyi under the city of Shezhou was already difficult to ride a tiger and could only continue to attack.
And the isolated defenders are a way of life and death, only the trapped beasts are still fighting and fighting to the death.
Seeing that the first attack of the first Song army was defeated, the Fang army decided to take advantage of the other party's discouragement to go to the camp that night. Unexpectedly, the military advisor Zhu Wu had already prepared, the Fang army suffered heavy casualties, and the sharpshooter Pang Wanchun was also captured and killed.
Ding Desun, the middle arrow tiger in the Liangshan army, also died in this battle - he was not killed in battle, he was bitten by a poisonous snake when he was ambushed in the grass, and he died before he could detoxify.
The next morning, Lu Junyi took advantage of the power of victory and led his army to the city again, but he saw a strange scene:
The gate of Shezhou is wide open, and there is no flag on the city, and there is no sergeant waiting for it, what does this mean? The first to rush to the gate of the city were Shan Tinggui and Wei Dingguo, they glanced at each other, and they had the same heart, so they rushed into the city first.
They probably thought that after last night's crushing defeat, the Fang army had broken down and abandoned the city and fled. They'll have to rush in and get the first job.
Shan Tinggui is nicknamed "General Shengshui" and is good at water warfare; Wei Dingguo is known as the "Divine Fire General" and is good at fire attack. Originally, they were all training envoys of the Lingzhou regiment. In that year, the Beijing Daimyo Mansion was conquered by the Liangshan army, and Cai Jing sent these two leaders to attack Liangshanbo.
Unexpectedly, before they could get out of the city, their old acquaintance, Dadao Guan Sheng, who had just surrendered, came to persuade them to surrender. After some "angry scolding, fighting, and capture", they all surrendered under Guan Sheng's persuasion. The final ranking is also not bad, and it is at the top of the earthshatter.
They seem to be quite capable, one can attack with water, and the other can attack with fire, but in this conquest of Fangla's troops, their specialties have not been brought into play, and even the people and horses fell into the pit dug in advance, and they were immediately killed. The author couldn't help but sigh: "Poor holy water and divine fire, today the mourning pit!" ”
Ding Desun, Shan Tinggui and Wei Dingguo were killed in one day, and by this point, except for one artillery commander, Ling Zhen, the court officers who had surrendered with the main general in the later period had all been killed in the battle against Fangla.
From ancient times to the present, those who surrendered halfway, especially those who did not have a high position and surrendered with the coach, are unlikely to be valued and reused, and they can only get ahead by relying on real combat exploits. Shan Tinggui and Wei Dingguo know this truth very well.
Seeing that the battle against Fang La is about to achieve the final victory, and seeing that Shezhou is about to be conquered, especially the enemy's most powerful Pang Wanchun has been killed, if he does not move forward bravely at this time, how can he have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions? Therefore, in front of the wide open city gate, the second future did not have time to think about it, so he rushed in, and he was never able to come out again.
This is also the sadness of the generals who surrendered with the coach, they are so difficult!
There is a label of betrayal on his body, and no one cares about it, you see, these generals who surrendered with the boss in the Water Margin, from the first wave of dead Han Tao and Peng Xi, and the subsequent Xuanzan, Hao Siwen, Gong Wang, as well as the newly dead Ding Desun, Shan Tinggui and Wei Dingguo, plus the surviving Ling Zhen, which one is not a vague and pale image?
So neglected and neglected, that many of our readers can't remember them, they are so wronged.
I can't help but wonder, isn't there a history where there is no one who followed the coach to surrender and counterattacked, and finally surpassed the coach in all aspects?
I thought about it, and I really remembered one, which was Ding Ruchang, the commander of the Beiyang Navy Division in the late Qing Dynasty.
In February, Ding Ruchang is a native of Anhui Province and comes from a humble background. When he grew up, the Taiping Army was engaged in a tug-of-war with the Qing Army in Anhui, and he joined the Taiping Army. Later, in the Battle of Anqing, he followed the commander Cheng Xueqi to defect and joined the Hunan army Zeng Guoquan. Soon Li Hongzhang formed the Huai Army, and Zeng Guofan gave Cheng Xueqi, a rebel force dominated by Anhui people, to Li Hongzhang. Ding Ruchang then went to Shanghai and fought bloody battles with the Taiping army all the way. Cheng Xueqi died in battle, and Ding Ruchang was transferred to Liu Mingchuan, another famous general of the Huai Army, and followed him north to fight against the Twist Army.
Ding Ruchang, who followed the Lord to surrender, was originally burdened with original sin, and it was difficult to be trusted and reused. But year after year, after a series of brutal bloody battles, the lucky and obedient Ding Ruchang gradually gained the trust of Li Hongzhang, when he was preparing to build the Beiyang Naval Division, he appointed Ding Ruchang as the commander of the Beiyang Naval Division, commanding the most powerful naval team in China at that time, galloping in the sea frontier.
In 1894, the Sino-Japanese War broke out, and Ding Ruchang commanded the Beiyang Fleet to participate in the war. Although he had many shortcomings and mistakes, he still fought until the last moment, when he was attacked by the enemy and had nowhere to get out, in the face of all kinds of coercion and temptation, he resolutely refused to surrender and committed suicide.
Ding Ruchang, who came out of the civil war, finally killed himself in the national war to defend the country and left a name in history, which is about the highest level that a general who surrendered with the commander can reach, right?