Guan Yu led a thousand iron horsemen and returned with the captives. He came to the Zhongjun tent excitedly and said loudly: "Big brother, I'm back." ”

Li Pengfei nodded and asked, "Yun Chang, how is the battle situation?" ”

Guan Yu said happily: "Big brother, victory, definitely victory!" As you instructed, after dark yesterday, I led the army to leave quietly, crossed the Gu River from the place where you crossed the river, and went to the border between the two counties, and ambushed the army in the hills. At the end of the day, the Yellow Turban Thief Chief Zhang Qun was the first to flee here, and according to the instructions of the eldest brother, Yu did not cover up and kill the Yellow Turban Thief as soon as he arrived, but waited for him to start resting on the spot and then suddenly killed. Those yellow turban thieves were really in chaos, and the thief chief Zhang Qun was the first to escape. According to my eldest brother's plan, I ignored the Yellow Turban thieves who stayed, but chased and killed the Yellow Turban General Gao Xiang. In addition, Zhang Qun's brother Zhang Feng also died in the chaos. When I returned to the ambush with my army, I found that the Yellow Turban thieves had not escaped, so I led my brothers and captured more than 6,000 prisoners. ”

Listening to Guan Yu's report, everyone was dumbfounded, this seems to be something wrong, don't those captives even know how to run away?

Zhang Fei jumped up on the spot and said loudly: "How can there be so many prisoners? Second brother, you won't lie to us, will you? ”

Guan Yu smiled: "Yide, what are you talking about?" How can I cheat Big Brother? Besides, the captives are all outside the city, can they be deceived? ”

Zhang Fei said: "I can't believe it, how can there be such a stupid yellow turban thief, waiting there for you to catch the second brother!" ”

Guan Yu was also puzzled, looked at Li Pengfei, who was smiling indifferently, and asked suspiciously: "Big brother, did you already expect such a situation?" ”

Li Pengfei nodded.

Zhang Fei was even more surprised and asked, "Big brother, you're too powerful, aren't you?" ”

Everyone also looked at Li Pengfei curiously, but Li Pengfei just smiled mysteriously, but did not answer.

Guan Yu thought for a while and asked, "Big brother, I see that after those yellow turban thieves arrived at the junction of the two counties, many people went to the river. And when these yellow turban thieves were caught by me, they were all extremely weak, as if they were poisoned, it couldn't be that the eldest brother had poisoned them first, right? ”

Li Pengfei said with a smile: "I'm not an immortal, how can I poison tens of thousands of troops?" And, where do I have time to poison? ”

Everyone thought about it, the lord had been with them all the time, and they didn't see him send someone to poison him. However, according to Guan Yu's description, those captives did look like they were poisoned, what was going on?

Zhang Fei couldn't hold back the most, and said loudly: "Big brother, don't fight with your brothers, what's going on?" ”

Li Pengfei said with a smile: "Ladies and gentlemen, I think everyone had such an experience when they were training in the previous large-scale military training, that is, after strenuous exercise, they would feel that their bodies were soreness and weakness......

Guan Yu and the others nodded one after another, and in the nearly two-month training process, everyone had this situation.

Li Pengfei continued: "Actually, this is a manifestation that our body is about to reach its limit. At that time, I had a request to everyone, that is, after this situation occurred, it was absolutely not allowed to sit down and rest immediately, nor should you drink a lot of water right away, but you had to do some relaxation exercises, and then drink warm salt water......"

Everyone nodded in unison, Li Pengfei did indeed ask for this at that time, and he wrote this request into the military drill code and implemented it as military discipline.

"In fact, this is to avoid a situation similar to what Yun Chang just said about the Yellow Turban Army." Li Pengfei said, "When we do strenuous exercise, a substance called lactic acid will accumulate in the body, and when we reach the limit of the body, this substance will accumulate in large quantities. If you stop and rest immediately, a large amount of venous blood in the limbs will accumulate in the veins, the heart will be ischemia, and the brain will have dizziness, nausea, vomiting, shock and other symptoms due to insufficient blood supply and lack of oxygen......"

Everyone listened in a fog, and they didn't understand what Li Pengfei was talking about, such as veins, venous blood, and other things. However, everyone heard words such as dizziness, nausea, vomiting, etc., and in connection with Guan Yu's description just now, they seemed to understand something.

"The Yellow Turban Army fled from Quanzhou City to the border area between the two counties, and has fled for a full fifty miles, and its body must have reached a limit. At this time, if they don't rest immediately, they may have the strength to fight, because our body is very magical, and when we break a limit, we will reach a new level. Therefore, I asked Yun Chang not to attack as soon as the Yellow Turbans arrived, but to wait until they began to rest before launching a surprise attack, and this is the reason. Li Pengfei finally said.

The generals were silent, and they all looked thoughtful.

After the generals digested it, Li Pengfei announced that the military discussion would continue, and all departments began to report on the battle situation.

The first thing to report is the loss.

Listening to the numbers, Li Pengfei's brows furrowed.

Under the onslaught of the elite of the 50,000 Yellow Turban Army, the 22,000 defenders of Quanzhou City were killed in battle and more than 3,000 were seriously wounded. The remaining troops of about 8,000 people are also all colorful, physically and mentally exhausted, and do not have the strength to fight again in a short time.

Li Pengfei estimated that more than 60 percent of the more than 3,000 seriously wounded will leave the battlefield forever. In other words, out of the 22,000 people, the real rest is about 10,000.

Through this casualty data, Li Pengfei can imagine how tragic the battle in Quanzhou City was.

The casualties in Quanzhou City were not only the army, but also civilians. In the process of helping the defenders defend the city, more than 10,000 people were killed and wounded in Quanzhou, of which more than 3,000 were killed in battle.

Although the defenders of Quanzhou City lacked training, they had undergone some training after all. But these civilians, that is really not any military training. And when they joined the sequence of defending the city, it was the most difficult time of the war, so the casualties were particularly large.

In addition to the soldiers and civilians of Quanzhou City, the 4,000 iron cavalry led by Li Pengfei suffered considerable losses when they rushed into battle. There were 4,000 men in the three iron cavalry, and more than 500 were killed in battle, and nearly 1,000 were seriously and lightly wounded. Of these wounded, more than 100 will leave the battlefield forever.

However, the 1,000 iron cavalry led by Guan Yu had almost no casualties.

After this loss, only about 4,500 of the 5,500 iron horsemen under Li Pengfei's command remained. Because the 500 cavalry that stayed in the city to protect Yue Fei was almost completely wiped out, and less than 100 survived.

With such a heavy loss, Li Pengfei was also heartbroken.

With his current family background, he really can't afford such a heavy loss!

The losses of the defending side are so heavy that the losses of the besieging side can be imagined.

According to statistics, the 50,000-strong troops of the Yellow Turban Army, Zhang Qun and Gao Xiang, left more than 25,000 corpses under the city of Quanzhou, of which about 20,000 died in the siege battle, and the remaining more than 5,000 died under the iron cavalry led by Li Pengfei. In addition, when Li Pengfei, Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei led the army to charge the battle in the end, there were about 10,000 Yellow Turban troops who surrendered in the chaos.

In other words, only about 10,000 people of the two Yellow Turban armies of Zhang Qun and Gao Xiang really withdrew from Quanzhou City.

Originally, the Yellow Turbans were able to evacuate more men. It's just that just when they were about to leave Quanzhou and begin to relax physically and mentally, they were killed by Guan Yu's 1,000 iron cavalry, who was the first to ambush there, and nearly 7,000 people were lost. Gao Xiang, the general of the Yellow Turban Army, was beheaded by Guan Yu in the chaos of the army, and Zhang Qun's brother Zhang Feng was wounded and captured. Only Zhang Qun fled into Yongnu City under the desperate protection of his own soldiers and escaped his life. The Yellow Turban Army, which finally fled to Yongnu City, had less than 2,000 people, and the rest were scattered.

After this battle, Li Pengfei won more than 30,000 military merit points, but he was not happy at all. It can be said that both sides lost in this battle. The Yellow Turban Army lost more than 40,000 elites, and Li Pengfei also lost the ability to continue the offensive in a short period of time.