The sun sets, sprinkling a golden afterglow on the fields of the northern Hebei Plain.

The people in the field were noisy and neighing, and there were constantly horse teams galloping back and forth, so it was not lively.

This is Li Pengfei's cavalry escorting the prisoners to the garrison.

Surrounded by 5,000 cavalry with absolute combat superiority, this battle completely annihilated 10,000 troops of Deng Mao's division of the Yellow Turban Army, killed more than 2,000 people under Deng Mao and below, captured more than 7,000 people, and no one escaped the net.

A great victory was won, and the morale of all the officers and men, including Li Pengfei, was high.

Li Pengfei was not happy about how many military merit points he had gained, but in fact he had gained very few military merit points in this battle. According to the judgment of the system, this Yellow Turban Army could not even reach the level of the initial formation of an army, and it was a force composed of real displaced people. After completely annihilating the 10,000 Yellow Turban Army, Li Pengfei only got 900 military merit points.

Of course, Li Pengfei did not get more than 900 military merit points in this battle, because among the 10,000 people, there are many generals such as partial generals and generals, and even Deng Mao, the yellow turban general.

According to the system's evaluation, Deng Mao is a C-level general, and the military merit points obtained by killing him are 100. Coupled with some other Yellow Turban generals who were killed or captured, the system also gave 328 military merit points.

In addition, with the capture of some trophies and other bits and pieces of military merit, in general, Li Pengfei obtained a total of about 1,400 military merit points for annihilating the 10,000 Yellow Turban Army.

Li Pengfei really didn't look at such a little military merit, because it was useless. Today, his military merit points, including the military merit points obtained from the expansion and training at the beginning, are only 3,000 military merit points in total.

From this point, Li Pengfei also saw that it was the least cost-effective to kill the enemy to gain military merit points. It's like a C-level general like Deng Mao, which is already a very low-level, but recruiting such a general can get 300 military merit points, and now he was stabbed to death by Zhang Fei with a spear, and in a blink of an eye, it became 100 military merit points.

If you capture him first and then persuade him to surrender, you can get a total of 350 military merit points.

If you consider using the system to summon such a general, you will spend more military merit points, more than 100,000.

Of course, a general of Deng Mao's level does not need to be summoned by the system.

But no matter what, this account is a loss.

What Li Pengfei was really happy about was the more than 7,000 prisoners he had captured. Although most of these people are homeless people wrapped in the Yellow Turban Army, they are all young and strong, and if they are incorporated and trained, they will soon be able to get an army. Even if these people are allowed to farm, they can become good laborers.

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After cleaning up the battlefield, Li Pengfei led a large army and escorted more than 7,000 soldiers to the station. He did not send a messenger to report to the government, because the current Yuyang Taishou and Youzhou Thorn History have been killed by the Yellow Turban Army, and the entire state and county-level government in Youzhou is completely paralyzed. As for the Quanzhou county order, there is no need for Li Pengfei to report to him. Because in the past two years or so, Li Pengfei has used both soft and hard methods, and has already taken down this county order with all kinds of means.

How can a guy who bribed eunuchs to buy this position as a county magistrate in Quanzhou, and who has no real talent or learning, be able to defeat Li Pengfei, a special warfare elite from later generations?

In fact, after being repaired by Li Pengfei, using both soft and hard, and with many handles being mastered by Li Pengfei, this Quanzhou county order is not even as good as a dog in Li Pengfei's eyes. If it weren't for the fact that he had some connections with the eunuchs in the imperial court, and the Li family was not suitable for a high-profile stage now, Li Pengfei would have wiped it with a knife.

However, this also has an advantage, that is, on the one-third acre of land in Quanzhou, Li Pengfei is simply no different from the Emperor Tu, and he can do whatever he wants, and no one in the government dares to oppose it.

Back at the station, Zhang Fei ran around the camp triumphantly and beheaded the Yellow Turban General, which was the only credit in the army, and of course he had to be happy.

Especially in front of Yue Fei, this guy showed a smile that was not flat, so that anyone who saw it had the urge to go up and beat him.

That is, Yue Fei has a good temper, and seeing that this guy is his lord and righteous brother, he didn't bother with Zhang Fei, otherwise the two would have another fight.

In the following two days, Li Pengfei let the whole army rest and recuperate in preparation for the real dispatch of troops.

If the memory is not wrong, the order of the imperial court should be about to arrive in Youzhou.

Sure enough, on the third day, the imperial court lifted the party ban and the edict to summon the righteous army reached Youzhou.

When Li Pengfei and the others got the news, they were very happy and discussed the matter of sending troops.

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Cheng Yuanzhi, the leader of the Yuyang Yellow Turban Army, did not know at this time that the 10,000 troops he sent south to attack had been wiped out in Quanzhou.

Yuyang is more than 300 miles away from Quanzhou, and with the marching speed of the Yellow Turban Army, it is normal to spend more than ten days before and after.

And in Cheng Yuanzhi's view, Deng Mao led an army of 10,000 to Quanzhou, and there was no chance of any accidents.

Therefore, although seven days after Deng Mao left Yuyang, he had not received any battle report about Deng Mao's army, Cheng Yuanzhi was not worried at all.

The Yellow Turban Army has returned to Yuyang City to rest for more than ten days, and its vitality has recovered, so Cheng Yuanzhi once again sent troops to Youbeiping to besiege the county town.

Youbeiping is a small county, the population of the whole county is only 50,000, and the population of this county is even less, less than 10,000. plus 2,000 soldiers, it is only a little more than 10,000.

However, they have a very capable Taishou, and of course, the more capable is the son-in-law of the Taishou, this person is named Gongsun Zhan.

Gongsun Zhan is a native of Lingzhi of Liaoxi County, and he is a noble child, but because of his mother's humble background, he can only serve as a secretary. Because of her beauty, loud voice and intelligence, she was appreciated by Taishou and married her daughter to him. With the help of his father-in-law, Gongsun Zhan once worshipped the great Confucian Lu Zhi as his teacher with Liu Bei and Liu Deran.

After graduating from Lu Zhi, Gongsun Chan returned to his father-in-law Liu Taishou as the royal chariot. When Liu Taishou broke the law and was sent to Rinan, he dared to violate the law and disguise himself as a soldier to escort him along the way, and Liu Taishou was pardoned on the way. After Gongsun Zhan returned, he was promoted to filial piety and honesty because of his virtue, and he was appointed as the governor of Liaodong.

Once, Gongsun Chan followed dozens of cavalry out to patrol the Guansai, and when he saw hundreds of Xianbei cavalry, Gongsun Chan retreated to the empty pavilion and said to the entourage: "If you don't take the initiative to attack, you will be killed." So he led the team to rush into the Xianbei team with a spear in hand, killing and wounding dozens of people, although he survived death, he also lost more than half. Xianbei people take this as a warning, and they no longer dare to easily cross the barrier. Gongsun Zhan was promoted to the county magistrate of Zhuo County.

Now a few years have passed, Gongsun Zhan has been promoted from the position of county commander of Zhuo County to the lieutenant of Youbeiping County, and has returned to serve under his father-in-law.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, and Cheng Yuanzhi, the general of the Yellow Turban Army, led an army of 50,000 to attack Yuyang and Youbeiping. Initially, Cheng Yuanzhi successfully captured Yuyang, killed Yuyang Taishou, county commanders and other officials, occupied most of Yuyang, a large county with a population of more than 500,000, and expanded his army to 100,000.

However, when he subsequently attacked Youbeiping, a small county with a total population of only 50,000, Cheng Yuanzhi suffered a big defeat and was repelled by Gongsun Zhan with 2,000 county soldiers.

However, this did not cause much damage to Cheng Yuanzhi's army. In any case, Gongsun Zhan's command was only 2,000 poorly trained county soldiers, which was just a small ant compared to Cheng Yuanzhi's army of 100,000.

After Cheng Yuanzhi returned to Yuyang to rest for a period of time, he left 10,000 people to guard Yuyang City, and once again led an army of 80,000 to attack Youbeiping.

This time, Cheng Yuanzhi had a long memory, and he didn't have the plan of Gongsun Zan again, and smoothly captured most of the places in Youbeiping, and surrounded the county town.

Facing Cheng Yuanzhi, who didn't take the bait, Gongsun Chan couldn't do anything no matter how capable he was. He only had 2,000 soldiers under his command, and the combat effectiveness of these 2,000 soldiers was not very good, especially the lack of cavalry. Therefore, he could only stay in Tuyin City with his father-in-law.

Fortunately, the city is backed by mountains and water, the terrain is dangerous, and more than 10,000 people in the city work together to defend the city, and the Yellow Turban thieves are some rabble, there is no siege equipment, and there is a lack of siege experience, so there is no need to worry about the city being captured in a short time.

But Gongsun Chan also knew that this trapped city was definitely not a solution. No matter how strong the city is, under the attack of the enemy's absolute superiority, there will always be a day when it will be breached.

Nowadays, most of Youzhou is occupied by the Yellow Turban thieves, and only a few counties in the east, such as Liaoxi County, Liaodong Subject State, and Liaodong County, are still in the hands of the imperial court. However, these counties are far away from Youbeiping, even the nearest Liaoxi County, which is nearly a thousand miles away from Tuyin City, this rescue soldier does not know when it will come, and it is really far away from water to quench the thirst of the near.

Therefore, Gongsun Chan and his old father-in-law Liu Taishou were both anxious.