On the hills by the Ge River, in the valleys, on the banks of the river, the Yellow Turban soldiers lit hundreds of bonfires, and after the first joy, the soldiers began to clean the battlefield and bury the remains of their comrades.

"Swallow, tell me, why?" Zhang Jiao asked softly.

Chu Yan was in a heavy mood and had nothing to say. What can he say? On the way, he also thought of this possibility. Li Yi ran away, the soldiers died in vain, the Great Sage and the Good Teacher were in trouble, and the Yellow Turban Army would also be in trouble because of the problem of the Great Sage and Good Teacher. But he had a very stubborn thought in his heart, he wanted to rescue the great sage and good teacher.

Li Yi's power is not something anyone can predict, all the people who despise him are now all dead and defeated, Deng Mao and Cheng Yuanzhi are like this, Zhang Qun and Gao Xiang are like this, and the same is true of the Digong generals Zhang Bao and Gao Sheng Yanzheng and others.

The reason why the strategy formulated by the great sage and good teacher was risky was because he speculated on Li Yi with his own ideas. In other words, in his heart, he still thinks that Li Yi is not a strong enough opponent.

And despising opponents often dies miserably, so Chu Yan is very worried.

If Li Yi kills the great sage and good teacher, what will be the result? How will he face the hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army, and how will he face Zhang Jiao's spirit in the sky?

At that time, even if he led the army to successfully raid and kill Li Yi, what was the point? The Yellow Turban Army will immediately fall apart, and then be completely wiped out by the imperial court, and the great cause of the Taiping Dao will disappear.

Whether it is for the great cause of the Yellow Turban Army and Taiping Dao, or for his own personal feelings, the great sage and good teacher must not die!

So after listening to Zhang Baiqi's words, he didn't say a word, and immediately led his troops to rush to Gehe. Even if he dies, he must rescue Zhang Jiao, because in his heart, Zhang Jiao is his second father.

Things in the world are so unexpected. No matter how much you think and how much you do, it often ends up being a matter of one sentence.

"Why?" Zhang Jiao saw that he had been kneeling there, not saying a word, like an idiot, and finally couldn't help it, and yelled loudly, "Tens of thousands of brothers are dead, don't you even have a word?" ”

Chu Yan couldn't hold back any longer, tears welled up in her eyes. He raised his head, used all his strength, and cried out loudly, "Daddy...... Father...... I'm just trying to save you, just trying to save you. I don't want you to die, I don't want you to die......"

Zhang Jiao's eyes widened for a moment, he looked at Chu Yan in surprise, and tears immediately welled up.

………………

Li Yi stood in the dark night, looking at the firelight in the direction of Ge River, silently thinking about his thoughts.

Tian Yu walked over lightly and whispered, "Teacher, it's not early, you have injuries on your body, rest early." ”

Li Yi smiled: "Thank you." Guorang, you go to sleep. ”

Tian Yu was stunned for a moment and asked, "The teacher still doesn't sleep?" ”

Li Yi looked at the fire in the distance, and suddenly asked, "Guorang, what do you say Zhang Jiao is doing now?" ”

"Sleep." Tian Yu blurted out, "He's tired all day, of course he's going to sleep." ”

"He must not be sleeping right now." A voice in the darkness laughed.

Tian Feng and Guan Yu walked over.

"Lord, is it important for you whether Zhang Jiao sleeps or not?" Tian Feng asked casually.

"He slept, which means that he has figured it out and goes directly back to Julu County. didn't sleep, which shows that he still has thoughts about Wei Jun. However, Zhang Jiao is really powerful, he is willing to use the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers to fight my Youzhou Iron Cavalry. Originally, he was bound to win, if Chu Yan had only arrived at Gehe now, we would have died. But why is the timing of Chu Yan's appearance so inappropriate? Li Yi frowned, shook his head and asked very puzzled.

"If he still has thoughts about Wei Jun, wouldn't it be very troublesome for us?" Guan Yu said, "Now that we have such a small army, how can we attack the city?" ”

Li Yi laughed for a while and said, "There is no need to attack the city, I also have a way to drive them out of Wei County." ”

………………

Zhang Jiao led his troops to leave Gehe the next day. He led a large army, carrying grain and grass, and swaggered towards Pingen's hometown. With Chu Yan's reinforcements, Zhang Jiao's army now reaches 40,000 again.

Li Yi did not chase after him, nor did he intend to besiege the ancient city of Ping'en, but ordered his troops to quickly rush to the Gehe battlefield and bury the remains of his own fallen personnel.

Out of hatred, the Yellow Turbans discarded the remains of the fallen soldiers everywhere. Li Yi and the soldiers gritted their teeth with hatred.

In the first battle of Gehe, although the army led by Li Yi achieved brilliant results, annihilating nearly 40,000 people in the main force of the Yellow Turban Army, his own losses were also very large.

The 9,000 troops brought by Li Yi from Yecheng suffered heavy losses, and Gongsun Zhan's 2,000 white horse Yicong also lost nearly half, and the two troops fought from the initial 11,000 to only 6,000 people, and nearly 5,000 people were killed. Of the remaining 6,000 people, more than 2,000 of them were injured.

And from the ratio of the dead to the wounded, we can also see how tragic the battle was.

After the cavalry of the Youzhou Army went to aid the Gehe battlefield, they also suffered a lot of casualties, more than 1,000 people.

Although the remnants of the Northern Army and the private soldiers of the powerful gate lords suffered more than half of the casualties, their morale was high.

Victory is the only way to boost morale.

Li Yi did not let this army return to Yecheng like this after the war, judging from the current situation, the upcoming war must be indispensable siege warfare, and there is still a lot of time to rely on this army.

Although there were still Cao Cao's 10,000 troops in Liyang to the south, and this army was all foot soldiers, Li Yi did not expect him to be able to command this army to attack the city. Cao Cao's old boy didn't know what kind of thoughts he had, he first stayed in Liyang for more than ten days and did not move his nest, and now the scout came to report, this old boy led the army to set off from Liyang, but he was grinding on the road again, and he walked less than two hundred miles in five days, and rushed to the Yang Ju near Huang Ze in Neihuang along the Qing River, six or seven hundred miles away from the Geting battlefield, I don't know when he will grind to the battlefield.

Two days later, Li Yi sent Gongsun Zhan to return to Yecheng with a thousand white horses who had almost lost their combat capability.

Before leaving, Gongsun Chan frowned and said worriedly: "There has been no news from Ganling so far, which is really worrying. ”

"Don't worry so much, it's good news when there's news." Li Yi smiled and comforted.

"What about the good news? The country is declining, the people are struggling to make ends meet, wars are raging one after another, and it is innocent people who suffer. Gongsun Chan shook his head with a sad expression.

After a pause, he continued: "Even if we repel Zhang Jiao and the Yellow Turban Army, who can guarantee that there will not be a second Zhang Jiao? Who can guarantee that the Yellow Turbans will disappear forever? ”

Li Yi didn't say anything, of course he couldn't tell Gongsun Zhan that although the Yellow Turban Army was going to be suppressed soon, it really shook the foundation of the Han Dynasty, and troubled times were coming.

"Brother Peng Feixian, Zilong has already led the forward army to the ancient city of Ping'en, and is squeezing Zhang Jiao's army. Do you think Zhang Jiao will drop his baggage and quickly flee back to Guangzong? Gongsun Chan asked with a different subject.

Li Yi shook his head with a smile and said: "After joining Chu Yan and Sun Qin's army, Zhang Jiao's army now has reached nearly 80,000 horses, which can completely deal with us, he will not be in a hurry to leave the ancient city of Ping'en, and he is even more reluctant to lose the grain and grass." Don't worry, I promise to drive Zhang Jiao back to Guangzong within this month. ”

Gongsun Zhan was stunned for a moment, and asked in surprise, "Are you so sure?" ”

"I'm confident." Li Yi said with a smile, "I still have more than 15,000 cavalry and infantry in my hands, if that old boy Zhang Jiao dares to fight me on the plains, I will definitely make him unable to eat and go." ”

Gongsun Chan laughed out loud when he heard what Li Yi said.

On the third day, Li Yi took Yue Fei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and several other generals, as well as 3,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 cavalry, set off from the temporary camp in Geting and disappeared into the endless Jizhou Plain.