Chapter 0021: First Encounter with Gongsun Zhan
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Seeing that his father-in-law was still hesitating there, Gongsun Zhan immediately became a little unhappy, and said loudly: "Envoy, please make a decision quickly!" ”
Liu Zheng glanced at his son-in-law, of course he understood Gongsun Zhan's thoughts, his son-in-law was not a peaceful master, and now was indeed a good time to make a contribution. But Liu Zheng, as a county guard, did not dare to take this risk.
Gongsun Chan thought for a while and said, "Envoy, I don't think it's as good as this, I personally led the army out of the city and attacked the Yellow Turban Thieves with reinforcements. And the envoy led the fathers and elders in the city to defend the city in case of accidents. ”
Liu Zheng nodded and said, "That's fine." However, after you leave the city, you must be careful, and if anything unexpected happens, return to the city immediately. ”
Gongsun Chan nodded in agreement, turned around and went down the city, picked up two thousand soldiers, opened the city gate and rushed out. However, he did not immediately make contact with Li Pengfei's troops, but opened a certain distance and attacked the camp of the Yellow Turban Army from another direction.
In this way, Li Pengfei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Gongsun Zhan attacked the Yellow Turban Army camp from four directions.
Among these four armies, Li Pengfei is the strongest. Although Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's subordinates had the same combat strength as Li Pengfei's troops, the number was too small after all, only 500 people. Although Gongsun Zhan's men were the same in number as Li Pengfei, they were all 2,000 troops, but most of them were infantry, and they were untrained county soldiers, and their combat effectiveness was completely incomparable with Li Pengfei's 2,000 cavalry.
Under several shocks, Li Pengfei paid a certain price and finally broke through the gate of the Yellow Turban Army camp. Li Pengfei took the lead and rushed in first. Behind him, two thousand iron horsemen also roared in.
Li Pengfei's breakthrough of the camp gate was like pushing a domino, and the defense of the Yellow Turban Army camp suddenly collapsed, and Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Gongsun Zhan also entered it later.
Three cavalry and one infantry rushed back and forth in the Yellow Turban Army camp. In particular, the shouts of "surrender or kill" could be heard everywhere where the three cavalry passed.
Three hours passed quickly, and the battle in the Yellow Turban camp finally came to an end. In the case of the death of the main general, Li Pengfei's troops and the soldiers of Youbeiping County did not pay too much price, and took the Yellow Turban Army camp.
Because the number of troops on the two sides of Li Pengfei and Gongsun Zhan was limited, and the total number of troops was only 7,000, less than one-tenth of the Yellow Turban Army, the goal of total annihilation was not achieved in this battle. Of the 80,000 Yellow Turban Army, more than 6,000 were killed, more than 50,000 were captured, and the remaining 10,000 fled the battlefield.
Of the more than 6,000 Yellow Turban Army killed in battle, about half of them were the results of the Youbeiping County soldiers under Gongsun Zhan's command, but of the more than 50,000 Yellow Turban Army prisoners, more than 95 percent of them were the results of Li Pengfei's side, and the Yellow Turban Army captured by the Youbeiping County soldiers was only more than 2,000 people. This is because the number of soldiers in Youbeiping County is limited, and they are infantry, plus they rarely have to be taken prisoners, so there is such a result.
Through this battle, Li Pengfei gained a lot of military merits. Because this battle was basically won by his army alone, the system was calculated according to the annihilation of 80,000 Yellow Turban troops. Among them, 10,000 Yellow Turban troops reached the initial level of forming an army, and all 10,000 of them were lost in the hands of Li Pengfei's subordinates, so he received 1,000 military merit points. In addition to the remaining 60,000 or so Yellow Turban Army miscellaneous soldiers annihilated, Li Pengfei gained more than 3,000 military merit points.
Of course, more military merit points come from the beheading and capture of the Yellow Turban Army generals, as well as the captured trophies.
As a result of this campaign, Li Pengfei's military merits finally broke through five figures. Li Pengfei even felt that once all the seizures were counted, his military merit points might even exceed six figures.
The Yellow Turban Army camp stored most of the loot that Cheng Yuanzhi had looted all the way from Jizhou to Youzhou, and the value of these items was beyond Li Pengfei's imagination.
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In the evening, Li Pengfei led a large army to camp outside Tuyin City, and the more than 50,000 Yellow Turban soldiers were temporarily arranged by him to live in the original Yellow Turban Army camp.
With so many soldiers, it is not a simple matter to send them back to Quanzhou, and they need to be well planned.
When Li Pengfei was talking to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei about the fruitful results of today's battle in the Chinese military tent, the soldiers came to report that Liu Zheng, the Taishou of Youbeiping, had sent an envoy to invite him to a banquet in the city.
Li Pengfei instructed his subordinates to bring Liu Zheng's envoy in, take the invitation, talk a few words, and send him back. And he changed his outfit with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei and went in the direction of Tuyin City.
He still has to go to this banquet of Liu Taishou.
Although the scale of the city is not large, the city is very magnificent. The city wall is three feet eight feet high (about 8.8 meters), with a circumference of more than ten li (about five kilometers), in the west of the city is Gengshui, and in the south of the city, there is Baoqiu water formed by the confluence of Gengshui and Juliang water, and on the back is a big mountain.
Surrounded by water on three sides, backed by mountains, the city is high and the pond is deep, and the first of the earth wall city can be seen. This is also the reason why Liu Zheng and Gongsun Zhan were able to withstand the attack of tens of thousands of Yellow Turban Army with 2,000 county soldiers and less than 10,000 ordinary people.
At this moment, Li Pengfei took Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, escorted by a hundred personal guards, to Tuyin City.
The Taishou Mansion of Youbeiping is located in the center of the city, the area is not large, and the building is not grand.
The dinner party prepared by Liu Zheng was not sumptuous, and the wine was even more ordinary in Li Pengfei's opinion. However, the people who attend the banquet are not simple.
The host Liu Zheng, although this person is not very famous in history, but after all, he also left his name. Not to mention Gongsun Zhan, who is half the host, this person is one of the few heroes in the Three Kingdoms, and he once overwhelmed Yuan Shao, and even almost killed Yuan Shao.
In fact, Li Pengfei had a very good impression of Gongsun Zhan, because of this tyrant's tough attitude towards Karasuma and other ethnic minorities. During the few years that he was in charge of Youzhou, Karasuma, who had caused a lot of trouble to Cao Cao and Cao Wei, was suppressed like a turtle son, and he couldn't make any waves at all. However, after his death, Karasuma began to run rampant.
As for Li Pengfei, needless to say, his two brothers and one brother are all heroes who are well-known in later generations. It can be said that in the entire Three Kingdoms era at the end of the Han Dynasty, there are really few people who are more famous than these two.
After some greetings and the host were seated, the dishes were quickly served.
Liu Zheng and Gongsun Zhan first toasted Li Pengfei and thanked them for their grace in relieving the siege. They knew very well that if Li Pengfei had not led the army in time, Tuyin City would probably not have lasted much under the attack of the 80,000 Yellow Turban Army.
For the Han people, the wine table is the best place to talk about things, even in the late Han era, it is no different.
A few people were drinking and eating food while chatting. The main reason was that Liu Zheng asked Li Pengfei about some information. The Yellow Turban Army has besieged Tuyin City for more than ten days, and the information about Tuyin City has been blocked very much.
After Liu Zheng learned from Li Pengfei that all the five counties in the western part of Youzhou had fallen, although he had expected it, he was also embarrassed. In fact, the Yellow Turban Army captured the six counties of Youzhou, because Youbeiping was just a lonely city like Tuyin City.
And after learning that the total number of the entire Youzhou Yellow Turban Army was as high as 400,000, Liu Zheng was even more shocked. You must know that at this time, the total population of Youzhou is only 3 million people, and the population of the entire six counties in the western part of Youzhou is less than 2.5 million. In such a situation, there is not much hope for a turnaround.
But the only good news is that the 400,000 Yellow Turban Army has now lost almost 100,000. There are only 300,000 Yellow Turban troops left. Among them, Gao Shengyanzheng occupied Shanggu County and Dai County, and the 50,000 horses expanded to 100,000 troops. And Zhang Bao sat in Jicheng, controlled Guangyang County and Zhuo County, and had 200,000 troops.
When Liu Zheng saw Li Pengfei talking about these news, his face was calm, and he immediately glanced at Li Pengfei again. How did he know that in Li Pengfei's view, these Yellow Turban Army were nothing more than a rabble, all of them were homeless people coerced by the Yellow Turban Army, and there were definitely less than 100,000 people who really had combat effectiveness, and according to the systematic assessment, one or two hundred thousand who could reach the level of Category D would be good.
As for himself, although there were only 5,000 soldiers and horses, they were all cavalry, and all of them had reached the level of Class C training.
The strength of the two sides seems to be very different in terms of data, but in fact, the difference in real combat strength is not so obvious. As long as the strategy is right, he still has a good chance of winning.
Of course, the most important thing is that Li Pengfei knows that the Yellow Turban Army is already a grasshopper after the autumn, and it won't be long before it jumps.
That's the benefit of foresight.