Chapter 0419: A Major Victory

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The next day, Zhang Fei led an army of 48,000 out of Yingxian County, using Tai Shici's 3,000 hussars and guards as the vanguard to attack the rear of the Yellow Turban Army, while Gongsun Zhan left 5,000 foot soldiers to guard the city of Mu County, and personally led 10,000 cavalry out of Mu County to attack the flank of the Yellow Turban Army. Li Yi left Ding Yuan's army to guard Fenggao City, and he himself led 3,000 hussars to guard the iron cavalry out of the city and attack the Yellow Turban Army from the front.

The Yellow Turban Army was besieged by three ways, and they couldn't take care of each other, and because they were encircled, it could be said that there was no way to enter the heavens and the earth, and their morale was extremely low. In addition, the Yellow Turban Army was a ragtag army composed of many leaders and did not have a complete command system, so after the battle began, it fell into chaos.

The million-strong army is terrible to say, but in reality the weakness is also obvious. Not to mention anything else, so many people, the amount of food and grass they have to consume every day is a terrifying number. The Yellow Turban Army didn't have much food and grass, and on the way to attack Fenggaocheng, it was dragged by Li Yisheng for more than ten days, and there were even fewer left. As long as Li Yi captures or destroys their baggage through this victory, even if they escape from the encirclement and can regroup, it is impossible to turn the tables.

Without food, they had no choice but to surrender.

The fierce battle lasted for a whole day, and the tent where the grain and grass were stored in the camp of the Yellow Turban Army was destroyed by the Northern Xinjiang Army.

In the melee, Sima Ju was the first to see that the situation was not good, and took advantage of the natural cover brought by the arrival of darkness, abandoned the army, and fled in the direction of Mount Tai with only a small number of men and horses.

Facts have proved that his judgment is correct, and before he can completely leave the scope of the chaotic war, a change has occurred. Xu He, another big leader of the Yellow Turban Army, stopped abruptly shouting, like a duck pinched by the neck.

Seal your throat with an arrow! He was sniped from a distance by the strong archers of the cavalry led by Tai Shici.

Losing two big leaders in a row, the Yellow Turban Army completely lost the courage to resist, and finally completely collapsed, losing in a mess.

In the dark night when the clouds were thick and the fingers could not be seen, countless people were busy.

The Yellow Turbans were busy running for their lives, and at first there were people shouting, and then everyone was running with their heads down. Occasionally, they make strange noises, most often because of falls or collisions.

Li Yi was busy killing people, and although the two major commanders of the Yellow Turban Army, Xu He and Sima Ju, died and fled, these two men were all bandits for many years, and there were always some outlaws who wanted to die.

Under the temptation of killing Li Yi to make a name for themselves, they went forward to the siege one after another, and then under the double blow of Li Yi and the hussars' personal guard iron cavalry, corpses were scattered all over the ground.

Zhang Fei, Chang Yuchun, Tai Shici, Huang Zhong and Wei Yan were busy breaking through the Yellow Turban camp, and they had already discovered the anomaly of the Yellow Turban Army. Naturally, they had to rush to the rescue. Swords and guns are not long-sighted, no matter how high the lord's martial arts are, they cannot absolutely guarantee safety, when the overall situation has been decided. Even if it's just a little bit of injury, it's not worth it.

Gongsun Chan was also not idle, although he led the army to fight for most of the day, and the soldiers were extremely tired. But he's still fighting.

Although the Yellow Turban Army collapsed, there were too many of them, millions of strong men. Hundreds of thousands of old, weak, sick and disabled, this number is terrifying to think about. Many of these people are not very good at fighting, but when they fall into chaos and scurry around like headless flies, it is a headache.

However, the hussar general had said before that after the collapse of the Yellow Turban Army, it was not possible to open the killing, but to surrender as much as possible. No one dared to ignore the orders of the hussar generals. Although Gongsun Zhan's army was not incorporated into the Northern Xinjiang Army, he had been following the Northern Xinjiang Army to fight in the south and the north over the years, and he knew the strength of the Northern Xinjiang Army, especially the hussar generals, best.

Of course, what kept the soldiers of Gongsun Zhan's army sane and did not open the killing came from Li Yi's temptation. The hussar general said that the captured prisoners, whether they were strong Yellow Turban soldiers or old and weak, were all a thousand dollars a person. But if it's a dead person, then I'm sorry, it's not worth a penny.

Under such an order, these lively Yellow Turban Army, even if they are old, weak, sick and disabled, in the eyes of Gongsun Zhanjun, they are all golden, ten captives are 10,000 yuan, that is, a pound of gold, this business is too cost-effective.

Therefore, after the collapse of the Yellow Turban Army, Gongsun Zhan's army fell into the battle to capture prisoners, up to the generals and colonels, and down to the Huotou Army.

However, Gongsun Zhan's soldiers were limited after all, especially only 10,000 horsemen who went out of the city to fight. In the previous fierce battle, nearly 3,000 more people were killed and wounded. Therefore, even after the rout of the Yellow Turban Army, Gongsun Chan sent another 3,000 foot soldiers out of the city to help capture the prisoners, which was still only 10,000. Even if a soldier of Gongsun Zhan's army could capture ten prisoners, it would only add up to 100,000 people. Compared to the nearly two million Yellow Turban Army, it is not worth mentioning at all.

When the soldiers of Gongsun Zhan's army were busy catching the rout of the Yellow Turban Army, Li Yi finally joined Zhang Fei in the chaos of the army. And at this time, Li Yi finally no longer has to worry about changes on the battlefield.

Before, there were too few troops around him, less than 3,000 cavalry. Coupled with the fierce fighting for half a day, the loss was nearly half, and there were only more than 1,000 cavalry. Although the hussar guards were elite, and the Yellow Turban army was only a rabble, the gap between the two sides in absolute numbers was too large, so in the battle, the losses of the hussars were not small.

Under such circumstances, if the Yellow Turban Army couldn't think of it all of a sudden, and desperately fought with Li Yi, then he might capsize in the gutter.

And now after joining forces with the main force of the Northern Xinjiang Army led by Zhang Fei, there is no need to worry. At this time, Li Yi was finally in the mood to capture the prisoners.

Of course, Li Yi would not let his army be like Gongsun Zhan's army, one by one to catch the Yellow Turban Army that was scurrying like headless flies. His method was very simple, that is, to have the whole army shout slogans in unison, such as "surrender and not kill", "the hussar general loves the people like a son", and "follow the hussar general to eat and drink", calling for the defeat and surrender of the Yellow Turban Army.

I have to say that the good image that Li Yi has established over the years, especially some actions carried out in various places, such as opening a charity hall to help the victims and relocating the victims to northern Xinjiang, have made people trust him very much. In addition, now that the Yellow Turban Army has been completely defeated, the general trend has gone, and it is extremely difficult to escape outside, many Yellow Turban Army are seriously considering surrendering.

These Yellow Turban Army routs first stopped fleeing and waiting in place to wait for the Northern Xinjiang Army to surrender, and then some spontaneously went to the Northern Xinjiang Army to surrender, and in the end, there were even some small leaders of the Yellow Turban Army, leading hundreds of defeated Yellow Turban Army soldiers to surrender to the Northern Xinjiang Army.

Such a speed of capturing prisoners is obviously incomparable to Gongsun Zhan's army, not to mention ten times the speed, there is always three or five times the speed. In just a few hours, the Northern Frontier Army captured more than 500,000 Yellow Turban Army, most of whom voluntarily surrendered to the Northern Frontier Army.

Among them, the largest group of prisoners was Wu Ba, one of the four commanders of the Yellow Turban Army, who led 100,000 horses and horses in his headquarters, as well as more than 100,000 old and weak, a total of more than 200,000 people to surrender to Li Yi. This made Li Yi very happy, and after checking Wu Ba's force value of 75 through the system, he directly appointed him as the captain, and temporarily continued to lead the more than 200,000 Yellow Turban Army prisoners, waiting for further arrangements.

By sunrise the next day, the entire Thai-Central Plain, except for the places near the mountains on the edge of the plain, there were still a small number of Yellow Turban troops who were fleeing and fleeing, and the cavalry of the Northern Xinjiang Army or Gongsun Zhan's Army was pursuing, and finally quieted down. Everywhere you can see groups of Yellow Turban prisoners, under the watchful eye of a small number of Northern Xinjiang troops, helping to clean up the battlefield.

It's the height of summer, and if we don't deal with the dead properly, a plague will surely break out next.

Although the battle lasted only half a day, even if the process of capturing and capturing prisoners was added, it only added up to about a day, but the casualties in this battle were not small.

2,000 of Gongsun Zhan's army were wounded and more than 1,000 were killed. 50,000 troops of the Northern Xinjiang Army participated in the war, killing more than 900 people and wounding more than 4,000. The siege of the previous few days, coupled with the battle of this day, nearly two million of the Yellow Turban Army were wiped out, of which more than 40,000 were killed and nearly 200,000 were wounded. Of the more than 200,000 casualties, less than one-third were actually killed in the fighting between the two sides, and most of them were killed or injured by stampedes on each other in the chaos.

The entire war lasted only a few days, but it took Li Yi a whole month to deal with post-war matters. In this month, Li Yi finally transferred more than 1.5 million Yellow Turban prisoners and more than 200,000 wounded to the coast of Qingzhou through Zishui, and then transported them to Northern Xinjiang in batches through the fleet of the Northern Xinjiang Navy.

During this month, the two fleets of the Northern Xinjiang Navy ran back and forth for a full ten rounds, and when they went to the northern Xinjiang, they transported the wounded and prisoners of the Yellow Turban Army on a whole ship, and when they went south, they transported food and ordnance.

The more than 50,000 troops from Northern Xinjiang who continued to stay in Qingzhou and Taishan County, as well as the prisoners of the Yellow Turban Army who were still stranded in Qingzhou, consumed an astronomical amount of food, and it was obviously impossible to rely on Taishan County or Qingzhou to meet their food needs.

During this period, Li Yi also went to Linzi City to visit Liu Yu. At this moment, Liu Yu is no longer high-spirited when he met in Ganling Kingdom, he is like an old man in the twilight of his life, completely losing his sharpness, which makes Li Yi quite emotional.

In another time and space, Liu Yu was killed by Gongsun Zan in Youzhou. In this time and space, this thing may not happen again. However, in the troubled times, he still has no foothold.

And in this month, the news that Li Yi defeated more than one million Yellow Turban troops in a battle also spread to all the states and counties of the Han Kingdom, shocking all the princes. In particular, the Northern Navy, which unveiled the mystery, made some coastal princes tremble.

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