At the Gugu water's edge, Li Pengfei led 3,000 elite cavalry to confront Deng Mao's troops of the Yellow Turban Army. Deng Mao came out to fight, but was caught by Zhang Fei, just one round, Deng Mao was invincible, cowardly and fled, but was caught up by Zhang Fei, who was fast, and stabbed to death with a spear.

Li Pengfei in front of the battle saw clearly, this Deng Mao did have some ability, Li Pengfei estimated that he also had more than 70 or nearly 80 force value, if it wasn't for the initial carelessness, he didn't take Zhang Fei in his eyes, and then there was a cowardly escape, Zhang Fei wanted to take him down, and it would not work without three or five rounds.

However, the facts are the facts, this guy has no real combat experience at all, and he committed two battlefield taboos in a row, but he was stabbed to death by Zhang Fei without even going through two rounds.

Seeing Deng Mao fall off the horse, the Yellow Turban Army, which was originally noisy, was suddenly dumbfounded, and its momentum also fell to the bottom.

Seeing this, Li Pengfei knew that the time for an assault had come, so he immediately raised his spear and shouted: "The whole army is assaulting!" ”

Suddenly, the three thousand elite horsemen roared towards the Yellow Turban Army's main formation.

The main general of the Yellow Turban Army was killed, with no momentum and no will to fight, where would he dare to fight? With just one contact, the army was in disarray, and immediately scattered as birds and beasts.

In his heart, Li Pengfei is actually secretly calling for luck. In this day and age, it's not the fashion to go head-to-head. In fact, since the Qin State unified the Six Kingdoms, this model has been extremely rare. If it weren't for Deng Mao being singled out by Zhang Fei, this battle would not have been won so easily, and it would have been possible to win with the Yellow Turban Army.

As a result, Li Pengfei's army was a little dazed and did not know where to go.

Li Pengfei also shook his head helplessly, it seems that his army still lacks battlefield experience. However, I believe that with the experience of this operation, it will be much better in the future.

Most of the Yellow Turban Army ran back and forth, trying to escape the battlefield and return to Yuyang.

However, the defeated soldiers had fled only a few miles when they saw smoke and dust billowing from the road, and two cavalry troops had come out from behind a hill, blocking their way back.

And in the rear, the fierce god who killed General Deng Mao, and the black-armored general also led the cavalry to catch up. There were really tigers in front and chasing soldiers in the back, and for a while, these defeated soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army were desperate in their hearts.

Needless to say, the two elite cavalry of Guan Yu and Zhao Yun, who had been ambushed early on Li Pengfei's orders, were the two elite cavalry of Guan Yu and Zhao Yun who stopped the defeated troops of the Yellow Turban Army in front.

And the chasing soldiers behind were Zhang Fei and Li Pengfei, who were closely chasing the main force of the defeated Yellow Turban Army.

Looking at the defeated soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army, which had been surrounded by regiments, Li Pengfei shook his head and did not order an attack, but asked the soldiers to shout surrender and not kill.

Li Pengfei is not a person who loves to kill, and he does not need to use the heads of these defeated soldiers to lead the army. These Yellow Turban soldiers are just ordinary people who can't survive, if it weren't for the compulsion of life, how could they rise up and rebel? As long as the appropriate conditions are created for these people, they will be the best labor force and the best supply of soldiers.

In this troubled era of the era of cold weapons, what do you rely on to fight? Isn't it manpower and material resources? The so-called one who wins the hearts of the people wins the world, no matter what era, a person who loves to kill cannot get the support of the people. Even if he gains momentum for a while, he will eventually become a lone husband, and there is no other way to end up than defeat.

The defeated soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army had no intention of fighting, and seeing that the cavalry in front of them really did not take the opportunity to cover up, they surrendered one after another.

Li Pengfei's first battle after coming to the end of the Han Dynasty won a complete victory so easily.

Zhang Fei drove his horse to Li Pengfei's side and asked in a low voice, "Big brother, really don't kill these yellow turban thieves?" ”

Li Pengfei was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why did Yide say this?" ”

Zhang Fei said hesitantly: "If you don't kill these Yellow Turban thieves, then there will be no military merits." ”

Li Pengfei was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that today's military exploits are calculated according to the number of beheadings. Of course, capturing enemy troops also has combat merits, but compared to decapitation, combat merits are much less. This is also why most of the ancient wars recorded in the historical materials of later generations record the number of beheadings, but few record the number of enemy soldiers captured.

Let's take the Yellow Turban Rebellion in front of us as an example, several major battles, and the vast majority of historical materials only record the number of beheadings.

In May, when Jingshi saw that Huangfu Song was besieged, he sent Cao Cao to lead an army to rescue. However, when the reinforcements did not arrive, Huangfu Song had a plan, in the evening a strong wind blew, Huangfu Song ordered the soldiers to secretly go out of the city with torches, using the weeds around the Yellow Turban military camp, using fire to attack the enemy, shouting to attack, the city also raised torches in response, Huangfu Song with drums to help the battle, rushed into the enemy formation, the Yellow Turban Army was in chaos, running around. encountered Cao Cao's reinforcements again, and was attacked by Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun and Cao Cao on three sides, killing tens of thousands of people, and the Han army won a great victory.

In June, Nanyang Taishou Qin Jie fought with Zhang Mancheng and killed Zhang Mancheng. The Yellow Turban Army changed to Zhao Hong as the commander and occupied Wancheng with more than 100,000 people. And Huangfu Song and Zhu Junjun continued to attack the Yellow Turbans of Runan and Chen State, pursued Bocai to Yangzhai, and finally defeated Peng Tuo in Xihua, and the Yu army wanted to flee to Wancheng, but Sun Jian entered the city first, and everyone advanced like ants, broke the enemy army, and successfully pacified the Yellow Turban Army in the area of Yuzhou. On the other hand, Lu Zhi broke the horns during the war and killed more than 10,000 people.

A total of 18,000 soldiers besieged Zhao Hong, broke through it, killed more than 10,000 people, Han Zhong surrendered, and Qin Jie, who had always been at odds with Han Zhong, killed him. This move made the Yellow Turban Army uneasy, and promoted Sun Xia to be the commander of Wanzhong City. Zhu Jun attacked again, and on the day of November Guisi, Sun Xia was defeated, and the Han army pursued to the Jingshan Mountain in Western Hubei, and was broken again, killing Sun Xia and more than 10,000 people.

Huangfu Song arrived at Dongjun Cangting in August, broke and captured Bu Ji alive, and killed more than 7,000 people. However, Dong Zhuo's attack on Zhang Jiao was unsuccessful and returned in vain, so he asked Huangfu Song to continue to go north on Yisi Day.

In October, Huangfu Song fought with Zhang Liang in Guangzong, and Zhang Liang's army was strong, and he could not overcome it in the first battle. The next day, Huangfu Song closed the camp and rested with the soldiers, on the other hand, he sent people to observe the enemy's movements, the Yellow Turban Army's fighting spirit was slightly relaxed, Huangfu Song took the night to lead the troops, raided the enemy position at dawn, fought until the afternoon, successfully broke the enemy army, killed Zhang Liang and more than 30,000 people, drowned more than 50,000 people when fleeing to the river embankment, burned more than 30,000 cars, and captured a large number of people. And Zhang Jiao was broken and killed, and the head was transported back to Beijing.

In November, Huangfu Song and Julu Taishou Guo Dian attacked Quyang, successfully beheaded Zhang Bao, and captured more than 100,000 people. The Yellow Turban Rebellion subsided.

In this series of battles, that is, the last two battles of the pacification of the Yellow Turbans, there are records of prisoners, but the only one that really records the data is actually the last battle.

It is precisely because of this reason that many people kill and pretend to be meritorious, and even slaughter ordinary people to pretend to be military meritorious.

Li Pengfei fell silent, he really didn't care about military feats such as killing the enemy and beheading, but these subordinates of his did care. Especially the soldiers below, if they don't have such merit, it will be difficult for them to accumulate military merits. And if there is no military merit, how can these soldiers follow him to fight?

However, Li Pengfei was not an indecisive person, and he quickly said to Zhang Fei: "These yellow turban soldiers must not be killed, and it is of great use for me to stay." As for military exploits, we have also killed a lot of enemies in this battle, and besides, future battles will certainly be indispensable, and some of them will have the opportunity to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions. ”

Seeing Li Pengfei say this, Zhang Fei could only agree. However, when Li Pengfei looked at his sullen appearance, he knew that this guy must be a little unhappy in his heart.

Li Pengfei couldn't help sighing, Zhang Fei was his sworn brother, and he was still a little resistant to this, let alone an ordinary soldier.

It seems that in the future, it is necessary to strengthen the ideological education of the troops, and it is necessary to get rid of such bad ideas in the troops, Li Pengfei thought so. Otherwise, if his troops also do what is customary, when he finally completes the hegemony, I am afraid that there will be a mess left in the end.

Li Pengfei remembers very clearly that the wars and turmoil of the last few decades in the Han Dynasty caused the total population of the Han Dynasty to drop from about 60 million during the period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty to about 10 million in the early period of the Three Kingdoms, and the population decreased by more than 80 percent.

Now, he is here, and he must not allow such a situation to happen again. Otherwise, what's the point of getting a completely shattered world?