. In the first battle of Duchang City, the three of Tai Shici made outstanding achievements. Guan Hai, the general of the Yellow Turban Army, was captured alive, and the more than 50,000 troops were all scattered, of which 30,000 were taken prisoner by the Northern Xinjiang Army, more than 16,000 escaped, and only about 2,000 were actually killed in the battle, and more than 3,000 were wounded.

Li Yi soon got the battle report from the front. Nowadays, carrier pigeons have been widely used in the Northern Xinjiang Army, making the transmission of intelligence much faster.

And the abilities shown by Tai Shici, Huang Zhong and Wei Yan in this operation satisfied Li Yi. He had always had the intention of letting Tai Shici leave his side and lead the army alone, but he never found a suitable personal guard to replace him, so he did not implement it.

Now that the two super fierce generals Yuwen Chengdu and Lu Wenlong have been summoned, they can replace Tai Shici. Li Yi believes that it is enough to have Dian Wei, Yuwen Chengdu and Lu Wenlong as his personal guard generals.

In this way, the six thousand guards and iron horsemen were exactly led by three people each.

Of course, these arrangements will not be implemented until the end of this operation and the return to northern Xinjiang.

The top priority now is to solve the Yellow Turban Army of Sima Ju, Xu He, Wu Ba, Guan Cheng and others as soon as possible, pacify Qingzhou, and then go to Xuzhou, and then return to northern Xinjiang.

Along with the war report, there was also Kong Rong's letter.

Kong Rong first solemnly expressed his gratitude to Li Yi for his righteous action, and then described the night attack in detail from the perspective of a bystander, and then expressed his admiration for the military strength of Northern Xinjiang.

After that, he suddenly recounted his old feelings, praising Li Yi for establishing a university in northern Xinjiang, carrying forward the far-sightedness of Confucian and Mencian literature, and the fashion of benevolence and love for the people.

Finally, at the end of the letter, he made a vague statement. Beihai fully supported Li Yi's entry into Qingzhou.

After reading the letter, Li Yi also sighed, such a long letter, only the end of the point is dry material, Kong Rong is a great Confucian, and he is not ordinary water when he speaks.

on this. He was a little excited, but in the end he didn't make a decision right away. Although he is now nominally the governor of the Seven Prefectures and Two Protectorates ordered by the Son of Heaven, Li Yi will not really think that he will be able to pocket all the Seven Prefectures and Two Protectorates. And Qingzhou is far away from northern Xinjiang, with a huge Jizhou and Bohai Sea in between, Li Yi just wants to take Qingzhou into his pocket, but it is also a little beyond the reach of the whip.

Not to mention, today's Qingzhou Mu is still his nominal benefactor Liu Yu. Reasonable, he couldn't snatch Qingzhou right away.

And Guan Hai, who was captured alive by Wei Yan mentioned in the war report. Li Yi also likes it a little.

Guan Hai is very capable of fighting, although he is not as good as Tai Shici and Huang Zhong, who are super-first-class generals, but in the second-rate, he is also a top fierce man.

After reading the battle of Zhu Xuan relayed by Tai Shici, Li Yi was slightly amazed, the dragon role in this novel is indeed extraordinary.

Guan Hai's henchmen are not bad, they are all outlaws, and they only watch Guan Hai in such an unfavorable situation as the night attack. If you can still assemble a force of more than 1,000 people, you can know that the combat effectiveness and fighting spirit of this thief army are quite strong.

Li Yi knows more about these people than Tai Shici. If you guess correctly, these people are the Qingzhou soldiers who will be famous all over the world in later generations.

The characteristics of the Qingzhou soldiers are that they are brave in battle, and the military discipline is extremely poor. It is likely that when it is adopted, it will be a situation where the guest is strong and the host is weak, so he can't be too strict.

In the battle of Wancheng in history, Cao Cao was plotted by Jia Xu, and the whole army retreated. Yu Ban led hundreds of Taishan soldiers to fight and retreat. By the way, I also set up a camp to clean up the rout, but I found a few people running naked with injuries, and when I asked, they were robbed by the Qingzhou soldiers, and there were no pants left......

Therefore, although the Qingzhou soldiers are very strong, Li Yi is not very interested, and it will be bad to fight with this kind of army.

Of course, the selection of elites and strict training may be corrected, but I am afraid that it is not something that can be done in a year and a half.

Li Yi was a little uncertain about this question, and he simply asked Xu Maogong and the four of them: "What do you think?" Is this Guan Hai to kill or stay? ”

"Then it depends on your plan." Liu Bowen replied very fluently, obviously already in his chest.

Li Yi asked, "How do you say this?" ”

Liu Bowen said: "My lord, if you want to expand the army in Qingzhou, these people are undoubtedly the best source of soldiers; If you continue to take the elite route, then you don't have to think about it. But no matter how you choose, it is a matter after the war, this raid battle is just a sentinel battle, and now what we have to consider is how to squeeze out the value of Guan Hai and prepare for the big war in the future. ”

Li Yi heard something, and the fox asked, "Then what do you mean......"

"Let him go." Liu Bowen said the third choice neatly.

After thinking about it, he added: "Of course, you have to finish asking for a confession. ”

Li Yi frowned slightly, thinking intently, this proposal seems ridiculous, but since it comes from Liu Bowen's mouth, it must have a deep meaning.

"Isn't that a return to the mountains?" Li Yi didn't speak, Xu Shu was young after all, so he couldn't help but interject in surprise.

"From a certain point of view, it is indeed a return of the tiger to the mountain, and there are many troubles." To Xu Shu's surprise, Liu Bowen actually nodded and admitted it calmly.

"Then ......" Xu Shu was puzzled, he was indeed smart, and his resourcefulness of up to 95 spoke for itself, but he was still too young after all, and he couldn't be regarded as the top smart, where could he guess the old fox's mind?

It's not just smart, you have to have that kind of experience, and the wisdom that penetrates people's hearts. is like Xu Maogong, who has both, and Guo Jia, who is extremely smart, after listening to Liu Bowen's words, they both showed a clear look.

Turning his head to look at Li Yi, seeing that his eyes had already shown a sudden look, Liu Bowen smiled and explained in detail: "The lord's strategy is to subdue the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, and since he wants to subdue it, he has to make a gesture." If General Huangfu is replaced, even if his army is ten times larger than that of the lord, will the Qingzhou Yellow Turban surrender? ”

"Of course not." Liu Bowen asked himself and replied, "He killed hundreds of thousands of yellow scarves in the past, and dyed the river red, even if he was a three-year-old child, he knew whether to surrender or not." It's a dead end. ”

"But," Xu Shu thought about it seriously and asked rhetorically, "Aren't most of the people in Duchang safe and sound?" Even if you want to appease you, it's not those bandits who kill people without blinking, right? ”

At this time, Xu Maogong, who was next to him, began to explain to his small family: "Yuan Zhi, that's what I said, but people's hearts are much more complicated than this, and rumors will spread outrageously." Our army knows, and the people of the Beihai Navy also know that killing Guan Hai and others and saving good people is a countless good deed of the living, but the Yellow Turban may not know it. Not only do they not know, but under the instigation of people with intentions, they may link the lord with General Huangfu, Guan Hai and others are also prisoners, killing one is not much different from killing 10,000, they are all killing prisoners. ”

"In the Yellow Turban Army, the vast majority of them are ordinary people, but the people who control the power are people who are similar to Guan Hai. If we kill Guan Hai, they will die and be sad, they will resist to the end, and they will pull others to fight with them. But if Guan Hai is released, these people will be lucky, snakes and rats, at least they will not spread rumors that our army has killed prisoners, and it is useless to spread them. ”

"The effect may not be great now, but when the thief army is weak, there will be people who will waver, and most people will not have the idea of fighting to the death, and the authority of the thief chieftains comes from the fear of killing, and when there are more powerful people, their prestige will be shaken."

Xu Maogong concluded: "If Guan Hai is killed, the result may not make much difference, but it may also be very different. ”

Xu Maogong's high-minded remarks made Li Yi stunned, and he almost blurted out the allusion to the seven captures of Meng Shu.

The structure of the Nanban is similar to that of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, there is a nominal barbarian king, but most of the tribes are on their own, and the leaders are equal to each other, which is a big alliance.

The reason why Zhuge Liang arrested and released Meng Shu, and released and arrested him, was to show these tribes: Our army is a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, and it doesn't kill people indiscriminately, and it's not that it can't be killed, but it doesn't want to kill.

The same behavior was repeated many times, and even a monkey understood this truth, and the Nanban naturally did not dare to rebel again.

On the contrary, if Zhuge Liang killed Meng Shu as soon as he got his hands on it, then if he wanted to pacify southern Xinjiang, he would only have to fight a war of conquest.

A big fist is the truth, that's true, but when the fist isn't big enough, you have to use stratagem to help.

Intelligence shows that the Qingzhou Yellow Turban is also a big alliance, with nearly two million people, Li Yi only has 6,000 soldiers and horses, even if you add Gongsun Zhan's 15,000 men and horses, it is only 21,000 people, only one percent of the number of Yellow Turban troops, so naturally you can't rely on force alone.

Seeing that everyone else had performed, Guo Jia, who was also very young, couldn't hold his breath anymore, and said: "If you release Guan Hai, you can not only make it for Qingzhou Yellow Turban, but also pave the way for the future......

Saying that, Guo Jia pointed to the southeast, Li Yi understood in his heart, the southeast of Taishan County is Langya, and the occupants there are also named thieves, Taishan thieves!

"In addition, there are also many benefits to the upcoming big war, which is convenient for the lord to plan...... In short, the return of the tiger to the mountain, in the short term, is a greater hidden danger, but in the long run, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. ”

"Then how do you force the Qingzhou Yellow Turban to the end of the road?" Xu Shu understands that Xu Maogong and Liu Bowen have said so much, mainly to teach themselves, if it is to remind Li Yi, there is no need for him to talk at length, it is enough to point out the tricks.

"I can't control this, and I can't control it." Xu Maogong and the three of them spread their hands, looked at Li Yi, and said with a smile, "How to strategize and win a thousand miles, that is the business of the lord, if we change it, we will not consider how to use 6,000 soldiers to win 2 million people." ”

"Then let it go, it's just a tube, there are so many benefits, why not let it go......" Li Yi waved his hand disapprovingly.

(To be continued.) )