"The big king is killed?"

"The king is dead!"

As King Nanqiao fell down, his head was picked up by Guan Yu on the tip of the knife and hung a horse neck. Within hundreds of steps next to him, thousands of Wuhuan cavalry finally completely collapsed.

They were originally strangled by the Han army for a while and then retreated. Now Zhao Yun is tying his waist and intercepting him, and then Guan Yu is chasing him. Those guys who lack faith do not scatter their birds and beasts.

"Stay steady! Escape in one direction! If it disperses, it will only be defeated by the Han army!" After a long time, the military advisor Yan Rou began to hoarsely try to rectify the defeated soldiers, but there were too few people listening to him. Without King Nanqiao, most of the Wuhuan people no longer recognized his command.

If Yan Rou hadn't been a Han man who was captured by the Wuhuan people since childhood and had lived in the Wuhuan for more than ten years, many officers from King Nanqiao would have known him, so he would probably not even have such appeal.

Yan Rou had no choice. When King Nanqiao was beheaded by Guan Yu, he was only fifty steps away from the scene. Fortunately, he was not noticed and was able to escape in another direction with his head in his arms.

When he just escaped, because the distance between Guan Yu was not far enough, Yan Rou didn't dare to command loudly to avoid being targeted by Guan Yu. He fled for two miles before he started to collect the defeated soldiers, but he had missed the best opportunity.

After a whole afternoon of pursuit and death, when Yan Rou retreated to Changli City, he had some people around him, and only two thousand cavalry left to escape back to the city.

When the troops were sent in the morning, there were 12,000 cavalry! Nearly 10,000 cavalry disappeared like this!

It is estimated that only a small half of Yan Rou was killed and injured by Guan Yu and Zhao Yun's army, and most of them were completely escaped on the way to the King of Killing, or they were just intercepted by Zhao Yun.

I don’t know how many defeated soldiers will be able to escape back and continue to work hard.

I am afraid that those people are afraid that King Qiao will die and have no hope of rebellion, so I surrender directly.

After this battle, the strength advantage of the rebels on the front line of Yushui and Yushui had completely disappeared - originally 23,000 people were fighting against the Han army 10,000. Now there are still 7,000 troops left in Changli City, 6,000 Tuhe City, 13,000, which is a total of 13,000.

Although the Han army suffered casualties, the collapsed Wuhuan cavalry did not know how many were captured and surrendered. Even if these Wuhuan prisoners could not be used for combat immediately,

But the captured horses and weapons were reorganized, and from the tens of thousands of refugees who recently defected to Liu Bei, they selected strong soldiers to serve as soldiers, and then used prisoners of war as serfs forcibly custody on farming. In the short term, Liu Bei could obviously organize thousands of new recruits.

Yan Rou is so angry that she thinks about it.

He was embarrassed by the strategy of King Qiao to plunder all the food of the people and drive them to Liu Bei's side, and quickly use up Liu Bei's food and grass, making Liu Bei unable to withstand the difficulties in replenishing the supply in the uninhabited area and retreated.

But the unsustainable battle between King Nanqiao and Liu Bei's plan to contain hungry people to farm, actually made Liu Bei's soldiers bigger and bigger. Who can I ask for reason?

Liu Bei had just relied on Mi Zhu to transport grain to buy people's hearts, and got so many weapons and equipment spoils. Alas, it's backfiring.

...

While Yan Rou was there, there was joy and encouragement in Liu Bei's army camp.

"Lord, I cleaned the battlefield and captured more than 2,300 enemy cavalry, and captured them alive with horses. There were also more than 1,000 intact empty horses that were cleaned the battlefield.

More than 1,600 seriously injured horses and 1,900 lame war horses were found, all of which helped them end their pain. The butchers in the army were urgently slaughtering and reserved horse meat as military rations.

More than 1,000 people and horses were slightly injured, and the people had been sent to the hospital for treatment. They were taken into custody and collected as military camps as you ordered. Horses were rented to the people of the military camps as plowing horses and packing horses, and they were rented to the people of the military camps and pulled out supplies."

When Zhao Yun, who was responsible for pursuing the remaining enemies and cleaning the battlefield, came back, the first good news he brought to Liu Bei was very excited.

This is the best thing to fight against nomadic peoples. As long as you can win and it is a great victory at the annihilation level, there will definitely be no less horses to be captured, and it is an order of magnitude that the princes who suppressed bandits in the mainland and the south dare not imagine.

Liu Bei's army had only had war horses equipped with two thousand cavalry, but now they deducted hundreds of horses that Zhao Yun lost repeatedly in battles, but they seized three or four thousand. After a while, at least five thousand cavalry horses could be left!

The number of these war horses is vaguely the same as that of Gongsun Zan!

Who has allowed the pursuit of the remnants of the pure rebels to be carried out by Gongsun Zan in history?

"Zilong's achievements are so great that his achievements are very small. Come on, I will first reward twenty kilograms of gold and two hundred pieces of satin. Tonight, the generals will not return without getting drunk!" Liu Bei was very excited and full of energy, and seemed to be a little drifting.

But Zhao Yun was always cautious: "The Lord of the Palace, this is all caused by the Yue formation destroying the enemy's courage and killing the thief chiefs. Yun was only chasing and rushing to the north, so he dared not give this reward. I would like to reward the cavalry soldiers with this! By the way, why didn't you see the Guan Duwei?"

Liu Bei did not disobey him: "Zhun Zilong asked me! Chang Yun received the reward just now. He returned to the army to give me merits to the soldiers. Let's go and have a look."

As he said that, he took Zhao Yun's left hand and went to Guan Yu's place together.

As a result, as soon as he walked to Guanyu Camp, Liu Bei saw a tall burning pillar erected inside the camp gate, which seemed to be paying homage to the soldiers who died in battle.

Guan Yu has always done a good job of sympathizing with the soldiers. Before giving them military merits to everyone, I must first thank the brothers who died in this battle. This is also an old habit that I have developed in the army for three or four years.

Burning pillars are a kind of wooden pillars used to replace tombstones on the tombs of poor people in the Han Dynasty. Because most of the poor in this era are illiterate and do not even have names, they don’t know what to write for erecting tombstones. Only "scholars" can erect monuments. The bottom-level erecting and burning pillars have been considered as memorializing.

Even in the 20th century, this custom still had a small relic in rural Dutch, and readers who were located in rural Central Plains may have seen it.

Many soldiers had no names, and there were too many dead people who were hard to carve the monument. Guan Yu developed a burning pillar after each battle, poured wine and said a few words to motivate morale, and then offered the meat rewarded by his superiors first, and then shared the food for the living soldiers after the sacrifice.

Liu Bei knew Guan Yu's habits, so he used gestures to not inform him when approaching from behind. He also stood up and observed a moment of silence.

Liu Bei's ability to win people's hearts is definitely above Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

But Guan Yu only won over the bottom, Zhang Fei only won over the scholars and officials, while Liu Bei was just killing the rich and the poor.

Guan Yu picked up a bowl of water and wine, sprinkled it on the ground in front of the burning pillar, muttering words, and counting the achievements of several officers who fell to battle today.

After hearing this, Liu Bei and Zhao Yun were slightly stunned, because in today's bloody battle, one Qu Junhou and three village chiefs died. As for the team leader, more than a dozen of them died.

But as soon as Guan Yu opened his mouth, the first person to perform his achievements was a garrison named Fu Shiren, not the Qujunhou who had the highest military position and killed the most enemies.

Liu Bei was curious, so he heard Guan Yu talk about the reason.

I heard Guan Yu tell the big truth to the remaining officers present, mainly emphasizing the importance of orders and prohibition. He said that if he was not allowed to attack, he would not attack, and he said that he had to hold back the firepower and then fight before he could hit him, he would have to hit him before he could hit him!

Although the Qu Junhou killed the most enemies today, he was the one who died in battle today, he did not calm down at the beginning, resulting in a confusion in the formation, so he was not allowed to sacrifice the first sacrifice.

Although Fu Shiren did not kill a single enemy, he was shot to death while strictly enticing military orders, allowing him to be beaten and not fight back, so he deserves the highest commendation for "strictly adhering to military discipline".

Then, Guan Yu took out five kilograms of gold rewards that Liu Bei had allocated to Danyang Camp for today's battle, accounting for one tenth of the total reward, and gave Fu Shiren's widow and orphan as a pension.

The whole army decided to accept this with no objection. For a moment, the two thousand Danyang soldiers under Guan Yu's leadership increased their understanding of the importance of "military discipline".

It turns out that even if you can’t kill anyone in the war under the Guan Duwei, you will still be shot to death by the enemy in vain. As long as you strictly implement military orders and military disciplines, you can still get the first merit and reward!

"The Changzhi army has the style of Wuqi. It has the meaning of serving soldiers and soldiers, and it has the strictness of military discipline." Liu Bei did not praise him until this moment.

When Guan Yu heard the sound, he quickly turned around and bowed: "Brother, when did you come?"

Liu Bei smiled and stroked his shoulders: "I just told Zilong that I would like to reward the soldiers today. Come and see. I will have no worries when Yun Chang manages the army like this."

"Brother is too much reward, it's all his duty." Guan Yu expressed his proud expression, but he still had to be humble in his words. It's not that he and his righteous brother are hypocritical, but that they are used to it.

Proud and embarrassed to be proud, Guan Yu has an old problem.

Guan Yu also realized that he was a little pretending and quickly changed the topic: "Brother, after King Nanqiao was awarded the title, do you have to find a way to persuade Yan Rou to surrender? Now the comparison of enemy and us has changed drastically. If you want to use the method of siege and food to destroy the enemy, it will probably take longer.

The number of enemy troops has dropped by half, and the time for food in the city will be doubled, which will be detrimental to long-term consumption. Either use a plan to reduce or you can only attack. I wonder how Boya and Zijing plan?"

Liu Bei thought: "I haven't discussed it with Boya yet, but I just told Zijing about adjusting the military camp. If you want to attack with force, you can't rely on these current forces. You have to reorganize the prisoners, then select strong people from the refugees in the military farm, allocate them to the seized weapons, and practice a little to consider attacking."

Guan Yu thought for a while: "I think it's better to first find out where the enemy's Tuhe River and Changli City are more food and grass, and then surround the city with more food and one, prepare to attack fiercely, but leave a way to escape, so that the enemy can abandon the city and flee to another city when urgently.

In this way, when the enemy fled, they could only escape lightly and could not take away the food in the city. Our army obtained the savings of one city with more food in the two cities, which was more convenient for besieging the remaining city. If the enemy was unwilling to give up the city with more food, they would inevitably send troops to reinforce the city with less food, and just siege the city with less food and fight against the enemy troops in the city with less food."
Chapter completed!