After Lu Bu was defeated and retreated, the situation on the battlefield in Hebei was completely clear, and all that was left was to struggle to clean up the mess and not be able to make any waves.

More than twenty days passed in a flash, and it was almost the end of August.

On August 24th, the siege in Pingyang County was completely over. Wei Xu could not gather the troops whose morale had faded. Because his subordinates offered the gate, Zhang Fei's army rushed into the city. The remaining soldiers completely gave up their resistance and were all captured obediently.

At this point, the 30,000 infantry sent by the Lu Bu army to the Hedong-Taiyuan Battle were all wiped out except for thousands of who fled back to Taiyuan.

Lu Bu's direct cavalry unit also lost thousands, plus more than 8,000 people who were annihilated by Cheng Lian (12,000 people were sent to Cheng Lian, but after defeat, they fled back several thousand), the final total loss reached an astonishing 39,000 people: 12,000 cavalry and 27,000 infantry.

In the entire Hedong-Taiyuan battle, Zhang Fei's troops suffered only 4,000 losses, Xu Huang's troops suffered more than 2,000 losses, and Ma Chao and Lu Bu's final battle were nearly 1,000. This was a win-win situation. However, the previous fierce battle with Cheng Lian was even greater than that with Lu Bu.

In the end, Liu Bei's camp suffered a total of 70,000 casualties, annihilated 39,000 enemy troops (half of them were captured), which was also remarkable.

After Wei Xu's destruction, the only unresolved point on the entire Bingzhou battlefield was Zhang Liao's more than 60,000 people left.

Moreover, after more than a month of stalemate, even though Zhang Liao did not break through the bloody battle and was mainly engaged in stalemate and rescue, he actually consumed a lot of each other with Guan Yu, Zhang Ren and Wang Ping. In addition to the threat of hunger and disease, the remaining only has just over 50,000.

It was already the forty-ninth day since Zhang Liao's army was initially cut off from food and Guanglang Valley was cut off. It was already twenty-two days after Lu Bu's entire army retreated.

In history, during the Battle of Changping, when Zhao Kuo finally broke through the siege, it was only "forty-six days of food left". Zhang Liao has been trapped for three more days than Zhao Kuo. Of course, being trapped is different from being trapped. Zhao Kuo was a real "severe food left", and Zhang Liao was just cut off from food.

After all, when Zhang Liao was surrounded in Guanglang City, he still had food with his army. At the normal consumption rate, he could ensure that he could eat for more than half a month. After finding that the food road was cut off, Zhang Liao would also try to save food and let himself last for a while.

However, considering that the troops are on guard and the battle has not stopped, the soldiers' physical energy consumption is not low, and saving half of the normal food supply is already the limit.

Finally, eleven days ago, on August 19th, Zhang Liao's army finally finished eating more food than expected after eating more than ten days more than expected. Five days later, Zhang Liao relied on the wild fruits, birds and beasts in the Taihang Mountains in autumn, and everything they could dig to supplement the troops.

However, more than 50,000 people were waiting for dinner. How long can these pieces of wild fruit and nut animals on the mountain last? But in four or five days, these things were finished.

So far, Zhang Liao's army has not yet entered the rice, fruit and meat, and it has been five more days. Yuan Shao's last 110,000 people in the south cannot rely on the rescue. They cannot break through Guan Yu's layers of defense from the Shimenxing Valley.

Guan Yu now not only has 30,000 people to guard Shimen Xing, but also Wang Ping's Wudang Flying Army crossed mountains and ridges to support him. The troops on the southern front became heavier and heavier, but the western front became relatively loose towards Guanglang Valley on the Shangdang side.

When Guan Yu could transfer 50,000 people to block the defense at any time, Yuan Shao's 110,000 people could not be defeated.

But they were also sure that Yuan Shao's army would no longer have the strength to divide the troops and open up Guanglang Valley again from the Shangdang direction.

After all, on this battlefield, Yuan Shao is on the outside and Guan Yu is on the inside. If Guan Yu has a highly adaptable terrain, a Flying Army, which can be deployed through Taihang Mountains, but Yuan Shao has to circle around, and the mobilization speed is definitely slower than Guan Yu. If you can't break through Guan Yu on a battlefield, it is useless to divide the troops and detours to drag time.

Zhang Liao realized that he could not wait any longer. Even with the lessons of Zhao Kuo's dying efforts back then, he did not care about avoiding that unlucky decision.

After all, if it weren't for knowing that more than 400 years ago, Zhao Kuo was surrounded by mountains on three sides and Danshui on the other side, and finally he was killed when he broke through, Zhang Liao would have decided to learn to break through.

On that day, he ordered the troops to cook dirty meat at the end, and he would not "kill each other" like Zhao Kuo in history. Anyway, it was enough. He only gave it to the soldiers who wanted to act as suicide squads, and no one else had to eat it.

As for whether cholera will be transmitted after eating, Zhang Liao was too lazy to care about it. A group of people who were about to die today are not afraid of diseases that will only cause people to die in seven or eight days.

A general and the army joined the army to advise him to consider Guan Yu's siege and surrender. Zhang Liao said he did not believe it at all because he and Guan Yu had a revenge for sneak attacks last year, but he followed Jia Xu to carry out the mission of sneak attacks after the accident. At that time, Liu Bei's camp and Yuan Shao's camp had not officially declared war, and Liu Bei did not call himself emperor.

After all, Guan Yu is not Li Su, nor is he a time traveler. Guan Yu has no "stamp collecting habit" and will not have no principles because of the so-called cherishing of talents.

Zhang Liao and Jia Xu's crime that time was equivalent to the fact that Lu Meng led his troops to attack Nanjun in history, which was a very despicable act. Zhang Liao knew it himself and felt that he could not survive even if he surrendered. The consequences might be just better than Jia Xu. This judgment is not unreasonable.

Guan Yu could not ignore his subordinates who died because of his retreat last year. The lives of Pan Junxi, Zhen, and Zhao Lei were also fate.

Especially although Pan Jun was a traitor who surrendered to the enemy in history, in the eyes of outsiders, Pan Jun was a death for Guan Yu, misleading Lu Bu, and was eventually brutally killed by Lu Bu in the name of "aggressing Wei Yue".

Even though Guan Yu knew in his heart that he didn't need to avenge the traitor Pan Jun, he could not show it to outsiders, otherwise his general would be rewarded and punished in the future and would not be able to convince the public.

However, since Guan Yu was willing to persuade Zhang Liao to surrender, he did what he said. After he finally weighed the pros and cons, he thought of an iron rule in Liu Bei's camp. This was also the law that Li Su advised Liu Bei to set.

That is, any general who was captured by the Han civil war who did commit war crimes could be given a certain degree of lenient pardon for those who had the military achievements of attacking and killing foreign races.

In other words, if Lu Meng in this life still did the "sneak attack on the alliance" and was caught by Guan Yu, he would still be sentenced to death, and it would be impossible to recruit and reward and punishment.

But Zhang Liao was different from Lu Meng in history after all. He won in the winter of 196. He followed Lu Bu to fight Tuoba Liwei and Xianbei royal Shengle. With this contribution, Guan Yu promised that he could avoid death by surrendering.

However, normal official positions must also be deprived of and punished to death squad organizations similar to the "punishment camp". In the future, they will be responsible for fighting bloody battles with foreign tribes such as the Xianbei and Qiang people to guard the border and atone for their sins.

But Zhang Liao didn't know much about it or believe that Liu Bei would have such policy propaganda. He didn't understand Liu Bei, and felt that false benevolence and righteousness were too fake. He also felt that leading the army to surrender was just barely surviving, and he would be punished to fight as enslavement. He lived too frustrated and wanted to gamble to break through.

Anyway, if destiny does not favor him, if he dies in the battle during the breakout, others will surrender, and those people do not have the war crimes of sneak attacks, so they will naturally find their own way.

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On August 30th, after eating meat, Zhang Liao led the suicide squad to attack from the direction of Guanglang Valley, hoping to win the way back to Shangdang.

In order to break through, he deliberately launched several offensives in the direction of Shimen the day before, and acted as if he was "going to join Yuan Shao through Shimen", trying to attract Guan Yu's attention, and also trying to lure Wang Ping's mountain soldiers in that direction.

Then he took the last elite early in the morning and rushed along the Guanglang Valley.

Unfortunately, Guanglang Valley is narrow in terrain and has many troops but cannot be used. Zhang Liao's troops are relatively unfair to march in the mountains and cannot launch attacks from both sides at the same time. Instead, they are attacked by Wudang Feijun on the steep slopes, and they are shot down from a high point to throw arrows and throw wooden and rocks.

Guan Yu himself was blocking the valley entrance. He was a man who was in the valley and could not open the valley. He had hundreds of iron-armored school knives and knives who were trapped in the formation and were free to get the door.

Zhang Liao rushed six or seven waves from the beginning of the month to the near noon in two hours, all of which were repelled without any suspense. If it was so easy to break through the Guanglang Valley, he would not have been surrounded for 49 days and would have run away long ago.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Wang Ping, who was seduced and transferred yesterday, personally led 10,000 Wudang Flying Army to arrive from the south side of Guanglang Valley, and then launched a general counterattack from the southern slope of the valley.

Wang Ping brought the divine arm crossbow, as well as a large number of barbarian poisonous bows and arrows commonly used by the Banshuman and Ailao Yishan soldiers. The arrows were all covered with plant poisons from the Southern Barbarians. After Wang Ping occupied the position, he launched a fierce shooting at Zhang Liao's flanks.

Zhang Liao's breakthrough suicide squad finally collapsed completely. Like Zhao Kuo, Zhang Liao was hit by many crossbow arrows, not knowing his life or death. His personal guards were almost shot and killed and piled up in one place. After the main general was destroyed, Yu Zhong finally chose to surrender.

Guan Yu spent two days carefully cleaning the battlefield, forcing the landing of the remaining enemies everywhere, and carefully isolated and interrogated the officers and tortured the details.

When Guan Yu heard that Zhang Liao's troops had eaten jerky before breaking through the siege, he was shocked. He knew from Zhuge Liang that cholera had become popular among the enemy these days, and at this time these poisonous people were simply crazy.

Guan Yu originally did not want to kill prisoners like Bai Qi, but the situation is critical now, so he had to make a quick decision to identify the surrendered enemy troops and clarify the rules of punishment.

He distinguished the thousands of soldiers in the suicide squad according to the evidence of various friendly troops, and executed them based on their crime of eating jerky. The key was that all the bodies must be completely burned.

Considering that these deceased did commit crimes with Zhang Liao, and there were 40,000 others, Guan Yu did not kill them, so this treatment was convinced.

Moreover, Guan Yu did not kill people who were sick, but just killed those who ate sick meat. Those who did not eat meat and were innocent cholera soldiers who were infected with diseases. Guan Yu also asked people to isolate their drinking water and excrement to cross-contaminate their water and excrement with healthy people, and did not give them the opportunity to pollute the water source.

So the 40,000 prisoners of war were only slightly shocked for a few days, and after getting the reasons explained, they felt at ease. And after all, the late Han Dynasty was not as good as the Warring States Period. Everyone thought they were Han people, not as they thought they were Qin or Zhao people in the Warring States Period. If they voted, they would vote, and no one would stand it to the end.

It is said that after the law of Liu Bei's camp was spread, some generals and strategists of Yuan and Cao's camp dared not have the idea of ​​surrendering to Liu Bei at all. Even if they were hard or desperate in the end, they would resist to the end. For example, strategists like Cheng Yu knew that they would die if they surrendered with their crimes.

However, these are all later stories. Due to the strict laws and regulations, some people with bad deeds dare not surrender. This consequence is originally mentally prepared.
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