Zhang Fei, who retreated, complained to Zhao Yun: "Zilong, it's too early for you to withdraw your troops. I'm in the mood to kill and will soon defeat the Yellow Turban Army on the opposite side!"
Zhao Yun said with a bitter smile: "Yide, you are so busy charging, but you don't even look at our situation. The Yellow Turban Army is assisted by the Horse Rejection Formation. This kind of battlefield is not suitable for our cavalry to fight at all. In just half a day, our casualties
There are more than 3,000 people, and if the fight continues, everyone’s morale will collapse!”
Zhang Fei said with a look of astonishment: "I clearly saw more people died in the Yellow Turban Army, how could we have suffered more casualties!"
Zhao Yundao: "The Yellow Turban Army lost more people in battle, but their army was 10 times larger than ours. Of course they could afford these casualties. On the contrary, we suffered heavy losses this time. If we want to continue fighting, we must
We are surrounded by the Yellow Turban Army. Now everyone's morale is low. We should wait until Duke Xuande arrives before we fight Zhang Yan!"
Zhang Fei said unwillingly: "Zilong, this time we fell into Zhang Yan's trick and suffered such heavy casualties. Next time we go to battle, I will definitely not attack Zhang Yan's horse-rejecting formation, but only mobilize Zhang Yan's troops on the periphery."
Army, use the power of our cavalry’s mobility to gather together and annihilate the Yellow Turban Army!”
But Zhao Yun shook his head and said: "Yide, the combat effectiveness of Zhang Yan's army is obviously completely different from what we expected. We should wait for Duke Xuande to arrive before deciding how to deal with them!"
Zhang Fei could only look helplessly in the direction of Zhang Yan and the others, and gave up the idea of continuing to attack!
As for Zhang Yan's tribe, after Zhang Fei and the others retreated, they cheered loudly. This was a rare victory for them in the past few years, especially the victory in the first battle brought a huge boost to their morale!
Zhang Yan stood on the high platform and saw clearly the soldiers' attack!
When the Yellow Turban Army fought in the past, not only did the command swarm forward, but there was indeed no formation. Every time Zhang Yan issued a combat order, he could not give it too specific, because his commander Qu Shuai did not have such command ability. He
He could only roughly point in one direction and ask Commander Qu to lead his soldiers to charge there, or defend on the spot. He couldn't even give an order to retreat, because this would definitely make his troops think that they had lost the battle, and then the entire army
rout.
Every time there is a battle, Commander Qu leads thousands or even thousands of people to rush forward to fight. He doesn’t even know how many soldiers Commander Qu has under his command and how strong their combat effectiveness is. As for the grassroots army commanders, they are no more than village commanders.
Veterans who have fought many times do not understand how to fight a war.
But today's battle finally allowed Zhang Yan to see that his army was well-organized and commanded like an arm. (This was Zhang Yan's illusion. At the same time, the Yellow Turban Army's command was almost paralyzed. Now that it has made some progress, he naturally
It feels like a huge improvement!) The most important thing is that the combat effectiveness has improved so obviously. They actually easily defeated 30,000 cavalry. This was a huge victory for the Yellow Turban Army!
Zhang Yan happily said to Yang Feng: "The officers we sent to Mayi for training are still too few. If there are thousands more officers at the grassroots level, the combat effectiveness of our Yellow Turban Army can be doubled. I think we can fight today."
It can be seen that the tens of thousands of officers trained by Mayi are obviously more effective than our old soldiers. Our soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army are not beaten to death, but we do not know how to fight. This is why we have repeatedly
The reason for the defeat to the Han army! Now we are finally looking in the right direction!"
Yang Feng said helplessly: "I'm afraid that Thunder Guild will not help us continue to improve our combat effectiveness. We have more troops than Thunder Lord. If the combat effectiveness of the Tengjia Army is not inferior, I'm afraid that Thunder Lord will also be afraid of us!"
But Zhang Yan said: "Judging from our interactions with Lei Gong, besides being unwilling to form an alliance with us, he is still supportive of us. If he hadn't supported our weapons and equipment, we wouldn't have been able to recover so quickly. Now our
The enemy is still the Han army. Improving our combat effectiveness is helping him, and even if he can no longer help us train thousands of officers, even a few hundred are still good!"
Yang Feng said: "If we defeat Liu Bei in this battle, Jizhou will be in the pocket of our Yellow Turban Army. Our strength will be greatly increased. Lei Gong is still willing to support us?"
I'm afraid that we will have to be on guard against us, not to mention if we lose. These officers are enough for us to maintain the army. I think it is better to ask for help than to ask for yourself. We ask these officers to summarize what they learned in Mayi.
, build your own school to train basic officers like this, so that we don’t have to ask Lei Gong."
Zhang Yan agreed with Yang Feng's statement as soon as she thought about it.
At the same time, the news of Zhang Fei's defeat soon reached Liu Bei's hands, and Zhao Yun bluntly stated in his letter that the Yellow Turban Army's combat effectiveness had been greatly improved.
Liu Bei was worried that something might happen to Zhang Fei and the others, so he met up with Zhang Fei and the others a day later.
Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei told Liu Bei about the battle!
Liu Bei couldn't believe it and said: "I almost wiped out the main force of the Yellow Turban Army the year before last. How long ago, not only did they have more troops, but their combat effectiveness has actually been improved! This shouldn't be the case. Zhang Yan has been recruiting refugees aggressively during this time.
, logically speaking, the combat effectiveness of his troops should have declined!"
After thinking for a while, Zhao Yun said: "My subordinates observed the Yellow Turban Army. Zhang Yan has 40,000 to 50,000 elites wearing armor who are relatively powerful in combat, while the rest of his troops are still relatively weak in combat effectiveness!"
Zhang Fei, the commander-in-chief, was fighting on the front line, so Zhao Yun could only command the army from behind. He could see that Zhang Yan's real elite only had 40,000 to 50,000, and the rest of his troops were relatively poor in terms of equipment and combat effectiveness!
Liu Bei thought for a while and said: "It seems that we need to know how much Zhang Yan's combat effectiveness has improved!"
After Liu Bei's 100,000-strong army rested for three days, Liu Bei issued a letter of war to Zhang Yan!
On the second day, Zhang Yan ordered his 300,000 troops to line up and wait for Liu Bei's army.
And Liu Bei also brought his 100,000 troops to face Zhang Yan in formation!
Both sides were old friends, so without saying much, Liu Bei sent out a battalion of soldiers to call for battle!
Zhang Yan also sent Sun Qing to lead an elite battalion to fight against the Han army!
The battle between the two sides was extremely fierce. The two battalions directly attacked each other, and then began fierce hand-to-hand combat. Liu Bei's soldiers were experienced in fighting, and fought with Wu Shi as a small team, while the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army were not afraid of death. They faced
The Han army fought fiercely as if they saw the enemy. Even if they were severely wounded, they would bite off a piece of the Han army's flesh. The most important thing was that the soldiers in this battalion were all equipped with Mayi ceramic armor. Although this kind of armor
It is not as good as iron armor, but it is much stronger than leather armor. The soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army can withstand casualties better. After fighting for half a day, Liu Bei's army was the first to collapse in morale and fled to his side!
When Liu Bei saw this situation, he simply called for gold and retreated his troops!
And Zhang Yan was happy to see that she had won again, and when she heard Liu Bei's voice calling for gold to withdraw his troops, he stopped as well!
Liu Bei was defeated and lost 2,000 soldiers! The two sides did not continue fighting and then returned to their camps!
After a huge defeat, Liu Bei called everyone to discuss how to solve Zhang Yan's problem!
Guan Yu said: "Judging from today's battle, the combat effectiveness of Zhang Yan's elite men and women is no longer inferior to ours. Today's army is well-equipped and has strong combat effectiveness. It may be difficult to defeat them."
Jian Yong asked a little strangely: "Zhang Yan was completely defeated by us last time. Now that there is a natural disaster in the Han Dynasty, I don't find it strange that he can develop an army of hundreds of thousands. But why does the strength of his army increase so quickly?
And where did his equipment come from? Last time, his army escaped and ascended to heaven after throwing away its armor. It is impossible that Zhang Yan made armor in the Taihang Mountains, right? From what I saw on the battlefield, Zhang Yan’s armor seems to be better than
Ours is fine."
Zhang Fei said: "Where else can it come from? It's not the Thunder Lord of Mayi. The Taihang Mountains are connected to Bingzhou. Now Yanmen Pass has been captured by the Thunder Lord again. Zhang Yan can get to Mayi by walking some small roads instead of the main road. There is the Thunder Lord
Only with the support of Zhang Yan could Zhang Yan recover so quickly, and I suspect that Lei Gong also supported Zhang Yan's officers, otherwise the combat effectiveness of Zhang Yan's army would not have improved so quickly. I, Lao Zhang, have never heard of it. It is possible to defeat a battle.
An army that improves its combat effectiveness!"
At this time, Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping also said: "General Zhang is right. We often go to Mayi. This year, Lei Gong in Mayi and Zhang Yan in Taihang Mountains have close contact. Zhang Yan and the others stole the gold and silver treasures from Jizhou."
, transported them all to Mayi, and Lei Gong exchanged weapons and armor for them. Especially today's ceramic armor, only Mayi can make it in the entire Han Dynasty!"
Liu Bei's face turned ugly. If Zhang Yan's subordinates showed strong combat effectiveness today, this battle might not be over for a year and a half. How could the big man support his 100,000-strong army in this situation?
Continue to play for another year and a half.
"There are millions of victims in the entire Central Plains region. Under such circumstances, we are not allowed to continue fighting Zhang Yan. Do you have any good ways to deal with Zhang Yan?"
But everyone was still scratching their heads after thinking about it for a long time. With Zhang Yan's current situation, even if they defeated Zhang Yan's army of hundreds of thousands, he could still recruit hundreds of thousands of troops from the Central Plains. After all, Zhang Yan had millions of disaster victims behind him.
If the Yellow Turban Army exists, there will be no shortage of soldiers for the Yellow Turban Army!
However, one of their troops died one by one. If too much was consumed, sooner or later even Zhang Yan would not be able to suppress him.
Zhao Yun said: "Mr.
"So my subordinates feel that we must find a way to resettle the refugees first. As long as the refugees are resettled, Zhang Yan will be much easier to deal with. When Zhang Yan's power declined in the past few years, it was when the imperial court began to resettle the refugees!
Zhang Fei mocked: "Your Majesty spent 3 billion yuan to appease the victims in the Central Plains, but everyone has seen the result. There are now more than one million Yellow Turbans in the entire Central Plains. Zhang Yan in Jizhou was about to be pacified by us, but now there is another
An army of 300,000 people emerged, which means that Zhang Yan now has millions of followers.
There are also traces of the Yellow Turban Army in Hedong and Hanoi. This is the effect of His Majesty's 3 billion yuan of relief. Even if a group of pigs came to provide relief, the effect would be better than the relief provided by these officials. After all, pigs can be slaughtered for meat!
Gu Qian
As soon as Zhang Fei said these words, Liu Bei felt a little frustrated. He finally managed to capture hundreds of thousands of refugees in Onoze, but God brought out millions more refugees and encountered a group of pig teammates, making the situation even more dire.
Clean it up! Liu Bei doesn’t even know why he has worked so hard all these years!
If Liu Bei hadn't been a member of the Han clan, he would have wanted to rebel against the imperial court. Officials of the Han Dynasty were corrupt, incompetent, shameless, cruel and unkind. It can be said that they did everything except not doing human affairs!
Guan Yu looked at Zhang Fei and told him to stop talking.
Jian Yong also changed the subject and said: "If Liu Zhoumu doesn't say he wants to establish farmland and guard the border, why not ask Liu Zhoumu to resettle some refugees?"
Liu Bei shook his head and said: "Youzhou is too far away, and given the desolation of Youzhou, it is impossible to accommodate millions of refugees! And Jizhou itself is densely populated, and there is not much wasteland that can be used for cultivation!"
At this time, Liu Bei saw that Su Shuang was hesitant to speak, so he said: "Brother Ziyu, if you have anything to say, please speak up!"
Su Shuang thought for a while and then said: "My subordinates and others know that Lei Gong has been absorbing refugees in Mayi. Over the years, he has resettled more than one million refugees. Now Yanmen County has a population of more than one million, and Lei Gong has
They occupied the Heshuo area and annexed the Xihe County, a territory owned by the Huns.
These places are sparsely populated. Not long ago, Lei Gong was said to be willing to pay thousands of dollars to get refugees. Dong Zhuo and Zhang Yan made hundreds of millions of dollars by transporting the refugees to Mayi. His subordinates felt that this was why Zhang Yan
Being able to regain his strength so quickly, after all, no matter how much Lei Gong supports Zhang Yan, he cannot waste tens of thousands of sets of armor.
The land of Heshuo was where Emperor Wu once settled for farming and garrisoning the border. It is said that millions of people live in these places, but now there are not many people in these places at all. I think Lei Gong really needs refugees, so he wants to go to Zhong.
It turns out that the purpose is to provide relief to the victims. According to my subordinates’ thinking, Lei Gong needs refugees, but there are too many refugees in the Han Dynasty. If all the refugees are handed over to Lei Gong, the court’s troubles will be solved!”
Liu Bei and others were dumbfounded after hearing Su Shuang's words. This proposal was too fantastic. Lei Gong was the great enemy of the imperial court. He actually asked Lei Gong to help the imperial court resettle the refugees. Isn't this the same as asking a weasel to guard the house of a chicken? Although now Lei Gong also
They were talking about rescuing the victims, but in the eyes of Liu Bei and others, this was just Lei Gong who wanted to take advantage of the situation when he saw the great man in trouble!
Zhang Fei shouted: "This is only possible. Lei Gong is not stupid. How could he help the imperial court resettle so many refugees, let alone millions of refugees? It would cost tens of billions to resettle them. This is more than
The imperial court can't come up with money and food, so how can Lei Gong do it?"
Su Shuang smiled bitterly and said: "It is really possible for Lei Gong to bring it out. We often go to Mayi and know how wealthy the Tengjia Army is. Lei Gong's greatest skill is not fighting at all, but doing business. There is no one in the world who is better at doing business than Lei Gong.
He has made all the wealth in the world with just a piece of woolen cloth. This is why Lei Gong does not need to rob places, because he has money and does not need to rob!"
"So I think Lei Gong went south because he really wanted to help the victims. If we transport the victims to Bingzhou, I think Lei Gong will accept these victims, and as long as there are no more victims, Zhang Yan will be able to deal with them much easier!"
But Jian Yong still objected: "Not to mention that Lei Gong will not accept these victims, let's say that he accepted them. However, Xuande, as a general of the Han Dynasty, had contacts with Lei Gong in private. If the news came to the court, he was afraid that Xuande
I can’t even continue to be an official!”
Su Shuang could only smile bitterly. He knew that this method was bizarre, so he didn't dare to say it!
But Liu Bei pondered for a long time. Although he knew that this approach was absurd, if Lei Gong really accepted the refugees, the big man could take a breather.
So he said to Su Shuang: "Brother Ziyu, please contact Lei Gong to see if he is willing to accept the victims. If he is willing to accept!"
"Xuande (eldest brother)!" Everyone looked at Liu Bei suddenly.
Liu Bei said firmly: "Unless we kill all these millions of refugees, it will be impossible to wipe out Zhang Yan in Jizhou, Yu Du in Qingzhou, and Zang Ba in Xuzhou! The Han Dynasty does not have the strength to deal with so many Yellow Turbans at the same time.
If the refugees can enter Bingzhou to settle down, it is also a way out! It is also the only way for the Han to deal with these Yellow Turbans!"
Jian Yong saw Liu Bei with a determined look on his face and said, "Xuande should still report it to the court to see what your majesty means! Otherwise, your majesty will think that Xuande and Lei Gong are colluding, and I'm afraid that you, Xuande, will be the first to die!"
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Zhang Fei also immediately said: "The matter must be reported to the court first and let His Majesty make a decision. Our official position is humble, how can we make such a decision!"
Liu Bei thought for a while and agreed, but he still found Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping and asked them to contact Lei Gong first to see if Lei Gong really intended to recruit refugees, but wanted to cholera the world. If they did not accept these refugees, what would happen next would be
No better than doing it again.
Liu Bei asked Zhao Yun to lead 5,000 cavalry to escort the 10,000 refugees to Jingkou Pass.
After leaving Jingkou Pass, we arrived at Meng County, Taiyuan County. At this time, Meng County had already been occupied by Xu Wei. Now Xu Wei was hunting down the local tyrants to divide their fields, and moved all the wealthy and powerful gentry to the border areas of Tengjia Army.
Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping came to the Tengjia Army's territory to ask for a meeting with Xu Wei!
Xu Wei heard that they brought 10,000 refugees and didn't know what they wanted to do, but he still met them!
After the two men saluted Xu Wei, Su Shuang said: "It is our general's intention to come to see Commander Qu this time. Our general wants to ask Commander Qu whether he wants to take advantage of this disaster to take advantage of the big man, or whether he really wants to save the victims.
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Xu Weidao: "Of course it is to rescue the victims. Given the situation of the Han Dynasty, even if I don't take action, it won't be able to last for a few years, but the people are innocent. Since the uprising, I have dared to say that I have not done anything harmful to the people."
Everything we do is to save the country and the people!"
Su Shuangdao: "Our general wants to cooperate with Qushuai. We will transport the refugees to Jingkou Pass, and then Qushuai will transport the victims from Jingkou Pass to Mayi, so that Qushuai does not have to waste time fighting to the Yellow River!"
If Commander Qu really wants to save the people, there are now 10,000 victims at Jingkou Pass, so Commander Qu should be asked to take over!"
Xu Wei smiled and said: "I will send someone to take in these refugees!"
If this channel for transporting victims can be maintained, it will save him a lot of effort and even Jinyang City will not have to be destroyed!
Then Xu Wei smiled and said: "Xuande is a real hero. He dares to do such a thing. Isn't he afraid of being punished by the Han Emperor?"
Su Shuang said: "Our general also wants to save the victims!"
Soon Xu Wei led 5,000 soldiers to receive 10,000 refugees at Jingkou Pass!
These victims entered Bingzhou to command, and Xu Wei asked them to become engineering soldiers, build isolation houses, expand roads and build tracks, and build a large camp every 10 miles, all of which were resting places for the victims behind.
At the same time, Liu Bei's memorial was also submitted to Emperor Ling.
After reading Liu Bei's memorial, the Ling Emperor was overjoyed. He immediately summoned the three ministers and nine ministers of the imperial court and said: "You are all useless. You can't think of any way to deal with the refugees. My clan has a way to dump all the refugees in the Central Plains."
Just like the Lei Gong tribe in the city! This is just a genius idea, let the rebels help the court follow the refugees!"
Emperor Ling sneered and said: "Lei Gong of Mayi didn't say he wanted to save the country and the people. This time I will satisfy him and leave all the refugees in the Central Plains to him, so that Lei Gong can treat these victims properly!"
Then Emperor Ling said to the Sangong and Jiuqing below: "Order the prefects of Hedong County, Hanoi County, Jizhou, and Yanzhou to drive the victims to Bingzhou, and order the victims to enter but not to leave. I want to see this now."
Is Hui Lei Gong really so capable that he can resettle millions of refugees?"
Ma Rixi was surprised and said: "Bingzhou can only accommodate one million people. Now your Majesty has driven all the victims of the Han Dynasty to Bingzhou. Isn't this going to cause unrest in Bingzhou? Your Majesty is giving up on the people of Bingzhou!"
Lieutenant Ma Rixi has not been dismissed yet, and given the current situation in the Central Plains, no one dares to take over the position of Lieutenant. After all, taking over now would mean taking the blame.
Emperor Ling looked at Ma Rixi and said with a smile: "If Aiqing can make the officials of the Han Dynasty abide by the law and perform their duties loyally, then there is no need to drive away the refugees. If Aiqing can think of a way to help me mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops to deal with these people."
The rebels in the world don’t need to drive out the refugees. If these can’t be done, my beloved, just listen to my idea! If you give up the people of Bingzhou, you will let the entire Central Plains rot!"
Most of the other civil and military officials agreed with Emperor Ling's opinion. Now the imperial court is no longer capable of suppressing the rebellion in the entire Central Plains. If all these rebels are driven to Bingzhou and sacrificed in Bingzhou in exchange for peace in the entire Central Plains, everyone will still
Willing to do it.
After all, there were many people in the imperial court who wanted to abandon Liangzhou to protect the balance of the world.
If we now abandon the idea of merging states to ensure peace for the world, there will naturally not be many people who oppose it.
Not to mention that most of the merged states are not yet in the hands of the imperial court. Strictly speaking, the imperial court only gave up one or two counties.
Most of the civil and military officials present came from the Guandong region, and a mere Bingzhou was not as important as the Central Plains.