In the Battle of White Horse, the Han army defeated 500,000 Yellow Turbans, killed 200,000 people, and captured 100,000 prisoners. The remaining Yellow Turbans were scattered and routed. This battle can be said to be a complete victory for the Han army. Such a record shocked the entire Han Dynasty.
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Qu Shuai, the Yellow Turban Army commander from all over the Central Plains, found that the Han army was still so powerful. They no longer dared to attack cities and territories as before. Instead, they kept a low profile one by one and brought their armies to remote mountainous areas for fear that they would be captured by the Han army.
The army was targeted and killed!
As for the White Horse Battlefield, after their simple celebration, Yuan Shao ordered Jiao Chu, Gao Gan, and Chunyu Qiong to clean up the White Horse Battlefield.
Liu Chong went to Yuan Shao and asked for the 100,000 Yellow Turban soldiers who were captured by him. He knew that if he did not come over, Yuan Shao and the others would definitely massacre all the Yellow Turban prisoners!
Yuan Shao did not regard the Han Dynasty as his family property, so he drove out all the Yellow Turban soldiers who could threaten the powerful nobles.
But Liu Chong regarded the Han Dynasty as his family's property, so it was impossible to watch him massacre the people of the Han Dynasty! Not to mention that in Liu Chong's view, most of the Yellow Turban soldiers here were forced to rebel by Yuan Shao and the others.
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Only Xu You asked strangely: "Brother Ziyao, what do you want with so many Yellow Turban Army prisoners?"
Liu Chong said in a deep voice: "So many people have killed Youshang Tianhe, I will take them to Chen State for cultivation!"
Yuan Shao thought for a while and agreed to hand over these Yellow Turban prisoners to Liu Chong. Since they defeated the Yellow Turban Army this time thanks to Liu Chong's support, Yuan Shao could not refute Liu Chong's face.
The second is that the Yellow Turban Army fought very fiercely this time. Many Yellow Turban Army soldiers knew that there was no way to survive. Faced with the desperate situation, they did not surrender, but perished with Yuan Shao's army. Yuan Shao's current army only had more than 40,000 people left, although it seemed that there were not many.
It was reduced too much, but after several battles, his army was almost replaced. This kind of war was too fierce.
Obviously this is because he massacred the Yellow Turban soldiers last time, which made the Yellow Turban soldiers feel that even if they surrendered, they would die, so they resisted so fiercely. Although the massacre can scare some Yellow Turban soldiers, it will make the Yellow Turban soldiers become more fearless.
Death will make the subsequent war more difficult for him! The consequences of massacring prisoners of war are too serious, and the price is a bit unbearable for Yuan Shao.
And now that Liu Chong wants to leave these Yellow Turban soldiers, Yuan Shao has a step to go down.
So Yuan Shao handed over the 100,000 Yellow Turban Army prisoners to Liu Chong, and Liu Chong took these prisoners to Chen State!
The words are divided into two parts!
After the defeat of Baima, Zang Ba decisively led the Taishan army to escape from the Baima battlefield. Because his army maintained its integrity, more than 100,000 people retreated toward Taishan County in a mighty manner. No one dared to stop him along the way.
Yu Du was not as lucky as Zang Ba. His troops were crippled by Xu Rong and Yuan Shao, and he could only lead the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army to retreat towards Qingzhou.
It can be said that the army was defeated like a mountain. They did not bring out the food, grass and baggage, and lost most of their weapons and armor. Even the tens of thousands of Yellow Turban soldiers who escaped were scattered throughout Yanzhou. There was no commander to lead them. They were more or less
We can only find ways to escape each other.
But the escape route for Yu Du and others was not easy. When they were strong, they occupied many counties and counties in Qingzhou and Yanzhou, and only a few large cities were not conquered by them. The nobles and nobles everywhere were even more frightened by them.
All of them were extremely obedient.
So they just brought their troops over, and they immediately contributed money and food, just to ask the Yellow Turban Army not to attack their Wubao. It can be said that the patriarch of every noble clan, Yu Du reluctantly acted like a frightened little white rabbit!
But after the news of Baima's defeat spread throughout the Central Plains, the patriarchs of these powerful noble clans showed their vicious fangs.
These wealthy nobles led their private soldiers and dispatched one after another to kill the Yellow Turban soldiers who Yu Du had left behind in the county, or to instigate rebellion against the Yellow Turban soldiers they encountered. In less than a few days, the city was transformed into a king's flag.
Yu Du had not yet retreated to many counties, but the news of the defeat had already come, and the city once again became the banner of the Han Dynasty. The territory Yu Du and the others established was like a castle in the desert. When the waves came over, everything disappeared.
Even noble nobles from all over the country continued to ambush their defeated army. Even a small tycoon with only a few hundred people dared to lead troops to ambush the Yellow Turban Army's tens of thousands of troops. Many Yellow Turban soldiers did this and were massacred by noble nobles on the way to escape.
, even Yu Du himself was ambushed several times.
It can be said that along the way, Yu Du felt that they were surrounded by enemies everywhere and no place was safe! For a moment, Yu Du felt that even God was going to destroy him!
Seeing that the soldiers around him are getting fewer and fewer, and they are getting more and more tired. He thought that their coalition army had 500,000 people at the beginning, but now there are not even 5,000 Yellow Turban soldiers around him. They have collapsed to what they are now.
, Yu Du felt that he had failed the 500,000 Yellow Turban Army soldiers who trusted him, the Yellow Turban Army generals of all generations, and even the great sages and teachers.
The more he thought about it, the more regretful Yu Du became, and he took out his sword and wanted to commit suicide.
But fortunately, Bai Rao had quick eyes and quick hands, and grabbed Yu Du's sword, and then said sternly: "Victory and defeat are common things in military affairs. It's not like we haven't experienced such defeats before, but as long as we are alive, we will have the opportunity to start over. If you
It's okay to die in battle, but if you commit suicide now, you are worthy of the Yellow Turban soldiers who died fighting to protect you. If you die, what will happen to the millions of people who are still in Guishan? Watch them being slaughtered by Yuan Shao!
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Only then did Yu Du come out of his self-blame and said: "Zi Huan is right, I can't die like this. There are still millions of people in Qingzhou who need my protection. We must return to Guishan before Yuan Shao goes to Qingzhou."
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Yu Du could well imagine that after Yuan Shao and the others discovered the Yellow Turban women and children who had lost the protection of the soldiers, they would be greeted by an extremely brutal massacre.
Seeing Yu Du's recovery, Chief Ku said: "Now that we have been cut off from food and grass, we are constantly being hunted by the powerful nobles of Yanzhou. If we continue to escape like this, I am afraid that we will all die of the powerful nobles of Yanzhou before we reach Guishan."
It’s in hand.”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Yu Du thought for a while and said: "Yes, we have to find a way to conquer a county or a fortress so that we can get enough food and grass to walk thousands of miles back to
Qingzhou! How many crowbars are there? Let’s find a small fort and attack it!”
"We still need to find a way to unite the scattered tribes. The more people we have, the stronger we will be. Only when we gather together can the powerful nobles in Yanzhou dare not attack our Yellow Turban soldiers. And only with more people can we have the power to attack difficult problems.
promote!"
Bai Rao gathered the weapons in the hands of the soldiers and found that there were still dozens of crowbars, but they did not have many weapons. There were only a thousand people holding swords and guns, and the other tribesmen were basically bare-handed.
With only such a few weapons, Yu Du did not dare to attack Wubao head-on. Instead, he used a strategy. He asked hundreds of Yellow Turban soldiers to pretend to be deserters and pass in front of a Wubao.
The owner of Wubao pursued him with 500 private soldiers, but in the end he was ambushed by poison and the entire army was annihilated.
Yu Duzai changed their clothes and asked some Yellow Turban Army soldiers to pretend to be captured, and then they pretended to be victorious by bringing the Yellow Turban Army soldiers with them. The people who came to Wubao opened the door of Wubao without any suspicion, and Yu Du and the others instantly
Rushed into Wubao and killed everyone in Wubao.
Bai Luo counted the supplies in Wubao and said excitedly: "There are 300 weapons, armors, and 30,000 stones of food in Wubao's warehouse. This food is enough for us to go to Qingzhou!"
Yu Du said with a stern face: "Our group of people alone is not strong enough. The other tribes are still in dire straits. We have to raise our own banner to let other tribes know where we are so that they can join us.
.At the same time, let the noble families of Yanzhou know that our Yellow Turban Army has been defeated, but we are still capable of destroying their families and destroying their families! If they dare to kill our Yellow Turban Army soldiers, I will destroy their families and destroy them."
Chief Ku said worriedly: "If we raise the flag so blatantly, I'm afraid Yuan Shao's army will come after us soon!"
Yu Du said firmly: "There is strength in numbers. The more warriors we gather, the more Yuan Shao and the others will take care of. They dare not use a small army to chase me, but only dare to gather a large army. In this way, their actions will be slow.
After we gathered our troops, we ran up the mountain. It is impossible for Yuan Shao's army to catch up with us on the mountain!"
In order to avoid being hunted by the Han army in recent years, the Yellow Turban soldiers have hid in the mountains and rivers of the Central Plains. They spend more time in the mountains than on the plains. Therefore, the Yellow Turban soldiers are familiar with the environment of the mountains and forests, and are confident in themselves.
As long as they walked along the mountains and forests, it was impossible for Yuan Shao to catch up with them.
Sure enough, not long after Yu Du and the others raised the banner of the Yellow Turban Army again, the surrounding Yellow Turban Army soldiers gathered towards him like seeing a lighthouse. Soon, there were as many as 40,000 to 50,000 Yellow Turban Army soldiers under his command.
When the nobles and nobles in Yanzhou saw that Yu Du had massacred another family, they all retreated like frightened birds. They only dared to send envoys to Yuan Shao and ask him to lead troops to encircle and suppress Yu Du.
After Yuan Shao learned of Yu Du's whereabouts, he immediately led his 40,000 troops to encircle and suppress him.
But after Yu Du knew the whereabouts of Yuan Shao's army, he immediately led the Yellow Turban soldiers to escape towards Mount Tai. Yuan Shao led the army to chase into the mountains and forests for several days, but in the end, Yu Du was not even seen, so he had no choice but to withdraw from the mountains and forests.
March towards Qingzhou.
Yuzhou, Yuan Shu camp!
"Yuan Shao is indeed a waste, I still have to carry the banner of the Yuan family!" When Yuan Shu knew that Yuan Shao was surrounded by the Yellow Turban Army on White Horse, and relied on Xu Rong and Liu Chong to rescue him, Yuan Shu smiled and his whole body was full of energy.
Feeling relieved!
Yuan Shu had not dealt with Yuan Shao since he was a child. He felt that he was too hypocritical and pretentious, so he often quarreled with Yuan Shao. When Yuan Shao made friends with famous people in the world, he would make friends with the world's knights. When Yuan Shao became the general's staff, he would become a tiger warrior.
General, in short, Yuan Shu will overpower Yuan Shao in everything!
Including the annihilation of the Yellow Turban Army this time, Yuan Shu also wanted to compete with Yuan Shao. He always paid attention to Yuan Shao's every move, but when he knew that Yuan Shao was surrounded by the white horse, he was so happy that he couldn't sleep.
Even though Yuan Shao and the others are now in the Central Plains Yellow Turban Alliance, Yuan Shu does not recognize Yuan Shao's record. It was clearly done by Xu Rong and Liu Chong, and Yuan Shao just took the credit.
Yuan Shu was much more confident in his own performance. Although he only had 40,000 troops, not as many as Yuan Shao, he had defeated hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turbans and captured more than 100,000 Yellow Turbans.
Defeat, much better than Yuan Shao
The Yellow Turban Army in Yuzhou is not as powerful as the Central Plains. The entire Yellow Turban Army in Yuzhou does not yet have a leader with high prestige who can unify the entire Yuzhou Yellow Turban Army. It is not strong to begin with, and it is still scattered and scattered, so the Yuzhou Yellow Turban Army is naturally not Yuan Shu's.
opponent.
Especially their opponent was Sun Jian. After losing to Liu Bei, Sun Jian was already very angry, and he took it all out on the Yuzhou Yellow Turban Army.
Leading 5,000 elite soldiers to attack everywhere, fighting fiercely, no matter whether it is a Yellow Turban Army force with a level of 10,000, or a Yellow Turban Army with a level of tens of thousands, they are no match for Sun Jian.
At first Gong was not convinced by Sun Jian, so he ordered his army to fight Sun Jian, and surrounded Sun Jian with 50,000 elite Yellow Turbans, hoping to kill Sun Jian here, but he did not expect that Sun Jian would lead his bodyguards towards Gong Duzhong.
When the army rushed over, the Yellow Turban soldiers in Gong Du's hands could not withstand Sun Jian's charge at all, and were beaten to the point of collapse. Sun Jian defeated him with a single charge, and even he himself was hacked to death by Sun Jian. Yuan Shu also brought tens of thousands of soldiers with him.
The army surrounded the Yellow Turban Army on both sides of the battlefield. Seeing that Gong Du was killed, the Yellow Turban Army soldiers themselves were also surrounded and surrendered to Yuan Shu!
The victory of this war surprised Yuan Shu. Gong Du was one of the four commanders of the Yellow Turban Army in Yuzhou, but he was defeated by Sun Jian in a single encounter. Although he knew that Sun Jian was fierce, he did not expect that he would be so fierce!
He patted Sun Jian on the shoulder and said: "Brother, what I said is right. Your martial arts skills will be wasted if you don't use them in the Central Plains. When we brothers defeat the entire Yellow Turban Army in Yuzhou, the entire Han Dynasty will spread our brothers' names.
This is no better than being a country bumpkin and dealing with savages in Changsha County!"
But Sun Jian said with a heavy face: "But it is Liu Bei I want to fight!"
Sun Jian has not lost a battle since he joined the army, but the most unforgettable battle for him was the battle with Liu Bei. Even now, he has not forgotten it!
But Yuan Shu said nervously: "Wentai, brother Wei knows that you want to take revenge, but now is really not the time. Not only that we cannot defeat Liu Bei, but also that our current logistics must rely on Liu Bei's support! We cannot offend Liu Bei!"
A few years ago, Yuan Shu and the others conquered Yuzhou and recruited 100,000 troops and the grain and grass supplies needed for the army. However, they also created the Yellow Turban Army because of this.
When he fought with Liu Bei, he even threw away all the food and equipment when he was defeated. He wanted to fight the Yellow Turban Army in Yuzhou, but he didn't even have food and weapons!
Just when Yuan Shu was about to conquer Yuzhou again, Liu Bei sent his elder brother Yuan Ji as an envoy to make a deal with him. He was willing to exchange 10 shi of grain or equivalent weapons and armor for a Yellow Turban soldier, even to show his sincerity.
, Liu Bei also gave Yuan Shu 100,000 stones of grain and tens of thousands of weapons and armor in advance.
Although these weapons, armor and food belong to Yuan Shu himself, with these materials he can fight against the Yellow Turban Army in Yuzhou. Yuan Shu agreed without thinking!
Therefore, Yuan Shu was different from his elder brother in that he would not kill the Yellow Turban prisoners he captured, but instead sent soldiers to take the prisoners to Nanyang County and hand them over to Liu Bei.
Just like today's battle, he captured about 100,000 Yellow Turban troops. As long as he brings these people to Nanyang County, Liu Bei will give Yuan Shu 1 million stones of food. With this food and grass, Yuan Shu will have the confidence to continue fighting.
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After Liu Bei got these Huang Junjun soldiers, he planned to escort them to Nanjun to farm.
The development situation in various parts of Jingzhou is extremely uneven. Nanyang County, which belongs to Jingzhou and is north of the Yangtze River, has more than 2 million people. This does not include hidden households. According to Liu Bei's own estimation, the entire Nanyang County probably has more than 3 million people.
People, such a dense population, even in the Central Plains is a first-class large county, only Henan Yincai has a larger population than Nanyang County.
But the eight counties in Jingzhou south of the Yangtze River have a combined population of more than 3 million, which is equivalent to one Nanyang County! As long as you cross the Yangtze River, even in Xiangyang, which will be famous in later generations, you can see the swamps 10 miles outside the city. The entire Nanjun County is developed
There is not even a tenth of the land in the country. There are large tracts of wilderness and swamps in the wild. It can be said to be a completely barbaric land.
Historically, Cao Cao was defeated or almost trapped in the swamp of Nanjun. This was the result of decades of development by Liu Biao! From here you can see how low the development level of Jingzhou south of the Yangtze River is.
After Liu Bei became the shepherd of Jingzhou and defeated Yuan Shu, he came to Nanjun and found that there was a large amount of wasteland to the south of Jingzhou that could be cultivated. He was overjoyed when he saw it and believed that the wasteland and swamps south of Jingzhou were the only way to solve the problem of Han refugees.
He had experience in farming. When he saw the chaos in the Central Plains and the refugees all over the world joined the Yellow Turban Army to rebel against the Han Dynasty, he wanted to transfer the experience of Youzhou to Nanjun and reclaim the wasteland and swamps of Nanjun. With the vastness of Jingzhou,
With the mild climate in the south, it is not a problem to feed millions of refugees, and the problem of more people and less land in the Central Plains can also be solved!
So he sent Yuan Ji as an envoy to reach this deal with Yuan Shu!
With the temptation of food and grass, Yuan Shu was so motivated that he captured nearly 100,000 Yellow Turban troops every month and brought them to Nanyang County. Liu Bei then transported these prisoners to the surrounding southern Xinjiang for them to colonize and open up wasteland!
Of course, such a settlement would consume a lot of money, food and materials, and Liu Bei's solution was very simple. He first caught the nobles who rebelled against the court with Yuan Shu, asked them to hand over money and food to atone for their sins, and got a start-up capital, and then
Lead the army to quell the clan traitors from all over Jingzhou!
The Han clan thief is considered a specialty of the Yangtze River. Now the land development scope of the Han Dynasty is only north of the Yangtze River. The area south of the Yangtze River is so desolate that it can already be called a barbaric land. The people here can only survive if they want to survive.
To survive as a clan, they formed local armed forces based on clan units. Based on the farm economy, they established forts with economic and military functions, and were completely economically self-sufficient.
When the imperial court was in its prime, they were local tyrants, but when the imperial court declined, they immediately transformed into local bandits, robbing homes and causing cholera in all directions!
And Sun Jian rushed all the way south of Jingzhou to Yuzhou, and even the governor of Jingzhou was killed by him. Moreover, the Yuan brothers were fighting Dong Zhuo at that time. No matter how you look at it, the world is in chaos and the Han Dynasty is about to perish.
So most of the powerful people, large and small, in the south of Jingzhou thought that the troubled times had come, and it was time for everyone to fight for the world according to their own abilities, so they all rebelled against the Han, attacked counties and counties, plundered everywhere, and became a land-based bandit.
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How could Liu Bei endure such a thing? He ordered Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong and others to divide their forces to encircle and suppress these clan traitors. It took him three months to suppress the clan traitor forces in the entire Nanjun, Jiangxia County, and other places.
Seeing how powerful Liu Bei was, the clan thief threw down his sword and immediately turned to serve the people, becoming an honest and sincere common man again!
And Liu Bei relied on the seizures from the clan thieves to maintain the current scale of farming and even support Yuan Shu! After all, they are a family that has been in the family for hundreds of years, and that family does not have hundreds of thousands of stones of food!
Liu Bei had enough money and food to ignore the chaos in the Central Plains, but focused on leading the refugees to open up wasteland in Nanjun, dig ditches, build windmills to drain the water in the swamps of Nanjun, and cultivate fertile farmland!
Attention turns to Yuzhou!
The Yellow Turban Army in Yuzhou was beaten by Sun Jian and Yuan Shu and fled in all directions. Especially after Gong Dudu died in the hands of Sun Jian, Liu Pi, Huang Shao, He Man and others found that if they did not join forces, they would only die!
So the entire Yellow Turban Army in Yuzhou united and decided to deal with Yuan Shu and Sun Jian together!
Although the Yellow Turban Army in Yuzhou suffered heavy losses during this period, the combined forces of the several forces still had 150,000 troops!
Yuan Shu and Sun Jian were even more delighted when they discovered that the Yellow Turban Army in Yuzhou had united. After this period of war, they also discovered that the Yellow Turban Army was not very effective. Even if they united, they would not be Yuan Shu and Sun Jian's opponent! So they led
The army arrived in Yang'an County where the Yellow Turban coalition troops were stationed
Liu Pi, Huang Shao, He Man and others led the entire Yellow Turban Army to fight against the coalition forces of Sun Jian and Yuan Shu!
After the two sides repaired for a day, the battle started!
Sun Jian still used his old tactics. He led his personal guards to the front line of the battlefield. When he encountered the commander of the Yellow Turban Army, he rushed over and killed the Yellow Turban Army commander with a knife. Once the commander died in battle, all the Yellow Turban Army soldiers would surely collapse.
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In this way, Sun Jian fought fiercely for five days, breaking through 10 military formations of the Yellow Turban Army, and hacked to death more than a dozen Yellow Turban Army commanders. The Yellow Turban Army commander was so frightened that his expression changed when he heard about it!
Under such circumstances, even if the Yellow Turban Army had 3 times the advantage, they could not resist the attack of Sun Jian and Yuan Shu. They could only retreat to the mountainous area and rely on the geographical advantages of the mountainous area to block Sun Jian's attack!
But both Sun Jian and Yuan Shu wanted to completely defeat the Yellow Turban Army. Even if the Yellow Turban Army retreated to the mountains, they still pursued it!
Seeing that the Yellow Turban Army is about to collapse completely!
At this time, Zhu Min discovered that Sun Jian was at the forefront every time he fought, and he also liked to hunt down the commander of the Yellow Turban Army, so he made a plan using Sun Jian's habit!