Chapter 12: The Yellow Turban Defeat
Compared with the great supernatural power of one qi and three clears, whether it is the martial arts of the soldiers or the secret art of leading the troops, it is just a simple and easy-to-learn path. But both of these secret arts have their own unique features.
Feng Ye also cultivated both, with the Demon God Federation Body Forging Technique as a foundation, this martial arts is not difficult for him, it is very easy to get started, but if you want to be proficient, you need to experience actual combat.
The secret art of leading soldiers is actually a kind of spiritual secret art, which connects all the soldiers under its command with its own spirit. Feng Ye had cultivated the visualization map, and his spiritual power was strong enough, and it was this that hindered his progress in cultivating the secret art of leading troops.
His spiritual power is too strong, and when he connects with the spirit of the soldiers, he only feels that the spirit of those soldiers is like tofu, which will be broken when he touches it. This is exactly the manifestation of his lack of mental control.
This secret art of leading soldiers is a more delicate application of spiritual power. The spirit is differentiated, turned into filaments, and woven into a large net, covering all the soldiers under his command.
Let all the soldiers under his command be of one heart. Fame, personal achievements, fairness, and other things that can affect the morale of the military can all add to this secret art.
The more the soldiers under his command trust the main general, the more soldiers the main general can lead. With the martial arts of the soldiers, the more powerful the combat power that this martial general can exert on the battlefield.
The Yellow Turban Rebellion was vigorous in the Central Plains, relatively speaking, this little thing that Feng Ye did in Liaodong was not worth worrying about at all.
In this Yellow Turban Uprising, many heroes also emerged, such as the three brothers Liu Bei in Zhuo County, Youzhou.
These three people only had 500 soldiers under their command, and they actually faced the 50,000 Yellow Turban troops led by the Yellow Turban General Cheng Yuanzhi and Deng Mao. You can still win it.
It is not known how well the three brothers can command the army, but relying on five hundred recruits who have just formed an army, they can become a hundred.
killed Cheng Yuanzhi and Deng Mao head-on in the army, it can be seen that the three brothers are all masters of martial arts and martial arts, and have cultivated to the top.
Feng Ye knew that Liu Bei was a staunch royalist, and he was also a classmate and friend of Gongsun Zhan, but now that Gongsun Zhan's family had been raided and exterminated, Gongsun Zhan was an official outside. How could he not take revenge?
Feng Ye's identity as a thief naturally stood on the opposite side of Liu Bei and others. Yu public and private, Liu Bei, Sun Zan and others will be the biggest enemies Feng Ye is about to face.
Feng Ye also took advantage of this time when the imperial court wanted to exterminate the Yellow Turban Army, and made a little understanding of these upcoming opponents.
Although the Yellow Turban Army represents the majority of the toiling masses, the power they hold is far inferior to that of the landlords and the big families. Whether it is a Taiping Taoist priest or a Yellow Turban wrestler, it is far inferior to the elite soldiers of the imperial court.
When Feng Ye's side stepped up military training, the Yellow Turban Army was also retreating. Huangpu Song and Zhu Jun burned down the Changshe, and hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban troops were wiped out in a battle.
Feng Ye knew very well that the Yellow Turban Army was about to end. However, there are so many Yellow Turban Army, they can't all be killed by the imperial court. For Feng Ye, it was all a new force.
Liaodong County has some land, but it is the population. And next to deal with the encirclement and suppression of the imperial court, Feng Ye is also in urgent need of soldiers.
Just when the imperial court burned down the Changshe and the Yellow Turban Army showed its decline, Feng Ye's side was surrounded by cavalry, publicizing the alliance between Feng Ye and the Yellow Turban Army in Liaodong. Tell them that if they have nowhere to go, they can go to Liaodong to join General Liaodong.
Although Zhang Jiao did not agree to the alliance at the beginning, Feng Ye knew that Zhang Jiao was besieged by Lu Zhi in Guangzong at this time, and he was about to die. The Yellow Turban Army all over the country, who can still go to him for verification?
And at this time, it was the time when the Yellow Turban Army was about to be defeated, and it was losing on the battlefield and was at a loss for the future. If it's a little earlier, the power of the Yellow Turban is flourishing, where will you go to the bitter cold place in Liaodong?
In the evening, the Yellow Turban Army will be massacred by the imperial army and powerful forces from all over the country, and Feng Ye will not be able to recruit many people if he wants to.
Therefore, this time is the best time to take the remnants of the yellow scarf. Many of the defeated Yellow Turban soldiers who were scattered began to rush to Liaodong when they heard the news from Feng Ye's side.
Liaodong County is thousands of miles away from the Central Plains? Along the way, it also has to face the encirclement and suppression of officials and troops and the attacks of local tyrants. Those who can rush to Liaodong County are definitely strong.
In this year, the Yellow Turban Uprising broke out in the eight prefectures of Dahanqing, Xu, You, Hebei, Jing, Yang, Yan, and Henan at the same time.
On the contrary, under Feng Ye's rule, not only did he not delay spring ploughing, but Feng Ye even let people secretly reclaim 10,000 acres of fertile land in Xuansu County, and with the plant growth medicine in his hand, he harvested every day, and the grain and grass were piled up.
Since Feng Ye began to publicize, there have been more than the Yellow Turban Party one after another, gathering from all over the Han Dynasty to Liaodong County. The population on Feng Ye's side has developed rapidly.
It's really that Zhu Jun and Huangpu Song cooperate too well, they don't accept the surrender of the Yellow Turban Army, and even those who are coerced by the Yellow Turban are all considered thieves. As long as there are thieves, they will not spare any of them, and they will all die.
I want to fight but can't beat the official army, and the other party doesn't accept it when I surrender. These desperate Yellow Turban rebels were forced to either hide in the mountains or come all the way to Liaodong County. For these Yellow Turban rebels, Liaodong is always a way to live.
Feng Ye was busy collecting the Yellow Turban Rebels and selecting the best to form an army, and the rest were all sent by Feng Ye to open up the wasteland, as long as they were cultivated for three years, the fields obtained from the cultivation would all belong to the people who opened up the wasteland.
The Liaodong government, on its part, can lend them tools, seeds, cattle and other tools. Nearly 200,000 young men were received from Liaodong one after another, further enhancing the war potential under Feng Ye's command.
And the army under Feng Ye has also continued to grow to 50,000 people. Don't underestimate the army of 50,000 people, the Yellow Turban Uprising responded at the same time as the eight states, Zhang Jiao ascended to the top and called for followers to gather, and the rebels numbered hundreds of thousands.
And how many people did the Han court send? It was only 40,000 people, and it suppressed the massive Yellow Turban Uprising. And these 40,000 people are already the largest force that the Han court can mobilize in a short period of time.
Feng Ye's 50,000 people, all of whom were well-equipped and well-trained professional soldiers, most of them were Yellow Turban veterans who came down from the battlefield. The rest of them also followed Feng Ye to conquer Xuansu County, Lelang County, and Changli County.
Among these 50,000 people, there are 8,000 Baima Yicong, 20,000 heavy infantry Youzhou wrestlers, and the remaining 22,000 people, who were scattered by Feng Ye in various county towns as town guards.
The group of people who surrendered in the defeated Yellow Turban Army, many of them have developed the bad habit of killing people and overstepping goods, these Yellow Turban Army were scattered by Feng Ye in various places to open up wasteland, if there is not enough force to suppress it, these people may have to make Feng Ye's rear troublesome.
Although these surrendered yellow turbans may have such and such shortcomings, but the flaws are not concealed, Feng Ye needs these strong laborers to cultivate fields, grow grain, pay taxes, and provide soldiers for him.
In the blink of an eye, with the death of Zhang Jiao, the leader of the Yellow Turbans, the main force of the Yellow Turbans was also exterminated, and most of the Yellow Turban troops in various parts of the Han Dynasty were also exterminated. The stormy man finally quieted down.
Regarding the situation of Feng Ye in Liaodong County, it has also entered the eyes of the imperial court.
Feng Ye's side has already made preparations, Sun Zhong, Gongsun Cheng, this year, they have also been studying hard and practicing hard, and they have not slackened at all.
"Sun Zhong, how is your cultivation of the secret art of leading the troops, how many White Horse Yicong can you lead now?" Feng Ye summoned Sun Zhong and Gongsun Cheng over and asked.
"Lord forgive my sins, I have really worked hard to cultivate, but so far I can only lead two thousand white horse righteous followers. However, in terms of martial arts, I have been able to mobilize the strength of the third layer of soldiers. Sun Zhong said ashamedly.
Although this achievement is not even a third-rate military general in the Great Han, Feng Ye does not blame him.
As a child of a peasant family, Sun Zhong has gone from an ordinary peasant boy to now being able to lead two thousand white horse servants and mobilize the strength of the three layers of soldiers. It only took a year.
This achievement has surpassed many children of families who have cultivated secret arts since childhood. It can be seen that he still has talent in this area, but the starting time is too short. As long as he can be given a few more years, he will definitely be a tiger general.
"Well, in less than a year, you can have this result, which is already very good. Feng Ye patted Sun Zhong's shoulder and comforted him.
"Thank you, the last general will definitely work harder to cultivate, so that he can be loyal to the lord. Sun Zhong said resolutely.
"Gongsun Cheng, how are you doing now?" Feng Ye turned his head and asked.
"My lord, the last general has been able to mobilize fifty percent of the strength of the soldiers, but in terms of command, it is still a little low. can only command a thousand Youzhou heavy armor wrestlers. Gongsun Cheng replied.
Feng Ye understood that in fact, Gongsun Cheng was a very capable person, and the reason why he was inferior in terms of leadership was also related to his reputation, and the reputation of slaughtering the entire clan made many soldiers disdain him.
felt that he was slaughtering the family just to flatter Feng Ye, and he was a despicable and shameless villain. He is even more reluctant to fight under his command.
The people's hearts are not convinced, which leads to the fact that it becomes very difficult for him to command the soldiers, which is the consequence of being unpopular.
However, this problem is easy to solve, as long as he leads the soldiers to win a few battles and is convincing, his command energy will naturally go up.
"A thousand armies are easy to obtain, but a general is hard to find. It was only at this time that Feng Ye understood the true meaning of this sentence. That's so right. As long as you have money, you can recruit as many soldiers as you want.
But there are no generals who can command the army, and no matter how many soldiers there are, they are just a rabble. The fate of the Yellow Turban Army is obvious to all, hundreds of thousands of troops swept through the eight states of the Han Dynasty, and it was finished in less than a year. Isn't it because of the lack of enough generals?
Feng Ye now has 28,000 elite troops under his command.
However, the two generals under his command have their own problems, and now they can only command 3,000 soldiers. Once the battle starts, the consequences are simply unimaginable.
When he didn't get the secret technique of the three-volume soldier, Feng Ye still had the confidence to fight with the heroes of the world with his own strength with the army under his command.
It wasn't until he learned the three volumes of secret techniques that Feng Ye knew that there were generals in command, and there were no generals in the army, and the combat power was simply the gap between heaven and earth. There is simply no comparison.
Feng Ye's own strength is much stronger than these two subordinates. In this year's time, he has cultivated to the point where he can command 8,000 soldiers, and his martial arts are also very good, and the strength of the gathered soldiers can also reach fifty percent.
Although there is still a gap compared to those top generals, the elite soldiers under Feng Ye's command are indeed the world's first-class elite soldiers, white horses.
Elite soldiers, that's what every general dreams of. Even the strength of an elite soldier is stronger than the full strength of an ordinary soldier.
For example, Gongsun City can only command a thousand meters of elite soldiers, borrowing the strength of the third layer of soldiers. On the other hand, a top general who can command 10,000 ordinary soldiers and borrow the strength of ten layers of soldiers.
When it comes to a real fight, it will definitely be Gongsun City that has the upper hand. The role that elite soldiers can play is so powerful.
It's just that it's not easy to refine elite soldiers, and every time you train an elite soldier, you need a lot of money. Even money alone is not enough, you need a lot of precious resources, as well as the right soldiers.
For example, the white horse Yicong needs a strong white horse, and many times, there is no place to buy it if you have money.
There may not be 30,000 elite soldiers in the center of the entire Han court. In Feng Ye's hands, he has eight thousand white horse followers. That's the advantage.
Youzhou heavy armor wrestlers, although they can't be called elite soldiers, but they are also top-level soldiers.
Just when Feng Ye was preparing for the war, the imperial court was not idle.
Sure enough, as Feng Ye expected, the imperial court sent Gongsun Zhan, led three thousand elite horsemen, to conquer Feng Ye. And the three Liu Bei brothers, whom Feng Ye had been paying attention to, also spontaneously brought their soldiers to help Gongsun Zhan as expected.
Fortunately, at this time, Liu Bei was not valued by the imperial court, and there were not many soldiers in his hands at all, only 2,000 foot soldiers.
"Okay, let me see how powerful the top generals are in this era!" Feng Ye stood on the school ground, looking at the direction of Zhuozhou, and thought with high morale.
Feng Ye has never liked to be beaten passively, he likes to take the initiative and fight on the enemy's territory, which is better than fighting on his own territory. He was ready to send troops to the right of Beiping, on the enemy's territory, to fight the enemy.
Feng Ye didn't bring too many people with him on this expedition, but only led 8,000 White Horse Righteous Servants and 2,000 Youzhou Heavy Armor Warriors, that is, the troops that Feng Ye cultivated by refining the Yellow Turban Warriors.
The war is about logistics, and now not only Youzhou, but the entire Han Dynasty is short of food, but Feng Ye is not short of food, and every day there are convoys from Xuansu County to transport grain.
Feng Ye's march was very fast, and a large amount of food was packed in the space by him, which was easy to carry.