Episode 0246: Yellow Turban Captive

The big water in front of the Tiger Prison Pass, the first battle wiped out nearly 100,000 Yellow Turban troops, and captured more than 200,000 people, the Yellow Turban Army was leveled by Peng Yu, and the old nest Puyang was lowered by Peng Yu, in other words, the Yellow Turban has collapsed, and it has completely lost the power to fight back.

The news of Zhang Bao's defeat spread throughout the Yellow Turban Army, and the Yellow Turbans were panicked, and before Peng Yu could attack again, they were already about to fall apart.

The handsome Zhang Bao is dead, what else can the yellow scarf do?

Fortunately, Peng Yu involved too much energy because of saving people in front of the pass, so he didn't take advantage of the victory to pursue, and immediately killed the Yellow Turban, who finally took a breath before dying.

It's not that Peng Yu didn't want to take the opportunity to destroy the Yellow Turbans, but when Peng Yu finally collected the rout of the Yellow Turban Army, he found that new and more serious problems had arisen.

How can such a large number of captives be placed? Where does the food come from?

There were too many Yellow Turban prisoners, Peng Yu did not dare to let them enter the customs, so he had to temporarily settle in Xingyang, the small Xingyang City was overcrowded, the Yellow Turban Army had many troops, several times that of Peng Yu's army, Peng Yu also felt very pressured, fortunately, many soldiers had no equipment and no food, so they could only wait for Peng Yu's relief, so there was not much chaos for the time being.

Peng Yu immediately made a decision, transferred Gu Yong to be responsible for pacifying the surrendered troops in Xingyang, transferred Xun Yu to be responsible for the placement of prisoners in Xingyang, and then asked Guo Jia to cooperate with Lu Bu to lead 10,000 troops to guard Xingyang.

The surrender of troops is different from the captivity, the surrender of troops under the leadership of Zhang Tu is voluntary, and the captives have to surrender after defeat, so relatively speaking, Peng Yu trusts Zhang Tu's 30,000 surrendered troops more.

After Zhang Tu became Peng Yu's subordinate, Peng Yu asked his subordinates to follow Zhou Cang, and Zhang Tu served as Zhou Cang's deputy general, so of course there was no complaint about arranging Zhang Tu in this way.

The captives are Xun Yu, Lu Bu, and Guo Jia, the three pillars are responsible for suppression, and one government, one military, and one article must be suppressed even though there are many prisoners and great pressure this time.

The problem of resettlement has been solved temporarily, so the biggest problem Peng Yu faces is soldier rations!

If the food supply is insufficient, these 200,000 captives will definitely fall back, and at that time, it will be another disaster, and even the tiger prison will be in danger, so Peng Yu will take a great risk in this matter.

Jia Xu even asserted that if Peng Yu succeeded in surrendering the captives, the court would have criticism, and even rumors would be rampant, for fear that it would cause a big disaster; But if the surrender of the captives fails, it is inevitable that the sword soldiers will rise again, bleeding for thousands of miles, not only the crisis is everywhere, even if the suppression is timely, but after the suppression, I am afraid that Peng Yukeng will leave a notoriety of killing prisoners in history.

In short, Jia Xu just said that it was thankless to collect so many prisoners!

Peng Yu can't manage so much, more than 200,000 mouths want to eat, since he has subdued them, naturally he can't let them starve to death, so Peng Yu racked his brains to find food.

Of course, the first batch of grain can only be sent by the Wei family, although the Wei family is extremely reluctant, but it is a matter of national affairs, more than 200,000 lives, and Peng Yu single-handedly controlled, the Wei family had to send a batch of food emergency.

With this first batch of food, Xingyang's urgent need was immediately solved, and although the Yellow Turban captives were not full, they had food to eat after all.

Just when Peng Yu was anxious about the second batch of grain, Zhang Tujin said that there was a lot of grain in Puyang, although it was not enough to feed more than 200,000 troops, it was no problem to support it for a while.

And Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao, who occupied Puyang, also discovered that there was a lot of grain in Puyang, and immediately sent someone to inform Peng Yu.

Peng Yu was overjoyed, Puyang has been ordered by himself, of course the grain belongs to himself, as long as this batch of grain is transported to Xingyang, the Yellow Turban captives in Xingyang will be completely relieved and settled, and then he will go back to Luoyang to ask His Majesty to transfer military rations, presumably it is not a big problem.

However, the troops of Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao in Puyang are too small, only 8,000 people, and whether they can hold Puyang is a problem, so they may not be able to transport grain, and the relationship between Puyang and Tiger Prison is not yet peaceful, so it is probably not safe to let a small number of soldiers transport grain.

When Puyang was in a dilemma, Peng Yu immediately decided, leaving Xu Huang and Jia Xu to guard the tiger prison, and he and Dian Wei and Hua Xiong led 10,000 cavalry to reinforce Puyang, which could deter the Yellow Turban Army that wanted to counterattack Puyang, and second, he could use horses to transport grain.

Peng Yu was worried about the food problem of the captives, so he didn't have time to report to the court, and immediately led the army to Puyang.

Just when Peng Yu led the army to Puyang, Peng Yu defeated the Yellow Turban, and the news of killing the thief's first Zhang Bao spread throughout Luoyang.

For a time, among the Han Dynasty, there were lights everywhere, and above the court, the ministers were smiling, and His Majesty Liu Hong was even more happy, and he was overjoyed.

It's just that when the ecstasy of everyone in Luoyang has not fallen, a discussion slowly appeared in Luoyang, Peng Yu will garrison more than 200,000 yellow scarves in Xingyang, and these hundreds of thousands of yellow scarves have already surrendered to Peng Yu, but Peng Yu is the first to look forward, if Peng Yu gives an order, the consequences will be unimaginable......

At the beginning, the rumors could only be a laugh of Bo people, but the three of them became tigers, and when more and more people talked about it, a huge storm of public opinion was formed in Luoyang City.

Especially Peng Yu, who is in the middle of public opinion, did not congratulate the court after defeating the Yellow Turban, but disappeared, which made the rumors spread rapidly in Luoyang, and finally even above the court, such remarks appeared from time to time, and even His Majesty Liu Hong's face became more and more ugly day by day.

Of course, the message in Luoyang came from the more powerful Dong faction, since the general He entered Wancheng, the Dong faction's power has increased day by day, and the power of discourse under control has become heavier and heavier, and even Wang Yun, Lu Zhi and other courtiers are not in a hurry.

Even the prince Liu Wei had to temporarily avoid the edge, when He Jin was in the court, Liu Wei didn't feel anything, once He entered Wancheng, Liu Wei immediately felt that he was in a lot of trouble, and even meeting his father Liu Hong became a little difficult.

In the entire Luoyang, in addition to Peng Yu's relatives, the most wanted Peng Yu to return to Luoyang immediately were the prince Liu Wei and Empress He.

It's a pity that Peng Yu was focused on the food at this time, and he didn't think about the situation in Luoyang at all, and even if Peng Yu knew, he would resolutely lead the army to Puyang, instead of returning to Luoyang immediately.

But in any case, after the fiasco of the Yellow Turbans in front of the Tiger Prison, the regime of the Eastern Han Dynasty became more and more stable, especially the large number of cities occupied by the Yellow Turbans recently returned to the hands of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which made His Majesty and the courtiers very satisfied.

And the people in the Dong faction found the sweetness from the matter of He Jin, as long as these important ministers with huge speaking power are transferred out of Luoyang, it doesn't matter if they are given important tasks, as long as they leave Luoyang obediently.

Therefore, the people of the Dong faction always mentioned to His Majesty that Wang Yun and Lu Zhi had worked hard, and asked His Majesty to reward them, so after five times, Wang Yun was named the Taishou of Jixian County, and Lu Zhi was named the Taishou of the Shangdang, so far, in Luoyang, the government was almost controlled by the Dong faction, and the important ministers in the He faction and the important ministers of Peng Yu's relatives were transferred out of Luoyang during the period.