Chapter 329: A Dramatic Rout

War is a very serious and rigorous matter, and it is also an extremely cruel thing.

And this time, the Montenegrin Yellow Turban Army left their Montenegrin base camp to go out to raid, but they made many big mistakes, and these mistakes accumulated to cause their current defeat.

Or it can be said that even if Liu Xian did not learn the news of the attack of the Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro from Zhang Ning's hands in advance, even if they temporarily organized the military and civilian resistance of Yangshi County when their troops were in the city, in fact, they could also return with defeat and flee.

Needless to say, there are many problems with the Yellow Turban Army, such as that they have been beaten by the officers and soldiers of the imperial court and have lost their courage, and they themselves have become thieves and have long lost their faith souls.

None of this is to say, just talk about the performance of their military horses after they arrived here, and they are actually doomed to fail.

Think about it, even if Liu Xian is a businessman, the first and second time he is a businessman, he is cautious with every step, and he will send people to reconnoiter the situation, step by step.

And what about these Montenegrin Yellow Turbans? When they came to the city of Yang's County, they didn't even settle in the barracks, and they didn't realize it at all, and they didn't think that they would be attacked.

This was true of their 5,000 vanguard armies, and so were the main armies that followed.

They were indeed accustomed to plundering, and they were afraid of the officers and soldiers of the imperial court, but they were extremely vicious to the ordinary people, and always thought that they were just plundering ordinary villages and towns. They didn't dare to fight with the officers and soldiers of the imperial court, but couldn't they deal with the ordinary people of villages and towns?

Therefore, from the very beginning, they always believed that Yangshi County and Liulin Village were places waiting to be plundered by them, and they did not consider that the people in these places dared to confront his tens of thousands of men and horses.

Their continuous march, coupled with the weather, made their Yellow Turban soldiers exhausted when they arrived here, if not to the point where they could not fight, but they must have been extremely tired.

Zhang Niujiao, they also overestimated the combat effectiveness of their Black Mountain Yellow Turban Army. He actually fantasized that he could attack Yang's County in one fell swoop, and he could rest in the city after entering the city and looting.

Such a tired army, by nightfall, was already cold and hungry. Where will such an army have any combat effectiveness?

What's more, before their main force came, they had already lost their troops first, and the vanguard general Luo Shi was killed, with a total loss of 2,000 men and horses. This already bodes badly.

If it was more rigorous, they could have set up camp first without rushing to attack the city, so that their military horses could rest for the night. At the same time, use this night time to make more rafts to cross the river and siege equipment. Wait until the next day, when the whole army has almost recovered its strength, and then send more men and horses to cross the Qingshui River to attack Liulin Village, and then start the siege battle. In this case, they don't say whether they can capture Yang's County faster, but it is estimated that they will be able to capture Liulin Village first.

The 2,000 men and horses left by Liu Xian in Liulin Village can destroy 1,000 Yellow Turban soldiers and horses in one bite, and can defeat and destroy 3,000 men and horses. But what if it's five thousand, what about ten thousand?

As the saying goes, the lion pounces on the rabbit and must do his best. If the Montenegrin Yellow Turban Army had attached importance to facing up to Yangshi County and Liulin Village from the very beginning, and had not been fortunate, it would have been honestly prepared to fight a real war, and with a serious mentality, it would have fought this war for food. Then the result may be a completely different situation.

It's a pity that they make mistakes in a row.

They surrounded Yang's County and besieged the city, and the casualties were too great, and they were already cowardly. When the siege was stopped and the horses below were rested, the Black Mountain Yellow Turban Army was already exhausted.

At this time, the Yellow Turban Army, they were already physically and mentally exhausted, and the casualties were too great, which made them feel a kind of fear and fear of war in their hearts.

However, after this truce, none of them expected to be attacked, so the Yellow Turban Qu Marshal and the leader who led the army and horses to attack the city all ran to report the situation to their chief Ling Niujiao and ask for instructions on the next move. This continuous siege of the city was not overcome, and they did lose some patience, especially the casualties were too large, so they naturally had to go to the big leader to vent their bitterness and find a way to overcome the city.

As a result, in the Yellow Turban Army in the three directions of the southeast and north of the city at this time, the Yellow Turban leaders who really sat on the military horses were not there.

However, Liu Xian suddenly led the army to kill at this moment, and two thousand military horses, like entering a no-man's land, like the autumn wind sweeping the leaves, completely defeated the Yellow Turban Army in the south of the city, and then took advantage of the victory to pursue and turned to the east of the city.

In other words, Yundao is not on the side of the Yellow Turbans.

Anyway, even Liu Xian thought that he would have to fight a vicious battle with the Yellow Turban Army this time, but he didn't expect it to be so smooth, and his military horse basically defeated the Yellow Turban Army without encountering too much resistance.

In addition to the west of the city, the Yellow Turban soldiers and horses outside the other three city walls basically have about 8,000 men and horses each, and the siege of the city is small for half a day, and the casualties are heavy, and there are about 5,000 men and horses left.

After being attacked, Liu Xian's 2,000 men and horses suddenly killed, and the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army who were really killed were not too many, it was estimated that there were about 1,000 people, and the rest were so frightened that they fled.

Among them, some of them fled to the west of the city, but more, one or two thousand Yellow Turban soldiers fled to the east of the city. The Yellow Turban Army on the east side of the city, they were also like frightened birds, affected by the rout, and they also fled in fear.

In this way, a chain reaction was formed, and those Yellow Turban troops seemed to be driven by more than 1,200 men and horses led by Liu Xian to flee for their lives.

The thousands of Yellow Turban troops in the east of the city fled in disarray, and turned to the north of the city along the wall of Yangshi County. As a result, under the impact of the rout in the south of the city and the thousands of Yellow Turban Army in the east of the city, the Yellow Turban Army in the north of the city, which also had no military formation to speak of, was also inexplicably following the rout.

At this time, the situation is really a little delicate. The shouts and screams made the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army who fled extremely frightened, and they all thought that they had suffered an incomparably terrifying attack, and they fled without their lives.

These soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army, although they were very frightened, and even fled for their lives inexplicably, they subconsciously wanted to flee to the west, thinking that they wanted to join the big leader Zhang Niujiao.

In this way, it is really a bit dramatic.

The Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro, which was in the south of the city, east of the city, and west of the city, formed a torrent of routs as they fled, at least tens of thousands of routs.

When they turned to the west of the city, tens of thousands of people rushed into the more than 20,000 Yellow Turban troops in the west of the city in a panic.

These routs, from the south of the city to the east of the city and then to the north of the city, and then fled to the west of the city to join the army, which naturally could not be escaped at once. At this time, the part of the Yellow Turban deserters who fled from the south of the city to the west of the city, they naturally directly joined the army west of the city. They were alarmed and reported the situation to the Yellow Turban leaders of Zhang Niujiao, letting them know that a military horse had suddenly attacked their military horse in the south of the city and defeated them.

When Zhang Niujiao heard this, these Yellow Turban leaders almost subconsciously, and immediately gathered their military horses and killed them to the south of the city, intending to support the military horses in the south of the city, as well as attacking the enemy troops who raided the Yellow Turban Army in the south of the city.

So they set out with a great army, and rushed from the west of the city to the south of the city.

As a result, the tens of thousands of Yellow Turban soldiers who fled from the north of the city crashed headlong into the tail of the army that was attacking to the west of the city.

This was rushed by so many people, and the military formation of the main army of the Yellow Turban Army was also disrupted.

At this time, the officers and soldiers guarding the city and the people at the head of Yangshi County were all confused, but they could see it clearly at the head of the city.

At the beginning, it was the south of the city that suddenly became chaotic, and then those Yellow Turban soldiers began to flee in disorder, along the walls of Yangshi County, from the south to the east, and then from the east to the north, and fled to the west of the city.

The soldiers and civilians at the head of the city, they were a little puzzled at this time, what they saw was obviously that Liu Xian was only with one or two thousand men and horses, why could only one or two thousand men and horses be able to kill those Yellow Turban troops all the way to defeat? These two thousand men and horses can actually chase so many Yellow Turban troops to rush and kill?

But no matter what, they were a little enthusiastic at this time.

His own army was only one or two thousand, and the Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro was defeated.

The soldiers and civilians at the head of the city, at this time, they did not dare to participate in the attack outside the city, and they did not dare to open the city gate and go out of the city to attack those Yellow Turban troops together. But what they saw really made them very uplifted, so they kept cheering at the head of the city, and they kept shouting to cheer for Liu Xian, the team that pursued the Yellow Turban Army under the city.

This, the inexplicable rout of the Yellow Turban Army's chain reaction, also has a certain relationship with the shouts and cheers on the head of the city. Because the people and horses in the city shouted loudly, the momentum formed was also great.

This invisibly also made those soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army who fled in panic misunderstand what had changed, and misunderstood that the army of the imperial court was killed, so they fled even more desperately in a panic.

These shouts also had a certain impact on the main Yellow Turban army in the west of the city.

Let's talk about Zhang Niujiao, this time he left Montenegro to attack Yangshi County, so far, the progress has not been smooth, and it is not at all what he expected.

Liulin Village failed to loot successfully, and this Yang County was not able to be captured. Nothing was gained, but the soldiers were lost.

At this point, he didn't know what to do.

The generals of the Yellow Turban Army came to ask him how he was doing, which also made Zhang Niujiao a little annoyed, which said that he came to ask him for advice, but in fact it was tantamount to coming to see his joke. It seems to be saying, look, you are a big leader, you are not powerful, this first battle out of the mountain is like this, do you want to go back empty-handed? As a big leader, if you withdraw to Montenegro like this, how can you explain to so many Yellow Turban soldiers? Are you embarrassed to continue to sit in this position as the leader of the Yellow Turban Army in Montenegro?

Anyway, Zhang Niujiao is very unhappy at this time.

can't even solve the problem of food for his own military horses, so what kind of big leader is it?

Men and horses attacked his army, which was just right, Zhang Niujiao immediately ordered the army to gather support, and he himself flew directly on his horse, raised his sword and led the army out.

Staying to face the interrogation of a group of Yellow Turban Qu Shuai who were originally at the same level as him, Zhang Niujiao was indeed extremely unhappy, and he was a little difficult to face. Therefore, he just held a person who avoided first, dragged it out, and solved the enemy army that dared to attack his own men and horses first.

Chu Feiyan is indeed very capable, brave, resourceful and courageous. It's a pity that his rank in the Yellow Turban Army is indeed lower, and he really has to perform the gift of the younger generations in front of the Yellow Turban Qu Shuai of the 36th Party of the former Yellow Turbans like Huang Long.

Now that the Yellow Turban army is attacking the city, those Yellow Turban Qu Shuai have come to question Zhang Niujiao in the name of reporting the situation and asking questions, etc., and Chu Feiyan has no way to resolve the current difficulties at this time. He also had the heart to resolve the embarrassment of these yellow turban commanders for Zhang Niujiao, but it was not his turn to say anything.

Now, seeing that Zhang Niujiao gave the order to attack and took the lead in leading the army, he was startled, and quickly flew on his horse and followed away.

At this time, the Yellow Turban Army in the south of the city had already been defeated, and when Zhang Niujiao led the army from the west of the city to the south of the city, he saw only a situation where corpses were everywhere and rivers of blood were formed.

Those corpses lying in a pool of blood were naturally his Yellow Turban soldiers, and the corpses of those Yellow Turban soldiers extended all the way to the east of the city, which was equivalent to giving them directions, indicating that the enemy had turned to the east of the city to attack the Yellow Turban Army.