Even the cavalry and the broken camp were so defeated, and I heard that there were hundreds of thousands of thieves who could fight in the Yellow Turbans, and the sergeants of the army were terrified.

Cao Cao now only has 20,000 horses, and in the face of hundreds of thousands of thieves, it is normal to be afraid.

Even Cao Cao didn't have much confidence, and he thought that Liu Dai didn't know how to fight, so he would die in battle.

Now he has experienced it firsthand, and he has also felt the essence of the yellow scarf.

But the yellow turbans must be beaten, and they cannot be allowed to run rampant in the state.

Cao Cao asked the generals and strategists to discuss countermeasures.

In the big tent in the army, Cao Cao sat in front of the desk, and the generals and strategists below stood on both sides.

Bao Xin's death was a blow to Cao Cao.

From the beginning of his army, Bao Xin was a supporter of Cao Cao.

During the Battle of Xingyang, Bao Xin was also among them, and his younger brother Bao Tao was also killed in the Battle of Xingyang, when he was also wounded.

After Liu Dai's death, Bao Xin firmly supported Ying Cao Cao as the pastor of Yanzhou.

Therefore, even if it is to avenge Bao Xin, he must attack the Yellow Turban Thief.

He looked at the people under the tent with a firm gaze, and after a while, he said slowly: "Do you have a good plan to fight the thief?" ”

No one spoke, and probably no one thought of any good plan.

Cao Cao looked at Xun Yu and said, "Wen Ruo, do you have a strategy to fight thieves?" ”

Xun Yu said: "The thieves are brave, and there are many thieves, and they may be able to win against the enemy head-on, and the only way to attack them is to attack them with surprise soldiers." ”

In fact, Xun Yu mainly looks at strategic issues, such as who to fight or who to hit first, as for how to fight, it is not what he is good at.

Xi Zhicai said: "Now that the army is afraid of thieves and morale is low, the general must first march to the army, persuade and punish clearly, and restore the morale of the army before he can fight." ”

Li Xian faced so many enemies, and he didn't have any good way, he was able to defeat the Black Mountain Thieves before, and that was because the organization of the bandits and the Yellow Turban could not be compared.

These yellow scarves obviously have a relatively complete organization, although there is a gap between them and the army, but they are all young and strong men selected from the millions of people, and their combat effectiveness is relatively strong.

However, Li Xian also knew that Cao Cao would win this time, and he had no strategy, so he could only obey his orders.

"Then we can avoid its sharpness and strike its weakness, so that we can seize its strength, and then ambush its strong thief, so that the thief will be afraid of me and defeated." Xi Zhicai continued.

"No, do you have a way to retreat from the enemy?" Cao Cao asked Li Xiedao.

"I praise the strategy of Comrade Cai, now the number of thieves is too different from ours, and it is impossible to fight head-on. Only by taking advantage of their weakness and winning every blow will the thieves think that we are an invincible army, so that the thieves may be subdued. ”

Li Xian felt that what Xi Zhicai said made sense, and this method was the only one available at present.

Cao Cao also felt that there was only this, after all, there were hundreds of thousands of thieves, and he only had 20,000.

Cao Cao personally put on armor and inspected the armies, saying that if the battle was won, the whole army would be rewarded.

There will be brave men under the heavy reward, and the soldiers think about the reward in their hearts, and they also have great hopes for killing the enemy and making meritorious contributions.

Cao Cao also sent a large number of scouts to pretend to be homeless people to explore the location of the Yellow Turban soldiers.

On the second day, the horses from all walks of life reported that there were nearly 400,000 Yellow Turban soldiers.

It is divided into four parts, each with 100,000 people.

Each division was divided into ten teams, each team of 10,000 people, scattered everywhere.

Except for one of the main battle departments, where the soldiers are all strong young people, most of the other three are old and weak people.

And the discipline is extremely poor, and in order to grab things, they often kill each other.

Cao Cao chose the three Yellow Turbans that were relatively close as the target of the attack.

He led a large army to pretend to attack the first section and attract the troops of the Yellow Turban section.

Then he sent Cao Ren to lead a thousand cavalry, and Li Xian to lead a thousand broken camps to attack the three Yellow Turbans.

After the plan was properly calculated, he and Xiahou Yuan led 10,000 soldiers and horses to march towards the Yellow Turban.

Leave Cao Hong and Xun Yu to guard the camp.

Cao Ren and Li Xian each led their troops to attack the Yellow Turban Three Divisions on both sides, so that the thieves did not know how many soldiers there were.

When Li Xian led the broken camp to the Yellow Turban Battalion, he found that these Yellow Turban soldiers were all farmers in their forties and fifties.

For a moment, he was a little unbearable, but after thinking about it, now is not the time to be compassionate, but the moment when you die and I die, and you can't have a benevolent heart.

He was ruthless, waved his halberd, and shouted: "Kill." ”

led the broken camp and rushed into the thief camp for a burst of slashing.

Compared with the yellow scarves encountered when he rescued Cao Cao a few days ago, these people are not vulnerable at all.

When they saw the soldiers killed, they held all kinds of improvised weapons to resist, but where could they resist.

When Cao Cao patrolled the army, he said that there would be a heavy reward for killing the enemy, and many of the people in the broken camp were Yanzhou people, and in order to protect their place from disaster, they also fought desperately.

Li slanted his halberd, and wherever he wielded it, someone would fall.

After rushing and killing for a while, Cao Ren also led the cavalry to kill from the other side, and the two armies were combined.

Originally, it was just to destroy the enemy's qi and grow his own momentum, and he didn't want to kill too much, but he couldn't contain it when he killed hard.

Li Xian saw that there were too many yellow scarves of those peasants who fell to the ground, and shouted to Cao Ren: "Zixiao, let's withdraw." ”

Cao Ren was able to kill and said, "These thieves are too hateful, let me kill them for a while." ”

"Quickly retreat, if there are thieves coming to help, it will be too late to surround us and then retreat."

"These thieves are vulnerable, let's take advantage of the situation to kill more."

Li Xian had no choice, and it was impossible for him to withdraw first, so he had to kill Cao Ren for a while.

When these old and weak yellow turbans encounter these two strong teams, they can only be slaughtered, and they have no ability to fight back.

After Li Xian and Cao Ren withdrew to the camp, they counted the number of people, and more than 100 people died on their own side.

On the second day, news came that more than 7,000 Yellow Turban thieves had been killed yesterday.

The Yellow Turban thieves were shocked.

They had always won the battle with Liu Dai before, so they despised the soldiers, but now they were killed so badly that they were also scared in their hearts.

Three days later, Cao Ren and Li Xian each led another 1,000 troops to attack the four Yellow Turbans.

Because of the fiasco of the Yellow Turban Third Division a few days ago, these soldiers of the Yellow Turban Fourth Division had already fled for their lives as soon as they saw the soldiers attacking.

Cao Ren and Li Xian chased and killed for a while, and only beheaded more than 2,000 people.

Seeing that Cao Cao's army was too powerful, the Yellow Turban thieves retreated to the north of Suchang.

The Yellow Turban thief wrote a book to Cao Cao: In the past, in Jinan, the altar was destroyed, and its way was the same as that of Zhonghuang Taiyi. The Han line is exhausted, and the Huang family should stand. The great luck of the sky is not what you can do.

Cao Cao scolded when he saw the book, and replied: The Mandate of Heaven is in Han, you gather people as thieves, and the people of Kouluo Prefecture are extremely evil. Cao obeys the command of heaven and begs the thief, if you surrender, you can avoid your death, otherwise you will be beheaded.

The Yellow Turban Thief was also furious when he first saw the book, and brought the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Division to attack Cao Cao.

Cao Cao asked Cao Ren and Li Xian to lead troops to ambush both sides, and when attacking the front of the Yellow Turban, the men and horses on both sides were killed at the same time.

The Yellow Turban thieves had already heard that the two fierce generals in Cao Cao's army, and the soldiers led by them were like fierce tigers, and when they saw that the two of them led the troops to suddenly kill, they fled in a hurry.

These yellow turbans were also peasants, and they did not have the courage to fight to the death, so many of them who could not escape surrendered.

Cao Cao killed more than 1,000 enemies and captured more than 3,000 in this battle.

The leader of the Yellow Turban thieves also knew that his subordinates had lost their fighting spirit, and the enemy Cao Cao could not be defeated, so he fought and retreated, and every time he fought, he would lose thousands of people.

Until the Yellow Turban retreated into the territory of Jibei Kingdom.

Cao Cao wanted to find Bao Xin's body, but he couldn't find it.

The people had to carve his shape out of wood and use it for sacrifice.

Cao Cao wept and sacrificed, vowing to put down the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

Led the crowd to chase the yellow scarf into the northern country.

The Yellow Turban couldn't escape, and he couldn't fight, so he had to surrender.

More than 300,000 Yellow Turbans were killed, and millions of other men, women, and children were killed.

Cao Cao selected 30,000 soldiers from the Yellow Turban Division and called them Qingzhou soldiers.

and scattered others in the state as farmers.