Chapter 9: Yingchuan

After Chen Qun slowly withdrew with the Yellow Turban Army, Sun Jian looked at the soldiers around him, and he really felt like crying. It turned out to be a complete 3,000 people, but after a battle, only more than 1,000 remained. Even the four generals under his command were all wounded, and the war happened for a short time, but it was extremely tragic. The war was at a fever pitch at the very beginning. When Sun Jian reacted and wanted to gather people, he found that there were not many people around him. First a fire blocked everyone's view, followed by a rain of arrows, and more than half of the troops were immediately lost. In the end, Sun Jian tried his best, and in the end, he only managed to gather less than 500 people around him. Zu Mao still had an arrow feather in one hand and a knife in the other, looked at Sun Jian in front of Sun Jian and said: General, we have suffered heavy losses in this battle. Of the 3,000-strong troops, there are only more than 1,000 left, and even these 1,000 people are wounded, and our unit has been disabled.

Sun Jian nodded and said sadly: Yes, if the Yellow Turban Army leaves half an hour late, we will be wiped out. Zu Mao looked at Sun Jian and asked curiously: General, why didn't the Yellow Turban Army continue to besiege us, but retreated there? Sun Jian looked at the direction he came and said: There should be reinforcements arriving. Then he directly ordered Zu Mao to quickly clean up the battlefield and see how many soldiers were still alive. Zu Mao just cleaned up the battlefield with an arrow in one hand, and he didn't care about his injuries.

After a while, a large group of people arrived, and before the people got off the horse, they shouted at Sun Jian: Wentai, what's going on? Wounded soldiers were everywhere as far as the eye could see. Sun Jian looked at the person who came, and said directly: We were ambushed by the Yellow Turban Army just now, and we can do this after a battle. The person who came was really Xu Zhen, Xu Zhen dismounted and looked at Sun Jian, and when he was looking at the battlefield, he directly ordered the herald behind him: Send someone to inform the general and Mr. of the situation here. In addition, let his brothers dismount to help treat the wounded. After finishing speaking, he looked at Sun Jian to see if he had anything else to add. Sun Jian shook his head, turned around and walked to the battlefield to help treat the wounded. Xu Yan touched the big head, shook his head and walked towards the battlefield.

After a while, Xu Zhen, Sun Jian, and Sun Jian's four generals Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Han Dang, and Zu Mao stood together again. Cheng Pu briefed Xu Zhen and Sun Jian: Of the 3,000-strong troops, 1,300 are still alive, of which 800 were lightly wounded and 500 were seriously wounded. It is estimated that only half of the 500 seriously wounded will still be alive in the end. Sun Jian calculated in his heart and found that even in the best case, the maximum number of people who could still be alive was 1,000. His unit has been crippled, and most importantly is now demoralized.

Xu Yan and Sun Jian glanced at each other, and they had no idea, and they didn't know what to do. I had to stand there and wait for the arrival of Huangfu Song and Xun You.

After a while, Huangfu Song and Xun You arrived with their troops, and Huangfu Song looked at Sun Jian's sparse troops in the future, and looked at the corpses of the soldiers who died in battle gathered together next to him. Huangfu Song dismounted, stood in front of Xun You, lowered his head and said: Sir, it is my fault, the responsibility for this defeat lies with me, and I will explain the details to His Majesty and His Royal Highness the Prince. Now please sir teach me what we should do now.

Huangfu Song looked at Sun Jian and the defeated soldiers under Sun Jian's command, and had no idea for a while, and then asked Xun You for advice.

Xun You looked at the Huangfu Song in front of him and sighed, originally he didn't agree with this pursuit. In the past two days, the Yellow Turban Army launched more than ten suicidal attacks, each of which was defeated by the devastating posture of Xu Zhen and Sun Jian's troops. Under the many victories, from top to bottom, whether it is Huangfu Song or Xu Zhen, Sun Jian or the low-level soldiers below, they have all been carried away by the victory, Xun You has asked to stay calm many times, but he was ridiculed as a coward by everyone. This time the Yellow Turban Army came to provoke and attack again, Xun You insisted on his own opinion, argued with reason, and finally persuaded Huangfu Song, and finally the two sides chose a compromise method, Sun Jian led his troops to pursue, and Xu Yan led his troops to respond in the rear. Now the results are obvious, Xun You is right. But Xun You didn't want to guess right.

Now, because of Huangfu Song, more than half of the troops have been lost, but in his heart, Xun You is also very heartbroken, that is more than 2,000 well-trained elites. That's it. However, as a strategist, Xun You also had to do his essential work and think about the future of this army. Xun Yu dismounted and stood with Huangfu Song and others to analyze the situation.

I only heard Xun You say slowly: Now that the Yellow Turban Army has defeated us, they will definitely take Yingchuan directly, and because of the Yellow Turban Army's victory, its prestige will definitely increase greatly. The counties around Yingchuan are also no longer safe. What we can do now is to set up camp now, contact the surrounding counties, and ask them to send reinforcements to support us. Huangfu Song heard that this series of things happened because he underestimated the enemy, and where he stood for a long time, he was speechless.

However, Xun You said suddenly, and as soon as he heard Xun You say it, everyone was in good spirits and ready to listen to Xun You. Xun You saw that he had successfully attracted everyone's attention, nodded secretly with satisfaction, and continued: Now Yingchuan is unstable, but we can pretend that we don't know, the Yellow Turban Army will be arrogant under the victory, we will first send people to Yingchuan first, let Yingchuan City send people to support us, if they have more people out of the city, we will directly attack Yingchuan City, if there are few people out of the city, we will eat this group of people out of the city, now we need to have a bold and careful person, after entering the city, deal with it freely. However, this plan may also be seen through by the enemy, and the person who enters the city may encounter accidents.

After listening to Xun You's words, everyone looked at each other, and they were silent for a while, and they didn't speak. Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Xun You continued: Now there is another problem, we need to know as soon as possible who is in charge of this Yellow Turban Army, and if this plan is to be implemented, we must first know ourselves and our opponents.

After listening to Xun You's words, everyone nodded in agreement. Huangfu Song immediately ordered the scouts to investigate who the person in charge of the Yellow Turban Army was, and also to investigate the situation in Yingchuan City. After Huangfu Song's words were finished, several cavalry rode towards Yingchuan City. Huangfu Song saw that there was nothing to do for the time being, so he let everyone disperse. Even Xun You's plan must be investigated clearly before it can be implemented.

On the other side, Chen Qun was still returning to the camp with his troops. Until now, Chen Qun did not plan to go to Yingchuan City, he hoped to ambush the Han army in Yingchuan City. If the Han army went to Yingchuan City to camp in the case of heavy losses, and with the cooperation of Zhou Zhidao, he opened the city gate in the middle of the night, and he could definitely wipe out the Han army that entered the city. As long as he thought about this result, Chen Qun was excited. So after thinking about it again, Chen Qun returned to his original station.

In this way, a battle around Yingchuan City began.