Of course, the Han army captured the largest city in Nanyang County without any suspense, and it was indeed as Ma Chao thought, he took Wancheng at the smallest cost.

But for this battle, Ma Chao also understands that being able to take Wancheng does not mean how high his strategy is or how great his ability is, but that Wei Ping and they performed very well, and the strength of the Han army is also good, and there are no masters in the Yellow Turban Army, so naturally they did not expect it, and they were not prepared, so they were a little lucky.

After entering Wancheng, Ma Chao's heart finally let go temporarily. After all, Liu Hong sent himself here from Luoyang, that is, to recapture Wancheng, and then eliminate the Wancheng Yellow Turban Army by the way, so that he can have less pressure on Luoyang and sleep well. And now, he has done both of these things, not to mention Wancheng, and judging from the current situation, at least Zhang Mancheng's Yellow Turban Army should be almost wiped out.

Ma Chao saw Wei Ping and them, and he got off the horse, "Wei Ping, you have worked hard!" ”

"The Lord's order, we will complete it, fortunately not disgraced!" Wei Ping said.

"Good job, give you a big credit!"

In the Taishou Mansion, Ma Chao was listening to Chen Zhi's report to him, and after the counting of the soldiers, the victory of Wancheng was a victory, but the loss was not small. Originally, there were more than 4,000 people before, but after this battle, there were only more than 2,000 left, and Ma Chao was also distressed when he heard it. Although these are not their own personal soldiers, they are also brought here from Luoyang, and they are their superiors, and they are all their subordinates.

But as a result, after these battles, from the first 10,000 people, there are only more than 2,000 left, so can this Ma Chao not feel distressed. And the Yellow Turban Army defending Wancheng was almost completely annihilated, of course, this annihilation does not mean that all of them have been wiped out, but a total of three parts, three results.

This first part is that one-third of them died in Wancheng, and the vast majority of these one-thirds should be said to be believers who are loyal to the Taiping Dao, which can be said to be religious fanatics, Ma Chao has to sigh that the power of religion is strong.

And this second part, there is still a third of them to escape. There is no way to do this, there are only about 4,000 people on Ma Chao's side, and the city gate is wide open, when the Yellow Turban soldiers saw Chen Zhi's gun with Zhang Mancheng's head inserted in the gun, many of them really had no intention of fighting again, and some of them took advantage of the chaos to run, you can't expect more than 4,000 people to kill how much, and don't expect to stop how much, anyway, a third of the run.

And the last part, which is also the last one-third, was scared by the Han army, afraid of the Han army, and they didn't run away, and they could only surrender after the last one.

Ma Chao frowned after hearing this, it doesn't matter what happened to those who died and those who escaped, but what about the one-third who surrendered.

Just thought of this, but his thoughts were interrupted by Chen Zhi, "Lord, I caught one of the generals who defended Wancheng, but Zhang Mancheng was nowhere to be found, I thought that he should have fled while he was in chaos, and his subordinate Sun Xia should have also fled!" ”

When Ma Chao heard this, his brows furrowed even deeper, this Zhang Mancheng didn't catch it, and he didn't even catch the one named Sun Xia under him, so he grabbed a general who was guarding the city, which is all a trouble.

"Where is that garrison general now?" Ma Chao asked.

"Bring the one who guards Wancheng up!" Chen Zhi ordered the soldiers.

"No!" The soldier promised to take the people.

One was immediately charged, but Ma Chao didn't know what the general who defended the city looked like, so he saw that the one who was escorted should be sixteen or seventeen years old. When the soldier brought the man up, he said, "Kneel!" So saying, he kicked him in the leg.

When Ma Chao saw it, he waved his hand, "Forget it, just let him stand!" "He doesn't care much about kneeling or anything, in Ma Chao's opinion, it's useless at all, even if it's an enemy, there's no need for this.

"No!" The soldier went down.

"You are the general of the Yellow Turban Army defending Wancheng?" Ma Chao asked this person.

"Exactly!"

Ma Chao didn't expect that this person could answer his question. Originally, based on his experience, it seems that people who are more tough like this generally don't say anything.

Ma Chao nodded, the reason why he nodded was because he was quite face-saving, "I don't know Your Excellency's name?" ”

"The eldest husband will not change his name, and he will not change his surname, Xiangyang Liaohua is also!"

"Oh? Are you Liao Hua? ”

Ma Chaoxin said that it was a little interesting, this time I came to fight the Yellow Turban in Wancheng, but I didn't expect to catch a historical figure. Liao Hua is indeed a person who has no great skills, but he can be regarded as a character who has witnessed the entire Three Kingdoms era, and he is quite a living one. And there is a saying, isn't it, "There is no general in Shu, Liao becomes a pioneer", this is also a person with a name and surname in history.

Liao Hua was stunned when he heard this, and said in his heart, can someone pretend to be a little person like me? Who can know Lu Dao, "Yes, I am Xiangyang Liaohua, you, have you heard of me?" ”

Ma Chao shook his head, "No, just ask." ”

Ma Chao thought to himself, even if I say that I have heard of your name, I guess you can't believe it.

Liao Hua was discouraged when he heard this, and said in his heart, "You haven't heard of it, what else are you asking?"

"Liao Hua, aren't you going to surrender yet?"

"Surrender? Hahaha, you killed so many of my brothers, you want me to surrender, there is no door, less nonsense, give me a good time! ”

After listening to Ma Chao's questioning, Liao Hua reacted that he was still being captured, but he wanted to surrender, what did the other party think.

As soon as Ma Chao saw Liao Hua's strength to see death as home, he also knew that he couldn't recruit Liao Hua now, take your time, put you under house arrest first, and I won't believe that I can't subdue you.

Ma Chao stepped forward to personally untie the rope on Liao Hua's body, "Liao Hua, I respect you as a man, I won't kill you today, give you some time to think clearly, and then look for you!" ”

Liao Hua was stunned by Ma Chao's actions, "You, don't kill me?" ”

Ma Chao smiled and shook his head, "Hahaha, kill you?" Useless. Come on, take this person down and take care of him, and no one should embarrass him! ”

"No!" The soldiers came up and took Liao Hua down again.

When Liao Hua was taken down, he still thought that what the other party said was indeed right, even if he killed himself, it would be useless. He is not like Zhang Mancheng, he is not Qu Shuai in the Yellow Turban Army, nor Sun Xia, he is the main figure in the army. In fact, he didn't have much credit for killing himself, he was at best a little stronger than an ordinary Yellow Turban soldier, and his size was just a city defender.

After Liao Hua was taken down, "The lord wants to subdue Liao Hua?" Chen Zhi asked beside him.

Ma Chao nodded, "Yes, I think this person is a usable person, I don't know what Uncle Zhi thinks?" ”

Chen Zhi also nodded after hearing this, he understood what his lord meant, "My subordinates think the same is true!" ”

"Uncle Zhi, what can I do?" Ma Chao thought Chen Zhi could have any good ideas.

Chen Zhi shook his head, "There is nothing too good for the subordinates, but the subordinates can approach this person and see if they can persuade him!" ”

"I think that's all I have to say!" Ma Chao didn't have much to do when he heard Chen Dao, so let's do as he said.

"It's a pity that Zhang Mancheng ......" Chen Zhi thought of Zhang Mancheng again, and he was interrupted just when he said this.

"Lord, the second dog has something important to see!" I only listened to someone outside the door.

When Ma Chao heard it, this was really the voice of Ergou, Ergou was one of the 100 soldiers in his family, what did he have to do with himself? That will be seen.

"Come in!"

"No!"

Five people came in from outside the door, Ma Chao knew them, these five were all his own 100 soldiers, and the two people who walked behind the most Lu were still carrying a sack, and after seeing Ma Chao, the two put down the sack.

"My subordinates have seen my lord!" The five of them gave Ma Chao a salute.

"Don't be polite, is there something wrong with Ergou?"

"Look, my lord!"

Ergou untied the sack as he spoke, and waited for Ma Chao and Chen Zhi to take a closer look, acquaintance, isn't this Zhang Mancheng. But at first glance, Ma Chao and Chen Zhi really didn't recognize it, it was really a bit miserable for Zhang Mancheng to be like this.

This person was beaten into a panda, and his nose was blue and his face was swollen, there were blood stains on the corners of his mouth, and two teeth were knocked out. His whole body was tied with rope, and his mouth was gagged, not with a cloth, but it looked like his own socks. In fact, there are other things they don't see, such as several broken ribs and broken arms. They didn't know how to let Ergou catch this Zhang Mancheng, their army had been looking for so long and couldn't find it.

"This, Ergou, what's going on with you?"

Ergou looked happy and said to Ma Chao: "Lord, this is like this......"

So he told Ma Chao how the five of them caught Zhang Mancheng, in fact, it was a coincidence, and it could only be said that Zhang Mancheng was unlucky.

When Wei Ping and the others arrived in Wancheng first, less than seventy people infiltrated the Yellow Turban Army under the leadership of Wei Ping, while the remaining thirty or so people mixed into Wancheng, and these people who infiltrated Wancheng rented a house in Wancheng with the money given by Ma Chao and lurked.

In today's battle, except for the two dogs and the five of them, the rest of the more than 30 people went to Wancheng City to participate in the battle. And the reason why the five of them were left behind was because these people all went to the war with the mentality of becoming benevolent if they didn't succeed, and it was naturally good if they succeeded, but if they failed, they didn't plan to come back. And if it fails, the two dogs will send the news out of the city so that Ma Chao can know the way, there is no way, the two dogs can only stay in place.

When the Han army invaded Wancheng and the Yellow Turban Army in Wancheng started a street battle, the two dogs knew that the head of the city had been successful, and the five people in the last five really couldn't hold back and wanted to join the battle, but just when they were thinking about going out, they saw a person jump into the courtyard from outside the wall. The five people knew that it was definitely the Yellow Turban soldiers who came in, and they didn't hesitate, and went up with their bare hands.

The unlucky Zhang Mancheng didn't know anything about it, thinking that he could avoid it for a while by jumping into the courtyard, but he didn't think that he would be beaten as soon as he jumped in, and when he reacted, his head was already covered with a sack. I don't know where the two dogs picked up a sack, so they put it on Zhang Man, and beat the master to death, these five people were already holding back their strength, and finally there was an unlucky one, so they were ruthless, so Zhang Mancheng was beaten in such a daze, don't mention the tragic situation.

The last five people were really tired, and Zhang Mancheng couldn't get up. Ergou They brought people to the house to take a look, isn't this Wancheng's Yellow Turban Qu Shuai Zhang Mancheng, this time he made a great contribution, and the five people were happy, but fortunately they didn't kill people, or this death is definitely not alive. In this way, the five of them tied up Zhang Mancheng, took his socks and gagged his mouth, and then put them in a sack and came to see Ma Chao.