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The battle outside Handan City finally ended with Liu Xiujun's complete victory.

In this battle, Li Yu, the great Sima of the Handan court, committed suicide, and the general Zhang Shen, the hussar general Peng Shi, and Wang Lang's eldest son Wang Xi all died in the chaos.

Li Yujun 130,000 and Handan reinforcements 20,000, a total of 150,000, in addition to those who died in battle and escaped, 80,000 or 90,000 of them were taken prisoner by Liu Xiujun.

The victory or defeat of this battle also basically laid the foundation for the next situation in Hebei. From the original Wang Lang was strong and Liu Xiu was weak, it suddenly turned into Liu Xiu being strong and Wang Lang being weak.

Leaving a part of the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, Liu Xiu led his own army, escorted the prisoners who were about the same number as Liu Xiu's army, and returned to his own camp.

After returning to the camp, Liu Xiu's first order was to dismiss the captured Wang Langjun soldiers.

If any of them are willing to join them, they can accept them all, and if they do not want to join, they do not have to be reluctant, and after collecting their armor, weapons, and military badges, they can be let go of themselves.

Now the surrender of captured soldiers, the effect is definitely not ideal, I am afraid that there will not be too many people who are willing to join Liu Xiujun, if you can detain the prisoners for a period of time, and then recruit and surrender, the number of people who join Liu Xiujun will definitely multiply.

But the problem is that Liu Xiu can't afford to raise so many captives now. How long it will take for his side to break through Handan's city defenses and occupy Handan City, Liu Xiu can't make accurate inferences now.

But there is only so much grain and grass for one's own side, and it is necessary to feed one's own soldiers and so many prisoners, and it is simply not enough to support it for too long.

Therefore, for the sake of today's plan, it is necessary to dismiss the captured Wang Langjun soldiers as soon as possible, so that their own consumption is as low as possible.

There were 90,000 soldiers of Wang Lang's army who were captured, and only about 20,000 people finally agreed to join Liu Xiujun, and the rest of the people all chose to go home, unwilling to continue fighting.

Under Liu Xiu's instructions, it was not difficult for Liu Xiujun's soldiers to distribute some dry food to each of these prisoners who wanted to go home, and then dismiss them on the spot.

When Liu Xiujun was busy dismissing the prisoners, Xie Gong also came to Liu Xiujun's camp.

In the Chinese military tent, when he saw Liu Xiu, he bowed and bowed, and said: "Congratulations to Marquis Wu Xin, who pacified Li Yu and Zhang Shen in one fell swoop, greatly boosted the morale of our Han army, and destroyed the prestige of the anti-thieves." ”

Liu Xiu smiled and said: "Xie Shangshu's congratulations are too early, after all, Handan has not been captured yet, and Wang Lang has not yet been subdued. ”

Xie bowed and nodded, changed his words, cut to the point, and said: "Why did Wu Xinhou fight the thief alone this time, without informing us in advance, what does this mean?" Liu Xiule looked at Xie Bow, and before he could speak, Zhu You sneered and said: "Last time our army fought against Li Yu and Zhang Shen, I informed Xie Shangshu in advance, and Xie Shangshu also promised us that we would send troops to help, but what was the result?

The officers and soldiers of our army were eager to see through, and they couldn't wait for Xie Shangshu's reinforcements! ”

Zhu You mentioned this matter, which made Xie Gong's old face blush unconsciously, he coughed dryly, and said: "There was a special situation last time......" "So this time, we are worried that there will be a special situation on Xie Shangshu's side, so we will not notify Xie Shangshu in advance." Our army is not a lot of troops, but it is more than outstanding to fight against Wang Lang and the thieves alone. Zhu You is full of confidence and is categorically proud

Said.

Xie Gong's face was ugly, he looked at Liu Xiu, and asked with a smile: "Marquis Wuxin is blaming the lower officials, and he failed to reach the battlefield as promised last time?" ”

Liu Xiu smiled and said slowly: "The soldiers have just been born and died on the battlefield and bravely killed the enemy, and now, as soon as Xie Shangshu came, he questioned the intentions of our army, don't you think it is too chilling for the soldiers?" ”

Xie took a deep breath and didn't say anything more about it. He was silent for a moment and said, "Marquis Wuxin, when the lower officials entered the camp, they saw many soldiers wearing Wang Langjun's uniforms leaving in groups, I don't know what happened?" ”

Liu Xiu said: "They are all captured Lang soldiers. ”

Xie bowed in surprise and said, "Marquis Wu Xin is going to release them all?" ”

Liu Xiu said: "Now our army is not rich in food and grass, and we can't support this nearly 100,000 surrendered troops, so we can only dismiss them all." Speaking of this, he smiled and asked, "What, Xie Shangshu wants to accept them?" ”

Xie bowed and swallowed his saliva and shook his head. With so many surrendered troops, his barracks could not fit it, and besides, he also did not have so much food to feed so many surrendered troops.

It's just that Liu Xiu didn't leave these surrendered troops, but chose to dismiss them, which surprised Xie Bow.

In his eyes, Liu Xiu was ambitious and had long been disobedient to the Son of Heaven. This time, he captured more than 90,000 people at once, and he had to find a way to incorporate them under his command and increase his strength.

But in fact, Liu Xiu didn't do this, is it really because of the lack of food and grass?

In fact, if Liu Xiuzhen planned to collect these troops for his own use, the problem of grain and grass could be solved by thinking of a way. In Liu Xiu's concept, soldiers are expensive, but not expensive, and the so-called fine is not good at fighting and talented, but to be united.

Only when they sincerely surrender to themselves and the officers and men of the whole army can they unite as one, and when they are facing a strong enemy, they will twist into a rope and clench into a fist.

Half-heartedly, it's no problem to fight a smooth battle, but once you fight against the wind, if you don't get it right, you will mess up, and you will even surrender and defect like Wang Langjun.

Therefore, Liu Xiu would rather that his strength does not expand so quickly, and he also has to firmly control the army's heart.

Liu Xiu's thoughts are much more far-reaching than Xie Bow, and it is not something that Xie Bow can understand.

After Xie bowed and left, Liu Xiu left the Chinese military tent and personally went to inspect the soldiers of Wang Lang's army who had surrendered to him.

Of the 20,000 Wang Lang soldiers, the highest rank was only a few partial generals, but most of the famous generals did not dare to surrender and fled in chaos.

Seeing Liu Xiu coming, these partial generals knelt on their knees, kowtowed forward, and said cautiously: "The sin general will knock on the big Sima!" ”

Liu Xiu stepped forward, helped a few people up, and asked with a smile: "So many of your comrades have chosen to go home, why don't you leave?" ”

Several partial generals looked at each other, and one of the black-faced men said in a low voice: "The family members of the criminal general are all dead, and they have nothing to worry about, so they chose Wang Lang just to be able to eat together, and now they can be transferred to the command of the great Sima, which is a fortunate thing for the criminal general!" ”

Liu Xiu said with a smile: "Isn't it to take refuge in my tent to eat?" ”

The black-faced man's body was shocked, and he hurriedly said: "The sin general has admired the big Sima for a long time, as long as the big Sima is willing to take in the sinner general, the sin will be smeared on the ground, and he will not give up!" ”

The rest of the people also hurriedly said: "I am willing to swear allegiance to Da Sima to the death, and I will not give up!" ”

Liu Xiu nodded and said: "In Wang Lang's army, you all serve as partial generals, but when you transfer to our army, you can only sit up from the captain first, and in the future, those who have meritorious service will be rewarded, and those who have faults will be punished, are you willing?" ”

Everyone didn't think about it, they knelt down again, and said in unison: "My subordinates thank Da Sima for not killing!" Thank you for the grace of Da Sima! ”

Liu Xiu waved his hand to them and said with a smile: "Everyone, please get up!" ”

After that, Liu Xiu asked them about the situation in Handan City. They are all subordinates of Li Yu and Zhang Shen, and they have been away from Handan City for a while, and they don't know much about the current situation in Handan City.

However, they can deduce how many soldiers, how much grain and grass are left in Handan City, and other important information.

Deng Yu, who followed Liu Xiu, recorded the information they provided one by one.

Knowing almost everything, Liu Xiu reassured everyone with kind words, and then got up and left.

Walking in the barracks, Deng Yu took what he had just recorded and looked at it carefully. Looking at the data of grain and grass, Deng Yu was secretly speechless, and couldn't help but smile bitterly to Liu Xiu beside him: "Wang Lang has only been on the throne for more than two months, but in Handan City, he has hoarded so much grain, I don't know that he has searched for more than two months."

How many people have been scraped and how many people have been forced to death! "It's almost there!" Liu Xiu said with a deep gaze: "After today's battle, those counties that are watching will not send a single reinforcement to Handan, and Handan will also be completely reduced to an isolated city." How long can a defender with only 80,000 troops in turmoil hold out?

”

Deng Yu nodded, looked up to the sky and sighed: "Hebei is too chaotic, and the lives of the people are too hard, I really hope to end the war in Hebei as soon as possible!" ”

Liu Xiu also felt the same way. As they were walking forward, they suddenly saw a large number of soldiers in front of them. Liu Xiu and Deng Yu glanced at each other and walked over.

It turned out that this was the camp of the Ben Ming Army, and the soldiers gathered here all wanted to join the Ben Ming Army. The Ben Ming Army is the most special group of people in the barracks, they have privileges that even generals do not have, such as they can take women with the army, they can come and go freely in the barracks, and some Ben Ming Lang disappeared for several days inexplicably, and after coming back,

No one asked. At present, the nature of the Rush Army is more like a mercenary. Receiving high military salaries, eating the same food as generals, being able to enter and leave the barracks at will, carrying women with the army, and so on, all made ordinary soldiers

, even the generals in the army are red-eyed, and there are naturally not a few people who want to join the Running Army.

Of course, once you become a member of the Rush Army, it means that you have to live a life of licking blood from the knife edge, and when you go to the battlefield, you have to charge into battle, move forward bravely, and you can't stop fighting without shedding the last drop of blood.

The one who is responsible for recruiting people is the Ben Ming Lang who has Wang Xi in his hand.

His name was Guan Jun, and he served as a lieutenant in the Ben Ming Army. The Benming Army is a place that does not pay much attention to military rank, and the captain is already a high-ranking official in the Benming Army, and at present, except for Jia Fu, he has the highest military rank. He sat on a stone, slowly wiped the sword, looked around at the people present, and said loudly: "Everyone can become a runner, as long as you can spare your life, as long as you dare to play with the enemy, you can claim to be a runner."

。 However, it is not so easy to join our army, I want to see the number of enemies you kill first, and then test your true skills. Now, if you kill more than 10 enemies, you can stay, and if you kill less than 10 enemies, go back. ”

"Ten people?"

"Kill ten enemies!"

There was a lot of discussion in the crowd, and someone said, "Is it okay for five?" The adults, the small ones have already killed five enemies! "My lord, the villain has killed six enemies!"

Guan Junle looked around at everyone, but his tone was not refusal, and he said word by word: "Our recruitment conditions will not be changed." ”

All the soldiers looked helpless, and people looked at each other, shook their heads and left.

When you go to the battlefield, you can really directly contact the enemy and really kill the enemy, and the only ones who are arranged to enter the front army are the soldiers. The originally crowded crowd kept leaving, and in the end, only one hundred and ten people remained.

Liu Xiu, who was standing behind the crowd, pulled Deng Yu and walked towards the camp not far away, and they stood behind the camp and continued to watch.

Guan Jun glanced at the rest of the people, nodded with a smile, and said, "The archers among you can also leave, there is no shortage of archers in our army at present." The remaining 100 people were soon reduced by more than half, and in the end, there were only 30 or 40 left. Looking at the rest of the people, Guan Jun asked curiously, "Why do you want to join the Running Army?" ”