I saw dozens of horsemen rushing in the distance, and the yellow dust was rolling behind them, and there were no less than hundreds of thieves chasing after them. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info cavalry is an indispensable and important type of army for an army, whether it is chasing the dead and chasing the north, the sentinel raid, or the charge, cutting off the back road, grain and grass, are all a good hand. It's a pity that in Runan County, it has always been difficult to grow as large as a foot pawn.

Not long ago, Qiu Yi defeated He Yi, Wu Ba's 30,000 thieves, and he had just gathered a hundred horsemen, and at this time, he lost thirty percent of the horsemen, which had to make Qiu Yi feel a little heartache. Coupled with the fact that there was a small formation of ten hundred thieves in front of him who spanned a thousand steps, this was definitely not a good thing for the cavalry led by Cheng Qi.

Qiu Yi saw that the cavalry was approaching, and with a wave of his hand, the drawbridge fell violently, and the gate of Zhaoling City was opened, and in the horrified eyes of 20,000 thieves, the 3,000 soldiers on standby in the city rushed out quickly, and lined up in six small formations in front and back during the march, rolling towards the thieves like a wave.

Although the thieves were also on guard, but the speed of the formation was slow, how could the rabble resist the neatness of the army's formation, and there was no drag limit of antlers, trenches, barracks, etc., and they were attacked by the officers and soldiers, and they rushed into a falling water, creating a passage two or three miles long and a hundred steps wide.

The officers and men swept with their feet or used shields and shovels, and in a short time they made a smooth road dozens of paces wide. Let Cheng Qi's dozens of horsemen enter the open road, and block the pursuit of the thief cavalry with bows and arrows and spears, and the sword and shield men protect the two wings, killing them all, and once again safely welcomed Cheng Qi and others into Zhaoling City.

Cheng Qi's bloodied entourage will ascend the city tower, and Qiu Yi hurriedly stepped forward to inspect Cheng Qi's injuries. Cheng Qi said nonchalantly: "Jun Sima, these blood stains are all from the thieves outside the city, but there is no half of us." Although there are many yellow turban thieves in Chen Guolai, they are not as fierce as the yellow turban thieves in our Runan County, they are soft and tight, and they can't hurt me at all. It's just that the thieves are treacherous, and it's not easy for us to save people. ”

Qiu Yi asked suspiciously, "Oh, how do you say that?" ”

Cheng Qi explained: "At the beginning, I didn't rush to report the news, but caught a few Yellow Turban Moth thieves from Chen Guolai to inquire about the enemy's situation, and only then did I learn the details of many Yellow Turban thieves from Chen Guo. Liu Pet, the king of Chen, is brave and brave, good at making bows and crossbows, and his archery skills are very superb, he can shoot ten shots and ten hits, and they are all shot in the same place. I don't think it's weaker than the military Sima. ”

"Since the Yellow Turban Army uprising, most of the officers and soldiers of the counties and counties of Chen have abandoned the city and fled, but Liu Chong, the king of Chen, has thousands of strong crossbows, so he recruited soldiers in the territory and strictly guarded all the intersections inside and outside the city. Because there was no foreign aid and domestic response, there was food to eat in the country, and Chen Guoren knew that Liu Chong was brave and good at shooting, so he was afraid of him, so most of them did not dare to rebel. ”

"That Chen Guo Peng Tuo had just started, and he was suppressed by Chen Wang Liu Pet in an instant, so he was wandering around the county border, and it was difficult to become a general trend. Later, the exiles of Ru and Ying counties, regardless of the old, weak, women and children, all wanted, so they gathered 50,000 people, and claimed to be 100,000 to attack Runan. The county magistrates and county lieutenants of the two counties of Naxihua and Zhengqiang did not distinguish the enemy's situation, and when they heard that 100,000 yellow turban moth thieves were coming to Runan, they immediately abandoned the city and left. There was no prestige and courage in the city like Zhaoling Xu Jun to call the people to defend themselves, so they were broken. ”

Qiu Yi nodded again and again after hearing this, it seems that Chen Guo's Yellow Turban Moth Thief Peng Debu is not as powerful as he imagined, and most people are just scaring themselves. So he asked again: "How many people are there in the Yellow Turban Moth Thieves on the banks of the Dasha River?" How is the combat power? ”

Cheng Qi responded: "There are only more than 20,000 Yellow Turban Moth thieves besieging Gong Xianjun, and most of them are young and strong thieves; There are about 400 horsemen, and I have killed 100 horsemen, which shows that the combat power of the Yellow Turban Moth Thief is not very strong. ”

Qiu Yiqi said: "More than 20,000 people? The combat strength of more than 20,000 untrained young and strong thieves is only equal to the combat strength of my 4,000 Zhaoling army. Without ten times more men, how can you trap 4,000 soldiers who dare to fight? ”

Cheng Qi replied: "That Peng is a thief, and there are many thieves who hold the yellow turban, and he uses more than 20,000 people to contain 4,000 Zhaoling soldiers, and more than 80,000 other people to cut wood at night as a village, dig a ditch as a trench, take an earthen camp, and trap the Zhaoling army on a hill of hundreds of steps. If the Summoning Ling army wants to come out, it must first break through the thief village besieged on all sides. Peng Tuo also threatened to summon the troops of Lingcheng to rescue, so he sent 80,000 old and weak people to trap and summon Lingling again, so as to deter the army in the city and prevent the army in the city from attacking and disturbing him......"

Looking at the rough sketch drawn on the ground, Qiu Yi saw the problem. Although the combat strength of Peng Tuo's thief department could not fully defeat the Zhaoling army, Peng Tuo won a large number of people and abundant strength. Since he could not quickly destroy the Zhaoling army, he set up four camps to trap the regiment.

If the Zhaoling army wants to get out of the siege, there is only one way to storm the thief camp. When the Ling army was summoned to fight, they thought that this battle was only a field battle, so they only carried the food of the day, and replaced and supplemented the weapons needed for the field battle, such as arrows, spears, swords and shields, and did not carry heavy axes, knives and saws and other siege weapons. No wonder I have been trapped for more than ten days and still can't get out. If Qiu Yi wants to lead the army to save people, he needs to prepare weapons for both field and siege at the same time.

It seems that this Peng is a party commander, and he does have some real skills, which are not comparable to other ordinary grass cowards in Runan County. Qiu Yi asked: "So, you haven't seen Gong Xianjun, Ruidi, and Miandi?" ”

Cheng Qi arched his hand ashamedly and said: "Yes, the camps of the Yellow Turban thieves are surrounded by earthen and wooden fences, and the radius is so big that it summons the mausoleum city. There is only one fence on the outside, a ditch three zhang deep and wide, but there are three fences and three ditches three feet deep and wide on the inside. The thieves walked on the trenches with planks, and they were not slow to support each other. Coupled with the threat of arrow towers, it is very difficult to capture. In my opinion, without a few days of wear and tear, even the outer earthen ramparts and wooden fences could not be captured, let alone the three inner ramparts. ”

Cheng Qi said: "In order to inform the news of the arrival of reinforcements, and to enhance the confidence of the besieged Ling army to hold on, I later ordered the hundred horsemen to shout in unison outside the thief village, and only then did I communicate the news with Gong Xianjun and them." But they were driven away by hundreds of thieves, and I fought them again, and only then did I find out the combat power of the thieves. The thieves of the Yellow Turban Moth in Chen Guo can be defeated, but the thief village is difficult to attack, and it will take many days to attack. But I don't know if Gong Xianjun and them can hold on for a few more days? ”

Qiu Yi shook his head, got up and said, "Never hope that others can hold on, but do everything you can to defeat the thief quickly." Qiu Yi paced for a long time at the head of the city, thinking about the war, and suddenly shouted with a battlement: "The generals listen to the order, quickly gather all the soldiers in the city, including the Ye clan's soldiers, the young Zhuang summoned by the Xu clan, I will fight the thieves tonight!" ”

The generals were shocked when they heard this, and Qiu Gong even persuaded: "Jun Sima, our army is tired, and we have never fought a night battle, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to dispatch." And the Ye clan still has doubts, the young man called by the Xu clan does not know the battle array, it is okay to defend the city, and I am afraid that it will not work to fight in the city. Is it too early to fight tonight, why not wait until tomorrow after dawn? ”

Qiu Yi shook his head, pondered for a moment, and then said firmly: "Our army is difficult, and it is not easy for thieves. The thieves are a rabble, and though there are 100,000 of them, they are equal to the strength of our army. However, our army is all in the city, and the thieves are divided into two parts, and they are five or six miles away from each other, so the dispatch is even more inconvenient. If you have the heart to fight without the heart, you will be able to quickly defeat the thieves outside the city. The thief village is difficult to attack, so our army drives the thieves outside the city, fills the trench with the thief, breaks the village with the thief, and wins in the chaos......"

The generals were even more shocked, and Deng Dang and Su Gu stopped talking: "Jun Sima, we joined the army to suppress thieves and calm the people, so that the world can quickly settle down. Most of the thieves outside the city are the people who have been taken hostage, and if they kill the thieves, they are good people, so why should they be driven to fill in the trenches and destroy the villages, and hurt people's lives in vain? ”

Qiu Yichang sighed and said: "I have been fighting in the army since I called Lingling for several months, and I first fought in Yun County, and there were only more than 3,000 households left in this once 10,000-household county after the war. There are more than 6,000 households left in Qisi, Yuanlu, and Fubo. There are four or five thousand households left in Haiyang, Xiangcheng, Xinyang, and Yilu. Other counties that have encountered thieves and chaos are not far behind. In this way, more than 100,000 households and more than 500,000 people will die in the thieves' rebellion in half a year. That's the population of a small and medium-sized county. So how many will die directly at our hands? It will not exceed 10,000. In addition to those who died of disease and starvation, at least 400,000 people died at the hands of thieves. ”

Qiu Yi turned around and pointed to the group of thieves outside the city and said, "I heard what Cheng Qi said today, is this Chen Guo thief Peng Tuo Yi Yu's generation?" No, after the failure of the Chen State uprising, he almost ran rampant in Runan after only a few months of hiding. Moreover, the Zhaoling army that pacified most of the thieves in Runan was trapped for ten days, and without the existence of our army, the Zhaoling army would have no life. Once the Ling army is gone, a county in Runan will fall into its hands. If it is not destroyed quickly, in time, it will become a great thief who will run rampant in the world. At that time, it will not only be hundreds of thousands of people who will die at his hands, but millions, tens of millions. ”

Su Gu nodded in agreement and said, "What Jun Sima said is very true, but he didn't answer my question about why we can't wait for tomorrow to attack Pengtuo and fill the trench with the thieves?" ”

Qiu Yi sighed: "I said so much, you still can't hear it, so is it useless for Peng Tuo to continue to stay in Zhaoling?" Since they could not defeat our army, they should be decisively abandoned, and resolutely abandoned the 80,000 weak thieves outside the city, and took away more than 20,000 young and strong thieves on the banks of the Dasha River to go away to other places and develop elsewhere. ”

The generals were shocked when they heard this, and they really didn't hear the meaning of Qiu Yi's words. Most of the thieves I have encountered all this time are thieves who are trapped and self-contained, and they have never seen a situation like Peng Tuo, who failed from this county and then wandered to other counties to grow. If he is blocked in Zhaoling, he may not be transferred to Yingchuan County or Nanyang County to continue to grow his body.

Qiu Yi said in a deep voice: "Although I thought about it, I didn't dare to be sure. The reason why I say so much is just to strengthen my heart. To sacrifice tens of thousands of thieves who have been brutally held hostage and save millions of people who are not in danger, this decision is not easy to make! ”