Last time, when it came to the rout of the Yellow Turban Army, Lu Zhi ordered Dongfang Xiong and He Meng not to pursue them, in case there was fraud. Dongfang Xiong didn't listen, and still led the troops in pursuit.

He Meng gave Lu Zhi a lot of face this time and did not participate in the pursuit. Because he lacked interest in the head of the rout, the credit for pursuing the rout was only the icing on the cake for him, and now that this large-scale battle had been won, it was enough. If it is really as Lu Zhi said, the Yellow Turban Army really has an ambush, He Meng is also happy to see Dongfang Xiong fold for a while, the best is that Dongfang Xiong died directly from the ambush of the Yellow Turban Army, and then not only the influence of Emperor Liu Hong will be erased, but even the nominal Lu Zhi above his head will not be able to protect himself, maybe he can go further and directly become the commander of this army.

Seeing that Dongfang Xiong ignored his orders, Lu Zhi could only immediately ask the herald to return to the camp to inform the generals that he would speed up the departure of the camp and that he was going to rescue Dongfang Xiong. In addition, Lu Zhi also arranged for He Mengbu to defend the camp.

Originally, Lu Zhi brought out 8,000 soldiers out of the battalion, and another 8,000 were transferred out during the short encounter with the Yellow Turban Army, but only a quarter of the soldiers who were transferred out later have come out. Then Dongfang Xiong only brought the first batch of soldiers to come out, and among his subordinates, 3,000 people, went to pursue the router. Lu Zhi was very worried about this.

Lu Zhi did not know what the total strength of the Jizhou Yellow Turban Army was. According to the information received by the imperial court, Zhang Jiao claimed 100,000 to the outside world. Lu Zhi was skeptical about this, he felt that Zhang Jiao was talking less.

Qingzhou reported that the camp of the Jizhou Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou could accommodate 20,000 to 30,000 people, but whether there was water in it, Lu Zhi could not judge. It's just that based on Qingzhou's return, the strength of the Yellow Turban Army remaining in Jizhou should exceed that of the Yellow Turban Army remaining in Qingzhou, that is, at least 30,000 people.

But Lu Zhi felt that the figure of 30,000 was still underestimated by him. The total population of Jizhou is more than 5 million, nearly 6 million, and it is estimated that there are more than 1 million men of military age who can serve as soldiers. Now the Yellow Turban Army has not ruled in Jizhou for a long time, and it is impossible to fully exploit the recruitment potential, because the population is mainly in the hands of the big families, becoming their domestic servants and tenants, and the local gentry may not sell the face of the Yellow Turban Army. And judging from the equipment of the Yellow Turban Army just now, the Yellow Turban Army does not have the strength to support an army of one million. But what is the total strength of the Jizhou Yellow Turban Army, Lu Zhi really can't estimate, and the information he has on hand is too fragmented and too little.

Lu Zhi has always felt uneasy after facing the Yellow Turban Army, because the Yellow Turban Army in front of him, looking at the size of the camp, is only about 20,000 people, so where did the other Yellow Turban Army go?

Lu Zhi is not afraid of the Yellow Turban soldiers, the battle just now has proved that no matter how many Yellow Turban soldiers there are, if the equipment is not good, they will still be easily defeated. The soldiers who were later transferred from the battalion only came out with 2,000 people, and the Yellow Turban Army had already been defeated, and it took less than half an hour before and after. But I'm afraid that the Yellow Turban Army doesn't know where to hide and stare at him, this is the most terrifying thing.

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Poor Lu Zhi, even if he wants to shoot his head, he will not guess the true situation of the Yellow Turban Army. Zhang Jiao had already heard a famous saying from his son: "War is about logistics." "So Zhang Jiao is conscripted according to the minimum, and the total number of troops is not even 50,000. It is precisely because of the population that has been put into production that the proportion of weapons and equipment of the Yellow Turban Army has been greatly increased after this month. And the Yellow Turban Army that Lu Zhi saw today were all the remaining soldiers who had not yet changed their clothes, only 10,000 people, which Zhang Jiao specially used to show the enemy's weakness. The effect is also very significant, even Lu Zhi thought that the Yellow Turban Army was a soft persimmon that could be pinched.

In other words, the ambush that Dongfang Xiong will face is the heavily armed Yellow Turban Army. The information is so asymmetrical, which dooms Dongfang Xiong to a tragic end.

No, Dongfang Xiong has been surrounded and killed by the Yellow Turban Army.

Just now, Dongfang Xiong had red eyes and chased after the fleeing Yellow Turban Army. Relying on himself and his own soldiers, he broke away from the army with his own soldiers several times and killed the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army, but they were all blocked by Zhang Niujiao and others.

Dongfang Xiong was defeated by Zhang Niujiao's men just now, and he had a shadow in his heart, and he didn't dare to confront Zhang Niujiao. So in the end, he could only pursue with the large army, so that he was dragged by the infantry, and the speed could not get up. Seeing that the boiled duck was in front of me, but he couldn't bite it, he became more and more anxious.

Later, the Yellow Turbans broke and fled into a wooded area. Dongfang Xiong was afraid that the rout would run away, so without waiting for the scout's return, he led a large army to bite the tail of the Yellow Turban Army and chased in.

Woodlands and hills are good places for ambushes, and the woodland that Dongfang Xiong saw was where Zhang Jiao's ambush was located. Dongfang Xiong's troops were only halfway through, and there was an abrupt cannon sound over the woodland, followed by the sound of bowstrings, then the sound of "rustling" wind, and finally the pro-soldiers and knights surrounding Dongfang Xiong were hit by arrows and fell off their horses.

Dongfang Xiong rolled the saddle and dismounted as soon as possible, because riding on a horse is the best arrow target.

At this time, the sound of killing in the forest was everywhere, and the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army rushed out of the forest with a bright ring-headed knife in their hands, killing the stunned Han army.

At the same time, a strange rhythm of drums can be heard in the forest. Those Yellow Turban Army, who were originally fleeing for their lives, heard these drums, and they all stopped, and turned back to kill Dongfang Xiong's troops like crazy. This strange drum beat was not a spell by Zhang Jiao, but only to awaken the memories of the cultists to the Yellow Heaven Holy Land. When the Taiping Sect holds a prayer, it will preach the beauty of the Yellow Heaven Holy Land, and when the altar master preaches to the congregation, he will hear this strange rhythm of drums, so over time, the believers will have a stress reaction, as long as they hear the drums, they will think of the Yellow Heaven Holy Land.

Dongfang Xiong's first reaction just now saved him. No sooner had he landed than a second round of feathered arrows came up above him, nailing all the knights who had not yet reacted and continued to ride on their horses into hedgehogs. This is a decapitation operation in which the Yellow Turban Army concentrates all long-range strikes regardless of the cost, intending to capture the thief and capture the king first, and kill Dongfang Xiong first.

Although Dongfang Xiong was not dead, his troops did not know that their main general just took the initiative to dismount, and they thought that the main general was dead, and suddenly became even more chaotic, and for a while the dragons were leaderless, running around like headless flies.

In the end, except for the Han army that had not yet entered the forest, some of them ran away, and the troops brought by Dongfang Xiong were almost completely wiped out, which took a stick of incense.

(End of chapter)