Chapter 55: The Surrenderer is not guilty
Liu Fan has been waiting for this opportunity, and now it has finally arrived, as long as the Yellow Turban Army here is broken, the Eastern Yellow Turban Army will have no main force, and the Yellow Turban Army in Runan, Yingchuan, and Chen can be quickly pacified.
The cavalrymen held the reins in one hand and spears in the other, and under the formation of geese marching in an integrated offensive and defensive formation, the Yellow Turban Army was divided into several parts. Liu Fan wandered in the wild goose formation, commanding the soldiers to gallop vertically and horizontally, Liu Fan did not let the soldiers stop in place and condescendingly engaged the Yellow Turban Army, but used the impact of the war horse, back and forth conflicts, completely broke up the formation of the Yellow Turban Army.
Liu Fan only had more than 2,000 cavalry, and he had no ability to carry out a war of annihilation of the legion.
Before this era, there had never been a cavalry as an annihilation legion, annihilating the opponent in a battle.
Although Wei Qing and Huo Qubing fought four famous battles in Hexi, Henan, Monan, and Mobei, and destroyed most of the main forces of the Huns, they did not complete the final annihilation because the Huns were familiar with the grasslands and deserts and hid.
From Li Mu to Wei Huo, it represents the highest level of cavalry sports warfare before the Tang Dynasty, but it is ten times the infantry who assists Wei Huo to complete great achievements! Before the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, only Wei Huo could enjoy this kind of treatment, because they were out-and-out geniuses in cavalry warfare.
Throughout the Qin, Han, Wei and Jin dynasties, in addition to Wei Huo, in large-scale corps operations, cavalry has always been an auxiliary infantry battle, and even assisted the infantry to complete the transportation of baggage, even Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry and Dong Zhuo's flying bear army are no exception. The number of cavalry in this era is scarce, in addition to harassment and containment, there is also a point of surprise victory!
In the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the appearance of the stirrup was an epoch-making time in the history of cavalry, and the cavalry became the protagonist of the war stage until the end of the Cold Weapon War.
During this period, the cavalry strategy could be used most brilliantly by Li Shimin and Li Jing in the early Tang Dynasty, and Xu Da in the early Ming Dynasty.
They can use the cavalry as an annihilation corps, and Li Shimin will be locked in a battle to determine the world; Li Jing, the god of war who can fight in the south, mountains, north, and desert grasslands, has 3,000 iron cavalry to attack Yinshan at night and destroy the Eastern Turks; Xu Da led his troops to the north and completed the Northern Expedition, which had only one time in ancient Chinese history.
Without stirrups, the soldiers' combat power on the horses was greatly reduced, and Liu Fan could only assist Huangfu Song and Zhu Wei to help Huangfu Song defeat the Bocai Yellow Turban Department.
The stirrups, saddles, and horseshoes are very simple to make, and even if Liu Fan is alone, he can find them out.
It's easy to do, and it's easy for others to learn, if the cavalry led by Liu Fan now sits in the saddle, steps on the stirrups, and fights with weapons in both hands. Within a year, these two things would be learned by the nomads of the steppe, because there were many merchants on the border between the Han and the nomads.
After dragging on like this for two quarters of an hour, Huangfu Song and Zhu Wei in the back also surrounded them, and more than 30,000 people surrounded nearly 50,000 people.
Originally, there were about 100,000 yellow turbans, and 100,000 people spread out, and there were more than miles in a radius. It's too late to catch up, and it's good to be able to stay with 50,000 people. If the 50,000 people of the Yellow Turban Army were defeated, they would no longer have the same sharpness as when they first rebelled. The remaining Yellow Turban Army can be pulled out from city to county.
The Yellow Turban soldiers lost their armor, and many of them had no weapons in their hands.
"Brothers, fight with them, our rebellion is a capital crime, and the officers and soldiers will not let us go."
A yellow turban's eyes cracked, and his voice roared hoarsely.
Why the rebellion? Many people are forced by life, because of the local tyranny and tyranny, because of the harsh tyranny of local officials.
Natural disasters and man-made disasters, strong and oppressive, they don't want to live like pigs and dogs with hungry stomachs every day.
Live in abundance and live and work in peace and contentment. Who will rebel?
Faced with the fate of being powerless to resist, only rebellion can vent the resentment in their hearts. They want to use their lives to change their future.
If you flee, you will die, because the Han army has cavalry. did not surrender, because at the time of the uprising, they knew that the rebellion was to punish the nine tribes.
The words spread to each other, and the eyes of all the Yellow Turban soldiers changed, and they were no longer in a hurry to escape, causing the Han army to wantonly slaughter. Instead, they formed groups of three or five and began to attack the Han soldiers, and they chose to resist stubbornly.
The unarmed Yellow Turban soldiers pounced on the Han army and held on to their deaths.
Rabbits will bite people when they are in a hurry, and if people are cornered, they will do anything. It's like cannibalism!
In a matter of moments, the Han army suffered huge casualties, but the casualties of the Yellow Turban Army were even heavier.
Seeing this situation, Liu Fan's heart moved, he finally knew why Huangfu Song and Zhu Wei always had 40,000 elite soldiers and 3,000 Sanhe knights, and they would be defeated when their morale was at their peak?
At that time, the Yellow Turban Army was just like the current Yellow Turban Army, not afraid of death!
But at this moment, the overall situation has been decided, and the Yellow Turban Army has not undergone unified training, and it is not at all the opponent of the more than 30,000 Han troops.
"Only the head of the thief will be punished, and the one who surrenders is not guilty!"
Liu Fan shouted loudly. If this continues, it will be the same as history, and 50,000 yellow turbans will be slaughtered at the cost of losing more than 10,000 soldiers. It wasn't what he wanted to see.
"Only the head of the thief will be punished, and the one who descends is not guilty! Only the head of the thief will be punished, and the one who surrenders is not guilty! ”
Liu Fan's voice alone was too small in the chaotic battlefield, and few people could hear it. But the hundred cavalry behind Liu Fan shouted for Liu Fan together. Gradually, two thousand cavalry shouted together.
The sound was heard throughout the battlefield.
The four words of surrender and innocence are tantamount to dead wood for the Yellow Turban soldiers. Because they knew that their main general, Bo Cai, and their deputy general, Peng Tuo, had already fled.
Because the shock of Liu Fan's words was too great, the Han army did not dare to continue the attack, and the Yellow Turban Army had hope of life and also gave up the attack.
If there is a chance to live, they will not hesitate to seize it.
"Who is it? How dare you say that! ”
Huangfu Song said in a deep voice, his tone angry.
At a time when the country was in turmoil, Huang Fu Song believed that all the rebels should be killed, so as to deter those who had sprouts in their hearts.
In the dark night, Huangfu Song could only hear a group of people shouting, "Only the head of the thief will be punished, and the one who surrenders is not guilty", and he didn't know who gave such an order.
Because the innocence of the descendant and the non-killing of the descendant are two different concepts, and they cannot be said in the same day.
"Could it be Zhu Gongwei? No, he's not the kind of person who has the kindness of a woman. Huangfu Song thought of Zhu Yun, but instantly denied it.
But everyone on the battlefield stopped attacking, and Huangfu Song could no longer give orders to rekindle the flames of war. This is a taboo for soldiers!