Chapter 323 pacifying Yuzhou

The strength of the Yellow Turban Thieves in Yuzhou is very strong, and in history, the imperial court once sent Bao Hong, one of the eight captains of the West Garden, to crusade against the Yellow Turban Thieves in Runan County, Yuzhou, and fought in Gepi County; Because of his embezzlement of more than 10 million military salaries, the morale of the soldiers was low, and he failed one after another, and was impeached by Yuzhou Mu Huangwan and imprisoned to death.

Now that Lu Bu has more troops, his morale is high, and with Huang Wan's strong support, it is very easy for Lu Bu to defeat the Yellow Turban Thief.

After half a month of confrontation, Lu Bu had learned the strength of the Yellow Turban Thieves and decided to take the initiative to end the war as soon as possible.

In the past half a month, the Yellow Turban thieves have been hiding in the camp and not daring to fight, and people often flee, resulting in very low morale.

The camp of the Yellow Turban Thieves was a simple fence, with a shallow trench dug outside, and sparse antlers, horses and other defenses arranged inside, which was much simpler for Lu Bu than a siege.

Yuzhou is located in the plain, a horse Pingchuan, as long as the camp of the Yellow Turban Thieves is conquered, the cavalry charges, the Yellow Turban Thieves will have nowhere to escape, and they will become the ghosts of the cavalry.

Lu Bu is young and very modest, and he communicates tactics with Huang Wan.

Huang Wan admired Lu Bu's military talent, well-trained, and strict military discipline, and he understood that he did not have the ability to command a war, so he frankly said that all armies were commanded by Lu Bu, and actions were decided by Lu Bu, and he was only responsible for assisting.

Lu Bu was overjoyed in his heart, and immediately summoned Wei Xu, Zhang Ji and others to assign offensive tasks.

Wei Xu and Cheng Lian obeyed Lu Bu's words. Zhang Ji admires Lu Bu very much, his martial arts are strong, and he is fair.

Lü Bu's strategy was simple, and it was a tactic used by the steppe nomads; Cavalry is sent to attack and suppress the opposing garrison with bows and arrows, then a force of cavalry, under the protection of the archers, carries bags full of earth to fill the trenches, and then, using lassoes to pull down the fences of the opposing camp, the cavalry can kill through the gaps.

As long as they enter the opponent's camp, the opponent's infantry is a lamb to the slaughter in front of the cavalry, and they are not the opponents of the cavalry.

Zhang Ji retorted: "Feng Xian, if the Yellow Turban Thief uses a spear and a giant shield array, what can he do? ”

Lu Bu laughed wildly: "Haha, Captain Zhang doesn't know, in the past few days, Bu has taken advantage of your battle against the Yellow Turban Thief to observe carefully, the Yellow Turban Thief lacks bows and arrows, compared to you already know; They had a large number of spears, but they did not form battle formations, and if they had been trained and had a tight military formation, they would not have adopted such tactics. ”

Zhang Ji also suggested: "Fengxian, our army is cavalry, located in the Central Plains, war horses are expensive, and there is a lack of cavalry, it is extremely difficult to replenish after the battle damage, if it is better to be covered by cavalry, the infantry will take the lead, responsible for conquering the camp of the Yellow Turban thieves, and then killed by cavalry; This not only reduces our war losses, but also gives Huangzhou Mu a piece of war exploits, and we must not eat alone. ”

Lu Bu thought about it for a while, and felt that Zhang Ji's suggestion was good, the cavalry was difficult to replenish in the Central Plains, and the infantry could be replenished at any time, and they ate meat, and they also wanted those infantry to drink some soup, otherwise who would cooperate with him in the future?

So Lu Bu readily adopted Zhang Ji's suggestion and sent Huang Wan a copy of the final plan, Huang Wan was very satisfied with Lu Bu's plan and resolutely supported Lu Bu's decision.

With Huang Wan's support, Lu Bu's plan was implemented with a lot of resistance; The 15,000 soldiers, although they have not been on the battlefield after a short period of intensive training, still have a great sense of fear of the Yellow Turban Thieves, more than 10,000 of them, how can they be the opponents of the 100,000 Yellow Turban Thieves?

Lu Bu arranged for Wei Xu and Zhang Ji to cheer up and cheer up the infantry respectively, with the protection of the cavalry, there is no need to fear, the Yellow Turban thieves are just a group of rabble, how can they be the opponents of officers and soldiers? Let them muster up the courage to attack.

Those cavalrymen had experienced the baptism of brutal battles with foreign races, and the morale of the Yellow Turban thieves was high, which also affected the mood of the infantry, so that they gradually eliminated their fear of war.

This time, Lü Bu did not force all the infantry to go to the battlefield, and only selected 5,000 brave men from them.

Lu Bu thought to himself that after easily defeating the Yellow Turban Thieves and winning their first big victory, they would definitely fade away from their fear of war and become qualified veterans, and they would fight to participate in the war in the future.

On October 25, Lü Bu ordered a general attack, which caught the Yellow Turban Thieves by surprise, and before more than 100,000 Yellow Turban Thieves had gathered, the camp was breached, the cavalry had rushed into the camp, and the killing began.

With the assistance of the infantry, the camp of the Yellow Turban Thieves was easily conquered; First, the cavalry bows and arrows suppressed, and then the infantry, under the cover of huge shields, carried bags full of sand, and moved forward in turn, throwing sandbags into the trenches, and gradually filling the trenches; Subsequently, the cavalry used a lasso to easily pull down the fence of the camp and drag it away, so that the camp of the Yellow Turban thieves lost its defensive barrier.

Thanks to the support of the cavalry, the casualties of the infantry were not large.

Lu Bu personally led the cavalry to rush into the camp, the spear swept away, no one was invincible, like the god of war descending to earth, the yellow turban thieves who killed were terrified and quickly retreated; Those Yellow Turban soldiers who didn't have time to escape were trampled into mud by the swarming war horses in an instant.

The defeat was like a mountain, and the Yellow Turban thieves did not organize a battle formation, unable to confront the cavalry, and could only flee in all directions.

The crowd pushed the fence, and the people in the front row did not have time to dodge, so they were pushed directly into the trench by the crowd behind until the trench was filled with corpses, and the crowd behind them stepped on the corpses of the former and fled out of the camp in a swarm.

The armies of Lu Bu and others are all from border counties, and they are thirsty for killing, and for the sake of military achievements, they slaughter those Yellow Turban soldiers who have no power to fight back.

One side of the Yellow Turban camp is Lu Bu's camp, and it is also the direction in which Lu Bu came to attack; The remaining three directions were the direction in which the Yellow Turban Thieves fled, and Zhang Ji, Wei Xu, and Cheng Lian each led their troops to pursue the Yellow Turban Thieves in one direction.

The infantry fled in front, the cavalry added in the rear, and it was particularly convenient to slaughter, with the power of the war horse running, just gently wave the spear, as long as it was swept, the Yellow Turban soldiers were either killed or wounded; Those who fall to the ground are trampled by their horses, and those who stand are attacked by the cavalry that follow, and no one survives.

Lü Bu did not go out in pursuit, but eliminated the remnants of the enemy in the Yellow Turban camp, received the loot, and sent someone to inform Huang Wan that the battle situation was decided.

Huang Wan received Lu Bu's message, and was shocked, the Yellow Turban Thieves, whom he regarded as a powerful opponent, were defeated in less than an hour, and 100,000 Yellow Turban Thieves fled in all directions, and it was really incredible that they were defeated so completely.

By the afternoon, Wei Xu, Zhang Ji, and Cheng Lian were taking prisoners and returning with the booty.

The first battle was a great victory, with 30,000 beheaded, 50,000 prisoners, and countless amounts of food, money, and weapons captured, which raised the morale of the whole army.

For the next war, after discussing with Huang Wan, Lu Bu rewarded the participants and those with military merits, and the war dead gave double compensation to their families; Huang Wan had long said that all military affairs were in charge of Lü Bu, and Lü Bu's decision was quickly implemented, and won the unanimous support of the officers and soldiers, and made those who did not go to the battlefield cry out for regret.

Lu Bubai sent Huang Wan for his military exploits, and Huang Wan did not hesitate to speak well in the battle report, and praised Lu Bu fiercely to His Majesty the Emperor; The emperor was happy, the eunuchs were happy, and they were all happy.

In the following war, Lu Bu and Huang Wan cooperated more freely, and the war went very smoothly, sweeping the Yellow Turban Thieves in Yuzhou all the way without any defeat.

The powerful Lu Bu became a nightmare for the Yellow Turban Thieves in Yuzhou, who either disbanded automatically after being frightened, or fled from Yuzhou and took refuge in Jingzhou, Yangzhou or Xuzhou; Some of the small group of yellow turban thieves who were frightened surrendered directly.

Huang Wan adopted the method of Qingzhou Fangliang, resettled them in various places for the people, and the government provided food, farm tools, etc., so that they had a way to live; This led to more Yellow Turban thieves coming to surrender.

They themselves are ordinary people who can't survive, and the uprising is just for a bite to eat, to survive, and now that they have an opportunity, how can they easily miss it?

With Lu Bu's strong suppression and Huang Wan's warm comfort, the Yuzhou Yellow Turban was quickly pacified, and the degree of smoothness greatly exceeded the expectations of the generals and scholars.

Emperor Liu Hong and eunuch Zhang Rang and others were very excited.