Chapter Eighty-Nine: A Few Families Rejoice, Some Families Are Worried
Qinghe City is broken. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info finally Qinghe City fell into the hands of Gongsun Zhan. But all that Gongsun Chan got was Qinghe City was an empty warehouse and a flame that had not yet been extinguished. But Cao Dejun made another small fortune. Although the Yellow Turbans do not have many collections, most of them are food and belongings.
The reason why there is a Yellow Turban Army is not because the poor people have no food and cannot eat. Since there is a rebellion, then you must first loot food. Therefore, the Yellow Turban Army has no other skills, and the ability to scavenge food is not small. It was a miracle that the Yellow Turbans could find a grain wherever they walked. But the Yellow Turbans seem to have a greater ability to collect money than to loot food. Compared to food and goods, the rest of the Yellow Turban Army has not much, let alone ordnance. The Yellow Turbans didn't even have the most basic weapons in their hands, and they still didn't have much inventory. Cao De didn't expect to have many weapons to be collected, and Cao De didn't look down on the weapons held by the Yellow Turbans. It's not as good as Cao Dejun's weapons that need to be returned to the furnace.
Although Cao Dejun seized a large amount of grain and property, Zhang Bao was not found. And according to the Yellow Turban captive captured by Cao Hong, Zhang Bao is very likely to run away to Julu. Cao De couldn't help but be a little worried that Zhang Bao would be fine if he ran away, just don't let Gongsun Chan kill him.
In the battle of Qinghe City, Cao De's army not only harvested a lot of food and property. The large number of captives has now become Cao De's biggest headache.
There were more than 60,000 Yellow Turban troops in Qinghe City. Already in the siege of the previous days, several thousand people were lost. Yesterday, a bitter meat plot led to the Yellow Turban Army of 50,000 people, and after being surrounded, more than 30,000 people chose to surrender. plus more than 2,000 Yellow Turban prisoners brought out by Cao Hong from the city. There were almost 36,000 prisoners. In this battle, Cao De's army killed nearly 20,000 Yellow Turban troops and lost more than 4,000 people. And most of the dead were soldiers in the shield formation at the forefront of resisting the frontal charge of the Yellow Turbans.
Now that the critical juncture of the war has come, it is impossible to take prisoners of the Yellow Turban Army. First of all, there is no longer enough time for reorganization training, and there is no time to brainwash this batch of integrated Yellow Turban Army. In short, it's a matter of lack of time.
In desperation, Cao De had no choice but to send an escort team of more than 2,000 people to send the Yellow Turban Army prisoners and confiscated property back to Hanzhong County. In this way, Cao Dejun's original army had a force of 29,000 people, and only 22,000 people remained.
After the team returning to Hanzhong left, Cao De ordered the whole army to repair for a day, and immediately turned the horse's head and marched to Guangping City.
Cao De is happy, but Gongsun Zan in Qinghe City is not happy. In the huge Qinghe City, in addition to the people in the city, there is still some grain, and there is no grain at all in more than a dozen granaries, not even moldy grain. Gongsun Chan wanted to cry without tears, but he could only look up to the sky and sigh. Qinghe City, which was originally a great feat, has now become a burden. Because in Qinghe City, the Yellow Turban Army of nearly 5,000 people from Haiyou is scattered and hiding, and they also create some trouble for Gongsun Chan from time to time.
has the same headache as Gongsun Zhan, as well as Huangfu Song. Obviously, there are more than 80,000 officers and troops under Guangping City, but no one is willing to attack the city with all their strength, whether it is Huangfu Song, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu.
Huangfu Song is to preserve this army that is truly loyal to the country. And the two brothers of the Yuan family are trying to lose Huangfu Song's strength.
This siege battle has been fought for four days, but none of the more than 80,000 officers and soldiers has ever climbed to the top of Guangping City. And these 80,000 people lost less than 1,000 people in these four days. This is truly unprecedented.
Soon, the news that Cao De and Gongsun Zhan had conquered Qinghe City reached the ears of Huangfu Song under Guangping City. The news of Cao De's march to Guangping on the second day was also known to the officials and troops under Guangping City soon after.
At this time, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu realized that they couldn't joke anymore. It was necessary to lay down the city of Quang Binh before Cao De arrived. You must know that Cao Er was stunned, this person has completely changed since he was knocked unconscious by Yuan Shu. Now the second stunned person dares to do any trick, and he dares to make any bad move.
And so an even more ridiculous scene happened. Just when Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu launched a real attack, the Yellow Turban Army on the city of Guangping was still happily watching the officers and troops under the city play in circles. I didn't expect the official army to really attack the city. It wasn't until the officers and troops under the city were only more than 100 steps away from the city wall that the Yellow Turban Army in the city reacted and gave up the rain of arrows. And this rain of arrows, which is not much of a threat at all, is simply like not being released.
At this time, Zhang Liang was still drinking in his residence. For several days, there was not a single decent attack on the officers and troops under the city. Even Zhang Liang, who is very good at using soldiers, can't help but be a little careless. And it is precisely because Zhang Liang feels that he uses soldiers like a god that will lead to his carelessness. Because Zhang Liang understands that when the enemy on the opposite side bluffs and pretends to attack the city, it is easiest to consume his own morale and mental power. Therefore, Zhang Liang directly divided the nearly 70,000 Yellow Turban troops in the city into four batches and implemented the work system of four shifts and two operations. Therefore, just as Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu launched a real siege, there were only a pitiful more than 30,000 soldiers guarding the head of Guangping City. If divided into four gates, the north gate has only 5,000 men, and the other three gates have only a pitiful 10,000 men.
By the time Zhang Liang knew that the official army was really attacking the city, the more than 30,000 Yellow Turban soldiers who were still resting in the city were still sleeping and playing. And when Zhang Liang ordered the whole army to go up the city wall, it was already too late. Huangfu Song, located at the south city gate, and Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu at the east and west city gates, have already attacked the city wall.
And Zhang Liang is not at a loss, he has two brushes. After thinking about it for a while, he directly gave up Quang Binh City. With nearly 40,000 Yellow Turban soldiers, he ran directly from the North City Gate and ran in the direction of Julu.
After the officers and soldiers finally descended the city wall, the Yellow Turban Army in Guangping City actually had no command system. Therefore, the battle in Quang Binh Castle is the same as the battle outside the city, and it can basically be said that the resistance is very weak. This is very unpleasant for Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, very unhappy.
Therefore, Yuan Shao did not stay in Guangping City at all, and chased directly from the city to the north gate. After Yuan Shu found out, he was afraid that Yuan Shao would rob Zhang Liang's head, so he hurried to the north city gate. As a result, the two armies met at the North City Gate.
Next, the two armies almost started again because of the question of who would get out of the city first. Fortunately, Huangfu Song came in a hurry. Otherwise, the north gate, which was originally quite clean, would have been stained red with blood.
Zhang Liang ran away, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and Huangfu Song didn't catch anyone. And Guangping City is also a credit to Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu. Therefore, the two began to quarrel over who captured Guangping City. Huangfu Song was so loud that the two of them quarreled. hurriedly took out the title of commander-in-chief of the three armies to suppress the quarrel between the two, "Don't shout." After a few days, the army set sail for Julu. Whoever kills Zhang Liang between the two of you is the other one. That's it. Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu saw that both of them still had a chance, so they quieted down. We began to discuss how to attack the giant deer.
Just when Guangping City was breached, Cao De had already rushed nearly half the way. This time, Cao De did not delay the march of the whole army at full speed on the road. Just when he was about to arrive in Guangping, Cao De knew that Guangping City was broken. Zhang Liang fled. Zhang Liang ran north, and Cao De came from the north-east direction. Therefore, the two did not meet. This allowed Zhang Liang to return to Julu smoothly.
When Cao De learned the news that the city of Guangping had been broken, he turned the direction of the march and headed north. The soldier pointed directly at the giant deer.
(Today's first chapter, there's a second chapter soon.) )