Chapter 11: The Great Defeat of Peng Tuo (I hope you will support it)
When he decided to fight back, Chen Lin ordered the people to secretly clean the south gate after dark, dig out the south gate, and work until dawn. Gao Shun decided to personally lead the cavalry guards and Gao Shun's trapped camp to attack the city as soon as it was dawn, and killed Peng off guard. Unexpectedly, Chen Lin and the others secretly gathered at the south gate in the city, and the young men who had been fighting on the city wall for more than ten days, who were originally only the guardians of the major scholars, also wanted to join the ranks of counterattacking out of the city, which surprised Chen Lin and deeply admired them. On last thought, the city could not be defended without it, and now there were less than four hundred men on the southern wall, and they did not agree to these people's request to fight. Huang Yan said to Chen Lin: "Young Master, in the past, the Yellow Turban siege was an hour later, if I waited for the city to hit Peng Tuo fiercely this time, maybe I could defeat Peng Tuo, and gather the righteous men of the four gates to defend the city, and there were also ** hundred, go out of the city together, let the people go to the city and pretend to defend the city to confuse the Yellow Turban thieves, and then the thieves will be attacked by us and others out of the city, I am afraid that I will not think of dividing troops to attack the city." ”
Chen Lin knew that Huang Yan was taking a risk, and in the end, Chen Lin gritted his teeth and accepted Huang Yan's proposal, he had been defending the city for so long, and he was afraid that this battle would be the last hope for everyone in the city. So half an hour later, nearly 3,000 people stood by at the south gate. Chen Lin gave an order, and the city gate, which had been blocked for more than ten years, made a piercing sound and slowly opened. Chen Lin took the lead, led the cavalry out of the city first, galloped fast, and Pengtuo's camp was two or three miles away, and it was there in a blink of an eye.
The Pengtuo camp was just about to get up to make food, and the bad people were still asleep, when suddenly there was a loud thunder accompanied by the shaking of the ground, and the Yellow Turban Army didn't know what was going on for a while, so they heard the screams in front of them, and then there was a chaotic situation, and all kinds of sounds were mixed and stacked. The Yellow Turban Army hurriedly jumped up, picked up their guns and drew their knives and went out, only to see that the north of the camp was already in chaos, with flames soaring to the sky and continuous killings.
Chen Lin rode the guards to take the lead in rushing into the camp of Peng Tuo, Peng Tuo was unprepared, Chen Lin rode the guards to cut people when they saw people, threw torches, and rushed straight to the center of the camp to kill, behind Gao Shun foot soldiers and the guards of the scholars who went out of the city followed closely behind, and also rushed to the camp from time to time. Gao Shun shouted: "The three generals led 500 people to rush to the left, Chen Guo 500 people rushed to the right camp, and the rest followed a certain person to kill the Chinese army." "More than 1,000 foot soldiers instantly divided into three torrents, attacking Peng Tuo's camp of 30,000 or 40,000 people in three directions.
Chen Lin protected Huang Yan Zhoucang left and right, and rushed towards the most conspicuous military tent. From a distance, I saw a person rushing out with a big knife in his bare arm, and he happened to meet Chen Lin, and Chen Lin saw that it was Peng Tuo himself. Chen Lin shouted loudly: "Those who kill Peng Tuo will be rewarded with a thousand taels of gold." Peng Tuo was frightened and dodged to the left, just avoiding the collision of Chen Lin's war horse, but he didn't want a whole large number of cavalry guards behind Chen Lin to rush over. Peng Tuo shouted sadly: "My life is resting" Bang was hit by a tall horse, like a kite with a broken line, flying up more than a foot high, falling out heavily, just landed, greeted by countless horses' hooves.
Chen Lin looked back and saw that Peng Tuo's figure was gone, and he knew that Peng Tuo must have been trampled into flesh. He shouted loudly: "Peng Tuo is dead, surrender and avoid death." The guards behind him also shouted loudly, and for a while, the Yellow Turban thieves were panicked, and they couldn't find Peng's figure, and they were panicked. Suddenly, there was a loud noise: "He Man is here, and the Yellow Turbans are gathering to a certain place." At this time, Huang Shao also appeared beside He Man, and ordered someone to set up his banner, and suddenly many yellow scarves gathered over, and in a blink of an eye, two thousand people were gathered. Gao Shun led six or seven hundred people to see it, and without saying a word, he led his troops to rush over against the banner, and He Man hurriedly ordered a formation to meet the enemy.
As soon as he made contact, He Man looked at the Yellow Turban Army that was defeated with one blow in disbelief, and then looked at Gao Shun, He Man had never seen the power of Gao Shun's foot soldiers, and now he finally saw it. Behind He Man, Huang Shao kept gathering people and horses and sent them to He Man, but every time he filled in one, Gao Shun defeated one, and thousands of people couldn't withstand the impact of Gao Shun's hundreds of people, and they were about to flee and scatter.
Chen Lin rushed across the big tent and went straight to the other side of the camp to kill and set fire, while shouting that Peng Tuo was dead or something like that, which made the Yellow Turban chaotic. Chen Lin shouted to Huang Yan: "Huang Yan, you and I divided our troops, quickly disrupted the anti-thief camp, and set fire to the fire. So Huang Yan took four hundred horsemen and Chen Lin into two groups, and suddenly Peng's camp was turned upside down.
This battle was so dark that the sky was slightly bright, and the sun began to set in the west, Chen Lin and the others only ran around in the barracks, and when they met the strands of yellow scarves, they rushed and scattered. Peng Tuo was dead, Huang Shao and He Man could not effectively command the Yellow Turban Army, and Gao Shun bit the two tightly, and the other Yellow Turbans lost their leadership, only to run around, and as many as thousands escaped from the camp.
Huang Shao looked at the Gao Shun Department in front of him, although the number of people was small, but extremely stubborn, and then looked at the yellow scarves in the camp, sighed, and said to He Man, who was nervously commanding: "General He, after a day of fighting, I haven't seen Peng Shuai, I'm afraid Peng Shuai is really like the officials and soldiers shouted, now the camp can no longer be defended, if we take advantage of the fact that the officers and troops are entangled in the camp, we will withdraw from the camp, and erect a big banner outside the camp to gather people and horses, and it will be effective." He Man didn't have any idea, so he had to agree, so He Man left the Yellow Turban Army who was fighting with Gao Shun alone, and ran outside the camp with hundreds of people.
He Man's retreat, Gao Shun saw it clearly, his heart was in a hurry, and he shouted: "He Man ran away, kill." The Yellow Turban Army, who was struggling to support, looked back, and sure enough, Huang Shao and the others were gone, and Gao Shun personally carried a gun in front, killing the Yellow Turban in a hurry. With the withdrawal of He Man and Huang Shao from the camp, the Yellow Turbans in the camp completely lost the courage to resist, and they were exhausted after a day of fighting, and now they were abandoned again, and the Yellow Turban Army surrendered one after another.
A mile outside the camp, He Man and Huang Shao gathered three or four thousand people, but they didn't dare to rush into the camp again. Huang Shao begged He Man to lead his troops to take the opportunity to kill him, or attack Xihua County, but He Man was so frightened that he only thought about collecting more people, so he retreated to Shangcai and joined He Yi.
At this time, Chen Lin had begun to slowly accept the surrender of the Yellow Turbans, and as soon as the cavalry guards gathered, there were actually five hundred left, and three hundred cavalry were lost in the one-day battle, but most of the 1,78 foot soldiers were gone. In other words, in fact, at this time, Chen Lin only had 1,000 soldiers left, and there were more than 20,000 yellow scarves in the camp alone, but they abandoned their weapons one by one and surrendered, without resistance. When Chen Lin learned that there was a team of about three or four thousand yellow turbans outside the camp, he was so frightened that he was covered in cold sweat, and hurriedly ordered Gao Shun to tie up the abandoned yellow scarves and surround them, and Chen Lin himself hurriedly led the cavalry guards forward.
Chen Lin was terrified in his heart at this time, all the rebels were already at the end of the crossbow, a little bit of confrontation, Chen Lin only had to flee for his life, although he could still get on the horse on the guard, but he was tired, and if someone stopped him, he would have to fall down. And over there, when He Man saw Chen Lin's entire five hundred cavalry rushing towards him, he was also so frightened that he hurriedly ordered a retreat and retreated to Shangcai. In this way, both sides are terrified, one side pretends to be patient, and the other side still has the strength to fight but flees in embarrassment, which is really weird. Where did Chen Lin dare to chase, he hurriedly turned back to the camp to deter the prisoners with the cavalry and facilitate the reception of the foot soldiers.
The Yellow Turbans of the other three gates of Xihua City rushed over to help the battle as early as when Chen Lin attacked Peng Tuo's camp, so as soon as He Man fled, the Yellow Turbans outside the entire Xihua City were considered to have retreated, and the Yellow Turbans who fled back to Shangcai were seven or eight thousand people, and the He brothers were not busy fighting back, but were busy subduing the Yellow Turbans, and for a time the He brothers controlled more than 30,000 Yellow Turban thieves and guarded Shangcai City. And here Chen Lin is busy settling 20,000 prisoners, Chen Lin looked at these 20,000 people, among them there are many children in their twelves and thirteens, and there are also fifty or sixty old people, no wonder the Yellow Turban Army has a large number of people, but its combat strength is insufficient.
Chen Lin decided that no matter the old or young, he would stay behind and rectify it well, so that he could be Chen Lin's tenant farmer, although it was far away to bring him back to Anyang, but Chen Lin attached great importance to population control. Chen Lin didn't plan to choose young people from them to enlist in the army, because as soon as Peng Tuo died, Chen Lin knew that the Runan Yellow Turban was over, although there were still about 30,000 in Shangcai, but it was definitely not dangerous for Runan. On the one hand, Chen Lin sent someone to contact Zhao Qian in Pingxing City to clarify the situation, and on the other hand, he sent a lump of fleshy Peng Tuo over, and at the same time ordered Gao Shun to lead the trapped camp and the Yellow Turban captives to secretly transport Xihua's grain and grass out of the county seat, a full 500,000 stone of grain. The 20,000 yellow scarves were able to live, and there was enough food to eat, but they were grateful to Chen Lin, originally they were authentic peasant people, if it wasn't for a bite to eat, they wouldn't have come to this point, but now that they have food, and they have Chen Lin's promise, as long as they obediently follow to Anyang, they can live, how can they not follow.
Arrange for Gao Shun, Chen Dao, and Chen Guo to lead the troops to deal with these matters, Chen Linyou stayed to assist for two days, and seeing that everything was going well, he led five hundred cavalry guards to rush to Shangcai with only Huang Yan and Zhou Cang, just because Zhao Qian came for half a month, and took advantage of Peng Tuo's siege of Xihua, and gathered 5,000 county soldiers from the new. It was learned that Chen Lin had killed Peng Tuo and defeated Peng Tuo's army of 100,000 people, leaving only the He Man brothers and Huang Shao to flee back to Shangcai, with only 30,000 people. Zhao Qian immediately led his troops to besiege Shangcai County, and suddenly the situation between the Yellow Turbans and the official army in Runan County reversed again, although most of the credit for this battle was Chen Lin, but Zhao Qian was the defender of Runan County, and Chen Linli had no great credit, and he could not be stained.
Chen Lin led his troops to fly to Shangcai, and sure enough, he saw several large camps set up outside Shangcai City, and this time it was the turn of the officials and troops to besiege the Yellow Turban Thieves. Seeing Chen Lin's arrival, Zhao Qian couldn't stop his good mood, laughed and went out of the camp to greet Chen Lin, so frightened that Chen Lin hurriedly got off the horse to meet him. After some words, Chen Lin: "Uncle Zhao, Uncle to Xihua this time, only half of the more than 1,000 cavalry remains, and there are no more than three out of ten foot soldiers, and now the foot soldiers are taking prisoners in Xihua, and only the remaining cavalry is brought to help Uncle Zhao, I hope Uncle Zhao will forgive me." ”
Zhao Qian laughed, Chen Lin has made enough contributions, and Peng Tuo's corpse, Emperor Ling said, that is to be promoted to the position of Taishou, plus Chen Lin is a disciple of Yang Ci, who dares to be greedy for Chen Lin's merits, it is a matter of time before Chen Lin is promoted to Taishou, and Zhao Qian himself is not allowed to enter the court as an official. Chen Lin said again: "Uncle Zhao, Bo Zhi can't bear to cut and kill the prisoners, and I hope that Uncle Zhao will hand over the Xihua prisoners to Bo Zhi and bring them back to Anyang as slaves." "Zhao Qian shouldn't have anything.