Chapter 21 Recruiting the Yellow Turban Soldiers and Making Trebuchets
Liao Hua always felt unsteady, slept relatively lightly all night, and did not take off his armor.
After the Han army attacked the camp, they quickly gathered some of their own men and horses, but the situation was irreparable, and they took advantage of the night to break through Qin Jie's interception and fled to Shuyang.
The Han army collected and surrendered until noon the next day, and not many of the 30,000 Yellow Turban soldiers were killed, more than 1,000 people, and not many escaped, less than one percent, and the rest were captured.
Liu Kun decided to expand, now that he is a general in Zhenbei, it is no problem to have more soldiers, if the combat effectiveness is not good, he will be an auxiliary soldier first, something like collecting prisoners, the auxiliary soldiers can also do a good job!
Coupled with the thousands of yellow scarf soldiers, there were more than 30,000 soldiers in total, Liu Kun picked out 15,000 young people from them, and then eliminated half of them, and the remaining 8,000 people were filled into the auxiliary army.
In the corner of the Xinye prisoner camp, a clever young man and an old man were chatting.
The young man said: "It's a pity that I've been eliminated again, this army eats three meals a day, and eats white rice for every meal, and it's enough to be full, how happy it is!" ”
The old man next to him said: "Tiger baby! These soldiers are not only well fed, but more importantly, well-equipped, they have a good chance of survival! ”
Huwa said: "Hu Bo is really 'as wise as a lamp', I still wonder? How ferocious last night's battle was, only a few of these thousands of soldiers were wounded, and not a single one died! ”
Hu Bo said: "Silly boy, it's 'eyes as wise as a torch'!" ”
After finishing speaking, he sighed and said worriedly: "I don't know what they will do with the remaining troops!" ”
Huwa said: "Uncle Hu, they won't kill our leading merit, right?" ”
Hu Bo said: "It shouldn't be!" If they wanted to kill us, they wouldn't have healed our wounds, and they had recruited many of them as soldiers. ”
Huwa said: "That's good! ”
Huwa looked at the Han army who was eating again, and said with envy: "Wow! These soldiers also have bibimbap, and their lives are so beautiful! ”
At this time, two people dressed as civilians came over and shouted to the Yellow Turbans: "Attention! Changli Army recruits blacksmiths and carpenters! Blacksmiths and carpenters are treated the same as troops! ”
The tiger baby stepped forward and said, "Is it the same as the soldier's food?" ”
"Exactly the same!"
Another shouted: "It's not a blacksmith or a carpenter, come to me to register, what is your name, where is it, what will you do, after you register and make a book, the general will arrange a way for you and others to live."
Huwa excitedly ran back to Hu Bo and said, "Hu Bo, I remember that you are a carpenter!" Hurry up and sign up, and then you can eat white flowers! ”
Huber pulled up to the tiger baby and said, "You also go with me, as my apprentice!" ”
Huwa said: "Mmmm! That's how I planned it! ”
"You little ghost"
Liu Kun was going to take all these people away, so he registered everyone, and first selected some blacksmiths and carpenters, which would be of great use when attacking Wancheng.
Xu Xuan and Qin Jie came to see Liu Kun, Liu Kun only had 5,000 people, defeated 10,000 Yellow Turban strikers, and now it is a joint venture, 5,000 broke the Yellow Turban 30,000, killed Zhang Mancheng, and admired Liu Kun very much, both of them praised: "Virtuous and virtuous brother!" ”
Liao Hua led hundreds of people to flee back to Shuyang, while collecting the fleeing soldiers, while sending people to report the military situation to Wancheng.
Han Zhong thought that the city of Huayang was small and broken, which was not conducive to defense, and instead of staying there and being attacked by each other, it was better to return to Wancheng and concentrate on resisting the Han army!
Liao Hua received the reply at noon the next day, at this time he had gathered more than 1,000 Yellow Turban soldiers, received a reply from Han Zhong asking him to retreat, and learned that Xu Xuan and Qin Jie would lead more than 20,000 people to Shuyang and the two of them together with Liu Kun, and then led his troops to leave Shuyang.
Liu Kun rested in Xinye for three days, and on June 18, he led his troops to Shuyang, wanting to take this small city as a bridgehead to attack Wancheng.
Xu Xuan and Qin Jie also brought 10,000 soldiers and horses with them, and when the march approached Shuyang, the scouts returned; The yellow scarves of Shuyang have been withdrawn!
Looking at the dilapidated town in front of him, there was no one in the city, and Liu Kun realized for the first time why the yellow turban was called a moth thief.
Eight words; Only destroys, never builds!
In the previous battles, whether it was Jicheng or Dongjun, at least there were people in the city, unlike the small city in front of them, and all the people were taken away.
It is no wonder that such uprisings have all ended in failure, passing through one place, plundering another, and scourging another.
The rice seedlings in the surrounding fields were all cut away, and all men, women, and children, were wrapped up as thieves, and one day at a time.
It's a sin. No wonder people of insight refuse to follow the thief, how can such a team grow!
It was okay at the beginning, but the team is getting bigger and bigger, what to eat? What to drink?
You can grab food this year, but what about next year? And the year after?
The leaders of the Yellow Turbans, if they have more food, they may give a mouthful to the old and the young, and once the supplies are tight, they can only take care of the young and strong soldiers first. You can imagine what happened to the people who were carried!
The Yellow Turban soldiers captured by Zhu Jun had only one end - death! In the First World War of Changshe, the soldiers and horses of Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun, and Cao Cao together were only more than 10,000 people, but they killed more than 30,000 yellow turbans in the First World War, and there were no prisoners, why?
All the captives are killed!
After Zhang Mancheng's death, Han Zhong was handsome, why did he build a lonely city surrounded on all sides, but the yellow scarves that came to him gathered more and more, all because the yellow turban thieves couldn't live, so they could only go all the way to the black!
Don't believe it, there is such a passage in the historical records;
Han Zhong retreated to the small city, frightened and asked for surrender. Zhu Jun's Sima Zhang Chao, as well as Xu Xuan and Qin Jie, all wanted to collect these yellow scarves.
Zhu Jun said: "There are similarities in sending troops. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the people did not have a stable monarch, so they persuaded them to surrender with rewards. Now that the sea is unified, only the Yellow Turbans rebelled, and accepting them could not turn people to good, and crusading against them was enough to punish evil. ”
"If we accept their surrender now, then we will nurture their idea of rebellion, and give them the idea of going to war if it is advantageous and begging to surrender if it is unfavorable.
Then he ordered a rapid attack, but for several days, it could not be overcome.
In the end? The Yellow Turban can't fall, if it falls, it will die, desperately resist, and after defeat, it will escape into the mountains, often come out to loot, so that a Yellow Turban Rebellion lasted for more than 20 years.
Liu Kun's good impression of Zhu Jun is limited, although the evaluation of this person in history is not low, after coming to the Han Dynasty for so long, Liu Kun knows the Spring and Autumn penmanship, and can only 'hehe' for those praises!
At the beginning of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there were 60 million people in the country, and ten years later. Less than one in six? Where did the people who were wrapped in yellow scarves go?
The place with the most yellow turbans in history is in Qingzhou, and Cao Cao's Qingzhou soldiers got from this, and millions of yellow turbans in Qingzhou took the initiative to surrender to Cao Cao!
Why did he take the initiative to surrender to Cao Cao? Is Cao Cao's personality so charismatic?
Definitely! Hungry.
Of the 1 million people, 300,000 are strong enough to serve as soldiers, and it can be seen that the other two-thirds are the wives and children of soldiers.
Cao Cao received it very happily, and the consequences were also very serious! He can't afford to support so many people.
Fortunately, there was Tao Qian's subordinate general Zhang Min, the father of Cao Cao, who was greedy for money, and gave Cao Cao an excuse to be furious, and slaughtered several cities in Xuzhou, which was considered to have temporarily solved the food crisis.
Liu Kun made up his mind to collect the Yellow Turbans before Zhu Jun, and if Xu Xuan and Qin Jie could not place these Yellow Turban soldiers, he planned to send them all to Qingzhou or Changli.
June 21, Liu Kun and Xu Xuan and Qin Jie. Come to the city of Wancheng and set up camp.
'Wan' bent grass is also self-tracking, covering the earth with fragrant grass, lush, and high in the center of the four directions, which is just in line with the geomorphological characteristics of the basin surrounded by mountains in the west, north and east of Wancheng.
After the war-torn Wancheng, there is no lush scene, the surrounding scene is similar to that of Shuyang, there is no crop outside the city, the woods, grass are trampled everywhere, the traces of fire, and the fields are all barren.
Wancheng is the gateway of Jingzhou, the city wall is built very strong, about 10 meters high, about 1 meter thick, the inner wall of the wall is rammed with earth, and the outside of the wall is built with stone and city bricks.
Xu Xuan laughed self-deprecatingly: "I didn't expect that the sturdy city wall has become the support of moths and thieves!" ”
Qin Jie said: "Yes! This city is not easy to attack! I don't know what Houde thinks! ”
Liu Kun said: "Siege is not my forte!" My subordinates are all cavalry, and the newly surrendered yellow turbans cannot be sent to attack the city, otherwise there will be chaos! But I have a siege artifact! ”
Qin Jie said curiously, "What artifact?" ”
Liu Kun slowly spit out three words: "Stone thrower!" ”
Xu Xuan seemed to know a little and hurriedly asked, "Where is this thing?" ”
"It still needs to be manufactured, the two of you will organize the soldiers to go to the logging, and I will arrange the manufacturing!"
"That's great!"
Liu Kun said to the righteous brothers: "You brothers have also seen it, the wall is high and thick, it is not easy to break, you should be careful at night, don't be stolen by the enemy!" ”
Zhang Fei said: "They dare! Lend them both guts! ”
Zhang Jaw said: "Yi Demo should be careless, we still dare to steal the camp of 30,000 moth thieves, why don't the other party dare, we might as well do a good job of ambush in the camp, in case someone comes to steal the camp, wouldn't it"
Dian Wei said: "I didn't expect Jun Yi to learn so treacherous!" ”
Wen Chou said: "Those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to ink are black, and they have been with their eldest brother for a long time, it is inevitable"
Liu Kun returned to reality and asked his subordinates to download the full set of trebuchet's manufacturing materials and drawings and send them to his mailbox.
Liu Kun's real person in charge of the purchasing department is Qin Xiang, he is what we often mention, the salesman with great powers, and now he has been promoted to the manager of the purchasing department.
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