Chapter 8: The Vanishing Huang Shao (Huahua can be doubled)
As soon as Chen Lin's cavalry moved, the Yellow Turban Army panicked, Huang Shao looked up to the sky and shouted sadly, Huang Shao knew that these 8,000 people were over, and they were actually defeated in the hands of 1,000 people. In fact, Huang Shao didn't think it was all right, although the four thousand people in front failed to defeat Gao Shun, but they would not be defeated, and at the critical time, it was Chen Lin's 1,000 cavalry army that played a huge oppressive force and crushed the psychology of the Yellow Turban, which caused the rout. Chen Lin didn't think about it so much, at this time, Chen Lin was urging the horse to run, and crashed into the panicked Yellow Turban Formation. Huang Shao smiled miserably, took dozens of cronies to drop the banner, and sneaked away, there are still 20,000 people in Shangcai Simen, Huang Shao is not a person who gives up easily. Huang Yan looked for the flag for the first time, and looked at it, but there was no one under it, and Huang Shao didn't know where to go, so he shouted: "Huang Shao is dead, and those who descend will not be killed." ”
Huang Yan shouted, all the yellow turbans hurriedly looked at the flag, and sure enough, Huang Shao was gone, and it became more and more messy, many people knelt down and surrendered, Chen Lin didn't pay attention to the kneeling, and rushed forward, but those who raised troops to resist were all slashed and killed. I'm afraid that the shouting and killing sound here has already spread to Shangcai City, but it is far away from the city, and Zhao Qian can't see it.
For a whole hour, Chen Lin and the others felt that the battlefield was quiet, either the prisoners who silently bowed their heads and did not dare to look up, or the Chen Lin rebels who silently cleaned up the battlefield, there were people running on the battlefield chasing a few war horses that had lost their owners, and the collected iron tools were piled up together, Chen Lin had not harvested so many iron tools since he sent troops to Anyang, which was enough to equip thousands of people from the new. Nearly 1,000 captives were captured, more than 1,000 were beheaded, more than 1,000 escaped, and most of the losses of the army were in the foot soldiers, and there were no 500 people left in 1,000 people, but Chen Lin could see at a glance that the rest were all respectful of Gao Shun.
Chen Lin simply directly put all the foot soldiers into one, limited to 1,000 people, led by Gao Shun, assisted by Chen Guo and Chen Zhi, so Gao Shun mastered half of Chen Lin's righteous army, Gao Shun still took the order with a blank face, and went down meticulously to carry it out, hoping to select a few hundred young people to join among the 1,000 captives.
Chen Lin sat on the ground and thought, what should he do next, except for the cavalry, he can still fight, but the foot soldiers can no longer fight, and they need to rest. What should the less than 1,000 cavalry do to give full play to their advantages? Chen Lin couldn't think of a head for a while, so he had to order the whole army to retreat five miles, fifteen miles away from Shangcai City and set up camp, more than 1,000 captives left more than 400 relatively tall, and the rest were dismissed after some warnings, but Chen Lin had no surplus food to support, and he couldn't bear to kill.
At dawn the next day, the scout came to report that the siege of Shangcai had been lifted, and Huang Shao led his troops to nowhere to go. Frightened, Chen Lin scolded, Huang Shao had a full 20,000 people, gone, if he came to sneak attack, Chen Lin had ten heads also cut off, and hurriedly sent scouts to find it within a radius of ten, twenty, and thirty miles. After determining the safety of the road to Shangcai City, he immediately ordered the whole army to pull out the camp and enter the city.
There was nothing to do all the way, Zhao Qian on the Shangcai city wall was also hesitant, I didn't know whether to go out of the city to check, the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses besieging the city disappeared overnight, could it be the conspiracy of the Yellow Turban thieves, and whether it would be related to the shouting and killing sound ten miles away yesterday. Suddenly, a sergeant shouted, a group of horse soldiers came in front, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly looked at it, it was Chen Lin and his party.
When Chen Lin came to the place under the city, he could already see the appearance of the people on the wall, and Chen Lin shouted loudly: "Uncle Zhao, I am the uncle." After speaking, he took off the light helmet on his head and let Zhao Qian see it. Zhao Qian saw that it was really Chen Lin, and he was ecstatic in his heart, and shouted: "Bozhi, do you know where the thief is going, and what happened when there was a fighting sound ten miles away yesterday?" Chen Lin: "Yesterday was a battle between Bozhi and the thieves, killing and defeating 8,000 thieves, beheading 5,600,000, today the thief army does not know where to go, Uncle Zhao can open the city gate, our army has been fighting day after day, very tired. Even Chen Lin couldn't help but exaggerate his military exploits and said two thousand more. Zhao Qian heard that Chen Lin was fighting yesterday, and he beheaded five or six thousand, and shouted with joy: "Bo Zhi can wait for a while." Zhao Qian hurriedly ordered the city gate to be opened and Chen Lin entered the city.
Zhao Qian happily welcomed Chen Lin into Shangcai City, and after some exchanges, he did not hesitate to praise Chen Lin. At the same time, Chen Lin also knew that there were still 5,000 military horses left in Shangcai City, and there were also 300 cavalry troops allocated by the Yuzhou Mansion before. Chen Lin said that the righteous army was tired and hoped to rest in the city for a while, Zhao Qian agreed, and said that since the rebels had been defeated yesterday, the rebels must have retreated. Sure enough, at noon, there was a horse coming from Pingxing City, saying that the thieves besieging the city had retreated north at night. Zhao Qian laughed when he heard this: "Bozhi, this is your work, I have written a recital this morning, and I will give your majesty the credit of Bozhi." ”
Chen Lin was also happy in his heart, he was still close to the Chen family in Zhao Qiansu, and he would not be greedy for Chen Lin's credit, but it was a pity that even so, Yuan Shu sent a letter back to Luoyang, and still divided half of Chen Lin's credit. As soon as Yuan Shu's letter returned to Luoyang, it became Chen Lin's fight against the Yellow Turban of Runan City, and Yuan Shu defeated 100,000 besieging Pingxing rebels.
After two days of stability, Zhao Qian ordered Yuan Shu to lead the army to come to the round, so that Chen Lin guarded Cai, and Zhao Qian took Yuan Shu together, a total of 5,000 people went north to attack Zhaoling County. Chen Lin wanted to persuade that there were still seventy or eighty thousand people in the Yellow Turbans, and they should not easily enter the army, so it was better to hold on first, but unfortunately as soon as Zhao Qian and Yuan Shu met, both of them were worried about military merits, and after leaving a thousand county soldiers, they led their troops north. The 1,000 county soldiers left by Zhao Qian were naturally led by official Han officials to repair the city wall, which did not discourage Chen Lin at all.
It is said that Zhao Qian and Yuan Shu, a total of 5,000 people, went north to attack Zhaoling City, as long as Zhaoling City was recovered, they could face Xihua County, Peng's base camp, and the two seemed to see the great merit of exterminating the Yellow Turban in Runan. Along the way, Yuan Shu listened to Yang Hong's suggestion, sent more scouts, and reported that the Yellow Turban Thieves had withdrawn from Zhaoling for thirty miles, and the Yellow Turban Thieves had withdrawn from Zhaoling for twenty miles, and the Yellow Turban Thieves had all withdrawn from Zhaoling and wanted to retreat to Xihua. Zhao Qian and Yuan Shu were overjoyed when they heard this, and hurriedly ordered the whole army to advance quickly, and the two began to be careless, and the three armies began to gallop ten miles and rush into Zhaoling City. The vanguard entered more than 2,000 people, Zhao Qian and Yuan Shu also began to enter, Yang Hong entered the city gate, and at a glance, no, why is there a city gate after the city gate? Wengcheng, there is an urn city in the small Zhaoling County, and he hurriedly asked Zhao Qian: "Lord Taishou, is there an urn city in this Zhaoling City?" Zhao Qian didn't know what was going on, so he replied casually: "It has never been built, this official has been here for many years, and he has never built an urn city." "The so-called urn city is equivalent to building another city wall in front of the city gate and setting up a city gate. In this way, the enemy captured the first gate and the second gate, and the defender of the city was greatly advantaged.
When Yang Hong heard this, he was terrified, since the urn city was not built by Zhao Qian, it must have been built by the Yellow Turban Thieves in a hurry, such a strong defense, the Yellow Turban Thieves would not give up easily, unless there was a conspiracy. Yang Hong hurriedly said to Yuan Shu: "Lord, Zhaoling City is weird, and it should not be entered lightly, so it is advisable to retreat immediately and send one into the city to check first." ”
Yang Hong's suspicions were reasonable, but it was a little late, because, at this moment, the vanguard troops in the city suddenly began to shout and kill, and then there was panic in the back. Zhao Qian shouted: "What's the matter? Someone at both ends immediately came to report, the front said that a large group of yellow turban thieves suddenly poured out of the private houses in the city, and they had already come into contact with the official army, and the rear also said that no more than 10,000 yellow turban thieves suddenly rushed out three miles outside the city, and the two also obviously had a large army together, I don't know how many.
When Zhao Qian and Yuan Shu heard this, their faces changed drastically, and the scouts clearly said that the Yellow Turban Thief had withdrawn from Zhaoling. It turned out that after Huang Shao was defeated by Chen Lin that day, after some thought, he felt that it was not much use to besiege Shangcai again, and Peng Tuo of Pingxing City also said that most of the grain and grass were destroyed. Huang Shao suggested that Peng take off the army, rest for a while in Zhaoling, and redeploy, not wanting to hear that the official army had gathered 5,000 people and rushed to Zhaoling. Huang Shao had a plan and ordered his subordinates to drive the people of Zhaoling County to Xihua, but he hid the Yellow Turban army in the private houses, and ambushed more than 30,000 people far away on both sides of Zhaoling, just waiting for the officials and troops to enter the city, not wanting the officials and troops to take it seriously.
Zhao Qian and Yuan Shu hurriedly ordered the front army to change into the rear army, and the rear army to change into the front army, and retreat. After Ji Ling led his troops to break off, he was bound to block the Yellow Turban Thief for a quarter of an hour, Zhang Xun opened the way in front, killed a way out, and broke through the 10,000 people in the rear while both sides had not arrived, otherwise they would be surrounded and the whole army could be annihilated.
To say that Ji Ling and Zhang Xun are also brave, Ji Ling blocked the inner city gate with 2,000 people to prevent the Yellow Turban Thieves from leaving the city, and tens of thousands of Yellow Turban Thieves couldn't advance half a step, knowing that someone wanted to climb the city wall and shoot arrows down, so they broke through. And Zhang Xun led the same 2,000 people, rushed straight through the 10,000 army, killed the yellow turban thief, and was about to disperse, Zhao Qian saw it, and ordered 500 people to come forward to help the battle, and Yuan Shu only left 500 people to guard.
Seeing Zhang Xun break through the thieves in front of him, Zhao Qian and Yuan Shu immediately wanted to escape, and at the same time did not forget to inform Ji Ling after the break. After running out of two miles in a row, Zhao Qian and Yuan Shu, who were out of breath, turned around and looked at it, crying and mourning, Ji Ling had not yet followed, and there were less than a thousand sergeants beside him, and they did not dare to sit and wait for Ji Ling, they could only hope that Ji Ling could break out of the encirclement. Zhao Qian and Yuan Shu hurriedly retreated to Shangcai, walked less than a mile, and rushed behind them to catch up with hundreds of people, taking the lead was Ji Ling, Yuan Shu hurriedly stepped forward to ask Ji Ling, and saw that he was okay and was in a slightly better mood.
Chen Lin rested in Shangcai, and soon received a report from his own scout, saying that Zhao Qian and Yuan Shu were retreating to Shangcai, and there were only 1,000 people with him. Chen Lin was taken aback, the army of five thousand was left with one thousand in the blink of an eye. Chen Lin hurriedly sent people to inform Pingxing, Runan and other places to strictly prevent the Yellow Turban thieves from attacking, and at the same time discussed with the Shangcai officials and scholars, and finally got the promise of the scholars, and each of them could send hundreds of families to guard the city in a few hundred days. Suddenly, there were more than 1,000 people in Shangcai, plus Lord Taishou who was about to retreat, there were also 5,000 people in Shangcai City, including Chen Lin's 1,000 cavalry.
Chen Lin finished all this, and looked into the distance on the city wall with a wry smile, the good situation, Zhao Qian's defeat, when will the Runan Yellow Turban be destroyed. At this time, Huang Yan stepped forward to offer a plan, and after Chen Lin heard it, he was overjoyed in his heart, and immediately summoned everyone to arrange the task. Zhao Qian returned to Shangcai City, did not see Chen Lin, and learned that Chen Lin actually led his troops to attack Xihua, and said that Chen Lin was bold.