Chapter 507: Defeated
When Li Xing was out of Nanyang, he gathered a lot of Yellow Turban troops along the road, and when the number reached a certain number, he led more than 3,000 people to take a sparsely defended county seat.
When Li Xing retreated along the way, other Yellow Turban forces also withdrew from the Nanyang area, which directly led to the Han army's failure to completely eliminate the Yellow Turban Army forces in the place, so that a considerable part of the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army were able to withdraw to Qingzhou and Jizhou. Now the entire Central Plains region is in chaos, and the reason is that the Han Dynasty allowed volunteers to be recruited from all over the country to quell the rebellion.
And when Li Xing entered Jizhou with the remnants of the Yellow Turbans of more than 3,000 people, the victory or defeat of the entire Yellow Turban Rebellion was also concentrated on this land. For a time, the wind and clouds surged, and the heroes gathered!
"My lord! There is a defeated army of officers and soldiers ahead! "A group of Yellow Turban scouts rushed to report on the horse. Because he has not yet had time to accept the title of official within the Yellow Turban Army, Li Xing's current prestige is not enough to directly call himself Qu Shuai, so he can only proclaim himself the enemy lieutenant now, and he can barely be regarded as having a name. As for whether it is compliant or not, it doesn't matter, because he knows that with these people, it is natural for his title to be recognized.
Li Xing led his army north along the way, and encountered countless Yellow Turban defeated troops, some of which were annexed by him on a small scale, and some of which were unwilling to live under others, so they turned around and retreated to Qingzhou. There were tens of thousands of Yellow Turbans scattered in Nanyang, and he incorporated about one-tenth of them.
Subsequently, after he captured a county seat, he could be regarded as having a little name in the Yellow Turban Army, and the Yellow Turban Army that came to defect also increased his command to more than 5,000 people. Although he has been in a hurry, Li Xing has also carried out a simple purge of these people, at least in the current batch of troops under his command, the kind of thing that rushes directly without obeying orders will not happen.
Li Xing's subordinates were able to gather so many people, thanks to the materials obtained after taking the county seat, otherwise Li Xing would need to directly transport military rations from the main god space to supply his army, the outside of this county is full of hunger, white bones, and the granary inside the county town is also empty, and even a mouse can't be seen, but the county order, the county lieutenant, the county cheng, the mansion of the local gentry, but the private warehouse is full of rice and grain!
The once glorious Han Dynasty has come to the twilight of the West Mountain, and the last bit of glory is about to completely dissipate.
The eunuchs and relatives were in power, and the entire Eastern Han Dynasty had been corrupted to the point of hopelessness, and the phenomenon of buying and selling officials everywhere could be seen everywhere. In the past few years, there have been countless droughts and floods in the Central Plains, and the people of the lower classes have nothing to rely on, so they have no place to scrape, so they can only stretch their hands into the granaries of the counties, and use various small means such as natural disasters to completely divide the wealth in the warehouses of the county.
One thing is very common in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, that is, in this era of natural disasters, there is almost no disaster relief in the locality, and even some places do not even reduce taxes, forcing countless people to go into exile! Li Xing let go of those local surnames, but he didn't let go of any of the official gentry and wealthy families in the county.
After he raided his house, he received a large amount of food and military salaries, so naturally he had no logistical concerns for the time being, and he also used these grains, gold and silver to envelop his subordinates or buy a batch of grain from other places, maybe other Yellow Turban Qu Marshals would have selfish intentions and leave some of those wealth privately, but for Li Xing, these things have no value at all, and it is better to use them to buy people's hearts.
With more than 2,000 swords and halberds, 500 pairs of armor, and more than 100 war horses, Li Xing armed more than 1,000 elites at once, and also formed a personal guard force of more than 500 people.
"Defeated?" Li Xing's eyes narrowed when he heard this, a glimmer of light flashed, and he said in a deep voice: "Where are they now?" ”
The scout of the Yellow Turban Army pointed to the valley of the guide face and said respectfully: "Right in that valley, there are about four or five hundred of them, all of whom are remnants of the defeated army. At the moment, they were making a fire to cook, and they only found out when they saw the rising cooking smoke, but they didn't dare to sneak over to investigate for fear of alarming others! ”
"Someone! Reward him with a tael of silver, a pot of wine, and record his military exploits! ”
Li Xing has been going back and forth all the way, he has also fought with several officers and soldiers, and he is a heavy reward for those who are brave in battle, and those who retreat are punished, and now the morale of this Yellow Turban Army is completely stacked with rewards and punishments.
"Looks like I'm in good luck!" Li Xing smiled and said to several promoted army commanders around him: "You and others will each lead a team of people to outflank them from the side, and after I defeat the main force of the enemy, I must take them all!" ”
"Yes! My lord! Several uncles answered the order and left.
After saying that, Li Xing ordered the army to rest for a while, and then directly led the army to surround the location of the valley.
He didn't expect that his luck would be so good, and he actually encountered the Han Dynasty's rout as soon as he entered the territory of Jizhou, which was completely a military prestige sent to the door!
"Kill!"
"The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand!"
With the sudden shouting of killing outside the valley, the Han Dynasty rout in the valley suddenly jumped up like a frightened bird, and the shouting and killing sound outside shook the sky, and before the Yellow Turban Army approached, there were already officers and soldiers who had no fighting spirit ready to escape. But at this moment, a black-faced fat fierce general suddenly came out of the Han army, he was wearing general armor, holding a halberd, and shouted angrily: "Don't mess with yourself!" And kill me out!! ”
The black-faced fat and strong general burst into a shout, and rushed towards the outside of the valley, he was followed by a team of guards, all of whom were first-class elites in the army, these people were mostly generals and servants of the generals, and they had been practicing martial arts since they were children, although they were not as good as those real strongmen, but they were much higher than those ordinary soldiers.
So when he went out with more than ten personal guards, he actually broke through the first line of defense laid by Li Xing at once, and killed those Yellow Turban soldiers on their backs!
"What a strength! What a quick knife technique! Li Xing just glanced at it, and sighed in his heart.
Although the black-faced fat and strong general in the surrounded was holding a halberd in his hand, the martial arts he used were sword techniques, and they were also the kind of sword techniques commonly used by generals, and the most famous representative of them was undoubtedly Guan Yu. A halberd was impenetrable to the black-faced general, and although there were many of those Yellow Turban soldiers, none of them could bully him within five meters!
As a result, the defeated troops of the Han Dynasty were immediately demoralized, and they gathered together to rush out and kill in anger. (To be continued.) )