Lu Zhi's main army moved north along Liu Bei's march route on the fifth day of April, and the front reached Julu County.

And just as Lu Zhi expected, when Liu Bei was approaching Julu County, he learned through the sentry that there were signs of a large number of garrison activities in Julu County, which needed to be treated carefully, so Liu Bei slowed down the march and did not deliberately approach Julu County.

However, after the Yellow Turban Army of Julu County learned that the Han army was approaching, they tried to take the initiative to attack, and a group of more than 3,000 foot cavalry took the initiative to attack, seemingly wanting to eat Liu Bei.

After Liu Bei personally observed the state of this team, he decided to attack.

The results were not surprising.

This "foot cavalry" with only a few dozen cavalry was broken up after Liu Bei used the classic cavalry and archery tactics, and the military formation that originally looked like it was scattered all of a sudden, and the large open space in the south of Julu County suddenly became a Shura field for cavalry to slaughter infantry.

The outcome of the battle is clear at a glance.

Looking at the one-sided battlefield, Liu Bei on the hill not far away sighed to Zhen Yan beside him.

"I can see it clearly, these people don't know how to fight at all, they just relied on a momentum before, and the people from the Jizhou government can't fight, the two groups of people meet together, whoever has the strongest momentum can win, and it has nothing to do with fighting."

Zhen Yan smiled.

"Isn't that a good thing? Military merits are sent to the door one after another, isn't it more for you? The greater the merit, the greater the reward. ”

Liu Bei shook his head and sighed.

"Of course military merit is good, but it would be nice if you didn't have to die so many people."

"They're not innocent, they're thieves, damn it."

Zhen Yan shook his head and said: "You are too kind-hearted, it doesn't matter in peacetime, you shouldn't be like this on the battlefield, they all say that mercy is not in charge of the army, there is no need for mercy, and it will kill you, so you shouldn't have such thoughts." ”

"I know, so when it's time to do it, have you ever seen me soft?"

Liu Bei laughed self-deprecatingly: "Only when I have so much spare time, I will sigh hypocritically, but I will not be weak when I start, in the end, I am just a hypocrite." ”

Zhen Yan just smiled and didn't speak again, obviously not taking this matter seriously.

Hypocrisy?

What is this?

If Liu Bei is considered a hypocrite, are there still good people in the world?

Zhen Yan even felt that Liu Bei's heart was not ruthless enough, if he was ruthless enough, he should kill all the people here, cut off all the heads, and build a Jingguan, which shocked people's hearts and let them know the fate of disobeying him, that is called ruthlessness.

Where is this?

The battle was, of course, a complete victory for the Han army.

The Yellow Turban Army attacked rashly, the whole army was annihilated, Liu Bei's department beheaded more than 500 people, and captured nearly 2,000 people, which was another military achievement.

After this defeat, the Yellow Turban Army never took the initiative to attack again, and seemed to know that they could not win in the field and admit it.

Liu Bei didn't take the initiative to attack, he had more than 1,000 people, and it was already good to be able to beat the other party so that he didn't dare to fight in the field, as long as his head was fine, he wouldn't think about attacking the city.

He led his troops to cut down trees and set up camp in the perimeter, building a camp for his own troops and the upcoming main force to face the siege that followed.

In addition, he once again personally presided over the memorial service for the soldiers who died in battle.

After commanding the troops, Liu Bei made a rule that after every battle, the living people should hold a memorial ceremony for their dead comrades, and send people to escort their bodies and their relics, trophies, and consolation money back to their hometowns and hand them over to their families.

Liu Bei personally presided over the memorial ceremony for all the dead in the previous four battles, and asked all soldiers to attend the memorial ceremony together.

Whether you know it or not, whether you have a personal grudge or not, since you are dead, everything will return to dust.

He led the way, and all the officers and soldiers took off their helmets, and surrounded the bodies of the war dead for a moment of silence for a pillar of incense, and then put on their helmets and saw them off for the last time.

to show reverence for life and reverence for the dead in battle.

He personally supervised the corpses of the war dead with lime to avoid premature decomposition, and personally inspected the relics and trophies of the war dead, and sealed the prescribed amount of pension and his own personal wishes, and handed them over to his own relatives and soldiers to escort them back to their hometowns and hand them over to their relatives for disposal.

At the same time, on the issue of the ownership of the spoils of war, Liu Bei strictly restrained the officers of all armies, demanded that the interests of the soldiers be protected, and strictly prohibited the officers from extorting and embezzling the soldiers' property.

Everyone is out to make money with their lives, and this kind of life-selling money has to be plundered, it's not a thing.

I can't tolerate such people in my barracks.

A ranger who admired his reputation and followed him was beheaded by Liu Bei in front of the whole army for extorting the property of his soldiers, so as to correct military discipline and strictly enforce military law.

After a series of processes, the soldiers in the department all thought that Liu Bei was a reasonable and honest official.

With such a Shangguan, you can get money while you are alive, no one will exploit you, and you don't have to worry about the property you have worked so hard to get when you die, and you can rest assured that you can get money while you die.

Such a Shangguan is worth following.

For the dead of this battle, Liu Bei also personally presided over the memorial ceremony, leading the whole army to take off their helmets, with officers first and soldiers behind, collectively mourning in silence.

Later, he personally watched the car escorting their bodies and belongings leave the barracks and gallop towards their hometown.

An inexplicable atmosphere permeated the barracks.

Even Dong Huang, who was very arrogant, felt it, but he didn't know what kind of atmosphere this was, and he only knew that his subordinates in Liangzhou were full of admiration when they talked about Liu Bei.

How could he not be himself?

He didn't know anything else, but he felt that this initiative of personally presiding over the memorial ceremony and sending someone to send the soldier's corpse back to his hometown was really meaningful, in other words, he definitely didn't want to be in the wilderness after he died, and he definitely wanted to return to his roots, otherwise he would become a lonely ghost, how uncomfortable would it be?

However, the cost of doing so seems to be quite high, is it Liu Bei's personal contribution?

Dong Huang didn't know.

On the ninth day of the first month of April, Lu Zhi led the army to the south of Julu County, and then surrounded the county seat, taking the road of encirclement but not attacking, preparing to encircle the point and send reinforcements.

Then, Liu Bei began to play psychological tactics.

He suggested that Lu Zhi let out a word, saying that the goal of the Han army was to take Julu County, and then dig up the coffins of the three Zhang Jiao brothers, open the coffins and kill their corpses, crush the bones and scatter ashes, and also exterminate the Zhang family, so that they will never be able to live forever.

This is not counting, but also to completely destroy the rhetoric of the Taiping Dao gods, saying that Zhang Jiao is dead, and he died with his brothers, or was killed, what is on the Yellow Sky and the like are all fake, otherwise how could the Yellow Turban Army be defeated?

Zhang Jiao is really going to the Yellow Sky, just watching the defeat of the Yellow Turban Army without saying anything?

Lu Zhi thought it was very good, so he authorized Liu Bei to do this, and Liu Bei found many Julu locals, gave them money and food, and selected the loudest of them to shout at Julu County every day.

The content is that Zhang Jiao didn't go to Huangtian at all, he just died, Taiping Dao has no future at all, and their Shangguan is just deceiving them, hoping that they will die in exchange for glory and wealth, so that they must not be deceived.

Then it was persuaded to surrender, saying that as long as Kaesong surrendered, the Han army promised not to harm their lives and property, and only killed the first evil.

In addition to the psychological offensive against Julu County, Liu Bei also "hired" these displaced locals to go everywhere to publicize what the Han army was going to do, and everywhere to publicize that the Han army was going to open the coffin of Zhang Jiao and kill the corpses and scatter ashes to see if his so-called god of the Yellow Sky was true or false.

There is no way, there is no network these days, so I can only rely on word of mouth to spread the news, so that all the Taiping Daoists in Jizhou know about it.

This can be regarded as a serious encirclement point to help.

(End of chapter)