Chapter 138: Capture Zhang Bao and defeat the Yellow Turban
Just when Liu Tianhao waved the halberd in his hand and was about to kill Zhang Bao, he suddenly thought, why do you have to kill Zhang Bao now.
Stunned, the red rabbit horse was about to overtake Zhang Bao, Liu Tianhao did not hesitate, a halberd as a stick, smashed Zhang Bao's horse head stepping off the horse, the horse died, Zhang Bao naturally fell to the ground with the horse corpse.
Without waiting for Zhang Bao to fall to the ground, Liu Tianhao bent his body down and directly stretched out an arm to hold Zhang Bao's neck. The other hand held the halberd, with the end of the halberd, and with a slight pick, he picked off Zhang Bao's mace, which was already unstable.
At the same time that Liu Tianhao stopped, several soldiers in the army had already stepped forward to protect Liu Tianhao.
"Zhang Bao has been arrested. Yan Zheng Gaosheng has been killed, and the rest of the people are waiting, and those who descend will not be killed. Liu Tianhao changed hands and grabbed the back of Zhang Bao's neck armor, held him in the air and shouted loudly.
There was no need for Liu Tianhao to shout a second time, the soldiers around him continued to fight, and at the same time passed Liu Tianhao's words and shouted out.
"Zhang Bao has been captured, and those who descend will not be killed."
"Zhang Bao is dead, and those who descend will not be killed."
"Zhang Bao has fallen, and those who descend will not be killed."
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It didn't take long for Zhang Bao's various versions of fate to resound in the Yellow Turban Army, and the words "no killing" were spread without any doubt.
Liu Tianhao was speechless for a while.
The Yellow Turban Army Formation can no longer be called a formation by this time. The 100,000 Yellow Turban Company Battalion was chiseled through seven or eight rounds by Liu Tianhao's nearly 30,000 cavalry, and it was already scattered like a defeat.
When the entire battle array resounded with a deafening sound of persuasion to surrender, the remaining Yellow Turban soldiers no longer had the heart to resist. Some people fled in the dark, east, west, and south in the dark, while many more, because they had already exhausted their strength, directly returned their weapons and surrendered on their knees.
Even so, it took Liu Tianhao's army more than an hour to completely pull out the thorns that were caught in the stroke and tried to resist stubbornly, and those who had the strength to escape and had the luck to escape had already left. The rest were all gathered together by Liu Tianhaojun in an orderly manner.
Nearly 40,000 soldiers were escorted to Wuji County to be guarded. After hastily cleaning the battlefield again, packing up and gathering heavy weapons, etc., the army all entered Wuji County.
The corpses of the warring sides outside the city could only be cleaned after dawn the next day.
After entering the city, the generals counted their own losses, Liu Tianhao's cavalry, lost nearly 3,000 people, not counting the wounded. This result made Liu Tianhao's heart ache a lot.
However, the results of this battle are also very huge. Liu Tianhao captured Zhang Bao and captured 40,000 Yellow Turbans, and after a few hours of sprint fighting, they killed at least 50,000 Yellow Turbans, that is to say, the Yellow Turbans who escaped in the dark in the end were less than 10,000.
The most important thing is that the weapons, food, and grass of the 100,000 people led by Zhang Bao were basically all left on the battlefield outside the city.
Even if he didn't have 40,000 soldiers and didn't have all the weapons and baggage, Liu Tianhao was satisfied.
Three thousand cavalry for one Zhang Bao, it's worth it. At least, for Liu Tianhao now, it's worth it.
Zhang Bao is one of the three giants of the Taiping Dao Yellow Turban Rebellion, but he is not comparable to these little people like Yan Zheng Gaosheng, and the three brothers are the people who are famous for the martial arts officials of the Luoyang Imperial Court.
When the army entered the city, Liu Tianhao suddenly remembered something, Zhang Jaw only led 2,000 people, escorted the Yellow Turban soldiers and baggage in Xiaquyang, and slowly rushed to Wuji County.
"Wenyuan." Liu Tianhao shouted at Zhang Liao, who was standing in his hand.
"The end will be." When Zhang Liao heard this, he came out of the queue and responded with his fists.
"Now is not the time to celebrate, when I came from Xiaquyang today, I also ordered Zhang Junyi of Hejian to escort the Yellow Turban soldiers of Xiaquyang and the captured grain and grass baggage, and slowly marched to Wuji County, but I came with Feng Xianyun and they led a large army to ride lightly; More than 10,000 yellow turbans have just escaped, if they are allowed to gather and rush to Quyang, they will inevitably meet Zhang Junyi, and Zhang Junyi only led a mere 2,000 soldiers and horses, and he also has to guard and take care of the baggage, so he may be defeated. Therefore, tonight, I still need you to work hard, lead the three thousand soldiers of Wuji County who have never gone out of the city to fight, and go to the direction of Xiaquyang to greet Zhang Junyi. Well, I'll send a few soldiers to show you the way. Liu Tianhao told Zhang Liao about the original committee one by one.
"Lord, don't worry, the last general will lead the troops to meet Zhang Junyi, and he will not let the Yellow Turban Thief move half of his cold hair." Zhang Liao said loudly.
"Well, the Yellow Turban Thief Kou has no benefit from the war horse, but we will be much faster than them, so, you should meet Zhang Junyi first, Wen Yuan, thank you for your hard work, let's go."
Liu Tianhao said, stepped forward and patted Zhang Liao's shoulder, patting the blood on his hand, obviously, Zhang Liao didn't kill just now.
Zhang Liao received Liu Tianhao's order and went out to the south of the city.
Outside Wuji County, there was a battle in the sky; Wuji County is stable, as if he doesn't know it. If it weren't for the fact that the army had just escorted the captives into the city, there would have been no panic in the city at all
is a good Zhang Wenyuan, he is still guarding the city, and he is also powerful in governing the city.
The war in Wuji County has basically calmed down. Liu Tianhao and other generals also ordered the soldiers to prepare hot water barrels to wash the blood on their bodies.
The matter of guarding the city at night is naturally in charge of Lu Bu and Guan Yu in turn.
Liu Tianhao himself found a random camp tent and slept comfortably.
Before dawn on the second day, Zhang Liao successfully took Zhang's men and horses to Wuji County. The two not only escorted back the 3,000 captives in Xiaquyang, but also gathered and encircled nearly 2,000 soldiers from Wuji County who could not escape the defeat of the Yellow Turbans along the way.
These two thousand people are also considered unlucky, where they can't escape, they have to flee the same way down Quyang. Feelings, they also plan to go all the way south through Xiaquyang to join the brothers Zhang Jiao and Zhang Liang.
After comforting Zhang Liao, who was covered in blood and dew, Liu Tianhao asked the two of them to hurry back to wash up and rest.
Liu Tianhao himself took Lu Bu and others, escorted the yellow scarves in the city, and went out of the city to deal with the corpses and horses of those who died in battle last night outside the city. More than 40,000 yellow turbans were killed, and they worked hard for nearly a day before they buried all the corpses. As Liu Tianhao expected, more than 48,000 Yellow Turban soldiers were killed in the battle.
The human corpse is naturally buried. However, Liu Tianhao did not order the burial of the horse corpses on the battlefield, but ordered them to enter the city and cook them for the Yellow Turban soldiers. That's not a ration.
Because the horse corpse was mixed with human blood, Liu Tianhao and the others naturally would not eat it.
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