At this time, fifteen miles behind Gongsun Xun, the thousand men of Cheng Pu and Gao Shun had actually been completely overwhelmed by the Yellow Turban Army. However, in the Han army camp not far from here, all the soldiers who had already put on armor

Le Jin, Li Jin, or Lu Fan, who personally climbed up to the observation tower in the camp to watch the battle, had no intention of attacking at this time.

Of course, Lu Fan was a little hesitant for a time. However, seeing the Yellow Turban Army rushing up in waves and retreating in waves, the Han Army, which had transformed into a round formation, was not only able to defend, but also counterattacked from time to time.

During the charge... In short, although the Han army suffered some casualties, Lu Ziheng really felt that there was no need to give an order... Especially since the battle situation on the river side was unclear, Lu Fan did not know when Gongsun Xun would lead his troops back.

Correspondingly, Liang Yuan, the actual coach of the Dongwuyang Yellow Turban Army, was almost collapsed at this time! He collapsed not because of the tenacious fighting power of the Han army, but because he lost control of the 20,000 Yellow Turban Army.

! The 20,000 Yellow Turban Army, along with their own commander, fought on their own, with chaotic formations and inconsistent steps. They were just surrounding a thousand people and beating them randomly!

In fact, judging from Lu Fan's tall watchtower, there would never be more than three Yellow Turban troops engaging the Han army at the same time, and they would not form a siege at all.

And just when Liang Zhongning was anxious but helpless, this son of a wealthy family in Puyang, who usually relied on his talents, suddenly realized something in a flash of light - he realized how deeply he had misunderstood large-scale wars! This

It’s not that I’m incompetent, or that the Yellow Turban Army is all trash, it’s that everyone from top to bottom has no military experience in large-scale combat!

Perhaps if you fight a few more battles, you will be able to control your situation more freely? However, will the Han army give you a chance to practice?

On the battlefield, Liang Zhongning, who looked dazed, figured this out, but became even more desperate and collapsed... Because thinking further, this smart man further understood that no matter where he was, the seemingly powerful Yellow Turban Army was not

With the confidence to fight the Han army in the field, the Yellow Turban Army was almost unlucky in a large-scale field battle!

In fact, Liang Yuan was right. What he didn't know at this time was that Bo Cai defeated Zhu Jun. In fact, it was Zhu Jun who failed to attack Yangdi and was defeated by the Yellow Turban reinforcements from all directions and counterattacked.

That's all. But even so, after Zhu Jun retreated to Changshe, the 20,000 main force still suffered little damage.

After thinking about this train of thought further, Liang Zhongning was almost at a loss, because it ultimately meant that after the Han Dynasty reacted and dispatched a hundred thousand main troops to the north and south, the seemingly powerful Yellow Turban Army actually had little chance of actually being defeated.

To seize the Han Dynasty and the world... But if this is the case, what is the point of his family defecting to Buji?

Liang Yuan and Liang Zhongning originally thought that even if Dongjun was defeated, they could take the remaining troops to find Zhang Jiao... But now it seems that isn't it a waste of effort?

At this thought, Liang Yuan, who had already failed to command effectively, gave up command half with resentment and half with self-destruction. Instead, he just kept shouting and encouraging the Yellow Turban Army to attack a mere thousand Han troops.

Of course, it is still impossible to attack randomly.

………………

On the bank of the Yellow River, the Yellow Turban Army finally found a place of temporary comfort - the solid, straight and healthy Yellow River embankment behind them!

The cavalry can't rush up the embankment!

What's even more interesting is that when the Yellow Turban Army retreated to the embankment, the Han Army actually paid gold and retreated. They even threw down two drums and simply turned to the north!

Bu had been forcibly escorted to the river embankment by a group of Yellow Turban soldiers. He first cried at the corpses of thousands of Dongjun children under the embankment. When he raised his head, he saw the Han army heading north, but he realized that the Han army was going north.

After annihilating Liang Yuan and Zhang Bo's 20,000 troops on the east side of Wuyang, he became even more nervous. Then he thought about what Liang Yuan had said to him before he left, and he regretted it more and more. However, in the blink of an eye, he felt even more nervous.

Hearing someone crying around him, he recalled the formation of the Han army's cavalry charge just now. He felt even more sad when he thought that such a powerful soldier might have to deal with the great virtuous teacher in the future...

"Commander Bu!" Seeing the Han army go away, someone finally reacted after escaping from death. "Hurry up and let people go down and carry our wounded soldiers to the embankment!"

Bu suddenly came to his senses, wiped away his tears quickly, and forced himself to give the order.

Then, someone else hurriedly said: "Commander Bu, at this point, the two deputy commanders in Dongwuyang cannot be saved. Please quickly order the withdrawal of troops across the river! When we return to Puyang, we still have more than 10,000 people. We still have more than 10,000 people."

With food, we may be able to support the reinforcements of the great virtuous teacher and the inevitable commander-in-chief!"

Bu Ji didn't know how powerful the cavalry was at this time, so when he heard this, he first thought that the 20,000 Yellow Turban Army in the north who had already left the city would be hunted down by the Han army on the plain, and his heart was as sharp as a knife... However, he

But he also knew that he could not delay any longer at this time. It would be useless to wait any longer. It was right to take advantage of the Han army's U-turn and return to Henan from the pontoon bridge!

However, before he could force himself to stand up, he opened his mouth to give an order, but the crying around him suddenly became more intense. Moreover, many people were wailing on the top of the embankment facing the south bank of the Yellow River, or rather towards the Yellow River.

Bu was greatly puzzled. With the help of several soldiers, he managed to climb up the embankment, but like these people, he suddenly knelt down and cried bitterly!

It turns out that there is no floating bridge on the Yellow River at this time?

Only the Han army's boat division was crossing the Yellow River, which was only a few hundred paces wide. Then, a group of iron-cable boats with a large banner of "Sheng" was majestically commanding from the center, dispatching countless small boats to carry groups of bow-wielding men.

The strong men of the army were cruising on the river and eyeing the north bank with eager eyes!

Come to think of it, how could the Han army reveal such a flaw? Then Shen Zhengnan returned to the army overnight and made preparations with Wang Xiu. When the fighting started here, they rushed down from the upper reaches with the power of the water and the big ship.

, broke through the Yellow Turban Army pontoon bridge on the spot!

The boats that formed the Yellow Turban Army's pontoon either sank directly to the bottom of the river, or were captured and untied, and in turn connected to the Han army's boats, becoming a boost to the Han army.

In fact, the former Dong'e County Prime Minister Wang Du, who was in charge of the pontoon, knelt down in despair earlier than Bu Ji. At this time, he was crying in panic on the inside of a embankment somewhere downstream.

Bu had cried for a while, stood on the embankment and looked around for a while, trying to persuade the whole army to go north to find Liang Yuan and Uncle Zhang, but he still couldn't open his mouth; he wanted to persuade the whole army to go along the embankment to the left and right, but he couldn't open his mouth.

But I understand even more that this is in vain!

In despair, he stopped crying and stood frozen in the fierce river wind...without him, he was just waiting for news from the north.

What if, what if the north wins?

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Fifteen miles, or less than twenty miles, don't go too fast for the cavalry... In another time and space, Cao Mengde traveled more than three hundred miles a day and night in order to chase Liu Xuande. This was a non-stop extreme operation.

At this time, the Han army had only fought fiercely for more than half an hour before galloping back, and its horsepower was actually quite sufficient. Therefore, just when Bu was looking at the river without tears, the Han army's forward arrived almost in the blink of an eye!

But at this time, the Dongwuyang Yellow Turban Army was still in a mess and couldn't figure it out!

Cheng Lian's more than a thousand Bingzhou cavalrymen, who were the first to arrive, took the lead and inserted themselves directly into the huge and in fact disorderly formation of the Yellow Turban Army. Cheng Lian had a clear view and rushed left and right with spears, directly coming to

Under the largest Huangtian banner, an elderly leader who was shouting on his horse was stabbed down with a spear.

It is Uncle Zhang, the deputy commander of the Yellow Turban of East County!

Just when Zhang Bo died in the battle, the main force of the Han army's cavalry had already entered the formation; and long before that, Lu Fan, who saw the smoke and dust from a distance, also directly ordered to open the camp gate to let Li Jin in the camp, and Le Jin Quan

The army went out to fight; Cheng Pu and Gao Shun were not people who would lose their chance of fighting. They drew their swords and fought hard, leading a thousand soldiers to bloom in the center of the enemy's formation... Under attack from three sides, the 20,000 Yellow Turban Army in front of the South Gate of Dongwuyang

They were defeated faster than the 20,000 Yellow Turban Army who worked so hard to cross the Yellow River!

Gongsun Xun, who arrived later, had to give a very rough order in a hurry, which was to let the infantry seize the empty Dongwu Yangcheng, and the cavalry drove and killed 20,000 defeated troops and headed towards the Yellow River!

A chaotic fight!

The 20,000 Yellow Turban troops here suffered thousands of casualties and thousands more surrendered. Before the cavalry successfully outflanked and drove them away, there were quite a few who fled in all directions... But at this time, they could no longer care about the remaining seven or eight thousand.

People, deliberately driven by the Han army, fled while surrendering. It was not until dusk that the defeated army was driven to the river embankment by the equally exhausted Han army, but only five or six thousand people remained.

people.

These people tried their best to climb up the embankment and escaped the pursuit of the Han army. However, like the remaining Yellow Turbans here, they looked at the river and became desperate.

"Tell them!" Gongsun Xun, who had been running for an afternoon and was extremely tired, sighed. "Without food, it is useless to defend the river bank. Our army will take action after resting its strength... Promise them

Just surrender!"

The generals were so exhausted that even Cao Cao, who was said to be fond of massacring cities, had no energy to say anything at this time. As for Guan Yu and others who were surrounding him at this time, there was no need to say anything... It seemed that the latter was going to remonstrate like this.

However……

"Not surrendering?" Gongsun Xun asked in surprise.

"It's not that we won't surrender." Qianzhao, who went to persuade him to surrender, immediately replied. "There were fifteen or six thousand people on the embankment. About five-one of them surrendered directly after hearing the words, but more people had to wait for the fortune teller's order...

...In my opinion, those who are willing to surrender on the spot are mostly former rangers and scoundrels. Most of the people who were originally civilians have to listen to the words of fortune tellers because they believe in the Tao of Taiping!"

"The Tao of Taiping is ridiculous, but it has deceived people so much!" Guan Yu, who had dismounted early because his horse was overwhelmed, could not help twirling his beard and became angry.

"Isn't there a saying that says, 'If you don't see the coffin, you won't shed tears; if you don't see the Yellow River, you won't die'?" Zhang Fei, who had just arrived here on horseback, was speechless and couldn't help but mutter in public. "So many people have died now, and the Yellow River has no way out."

Why don't they give up?"

Everyone looked at Gongsun Xun who was riding on a white horse. The latter thought for a moment, but finally his impatience prevailed, so he got off his horse and said with all his strength: "First, let people block the upstream and downstream embankments, don't let them escape, and then

Go and find out where the divination is, and persuade him to induce people to surrender... Tell him that I am not a person who is easy to kill. The war has been decided and Dongjun has been peaceful. I will not regard them as enemy invaders. That is

He Buji and these Taiping believers can also settle on the spot!"

The generals had mixed reactions, but after the quick victory in Dongjun, no one dared to question anything in front of him, so everyone quickly carried out the order.

Bu had stopped crying long ago and did not continue to stand on the embankment and look out. He just sat quietly on the top of the river embankment surrounded by a group of broken soldiers.

However, when the news came that he was persuading him to surrender and that Gongsun Xun was looking for him, the famous disciple of the great sage and mentor had a more vivid expression: "Isn't this General Gongsun entertaining us? Regardless of the Taiping believers and backbones or not, all of them are

Settled locally? He is good at fighting and performing meritorious service, so he can naturally become an official elsewhere in the future, and naturally he will not regard us Taiping Dao believers who stayed in Dongjun as enemies. However, we have killed so many officials, can the local government not treat them as enemies in the future?

Do you regard us as your enemies? If he doesn’t kill us today, won’t the government kill us in the future after he is gone? And so many of us were killed by the Han army, how can we not regard the Han Dynasty, the government, and General Gongsun as our enemies? He

The tyrant is here today and we dare not move. If he is gone, why can't we take revenge?"

After saying this, Bu Ji actually smiled at the surrounding Yellow Turban soldiers as he usually did when preaching.

The defeated soldiers didn't know what their psychology was, even though some of them were injured, they actually started laughing at this time.

"In short, the sky is unfair and unkind, making it impossible for us to survive. And what we believe in is Huang Tian. There is no hunger, no oppression, no need to pay dozens of times a year, and no need to drown when giving birth to a boy.

If a girl can be raised, she will not be unable to find a wife; if she gets sick, she can be cured by drinking talisman water... You have all seen this." Bu Ji continued to cross his legs and smile, and his voice became louder and louder."

Therefore, it is said that the power of the blue sky and the yellow sky are incompatible! We tried to bring Huang Tian to the present world, but we were defeated for a moment, and we cannot surrender to the lawless sky!"

"Then what should we do?" Almost everyone around them wanted to ask instinctively, but no one spoke because they knew that Bu Shuai would tell them.

"Then we have no choice but to die." Bu Ji continued with a calm smile. "I heard what Vice Admiral Liang said... Everyone is destined to die. It may be heavier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather. As far as we Taiping Taoists are concerned,

, To die for Huang Tian is to be more important than Mount Tai!"
To be continued...