People in the Three Kingdoms: Starting from Preaching

Chapter 236 Complete the mission
"Assholes, the governor will avenge me, and you will die miserably!"

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Chunyu Qiong knew that he was doomed to die and did not even hope to beg for mercy. When the Yellow Turbans were about to punish him, he became even more brutal.

Of course, this kind of ferocity is more of a reaction out of desperation. In fact, it cannot cover up the real fear in his heart, which can be seen from his body that is tied up and trembling constantly.

Moreover, this superficial toughness only lasted until the Yellow Turbans came over.

When he felt the shadow of the Yellow Turban covering him and saw the long sword being raised high from the shadow on the ground, fear began to appear in his bulging eyes, and his whole body began to tremble and sweat profusely.

"Spare me"

Before he could even utter a word of begging for mercy, a fat head rolled down in front of the captured soldiers with a flash of cold light. For a moment, all the captives were silent.

Chunyu Qiong was defeated very quickly, and the Yellow Turbans judged him even faster, because Wuli had no extra time to waste here, he needed to rush to the next battlefield as soon as possible.

These 10,000 prisoners were actually a huge hidden danger. They could neither be killed nor released. The Yellow Turbans could only grit their teeth and rely on cavalry to restrain them and urge them to continue fighting.

Of course, the Yellow Turbans had not forgotten their traditional art of ideological transformation and conversion of captives, but it would take time to completely turn all the captives into their own use.

Therefore, the trial of Chunyu Qiong could be regarded as a deterrent to a certain extent.

It took only a few days to capture 10,000 enemy soldiers, which was actually an excellent record. Of course, Wu Li also understood that the credit for this record should mainly go to Zhao Yun, Taishi Ci, Ma Yan and others. If they had not burned the camp and attacked the grain team in advance, and organized the people to jointly defend and retreat, today would not be the case.

Soon Wuli led his men to move to the next battlefield.

The entire Changzhou fell into chaos under Yuan Shao's attack. Several armies including Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Zhang He, Gao Lan and others attacked everywhere. Among them, those with decent military discipline were mostly targeting the Yellow Turbans, while those with poor discipline brought heavy suffering to the people like Chunyu Qiong.

Of course, the situations they encountered were also different. As their sweeps lasted longer, they encountered varying degrees of resistance.

The Yellow Turbans in various places organized themselves to take action spontaneously. Even if they could not achieve remarkable feats like the group led by Taishi Ci and Zhao Yun, they could at least reduce the damage caused by enemy raids.

Thanks to the mature experience of the Xuanxia joint defense mechanism and the spontaneous actions of the Yellow Turbans, most of the people in various places were transferred to relatively safe and hidden places. The further back Yuan Shao's armies went, the less results they could achieve.

And now even worse news has come, that is, Xuan Xia’s reinforcements have arrived.

The news of Chunyu Qiong's defeat and annihilation of his entire army quickly spread to all the teams, and the generals responded immediately, either by joining forces like Yan Liang and Wen Chou, or by tactically shrinking and retreating like Zhang He, and this did work.

The cavalry led by Wu Li, with 10,000 prisoners, ran head-on into an army of nearly 30,000 led by Yan Liang and Wen Chou.

The two sides attacked each other for several days, but neither could do anything to the other.

Although Wuli had the advantage of cavalry, cavalry alone could not defeat Yan Liang and Wen Chou's army. He was not confident in using the 10,000 captured soldiers, and he really had no idea where to start facing Yan Liang and Wen Chou's army.

Of course, with the help of his cavalry and the captured soldiers forming a defensive formation, Wu Li was able to check and balance Yan Liang and Wen Chou, and the two sides remained in a stalemate.

The strange thing is that although they were in a stalemate at this time, they were thinking exactly the same thing. Not only were they not anxious, but they were willing to continue wasting time. I'm waiting for reinforcements, what are you waiting for?
This is their common thought.

Yan Liang and Wen Chou were waiting for support from friendly forces in other directions, while Wu Li was also waiting for reinforcements from Xuan Xia.

Of course, Wuli had his own confidence in daring to confront the enemy like this, that is, even if the enemy reinforcements arrived first, he could rely on the cavalry to safely leave the battlefield without any losses. At most, he would just return 10,000 prisoners to the enemy.

On the other hand, if their reinforcements arrived first, it would be a different story for Yan Liang and Wen Chou.
The final result was that Lu Ping marched quickly all the way and led an army of 10,000 to finally arrive at the battlefield before the enemy reinforcements, and then a great battle began.

Lu Ping's 10,000-man army abandoned all their armor and equipment during the forced march, and their weapons were unified, leaving only spears and ring-handled swords. They were even at a disadvantage compared to the enemy in terms of equipment, but the greatest benefit of their arrival was not directly participating in the battlefield, but being able to digest the 10,000 captured troops.

With this 10,000-strong army, and by incorporating another 10,000 captured troops into it, the Yellow Turbans could basically achieve a one-to-one control over the prisoners, and truly increase their combat power to the level of 20,000.

With the help of Wuli's 4,000 cavalry and the cooperation between infantry and cavalry, they finally defeated Yan Liang and Wen Chou in one fell swoop.

After Yan Liang and Wen Chou fled, they were able to stabilize their position only after they joined forces with Zhang He and Gao Lan. However, this battle still resulted in the loss of thousands of soldiers. Fortunately, after joining forces with Zhang He and Gao Lan, they regained the advantage in military strength, and the situation once again turned into a confrontation and maneuvering between the two sides.

Lu Ping arrived at the battlefield and carried out his mission well.

The purpose of this advance support is to stabilize the situation and buy time for the main force in the rear. Judging from the current situation, his side has undoubtedly achieved the goal, and he can fully accept continuing this confrontation.

But he can accept it, but some people cannot.

"What? Kong Rong and Tao Qian were defeated by Xu Guangtou? Xuanxia's reinforcements have arrived? Chunyu Qiong was defeated and killed? Yan Liang and Wen Chou were also defeated?"

In Yuan Shao's camp outside Gaoyi City, when news came one after another, Yuan Shao was dumbfounded. He was still waiting for the troops to report victory to him, but why was all the news that came back bad?

One after another, he couldn't react all at once.

After he finished talking about everything in the letter one by one, he was so furious that he immediately threw the letter on the ground. He wanted to find someone to vent his anger on but didn't know who to find, and his face turned red.

The civil and military officials below looked at each other in bewilderment. This series of bad news also surprised them.

According to their expectations, it didn't matter how well Tao Qian and Kong Rong fought, at least they could hold off the Yellow Turbans for ten days or half a month. However, these two were too useless. They broke at the first touch and couldn't stop them at all.

The Yellow Turbans' reaction speed was also faster than expected. How long had it only been a short time, and the reinforcements arrived at lightning speed?

Everyone realized that although they had overestimated the Xuanxia Yellow Turbans, it now seemed that they had underestimated them.

However, compared to impotent rage, what we should consider more at this time is how to deal with the new situation.

(End of this chapter)