With Zhao Yun capturing Guo Dian, the governor of Julu, by March 27, the end of Shen Dynasty, the battle to encircle and annihilate the Julu army was basically over.
The assault cavalry at the head of each battalion grabbed the prisoners and retreated from the battle, returning to the camp to rest. The battlefield was left to Lu Kuang of Handan City. He organized the Handan people to leave the city and began to clean the battlefield in an orderly manner.
This battle really exhausted Taishan's army. The longest among them has been fighting for nine hours, which means they have been fighting since last night until now.
The secretion of dopamine and adrenaline hormones from the battle prevented them from feeling tired. But now that they had returned to camp to rest, they realized how tired they were.
For example, Xi Shen of the Flying Leopard Army, after the war, his guard thought that his commander was injured, so he bought a chicken from a civilian from Handan to replenish his commander's health.
When the hot roast chicken was brought to Xi Shen, Xi Shen devoured it, but before taking a few bites, he leaned over and fell asleep on the couch. It wasn't Xi Shen who was snoring, but the guard was
Thought he was dead.
There are many people like Xi Shen in the Taishan Army.
But the more this happened, the more Zhang Chong became more vigilant. He first arranged for the rest of the battalions participating in the battle today, and then hurriedly dispatched Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang from Handan City to take over the guard.
Then he ordered the battalion leaders who had not participated in the battle during the day to help the civilians and clean up the battlefield.
The Julu Army is the top soldier in Hebei's counties, and its financial and combat capabilities are second to none in Hebei.
Therefore, although the Taishan Army fought hard, the overall capture was extremely rich.
There were scattered baggage everywhere on the battlefield, and bullock carts were pushed everywhere. There was everything but a lack of corn. This was also the practical reason why the Julu Army had to step up its efforts to break out of the encirclement.
Rows of Han prisoners were escorted with their heads down to the prisoner camps set up, where they would be registered and distributed uniformly.
After that, countless civilians, under the organization of the officials of Handan City, transported the wounded, carried the seized goods, and buried the bodies.
In short, on this day, everyone in the Taishan Army was busy, experiencing the troubles of happiness.
The second day after the war was March 28th.
The rested Taishan Army units and battalions took over the guard in full spirits, and Zhang Chong also began to look through the list of seizures this time.
As a strong local army, the Julu Army naturally had abundant human resources. Although many of them had been killed by Taishan's army before, the remaining captured military officials were still full, and their registered names filled a whole volume.
Zhang Chong first glanced to see if anything looked familiar.
The person who caught Zhang Chong's eyes at that time was a man named Tian Feng. Zhang Chong knew that this man was the mastermind behind Yuan Shao's plan! Later generations often boasted that if Yuan Shao used Tian Feng's plan, the world would be unpredictable.
This is what Zhang Chongxin said in the past. At that time, he was obsessed with the so-called heroic view of history, and of course he believed that personal ingenuity could stabilize the world. But after four or five years of struggling in this time and space, Zhang Chong no longer believed in this.
He knows that everyone has huge limitations, and their thoughts and ideas are limited by their own positions, patterns, and insights. For example, the many strategies Tian Feng offered to Yuan Shao in history have shown a certain degree of foresight in history.
, but this was not the case at the time.
For example, before the Battle of Guandu, he urged Yuan Shao to divide his troops into multiple branches before attacking Cao Cao, and take advantage of the weakness. Cao Cao would attack the right to save the left, and attack the left to save the right. This made his army exhausted and the people unable to live in peace.
Don't fight him in a decisive battle.
History says that Yuan Shao did not listen to his plan and insisted on a decisive battle at Guandu. But in fact, before Guandu, Yuan Shao repeatedly sent troops south to attack Cao Cao, but without exception, he was defeated by Cao Cao.
In other words, at that time, Yuan Shao seemed to have a strong force, but his troops were weak. Cao Cao thought that his force was weak, but his troops were strong. In other words, in a one-sided battle, Yuan Shao could not defeat Cao Cao's elite soldiers at all.
In this case, while you still have the advantage, you can win with all your strength. If you really want to follow what Tian Feng said, there is no protracted war. Not to mention that Cao Cao has the Central Plains, which is the first-class fertile soil in the world.
, let’s just say they harassed each other, and Yuan Shao was the first to fall.
Why?
Since Cao Cao and Yuan Shao share the Yellow River, Cao Cao can also send troops northward to constantly harass Yuan Shao's Hebei. And with this small-scale use of troops, Cao Cao's elite troops have an advantage. In this kind of special operations, Yuan Shao will become weaker and weaker, so there is no protracted war.
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So in Zhang Chong's view, this is Tian Feng's limitation.
Ordinary people can see one. He is better than ordinary people and can see two. But his mistake lies in not seeing three, and he regards those who can see three as one.
Not to mention that Tian Feng's stubbornness and crime were his biggest labels. From Zhang Chong's point of view, this man was too arrogant.
But these are also Zhang Chong's evaluations of Tian Feng in history. He has not yet met the real person, so he cannot say for sure what the specifics are, otherwise it will not be a letter.
But don't rush now, let Tian Feng go first, there will always be opportunities later.
After that, Zhang Chong looked at the list of captured Julu Army officers one by one.
The first and first person to be captured was Zhao Fu, the captain of the Northern Military Academy of the Julu Army.
The Julu Army is a large army of 15,000 people. Although some of them are powerful and righteous soldiers recruited by Guo Dian himself, its organization is still based on the Han system, that is, the organization of the Julu Army is five armies and fifteen battalions.
Huge establishment.
Among them, the left military commander, the southern military commander, and the right military commander were beheaded by the Taishan Army Guards one after another. Among the five major commanders, only the central military commander Guo Pu and the northern military commander Zhao Fu remained.
In the previous breakout battle, Guo Pu and Zhao Fu also led the elite breakout team.
As the war collapsed, Zhao Fu and Guo Pu lost contact. He hid in a trench with three generals and military officers, but was discovered in the first wave of the Taishan Army's charge.
The Taishan Army who discovered them at that time knew that these three people were big fish when they saw that they had tender skin and tender flesh and a pair of good teeth.
Zhao Fu also knew that he couldn't run away, so he quickly admitted his identity.
In the prisoner of war camp, he met the separated Guo Pu. He surrendered to the Taishan Army on his own initiative, without any pretense that he was a descendant of the Guo family.
Also because one surrendered voluntarily and the other was captured, Guo Pu's treatment was obviously much better than that of Zhao Fu. It was also with Guo Pu's certification that Zhao Fu's identity was confirmed.
Zhao Fu and Guo Pu are the two most important generals. Under their two names, there are a bunch of generals and generals, none of whom are important figures.
After selecting a batch, those with blood feuds will be killed and those who are honest will be recruited.
As for the lists of some scribes, Zhang Chong didn't look much at them. He saw the names of Zang Hong and Tian Feng.
This Zang Hong was the son of Zang Min, and Zhang Chong only found out now. After knowing that he had treated Zang Min's body so well, the man expressed his gratitude to Zhang Chong and made another request.
He wanted to take his father's coffin back to his hometown, but he said that this request must be too much. Because he was a prisoner, life and death were in Zhang Chong's hands. But he still asked Zhang Chong to fulfill his filial piety.
Thinking of Zang Hong's request, Zhang Chong thought for a while, then put a check mark behind Zang Hong's name and decided to agree to let Zang Hong return to his hometown.
After all, Zhang Chong has the structure and strength to let such a righteous man go.
Turning the page, Zhang Chong looked at the last two, which are also the most important names.
They are Guo Dian, the governor of Julu, and Wei Shou, the former general envoy of Taiping Road.
Guo Dian was captured by his brother-in-law, which must be a great credit to Zhao Yun. Originally, he thought that Zhao Yun caught Guo Dian because someone in the army helped him, and he deliberately gave Zhao Yun the credit.
But later he learned that Zhao Yun had brought a captive who had been Guo Dian's cook with him to correct him all the way. In this way, the biggest prisoner fell into Zhao Yun's hands.
Zhang Chong has already thought about how to deal with Guo Dian and Wei Shou.
Guo Dianming was sentenced to death. He killed too many Yellow Turban soldiers. In the previous battle at Julu, he killed and captured thousands of people. This man was bound to die.
So, Zhang Chong made a cross with a red pen on the back of Guo Dian's name.
As for Wei Shou, this man will not survive, but Zhang Chong does not intend to do it himself, but will hand him over to the Yellow Turbans in Hebei.
After the Guangzong Incident, the Hebei Yellow Turbans had been hiding in Guangzong, neither contacting Zhang Chong nor taking the initiative to attack the Han army. Zhang Chong had been trying to figure out the attitude of the Hebei Yellow Turbans, so he took the opportunity of escorting Wei Shou to communicate with the Han army.
Edge contact contact.
After all, Yellow Turban Taishan is still a family.
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Zhang Chong led the Central Guard Army and stayed in Handan for a while, mainly to deal with the surrendered prisoners of Zhongshan Kingdom and Julu.
In this battle to relieve the siege of Handan, the Taishan Army captured a total of 4,000 officials and 8,000 Zhuangkou officials from the Zhongshan Kingdom, and captured 6,000 officials and 7,000 Zhuangkou officials from the Julu County. In addition, the baggage and military equipment were not included.
In this battle, the Taishan Army fought back and forth and won a total of 3,400 levels, which is already a very exaggerated number. You must know that the total number of Han soldiers from Zhongshan Kingdom and Julu was 23,000.
, and those who were beheaded were at level 3,400, accounting for almost fifteen points of the total.
The Taishan Army's method of calculating military merit has inherited the method of calculating the number of beheadings since the Qin and Han Dynasties. This type of calculation method is most likely to be indiscriminately killed by the people below. For example, the current Lianghe commanders did not have small victories in the war against Xianbei.
Zhang captured the rank to invite and reward him with gifts.
So these days, the scribes of the Taishan Army have been intensifying their efforts to examine the heads one by one. These ferocious and terrifying severed heads all show the horror of the battlefield. That is to say, it is spring now, and if it comes to summer, these scribes will still
I'll faint in the stench.
These days, the Taishan Army is also stepping up its efforts to mobilize prisoners.
To be honest, this time it was a bit difficult.
The Julu Army and the Zhongshan Army were the most elite soldiers in Hebei, and their officials were generally very loyal to the Han Dynasty.
Especially the Julu Army. Many of them were killed in the blood sea of corpse mountain. Even though they were defeated by the Taishan Army this time, they still regarded the Taishan Army and the Yellow Turban Army as the same in their hearts.
In other words, they don't look down upon the Taishan Army.
Many officials among them saw that the Taishan Army officials were eating the same as ordinary soldiers, and said with disdain:
"You've already become a military official, and you still want to eat this? How about you become a shitty military official?"
This is still the case here at Julu Bing, but it is more complicated at Zhongshan Guobing.
There are mainly three systems of the Zhongshan National Army. Some are elites recruited and trained by the Prime Minister, some are the Old Great Wall Beacon Soldiers, and some are powerful tribes.
The powerful tribes are the simplest, because these people are generally regarded as cattle and horses, and in fact they do not have much recognition of the master family. After stripping off the powerful military officials at the grassroots level, these tribes who came from Guizhou quickly returned to their roots.
The Zhongshan Prime Minister was an elite man. Zhang Chong's burial of Zangmin greatly changed these people's view of the Taishan Army. Especially after seeing Zhang Chong and letting Zang Hong go, these people had nothing to say.
Finally, Zhang Chong gave Zang Hong the remaining one hundred or so people who were really unwilling to vote, and asked them to protect Zang Min's body and return south to his hometown. The remaining ones voted without much hesitation.
But it's different here with the Fengsui soldiers. These people look down on the Taishan army very much, because they think these people are the perpetrators of the civil war. Are they capable of fighting the Xianbei people like them?
Regarding these, Zhang Chong didn't say much. He just asked people to throw this group of about a thousand Fengsui soldiers into the prison camp and use them as heavy troops.
Just kidding, Zhang Chong wants elite soldiers, good soldiers, does he really want all the bastard soldiers?
After this battle, the Taishan Army absorbed about 3,000 qualified soldiers from more than 10,000 prisoners and added them to each battalion. Not only did they replenish the original battle losses, they also set up a special battalion head, led by the newly surrendered Qinghe native Zhu
Ling is the general, Guo Pu is the deputy, and the entire battalion is basically composed of Julu people.
After that, Zhang Chong started training troops in Handan and stepped up the integration of each battalion.
Obviously, Zhang Chong did not intend to withdraw his troops back to Yecheng, he still wanted to make a big move.
Sure enough, on April 8th, Zhang Chong received a military report from Guan Yu in his tent. He said in the military report that he had captured Nanhe, Pingxiang, and Renxian in the east, and on the second day
We recently defeated Julu.
It turned out that shortly after Guan Yu captured Xiang State, Zhang Chong asked him to lead his troops eastward and take advantage of the empty Julu County to capture the entire southern region.
Don't think that now that the Julu Army seems to have been completely wiped out, you can calmly take down Julu. In fact, this territory will not be empty. If you don't occupy it, others will.
Maybe the next day a hero will appear and capture the city with three or five men. Then he will use the resources in the city to bring out another wave of soldiers.
Of course, these soldiers will not be elite, but if used to defend the city, they will still cause trouble for Zhang Chong when he goes north.
Therefore, Zhang Chong asked Guan Yu to make a time lag and capture these areas before the news of the entire Julu army's destruction reached Julu.
Of course, these are the only things that can be taken, and Zhongshan further north is also empty. But if Zhang Chong continues to go north, his geographical situation will be very dangerous. Because the excessive north-south depth is too easy for someone to stab him in the waist.
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And now at Zhang Chong's waist is his good ally, the Hebei Yellow Turban.
Because Zhang Chong successively captured the Xiang State area in the north of Zhao State, the southern area of Julu County has been officially connected with the Hebei Yellow Turbans entrenched in Anping State and Qinghe.
But this time, following Guan Yu's messenger southward was the Yellow Turban messenger from Hebei, an old acquaintance of Zhang Chong's, Ma Yuanyi.
After he entered the account, the first thing he said when he saw Zhang Chong was:
"The Great Master wants to see you and asks you to go to Guangzong to meet him."
This made Zhang Chong silent. Should he go to Guangzong or not?