It took a full hour to eat such a meal. Many people had not eaten such a full meal for a long time. If Guo Jing hadn't led someone to watch carefully, someone might have burst their belly.
After a meal, the more than 20,000 surrendered soldiers quickly regained their energy. In fact, not only did they have strength, but the surrendered soldiers' obedience to the military orders also made Zhang Jia very happy. Tian Fengju, who had been busy counting the supplies and wages in the city, gave instructions.
I was secretly amazed at the changes that happened before my eyes.
At first, Zhang Jaw was troubled by such a large number of surrendered troops. After all, he only had about 4,000 troops at his disposal now, so how to deal with such a large number of surrendered troops has always been a headache for him.
According to the situation at this time, the most reasonable way should be to kill all the more than 20,000 people to solve the worries, and then send troops eastward to take advantage of the victory to defeat the Black Mountain bandit army who criticized Zhang, but Zhang Jaw followed Wen Yuan for a long time
, The tomb of the 80,000 Yellow Turban Army outside the city of Xiaquyang has already expressed his feelings to himself before. He knows that the core of Wenyuan's governance is to put the people as the foundation. In the past, this was the case in Xiaquyang. Now, as the governor of Julu, he is even more concerned about the safety of the people.
If the more than 20,000 surrendered soldiers were really killed, he would have ten heads when he opened his jaws, and I'm afraid they would all have to die to apologize.
But now, it seems that the more than 20,000 surrendered soldiers have no intention of rebelling, so Zhang Zha ordered them to camp outside the city and invited Tian Feng and Jushou to enter the city for discussion.
After a busy day and night, Ju Shou and Tian Feng, although tired, were full of energy and not at all sleepy. When they saw Zhang Jia, they all came forward to congratulate him.
Zhang Jia waved his hands and said humbly: "Jia doesn't dare to take the credit. It's all Mr. Yuan Hao's ingenious plan. My lord's military training method is appropriate. Murong Ping and Wang Li's soldiers have paid their lives. This time, we can defeat Yi Yang in one fell swoop and make tens of thousands of Black Mountain bandits bow their heads."
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He opened his jaw and paused for a moment, then said: "It's just that our army fought fiercely in succession, resulting in many casualties. The sergeants were exhausted and continued to make corrections. However, this battle attracted too many thieves and Yi Yang hoarded so much money and food. What's the next step?
I would like to ask these two gentlemen for advice on how to plan."
Jushou stroked his beard gently and said with a smile: "The Black Mountain thieves were defeated one after another, and nearly half of their troops and horses were lost. They were frightened when they heard the name of my giant deer. I expected to scold Zhang Yudu's thieves when they heard that Yiyang was defeated by me.
You must retreat and don't dare to invade our border again. My lord has no worries over there."
Opening his jaw and nodding, Jushu took a sip of water and continued: "It's just that although the siege of Shuzhang has been resolved, Yiyang is not a place to stay for a long time. Although Li Damu and Baique have been defeated, due to poison, Lei Gong still has nearly 20,000 people to fight.
If the two armies and horses come to Yiyang, our army will not be afraid. However, Yiyang is less than 200 miles away from Yecheng. If Suigu, the leader of the Black Mountain bandits on the middle road, learns that the food and grass have been taken, he will surely attract a hundred thousand bandits.
If you besiege the city and attack like this, Yiyang will be in danger!"
He opened his jaw and frowned and said, "This is what I am worried about. Please give me some advice."
Jushou said: "For the current plan, we should inform the people of Yiyang of the current situation as soon as possible. Twenty thousand soldiers should be sent down, and capable young men should be selected from them to be incorporated into the auxiliary army. The rest and the people will escort the grain, grass and baggage to Guangnian that day. Those who are willing to go will settle here.
In my Julu County, those who are looking for another way out will stay until Guangnian, and all of them will be given money and food."
He opened his jaw and hit his left palm with his right fist, and said with emotion: "It's not too late to do this. Let the soldiers rest for half a day and start preparing to carry grain and grass after noon!"
It was decided that Zhang Jia would let the sergeants rest for half a day. After lunch, he would issue a list and tell the people to pack their bags.
Yiyang City has been plundered by thieves, and now there are less than 20,000 people left, and most of them are old, weak, women and children. Yiyang City has just been recaptured by the government troops. These local people are still rejoicing, but when they heard about the thieves
More than 100,000 people may be killed in the near future, and their mood suddenly fell from the peak to the bottom, and everyone looked depressed.
In order to survive, most of the people were willing to move with the army and went home to prepare their luggage. After all, the powerful combat power of the Julu Army left a deep impression on them. Of course, there were also some people who could not leave their hometown and did not force them to send their troops.
People sent money and food from house to house.
After dealing with the common people, Zhang Jaw went outside the city again and selected 3,000 capable young men from among the more than 20,000 descended soldiers from the Black Mountains as auxiliary troops. He ordered the remaining soldiers to start loading the supplies of food and grass.
However, 700,000 grains and grass was a large number. Zhang Jia collected all the vehicles in the city, and finally even the people's carts and wheelbarrows were used. It took two full days to load the grain into the carts.
As for some baggage that could not be taken away, they were distributed to the people or burned. It was not until the third day that more than 40,000 soldiers and civilians in Yiyang City escorted more than 20,000 large and small chariots and slowly set off northward.
Ma Yan of Guangnian City received the news and mobilized five thousand young men of Guangnian City to respond. Finally, three days later, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians, and more than 20,000 carts of money and food, all arrived in Guangnian City.
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Li Damu was defeated that day and led dozens of his cavalry to rush back to their camp outside Guangnian City. Lei Gong left the camp to follow. When the Black Mountain bandits heard about the defeat, their morale was low and their hearts were in panic.
The two went into the tent to discuss. Lei Gong said worriedly: "Brother Li, now our army has been defeated in successive battles. We have lost most of our troops and horses, and the morale of the three armies has been completely exhausted. What should we do?"
Li Damu said in frustration: "What else can we do? We have suffered a series of defeats and lost many troops. Now we only have five thousand troops and horses in the hands of brother Lei and more than ten thousand old and weak. We are no longer able to fight against Julu's army and horses. If we don't retreat at this time, I'm afraid
You and I will soon follow in the footsteps of Bai Que!"
Lei Gong also said with lingering fear: "Exactly, I just don't know who this Liao is. Not only is it brave and invincible, but the soldiers and horses under his command are also so brave, I'm afraid we will never set foot on the giant deer again in the future!" The two of them have decided on their plan!
, immediately set up camp and led the defeated troops to the west to plunder Zhao County.
The news reached Ku Zhang Yu in the poisonous camp. He had been confronting Wen Yuan outside the city for several days. He was shocked to hear the news of Yi Yang's defeat and was afraid that his retreat would be cut off by Wen Yuan's troops, so he withdrew his troops overnight and took refuge.
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On the contrary, Wen Yuan finally got the news. Early in the morning, Zhang Yu came to report that the Black Mountain bandits outside the city had retreated, leaving only an empty camp. He was about to take people out of the city to check, but Zhang Jia just sent someone out at this time.
The letter arrived.
When Wen Yuan opened the letter and read it, he couldn't help but be happy. He immediately told everyone to watch and praised him repeatedly: "Open your jaw! Zhang Junyi, you are really my Han Xin!" He immediately sent an order to reward Open your jaw with a hundred gold pieces and ten pieces of brocade! Everyone was rewarded with Murong.
Ping, the king has two troops and horses, one hundred thousand money, and five hundred pieces of cloth! The whole army will be rewarded!
After receiving the reward, the whole army in Zhangcheng rejoiced, and the people in the two counties in Zhangcheng also rejoiced. Wenyuan compiled an official document reporting the victory and sent it to Yecheng.
After holding on to Kuzhang like this for a month, until all the grain in the territory was harvested and dried, and the Black Mountain bandits looted and retreated from Jizhou, Wen Yuan withdrew his troops and returned to Yitao County.