Chapter 88 Expel thieves with self-respect
"Lord, He Yi has begun to withdraw his troops!" The third day of He Yi's besieging the city passed by calm. On the fourth day, early in the morning, Dian Wei strode in and said to Ye Zhao with excitement.
"Retreat now?" Ye Zhao closed the map, stood up and smiled, "Go and find a few people, who have been in the Yellow Turbans, I have something to tell them."
"Uh... lord, won't you chase me?" Dian Wei looked at Ye Zhao in amazement.
"Don't worry, I can't run away. Go and do this first, and then gather the troops. There is still time." Ye Zhao said with a smile.
"Here!" Dian Wei answered in a muffled voice, turned around and went to find someone.
Soon, more than a dozen soldiers walked in under Dian Wei's leadership and bowed to Ye Zhao.
"Lord, these brothers are all followed by Liang State. Although they were Yellow Turban thieves in the past, they are only listened to their lords now." Dian Wei pointed to several people and introduced to Ye Zhao.
"After entering our army, there will be no Yellow Turban thieves. I will all deploy it to you. I can trust you." Ye Zhao looked at these people and said with a smile.
"We swear to be loyal to our lord to death." More than a dozen soldiers bowed quickly.
"I asked me to come this time because I had done the Yellow Turbans before, so I hope I could sneak into the Yellow Turbans army without fighting, just help me take some rumors." Ye Zhao smiled and signaled that these people would not be given a gift, and then said.
"Lord, will they believe it?" A surrendered army looked at Ye Zhao in confusion.
"I have my own way to make them believe that you just need to sneak into Geling, Shangcai, and walk He Yi has rebeled into the court and assisted the official army in destroying the Yellow Turbans of Runan. You don't have to worry about other matters." Ye Zhao nodded and affirmed: "Remember, the walk is almost done, don't come to me, just go back to Dingying and meet with our army's main force!"
"Here!" Everyone looked at each other for a moment, bowed to Ye Zhao and bowed to leave.
"Have the troops gathered?" After these people left, Ye Zhao looked at Dian Wei.
"Everything has been assembled, but lord, we really don't leave anyone to guard this Ruyin?" Dian Wei asked in confusion.
"Where are so many troops to be divided into troops? In the 37 counties in Runan, if we have to be divided into troops every time we go down the city, it is not enough to transfer our troops to the crowd. Just leave some straw men to pretend. The court will worry about the others. What we have to do now is to defeat the enemy!" Ye Zhao patted Dian Wei's shoulder and said, "If you divide all the people, how can you have the troops to defeat the enemy? Let's go."
"Oh~" Dian Wei agreed with some ignorance and followed Ye Zhao out. In the city, Ye Zhao's original deployment and the bravery of the Yellow Turbans who had been recruited, all of them had gathered. Ye Zhao turned over and looked at the opening of the city gate and said, "Get off!"
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He Yi didn't expect that the government army would send troops at this time. Before many Yellow Turban thieves could get ready, they were caught off guard by the government army that suddenly came out of the city.
After a brief chaos, these Yellow Turban thieves who had lost their fighting spirit immediately exploded. Even if He Yi tried hard to stop him, he could not stop him. There were all the Yellow Turban thieves running around and noisy.
He Yi was in it and could not even see the official army. After struggling for a while, he was swept by the surging crowd and started running. He didn't even know why he wanted to escape. He could occasionally see arrows flying through his sight, but not many, and there were more shouts of killing from all directions, as if there were enemies from all directions for a while.
Human emotions are contagious, and He Yi obviously cannot turn the tide. In the end, even he felt that there were shadows of the enemy from all directions. He was at a loss like cattle and sheep on the grassland. He was driven away by Ye Zhao's soldiers in the direction designated by Ye Zhao and was driven away with a group of riots under his command.
Ye Zhao did not charge himself. There were too many people on the battlefield. Once he was trapped in it, it would be difficult to judge the situation calmly, and he could not intuitively judge the direction of the Yellow Turban Army from the overall situation. He led his personal guards to choose a high ground to watch the Yellow Turban Army's defeated army. Dian Wei and a group of generals were responsible for carrying out the expulsion mission.
Dian Wei was mainly responsible for the charge. Once he found that there were signs of large numbers of the Yellow Turban Army gathering to resist, Dian Wei would immediately rush up and kill according to Ye Zhao's instructions. At this time, he would be merciless. Dian Wei went up and killed him. He rushed in with an iron halberd like a ferocious spirit. He killed the Yellow Turban Army and immediately retreated to avoid being surrounded by a large number of Yellow Turban Army.
Occasionally, some of the Yellow Turban Army that fled in other directions would be let go. After all, Ye Zhao now has limited troops and too many enemy troops. He can only ensure that He Yi's main force is moving in the direction he planned.
After walking and chasing each other for two days, He Yi's troops were driven to Yangquan by Ye Zhao. There was a Yellow Turban thief stationed here. It was not a large Yellow Turban force like Liu Pi, and the total number was only about 5,000.
He Yi didn't know at first that he had been driven to Yangquan by Ye Zhao while running away. When he saw Yangquan City, he was overjoyed and hurriedly sent someone to ask the city gate to let them rest.
The Yangquan Yellow Turban guarding here naturally did not dare to violate He Yi's orders. After not seeing what was going on, he opened the city gate. Then the government army, which was chasing slowly, suddenly became angry and rushed into Yangquan City with He Yi's army. Although He Yi was a large number of people at this moment, he had lost the courage to fight the decisive battle with the government army. After discovering that the government army was rushing in, he rushed out of the city frantically. Under the inexplicable situation, the Yangquan Guard, who was originally preparing to welcome He Yi, was driven out of the city by the large Yellow Turban Army brought by He Yi and his subordinates. Under Ye Zhao's control, he marched towards the next city.
For six consecutive days, four cities occupied by small forces of the Yellow Turban Army were driven and broken by Ye Zhao, and then driven away together. Not only were there small groups of Yellow Turbans, but even Huang Shao, who was famous and had tens of thousands of tribes, were also among them. This situation continued until he was driven to Geling.
Liu Pi and Gong Du, as the two leaders of the Yellow Turbans in Runan, not only had a large army, but even surpassed He Yi. More importantly, the two sides were not far apart, one guarded Geling and the other guarded Shangcai, and there was already a vague strife with He Yi. Now He Yi is poor now. What's more important is that although there are many people missing these days, with the Yellow Turban thieves brought by each city, He Yi is now surrounded by nearly 50,000 Yellow Turban thieves. Seeing this situation, Liu Pi dared to open the door to greet him. He immediately ordered the four gates to close, and even sent a large number of troops to guard the city wall. He Yi was so angry that he cursed at the bottom of the city, but could only look at the closed city gate helplessly.
"Liu Pi really wants to die and refuse to save him!" Under Geling City, He Yi looked at the closed city gate and felt chill all over. The Han army might be able to come to the scene at any time. If he didn't open the city and let him in, he would probably explain here.
As for fighting with the official army, he has tried these days, but every time he just had this idea, the Han army's attack would suddenly become fierce, and he would attack these tens of thousands of Yellow Turbans without temper.
"Master Qu, the official army seems to have left!" Huang Shao has been following He Yi since the city was broken. Although his confidant was still there, the Yellow Turban thieves who had gathered together in the past were now mixed in the army, so how could they be separated? Although He Yi did not say it clearly, after escaping these days, he helped He Yi successfully gather these Yellow Turban thieves together.
"Leave?" He Yi calmed down when he heard this and found that the shouts of killing that had been wandering around these days had disappeared at some point, which made him feel a little uncomfortable for a moment.
"He Man, go and have a look." He Yi was a little worried and asked He Man to go and inquire.
A quarter of an hour later, He Man squeezed out of the crowd and excitedly said to He Yi: "Ship Qu, you're really leaving!"
He Yi felt relieved when he heard this, and suddenly felt dark before his eyes. With the screams of others, he fell to the ground. He Man and others hurriedly supported him.
But these days, He Yi was forced to chase and chase after the wolf. Although Ye Zhao did not follow him all the time and would have time to eat or rest, he had not slept peacefully in the past eight days. Even if Ye Zhao rested, he would send people to beat drums and drums around, first to drive the Yellow Turban Army together, secondly, it also made them nervous and exhausted and not have much time to think. As the commander of the three armies, He Yi was naturally under greater pressure. Now that he suddenly heard the withdrawal of the official army, he felt as if his whole body had disappeared in this moment.
"Shipman Qu!" Several people looked at He Yi worriedly.
"It's okay!" He Yi shook his head. Although he was wondering why the official army suddenly retreated, he couldn't care about so much at this time. The most urgent task was to stabilize the morale of the army. Since he had arrived here, even if he didn't want to show off with Liu Pi, he immediately took a breath and said, "Let your brothers set up camp first and send someone to tell Liu Pi that our army was plotted by the official army. Since he didn't want to open the city, he would send us food and grass, otherwise, he would be ready to start a war!"
Although He Yi ran very fast when facing Guan Jun, he was not afraid of Liu Pi, who was also the Yellow Turban. Everyone was all the Yellow Turbans, and the people under his command were similar. If he really fought, He Yi was not afraid of it.
"Yes!" He Man and others agreed, leaving and acting separately, and also sent people to investigate the whereabouts of the official army.
At the same time, Ye Zhao had already gathered his troops and headed towards Dingying. After resting near Shangcai for a night that night, he bypassed Shangcai at noon the next day and returned to Dingying.
"Lord, in this way, although most of the Yellow Turban Army in Runan were expelled, there were probably as many as 150,000 Yellow Turban thieves gathered in Shangcai to Geling area. Our army now has only more than 5,000 people. How can we defeat the enemy?" After learning most of the information, Qiu Chi looked at Ye Zhao with horror. Even if the Yellow Turban thieves are weak, they are still tens of thousands. How can we fight with these few people in our hands?
"There are not enough people, please ask the court for it!" Ye Zhao stretched and looked at Qiu Chi and said with a smile: "Huangfu Song doesn't want to give me troops. This time he has regained more than a dozen cities. The court should have expressed his feelings."
"Master is saying..." Qiu Chi's heart moved and looked at Ye Zhao.
"No need to exaggerate the memorial to the court. Our army broke 17 cities in half a month and drove out more than 70,000 Yellow Turbans. However, the soldiers were small and the Yellow Turbans gathered heavily. Our army was no longer able to fight. I hope the court could send some reinforcements to me." Ye Zhao smiled. He did expel 70,000 Yellow Turbans, but these Yellow Turbans were driven together by him. What he is doing now is actually no different from Huangfu Song. They all seek benefits from the court. The difference is that Huangfu Song wanted benefits from the court after the great defeat, and he wanted it after the great victory.
Chapter completed!