Chinese General Summoning System

Chapter 429: A surprising number of captives

Regarding Guanghan Palace’s sudden proposal to allow the Red Scarf Army to negotiate with the Da Jin court, that is, to allow the Red Scarf Army to accept the Da Jin court’s move, Zhang Mingqi was actually very reluctant to replace the Da Jin and establish a new dynasty. , It is too big for Zhang Mingqi.

However, Zhang Mingqi hesitated because of the strength of the Trapped Army. Without Liu Ji’s Trapped Army, Zhang Mingqi would not compromise even if the Guanghan Palace pressured him, but the Trapped Army was like a Red Turban Army. I swallowed a thorn in my throat, and I couldn't vomit it.

After arranging Pang Wenyan and Chu Xiushu, the two deputy masters of Yaoguang Palace in Guanghan Palace, in a house near Mufu House in Jianyang City, Zhang Mingqi then summoned several confidants in Jianyang City, and then I told the confidants of Guanghan Palace's proposal.

The four counsellors agreed. They thought that we could see what benefits the Da Jin court could give. If the benefits provided by the Da Jin court were enough to make people's minds, it would be OK to temporarily accept the Da Jin court's offer.

However, Liu Fengbao, known as the strongest general of the Red Scarf Army, said angrily: "His Royal Highness, you can't listen to the words of the ladies in Guanghan Palace. Our Red Scarf Army has almost swept southeast seven states and replaced the Great Jin Dynasty. It is just around the corner. How can you accept the enlistment of the Dajin imperial court at this time!"

After Liu Fengbao finished speaking, he glared fiercely at the four counsellors. Among the confidants that Zhang Mingqi had summoned, Liu Fengbao was the only general.

In addition to being the first fierce general of the Red Scarf Army, Liu Fengbao is also Zhang Mingqi’s cousin. When Zhang Mingqi was a county magistrate, he followed Zhang Mingqi. Zhang Mingqi and the Red Scarf Army can achieve this achievement now, and Liu Fengbao is also a contribution. Indispensable, currently the most elite 100,000 troops in the Red Turban Army are stationed in Jianyang City under the command of Liu Fengbao.

In addition, after the evaluation by several disciples of the Guanghan Palace, in the new edition of The World Heroes, the name of Liu Fengbao will appear on the top of the list of peerless heroes.

Zhang Mingqi sighed and said: "The proposal of Guanghan Palace is not unreasonable. This time the imperial court has sent two reinforcements. Among them, the imperial army along the road in Suzhou has the combat effectiveness of more than 200,000 soldiers. It’s really shocking. You know that there are more than two hundred thousand smashing troops. In the Western Regions and Beiting Duhu Mansion, Liu Ji’s smashing troops still have at least two million. The captive army, the king has trouble sleeping and eating."

Liu Fengbao said loudly at this time: "Please let your Royal Highness Yue let me take the troops to Qinhuai City. I will take off Liu Ji's head and dedicate it to His Royal Highness Yue!"

Zhang Mingqi shook his head and said, "Fengbao, Jianyang City still needs you to stay here. There will be more than one million Red Scarf soldiers in Qinhuai City. There should be no major problems in a short time, this king... "

Before Zhang Mingqi had finished speaking, a confidant guard next to Zhang Mingqi took a piece of paper and hurriedly walked into this chamber, "His Royal Highness, there is an urgent report from Qinhuai City!"

Then the guard strode to Zhang Mingqi and presented the paper to Zhang Mingqi with both hands.

Zhang Mingqi took it and saw that his expression changed drastically. This piece of paper says that the 150,000 Red Scarf Reinforcements sent to Qinhuai City were ambushed by the Cavalry Cavalry. In the end, only nearly 60,000 Red Scarves arrived successfully. After arriving in Qinhuai City, and the large amount of grain and grass that was escorted, all were taken away by the cavalry of the Squadron Army.

To make matters worse, another batch of rations sent to Qinhuai City was also robbed by the cavalry of the Sundering Army. Now the 900,000 Red Scarf Army rations outside Qinhuai City are only enough for a few days. Commander Wu Zan is forced to Attacked the imperial army inside and outside Qinhuai City.

After reading what was written on the paper, Zhang Mingqi calmly told the confidants of Qinhuai City of the situation there.

Later, Zhang Mingqi’s most trusted counselor, Tang Yan, said in a deep voice: "His Royal Highness, although our Red Turban Army still has 900,000 troops in Qinhuai City, the situation is already very unfavorable for our Red Turban Army. According to General Wu Zan, The food path of the 900,000 Red Scarf Army was actually cut off by the cavalry of the Sundering Army. Forcibly launching an offensive against the imperial army inside and outside the city of Qinhuai, the loss would inevitably be very large, and it may not be possible to win. Subordinates suggest The troops from Qinhuai City should be allowed to retreat to the south of Suzhou."

The other three counsellors under Zhang Mingqi also suggested that the Red Scarf Army in Qinhuai City should be allowed to retreat south of Qinhuai City. Only Liu Fengbao continued to petition Zhang Mingqi, hoping to bring troops to support Qinhuai City.

Zhang Mingqi finally followed the advice of several counsellors and immediately sent a retreat order to Wu Zan, the commander of the 900,000 Red Scarf Army in Qinhuai City. As for whether to agree with the proposal of Guanghan Palace, accept the request of the Dajin imperial court. Zhao An, Zhang Mingqi still hesitated.

When Zhang Mingqi's retreat order was delivered to Wu Zan, it was already the morning of December 30, 427 in Dajin.

Wu Zan looked at this order with a sad expression. Yesterday afternoon, Wu Zan ordered 400,000 Red Scarf Army troops to attack the imperial army in the north of Qinhuai City. At the same time, there were 200,000 red soldiers in the south of Qinhuai City. The Turban Army launched a siege war against Qinhuai City.

However, Wu Zan felt extremely frustrated. The 400,000 Red Turbans who attacked the imperial army to the north of Qinhuai City were directly defeated by the tens of thousands of cavalry of the imperial army before they even fought against the infantry of the imperial army. With the cooperation of the captive infantry and other rebel infantry, fewer than 50,000 of the 400,000 Red Turbans who fought in the end fled back to the Red Turban camps to the east and west of Qinhuai City.

Then the cavalry of the Broken Army came to the south outside the city of Qinhuai, and launched an attack on the Red Turban Army who was siege of the city. Thanks to the fast running of the Red Turban troops, the 200,000 Red Turban Army fled back. Almost 150,000 people.

The entire fighting process took just over an hour, and the Red Turban Army lost about 400,000 people. This loss has scared some Red Turban generals into a fool.

For the Red Turban Army outside Qinhuai City, the only good news is that it was originally enough for the entire army to eat for five or six days, but now it can eat for almost ten days.

In a tent of the Red Scarf Army camp south of Qinhuai City, Wu Zan took Zhang Mingqi’s retreat order and smiled bitterly to dozens of Red Scarf Army generals and six direct disciples of Guanghan Palace: “Your Royal Highness Yue We issued an order to retreat, let us abandon the city of Qinhuai and retreat to the south of Suzhou, as far as possible to contain the imperial army headed by the imperial army in Suzhou. His Royal Highness is already in Suzhou, Qiongzhou and Lianzhou. There was a large-scale conscription."

Chen Hongxin, the deputy commander of the Red Turban Army here in Qinhuai City, sighed and said: "The combat effectiveness of the Squadron Army is simply too outrageous. Compared with the Squadron Army, the newly formed units of our Red Turban Army are almost like ants. In just over an hour, the 400,000 troops are gone. With our remaining 500,000, how can we defend southern Suzhou?"

At this moment, Wu Zan glanced at the six direct disciples of Guanghan Palace, and asked in a deep voice, "Are Elder Wu and Elder Wen not coming back?"

Guanghan Palace's personal disciple Liu Yueting shook her head and said: "General Wu, the two elders still haven't returned. We are worried that the two elders may have encountered some accident."

Wu Zan said bitterly: "If we could have Elder Wu and Elder Wen to help out yesterday, maybe we would not be defeated so miserably. It is precisely because we do not have a peerless general that allowed Liu Ji's peerless general to kill Zhang Qian. , So that the 200,000 troops of our Red Turban Army on the east side of Qinhuai City were defeated without a leader, so that the 200,000 troops on the west side were also affected."

Zhang Qian, as Wu Zan's first fierce commander and the most important adviser, his death made Wu Zan distressed enough.

The six direct disciples of Guanghan Palace Liu Yueting, Lu Xueshan, Su Ruoyu, Xie Fangfei, Tan Ruofei, and Lu Yaoyi looked at each other, and their faces showed sorrow, but the hearts of the six daughters were the same.

In the first battle yesterday, many of the inner disciples and outer disciples of Guanghan Palace also died in the battle. Therefore, although Wu Zan had a lot of grievances about the disappearance of the two elders of Guanghan Palace, he still had a lot of grievances against the six Guanghan Palace elders. The personal disciple of Confucius comforted: "Elder Wu and Elder Wen both have the strength of peerless warriors. Even if they are in danger, they will be able to turn bad luck. The six girls don't have to worry too much."

Liu Yueting said softly: "I hope it's what General Wu said."

Chen Hongxin then asked Wu Zan: "General Wu, what are your plans next?"

Wu Zan hesitated and said: "Since His Royal Highness has given the order, then we can only act according to orders. I am going to evacuate Qinhuai City tomorrow. Now Linhu County, Huqiu County, Xujiang County, and Zhenhu County are south of Qinhuai City. The counties and Dongzhu counties are still in the hands of our Red Turban Army. These five counties add up to dozens of cities. We will use these dozens of cities to contain the imperial army headed by the Sundering Army. The towel army had to give up the counties and counties occupied by Hengjing County to the east of Qinhuai City, and Mudu County to the west."

Chen Hongxin nodded and said: "For the time being, that's the only thing we can do, but we have to ask His Royal Highness to send us reinforcements as soon as possible, or rely on the 500,000 troops left in Qinhuai City and the tens of thousands of troops from other counties in Suzhou. I am worried that I will not be able to stop the super-combat-capable army."

Wu Zan nodded and said, "His Royal Highness Yue Wang should send reinforcements as soon as possible. By the way, although it is the Spring Festival today, we must let the soldiers in all the camps pack their bags and food. We will leave Qinhuai early tomorrow morning. city."

What Wu Zan and Chen Hongxin, as well as other Red Turban generals, would never have imagined was that on the night of December 30th, their retreat plan was placed on Liu Ji's book case.

Now that he knew that the Red Scarf Army was going to escape, how could Liu Ji let the 500,000 Red Scarf Army easily evacuate Qinhuai City!

On January 1, Dajin 428, the half-million Red Scarf Army evacuated from outside the city of Qinhuai were chased and intercepted by the Cavalry Cavalry. Faced with the fierce and wicked Cavalry Cavalry, the five had already been scared. The 100,000 Red Turban Army collapsed all at once, and tens of thousands of Red Turban soldiers took the initiative to throw away their weapons and surrendered to the cavalry of the Sundering Army.

On the afternoon of January 2, Dajin 428, in the tent where Liu Ji lived outside the Qinhuai city, Xun Yu told Liu Ji: "Master, the results of the battle before the Chinese New Year have been counted. In total, our Sundering Army and other imperial armies wiped out about 400,000 Red Turbans. Among them, nearly 320,000 were captured. Only 80,000 Red Turbans fought to death on the battlefield. And those 320,000 captured, we broke the captives. The army received more than 300,000 prisoners, and the remaining nearly 20,000 prisoners were divided among the other Shiluping rebels."

Liu Ji nodded, and then asked: "Then what is our success with the Red Scarf Army who evacuated from Qinhuai City?"

Zhang Liang in the tent said: "The lord, the half-million Red Scarf Army that was evacuated from Qinhuai City after the chase and interception of our smashing army cavalry can be said to be nothing to worry about. It is only by our smashing army. The number of Red Turbans captured by the cavalry was as high as 400,000. In addition, about 30,000 to 40,000 of the Red Turbans died in the rebellion. Only 60,000 to 70,000 Red Turbans were able to escape~www.wuxiahere. com~Zhang Liang, Jia Xu, Fang Xuanling, Fan Zeng, Li Ru, Chen Gong, Xun Yu and Xun You, these eight top civil servants are all within Liu Ji’s tent at this time. Recently, the Smashing Army has won victory. , So that the faces of these eight top civil servants all looked very relaxed.

Liu Ji smiled and said: "This trip to the southeast, let's not talk about anything else. We have not caught less prisoners. How many Red Turban prisoners do we have now?"

Jia Xu said: "Report to the lord, we captured nearly 150,000 prisoners when we arrived in Qinhuai City, and then annihilated the army sent by the Red Turban Army to cut off our food path, and captured another 35,000 prisoners, ambushing Hong Kong. The Scarecrow’s reinforcements captured another 67,000 prisoners, plus the 300,000 prisoners from the battle before the New Year, and the 400,000 prisoners just captured, which is already more than 950,000."

Liu Ji thought for a while and said: "So many prisoners can't stay here in Qinhuai City forever. They must be sent back to our turf. Both the Western Region Protector House and Beiting Protectorate are short of people, but they want to send so many prisoners back to the Western Regions It is not easy to protect the Duhu Mansion and Beiting Duhu Mansion. This general is going to incorporate all of these 950,000 prisoners into the Broker Army, and reorganize them for a period of time here in Qinhuai City, and then send them back to the Western Region Duhu Mansion and Beiting For the Protectorate, relying on the salary of our smashing army, presumably those captives should not resist joining the smashing army."

Fan Zeng frowned and said, "The master's method is good, but all of the 950,000 Red Turban captives are grouped into the Captive Army at once. How can the officer's problem be solved?"

Liu Ji had already thought about this issue. "Directly disrupt the 1st Guards Brigade of the Guards. First, according to the organization of our Breakthrough Army, form 20 temporary infantry brigades. The former Guards are the first. The generals and soldiers of the infantry brigade were scattered among the twenty temporary infantry brigades to serve as officers, reorganizing the 950,000 Red Turban prisoners."

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