Chapter 373 Geography
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 cavalrymen at the head of each battalion grabbed the prisoners and exited the battle, returning to the camp to rest. The battlefield was left to Lu Kuang of Handan City. He organized the Handan people to go out of the city and began to clean up the battlefield in an orderly manner.
This battle really exhausted the Taishan Army. The longest among them has been fighting for nine hours continuously, which means that they have been fighting since last night until now.
The secretion of fighting dopamine and adrenaline hormones prevents them from feeling tired. But now that they have returned to camp to rest, they realize how tired they are.
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.
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 table. If it weren't for Xi Shen and Hulu, the guards thought he was dead at that time.
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 today's battle, and then quickly 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 everywhere. There was everything but little corn. This is also the practical reason why the Julu Army must step up its efforts to break out.
Rows of Han prisoners with their heads hanging down were escorted to the prison 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 troops and battalions took over the guard in high spirits, and Zhang Chong also began to look through the list of seizures this time.
As a strong local army, the Julu Army naturally has rich human resources. Although many were killed by Taishan's army before, the remaining captured military officers are still full, and the registered names fill 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. This man Zhang Chong knew that Yuan Shao was the mastermind behind this! Later generations often say that if Yuan Shao uses Tian Feng's plan, the world will have unknown consequences.
In this case, the former Zhang Chongxin. At that time, he was obsessed with the so-called heroic view of history, and of course he believed that individual ingenuity could stabilize the world. But after four or five years of struggling in this time and space, Zhang Chong no longer believes 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, many of Tian Feng's strategies for Yuan Shao in history showed a certain degree of foresight in history, but they were not so 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.
History says that Yuan Shao did not listen to his advice and insisted on a decisive battle at Guandu. But in fact, before Guandu, Yuan Shao repeatedly sent troops south to attack Cao Cao, but they were all defeated by Cao Cao without exception.
In other words, at that time Yuan Shao seemed to have great power, but his troops were weak. Cao Cao looked weak, but his troops were strong. In other words, in a one-sided battle, Yuan Shao could not defeat Cao Cao's elite troops.
In this case, while you still have an advantage, you can win by attacking with all your strength. If we really want to follow Tian Feng's words and engage in a protracted war, not only does Cao Cao own the Central Plains, which is the most fertile soil in the world, but if we talk about mutual interference, Yuan Shao will be the first to fall.
Why?
Since Cao Cao and Yuan Shao share the Yellow River, Cao Cao can also send troops north to constantly harass Yuan Shao's Hebei. And with this small-scale use of troops, Cao Cao's elite troops have an advantage. With this kind of special operations, Yuan Shaohui will become weaker and weaker as he fights, so how can he talk about a protracted war?
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 is that he fails to see three and 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 details 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 Julu Army is organized into five armies and fifteen battalions. Huge establishment.
Among them, the left military academy captain, the southern military academy captain, and the right military academy captain were beheaded by the Taishan Army Guards one after another. Among the five major captains, only the middle military academy captain Guo Pu and the northern military academy captain 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 his general and three 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 good teeth.
Zhao Fu also knew that he couldn't run away, so he hurriedly 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 his two lists, there are a bunch of generals and generals, none of whom are important figures.
A batch will be screened later, 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 is the son of Zang Min, and Zhang Chong only found out now. After knowing that he treated Zang Min's body favorably, the man expressed his gratitude to Zhang Chong and made another request.
He just wanted to take his father's coffin back to his hometown. He said that this request must be too much. Because he is a prisoner, life and death are 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 over this side, Zhang Chong looked at the last two and most important names.
They are Guo Dian, the governor of Julu, and Wei Shou, the former general envoy of Taiping Road.
Guo Dian was caught by his brother-in-law, which must be a great credit to Zhao Yun. Originally, he thought that Zhao Yun captured Guo Dian because someone in the army helped him and deliberately gave Zhao Yun credit.
But later he learned that Zhao Yun had brought a captive who had been Guo Dian's cook with him to correct him along the way. In this way, the biggest prisoner fell into the hands of Zhao Yun.
Zhang Chong has already thought about what to do with Guo Dian and Wei Shou.
Guo Dianming's official punishment was that he had killed too many Yellow Turban soldiers. In the previous battle at Julu, he had 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 plan 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 meet 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 Handan siege battle, 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, they did not include the equipment and equipment.
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 know, the total number of Han soldiers from Zhongshan Kingdom and Julu was 23,000, and those who were beheaded were 3,400, accounting for almost 15 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 used by people below. For example, the current commanders of the two rivers have no small victories in the war against Xianbei. They bluff their capture status in order to invite rewards.
So these days, the scribes of the Taishan Army have been intensively examining 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. If it comes to summer, these scribes will still faint in the stench.
These days, the Taishan Army is also stepping up its work of mobilizing 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 sea of blood from the 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? Then you still have to be 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 Heroic Trilogy is the simplest, because these people are generally regarded as cattle and horses, and in fact they don't have much recognition of the master's family. After stripping away the powerful military officials at the grassroots level, these tribes from Guizhou Province quickly returned to their roots.
It’s easy to say that Zhongshan’s prime minister is an elite one. Zhang Chong's burial of Zang Min greatly changed these people's view of the Taishan Army. Especially after seeing Zhang Chong let Zang Hong go, these people had nothing to say.
In the end, 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 Feng Sui Bing. 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 some 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 headquarter, with Zhu Ling, a newly surrendered Qinghe native, as the general officer and Guo Pu as the deputy general. The entire battalion headquarter was basically composed of Julu people.
After that, Zhang Chong started training troops in Handan and stepped up the running-in of each battalion.
Obviously, Zhang Chong does not plan to withdraw his troops back to Yecheng, he still wants to make big moves.
Sure enough, on April 8th, Zhang Chong received a military report from Guan Yu in his tent. He stated in the military report that he had captured Nanhe, Pingxiang, and Renxian in the east, and on the 2nd We recently defeated Julu.
It turned out that shortly after Guan Yu captured Xiangguo, 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 deal with the Julu. In fact, this territory will never be empty. If you don’t occupy it, others will.
Maybe the next day a hero would show up and capture the city with three or five people. Then use the resources in the city to pull out another wave of soldiers.
Of course, these soldiers will not be elite, but if they are 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, this is all we can take, and Zhongshan further north is also empty. But if Zhang Chong continues to go north, his geopolitical situation will be very dangerous. Because the length from north to south is too long, it is too easy for someone to stab you in the waist.
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 Hebei Yellow Turban messenger, who was also Zhang Chong's old acquaintance, 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 see him."
This made Zhang Chong silent. Should he go to Guangzong?
(End of chapter)