There are always some flaws in the execution of this encirclement and killing tactic by the Northern Army cavalry.
The training time for this tactic was too short, so that the cooperation was not tacit enough, allowing the leading officer of the Yangzhai Army to carry more than a hundred soldiers with him after losing most of the infantry.
The cavalry broke out of the encirclement and fled into Yangdi City.
When Yang Cheng, the commander of the village, was not upset, he was overjoyed.
He led his cavalry and followed the Yangdi army to pursue them.
Only the other commander and his cavalry were left to continue to surround and kill the remaining Yangdi soldiers and horses.
The Yangdi troops who fled towards the city gate were completely unaware of the consequences of their actions.
By the time they reacted, it was already too late.
Yang Cheng, the commander of the Northern Army, rushed into the city with hundreds of cavalry and increased their speed to catch up.
Dispersed more than a hundred Yangzhai cavalry who fled into the city.
The leading officer was knocked off his horse by Yang Cheng's spear.
The officer struggled to get up, but Yang Cheng's spear pressed against his throat.
"Looks like he's a high official, come here, tie him up and kill him with me."
Yang Cheng gave the order and led the soldiers to rush into the city.
Chaos soon broke out in Yangqu City, with the sound of fighting everywhere.
Fires were blazing everywhere and thick smoke was billowing.
People were hiding in their homes and shivering, not daring to light lamps or go out.
At this time, the fighting in the camp outside the city was completely over.
More than 12,000 Yuzhou prisoners were squatting on the ground and surrounded.
Among the 20,000 Yuzhou troops, more than 2,000 people escaped and more than 5,000 people were killed.
Except, all the rest is here.
Liu Cheng rode on horseback and looked at the dark prisoners, thinking about how to deal with them.
Wang Shuang rode his horse over and clasped his fists to report: "Lord, the statistics have been completed.
Half of these prisoners are soldiers gathered by the noble families and wealthy families in Yuzhou, and the remaining half are ordinary people."
Liu Cheng looked at the crowded prisoners, with a cold light in his eyes, and ordered: "Bring out all the corps commanders and officers above and kill them, leaving no one behind."
"Yes" Wang Shuang agreed and immediately gave the order.
Soon, all the corps commanders and officers above the corps commander among the prisoners were escorted out.
When these people saw Liu Cheng, who was wearing a terrifying mask, they all looked frightened and shouted: "Sir, spare your life, spare your life." " Liu Cheng waved his hand down without hesitation: "Kill" Pieces of sword light flashed, heads rolled to the ground, blood flowed all over the ground, and the remaining prisoners were trembling with fear.
Liu Cheng looked at the prisoners and said loudly: "Look, I have killed all the military leaders who bullied you.
From now on, no one will bully you anymore, and no one will sit on your head and dominate you.
I won't They will kill you, but whether you survive is entirely up to you."
"I want to lead my army to fight.
If you want to survive, you must follow us and carry food for us.
Each person must carry at least fifty kilograms of food.
These fifty kilograms of food are for my soldiers.
If you If we want to eat, we must add additional weight, and it must be able to keep up with our march.
Speed, if you can carry a hundred kilograms, there will be fifty kilograms of food for you on the way.
The premise is that you can keep up with us.
If you are exhausted on the way, then you are unlucky and I will send someone to follow.
You, if you want to escape, butcher's knives and arrows are waiting for you."
When Liu Cheng said this, he loudly ordered: "Come here, give me the order to make a fire and cook rice, let them have a good meal and then go to bed.
We will rest here during the day and wait for orders when we will move."
"Yes" the generals responded with a bang.
At this time, a chief came over with a few soldiers escorting a civilian official.
He cupped his fists and reported to Liu Cheng: "General Qi, three thousand troops came out from Yangzhai City to reinforce the Yuzhou Army, but they were defeated by our army.
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This official fled back to the city with a hundred people.
We took advantage of the situation to catch up and rushed into the city.
Now the city is under our control.
This is the official who led the troops out of the city to rescue.
We captured him and are now escorting him to the general.
Disposal" "Oh" Liu Cheng was a little surprised.
He didn't expect that there was someone in the city who dared to lead troops out to rescue in this dark night.
This person was either out of his mind or really passionate.
In addition, he didn't expect to meet a familiar person here.
Xu Jing.
He looked Xu Jing over and waved his hand: "Untie him."
Xu Jing was originally a minister in the court.
Zhou Yao once discussed with him the recommendation of some officials to serve as officials in order to increase Dong Zhuo's control over the local area.
For example, Han Fu, Kong Miao, Zhang Miao, Qiao Mao and others were recommended.
For his part, he himself was recommended as the governor of Bajun, but he did not go.
After Cao Cao criticized Dong Zhuo, all the princes in the world responded.
Xu Jing was afraid that Dong Zhuo would settle the score with him, so he ran away first.
It turned out that he came to Yuzhou to act as a boss for Kong Ni.
Xu Jing was originally very calm, but after seeing the terrifying devil mask on Liu Cheng's face, he turned pale with fright, pointed at Liu Cheng and stammered: "You, you, who are you?
Why did you attack my Yang?"
Zhai City and the army outside the city" Liu Cheng snorted coldly and shouted angrily: "You seem to have made a mistake.
Now I am the swordsman and you are the fish and meat.
You actually want to turn against the guest and ask me, I ask you, who is your name?
If you hold any position in Yangzhai, you are dishonest." , the knife and ax hands on the left and right will chop you into pieces immediately."
Xu Jing's face turned even paler after hearing these words.
He forced himself to calm down, adjusted his clothes and appearance slowly, and said slowly: "I don't want to change my name, but I don't want to change my surname.
I am the governor of Yuzhou, Bo Xu Jing." also"
Liu Cheng waved his hand and ordered the people around him: "Come here, take him down and keep him under strict supervision."
"yes" The Xu family in Runan was originally an aristocratic family, but Xu Jing had been poor since he was a child and had not looked like an aristocratic family for a long time.
Liu Cheng thought that it would be difficult to find someone who could read, write and do calculations these days, so it was better to treat Xu Jing to Take it with you and let this guy take care of the logistics, so that he can be more relaxed.
After a full meal, I had a good sleep.
When I woke up again, it was already noon, and I had another full meal, as well as soup and vegetables.
In the afternoon, I went to bed again, and in the evening, I had another full meal.
The whole day continued.
Eating three full meals, this kind of treatment is simply too much for these prisoners.
This has never happened before in their lives.
You must know that they did not even have a full meal a day before, and most people have never eaten white noodles in their lives.
But today they have eaten three meals of white noodles in a row, and they are full.
Even if they are so full at this moment.
When they die, they feel that their life was worth it.
Not long after dinner, Liu Cheng ordered the entire army to set off at 1:00 pm.
There were still two hours of preparation time.
More than 12,000 prisoners had to start making preparations.
They lined up to collect food from the grain harvesting area.
Some prisoners thought they had a lot of strength and received an additional fifty kilograms of food in addition to the quota of fifty kilograms.
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Some people may have thought of the cruelty of long-distance marches and did not dare to receive more.
They only received an additional ten kilograms or two kilograms.
Ten kilograms.
After all, carrying such a heavy amount of food while marching can keep up with the cavalry.
This is no joke, and it is very likely to kill someone.
While the prisoners were nervously collecting food, Liu Cheng was discussing the next march with the generals in the Chinese army's tent.
"Where are Yuan Shu, Sun Jian, Kong Rong, Zhang Chao, Tao Qian and their troops now?"
Liu Cheng asked Wang Yue.
"Lord, there is no specific news yet."
After Wang Yue finished speaking, he walked to the map and looked at it.
After thinking about it, he clasped his fists and said, "If they didn't encounter any accidents on the way, Yuan Shu should have arrived at Suzhou with his army by now.
Jujube; Sun Jian should still be waiting for Yingchuan Governor Li Min to send food; Kong Rong's army should be in Jiyin County now; Zhang Chao's troops should be around Peiguo Dan County; Tao Qian's troops should be heading towards Suiyang march on the way."
Liu Cheng walked to the map and looked at it.
He moved his fingers on the map and quickly found Xinyang where Sun Jian's troops were.
He punched the location of Xinyang and said coldly: "Then let's set off for Xinyang."
Shuang, immediately send out scouts to explore and conduct reconnaissance twenty miles ahead of the army, and mark the way along the way."
"Follow your orders" At Haishi, the army set off on time.
Three thousand cavalry led by Liu Cheng went ahead.
Wang Shuang took two thousand cavalry, two thousand extra horses, six hundred captured horses, more than three hundred mules and horses, and twelve thousand The prisoners carrying food on their backs followed and marched quickly.
Although the living conditions of the people in this era were extremely poor and backward, Liu Cheng was shocked by their endurance and tenacity in life.
These captives who had never had a full meal after eating three full meals in a row, and again Stimulated by the feeling of being full and unwilling to part with it, they burst out with amazing endurance.
Liu Cheng controlled the marching speed of the cavalry.
If they marched at a trot for an hour, they could march about fifteen miles.
At this speed, if the prisoners were allowed to march at a trot while carrying grain bags, they could barely keep up.
After marching for an hour, the army rested on the spot for a quarter of an hour.
At this time, the 12,000 prisoners behind could also have a quarter of an hour's rest.
A quarter of an hour later, the army continued to set off, and the prisoners continued to set off with their grain bags.
The two thousand cavalry behind them, led by Wang Shuang, urged the prisoners to keep marching at a fast pace while watching the fodder and part of the grain carried by the mules and horses. and military resources.
Marching at this speed for another hour, and then resting for a quarter of an hour, the prisoners could persist and maintain this marching speed of fifteen miles per hour for the first two or three hours, but after three hours, the prisoners It was starting to become too much.
After all, most of these prisoners had never had a full meal, and now they were forced to march with such intensity that they simply could not bear it, and some began to fall behind.
Wang Shuang kept Liu Cheng's orders in mind.
Whenever there was a situation of slowing down, he would immediately whip the prisoners with a riding crop to force them to maintain their speed.
"Master, please stop fighting.
Please stop fighting.
I really can't run anymore.
Why don't you look at such a heavy weight of food on your body?
Let alone humans, even horses can't run."
A prisoner knelt down.
Begging for mercy on the ground
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