After Gao Xianzhi led his troops away, Wu Qi and He Yuanqing led their troops to encircle and suppress the Taiping Army while carrying out a strategy of attacking the heart.
"Everyone, everyone is a son and daughter of the Han family, the descendants of Yan and Huang, why do you want to follow Zhou Yu and Yang Xiuqing to join the barbarians and lay down their weapons will be spared death, and those who are willing to serve in the army will be given preferential treatment, and those who do not want to serve in the army can return to their hometowns and be given farmland and cultivation tools, regardless of their guilt" Wu Qi stood on a high place and loudly persuaded the Taiping prisoners who were pressed by the black pressure.
Most of these Taiping soldiers were ordinary people in Jiaozhou, and most of them were forcibly coerced by the Taiping Dao to cause chaos, and their ancestors had cultivated the fields for generations, fished and hunted, and there were few who were really willing to make trouble.
In addition, during this period of time, the Han army was suppressed badly, lack of food and clothing, many people were homesick, and the military spirit was already on the verge of collapse.
"Newspaper" A fast horse galloped from the west, and before Wu Qi's horse, he had already rolled off the saddle, "Report to the general, General Gao Xianzhi died in battle" Wu Qi was taken aback, and stroked the saber in his hand: "Who killed him?"
"A fierce general from the Guishan Kingdom, carrying a pair of silver hammers, has the courage of ten thousand people, General Gao fought but a one, was killed by a war horse, hit the back and died on the spot" The scout reported to Wu Qi with palpitations.
"I'll go to meet this barbarian" He Yuanqing was not angry when he heard this, turned over on his horse, whistled, and led three thousand men and horses to the west.
Wu Qi shouted in the back: "General Yuanqing should not take lightly the enemy, and after I have placed these prisoners, I will go to help."
Wu Qi marched all the way from Jiangling, initially brought 5,000 elite soldiers, trekked more than 3,000 miles, took more than two months, and recruited 28,000 new troops along the way, making the total strength under his command reach 33,000.
Wu Qi marched all the way to drill all the way, during which he purged the bandits from time to time, as well as those Shanyue thieves who had revived, and trained them with battles to improve the combat effectiveness of the new army under his command.
After arriving in Ganxian County, he got the news that Xiangyang City was broken and Sun Ce was killed, and Wu Qi keenly judged that the rest of Sun Ce's troops were likely to go south to Cangwu to join Guishuang, so he contacted Huo Quai's illness while rerouting to Cangwu to intercept Sun Quan's front road.
After seven or eight days of marching together with the three armies, the men and horses led by Wu Qi finally copied to the front of Sun Quan's army, so he secretly sent someone to contact Huo Quji, and agreed to rob the camp in the north and south tonight, and kill Sun Quan's army by surprise.
It's just that Pei Yuanqing's reinforcements suddenly arrived, which was an unexpected variable.
Wu Qi made preparations with both hands, personally led He Yuanqing and Gao Xianzhi to rob Sun Quan's camp from the south, and at the same time ordered Jiang Song and Yang Qilang to lead 15,000 men and horses to march under the banner of Sun Quan overnight, rushing to Cangwu, seventy miles away, opening the city gate, and killing Lu Dai and Huan Fan by surprise.
After the division of troops, Wu Qi only had 18,000 men left, and after hand-to-hand combat with the Taiping army, he lost about 2,000, and the number dropped to more than 15,000.
Although the casualties of the Taiping army were three times that of Wu Qi's army, there were still about 23,000, nearly half more than Wu Qi's army.
How to control a large number of captives with inferior forces is a headache.
Especially now that the situation on the battlefield is complex and changing rapidly, although Sun Quanjun is at a disadvantage, it is not an absolute disadvantage without the power to resist.
The arrival of Pei Yuanqing's reinforcements made the outcome even more unpredictable, so how to deal with these Taiping prisoners became crucial.
Don't look at these Taiping troops temporarily disarming and surrendering, but their hearts are extremely unstable at this time, and the slightest temptation will change their original intentions, and no one dares to guarantee that they will turn against the counterattack again if Sun Quan's army regains its advantage.
In this situation, the nearly 24,000 Taiping prisoners became a dangerous factor, and if they were not handled well, they would lose everything and lose all their previous achievements.
After thinking for a while, Wu Qi had an idea, stood on a high place and said loudly: "Sun Quanjun is red-eyed, and he must hate your surrender to the core, so in order to avoid innocent casualties, he will decide to dismiss you."
If you are planning to return to your hometown, immediately lay down your weapons, remove your armor, and return to your hometown."
After listening to Wu Qi's words, many homesick Taiping soldiers cheered in unison, knelt on the ground to thank them, took off their armor one after another, and fled in the wilderness, and within a few moments, nearly 15,000 people were scattered, but there were still about 9,000 captives gathered in groups.
"What are you going to do?"
While testing the intentions of these people, Wu Qi quietly sent an order to the whole army to prepare for slaughter, but whenever these captives showed a little restlessness, they should not hesitate to wave the butcher's knife.
A part of Jingzhuang stood up and said: "My family has been ruined, I can't go back to my hometown, and my husband is willing to seek fame while he is alive."
Since the general said that he is willing to take us in, he is willing to fight to the death with the general."
Wu Qi bowed his head and said: "Since you are willing to serve the country and atone for your crimes, immediately take up arms and follow our army to attack Sun Quan in the north."
Wu Qi ordered a partial general to lead 3,000 people to incorporate these Taiping troops who took the initiative to ask for help into the ranks, only issued weapons, not armor, and led them to the north to attack the back of Sun Quan's army, and Huo Qujian attacked from the north to the south.
After a period of noisy and noisy, more than 4,000 of the remaining 9,000 Taiping troops took up arms and followed the Han army to attack Sun Quan.
However, around the Taiping military camp, there were still about 5,000 strong people gathered in groups, either sitting or squatting, or talking to each other, or noisy, refusing to leave, and refusing to follow the Han army to attack Sun Quan.
"You are not willing to accept the dismissal, and you are not willing to atone for your crimes, what do you want" Wu raised his hand and pressed his saber, and asked quietly.
More than a dozen core backbones stood up and said: "The road back to my hometown is thousands of miles, and the general will dismiss us like this, what is the difference between driving me and killing them all If you want me to return to my hometown, but I will not give some severance pay, and I will never leave."
Wu Qi said with a smile: "Hehe, what you said is also true, but Ben Jiang is not thoughtful, don't be impatient, Ben will go to prepare dry food for you" After listening to Wu Qi's words, the remaining 5,000 or so Taiping troops high-fived and celebrated, and put forward the conditions inch by inch, "It's about the same, but we are afraid of meeting bandits on the way home, and we ask the general to send weapons to defend ourselves."
"Hehe, send the Buddha to the west, I will depend on you" Wu Qi pressed the anger in his heart and quietly agreed.
Wu Qi stepped aside, summoned his generals and said: "Most of these people are some ruffians, people who have to make inches, their hearts are stubborn, and they are in danger of defecting to the battlefield.
Give me all the bows and arrows, kill them all, and cut off the troubles."
A partial general frowned and suggested: "General, it's not a villain, your majesty now governs the country with benevolence and righteousness, and the important ministers of the court are very disgusted with the slaughter of prisoners.
Previously, General Anxi Chang Yuchun was impeached by the government and the opposition because he killed 4,000 prisoners, and he made a mistake and became a thief.
The general should think carefully about what he is doing today, and do not repeat the mistakes of the past."
Wu Qi said angrily: "You only know one and you don't know the other, how can you say that it is cruel to slaughter 4,000 captives with 70,000 people in the same day and at that time."
Today our army is only fifteen thousand, and our prisoners are nineteen; There are still 70,000 or 80,000 Sun Quan on the opposite side, and I don't know how many reinforcements from Guishan have come, our army is at a disadvantage, who dares to make a desperate bet" After a pause, he bent his bow and arrows, quietly aimed at a leader of the Taiping Army, and said in a deep voice: "For the general, there must be no kindness of a lady, and I should continue to suffer from its chaos, I Wu Qi is dedicated to being a big man, why am I afraid of gossip If Your Majesty wants Wu Qi to die, I will sacrifice my head, and if I die, what about today's affairs, I will bear it alone, and I will not do anything else."
When the words fell, Wu Qi shook his hand, and the arrow flew out of the string, hitting the chest of a Taiping army leader, and he was killed instantly.
"What are you going to do" The remaining nearly 5,000 Taiping troops were shocked, and suddenly they were like a pot exploded, and they were in a hurry.
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Wu Qi's face was as pale as frost, and he ordered in a deep voice: "Kill me, don't leave a single one" With Wu Qi's order, the bows and crossbows of the Han army around them fired in unison, shooting a rain of arrows at the unarmed Taiping prisoners, and for a while the screams came and went, and the prisoners who were completely exposed to the bows and arrows could only be slaughtered like fish on a chopping board.
The Han army fired a flurry of arrows, and then countless axemen rushed into the crowd to harvest the heads, and mended the captives who had not yet breathed their breath, and sent them on their way.
"Burn the Taiping Army camp to the ground and burn all these dead bodies" Wu Qichao's deputy general commanded, and with a wave of his sword, "Han family soldiers, follow me to the west to help He Yuanqing" After receiving Wu Qi's order, the Han army divided into two routes, leaving more than 1,000 people to burn the Taiping army camp and dispose of the massacred corpses.
The other team followed Wu Qi to the west to aid He Yuanqing, and Wu Qi opened the way in front of 2,000 soldiers carefully selected from the 30,000 army, and the rest of the horses followed, swarming towards the battlefield to the west.
In the dark night, He Yuanqing led 3,000 elite soldiers to rush left and right, fighting with the Guishan army that had just arrived, and supporting Gao Xianzhi's troops to the west.
With a pair of eight-treasure bright silver hammers in his hands, He Yuanqing galloped through the chaotic army, and bumped into an enemy general who made a hammer at the dawn of the heavenly general, so he shouted: "Oh, the barbarian general on the opposite side reported his life, but he was a thief who hammered my Han general."
Pei Yuanqing snorted coldly and glanced at He Yuanqing: "Uncle Xing doesn't change his name or change his surname, Pei Yuanqing, the pioneer officer of Daqin, is also, who dare to use a hammer if you are" "I, you Daqin was wiped out four hundred years ago, and you dare to call Yuanqing Laozi and the general He Yuanqing are also a barbarian thief, come and die in front of the horse, and give you a good time" He Yuanqing scolded angrily, slapped the horse and swung the hammer to take Pei Yuanqing.
Pei Yuanqing looked disdainful, and the eight-edged plum blossom bright silver hammer weighing one hundred catties in his hand wielded the tiger and tiger in the wind: "Come on, come on, don't take advantage of your tongue, see a real chapter under your hand, if you can pick me up three hammers, I will admit that you are worthy of the name He Yuanqing, otherwise don't tarnish the word Yuanqing" t1706231537: