Lu Zhi's main army moved north along Liu Bei's march route on April 5th, and reached Julu County.
As Lu Zhi expected, when Liu Bei was approaching Julu County, he learned through sentinels that there were signs of a large number of garrison activities in Julu County, which needed to be treated with caution, so Liu Bei slowed down his marching speed and did not deliberately approach Julu County. county.
However, the Yellow Turban Army in Julu County tried to take the initiative after learning that the Han army was approaching. A group of more than 3,000 infantry and cavalry took the initiative to attack, seemingly wanting to eat Liu Bei.
After Liu Bei personally observed the status of this team, he decided to attack.
The results are no surprise.
This "infantry" with only a few dozen cavalrymen was dispersed after Liu Bei used classic cavalry and shooting tactics. The military formation that originally looked like a decent army suddenly dispersed, and the large open space in the south of Julu County suddenly It became a Shura field where cavalry slaughtered infantry.
The outcome of the battle is obvious at a glance.
Looking at the one-sided battlefield, Liu Bei on the hill not far away sighed to Zhen Yan beside him.
"I finally saw it clearly. These people don't know how to fight at all. They were just relying on their momentum before. In addition, people from the Jizhou government don't know how to fight. When two groups meet, whoever has the stronger momentum will win. , has nothing to do with the war.”
Zhen Yan chuckled.
"Isn't that a good thing? Military achievements are coming to your door one after another. For you, isn't the more the better? The greater the merit, the greater the reward."
Liu Bei shook his head and sighed.
"Of course military merit is good, but it would be nice if so many people didn't have to die."
"They are not innocent, they are thieves and deserve to die."
Zhen Yan shook his head and said: "You are just too kind-hearted. It doesn't matter in normal times, but you shouldn't be like this on the battlefield. It is said that kindness does not control soldiers. Without necessary kindness, you will get yourself killed, so you shouldn't have such thoughts."
"I know, so when it's time to take action, have you ever seen me be soft-hearted?"
Liu Bei laughed self-deprecatingly: "Only when I have such a margin, I will sigh hypocritically, but I will not be weak in my actions. In the end, I am just a hypocrite."
Zhen Yan just smiled and said nothing, obviously not taking this matter seriously.
hypocritical?
what is this?
If Liu Bei is considered a hypocrite, are there any good people in the world?
Zhen Yan even felt that Liu Bei's heart was not ruthless enough. If he were ruthless enough, he should kill all the people here, cut off all their heads, and build a Jingguan to shock people and let them know the consequences of disobeying him. That's called ruthlessness.
Where is this?
Of course, the Han army won a complete victory in this battle.
The Yellow Turban Army attacked rashly and was completely wiped out. Liu Bei's troops beheaded more than 500 people and captured nearly 2,000 people. This was another military success.
After this defeat, the Yellow Turban Army never took the initiative to attack again. It seemed that they knew that they could not win in a field battle and gave in.
Liu Bei didn't take the initiative to attack. He only had more than a thousand people. It was good to beat the opponent to the point where he didn't dare to fight in the field. As long as his head was fine, he wouldn't think about attacking the city.
He led his troops to cut down trees and set up camps in the surrounding areas, building camps for his troops and the incoming main force to face the subsequent siege.
In addition, he once again personally presided over the memorial ceremony for the soldiers who died in the war.
After taking command of the troops, Liu Bei established a rule that after every battle, the living must hold a memorial ceremony for their dead comrades, and send someone to escort their corpses, their relics, trophies, and consolation money back to their hometowns. , given to their families.
Liu Bei personally presided over the memorial ceremony for all those who died in the previous four battles, and asked all soldiers in the army to participate in the memorial ceremony.
Regardless of whether they know each other or not, regardless of whether they have personal grudges or not, since a person has died, everything returns to dust.
He took the lead, and all the officers and soldiers took off their helmets, stood in silence for a stick of incense around the bodies of the fallen, and then put on their helmets and sent them off for the last journey.
To show reverence for life and reverence for the war dead.
He personally supervised the treatment of the corpses of the war dead with lime to prevent premature decay. He also personally inspected the relics and trophies of the war dead, and sealed the prescribed amount of pensions with his own personal wishes and handed them over to his The two soldiers escorted him back to his hometown and handed him over to his relatives.
At the same time, regarding the ownership of the spoils of war, Liu Bei strictly restrained the officers of each army and required the protection of the interests of the soldiers. He strictly prohibited officers from extorting or misappropriating soldiers' property. Once discovered, they would be severely punished.
Everyone is risking their lives to make money. It's ridiculous to rob people of their lives for money.
There is no place for such people in my camp.
A ranger who admired his reputation and followed him was executed by Liu Bei in front of the entire army for extorting the property of his soldiers, in order to correct military discipline and strictly enforce military law.
After a series of procedures, the soldiers all believed that Liu Bei was a reasonable and honest officer.
With such a Shangguan, you can get money while you are alive and will not be exploited. Even if you die, you will not have to worry about the property you have worked so hard for being misappropriated. You will also have one-stop service between life and death, so you can rest assured.
Such a superior is worth following.
For those who died in this battle, Liu Bei personally presided over the memorial ceremony and led the entire army to take off their helmets, with the officers first and the soldiers behind, in a collective moment of silence.
Later, he personally watched the car escorting their bodies and belongings leave the military camp and rush towards their hometown.
An inexplicable atmosphere permeated the military camp.
Even the careless Dong Huang felt it, but he couldn't tell what kind of atmosphere it was. He only knew that his Liangzhou soldiers were full of admiration when they talked about Liu Bei.
So why not himself?
He didn't know the rest, but he felt that this initiative of personally hosting the memorial ceremony and sending people to send the soldiers' corpses back to their hometowns was really meaningful. If it were him, he definitely wouldn't want to have his corpse exposed in the wilderness after death. I hope that the fallen leaves will return to their roots, otherwise, how uncomfortable would it be to become a lonely ghost?
However, the cost seems to be quite high. Is it Liu Bei's personal investment?
Dong Huang didn't know.
On April 9th, Lu Zhi led his army to the south of Julu County, and then surrounded the county seat, encircling but not attacking, in preparation for encirclement and reinforcements.
Then, Liu Bei began to play psychological tactics.
He suggested that Lu Zhi speak out and say that the Han army's goal was to capture Julu County, then dig up the coffins of Zhang Jiao's three brothers, open their coffins and kill their bodies, crush their bones and spread their ashes, and also annihilate the Zhang family and make them Never be reincarnated forever.
Not only that, we also need to completely destroy the rhetoric of the Taiping Taoists. They said that Zhang Jiao was dead, he and his brothers died together, or he was killed by others. Everything about going to Huangtian and so on is all false. , otherwise how could the Yellow Turban Army be defeated?
Is Zhang Jiao really going to fall in love with Huang Tian and just watch the Yellow Turban Army's defeat without saying anything?
Lu Zhi thought it was wonderful, so he authorized Liu Bei to do this. Liu Bei found many local Julu people, gave them money and food, and selected the loudest among them to shout in Julu County every day.
The content is that Zhang Jiao did not go to Huangtian but died. Taiping Road has no future at all. Their superiors are just deceiving them and hope that they will die in exchange for glory and wealth. Let them not be deceived.
Then they persuaded them to surrender, saying that as long as Kaicheng surrendered, the Han army would promise not to harm their lives and property, and would only kill the culprits.
In addition to the psychological offensive against Julu County, Liu Bei also "hired" these displaced locals to go everywhere to publicize what the Han army was going to do. Let’s see if his so-called God of the Yellow Sky is real or fake.
There is no way, there is no Internet these days, so we can only rely on word of mouth to spread the news, so that Taiping Taoists all over Jizhou know about it.
This can be regarded as serious encirclement and reinforcement.
(End of chapter)
