Global Warring States: Get the Tang Taizong template at the beginning

Chapter 287: The Remnants of the Yellow Turbans
No wonder players need so much reputation and military merit to be promoted to county magistrate or prefect, and they also have to bribe eunuchs such as the Ten Attendants and Zuo Feng.

In "Global Warring States", a county has a population of several million, and a prefect may be in charge of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of people, with millions of soldiers under his command.

"Recently, a group of Yellow Turban remnants have occupied Manjing Forest. There are about tens of thousands of them. My abilities are limited, so I'll have to trouble you to send troops to quell this group of Yellow Turban remnants."

Liu Mi, the former magistrate of Xinye, was helpless against the Yellow Turban Army that appeared in Manjinglin. Li Qian happened to take over as magistrate of Xinye, so Liu Mi handed this hot potato to Li Qian.

Li Qian also disagreed.

Zhang Mancheng, the leader of the Yellow Turban Army in Nanyang, was killed, but there were still some Yellow Turban generals who led thousands or tens of thousands of remaining soldiers, occupying the mountains and becoming kings, robbing and looting everywhere.

This Yellow Turban Army was a group of bandits that had recently fled from near Xiangyang to Xinye County.

Liu Mi might find it difficult to deal with the Yellow Turban Army, but Li Qian has an army of 12, many of whom are elite soldiers who have experienced many battles. It is easy for him to suppress the Yellow Turban Army of tens of thousands of people.

"Beigong Chun, you, Ma Yue, and Cheng Yi, select 500 cavalry and 4000 light cavalry to attack this group of Yellow Turbans."

Li Qian ordered the deputy general of the Xiliang Legion, Beigong Chun, to send troops and gave Beigong Chun half of the cavalry of the Xiliang Legion.

With 500 Xiliang Iron Cavalry and 4000 Light Cavalry, as well as three fierce Xiliang generals, let alone tens of thousands of Yellow Turban Army, even if it was a hundred thousand Yellow Turban Army, Beigong Chun would collapse after leading this cavalry to charge repeatedly several times.

"Two thousand cavalrymen are enough."

Beigong Chun patted his chest, thinking that 4500 cavalrymen were too many.

Ma Yue and Cheng Yi didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

Although the two of them were defeated by Li Qian, that was only relative to Li Qian's elite troops.

After all, Ma Yue and Cheng Yi were military generals from Liangzhou, commanding the Western Liang Iron Cavalry or the Liangzhou Cavalry, and traveling across the world. They really looked down on the Yellow Turban Army.

"It's better to be safe than sorry."

Li Qian still let Beigong Chun lead half of the Xiliang Legion to go on the expedition.

It is better to estimate the enemy carefully.

"I will obey your orders. We can defeat the bandits in less than three days!"

Beigong Chun accepted the military order heroically.

Seeing Beigong Chun's burly figure, Liu Mi said with emotion: "He is truly a strong man."

Because Li Qian took office as the magistrate of Xinye, Liu Mi went to Luoyang for another appointment.

Li Qian occupied Xinye City, still regarding Tangdu as the main city, with Xinye City only as a secondary capital.

Li Qian has a population of more than 4 million, so he can easily support 200,000 soldiers. If he is more aggressive, he can even support 300,000 or 400,000 troops.

Of course, whether it is an army of 200,000, 300,000 or 400,000, it is mainly composed of conventional troops, and advanced troops only account for a small part of it.

After all, if an army of 200,000 were all high-level soldiers, that would be too terrifying.

So Li Qian recruited soldiers and horses in various cities and towns to prepare for the unification of Nanyang County.

In the Manjing Forest, the Yellow Turban Army entrenched there collapsed immediately upon seeing the arrival of thousands of well-equipped cavalrymen, and fled into the forest in a swarm. Beigong Chun, Ma Yue and Cheng Yi led the cavalry in pursuit.

Suddenly, the warhorse that Beigong Chun was riding was tripped by a lasso, and the horse lost its footing, and Beigong Chun was thrown out heavily.

"what!!!"

Dozens of other Xiliang cavalrymen suffered the same fate as Beigong Chun, and they fell to the ground, screaming in agony.

"Whoa!" Ma Yue, Cheng Yi and other Xiliang generals and Liangzhou cavalry who were rushing behind had a certain amount of time to react. With their superb horsemanship, they reined in their horses in time to avoid greater losses.

"Oh no, we've fallen into a trap! Get out of this bramble forest!"

Ma Yue and Cheng Yi, two Liangzhou generals who had risen up in rebellion against the imperial court, were also veterans of the battlefield. When they saw more than a dozen tripwires ahead, they realized that they had fallen into an ambush by the Yellow Turban Army, so they quickly ordered their cavalry to retreat.

It is difficult for the cavalry to display their strengths in the thorny forest. Moreover, this is the territory of the Yellow Turban Army. The other side has set up an elaborate ambush, which is definitely not as simple as a dozen trip wires.

Sure enough, accompanied by the sound of sharp arrows piercing the air, stray arrows shot towards the Liangzhou cavalry from all directions.

Dangdang Dangdang!
Cheng Yi swung the Pojun Hammer in his hand, sweeping away the arrows one after another. The arrows were smashed away by the Pojun Hammer, making a sound of iron colliding.

Fortunately, many of the Liangzhou cavalry were equipped with iron armor, so the bows and arrows of the Yellow Turban Army were not so deadly.

Beigong Chun and dozens of Xiliang cavalrymen who were tripped fell off their horses and turned into heavy armored infantry. They fell behind and retreated while fighting.

"Fire back with arrows!"

Ma Yue and Cheng Yi were reluctant to abandon Beigong Chun and dozens of Xiliang cavalrymen, so they ordered thousands of Liangzhou cavalrymen to take down their horn bows and shoot at the Yellow Turban Army in the thorn forest.

Basically, the Yellow Turban soldiers and leaders, who were only clothed in plain clothes, were either killed or wounded once they were shot by the arrows of the Liangzhou cavalry, and their bodies fell all over the ground.

In comparison, bows and arrows did not pose such a great threat to the Liangzhou cavalry, who were equipped with armor and at least two-level armor.

The two sides exchanged fire, and the casualties of the Yellow Turban Army were obviously greater than those of the Liangzhou Cavalry.

Even if they set an ambush, tens of thousands of Yellow Turban troops were no match for a few thousand Liangzhou cavalry.

“What’s that smell?”

"Oh no! The Yellow Turbans are setting the forest on fire!"

Ma Yue and Cheng Yi were fighting and retreating when they suddenly smelled a burning smell. They broke out in a sweat and looked around nervously, only to see thick smoke spreading rapidly in the bramble forest.

The Yellow Turban generals estimated that they were no match for the Liangzhou cavalry, so they set up an ambush and used fire attack!
The fire spread and smoke filled the air. More than 4,000 Liangzhou cavalrymen were trapped in the sea of ​​fire. Their horses neighed in panic and some fell off their horses from time to time.

Two Yellow Turban generals led tens of thousands of Yellow Turban troops to shoot arrows and set fires, their eyes reflecting the flames rising to the sky and the chaotic Liangzhou cavalry...

Two hours later, Li Qian was counting the amount of grain stored in the granary of Xinye City when Ye Bushou hurriedly reported the battle report: "My lord, the three generals of Beigong were ambushed and attacked by fire by the Yellow Turban Army. They were defeated in Manjinglin, with the loss of 800 cavalrymen. General Cheng was captured alive by the Yellow Turban Army!"

"hiss……"

When Li Qian heard the bad news brought back by Ye Bushu, he felt a chill down his spine.

Beigong Chun, a quasi-first-rate general, Ma Yue, a quasi-second-rate general, and Cheng Yi, a third-rate general, three famous generals, led 500 Xiliang cavalry and 4000 Liangzhou light cavalry, but were defeated by tens of thousands of Yellow Turban remnants. They lost elite cavalry, and even Cheng Yi was captured alive by the Yellow Turban army.

After the death of the three brothers Zhang Jue, Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang, could the Yellow Turban Army still be so ferocious?

"Wait, the leader of this Yellow Turban Army is most likely a famous general."

Li Qian always felt that with the intelligence value of less than 50 of ordinary Yellow Turban Army generals, it would be difficult for them to come up with a sophisticated layout.

If the leader of this Yellow Turban Army is a famous general, then Li Qian will have to take action personally.

"Royal Guards, Women's Army, Liangzhou Army, follow me to defeat this group of Yellow Turbans."

Li Qian was even more cautious this time. He personally led an army of 25000, including elite troops such as the Black Armor Army, the Women's Army, the White Spear Army, and Xie Ai's 4500 cavalry.

Li Qian wanted to see who was the Yellow Turban general who defeated Beigong Chun.

(End of this chapter)