At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

The soldiers around him shouted loudly.

"Zhang Jiao is dead! Those who descend will not be killed!!"

"Zhang Jiao is dead! Those who descend will not be killed!!"

This kind of shouting broke out, directly causing a devastating psychological blow to the Yellow Turbans who were still fighting. Their psychological defense line collapsed instantly. All those who were still fighting showed a confused look, and then showed fear. look.

General Tiangong is dead, what about them?

The resistance of Guangzong's Yellow Turbans was ended. Many of those who directly put down their weapons and surrendered to beg Rao were ordered to be taken into custody by Lu Zhi, and some who resisted stubbornly were besieged and killed by the Han army by various means.

A large number of Yellow Turban soldiers and their families were killed, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled were killed.

With the complete tilt of the war balance, the situation of fighting with each other is over, and everything belongs to the Han army and the victor.

There is no longer the confrontation between the Han army and the Yellow Turban army, only the plundering of the loser by the victors.

Ever since, the war immediately turned into wanton plunder and massacre.

Young women are the most popular, and the soldiers of the Han army who have experienced the hardships of military life for several months have long been about to explode.

Although the women they won in the previous battles have been incorporated into the battalion as usual for the soldiers to vent their desires, but the number is small, hundreds of people, and tens of thousands of strong men are not enough. Many of them are already exhausted. The naked ones were thrown out, and a hole was dug and buried.

Now these are just enough to satisfy the desires of the Han soldiers who are already blushing and about to explode, and no one can stop them.

They were wildly plundered by the soldiers of the Han army.

There is not so much attention on the battlefield, and the irrational male creatures are not greedy for appearance.

They rushed over to snatch them with red eyes. The husband and the men wanted to protect these women, but they were hacked to death by the soldiers of the Han army. They grabbed the women and carried them on their shoulders before running away. They kicked open a room and went in to do business. .

There are also some red-eyed ones who just threw women on the side of the road and started to do things right away.

They easily tore off the women's tattered clothes that couldn't even cover their bodies, enjoyed the women's painful voices and trivial resistance, and laughed wildly, like a wild beast, regardless of the wailing voice standing by. The weeping child and the dead man.

There were also some Taiping Taoists who wanted to gather a crowd to escape, but were chased by a group of Han soldiers with knives, and if they chased them, they would be brutally slaughtered.

The property in the city was also looted frantically. Many soldiers preferred money to women. They had to fight for money first, and then women. In order to fight for property, they fought against each other with swords and swords.

In order to compete for a piece of silk cloth, the two soldiers were hugged on the ground, and their faces were covered in blood.

In order to compete for a gilded statue, the two officers brought their soldiers to the fire, and I don't know how many people died and blood flowed all over the place.

In order to compete for some scattered gold and silverware, a group of soldiers fought in groups, facing each other with swords, killing corpses all over the ground.

Running, crying, laughing, fighting.

This is the world?

This is the human room.

The joy and enthusiasm after catching Zhang Jiao alive faded away, and Guo Peng regained his composure.

He walked with his subordinates in the streets and alleys of Guangzong, and escorted Zhang Jiao to the location of Lu Zhi to report his credit. Along the way, he saw the unsightly side of this broken city.

Some people were jealous when they saw Guo Peng's copious seizures, but when they saw the fierce appearance of all of them covered in blood and holding war knives, they knew it was not easy to mess with, so they avoided it.

Guo Peng's own subordinates saw that someone was forcibly abusing women on the street, and they seemed to be unable to bear it any longer. Groups of three and four rushed over to take part in it, but were kicked to the ground by Guo Peng's own soldiers. He punched and kicked, cursed for a while, and rushed back to the team.

"If you dare to leave the team to violently loot, you will be killed!"

Guo Peng issued such a military order.

Guo Peng has a strong restraint on his subordinates, and his prestige is sufficient, so in the chaos, only Guo Peng successfully restrained his subordinates, ignoring everything, and reporting the results directly to Lu Zhi.

As for everything else, Guo Peng was powerless to stop what was happening in front of him, and there was no need to stop it.

Whether the Central Army, the temporarily recruited volunteer soldiers or the local garrisoned soldiers, all participated in this grand banquet, and they all threw themselves into it.

They only have very low military pay or even no military pay. Guo Peng knows exactly why they join the army and why they kill.

The purpose is not to defend the big man, but to plunder and occupy the losers after the city is broken. They went to snatch the spoils, not for any other reason.

Just as businessmen go abroad to do business, war is business for them.

Their capital and goods are their own lives and skills, and the business they do is to exchange their lives and skills for wealth.

Now that the business is done successfully, they are starting to make money, they are starting to make a profit, can it be stopped?

There would be a mutiny.

Therefore, Lu Zhi did not restrain them, nor could he restrain them. This was their right. What they deserved after resisting the fear of death and the loss of the battlefield, the emperor could not restrain them either.

There is no human rights, no humanity, only winners and losers.

This kind of thing happened often in the past, it happens often now, and it will happen more often in the future.

Anyway, there are many grassroots in the big man, more than 5000 million, and they can grow again after death, so don't just die in one breath.

Guo Peng just watched from the sidelines and restrained his subordinates not to do such things.

The spoils they got were already very rich, and Guo Peng also rewarded them with a lot of things. They had already earned a lot, so they didn't resist forcibly.

For this reason, Guo Peng also let Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan and Cao Ren supervise the other subordinates with Changshui cavalry, and he patrolled back and forth in the array, successfully restraining them.

This is the limit of what Guo Peng can do and is willing to do.

Of course, in the midst of the war, Guo Peng failed to gather all his subordinates and leave the city together. He didn't know whether any of his subordinates joined the carnival, and it was useless to know.

Leading most of his surviving subordinates to Lu Zhi, Guo Peng gave Lu Zhi a military salute, and then presented Zhang Jiao, whose mouth was tied up by Wu Hua, to Lu Zhi.

"The last general will live up to Zhonglang's high hopes!"

Chapter 83 Zifeng's talent is beyond my reach

Seeing that Guo Peng successfully led his subordinates out of the city, Lu Zhi didn't participate in this carnival feast in the city, and maintained his rationality and bottom line as an officer, and couldn't help but sigh.

After seeing Guo Peng capture Zhang Jiao alive, he sighed even more.

Lu Zhi immediately instructed his subordinates to start preparing strategies, and put Zhang Jiao into the prison car, and sent him to Luoyang as soon as possible to let Emperor Ling vent out, not to let Zhang Jiao die on the road.

Guo Peng asked Brother Xiahou and Cao Ren to take their subordinates to rest and take a bath, while he stayed by Lu Zhi's side, accompanied Lu Zhi to watch Guangzong County, where the beacon was full of smoke, and listened to the unreal noise in the city, and said a word. Do not send.

"This is the battlefield, this is the war, Zifeng, do you understand?"

Guo Peng pursed his lips.

"understood."

Guo Peng didn't speak too much, and his mood was not as heavy as he imagined. He looked at Lu Zhi, and Lu Zhi's eyes were fixed on the black smoke floating in the city, motionless.

"Teacher, is there any way to stop this kind of thing?"

Guo Peng questioned Lu Zhi.

Lu Zhi opened his mouth and was silent for a while.

After a long time, he said slowly: "When one day, the purpose of the soldiers' expedition is no longer to get promoted and rich, this kind of thing can be stopped."

Guo Peng lowered his head and fell silent.

It is precisely because of this that such things cannot be stopped for more than 1000 years in the future.

However, it is not impossible to reduce the frequency and intensity of such things in various senses.

That requires considerable determination and strength, as well as more resources that can be mobilized.

The Eastern Han Empire, which is already a walking corpse, cannot do it. The greatest significance of this dynasty, which has only an empty shell, is to maintain a false unity. The seeds of division have been planted at this moment.

The looting of Guangzong County did not end until a day and a night later.

Lu Zhi ordered his own troops and Guo Peng's troops to enter the city to maintain order.

After killing a group of people, the order in the city initially stabilized.

Nine out of ten rooms were burned and nine out of ten people died. The Taiping Taoists in Guangzong County experienced a night and a night like a nightmare.

However, they have no reason to speak, no grievances to appeal, and everything they encounter is because they are rebellious.

Master Wang is allowed to do anything against rebellion. The righteousness is in the hands of Master Wang, and the final interpretation right belongs to Master Wang.

The soldiers cleaned up the bodies, counted the damage, and then burned the bodies, leaving the rest to the local government.

The court will soon appoint a new magistrate of Guangzong to rebuild and manage Guangzong. The new Guangzong will have nothing to do with the old Guangzong.

As for these lucky survivors and the Taiping Taoists, their fate is not optimistic. After losing their weapons and the ability to resist, they can't even protect themselves, let alone their families.

The humiliation of Han soldiers and soldiers did not end.

After the large-scale establishment of the carnival, Han soldiers continued to run to the prisoners of war in groups to snatch women to vent their desires, and family members who dared to stop them directly killed them, and even provoked a lot of turmoil.

Some of the violent soldiers were killed by the Taiping Taoists who took away their weapons. Lu Zhi immediately dispatched Guo Peng to lead the Changshui cavalry to suppress them. Guo Peng led the Changshui cavalry to attack the past and killed a group of the Taiping Taoists. , no longer dare to resist.

Later, when Lu Zhi learned what happened, he reprimanded the officers of the soldiers who did not obey the order and beheaded a few soldiers who took the lead in committing crimes, but the effect was not great.

If you can't control it, you really can't control it. If you control it too strictly, you will mutiny.

On June [-], the Han army was initially reorganized, and Lu Zhi ordered Guo Peng to lead a [-]-foot cavalry toward Xiaquyang. To quell the Yellow Turban Rebellion in Hebei.

Also in June, Qin Jie, the prefect of Nanyang, fought with Zhang Mancheng, beheading Zhang Mancheng, and the rest of the Yellow Turbans changed to Zhao Hong as their commander, occupying Wancheng with more than [-] people.

However, Huangfu Song and Zhu Junjun continued to attack the Yellow Turbans in Runan and Chen State, pursued Bocai to Yangzhai, and finally defeated Peng Tuo in Xihua. Yu Jun wanted to escape to Wancheng, but Sun Jian from Changsha entered the city first, and everyone Pushing forward like an ant, it smashed the enemy and successfully defeated the Yellow Turbans in Yuzhou.

The last remaining part of the Yellow Turban Army shrunk in the Nanyang area, completely lost the ability to make progress, and only had the ability and ideas to survive.

At this moment, Huangfusong, Zhu Jun, Sun Jian, Cao Cao, and Nanyang prefect Qin Jie joined forces, with a force of more than 5, and compressed Zhao Hong in Nanyang, making him unable to move, that is, temporarily unable to break through the city.

Earlier, around the beginning of May, when Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun had just defeated Bo and lifted the siege, they all learned that Lu Zhi had defeated Zhang Jiao's [-] soldiers in Hebei, and Changshui Sima Guo Peng had killed Zhang Jiao's younger brother. Zhang Liang's case.

At that time, Cao Cao was fighting under their command. The two knew that Cao Cao was the elder brother of Guo Peng's wife and that Guo Peng was Cao Cao's sister-in-law, so they told Cao Cao about it, and Cao Cao was greatly surprised.

"Really? Zifeng actually killed Zhang Liang?"

"It's absolutely true, no one dares to fake this kind of thing, but Meng De, your sister-in-law is really unusual. You killed Zhang Liang in the first battle, and Lu Zhonglang has a successor."

Huangfu Song sighed so.

"I'm not as talented as Zifeng."

Cao Cao shook his head, hehe smiled: "I don't know if Lu Gong and Zifeng can sweep away the Hebei Yellow Turban thieves as soon as possible, Huangfu Gong, we should speed up the pace."

"Hahaha, Meng De can't say enough, I'm afraid I'm quite unwilling?"

Huangfu Song laughed.

Cao Cao smiled awkwardly, tacitly admitting that he would not admit defeat.

He admires the famous generals who have made great contributions to the country, and what he hopes most is to become a general, the kind that is famous all over the world. Now that he is ten years younger than his sister-in-law, he is naturally anxious.

Not to mention Cao Cao, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun are actually not easy.

Lu Zhi made military exploits ahead of them with less troops than theirs, which also brought them a lot of pressure.

Originally, Lu Zhi was a high-flying person. He rushed to the difficult places, gave the easy places to Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, and devoted himself to the country. As a result, the current situation made Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun a little ashamed.

So they stepped up the attack on the Yellow Turban Army Zhao Hong's department in Nanyang, and successfully shot Zhao Hong at the end of June, but the Yellow Turban Army did not retreat, but elected Han Zhong as the leader, continued to defend Nanyang, and confronted the Han Army. This made it very difficult for them.

At this time, Sima Sunjian, the auxiliary army who had previously made a contribution to the first place in Wancheng, joined forces with Cao Cao, and had many contacts with Cao Cao.

At the beginning of July, news spread that Zhang Jiao was captured and sent to Luoyang, and the Han army in Nanyang was shocked when they heard the news.

Zhang Jiao is finished, doesn't it mean that the Hebei Yellow Turbans are finished?

Doesn't that mean that Lu Zhi has successfully quelled the Yellow Turbans in Hebei?

so fast?

Chapter 84 Pacifying Hebei (Revised)

Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song never imagined that they would be left behind, nor did they expect that Lu Zhi was so powerful that he could capture the leader of the Yellow Turbans alive, which was a huge credit.

Later, more accurate news came. It turned out that Lu Zhi led his troops to attack the city, and his commander, Changshui Squadron Ma Guopeng, led the army to break through the city first, and rushed into the city to take the lead in breaking Zhang Jiao's defense line and capturing Zhang Jiao.

The first emotional merit is Guo Peng again.

Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun looked at each other, Sun Jian looked at Cao Cao with admiration, Cao Cao's expression was very complicated, excited, and unwilling to be left behind.