Chapter 18 The Wind of the Willows
These Yellow Turban Powerful Soldiers are extremely powerful, and the various equipment on them may weigh hundreds of pounds in total, but they seem extremely relaxed. They are heading towards Zheng Xiaoming's troops!
Zheng Xiaoming saw that these people were difficult to deal with, and had already killed a Yellow Turban General, so he was not in a fight at the moment and led his subordinates to push them away.
He is here to earn merits and become an official, not really to fight to the death.
And he made way and finally let some of the Yellow Turban elites who had ended violently and calmed down return smoothly.
However, less than half of the more than 5,000 Yellow Turban elites who had originally left the city successfully returned to the city, and the rest were either killed or captured.
However, the Han army suffered heavy casualties, mainly because of the Nanyang soldiers under Qin Jie, who also suffered three to four thousand casualties.
Almost all the private soldiers of the local large clans, especially the two thousand troops of the Xu family, were almost wiped out. It was a heavy loss.
But these have nothing to do with Zheng Xiaoming!
As the remaining Yellow Turban elites retreated to the city on the south city, the battle would end.
The Yellow Turbans in Zhu Jun's troops attacked in the North City were all miscellaneous soldiers, but the number was really large, at least 20,000 to 30,000. The troops who were entangled in Zhu Jun's troops were unable to come to rescue in time.
Of course, it is also because many people from Zhu Jun's troops were not present.
For example, Sun Jian's troops did not stay in Wancheng at this time, but led his team to clean up the Yellow Turbans everywhere.
However, because they were dealing with the rammed soldiers, the battles in the North City were quite fruitful, and at least more than 3,000 beheaded.
Although these are all miscellaneous soldiers who make up the numbers, the court doesn’t know that fooling the court is enough!
Of course, the biggest gain in this battle was Zheng Xiaoming's troops. Because the killing of Peng Tuo, the general of the Yellow Turban Army, could be regarded as rescuing the unfavorable situation for Qin Jie.
Otherwise, if he loses his troops and generals in this battle, the court will blame him!
But now that Peng Tuo has been killed, this is a great victory now. As the prefect of Nanyang, he has made contributions and no faults. After all, no matter how many casualties and injuries he was under his command, he was the local tribe who brought his own dry food to surrender, and did not hurt the court.
Zheng Xiaoming, who made this contribution, was even more respected by Qin Jie. Even the governor of Jingzhou Xu Yu also sent people to win over and show his goodwill.
Speaking of which, the relationship between Xu Yu, the governor of Jingzhou, and Qin Jie, the prefect of Nanyang, is extremely complicated...
Originally, in terms of official rank, the governor of Jingzhou, who was only 600 stones, should be under Qin Jie, the prefect of Nanyang, who was 2,000 stones.
However, the Han court used small to control the big, and used a governor of 600 stone to supervise the prefects of each county.
So sometimes, the governor of Jingzhou Xu Yu can be regarded as the superior of Qin Jie, the prefect of Nanyang.
Just this shows how complicated the relationship between the two is!
Moreover, the governor was the supervisor, not the administrative position. It sounded like the censors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties later.
But just like any regime in ancient and modern times, it has an supervisory office invading administrative power. This Han Dynasty is no exception.
Especially in recent years, the governor, who was originally the supervisor of the prefect, has repeatedly intervened in local administrative affairs. The weak prefect can only become subordinates of the governor, while the tough prefect fights with the governor.
So, it will be a ghost if the relationship between these two parties becomes better.
This is also the original intention of those administrative structure designers, which is to fight you.
For example, the two leaders in later generations, one in charge of organization and the other in charge of government affairs, and the two sides are fighting each other... They are also considered to be genius designs!
Xu Xu was still very strong, especially after expelling former Nanyang prefect Zhao Zhong, which made his reputation reach its peak.
Where is Nanyang? It is the place where the imperial town is almost as close as Luoyang under the feet of the emperor. In later generations, it is almost equivalent to the status of the Demon City!
In such a place, can the background of the selected officials be small?
The former prefect Zhao Zhong was the nephew of the empress dowager and was beaten by Xu Yu. It is conceivable how powerful this governor Xu Yu was.
Now I came to recruit Zheng Xiaoming and changed someone else. At this time, I might have run over and surrendered to him with dizziness.
However, Zheng Xiaoming's head was still very clear and directly refused the other party's hints to win over.
This kind of thing came into Qin Jie's ears, which naturally made Qin Jie feel very pleased and attached more importance to Zheng Xiaoming.
At this moment, he was almost the first general under Qin Jie, the Nanyang Prefect, who was short of soldiers. All kinds of supplies, soldiers were replenished, and money and grain were distributed closely to Zheng Xiaoming's troops.
Who made him, the prefect of Nanyang, only a unit that could fight under Zheng Xiaoming's troops?
This makes Zheng Xiaoming's life very comfortable during these days of temporary quit.
However, he was not idle and was still continuing to train the troops. His family knew his family's affairs. His current troops looked like that, but in fact they were strong outside and worked on the inside. The training time was too short, so they only had a single air.
Fortunately, I encountered a mob like the Yellow Turbans. Otherwise, if I really encountered a strong enemy, the consequences would be very difficult to say.
In such a quiet day before the temporary storm, Zheng Xiaoming suddenly heard someone come down and report: "The people from the Nanyang family are here!"
Zheng Xiaoming was slightly stunned and then laughed: "It should have been here long ago!"
This time, he killed the Yellow Turban leader Peng Tuo, not to mention that he was awesome to Nanyang? At least his reputation has spread, and even if he did not send people to contact our family, he should have heard the news.
Zheng Xiaoming walked out of the camp and saw a team coming outside the camp. He knew a lot. He should have at least 500, and his equipment was pretty good.
Zheng Xiaoming, the leader, was also very familiar with him. He immediately walked up with a smile: "Brother Seven, long time no see!"
The person he called the Seventh Brother was the son of our family, named Zheng Feng, and had always had a good relationship with Zheng Xiaoming.
At the beginning, my family attached great importance to Zheng Xiaoming, and sent famous teachers to teach Zheng Xiaoming. Some of my peers also sent to contact Zheng Xiaoming to enhance their relationship.
This Zheng Feng is one of the children of this family with the best relationship with Zheng Xiaoming!
So although Zheng Feng was blocked outside the camp gate, he did not get angry, but smiled and said, "Thirteen Lang's army is rigorous and has a strong sway of fine willows."
Zheng Xiaoming laughed: "Brother Seven, don't curse me like this! If you want to be Zhou Yafu, you should be yourselves!"
When Emperor Wen of Han went to the military camp to inspect, all battalions could easily enter. Only Zhou Yafu was rigorous in his military management and did not have military orders. Even if the emperor came in person, he would not be allowed to step into the military camp.
Emperor Wen of Han felt that Zhou Yafu knew the military so well and left it to his son Emperor Jing of Han for use. Later, the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms broke out, and Emperor Jing of Han used Zhou Yafu to quell the rebellion.
This allusion has become a beautiful story since then!
However, in Zheng Xiaoming's view, this was also the main reason why Zhou Yafu was killed in the future.
Chapter completed!