Chapter 111: The Great Victory of Accepting the Surrender of People [Subscription

The sky is filled with stars.

The border between Qingzhou and Yanzhou.

Guan Hai led his personal army to escape here.

When he sent troops to attack Yanzhou, he gathered millions of people. In addition to wanting to occupy Yanzhou, he also secretly harbored the ambition to conquer the world.

But in less than two months, only a group of his personal troops were left and they fled Yanzhou.

The losses were so heavy and the defeat so swift that it was unprecedented.

"The governor of Yanzhou dared not fight me head-on, and used cavalry to defeat me. How despicable!"

Guan Hai threw a punch with a force as solid as a pillar, causing the surrounding ground to shake.

When the great and virtuous teacher Zhang Jue was alive, Guan Hai was a brave and powerful general of the Taiping Dao.

"If I don't kill Cao Cao, I won't be able to vent my hatred."

Guan Hai asked his military advisor Xu Yi, "If we return to Qingzhou, can we recruit more soldiers and fight again?"

Xu Yi still found it hard to accept that a million soldiers were easily defeated. He was dejected in fear:

"Although there are still refugees in Qingzhou, it is too difficult to gather them together and restore the momentum of a million soldiers."

"Most of the available people in Qingzhou have been brought under our command. If we lose this battle, we won't be able to recover for several years."

"Rest for two hours, then leave."

Guan Hai issued an order, and his men formed a small circle around the hillock, protecting him in the center.

Guan Hai leaned against a large rock on the high ground. Fatigue overwhelmed him and he soon fell into a deep sleep, snoring like thunder.

But not long after falling asleep, Guan Hai suddenly woke up.

There was unexpectedly an extra person on the big rock beside me.

A Taoist priest, thin and old at first glance, but then again he seemed to be a middle-aged man.

He stood with his hands behind his back, his sleeves fluttering and his eyes cold.

Guan Hai was shocked: "Who are you?"

"Save your man!"

The Taoist said calmly: "How dare you rest here? Do you think Cao Cao doesn't know that you abandoned your troops and left the camp, escaping at night?

If I hadn't come, Cao Cao would have caught up with you and killed you in an hour. You've fought him for months, but you still can't see that he's good at using strange tactics and making plans. How could he let you escape so easily?"

"You are just a link that he can use to control Yanzhou. It is not unfair for you to lose."

"Who are you exactly?"

Guan Hai was extremely surprised by the sudden appearance of the Taoist priest. How did the other party get past the outer troops and get close to him?
Given his temper, he should have taken action directly.

But this Taoist priest gave him an indescribable feeling, as if he was inexplicably familiar.

"Everyone says my last name is Shi."

The Taoist's answer sounded very strange. His hair moved without wind as he spoke, and his enchanting and terrifying aura flashed by in an instant.

He took out something from his sleeve, which was a military seal.

Guan Hai was surprised when he saw it, "Great Sage's Seal of Peace! How did you get this precious seal?"

That was the mark of Zhang Jue, the great and virtuous teacher and leader of the Taiping Dao.

Shi Daoren said, "Hurry up, Cao Cao's pursuers are right behind us. Go north and lie dormant at the northern end of Qingzhou to recruit soldiers. You can also go north of Qingzhou and join Gongsun Zan's army. I will come back to find you."

The Taoist shook his body and suddenly disappeared from the rock.

Guan Hai hardly saw any trace of him leaving, as if he had disappeared out of thin air.

This is the Taoist magical power of the void.

As far as Guan Hai knows, there was only one person who knew how to use this method back then!

"This person has the Taiping Seal and can also perform the Yankong Technique. Could he be a fellow disciple of the Marshal..."

Guan Hai turned his head and looked. Below the high ground, there were his own troops resting, and a little further away there were scattered guard troops.

Logically speaking, since he was speaking on the top of the mountain just now, the personal troops below should have been alarmed.

But the Taoist priest seemed to have some magical powers, and none of his personal soldiers noticed anything unusual.

Even the scouts a little further away did not hear his conversation with the old Taoist priest, and they all became like clay sculptures or wooden statues.

Guan Hai wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and shouted angrily: "Everyone get up and set off immediately!"

Guan Hai's followers fled northward overnight and went away in a panic.

About half an hour after they left, a troop of soldiers came chasing them from the direction of Yanzhou like ghosts in the night.

Sitting on the red rabbit horse in the front, whose fur was as red as flames, was Cao Cao.

Beside him was Zhang Liao, who defeated the Qingzhou army that entered Dongjun, left Xiahou Dun and others to pursue the deserters, and rushed to Changyi to cooperate with Cao Cao in military operations.

On the other side is Dian Wei.

The two men followed Cao Cao, one on the left and one on the right.

Cao's army arrived near the high ground where Guan Hai and others were resting.

A scout dismounted to check.

The time when Guan Hai and others stayed and left can be judged by the wetness of the horse manure and the traces of people's trampling after gathering.

At this time, a tall figure walked out from the darkness in another direction. It was Zhang Huai, the Tianji.

"I caught up with you and checked before you did. Guan Hai's men have been gone for a while."

Zhang Huai said, "I wanted to track them, but was interrupted by a Taoist priest who suddenly appeared. He threw a hidden weapon at me to stop me from chasing him, and then he seemed to be flying on the wind, without touching the ground. I chased him for a while, but the Taoist priest disappeared."

"Taoist priest?"

Cao Cao immediately thought of Shi Zimiao, the evil Taoist who threw the emperor to Dong Zhuo in Luoyang.

The other party seems to have been hiding in the dark.

"I only saw the shadow of the Taoist priest in the air. He walked very fast. He used the art of stealth and could not be tracked."

Zhang Huai: "The governor should stop chasing us. The Qingzhou army has surrendered, and things could change at any time. Without the governor in charge, we will feel uneasy."

Zhang Liao and others also felt that the surrender of hundreds of thousands of Qingzhou troops was more important.

This would be a major event that would shock the world. Defeating and accepting the surrender of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses would be an unprecedented victory. Cao Cao looked northward towards Qingzhou. If he led his troops to attack Qingzhou now, it would not be difficult.

But resources, financial strength and various aspects of the situation must complement each other.

It is not yet the time to enter Qingzhou.

Cao Cao turned his horse around and pushed forward to secretly cross Chencang. Suddenly, a thin mist rose around the entire team.

The entire army disappeared and galloped back along the same road.

On a cliff far away, the strange Taoist priest withdrew his gaze from Cao's army.

"This new governor of Yanzhou has more than one expert at the peak of the magical realm under his command. There is no chance for me to get close to him..."

The Taoist priest whispered: "This person's expansion speed and the power he controls are no longer controllable."

It was the next morning when Cao Cao returned to the bank of the Ji River.

In the morning light, countless surrendered soldiers knelt along the banks of the Ji River, stretching for more than ten miles.

As far as the eye can see, there are crowds of people.

There were hundreds of thousands of surrenders, but the Cao army that controlled them, together with the troops brought by Zhang Liao, had no more than 13,000 to 14,000 men.

More than 10,000 people, controlling hundreds of thousands of people to surrender.

It is indeed easy for something to happen, so Zhang Huai and others advised him to come back.

"Caozhou Mu, we surrender sincerely and beg you to give us a chance to live."

After fighting for several months, the Qingzhou troops knew that the one chasing hundreds of thousands of them in a rout was Cao Cao, the governor of Yanzhou.

The Qingzhou army was shocked and terrified about who could defeat them.

When a voice came out from the crowd, the other Qingzhou surrendered soldiers followed suit and shouted, "We are willing to surrender, please spare our lives, Governor!"

"Please spare my life, Governor!"

"..."

The shouts continued until the voices of hundreds of thousands of people merged together, like mountains roaring and seas shaking the earth.

Defeating the Qingzhou army will be a battle that will lay the foundation for Cao Cao's success.

Hundreds of thousands of people can be recruited to establish farmland, select soldiers, and form a new army!

And because of the defeat of the Qingzhou army, Cao Cao's reputation in Yanzhou will also reach a new height.

As the surrendered soldiers along the coast shouted, entries appeared in front of Cao Cao's eyes, and a series of handwriting push notifications were given.

His reputation has long surpassed the previous barrier of 150,000 in recent days and has gained a new direction.

But Cao Cao never had time to take a closer look.

The reputation he gained from accepting the surrender of the Qingzhou army quickly approached the 300,000 mark after the 150,000 mark.

In other words, Cao Cao is about to face two consecutive reputation upgrades.

[Reputation 201127…204238…207713…]

The reason why his reputation increased so rapidly was that the news of his defeat of the Qingzhou army was spreading rapidly to all parts of Yanzhou, and countless people heard the news.

Along with it, his talents, military strategies and other abilities were also stimulated and changed.

[You have used military tactics many times to sneak into Chencang, gaining reputation and luck, skill value...49...50, skill level (Heavenly Stems Five: Ji, etc.)]

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From that day on, Cao Cao stayed in Jibei and began to accept the surrender of the Qingzhou army in an intensive process.

Xun Yu, Jia Xu, and Xi Zhicai all rushed over from the rear and took over different matters.

The Qingzhou army is said to have a million soldiers, but of course the actual number is not that high.

Xi Zhicai made a preliminary calculation, and together with the troops that had previously attempted to attack Dongjun and Chenliu, the number he came up with was only close to 800,000.

But this is already a huge population resource!

In order to accept their surrender, we must first break up their internal factions and conduct preliminary screening.

Those who should be killed will be killed, and the rest will be diverted.

In this regard, Xi Zhicai assisted Xun Yu in handling it.

On the last day of August, Cao Cao returned to Changyi.

Outside the city, the first batch of more than 100,000 refugees followed and were escorted by Cao Hong's troops towards Chenliu. The team was long and went farther and farther away.

The city walls of Changyi were filled with officials from Yanzhou.

They were also looking at the group of refugees going away.

In the two months before and after, Cao Cao used his elite troops to defeat the million-strong Qingzhou army, and the entire Yanzhou benefited greatly.

When Cao Cao returned, the gates of Changyi were opened wide and many officials came out from the city to welcome him.

"Welcome to the governor of the state, and return with a great victory."

Chen Gong led the people to welcome them, and then a group of officials escorted Cao Cao into the city.

It became even more lively once we entered the city, with people lining the streets to welcome us.

Previously, Jibei State and Dongping State were attacked by the Qingzhou Army, and some aristocratic classes fled to Changyi, the safest place in Yanzhou.

When Cao Cao defeated the enemy, they could go home.

They were also the group of people who felt the damage caused by the Qingzhou Army's passage most directly.

"That's Caozhou Mu!"

"I heard that the generals under the governor's command were all capable of fighting ten thousand enemies. They attacked Dongjun and Chenliu's bandits and beheaded them all."

"What kind of horse does the governor ride? It's so majestic."

"Those generals, it was them who defeated the Qingzhou army in just two months."

"..."

People lined the streets of Changyi. Although they were separated from the city by the army, they could only see Cao Cao riding on a horse and talking with the officials who were accompanying him. However, they were extremely excited.

The news that Yanzhou had suffered an attack and that the Qingzhou army had been defeated and surrendered was spreading at an alarming rate to all parts of the country.

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