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Chapter 82 The Soul Returns!

The next day, Bian Han Anxie Kingdom.

Outside of Bengshan City, the once empty wilderness is now crowded with people.

This word may have been a bit exaggerated in the past, but now it is particularly realistic.

At this moment, there are at least 50,000 to 60,000 Dongyi people outside Bengshan City, just like the Yellow Turban Army back then.

The reason why there were so many people was mainly because the Han armies from the north and south finally succeeded in joining forces.

Although they suffered losses along the way, the number of Dongyi people that Wei Zhe and Taishi Ci brought with them was still very large.

If they could not be fooled by just giving them some porridge, and if they also confiscated a lot of food from the Three Han countries, Wei Zhe and Taishi Ci really would not have been able to bring this group of people out of Bangshan City.

For a moment, Wei Zhe didn't know whether he was Huang Chao or Li Zicheng.

It’s a pity that Wei Zhe is not Zhang Jiao, nor does he want to be Zhang Jiao, otherwise the Yellow Turban Army’s dream might have come true.

At least in the Three Kingdoms of Korea, Huang Tian might really be able to establish himself.

But this time he finally experienced the feeling of commanding tens of thousands of troops.

However, the opposing coalition forces of the Three Koreas were not bad either.

The surviving remnants of the Three Kingdoms of Han, including Siluo, Anxie, Qianma, and Buyun, united together, and almost regardless of gender, they recruited soldiers from all over the place. In the end, they managed to gather 70,000 to 80,000 people, which seemed to be a considerable force.

However, facing the coalition forces composed of the remnants of Mahan, Jinhan, and Byeonhan, Taishi Ci was not worried at all.

"So what if there are more barbarians like these?" He said with a proud look on his face, "They are just chickens and dogs, but they are sold to Seoul!"

Wei Zhe just smiled slightly when he heard this and didn't say much.

That's exactly what happened.

After the meeting, the Lelang Han army had a total of 14,000 infantry and cavalry, which was unprecedentedly powerful, and there were more than 50,000 Dongyi refugees under their command.

It can be said that we have both quality and quantity.

However, the three Korean coalition forces in front of them were a hastily formed alliance, and there was not even a unified commander within the coalition. Everything needed to be discussed and negotiated by the leaders of each country before it could be implemented.

In this case, the result is naturally predictable.

How to say it, Wei Zhe even felt that the current scene was a bit like a simplified version of the Battle of Guangzong.

No, saying this is a bit insulting to the Yellow Turbans of Guangzong.

After all, in the Battle of Guangzong, the Yellow Turban Army was much stronger than the current coalition forces of the Three Han.

Apart from anything else, the Yellow Turbans in Guangzong at least had a unified commander.

Of course, this cannot be blamed on the Three Han Alliance, because Wei Zhe and Taishi Ci had already killed the three kings of Mahan, Jinhan, and Byeonhan, as well as all the royal families.

If King Mahan, King Jinhan, and King Byeonhan were still alive, perhaps the coalition forces could still be united.

But now, the existence of the Three Han Allied Forces has actually helped Wei Zhe a lot!
You have to know that their armies from the north and south have been marching all the way here, and quite a few Dongyi people have escaped.

Even though they knew that some people had fled to deep valleys and mountains, they were too lazy to search for them.

Anyway, there are quite a few Dongyi people in those cities alone. Even though many people died along the way, there are still tens of thousands of people who have followed us all the way to the present.

It is said that since entering the Three Kingdoms of Korea, the Han army has had almost smooth sailing all the way.

Apart from the fact that logistical supplies always had to be transferred to grain ships at the seaside, everything else was not going smoothly.

But it should be that easy.

Whether it was preliminary preparations, strategic deployment, or even military quality and weapons and equipment, the Han army crushed all the tribes of the Three Han. If the battle became more difficult, Wei Zhe and others might as well find a piece of tofu and die.

If there was any difficulty along the way, it was probably the sheer time it took. Almost three months had already passed since the troops were dispatched.

After all, marching with thousands of starving people is definitely not an easy task.

There was Zhang Jiao in the past and Li Zicheng in the future, and their experiences undoubtedly proved this point.

It was precisely because of the slow march that the second half of the War of Three Koreas gave the various tribes time to form an alliance.

But it was still useless and instead saved time for the Han army.

Even after learning that the southern countries were interested in forming an alliance with the Anxie Kingdom a while ago, Wei Zhe took the initiative to slow down his pace.

If not for this, Wei Zhe would have ordered Taishi Ci to lead the Xianbei righteous men to attack Huanglong directly, and there would be no coalition forces of the Three Hans.

But this is also a good thing. After this battle, the Three Kingdoms of Korea should no longer have any organized resistance forces.

Thinking of this, Wei Zhe's face immediately became serious:
"Let's do it, it's time to end this war!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the generals around him suddenly became solemn and stopped talking and laughing.

Then, Wei Zhe, who had fought against the Yellow Turban Army before, actually began to use the Yellow Turban Army's tactics. He first drove tens of thousands of Dongyi refugees to fight against the weak coalition forces of the Three Han, exhausted their military strength and demoralized their morale.

When the two sides were in a stalemate, Wei Zhe put all his strength into leading the entire army to attack.

With the elite soldiers of the Han army, the sharpness of their weapons, and their abundant physical strength, the long-fought coalition forces of the Three Hans had no power to resist at all, and were easily broken through by the Han army as smoothly as a knife cutting through hot oil.

However, in just a short moment, the coalition forces composed of the remnants of Mahan, Jinhan and Byeonhan were completely defeated.

At this point, the Three Kingdoms of Han were settled!
……

In the evening, outside Bengshan City.

When the afterglow of the setting sun shone on the earth, the blood all over the ground had dyed the earth red. For a moment, it was impossible to tell which one was brighter red, but with corpses all over the ground, no one probably cared about it.

For example, the three Korean nobles who previously thought that "the advantage is on me" are now as panic-stricken as a dog that has lost its home.

Those who were less lucky may have died in some corner of the battlefield.

Those who were luckier were now kneeling in the mud in fear, not even daring to raise their heads.

However, no matter how they begged for mercy, they could not escape death in the end.

After all, the nobles of the Three Hans like them are of no use to Wei Zhe, and staying here would only be a waste of food.

When they saw these people being crushed into the dust and beheaded like pigs and dogs, many Han people on the battlefield burst into tears. Some even covered their severed arms and howled to the sky, "Aye! Aye! Aye! Souls, please return!"

When seeing this scene, Wei Zhe couldn't help feeling a little melancholy.

Because he knew that most of these people were Han slaves abducted by the Three Han Kingdoms.

No one knows what kind of torture they suffered in this barbaric land.

In the past history, they must have died with full of disappointment and resentment!

What do they hate? Perhaps they can only hate that they were born in an era when the Han people were declining! After all, the Han people retreated for a full five hundred years.

When he thought of this, Wei Zhe felt a heavy heart.

It seemed as if countless souls of those who died unjustly were confessing their resentment and injustice to him.

“There’s still a long way to go!”

For a moment, Wei Zhe couldn't help but express such emotion.

The joy of victory that I had felt earlier was quietly diluted...

(End of this chapter)