Chapter 3: First Battle with the Yellow Turbans
Ten sword and shield soldiers and twenty spearmen came out of the primary infantry battalion, equipped with ring-handled swords, wooden shields, and spears, looking quite capable.

The combat effectiveness of sword and shield soldiers and spearmen is slightly stronger than that of militiamen.

The soldiers recruited using the “Fubing System” are not regular troops. After returning from the expedition, they will become farmers again. As long as the battle is won quickly, it will not affect farming.

In addition to the 30 soldiers, Li Qian also recruited 10 hunters and 40 local militiamen, a total of 80 people, and the others stayed in the village.

If eighty people want to defeat the Yellow Turban Army of hundreds of people, they must choose a favorable terrain.

During the days of hunting with the hunter, Li Qian found a group of Yellow Turban Army. After repeatedly confirming that this group of Yellow Turban Army had only a hundred people, no cavalry, and no Yellow Turban Army generals, Li Qian dared to attack them.

In order to complete the “First Battle Against the Yellow Turbans” lord achievement first, many lords have blindly sent out troops, thinking they were dealing with a small group of Yellow Turbans, but ended up poking the Yellow Turbans’ lair, and the Yellow Turbans appeared in large numbers, sweeping all the surrounding villages. Other players were unlucky, because they did nothing and their villages were flattened by the Yellow Turbans.

The lord of Qingzhou also sent troops, but they encountered the Yellow Turban general Guan Hai, who single-handedly wiped out the entire village.

Li Qian took the only birch bow in the village.

“Village chief, with just a few of us, can we really defeat the Yellow Turban Army outside the village?”

Zhao Xiancai was worried. Why did the village chief start to engage in militarism as soon as he arrived?

If all the able-bodied men are killed at the beginning, the village will not be able to develop.

Li Qian made an impassioned speech: “The Yellow Turban Army is entrenched outside. If we don’t wipe them out, there will be no peace. I will lead the troops in this battle and live and die with you!”

The militiamen of Tiance Village were so excited when they heard this.

How could they be cowardly when their lord is leading the charge?
Li Qian left Tiance Village with a team of eighty people, chose a slope, dug holes on the road, set hunting traps, and used axes to sharpen wood to make chevaux de frise, forming simple defensive fortifications.

Li Qian also asked the militia to prepare stones and wood blocks.

There are not many soldiers and they are not well-trained, so we can only use defensive fortifications to make up for the gap.

Then, Li Qian took a few hunters to provoke the Yellow Turban Army.

Zhao Xiancai was waiting anxiously on the slope, not knowing whether Li Qian could attract the Yellow Turban Army.

“The village chief and his men are back!”

“Quick, prepare for battle!”

Zhao Xiancai shouted to the soldiers and militiamen to stand up.

Looking down, they saw Li Qian and several hunters fighting and retreating, and behind them were hundreds of ferocious Yellow Turban soldiers.

Li Qian shot an arrow with his backhand, hitting a Yellow Turban soldier, who fell to the ground and turned into a cold corpse.

Li Qian always maintained a hatred for the Yellow Turban Army and led this group of Yellow Turban Army to the preset battlefield.

Li Qian and several hunters avoided the hunting traps and successfully reunited with Zhao Xiancai and his group.

The Yellow Turban Army rushed up in a noisy manner.

“what!!!”

The Yellow Turban Army, who were rushing in the front, missed their step and fell into a hunting trap, and were pierced by the sharpened bamboo inside!

The surrounding Yellow Turban Army was startled and showed expressions of fear, but under the urging of the Yellow Turban Army leader, they had to bite the bullet and continue the attack.

“Fire arrows.”

Li Qian remained calm, bent his bow and shot another arrow, which hit a Yellow Turban soldier in the face.

Inheriting the archery skills of Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Qian almost never missed his target and shot and killed several Yellow Turban soldiers in succession. Li Qian’s halo “General of Tiance” covered the battlefield, and the soldiers and militiamen of Tiance Village were excited and their morale was high, while the morale of the Yellow Turban Army, which was constantly suffering casualties, was rapidly declining.

Ten hunters were equipped with hunting bows and light crossbows and shot in unison like Li Qian.

Their archery skills are no match for Li Qian’s, and their hit rate is not high, but they have more people and can also reduce the number of Yellow Turban Army.

40 local militiamen were used as stone-throwing soldiers, throwing stones at the Yellow Turban Army from a high position. Many Yellow Turban soldiers were hit and had bloody heads, which actually had a good effect.

The Yellow Turban Army risked heavy casualties and barely managed to climb the slope, but what was waiting for them was a chevaux de frise, behind which were long spears, like hedgehogs.

Li Qian was still shooting arrows at the Yellow Turban soldiers, so the Yellow Turban Army could only attack by force and use human lives to destroy the barricades.

The Yellow Turban leader was obviously more powerful than the average Yellow Turban soldier. He held a ghost-head knife in his hand and slashed the red tassel spear with great force. With another knife, he knocked the frightened spearman to the ground.

The Yellow Turban Army finally came into close combat with the Tiance Village army, and casualties occurred immediately.

The combat effectiveness of the Yellow Turban Army was not bad in the early stage, and even famous generals such as Zhu Jun and Dong Zhuo suffered losses from them.

“Kill them all!”

The leader of the Yellow Turban Army roared and swung his ghost-head knife, forcing the spearmen of Tiance Village to retreat again and again.

“shoot with great precision!”

Suddenly, an arrow flew and pierced the throat of the Yellow Turban leader.

The Yellow Turban leader was stunned at first, then he reached out to touch his neck, his hands were covered in blood. The scene in front of him became blurry, and he fell headfirst.

The death of the leader of the Yellow Turban Army caused the Yellow Turban Army, whose morale and physical strength were close to the limit, to completely collapse. They no longer cared about attacking and turned around and fled in a swarm.

“Chase!”

Li Qian put down the birch bow, picked up the ghost-head knife of the Yellow Turban leader, and led the soldiers and militia of Tiance Village to pursue the Yellow Turban Army.

Li Qian tried every means to defeat the Yellow Turban Army, not only to complete the achievement task of “First Battle against the Yellow Turbans”, but also to plunder the Yellow Turban Army’s supplies.

Tiance Village became so poor that even the Yellow Turban Army dared to rob it.

Li Qian chased the Yellow Turban Army all the way to their camp and forced the remaining fifty soldiers to surrender. He also found dozens of women abducted by the Yellow Turban Army, five yellow cattle, and a large amount of food in the camp.

“My lord, we have seized five complete sets of leather armor. Thirty ring-handled swords, seven of which have curved blades. Seventy wooden spears, ten bows, and five crossbows. Twenty gold, one hundred silver, one hundred thousand coins, and a number of blueprints.”

Zhao Xiancai counted the resources he had obtained and was overjoyed. He even called Li Qian “Lord”.

Li Qian defeated the larger force with a smaller one, which completely convinced Zhao Xiancai.

“Burn down this village and relocate all the people to Tiance Village.”

Li Qian did not have any extra troops to garrison the Yellow Turban Army’s camp, so he burned it down and took the looted people and food back to Tiance Village.

Li Qian checked the architectural drawings he obtained.

Primary Yellow Turban Army Barracks: You can recruit special soldiers “Yellow Turban Soldiers”, and the recruitment time of Yellow Turban Soldiers is -20%. Yellow Turban Soldiers, first-level soldiers, attack 7, defense 5, speed 6, characteristics: Taiping Dao (When the Yellow Turban Army general leads the army, attack +1, speed +1, morale maintenance +20%).

Primary Tavern: can bring a certain amount of income to the territory, improve business efficiency, and increase the loyalty of some civil officials and military generals.

Primary Blacksmith Shop: can bring a small amount of income to the territory, and can forge weapons such as ring-handled swords and iron spears.

Primary Medical Clinic: can bring a small amount of income to the territory and speed up the recovery of the wounded soldiers in the territory.

(End of this chapter)