From Mount Tai to Beihai County, about 300 or 400 miles, this distance is not too close and not too far.

But the Mount Tai referred to here refers to the area near the main peak of Mount Tai. If it is counted from the edge of the Taishan Mountains, especially the northern mountainous areas of the Taishan Mountains, it is actually more than 100 or 200 miles to reach the county seat of Beihai from those places.

In this way, the Taishan Yellow Turban Thief actually only needs one day and one night to kill Beihai County.

And now the Taishan Yellow Turban Army has plundered some towns below Beihai County, which means that those Taishan Yellow Turban Army are actually somewhere in Beihai County. In other words, these Taishan Yellow Turban Army may be killed under Beihai City at any time.

This is also the main reason why Liu Xian is so nervous and wants to take action immediately.

Sometimes, some things are indeed sloppy, this era, not what is the peaceful era, thieves kill people and loot, and will not choose the time and will not notify you in advance. They come as they say, and they come as they say.

Human life is at stake, even if Liu Xian doesn't think about the people of Beihai City and the Confucian family, he has to think about his Liu Mansion caravan. In the case of unpreparedness, if it suddenly suffered an attack of twenty or thirty thousand Yellow Turban troops, then the loss of the Liu Mansion caravan would be great.

This time in Beihai encountered the attack of the Taishan Yellow Turban Army, although it was a coincidence, in fact, it can also be said to be a crisis of the Liu Fu caravan.

After ordering it at this time, Liu Xian was actually a little scared when he thought about it. Because Liu Xian really didn't dare to imagine that he didn't come this time, he didn't meet this Beihai Taishou Liu Jie, and he didn't tell himself the news that the Taishan Yellow Turban thieves were coming, so it is estimated that Beihai City and his Liu Mansion caravan will definitely have to suffer losses.

It was on this night that the leaders of the Taishan Yellow Turban Army also discussed and decided to plunder Beihai City. That night, they came out of the mountains and forests where they were hiding, assembled, and advanced towards the North Sea overnight.

According to their plan, the date was around five o'clock in the morning, and they would rush to Beihai City, and before it was dark, they could attack the Liu Mansion caravan outside the city first, and at the same time, they could also attack Beihai City.

According to their expectations, according to their previous experience in attacking some county seats, the officers and soldiers defending Beihai City would definitely flee in fear after discovering their Yellow Turban army. In this way, the whole of Beihai City will be theirs at that time.

This night, there was a panicked and tense atmosphere in Beihai City.

The proclamation was posted before dark, and for a while, the news of the arrival of the Taishan Yellow Turban Army was like a stone thrown into the calm lake, stirring up layers of waves.

The people of Beihai City have listened to the news of the Yellow Turban Army for more than a year, and among those news, they basically talk about how brutal the Yellow Turban Army is, and basically some negative news about the Yellow Turban Army. If you don't destroy that city today, you will slaughter a village or town one day. Anyway, in the minds of the people of Beihai City, the Yellow Turban Army is already an extremely evil thief army. But until the Yellow Turban Army was defeated by the imperial court officers and soldiers, they did not really see the Yellow Turban Army. Even if there are often rumors about how close the Yellow Turban Army of Mount Tai is to them, where and where they are scourged, burned and looted.

But all of this is heard. But now, the government has issued a notice, telling them that the Taishan Yellow Turban Army will come to invade Beihai City in the future. Such news naturally caused a huge panic among the people.

In fact, among the people of Beihai City, there are really many people who have fled to Beihai City from places that have been plagued by the Yellow Turban Bandits, and they all know how bad those Yellow Turban Soldiers are.

But what can they do if they are panicked and frightened? Escape from Beihai City? Where can they escape?

Fortunately, following the orders of the government, the government is calling on them to fight against the Yellow Turban Army together with the officers and soldiers of Beihai City.

Although the yellow turban thieves are frightening, with the government as the leader, then they have the backbone. After all, the walls of Beihai County are high and thick, and if the government is determined to defend the city, it may not be able to defend it.

With the promulgation of various ordinances and regulations, some of the rioting people have slowly calmed down.

The conscription order, the order to collect materials for defending the city, and the officers and soldiers immediately sent men and horses to patrol the city to maintain normal order in the city, which made the people's hearts much calmer.

Stability in the city is the primary condition for carrying out all work.

Of course, many of them are rich and powerful, and when they heard that the Yellow Turban thieves would attack Beihai City at any time, they immediately wanted to leave Beihai with their families and flee to other safe places.

In fact, most people know that if the Taishan Yellow Turban Army comes to invade Beihai, then they basically come from Taishan, if they can go out of the city from the north of Beihai City and flee to the north, they can basically still have time. Even if the Taishan Yellow Turban Army kills Beihai City, it will no longer divide its troops to chase and kill them, after all, the entire Beihai is nothing at all for a small number of people who have fled Beihai, and it is dispensable.

However, the government issued a martial law for the whole city, and from now on, Beihai City was only allowed to enter but not leave, and it was unlikely that they would leave the city even if they wanted to.

The reason why Liu Xian didn't let those rich families flee was mainly because as soon as they fled, it would definitely cause a chain reaction. What's more, those wealthy families, in their homes, basically there will be hundreds of adult caretakers guarding their homes, guarding their personal safety and property. These are the main forces defending the city, how could Liu Xian let them go?

This was also a factor for Liu Xian to let Huang Zhong lead part of the Liu Mansion caravan to escort the defense of the city gate in the north of the city. If it was the officers and soldiers of Beihai City who guarded the north gate of the city, they might not be able to withstand the pressure of the rich and powerful families who wanted to leave the city. Moreover, those local sovereigns and noble families, more or less have something to do with the government and the officials and soldiers of the government, and it is inevitable that there will be people who are placed in the government. When the time comes, those people will also let them go privately.

But now, the people of the Liu Mansion caravan are guarding the north gate of Beihai City. Nearly 500 archers stood with their bows stretched out, and when they stood there, even those powerful people with one or two hundred guards did not dare to easily rush into the men and horses guarding the city gates.

Some brought their families, and there were more than 100 guards to protect the magnates who wanted to leave the city. Not only were they not allowed to leave the city, but their guards were directly co-opted.

At first, they really wanted to resist, but Huang Zhong directly shot one of the most fierce guys with an arrow, and at the sight of blood, they immediately withered and had to accept the order. Leave behind their guards and obediently return to their homes with their families.

This part of the people, for the time being, dare not speak out.

They didn't know that they didn't dare to really rush into the people guarding the city gate, but Liu Xian felt a little disappointed. Liu Xian wanted to kill a chicken and raided their home.

Beihai County is a county town with a population of more than 100,000 to nearly 200,000. In this early year of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Beihai City should be the most prosperous city in the Shandong Peninsula region.

After the conscription order, the situation is gratifying. At nightfall, whether they wanted to or not, a total of nearly 20,000 young men were recruited, including the caretakers of the rich and powerful families in Beihai City.

That's about the same, 200,000 people, 20,000 horses are conscripted, a tenth of the proportion.

The 20,000 men and horses were immediately divided into four parts, each part of which was about 5,000 men and horses, and these 5,000 men and horses were responsible for assisting the officers and soldiers in defending the city.

The thieves have not yet appeared, so they don't have to climb the city wall yet, they are all simply reorganized by Sima Zhengqing of the Beihai County Army, according to the establishment of officers and soldiers.

Every 5,000 men and horses will be divided into two shifts, and every 2,000 men and horses will take turns to assist the officers and soldiers in defending the city, and the remaining 1,000 men and horses will be used as a reserve force.

Among the 20,000 horses, many thousands of them were those who took care of the homes and nurses, and they brought their own weapons, and the government transferred all the weapons from the warehouse and equipped thousands of people. About 10,000 or so were unarmed. But it doesn't matter, how can the whole city not be able to collect 10,000 or 20,000 knives and guns?

In fact, when the people of this city were recruited by the government, they prepared their own weapons. For example, if a certain family has children who are suitable for enlistment, but does not have weapons, and another family has a knife or sword hidden in the house, then it can be borrowed for the children of the people who are suitable for recruitment.

In this way, there is no problem with weapons. Of course, there is basically no protective armor on the body.

In the middle of the night, the 20,000 horses that had been recruited were ready to go to the city to assist in the defense.

In addition, the number of logistics personnel recruited by the government is naturally even larger, a total of about 30,000 or 40,000 people, who are responsible for carrying some of the collected materials for defending the city to the city. The rest of the people in the city, they were not idle, Liu Xian specially selected a lot of people from the officials of the government, and let them keep carrying out some propaganda among the people.

The main theme of the propaganda is to defend the city and defend their own homeland.

Those officials also gathered a number of scholars. Let those who read according to these meanings also continue to preach among the people. Call on the people in the city not to be afraid, don't worry, just need to obey the arrangements of the government, everyone contributes, then they will definitely be able to defend Beihai City, and they will definitely be able to defeat the Yellow Turban thief army who came to attack.

With these propaganda and publicity, many people can also be infected, and they all spontaneously contributed some things suitable for defending the city at home and moved them to the city to be used as materials for defending the city.

In this era, in fact, the people are quite simple, and everything only needs to be guided by the government, so they can form a powerful force.

The power of the masses of the people is enormous, and if we rely on the masses and mobilize the masses, then there is nothing that cannot be done.

At the same time, Liu Xian also specially explained to those government officials, and asked them to mention the Liu Mansion caravan by the way. They were also clever, and Liu Xian was also mentioned by the way.

It is mainly to publicize and explain to the people, explaining the origin of the Liufu caravan, and the deeds of the Liufu caravan, under the leadership of its master Liu Xian, who defeated the 50,000 Yellow Turban army in Yangshi County, Julu County. Then explain that this time the Taishan Yellow Turban Army that resisted the attack was planned by Liu Xian himself, and he personally commanded it in the county guard's mansion. With Liu Xian's personal help and leading the Liu Mansion caravan escort to fight against the Yellow Turban Army, then Beihai will definitely be able to hold it.

After word of mouth, the people are more at ease. Liu Xian, who had just made a certain reputation for talent among scholars and scholars, began to have a certain reputation among ordinary people.

On the other side, Kong Rong was not idle, he also met with some nobles in Beihai City who were good friends with him overnight, and discussed jointly funding and supporting the fight against the Yellow Turban Army this time.

They are all big families and rich fortunes, if the Yellow Turban thieves are allowed to enter the city, they will lose the most, and at this time, they naturally have to show something.

Even those rich and powerful who were forcibly left behind, they all understood that they had been tied to this chariot and could no longer be left alone. Even if they want to go against Liu Xian and think about how to settle accounts with Liu Xian in the future, but for now, they have to work together to tide over this difficulty.

In this way, with a total of more than 60,000 men and horses, they don't have to worry about starving when they come down to fight the Yellow Turban Army.

Actually, Kong Rong and the others didn't know Liu Xian's plans.

Liu Xian didn't plan to fight a protracted battle with the Yellow Turban Bandit Army in front of Beihai City at all. Therefore, when they discussed funding to support Liu Xian's defense of the city, they considered a protracted battle, and they estimated that if there was no foreign aid to rescue Beihai, besieged by 20,000 or 30,000 Yellow Turban troops, this battle would have to be fought for at least ten and a half days, or even longer.

Therefore, they simply calculated it on a monthly basis, and the money and food they contributed was enough for more than 60,000 yuan, including the original 2,000 officers and soldiers in Beihai County and more than 2,000 people in the Liu Mansion caravan for a month's food and drink.