It turns out that when fighting a small Yellow Turban army with sufficient time to break through each of them, it often takes longer to clean up the battlefield and collect prisoners than the battle itself.

No, after defeating Zhang Rao three days ago, Liu Beijun spent two days searching for weapons, reorganizing prisoners, and burning corpses.

Now after slashing Guan Hai with a knife and roughly covering up and deterring, the remaining nearly 10,000 Yellow Turban thieves want to talk to Liu Bei about surrender and incorporation, and the whole process is estimated to take several days.

For a unit like the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, after the main general was beheaded, it was not surprising that the remnants lost their fighting spirit and wanted to talk to the Han army about surrender - didn't they do the same in the face of Cao Cao three years later in history?

It is nothing more than that after the Qingzhou soldiers surrendered nominally, there are often many conditions in reality. For example, they don't want to be far away from their hometowns, they don't want to be broken up, and they try to maintain a certain degree of independence.

It's just that now Liu Bei is stronger, and the Qingzhou army that he broke up and subdued is also smaller, and the confidence of the Qingzhou soldiers to put forward conditions is naturally much weaker.

After another two days of delay, Zhang Fei and the Chinese army also arrived, and the strength of the Youzhou army's descendants swelled to 15,000 people.

At the same time, the Qingzhou soldiers who were completely reorganized by Liu Bei also reached 5,000 people, and there were still seven or eight thousand die-hard prisoners left, so they couldn't set off any storms.

The total population of Qingzhou civilians who were subdued and adapted by Liu Bei, including the old and weak women and children, was also close to 150,000, and it was basically cleared and driven away by the yellow scarves that had wandered to Beihai and Donglai counties.

After doing all this, it was already around August 20th, and Liu Bei, under Li Su's encouragement, was almost time to officially set off for the east, from Beihai County to Taishan County.

Before leaving Xiami County, Li Su finally took a look at the county Chengsun Qian, who was still recuperating from his injuries in the county office.

Sun Qian was stabbed ten days ago, and he was seriously injured and dying, but after resting these days, he was able to walk a little - mainly because his knife wound was not deep, but it was long along the rib cage and lost a lot of blood, but the bones and internal organs were fine.

Eat some warm and nourishing things every day to rest and recuperate, young people recover quickly from hematopoiesis, and their faces look less pale.

"Bless you to recover from your injuries, we will send troops tomorrow to rescue Taishan County and recover the thief head Wusu. He fled the banks of the Canshui River last year, and it was time to break it. Li Su chatted and comforted.

When Sun Qian heard this, he was slightly distracted and disappointed: "So urgent? Liu Fujun defeated the two largest yellow turban thieves in Beihai and Donglai in less than ten days, and the local scholars and Confucians all admired and admired them.

I heard that when the prince was in Liaodong, he often felt that his capable staff was insufficient, and he was eager to seek talents, and he wanted to take this opportunity to help introduce some - I was not an official disciple of the great Confucian Kang Chenggong (Zheng Xuan) of this county, but I also listened to him for a while.

In recent years, Kang Chenggong has opened schools in his hometown of Gaomi County to teach apprentices, and many studious people have attached him. When Zhang Rao and Guan Hai were in trouble, Kang Chenggong had no choice but to hide in the Buqi Mountain south of Jimo County.

From June onwards, the thieves became more and more serious, and it was very difficult to get the apprentices to go out of the mountains to buy grain and grain, so they had to consider resigning from school and dismissing the students. Fortunately, Liu Fujun made the people of Beihai see the sun, I think Kang Chenggong may still have some loyal disciples who have not been dismissed, why not ask for it? Why rush to save Taishan County first? ”

The Buqi Mountain mentioned by Sun Qiankou is located in the north of Jiaozhou Bay, that is, some mountainous areas in the northwest of Laoshan Mountain in Qingdao in later generations.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, Buqi Mountain belonged to the tripartite junction of Beihai, Donglai, and Chengyang County in Xuzhou, and it was a mountainous area of three things, so even if the Yellow Turban thieves made a rebellion, they would not harass that kind of broken place, and the great Confucian Zheng Xuan chose to flee there to continue to live in seclusion.

Those students under him will be regarded as Yuan Shao's senior brothers in the future, who made Yuan Shao also a student of Zheng Xuan.

However, although Sun Qian's suggestion was tempting, Li Su also knew that things were prioritized-

Zheng Xuan's apprentices who haven't had time to dismiss now, whether it's Cui Yan or Guoyuan, Zhang Yi, Cheng Bing, and Xi Wei, how can these people compare to the priority of encircling Zhuge Yimen?

What's more, Cui Yan and Cheng Bing among them are both family leaders, and they refuse to be officials far from their hometown with Liu Bei, and Liu Bei's kindness to them is not to the extent of being saved from fire and water.

Let's put it there for now.

Li Su thought for a while and replied: "Thank you Gongyou for mentioning it, but Liu Fujun has made personal friends since the urgent needs of the country first." First destroy the first evil Wusu, be cautious from the beginning to the end, and then talk about seeking talents.

However, the Zheng family of Buqishan is in trouble due to the war, and Liu Fujun will naturally send someone to take care of it on his behalf. I sent 200 soldiers to transport 500 stones of grain and rice, 500 stones of miscellaneous vegetables and pulp, and 100 horses of cloth and silk, and went to Buqi Mountain to help. The rest will be discussed when I return to the army. ”

Sun Qian's still somewhat white lips moved, and he didn't persuade again.

is willing to give food and cloth to help the needy, and it can be regarded as a good fate first.

Liu Bei actually "does not abolish the public for personal gain", this virtue still moved Sun Gan, and he felt more and more that he had to follow Liu Bei and Li Su to death.

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A few days later, Taishan County governed Fenggao County.

The Taishou Yamen in the city was desolate and empty, like a ghost house.

The county prince Zhuge Jue, who presided over the county affairs and defense, would rather stay in his old mansion and deal with military affairs than go to the Taishou Mansion to get obscured.

There is no way, the mansion of Taishou still belonged to Zhang Ju two years ago - that is, the puppet emperor whose head had been persuaded by Li Su and sent by Qiu Liju to Luoyang.

Such a big rebel, as Hanchen, who would dare to have even the slightest relationship with that kind of goods? Just having done things in the same county at the same time is enough to make people avoid it for a long time.

Zhuge Jue's Taishan County Cheng has also worked for several years, except for the last 20 months, and then push forward that period of office, he and Zhang Ju are colleagues!

According to the official system at the end of the Han Dynasty, Changshi was regarded as the "executive deputy mayor", and the county was regarded as the "deputy mayor in charge of civil affairs".

Originally, Zhuge Jue in history did not survive until the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army invaded Taishan County, nor did he encounter the siege of the city, so he died of fear in advance - obviously, the cause of his fear was Zhang Ju, who died at the beginning of the second year after Zhang Ju became emperor.

It's just that in this life, because of the butterfly effect brought about by Liu Bei's expulsion of Wusu, the fire of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army was ignited more than half a year ahead of schedule, and Zhuge Jue died in fear before he caught up with the war.

But this made Zhuge Qi struggle a little. In fact, he had long wanted to close his eyes and let out his anger, but after the enemy army came, he endured this breath and did not dare to die.

He felt that there was still a glimmer of hope to wash away the suspicion of the Langya Zhuge clan: defend the city! Don't be broken by the remnants of the remnants of Zhangju! Show that you have completely disconnected yourself from the Zhang Ju rebels!

Zhuge Jue was lying on the hospital bed gasping, and the servants in his house had already brought several young gentlemen to lecture according to his orders.

The eldest son, Zhuge Jin, had just turned into the threshold, and hurriedly stepped forward and knelt on the side of the couch: "Is my father better?" The medical worker said that your anger has worsened, so it's better to recuperate.

If there is anything to do in a few days, it will be the same, the child followed the lieutenant of Kong County to patrol the city this morning, and the thief does not seem to be ready to be attached to ants today. ”

Zhuge Jin is sixteen years old, Zhuge Liang is nine years old, and Zhuge is four years old, so Zhuge Jun has read a lot of books and can handle some official affairs a little. encountered the siege of the thief army, and his father was seriously ill, so he could only drive ducks to the line of fire for training.

And their brother can't do anything.

Zhuge Jue coughed for a while, and commanded hoarsely: "What's the use of not being attached to ants for a day?" Calling your brothers here today is because I have something to explain later. ”

Zhuge Jin and Zhuge Liang heard this, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "Why did my father say this!" The medical staff has already said that this is just a worry and a disease, not a cure. As long as my father takes care of his body and dispels depression, he will definitely be Huo Ran in the future! ”

"Don't interject! Hear me out! Zhuge Jue condensed his breath and drank his sons' useless nonsense without being angry,

"My life and death are no longer important, but you must remember these teachings. In case I can't do it one day, Jin'er, you should also try your best to stabilize the county lieutenant Kong, and tell him that the thief army will not last, as long as you hold it, sooner or later you will be able to keep your name and claim to be a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty.

Zhang Ju is a traitor, as early as the end of last year, he was sent by Youzhou Don't drive Li Su and rode into the nonsense to surrender to Chief Hu, Zhang Chun ...... Although we are besieged here, there is no communication between inside and outside. But in my opinion, even if he is not dead, with the advantage of the thieves and soldiers of Liu Mansion in Liaodong, Zhang Chun is sure that his time is running out.

The Taishan thief Wusu, and these Qingzhou rebels stirred up by him are just the aftermath of Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun. The reason why it was rampant before was nothing more than that the imperial court focused on punishing the first evil. When Zhang Chun is dead, as long as the imperial court spends two or three percent of Zhang Chun's energy to deal with Wusu, how can his rabble be invincible?

What's more, before we were besieged, we also heard that the imperial court reported that Tao Qian had been sent to assassinate Xuzhou and help suppress and besiege the Qingzhou Yellow Turban from the southern flank. Therefore, the person who can't hold this tone and surrenders to the thief is the most stupid person in the world who can't understand the long-term.

I don't want there to be such a stupid person among my Zhuge descendants, then I will die blindly, and I can't be reconciled. You have to remember that you are not only three brothers, but you can't embarrass the Langya Zhuge clan. Tao Envoy Jun is here, the hometown of Langya County will definitely be safe, and it is impossible for the Yellow Turban Thief to go south into Langya. ”

Zhuge Jin bowed and kowtowed again: "Follow my father's teachings, if you ...... If there really is that day, the child will also use these words to persuade the county lieutenant Kong and the others, so that they can hold on a little longer and wait for the day when the imperial army will be in order. ”

Listening to his son's retelling of his analysis and lobbying, Zhuge Jue was finally relieved, and he didn't slow down in one breath, and fainted temporarily.

As a result, Zhuge Jin and Zhuge Liang were flustered again, thinking that he had fulfilled his wish and passed away with peace of mind.

On this occasion of explaining the aftermath, only the son could come in, but in a panic, even the two daughters who were waiting outside the door rushed in, hugging their father and crying.

"Big sister, second sister, don't mess around! Father is still angry! It's just that I'm asleep! Zhuge Liang was quite safe, and tried his father's snort, so he hurriedly pulled away his sisters so that they would not be noisy.

The Zhuge family was quieter at this time.

At this moment, there was a rush of footsteps outside the door, and the eldest son Zhuge Jin hurriedly went out to greet him, but saw that it was the county lieutenant Kong who was in charge of guarding the city in a hurry.

Zhuge Jin's heart tightened: "But the thieves launched an attack on the city again?" ”

Lieutenant Kong's face was full of joy: "No! There are imperial reinforcements coming! There are already several cavalry vanguards who have entered the city to deliver a message, saying that the follow-up army will arrive soon, let's hold on for a few days! The person who came claimed to be the commander of Liaodong under the tent of the military marquis Tai Shici, I saw him shoot and kill more than 30 cavalry of the rebel pursuers at the head of the city, and broke through into the city. ”