"I ...... I'm not dead? Obviously, the Yellow Turban thieves have broken the city, how can anyone save me? ”

After Jiang Feng realized that he was not dead, he endured the severe pain under his ribs, and struggled to get up to see what was going on, and solved the doubts in his heart.

His identity is Xiami County Cheng, and when the city was broken that day, he was besieged and killed by thieves along with the county commander Zhang Cao. He watched the county monarch being beheaded by thieves, and he himself was stabbed in the ribs.

It's just that the thief's martial arts are not proficient, and the knife is a drag instead of a barrel stab, and it is blocked by ribs. Therefore, it did not pierce the internal organs, but left a long wound between the chest and abdomen, and the skin and flesh turned out and the bone was visible. He lost so much blood that he didn't know anything, and he thought he was going to die.

"Don't move, open the wound again and you'll be dead. Thanks to you, you are still young and strong, and you have picked up a life. With such a serious injury, if it were a middle-aged man in his thirties and forties, he might not be able to alleviate it. ”

With this voice, Jiang Feng saw a handsome and tall young scribe appear at the door of the ward, and then floated up to him, waving a stack of slender paste-paper square pieces of wood that he had never seen before, and gently pressed him on the shoulder to tell him not to move.

"Thank you for the grace of Engong for saving your life, Feng Ming feels five inside, and dares to ask Engong's surname. In Xia Xia Mi County, Cheng Jiang Feng. Jiang Feng hurriedly gasped and thanked him.

"Liaodong Changshi Li Su. But you don't have to thank me, it's my family's Liu Fujun who is anxious to serve the country and serve the country with all his might, and led his troops to cross the sea from Liaodong to rescue the officials and people of Beihai. Li Su replied with a faint look, looking indifferent to a master outside the world.

"It turned out to be Liu Fujun and Li Hou! Liu Fujun is loyal and filial, benevolent and righteous, and the world knows it. Li Hou is a great sage in the world, and His Majesty praised him for knowing the destiny of heaven, and he was unexpectedly able to be rescued by the two! Jiang Feng suddenly became more and more moved, if Li Su hadn't held him down, I was afraid that he would have been overexcited and would have burst to death.

Obviously, he already knew Li Su's life very well, Li Su reported his official position, but he was only known as Li Su's marquis.

Li Su took the folding fan he had just invented and continued to hold Jiang Feng: "Okay, okay, don't be polite, lie down and recuperate." If you have to be in a hurry to repay, let's introduce the thieves in Beihai, Donglai and other places today. As a Xiami County Cheng, he should know the situation very well. When we first arrived, we thought that Beihai and Donglai counties had already been broken by thieves, but we didn't expect to be able to catch up and save a few. ”

Jiang Feng was also very happy that he still had the value of being used, so he obediently lay down, [www.bequge.xyz] and said slowly: "At the end of last year, the yellow scarf was mainly provoked by Wuhuan Wusu and entrenched in the mountainous area of Taishan. After the early spring ploughing this year, it gradually grew and spread to other counties in March and April.

But until May and June, the Yellow Turban Army rarely attacked the city, just bypassing the county seat, dock fort, and plundering the countryside, but the imperial court was slow to have soldiers and horses to cross Mount Tai to attack, so it rolled bigger and bigger. At the end of June, the Yellow Turbans began to besiege the city. If the army surrenders, they will extort a sum of money and leave, and if they do not surrender, they will break the city and burn it for themselves.

It's been two months now. Before the lower density was broken, Beihai County had already been slaughtered in Jiaodong and Jimo counties, and the rest of the counties had not been attacked. The Donglai thief disaster was even more intense, and the four counties of Dongmu, Muping, Guanyang, and Qucheng along the Bohai Sea in the north were all slaughtered by the city. In the entire Donglai, only a few counties along the East China Sea on the south side, and Donglai County, which is governed by the county, are still under the guard of the official army.

As for further west, Taishan County, Linqu, Laiwu, Pingyang and other places have also been broken. It's just that I heard that the Yellow Turban used Mount Tai as a base, but it didn't slaughter the city too much, and even set up officials to rule the counties of Mount Tai.

Moreover, the predecessor Taishan Taishou was Zhang Ju, so most of the officials of the imperial court in Taishan County were implicated and connected because they were Zhang Ju's former officials after Zhang Ju's rebellion. Now Taishan doesn't even have a guard, only Fengjun Cheng Zhuge Jue is stubbornly guarding the county and Fenggao County to wait for help. Fortunately, Zhuge Jue is said to be quite strategic, and he can support it for a while, but last month I heard that he also became ill because of worries, and he couldn't afford to be sick, if he died, I am afraid that the whole territory of Mount Tai would fall into the hands of the Yellow Turban.

In addition, the three counties of Le'an, Qi County, and Chengyang were also slightly damaged, and Langya County, which borders Xuzhou and Qingzhou in the south, also had several counties intruded, and the flood of yellow turbans was roughly the same. As for the plains and the Bohai Sea further north, the Yellow Turbans did not dare to attack the city and occupy the territory, they were afraid of the righteousness of the Jizhou army, so they only dared to go to those places and countryside to grab a handful and come back. ”

Jiang Feng said a lot in one breath, and he had to continue to shut up and rest until the wound was faintly painful, and Li Su also thoroughly understood the scope of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban's thieves.

There are three or four counties in the hardest-hit areas and five or six in the light-hit areas.

After Jiang Feng rested for a while, Li Su asked about the distribution of thieves and how many men and horses there were in the Qingzhou Army, and Jiang Feng also answered them one by one.

When it was over, Li Su instructed that if you were willing to follow Liu Bei, you could also be a guide first, not talking about official positions for the time being, and help Liu Bei destroy the thieves first.

Jiang Feng readily agreed.

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When Li Su returned to Xiami County, Liu Bei was summoning Guan Yu and Tai Shici to inquire about the situation of Jindu defense along Xiami, Weishui, and Jiao.

Because the first batch of 8,000 men has only arrived, it is impossible to attack directly on the initiative, and the only way to focus on defense is to tie up the fence first, and it is better to delay even alarming the enemy as late as possible.

Seeing Li Su, Liu Bei hurriedly put down the map: "Boya is good to come, but what is the latest thief situation?" ”

Jiang Feng fell asleep for two days and two nights, so at this moment, it was already the morning of the third day after Liu Beijun landed. It's just that because there are no high-ranking officials or thief generals nearby, Liu Bei still doesn't know much about the intelligence of the hinterland of Qingzhou.

Li Su opened the folding fan with a "snap", while dispelling the summer heat of the autumn tiger in the eighth month of the lunar calendar, and then pointed on the map with the fan, first roughly repeating the degree of the scourge of thieves that Jiang Feng said just now, and then added:

"I heard that the yellow scarves in Qingzhou are now known as 400,000 people, but they are all including the elderly, weak, women and children, and the young and strong are at most more than 100,000. In the territory of Donglai, there are mainly two families, the largest one is Guan Hai, born in the Beihai wealthy family, but he is willing to form a thief to rebel, there are more than 10,000 young and strong soldiers, and the total population of women and children is 50,000 or 60,000.

The other is Haikou Guan Cheng, who is also the Beihai Steward, the same clan as Guan Ning, this person should have seen the literal meaning, he is a tycoon entrenched in the Shamen Islands, with more than 3,000 households, but the total population of these 3,000 households is less than 10,000.

Because most of them were outlaws who had been sentenced to beheading, they fled to Salmon Island to take refuge, and most of these people were alone and had no families, and at most they plundered some young women from the mainland for their sexual pleasure, but they would not marry wives. Therefore, although the number of troops is small, it is difficult to entangle, and everyone is not afraid of death.

In Beihai, there is Zhang Rao, the commander of the Yellow Turban Canal, who is also a young and strong soldier of 10,000 or 20,000 and a population of 50,000 or 60,000 people.

Further east, there are Wusu entrenched in Mount Tai and Jinan, with 2,000 cavalry, nearly 20,000 foot soldiers, and more than 100,000 population, which is the largest thief in Qingzhou. The rest of the thieves are divided into two categories, one is nominally respectful of Wusu and also played the banner of anti-court, such as Chang Xuan, Wu Dun, and Yin Li, these three families together have 30,000 soldiers and a population of more than 100,000.

The other type is to take advantage of the troubled places in Wusu to raise troops to defend themselves, plunder in silence and not oppose the imperial court, led by Zang Ba, Sun Guan, and Sun Kang, who are also 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers and a population of more than 100,000. The rest of the thieves are not worth mentioning, and they are often attached to these giants. ”

In history, when Cao Cao came to deal with the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, the Qingzhou soldiers had already spread to the terrifying scale of "300,000 young and strong, more than 100,000 households". And what Liu Bei is encountering now is only "more than 100,000 young and strong, 400,000 hukou", obviously because he came early, and the Qingzhou soldiers have only developed for more than half a year, and they have not completely eroded.

Liu Bei roughly made some marks on the map and divided them into categories, and already had a plan:

"In this way, what we have to face directly is Zhang Rao, followed by Guan Hai and Guan Cheng, a total of 30,000 thieves and soldiers, and 150,000 people. If these three are broken, they will be able to completely pacify Beihai and Donglai counties.

As for further east, if you want to deal with the die-hard rebels led by Wusu, you must be prepared to fight against 60,000 enemy troops, while more than 30,000 people such as Zang Ba and Sun Guan may be able to watch the show, maybe they can stabilize or win over. ”

Destroying 30,000, breaking 60,000, and winning over 30,000, a total of 1230,000 rebels, were roughly classified by Liu Bei.

Now the first step to gain a firm foothold is to destroy the little-known Zhang Rao immediately.

Thinking of this, Liu Bei asked: "Since the leader of the Beihai pirates is Zhang Rao, the thousands of thieves annihilated by our army when we recaptured Xia Mi the day before yesterday are Zhang Rao's subordinates?" Yun Chang, why didn't you ask when you tortured the captives? ”

Guan Yu hurriedly said that he would torture again, and after a few minutes, he came back cleanly and came back to his life:

"Big brother, they are not wrong, the leader of the yellow scarf that was defeated by us that day is called Zhang Chen. I just beat the captives again and asked them about it, and they said that Zhang Chen was nominally under Zhang Rao's master. But in fact, the Yellow Turban military system was loose, and Zhang Rao didn't care about them, just divided the territory and plundered each other. ”

Liu Bei nodded: "Since you are the lord, even if you don't care about it in normal times, how can you not care about it after the friendly army is defeated?" Thinking about it, Zhang Rao should also know that Xia Mi was recovered by our army. If he wanted to take revenge, he should have come from Shouguang, Duchang, and even Pingshou. If he doesn't dare to take the initiative to attack, we will also go to him. Immediately ask the scouts to increase their search. Ziyi, you are familiar with the surrounding terrain, and you are responsible for this matter. ”

"Yes!" Tai Shi Ci went in a hurry.

This time, because of the shortage of sea ships, Liu Bei's army crossed the sea in three waves, so the commander of the former army was only Guan Yu, who was familiar with water warfare. And Zhang Fei wants to suppress the middle army and Zhao Yun's palace.

Zhao Yun is not there, and the task of being in charge of the cavalry scouts can only be handed over to Tai Shici, who is familiar with the terrain, to be fully responsible. Otherwise, as he is a Qu Junhou, he is still a little unqualified to take charge and report directly to Liu Bei.

Tai Shici also knows that the opportunity is rare, and he has to perform more and more.

The army repaired and deployed for another day, and the next morning, Tai Shici came back with a lot of information about the surrounding military situation.

"My lord, Zhang Rao is really worried that he will be broken by our army, so he gathered the yellow turban thieves from Pingshou and Shouguang, and stationed them in Duchang and camped outside the city. However, Zhang Rao was also afraid of the strength of our army and did not dare to attack, as if he was waiting for the situation to change in Duchang, and wanted to respond to Guan Cheng and Guan Hai's eastward retreat. ”

Duchang County is more than ten miles west of Weishui, and Xiami is across Weishui (Xiami is between Weishui and Jiaoshui, Weidong Jiaoxi)

Liu Bei was slightly stunned: "He wants to wait for Guan Hai and Guan Cheng to attack me?" Guan Cheng shouldn't be able to wait, since he is a sea coward, even if there is disharmony, he can take a small boat to hide back to Shamen Island, and he should not be afraid of encirclement and suppression.

Guan Hai wants to return from Donglai, I'm afraid that the march is not so fast. The yellow scarves have to drag their families with them, and it's not bad to travel thirty miles a day-the scouts sent east, have you found any news that Guan Hai's army is moving closer to me? ”

Tai Shici: "I personally took the scouts and went all the way to Jiaodong and Yexian sentinels, but I didn't find the main force of the Guanhai army. Presumably, Guan Hai either doesn't know that our army is already intercepting Weishui to encircle and suppress, or he hasn't walked through Qucheng County and Yangqiu Mountain. ”

When Liu Bei heard this, he waved his hand decisively: "That's just right, you can't wait, Yun Chang, you will take the initiative to attack Duchang tomorrow, and you will be limited to defeat Zhang Rao within two days, and then turn back along the river to wait for Guan Hai!" ”

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