0120: Enter Jizhou
In Jizhou, a few days after Bocai defeated Zhu Jun and besieged the city of Changshe, Li Yicai had just entered the Changshan Kingdom.
"Lord Huangfu and Lord Zhu are defeated?" Li Yi looked at Cao Xuan in surprise, with suspicion on his face in addition to shock. It's not that he suspects Cao Xing of lying to him, but that he doubts the authenticity of this matter. You must know that in his impression, the three major generals who crusaded against the Yellow Turbans, Lu Zhi, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, can be said to have won a hundred battles when facing the Yellow Turban Army. Even if Lu Zhi was finally replaced by Dong Zhuo, it was only because he offended the eunuchs.
The subordinates couldn't believe it, but from the news of the inquiry, it seemed that it was indeed defeated. In addition, the officers and soldiers in other places are also constantly defeated......" Cao Xuan said with a scratch of his head. Although he found out the news, he really couldn't believe it.
How so? The only regular army Cao Xing has ever seen in his life is Li Yi's one, although he will not be naïve to think that other local armies are also on the same level as the soldiers of the Duliao battalion, but even so, the officers and soldiers in other places will not be so weak, right? You must know that in the information that Cao Xing discovered, the Yellow Turban thieves were just a group of ordinary farmers armed with sickles and hoes.
Frowning and thinking about it, Li Yi finally gave up thinking about why Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song would lose to the Yellow Turban Army, because this was a completely unexplainable problem for him. "Speed up!" Li Yi ordered in a deep voice. As long as you encounter the Yellow Turban Thief, then the combat effectiveness of the Yellow Turban Thief will naturally be at a glance, and when the time comes, it may be able to explain why Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song were defeated, right?
Rushing all the way, Li Yi's goal is very clear, that is, to go straight to Zhending County, Changshan Country. Although Zhao Yun and Yan Liang didn't bring it up, Li Yi knew that they must be very worried about their clansmen in their hearts at this time. After all, as local landlords, if they didn't join the Yellow Turban Army, the Yellow Turban Army would definitely not be polite to them.
However, if you want to reach Zhending, it is obviously not so easy, because Jizhou can be said to be the base camp of Taiping Road, although Zhang Jiao's eyes are now more focused on Wei County, Zhongshan Country and Bohai County, but it does not mean that Changshan Country does not have the Yellow Turban Army, on the contrary, there are quite a lot of them.
Jingcheng City, a county seat in Changshan Country in Jizhou, has a population of about 50,000 people. If it is in Bingzhou, this is definitely a big city, but in Jizhou, the county seat of 50,000 people is just a small city. However, because this is an official road from Taiyuan County to Jizhou, commerce here has been very developed since a long time ago.
It's just that now, in this Yellow Turban Rebellion, the city with a simple commercial development and a small population is obviously easy to be targeted.
"Give me a lot of energy! When you capture this ruined city, I will allow you to loot it for 3 days at will! Whether it's money, women, or whatever, it's up to you! Li Dagou shouted with laughter. He is the little commander of the 30,000 Yellow Turban Army who are now besieging Jingcheng City, but this commander is actually appointed by no one at all, but he appoints himself.
He was originally a ruffian in the Jingcheng area, but after the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, he did not participate immediately, but continued to attract people. It wasn't until he saw that the Yellow Turban Army was getting more and more powerful, that he quickly led people to join the Yellow Turban Army, that is, he asked all his subordinates to tie the Yellow Turban. Since then, Li Dagou has continued to use the name of the Yellow Turban Army, looting and burning in the townships around Jingcheng, relying on ruthless methods and a generous attitude towards his subordinates, he has expanded to more than 30,000 people in less than a month.
And now, after plundering all the surrounding areas, he finally came up with the idea of the county seat. Because he knew that only in the county town could he get a large number of regular armor and weapons, and even war horses. Since the army has grown, his ambitions have grown.
At this time, the gates of Jingcheng City were wide open, and countless Yellow Turban troops were desperately rushing towards the city. Although they did not have siege equipment, the Yellow Turbans apparently had their own way of besieging the city, which was to sneak into the city. After all, most of them themselves were residents around Jingcheng City, and no matter how tightly guarded they were, it was difficult to guard against their own people.
Moreover, since the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, many county magistrates, county magistrates, and county lieutenants have either taken the opportunity to make trouble or fled overnight, and the same is true of this Jingcheng City. The county commander led people to escape overnight, although the county magistrate and the county lieutenant helped to appease the people, but they were still seized by Li Dagou's subordinates. Under such an internal and external attack, how can it be stopped without a unified command? What's more, when the news of the Yellow Turban Thieves in the city came, the entire county was plunged into chaos.
Speaking of which, the population of Jingcheng City is more than 50,000 people, and the resident troops are more than 2,000 people. If no one takes the lead, even if there are more people than the enemy, it will be difficult for them to resist, and they will only flee with the crowd.
Li Dagou watched more and more troops enter Jingcheng City, his expression became more and more proud, and he seemed to have seen the happy scene of himself sitting in the county government and hugging the most beautiful woman in the city. It's just that at this moment, Li Dagou suddenly noticed that a small dot appeared on the official road in the distance, and as time passed, this small dot became bigger and bigger, more and more.
"Is it an officer and soldier?!" Li Dagou jumped up suddenly, his face full of doubts, because in his impression, the nearest reinforcements in this area were only 4,000 people from Zhending County, and it was impossible for them to come to support here. But the next moment, he threw this doubt out of his mind, because he saw that the enemy was all cavalry!
"That'...... The white thing...... Could it be a tiger?! Li Dagou was stunned and looked at the little white in front of the black torrent, and the whole person was directly stunned.
On the flank, a soldier of the Yellow Turban Army was holding a scythe, which still looked sharp, but this scythe did not give him the slightest sense of security. He looked tremblingly at the distance ahead, and his mouth kept trembling and muttering to himself, "Ah...... Yes...... Blame...... Before the monster ......could finish his words, he felt the world spin for a while, and then he lost consciousness.
"Whew!!" The tiger roared and shook the sky, and then a crackling sound was heard, but the surrounding Yellow Turban Army could no longer hold their weapons under the roar of the tiger. But this can't be blamed on them, you must know that even the cavalry behind the white tiger unconsciously slowed down under the tiger's roar, although then under the control of the cavalry, galloped again.
"Run...... Run!! Li Dagou finally came back to his senses, but unfortunately, he didn't have the courage to order a counterattack at all, because even if he just watched from afar, he couldn't control his trembling body.