Qingzhou, Pingling County, east of Jinan, Cao Cao stood on the city wall, looking at the Yellow Turban Army slowly retreating to the camp with a sneer, his expression was full of disdain. Just now, Cao Cao led the officers and soldiers of Dongpingling County to repel the third attack of the remnants of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army led by Xu He and Sima Ju.

"Haha! It's Mengde! With Meng De here, this king can sit back and relax! Liu Kang, the king of Jinan, laughed when he saw this.

"Your Highness is serious, if it weren't for the courage of the generals and the trust of His Highness, how could His Highness be able to repel these more than 100,000 thieves?" Cao Cao replied respectfully when he heard this.

"Yes, yes, yes! The generals have also worked hard! Liu Kang nodded and smiled when he heard this, "This king has ordered someone to set up a banquet, Meng De, you ......" As he spoke, Liu Kang looked at Cao Cao and said no more.

"Your Highness invites, how dare your officials refuse?" Cao manipulated for a moment, looked at Liu Kang and smiled.

"Haha~" Liu Kang laughed when he heard the words and turned to leave, but he didn't see the disdain and helplessness hidden in Cao Cao's eyes.

"Alas, the descendants of the Liu family are so incompetent, and now there are people everywhere in the world to make trouble, this big Han world is ......," Cao Cao sighed in his heart.

Since Xu He and Sima Ju raised troops, it can be said that they have been rampant in the entire Jinan Kingdom and Le'an County, and they have the posture of Zhang Jiao when he led the Taiping Road uprising in the past. But in fact, their strength is not comparable to the Yellow Turban Army in the past, you must know that when they started the incident, the soldiers were only more than 10,000 Yellow Turban remnants, but in less than half a month, they instantly swelled to more than 100,000 people.

There may be many reasons for this result, but the biggest and most critical reason is because of the incompetence of Liu Kang, the king of Jinan, and Xu Rui, the county guard of Le'an County. Especially Na Xu Rui, in the face of the enemy's uprising, he was ready to abandon the city and flee overnight, but he was directly beheaded by his generals, robbed his property and his female relatives and went straight to the Yellow Turban Army.

However, the performance of Liu Kang, the king of Jinan, was not much better, because when Xu He, Sima Ju and others led the army to attack Jinan, the king of Jinan actually planned to transfer all the soldiers and generals from the surrounding counties to Dongpingling County. Although he was later persuaded by Cao Cao, when Xu and the two led their troops to attack for the first time, he was so frightened that he hid in the mansion and did not dare to take his head.

But now? Although he still didn't dare to go up the city wall, he was at least able to listen to the music while having fun with the beauties, and waited for the soldiers to report and come up to feel the joy and pride after the victory.

On the other side, after Xu He and Sima Ju ordered the troops to be collected, they got together to discuss the next move, "Alas, General Sima, I don't think we can continue like this." Xu He said with a solemn expression, "It's been three days!" Our army has been attacking Dongping Lingcheng for three days in a row! But he couldn't even rush up the city walls. ”

"Yes, we all underestimated that Cao Mengde!" Sima Juyan replied with the same serious expression when he heard this, "I thought he was just a eunuch who followed Li Yi to take credit, but I didn't expect that he really had some ability!" ”

"In this case, it is better for us to withdraw, if we continue to consume it like this, I am afraid that before the city is captured, the morale of our army will already be dispersed." Xu He said helplessly.

The failure to capture Dongping Lingcheng in the past three days has caused the morale of the Yellow Turban Army to drop very much, but there is nothing Xu He and Sima Ju can do about it. Because their way to improve morale is nothing more than money, food, and women, but these are all in Dongpingling City.

"It's good! Let's go and plunder other cities first, I don't believe that the timid king of Jinan dares to go out of the city! Hearing this, Sima Ju nodded in response.

The next day, the two led the army to leave directly, and led the army to retreat directly in the direction of Le'an County. Seeing this, Cao Cao immediately pursued the army, in his opinion, since the Yellow Turban Army retreated, it must have slipped and did not dare to continue the siege, but he was dissuaded by Liu Kang.

"Mengde, this matter must not be done! There are only more than 10,000 soldiers in the city, and most of them are infantry, even if they pursue, how can they compare to the elite cavalry led by Meng De and Wushuang Hou in Dong'e in the past! And...... And if Meng De leads the army to pursue, in case the thieves divide their troops to attack the city, who will defend the city! Liu Kang persuaded in a panic.

"Isn't there still you?!" Cao Cao seemed to point at Liu Kang's nose and roared, but unfortunately, he didn't dare, so he could only look at the Yellow Turban Army in the distance and sigh.

"Shangguan is incompetent, and he is tired of the three armies. The incompetence of the officials has harmed the local people! Cao Cao sighed in his heart, "Zikang, Zikang, I really envy you!" Although you need to face 100,000 Hu people to ride iron, but at least, there is no such waste to point fingers at your head......"

Jizhou, Zhongshan Guoanxi County Square.

More than 100 soldiers surrounded Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, and Jian Yongtuan in the middle, and not far away, countless people in Anxi County, as well as many soldiers, watched all this with trepidation, obviously not reacting to today's changes at all.

"Liu Bei! Don't be ashamed! You won't do it if you are the emperor?! Zhao He looked at Liu Bei with his sword in his hand and shouted angrily.

"Zhao He is a thief! Thou hast eaten the fortune of my great man, but thou hast done this beast thing, and thou hast longed to eat thy flesh and drink thy blood! How can they join you in the dirt and do such a great rebellion! Liu Bei held a male and female double-strand sword, and pointed at Zhao He with a sword in one hand and scolded.

On the side, Zhang Fei and Jian Yong were guarding Liu Bei's side and back with weapons, their eyes constantly looking at the surrounding officers and soldiers, just looking at their appearance, but it didn't seem like they were vigilant against these officers and soldiers, but as if they were searching for something.

"Hahahaha! Great rebellion?! Big bullshit! If there are constant rebellions in various places today, doesn't it mean that the great Han country is about to perish?! Zhao He looked at Liu Bei and sneered, "Liu Bei! Now I'm going to give you one last chance, and I'll make you emperor at once if you agree!" With the chaotic situation today, we can show our strength in Jizhou and make that immortal achievement! ”

Saying that, Zhao He paused and sneered again, "If you don't want to...... Hum! You are not the only one in the world with the surname Liu! ”

Hearing this, Liu Bei didn't pay attention to Zhao He anymore, but looked around at the more than 100 officers and soldiers, as well as the many ordinary soldiers behind him and shouted, "Everyone! Now what Zhao He wants to do is to be punished by the nine clans! Do you really think he'll succeed?! In the past, the traitor Zhang Jiao gathered more than one million people, but in the end, he was not quelled by the imperial court with troops? ! In the past, when Zhao He embezzled the township and bullied men and women, you were patient. And now he is going to lead you to your end! Don't you dare to resist?! ”

In a word, it immediately caused a commotion, and Zhao He over there immediately panicked when he saw this. At this time, Zhang Fei and Jian Yong, who were beside Liu Bei, were quietly saying to Li Yi, "Lord, I didn't find a crossbowman!" ”

Hearing this, Liu Bei rushed towards Zhao He violently, and at the same time burst into his mouth, "I don't want to die!" Kill the traitor Zhao He with me! At the same time, Zhang Fei and Jian Yong also followed and rushed towards Zhao He together.

"Stop ...... Stop them! Seeing this, Zhao He suddenly shouted in horror, his eyes were staring at him while hiding behind, obviously shocked by Liu Bei's momentum.

Seeing this, Liu Bei shouted again, "Only Zhao He is damned!" If you don't want to die, get out of the way! In one sentence, the officers and soldiers who were originally going to stop Liu Bei suddenly slowed down.

Liu Bei was only a few dozen steps away from Zhao He, and for Liu Bei, this was just a few moments of effort. Although not all the soldiers brought by Zhao He were paddling, how could they stop Liu Bei and Zhang Fei with them alone? Well, and Jian Yong!

However, with two flicks of his fingers, the female sword in Liu Bei's hand was already across Zhao He's neck.

"Don't! Don't kill me! Xuande! Don't kill me! Do you remember? When you first arrived in Anxi, ......" Zhao He immediately begged for mercy in fear when he saw this, and at the same time, a smell of urine spread out from under him, but he was directly scared to pee.

"Don't worry! I won't kill you, because only the court can cure your crimes!" Liu Bei looked at Zhao He and said lightly. Then he turned to look at the soldier who was still in a stupor, caught between the people, "Tie him up for me!" ”

There was a burst of cheers, which made the soldiers who were still stunned run out in a panic, and regardless of the dirt on Zhao He's body, they directly tied him up.

After he was tied up, Liu Bei turned his head to look behind him, except for the soldiers who had followed Zhao He before, except for those who were killed, the rest had already knelt on the ground and kept begging for mercy.

"Alas, get up, you know that you are all instigated by Zhao He." Liu Bei was silent for a long time before he let out a long sigh, looked at them and said slowly, "However, the death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime is unforgivable!" From this day forward, go and strengthen the walls! ”

"The grace of the county lieutenant Xie is not to kill......" A group of people hurriedly thanked them when they heard this.

Then, Liu Bei immediately ordered Jian Yong to pacify the people, and at the same time took Zhang Fei to convene many officials in the county. Well, there is no need to summon them, because most of them are hiding in the crowd except for a few who are kneeling or lying on the ground.

After that, Liu Bei was directly surrounded by the people and discussed with this group of officials about the defense of Anxi County. However, it was a discussion, but it was just Liu Bei who said it, and the others were listening, and no one dared to say a word at all.

After a long while, Liu Bei dismissed everyone and asked Zhang Fei to gather troops to prevent another rebellion, and he took Jian Yong to the county government together.

"Alas, my lord, you are always so impulsive......" When no one was around, Jian Yong couldn't help but complain. Although he followed Liu Bei and Zhang Fei very fiercely just now, but now, he has been afraid.

"Haha, Xianhe, didn't you follow us when you fought against the Yellow Turban in the past? Do you still need to worry about this kind of small scene? Liu Bei laughed when he heard this, obviously not listening to Jian Yong's complaints at all.

"There's soldiers around!" Jian Yong thought helplessly in his heart, he really couldn't understand why his lord always liked to charge ahead? "Could it be that he was influenced by the Peerless Marquis?" Jian Yong felt that this should be the truth of the facts.

The next day, Liu Bei took out the money that Zhao He had embezzled before and distributed it to the people, and at the same time ordered the surrounding villagers to practice day and night.

Changan.

"General Huangfu, the Jingshi side has sent someone to urge again." Dong Zhuo said to Huangfu Song in a respectful voice.

"Urge, urge! The court knows how to urge! Can urging be useful?! Huangfu Song complained impatiently.

Hearing this, Dong Zhuo didn't say anything, just walked to Huangfu Song's side and looked at the map on the table. After this period of time, Huangfu Song's deployment of Sanfu, basically Liangzhou thieves have basically pulled out Sanfu, after all, most of them are cavalry, and they are not good at attacking cities, even if they have siege equipment looted from Liangzhou, they are quite powerless in the face of Huangfu Song's deployment.

It's just that although the Liangzhou rebels have withdrawn from Sanfu, the imperial court is obviously not satisfied, but keeps urging Huangfu Song to send troops to Liangzhou as soon as possible and kill all the rebels who rebelled. It's just that Huang Fu Song didn't pay attention to this at all, just perfunctory to the imperial court, while constantly probing the enemy's situation.

Because offense and defense are two different things, especially in the face of the Hu cavalry that comes and goes. The Han army can rely on the city and equipment to make the Hu cavalry helpless, and the Hu cavalry can also make the Han army can only eat ashes when they reach the wilderness grassland.

This point was known to Huangfu Song, who had served as the county guard of Beidi County in Liangzhou, and Dong Zhuo, who grew up in Liangzhou, but the imperial court did not know it. In other words, even if he knew, Spirit Emperor Liu Hong didn't pay attention to it.

Moreover, with the cooperation of the five buckets of rice in Hanzhong, Huangfu Song must make full arrangements before he dares to send troops to Liangzhou. Otherwise, as soon as the front foot walked, wouldn't the third assistant on the back foot be rushed in by the enemy again?

"Alas, it would be nice if Zikang's flying cavalry camp was here." Huangfu Song suddenly sighed. In his cognition, he had never seen such a powerful cavalry as the Flying Cavalry Battalion, and sometimes Huangfu Song felt very strange how Li Yi trained that cavalry. Well...... If he knew how many future fierce generals in that cavalry would serve as small military commanders, horses, or even commanders, maybe he would know why, right?

Hearing this, Dong Zhuo was silent, but he was also pondering in his heart, "Cavalry...... Shouldn't I also look for an opportunity to assemble a cavalry that can dominate the world? "Dong Zhuo also has cavalry under his command, but there are only a few hundred people, all of whom are the elite who followed Dong Zhuo all the way from Liangzhou in the past. But it's more appropriate to say that they're guardsmen than cavalry.

And state, Manber County, Gohara County.

"Lord!" A soft shout came from outside the house.

"Come in." Li Yi said without raising his head, his eyes kept looking at the map of Bingzhou in front of him.

"Lord, there is still no movement on the Hu people's side, just staying more than ten miles away from the city and stationing." Cao Xuan said respectfully.

"Really?" Li Yi responded when he heard this, and then asked, "What do you think of their lineup?" ”

"Because my subordinates couldn't get too close, they couldn't find out the enemy's reality. However, according to the previous situation, among the 50,000 people, the troops directly belonging to the Hu people's court were no more than 20,000 at most! Cao Xing said respectfully when he heard this.

"Well, let's go down." Li Yi waved his hand and said.

"No!"

Cao Xingzuo left, and Li Yi was left alone in the room again. He was still looking at the map of the state, but after a long time, he suddenly sat down on the stool, stroked his head and thought helplessly, "How can I not think of any way?" ”

Well, in fact, Li Yi didn't really think of any way, but all the methods he thought of, no matter how he operated in the middle, the final result still required Li Yi to use the more than 4,000 cavalry to face Yu Fuluo's 50,000 cavalry.

Although it seems that 50,000 people is not much, after all, Li Yi has used 6,000 cavalry to attack an army of 120,000 before. But obviously, if Li Yi really treated the cavalry under Yu Fuluo as the Yellow Turban Army under Bu Ji, well...... With this kind of intelligence, it is estimated that Li Yi will not live now.

Nowadays, most of the people in the world regard the flying cavalry battalion under Li Yi as the first cavalry in the world, but only Li Yi knows that his cavalry is not so strong, although it is indeed considered elite, but it may still be inferior to Gongsun Zhan's white horse Yicong, Dong Zhuo's flying bear army, Lu Bu's Bingzhou wolf cavalry, Ma Chao's Xiliang iron cavalry and Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry.

The reason why it is so strong is naturally because the opponent is only a mere Yellow Turban Army, and it may not be able to find any advantages at all except for the number of people. On the other hand, it's the general.

In the past, when Li Yi led the army to attack Buji, in addition to the ordinary cavalry, among the 6,000 cavalry, there were also a large number of fierce generals such as Lu Bu, Dian Wei, Gao Shun, Yan Liang, and Wen Chou. It is true that a person's strength is very small in the face of a large army, but a fierce general with a strong army, it is definitely a fact of 1+1>2. Not to mention that in the entire cavalry formation, there was a fierce general leading them among almost dozens of people.

And now, most of these fierce generals have been sent by Li Yi to various places, and in addition to Lu Bu and Gao Shun, there are only Zhao Yun, Zhang Ren, and Zhang Liao, who are not yet 20 years old. Of course, the most important thing is that he is no longer facing the Yellow Turban Army, which may not even have complete equipment, but the most elite Hun cavalry armed to the teeth and under the command of the Hun Wangting! Although there may only be 20,000 people, it is enough to make Li Yi jealous.

It can be said that as long as Li Yi's brain is not sick, it is impossible for him to fight a field battle with Yu Fuluo in this situation. But if he just did it, Li Yi didn't know how long it would last.

All he hoped was that they could help Du Zan and the others in the past to hold back the Huns in other places as much as possible, so that they could form a large army as soon as possible. After all, the total number of Huns in Bingzhou has long exceeded 400,000, even if those old people, children, and women are removed, the number of troops is at least more than 200,000, who makes them a fighting nation?

"There are too few soldiers...... There are too few soldiers! Li Yi thought helplessly. Although he had already sent Tong Fei and others to the rear to increase troops, this newly recruited army could not be compared with the veterans in terms of combat effectiveness and cooperation, just as Li Yi did not count the rest of the Flying Cavalry Battalion and the trapped camp at all.

Thinking of the end, Li Yidu felt a little admired for Yu Fuluo, if Yu Fuluo ignored Li Yi and directly led the army to attack various places or directly attacked Mamber, Li Yi felt much better than now, and it was much easier to deal with.

"Well, then boil it! Let's see who can survive whom! Li Yi finally shook his head helplessly and gave up on continuing to dwell on this issue.

Time passed little by little, and Yu Fuluo and Li Yi looked at each other from a distance of more than ten miles, although they basically couldn't see anything. But the news that kept coming from all over the place was enough for them to imagine each other's expressions.

However, for more than half a month, Shangjun, Shuofang, Xihe, Wuyuan, Yunzhong and Taiyuan counties, all kinds of battle reports continued to come. But the only thing that reassured Li Yi was that under the hard work of everyone, the Hu people only plundered the place, but did not capture any cities.

At the same time, the order of the imperial court also reached Mamber, which was Li Yina's dream of merging the military and political power of the state. It's just that now this situation is obtained, but Li Yi can't laugh at all.

At the end of May, Cai Yong arrived in Manbo County with reinforcements from Yanmen County's Shou Guo Yi.

"Haha! Uncle! I'm finally looking forward to getting you back! Li Yi laughed excitedly.

"It's a pity that Gongde also needs a large number of troops to guard against the Hu people in the north and Yunzhong County, otherwise they can send more reinforcements." Cai Yong sighed.

"These have already satisfied my son-in-law." Li Yi said with a smile. With the addition of these 10,000 people, as well as the Flying Cavalry Battalion and the troops collected in the recent period, the strength of Mamber's side is already about 30,000. Although there are very few real veteran elites, at least, these forces are enough for Li Yi to implement some ideas that he did not dare to implement before, although he still has to think carefully about how to do it.

More than a dozen miles away, the camp of the Huns.

"Brother Wang, Manbo's Han army has now reached more than 20,000 people, are we still looking at it like this?" Qiangqu's second son, Hu Xuan Quan, asked a little anxiously, he is only 21 years old this year, compared to his eldest brother, Hu Xuan Quan is obviously a lot less calm and patient.

"Hehe, second brother, don't worry, even if Li Yi has more reinforcements, what can he do? He was able to pull out the field battle with our army, but only the cavalry of less than 5,000 men. If you want to defeat our army's 50,000 elite cavalry with such a small number of cavalry, even if Wei Qinghuo is sick in the past, it is impossible to do it! Yu Fuluo chuckled when he heard this.

"But what's the use of us doing this?!" Huyu Quan asked impatiently.

In the past, he was willing to follow his eldest brother to betray his father, because of the words that the eldest brother said to him, and his dissatisfaction with his father's various compromises with the Han people. But now, although the rest of the world is gaining the upper hand, there is no movement on their side. If this continues, Huyuquan is very worried that those nobles and leaders will have different intentions.

As if he saw Hufu Quan's worry, Yu Fuluo chuckled and comforted, "Don't worry, as long as you wait for a while, it will definitely be us Hu people who win!" ”

Yuvro looked confident, but he didn't know who had given him the faith. And over there, Li Yi is also constantly planning, preparing to let Yu Fuluo see the power of the Han people, but ......