The firelight of Wancheng lit up the night sky of Nanyang, and when Ye Zhao came out of the city in a slightly embarrassed way, the fire had already begun to spread to the whole city.

Ye Zhao spit out a mouthful of blackened saliva and wiped the sweat from his face, although he had already run fast and had calculated in advance, who could have known that the south wind suddenly blew, making him almost lose his life.

"Xiuming!" Zhu Jun was still waiting outside the city with a group of generals, watching Ye Zhao come out, and hurriedly stepped forward, no matter how he felt about Ye Zhao in his heart, but at least on the surface, no one would say anything cool to Ye Zhao at this time, after all, Ye Zhao's fire not only saved them, but also reversed the situation in Nanyang.

"No problem!" Ye Zhao straightened his clothes, looked a little embarrassed at the moment, and said to Zhu Jun: "This battle should be over, the Yellow Turban Army that escaped from the city, I hope the general will not kill again." ”

Zhu Jun looked at the monstrous fire in Wancheng and nodded silently, Ye Zhao's fire can be said to have burned the last hope of the Yellow Turban Army, and the leader of the Yellow Turban Army, Zhang Mancheng, died, it is impossible to have such momentum as today.

"Thanks to Xiuming." After a long time, Zhu Jun turned his head to look at Ye Zhao and said, "I will owe you a favor." ”

"You're welcome!" Ye Zhao shook his head and said: "It's not early, the soldiers need to be appeased, the grain and grass also need to be re-allocated, and the generals need to prepare early. ”

Zhu Jun was not embarrassed, and ordered someone to help Ye Zhao set up camp, and led the generals to rein in the rout, appease the army, and at the same time send people to the surrounding counties to allocate food, and at the same time wrote a letter to send people to Luoyang overnight to report the good news.

As soon as the Nanyang Yellow Turban was extinguished, this huge peasant uprising was also considered to be at an end, but the post-war reconstruction work was very heavy, and the imperial court was afraid that it would be difficult to recover in the next few years.

Late at night, Ye Zhao's camp, Ye Zhao's spirit was a little excited, today's battle completely ended the Yellow Turban Uprising, and in this competition for court power, Ye Zhao stood outside the court, not to mention the biggest beneficiary, but the harvest was rich enough, not to mention the accumulated large number of merits, just the connections established in this war, Lu Zhi, Zhu Jun, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Huang Zhong, etc., these alone are enough for him to be of infinite use, so that the Ye family can take a big step forward from the embarrassing situation on the edge of the family.

Of course, the bigger the step, the higher the resistance will be, and Ye Zhao can be said to have contributed to the victory of the Battle of Nanyang, but because of this, Ye Zhao's exploits in this Yellow Turban Uprising are very dazzling.

The battles of Pingliang Kingdom, Breaking Runan, Breaking the Siege of Changshe, and Nanyang turned the tide, not to mention the younger generation, it was Lu Zhi, Huangfu Song, and Zhu Jun who were the three main forces of this expedition against the Yellow Turbans were not as dazzling as him.

The contribution is indispensable, there are definitely a lot of rewards from the imperial court, but there must be a lot of restrictions, Ye Zhao's original plan was to shepherd one side, but now it seems that he is probably going to enter Luoyang.

With his own merits and the ability he showed in this war, if he let himself lead the troops alone, let alone those families who hold power and can fight against the imperial power, they are the emperor himself, and I am afraid that they may not be willing.

It's not clear whether the gain or distortion is distorted, but in short, it's not a bad thing, if you're worried that the higher you go, the worse you fall, then it's better to be your own rich son in Hanoi honestly, at least with the identity of Cai Yong's disciple, ordinary Taishou doesn't dare to provoke himself like that Wei Xian.

The sound of footsteps behind him interrupted Ye Zhao's thoughts, and Ye Zhao frowned slightly: "Your steps are disordered, your breath is uneven, you want to kill me?" ”

Liao Hua looked at Ye Zhao with complicated eyes, and said in a deep voice: "I thought that you were a benevolent and righteous person, but today's fire, do you know how many people were burned to death?" ”

"100,000, maybe not that much, after all, not everyone has lost their minds, there should be many people who escaped from Wancheng." Ye Zhao turned his head, looked at Liao Hua, and sneered a little: "Benevolence? I thought you had seen this heavenly reincarnation clearly, but now it seems that what you see is still limited to the circle you drew for yourself in your chest. ”

"If there is really a reincarnation of the Heavenly Dao, does the general feel that he deserves to die?" Liao Hua looked at Ye Zhao, his eyes flashing with an uncertain light.

"I advise you not to do it, look at the world, so close, no one can kill me." Ye Zhao shook his head: "Damn? Who is innocent in this world? How can there really be no one who deserves to die? ”

"You only look at the 100,000 yellow turbans pitiful, have you ever thought about how much trouble it will be if these yellow turban thieves who have eaten people are released?" Ye Zhao looked up at Wancheng, who was still flickering with firelight, and said with a smile: "The human heart is a very wonderful thing, it has a bottom line, this bottom line, it will not be broken easily, but if it is broken, there is actually no difference between people and jackals, tigers and leopards." ”

"Although it is said that when they are extremely hungry, they eat people, but as long as they eat the first bite and cross the hurdle in their hearts, if they are hungry again in the future, even if they are not exhausted, they will still eat people, and after this incident, their mentality will also change, even people have eaten, what else in this world they dare not do?"

"But not all of them have been eaten." Liao Hua said in a deep voice.

"This is a matter of arithmetic, kill ten people, there may be five or even seven innocent ones, but if you let go of those three, you may hurt twenty, thirty people in the future, then as a general, I think it is right to kill all ten people, maybe someone is wronged, but living in this troubled world, how can there be more than 100,000 people who died unjustly?" Ye Zhao's voice was very calm, calm and frightening, as if the dead person, in his eyes, was just a string of inconsequential numbers, such a way of thinking obviously had a violent conflict with Liao Hua's concept again, at least Liao Hua couldn't analyze and deal with this kind of thing so calmly, a little cold-blooded.

"I thought that the general would be different from him when he was dissatisfied with Zhu Jun's killing of prisoners, but now it seems that he is naïve." Liao Hua looked at Ye Zhao with red eyes.

"It's still different, I was dissatisfied with him killing prisoners, I just didn't want this kind of thing to happen now, but since it happened, what I want to think about is how to minimize the loss, instead of being entangled in personal grievances and unable to extricate myself." Ye Zhao stood up, frowned and glanced at Liao Hua and said, "It seems that you and I still have no chance in the end." ”

"The general wants to kill me?" A mocking smile appeared on the corner of Liao Hua's mouth.

Ye Zhao smiled, and Liao Hua, who was laughing, was inexplicable: "Why is the general laughing?" ”

"Commander the army, can you defeat me?" Ye Zhao didn't answer, but asked rhetorically.

"I can't." Liao Hua said very simply, Ye Zhao has gone all the way, and it is not a fluke that he has today's achievements.

"You are better than me in governing the place?" Ye Zhao asked again.

Liao Hua shook his head again, how Ye Zhao was in Youzhou before, he didn't know, but Suiyang has prospered a lot because of Ye Zhao, which is obvious to all, Liao Hua asked himself if he could do it.

"How many years younger are you?" Ye Zhao asked again.

"The end will be fifteen this year." Liao Hua said in a deep voice.

"Fifteen, six years younger than me, you have the ability and potential, but only potential." Ye Zhao looked at Liao Hua and said with a smile: "I want to kill you, I must feel that you are a threat to me, what does Yuan Jian think?" ”

"It's the last general who can't do it." When Liao Hua heard this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"It's because you don't have a wide enough vision." Ye Zhao patted Liao Hua on the shoulder and said: "If you want to go, I won't stop you, but look at the problem, don't look at what people say, see how he acts, what the result is, you look at the world, you will always stand in your ideal world to see, but you refuse to look at reality, if you can't jump out of the circle that imprisons you in your chest, you will be limited in this life after all, or you can be a general, but you can't be handsome, when one day, you can really jump out of that ideal world to see this world clearly, I believe that you will come back!" ”

Liao Hua didn't answer, but respectfully saluted Ye Zhao and said: "Given by the general, Hua doesn't dare or hope, I hope that you and I won't meet on the battlefield one day." ”

"Take care." Ye Zhao didn't leave anyone, seeing Liao Hua call Du Yuan to leave overnight, he suddenly felt a little bored in his heart, those who should go will go, and those who should stay will naturally stay, Liao Hua has not experienced the relationship between life and death like Guan Hai for himself after all.

In the next few days, Zhu Jun began to send people around to recruit the Yellow Turban, maybe it was a fire in Wancheng, which touched him too much, this time, Zhu Jun didn't make any more trouble, in fact, even if Zhu Jun wanted to kill people at this moment, Ye Zhao would not stop it, the fire in Wancheng had burned the last fighting spirit of the Yellow Turban Army, and without Zhang Mancheng's commander, it would be difficult for anyone to stir up that anger, Ye Zhao didn't need to run to pretend to be a good person at this time.

However, Zhu Jun obviously has a psychological shadow, this time it is really a surrender, Ye Zhao also took the opportunity to take Huang Shao back, by the way, there is also a He Man as an additive, although people are a little stupid, but He Man's foot combat is good, with a stick method, he can fight with Guan Hai for thirty or fifty undefeated, but in terms of bravery, he is already a fierce general, and it can be regarded as an unexpected gain for Ye Zhao.

In December, the news that Huangfu Song broke the Yellow Turban and recovered the He/Bei came from the north, and the Yellow Turban Uprising, which shook the foundation of the Han Dynasty, finally came to an end in this cold winter.

The situation in Nanyang, with Zhu Jun's pacification, the region was calm, but the first county of the Han Dynasty in the past, now the population has plummeted to less than two percent before the disruption, and the entire Nanyang is full of a depressed atmosphere, in a short period of time, I am afraid it will be difficult to restore the prosperity of the past.

In any case, this campaign, after all, is the final victory of the Han Dynasty, and then it is time to reward meritorious deeds, in December, seeing that the New Year is approaching, the court has come down with documents, and the order of a cadre will return to the court, and those who have official positions will go back to serve for the time being, waiting for the court to be rewarded.

The new Liang Guoxiang has arrived, Ye Zhao, the acting Liang Guoxiang, naturally does not exist, Ye Zhao after drinking with Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Huang Zhong and others, then set off back to Suiyang, Suiyang County Order is also someone, Ye Zhao went back this time, just to pick up the family, and then go back to Hanoi directly, waiting for the reward of the imperial court.