The strategy of breaking the enemy, there is no clue for the time being, but the edict of the imperial court is one step down, probably because the war in the Central Plains is relatively smooth, but the war in Jizhou in the north is blocked, the new Zhonglang general Dong Zhuo not only failed to make the war better, but was defeated for a while, it was an edict issued by the imperial court, ordering the emperor Fu Song to lead the army to the north, and the Nanyang war was presided over by Zhu Jun, Ye Zhao, Sun Jian, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and others assisted Zhu Jun to break the enemy.

"Nanyang War ......" early the next morning, Huangfu Song was ready to lead the army north, after bidding farewell to the generals who came to see him off, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun rode forward, Huangfu Song squinted and looked at the front and said: "Don't be impatient, that Zhang Mancheng is quite a soldier, there are too many thieves in Nanyang, and almost all the remnants of the Yellow Turban in the Central Plains are gathered here, and it is not advisable to attack...... I look at the strategy that Ye Zhao Runan did, Gongwei can be used. ”

Huangfu Song said, turned his head to look at the location of Ye Zhao and the others, and said with a smile: "This son is unruly, but he also has a bit of talent, and he needs to polish it well." ”

Zhu Jun smiled and nodded: "Yizhen rest assured, the battle of Nanyang is not the key, but Jizhou, that Zhang Jiao is the head of the Taiping Sect, and the Yellow Turban in Jizhou is the most rampant, you should be careful, but if you can kill Zhang Jiao, the Yellow Turban will not be far away." ”

After the two discussed for a while, Huangfu Song led his army north.

In the next period of time, Zhu Jun began to arrange a defense line in the area of Wancheng and contacted the major families in Nanyang, and the former Nanyang Taishou Qin Zhe had been dismissed for losing Wancheng, but he had been operating in Nanyang for several years, and he still had connections, and successively introduced Cai Mao, Zhang Yun, Kuai Liang, Huang Zhong and other talents from Jingxiang to join Zhu Jun's command.

Zhu Jun took Wancheng as the center and began to lay out, although there were no major battles during the period, small frictions with the Yellow Turban Army were staged every day, and the two sides won and lost each other.

After recuperating from their injuries for a month, the three brothers of Liu Bei left quietly without telling anyone, of course, except for Ye Zhao, no one would pay attention to the three brothers who still belonged to Xiao Xiami at this time.

Ye Zhao didn't have much performance during this time, although Zhu Jun didn't let him continue to supervise the transportation of grain and grass, but he didn't reuse it, most of the time, Ye Zhao either nested in the barracks to study, or drilled soldiers and horses.

In the first battle of Western Hubei, Ye Zhao's troops suffered heavy losses, the Yue cavalry battalion was almost wiped out, and there were few soldiers left in the Liang State brought by Ye Zhao, Zhu Jun did not send him another troops, in addition to training during this time, he was also responsible for re-recruiting soldiers and horses.

Because of Yuan Shao's recommendation, Ye Zhao asked Qin Zhe to help him recruit troops, and it took three months to recruit 5,000 troops.

The scorching summer has passed, and the weather is getting colder.

……

The wind was like a knife, and a snowflake fell from the sky, falling on Ye Zhao's face and turning into a cold.

Ye Zhao looked up at the sky, it was only October, and it was already snowing?

"What are Xiu Ming looking at?" A general came to the front, with a helmet and armor, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a bit of military rigidity between his eyebrows, Huang Zhong, a native of Nanyang, was originally a general under Qin Zhe, when the yellow scarf first rose, he made a lot of meritorious achievements, and when Qin Zhe lost Wancheng and was dismissed, Huang Zhong was also implicated, and now Qin Zhe is resurrected, Huang Zhong is also reactivated by Qin Zhe, and now he is serving as a captain.

He is not from a family, and he does not have the same livelihood as Ye Zhao now, and Zhu Jun's command, whether it is the original generals or the generals who were later introduced by Qin Zhe, can be regarded as from a family, so Huang Zhong was a little excluded and couldn't fit in.

Ye Zhao intended to make friends because Huang Zhong and Ye Zhao got closer, and discussed the art of war and martial arts together.

"It depends on the weather." Ye Zhao looked at Huang Zhong and said with a smile: "The weather this year is much colder than in previous years, and it is not a good thing that it suddenly becomes colder. ”

"Who's to say it's not." Huang Zhong nodded, sighed and sat down beside Ye Zhao and said, "In some time, I'm afraid that many soldiers will have chilblains, but unfortunately, if you want to break the yellow scarf this year, I'm afraid it's unlikely." ”

"Not necessarily!" Ye Zhao seemed to think of something, suddenly smiled, turned his head to look at Huang Zhong and said, "I think this is the time to break the enemy!" ”

"Oh?" When Huang Zhong heard this, he looked at Ye Zhao in surprise: "How can Xiu Ming say this?" ”

"This cold weather is naturally not good for our army, but what about the yellow turbans?" Ye Zhao said with a smile: "Nanyang 300,000 yellow turbans, but how many armaments are in the treasury, Han Shengdang knows better than me, our soldiers at least have warm clothes, but the yellow turban army in the city does not have these, General Zhu has been building defenses since he came to Nanyang, isolating the contact between Wancheng and other places of the yellow turbans, although the yellow turbans in Wancheng are numerous, but because of this, Wancheng is overcrowded. ”

Huang Zhong nodded, don't say that the Yellow Turban Army, even if the official army gathers so many people, Huang Zhong estimates that some will be frozen to death.

He didn't answer, just quietly waited for Ye Zhao's next words.

"People, I'm afraid of comparison, you said that you look at the nourishment of those elite people, can eat well, and have things to keep out the cold, but you can only rely on your body to resist, without a piece of tile to cover your body, especially many people like yourself are frozen to death, what will you think in your heart?" Ye Zhao said with a smile.

"The Yellow Turbans in the city will have infighting?" Huang Zhong heard what Ye Zhao meant and asked.

"Definitely." Ye Zhao nodded: "General Zhu is waiting for this moment, you see that in the past few months, he has continuously forced the Yellow Turban Army around him into Wancheng, which seems to have fueled the momentum of the Yellow Turban, but in fact, it has planted the bane for the Yellow Turban civil strife. ”

Zhu Jun's move is somewhat like what Ye Zhao did in Runan, but what he did was more detailed than what Ye Zhao did, after all, Zhu Jun had this condition.

"What's more, in this Nanyang City now, there are many factions, including Zhao Hong, Han Zhong, Sun Zhong, these original subordinates, as well as He Yi and Liu Bi, the Yellow Turbans who fled from Runan, there are still contradictions between Liu Bi and He Yi, with Zhang Mancheng's prestige before, these people can still be suppressed, but when these people are all dissatisfied, these Yellow Turban generals who used to be in charge of the Yellow Turban are afraid that they will not be able to divide Tai'an, if they can send someone to secretly provoke, it will be better."

"The weather is cold early this year, and it also helped me wait for a big favor, and God is not there!" Ye Zhao said with a smile.

"So you're not in a hurry?" Huang Zhong looked at Ye Zhao in amazement, in the past few months, although Zhu Jun would call Ye Zhao every time he had a meeting, he had never given Ye Zhao a task, but Ye Zhao never cared, and he never fought for anything, allowing others to get credit, and he was training with peace of mind every day.

"What's the use of being in a hurry? General, he wants to polish me, how can I not know? Ye Zhao shook his head helplessly, Zhu Jun's thoughts, he could probably guess some, besides, as the commander-in-chief, he also had to take care of everyone, so most of the credit was shared by Yuan Shao and others.

"I heard that you ...... when you were in Changshe" Huang Zhong suddenly came to Ye Zhao's side with some gossip and asked curiously.

It is no secret that Ye Zhao threatened Huangfu Song with a knife in the army, and even many soldiers wanted to come to Ye Zhao's command because of this.

"The situation is compelling, you can't really let me take 2,000 people to fight 200,000, right?" Ye Zhao said with a smile.

"Ha~" Huang Zhong shook his head, looked at Ye Zhao and said: "If I were the commander, I would also beat you, if you follow the officials like you, then how majestic is the general to command the three armies?" General Huangfu didn't kill you, it's already a blessing. ”

Don't you want to?

Thinking of Huangfu Song's appearance at that time, Ye Zhao couldn't help but laugh, he was sure that if there was a chance at that time, Huangfu Song would definitely take his sacrificial knife.

"Is that just waiting now?" After Huang Zhong laughed, he asked.

"Nature." Ye Zhao nodded affirmatively, looked at the snowflakes fluttering down in the sky and said, "When this heavy snow is over, it will be almost over." ”

When the time comes, the nails buried in the city, as well as the nails buried in the city by Yuan Shao, can all play a role, there are so many nails, coupled with the resistance of the military to the upper echelons, and the various contradictions between regions that are not pleasing to each other, are enough to make this Wancheng a powder keg, which may detonate at any time.

"In that case, I should have prepared early." Huang Zhong stood up, his eyes flashed with a scorching light, said goodbye to Ye Zhao, turned around and left.

What did he come here for?

Ye Zhao looked at the back of Huang Zhong leaving, and shook his head a little funny, after resting for so long, it was time to move, the battle of Nanyang can be regarded as the end of this Yellow Turban Rebellion, Jizhou, the recent news is also full of good news, Zhang Jiao's range of activities was gradually compressed by Huangfu Song to the Guangzong area, if expected, the war should also end.

This peasant uprising, which spread almost throughout the Han Dynasty, was finally extinguished after failing to last more than a year, in the final analysis, because it was not pure, it was not a peasant uprising that really broke out of popular resentment, but a peasant uprising that was artificially manipulated, from the very beginning, its appearance was to prepare for defeat, but it was just a struggle that extended from a political struggle, and the leaders of those uprisings were sad but not pitiful, and the real pity was still those people who were involved in this struggle.

However, just as Zhu Jun was preparing for this last battle, a war report from the north caused an uproar in the whole world.

In the winter of the first year of Zhongping, just after entering October, Zhang Jiao, the leader of the Taiping Sect, died of illness in Guangzong City.

Why Zhang Jiao died so suddenly, no one knows, but Zhang Jiao's death is of devastating significance to this peasant uprising that affected the entire Han Dynasty, the Yellow Turban in Jizhou after Zhang Jiao's death, the fighting spirit was lost, in less than a month, the city of Guangzong was broken, the Yellow Turban of Jizhou was quickly extinguished, and only some remnants were taken by Zhang Jiao's cronies and fled into the Taihang Mountains.