After a heavy snowfall, the weather became colder and colder.

After the city was broken, whether it was Zhu Jun or Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Yuan Shu and others, they were all very busy, although they took back Wancheng, but there were still a large number of Yellow Turban troops trapped around Wancheng outside the city, they couldn't retreat, they couldn't advance, Zhu Jun and others were probably busy with these things these days.

However, all of this seems to have nothing to do with Ye Zhao, Zhu Jun did not invite him to discuss matters again, except for Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and Huang Zhong occasionally talk about military information, most of the time, Ye Zhao is in a state of idleness.

"Lord, the letterhead from Huang Shao." Qiu Chi handed a note to Ye Zhaodao.

Ye Zhao took the notebook and scanned it roughly, mostly to report the situation of the Yellow Turban Army, the current situation of the Yellow Turban Army is similar to Ye Zhao's estimate, Wancheng was broken, and the desperate Yellow Turban Army gradually gathered, but it was not unified, Zhang Mancheng led his elite subordinates, which is the strongest one, in addition to Zhao Hong, Han Zhong, Sun Zhong, these old departments of Zhang Mancheng.

However, although these old departments still respect Zhang Mancheng, they have become independent, and the subordinate relationship has become very weak, no matter what the reason, but Wancheng was broken, which was a huge blow to Zhang Mancheng's reputation.

In addition, it is Wu Ba, He Man led by the southern Ru people and Peng Tuo led by the Yingchuan tribe, because He Yi died in battle, Liu Pi and Gong are nowhere to be found, so the southern Ru people were absorbed by Wu Ba and He Man, but because of the matter of Liu Pi and Gong Du, the Nanyang Yellow Turban and the Yingchuan Yellow Turban are very exclusive to the Runan Yellow Turban.

Moreover, among the many yellow turbans, there are many people who intend to surrender to the imperial court.

After all, now that there is no food and grass, the Yellow Turban Army is no longer sustainable, not only the low-level soldiers, but also many high-level members of the Yellow Turban Army hope to surrender to the imperial court and do not want to fight this battle anymore.

It's just that at present, he has not been able to get involved with the officials and soldiers in the city, Huang Shao is now under He Man, and the letter also faintly reveals that he hopes to be able to throw himself into the imperial court, Ye Zhao can help with the line, and he is confident to persuade He Man.

Ye Zhao threw the notebook into the brazier, looking at the burning bamboo paper, his mood was a little complicated, he didn't want to end this war as soon as possible, but now looking at Zhu Jun's operation, Ye Zhao felt a little hanging.

"Lord ......" Qiu Chi looked at Ye Zhao, hesitated for a moment and said: "According to the news heard by the lowly detectives, General Youzhong Lang has secretly subdued a yellow scarf, and I am afraid that there will be a big move in the near future. ”

"Do you know which team it is?" Ye Zhao raised his eyebrows and looked up at Qiu Chi.

"I haven't found out." Qiu Chi shook his head, now that Zhu Jun intends to snub Ye Zhao, the important affairs in the army are only discussed with Yuan Shao and others, but he ignores Ye Zhao, Qiu Chi, as Ye Zhao's subordinate, is not easy to hear these news.

Ye Zhao nodded and said: "Order Huang Shao to be calm and not be impatient, it is best to persuade He Man to retreat, don't participate in the internal disputes of the Yellow Turban Army, and after the big thing has been decided, I will try to help them surrender." ”

He has now deviated a little from the core of power, but the battle of the Yellow Turban has come to an end, and his own merits have been recorded in the imperial court, even if Zhu Jun dislikes himself, he can't erase his merits, not to mention that Ye Zhao's stratocratic strategy has now been implemented in Yingchuan, Runan and other restored governance areas, and his reputation will only accumulate more and more, so Ye Zhao is not anxious, what he is really worried about is whether Zhu Jun will be complacent at this last moment, and add twists and turns to the war that has already been decided.

"Whoa!" Qiu Chi nodded, bowed down and went to deliver the news.

On the fourth day after the destruction of Wancheng, Zhang Mancheng was inspecting the military camp, in fact, there was nothing to inspect, even the most elite Yellow Turban wrestlers and the soldiers trained by themselves in accordance with the training method of the Han army, at this moment they all looked like they had no fighting spirit, people who had been hungry for four days, their eyes were full of green light, and some people even kept sweeping their eyes to the dying companions around them.

Cannibalism!

In this era of barrenness and war, Zhang Mancheng has not seen it, but he never dreamed that one day, such a thing would happen in his army, in fact, Zhang Mancheng has not eaten for four days, he can feel that reason is being stripped from him little by little, he doesn't know if he will become a man-eating beast if he continues like this.

"It's all handsome, it's not good!"

The sudden shouts of the messengers made Zhang Mancheng, who was already extremely hungry, feel a sense of shock.

"What?" Zhang Mancheng turned his head and looked at the trembling soldier, he didn't know how scary his eyes were at this moment.

"Han Zhong led people to fight with Wu Ba because of a water source." The subordinates looked at Zhang Mancheng with fear, and Zhang Mancheng at this moment, his eyes were a little green, as if he wanted to eat people.

"Bastard!" Zhang Mancheng felt that he seemed to be particularly angry today, he wanted to suppress it, but the more he suppressed it, the faster the anger flowed.

"Let's go!" There was no nonsense, Zhang Mancheng ran directly to Wu Ba's camp with people.

Behind him, there were 20,000 hungry wolf-like soldiers, Zhang Mancheng didn't know why these people were so excited when they heard that there was a battle to be fought, and the soldiers who were dying just now instantly became a hundred times more energetic, and he didn't dare to think about the reason.

Outside Wancheng is not a flat river, Zhang Mancheng took his people and horses far away, he had already heard the sound of fighting, and licked his dry lips greedily, Zhang Mancheng suddenly felt even hungrier in his stomach.

"Kill~"

Without warning, when passing by a forest, a group of centaurs suddenly came out of the woods, which was stationed here Zhao Hong's department, Zhang Mancheng knew the existence of this centaur, but he did not have much defense, because he did not think that Zhao Hong would betray him, so when Zhao Hong came out with red eyes, Zhang Mancheng did not react immediately.

The troops were cut in two by Zhao Hong's subordinates in one fell swoop, Zhang Mancheng was furious, and said Sen Ran: "Zhao Hong, you dare to betray me!?" ”

"Du Shuai, offended! Lao Tzu wants to live! Zhao Hong carried a big knife and greedily looked at the war horse that Zhang Mancheng sat on, which was probably the only mount in the Yellow Turban Army in the Wancheng area.

"Look for death, kill me!" Zhang Mancheng couldn't care about the dispute between Han Zhong and Wu Ba at this moment, picked up the gun from his horse, and shouted loudly.

"Du Shuai, offended!" Zhao Hong swung his knife at Zhang Mancheng with red eyes, and the soldiers on both sides also fought together, and from time to time they could see the crazy soldiers directly knocking down the opponent, tearing off a piece of meat from the opponent's body to chew, the madness of the battle was terrifying.

Zhao Hong led only ordinary soldiers, but Zhang Mancheng's command was all elite, but in a quarter of an hour, Zhao Hong's men and horses were killed in pieces, and it was difficult to parry, and at this moment, a shocking shout of killing suddenly sounded in the rear.

Zhang Mancheng forced Zhao Hong back with one shot, turned his head to look, Han Zhong and Wu Ba, who were supposed to fight together, joined forces to kill at this moment, at this time, how did Zhang Mancheng not know that he had been tricked, and immediately roared, gave up Zhao Hong, who had lost his armor, and killed Han Zhong and Wu Ba.

Zhang Man's adult horse was originally the most elite, but it was suddenly attacked, and it was a three-sided attack, and Zhang Mancheng's department, which consumed a lot of physical strength, gradually lost the enemy, and what was even worse was that Zhang Mancheng mistakenly hit a flying stray arrow, seeing that there were fewer and fewer soldiers under his command, Zhang Mancheng finally roared, with unwillingness and full of anger, and led the remnants to Peng Tuo's camp.

"Success?" Wu Ba looked at the direction of Zhang Mancheng's escape, then looked at the corpses all over the ground, and swallowed his saliva.

"Hurry up and report to General Zhu, we will gather men and horses and prepare to surrender!" Zhao Hong gasped and made a look at Han Zhong, Han Zhong understood, turned around and left.

Han Zhong and Zhao Hong led 60,000 Yellow Turbans to surrender early the next morning, but Wu Ba did not appear, and the army was ordered by Zhu Jun to throw away their weapons and march in turn outside the gate of Wancheng to accept surrender.

"Urn City?" When Ye Zhao got the news, he couldn't help but be stunned, since it was a surrender, why did he choose a place like Wengcheng?

Then his face changed, and he suddenly got up: "Let's go, go to Wengcheng!" ”

……

Wancheng's urn city is very large, Han Zhong and Zhao Hong thought that they had made a great achievement, and they happily commanded the troops who followed them to enter the urn city in turn, and after lining up as much as possible, the two went up to the city tower together, paid homage to Zhu Jun, and waited for the reward of the imperial court.

However, Han Zhong and Zhao Hong, who were looking forward to transforming from a yellow turban thief to a loyal minister of the Han family, did not wait for Zhu Jun's commendation, but when they arrived at the top of the city tower, they found that on the aisle of the city wall, a well-known Han army soldier was hiding behind the female wall, and there were pots of clay pots piled up around him, and the air was filled with a pungent smell of fire oil.

The two of them didn't pay attention before, but when they saw these canisters of fire oil, the two suddenly remembered that the ground of the urn city was almost covered with hay.

The two of them didn't realize that something was wrong until this time, what were the officers and soldiers going to do?

Defending the city?

Now in the Yellow Turban Army, the most elite Zhang Mancheng's department has been completely damaged, most of the Nanyang Yellow Turbans are gathered in this urn city, and only Peng Tuo's Yingchuan defeated army and Wu Ba and He Man's Runan defeated army are left outside the city, although there are many people, but in the absence of siege equipment, what damage can be done?

But if you don't defend the city, what are you going to do with so many officers and soldiers?

A terrible thought rose in the hearts of the two of them, their faces instantly turned pale, and they turned their heads stiffly to look at Zhu Jun, but what flashed in Zhu Jun's eyes at this moment was an undisguised cold murderous intent.

Deceit!

Han Zhong and Zhao Hong finally reacted, this was a scam at all, and from the beginning, Zhu Jun had no intention of recruiting them.

"Ready!" Zhu Jun raised his right arm expressionlessly.

On the women's wall, which originally looked empty from the bottom of the city, rows of Han archers suddenly stood up.

"General, you can't do this! You promised me that as long as you kill Zhang Mancheng, the court will not blame us for the past! Han Zhong and Zhao Hong frantically pounced on Zhu Jun like injured wolves, but were stopped by Yuan Shu and Cai Mao on the side.

"But...... Zhang Mancheng is not dead, is he? A mocking smile appeared on the corner of Zhu Jun's mouth.