The city of Guangzong was broken, Zhang Liang was killed, and Zhang Bao took 200,000 Yellow Turban troops to defend Julu City. Huangfu Song disposed of the Yellow Turban Army prisoners in Guangzong City and marched to Julu City with a large army.

After the battle of Guangzong, Huangfu Song reported the heads of Zhang Jiao and Zhang Liang brothers and the list of meritorious contributions to the imperial court, and Emperor Ling rewarded all the people on the list after the report, Liu Bei was named the county commander of Anxi County by the imperial court, and the rest of the people were also rewarded to varying degrees, but Chen Qun asked Huangfu Song not to record his name in the list of meritorious contributions. Huang Fu Song only thought about it for a while, and then agreed with Chen Qun's opinion.

After the army came to the outside of Julu City, it was directly encamped, and at this time, Zhang Bao of Julu City had already strengthened the city wall to more than three zhang, and the city head was lined with yellow turban troops.

On the second day, Huangfu Song sent his army to make an attempted attack, but he did not even touch the head of the city, so he had to give up. Next, Huangfu Song carried out a strong siege of the city every three days on average, and used the rest of the month to break through Julu City, and Zhang Bao retreated to Quyang City in the south of Julu County with 100,000 remnants.

In the first battle of Julu City, Huangfu Song's army lost nearly 20,000, and only 60,000 soldiers remained. After the Julu City Slope, Huangfu Song went on a killing spree again, and after killing the Yellow Turban Army and surrendering 30,000 soldiers, Chen Qun stopped: "Uncle Huangfu, can you listen to your nephew and let go of the remaining 40,000 young people, okay?" ”

Hearing this, Huangfu Song looked at Chen Qun with his eyebrows: "Changwen, I'm afraid it's difficult for my uncle to do this, I have already executed people over thirty-five years old who have been reduced to stroke first according to your request, and then executed the old, weak, sick and disabled, and the rest of these people must not be let go." ”

Chen Qun looked at Huangfu Song's determined expression and frowned, "Uncle, what are your real concerns when you tell your nephew?" These young men are all part of our Han people, although they were confused by Zhang Jiao for a while, but we should also give them a chance to repent and reform, and put them all to death like this, and it is our Han people who will be hurt in the end, you should know that the Qiang people in the north are already eyeing the Central Plains! ”

Huangfu Song looked at the angry Chen Qun and nodded: "Changwen, uncle knows that you need manpower, and he also knows that most of the manpower you need is to develop the Chen family and your Shaomu Mountain City, but how many people can your mountain city support?" If my uncle remembers correctly, he has already provided you with 110,000 slaves, so aren't those people enough for you? Can you feed 110,000 people?

Now that the imperial court has suffered such a big disaster, coupled with the drought last year and this year, many places have lost their harvests, and I know very well that many of these people have been forced to embark on this desperate road, but if I let them go, do you think they will be obedient to the people? I'll tell you the answer directly, no! Not at all!

Since these people are forced to take this desperate road, it means that they cannot survive at all. I dare say that I have released them now, and they will gather again to make trouble, because they are used to this life of robbery, and it will be difficult to get them to work again! And the current situation does not allow us to do that!

Yes, they are Han! But they are now worse than the robbers in the north who covet our great Han country! If we don't kill them all, most of them will do things that are happy to their relatives and enemies, believe it or not? ”

Chen Qun looked at the angry Huang Fu Song and nodded, he understood that Huang Fu Song was right, but he couldn't let Huang Fu Song slaughter people again: "Uncle, my nephew knows that what you said is right, but my nephew still begs you to raise your noble hand and give them to your nephew." ”

Huangfu Song looked at Chen Qun and frowned, "Changwen, why don't you understand?" Thou hast brought them all over, and the servants of the city, what wilt thou feed them? ”

Chen Qun lowered his head and said in a deep voice: "Uncle, please rest assured, my nephew is free to feed them." ”

Huangfu Song sneered when he heard this: "Hmph! You're just hard-mouthed, what do you do to feed so many people? These 40,000 young soldiers alone can eat you to death! If you dare to bring these soldiers to your young mountain city, I can guarantee that your previous efforts will be directly in vain, and these people will join forces to swallow everything you have done before. Tell me that there will be no mercy for all the soldiers! ”

"Wait!" When Chen Qun heard this, he blocked again, and he anxiously knelt down on one knee and hugged his fists at Huangfu Song: "Uncle, nephew, please!" Please let them go! Give them to your nephew, who will put them to death with his own hands, if they are as you say, they cannot be cultivated. ”

Huangfu Song shook his head: "Changwen, even if you kneel, it's useless, uncle won't be soft-hearted!" With so many young and strong Yellow Turban soldiers gathered together, even if my uncle wants to give it to you, Your Majesty will order me to crusade if he knows about it! You're dead to this heart! Your heart is too soft! You can't control these fanatics at all, and you may barely be able to control their families, which is the main reason why your uncle gave you people before. ”

Chen Qun saw that Huangfu Song was about to give an order again, so he hurriedly said: "Uncle, is it okay to leave those under the age of twenty to your nephew?" They are still very young, and the nephew is absolutely sure to educate them and feed them. ”

Hearing this, Huangfu Song nodded with a gloomy face: "Okay!" Come on, pick out these men who are twenty years old and under and sell them into slavery, and the others, all, kill! After the killing, gather all the remaining people. ”

"Yes!" After receiving the order, the officers and generals quickly carried it out.

Chen Qun got up and looked at these departing figures, and shook his head helplessly, he tried his best, but he really couldn't save it.

Liu Bei came to Chen Qun's side and whispered, "Fourth brother, why are you doing this?" What General Huangfu did was not wrong at all, it is not a pity for these soldiers to die, I dare to guarantee that if it was the official army that was defeated in this battle, they would be even more ruthless to the official army! And you don't have an army in your hands, how can you control these soldiers? ”

Chen Qun nodded: "Okay!" What the eldest brother said is reasonable, but the younger brother is too soft-hearted. ”

An hour later, Chen Qun saw a crowd of people not far away. Soon, more than 6,000 Yellow Turban soldiers under the age of 20 were escorted over.

Seeing this, Huangfu Song let out a sigh, and then led Chen Qun and his party to the middle of the soldiers, stood on a high place with Chen Qun and shouted, "All of you listen to me!" Today, you can survive all thanks to this Young Master Chen Qun to intercede for you! Ben Jiang thought that you were young and ignorant and went astray, and Young Master Chen Qun repeatedly interceded for you, so Ben Jiang promised him to spare your life and give you a chance to repent, I hope you will follow Young Master Chen Qun to do things well in the future, if Ben will know that you have done something wrong again, Ben will never forgive you again! ”

"Thank you Young Master Chen for saving your life!" More than 6,000 soldiers knelt down to Chen Qun one by one, just now they saw the people around them being executed one by one, they thought they would also die, but they were let go, and learned that it was a young man named Chen Qun who begged for them to intercede. So at this time, Huangfu Song shouted out again, and these people who were lucky enough to survive knelt down to Chen Qun one by one.

Chen Qun waited for everyone to calm down and said in a deep voice: "I saved you because you are all Han Chinese!" I can save you not without a price, I bought all of you from the captives to be executed by the imperial court, and you will be the servants of my Chen family in the future, do you understand? ”

"Thank you, master!" Everyone bowed to Chen Qun again.

Chen Qun directly took out thirty gold and handed it to Huangfu Song: "Uncle, these gold are the value of these people, and we will calculate the rest of the gold together after you dispose of it." ”

Huangfu Song nodded after taking the gold: "Okay! You are free, I will return to the camp after dealing with the other slaves, and I will go out tomorrow morning to chase after the daring forwards, and you will settle your men as soon as possible. ”

After Huang Fu Song finished speaking, he left with his generals. Only Liu Bei stayed with more than 3,500 officers and troops in Zhending City.

"Fourth brother, what are you going to do with these more than 6,000 people?" Liu Bei said to Chen Qun after the official army left.

Chen Qun looked at Zhao Yun: "Master, help me choose some good seedlings among these people, there are too few fourteen guards around the apprentice, by the way, select the elite guards, let them follow us at any time." ”

Zhao Yun nodded: "Okay!" Wait a minute. ”

After Zhao Yun finished speaking, he began to act, because there were too many people, although Zhao Yun selected quickly, it still took more than an hour.

Zhao Yun only selected twenty-six personal guards for Chen Qun from more than 6,000 people, but selected six hundred elite guards, and there were more than 5,500 people left.

Chen Qun knew that there must be good hands among the remaining 5,500 people, because Zhao Yun had not traveled through the entire crowd at all, so Chen Qun smiled at Liu Bei: "Big brother, second brother, third brother: you also pick some guards for you." These brothers are not very old, and if you train them well, they will definitely become your right-hand men in the future. ”

Hearing this, Liu Bei looked at Chen Qun with bright eyes: "Fourth brother, don't do it!" These people were all saved by you from General Huangfu and bought as servants of the Chen family, how can the eldest brother be embarrassed? ”

Chen Qun looked at Liu Bei and smiled slightly: "Big brother, don't refuse!" There are no guards, and the little brother is not worried about your safety. ”

After Chen Qun finished speaking, he looked at Guan Yu and Zhang Fei again; "Second brother, third brother, each of you choose three hundred guards, and help the eldest brother choose them, and I will take the rest of the people with me, so you must choose the good ones."

Zhang Fei was overjoyed when he heard this: "Okay! The fourth brother is really refreshing! Then the third brother is welcome! ”

After Zhang Fei finished speaking, he rushed into the crowd and began to select people, but Guan Yu did not move.

Seeing this, Chen Qun came to Guan Yu's side: "Second brother, do our four brothers still use this to see outsiders like this?" Seriously, the younger brother still has more than 100,000 manpower available in the mountain city, aren't all of our brothers brothers? Go and pick some good people, and you will feel at ease with them by your side in the future. ”

Guan Yu saw that Chen Qun was sincere, so he nodded; "Okay, fourth brother, your second brother has your heart! Then the second brother is welcome. ”

Chen Qun smiled and nodded, then attached his hand to Guan Yu's ear and whispered: "Second brother, you must pick all the good hands, these people are a potential danger to the younger brother, but they are a wealth to the elder brothers, doesn't the second brother want to have his own personal soldiers?" Pick it hard, 300 per person is the lower limit, and there is no upper limit. ”

Guan Yu smiled and shook his head when he heard this, and then entered the crowd and began to choose.

An hour later, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei selected a full thousand people from the crowd and returned Chen Qun to four thousand five hundred.

At this time, it was almost dark, so Chen Qun smiled and said: "Let's go back to the camp for dinner now, everyone arrange their own manpower, and we will follow the army tomorrow morning." ”

"Good!" Everyone nodded in unison, because everyone meant this at this time, and more than 10,000 people left Julu City and came to the barracks of the Zhending army.