Chapter 12: The Yellow Turban Uprising

"Miss Xiu'er, don't be angry, Chu doesn't mean to look down on women, but I haven't heard of the precedent of women joining the army since ancient times, and taking women out on the march may affect the morale of the army." Xu Chu explained, in fact, he still didn't believe that these women in light gauze were also soldiers, thinking that they were military singers.

Liu Meng couldn't see Xu Chu's thoughts, but he didn't explain it directly, but said, "Zhongkang, can you ask those knights and listen to what they think of these women?" ”

Xu Chu went to ask those cavalrymen, these cavalrymen had fought side by side with the Meiji guards more than ten times all the way, how could they not know the power of these women? Now they stand still one by one and look like the singers of the army, but once they are on the battlefield, their lethality is not inferior to that of these iron-blooded cavalry, especially the men who face them directly, their combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced, so that they have the least casualties in battle, but the enemy army killed and wounded is not much less than them, which makes them all envious.

Xu Chu was secretly amazed when he heard this, so he didn't say anything anymore, but envied the subordinates of the three brothers and sisters who had such combat power.

Liu Meng saw the envy in Xu Chu's eyes, so he said to him: "Zhongkang doesn't need to be envious, since you follow me, you are your own person, let me ask you, don't talk about these women, how long do you think these cavalry need to be trained?" How much is it worth to equip a horse? ”

Xu Chu understood what Liu Meng meant after a little thought, not to mention that these cavalry needed to train for several years to become such an elite, even the equipment on their bodies was not something that a village could afford, and a village as big as Xujia Village could not afford it.

Xu Chu hurriedly said: "Then dare to ask where did the lord get these elites?" ”

"There are many spells taught to me by the immortals that day, and these soldiers are transformed from ordinary hunters, and some are condensed with mana." Liu Meng explained.

"The lord can still do such thaumaturgy? I wonder what is required for this transformation and cohesion? ”

"There are no requirements, as long as the mana is enough, the mana consumed by the transformation is lower."

"Can the lord convert some of these knights for his subordinates? In this way, it is good for subordinates to worry about the Lord, and there are many young and strong people in my Xujia Village. Xu Chu hurriedly said.

"Zhongkang don't worry, the young people of Xujia Village should let them go to Xiangyang, I'm ready for what Zhongkang wants, let's go, let's set off to march to the north and go out of the city." In front of these generals, Liu Meng is not easy to say the reason why he no longer transforms people into soldiers, in Liu Meng's heart, these summoned soldiers are also a simple pile of data, and they are also flesh and blood people, they will also die, and there are joys and sorrows, but embarking on the road of hegemony is always to die, Liu Meng can only choose this way, this is also his helplessness, all he can do is to try his best to reduce the casualties of these soldiers.

Out of the city, Liu Meng summoned a hundred tiger cavalry with his killing intent value, and the remaining killing intent value of the bandits along the way was half gone, and there were only more than two thousand points left.

I saw a hundred elite cavalrymen wearing heavy armor and holding long knives, carrying large shields and hand axes behind their backs, with iron-blooded momentum in front of Xu Chu.

"Zhong Kang, these will be your exclusive guards in the future, they are not ordinary, in the face of ordinary enemies, they will use long knives to meet the enemy, when they encounter the enemy wearing armor, the hand axe behind them will show its power, ordinary armor can not be stopped, even a few axes can be heavily armored, and the big shield behind them also enhances their protection against arrows, reducing the damage caused by the enemy's bow and arrow when charging." Liu Meng explained to Xu Chu the particularity of these guards.

Xu Chu didn't expect that Liu Meng would give him a hundred such elites before he made an inch, this trust and reuse moved him, he naturally didn't think that summoning these hundred people was a very easy thing for Liu Meng, after all, he saw that the three brothers and sisters each had only a hundred guards, it can be seen that Liu Meng has a limit to summoning these soldiers, and even if the hundred people given to him do not use up their mana, they must have consumed a lot, and suddenly gave birth to the feeling that the soldiers died as confidants.

"Xu Chu has not made an inch of success so far, the lord has treated me like this, Chu will live up to the high expectations of the lord, although he can't repay it." Xu Chu saluted.

"Zhong Kang doesn't need this, the icing on the cake is not as good as sending carbon in the snow, now I am weak, Zhong Kang is willing to help me, and I am also grateful." Liu Meng helped Xu Chu up.

"Okay, you two big men don't be little daughters there, I'm a girl who looks numb, ashamed, ashamed." Ren Xiu'er couldn't stand it anymore.

"Haha, what the little sister said is, how can our eldest husband be such a child, let's go." As he spoke, he patted his horse and took the lead.

Xu Chu scratched the back of his head a little embarrassed, and also patted his horse to follow.

Dian Wei also glanced at Ren Xiu'er with some tears and laughter: "You, you are eccentric." ”

"Hehe, I just can't get used to it, otherwise they don't know when it will be sour, and the second brother is still domineering and handsome when he leads the army to fight." Ren Xiu'er stuck out her tongue.

"Alright, let's follow along, and the whole army will go." Dian Wei waved his hand, and the whole army set off.

Liu Meng's destination is Zhuojun, the Three Kingdoms want to say who is the most famous in the later generations, needless to say must be Guan Yu Guan Erye, now there is a chance to see the real face, Liu Meng of course wants to see it, and it is located in Youzhou, at this time Youzhou Taishou is Liu Yan, is a Han family member, Liu Meng plans to rely on his unwarranted Han family identity to visit Liu Yan, want to come to him with people as long as he casually says a testable descendant of the prince, Liu Yan will not refuse, and then use this person as his recommender in the court, In this way, he will not be swallowed by others. Liu Meng calculated the time and found that Zhang Jiao's move was imminent and could not be delayed any longer, so the group of people stopped suppressing bandits along the way, and the goal was to go directly to Zhuo County.

When Liu Meng and his people marched to the border of Zhuo County, a piece of news caused a sensation throughout the country. Tang Zhou, a disciple of the great virtuous teacher Zhang Jiao, told the imperial court that Zhang Jiao intended to cause trouble, and the emperor ordered the general He Jin to lead his troops to attack Ma Yuanyi, and Ma Yuanyi died. After hearing this, Zhang Jiao knew that the matter was exposed, raised troops overnight, and called himself "General Tiangong", and named his brother Zhang Bao as "General Digong" and Zhang Liang as "General Rengong". The people who have been oppressed by the imperial court for a long time have responded, and there are four or five hundred thousand servants, and everyone wears a yellow scarf on their heads, so they are called the Yellow Turban Army, and the thieves are huge, but the official army has been rotten for a long time, lacks combat effectiveness, and is defeated and retreated by the rebel army, and the court is shaken. Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty had no choice but to order all localities to recruit their own villagers to fight for thieves and make meritorious contributions, and on the other hand, he ordered Zhonglang generals Lu Zhi, Huangfu Song, and Zhu Jun to lead the elite of the imperial court to conquer the Yellow Turban Army in three ways.

Liu Meng and the others finally arrived in Zhuo County a few days later. However, at this time, the pace of the Yellow Turban Army also came to the border of Youzhou, and Liu Yan, the Taishou of Youzhou, heard that the thieves were coming, and hurriedly issued an example to recruit volunteers to resist the thieves together.

"Now that wars are raging everywhere, the Yellow Turban Army has won successive victories, and the officers and troops have been defeated and retreated, it is a good time for us to make meritorious contributions. Liu Meng said to everyone.

"Lord, didn't you say that you can't defect to the official army?" Xu Chu asked.

"I'm not going to defect to him, now he is recruiting the rebels, and we are just going to help him resist the thieves as the rebels, and we also need a weighty person to help us declare to the imperial court, so that we will not be swallowed by others." Liu Meng explained.

After listening to Liu Meng's explanation, everyone naturally had no opinion, so Liu Meng led the three of them to Taishou Mansion to meet Liu Yan.

Liu Yan heard that a Han clan leader came to help, so he met with him. Liu Meng casually made up the identity of a descendant of the royal family, and Liu Yan did not delve into it, after all, there were more relatives of the Han family in the whole world, and some of them were down, and the genealogy was slowly not recorded.

Then Liu Meng introduced the three people behind him to Liu Yan, Ren Xiu'er Liu Yan didn't care much, only said that she was brought by Liu Meng's sister by the way, he valued Dian Wei and Xu Chu, the two fierce generals, and then he heard that Liu Meng said that he was a little surprised when he brought three hundred cavalry, but after hearing that there were one hundred female soldiers, he was the same as Xu Chu at the beginning.

"Virtuous nephew, it's a little inappropriate to carry a woman with the army, right?" After hearing that Liu Meng had 300 cavalry, Liu Yan called Liu Meng a virtuous nephew, and Liu Meng had to sigh that the ancients were also quite realistic.

"Uncle doesn't know, these female soldiers are not comparable to ordinary women, they have followed their little nephew all the way and experienced a lot of battles, and they are no worse than men on the battlefield." Liu Meng also beat snakes and called Liu Yan his uncle on the stick.

"Since the virtuous nephew insists, then I don't want to say more, it's not too early now, I asked my subordinates to prepare wine and food for the virtuous nephew to catch the wind and wash the dust, just a few days ago, there was also a Han clan leader who came to help, named Liu Bei, I just introduced you to know each other." After speaking, Liu Yan arranged for his subordinates to prepare wine and food, and asked people to invite Liu Bei.

It didn't take long for the banquet to be completed, and the people who went to invite Liu Bei at this time also came back and brought in three people.

The first person is seven and a half feet long, with two ears and shoulders, hands over the knees, the face is like a crown of jade, the lips are greased, and there is a good appearance, followed by two strong men, one of whom is nine feet long, the beard is two feet long, the face is like a heavy jujube, the eyes of the phoenix, the silkworm eyebrows, not angry and self-righteous, and the other person is eight feet long, with a leopard's head and eyes, and a swallow's jaw and tiger whiskers.

When Liu Meng saw it, he knew that this was the three Taoyuan brothers, and he didn't pay much attention to the other two, but now that he saw the martial saint Liu Meng with his own eyes, he was naturally a little excited in his heart, so he kept staring at Guan Yu. Guan Yu was inexplicably looked at by him, but it was not easy to have a seizure when he saw that he was also a guest invited by Liu Yan.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Liu Yan led everyone into the table, and after sitting down, Liu Yan raised his glass and said: "The two virtuous nephews are here to help me break the thief, the old man is not very grateful, so I would like to give the two virtuous nephews a cup." And they all toasted and drank it all.