The five-day Langya Commodity Fair came to an end on July 26, with a total transaction volume of more than 200 million yuan, and the amount of the contract signed was as high as 700 million yuan.

Most merchants were full of praise for the flexible texture, intricate and exquisite engraving and color separation printing technology of gold and silver coupons, but they did not recognize the circulation effect of gold and silver coupons, and still adhered to the trading tradition of gold and copper coins.

Only the merchants in Liaodong, Jiaozhou and Liangzhou, which are located in remote areas, for safety reasons, repeatedly negotiated with the Langya Chamber of Commerce, Xuzhou Mijia Commercial Bank and Langya Money Bank, and finally signed a contract to settle with gold and silver coupons, which made Liu Cun more or less comforted, and Han Yang, who was in charge of Qingzhou's finance, regarded it as a good start and was full of confidence in the final passage of gold and silver coupons to the world.

At the end of the event, the giant businessmen from the Han states left Langya one after another, and the news that 150,000 Taishan yellow scarves besieged Fenggao, Bo and Liangfu counties in Taishan County also came.

Only one day later, another shocking news quickly spread to all directions:

The jade seal of the country fell into the hands of Sun Jian, who attacked the imperial capital Luoyang, Sun Jian secretly hid the jade seal to deceive Yuan Shu, under the pretext of attacking Liu Biao, led the troops to leave in a hurry, and rushed back to his hometown in Jiangdong by Jingzhou day and night, and now he has been intercepted by Liu Biao, the Mu of Jingzhou who is loyal to the Han family!

When the news reached Yecheng, Yuan Shao, Liu Dai, Han Fu and others were shocked, they were not just shocked that Sun Jian took away the jade seal of the country, but that the 150,000 Yellow Turban troops swarmed out from all directions of the Taishan Mountain Range and attacked at the same time. He has defeated all the officers and soldiers outside the three county towns of Fenggao, Boxian and Liangfu, and killed all the famous and wealthy merchants and landlords in the three counties. and then broke through the narrow city and the low city walls of Liangfu and Bo County, and at this moment have besieged the high city of Taishan County. Attack day and night.

Yanzhou assassin Liu Dai just led 30,000 Yanzhou troops to southern Hebei half a month ago, to support Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan to fight, shocked to hear that Boxian and Liangfu two cities have fallen, Fenggao fell into more than 100,000 Yellow Turban Army encirclement, worried about the nest of Liu Dai regardless of Yuan Shao and Han Fu and others repeatedly retained, immediately led his 30,000 officers and soldiers back to Yanzhou to aid Fenggao, along the way constantly mobilized the county defenders to advance together, only six days to complete the journey of 400 miles, Liu Dai personally led 10,000 vanguard troops have arrived in Fenggao 150 miles west of Shouzhangcheng (now Dongping County).

Strategist Cheng Yu was very tired when he saw the soldiers who were hurrying day and night. Liu Dai was very impatient, so he advised Liu Dai to rest for two days on the night of camping, and bluntly said that after the 60,000 troops behind him arrived in Shouzhang, they must also rest for a day to replenish grain and grass, otherwise they would not be able to fight a decisive battle with more than ten thousand Yellow Turban thieves.

Seeing Liu Dai's hesitation, Cheng Yu once again explained that Fenggao's city wall was tall and strong, and Taishan was too guarded by Yingshao with a calm personality and both civil and military. There are still 5,000 elite soldiers and more than 30,000 people in the city, and they will definitely be able to withstand the siege of the Yellow Turban bandits.

Liu Dai weighed it for a long time, and the generals and strategists under his command also worked hard to make suggestions, and finally adopted Cheng Yu's opinion. He ordered the whole army to rest, and ordered the officials of Dongping County to make every effort to gather grain, grass and horses.

Two days later, only 20,000 officers and soldiers arrived at Shouzhang to join him. The 30,000 officers and soldiers urgently dispatched from various counties along the way were still grinding two hundred miles away, and Liu Dai was furious. Regardless of Cheng Yu's hard dissuasion, he led 30,000 descendants early the next morning. rushed to Fenggao at full speed, and ordered Cheng Yu, who was "greedy for life and afraid of death", to stay in Shouzhang, and wait for the follow-up people to arrive and immediately go to Fenggao.

Liu Dai's army was very fast, had not yet arrived in Bo County, tens of thousands of yellow scarves occupying Bo County immediately abandoned the city and fled into the mountains, Liu Dai and his soldiers saw this and their confidence was greatly boosted, and they drove into Bo County to rest for a night, leaving 3,000 officers and soldiers to garrison Bo County the next morning, and the rest of the soldiers under the leadership of Liu Dai rushed to Fenggao non-stop, shouting the slogan of defeating 100,000 rabbles in one fell swoop.

On the afternoon of the ninth day of the eighth month, Liu Dai's army, which had been traveling for 40 miles in a row, marched to the foot of Wuliang Mountain, and suddenly sounded earth-shattering drums and shouts of killing all around, and 60,000 Yellow Turban troops who were ambushed on the slopes of the north and south mountains and in the dense forests on the east and west sides were killed at the same time, surrounded Liu Dai's army, and wantonly slashed and killed.

The 27,000 Yanzhou officers and soldiers were exhausted, and in the face of the 60,000 Yellow Turban soldiers who were waiting for their work like wolves, they had no power to resist, and the roar under Wuliang Mountain shook the sky and the ghosts cried wolf, and nearly half of the more than 20,000 officers and soldiers were killed and wounded in less than two quarters of an hour, and the rest either fell to the ground and surrendered or fled in all directions.

Surrounded by more than 100 guards, Liu Dai escaped from the encirclement and fled to Bo County at the cost of most of the battle deaths.

Liu Dai, who knew life and death in this battle, roared loudly, brandished a big knife and took the lead, leading more than 50 generals and guards to rush towards the blocking enemy, and the five hundred yellow scarves suddenly picked up the strong crossbow on the ground, aimed at Liu Dai and others who rushed quickly, and shot Liu Dai into a hedgehog in a blink of an eye.

None of the more than 50 generals and guards behind Liu Dai were spared, and the five hundred yellow turban elites cut off Liu Dai's head, and after cleaning the battlefield, they retreated into the mountains in the north without saying a word, and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

In the night, 30,000 reinforcements were wiped out and Liu Dai died in battle The news came to Fenggao County, the Fenggao soldiers and civilians who had been holding the city for half a month wept bitterly, and their morale plummeted, and as many as 100,000 Yellow Turbans outside the city heard the cry in the city.

The 100,000 Yellow Turban soldiers who rushed into the city were red-eyed, and they slaughtered 35,000 soldiers and civilians in Fenggao City, and then the main force of the 30,000 Yellow Turban Army turned around again to attack Bo County, and the 3,000 defenders of Bo County were so frightened that they abandoned the city and fled, and the Yellow Turban Army occupied Bo County again without much effort.

When the news came out, the world was shaken.

The armies of the counties and counties of Yanzhou without a leader were suddenly scattered, and Taishan County fell into the hands of the Yellow Turban Army from then on, and after a few days, more than 100,000 Yellow Turban troops were divided into three roads again, and attacked Dongping County in the west.

Cheng Yu left in grief and indignation, and when he passed through Puyang, he was retained by Cao Cao, the Taishou of Dongjun, who cherished talents, and Cao Cao comforted Cheng Yu in every way, and invited him every day, Cheng Yu deeply felt Cao Cao's feelings, and finally worshiped under Cao Cao, offered advice to Cao Cao, worked hard, and soon became Cao Cao's incomparably important and trusted confidant.

Shortly thereafter, the news that Sun Jian was shot and killed by Liu Biao's general Huang Zu and that the 30,000 soldiers were almost wiped out, the news that the combined forces of Yuan Shao and Han Fu defeated Gongsun Zhan's army, and the news that Dong Zhuo sent his generals Li Dao and Guo Yan to lead 30,000 troops to reoccupy Luoyang and march eastward followed. (To be continued......)