Chapter 18 Lu Bu is the general and conquers Nanyang.
"Shuntian carrier, the emperor's edict said: Fenwei General Lu Bu has practiced martial arts diligently since he merged with the state to break the thief, and he wants to protect the country and the people, and I am very relieved to hear it. Today, yellow turban thieves are everywhere, disturbing the people of the world. Lu Bu was specially ordered to be the general of the thieves on the South Road, leading tens of thousands of Han tigers to attack the Yellow Turban thieves in Nanyang. Chin this! "Xiao Huangmen hurriedly left after announcing the decree, if he announced the decree to other people, he would not be so good at talking without getting the benefit fee, but even if he gave Xiao Huangmen ten guts, he would not dare to ask Lu Bu for money. This Lu Bu is an incredible character. I heard from a friend who was on duty in the main hall that this Lu Bu was recommended by He Jin and Zhang Rang, two Han super power leaders, to Emperor Ling as the chief general of the Nanyang Expedition Army! Is this worth it? He Jin and Zhang Rang have always been incompatible, and I heard that both of them were smiling afterwards, what method did Lu Bu use to gain the trust of these two people at the same time? No one knew, even Emperor Han Ling was curious.
"Boss, go clean up, and then go gather our five thousand horsemen. Wen Yuan Yide, you and I will go and select tens of thousands of elite soldiers with military talismans. Let's go! Lu Bu put away the holy decree and prepared to leave Luoyang. The reason why he came to Luoyang with great fanfare this time had two purposes in addition to making a name for himself: first, to establish friendly relations with He Jin and Zhang Rang, and second, to obtain the right to lead an elite of the Han army to crusade against the Yellow Turbans in this Yellow Turban Uprising. These points have been completed, and as for the interaction with the princes and ministers, I am going to complete it slowly in the future.
"Big brother, we can finally get out of this hellish place. Haha, these few days can suffocate me Zhang Fei to death. Zhang Fei was very happy when he heard that he could leave Luoyang. These two days just watching the eldest brother maneuver in various forces scared him, a simple man, and Luoyang was too terrible for him.
"Fourth brother, we will come back in a few years with a different attitude. At that time, whatever he enters here, Zhang Rang will be ashes. Lu Bu uttered bold words that shocked the other three
Dividing line
In February of the first year of Zhongping, the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, and in October, the whole country responded. The main force of the Yellow Turban Army was active in three main areas: Jizhou, Nanyang, and Yingchuan. In March, Han Ting sent the world's elite soldiers and ordered Lu Zhi, the general of Beizhonglang, to lead the army to attack the Yellow Turban Army of Zhangjiaosuo in Jizhou, and the left Zhonglang general Huangfu Song. The right middle lang will be Zhu Jun. Cao Ying, the cavalry commander, led his troops to attack the Yingchuan Bocai Department and the Yellow Turban Army. Ordered the Fenwei general Lü Bu to attack Nanyang.
Lu Zhi and Zhang Jiao won and lost several battles in Jizhou, Lu Zhi won in the elite soldiers, and his tactics were amazing, especially with the help of two generals. A surname Liu Mingbei character Xuande makes a double-strand sword, and a surname Guan name Yu Zi Yunchang is a Qinglong Yanyue knife. The former has outstanding strategy, and the latter has the courage of ten thousand people. And the reason why Zhang Jiao was able to compete with Lu Zhi was mainly because of two points: one soldier and many soldiers. Zhang Jiao has been operating in Jizhou for the longest time, and the bullying of the people by the family in Jizhou has also exacerbated the expansion of Zhang Jiao's power. Therefore, Zhang Jiao has more than 400,000 Yellow Turban disciples in Jizhou, although there is not much equipment, there are still many hoes used for farming. The second point is Zhang Jiao's sorcery. Zhang Jiao studied under Nanhua Laoxian. Unlike Lu Bu, he mainly focuses on Taiping Essentials, while Lu Bu focuses on martial arts. Zhang Jiao's understanding of the heavenly scroll in the Taiping technique is no less than that of the Nanhua old immortals, and many of them can be used to show Zhang Jiao, whenever the Yellow Turban Army is weak, Zhang Jiao will use various magic techniques to fight the Han army. Relying on these two points, Zhang Jiao and Lu Zhibu, the main force of the Han army, fought on a par.
However, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun on the battlefield of Yingchuan were in trouble, and Bo, the Yellow Turban commander of Yingchuan, was a rare resourceful man in the Yellow Turban Army. After Huangfu Gao and Zhu Jun fought several times in Bocai, they were surrounded in Changshe City, not to mention the loss of their troops. Later, at the suggestion of Cao Ying, he went to attack the Bocai camp in one night, and originally wanted to attack it with fire. Unexpectedly, Bocai had already arranged a vast number of scouts under Lu Bu's reminder, and the Han army of Huangfu Song was discovered by the Bocai army as soon as they left the city. Huangfu Song's sneak attack failed but was ambushed, and the army lost nearly half, and in desperation, he only retreated in Changshe City and did not dare to come out.
Besides, the Nanyang battlefield where Lu Bu is located, Lu Bu has been like a bamboo all the way, and he looks like he has the best record among the major battlefields. In fact, this is a play played by Lu Bu and Zhang Mancheng, the commander of Nanyang, Lu Bu only killed some ** captive Yellow Turban scum along the way after starting a few battles, and did not attack the main force of the Yellow Turban at all, this is because Lu Bu and Zhang Mancheng made an overlord treaty. This kind of overlord treaty was fought by Lu Bu with his martial arts. Zhang Mancheng was still relatively arrogant at first, thinking that he had more than 100,000 soldiers and Lu Bu only had less than 10,000 cavalry, and the infantry army was only 30,000. But Lu Bu defeated him with his overwhelming strength in several battles. In these wars, Lü Bu and his brother were like no one. Every time, he killed Zhang Mancheng in a straight line, grabbed and released, and then caught and released. Moreover, the Yellow Turban Army in Nanyang was like rags under the iron cavalry charge under the command of Lu Bu. After several losses and defeats, Zhang Mancheng was convinced.
Later, the two met and signed an 'unequal treaty': first of all, the Yellow Turban Army could not develop in Nanyang, because defending Nanyang was the task planned by the emperor to Lü Bu. Under this premise, Lu Bu has no objection to the development of strength in the Yellow Turban. It even pointed out a road, from Nanyang to Xiangyang, then to Jiangling, and finally to the south of Jingzhou or across the river to Jiangdong for development. Of course, on the way to Jingzhou, it is not allowed to kill civilians in the first place. The Yellow Turbans cannot capture the city, but can only capture the mansions of powerful families outside the city. After capturing some wealthy mansions, he could only get seventy percent of the money and could not kill women and children, and the remaining thirty percent had to be given to Lu Bu. And as long as you see Lu Bu's banner, you have to leave. As long as Lu Bu finds out that he has violated the rules. Then Lu Bu will go on a killing spree.
And the money obtained by the Yellow Turban can be exchanged with Lu Bu for some missing resources, such as seeds and weapons. Anyway, Lu Bu can openly and openly take the weapons in the arsenal with fierce battles in various states and counties. In Zhang Mancheng's view, this agreement is basically harmless except for some constraints, but it is just a different place to develop. In particular, Zhang Mancheng agreed very much with the fact that he could buy weapons from Lu Bujun. And what did Lu Bu get in this agreement?
The first is the benefits. Lu Bu can use the hands of the Yellow Turban to collect the money and food of the families in Nanyang, although some of the big families are hiding in the city, but it is these small and medium-sized families who are the culprits who oppress ordinary people, and now they are washed in the blood of the Yellow Turban, which is also karma.
The second is the name. Don't look at Lu Bu, it seems that he hasn't cut down many Yellow Turban thieves, but every time those powerful families are attacked, as long as someone sends a message for help, Lu Bu will come to the rescue and drive away the Yellow Turban Army. This Lu Bu naturally gained a lot of fame, and the officials of the local prefecture and county naturally reported Lu Bu's exploits to Luoyang after receiving the report from these small and medium-sized families, and the content of the report was that Lu Bu defeated the Nanyang Yellow Turban, and the remnants of the Yellow Turban fled to Jingzhou. Lu Bu's exploits in defeating the Nanyang Yellow Turbans are too dazzling compared to the current Lu Zhi and Huangfu Song.
Fame and fortune are there, but Lu Bu also received a benefit. It was he who used the hand of the Yellow Turban to severely blow nearly half of the families in Nanyang, and also led Zhang Mancheng's Nanyang Yellow Turban to Jingzhou. Jingzhou's powerful family is famously powerful, let them attack each other.
"Big brother, this trip to Nanyang is really not enjoyable. I fought a few small battles, and I fought lamely. Why is Big Brother so tolerant of those Yellow Turban thieves? Is it because their leader is your eldest brother? "Zhang Fei, the militant, is complaining to Lu Bu again.
"Yes, big brother, even if you really help the Yellow Turban Party, but we can do this in Nanyang. What if the emperor sends us to Yingchuan? What about even Jizhou? After all, Nanyang Yellow Turban has been 'defeated' by the eldest brother, and it is only a matter of time before we are transferred to other battlefields. Especially a few years ago, Qin Jie, the guard of Nanyang County, was very dissatisfied with the eldest brother always asking him for money, food, and soldiers. Gao Shun also questioned Lu Bu.
"Who said that all the yellow scarves in Nanyang were defeated? Yesterday, I discussed with that Zhang Mancheng and decided to ask him to do me another favor when I left Nanyang. Lu Bu said confidently. I've asked him to sneak up on Nanyang tonight and kill Qin Jie! In this way, Wancheng and Nanyang are in a panic, and I will play the emperor to temporarily act as Nanyang. Hmph, originally Qin Jie, a sour Confucian, didn't come to provoke me, and I wasn't going to move him, but now it seems that he is looking for death, so don't blame me. ”
Gao Shun and Zhang Liao and Zhang Fei looked at each other, and Gao Shun stepped forward and asked, "Big brother, do you want to use Nanyang as the foundation for your future great cause?" Lu Bu often wanted his brothers to talk about the world's major events in private, and he also told them about the decline of the Han Dynasty and the troubled times that were coming. And his ambition to achieve a career is also known to several brothers, so Gao Shun has such a question.
"It's not that I haven't thought about building our ambition in the rich land of Nanyang. But Nanyang is the base camp of the Yuan family of the fourth world and the third duke, and the hidden strength of a big family like the Yuan family is not something we can compete with now. I, a son of the Han family, have no hope of gaining a foothold here, I just want to strengthen our strength here first. Wen Yuan, do you remember when I recently asked you to select elite soldiers from the army that the imperial court gave us? ”
"Well, of course, the eldest brother's instructions are taken to heart. Liao had carefully selected a group of brave men from the 35,000 troops given to us by the imperial court, including about 3,000 cavalry and about 8,000 infantry troops. Zhang Liao stepped forward to report his results.
"It seems that the quality of Luoyang's guards cavalry is very high, Wen Yuan, you take out half of the 'trophies' given to me by the Yellow Turban, and you must buy all these people over, so that they are willing to join our private army. When the time comes, I will ask He Jinzhang for these people, and your task is to make them loyal to me, Lu Bu, Lu Fengxian!" Bo level, wait for you and Wen Yuan to take a look at these elite soldiers, and your trap camp will also be expanded. Eight hundred is too little, and in the future, some major wars will often cost tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands, but your camp is my top soldier. ”
"No!" Gao Shun and Zhang Liao responded in unison.
"Well, the eldest brother still has me. The second brother and the third brother both have tasks, so what about me? Zhang Fei jumped out unwilling to be lonely.
"Hahaha, don't worry, I have a very important task for you. But I'll have to wait until tomorrow to tell you. Lu Bu deliberately sold the pass to Zhang Fei, and directly grabbed Zhang Fei's ears and cheeks in a hurry, which made Lu Bu and Gao Shun Zhang Liao laugh.
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