Zou Jing was very grateful to Liu Ze for showing him the way last time, and it was precisely because of the road that Liu Ze planned for him to take the Bohai Sea and Le'an that they arrived at Linzi City safely and smoothly, and naturally knew everything about Liu Ze's inquiry. Although Liu Ze had a general understanding of the situation through the information of the Jin Yingwei, he did not know the details.

Zou Jingyuan originally reported the last expedition to Qingzhou. After arriving in Qingzhou, Linzi was besieged by a large number of Yellow Turban Army, although Zou Jing only led 5,000 soldiers and horses, but Liu Bei and Tian Kai two generals charged ahead, and killed the commander of the Yellow Turban Army in one fell swoop, Gong Jing also led the army to fight, and the Yellow Turban Army was defeated and the siege of Linzi was solved.

After the event, Zou Jing wanted to return to Youzhou, and after Gong Jing's repeated retention, Liu Bei and Tian Kai stayed in Qingzhou, and Zou Jing led his troops back to Youzhou alone. As for Liu Bei's whereabouts, Zou Jing is not very clear, and later heard that Gongsun Chan fought fiercely with the Wuhuan people in Youbeiping, and Liu Bei has returned to Youbeiping to support Gongsun Zhan.

Zou Jing said that the situation was roughly the same as what Liu Ze had mastered, and Liu Ze also sighed secretly, originally he was counting on Liu Bei to stay in Qingzhou to develop, which was also an excellent opportunity for Liu Bei, but the development of things is often difficult to fulfill, and many things are far from being grasped by Liu Ze.

News came from Nanyang that Zhu Jun had put down the Nanyang rebellion. After Zhu Jun marched into Nanyang in the autumn of last year, he joined forces with Xu Xuan, the assassin of Jingzhou, and the Qin Jie soldiers of Nanyang, and launched a strong attack on the Yellow Turban Zhao Hongbu stationed in Wancheng. Nanyang is the birthplace of Emperor Guangwu and one of the richest areas in the Eastern Han Dynasty. After the Yellow Turban captured Wancheng, it plundered a large amount of wealth and materials, which is also the reason why the Nanyang Yellow Turban Army is well-equipped and the most powerful among the Yellow Turban Army.

Zhu Jun attacked for several months, but he never captured Wancheng. Zhang Rang and others had another discussion, thinking that Zhu Jun had fought for a long time without success and wasting money and food in vain, and asked Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty to remove Zhu Jun from his post and investigate him. Another sage will lead his soldiers. Fortunately, Zhang Wen and other ministers interceded, and Emperor Ling of Han did not accept Zhang Rang and others' recitals.

Although the court did not pursue it for the time being, Zhu Jun was in a hurry and could not attack Wancheng again. I am afraid that it is inevitable to lose my official position and leave my post. In order to keep his job. Zhu Jun gathered all his troops. A fierce attack was launched on Nanyang City.

Zhu Jun thought about it, and built a dirt mountain on the periphery of Wancheng, which was higher than the city wall of Wancheng. Standing on the top of the dirt mountain, not only can you peep into the movement in the city, but the archers can also shoot into the city of Wancheng, and for a while, the arrows rained down, and the Yellow Turban Army was unstoppable. Zhu Junnai sent Qin Jie to lead troops to attack the southwest of Wancheng to attract the main force of the Yellow Turban to reinforce the southwest. Then Zhu Jun personally led 5,000 elite soldiers to attack the northeast of Wancheng.

Sun Jian served as the pioneer of the siege, fearless of death, braved the arrow rate and rushed to the city wall, wielding a knife to behead more than 20 Yellow Turbans, the rest of the Yellow Turban soldiers were frightened stupid, and they did not dare to approach, Zhu Jun took the opportunity to attack Wancheng in a big way.

Zhao Hong had just rushed over from the southwest, and when he saw this, he was furious, waved his lance, and Pegasus came straight to Sun Jian. Sun Jian still had no mount, and he only held a short knife in his hand, and when he saw Zhao Hong rushing over, he didn't dodge or dodge, raised his hand to hold the long lance that stabbed him, pulled it with a while, and ripped Zhao Hong off the horse, and stabbed Zhao Hong to death with a reflexive lance. Then he got on Zhao Hong's horse and rushed towards the Yellow Turban Army. As soon as Zhao Hong died, the Yellow Turban Army was in chaos, and Sun Jian was extremely brave, and no one dared to approach him.

Seeing that the general trend was gone, the Yellow Turban Army abandoned the outer city, retreated to the inner city, and elected Han Zhong as the commander of the canal. Zhu Jun surrounded the inner city on all sides, and set up ladders to build rushing cars to attack it. The inner city is small, the remnants of the Yellow Turban are short of food, and they can't resist the enemy, Han Zhongnai sent people to beg to surrender, Xu Xuan and Qin Jie thought that it would be good if they could take Wancheng without blood, but Zhu Jun did not allow it, and killed the envoys, which eliminated Han Zhong's idea of surrendering.

Sun Jian asked: "When Gaozu ruled the world, he surrendered and rebelled, and the whole world returned to obedience, why didn't the general allow Han Zhong to surrender?" ”

Zhu Jun shook his head and said, "This time and that time." In the past, when Chu and Han were fighting for hegemony, the world was in turmoil, the people had no master, and Gaozu accepted all rivers and rivers, and tolerated and rewarded him, thinking that it was a plan to win the world. Now the four seas are unified, the country and the people are safe, now the yellow turban is in chaos, disturbing the Quartet, if it is allowed to surrender, it is to help the thief to be powerful, if the rebel thief has no worries about life and death, when he gains profits, he wantonly plunders, and surrenders when he loses to avoid death, will it not help the will of the thief, the world is in turmoil, how to pacify, foolishly think that allowing the thief to surrender is the next policy. ”

Sun Jian nodded and said: "The general's words are quite reasonable, but the thieves are not allowed to surrender, and the thieves will inevitably fight to the death." Now there are still tens of thousands of Yellow Turban remnants in the city, and 10,000 people are united. ”

Zhu Jun pondered for a moment and said: "Our army can besiege the city in the northwest, leaving the southeast alone and not attacking, the Yellow Turban thieves will have no intention of fighting and abandon the city. So, Zhu Jun withdrew his troops from the southeast and stormed the northwest.

Wancheng was besieged, Zhu Jun refused to surrender, Han Zhong has made preparations for the fish to die and the net is broken, but the soldiers in the city are short of food, and it will not last long, at this time, the official army is attacking the city, but leaving a gap in the southeast, Han Zhong is just a peasant, how to recognize Zhu Jun's plan, thinking that the opportunity has come, so he led the crowd to break through, but just out of the city, he fell into Zhu Jun's ambush, tens of thousands of soldiers under his command were killed, and Han Zhong was also captured alive. Nanyang Taishou Qin Jiesu had an enmity with Han Zhong, and after he captured it, he beheaded Han Zhong indiscriminately to show the public.

The Yellow Turban was terrified, and he did not dare to fight in the inner city, and raised Sun Xia as the commander of the canal to resist the officers and soldiers. Zhu Jun once again launched a rapid attack on the inner city of Wancheng, attacking the city in turn day and night. After the outer city was lost, the defense of the inner city alone could not withstand the attacks of officers and soldiers.

Sun Xia struggled to support for a month, there was no food and grass inside, no reinforcements outside, and his subordinates suffered casualties among the Yellow Turban soldiers.

In line with the principle of eliminating evil, Zhu Jun allowed Sun Xia to escape, led his troops to pursue closely, and broke the remnants of the Yellow Turban in Jingshan in Western Hubei, Sun Xia was desperate and committed suicide, most of the more than 10,000 Yellow Turbans under his command were killed, and the Yellow Turban Army in Nanyang County was completely eradicated......

Nanyang has been established, the Henan Yellow Turban has been wiped out, and the Hebei Yellow Turban is only left in Guangzong, it is obvious that the battle of Guangzong will be the last battle to exterminate the Yellow Turban. Guangzong City has been surrounded by the official army of the three roads, Zhang Jiao seems to have become a turtle in the urn, but Huangfu Song did not dare to be careless, after all, Guangzong is Zhang Jiao's old nest, painstakingly operated for so many years, the city is strong, the grain and grass are sufficient, and the Yellow Turban soldiers defending the city are all Zhang Jiao's descendant trump card - Yellow Turban Lux, Lu Zhi did not take Guangzong for several months last year. After besieging Guangzong, Huangfu Song also adopted Lu Zhi's old method and besieged it with deep trenches and high bases, but the order of the court came down, but it urged Huangfu Song to fight quickly. Emperor Ling of Han was also carried away by the huge victory, and he wanted to exterminate all the Yellow Turban traitors immediately.

This makes Huangfu Song very difficult, although the officers and soldiers successfully recovered Henan and Hebei, but for Zhang Jiao, who is far away from Guangzong's nest, the officers and soldiers do not have any advantage in strength, in terms of overall strength, the officers and soldiers are only more than 100,000 people, and Zhang Jiao has more than 100,000 elite main Yellow Turban Warriors, there are still more than 100,000 Yellow Turban Soldiers, especially the Yellow Turban Warriors, although after several major battles, his main force has not suffered much loss, and still retains strong combat effectiveness, and the city defense of Guangzong City is strong, If they want to attack by force, the officers and men will inevitably pay a heavy price in casualties.

After receiving the edict, Huangfu Song immediately convened the generals to discuss.

Zheng Tai said worriedly: "Although the Yellow Turban is poor, it still has strong troops, and the city defense of Guangzong is strong, if our army rushes in, it will inevitably lose its troops, and it may not be able to take Guangzong." Although Zhang Jiao retreated to Guangzong, he was hiding the main force, and if our army attacked unfavorably and the loss of troops was too large, it was easy to be counterattacked by thieves, and I was afraid that the previous efforts would be wasted. ”

Liu Yu said: "Although the yellow thieves are crowded, but the small city of Guangzong has limited grain accumulation, the yellow turban thieves have no reinforcements, trapped in the lonely city, and when the food is exhausted, Zhang Jiao will betray his relatives and leave, and it will be easy to take Guangzong at that time." The only way to do this is to take it step by step, to trap it in deep trenches and high trenches, and to plan it slowly. ”

The generals also spoke one after another, but the general statement was not much different from Zheng and Liu, and everyone agreed that it was not appropriate to rush into the army at this time. Huangfu Song sighed and said: "The generals naturally understand the intentions of the officials, but the urgency of the court's urging cannot be delayed, if you hesitate and stop the troops, I am afraid that they will follow in the footsteps of Duke Lu and be condemned by the court." ”

All the generals were silent, when Lu Zhi was in Guangzong last year, he was not disgraced by the eunuchs on the charge of slacking off the morale of the army without a fight, and he was imprisoned.

Huangfu Song said to Liu Ze: "Runde, what do you think?" ”

Liu Zedao: "Zhang Jiao has been operating Taiping Road for more than ten years, and after the Yellow Turban Incident, he has plundered a lot, although Guangzong is a small land, but the Yellow Turban Army has plundered the property, grain and grass here in recent years, I am afraid that it is not too much of a problem to support an army of more than 100,000 people for three or five years, if our army really wants to besiege the city without attacking, I am afraid that it may not be able to take Guangzong in three or five years." ”

Three or five years? Just kidding, does Emperor Han Ling have that patience? Everyone shook their heads.

Liu Ze said again: "If it is really surrounded for three or five years, don't say that the court can't explain it, the Yellow Turban has been in chaos for a long time, Zhang Jiao can't give the head, and the remnants of the Yellow Turban will surely resurrect, I'm afraid that the Central Plains will make waves again." Therefore, the last general believed that the battle of Gwangjong should be resolved quickly and not delayed. ”

Huangfu Song's face was slightly embarrassed, and he said, "Does Runde have a clever plan?" (To be continued......)