The thieves died one after another, and the Yellow Turban Army was leaderless, so they naturally began to think about surrendering, and the other thieves suddenly realized, either disbanded or committed suicide.

In this way, Huangfu Song was added to the official rank of the imperial court, became a general of the chariot cavalry, and at the same time was the pastor of Jizhou.

Huangfu Song took this opportunity to show his old friend Lu Zhi his feelings, and explained Lu Zhi's situation to the imperial court, Lu Zhi was rehabilitated and restored to his original official title.

"His grandmother's, no matter how hard and tiring the dirty work is, it's ours, but the credit is theirs, I'm really angry!"

After knowing the result, Zhang Fei was naturally very angry.

Of course, Liu Bei was unhappy, but as an elder brother, he should have exercised restraint, so he persuaded: "Yi Demo should be angry, everyone has merit in eliminating thieves, and the court cannot cover everything, so it should be understood." ”

"Yes, I agree with the eldest brother."

Yu Yi echoed on the side.

Zhang Fei had no choice but to lose his temper and slammed the whip to the ground, which was regarded as a breath of anger.

On the other side of the battlefield, Zhu Jun heard about the battle situation on Huangfu Song's side, and hurriedly urged all the military horses to concentrate on attacking Yangcheng.

The death of the thief Zhang Jiao and Zhang Liang successively reduced the fighting spirit of the Yellow Turban Army, and they were not in the mood to fight, and the situation was reversed for a while, and the original mighty Yellow Turban Army became a small army, like a candle about to be extinguished.

At this time, the military spirit of the Yellow Turban Army had been dispersed, and there was a person named Yan Zheng, who took advantage of Zhang Bao's sleep, cut off his head, opened the city gate and surrendered, so that Zhu Jun pacified several states and counties one after another, and sent people to report the good news to the imperial court.

Zhang Jiao also has some capable disciples, these people are desperate to follow Zhang Jiao, knowing that Zhang Jiao died, they were very sad, and decided to raise troops and hate, gather Zhao Hong, Han Zhong, Sun Zhong and other tens of thousands of people, and go everywhere to burn and loot.

After the imperial court received the report, it immediately sent Zhu Jun with the army that was about to return to encircle and suppress them again.

At this time, Liu Bei also took people to prepare to leave, and met Zhu Jun who returned, after knowing the situation, he thought that the great cause of eliminating thieves was not over, and he still had to go, so he and Zhu Jun attacked in the direction of Wancheng.

After Zhu Jun arrived at Wancheng with a large army, he ordered it to be surrounded, and at the same time sent Liu Bei brothers to lead troops to attack the southwest corner of the city gate, Zhao Hong sent Han Zhong to fight, and Han Zhong was ordered to take the elite people to the southwest corner to resist.

After Zhu Jun knew that he had mobilized the main force of the other party, he hurriedly led the main force to attack the northeast corner of Wancheng, and his self-column cavalry was 2,000, which was menacing.

Zhao Hong was afraid that the defense of the northeast corner would be torn apart, so he hurriedly sent Han Zhong to defend it, Han Zhong moved, and he couldn't care about each other, Liu Bei immediately ordered to follow behind to cover up, and the Yellow Turban Thief was defeated, so he had to enter Wancheng and never come out again.

In this way, Wancheng became a lonely city, and in the midst of the siege, the food was quickly depleted.

Han Zhong walked around the city and found that the army was disheartened, the people were dissatisfied, and if this continued, he would definitely be starved to death, so he sent people to find Zhu Jun outside the city, saying that he wanted to surrender, but Zhu Jun refused.

At this time, Liu Bei was beside him, feeling a little puzzled, so he said: "Back then, Han Gaozu Liu Bang was able to get the world, it was because he had an extraordinary mind and was able to tolerate those who surrendered, why can't you accept a Han Zhong?" ”

Zhu Jun smiled and said: "I know the benevolence and righteousness of Xuande Gong, but the current situation is different, at that time, the Qin Dynasty rioted, the world was in chaos, there was no democracy, so it was useful to recruit surrender, so it could absorb a lot of talents, now the four seas are peaceful, only the Yellow Turban Army rebelled, if they tolerated their surrender, but they could not persuade them to be good, there was a tacit acquiescence in their heart of plunder, in the long run, as long as they failed, they surrendered, and let them revolt, so how to convince the public." ”

Yu Yi thought about it, and he was right, and he also had a deep enmity with the Yellow Turban Army, so he added: "General Zhu Jun is right, the Yellow Turban Army is all loyal believers in the Taiping Dao, and it is difficult for them to change their thinking, and if they are killed, they will definitely be able to deter some other people who are ready to move." ”

Liu Bei sighed: "Now they are besieging Wancheng like a tietong, and now they are begging to surrender, but we don't allow it, then they will definitely fight to the death, and when the time comes, they will definitely make tens of thousands of people in Wancheng suffer heavy casualties." ”

Yu Yi sighed, the eldest brother's heart is really too soft, don't you know the truth that you will succeed and your bones will wither, with his familiarity with the knowledge of the Lu family's Spring and Autumn Period, he has also turned this matter around.

"I understand my brother's painstaking efforts, if it is for the sake of the people, it should be a benevolent and righteous act, so that he will withdraw to the southeast and concentrate all his forces to attack the northwest, so that if there is a gap, they will definitely abandon the city and flee, and we can annihilate it outside the city in one fell swoop."

Zhu Jun agreed to Yuyi's suggestion, and then evacuated the military horses on the southeast side, and then attacked the northwest corner together, Han Zhong really abandoned the city, so Liu Bei took several brothers to cover up and kill Han Zhong on the way, the thief was killed, and the others had no intention of fighting, so they fled everywhere.

Halfway through the pursuit, Zhao Hong and Sun Zhong came out of it, broke the original plan, and through the battle, they found that the other party's power was very large, so they temporarily retreated.

Zhao Hong took advantage of the situation and chopped Wancheng back, but did not take advantage, Zhu Jun was unwilling to retreat easily, so he stationed in a place ten miles away, ready to cultivate, and then go to the sneak attack.

was about to attack, suddenly a pair of people came to the east, the leader of the man was born with a wide forehead, a tiger body and a bear waist, and asked for his name, surnamed Sun, Mingjian, Ziwentai, Wujun Fuchun people.

Liu Bei didn't know the man, so he asked Zhu Jun where he came from.

It turns out that Sun Jian is also a well-known figure, it is said that when he was seventeen years old, he followed his father to Qiantang, met more than a dozen pirates, robbed the merchants' finances, and divided the spoils on the shore. Originally, this matter had nothing to do with them, but Sun Jian told his father that I would arrest this little thief.

Sun Jian's father was shocked, but he had already raised his knife and went ashore, shouting with his head high, commanding things and things, as if he was calling people to come, the pirates thought that there were officers and soldiers coming, and they were so frightened that they lost their finances and left.

Because of this righteous man, Sun Jian's reputation spread, he was also nominated by the county order, recommended to become a school captain, and later there was a thief named Xuchang, who openly rebelled there, proclaimed himself emperor, gathered tens of thousands of thieves, Sun Jian recruited some warriors, went directly to destroy it, and beheaded the other party.

So someone showed his merits to the court and promoted him to another level.

Liu Bei introduced all the brothers to Sun Jian one by one, and Sun Jian said with a smile: "This time, I heard that the Yellow Turban thieves rebelled, so I gathered some business travelers and recruited thousands of warriors to come to break the thieves together. ”