Chapter 9 Yanzhou Raiders

After Yuan Shao left the alliance, he stationed troops in Hanoi, and soon there was a shortage of grain and grass, and seeing that Jizhou was abundant, he adopted the strategy of his subordinates: first wrote a letter to Gongsun Zhan, agreeing to attack Jizhou Han Fu together; When Han Fu panicked, he invited Yuan Shao to help with the fist, and then occupied the magpie's nest. And the development of things did not exceed his expectations, Han Fu heard that Sun Songzan led the Liaodong Iron Cavalry to come, he really panicked, and listened to the adviser's suggestion to invite Yuan Shao to Jizhou, although some people objected, but Han Fu said that he was Yuan's former official, and his talent was not as good as Yuan Shao, and he was willing to give up Jizhou......

Brain-dead can't do that!

In short, Yuan Shao effortlessly accepted everything in Jizhou, and Han Fu regretted it after he was put in the air, but it was to no avail.

After that, Gongsun Zhan saw that Yuan Shao had won Jizhou, so he sent his younger brother Gongsun Yue to visit Yuan Shao, wanting to get a piece of the pie. He did see Yuan Shao, but he didn't have the life to go back to see his brother - on the way, he was killed by a guy who claimed to be Dong Zhuo's general with a team of soldiers and horses.

Of course, this kind of low-level trick can't fool Gongsun Zhan. So, the big guys of the two parties took the younger brother and started to play group fighting. This made the travelers on both sides miserable.

Gongsun Zhan has Liu Guanzhang on his side, Yuan Shao's subordinate Yan Liangwen Chou and other heroes in Hanoi, the two sides have been fighting for a long time, and finally Dong Zhuo sent someone to persuade the two families in the name of the Son of Heaven, and the stalemate between the two sides naturally took advantage of this step. It is worth mentioning that Liu Bei's travelers actually abducted Zhao Yun from Gongsun Chan in advance, although Zhao Yun was not very famous at this time, the traveler took advantage of Liu Bei and Gongsun Zhan's classmates to move Gongsun Chan with his mouth, which made people have to sigh at the art and charm of language.

After Yuan Shao sat down in Jizhou, the people around him looked red, Yuan Shu relied on himself as his cousin and wanted to borrow some food, Yuan Shao did not agree, Yuan Shu thought that since you are not emotional, don't blame me for not giving you face. A letter of resignation was given to Sun Jian in Jiangdong, saying that the person who asked Liu Biao to stop you was my brother, and now he and Liu Biao are going to make trouble for you again, so it is better for us to form an alliance, you fight Liu Biao, and I will block my brother Yunyun.

Sun Jian was naturally unhappy after fleeing back to Jiangdong, although he felt that Yuan Shu's purpose was not so simple, but he was conceited and never thought of asking Yuan Shu to help, so he lit up the military horse and fought with Liu Biao.

When Yuan Shao was plotting to seize Jizhou, Cao Cao and others received a distress letter from Wang Qiu of Dongjun Taishou in Chenliu.

"Montenegro is in the poison white and waiting, I can't resist, I am willing to let the public guard the East County and protect the people. Wang Qiu said this, what do you think? Putting down the letter in his hand, Cao Cao glanced at the people sitting below.

"The local chicken and the dog, attract the elite soldiers to attack it, and it can be broken in a battle." Xiahoudun looked down on those peasant rebels.

"Although they are miscellaneous soldiers, there are at least tens of thousands, and Wang Qiu can say that there are hundreds of thousands." Cao Cao raised the letter in his hand, "Although we have recruited a lot of people from Yangzhou, there are only more than 5,000 sergeants. How to break it?"

"Don't worry, lord." Mo Wen staggered to his feet: "Although the Black Mountain thieves are numerous, they are backward in armament, uneven in discipline, and they are extremely easy to defeat, this is a good time for the lord to control the East County." ”

"Captain Mo is right." Chen Gong agreed.

"Good! Soldiers are now on target, and the target is Dongjun! Cao Cao lowered his head and thought about it, waved his hand, and settled down.

The generals got up and retreated, and Mo Wen walked at the back and touched his hanging left arm, feeling upset.

[What a miscalculation, I didn't expect it to be so uncomfortable. Mo Wen fell behind the crowd and walked slowly. After returning to Luoyang, the doctor helped him re-bandage him, and he used the recovery pill early, and the crippled left arm was restored to its original state a day later. In order to be a strategist in front of Cao Cao for a period of time, Mo Wen, who improved his sense of existence by the way, did not remove the bandage, but still hung his left arm, and was seriously injured and did not heal.

[Bear with me for another year.] Mo Wen sighed secretly in his heart, and glanced at Chen Gong in front of him again, and his heart was full of doubts.

[Why is this guy still here?] According to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, shouldn't Chen Gong leave Cao Cao because of Lu Boxuan's matter before the crusade against Dong Zhuo...... Is this the Romance of the Three Kingdoms or the Romance of the Three Kingdoms! Mo Wen scratched his head vigorously with his right hand. [Forget it...... Let's take it one step at a time. 】

More than ten days later, Puyang.

"These guys are too weak!" Xiahoudun said disdainfully while wiping the blood-stained long knife.

"The remnants of the Yellow Turban, long since the heroism of Zhang Jiao's rebellion against the big man, a group of lost dogs, how powerful can it be? can only bully and bully Wang Qiu's subordinates, the old, weak, sick and disabled. Mo Wen replied, "General Xiahou, the lord asked us to go back to the big tent to discuss." ”

"Got it." Xiahoudun put the long knife into the sheath and pinned it to his waist: "Let's go." ”

[One-sided crushing.] Mo Wen recalled the battle just now, as soon as the formation of the two armies was set up, Xiahoudun rushed up directly with his troops, and the white circle only walked a few rounds under Xiahoudun before losing his head, followed by garbage time, most of them surrendered, and the rest became fertilizer for this land.

[The combat effectiveness of the non-governmental armed forces is really low and frightening, if the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression was also fought like this......] Mo Wen couldn't help but shudder, the sparrow warfare mentioned in the book, the tunnel warfare brought huge losses to the Japanese army invading China, even if it was suspected of exaggeration, but relying on these peasants who had not been trained, or who had only received a little training, did add a lot of trouble to the Japanese army, how much did the volunteers pay at that time? From this battle alone, the Cao army had about a three-to-three ratio of forces to the Yellow Turbans, but the Cao army still won the victory at a small cost. So......

[Peace poured with blood...... Grandpa's life was really hard. Mo Wen sighed silently.

After a while, Cao Jun's big tent.

"Now that we have Baodong County, why don't we take advantage of the situation to exterminate the Yellow Turban?" As soon as Mo Wen sat down, he heard Chen Gong suggest that Cao Cao quickly mobilize troops and horses to clear the remaining Yellow Turban Army in Yanzhou.

"Gongtai's words are wrong, we are not Liu Tingshi's subordinates, but we were invited by Wang Taishou to pacify the Yellow Turban, if we help ourselves in vain, I am afraid of making Liu Tingshi unhappy." Cao Cao was still silent, and Mo Wen jumped out. [Just kidding, before the benefits have been taken, we have to continue to extinguish the fire, really when we are firefighters? 】

Chen Gong saw that Cao Cao was silent for a long time, and obviously did not prepare to send troops, so he diverted the topic: "Although the lord is fair to the Yellow Turban of Dingdong County, Wang Taishou is also willing to let the virtuous lord be the lord, but without the order of the court, it is not orthodox after all, why don't the lord not go to the court?" It's just that Dong Thief controls the dynasty, which is a bit of a headache. ”

"What's so difficult about this, I can write a letter to my first brother." Cao Cao said.

A month later, Yuan Shao really made Cao Cao the Taishou of Dongjun. This made Mo Wen sigh, these two people are really good friends.

After that, it was half a year of development, and with his excellent mathematics scores in primary and secondary schools, Mo Wen was easily qualified for the position of quartermaster of Cao Jun. Modern algorithms and statistics were naturally invincible two thousand years ago, and Chen Gong, who originally looked down on Mo Wen, also found that this kid was not a military general who only knew how to cut and kill immediately, and before that, he had always thought that Mo Wen was just Cao Cao's mouthpiece and spokesperson.

In the past six months, Mo Wen has become familiar with an important minister under Cao Cao: Xun Yu - no way, Mo Wen has been engaged in logistics for half a year, and Xun Yu is the special person in charge of Cao Cao's logistics department, how can he not be familiar with it when he looks down and does not look up? Xun Yu also wanted to leave Mo Wen in the logistics department, but Mo Wen politely refused.

In the past six months, a major event has also happened, that is, the death of Sun Jian, a generation of fierce generals left their young sons and souls to go west, just in response to the oath they made in Luoyang - to die under the sword. So don't talk nonsense, this is a good example. After Sun Jian's death, his eldest son Sun Ce returned to Wu County, buried his father in his hometown, and then began to practice martial arts diligently, recruiting wise men, and wanting to avenge his father.

After half a year of covert observation, Mo Wen found at least one hundred and fifty intruders in Cao's army, although most of them were small soldiers, but there was no shortage of officers, among whom the highest position had become a centurion under Xiahoudun.

"Where are the other guys hiding?" Looking at the hints of 1,395 people, Mo Wen whispered.

"What did you say?" Xiahoudun glanced back at Mo Wen.

"It's nothing, what did the lord tell us to do?" Mo Wen immediately changed the subject.

"How do I know, there should be important news to the master."

In 192 A.D. (the third year of the first peace), Dongjun, Cao Jun's big tent.

"Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, did not listen to Yuncheng's words, confronted the Yellow Turban, and was defeated and died. The dragons of Yanzhou have no leader, and I regret not listening to the words of the palace. As soon as Cao Cao opened his mouth, he knocked a stick on Mo Wen, and before Mo Wen could react, Chen Gong took Cao Cao's words.

"Lord, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, I am willing to lobby Liu Dai's old department with my three-inch tongue, and the lord only needs to defeat the Yellow Turban, and he can be the lord of Yanzhou."

"Then it's going to be boring."

"Lord, what do you think of this Yellow Turban Thief Army?" [If you don't interject, you're going to lose impression points! ] Mo Wen glanced at Chen Gong, who was twisting his beard, and stepped forward to suggest.

"Oh? What do you want to say?"

"Lord, most of the Yellow Turban thieves are poor people, they don't understand the reason, now there are millions of Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou, more than 300,000 young and strong, after we are defeated, we only need to blame their first evil, and we can get a large number of people and soldiers. And the Yellow Turban Thieves are numerous, and we are by no means their opponents in a head-to-head confrontation, but the Yellow Turban Thieves have no supplies, and they only need to be maintained by plunder, and only need to divide into two troops and horses, each led by a fierce general, and harass them day and night, so that they have no chance to plunder the people, and they can be defeated. ”

"Brilliant idea! Secretly in line with what I think. Cao Cao's eyes lit up. Now that there is a strategy to break the enemy, I am waiting for the good news of the palace. ”

[Can you not secretly agree, your general policy in history is like this. Don't ask the secret way.

"The people of Yanzhou who the palace will say are obedient to the lord." Chen Gong bowed and went down to prepare.

"Yuan Rang, second talent!"

"The last general!"

"Get ready to march."

"Yes!"

"Cloud Mountain!"

"The last general!"

"What is the grain and grass of our army?"

"Although Wang Qiu does not have the ability to lead troops to fight on the battlefield, it is still good to govern the people, plus the military rations that General Zilian transported from Chenliu, it is enough for our army to eat for more than a year."

"Well, I see. Go down and prepare, all of you. Waving off his generals, Cao Cao leaned over to look at the map on the table.

"Yanzhou, I must get it!"

A few days later, news came from the Chen Palace that Bao Xin was willing to welcome Cao Cao as the assassin of Yanzhou, and Cao's army marched into Shouzhang.

"Mengde, you can count on it." Cao Cao was greeted by his good friend, Bao Xin, the prime minister of Jibei.

"Yuncheng, don't come unharmed."

"How can it be safe?" Bao Xin smiled bitterly, "The Qingzhou Yellow Turban is powerful, our soldiers have no fighting spirit, the form is precarious, and we have no power to return to the sky." Now the safety of the people of Yanzhou depends entirely on Meng De. ”

"I will live up to the expectations of all the kings!" Cao Cao's face was solemn, and he cut the railway.

"Meng De is so confident, I am relieved, come and let me pick up the wind and wash the dust for you."

"Yuncheng bothered."

The next day, Cao's army camped.

"My lord, the yellow turban here has already prepared to attack the city, looted a large number of baggage and camped in the rear, and used the Yongdao to transport, and our whole army will make a surprise army to attack its rear, and wait until the thief army comes back to rescue, and wait for it to be broken by a blow." After looking at the map for a long time, Mo Wen suggested.

"It's a risky strategy." Chen Gong shook his head. "Victory is easy to say, defeat is all over."

"Lord Chen's words are wrong, the enemy is outnumbered, and the soldiers have no fighting spirit, so we can only survive in danger by making a desperate bet."

"Yun Shan is right, now he can only fight against the water. Although Yunshan's strategy is wonderful, it is only a general idea, and we need to improve it......"

Three days later, Shouzhang Yellow Turban Camp.

"Qu Shuai! Officers and troops attacked my rear! ”

"What? Rear! Grain and grass! Those gutsless lackeys ate the leopard's gall bladder?! Liu Er, pass on my order, and the whole army will come back to help! ”

"Yes."

A day later.

"Bunnies, run fast for me!" The big man on the horse coaxed loudly.

"Qu Shuai, the brothers have only slept for two hours a day, and they are already exhausted, can they rest for a while?" The guard behind the big man suggested.

"This can't help but be in a hurry, I have four days' worth of food, if I don't hurry up and get back the grain and grass, we will have no food to eat in three days. Now according to the granary, there is still half a day's journey, and you can rest in two hours, and then you can raise your spirit and fight with the tyrant's lackeys. ”

As the two were talking, there was a sudden bang, and the arrows on the side of the road were like flying locusts, and hundreds of yellow scarves fell in response.

"Enemy Attack !!"

The yellow scarf that drove for a day was like a wasp that had blown up the nest, and in the face of the energetic Cao Jun who ate and slept well, the yellow scarf was the life of the **, and the tired yellow scarf couldn't even lift the knife and was put down by the Cao army soldiers, and the Shouzhang Yellow Turban was defeated in a battle. More than 10,000 Cao troops were killed and wounded only a few hundred.

"Lord, why don't you surprise the camping yellow turban besieging Yanzhou City, the morale of our army is high, we should take advantage of the victory to pursue and relieve the siege of Yanzhou in one fell swoop." Chen Gong suggested on the side.

Mo Wen's mouth closed again. [Chen Gong, the anti-bone boy, is not slow to turn his mind, and he is worthy of being the number one strategist under Lu Bu. 】

"The words of the public station are reasonable. Princes follow me! ”

In 192 A.D., the Qingzhou Yellow Turban was greatly developed, Yanzhou Thorn Liu Dai died in battle, Cao Cao from the general inexplicably plotted to attack the Shouzhang Yellow Turban grain and grass, and the Yellow Turban rushed to attack the Yellow Turban, homeopathic attack camping Yellow Turban, broken, after the strong wall cleared the field, sent Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Tang two generals harassed day and night, the Yellow Turban could not fight for a long time, the grain and grass were exhausted, and they returned to Jibei. During this period, Cao Cao was saddened by the fact that his friend Bao Xin unfortunately died in the middle of the battle.

Cao Jun's big tent

"I have now broken through the siege of Yanzhou, Qingzhou Yellow Turban has been surviving, we are waiting with it in Jibei to fight for more than a month, now it is the time of the handover of green and yellow, the Yellow Turban is not enough food and grass, I want to recruit the Yellow Turban, who is willing to say that it will come?" Cao Cao sat at the head and said in high spirits.

"The Yellow Turban thieves are not monolithic, I would like to say that they have come to surrender." Chen Gong came out of the crowd.

"Okay, Gongtai, this matter will be handed over to you."

At the end of the summer of 192 AD, the defeated Qingzhou Yellow Turban surrendered to Cao Cao under the lobbying of Chen Gong and Cao Cao's assurance, and Cao Cao had to surrender hundreds of thousands of young and strong soldiers, including hundreds of thousands of family members. Those who were old and weak and lacked combat effectiveness were all repatriated to the countryside to engage in farming, and the rest of the young and strong people were reorganized and trained to form the "Qingzhou Army."

"Yunshan, is there enough food?" Although the collection and surrender of a large number of yellow scarves greatly increased Cao Cao's strength, it also brought great pressure to Cao Cao's logistics.

"Coupled with the upcoming autumn harvest, you should be able to survive until next year's autumn harvest season if you save some food." Mo Wen paused, "If there is no war." ”

"How can there be no war?" Cao Cao sighed: "At the beginning, the battle with Gongsun Zan was in full swing, the highway was about to move, and the war was about to break out." ”

"Lord, the strength of Yanzhou farmers alone can't raise so many troops, and it's better to tuntian next year." Mo Wen suggested. "Mobilize the sergeants to work collectively to replenish the treasury with grain and grass."

"That's all there is to it...... Dong thief is dead, his subordinates will hold the Son of Heaven hostage, Wang Situ is martyred, the princes are divided, I don't know when it will be the end. Cao Cao looked into the distance: "When will I be able to reproduce the glory of my Han Dynasty?" ”

Cao Cao's judgment is correct, it has not yet passed in 192 AD, and Cao Cao's position in the history of Yanzhou has not yet been hot, and Yuan Shao's letter came.

"The highway is not in harmony with me, Tao Qian, Liu Bei, and Gongsun Chan want to surround me on three sides, and now I have no intention of caring about him when I am fighting with Gongsun Zhan, and I hope that Brother Meng De will help."

There was only one sentence on the letter, and Cao Cao handed the letter to everyone present and circulated it before knocking on the table. "Dead lips and cold teeth."

"My lord, although our army has won a great victory, there is not enough food and grass; Although there are many Yellow Turban soldiers, they are not trained, so it is impossible to go to the battlefield like this. Mo Wen interjected.

"What the lord said is good, Gongsun Chan is a history of Yanzhou assassination, it is clearly a provocation to us, we and Gongsun Chan are already incompatible, if Yuan Shao is defeated, we will be the turtle in the urn." Chen Gong replied. "As for the problem of grain and grass, I can find Yuan Shao to solve it, and I believe Yuan Shao will not be stingy. Lord, give the order to fight! ”

"yes, it's just a war."

Time rewinds to April of the third year of Chuping, location: Chang'an.

"Damn!" A big man sat on the ground with his chest clutched, looking at his former companion, his eyes were full of anger: "An Ming, why do you want to betray!" ”

"Hehe, since we can't move Diao Chan, I'll give up Dong Zhuo, even if you are ready to call Li Xuan, it is useless for Guo Yan to protect him on the altar to accept Zen concessions, the pillow wind of the beauty has always been the most deadly knife, a soft knife that kills people without seeing blood." Licking the blood of his companion on the dagger, he said in a gloomy voice: "The one who knows the times is Junjie, I defected to Lu Bu's camp not long ago, and a wood like you will die with Dong Zhuo's idiot!" ”

After that, An Ming drew his long sword and cut off the head of the big man.

Ten days later, Dong Zhuo's generals Lu Bu and the Great Han Situ Wang Yun successfully assassinated Dong Zhuo, and Dong Zhuo's power collapsed.

Hint: The head of the faction you participated in has perished, you can choose to return, or you can join the remnants of Dong Zhuo's forces and the forces of the Western Liang Army.

Most of the travelers who saw this prompt chose to return, and of course, there were a small number of unwilling brave people who stayed......

Subsequently......

"What! The general is dead?! Li Xuan yelled in a frenzy: "How could the general die like this!" ”

"Don't get excited, it's true, Wang Yun's old puppet used Lu Bu's pervert to harm the general. It's been spread all over the world, and we're doing it now. Guo Yan walked around in a panic in the tent: "Why don't we send a messenger to ask the king to forgive us first." ”

"That's all it can be."

A few days later, Chang'an.

"Rebels and thieves, everyone will be punished!" Wang Yun was furious and tore the letters in the book to shreds: "Pardon? Amusing! ”

"Situ think twice, Dong Zhuoyu's party has the power of the army, and it is the best policy to slowly plan it." An Ming was in a hurry. [Dead old man, you idiot, you will die if you soften it? ] It doesn't matter if you die, I have to flee with Lu Bu. 】

"Dong Zhuo died of my clever plan, what is the fear of the remnants of the party?" Wang Yun waved his hand, looking arrogant: "Go down, don't be troublesome." ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Be. "[Dead old man, there is no good end for those who get carried away...... But you're really dragging me down.]

"Wang Yun, that old puppet refuses?" Li Xun stared at the returning messenger.

"Yes...... He also said, 'Rebels and thieves will be punished by everyone.' Cai Zhonglang was also killed by Wang Yun because of his hanging on General Dong. ”

"Childish, let's break up the army and flee to the countryside." Guo Yan's frightened face was deformed: "Dong Gong is dead, we can only escape." ”

"That's all it can be." Li Xuan is obviously also a soul flying out of the sky, and the six gods have no owner.

"Slow down." A scribe came out of the crowd. [What should I do if you just run away?] I want to live well, and everyone who gets in my way from living will die! 】

"What does Wen He have to say?"

"If you disband the army and run alone, any pavilion chief can catch you and die faster." Jia Xu lowered his head, and a trace of ruthlessness shot out of his eyes: "It's better for the princes to lead the army, spread the remarks that Wang Yun wants to kill the Xiliang army, recruit soldiers along the way, attack Chang'an, avenge Dong Gong, kill Wang Yun, and kidnap the Son of Heaven, naturally there is nothing to do, and there is glory and wealth; If it doesn't work out, it's not too late to rob the Sanfu property and then flee. ”

There was silence in the tent, and before long, Li urged a hammer on the table: "It's done!" Horizontal and vertical are dead, it's better to fight, Guo Aduo, do you have the guts? ”

"Natural ......"

In May of the third year of the first peace, Li urged Guo Yan and other remnants of Xiliang to attack Chang'an, killing the former Dong Zhuo and Dong Zhuo's general Xu Rong along the way, subduing the former Dong Zhuo's general Hu Zhen and besieging Chang'an. Although LΓΌ Bu was fierce but invincible, a few days later Chang'an fell, LΓΌ Bu led his men to break through, Wang Yun fell from the building and committed suicide.

Gone...... It's still going on.

In July 192, the number of remaining travelers was 1,258.