Chapter 246: Eleven Pillar Stones
The Yellow Turban Army, which had lost Qu Shuai, did not have any combat effectiveness, and it was not difficult to defeat them in the next battle.
However, for Liu Jian, he doesn't want to simply defeat these yellow turbans, what he needs is to accept them as Tuntian guests and as his own productive forces.
The number of yellow turbans in Qingzhou is very huge, these people were displaced and left their homes because of the annexation of the top gate lords of the Han Dynasty and Haoyou, and eventually became rebels, but in fact, if there is a relatively reasonable system, these people can become the screws of the prosperous construction of the land of Shenzhou, and make their due contribution to the prosperity of the Han Dynasty.
Liu Jian didn't want to wipe out the Yellow Turban Army, what he wanted to do was to let these rebel soldiers return to their respective posts and do something they should have done.
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Zhang He led the cavalry under his command, broke through the layers of enemy formations, and finally arrived at the location of Fuyun and Yuancheng.
But unfortunately, he was still a step too late.
These two Yellow Turban thieves who should have been captured alive by him have now become the souls of Yan Liang's knives.
Except for the heads of the two Yellow Turban Qu Shuai who were taken down by Yan Liang, the rest of the Yellow Turban remnants had also been killed by Yan Liang's sergeants.
Zhang He is still relatively stable, he just took a general look at what Yan Liang and the others were wearing, and knew that they were not regular troops, they should belong to the army organized by the local Haoyou.
Such an army should not have been allowed to exist in the Han Dynasty.
At least when the first emperor Liu Hong was alive, he was not allowed.
The powerful family may be able to annex land or apprentices, but the bottom line of the emperor of the Han Dynasty is that they are not allowed to have their own army, at least not on the surface.
No matter how big a wealthy family you are, no matter how high your status and how big your Wubao Manor is, if you dare to spontaneously organize an army on the surface, then you are really tired of being crooked.
It's not a joke, Liu Hong is really going to raise troops to conquer the country and flatten any noble clan Wu Fort who dares to organize an army.
The Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty had their bottom line.
But in recent years, especially after the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the death of the first emperor Liu Hong, the bottom line of the Han dynasty has obviously been broken a lot.
Although there was no explicit edict from the imperial court encouraging you to have an army, since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the bandits in various places have been too fierce.
Especially these bastards don't rob the people at the bottom, they specifically attack the wealthy right of the wang clan, whoever has money will beat whomever they want, and professionally knock on the bamboo poles of the landlord's house, how can you say that those people in the wang clan can bear it?
Or rather, how could they continue to allow this to happen?
The house leak happened to rain overnight, and Dong Zhuo was stationed in the center of the Han court, and the entire court was torn into several forces.
Especially in Xiliang, although Beigong Boyu and others suffered the blows of Zhang Wen, Huangfu Song, Dong Zhuo and others, they were not completely wiped out, and it can even be said that they were not injured, especially during the critical period of the war, Liu Hong died suddenly, which led to the withdrawal of elite soldiers from the front line in large quantities by the imperial court, giving these rebels a chance to breathe, causing their influence in Liangzhou to increase.
The central government of the Han dynasty was busy with infighting and had no time to deal with the war in Xiliang.
In today's Liangzhou, most of the area has almost lost its connection with the center of Luoyang, and has completely become a place for the rebels to be divided, which can be said to be challenging the authority of the Luoyang court at the biggest bottom line.
The same is true in the Kanto region, where the uprising of the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou is only one of them, and the southern states and counties are not peaceful.
Therefore, the noble families in various places began to spontaneously draw strong people from the disciples to organize armies and put down rebellions in various places.
Therefore, today Zhang He saw the army led by Yan Liang, but did not raise any objections, in the states and counties of the Han Dynasty, this situation has been very common, in the case of the center did not explicitly prohibit it, he was a prince of the palace, and he turned a blind eye and didn't care about idle things.
"Who's down!" Zhang He raised the spear in his hand and asked Yan Liang opposite.
Yan Liang took a few steps forward and asked, "Dare to ask if the foot is the person under General Zuo's account?" ”
Zhang He replied crisply: "A certain is the pastoral envoy of Southern Jizhou, and the commander under General Zuo is in charge of Sima Zhang He of other departments, and he is ordered to hunt down and kill the moth thief here!" ”
When Yan Liang heard this, he was overjoyed.
He hurriedly put on a smiling face, and said cheerfully: "A certain is Yan Liang, a native of the Yan clan in Le'an, Qingzhou, who has admired General Liu's name for a long time, like thunder, and led the crowd to come here today. ”
When Zhang He heard this, he looked at Yan Liang back and forth for a while, and asked, "The heads of these two moth thieves were killed by their feet?" ”
Yan Liang laughed and said, "It's just a trivial matter, not enough to worry about!" ”
Although Zhang He didn't see Yan Liang's posture when he killed the two thieves, he only looked at the other party a few times and could guess the other party's bravery.
Yan Liang's body is broad, and his arms are broad, almost a full circle wider than Zhang He himself, almost on the same level as Zhang Fei.
Regardless of his martial arts, just such a body structure is destined to make ordinary people not his opponents, and it is enough to be called a "bear man".
"Okay, please also ask Brother Yan to go to Licheng with me, and I will introduce you to you!"
"Thank you, thank you!"
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And at this moment, the Yellow Turban Army, which had lost the two thief leaders of Fuyun and Yuancheng, had completely collapsed.
Some of the mid-level Overseers of the Yellow Turbans tried to turn the tide by killing the defeated soldiers, but they undoubtedly failed, and even they themselves were carried by the defeated Yellow Turban soldiers.
Even if Han Xin is resurrected, in the face of the defeat of more than 100,000 people, he can only sigh and sigh, unable to return to the sky.
Xu Rong, who was well aware of the importance of the fighter, took this opportunity to command the Jizhou soldiers to chase down the defeated soldiers with all their might, not giving the other party a chance to breathe.
At this moment, the Yellow Turban soldiers were scattered, the main general was gone, Xu Rong raised the ring head knife, and the blade pointed to the sky and shouted loudly: "Those who descend will not be killed!" Those who descend will not be killed! ”
As soon as Xu Rong spoke, the elite guards behind him also raised their spears and shouted, "Those who descend will not be killed!" Those who descend will not be killed! ”
The shouts of hundreds of people reached the thousands of Jizhou troops on the battlefield, and the soldiers of the Jizhou army, whose morale was high, also shouted loudly in unison: "Those who surrender will not be killed!" ”
Those who descend will not be killed!
These four words were shouted by nearly 10,000 high-morale Jizhou soldiers, although it was a little chaotic, but it had the power to shake Mount Tai, like thunder, and exploded throughout the field within a few miles.
The shout was earth-shattering.
What is the fundamental purpose of the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army as Yellow Turbans?
It's just to survive.
Now when they hear the words "those who descend will not be killed", they seem to hear the sound of heaven.
On the battlefield, more and more Yellow Turban soldiers shouted loudly, they raised their arms and shouted hard, for fear that Liu Jian's subordinates would not hear.
It's just that the content of the Yellow Turban Army is all this: "May it surrender!" Surrender! O O O ”
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An hour later, the situation on the battlefield was basically calmed.
The Yellow Turbans died, those who fled, those who broke up, and of course a large part of the people expressed their willingness to surrender.
There are quite a few Yellow Turban soldiers who took the initiative to surrender this time, reaching half, and as for the remaining half, Liu Jian feels that they will either flee to other Qingzhou Yellow Turbans to join the army, or they will come back and surrender sooner or later.
This is not because Liu Jian is confident, but in his opinion, the policy he implements is the most suitable for the Yellow Turban Army.
Since the beginning of the tuntian in Jizhou, Liu Jian used the large area of ownerless land left over after the troubled times as the foundation, and then according to some detailed rules in the Juntian Law from the Northern Wei Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty as the fundamental regulations, stabilized the situation, so that the people have arable land, so that the government has a sustainable income, and the normal operation of Jizhou is maintained.
To put it simply, the land that had been barren due to the war was reshuffled and all of it was managed by the government, which became the largest landlord and used the land lease rights in its hands to restore social stability.
Of course, history has proven that with the passage of time, the government's land will still be swallowed up by those who stand at the top of the pyramid by means of private land, and this method of renting and transferring land can only maintain temporary stability, but it will definitely not last long.
However, for Liu Jian, this method is sufficient in a short period of time, at least in the ten years before the end of the troubled times, this method can definitely maintain stability and restore agricultural productivity.
And it was he who first implemented this method, causing a large number of displaced people to flock to Hebei.
Liu Jian's name is also widely spread among the low-level people.
And Lu Zhi also respected Liu Jian's order in the north of Jizhou and carried out tuntian according to the method he taught.
Not to mention the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, even the Montenegrin Army has gradually formed a deficit in personnel flow.
In the past few years, it has always been the homeless and gangsters who have not been able to eat outside, in order to seek survival and escape into the Taihang Mountains, but now, with the entire Liu Jian Daxing Tuntian, the recovery of productivity and the people at the bottom will get a grain harvest after farming, fewer and fewer people have escaped to the Black Mountain, on the contrary, more and more people have come out of the Taihang Mountains.
The Yellow Turbans of Qingzhou and the thieves of Taihang Mountain are of the same nature, and no matter what they do, they must have survival as their main purpose.
As long as Liu Jian can provide them with a stable environment to survive, he is not afraid that the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans will not return to obedience.
"Lord, Zhang Sima brought a person who called himself Yan Liang to ask for a meeting."
When Zhao Yun said this to Liu Jian, Liu Jian was on the city wall, watching his soldiers escort the surrendered Qingzhou Yellow Turban into the city, and he didn't react for a while.
He just gave a soft "um".
But soon......
"Huh?"
Liu Jian turned around slowly, looked at Zhao Yun in surprise, "Who did you just say?" ”
"Returning to the envoy, it's Zhang Sima, Zhang He."
"No, no."
Liu Jian waved his hand and said, "I asked who he led here?" ”
"Returning to the envoy, Zhang Sima led a person named Yan Liang to see the envoy, and I heard Zhang Sima say that this Yan Liang killed the two commanders of the Yellow Turban Army, and came to the envoy with the heads of the two thieves."
Liu Jian was stunned for a while, and hurriedly said, "Please!" ”
"Yui!"
After Zhao Yun went down, Liu Jian stood in place and began to count with his fingers.
YAN Liang, WEN Chou, ZHANG He, GAO Ran...... In history, it is known as the Four Courtyard Pillars of Hebei.
But now, the fierce generals under his command are together, and the four court pillars will definitely not be able to stop.
Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun, Xu Rong, Gao Shun, Zhang He, Gao Lan, Cheng Pu, Han Dang......
Now there is such a Yan Liang.
Eleven characters who can be called fierce generals!
Will it be called Eleven Pillar Stone in the future? Or Eleven Tigers?
It's hard to decide.