Late September.

In less than a month, Yuan Yao took over most of Runan County, 37 county seats, and 30 of them were taken under Yuan Yao's command.

The reason why Yuan Yao didn't take the remaining few cities into his pocket.

One of the biggest reasons is that these cities are too close to Yingchuan, where Cao Cao is located.

Don't look at Yuan Yao, he quickly recruited some soldiers and horses in these days, but there are not enough people to manage these cities that he occupies.

Many cities are still temporarily managed using the original county soldiers and county orders.

Even if the newly recruited people do not need training at all, and are assigned to these thirty county seats, one county town can only be divided into three hundred people, and they will not be able to control these cities at all.

Therefore, Yuan Yao did not intend to completely control these cities at all, but only occupied a few of the more important county seats, and handed over the rest to the original county commanders of those counties to take care of.

On the one hand, he stepped up the training of manpower, and on the other hand, he began to send troops and horses to the fringe areas to deploy defenses to prevent Cao's army from coming back.

Fortunately, after the arrival of Tai Shi Ci, the troops under Yuan Yao's command once exceeded 20,000, and at the same time, with Tai Shi Ci, a general, Yuan Yao was a little relieved, so that he would not be able to hold the territory that had just been defeated.

Although it has 20,000 people, it is still not enough to defend 30 county seats.

And just when Yuan Yao was worried about his manpower problem, another piece of good news came that made his eyes light up.

"Childe, Liu Pi, the big leader of Blue Wolf Mountain, asks to see me, can you see me?"

Ji Ling walked over from outside the tent and delivered a message to Yuan Yao.

Yuan Yao didn't take it seriously, but when he heard the name Liu Bi, he was slightly stunned, and he always felt a little familiar, so he immediately asked.

"The big leader of Blue Wolf Mountain, who is it?"

"It is a group of remnants of the Yellow Turbans, who made trouble in Runan for a while in the early years, and later the Yellow Turban Army was suppressed by the imperial court, and this group of remnants of the Party fell into the grass in Runan, and this Liu Pi is the leader of it, and he was attached to His Majesty in the first two years."

"Later, I heard that Cao Cao had encircled and suppressed the remnants of the Yellow Turban in Runan, I thought they were all wiped out by Cao Cao, but I didn't expect them to be alive."

Ji Ling is Yuan Shu's old subordinate, and he knows a lot about the things under Yuan Shu, so he also has some impressions of this Liu Pi.

Runan was originally Yuan Shu's territory, and these Yellow Turban remnants were able to get away with it for more than ten years in Runan, and it would be impossible if they were not attached to those princes.

If these princes really want to destroy them, then it is like playing.

Yuan Yao listened to Ji Ling's words and heard that it was the remnants of the Yellow Turbans, so he immediately became interested, and immediately thought about some memories of the Yellow Turban Army in his mind.

Not to mention that this Liu Pi is a well-known figure in the Yellow Turban Army, but the era when he was active was no longer the time for the Yellow Turban Army to revolt.

But after the fall of the Yellow Turban Army, some of the remnants of the Yellow Turbans, Liu Pi in order to find a way out, attached to Yuan Shu, Cao Cao and others, and even in the battle of Guandu, he also responded to Yuan Shao's call and rebelled against Cao to join Liu.

Originally, Liu Bi was supposed to follow Liu Bei, but unfortunately, after Cao Cao solved the battle of Guandu, he sent soldiers and horses to encircle and suppress these remnants of the Yellow Turban, and Liu Bi also died in the war.

Liu Pi and Gong Du, Wu Ba and others were the commanders of the Yellow Turban Army in Runan County, Yuzhou, and when Cao Cao conquered the Yellow Turban Thieves in Runan earlier, Wu Ba, as the most powerful force, was easily exterminated by Cao Cao, and Wu Ba himself surrendered to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao actually took a fancy to the large number of Yellow Turban thieves, and he was not willing to blindly exterminate them, but mainly to appease them, so after defeating the most powerful Yellow Turban remnants, he left Wu Ba to appease other Yellow Turban remnants.

It was at this time that Liu Pi and Gong Du chose to temporarily take refuge in Cao Cao.

Cao Cao also gave them a lot of autonomy, and used the name of the imperial court to promise the two of them official positions, which were subject to the dispatch of the imperial court.

But apart from these nominal things, Cao Cao even gave them a hair.

This year's drought in the Huaisi area has also affected Runan, and some of the crops planted by the people have not been harvested, although Liu Pi and Gong Du, the remnants of the Yellow Turbans, also have some land, and they will grow crops themselves.

However, most of the land under their control is in the mountainous areas, and there is a lack of water sources, and the disaster is even more serious under the severe drought.

They showed Cao Cao the reason for the incident, Cao Cao himself was short of food, and where would he pay attention to this group of Yellow Turban remnants, he wished that these Yellow Turban remnants were desperate, and finally disbanded himself.

Liu Bi, who had no way to ask for help, even wanted to rob those big families.

At this time, Yuan Yao led his men and horses to Runan.

This made Liu Bi and Gong both can't help but think of it again, when they followed Yuan Shu in the early years, Yuan Shu not only didn't want them to pay tribute, but even allocated some money and food for them.

What is most lacking among their yellow turban thieves is not money and food, there are many people who consume a lot, and there is a great shortage of food and grass.

So the life of the remnants of the Yellow Turban is not very good.

At present, as soon as Yuan Shu's army returned to Runan, Liu Bi came with a blank eye.

The purpose is also to return to Yuan Shu, so that Yuan Shu can continue to allocate some money and food for them, so that they can feed the people under him.

When Yuan Yao learned that it was Liu Pi who asked to see him, he put down the matter at hand and chose to meet with the remnants of the Yellow Turban first.

Speaking of which, Yuan Yao actually doesn't have a bad impression of the remnants of the Yellow Turbans, they are just some peasants who can't survive, and they want to ask for a way to live and beg for a bite to eat.

If people can live a life of food and clothing, and do not worry about food and clothing, who wants to do the life of licking blood from the knife edge and pinning their head to the waistband of their trousers.

Under the guidance of Ji Ling, Liu Pi walked in from outside the barracks, and originally brought more than a dozen guards, but when Yuan Yao was seen, Liu Pi was the only one.

The guards were all stopped.

"Xiaomin Liu Bi, I have seen Yuan Gongzi."

On the way here, Ji Ling had briefly explained Yuan Yao's identity to Liu Bi, so Liu Bi already knew who Yuan Yao was.

Especially when he learned that Yuan Yao was Yuan Shu's son-in-law, Liu Pi was quite surprised, he didn't expect Yuan Yao to have such a ability, and the army that killed Cao Cao was defeated and retreated, and he easily recovered more than 30 cities in Runan.

"Liu Qushuai, no need to be polite, he has admired his name for a long time, and when I saw it today, he was really a hero in the green forest."

Liu Pi has thousands of Yellow Turban troops under him, and Yuan Yao is now employing people, so in the face of Liu Pi, Yuan Yao still has some ideas.

Like this kind of corporal Lixian, who doesn't cost money and can win favor, he likes it the most.

didn't even call Liu Pi a Yellow Turban thief, but regarded Liu Bi as a hero in the green forest.

This can make Liu Pi's good impression of Yuan Yao a little more.