Chapter 129: To Kill or Not to Kill?

Liu Tianhao led the army from Lunu to Zhuo County in the northeast to relieve the siege of the Yellow Turban in Zhuo County! Although he encountered many Yellow Turban disciples of different sizes along the way, after a battle, Liu Tianhao finally found that he still overestimated the combat power of the Yellow Turban Army!

In front of the 14,000 officers and soldiers, these small strands of yellow turbans were completely vulnerable, and the Yellow Turbans did not have the heart to die, and they were even defeated in a battle!

The Yellow Turbans are still afraid of death, and the faith instilled in them by Zhang Jiao has not yet reached the point of blind worship! At least, these Yellow Turbans in Youzhou, knowing that they are invincible, will never fight hard with Liu Tianhao!

Yi County to Zhuo County, a distance of fifty miles, Liu Tianhao's army walked and stopped the armistice, it took nearly six hours to rush to the boundary of Zhuo County, along the way not only defeated a small number of yellow scarves, but also confiscated a lot of baggage, well, it is a bit too high to look at them in terms of baggage, hoes and farm tools account for a part, wooden guns and bamboo swords account for a part, and there are very few iron weapons. However, mosquito legs are also meat, and Liu Tianhao naturally can't let these things flow into the hands of the Yellow Turban disciples again, and then deal with the officials and soldiers!

At dawn, the county seat of Zhuoxian County was already in sight, and tens of thousands of Yellow Turban soldiers had already gathered outside the county. As far as the eye can see, there are all ragged people with yellow scarves on their heads, and the weapons in their hands are also varied, there are everything, not to mention the armor, basically just a linen clothes! Perhaps, the generals are qualified to wear armor!

When Liu Tianhao's army appeared in the southwest of Zhuo County, the Yellow Turban troops had already discovered Liu Tianhao's army who was wearing the same yellow shirt but was obviously under the banner of the official army! There were forty or fifty thousand people in the Yellow Turban Department under Zhuoxian County, but they did not dare to act rashly, and the weapons and armor of the officers and soldiers were fully equipped and almost armed to the neck, which deeply shocked them! Moreover, there are more than 10,000 cavalry!

Cavalry and infantry, not a concept at all! The Han Dynasty has not yet appeared effective tactics to restrain cavalry! Besides, Youzhou is originally a plain area, and under the flat river, more than 10,000 cavalry can wipe out most of their tens of thousands of people at a time!

Under fear, the Yellow Turban tribes gave up their original plan to attack the city, slowly assembled, and retreated to the southeast!

As early as when he broke into Zhuoxian County four or five miles away, Liu Tianhao found that the county seat of Zhuoxian County was not broken by the Yellow Turban, it seems that Zou Jing is quite capable! Or, the yellow turbans outside the city were only assembled before they could attack the city with all their might! In short, it's good that the city is not broken, this is the result that Liu Tianhao wants!

However, another thorny question came to Liu Tianhao, in the face of the tens of thousands of yellow scarves that slowly retreated, to kill or not to kill?

With 14,000 cavalry, against the 40,000 Yellow Turban disciples who are not fully armored, Liu Tianhao is confident that he will destroy them in one battle! However, what made his heart tremble was that these tens of thousands of people, some were old and weak, some were young and strong, some were holding steel knives, hammers, and giant axes, and some were wielding sickles, pitchforks, iron hoes, and nail rakes, without exception, they were all Han Chinese!

Liu Tianhao can wave his hand and slaughter tens of thousands of Xianbei grassland people, but if he is a Han person, he can't do it now!

In later generations, the Xianbei people have long been beaten to the far north and west, and some of the remaining small tribes have also been converted into ethnic minorities in China, but now, in the eyes of the Han people, the Xianbei people are authentic foreigners, if you don't kill him, he will eat you! Therefore, when facing the Xianbei people, Liu Tianhao's heart is more vicious than anyone else!

What about the Han Chinese? How could they be grouped into the same category as the Xianbei Wolf Clan! Although they were bewitched by Zhang Jiao and rebelled, if it weren't for this court, these landlords had forced them to be anxious, how could they dare to risk the felony of killing their heads to rebel against the court? As long as there is a bite of food to eat, most of the Yellow Turban disciples will feel at ease to be a good citizen! Liu Tianhao believes in this!

Of course, in the Yellow Turban Army, there is definitely no shortage of scheming people, at least the three Zhang Jiao brothers and those generous and small leaders, just like Liu Bang and Xiang Yu hundreds of years ago!

This kind of person, after all, is rare! Liu Tianhao thought to himself.

The hand raised in mid-air has never been waved! Liu Tianhao just let the great fighter plane slip away, and it wasn't until the tens of thousands of yellow scarves slowly left a few miles away that he ordered the army to leave the county seat of Zhuoxian County one mile and camp on the spot!

Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Dian Wei followed Liu Tianhao throughout the whole process, and Liu Tianhao's mood fluctuations, as well as his right hand that was raised in mid-air and did not move, fell into the eyes of the three of them one by one; Perhaps, the waves in their hearts are not calm either, right?

"Yun Chang, Yide, you said, I'll let them go this time, right?" Liu Tianhao turned his head to look at Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Dian Wei and asked, his face was full of bitterness!

"If the lord asks me to kill, I will kill, and if the lord asks me not to kill, I will not kill!" Dian Wei said angrily, and Liu Tianhao shook his head for a while, but Dian Wei can be regarded as his own loyalty!

"Lord, mercy is not in charge of the army! Let them go this time, I'm afraid there will be endless troubles? Zhang Fei said.

After half a year of getting along, Liu Tianhao knew that Zhang Fei in this life was by no means the reckless and violent decapitated general in the biographies of later generations, on the contrary, Zhang Fei was a beautiful man who was familiar with military books and was especially good at Danqing!

What Zhang Fei said at this moment was in line with the way of a soldier, but Guan Yu on the side did not dare to agree.

"My lord, I don't agree with what Yide said! The yellow turban thieves in front of him are actually not thieves! We have also seen along the way, they have no weapons and armor at all, and those yellow turban thieves, everyone has a dish, obviously the hungry people are forced to make a living! The Lord does not kill them, but is righteous! ”

Liu Tianhao listened to Guan Yu's words, and his face improved slightly, "Oh, Yun Chang, you think so too?" Well, I don't kill them, but I don't know how many more they'll kill? ”

Suddenly thinking of this, Liu Tianhao's face became gloomy again!

"Lord, when the two armies are fighting, you don't have to fight to the death! If we only cut off the head of the thief, and all the other thieves were taken prisoner, or taken as a people or as slaves, wouldn't we be able to fulfill the will of the Lord? Just like following the affairs of the city in the clouds, the knot of the lord's heart can also be opened! Guan Yu said slowly.

Capture the king's captive? When Liu Tianhao heard Guan Yu say this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurriedly stepped forward to take Guan Yu's hand and said, "Haha, Yun Chang really has a clever plan!" It's a shame that I'm still proud of being a ghost valley, and I'm good at the head of a hundred schools! In the end, it is troublesome and difficult to overcome the heart knot by half a step, Yun Chang's words, but it seems to be enlightened, deafening and deafening! Good, good, good! ”

"Lord Miao's praise!" Guan Yu was a little embarrassed by Liu Tianhao's words!

Just when Liu Tianhao ordered the army to start camping, someone came from the county seat of Zhuoxian! Obviously, the guards of Zhuo County also discovered Liu Tianhao's army, and the siege outside the city had been lifted, so he dared to come!

"The last general, Zou Jing of Fanyang County, Youzhou, meet the general!" The first person saw Liu Tianhao's outfit, and dismounted and bowed.

The person who came turned out to be Zou Jing, so bold! Although the siege of the Yellow Turban in Zhuoxian County has been resolved, the Yellow Turban has not lost a single soldier after all, and the tens of thousands of Yellow Turbans have not gone far, but have just retreated ten miles away!

Although Liu Tianhao has been relieved of his military power by the imperial court, he has not returned the armor seal letter, so it is reasonable for Zou Jing to call him so!

"Captain Zou is exempt! This time, you defended Zhuo County with 3,000 troops without losing, but it was a great achievement! ”

"The last general is ashamed! Guo Jianshi and Liu Taishou have already died in battle, but the last general is the only one, and he is ashamed! Zou Jing bowed again.

"Alas, Guo Tingshi and Liu Taishou died for the country and the people, where they died! Captain Zou doesn't need to be worried! What is the situation in Zhuoxian County? Liu Tianhao asked with a sigh.

"Everything is fine in Zhuoxian County! It's Fan Yang City, but it's already occupied by thieves! Speaking of Fan Yang, Zou Jing's face darkened again.

"Uh, that's good! Since I have come with my army, you can lead the city sergeants to defend the city with peace of mind, and you must pacify the people in the city and not cause riots! Liu Tianhao said again.

"The general won't come into the city with me?" Zou Jing frowned and asked.

"There are so many Yellow Turban thieves outside the city! My army will not enter the city! I'll have a strategy and defeat them! Liu Tianhao looked at the looming yellow line in the southeast and said slowly.

"Uh, well! I see that the general's army came on light horse, but he didn't bring heavy grain and grass, so I will go back and arrange grain and grass for the army outside the city! Zou Jing glanced at the army behind Liu Tianhao, groaned, and spoke.

"Well, it's okay, soldiers and horses really can't run out of food and grass!" Liu Tianhao once again cast an admiring look at Zou Jing.

"Then go and prepare grain and grass!" Zou Jing clenched his fists and left.

"Lord, I ask to lead a thousand people to meet the yellow turban thieves! It's good to probe their reality! Guan Yu suddenly clenched his fists and asked for his life.

Without waiting for Liu Tianhao to reply, Zhang Fei also volunteered to say on the side, "I am also willing to go on a journey, please ask for the grace of the lord!" ”

"This? Uh, well, each of you and you will lead a thousand horses! However, you two should remember that you must not rush to kill the enemy formation, just look at it from a distance, just explore the terrain where the Yellow Turban Thieves belong and return! Liu Tianhao groaned slightly, and finally agreed to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's request!

"Evil, don't worry, there will be a chance for you to go into battle in the future!" After Guan Yu and Zhang Fei led the troops away, Liu Tianhao found that Dian Wei Zhengyi was looking at him with a resentful look, and he suddenly felt funny, and hurriedly opened his mouth to comfort him.

"When Zhong Kang comes back, I have to learn kung fu as if he is learning verbal kung fu! This time, Yun Chang and Yide took advantage of their articulate words! Dian Wei said quietly.

"You bastard!" Liu Tianhao laughed and scolded!

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