Chapter 133: The River Closes Its Jaw

After Liu Tianhao captured Jixian County, within a few days, the Jixian guards were also handed over by Liu Tianhao to Guan Yu to be guarded by the brave heroes recruited from the local area.

Liu Tianhao is still familiar with the reputation of those people in later generations, Xian Yufu, Xian Yuyin, Yan Rou, Yan Zhi, these two pairs of brothers have always been heartfelt, and they handed over the duties of Jixian County guards to them, Liu Tianhao rest assured!

Guan Yu left 2,000 soldiers, led by the Xianyu brothers and the Yan brothers to guard Jixian County, and he himself followed Liu Tianhao's instructions, first led 5,000 soldiers to escort more than 10,000 yellow turban soldiers in Zhuo County to Dai County and handed them over to Gao Shun for guard training!

On May 17, Liu Tianhao completely smoothed out the chaos of the Yellow Turban Riots in Zhuo County and Fanyang County in Youzhou, and Guan Yu had also returned to Zhuo County!

Half a month ago, Ju Yi, who was ordered by Liu Tianhao, led an army of 8,000 to attack Renqiu County south of Zhuo County.

On May 18, Liu Tianhao left Zou Jing to lead 2,000 soldiers from the original Youzhou County to defend the county seat of Zhuo County, and he led Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Dian Wei to lead an army of 15,000 out of Zhuo County and went straight to Renqiu County!

When he arrived in Renqiu, Liu Tianhao discovered that compared with Jizhou, the Yellow Turban War in Youzhou was simply pediatric! Even if Renqiu is only the northernmost county in Jizhou, the war here is still quite tragic! Although Ju Yi has completely taken Renqiu County, judging from the mess and ruins outside the city, Ju Yi definitely spent a lot of effort to take this Renqiu County before!

In Renqiu City, there are wounded soldiers all over the place! Ju Yi hung up colors, and when Liu Tianhao saw him, he was wrapped with gauze on his arm, and the gauze was red! Not only were the soldiers injured, but the people and officials in Renqiu City were slaughtered a lot by the Yellow Turban rebels!

What made Liu Tianhao feel fortunate was that due to Ju Yi's urgent siege of the city, the Yellow Turban Army's previous capture of Renqiu's treasury property was stopped in the city by Ju Yi, not only that, Ju Yi also captured nearly 10,000 Yellow Turban troops who originally occupied Renqiu, and these captives are now all guarded by Ju Yi in Renqiu City!

While appeasing the surviving officials and people in Renqiu City, Liu Tianhao sent scouts to ride fast and went to the south of Hejian County to inquire about the news!

Liu Tianhao led the army to settle in Renqiu, and only occasionally sent Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Dian Wei and others, following the reality heard by the scouts, to the south to collect the fleeing people, all of them were brought to Renqiu County to resettle, and encountered some Yellow Turban thieves who robbed the landlord and gentry, and they were not soft at all, and took advantage of the fire to rob it, the Yellow Turban robbed the landlord and the gentry, and he robbed the Yellow Turban again, and there was no psychological pressure at all!

Liu Tianhao himself sometimes led his troops out of Renqiu, and together with Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Dian Wei, he swept away the Yellow Turban thieves in Hejian County!

On this day, everyone chased a group of yellow turban soldiers to the boundary of Juxian County. Originally, there were only 1,000 people in this group of yellow scarves, and they were all running on the ground with two legs, so naturally they couldn't outrun Liu Tianhao's more than 3,000 cavalry. However, the house leak happened to rain overnight, just when they were already exhausted and ready to surrender, more than 500 soldiers rushed out from the front and obliquely stabbed, looking at the dress of these people, it was not a yellow scarf, nor an official army, then, it could only be the private soldiers of the local landlord and gentry! The sniping of these five hundred people completely cut off the last trace of thought of the thousand yellow scarves, and turned to face Liu Tianhao, who was chasing behind, and surrendered on his knees!

The Yellow Turban Army has already recognized it, and surrendering Liu Tianhao's official army can save his life!

Liu Tianhao naturally saw the five hundred townsmen in the distance, but since these yellow turbans had already surrendered on their knees, he really didn't plan to fight anymore, and directly ordered Guan Yu and Zhang Fei behind him to lead people to surround these soldiers and hand over the equipment!

The five hundred villagers bravely saw that the Yellow Turban thieves had surrendered to the official army, and they did not rush to kill, but came to Liu Tianhao to meet them.

After some inquiry, the leader of these five hundred Xiangyong is Hejian Zhangjaw, at this time Zhangjaw is only in his twenties, and he is white, because of the Yellow Turban, this is the organization of Xiangyong to resist the Yellow Turban! Originally, Zhang Jaw led this district of 500 people, and he didn't dare to go out to attack the Yellow Turban Army, but he just stuck to the township, who knew that in the past few days, most of the Yellow Turbans in Hejian County retreated like a tide, and rushed to the south in the direction of Xindu and Anping. When the disparity in strength is not too great, the small strands of yellow scarves in the river are all defeated one by one by Zhang Jaw!

Zhangjaw's army of about 500 people has already defeated no less than three yellow scarves, of course, they are all small shares! After all, they are all township brave stragglers, and their armor and weapons are not as good as the state and county soldiers! But today, it was the first time that Zhang Jaw met the regular officers and soldiers on the Hejian territory!

Liu Tianhao bullied Zhang Jaw into being immature and young, and in a few words, he bewitched Zhang Jaw into his official army, appointed a military officer, led his 500 people, escorted the captured 1,000 yellow scarves, and returned to Renqiu with Liu Tianhao!

After arriving at Renqiu, the 1,000 captives were directly handed over to Ju Yi's care! He also ordered Guan Yu to take the five hundred people with Zhang Jaw to the Renqiu Mansion, received armor and weapons, and temporarily filled a song of infantry! Liu Tianhao's horses accumulated in the past year have all been distributed, and the additional soldiers can only serve as infantry! Infantry turned into cavalry, Liu Tianhao also set up a series of military regulations, as long as he has made military merits, or proved bravery, there will naturally be a record of the military Cao Seal small officials, so it will not stop the soldier's annual thoughts! And the original cavalry, naturally, also has military merit assessments, and those who do not meet the standards will be eliminated as infantry, or even logistics guys!

The 500 people in Zhang Jaw did not have military horses, but Liu Tianhao poured a batch of good horses for Zhang Jaw, so he had to let Zhang Jaw have the appearance of a military candidate!

When Liu Tianhao heard that the Yellow Turban in Hejian County had gone south, he suspected that these people might be the three Zhang Jiao brothers who went to rescue Julu, that is to say, the officers and troops sent by Luoyang should have already exerted their strength, so it seems that the battle situation in Jizhou has been scorched in Julu County!

Until this time, Liu Tianhao was still hesitating whether to go south to attack Zhang Jiao, after all, he had not yet been authorized by the Luoyang Imperial Court, and Liu Tianhao did not dare to move!

Liu Tianhao knew that the battle situation in the southern counties of Jizhou was even more tragic than he expected! The edict issued by the Luoyang Imperial Court in February was simply difficult to pass through the Southern Theater!

Just when Liu Tianhao was in a dilemma, Jia Xu and Xu Chu, who were passing through the Xihe detour in Bingzhou, finally followed the news of Dai County and Zhuo County and chased Ren Qiu!

After learning about the appointment from Luoyang from Jia Xu's mouth, Liu Tianhao was stunned for a while!

The imperial court asked him to assist Lu Zhi and attack the giant deer Zhang Jiao!

However, this was an appointment in February, and now it's June!