But at this time, outside Zhuo County, there was a Yellow Turban Army with a scale of more than 30,000 people, which was said to be the Yellow Turban Army, but most of its backbone and leaders were composed of former bandits and gangsters. Because the scale of the Yellow Turban Army is far worse than in history, Zhang Jiao's ability to grasp the Yellow Turban Army in various places has also further declined, and many bandits and grass bandits have taken the opportunity to directly wrap a yellow cloth on their heads and claim to be the Yellow Turban Army.

And this kind of fake and shoddy Yellow Turban Army, the military discipline is naturally not very good, along the way are constantly burning, killing and looting, after capturing those towns, they will coerce all the people in the city to join the army, and those who do not want to join will be killed. But in fact, most of the people will have to choose to join, because the places where these Yellow Turban thieves pass are like locusts crossing the border, looting everything that can be eaten and used, and those people can only starve to death if they continue to stay in their hometowns.

It was precisely because he knew the horror of these Yellow Turban Army that the county commander of Zhuo County immediately panicked after hearing that there was a Yellow Turban Army of tens of thousands of people flowing towards him.

In order to be able to cope with the court's request for help, the county order of Zhuo County has already sent out all the original hundreds of county soldiers who are more capable of fighting in the county, and now there are only more than 500 recruits left in the county who have just been recruited and have not been trained much, how can they fight with so many Yellow Turban Army!

And when Zhang Lian, the county commander of Zhuo County, felt at a loss because of the pressure of the Yellow Turban thief army, Liu Bei Mao came to the door by self-recommendation, saying that he could lead the righteous army to eliminate this Yellow Turban Army.

Liu Bei's big name, Zhang Lian has also heard of this time, the other party claims to be a member of the Han family, and he has spent a lot of money in the county to recruit troops and horses, I heard that during this time he has formed a righteous army of more than 2,000 people, according to his subordinates who sent to observe, although the righteous army under Liu Bei has not been practicing for a long time, but it looks quite orderly in the usual drills, and the weapons and armor are complete, and the degree of well-equipped is even higher than the county soldiers before the county.

So the other party came to recommend himself to him, Zhang Lian didn't think the other party was joking, but after all, the rebel army in the other party's hands was only 2,000 people, so for the sake of insurance, Zhang Lian still suggested to him that he should not take the initiative to go out of the city to fight with those yellow turban thieves, and stick to the city with the county soldiers in the city.

But Liu Bei rejected the other party's proposal, after all, now that the capital of the Han Dynasty is besieged, he has no time to take care of himself, and it is impossible to have troops to rescue Zhuoxian, so sticking to the city is just a chronic suicide, and there is only one way to survive, that is, to break the Yellow Turban thieves who came to attack, and let other Yellow Turban thieves know the strength of the righteous army in the hands of Liu Xuande of Zhuoxian, so that these guys will not dare to attack easily in the future, and Zhuoxian can also get a little respite in this troubled world.

In the end, Zhang Lian was also persuaded by Liu Bei and allowed the other party to lead troops out of the city to fight those yellow turban thieves. In addition, in order to boost morale, Zhang Lian even took out the only remaining copper coins in the county government and distributed them to the rebel soldiers under Liu Bei as the salary for this dispatch.

Soon, Liu Bei took the two thousand rebels under his command out of the city, to be honest, he was full of confidence in this battle, after all, during this time, he fully understood the wealth of the boss behind the scenes, for this small rebel army, the money thrown down by the other party is probably enough to buy the entire Zhuo County, so the equipment of these rebels under his command is even better than the Praetorian Guards in the palace.

In addition, his eldest brother Huang Zhong, as well as his fourth brother Guan Yu and fifth brother Zhang Fei all have the courage of ten thousand people, how can those Yellow Turban thieves who are just some bandits and grass bandits as the main force be their opponents!

And at this time, because he learned that the war here was about to start, Ye Tianlong also sent Shi Qian in advance, and told Liu Bei in advance about the reality of the enemy army, the leader of this Yellow Turban Army was named Hao Daring, who was originally a Jiangyang thief with more than a dozen lives in his hands, and in recent years, he has fallen into the grass on the nearby hills, and dozens of murderers with human lives have been gathered under his hands.

Later, with the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Hao Daring also saw the opportunity, and took the opportunity to bribe a Yellow Turban Army Qu Shuai with money, and successfully mixed into the Yellow Turban Army camp, and later after the Qu Shuai was unfortunately killed by the court officials, he took the position of Qu Shuai, and it only took about half a month to expand the original team of only more than 1,000 people to more than 30,000 people today. However, this number of people is also terrifying, many of them are old and weak with little combat effectiveness, and the only ones who can really fight are about 4,000 young people, and most of these people were originally bandits and grass bandits from all over the world, as well as those gangsters in the city and the like.

Relying on these 4,000 elites who can fight, Hao Daring has captured seven or eight villages and towns in the past few days, grabbed a lot of grain, grass, weapons, and armor, and rapidly expanded his team to more than 30,000 people.

And for that small Zhuo County, he didn't pay attention to it, after all, he knew that there were only a few hundred recruits in this county now, where would be the opponent of these thousands of elite battles under his command!

Huang Zhong listened to Shi Qian's report when the army was repairing halfway, and they were completely relieved, after all, the so-called four thousand elites under Hao Daring were only able to achieve a weapon in each person, as for those old and weak, they didn't even have a decent weapon, most of them went into battle directly with the wooden stick, and as for the armor, there were only more than a hundred pairs in total, and only the group of old thieves who followed him first under Hao Daring could be equipped. The other Yellow Turban Thieves only had some homemade rudimentary leather armor and cloth armor, and their defense was about none.

In addition, this Yellow Turban Army has dozens of war horses, but unfortunately there are few subordinates under Hao Daring who can ride horses, so they usually use those war horses as a tool to provide mobility, and when they arrive at the battlefield, they will still dismount and fight on foot.

With such a patchwork army of thieves lacking decent equipment and training, Huang Zhong even felt that as long as he was given a regular army of about 500 people, he could defeat it.

And now he is leading a rebel army of 2,000 people, although these rebels are not as good as those regular officers and soldiers in terms of training and combat experience, but in terms of equipment, they are more sophisticated than the Praetorian Guards in the palace, plus those powerful firearms, it can be said that the defeat of this Yellow Turban thief of more than 30,000 people can be said to be nine out of ten.

On the other side, Hao Daring, who was munching on chicken legs, finally got a report from the light cavalry scouts he sent out, saying that a rebel army of 2,000 people was rapidly approaching them.

If it was an official army sent by the imperial court, Hao Daring would still be afraid, after all, he had seen with his own eyes how his predecessor was defeated by that small official army, and finally lost his life. Because of this, Hao Daring has left a deep psychological shadow on those regular court officials and soldiers since then.

But he didn't pay attention to the rebel army formed by the wealthy clans in various places, after all, when he attacked a village fort before, he also encountered a rebel army formed by a local wealthy clan, and was defeated by the elite old thieves under his command, and the combat effectiveness was far worse than that of the imperial court.

So at this time, he heard that a rebel army of 2,000 people was coming towards him, and he didn't panic at all, but felt that the county magistrate of Zhuo County didn't know what to do, he had obviously sent someone to persuade him to surrender, and it was not good for that guy to surrender obediently! actually sent this rebel army formed by an unknown wealthy clan to take the initiative to attack him, and this time he had to teach the other party a big lesson.

"Heralds, drums! Gather troops! After licking the last trace of meat on the chicken leg in his hand, Hao boldly and boldly ordered the heralds under him.

After spending more than an hour gathering all his soldiers, Hao Daring, who was well-fed and well-fed, stood on a temporary high platform with a big grin, telling these subordinates that there was now a rebel army of 2,000 people rushing towards them, and they were now going over to eliminate these rebels, and then they would take advantage of the situation to go into Zhuoxian County to eat, drink, drink meat and play with women.

Under the leadership of Hao Daring, it can be said that the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army, who have won successive battles, have already become a proud army, and they do not take the righteous army of only 2,000 people in their eyes at all, but they are very excited about what their boss said about entering the urban area of Zhuoxian County to drink wine, eat meat and play with their daughters, and they screamed with red eyes one by one, as if they couldn't wait to fight.

And Hao Daring looked at these high-morale soldiers under his command, and also felt very complacent, thinking that his predecessor was really a waste! Obviously bearing the name of a Yellow Turban Army, but he didn't know how to quickly expand his own power, and when the official army came, a total of more than 10,000 troops under his command developed, which is like him now, in less than half a month, relying on the original defeat of more than 1,000 remnants, it has developed to a scale of more than 30,000 people, and all the soldiers under his command are full of morale, and they are happy to hear the battle.

Compared with Hao Daring and Huang Zhong, the two commanders of their respective armies, who were full of confidence in the chances of winning the next battle, Jian Yong, a strategist who had just taken refuge in Liu Bei, had just arrived and did not know much about the relationship between the combat effectiveness of this rebel army, but he was full of worries about his own lord taking the initiative to lead the army out of the city and the Yellow Turban Thieves to fight in the field.

After all, on the surface, the gap between the forces of the two sides is too big, 2,000 to more than 30,000, or take the initiative to attack, the Yellow Turban Thief coach on the opposite side is a little smarter, knowing that relying on the tactics of the sea of people to rush up, his side will be defeated! After all, as the saying goes, two fists are hard to beat four hands! These rebels who have only been training for a month can't conjure up three heads and six arms to fight those large numbers of Yellow Turban thieves!

For the sake of his lord's life, Jian Yong felt that he still had to persuade him! It is best to take advantage of the fact that there is no formal engagement with the enemy army now, lead the army back into the city, and defend the city according to the advice of the county commander.