"I...I'm not dead? The Yellow Turban Thiefs have clearly broken the city, so why will anyone save me?"

After Jiang Feng was shocked to realize that he was not dead, he endured the severe pain under his ribs and struggled to get up to see what was going on, so as to resolve the doubts in his heart.

His identity was the county magistrate of Xiami. When the city was broken that day, he was surrounded and killed by the bandits with the county magistrate Zhang Cao. He watched the county magistrate beheaded by the bandits, and he was also stabbed in the ribs.

It was just that the bandits were not good at martial arts. The knife was dragged rather than a barrel, and was blocked by the ribs. So it did not pierce the internal organs, but left a long wound between the chest and abdomen, with deep skin and flesh tilts, which showed bones. He lost too much blood and knew nothing, and he thought he was dead.

"Don't move, you will die if you break the wound. Fortunately, you are still young and strong, and you will save your life. If you are a middle-aged man in his thirties or forties, you may not be able to recover."

With this voice, Jiang Feng saw a handsome and upright young scholar appearing at the door of the ward. Then he walked up to him, waved a stack of slender square paper pieces that he had never seen before, and gently pressed on his shoulders, telling him not to move.

"Thank you for your kindness to save your life. Feng Ming is grateful to you. You dare to ask your kindness to respect your surname and name. In the county magistrate Jiang Feng." Jiang Feng hurriedly gasped for a hard time and thanked him.

"Li Su, the chief minister of Liaodong. But you don't have to thank me. It was my Liu family who was eager to be righteous and worked hard to serve the country. He led his troops from Liaodong to cross the sea to rescue the officials and citizens of Beihai." Li Su replied piaoran, looking indifferent as a foreigner.

"It turns out that it is Liu's family and Li Hou! Liu's family is loyal and filial, and has always been benevolent and righteous, and everyone in the world knows it. Li Hou is a great wise man, and Your Majesty praises him for knowing the destiny of heaven, and unexpectedly he can get two of you to save him!" Jiang Feng was even more moved. If Li Su had not held him down, he would have been excited to break out and die of excessive golden sores.

Obviously he already knew Li Su very well. Li Su claimed his official position, but he was only known as Li Su's marquis.

Li Su continued to hold Jiang Feng with the folding fan he had just invented: "Okay, okay, don't be too polite, lie down and recover from the wounds. You have to hurry to repay me, so let's introduce the thieves in Beihai, Donglai and other places today. As the county magistrate of Xiami, you should be very familiar with the situation. We were just here, and we thought that the Donglai counties had been broken by the thieves' army, but we didn't expect that we could catch up with the rescue of a few."

Jiang Feng was also very happy that he had the value of being used, so he lay down obediently, [.bequge.xyz] slowly said: "At the end of last year, the Yellow Turban was mainly provoked by Wuhuan and Wusu, and was mainly occupied by the Taishan Mountains. After the spring plowing at the beginning of this year, it gradually grew and spread around March and April to dare to plunder other counties.

But until May and June, the Yellow Turban Army rarely attacked the city, and only bypassed the county town, fortress, and plundered the countryside. However, the imperial court had no troops to cross Mount Tai to attack, so it became bigger and bigger. At the end of June, the Yellow Turban Army began to attack the city. If the official army surrendered, it would blackmail a piece of money and leave. If it did not surrender, it would break the city and burn and kill it at will.

This situation has been two months since then. Before Xiami was defeated, there were Jiaodong and Jimo counties in Beihai County, and the rest of the counties had not been attacked. The disaster of Donglai was even worse. Dongmu, Mouping, Guanyang and Qucheng counties in the north were all destroyed and slaughtered. In the entire Donglai County, there were only a few counties along the East China Sea on the south side, and the county seat Donglai County were still under the guard of the official army.

As for going westward, the Yellow Turbans' old nest, Taishan County, Linqu, Laiwu, Pingyang and other places were also destroyed. However, I heard that the Yellow Turbans used Mount Tai as their basis, but they did not massacre the city very much, and even set up officials to rule the counties of Mount Tai.

Moreover, the former Taishan Prefect was Zhang Ju, so most of the officials in Taishan County were implicated and implicated after Zhang Ju's rebellion. Now Taishan does not even have a prefect, only Feng County Prime Minister Zhuge Gui is in charge of the county seat Fenggao County waiting for help. Fortunately, Zhuge Gui is said to be quite strategic and can still support him for a while. However, last month he heard that he became ill due to concerns and could not afford to get sick. If he died of illness, he would probably fall into the hands of the Yellow Turban area.

In addition, the three counties of Le'an, Qi County and Chengyang were also slightly damaged. Several counties in Langya County, which bordered Qingzhou in the south, were also invaded, and the Yellow Turban flooded the area roughly. As for the plains further north, the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Turbans did not dare to attack the city and occupy land. They were afraid that the Jizhou army would only dare to go to the countryside in those places and grab it and come back."

Jiang Feng said a lot in one breath, and he had to keep shut up until the wound was painful. Li Su also thoroughly understood the scope of the thief of the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou.

There are three or four severely affected counties and five or six lightly affected areas.

After Jiang Feng rested for a while, Li Su asked again about the current number of thieves in the Qingzhou Army and how many troops were there. Jiang Feng answered one by one.

When he was about to come, Li Su instructed that if he was willing to follow Liu Bei, he could be a guide first, and not discuss official positions for the time being, and helping Liu Bei destroy the thieves first.

Jiang Feng agreed with mercy.

...

When Li Su returned to Xiami County, Liu Bei was summoning Guan Yu and Taishi Ci to investigate the situation of the deployment of Jin Ferries along Xiami, Weishui and Jiaoshui.

Because the first batch of 8,000 people have arrived at the moment, it is impossible to directly attack actively. Only focus on defense and tie up the fence first. It is best to delay even disturbing the enemy as much as possible.

Seeing Li Su, Liu Bei quickly put down the map: "Boya is here, but what is the latest thief relationship?"

Jiang Feng was sleeping for two days and two nights, so at this moment, it was the third morning after Liu Bei's army landed. It was just that because no senior officials or generals of the thief army were arrested nearby, Liu Bei still didn't know much about the information in the hinterland of Qingzhou.

Li Su opened the folding fan "splash" while dispelling the autumn heat of tigers in the eighth month of the lunar calendar. Then he used a fan to guide the map, and roughly repeated the degree of the thief that Jiang Feng said just now, and then added:

"I heard that the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou are now known as 400,000, but they are all composed of the elderly, weak, women, children and the people. There are at most more than 100,000 young and strong. There are mainly two families in Donglai. The largest family is Guan Hai, who was born in the Beihai family, but they formed a thief in Gansu. There are more than 10,000 young and strong soldiers, and the total number of women and children is 50,000 to 60,000. Now they should be besieging the capital of Donglai County.

The other family is the Haike Guan Cheng, who is also a member of the Beihai Guan Ning. He has the same clan as Guan Ning. He has probably seen this person as a great man entrenched in the Shamen Islands, with more than 3,000 households, but the total population of these 3,000 households is less than 1,000.

Because most of them were outlaws who were serious cases of death and fleeing to Shamen Island to hide, most of them were alone and had no family members. At most, they plundered young women from the mainland to provide for their lust, but they would not marry. Therefore, although the troops were small, they were very difficult to deal with, and everyone was not afraid of death.

Local area of ​​Beihai, there is Zhang Rao, the commander of the Yellow Turban Canal, who is also a young and powerful soldier of 10,000 or 20,000 people.

Further east, there are Wusu, who entrenched Mount Tai and Jinan. Its direct cavalry, nearly 20,000 infantry, and a population of more than 100,000, making it the largest thief leader in Qingzhou. The other thieves are divided into two categories. One category is that they nominally respect Wusu and also have the banner of anti-the imperial court, such as Changxi, Wu Dun, and Yin Li. The three families have 30,000 war soldiers and more than 100,000 people.

Another type is to take advantage of the chaos of Wusu, raise troops to defend themselves, plunder and plunder without rebelling against the court, led by Zang Ba, Sun Guan and Sun Kang, who also have 30,000 to 40,000 soldiers and more than 100,000 people. The other small thieves are not worth mentioning, and they often rely on these giant bandits."

When Cao Cao came to deal with the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou in history, the Qingzhou soldiers had already spread to the terrifying scale of "300,000 young and strong, with more than one million household registrations". What Liu Bei encountered now was only "100,000 young and strong, with more than one million household registrations". Obviously, it was because he came early that the Qingzhou soldiers had only developed for more than half a year and did not completely degenerate.

Liu Bei roughly made some marks and classified the map, and already had plans:

"In this way, what we have to face directly is Zhang Rao first, followed by Guan Hai and Guan Cheng, with a total of 30,000 bandits and 150,000 people. If these three families are broken, the two counties of Beihai and Donglai can be completely pacified.

As for going east, to deal with the deadly rebels led by Wusu, we must be prepared to fight 60,000 enemy troops, and more than 30,000 people including Zang Basun Guan may watch the show, and they may be able to stabilize or win over it."

The rebels, with a total of 120,000, the total size of 120,000 was roughly classified by Liu Bei.

The first step to gain a foothold is to destroy the unknown Zhang Rao immediately.

Thinking of this, Liu Bei asked, "Since the leader of the North Sea pirates is Zhang Rao, the thousands of thieves that our army recaptured Xiami the day before yesterday were Zhang Rao's subordinates? Yun Chang, why didn't he ask when he tortured the prisoners?"

Guan Yu quickly said that he would torture him again, and he would come back cleanly in a few minutes and report:

"Brother, they were not wrong. The leader of the Yellow Turban that we defeated that day was called Zhang Chen. I beat the prisoners and asked them. They said that Zhang Chen was the main person in name. But in fact, the Yellow Turban Army was loose, so Zhang Rao didn't care about them, but just divided the territory and plundered them."

Liu Bei nodded: "Since he is in charge of the Lord, even if he doesn't care about it, how can he ignore the friendly forces after they are defeated? I think Zhang Rao should know that Xia Mi has been recovered by our army. If he wants to take revenge, he should almost come from Shouguang, Duchang, and even the county seat Pingshou. If he dare not take the initiative to attack, we will also go to him. Let the scouts search immediately. Ziyi, you are familiar with the surrounding terrain, and you are responsible for this matter."

"Yes!" Taishi Ci rushed to the scene.

This time, due to insufficient sea ships, Liu Bei's army divided into three waves to cross the sea, so the commander led by the front army was Guan Yu, who was familiar with water warfare. Zhang Fei wanted to defeat the army in the formation and the rear of Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun was not here, and he could only give the task of cavalry scouts to Taishi Ci, who was familiar with the terrain, to be fully responsible. Otherwise, as he was a Qu Junhou, he would be a little ineligible to report directly to Liu Bei.

Taishici also knew that opportunities were rare and he needed to perform well.

The army repaired and deployed its defense for another day. The next morning, Taishici came back with a lot of information about the surrounding military situation.

"Reported to the lord, Zhang Rao is indeed worried that his army will be defeated by each of us, and will gather the Yellow Turban thieves from Pingshou and Shouguang, and stationed in Duchang Tun and camp outside the city. But Zhang Rao was also afraid that our army was powerful and did not dare to attack. It seemed that he was waiting for the situation in Duchang to change, and wanted to accept Guan Cheng and Guan Hai retreated east."

Duchang County is more than ten miles west of Weishui, and is located across the Weishui River from Xiami (Xiami is between Weishui and Jiaohui, Weidong Jiaoxi)

Liu Bei was slightly stunned: "He wants to wait for Guan Hai, Guan Cheng to attack me? Guan Cheng should not be able to wait. Since he is a pirate, he can hide back to Shamen Island even if things are not in harmony. He should not be afraid of encirclement and suppression.

Guan Hai was going to return from Donglai, but he was afraid that the march would not be so fast. The Yellow Turbans had to take their families with their families. It would be good to travel thirty miles a day to send scouts to the east. Did you find that Guan Hai's army was moving closer to me?"

Taishici: "I personally led the scouts and went deep into Jiaodong and Ye County to detect the posts, but I didn't find the main force of Guan Hai's army. I guess Guan Hai either didn't know that our army was intercepting the Weishui encirclement or hadn't walked through Qucheng County and Yangqiu Mountains."

When Liu Bei heard this, he waved his hand decisively: "That's just right, you can't wait. Chang Yun, you will be in charge of the army to attack Duchang tomorrow, and you will be limited to defeat Zhang Rao within two days. Then turn around the river and wait for Guan Hai!"
Chapter completed!