Facts have proved that when fighting the small Yellow Turban Army that had sufficient time to defeat each other, it often took longer to clean the battlefield and recruit prisoners than the battle itself.

Now, after defeating Zhang Rao three days ago, Liu Bei's army spent two days searching for weapons, reorganizing prisoners, and burning corpses.

Now that Guan Hai was killed with one knife, after a rough attack, the remaining nearly 10,000 Yellow Turban thieves wanted to discuss surrender and incorporation with Liu Bei, the whole process would probably take several more days.

For troops like the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou, after the commander was killed, Yu Zhong lost his fighting spirit and wanted to discuss surrender treatment with the Han army. That was not surprising at all. Didn’t they do the same in the face of Cao Cao three years later in history?

It’s just that after the Qingzhou soldiers nominally surrendered, there are often many conditions. For example, they are unwilling to stay away from their hometowns, unwilling to be disbanded, and trying to maintain a certain degree of independence.

However, Liu Bei is now stronger, and the Qingzhou army that was broken up and subdued by him is also smaller in scale, so the Qingzhou army's confidence in providing conditions is naturally much weaker.

After another two days of delay, Zhang Fei and the central army also arrived, and the strength of the Youzhou Army's direct troops expanded to 15,000.

At the same time, the Qingzhou soldiers who were completely reorganized by Liu Bei also reached 5,000, and there were still seven or eight thousand dead prisoners, so they could not cause any storm.

The total population of Qingzhou civilians, including the elderly, weak, women and children, was close to 150,000, which was basically the Yellow Turbans that flew to the Beihai and Donglai counties, and drove them away.

After doing all this, it was around August 20. Under the instigation of Li Su, Liu Bei should have officially set out eastward and enter Taishan County from Beihai County.

Before leaving Xiami County, Li Su finally took a look at the county magistrate Sun Qian who was still recovering from the county yard.

Sun Qian was stabbed ten days ago and was seriously injured and dying. However, after resting these days, he could walk slightly - mainly because his knife wounds were not deep, but he was very long along the ribs and lost a lot of blood, but his bones and internal organs were fine.

Eat some warm and nourishing things every day to rest. Young people recover quickly from hematopoiesis and their faces don’t look so pale.

"Gongyou, you should recover from your injuries. We will send troops to rescue Taishan County tomorrow and chase the thief Wusu. He escaped by the banks of the Hangshui River last year, so it should be broken." Li Su chatted and comforted her.

When Sun Qian heard this, he was slightly distracted and disappointed: "So anxious? Liu Fujun defeated the Beihai in less than ten days. The two largest Yellow Turban thieves in Donglai were admired by local gentry and scholars.

I heard that when the Duke was in Liaodong, I often felt that he was not capable enough staff and was eager to seek talent. I wanted to take this opportunity to help recommend some. I was not considered a formal disciple of Kang Chenggong (Zheng Xuan), a great scholar in this county, but I also listened to him for a while. When he was recommended, he was able to become a county official and became a county magistrate after several years.

In recent years, Gong Chenggong has started teaching apprentices in his hometown Gaomi County, and many scholars have been obsessed with him. When Zhang Rao was in trouble, Gong Chenggong had no choice but to hide in Buqi Mountain, south of Jimo County, and lived in seclusion.

Since June, the thief has become more and more serious. It is very difficult for the apprentice to go out to buy grain and grain, so he has to consider quitting school behind closed doors and dismissing the students. Fortunately, the people of the North Sea are sent to clear the sun. I think there may be some students who are loyal and loyal to Gong Kang Cheng who have not been dismissed. Why don’t you ask for it? Why should you hurry to save Taishan County first?"

The Buqi Mountain mentioned by Sun Gan is located in the north of Jiaozhou Bay, which is some mountainous areas northwest of Laoshan, Qingdao in later generations.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the mountain belonged to the three junctions of Beihai, Donglai, and Chengyang County in Xuzhou, and was a mountainous area with no control. Therefore, even if the Yellow Turban thieves were in chaos, they would not disturb such a broken place. The great scholar Zheng Xuan chose to escape there and continue to live in seclusion.

The students under him will be considered Yuan Shao’s brothers in the future in terms of seniority, so who made Yuan Shao also a student of Zheng Xuan?

However, although Sun Gan’s suggestion was very attractive, Li Su also knew that things were priorities-

Those apprentices who had not had time to dismiss Zheng Xuan, whether they were Cui Yan, Guoyuan, Zhang Yi, Cheng Bing, and Xi Lu, could these people compare to the priority of winning over Zhuge Yimen?

What's more, Cui Yan and Cheng Bing were all admirers of the aristocratic families. One refused to be an official with Liu Bei and the other, and Liu Bei's help to them was not as good as saving water and fire.

Let's put it aside first.

Li Su thought for a while and replied, "Thank you for your advice, but Liu's family must first be the country's urgent need and then have personal relationships. First, kill the evil Wu Su, be careful in the beginning and the end, and then talk about seeking talented people.

However, the students of the Zheng family of Buqishan were in trouble due to the war, so Liu Fujun would naturally send someone to take care of him. I ordered one jun to send two hundred soldiers to transport 500 stones of grain, 500 stones of mixed vegetables, 500 stones of flesh, and 100 pieces of cloth and silk to go to Buqishan to help. The rest will be discussed when we return to the army."

Sun Gan's lips were still a little white and he didn't persuade him again.

Being willing to produce food and cloth to help the poor can be considered a good relationship first.

Liu Bei was so "not using his own private to abolish public", and his virtue was quite touched by Sun Gan, and he felt more and more that he wanted to follow Liu Bei and Li Sugan wholeheartedly.

...

A few days later, Taishan County was the capital of Fenggao County.

The prefect's yamen in the city was deserted and empty, like a ghost house.

Zhuge Gui, the county magistrate who was in charge of county affairs and defense, would rather stay in his old house and deal with military affairs than go to the prefect's office to get unlucky.

There was no way, the prefect's mansion belonged to Zhang Ju two years ago - that is, the pseudo-emperor who had been persuaded by Li Su to beheaded by Qiu Liju to Luoyang.

As a Han minister, who dares to get involved in even a little bit of relationship with such a person? Just doing things in the same county at the same time has been enough to make people avoid it for a long time.

Zhuge Gui's Taishan County Magistrate has also worked for several years. In addition to the past 20 months, he and Zhang Ju are colleagues!

According to the official system at the end of the Han Dynasty, the chief was considered the "executive deputy mayor" and the county magistrate was considered the "deputy mayor in charge of civil affairs."

Zhuge Gui in history did not survive the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army invaded Taishan County, nor did he encounter a siege of war, so he died of illness in advance. Obviously, the cause of his fear was Zhang Ju, who died at the beginning of the second year after Zhang Ju became emperor.

However, in this life, due to the butterfly effect brought by Liu Bei's expulsion of Wusu, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army's prairie fire was ignited half a year ahead of schedule. Zhuge Gui caught up with the war before he could die in fear.

But this actually made Zhuge Gui struggle a little. He had actually wanted to close his eyes and vent his anger. After the enemy came, he endured this tone and did not dare to die.

He felt that there was still a glimmer of hope to cleanse the suspicion of Zhuge, Langya: defend the city! Don’t be defeated by Zhang Ju’s remnants! It shows that he and Zhang Ju’s rebels have completely drawn a clear line!

Zhuge Gui was lying on the hospital bed and gasping for breath. The servants in his house had already followed his orders to bring several young masters to the lecture.

The eldest son Zhuge Jin had just turned into the threshold and quickly stepped forward and knelt on the side of the bed: "Are my father better? The doctor said that your agitated and your heart worsened, so it's better to take care of yourself.

If you have anything to do, it will be the same if you give me some instructions in a few days. The child followed the county magistrate Kong to patrol the city this morning. The thief did not look like he was preparing for ant attachment today."

Zhuge Jin was sixteen years old, Zhuge Liang was nine years old, and Zhuge Jun was four years old, so Zhuge Jun had already read a lot of books and could handle some business tasks a little. When he encountered a thief army besieged the city and his father was seriously ill, he could only drive the ducks to the shelves and experience the situation.

And their brothers can't do anything.

Zhuge Gui coughed for a while, and panted, instructed: "What's the use of not having an ant for a day? I'm calling you brothers to come today, because there is something to explain afterwards."

Zhuge Jin and Zhuge Liang heard a word and kowtowed: "Why did my father say this? The medical worker has already said that this is just a disease caused by worry, not without medicine. As long as my father takes care of his health and relieves depression, he will definitely be abrupt!"

"Don't interrupt! Listen to me!" Zhuge Gui calmed down and stopped his sons' useless nonsense without anger.

"My life and death are no longer important, but you must remember these teachings. If I can't do it one day, Jin'er, you must try your best to keep the county magistrate Kong, and tell him that the thief army will not last long. As long as you keep it, you will be able to keep your reputation sooner or later and regard yourself as a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty.

Zhang Ju was rebel, and was defeated by Li Su, the leader of Youzhou, as early as the end of last year. He rode alone in Husband and surrendered Hu Chief, and Zhang Chun... Although we were besieged here, there was no news between inside and outside. But from my perspective, even if we were not dead, Zhang Chun would definitely have no time to fight the enemy's troops with the advantage of the Liufu Jun in Liaodong.

The Taishan bandit Wu Su and the Qingzhou rebels he stirred up were just the aftermath of Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun. The reason why it was rampant before was nothing more than that the court focused on killing the evil people first. When Zhang Chun was dead, the court would only have two or three percent of the energy to challenge Zhang Chun to deal with Wu Su. How could his mobs have the truth that they would be invincible?

What's more, before we were besieged, we heard that the imperial palace had sent Tao Qian as the governor of Xuzhou to help suppress the Yellow Turbans from the southern wing. Therefore, the person who could not stand this tone now surrendered to the bandits is the most ignorant and stupid person in the world.

I don’t want me, Zhuge Gui, to have such stupid people, so I will die with my eyes open and cannot be content. Remember, you are not only three brothers, but you can’t embarrass the Zhuge family of Langya. When the Tao envoy comes, the hometown of Langya County will definitely be safe, and the Yellow Turban Thief will not be able to rush into Langya south."

Zhuge Jin bowed again and said, "I respect my father's teachings. If...if there is really a day, the child will use these words to persuade the county magistrate Kong and others, and let them persevere and wait for the day when the imperial army will be corrected."

After hearing his son repeat his analytical lobbying words, Zhuge Gui finally felt relieved. He did not breathe a sigh of relief and fainted temporarily.

As a result, Zhuge Jin and Zhuge Liang were panicked again, thinking that he had already passed away with his wish.

In this situation where the funeral was explained, only the son could come in, but in a panic, even the two daughters who were waiting outside rushed in and hugged their father and cried.

"Sister, second sister, don't be upset! My father is still angry! I just fell asleep!" Zhuge Liang was quite safe. After trying his father's breath, he quickly pulled away the sisters to avoid them being noisy.

The Zhuge family was quieter now.

At this moment, another burst of rapid footsteps came from outside the door. The eldest son Zhuge Jin hurried out to greet him, but saw that the county magistrate Kong, who was responsible for guarding the city, rushed over.

Zhuge Jin's heart tightened: "But the thief launched an attack on the city again?"
Chapter completed!