Chapter 138: The Army Deploys

Huangfusong personally sent a letter to Luoyang, hoping that the court would allow him to lead troops to Nanyang, join forces with his old buddy Zhu Jun, and put down Zhang Mancheng's rebellion.

However, before waiting for the imperial edict, Huangfusong did not stay idle. Instead, he split up with Cao Cao and Liu Ye to pursue the remnants of Bocai, attacked the Yellow Turban bandits in Runan and Chen, and beheaded Peng Tuo, pacifying the three counties in one fell swoop. .

On the first day of August, Cangting.

More than ten thousand yellow-turban thieves ran over in panic, their faces full of horror.

Panting, Bu Ji wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked at the panicked faces around him, and said angrily: "What are you afraid of? We are out of danger now, at worst, go hide in the mountains and wait for the officers and soldiers Just go out and come out."

boom!

The sound of horseshoes shook, and suddenly a cavalry came out from the side, shouting and killing loudly.

"Kill, catch Buji alive!"

"Kill the thief, suppress the rebellion!"

It turned out that Liu Ye had been ambushing around with hundreds of cavalry, and had been hiding all the time. Buji's troops were deliberately driven here by the officers and soldiers, and the cavalry rushed out immediately, only taking the place where Buji's general flag was.

The yellow turban thief was like a frightened bird, and was thrown into chaos by Liu Ye's cavalry.

But at this time, a loud arrow soared into the sky, making a sharp sound in the air, and Bu Ji's complexion changed drastically.

"kill!"

All of a sudden, there were shouts of killing from all directions, and two flags were clearly visible on the field, with the characters Cao on one side and the characters Huangfu on the other.

The cavalry rushed back and forth, tightly entangled more than ten thousand yellow scarf thieves, while Cao Cao's and Huangfu Song's troops approached quickly, 8,000 infantry formed a tight formation, and a row of shield walls rushed forward.

The officers and soldiers are far superior to the Yellow Turban Bandits in terms of elite level and equipment. The commanding generals are famous generals such as Liu Ye, Cao Cao, and Huang Fusong. The Yellow Turban Bandits are naturally defeated at the touch of a touch. Go to Buji's banner and shoot Buji under the horse.

The yellow turban bandits fled thousands of people before the officers and soldiers surrounded them on all sides, and the remaining thousands of people were all surrounded.

However, although the remaining 7,000 yellow turban thieves were afraid, none of them surrendered. They still held their weapons tightly in their hands and watched the officers and soldiers nervously. The Yellow Turban Bandits already knew that Huangfusong was an out-and-out "murderer", so they refused to surrender.

Seeing this scene, Huangfusong didn't change his expression, and waved his hands and ordered: "Kill them all."

The eight thousand Han troops obeyed orders, the archers stretched their bows and strung strings, a rain of arrows rained down, the swords and shields erected into a shield wall, and the spearmen concealed and killed them one by one. More than seven thousand yellow scarves were all killed, and blood flowed all over the ground , Floating corpses everywhere.

Liu Ye casually wiped the blood on his palms with the clothes on his body, and looked back, only to see Huang Fusong looking down at a letter, frowning.

Immediately, Liu Ye galloped out from the Yellow Turban Thieves and came to Huangfusong's side.

"General Lang, what are you looking at?"

Huangfusong smiled slightly, and instead of answering Liu Ye, he called out to Cao Cao in the distance: "Meng De, come quickly."

Cao Cao rushed over, got off his horse, and said with a smile: "General Lang summons the last general, isn't there some happy event?"

Huangfusong laughed: "You are really right, Cao Mengde listened to the order."

Cao Cao's face was serious: "The last general's decree." Although he obeyed the imperial decree, Cao Cao did not kneel down and salute. Since Emperor Wenwen of the Han Dynasty inspected Zhou Yafu's Xiliu barracks, Zhou Yafu replied, "Forgive the last general who cannot salute while wearing armor." The generals of the Han army seldom bowed down before the emperor.

"Emperor's order says, cavalry captain Cao Cao has made great achievements in destroying the bandits, and I am very pleased. The bandits in Qingzhou are still in chaos. I especially worship Cao Cao as the Prime Minister of Jinan, and I will clear up the bandits. This is my honor."

After Huangfusong finished speaking, he smiled slightly at Cao Cao: "Meng De, congratulations, you have been appointed Prime Minister of Jinan."

Cao Cao stood up, clasped his fists and said, "Thank you General Lang for your respect, but I don't know where the court appointed Yuqing and General Lang to go?"

Huangfu Song said with a smile: "Dong Zhongying was defeated, the situation in Hebei is corrupt, the imperial court ordered me to take over Dong Zhuo's post, and go to Hebei to put down the Zhangjiao Rebellion."

He glanced at Liu Ye: "Yuqing is a rare and powerful general in the world, so naturally he will go to Hebei with me to kill the thieves and put down the chaos."

Cao Cao sighed, looking a little bit sad: "It's been a pleasure to follow General Lang and Yuqing to defeat the thieves these few days, but it's a pity that we can't build a great cause together."

Liu Ye laughed: "Brother Meng De, why worry, as long as the heart is in the same place, no matter where you are, you are serving the big man, and there is no difference between them."

Cao Cao nodded: "Yu Qing said yes."

Liu Ye said sternly: "There is something I want to entrust to Brother Meng De."

Seeing Liu Ye's serious expression, Cao Cao immediately said seriously, "Please tell me, Yuqing, if I can do it, I will never shirk it."

"A certain family started in Licheng, and there is a confidant named Wude in Licheng. If brother Mengde comes to Jinan, he can take care of him. If the rebellion in Jinan is still unsolved, he can also send troops from Wude to put down the rebellion."

Originally, Liu Ye started his army from Licheng, with a total of 3,000 soldiers under his command, but less than 1,000 people were willing to follow him to send troops. Although the rest were unwilling to leave their hometown, they were all his cronies, and they would definitely be useful in the future.

What's more, the former Prime Minister of Jinan offended him badly. When he returned to Jinan to take charge, although he was far away from Licheng, he would inevitably attack his old subordinates. Now that Cao Cao took over as Prime Minister of Jinan, then he You can breathe a sigh of relief.

Cao Cao laughed when he heard the words: "Yuqing must be another brave general under Yuqing's command, so he will naturally protect him well."

After all, Liu Ye personally wrote a letter and handed it to Cao Cao. When Cao Cao took office in Jinan, he handed this letter to Wu De. Naturally, he would know it at a glance.

When Cao Cao left to serve as the Prime Minister of Jinan, it was naturally impossible to take away all the thousands of officers and soldiers. He only brought the Xiahou brothers and more than a hundred cavalry, and entrusted the rest of the troops to Huangfusong. After all, Huangfusong was about to go north to Jizhou to pacify Zhang Jiao, now is the time for employing people, so the number of soldiers is naturally too small but not too many.

Huangfusong and Liu Ye took a rest in Cangting, and immediately headed north. After all, with the defeat of Dong Zhuo, there was no official army north of the Yellow River that could compete with the Yellow Turban Bandits. The sooner the better.

Because most of the Yellow Turban thieves in the Central Plains were defeated, and Huangfusong blatantly showed his name, many Yellow Turban thieves were frightened when they saw the word "Huangfu", so the road was smooth.

Huangfu Song's army marched all the way in a hurry, and reached the north of the Yellow River on the seventh day of August, but just before reaching Guangzong, they got a piece of good news.

Zhang Jiao is dead.