Julu County is located in the middle of Jizhou, can be described as the heart of Jizhou, is long and narrow, adjacent to Zhongshan in the north, Zhao and Changshan in the west, Anping and Qinghe in the east, Wei County in the south, the jurisdiction is quite south of Baiyangdian and Wen'anwa in Hebei Province, west of the South Canal, Gaoyang, Ningjin, east of Ren County, north of Wei County and Jize in Handan City, Dezhou and Gaotang in Lu Province, and between the Pavilion Tao of Hebei Province. Julu County has 15 counties under its jurisdiction, with a large population, and before the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, it even approached 800,000, which can be described as a place of ointment.

However, it is also a place where the powerful are everywhere, and the land has been annexed by the powerful clan, which has led to a large number of landless peasants. These peasants were attached to the Haoqiang clan and subjected to brutal exploitation. In good times, these civilians may be able to sustain themselves, but in the event of a natural disaster, they will face a serious existential crisis.

It is precisely this situation that gives the unpredictable Zhang Jiao a chance. This is the birthplace of the three brothers of the Zhang family, and it is also the most active area in Taiping Road, and in the end, the Yellow Turban Uprising also began here, and the Haoqiangshi clan suffered the most trauma here. Since the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion in February, more than eighty percent of the noble families have been broken by the Yellow Turban Army, and the rest are either powerful families or some down-and-out families that do not have much oil and water.

In mid-June, Li Yi led 5,000 iron cavalry to the south from Zhuo County, and often attacked Julu County, the base camp of the Yellow Turban Army.

At this time, Li Yi was already the commander-in-chief of the Jizhou battlefield.

The inertia of history is strong, and after Lu Zhi was relieved of military power, Dong Zhuo, the governor of the state and the Taishou of Hedong, took over the command of the Jizhou battlefield. It's just that this famous hero in Xiliang has not had time to get familiar with the personnel under his command, and he was beaten by Zhang Jiao of the counterattack, and he was beaten by the counterattack, and he was defeated, and the first battle of Guangzong, the 50,000 army of the imperial court and the 30,000 Xiliang army under Dong Zhuo were scattered, and the captain of Wuhuan was killed, and when Dong Zhuo's defeated army retreated into Yecheng, Wei County, there were only more than 30,000 of the 80,000 troops left, and more than half of them either failed in the war or became deserters.

Dong Zhuo suffered such a fiasco, and the end was naturally miserable. However, he bribed the eunuchs, and a large group of regular servants helped him say good things in front of the Son of Heaven, and finally saved a small life, but he was dismissed from his post and demoted back to Xiliang.

As a result, there were no other generals in the Hebei battlefield except for Li Pengfei, a general who commanded the troops, so it was logical to take over the command of the Jizhou battlefield.

It's just that Li Pengfei was still in Fanyang City in Zhuo County at that time, although he has become the commander-in-chief of the Jizhou battlefield, but the only soldiers who can really command are the 5,000 cavalry around him, as well as the 3,000 cavalry of Gongsun Zhan and the 1,500 foot soldiers under Liu Bei. The remnants of the 20,000 imperial court northern army in Wei County in the south were completely unable to command him for the time being. Dong Zhuo's nearly 20,000 remnants of Xiliang were naturally brought back to Xiliang by himself. It was his private soldier, and the court couldn't command it.

After Li Pengfei received the imperial edict, he led the army to speed up the southward movement, recovering the counties of Changshan Kingdom occupied by the Yellow Turban Army along the way, and finally came to Wuji County, the southernmost county of Changshan Kingdom.

Julu County is south of Wuji County, and the Futuo River separates the two counties. The north gate is Wuji County in Changshan Province, and the south is Xiaquyang in Julu County.

The strength of the Yellow Turban Army in Xiaquyang was still very strong, with 30,000 defenders. In addition, Xiaquyang City is surrounded by water on three sides, and the terrain is dangerous. If it were someone else, it would be really difficult to conquer such a city. In another time and space, this is the place where the final battle between the imperial army and the Yellow Turban Army will be held. The famous general Huangfu Song paid a huge price to defeat Zhang Bao. Because the cost of that battle was too great, Huangfu Song was very angry, in order to demonstrate, he killed more than 100,000 Yellow Turban Army prisoners, and built the bones of 100,000 people into a "Jingguan".

However, now Xiaquyang does not have so many troops, and he is also facing Li Pengfei, who is also hanging, and the tall city wall of Xiaquyang only blocked the footsteps of his army for three days, and then it was destroyed in a roar, and the city was also captured by the army.

After a short rest in Xiaquyang, Li Pengfei continued to lead the army south, and conquered Wuxian and Yang's all the way, and then Li Pengfei's troops were divided into two routes, he personally led 5,000 cavalry to the south through the mainland Zexi, and captured Ren County, while Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei joined forces with more than 4,000 people to go south through the east of the mainland and attack the south.

Jizhou is a place of outstanding people, Li Pengfei clearly remembers that many famous generals and strategists in the late Han Dynasty were born in Jizhou, the most famous is Yuan Shao's Hebei Siting Zhu, as well as Tian Feng and Fu Zhu and other strategists. Therefore, after the army entered Jizhou, Li Pengfei paid attention to collecting relevant information.

And after capturing Ren County, Li Pengfei really found out some news, which was about Tian Feng. Li Pengfei doesn't know much about Tian Feng in history, and in Romance, his role is not heavy, but he has played a lot of Three Kingdoms games, but he knows very well that Tian Feng is definitely a first-class strategist in the Three Kingdoms era in the late Han Dynasty, that is, slightly inferior to Zhuge Liang, Guo Jia, Pang Tong and other super-first-class strategists. Now Zhuge Liang and the others are still children, with Tian Feng's ability, they can definitely rank in the top five, and even throughout the entire Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, Tian Feng is definitely about ten among the strategists.

Such a talent, if he summons a similar one through the system, the merit points required are definitely not inferior to Kou Zhun, that is, one hundred and thirty or four hundred thousand merit points. But his current power, if he wants to gather so many merit points, I'm afraid he won't be able to quell the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

Therefore, Li Pengfei decided to get his hands on this no matter what.

Through the information that Li Pengfei learned, he knew that Tian Feng was smart and intelligent since he was a child, and he was bereaved when he was a teenager, and although the time for the funeral had passed, he still did not smile and did not show his teeth, so he was valued by his neighbors. And Tian Feng is erudite and talented, very famous in Jizhou, originally recruited by the Taiwei Mansion, recommended as Maocai, and later was selected as the imperial history, because of resentment of the eunuchs in power, virtuous ministers were killed, so he abandoned the official and returned home, until now.

Li Pengfei prescribed the right medicine, and with the efforts of Corporal Lixian, Tian Feng finally agreed to go out of the mountain to help. However, he did not call Li Pengfei the lord of the prince, and his name was not included in the list of military generals. Li Pengfei knew that Tian Feng did not recognize him, just like Gongsun Zhan. The reason why he agreed to follow the army was because Li Pengfei's grandfather was Li Ying, who was the person he respected and admired the most.

Li Pengfei did not show any dissatisfaction with this, and he believed that one day he would let this top strategist with an upright personality return to his heart.

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After getting the army led by Li Yi to kill Ren County, Zhang Jiao, who was besieging Yecheng for the second time, couldn't sit still, and he hurriedly withdrew his troops from Yecheng and retreated to Quliang in the east of Wei County and Guangnian in the southwest of Julu County.

Li Pengfei did not continue south to attack Guangnian, but went west into Xiangguo of Zhao, then went south along the Chi Road, captured Handan, and finally entered Wei County, where he joined the remnants of the Northern Army in Yecheng.

The next thing to do was to engage Zhang Jiao's main force of the Yellow Turban Army, and it was completely impossible to defeat Zhang Jiao by relying only on his 5,000 cavalry. You must know that there are still 150,000 troops under Zhang Jiao today, and they are all the elite of the Yellow Turban Army. Therefore, he had to integrate the remnants of the Northern Army in Yecheng.

However, what made Li Pengfei extremely painful was that the remnants of the Northern Army in Yecheng had experienced the defeat of Guangzong last time, and after fleeing all the way back to Yecheng, their morale had fallen to the lowest point, and it could be said that they had no intention of fighting. Several generals in the army are not talented people who are good at boosting morale, and although Li Pengfei is better, after fiddling with it for two or three days, he found that the results are not ideal.

In desperation, Li Pengfei had no choice but to send someone back to Youzhou to ask Yue Fei to go south. He believed that Yue Fei would definitely have no problem dealing with these northern troops, after all, when he was in Quanzhou before, he had formed a certain combat effectiveness in just a few days.

While waiting for Yue Fei to go south, Li Pengfei was certainly not idle. Although he failed to restore the fighting spirit of the remnants of the Northern Army, he finally relied on the prestige he had fought in Youzhou in the early stage, so that these remnants of the Northern Army recovered a little bit of the appearance of soldiers and were able to train. So he led the army with Guan Yu and others every day to conduct some simple training near Yecheng.