Du Chang, the general of the Yellow Turban Army stationed in Beiqiu City, surrendered. His army, under the guard of Youzhou Iron Cavalry, also entered the prisoner camp under Ganling City.

The Son of Heaven also sent envoys again. First of all, he commended Li Yi for his many recent achievements in Jizhou, and asked Li Yi to make persistent efforts to send troops to exterminate the Yellow Turban Army as soon as possible.

The envoy who came this time was not Li Yi's old acquaintance Lu Qiang, and Li Yi asked the eunuch about Lu Qiang's news, but he did not get a response. The eunuch was always talking about him left and right, and changed the subject.

How did Li Yi know that at this time, Lu Qiang had been framed by Zhao Zhong and others, saying that Lu Qiang and his brother were corrupt officials, and Emperor Ling sent someone to arrest him, and Lu Qiang committed suicide in anger.

After sending away the envoys sent by Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, Li Yi, who had not waited for Huangfu Song's reply, sent someone to send a letter to Huangfu Song again.

In the letter, Li Yi informed Huang Fu Song that he would soon lead a large army eastward, hoping that Huang Fu Song would cooperate with his actions and flank the Yellow Turban Army in Juxian County on both sides.

This time, Huang Fu Song's messenger came quickly, and Huang Fu Song rejected Li Yi's proposal in the letter, saying that with his troops, he could completely take down the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army in Zhang Jiao's hands, and hoped that Li Yi could immediately go north and attack Dongwu City, where the Yellow Turban Army was stationed, and Guangzong, the old nest of the Yellow Turban Army.

Li Yi received Huangfu Song's letter and smiled helplessly. Although Huangfu Song didn't say it explicitly, his meaning is already obvious, that is, you Li has made great contributions, and I have led the army north for thousands of miles, but I have not made any merits so far, and now I finally have a chance to beat the water dogs, so don't come to Pingyuan County to grab credit from me.

Li Yi thinks about it, since the beginning of the army, he has eliminated more than 600,000 Yellow Turban Army, recovered most of Youzhou and most of Jizhou, killed hundreds of Yellow Turban Army generals including Zhang Bao, and captured even more. The credit is indeed not small.

As for Huangfu Song, who should have been the number one contributor to the extermination of the Yellow Turban Army, the total number of Yellow Turban Army annihilated so far is only about 100,000 people, and he has not been able to kill any heavy Yellow Turban Army generals. Seeing that there are not many Yellow Turban Army left, Huangfu Song is also a little anxious.

Since people don't welcome him to come over, Li Yi is not reluctant. As Huangfu Song said, recovering the remaining counties of the Ganling Kingdom and the former nest of the Yellow Turban Army, Guangzong, is not a small credit, and it happens to take all of them.

Li Yi immediately ordered Guan Yu and Zhang Jaw to lead an army of 4,000 to the north to attack Dongwu Castle. Gongsun Zhan led his troops to the northwest to capture Guangzong, the old nest of the Yellow Turban Army, who had been abandoned by Zhang Jiao. He led Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei, as well as the main force of the army, to attack Lingxian in the south, and gradually moved closer to the direction of Juxian, echoing the attack of the army led by Huangfu Song. Yue Fei led more than 2,000 people to guard Ganling City.

When Li Yi led the army to Lingxian, the Yellow Turban Army had already evacuated.

Li Yi immediately ordered the army to set up a large camp and no longer move in the direction of Juxian. When I arrived in Juan County, I crossed Luoshui and the big river. It's Gaotang City.

If you get too close, Huangfu Song may have an opinion.

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Li Yi was awakened by the noisy shouting outside the tent. He scrambled to his feet, hurriedly put on his clothes, and just wanted to go out to see what was going on. Tian Yu had already rushed in and said loudly: "Lord, General Huangfu Song's army is surrounded by the Yellow Turban Army. ”

Li Yi immediately lowered his head and looked at the map on the table, and asked at the same time, "How did you get the news?" ”

Tian Yu replied. A fishy smell suddenly rushed in the big tent, and Zhang Fei helped a big man covered in blood and walked in. Li Yi looked up and couldn't help but be taken aback.

"The last general, Dian Wei, meets the general of the cavalry." The face was defeated. The embarrassed Dian Wei struggled to kneel, but was stopped by Zhao Yun and Tian Yu on the left and right.

"Excuse me. Tell me, what's going on? Li Yi waved his hand and asked anxiously.

"Five days ago, General Huangfu Song led his troops to Shilipu, which was thirty miles away from the county seat, and Zhang Jiao led his troops to defend it. The night before yesterday, the 150,000 troops of the Yellow Turban Army, Zhang Niujiao, Chu Yan, and Yang Feng, suddenly appeared in Shilipu and caught us off guard. General Huangfu Song led us to an emergency retreat, and when we arrived at Suijia Mountain, the whole army was surrounded. The last general was entrusted by General Huangfu Song to lead a hundred iron cavalry to break through the siege desperately and fight for help. Dian Wei said loudly in a hoarse voice.

Li Yi has been lying on the map, following Dian Wei's narration to find the general direction.

Judging from the map, the distance between Juan County and Pingyuan County is not far, less than 100 miles in the middle. These ten miles are thirty miles northwest of the county seat, while Suijiashan is thirty-five miles southwest of the plain county, about thirty miles away from the ten miles. Huangfu Songcai led the army to retreat and was surrounded by a little distance, and it seems that the Yellow Turban Army's operation has been premeditated for a long time.

"General Li, this is General Huangfu Song's paperwork." Dian Wei took out a short bamboo slip stained with blood from his bosom and handed it to Tian Yu beside him. Tian Yu then presented the bamboo slips to Li Yi.

Li Yi took it and opened it casually, glanced at it, and put it on the desk and was silent.

Zhang Jiao finally made a move, and it was immediately after he divided his troops. This timing was very clever, so that Li Yi had to marvel at Zhang Jiao's use of troops.

Now it can be seen that Yang Feng's detention in the Futuo River, the Yellow Turban civil strife in the Jieqiao area, are all deliberately arranged by Zhang Jiao, and even Chu Yan's attack on Qingyuan is a hint to Huangfu Song, the internal strife of the Yellow Turban Army is fierce, the morale of the army is low, and there are not many Yellow Turban Army troops left in Ganling.

At this time, Zhang Jiao led the army to attack, causing Huangfu Song to retreat again and again, forcing Huangfu Song to gather all the forces of the plain and Ganling officials and troops to launch a counteroffensive against the Yellow Turban Army.

Immediately, Zhang Jiao pretended to be invincible and retreated step by step, causing Huangfu Song to mistakenly believe that this was the best time to defeat the Yellow Turban Army, and then made great strides to chase after him.

Zhang Jiao lured Huangfu Song into the trap he had set step by step.

At this time, Zhang Jiao was not at ease, because there was still a powerful Youzhou Iron Cavalry in the west that could march east to participate in the war at any time. So he further showed weakness, and even retreated to the city of Juanxian at the cost of losing his troops. At this time, Huangfu Song already thought that the Yellow Turban Army was about to be defeated by himself, and there was no need for Li Yi's Youzhou Army to advance eastward to help.

The Yellow Turban Army's abandonment of Ganling Country and the large and small counties of Ganling Country is actually a hint to Li Yi and Huangfu Song that the strength of the Yellow Turban Army has been greatly reduced, and its defeat is imminent.

As a result, this caused a quarrel between the commanders of the two main armies of the official army, Huangfu Song did not want Li Yi to go to Pingyuan County, but hoped that he would divide his troops to recover the entire territory of Ganling Kingdom, and Li Yi agreed because he took care of Huangfu Song's face.

As a result, the Youzhou Iron Cavalry, which posed the greatest threat to the Yellow Turban Army, was divided into three, losing the possibility of concentrating on attacking the Yellow Turban Army, and also losing the possibility of timely rescue after the main force of the official army was surrounded.

At this time, Liu Ding's 5,000 men and horses who stayed in Gaotang City were estimated to have also been pinned down by the Yellow Turban Army. He has fewer men and horses and does not work at all.

Li Yi stared blankly at the map, at a loss.

In his letter to Huangfu Song, Li Yi once reminded Huangfu Song that Chu Yan was not in Ganling, which meant that he might have gone to the plains. But because Huangfu Song is an old qualification, although he is the nominal commander of the Hebei battlefield, he also has to take care of Huangfu Song's face, so it is difficult to say it directly.

Li Yi actually wanted to tell him that it was best to transfer his Youzhou Iron Cavalry to the frontal battlefield to attack the Yellow Turban Army. The two armies will attack together and have a greater certainty of annihilating the Yellow Turban Army, and they are not afraid of any tricks played by the Yellow Turban Army.

But he had just easily captured Ganling City at that time, and he had already made great contributions, and if he went to Pingyuan County to grab the merits, it seemed too much. So Huangfu Song refused Li Hong and his cavalry's request to march east to join the war.

As a result, the situation on the battlefield in Hebei has become a mess again.

Now if Huangfu Song's army is completely annihilated by the Yellow Turban Army, Liu Ding, who guards Gaotang City, will be the second target to be attacked by the Yellow Turban Army. Liu Ding was wiped out, and the Yellow Turban Army was immediately able to cross the river south and enter the Taishan region in south-central Qingzhou. At that time, the Yellow Turban Army was really a dragon entering the sea and a tiger returning to the mountains and forests.

Although there are more than 10,000 of his own iron cavalry, it is very difficult to defeat the Yellow Turban Army that relies on Mount Tai to enter and exit in a place as big as Qingzhou.

At the same time, it is even more impossible for the imperial court to gather more than 50,000 troops to attack the Yellow Turban Army in the short term.

As soon as Zhang Jiao made a move, the battle situation in Hebei immediately reversed, and the fiasco of the official army was a foregone conclusion.

Li Yi regretted it a lot. When the main force of the Yellow Turban Army is still there, there should be no idea of taking care of the face of colleagues at all, let alone blindly dividing the troops, otherwise there is still room for redemption in today's tragic situation.

In addition, Li Yi was also a little strange, why Huangfu Song was calculated so ruthlessly by Zhang Jiao, as if he had no power to fight back. This is not at all the situation that should arise when a confrontation between two people of a level should arise.

You must know that in the previous life, Emperor Fu Song was the number one hero in the extermination of the Yellow Turban Army, except for a small setback when he was in the long society, he seemed to be destroying the withering and decaying, and he wiped out the Yellow Turban Army very smoothly.

However, considering that Zhang Jiao had already died of illness when Emperor Fu Song went north in the previous life, he had never fought against Zhang Jiao at all. What Huangfu Song defeated was only the Yellow Turban Army, which had lost its horns, was demoralized, and had no enough weight, and Li Yi was relieved in his heart.

Of course, this is also related to another memory of Li Yi, that is, in the Three Kingdoms series of games, Huangfu Song's intelligence does not seem to be high, only in his early seventies, while Zhang Jiao's intelligence is nearly ninety, and the gap between the two can be said to be quite large. Huangfu Song was calculated by Zhang Jiao, and it is not incomprehensible.

But thinking that even he was calculated by Zhang Jiao, the more Li Yi thought about it, the more angry he became, and his anger surged, and he suddenly slapped the case in front of him. "Click......" sounded, and the case was split by his palm.

Zhao Yun, Zhang Fei, Dian Wei, Tian Yu and others all changed their faces. Then I heard Li Yi give several orders in a row:

"Immediately order Guan Yu's department, Yue Fei's department, and Gongsun Zhan's department to rush to Juan County as quickly as possible."

"Beat the drums and gather the generals, immediately assemble the army, and prepare to go." (To be continued.) )