Chapter 0044: History of Youzhou Thorn
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In the camp of the Chinese army, Li Pengfei and several brothers, as well as Yue Fei, Cheng Pu, Han Dang, and others, were gathering together to discuss the military situation.
At this time, a full ten days have passed since the Battle of Quanzhou City, and the time is about to enter the middle of May of the seventh year of Emperor Guanghe of Han Ling.
Just two days ago, after nearly half a month of controversy, the court's reward was finally conveyed to Youzhou.
In fact, the reason why the imperial court was able to reach a consensus had a lot to do with two things.
At the beginning of May, when the imperial reinforcements led by Cao Cao arrived at Changge City, twenty miles north of Changshe City, Huangfu Song, who was trapped in Changshe City, had already made a plan. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the strong wind blowing in the evening, Huangfu Song ordered the soldiers to secretly go out of the city with torches, using the weeds around the Yellow Turban military camp to attack the enemy with fire, shouting to attack, and the city also raised torches in response, Huangfu Song fought with drums and rushed into the enemy formation, and the Yellow Turban Army was in chaos and ran around.
Cao Cao, who rushed to Changge City, discovered the abnormality of Changshe City, worried that Changshe City would be lost, and hurriedly led his army to the rescue. After all, the northern army he led was only 3,000 people, and if he lost the 30,000 troops in Changshe City, let alone make meritorious contributions, under the siege of the 200,000 Yellow Turban army, whether he could retreat with his whole body was still a question mark.
When Cao Cao arrived at Changshe City, he found that it was Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun who burned the camp of the Yellow Turban Thieves with a plan, and now they are leading the army out of the city to attack the Yellow Turban Thieves.
The Yellow Turban Army was burned down by Huangfu Song, and it had fallen into chaos, and now it was attacked by Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun and Cao Cao from three sides, and it was even more irresistible, and it was out of control and could not be defeated.
Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun and Cao Cao waved their troops to cover the killing, killing tens of thousands of people, and the Han army won a great victory.
While sending envoys to report the victory to Luoyang, the capital division, the three of them joined forces together to hunt down the scattered Yellow Turban Army.
The imperial court received the good news from Runan, and the officials were overjoyed. You must know that before this, they were very worried that the Yellow Turban Army in Runan would attack Luoyang, after all, the two places were very close, and Luoyang's defensive strength was very limited now.
Now, the Yellow Turban Army in Runan has been defeated, and the sword hanging over their heads has been removed, and everyone is relieved.
Then it is the reward for meritorious deeds, and the Son of Heaven is happy, and with a stroke of the pen, he rewards the three major meritorious heroes. Huangfu Song gave the prince the marquis of the capital, and moved the thief Zhonglang general; Zhu Jun was named the Marquis of Xixiang and moved to the town as a thief general; And Cao Cao was rewarded with a cavalry captain, and compared with the previous cavalry captain, he was promoted by more than one level.
Regarding the reward of the Son of Heaven, the hundred officials had no opinion, and the middle attendants did not object. First of all, the Yellow Turban thieves in Runan are the real threat to their lives, if they can't be exterminated, who knows when Luoyang will be breached? Secondly, this time there are not only representatives of hundreds of officials, but also people from the eunuch family, and everyone has a reward, so naturally there is no problem.
And just when the Son of Heaven had just issued the reward order, the good news came again: Li Yi annihilated 50,000 people of Zhang Qun, the general of the Yellow Turban Thief Zhang Bao, in the first battle of Yuyang Quanzhou, and killed Gao Xiang, the general under Zhang Bao.
Now everyone remembered that there was such a thief hero. It's just that everyone is a little dumbfounded, after all, in the past half a month, they have been arguing about Li Yi's reward.
However, this matter cannot be delayed any longer, otherwise it will be spread, and I am afraid that it will chill the hearts of the righteous people in the world.
Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun represented the hundred officials of the imperial court, while Cao Cao was regarded as their representative by the Zhongchang attendants, and Li Yi was naturally the representative of the party and ordinary righteous people. Now, the first three have all been rewarded, and if you bet on the latter's reward, it will be a bit too much.
As for the Son of Heaven, he is happy at this moment, first several generals of the Northern Army have won a big victory in Runan, and now Li Yi, the talent who has won the first big victory over the Yellow Turban Army, has good news, which is simply overjoyed. Well, this kid Li Yi is really my lucky star, and since he won the battle, my army has also begun to fight. This is a reward, a great reward.
In the first half a month of the Son of Heaven, the ears of the Standing Attendants and the hundreds of officials in the court have been cocooned, this time he decided to make a decision to make a dictatorship, and ordered to give Li Yi the title of the Marquis of Guannei, worship the general of the unified army, lead the history of the Youzhou Assassin, and reward 100 gold.
Seeing that the Son of Heaven had already made up his mind, neither the hundred officials nor the regular attendants expressed their opposition.
The edict of the Son of Heaven was announced by Lu Qiang, a regular attendant of the Middle Term, who came to Youzhou in person. Originally, such a thing did not require the Zhongchang attendant to go out in person, but the other eunuchs did not dare to receive this order. After all, now that Jizhou and Youzhou are in chaos, what should I do if I encounter a yellow turban thief on the road? In addition, Lu Qiang personally asked for his life, and the Son of Heaven agreed.
When Li Pengfei first received Lu Qiang, he didn't give him a good look. It's not that he has any prejudices against the eunuchs, but since he has been in this world for more than three years, he has heard and witnessed that he has a really bad impression of the eunuchs.
However, after learning that Lu Qiang was actually the one who proposed to the Son of Heaven to lift the ban on the party, Li Pengfei still changed his attitude towards Lu Qiang slightly. Anyway, he indirectly owes this person a favor.
After some exchanges between the two sides, Li Pengfei found that this Lu Qiang was really unusual, and many of his views were even very much in line with his appetite, so he couldn't help but be impressed by him.
And after Lu Qiang communicated with Li Pengfei, he was originally very optimistic about Li Yi, and his good impression of Li Yi increased greatly.
As for the reward of the imperial court, Li Yi didn't care too much, it just gave him a name for sending troops.
And after Lu Qiang announced the reward of the Son of Heaven, he also passed on the edict of the Son of Heaven, asking him to send troops to exterminate the Yellow Turbans in Youzhou as soon as possible, and then go south to Jizhou to help Bei Zhonglang exterminate Lu Zhi and the main force of the Yellow Turbans in Jizhou.
Li Pengfei also has no opinion on this order. Anyway, after ten days of rest, his army was ready to go on the march. Moreover, the matter of going south to Jizhou is also a matter in Li Pengfei's plan. This was a necessary action for him to accumulate merit in the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
Of course, the benefits of going south to Jizhou are not only the accumulation of merits, but also many more. For example, looking for talent, snatching people and wealth, and so on.
Therefore, even if the imperial court does not issue an order, he will take the initiative to lead the army south to Jizhou.
After sending Lu Qiang away, Li Pengfei quickly gathered a group of brothers and subordinates to discuss the matter of sending troops.
Guan Yu and the others have been very happy recently, because what Lu Qiang came to read out was not only the imperial court's reward for Li Pengfei, but Guan Yu and others were also in the ranks of the rewards. Several of them are now captains appointed by the imperial court, holding the imperial court's 2,000 stone salary, not the grass-headed lieutenant appointed by Li Pengfei himself.
While everyone was discussing, a guard came to report that Gongsun Zan of Liaoxi was coming.
Li Pengfei was very surprised, what was Gongsun Chan doing in Quanzhou at this time? Could it be that Youbeiping is in trouble again? It shouldn't be, the Youzhou Yellow Turbans are now in Guangyang, Shanggu, Daijun and Zhuo County and other western counties, and it should be safe on the right side of Beiping.
Although he had doubts in his heart, Li Pengfei immediately invited Gongsun Zhan over.
Gongsun Zhan came to the Chinese military tent in a hurry, and said loudly: "Report to the general, Gongsun Zhan, the commander of the cavalry, will lead the army to help in the battle!" ”
Li Pengfei was stunned for a moment, and asked puzzledly: "Brother Bogui, what are you making trouble about?" ”
Gongsun Chan laughed and said, "Brother Xian, my brother is going to eat under your tent now, please take care of it!" ”
After Gongsun Zhan's explanation, Li Pengfei finally figured out what was going on. It turned out that because of the First Battle of Tuyan, Gongsun Zhan was relocated to the cavalry captain, and after the edict of the imperial court of Liaoxi Gongsun was transmitted to Liaoxi, he also organized 3,000 cavalry to hand over to Gongsun Zhan and let him participate in the operation to exterminate the Yellow Turban Army.
And now Li Pengfei has been awarded the post of Youzhou Assassin by the imperial court, leading the affairs of Youzhou's suppression of thieves, and the official position is above Gongsun Zhan, so there is what Gongsun Chan said to eat under his account.
Li Pengfei was very happy, whether it was the memory of his previous life or what he saw and heard in Youbeiping last time, he knew very well that Gongsun Zhan was a very capable general. Not to mention that he also brought 3,000 cavalry, which is a very important boost for him now.
Presumably, as a private soldier organized by the Gongsun family, the combat effectiveness should be very good.