Three Kingdoms: The Yellow Turbans finally revolt

Chapter 243 Unbearable, Liu Qing Killed the County Magistrate

Outside Liang County, Xu Rongbing was approaching the city.

Now in Liang County, there are less than two thousand soldiers.

In the county government, Zhang Miao was extremely anxious, and discussed countermeasures with Chen Gong and Li Min.

Chen Gong suggested to evacuate a long time ago, now Zhang Miao has only a few hundred soldiers left, no matter what he can't fight against Xu Rong, as for Li Min's soldiers, Zhang Miao can only shake his head.

In Chen Gong's words, he can fight ten of Li Min's skinny soldiers.

"Your Majesty, General Sun did not reply, indicating that Liang County cannot be supported for a while. If our army defends, it will be a deadly battle. It is better to evacuate the city while Xu Rong has not attacked the city!" Chen Gong suggested.

Zhang Miao seemed to be hesitant, and asked, "Has the sentry from Zhucheng not come back yet?"

"No, Mr. Fu, Xu Rong met me at Guangchengju. General Sun must have missed the boat. If he advances smoothly, even if he returns to help, he will not be able to catch up."

"I heard that the Xiliang army is brutal by nature. If we leave, what will happen to the people in the city?" Li Min interrupted suddenly.

Both Zhang Miao and Chen Gong glanced at Li Min, as if they were looking at a mentally handicapped person.

It's hard to protect himself, and he still thinks about the people in the city. He doesn't really regard Liang County as his territory.

In fact, it was less than half a month before Zhang Miao and Sun Jian captured Liang County, which was originally Dong Zhuo's territory.

Even if the Xiliang army burned, killed and looted, the one who lost would be Dong Zhuo's character. If this is the case, Dong Zhuo will be charged with the crime of perverting and harming the people.

"Gongtai, I think it's better to wait a little longer. If General Sun returns to aid and our army withdraws, wouldn't it be harming General Sun?" Zhang Miao said.

Chen Gong hesitated to speak, Zhang Miao always obeyed what he said, but he was never ambiguous about things like responsibilities. Chen Gong understood that Zhang Miao valued righteousness, and it was understandable to act like this. Unfortunately, acting like this is not the way of a general, let alone a lord way.

Chen Gong was disappointed in his heart, but he didn't raise any objection, he just said: "Your Majesty, it's not appropriate to wait for a long time, it's better to wait for the Zhucheng sentry to come back, if General Sun doesn't return to Zhucheng, our army will leave!"

This was a compromise solution, Zhang Miao had no choice but to nod in agreement.

As for Li Min, he had no objection, he just said: "If we evacuate, what should I do with my food and grass?"

Zhang Miao said: "Bring food and grass, Xu Rong will catch up with him. Our army has been defeated in this battle. The loss of food and grass is inevitable. We should save our lives!"

So the three of them waited and waited until they finally arrived at Zhucheng's sentry.

Everything was as Chen Gong expected, Sun Jian did not come back, so he should have continued to march.

Even now, Zhang Miao had no choice but to recognize the reality and decided to evacuate.

He summoned Sentinel again, and wrote a letter about the defeat of Guangcheng Ju and the evacuation of Liang County, and ordered Sentinel to send it to Sun Jian.

Kindness to justice.

"You two palace lords, it's not too late, our army should evacuate quickly!" Chen Gong urged.

"Okay, okay!" Zhang Miao agreed repeatedly, and then said to Li Min: "Mr. Li, this battle is dangerous. Thanks to your support for food and grass, you have a lot of people, so you should retreat from the south gate!"

When Li Min heard this, he was a little moved. At such a critical moment, he was going to retreat to the south, but Zhang Miao actually gave him the south gate.

Zhang Miao's name of "Eight Cooks" has the meaning first, and it is indeed worthy of the name!
After thanking Zhang Miao, Li Min left, while Chen Gong and Zhang Miao, who had already assembled soldiers and horses, had prepared rations for a few days, went into battle lightly, and escaped through the east gate.

As soon as Zhang Miao and Li Min left, the county magistrate of Liang County ordered the four doors to be opened wide to welcome Xu Rong.

Zhang Miao and Chen Gong left the city in one breath, and the two looked back at Liang County tacitly. Unexpectedly, they came and went quickly.

"Your Majesty, going out from the east gate is really the best strategy!" Chen Gong said without reason.

Zhang Miao didn't understand for a moment.

"What do you mean by public platform?"

"Our army runs from east to south, and Xu Rong is in the northwest of Liang County, which is exactly the opposite direction."

The implication is that even if Xu Rong wants to catch up, he may not be able to catch up.

When Zhang Miao reacted, he suddenly thought of Li Min.

"Oh! What should I do? Li Min is mostly an infantry soldier. If Xu Rong sends cavalry south to chase him, he will definitely catch up. I thought it was for his own good to let Nanmen be with him. If so, wouldn't it be harming him! " Zhang Miao said.

Chen Gong was also helpless, if it was someone else, he might have said, "If people don't do it for themselves, heaven and earth will perish", but the person in front of him is Zhang Miao, the "Eight Chef", so Chen Gong decided not to seek scolding.

"This is the end of the matter, Mr. Fu, our army should take care of ourselves first. If Mr. Li leaves lightly, nothing will happen!" Chen Gong said.

"Hey, that's all there is to it!"

Not long after Zhang Miao and Li Min fled, the sentinels who stared at Liang County brought the letter to Xu Rong.

"General Xu, Liang County's defenders left in two routes. The east route has fewer soldiers and most of them are cavalry, while the south route has more soldiers and more luggage." The sentinel said.

Xu Rong figured it out for a while, the cavalry with few people should be Zhang Miao who escaped, and the one with more luggage, without thinking about it, was Li Min, the prefect of Yingchuan.

Zhang Miao's army has been defeated, and it is no longer worth pursuing, but Li Min and Dong Gong have special missions.

Raw cooking!

"The cavalry obey the order! Follow me to pursue Li Min. Dong Gong has an order to capture Li Min and cook him alive! The rest of the soldiers and horses, enter Liang County!" Xu Rong ordered.

Thousands of cavalry galloped out and chased towards the southeast.

Fleeing for his life, he even dared to bring luggage. Isn't this looking down on the cavalry!

In Xu Rong's eyes, Li Min is already boiled meat.

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Sun Jian reorganized his army and horses, and according to the established strategy, he wanted to enter Xinxian County, but before he traveled far, he encountered the Xiliang army again.

Only this time, the two sides didn't fight. The Xiliang army seemed to deliberately keep a distance from him. When he advanced, they retreated. When they stopped, the Xiliang army deliberately appeared.

Sun Jian wondered, Li Meng was dead, and the Xiliang army had already fled north, why they still hung around like ghosts.

Could it be Xu Rong's army?

"General, if the Xiliang army is like this, there must be fraud!" Cheng Pu said.

Sun Jian's brows were tightly furrowed, facing Xu Rong, his brows were wrinkled.

"The Xiliang army repeatedly entangled and did not fight. If it was surveillance, a few sentry horses could solve it. Why is this so? This Xu Rong's use of troops is really puzzling!"

"In my opinion, these soldiers and horses must be defeated soldiers. They lost their generals, so they dare not fight again, but they dare not disobey orders and retreat, so they have no choice but to do so!" Huang Gai said.

"There is some truth in the rebuttal!" Cheng Pu echoed.

"General, a letter from Taishou Zhang." A messenger stepped forward and said.

"Oh! Finally there is news about Meng Zhuo! Let me see if he has met Xu Rong!" Sun Jian said while tearing down the envelope.

After reading it, Sun Jian fell silent.

"General, how is it?" Cheng Pu asked.

Sun Jian's eyes fell into the letter, and he remained silent.

"General?"

"Defeated! Meng Zhuo lost!" Sun Jian said.

Everyone was stunned, and looking at Sun Jian's appearance, Zhang Miao still seemed to have lost miserably.

"Liang county has been acquired by Xu Rong!" Sun Jian said again.

Cheng Pu's expression was unbelievable. After just a few days, could it be that Xu Rong defeated Zhang Miao and captured Liang County?
"Meng Zhuo didn't defend the city, but withdrew!"

"Withdrawn?" Huang Gai was surprised, "In this way, our army's retreat has been cut off, and our food and grass have been lost?"

The grain and grass transported by Li Min were all stationed in Liang County.

"That's right, the situation on the battlefield has changed in an instant, Xu Rong, I might as well!" Sun Jian sighed and looked ahead.

That defeated army should be the suspected soldiers sent by Xu Rong.

"General, this is the end of the matter, our army should make plans early! Our army's food and grass will not last long." Cheng Pu suggested.

Sun Jian nodded, rolled the silk script into a ball, and stuffed it into the seam of his battle armor.

"Our army has become a lone army, and our food and grass have been cut off. We are fighting everywhere, and our soldiers are brave. However, the problem of food and grass always needs to rely on others. Now that Zhang Miao has retreated, our army can hardly continue." Sun Jian paused, Yuan Gonglu wanted to After marching into Nanyang, and now stationed in Luyang, our army will detour through Manzhong and go to Luyang to join Yuan Gonglu! "

Sun Jian was very helpless. Xingyang was trapped because of food, and now in Liang County, he was out of food again, so he had to retreat because of food.

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"My lord, Chu Yan has a letter!" Dian Wei said as he pushed the door open.

Chaoge Pavilion Station, Liu Qing's couch, has now become an office. After staying in Chaoge for a long time, letters from all over the country began to fly like snowflakes.

After all, under Liu Qing now, there are as many as eleven prefects just appointed.

There are nine counties in Jizhou, nine, plus his own Yanmen prefect, and Wuyuan prefect Du Zan.

Liu Qing took the letter and asked casually, "Where is Fengxiao?"

"Should have gone to a tavern to drink, after all, Chao Ge doesn't have that!" Dian Wei laughed.

Liu Qingquan pretended not to hear, and skipped over.

Opening the letter, Chu Yan said in the letter that he and Zhang Niujiao had recruited more than [-] Black Mountain Army troops, and some of them also came after hearing the news. Now, the Black Mountain Army has already gone south, because it is on foot, about three days later, they can Go to the periphery of Chaoge.

The letter also mentioned Yu Du of Luchang Mountain. He is a member of Chaoge family. About July last year, he brought Chaoge’s people who could not eat, robbed Chaoge’s granary, and then went to Luchang Mountain to fall grass and called himself Montenegro. The army initially led hundreds of people who could not afford to eat. Later, because of their reputation, many refugees from the surrounding area joined in. Now they have gathered more than [-] people.

Hundreds of people in Chaoge couldn't eat, and Liu Qing thought about this sentence.

This should be thanks to the county magistrate Yang Jie.

The granary was robbed, the people were starved, and the poisonous grass fell, causing the surrounding production to be destroyed. Last year's harvest was extremely poor, but Yang Jie had more than a dozen carts of grain and grass to support Yuan Shao.

Liu Qing looked at Dian Wei, and said, "You said that Yuan Si and Jun Yi should have entered Yuan Shao's camp at this time, right?"

"Ah?" Dian Wei looked like I didn't know.

Liu Qing pouted, pretending that I didn't ask.

If it is calculated by the distance, it should have arrived, and it should be on the way back now.

At the beginning, in order to spy on the military situation, Yang Jie stayed for two more days, but when he saw what happened to Yu Du, Liu Qing didn't want to bear it anymore.

Fuck the program, fuck it doesn't matter.

One reason is enough to kill Yang Jie, damn him!

"Dian Wei, go and chop off Yang Jie's dog's head, hang it on the top of the city, and then ask the county magistrate to draw up a document to inform the whole county that Yang Jie is corrupt and dereliction of duty. Chaoge county magistrate."

"Okay!" Dian Wei replied, and planned to leave.

"Wait! It's Yang Jie's head!" Liu Qing corrected what he just said.

This is Dian Wei, he won't even ask why?
As for Yu Du, Liu Qing thought about it and waited for Chu Yan or Han Hao to deal with it. If more than 3000 people were directly charged into the Chaoge register, Chaoge could become a large county in Hanoi.

Liu Qing opened another letter, which was written by Cui Yan, Prime Minister of the Hejian Kingdom. There was a lot of eloquence in the book, which gave Liu Qing a headache.

Liu Qing was afraid of missing something important, so he read it carefully.

In the end, nothing happened, just daily reports, some county magistrates were appointed, and some important affairs were dealt with. This kind of report should be sent to Xun Yu.

However, there was one thing in the letter that he needed to tell himself, because Liu Qing had confessed it before.

That is to recommend family relatives.

In this letter, Cui Yan recommended his younger brother Cui Lin as the county magistrate of Lecheng. Lecheng is the capital of the Hejian Kingdom. This position is very important.

For the appointment of ordinary talents, Liu Qing at the county level usually doesn't ask, because there are hundreds of counties in Jizhou, Liu Qing can't care, but when appointing relatives, he needs to report to Liu Qing.

What they said was to avoid the situation of "cronyism", but in fact, Liu Qing was greedy for their relatives.

The prefects under Liu Qing's tent are all famous figures, and most of their relatives are also talents, such as Xun Yu's younger brother and nephew.

So Cui Yan recommended Cui Lin, and Liu Qing was naturally happy to hear it.

At the same time, he was still thinking about when Xun Yu would "wholesale" Yingchuan talents for him.

Regarding this point, Liu Qing knew very well, the biggest obstacle right now was Yuan Shi.

As the number one gentry family in the world, the Yuan family has now played the banner of welcoming the emperor Liu Bian, and all the scholars in the world will follow, even the four families of Xunzhong, Chen and Han in Yingchuan, except for the Xun family who has already stood in line with Liu Qing, the other three families , are all watching.

Because of their strong family background, they don't need to rely too much on the Yuan family, and even whether the Yuan family can stand still is still a question mark in the eyes of these big families who are well-versed in classics.

Those who are now attached to the Yuan family are those small and medium gentry families who hope to take advantage of this opportunity to take off, but this group of people is the most elite talent in the entire Han Dynasty.

Today's Liu Qing has not yet raised his banner, so naturally he cannot recruit talents from all over the world on a large scale.

The pattern of the world is "choose one of the two", the problem is that Liu Qing is not even in this "two".

Helpless, helpless, Liu Qing said: "I am obviously the strongest, but I am too cautious."

Liu Qing glanced at a small pile of documents, gritted his teeth, and continued to read!

Dian Wei got the order, and rode black goods straight to Yang Jie's mansion. Now Yang Jie is under house arrest, not only the door is guarded by guards, even inside the house, several guards are watching Yang Jie.

Holding a halberd, Dian Wei went straight into the house in a menacing manner, and the guards at the gate hurriedly saluted him.

"Meet General Dian."

Dian Weili ignored him, and when he entered the house, he called a guard and asked, "Where is Yang Jie?"

"In the backyard." The guard replied.

"Go and bring him out! My lord wants me to behead him!" Dian Wei said.

"Here!"

The two guards exchanged glances and ran to the backyard together. It seemed that the sound of running had disturbed the dog beside them, barking repeatedly.

"Damn! There really is a dog! My lord is really clever!" Dian Wei said as he walked over, staring at the yellow dog for a while.

The dog also looked at Dian Wei, and beeped twice, not daring to bark again.

At this time, two guards escorted Yang Jie out.

As if knowing his fate, Yang Jie knelt down and begged for mercy when he saw Dian Wei.

"General, spare your life! General, spare your life!" It's a pity that his eloquence is not good, and he repeated this sentence over and over again.

Dian Wei was still staring at the dog, and suddenly said, "Turn around!"

The dog actually turned its head, turned around and walked a few steps, seeing that it understood his words, Dian Wei was inexplicably happy, and immediately turned to face Yang Jie, the smile on his face gradually disappeared, and turned into a serious one.

"Yang Jie, my lord said that you are corrupt and dereliction of duty, you are greedy, greedy...greedy...greedy...you can't chew it! I want you to take your head!"

"General, spare your life! Bohai King, spare your life!" Yang Jie begged for mercy incoherently.

Unmoved, Dian Wei stepped forward and grabbed Yang Jie's hair, and with a halberd under his command, blood spattered all over the ground!
There were two more "beeps" from behind.

Dian Wei turned his head, and at some point, the yellow dog had already turned his head, witnessing his master's death.

Listening to the slightly sad moan, it is obvious that Gouzi still has some feelings for Yang Jie.

Dian Wei scolded: "Don't be sad, this is a dog official! I will raise you in the future!"

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