Three Kingdoms King of the North

"This is Su Shuang's youngest brother, Su Yi." Zhang Shiping said with a smile, "I came to Jizhou with the villain to meet the lord."

When Han Zhan saw that everyone was present, he invited everyone to take their seats, and then announced the opening of the meeting.

Just when Han Zhan raised his wine bottle and was about to say a few words, he saw Huang Zhong hurried in from the outside.From the expression on Huang Zhong's face, Han Zhan guessed that something must have happened, and quickly asked, "Han Sheng, you came here in a hurry, could something have happened?"

"My lord, a man from [-] miles to the east of the city is here to report." Huang Zhong said angrily, "Majia Village was attacked by gangsters, and hundreds of people in the village, young and old, all died at the hands of yellow scarf bandits. "

Upon hearing this, Han Zhan stood up abruptly, threw the wine bottle in his hand to the ground, and asked angrily, "Han Sheng, where is the reporter?"

"I'll see you outside the chamber."

"Let them in!"

Taking advantage of Huang Zhong's time to go out, Han Zhan turned to Dian Wei and said, "Zi Man, you should hurry back to the camp and gather [-] cavalry to go out of the city with the Marquis."

"The last general takes orders!" Dian Wei stood up and agreed, then turned and left.

Just as Dian Wei walked out of the conference hall, Huang Zhong brought Li Zheng to Han Zhan.Li Zheng, who was about sixty years old, heard that the person sitting in the middle was Jizhou Mu. He hurriedly knelt down in front of Han Zhan, and said in a crying voice, "I beg you to be the master of the hundreds of people who died in Majia Village."

"Li Zheng," Han Zhan didn't ask the other party to get up, but asked straight to the point: "Tell me, what's going on?"

"As for Mr. Huifu," Li Zheng replied respectfully, "today afternoon, more than a hundred people wrapped in yellow scarves rushed in from outside the village, asking for money and food from everyone. Started to kill, pity the hundreds of people in my Majia Village, who just lost their lives in vain."

"Lizheng, you said that hundreds of people in Majia Village lost their lives, why are you still alive?" Han Zhan waited for Lizheng to finish speaking, and immediately asked the question in his heart: "Did the yellow scarf thief see you?" It's Li Zheng, who spared your life on purpose?"

"No, no." Lizheng is also a smart man. From Han Zhan's words, he heard that the mansion suspected that he had an affair with the yellow turban thief, and he quickly argued, "When the yellow turban thief started killing, it was the dog general, the little old man. I hid in the well so that the Yellow Turbans could not find them. After the Yellow Turbans ransacked the village, they set a fire in the village. Fortunately, the little old man still had a horse hidden in the woods outside the village, so he hurried over For fear of running into bandits on the road, the little old man made a detour and entered the city from the north of the city, and then met this General Huang."

After waiting for Lizheng to finish speaking, Han Zhan asked some more details, and then told Rob to take Lizheng down to rest.As soon as Lizheng left, Han Zhan turned his head to look at Zhao Yun, and asked with a straight face: "General Zilong, I remember that you have been patrolling the east of the city, why did the yellow scarf thieves loot the village twenty miles east of the city?" , but you don’t know anything?”

"Returning to the lord," although Zhao Yun is Han Zhan's sworn brother, he still showed due respect to Han Zhan in this kind of public occasion: "Today is not the last general to patrol the city, so I didn't wait for the first Time to know about the Yellow Turban Thief, please forgive me, my lord."

Han Zhan asked a little angrily, "Who is patrolling the city today?"

"My lord," Zhao Yun quickly replied, "It's Zhang Liao and Zhang Yuan."

"Rob, Rob." After Han Zhan yelled twice, he suddenly remembered that he ordered Rob to settle down, and quickly changed his words: "Come here!"

Following his shout, a guard walked in from the door and saluted him with crossed hands: "What orders do you have, my lord?"

"Quickly go to Zhang Liao and Zhang Yuan to see the Marquis."

The guards who accepted Han Zhan's order hurriedly left the state pastoral mansion and rushed to the east of the city to look for Zhang Liao.When he saw Zhang Liao at the east gate, Zhang Liao was talking with Wei Xu standing near the city gate.The guard hurriedly rushed forward, saluted Zhang Liao and said, "Lieutenant Zhang, my lord welcomes you!"

"Understood, so-and-so will go right away." After Zhang Liao finished speaking, he turned to look at Wei Xu, and said to him: "You also go to see the lord with XX, and report everything you see to the lord."

Not long after, Zhang Liao and Wei Xu appeared in front of Han Zhan.Han Zhan waited for the two to greet before asking, "Zhang Yuan, are you patrolling the city today?"

"Respond to my lord's words." Zhang Liao quickly replied respectfully, "It's the last general patrolling the city."

Han Zhan stared at him and asked angrily, "So what happened today?"

"Returning to my lord, about an hour ago, when the last general was patrolling the city, he suddenly saw puffs of black smoke rising from the east of the city. It seemed that some village was on fire. So he ordered his subordinate Wei Xu, He led a team of cavalry to check." At this point, Zhang Liao turned to one side, pointed at Wei Xu and said, "Now Wei Xu has returned from sentry, and he will report what he saw to the general. The general wanted to come. I reported this to the lord, but I didn't expect the lord to send someone to summon his subordinates first."

After listening to Zhang Liao's explanation, the anger on Han Zhan's face gradually dissipated. It seems that the slaughter of Majiazhuang in the east of the city was not because Zhang Liao didn't notice it, but because he wasted time waiting for Wei Xu's return.Han Zhan tried his best to control his emotions, and asked Wei Xu in a flat tone: "Wei Xu, tell me what you have seen."

Half an hour later, Han Zhan arrived at Majia Village with Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Dian Wei, Zhang Liao and three thousand cavalry.The fire in the village has been basically extinguished, and the unburned beams are still emitting thick smoke. The dirt roads between the villages and beside the houses are full of corpses of villagers who died in different postures.

Seeing this scene, Han Zhan couldn't help the blood rushing to his head, turned his head and said loudly: "Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, and Dian Wei stepped forward to listen to the order!"

The three people whose names were called by Han Zhan hurried forward and crossed their hands on the horse's back to salute: "The last general is here!"

"The three of you each lead a thousand cavalry, and search in three directions: east, south, and north." Han Zhan said through gritted teeth, "We must find these yellow scarf thieves who are doing evil." The reason why Han Zhan is so angry is entirely because now Yedu, which is almost the hinterland of Jizhou, actually found a yellow scarf thief in such a place, didn't he slap himself in the face?That's why he brought people to check it out himself, and wished he could get rid of these thieves immediately.

The three generals were ordered to go in different directions to search for the yellow turban bandits who had escaped after looting the village.Only Zhang Liao, Wei Xu, Rob, and fifty cavalry were left by Han Zhan's side.

Not long after the cavalry left, Rob suddenly said to Han Zhan in surprise, "Master, listen, there seem to be living people in the village, and I heard someone moaning."

Han Zhan hurriedly listened, but he didn't hear anything.When he was about to reprimand Rob a few words, a low moan really came from not far away.He quickly pointed his hand in the direction of the sound and said, "It seems to be there, let's go and have a look."

Everyone followed the sound and found that the sound came from a courtyard.In this yard surrounded by mud walls rammed with yellow mud, lay a female corpse. Her back was slashed to a bloody mess, making it unbearable to see.Beside her was a machete covered in blood, and it was unknown whether she used it to defend herself or was hacked to death by it.

With sharp eyes, Han Zhan saw a trail of blood beside her, extending to the half-burned house.He walked forward at a leisurely pace, but was stopped by Rob: "My lord, be careful!"

"It's okay," Han Zhan thought that maybe the injured person was in the house, so he said to Rob, "Let me go in and have a look."

The two walked outside the hall full of bricks and rubble, and saw a ragged man sitting against the wall, covering his abdomen with his hands, humming softly.Han Zhan saw a pair of scissors stuck in his abdomen, and he covered the area around the scissors with his hands, so he couldn't stop the bleeding well, and the blood continued to flow out.

Just as Rob stepped forward to rescue him, he was stopped by Han Zhan.But when Rob turned his head and looked at Han Zhan with surprised eyes, Han Zhan said coldly, "This is a yellow scarf thief."

"What, Yellow Turban?" Rob was stunned when Han Zhan said that: "Master, how do you know he is a Yellow Turban?"

"You're blind." Han Zhan raised his hand and slapped Rob on the back of the head: "You didn't see the yellow belt tied around his head."

When Rob first entered the door, his attention was focused on the man's wound, and he didn't notice the yellow scarf wrapped around his head at all.Besides, even if he saw it, Rob wouldn't care too much, because the yellow turban thieves he had seen were all wrapped in yellow turbans, and it was indeed rare to tie a yellow ribbon like this.

Han Zhan drew out the sword at his waist, pointed at the other party, and asked coldly: "Who is your leader, and where are you going to meet after massacring the village?"

The man sneered, and said with difficulty while coughing: "Who are you, hum, why should I tell you that you are a dog official?"

Before he finished speaking, Han Zhan suddenly heard someone roaring behind him, and then a figure rushed between him and Rob, and rushed in front of the yellow scarf thief.After a moment of distraction, Han Zhan saw clearly that it was Lizheng from the village who rushed over. He was about to ask a few questions, but he saw Lizheng holding a hatchet and slashing at the yellow scarf thief vigorously. Shout.

The guards standing in the yard saw that Li Zheng was rushing into the house with a hatchet, fearing that he would be harmful to Han Zhan, so they also rushed in with their weapons.When they came in, they were stunned to see what happened before them.Fortunately, Rob was still awake. He quickly ordered two guards to step forward and hand over the hatchet in Lizheng's hand, and cut his hands behind his back.

Han Zhan turned to Li Zheng and asked, "Li Zheng, Ben Hou is asking him something, why did you kill him?"

"My lord, the one lying in the yard is my daughter." Lizheng howled loudly: "It was this yellow scarf thief who killed her, and I want to avenge her!"

Knowing that Lizheng killed the Yellow Turban Bandit to avenge his dead daughter, Han Zhan felt his nose sore.He thought to himself: If he encountered such a situation, he would definitely not be polite to this yellow scarf thief.So he waved to the guards: "Let him go." The guards let go of Li Zheng, and watched the old man kneel beside the female corpse with sympathetic eyes, touching the corpse and weeping bitterly.

Looking at the corpse in the main room, Han Zhan thought to himself: This yellow scarf must have tried to do something wrong to the woman, but the woman refused and stabbed him with scissors.The yellow turban thief was so angry that he hacked the woman to death with a hatchet.If it wasn't for Lizheng's impulsive killing of the only survivor, maybe he could still get useful information from him, what a pity.

Han Zhan turned around and called the three guards, and said to them: "Go and find the three generals Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, and Dian Wei immediately, and pass on the command of the Marquis. Once you catch up with the gang of yellow scarf thieves, kill them all. None stay."

"As ordered!"

The three guards agreed, trotted out of the yard, mounted the horses outside the yard, and headed east, south, and north respectively.

"My lord!" Zhang Liao came to Han Zhan, frowned and said, "There will be one thing unknown. The yellow turban bandits in Jizhou have already been wiped out. Where did these yellow turban bandits come from?"

Before Han Zhan could speak, Rob asked cautiously, "My lord, do you think it might be Guan Hai's subordinate?"

"Guan Hai's subordinates?!" As for Rob's guess, Han Zhan denied it without hesitation: "This is impossible. The tens of thousands of Yellow Turbans under Guan Hai's subordinates have already been settled, so how could it be possible to do this kind of massacre of the village?" What's up?"

"There were tens of thousands of yellow scarf thieves who surrendered to us in Beihai back then." Seeing that Han Zhan didn't believe his judgment, Rob analyzed to him, "Even if Guan Hai surrendered to the lord, his subordinates must still be rebellious." The tame ones were unwilling to suffer in Tuntian Zhuangzi, so they took risks and did such insane things."

Rob's analysis made Han Zhan hesitate. At this moment, he regretted why he didn't bring Guo Jia with him when he came out this time, otherwise he could ask him to help him analyze and find out what was going on.If you want to let Rob go back to invite him, it's getting late, and it's almost midnight every time he goes back and forth.So as soon as this idea came up, he was denied it.

Since Guo Jia couldn't help him, Han Zhan could only use his own brain and start to analyze the matter: What Rob said was somewhat reasonable. A group of yellow scarf thieves suddenly appeared in a place close to Yedu, unless they fell from the sky Otherwise, it is very likely that Xiao Xiao will get together again after escaping from Tuntian Zhuangzi.If this is the case, I will send someone to strengthen the supervision of Guan Hai's old department.