The captain looked unhappy and said to the prefect: "Sir, our food and grass have been robbed by thieves. Now we have less than three days of food and grass!"
The prefect of Wei County looked surprised and said: "How is it possible? The thieves haven't been fighting us in the mountains all the time. How can they still have the power to hijack our food and grass?"
The captain smiled bitterly and said: "There are not many vine-armored thieves fighting against us. Judging from the battles over the past few days, they number at most a thousand, while the vine-armored thieves number in the tens of thousands. Thousands of them will cut off our food routes."
It's possible! The most important thing now is to retreat. Once we run out of food, we will become prisoners of the rattan thieves."
But the prefect said resolutely: "No, we can't retreat. If we can't catch Lei Gong this time, my official position will not be guaranteed!"
It doesn't matter if you don't become an official, but it's a big deal that you haven't earned back the money you earned from being an official! I thought that Jizhou had already encircled and suppressed the Yellow Turban bandits once, so there shouldn't be many bandits, so I spent 20 million yuan to buy the position of Wei Commandery Governor.
, but I didn’t expect that the thieves here would be so rampant. This time it was really a mistake.
Although the prefect of Wei County was calm, he secretly regretted it in his heart. If he had known better, he would not have been an official in Jizhou!
The captain looked helplessly at the idiot prefect. He didn't want to die with the eunuch. He thought for a moment and said: "There are more than 2,000 rattan thieves who looted grain and grass. Why don't we send a group of troops to encircle and suppress them? We only have grain."
Only when the road is clear can we continue to fight. And as long as the thieves at the bottom of the mountain are eliminated, the thieves on the mountain will be nothing more than turtles in a urn!"
The prefect said: "Okay, just do it as you said."
"Also, we have been fighting for so long. Have you found the thief's lair? There are tens of thousands of people. They can't be invisible!"
The captain said: "I found it. Our people saw a lot of fireworks on Yingzui Cliff. I think this place is the lair of thieves. However, the terrain of Yingzui Cliff is difficult for one man to pass. I'm afraid we may not be able to capture it."
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When the prefect heard the news, he laughed and said: "It would be great to have news. No matter how dangerous the terrain of Yingzui Cliff is, how can a group of rabble resist our heroic lions! Don't worry about the other rattan thieves, the army will gather towards Yingzui."
Ya Jinfa, I don’t believe that this Thunder Guild doesn’t even want his own lair!”
Xu Wei discovered this change. In the past, the Han army was scurrying around like headless flies in the mountains, but now it was heading towards the Yingzui Cliff. Xu Wei immediately realized that the Han army had discovered his lair, and he immediately
Have someone bring a message to Old Man Wang and the others, asking them to continue retreating into the mountains. The lair is no longer available.
At the same time, he ordered other troops to continue harassing the march of the Han army, delaying their speed and buying time for the large army to retreat!
And Xu Wei himself led a group of hundreds of people, using broken steps and auspicious clothing to hide on the path that the Han army must pass.
Through these days of observation, Xu Wei also discovered the location of the prefect of Wei County, but there was no way to get close. But now that the prefect has thrown himself into a trap, it will be much easier to ambush him.
The prefect still attaches great importance to his own life. The best-preserved one is by his side to protect him, and this one is also the last in the army. If anything happens, he will not retreat quickly, but he does not expect that he will be killed by Xu Wei.
Spotted!
After he led the army to attack Xu Wei's ambush, Xu Wei gave an order, and everyone suddenly stood up and shot arrows at the prefect's position!
"Boohoo!" Hundreds of long arrows shot out a hedgehog from the prefect!
The captain watched this scene in horror, but the prefect had already turned into a bloody man and had already died by the time he came over.
The captain thought that he might also be dismissed from office, and angrily looked at Xu Wei and these vegetative people: "Kill all these rattan thieves and avenge the prefect!"
Xu Wei succeeded in beheading and immediately shouted: "Everyone retreat, quickly!"
The others immediately dropped their crossbows and ran into the mountains. Xu Wei cut off the crossbows himself and wielded a machete weighing more than 20 kilograms, killing more than a dozen Han soldiers in a row.
The Han army did not expect Xu Wei to be so brave. They were frightened by Xu Wei's momentum and stopped moving forward. Soon Xu Wei and his men disappeared into the mountains and forests.
"Lord Captain, what should we do now?" The prefects were all dead, and the rattan-armored thief was so brave. For a time, the senior generals of the Han Army, such as the Army Sima and the Marquis, panicked.
The captain said: "Go down the mountain first and then return to the camp!"
But when they returned to the camp, they saw only a probing horse charging straight towards the Chinese army to fight.
"Sir, the Tengjia thieves have captured Yecheng and are now recruiting troops from all over the place. Sir Chang Shi asks the prefect to withdraw his troops and come back for reinforcements!"
The captain couldn't believe it and said: "How is it possible? There are not only two thousand Tengjia thieves, but there are thousands of defenders in Yecheng alone. How can it be defeated?"
Tan Ma said in fear: "After the Vine Armor thieves came down from the mountain, they recruited refugees in Wei County. Soon there were tens of thousands of people. They didn't know what siege weapons they had in their hands. No city could withstand them for a day. They attacked one after another.
They landed three forts and then used the armed refugees from these forts to surround Yecheng. It only took the Tengjia thieves three days to cut through the walls of Yecheng and breached Yecheng. Now half of Wei County
All the county towns have been captured by Tengjia thieves."
"The important thing is that the Yellow Turbans have rebelled again. The entire Jizhou is already full of rebel bandits. It is said that there are hundreds of thousands of them!"
This news was like a bolt from the blue. The captain murmured to himself: "I knew I couldn't do this! Sooner or later the government will force the people to rebel!"
Then he came to his senses and said: "Retreat!"
It turns out that Wang Lei's actions this time caused such great destructive power only because the government forced the people to rebel.
Weijun was the hardest-hit area by the Yellow Turban Uprising. The local people experienced a year of fighting on the battlefield. The people at the bottom were all killed, or they fled to the mountains to become refugees.
The people who had a small fortune were also impoverished. It turned out that Huangfu Song had already reported to the court that the entire Jizhou would be exempted from rent and taxes for one year, giving the people a chance to breathe.
But he did not expect that the prefect of Wei County would collect last year's taxes at this time to make up for Zhao Zhong's losses. How could the people who were already impoverished come up with this money? As a result, tens of thousands more refugees were added to Wei County.
The people were extremely angry towards Wei County officials.
At this time, Wang Lei came down the mountain with 2,000 people. After robbing the army, he found that the Han army used 1,000 people to escort the food. He made several raids, but found that he was no match for the Han army.
So he changed his tactics and used the rations he snatched last time to recruit refugees. In an instant, he had tens of thousands of subordinates.
Then he followed Xu Wei's example and attacked the powerful Wubao. Although Xu Wei did not give him the black powder, he brought hundreds of crowbars. In addition, he did not take into account the casualties and attacked the powerful Wubao. The efficiency of attacking Wubao was little.
No worse than Xu Wei.
After having sufficient supplies, they began to imitate the original Yellow Turban Army and attack the county town.
At this time, Wei County had become a volcanic crater, which completely erupted when Wang Lei ignited it.
The refugees spontaneously attacked the county seat, and most of Wei County fell in an instant.