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Chapter 240 The crisis Dong Zhuo will face

After the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army were well trained, Zhu Min led these soldiers to conquer three surrounding forts in succession, seized a large amount of money and food, and the base area continued to expand. Zhu Min was self-aware and did not attack large cities.

Instead, he followed the instructions in Xu Wei's book and took root in the countryside. After dividing the fields, Zhu Min led the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army to help the surrounding people build canals, water trucks, and do farm work. After fully learning Xu Wei's methods, the people in the base area

The common people became supporters of Zhu Min and the others.

Liu Pi's expansion, especially the capture of four Wubao, finally aroused the alarm of local officials in Runan. Soon after the Runan prefect led 5,000 soldiers to encircle and suppress Liu Pi, Zhu Min asked Liu Pi to lead the people in the base area to hide.

He led 10,000 soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army to attack Pingyu City, the seat of Runan County. He would rescue it if he attacked it, scaring the Runan prefect to immediately return his troops.

Then Zhu Min used this guerrilla warfare tactic of attacking the weak and avoiding the strong, and continued to attack the Wubao in Runan County. He captured 5 Wubao in a row. With the food, grass, weapons and armor support of these Wubao, Liu Pi's men's strength increased rapidly.

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When Zhu Min felt that he was ready to fight against the Runan County soldiers, Zhu Min led all Liu Pi's men to besiege Yuan Shu's hometown of Wubao. The frightened Runan County prefect immediately led troops to support him. As a result, the Runan County soldiers were defeated by Zhu Min.

They were ambushed halfway and the entire army was wiped out. Not even the prefect could escape.

Then Zhu Min took the opportunity to conquer Pingyu City, plundered all the treasuries of Runan County, and launched a slogan to the people of Runan County to fight against the local tyrants and divide their fields. Liu Pi's name also caused a sensation in the entire Yuzhou County.

The thing that is better about Liu Pi than Yu Du is that he is self-aware and knows that all of his actions were caused by Zhu Min, and he also obeys Zhu Min's words!

Zhu Min then took Liu Pi's main force back to his base to continue accumulating strength.

There is more than one case like Liu Pi's in Yuzhou County. There are several Yellow Turban troops in Yuzhou who are like Liu Pi. Their strength has skyrocketed after receiving the guidance of the Tengjia Army Supervisor, and they also know how to deal with the clansmen who have Wubao defense.

The nobles know how to build base areas, how to avoid the real and attack the weak and fight guerrilla warfare with the Han soldiers and horses!

With correct guidance, these Yellow Turbans continued to conquer cities and territories in Yuzhou and expand their strength. This affected the stability of the entire Yuzhou, especially as dozens of Wubao were breached. There were rumors everywhere in Yuzhou that the Yellow Turbans were attacking local tyrants to divide their fields.

This incident has made the whole Yuzhou panic-stricken!

The news that Pingyu City had been captured reached Yuan Shu's army. He was already confronting Liu Bei in Luyang. The news of instability in his hometown affected the soldiers in his hands, not to mention the rumors that the Yellow Turban Army was dividing the fields.

After hearing the news, the soldiers who were forcibly captured by Yuan Shu were even more excited.

The low morale of Yuan Shu's army was noticed by Liu Bei. He commanded the army to attack Yuan Shu's camp. Even though he fought with fewer troops and more troops, he still defeated Yuan Shu's army steadily. In the end, even the camp was breached by Liu Bei. Yuan Shu's entire army was defeated.

I had to flee to Yingchuan County.

Zhang Wen could only comfort him: "That's good. The failure of the highway at least allows us to see ourselves clearly and compare with the military! We are indeed no match for veterans like Dong Zhuo who have experienced many battles!"

Yuan Wei had nothing to say. More than half of the 200,000 Kwantung Allied Forces were lost, and Dong Zhuo actually dispatched only 40,000 people. Compared with the military, they were really no match for Dong Zhuo, a warrior, and the current situation in the Central Plains made it impossible for him to admit defeat! No more!

His hometown was really in danger of surrendering. This time the Yellow Turban Army actually dared to attack the Yuan family's Wubao in Runan County. If it was really defeated by the Yellow Turban Army, he would really become the eternal sinner of the Yuan family.

Yuan Wei could only say to Zhang Wen with a gloomy face: "I'll leave all this to my brother!"

After getting Yuan Wei's approval, Zhang Wen began to contact Li Ru in Luoyang City, expressing their intention to admit defeat and begging Dong Zhuo for forgiveness!

Li Ru was overjoyed and immediately sent Chief Shi Liu Ai to report the good news to Dong Zhuo!

Dong Zhuo couldn't help but smile when he heard the news: "Does this mean that this old guy Yuan Wei has begged the Prime Minister for mercy?"

Liu Ai smiled and said: "Yes, he is willing to let Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu go to encircle and suppress the Yellow Turban Army in the Central Plains. He only asks the Prime Minister to spare the lives of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu!"

Li Jue shouted loudly: "How can there be such a good thing? Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are rebelling and want to kill the nine tribes. Doesn't Yuan Wei still have a son of Yuan Ji? If Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are killed, his Yuan family will not have any descendants."

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Hua Xiong said loudly: "Yes, the Yuan family will have to pay the price if they dare to rebel. Otherwise, how can the Prime Minister rule the world if everyone else rebels!"

None of the generals who appeared again had a favorable impression of the Yuan brothers, whether they were Xiliang generals or Bingzhou generals.

They fought in the north and south for more than ten years, and it can be said that they were born and died to achieve their current status. Among them, Hua Xiong was promoted from the Sima of the other department to the 2000-stone captain after Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang City!

The Yuan brothers have never fought at all, but they have become high-ranking officials worth 2,000 shi just by virtue of their family background. Now one has become a rear general, and the other has proclaimed himself a cavalry general. This has basically reached the pinnacle of the Han military generals. They

The Yuan brothers got the official positions that these people would never be able to achieve in their lives. How could this not make Dong Zhuo's generals angry? These two idiots, the Yuan brothers, deserve to be generals!

Dong Zhuo heard the dissatisfaction of his men, and he was also thinking about whether to pursue the victory and completely annihilate the Yuan brothers and completely trample the Yuan family under his feet!

At this time Tian Yi said: "If the Prime Minister wants to lead the Han Dynasty, he still needs the help of the Guandong clan. Moreover, after defeating the Yuan brothers, the Central Plains has also become the territory of the Prime Minister, and the Yellow Turban Army has become the enemy that the Prime Minister must deal with.

! And with the Yuan brothers’ army here, the Prime Minister can quickly wipe out the Yellow Turban Army in the Central Plains!"

"Yellow Turban Army!" Dong Zhuo really didn't pay attention to this, but how big a threat could the Yellow Turban Army be? In Dong Zhuo's memory, the Yellow Turban Army could easily wipe out tens of thousands of people, not just a few thousand!

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! He immediately asked Tian Yi: "How is the power of the Yellow Turban Army in the Central Plains now?"

Tian Yi said solemnly: "Starting in May, Qingzhou Yellow Turban Yu Du, Ku Chief and more than a dozen armies, with millions of Yellow Turban troops, attacked Qingzhou all the way.

The Lei Gong of Bingzhou not only supported the crowbars and other weapons and equipment of the Yellow Turban Army, but also supported many veterans of the Tengjia Army, making them officers of the Yellow Turban Army. With the presence of these veterans, the combat effectiveness of the Yellow Turban Army increased very quickly, and the entire Qingzhou

Only some large cities are still in the hands of the imperial court, and other counties and counties have basically fallen. It can be said that without the support of the imperial court, it is only a matter of time before Qingzhou falls!

Although there are hundreds of thousands of troops garrisoned by the Prime Minister and the Kwantung Allied Forces in Yanzhou, Bai Lao, the leader of the Yanzhou Yellow Turban Army, led 300,000 troops to continuously attack Taishan County, Jibei Kingdom, Dongping Kingdom and other places. Although Bai Lao has not yet attacked large cities,

Armed with a crowbar, Bai Rao had already broken through more than a dozen Wubao and killed a large number of nobles and nobles.

Although Han Xian, Hu Cai, and Li Le led by the White Wave Yellow Turban Army were defeated by the Prime Minister, they were close to Bingzhou and received a large amount of weapons and equipment from Lei Gong. Their strength recovered very quickly. Now they have tens of thousands of tribesmen. They are in Sanhe

Disi, Dangyin and Chaoge who are constantly attacking Hanoi. If the prime minister hadn't been in Yanzhou, they would have wanted to cross the Yellow River and join the Yellow Turban Army in Yanzhou!

In Xuzhou, the Yanzhou border resister Zang Ba, a bandit from Mount Tai, also led 300,000 troops to capture the city in Xuzhou. Tao Qian, the governor of Xuzhou, could only lead troops to garrison in large cities such as Tan County, Ju County, and Pengcheng.

"Yuzhou is led by the four Yellow Turban armies He Yi, Liu Pi, Huang Shao, and He Man. These Yellow Turban armies add up to 300,000 to 400,000 people. With the support of Lei Gong, they conquer cities and territories everywhere in Yuzhou. The counties and states of Yuzhou

Most of the troops were brought to Nanyang County by Kong Ni to help Yuan Shu fight the war, so there were not many troops to suppress the Yellow Turban Army. Liu Pi even led his troops to attack Yuan's Wubao. It can be said that the entire situation in Yuzhou was out of control, and Yuan Shu

The reason for the defeat is also related to the continuous attacks by the Yellow Turban Army from the rear!"

Dong Zhuo was surprised and said: "The Central Plains is actually in such chaos. This is even more terrifying than Zhang Jiao's uprising!"

The Yellow Turban Army that I just heard about is well into the millions. If we include the number of people below 10,000 people, there are not millions of Yellow Turban Army in the entire Central Plains. How long did it take him to cut off the news from the Central Plains before the Yellow Turban Army exploded like this?

out of hand!

At this time, Jia Xu continued: "Prime Minister, although the Yellow Turban Army is large in number, they are a mob after all. As long as a large army is dispatched, they can be easily wiped out. The most terrifying thing now is that all four prefectures of Yan, Qing, Xu, and Henan have suffered military disasters. This

There is no one cultivating the land in the four states, which means that the food production in these four states has stopped this year. This is the heart of the Central Plains, and an unprecedented famine is about to come."

"There may be tens of millions of refugees who have lost their homes and fields due to the war and have to leave their homes. In a few months, the size of the Yellow Turban Army will become even larger than it is now. But now all these problems need to be solved by the Prime Minister.

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For the Prime Minister, defeating the Yuan brothers is not the end of this war, but the beginning. If the Prime Minister cannot settle these tens of millions of people, the development and growth of the Yellow Turban Army will be out of control, and the Thunder Lord of Bingzhou will

Taking advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains to seize the Han Dynasty, the Prime Minister will be in danger."

Dong Zhuo was stunned after listening to Jia Xu's explanation. He did not expect that the Central Plains would be in such chaos. So why did he work so hard to defeat the Yuan brothers? As long as he defended the Eight Passes of Luoyang, these Yellow Turbans alone would be enough to engulf the Kwantung Allied Forces.

The sins caused by the Kwantung Allied Forces should have been borne by them, but now that the Kwantung Allied Forces were defeated by him, these things have become his burden. Dong Zhuo now wants to bring the army back to Luoyang City and bring the entire Kanto region

Leave them all to the Yuan brothers!

The generals present were dumbfounded after hearing Jia Xu's words. As generals, they knew the importance of food. Without food, even the most elite soldiers would be defeated.

But now the four wealthy states and counties in the Han Dynasty have no food. There are still millions of Yellow Turban thieves in each state and county, and there are millions of refugees behind them. They also know the situation of the imperial court. If it weren't for Yang Biao, they would have contributed millions of shi of food.

. Their 40,000-strong army does not even have enough food and grass to attack the Kwantung Allied Forces, and now they have to rescue millions or even tens of millions of refugees, which is simply impossible.

They can already imagine what will happen next. The refugees who don't want to starve to death can only continue to join the Yellow Turban Army. The Yellow Turban Army becomes larger and larger. Then they put down the chaos and kill all the millions of Yellow Turban Army, or they

Devoured by millions of Yellow Turbans, the Han Dynasty was also destroyed by the Yellow Turbans with their defeat!

This ending cannot be said to be good!

After realizing that the situation in the Central Plains was critical, Li Jue convened and said: "Prime Minister, the Yuan brothers are responsible for the transformation of the Central Plains. Why should we take the blame for the Yuan brothers? Let's just go back to Luoyang City and close the eight gates.

Let the Yuan brothers fend for themselves!"

Dong Zhuo said angrily: "Asshole, I am the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty, not the Prime Minister of Luoyang, and I am just a Yellow Turban thief. At first, tens of thousands of us defeated their millions of Yellow Turban thieves, but now we are just a few million Yellow Turban thieves.

Even if the imperial court sends hundreds of thousands of troops, they can still be wiped out!"

Then Dong Zhuo looked at Jia Xu and asked, "In this situation, what do you think we should do?"

Jia Xu thought for a while and said: "It is impossible to rescue millions of refugees. We can only kill a group and save a group. After the people die, food and grass will no longer be consumed. If there are conditions, we can drive these refugees to Bingzhou.

, Lei Gong received millions of victims last time, and he will not give up on these victims this time. And these millions of victims are enough to slow down Lei Gong’s attack on the Central Plains.”

"In this way, the Prime Minister will have time to sweep away the Central Plains. First, control the movements of refugees in various places so that they cannot form a large scale. Then the Prime Minister can order Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu to exterminate the Yellow Turban thieves in Qingzhou and Yuzhou, and destroy the Yellow Turban thieves in the Central Plains.

Defeat the thieves one by one!"

Dong Zhuo thought for a while and asked: "Even if we drive the refugees to Bingzhou and kill a few more, the number of refugees to be rescued will still exceed one million, and there will be hundreds of thousands of troops who will need a lot of food and grass to fight. Where will this food come from?"

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Jia Xu sneered and said: "Not many people in the Kwantung Allied Forces betrayed the imperial court this time and ransacked their homes. Millions of stones of food and grass came right away. Moreover, the nobles and nobles from various states wanted the imperial court to send a large army to help them encircle and suppress the Yellow Turban Army.

We need to provide food and grass! The Prime Minister can set a standard. If the powerful nobles in that state provide 1 million shi of food, we will send 10,000 soldiers. If they don’t want to be hacked to death by the Yellow Turban Army, they must provide food and grass. Although the big men don’t have food,

But the powerful nobles of the Han Dynasty have a lot of food and grass, so it is easy for them to get tens of millions of stones!"

Dong Zhuo was overjoyed when he heard this plan and said: "Wen He is really speaking from a certain country. I will write a letter to the court to see how much food these powerful nobles in Guandong are willing to pay to buy their lives!"

For Dong Zhuo, he has no shortage of soldiers at all. He currently has 150,000 soldiers, and he has surrendered 30,000 Kwantung Allied Forces in Yanzhou, so he now has 180,000 troops, but what he lacks is the money and food to support these 180,000 troops.

, as well as providing logistics and civilian food rations for the 180,000-strong army!


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