Liu Yu regarded all the 100,000 Yellow Turban prisoners as field soldiers, and asked Xian Yufu to lead 5,000 soldiers to guard these prisoners. Liu Yu planned to place them in the Youbeiping County area after the war.
Then Liu Yu took the remaining troops and marched toward Jizhou in a mighty manner.
By the time he arrived in Jizhou, Fu Bian had already led the Bingzhou army to occupy Zhongshan Kingdom, and the two armies quickly joined together.
"Brother Bo'an, the main force of the Yellow Turban Army was wiped out in one battle. I was amazed when I heard about it! My brother's reputation will spread throughout the Han Dynasty." Fu Bian led many Bingzhou Army generals to greet Liu Yu and laughed.
Liu Yu also laughed when he saw Fu Bian: "Thanks to Brother Nanrong for cutting off the Yellow Turban Army's food route, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to easily defeat Zhang Niujiao's tribe. It can be said that this is half of the credit of the Bingzhou Army!"
"Brother Bo'an, you're welcome!"
Liu Yu continued at this time: "Now Youzhou has captured 100,000 Yellow Turban Army soldiers, but Youzhou is poor and cannot support so many soldiers. And Brother Nanrong has captured the Yellow Turban Army's granary. I wonder if I can support one or two! Why? Brother plans to resettle the refugees from Jizhou in Youzhou’s farms!”
Liu Yu didn't want to do this, but 100,000 prisoners became a big mountain weighing on him. He knew that if Fu Bian captured the Yellow Turban Army's granary, he should have a lot of food. After all, Zhang Niujiao's army had 150,000 people, so he must be prepared to go. A million-ton food supply army.
Fu Bian nodded and said: "Brother Bo'an is indeed a good scholar. Resettling the refugees is indeed a way to deal with the Yellow Turban thieves. Naturally, I will support it. Our department seized 3 million stones of grain and 1 billion yuan from the Yellow Turban thieves in Zhongshan County. Little Brother Spend 1.5 million shi of grain and 500 million yuan to support Brother Bo'an in farming on the border."
"Three million stones of grain, one billion yuan!" Gongsun Zan and the others were stunned when they heard this. The Yellow Turban thieves were not poor, and they had plenty of grain. How could they have so much money? It was difficult for the imperial court to come up with such a sum of money.
Fu Bian said: "They robbed the entire wealthy family in Jizhou, and one billion dollars may only be a small part of it!"
"Sir! This was captured by our Bingzhou Army!" Captain Ding Yuan said anxiously. The main credit has been taken by the Youzhou Army. He also knew that the Youzhou Army would take the lion's share when the imperial court awarded the reward.
They only got this small amount of property, but it was not considered a loss. They did not expect that the Yellow Turban Thief would have so much property, but now he was given away easily by Fu Bian. The generals of the Bingzhou Army were anxious.
Fu Bian looked at them and said: "I will report everyone's contribution to the emperor, but this money belongs to the people of Jizhou. The money now used to resettle the refugees in Jizhou is also taken from the people and used for the people."
But the generals of the Bingzhou Army looked at the Youzhou Army angrily, obviously very dissatisfied with Liu Yu's behavior.
Liu Yu was also embarrassed for a while.
Then both parties entered the prefect's mansion to discuss matters.
Liu Yu asked: "How is the war situation in Jizhou now? Our Youzhou army is also looking dark!"
Fu Bian said: "After Zhang Niujiao's tribe was annihilated, only Bai Bo, Zuo Xiao, Guo Daxian, and Yu Digen were left in Jizhou. They had about 120,000 troops. They originally wanted to join Zhang Niujiao's tribe, but they After hearing that Zhang Niujiao's tribe was annihilated, they stopped moving forward. At the same time, after the powerful nobles in Jidong heard that Zhang Niujiao's tribe was annihilated, they also frequently attacked the Yellow Turban bandits in Jidong. Bai Bo and other thieves were already besieged internally and externally."
"In addition, there is also the Thunder Lord's Department in Wei County. There are about 70,000 people. Their combat effectiveness is not very strong. It took less than a month to recruit 60,000 people. They have no combat effectiveness. However, this Thunder Lord is very strange. It is said that he is not the original Although Qu Shuai of the Yellow Turban Thieves cooperated with Zhang Niujiao and others, they did not merge together and did not even obey Zhang Niujiao's command. After they occupied Wei County, they never developed outwards and instead farmed in Wei County. Reclamation? It is said that there is not an inch of open space in Wei County now. But as long as these two groups of Yellow Turban bandits are eliminated, the entire Yellow Turban bandits in Jizhou will be pacified!"
"Reclamation? It seems that this Lei Gong is not an ordinary Yellow Turban thief!" Liu Yu was surprised when he heard Xu Wei's behavior. There were actually Yellow Turban thieves farming at this time.
Fu Bian continued: "Brother Bo'an, I plan to lead the army to encircle and suppress the Yellow Turban bandits in the east of Hebei Province, and the Lei Gong Department of Wei County will be handed over to your Youzhou Army. What do you think?"
Liu Yu nodded and said: "Okay!"
After recuperating in Zhongshan County for a day, Liu Yu took Gongsun Zan's 10,000 cavalry as the vanguard and led 2 infantry towards Wei County!
At this time, in Wei County, Xu Wei had already received the news that Zhang Niujiao had been killed in battle, and the main force of the Yellow Turban Army had been completely wiped out.
Wang Lei and the others felt incredulous when they heard this: "Is there something wrong? There are 150,000 generals. How could they be defeated by 30,000 Youzhou troops?"
Niu Gui said helplessly: "But this has spread throughout Jizhou, there can be no mistake."
Xu Weidao: "It was mainly because the Bingzhou Army cut off Zhang Niujiao's food route that the Yellow Turban Army was at a loss to advance or retreat!"
The tactic of cutting off food routes is very effective, especially in the Three Kingdoms. Cao Cao liked to use this tactic. He won several battles by cutting off the enemy's food routes. Although Zhang Niujiao and the others had more troops, they were newbies on the battlefield. Naturally, it cannot be more powerful than the border troops. It seems that Zhang Niujiao and others were suppressed in this way, so that no one in the Three Kingdoms has ever talked about this war.
Niu Gui continued: "Now the imperial troops are divided into two groups. The Bingzhou army continues to march to the east to clear Bairao Qushuai and others, while the border troops from Youzhou are rushing towards us."
These words made Xu Wei and the others nervous. After all, the Youzhou frontier army defeated Zhang Niujiao and his group of 150,000 people. Although Xu Wei and his group also had 70,000 people, most of them had not experienced much war, and their combat effectiveness was not even as good as Zhang Niujiao's. There are 150,000 of them.
"What should we do now? Should we hide in the Taihang Mountains?" Old Man Niu looked at Xu Wei nervously. Now they could only rely on Xu Wei.
Xu Wei looked at Old Man Wang and asked, "Have our materials already gone up the mountain?"
Old Man Wang nodded and said: "Two million stones of grain and two billion money have been hidden by the old man."
Then Old Man Wang worriedly asked: "It's just that Jizhou's army is gathering now, and Old Man is worried that they won't let us go?"
Xu Wei pointed to the map hanging on the wall and said: "Jizhou is the granary of the imperial court. After this war, the imperial court will not let us continue to stay in Jizhou. At the beginning, Commander Zhang Niujiao planned to use Youzhou as its We need to develop the Yellow Turban Army in Bingzhou, and I also have this idea, but what I am looking at is Bingzhou. These materials are enough for us to develop in Bingzhou, and Bingzhou is a remote mountainous area, far away from Luoyang City. With the current situation of the Han Dynasty, the court may There is no time or a large army to surround and suppress small forces like ours."