Three Kingdoms King of the North

"Miss, that's not necessarily true." After the old family heard Cao Qiuping's words, they immediately poured cold water on her: "Haven't you heard that thieves are like combs, and soldiers are like grates? Officers and soldiers harm the common people. The Yellow Turban Thieves are even more powerful." He turned his head and glanced at the two carriages full of soft goods behind him, and sighed softly, "It seems that these things can't be kept."

"Money and wealth are things outside the body." Cao Qiuping said disapprovingly, "If we can't save our lives, what use are these things to us?"

Zhao Yun, who was leading the army forward, naturally also saw this convoy of three carriages, and quickly called Tai Shici who was following him: "Ziyi, those people in front seem to be fleeing, you go and ask, they Where is it from?"

Tai Shici quickly replied: "The last general takes orders!" After speaking, he led a team of troops and went straight to the motorcade of Cao's mother and daughter.

When there were more than ten steps away from the convoy, Tai Shici reined in his mount and asked loudly to the convoy: "Where are you fleeing people from? Have you ever seen a yellow scarf bandit?"

"Return to the general," Cao Qiuping saw that the general who came was speaking in a friendly manner and was still very handsome, so she boldly said, "The mother and daughter of the slave family came from Cao's village, so there was a yellow scarf attack, so they left Zhuangzi to take refuge in the city. Who Zhizhi walked halfway, and heard the people who fled from the city say that the yellow scarf bandits are besieging the city, in order not to surrender themselves, the slave family ordered the coachman to change the route and prepare to flee to Jizhou."

When Cao Qiuping got out of the carriage, Tai Shici couldn't help feeling his eyes light up, and couldn't help but secretly praised in his heart: "What a handsome woman, if I can marry her, I will be satisfied." Looking away from the opponent, Cao Qiuping noticed that Tai Shici was constantly looking at her, wondering what was wrong with this general, she kept staring at her, and quickly turned her head away.

The team leader at the side, seeing Tai Shici's loss of composure, hastily tugged on his shirt lightly, and reminded in a low voice: "Pioneer, this woman has already answered your question."

"Oh oh oh," Tai Shici, who was in a lost state, immediately woke up when he heard what his subordinates said, and quickly continued to ask: "Do you know how many soldiers the Yellow Turban Bandits have?"

"I don't know!" Cao's mother and daughter met fleeing people on the way, and only then did they know that Tugu County was besieged by yellow turban thieves.So hearing Tai Shici's question, Cao Qiuping immediately shook her head and said: "My family is also on the way to the county seat. I heard this from the fleeing people. I was afraid that it would bring disaster, so I ordered the driver to turn around and go to Jizhou."

"Jizhou?!" Hearing that Cao Qiuping mentioned their intention to go to Jizhou again, she couldn't help asking curiously, "Why does this little lady want to flee to Jizhou?"

"I heard that today's Jizhou is benevolent and righteous, and treats the people well. The people under the rule live and work in peace and contentment, and there are no yellow turban thieves." Cao Qiuping replied: "I think that if I want to avoid the yellow turban thieves, I have to go to Jizhou for temporary shelter."

Hearing that the beautiful woman in front of him praised Han Zhan so much, all the soldiers around Tai Shici felt honored.Tai Shici waved his hand at Cao Qiuping, and said, "Young lady, the army is about to drive to Tugu County, please move the vehicles aside, and don't block the way of the soldiers and horses."

The old family member Cao Fu originally thought that he would not be able to keep his belongings when he met the army of Jizhou. He was thinking about where he should take his wife and young lady to take refuge after the things were robbed. Abnormally, he stayed in place for a while.

Seeing Cao's family standing still, the team leader thought they hadn't heard what Tai Shici said clearly, so he hurried forward, came to Cao Fu, and said politely: "Old man, move your carriage to the side of the road. Don't block the way of the army."

"You little man, obey!" Cao Fu made sure he had heard correctly this time, and hurriedly greeted several coachmen, and drove the carriage aside.

At this time, Zhao Yun had already arrived with the army, Tai Shici rushed to meet him, walked side by side with Zhao Yun, and at the same time repeated what Cao Qiuping said to Zhao Yun.After Zhao Yun heard this, he frowned slightly, and then asked: "Why, the scout horse we sent hasn't come back yet?"

Tai Shici shook his head hastily, and said, "I never came back." After a short pause, he took the initiative to say, "Since we know that the Yellow Turban Bandit is ahead, why don't we let the last general with 5000 troops go and find out."

Zhao Yun considered that Tai Shici was a pioneer, and it was his duty to open roads and build bridges when encountering mountains and rivers, so he nodded in agreement.After Tai Shici left with his [-] soldiers, Zhao Yun called a team leader and said, "Quickly invite Vice General Huang and Junjun Xun to come here."

The small town of Tugu County is being surrounded by tens of thousands of yellow scarf thieves.Countless yellow-turban thieves carried wooden ladders that had been improvised, rushed across the knee-high moat in front of them shouting, put the ladders on the city wall that was only a foot high, and then climbed up with hands and feet.

Although there are only more than 300 county soldiers in the city, everyone from the county magistrate to ordinary people knows that once the city is broken, it will be the end of both jade and stone. Therefore, as long as the young and strong can climb the city wall, they will go to the city wall to help the officers and soldiers defend the city.Seeing the yellow turban put the ladder on the wall, and then yelled and climbed up, although everyone was frightened, they still had the courage to throw the rolling wood and rocks down, smashing the yellow turban on the ladder.

Fortunately, there are no bows and arrows in the Yellow Turban Thieves, so they cannot cause too much damage to the officers, soldiers and civilians guarding the city.Therefore, those bandit soldiers who climbed the ladder were smashed down by rolling logs and rocks, and the corpses under the city gradually increased.The county lieutenant held a sword and yelled loudly on the city wall, cheering up the officers, soldiers and villagers.

But the county magistrate hid in the city gate and shivered, thinking in his heart: "How come there are so many yellow turban thieves, when will they retreat?"

Tai Shici was worried that the earthen drum would be lost, so he ordered the infantry to walk slowly behind, and he led two thousand cavalry ahead.When they came to a place one mile away from the city, he saw Tugu County in the distance, people like ants densely covered the upper and lower walls of the city, and it seemed that a fierce battle was going on.Seeing this situation, Tai Shici couldn't help secretly heaving a sigh of relief, it seemed that he was not late in arriving, and the city had not been breached by the Yellow Turban Thieves.

Tai Shici raised the spear in his hand high and shouted loudly: "Array!"

Following his order, two thousand cavalry quickly formed ten rows, with one hundred cavalry in each row.Seeing that the cavalry had finished forming, he swung his spear forward and shouted loudly: "Charge! Defeat them!"

After the order was issued, the cavalry began to move forward slowly. They clamped the horse's belly with their legs, controlled the horse's speed, and held the spears in their hands obliquely forward.

It was Qu Shuai Zuo Mustache who was directing the siege. He heard thunderous hoofbeats behind him, turned his head and saw a cavalry rushing towards the location of the city, and quickly called his deputy, Zhang Ba, to lead him to lead the attack. 3000 people went to stop the cavalry rushing over.After Zhang Ba received the order, he immediately led three thousand yellow scarf thieves to meet the enemy.

These yellow turban thieves are all farmers who have just put down their hoes, and they have no fighting power. If the opponent comes with dozens of cavalry, they may be able to block them.However, the formation formed by two thousand cavalrymen pressed down like a wall, and immediately made many people lose their minds.The thieves in front wanted to retreat, but those behind didn't know what was going on, and kept pushing forward, and the formation became chaotic for a while.

When the Jizhou cavalry began to accelerate their charge, some yellow turban thieves who reacted quickly threw away the weapons in their hands, turned around and fled to both sides, hoping to escape the charging cavalry.

When the cavalry line collided with the yellow turban thieves, the yellow turban thieves standing in the front two rows were all knocked into the air by the horses. These yellow turban thieves with broken bones and tendons flew out like kites with broken strings, knocking down the back row. Countless people.The yellow turban thieves who were still standing in front of the cavalry were pierced through their bodies by sharp spears.

In this case, not to mention the yellow turban thieves of the mob, even the regular army would not be able to hold on to the Jizhou cavalry.After the cavalry rushed into the ranks of bandits, like a red-hot steel knife cutting butter, they easily pierced through the ranks of bandits, causing the ranks of bandits to collapse instantly.

Seeing the companions who intercepted the cavalry of the officers and soldiers, they suffered heavy losses in an instant. Those yellow scarf thieves who were still besieging the city suddenly lost their positions. Someone shouted: "The cavalry of the officers and soldiers is coming. I can't wait to kill them. Run away!"

The few thieves who fled first were beheaded by the little leader, but they couldn't hold back more and more deserters, and their escape caused a bigger rout, and even some little leaders started to run back.The tens of thousands of yellow turban thieves who had completely collapsed were like frightened rabbits, swarming back like a swarm of bees.In the chaos, the big leader and Qu Shuai were unable to suppress the deserters. Instead, they were forced to retreat or were knocked to the ground, and then trampled to death by the retreating crowd.

The cavalry led by Tai Shici chased after the rout and fought hard. The bandits lost everything including weapons that hindered their escape, and only hoped that they could run faster than their companions so that they would have a chance to escape. birthday.

Although Tai Shici was commanding the cavalry, facing the yellow scarves fleeing all over the mountains and plains, he still couldn't keep them all.After chasing for more than five miles and capturing thousands of Yellow Turban thieves, he ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops.

When he returned to the outside of Tugu City, under the city wall in between, corpses piled up like a mountain, and the air was filled with a lingering strong smell of blood.He came to the city gate alone and shouted loudly to the city: "Here is Tai Shici, the pioneer of Jizhou, and the officials in the city come out to answer."

Chapter 399 Father and Daughter Reunion

The county magistrate had been hiding in the city gate tower, putting on a look of resignation, when he suddenly saw the county lieutenant rushing in from outside, he couldn't help but feel a little bit in his heart, wondering if it was the yellow scarf who had climbed the city wall?He asked tremblingly, "County Captain, did the Yellow Turban Bandit climb the city wall?"

The Yellow Turban Bandit climbed the city wall? !The magistrate's words made the county lieutenant stunned for a moment, then he shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, an army of officers and soldiers came outside and defeated the yellow scarf bandits who were besieging the city. Now their vanguard officer is calling you out to speak."

"What, the yellow turban thieves besieging the city were repelled?" The magistrate opened his mouth in surprise when he heard the news.He hurriedly asked: "County lieutenant, which army is here?"

The county lieutenant thought for a while and replied: "The person who came here claimed to be Tai Shici, the pioneer of Jizhou, and he must be a soldier from Jizhou."

"Damn, what are the soldiers and horses from Jizhou running to our Qingzhou?" Since learning that the Yellow Turban Bandits had retreated, the county magistrate, who was frightened out of his wits, regained his official authority, "Go, take me to Meet the pioneer from Jizhou."

The county magistrate and the county lieutenant came to the crenel side by side and bent down to look down.Seeing the mountains of corpses piled up in the city, the county magistrate suddenly felt a rush of water in his chest and abdomen, and waves of stuff went straight to his throat.

Tai Shici waited for a long time on the other side of the moat, and finally saw a person who looked like an official coming out, and was about to speak, but saw the other party lying on the crenel vomit, and couldn't help but look down on this person .He snorted heavily and cursed: "Useless things." He turned his horse and walked back.

The county magistrate saw that the county magistrate vomited, and knew that he was a normal reaction to seeing those corpses, so he quickly ordered the people next to him: "Come here, bring some water for the envoy."

A yamen servant standing next to him, when he heard what the county captain said, quickly took off the water bag at his waist and handed it over.After the county magistrate drank a few sips of water, his face finally recovered a little blood. He smiled wryly and said to the county lieutenant, "I really didn't expect that this battle would be so tragic."

When Tai Shici returned to his army, another [-] infantry had already arrived, some were setting up camp, and some were taking in the captured Yellow Turban bandits.Seeing Tai Shici coming back, a military commander hurried forward to ask for instructions: "Pioneer, what should we do with these yellow scarf thieves?"

According to his thinking, Tai Shici would definitely order to kill them all, after all, he always did this when suppressing thieves in the past.Unexpectedly, Tai Shici hesitated for a moment after hearing this, and then said: "Send people to escort them outside the city and collect the corpses. If it is hot today, if we don't bury them as soon as possible, it may cause epidemics."

"Your subordinates obey!" Army Sima agreed, then turned around and went to arrange for the collection of the prisoners' corpses.

Taishi Ci reined in his horse and stood there for a while, when he faintly saw Zhao Yun's army approaching, he rode his horse over.

Zhao Yun saw Tai Shici coming on a galloping horse, and hurriedly told the army to stop.When Tai Shici came in front of him, Zhao Yun guessed how the battle was going from the expression on his face, but he still smiled and asked, "Zi Yi, how was the result?"

"Returning to the general," Tai Shici replied quickly and respectfully: "Our army has won a complete victory. At least 5000 Yellow Turbans were killed and seven or eight thousand were captured."

"It is said that there are tens of thousands of Yellow Turban bandits. It is estimated that your vitality has been seriously injured by your slashing and killing. Let's rest here for one night, and we will go after the fleeing bandits tomorrow." Zhao Yun finished speaking. After speaking, he saw that the gate of the city was still closed from a distance, and the defenders on the city were all armed with weapons, looking like they were in full battle, so he pointed to the town of Tugu County and asked, "Ziyi, I don't know what is here?" Why didn't the county magistrate open the city gate to welcome us?"

After Zhao Yun's reminder, Tai Shici remembered that when he called the door just now, he saw an official in the city throwing up in the dark, and turned around in a fit of anger.Hearing what Zhao Yun said at this moment, he replied with some shame: "Back to the general, the last general has never called to open the gate of the city."

"Didn't you ask to open the city gate?" Zhao Yun frowned and asked, "Why?"

Before Tai Shici finished speaking, he suddenly heard many people shouting from the side: "You are wronged, General, you are wronged by the villain."

The sudden cry of grievances attracted the attention of Zhao Yun and others.Xun You, who was two horses behind, hastily urged his horse forward, shouted at a group of soldiers under Tai Shici by the side of the road, "What's going on?"

A chief hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down on one knee to report to Xun You: "Qi to the military commander, the villain has captured a group of yellow scarf thieves who hijacked the people. Who knows that they are unwilling to be arrested without letting go, so they cry for grievances there."

Xun You waved his hand at the commander and said, "Bring them here, and I will interrogate them myself, my military commander."