After selecting the prisoners, Liu Xin asked Guan Hai, Wei Qin and other generals to take their soldiers and servants to do ideological work for the prisoners. They were all from the Yellow Turbans or rebels, and told them what kind of life they would have in the future to reassure them.

At the same time, he asked Zhou Tai to go to the main tent of Kuijing to ask for food. In the past few days, Kuijing had been thinking about how to collect food outside Jinan City, but when troops were needed.

At this time, a messenger arrived, saying that Kujing had invited him to come to the house to discuss matters. Liu Xin knew that Kujing was already planning to take action.

This battle is not easy to fight. They have too few troops. Although they occupy Jinan City, the outside of the city is occupied by the Yellow Turban Army. There are too many Yellow Turban Army. Every time they leave the city, the opponent will flee far away and will not fight them head-on. So

But they had no way to deal with the Yellow Turban Army outside the city.

When they arrived at the city lord's palace, the place was heavily guarded and full of soldiers wearing heavy armor. Liu Xin came to the inner courtyard and saw Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei here.

"Liu Jun is here!" Fu Jing asked when he saw Liu Xin smiling.

Anyway, it was not established and there was no salary to receive. Seeing that Liu Xin had nearly a thousand soldiers and good fighting ability, Fu Jing appointed him as military commander. Liu Bei had been appointed military commander by him, which was also a temporary military position, so he could lead him during the war.

soldiers.

Fu Jing was not happy with Liu Bei, and everyone could see this. Although Liu Bei was the commander of the army and had a lot of military commanders, he now only had more than 2,000 auxiliary troops. Fu Jing's orders had already begun to push Liu Xin into disrepute.

He was treated like a rebel leader like Liu Bei, which made Liu Bei very unhappy.

Liu Xin bowed to Fu Jing, and Fu Jing began to talk about what happened to them today.

"The day after tomorrow is the time of autumn harvest, the Yellow Turban is strong and we must be careful.

I plan to ask everyone to go outside the city to clear out the Yellow Turbans tomorrow. The Yellow Turbans must not be allowed near Jinan City in the past few days. As long as you give me three days, I will be able to harvest tens of thousands of acres of grain outside Linzi City. By then we will have

In terms of food, even if we have a firm foothold in Jinan, if the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army can be wiped out, our contribution should be no less than that of Jizhou." Fu Jing began to paint a bigger cake for everyone again.

The Qingzhou Yellow Turbans are now no less powerful than Jizhou. With their newly recruited auxiliary troops adding up to less than 10,000 people, it would be a dream to capture Qingzhou. It would be great to be able to hold on to the city of Jinan.

"I obey the general's orders!" Liu Bei took the lead, and the others could only answer accordingly.

"Okay! Tomorrow I will lead a large army to guard the city. You all need to go out of the city and drive away all the nearby Yellow Turbans. You don't need to fight them more, just drive them 30 miles away.

I plan to personally lead the troops out of the city, but the city still needs people to garrison, but I have to leave this matter to you." Kuijing said.

Everyone was ordered to leave, but Fu Jing did not say how to suppress the Yellow Turbans outside the city. Liu Bei returned to his yard, summoned Liu Xin and all the military commanders, and began to assign the task of wiping out the Yellow Turbans outside the city tomorrow.

"Marquis Liu, your troops are the strongest, and today I heard that you have selected thousands of auxiliary troops. There is a group of Yellow Turbans 10 miles northwest of the city, about ten thousand, so they will be handed over to you."

Liu Bei first arranged Liu Xin's tasks.

Liu Xin nodded and accepted the order. This yellow scarf army should be the largest one outside the city, and it also had the greatest impact on Jinan City's food harvest. Liu Bei said that he had the strongest troops and assigned him tasks, but he couldn't refuse because he was a military officer.

Sima is his superior and the leader of all the rebels.

Guan Yu led 500 troops, including 200 elite troops, who were in charge of a 5,000-man Yellow Turban Army 5 miles south of the city. Zhang Fei led 500 troops, of which 100 elite troops were in charge of a 4,000-man Yellow Turban Army 10 miles southeast of Jinan City.

The other three military commanders were all third-rate military generals with the strength to lead 200 to 400 auxiliary troops each, and wiped out all the Yellow Turban warriors within 5 miles of Jinan City. Liu Bei himself also led more than 200 auxiliary troops to support various armies at any time.

On September 12th, Liu Xin had breakfast in the city, took a day's worth of dry food, and then led himself out of the city in Wuqu.

Liu Xin divided his 2,328 people into 5 villages. He led 300 soldiers and 7 [Xuantie Jingjia] generals as the main force of the battle. Zhou Tai, Wei Qin, Xin Bi, and Yang Fu each

Leading 500 people, the composer led them out of the North City Gate, and everyone felt very uncomfortable.

Regardless of whether the people outside Jinan City are the Yellow Turban Army, if they drive them away and let Kuijing harvest all the food, then more than 100,000 people here will be without food for another year.

These grains have been grown by the people here with a year's hard work. If they drive the people away, they will kill them. But now they are a bandit-suppressing army. If they don't suppress the people who follow the Yellow Turban Army, what will they do?

Liu Xin called all his family members together to discuss. They would not drive away the people outside the city, even if Liu Bei and Yu Jing were to accuse him. A man must have a bottom line. If he attacked the people outside the city, he might recruit more than a thousand soldiers.

About to run away.

Liu Xin met a single disaster victim along the way and ignored it. The army arrived at its destination. This was a valley. There was no sign of the Yellow Turban Army. Even the rioters were nowhere to be seen.

Let Lu Tong ride a horse and lead 10 cavalry into the valley to check. Now Liu Xin also has more than 20 cavalry, which cannot form a combat force, but they can still be used as scouts.

Lu Tong quickly came to report that there were a large number of Yellow Turban troops in the valley, about tens of thousands of people. They had discovered that his group was forming a formation to prepare for a decisive battle with his side.

Liu Xin felt that something was wrong, but he sent scouts to patrol around and found nothing unusual, so he led the army into the valley.

As expected, the Yellow Turban Army was ready for a decisive battle with them here. The shape of this valley was like a gourd, with a small mouth but a very wide inside. Liu Xin saw that there were dilapidated thatched houses everywhere, which made him feel more and more like this place.

It's not normal anymore.

"Zhou Tai, the four of you each lead 50 elites to check the situation in this valley to see if there is any place for an ambush. I always feel that it is weird here." Liu Xin said.

The four commanders of Zhou Tai personally led their troops to explore around. The terrain in the valley was flat and the valleys on both sides were difficult to climb. It was a very good hiding place. Moreover, the top of the mountain was far away from the valley. It was impossible for the opponent to attack them from both sides.

possible.

After hearing the reports from the four retainers, Liu Xin felt a little relieved. As long as he didn't get ambushed by the Yellow Turban Army with his two thousand elite troops, the Yellow Turban Army would not be his opponent in a direct battle.

Walking inside, Liu Xin did not touch the thatched huts of the rebels at all, nor did he pay attention to the sparse wheat grown outside the thatched huts. Not long after walking in, he saw that the Yellow Turban Army in front had organized an army of nearly 20,000 people, and it seemed that most of them were

They were all elites, so Liu Xin felt relieved.

After setting up the battle formation, Liu Xin, Guan Hai, and Cheng Yuanzhi took the lead in the charge. Four commanders, including Zhou Tai and Wei Qin, led 500 men behind. If they didn't have Zi Zhong, all of them could be used as soldiers.

The Yellow Turban Army had few bows and arrows, which was perfect for Liu Xin. He had 300 elite troops attack into the enemy army, led by 8 third-rate or above generals. The Yellow Turban Army tried their best to stop them but could not stop their advance. Liu Xin quickly

Break into the enemy's ranks.

At this time, Zhou Tai and Wei led their soldiers from both wings, chasing the Yellow Turban army and killing them randomly. After fighting for more than an hour, Liu Xin and others killed more than 4,000 enemies, and the Yellow Turban army finally couldn't hold on any longer.

Watching the Yellow Turban Army begin to retreat, Liu Xin led his troops to attack them. After chasing for several miles, they captured more than 5,000 prisoners. At this time, there was a canyon in front of them.

"Let everyone stop the pursuit." Liu Xin stood at the front and shouted loudly, and all the generals organized the soldiers to stop the pursuit.

"Lord, what's wrong?" Zhou Tai asked when he saw Liu Xin stop.

"The canyon is only one foot wide. If the canyon is very deep, we can only pass with a wider distance. When we are halfway through, the other party suddenly drops a huge boulder from there. What do you think the result will be?" Liu Xin pointed to the front.

The cliff asked.

"We will suffer heavy losses and may be split into two. Then we may be in trouble... Lord, did you say there is an ambush on the cliff?" Zhou Tai asked in confusion.

"We have to be on guard, Guan Hai, take 100 soldiers to see if there is anyone on the top of the cliff." Liu Xin said to Guan Hai.
Chapter completed!