Chapter 459
Liu Hong did not fail to meet Li Linfei's expectations, and the imperial decree for the counties to recruit their own soldiers was not long in reaching Huiji County, and the world was about to be further disrupted.
It was the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, coupled with the fact that the counties were given the power to recruit their own troops, that left the world in a state of instability, which, coupled with Dong Zhuo's rebellious rule, led to complete chaos.
Immediately after receiving the imperial decree, Li Linfei led 10,000 troops with Deng Wei, Guo Jia and He Qi to attack the Yellow Turban bandits around Huiji.
While Xi Zhicai and the others stayed in Shan Yin City and continued to recruit stragglers.
There were hundreds of stragglers coming into Huiji almost every day, so the workload was still huge, not to mention that the Yellow Turban bandits were just peasants with weapons. After suppressing them, they would become peasants, which is a real population, so Li Linfei would not let them go.
Of course, if he did this, there might be people at the court who would take advantage of the situation to cause trouble, but he had already thought of this and had taken care of the Ten Permanent Servants, led by Zhang Jean, and with his own reputation among the scholarly clans now in full swing, even if He Jin wanted to take advantage of the situation, he could not do anything about it.
Since the outbreak of the Shan Yue rebellion in Yangzhou some time ago, the new state shepherd and the assassins have not yet taken office, and the Yellow Turban leader in Yangzhou has already hung up because he was denounced in Luoyang.
So the Yellow Turban bandits in Yangzhou have lost their unified leadership and are not as vocal as in other states and counties.
However, Li Linfei would not let go of these Yellow Turban bandits, the population of more than 100,000 was still very important, and he had the strength to take them in, so why not?
Faced with these Yellow Turbans without a senior leader, Li Linfei had them all incorporated in less than a month, according to Guo Jia's plan, and sent them to Huiji to be registered.
After Yangzhou was pacified, Li Linfei took his 10,000-strong army and marched to Chang She.
According to Li Linfei's historical memory, at this time Zhu Jun's army was defeated by the Yellow Turban Bo Cai and retreated, and Huangfu Song had no choice but to join him in defending Chang She, which was besieged by Bo Cai's army.
This time Bo Cai, the Yellow Turbans, would be burned up by Huangfu Song with one fire, and then there would be no more business for himself. He needed to get to Chang She before Huangfu Song could take credit for it, share some of the military credits, and then go over to Julu to share some of the military credits, and then if he operated well, perhaps the position of Yangzhou pastor would be his.
On the walls of Changdu City, the official army of the Han Dynasty was in a state of dullness, no one would be happy to be surrounded by a large wave of people, let alone the fact that they had been surrounded for a long time and the reinforcements from the court were slow to arrive.
Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, two of the most famous generals of the late Han Dynasty, were standing at the top of the city looking down at the dense tents of the Yellow Turbans.
They had only 40,000 soldiers and horses in their hands, and they had lost some of them in the course of fighting with Bo Cai's Yellow Turbans, but Bo Cai's Yellow Turbans were fighting more and more and the court's reinforcements were late in arriving, so if it wasn't for the fact that the location of Changshe was too important, they would have led their troops to break out.
"General Huangfu, if the court's reinforcements don't come again, I'm afraid we won't have any chance of winning." Zhu Jiao said helplessly as he looked at the yellow turban bandits with high morale below the city, and then at the wilting soldiers on his side.
"I have already had the idea of retreating, but I still have to plan it out." Huangfu Song said with a bitter smile.
"Oh?" Zhu Jun also said helplessly.
"Huh, look, someone seems to be coming over there, and it doesn't seem to be the Yellow Turban Bandits." Huangfu Song originally wanted to observe the arrangement of the encampment under the city, but he saw a group of about ten thousand people coming this way in the distance.
"It seems to be, and look at the Yellow Turban's formation is starting to get messy. " said Zhu Jun, pointing in the direction of the group of men and horses coming to kill them.
The one coming was none other than Li Linfei, who had run over to grab military credit. He had collected quite a few more Yellow Turban thieves along the way, which made his rush over a little slower than expected, and he was constantly keeping an eye on the situation everywhere through the map every day, wanting to get more out of it.
This was the first time that Guo Jia and He Qi had seen tents stretching for several kilometres. The one they had followed Li Linfei to besiege before was only a small force, far from the Yellow Turban army of Bo Cai.
Both of them squeezed their hands together, compared to before, this is the big test!
If this battle could be fought well, they would have made their trip worthwhile.
Bo Cai was also depressed, he had managed to encircle Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, seeing that their morale was dropping day by day, and in a few days he was going to order an attack on the city to completely destroy this elite force of the Great Han.
But now a new Han army has suddenly arrived, and by looking at the formation and equipment of the opponents, he knows that they are elites.
If they attacked him now, and if Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun in the city cooperated with him, he would be in a situation where he would be attacked on two sides, the consequences of which he could not imagine.
Chapter 460
"My lord can now send a general to make some charges, and I believe that General Huangfu and General Zhu inside the city will surely seize something." Guo Jia suggested as he stepped aside from Li Linfei.
He now needed to advise Li Linfei as his military advisor. This 10,000 strong army, under normal circumstances, might be surrounded and wiped out by these 100,000 or so Yellow Turbans if they could not get into the city quickly.
Of course this is under normal circumstances, the abnormal situation is that Li Linfei is able to manage to take the enemy general's head in the midst of 10,000 troops, and Dian Wei is also a 10,000 man enemy, really piss them off and really do something, no one can confirm.
Li Linfei nodded his head, looked at He Qi and then at Deng Wei, who should he choose to charge!
Li Linfei even planned to let him lead an army in the future, and now was the time to give him a chance.
"Here!" After all, he was still a military general and was eager for the chance to make his mark. He was so excited to hear that his lord had asked him to charge that he led 5,000 troops straight out to kill.
After receiving the order, He Qi led the 5,000 troops to kill. The troops Li Linfei brought out this time were all the elite of Huijie, and there were even 3,000 cavalry among the 10,000.
In the plains, one cavalryman was worth four or five infantry soldiers, and with the lack of good horses in the south, only Li Linfei, who had a system in place, could build up a good cavalry.
The morale of Li Linfei's army was high and completely different from other armies, knowing that they had won battles all the way and had eliminated more than 100,000 Yellow Turbans.
Although there were now so many Yellow Turban troops in front of them all of a sudden, they did not show any fear and with He Qi and a group of cavalrymen opening the way, the remaining 4,000 infantry soldiers followed closely behind and killed their way into the thick of it.
Bo Cai was depressed, he was not a straw man, if he did not have the slightest ability he would not have been given such a huge army by Zhang Jiao, he could see from the equipment and the aura of this army that it was a strong force, its fighting ability might even be better than Huangfu Song's army and Zhu Jiao's army which were surrounded by themselves in the city of Changshe. The army's strength was even greater than that of Huangfu Song's and Zhu Jiao's troops, who were surrounded by the city.
If there was no concern about the Han army in the city, he could have mobilised a large force to take this one, but the other side had only sent a part of its army to the battlefield, and another part was waiting in the wings, so if he did not handle it properly, these forces, together with the official army in the city, could have crushed his men.
He had no choice but to send one of his main generals to lead 20,000 troops to defend against the other side's charge, while he himself sat at the camp to prevent any movement of the Han army inside the city.
Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun on Changdu City were also delighted to see how fierce the incoming Han army was.
"Brother Huangfu, who do you think is leading the reinforcements? How can the army be so neat and tidy? This is not something that an ordinary general could have trained." Zhu Jun said.
"I don't know either."
Huangfu Song shook his head and pointed to Li Linfei's banner, "How come I never knew that there was such an elite force in the Great Han? Look at the banner over there with the word Li written on it, I don't remember any general in the Great Han having the surname Li."
"What should we do then? This seems to be a good opportunity, if we cooperate on our side, it might be a chance to change the situation." Zhu Jun suggested.
Huangfu Song was silent as he watched the reinforcements continue to tear apart the Yellow Turban Army's formation, he was also moved, but looking at Bo Cai's camp below the city, he finally shook his head, "Not yet, Bo Cai's camp is not in disarray, if we kill them like this, we might be playing right into the other side's hands."
"This will most likely lead to the loss of Chang She, we'd better wait, you see that half of the reinforcements still haven't moved, they seem to be waiting for something, let's see what methods he has, when Bo Cai moves, it's not too late for us to move out."
Zhu Jun nodded helplessly, naturally knowing that Huangfu Song's words were very reasonable, but looking at the official army below the city killing each other, he could only watch from the walls. But as he watched the government troops fighting below the city, he could only watch from the walls.
On the battlefield, although He Qi's force was not top-notch, he had the qualifications to be a marshal, and his mind was still very flexible, and while charging into battle, he kept directing his soldiers to stay in formation and attacked, all seemingly with ease, until a Yellow Turban general killed him.
After the two had exchanged several moves, the big man said, "Name of the coming general, I am the marshal of a party of drains."
He Qi also admired his opponent's superior force, so he gave his name: "I am He Qi, a captain under Li Yun Li Linfei, the Taishou of Huizhi."
"Huiji Taishou." Only then did this marshal realise the origin of this suddenly killed soldier, what the hell, it was actually the troops of Li Linfei, the Huiji Generalissimo, no wonder they were so powerful, how did this kid's get here? This is not Huiji, and he is not one of those Shan Yue people.