Chapter 469
Liu Bei stayed in Chang Du for two days before leaving, the war here was over and there was little use for him to stay, after all he was an ambitious man with a great heart of merit.
Li Linfei and the others, on the other hand, rested in Changshe for half a month, and the imperial decree came down. Li Linfei, Zhu Zhen, Huangfu Song and Cao Cao all received a lot of rewards, especially Li Linfei, who had captured Bo Cai alive, plus the previous successful siege of Shan Yue in Huiji, giving him a promotion that was well deserved.
Li Linfei was made a general of the army and a marquis of Shangyin County. General Hengye was a fifth-ranked general, while this general of the army was a fourth-ranked general.
Huangfu Song, Zhu Jiao, Cao Cao and even Dian Wei He Qi were all rewarded in different ways.
Li Linfei was a bit depressed, it seemed that he had to go back to get some more military achievements, after all, he was looking at the position of Yangzhou Shepherd, it was important for him to occupy this position five years earlier to fight for the world.
He was not a stubborn old man like Lu Zhi, and after treating the little yellow door who had delivered the decree well, the man said to Li Linfei as he was leaving, "Your Excellency told your Excellency to try to get as much military merit as possible so that he could ask for an official for your Excellency."
Although who said it, Li Linfei didn't even have to think about it to know that it was Zhang Jean's intention.
I had to admit that although Zhang Jean was very fucked up in some matters and his character was not very good, he was still very good to Li Linfei. After receiving Zhang's assurance, Li Linfei did not forget to give Little Huangmen some treasures and let him leave satisfied.
After the court's reward came down, Cao Cao said goodbye to Li Linfei, who had to go ahead to Lu Zhi's place.
"Lord, where shall we go first next?" Guo Jia asked.
"What else can we do? We'll collect the Yellow Turbans and see if there are any wise men to recruit, after all, we don't have many people we can use." Li Linfei bristled, it was easy for him to collect the Yellow Turbans.
The reason why it was so difficult to eliminate those small groups of Yellow Turbans was because it was difficult to find them, unlike Li Linfei, who had a hang-up and could easily find them with the help of the system, and then send his men out to surround them.
Guo Jia nodded at his words, honestly, Li Linfei's men were indeed a bit less, he had a lot of official duties every day for someone who was still studying, although he gave them all to his men to do, like Xi Zhicai who was used by Li Linfei as two men.
If they could recruit some great talents, they would also be able to relax a bit, but unfortunately, Li Linfei let He Qi take his troops out to clear the Yellow Turbans, while he himself took Guo Jia Dian Wei and the two of them, kept visiting those talents, but none of them were willing to follow him. However, no one was willing to follow him.
The sons of the great families would not follow Li Linfei, even though he was very famous and would have done very well under his governance, and it would be better to go to his side as an official than to go to Luoyang as a minor official to have a better chance of getting into the eyes of the emperor.
He knew that he was not worthy of being invested in, and he no longer had to put his hot face on a cold one. He believed that when he became stronger in the future, he would be able to recruit all sorts of talented people to come here.
Li Linfei stayed in Changdu for more than a month and then waved his troops north. It took him half a month to reach Guangzong, but fortunately Zhang Jiao had not yet died, otherwise he would have run in vain.
He was greeted by a big fat man and Cao Cao, who had constantly received information about the situation in Julu, where Lu Zhi had offended the eunuch Zuo Feng, as in history, and had been sued.
Dong Zhuo had been made a general by the court, but Li Linfei was also a general, and his title was even more prestigious than his, so it was only right that he should come out to greet him, now that his ambition had not been completely stirred up, at least he was not particularly difficult to deal with.
Li Linfei asked Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao about the situation in Guangzong, and it turned out that Huangfu Song had not rushed here as he had done in history after settling the Bo Cai army, but had gone to Wancheng to fight with Zhang Mancheng's troops.
Fortunately, Cao Cao's military strength was very good, otherwise the official army on this front would have been routed.
"Has Zhang Jiao come out recently?" Li Linfei remembered that it seemed that the Yellow Turban Uprising ended or was only successfully suppressed because Zhang Jiao hung up, otherwise the difficulty would have gone up at least two notches.
"Yes." Cao Cao was depressed how his own Lin Fei's sage brother suddenly asked this question, could there be a mystery in it, he pondered carefully and affirmed.
Chapter 470
"Brother Mengde, I've heard that Zhang Jiao is about to hang up." Li Linfei said.
"Xiandi, where does this come from?" Cao Cao asked, puzzled.
"I heard from the captive that Zhang Jiao's health is dying." Li Linfei said.
"Taking is a time to do so." Cao Cao said.
"No, we have to wait." Li Linfei said.
"Wait for what?" Cao Cao asked.
"Wait for the last straw that will overwhelm Zhang Jiao." Li Linfei said.
Cao Cao was puzzled.
Dong Zhuo barred his mouth to say something, but he was already a little flustered by Zhang Jiao's beating, and then thinking of the rumours outside about Li Linfei, he stopped talking, he wanted to see what this legendary martial artist was really capable of.
A month later, the Han army went to call for battle every day, and the Yellow Turbans came out to fight the Han army before retreating, and so it went on for a month.
One day, a month later, Cao Cao went to inspect the Yellow Turban camp and found that the other side was guarding the camp tightly and did not even react to his going out to call for battle, so he bumbled around and found Li Linfei's side.
"Xiandi, today Cao went to the entrance of that Yellow Turban camp and strolled around, and found that they were tightly closing the gates and did not respond to any of our calls. When Cao Cao saw Li Linfei sitting here quietly sipping tea, he also sat down in front of him and poured himself a cup, taking a sip before saying.
"There should be no problem, according to reports from below, General Huangfu and General Zhu defeated Zhang Mancheng's forces at Wancheng, I'm sure Zhang Jiao also knows about it and is probably planning his deployment afterwards."
Cao Cao nodded thoughtfully, "But we should also do something before the two generals arrive to support us."
The Yellow Turban Uprising was almost over, and as far as Cao Cao knew there were many family members who had sent their sons and daughters to mix with the military, and they needed to get as much as they could for themselves.
Li Linfei naturally understood the meaning of Cao Cao's words, he also desperately needed military merit, but unfortunately now that Zhang Jiao was still alive, he could not do anything about it, not to mention the fact that they did not have particularly many soldiers in hand, and there was nothing they could do against the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Guangzong City.
"Brother Meng De don't be anxious, this may be the last straw to crush Zhang Jiao as I said." Li Linfei said.
"Xiandi you are saying that Zhang Jiao is about to hang." Cao Cao said excitedly.
"Yes, I think it's almost time. " said Li Linfei.
Finally, before the crowd's patience was about to be exhausted, Zhang Jiao finally died.
Before he died, he had a large number of Yellow Turban soldiers moved out of the city and fled into the deep mountains, in fact there were not many Yellow Turban soldiers left in Guangzong City.
Naturally, these could not escape Li Linfei's eyes, so he immediately summoned everyone.
"According to the information provided by my spies in Guangzong City, Zhang Jiao is dead." After gathering the crowd together, Li Linfei released this deep water bomb that directly shook everyone into a cloud of confusion.
Zhang Jiao was dead? The Yellow Turban bandit leader was dead! What was this? Wasn't he known as a half-immortal? How could he die so easily? They looked at Li Linfei with eyes full of suspicion, hoping he could give them a reasonable explanation.
"Lord Li, is the information reliable?" Among the generals present now, only Dong Zhuo had the same official rank as Li Linfei, and he was the most qualified to ask questions.
"It's a thousand times true! And with the Yellow Turban thieves constantly leaving Guangzong some time ago, there are probably less than 20,000 of them in the city now." Li Linfei once again broke a shocking secret.
"Hiss." Everyone hearing this news from Li Linfei could not help but suck in a breath of cold air, this was even more frightening than the news that Zhang Jiao had died, one must know that originally there were hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban bandits in Guangzong city, but unexpectedly there were only 20,000 left, Zhang Jiao was able to do this without even realising it, was he a human or a ghost?
"Then are Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang still in the city?" Yuan Shao's words were tinged with a tremble, in fact, it was no wonder that he was not calm, according to what Li Linfei said Zhang Jiao had died, there were only 20,000 yellow turban bandits left in the city, this Guangzong city could be broken in a matter of days, if Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao were both passing in the city, then the military credit would not be far away from him.
"Both are here." Li Linfei said.
After hearing Li Linfei's words, everyone's eyes were full of desire and greed as they looked towards Guangzong City, which was full of military achievements.
If they killed either of the two brothers, they would be able to win a fortune and become a winner in life, so under the command of Li Linfei and Dong Zhuo, they began to assemble their troops to attack the city. Without Zhang Jiao's command, the small city of Guangzong could not stop the official army at all, and in a short while it was beaten down by Li Linfei and his men, who found Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang in the crowd and gave him a double kill, which made everyone envious and jealous.
But there was nothing to say, who made Li Linfei lucky! As for Zhang Jiao's head, it was stolen by the shameless big-eared thief, which made all the generals present hold Liu Bei in their grudge, no way who let him be unpopular?
Liu Bei's status as an imperial relative was not recognised by the court, he was currently in a white body, and his only backer, Lu Zhi, had been taken to jail, not to mention that he had offended Li Linfei, so naturally no one would give him a good look.