Xuande

Chapter 665 They Run Faster Than the Yellow Turban Army

These things happened in a very short period of time, and many people didn't react. Even Dong Zhuo was very surprised when he learned about it.

But Dong Zhuo is a seasoned old soldier after all, after thinking about it for a while, he immediately figured out the joints.

"Not good, the yellow scarf is going to run away!"

"run?"

Niu Fu was very surprised: "They slaughtered the rich family, obviously out of shame, your plan succeeded, there was indeed a collusion between the Xuzhou rich family and the yellow turban bandits, now they are fighting among themselves, they can no longer cooperate, and no one will report to the yellow turban bandits News, isn’t this a good chance for us to defeat the Yellow Turbans?”

"The internal strife will not go to the point of extermination."

Dong Zhuo immediately walked out: "This move is considered to have offended the nobles of Xuzhou to death. The Yellow Turban Bandit will never have a foothold in Xuzhou. Unless the Yellow Turban Bandit has decided to escape and leave Xuzhou, otherwise, he will never do that. Simply resolutely, Fu, send an order immediately, the whole army will be rectified, and set off as soon as possible!"

"only!"

Although Niu Fu didn't immediately understand the joints here, but when Dong Zhuo gave the order, Niu Fu immediately nodded and went to deliver the order.

Dong Zhuo reacted very quickly, but he was still a little slow. When he led the army to chase Liangcheng County, the Yellow Turban Army had already set fire to the city and fled away. Dong Zhuo looked at the black smoke billowing in Liangcheng County, and his whole body was full of anger. Shivering.

In the end, Dong Zhuo ordered [-] fine riders to follow him in a desperate pursuit of the Yellow Turban Army from Liangcheng County to Jiangdu County in Guangling County. On the way, they were blocked three times by the troops behind the Yellow Turban Army's palace and were forced to stop and fight three times.

Of course, all the battles were won, and the Yellow Turban Army was still not that strong in front of the elite cavalry led by Dong Zhuo himself.

Finally, in Jiangdu County, they finally caught up with the Xuzhou Yellow Turbans who were crossing the south of the Yangtze River, and fought them here.

The battle was won, and the rear troops of the Yellow Turbans were defeated by Dong Zhuo, killing more than 3000 Yellow Turbans, but the main force of the Yellow Turbans in Xuzhou still crossed the river, and Dong Zhuo did not leave any tools for crossing the river.

Due to the actual conditions and his status as the governor of Xuzhou, Dong Zhuo was unable to pursue him, and he hated it.

Looking at the torrential river, the resentment in his heart could not be suppressed, so he turned his head and looked behind him, in the direction of Xuzhou, with bloodshot eyes.

Sure enough, with this group of insects, Xuzhou couldn't be done well at all!
In a rage, Dong Zhuo went to the table to play Xiapi Guoxiang and Guangling County Sheriff, saying that these two people were insects and wanted to kill them.

Dong Zhuo's reason is very good.

The main force of the Xuzhou Yellow Turban Army, more than 2 people, with a lot of luggage, fled all the way from Xiapi State to the port of Jiangdu County, Guangling County, and then swaggered across the south from the port.

During this period, the Prime Minister of Xiapi and the Sheriff of Guangling did not make any effort!

They didn't mobilize any army to do any little bit of obstruction, it was like they were in no man's land, there was no obstacle at all, and they went all the way south with a smooth wind, and the speed was quite fast.

This caused Dong Zhuo to miss a good opportunity despite his desperate pursuit.

Even if these local officials made a little effort and moved a little, and sent an army to stop the Yellow Turban Army and fight them for even a day, Dong Zhuo would be able to catch up with the Yellow Turban Army and fight them to the death in Jiangdu County.

Don't they have an army on hand?
No, to some extent, although Dong Zhuo commanded most of Xuzhou's army, but because of being in a battlefield, these county guards and state ministers had more or less 2000 to 3000 miscellaneous soldiers.

It's not a strong combat power, but it's better than nothing. It's okay to defend the city at ordinary times. If you really want to fight a battle, although you can't win it, you can cause some damage to the opponent, right?

For example, destroying some bridges, or destroying the road conditions of some roads, so that the speed of the Yellow Turban Army is not so fast.

As long as they put in a little effort, the Yellow Turban Army will not be able to escape southward so smoothly.

But they don't.

The Prime Minister of Xiapi and the governor of Guangling County disappeared all the time. They didn't send out a single army. They only knew that they were huddled in their old nests, not daring to go out to fight.

And the magistrate of Jiangdu County didn't fulfill his responsibility. As soon as the Yellow Turban Army came, he ran away in embarrassment. Even if he led the troops to stand firm for a while, it could buy Dong Zhuo some time.

As a result, they ran faster than the Yellow Turbans.

As long as one of these local officials does something, it can save the situation and let Dong Zhuo wipe out the Yellow Turban Army, but none of them did.

Dong Zhuo was going crazy with anger.

Liu Bei, who was far away in Luoyang, was also very angry when he learned about this. He felt that there were indeed a lot of insects in the Han Dynasty. Surrounded by so many insects, occasionally one or two capable people would be dragged down to death by insects.

So Liu Bei went to the imperial court to participate in the performance of Xiapi Guoxiang, Guangling County Sheriff, and Jiangdu County Magistrate's dereliction of duty and delay in fighting, and demanded that these three people be executed.

At the same time, Liu Bei asked Gui Bao, the governor of Yangzhou, to pursue and eliminate the Yellow Turban Army who had fled into Yangzhou.

The imperial court approved Liu Bei's request, so the order was issued.

Xiapi Guoxiang, Guangling County Sheriff, and Jiangdu County Magistrate were quickly arrested, put into a prison car, and taken to Luoyang to be executed. Dong Zhuo saw these three bastards crying with his own eyes. There is very strong dissatisfaction.

Failure to wipe out the Yellow Turbans in Xuzhou made his dream of returning to Luoyang to take up a position come to naught. He has no way to return to Luoyang with the current half-and-half credit.

It is meaningless to return to Luoyang if he cannot take up a high position, so he chose to stay in Xuzhou and continue to think of ways to find credit, but he couldn't find any suitable credit after searching. Trouble with bandits.

He thought about killing all the bandits in Xuzhou, would he be able to accumulate enough credit?

If Dong Zhuo thought so, then all the bandits in Xuzhou would really suffer.

When the Xuzhou Yellow Turbans were still there, a lot of government energy and troops were used to deal with the Xuzhou Yellow Turbans. The local bandits and strongmen in Xuzhou ushered in a peak period of development.

During that period of time, it was considered their spring. They robbed houses and robbed houses, ate sweets and spicy food, ate big bowls of wine, ate meat, and weighed money. They did whatever they wanted, and even robbed local tyrants.

Of course, these guys have some brains and didn't interfere with the gentry, so the Xuzhou government didn't mind too much the damage to the local tyrants and civilians.

The government didn't have enough energy to deal with them, so they just robbed and snatched it, so happy.

But after the warm spring, the cold winter came.

Dong Zhuo is here.

Dong Zhuo's obsession with returning to Luoyang to take up a high position could no longer be restrained. He fanatically pursued military exploits, and took out all the bandits in Xuzhou. He fought seventeen times within three months, eliminated seventeen groups of bandits big and small, and beheaded two thousand and one bandits. More than a hundred people.

From Langya County, to Donghai County, to Pengcheng State and Xiapi State, Dong Zhuo moved to the four counties, hanging up and beating the local bandits.

But despite this, the merits of suppressing bandits are far inferior to fighting against enemies with political significance. After all, bandits did not raise a banner to say that they want to rebel against the Han Empire.

Dong Zhuo knew it himself, so this kind of behavior was mostly to vent his emotions.

But after venting for a while, he really got a chance.

Liu Bei wants to implement the slavery restriction order in the four states of the Central Plains, Yangzhou, and Jingzhou. The four states of the Central Plains are the first phase, and the two states in the south of the Yangtze River are the second phase. The implementation of the slavery restriction order in Xuzhou is more difficult. Some counties are more cooperative, and some counties It's more head-scratching.

Among them, the most important ones are Xiapi Kingdom and Guangling County.

The officials of other counties can more or less stabilize the affairs of the county. The county guards and the state ministers can come forward to suppress the opponents or eradicate them. However, Xiapi and Guangling counties have not yet arrived because the new county guards and state ministers , leading to some confusion.

Xiapi country is okay, because the base camp of the Yellow Turban Army is in Xiapi Country. After many years of fighting, many powerful clan forces were destroyed by the Yellow Turban Army. Before that, they went south and fled a wave. That's too much.

Therefore, the county-level government can control the local situation.

But Guangling County is different.

Guangling County is so noisy, and the reasons for it are really complicated.

(End of this chapter)