I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 239, the crisis that Dong Zhuo will face
After the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army were trained, Zhu Min led these soldiers to conquer three nearby Wubao in a row, seized a lot of money and food, and continued to expand the base area.Zhu Min had self-knowledge and did not attack large cities.

Instead, he followed the instructions in Xu Wei's book to root the land in the countryside. After dividing the land, Zhu Min led the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army to help the surrounding people build canals, water trucks, and do farm work.After learning all of Xu Wei's methods, the people in the base area became Zhu Min's supporters.

Liu Pi’s expansion, especially the capture of 4 Wubao, finally aroused the vigilance of the local officials in Runan. Not long after the Runan prefect led 5000 soldiers to encircle and suppress Liu Pi, Zhu Min asked Liu Pi to lead the people in the base area to hide in He himself led 1 soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army to attack Pingyu City, the governor of Runan County, and he must be rescued if he attacked, the scared Runan prefect returned immediately.

Then Zhu Min used such guerrilla tactics of attacking the weak and avoiding the strong, and continued to attack Wubao in Runan County. He conquered 5 buildings in a row within a month. .

When Zhu Min felt that he could fight the national soldiers of Runan County, Zhu Min led all Liu Pi's subordinates to besiege the Wubao of Yuan Shu's hometown. Ambushed halfway, the entire army was wiped out, and even the prefect did not escape.

Then Zhu Min took the opportunity to conquer Pingyu City, plundered all the treasury of Runan County, and yelled at the people of Runan County to beat the local tyrants and divide the fields. Liu Pi's name also caused a sensation in the whole Yuzhou County.

And Liu Pi is a little better than Yu Du. He has self-knowledge, knows that all of his things are caused by Zhu Min, and he also obeys Zhu Min!
So Zhu Min took Liu Pi's main force back to his base area and continued to accumulate strength.

There is more than one case of Liu Pi in Yuzhou County. There are several Yellow Turbans in Yuzhou, just like Liu Pi. After receiving the guidance of the Tengjia Army Supervising Army, their strength has skyrocketed, and they also know how to deal with the clans with Wubao defenses. The gentry know how to build a base area, how to avoid the real and attack the false and fight guerrilla warfare with the soldiers and horses of the big Han!
With the correct guidance, these Yellow Turbans continued to attack the city and expand their strength in Yuzhou. This affected the stability of the entire Yuzhou. What happened, the whole Yuzhou was panicked!
The news of the capture of Pingyu City was passed on to Yuan Shujun, who was already confronting Liu Bei in Luyang, and the news of the instability in his hometown affected his soldiers, not to mention the fact that the Yellow Turban Army's division of fields was spreading everywhere. The news from the ground and the soldiers who were forcibly captured by Yuan Shu were even more popular.

The low morale of Yuan Shu's army was noticed by Liu Bei. He commanded the army to storm Yuan Shu's camp. Had to flee to Yingchuan County.

Zhang Wen could only comfort him: "That's fine, the failure of the road can at least let us see ourselves clearly, compared to the military! We are indeed not the opponents of veterans like Dong Zhuo who have experienced many battles!"

Yuan Kai has nothing to say, more than half of the 20 Kwantung Allied Forces lost, and Dong Zhuo only dispatched 4 people. Bijun and them are really no match for Dong Zhuo, a martial artist, and the current situation in the Central Plains cannot help him admit defeat!If he doesn't admit defeat, his hometown will be lost. This time, the Yellow Turban Army dared to attack the Yuan family's Wubao in Runan County. If the Yellow Turban Army broke through, he would really become the eternal sinner of the Yuan Family.

Yuan Wei could only say to Zhang Wen with a gray face, "I'll leave all of this to my brother!"

After getting Yuan Kai's approval, Zhang Wen began to contact Li Ru in Luoyang City, expressing their intention of admitting defeat from the Kanto clan, and begging Dong Zhuo to forgive him!

Li Ru was overjoyed and immediately dispatched Chief History Liu Ai to report the good news to Dong Zhuo!

Dong Zhuo couldn't help laughing when he heard the news, "That means the old man Yuan Kai begged for mercy from the truth?"

Liu Ai smiled and said: "That's right, he is willing to let Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu go to encircle and suppress the Yellow Turban Army in the Central Plains, and only ask the Prime Minister to forgive Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu's lives!"

Li Jue shouted: "How can such a good thing happen? Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are rebelling against the nine clans. Didn't Yuan Kai have a son named Yuan Ji who killed Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu? The Yuan family has no successors." !"

Hua Xiong said loudly: "That's right, the Yuan family will have to pay a price if they dare to rebel, otherwise everyone will rebel, how can the Prime Minister rule the world!"

None of the military generals present had a good opinion of the Yuan brothers, whether it was Xiliang generals or Bingzhou generals.

They fought south and north for more than ten years, and it can be said that they were born to die to get their current status. Among them, Hua Xiong was promoted from another Sima to the captain of 2000 shi after Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang City!

The Yuan brothers have never fought at all, and they have become high-ranking officials with 2000 shi just by virtue of their family background. Now, one has become a rear general, and the other is a self-proclaimed chariot general. This has basically reached the apex of the Han generals. The Yuan brothers easily obtained the official positions that these people would never be able to climb in their lifetime. How could this not annoy Dong Zhuo's generals? The Yuan brothers are also worthy of becoming generals!

Dong Zhuo could hear the dissatisfaction of his subordinates, and he was also thinking about whether to take advantage of the victory to completely wipe out the Yuan brothers and trample the Yuan family under his feet!

At this time, Tian Yi said: "If the Prime Minister wants to lead the big man, he still needs the help of the Guandong clan, and after defeating the Yuan brothers, the Central Plains has also become the territory of the Prime Minister, and the Yellow Turban Army has become an enemy that the Prime Minister must deal with. ! With the Yuan brothers' army here, the Prime Minister can quickly wipe out the Yellow Turban Army in the Central Plains!"

"Yellow Turban Army!" Dong Zhuo really didn't pay attention to this, but how much threat can the Yellow Turban Army have?In Dong Zhuo's memory, the Yellow Turban Army could easily wipe out tens of thousands of people without a few thousand!

He immediately asked Tian Yi, "How is the power of the Yellow Turban Army in the Central Plains now?"

Tian Yi said solemnly: "Beginning in May, more than a dozen armies of Qingzhou Yellow Turban Yudu, Bitter Chieftain, etc., and millions of Yellow Turban troops attacked Qingzhou all the way.

Lei Gong from Bingzhou not only supported the crowbars and other weapons and equipment of the Yellow Turban Army, but also supported many veterans of the Rattan Armored Army, making them officers of the Yellow Turban Army. With these veterans, the combat effectiveness of the Yellow Turban Army has improved very quickly. The big city is still in the hands of the imperial court, and other counties and counties have basically fallen. It can be said that it is only a matter of time before Qingzhou falls without the support of the imperial court!

Although Yanzhou has more than 30 troops stationed by the Prime Minister and the Kwantung Allied Forces, Bai Rao, the commander of the Yanzhou Yellow Turban Army, led [-] troops to continuously attack Taishan County, Jibei Kingdom, Dongping Kingdom and other places. With a crowbar, Bai Rao has broken through more than a dozen docks and killed a large number of powerful and noble families.

Although Han Xian, Hu Cai, and Li Le, the leaders of the Baibo Yellow Turban Army, were defeated by the Prime Minister, they were close to Bingzhou. They obtained a large amount of weapons and equipment from Leigong, and their strength recovered very quickly. Now there are tens of thousands of troops. They are in Sanhe The place is constantly attacking Hanoi's Dangyin and Chaoge.If the prime minister was not in Yanzhou, they would all want to cross the Yellow River and join the Yellow Turban Army in Yanzhou!

In Xuzhou, the Taishan thief Zang Ba also led 30 troops to attack the city in Xuzhou, and Tao Qian, the governor of Xuzhou, could only lead troops to garrison Tanxian, Juxian, Pengcheng and other big cities.

"Yuzhou is commanded by the four Yellow Turban armies of He Yi, Liu Pi, Huang Shao, and He Man. These Yellow Turban armies add up to 30 to 40 troops. With the support of Lei Gong, they attacked Yuzhou everywhere. Most of the soldiers were brought to Nanyang County by Kong Ni to help Yuan Shu fight, so there were not many troops to suppress the Yellow Turban Army. Liu Pi even led his troops to attack Yuan's Wubao. It can be said that the situation in Yuzhou has been out of control. Yuan Shu The reason for the defeat is also related to the continuous attack by the Yellow Turban Army in the rear!"

Dong Zhuo was surprised and said, "The Central Plains is in such a mess, it's even more terrifying than Zhang Jiao's uprising!"

The Yellow Turban Army just heard is worth millions. If you count the scale of less than [-] people, there are not a few million Yellow Turban Army in the entire Central Plains. How long did he cut off the news of the Central Plains before the Yellow Turban Army broke out like this? out of hand!

At this time Jia Xu went on to say: "Minister of the State, although the Yellow Turban Army is numerous, they are a mob after all, and they can be easily wiped out as long as a large army is dispatched. The most terrible thing now is that the four prefectures of Yan, Qing, Xu, and Henan are all suffering from military disasters. No one is farming the land in the four states, which means that the grain production in these four states has ceased this year. This is the heartland of the Central Plains, and an unprecedented famine is about to come."

"There may be tens of millions of refugees who lost their homes and fields due to the war and had to leave their homes. In a few months, the scale of the Yellow Turban Army will become even larger than it is now. Now all these problems need to be resolved by the Prime Minister. .

For the prime minister, defeating the Yuan brothers was not the end of the war, but the beginning.If the prime minister can't settle these tens of millions of people well, the development of the Yellow Turban Army will be out of control, and Lei Gong in Bingzhou will take advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains to seize the world of the big Han, and then the prime minister will be in danger. "

Dong Zhuo was dumbfounded after listening to Jia Xu's explanation. He didn't expect that the Central Plains would be in such a mess. Then why did he work so hard to beat the Yuan brothers? As long as the eight passes of Luoyang were guarded, the Yellow Turban Army alone would be enough to engulf the Kwantung Allied Forces.

The crimes committed by the Kwantung Allied Forces should have been borne by them, but now that the Kwantung Allied Forces have been defeated by him, these things have become his burden.Dong Zhuo now wants to bring the army back to Luoyang City, and throw the entire Kanto region to the Yuan brothers!

The generals present were stunned when they heard Jia Xu's words. As generals, they knew the importance of food. If there was no food, even the best soldiers would be defeated.

But now the four wealthy states and counties of the Han Dynasty have no food, and there are still millions of yellow scarf thieves in each state and county, and there are millions of refugees behind.They also know the situation of the imperial court. If Yang Biao hadn't been there, they would have contributed millions of shi of grain.Their [-]-strong army didn't even have enough food and grass to attack the Kwantung Allied Forces, and now it was impossible to help millions or even tens of millions of refugees.

They can already imagine what will happen next. The refugees who don't want to starve to death can only continue to join the Yellow Turban Army. The scale of the Yellow Turban Army is getting bigger and bigger. Then they will kill the millions of Yellow Turban Army, or they Swallowed by millions of Yellow Turbans, the Great Han Kingdom was also destroyed by the Yellow Turbans along with their defeat!

There's nothing good about this ending!
After realizing that the situation in the Central Plains was critical, Li Jue summoned and said: "Prime Minister, the Yuan brothers made the change in the Central Plains. Why should we take the blame for the Yuan brothers? Let's just go back to Luoyang City and close the eight gates. Let the Yuan brothers fend for themselves!"

Dong Zhuo said angrily: "Bastard, I'm the chancellor of the great Han, not the prime minister of Luoyang, and I'm just a yellow turban thief. Back then, tens of thousands of us put down millions of yellow turban thieves, but now it's just a few million yellow turban thieves. The imperial court dispatching hundreds of thousands of troops can still wipe them out!"

Then Dong Zhuo looked at Jia Xu and asked, "In this situation, what do you think Ben should do?"

Jia Xu thought for a while and said: "It is impossible to help millions of refugees. We can only kill a group and save a group. If people die, they will not consume food and grass. If there are conditions, these refugees will be driven to Bingzhou. , Last time Leigong received millions of victims, this time he will not give up these victims. And these millions of victims are enough to hold back Leigong's attack on the Central Plains."

"In this way, the Prime Minister will have time to sweep the Central Plains. First, control the movements of refugees from various places so that it is difficult for them to form a large scale. Then, the Prime Minister can order Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu to destroy the Yellow Turban thieves in Qingzhou and Yuzhou. The thieves will be defeated one by one!"

Dong Zhuo thought for a while and asked, "Even if we drive the refugees to Bingzhou and kill another batch, there are more than one million refugees in relief, and there are hundreds of thousands of troops to fight and need a lot of food and grass. Where does this food come from? "

Jia Xu sneered and said: "It's not that many people from the Kwantung Allied Forces betrayed the imperial court and ransacked their homes, and the food and grass of several million shi came here, and the nobles of the states wanted the imperial court to send a large army to help them encircle and suppress the Yellow Turban Army. Food and grass must be provided! The Prime Minister of the country can set a standard. If the nobles of that state provide 100 million shi of food, we will send 1 soldiers. But the powerful clans of the big Han have a lot of food and grass in their hands, and it is easy for them to get tens of millions of stones!"

Dong Zhuo was overjoyed when he heard the plot: "Wen He is really a statement of a certain country. Let the truth be reported to the imperial court to see how much money these powerful families in the Kanto are willing to pay to buy their lives!"

For Dong Zhuo, he has no shortage of soldiers at all. He now has 15 soldiers in his hands, and he has surrendered 3 Kwantung Allied Forces in Yanzhou, so he now has 18 troops in his hands, but what he lacks is the money and food to support the 18 troops , as well as the rations for the logistics of the 18 troops!

(End of this chapter)