Lord Yuan

Chapter 236 Attribution of Military Merits

This sudden scene even shocked many Yellow Turban troops who were still resisting the Han army's attack.

Looking at Zhang Fei, who had been drinking and chatting a few days ago, feeling very uncomfortable, now he killed his commander Qushuai in front of the formation at the first glance.

No one knows what Zhang Fei is doing?
Didn't he know that Commander Qu valued him very much and even planned to hand over all the training responsibilities of his subordinates to him?

Even Qu Shuai, who was already dead, did not expect it.

Zhang Fei's actions were like dominoes. The morale of the Han army was greatly boosted, but the fighting spirit of the Yellow Turban Army was completely eliminated.

What?Revenge for that handsome man?

What a joke, the Yellow Turbans in the city have long known about Zhang Fei's bravery in the past few days.

At that time, they were still glad that Zhang Fei was such a fierce general, but they were willing to choose to become a Yellow Turban and never fight against each other on the battlefield. They thought that Zhang Fei was also oppressed by those high-ranking officials and powerful people.

As one goes and the other goes, no one wants to face the war-god-like Zhang Fei.

As a result, Zhang Fei, who wanted to achieve military success, looked around and saw that the yellow scarf bandits in front of him were all running away in a hurry as if they had oiled soles on their feet.

Liu Bei was covering the front and left, and with the double swords in his hands, he also made a lot of gains, not to mention Guan Yu.

In such a terrain, Guan Yu, who was tall and powerful, was even more powerful. He waved the blade in his hand wantonly, and with just one back and forth, several more souls were killed by the sword.

This seemed to be a performance for the three Liu Bei brothers.

They pretended to open the city gate, and it could be said that they had attracted enough attention immediately, and Zhang Fei's every move also affected the minds of countless people.

Lu Zhi also felt emotional about it.

How could Xuande befriend such a peerless warrior?

Commander Qu was dead, and the Yellow Turban Army, which was already in chaos, fled in all directions without a command. It was clear that they still had a crushing numerical advantage, and it would take a lot of time for the Han army to completely capture the city.

But under such a result, the biggest drawback of the Yellow Turban Army was revealed. Even Lu Zhi did not expect that the cohesiveness of this ragtag group of people would be peeled off so quickly between life and death.

Lu Zhi didn't catch up either. Anyway, the set goal had been largely achieved.

He originally planned to rely on Dong Zhuo's feint attack to gradually erode the power of the Yellow Turbans in the city, but he did not expect that today's battle would be so easy.

Watching the shouts of killing on the field getting smaller and smaller, only many wounded Han soldiers were left roaring in low voices.

"Thanks to Xuande today, if you hadn't come up with this plan, I don't know when I would have been able to enter the city!" Lu Zhi walked up to Liu Bei and suddenly found that Liu Bei was bleeding a lot, so he immediately called the doctor Intended to heal.

Liu Bei smiled and raised his head, pointing to the group of yellow scarves lying on the ground in the distance.

"This is all the blood of those bandits. The students are not seriously injured."

Lu Zhi came closer and inspected it carefully before feeling relieved.

Another long sigh with a worried look on his face.

"Xuande, I'm not surprised that you risked your life. However, from now on, I'd better not do such things again. One careless move can mean life or death."

Liu Bei felt Lu Zhi's deep concern and felt very relieved.

His efforts were not in vain after all.

"The teacher was joking. This plan was not what the students thought of, but Yide planned it. Although it is a bit dangerous, the result is good after all. It can help the teacher. Yide is very happy."

"Oh? Yide's contribution is really not small. When this war is over, I will report to Your Majesty, and Yide will definitely be promoted to another official."

Lu Zhidun was surprised. When he learned that it was Zhang Fei who did it, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Not only can he have unparalleled bravery, he can kill generals several times in front of the formation, but he is also thoughtful and thoughtful, a rare talent among generals.

Lu Zhi immediately took a keen interest in Zhang Fei, and immediately summoned Zhang Fei, who was not very happy.

"Yide, why do you look unhappy?"

When Zhang Fei heard this, his big face was full of displeasure.

"It's not like that group of yellow scarf thieves escaped in such a hurry. I just hate that my horse is so lazy that I can't kill more enemy generals!"

After arguing for a long time, Zhang Fei was complaining that he didn't have a good mount, so he couldn't catch up with the remaining Yellow Turbans.

Several people smiled knowingly, Lu Zhi patted his mount and led it to Zhang Fei.

"Yide, how about this horse for you?"

"Teacher, you must not do this. Yide is a rude person, how can he ride on the teacher's mount!" Liu Bei stopped him.

Zhang Fei also hurriedly stepped forward to refuse.

He didn't expect that Lu Zhi would be so direct. He just said it unintentionally, but he didn't expect that his elder brother's teacher would actually take it seriously.

Zhang Fei's face stretched even longer.

"Shang Shu, this is a frontier horse. Only a famous official like you can ride it. I am just a soldier, how dare I do this!"

"What are you talking about! Yide has achieved a lot of military exploits today. If it weren't for your plan, we would have never even been close to the city gate. How could we have achieved such results? I just want to tell your majesty, Yide Master De said that he should also be promoted to the position of military commander, Sima, it’s just a horse, it doesn’t have to be like this!”

"In that case, third brother, just accept it. With this BMW, you can easily kill the enemy and make achievements. Only in this way can you live up to the great trust of the minister!"

Guan Yu said from the side.

In the end, Zhang Fei was moved to accept the BMW from Liaodong, and Lu Zhi transferred another horse from the logistics.

As long as you have money, you can basically get this thing. In addition, the horse breeding land in Liaodong seems to have been managed quite smoothly by Yuan Shao, so a large part of Liaodong's tax revenue comes from the heads of these war horses.

When Liu Hong learned that there were [-] cavalry in Liaodong, he immediately ordered tens of thousands of them to be transferred from Liaodong to fill the vacancies in the interior.

Of course, these all need to be exchanged for money.

Although it is an area under Yuan Shao's jurisdiction, theoretically speaking, he has absolute authority to mobilize.

But in fact, Yuan Shao had long pushed these things onto the powerful local gentry.

Even if these people are no longer worthy of their reputation, they only have the reputation of being powerful.

But at the very least, when Liu Hong went to mobilize these war horses, in order to be able to decently mobilize these war horses, he had to use part of the central finance to buy them from them.

And of course the final money fell into the hands of Yuan Shao's team.

As for Yangxu, he didn't even touch a hair of this huge sum of money that fell from the sky.

When Yang Xu, who was full of anger, learned from Xun You and others that all the money had flowed into the hands of local powerful people, he was even more furious.

No matter how powerful they are, they are just some local chickens and dog-ears!
Xun You pulled him aside and explained quietly.

Gongsun Du, the prefect of Xuantu County, resigned from his duties as the governor of Jizhou and was pushed to the forefront by Xun You.

This huge sum of money, as it was known, fell into Gongsundu's family.

As for the Gongsun family's influence in Liaodong and other places, even Yang Xu, who was the general who conquered Liao, had long heard about it.

Even he, the general of Du Liao, when facing Gongsun Du, the prefect of a neighboring county, could only sigh and express why the horse breeding land in Liaodong had become the private property of the Gongsun family.

Xun You explained this for a long time.

It is nothing more than instilling an idea into Yangxu.

In Liaodong, the title of General Du Liao cannot be regarded as absolute authority. Although Yuan Shao had almost attacked all the remaining powerful and wealthy businessmen before this, it also triggered a series of consequences.

The Gongsun family took advantage of the trend to rise.

With Yuan Shao as a big tree as his backer, Gongsun Du, who wanted to follow Yuan Shao's footsteps, fought wherever he pleased.

When Xun You informed Gongsun Du of these things in advance, he originally thought that he would encounter some obstacles. For this reason, Xun You also specially prepared a lot of rhetoric.

As a result, when Gongsun Du learned about this, he expressed his opinion without hesitation.He even used a considerable portion of his income from horses to fill the Liaodong treasury.

Xun You also had to be shocked by Yuan Shao's foresight.

Even though he had already left Liaodong, he was still able to strategize outside the Great Wall.

With Gongsun Du's expression, Yang Xu had no choice but to give in.

As for the memorials submitted by Yang Xu to Luoyang, they were completely controlled by Xun Chen and others.

As long as Liu Hong wants to see it, they will make the most perfect report.

But now, the entire Han army has such a huge supply of war horses, and its combat effectiveness has been greatly improved.

After the war statistics.

Lu Zhi was also happy with today's results.

With Dong Zhuo in front of him, Lu Zhi could basically justify himself as long as he didn't show signs of defeat.

What's more, the current results are quite fruitful.

Twelve thousand people were beheaded, three thousand horses, thousands of livestock, and more than a thousand armors were captured.

Before that, the Han army either suffered a rout or struggled to resist against the Yellow Turbans.

The Yellow Turbans at the beginning were basically elites, and many Han soldiers turned against them. For this reason, the Han army had a hard time resisting.

Now, as many common people, refugees, etc. join in, the good and the good are mixed, which naturally greatly reduces the combat effectiveness of the Yellow Turban Army.

On the surface, it does look powerful, but once faced with a real battlefield and a life-and-death fight, as long as the situation deteriorates, they will flee the battlefield without caring about anything, and their morale will also be greatly reduced.

As Lu Zhi was happy, some people were naturally sad.

Dong Zhuo angrily wanted to get up and go to Lu Zhi's camp to ask why he had been deceived so that Dong Zhuo could not gain military merit through victory in today's battle.

The deputy general on the side quickly stopped him.

"General Zhonglang, why is this necessary? Even if the minister won a great victory, it was only because of your attack that he was able to pursue the victory. As long as General Zhonglang speaks sincerely and uses some tricks, Your Majesty may not reward General Zhonglang." .”

The deputy general has been with Dong Zhuo for a long time and is well aware of some of Dong Zhuo's methods.

At the moment, he was just distracted for a moment, so of course he stood up to remind him.

Whose world is it now?
It's Liu Hong.

It is also the world of Shi Changshi.

Lu Zhi just couldn't deal with the group of ten regular attendants. As long as there was an opportunity, those ten regular attendants would make a big fuss to criticize him and they would never tire of it.

Dong Zhuo, on the other hand, did the opposite. He was unwilling to contact the Ten Constant Attendants, but Dong Zhuo had to approach them.

As long as it is beneficial to himself, Dong Zhuo will not leave any profit.

He nodded happily: "What you said is true, and you almost missed something important!"

Dong Zhuo immediately revised a letter and was about to call a messenger to send it to Luoyang and hand it over to Liu Hong.

Unexpectedly, the deputy general stopped him again and again.

Dong Zhuo didn't understand what he meant and looked surprised.

The deputy general looked at Dong Zhuo intently and whispered: "General Zhonglang wants to compete for this credit, or do you just want your majesty to know that you also made some efforts in this battle?"

Dong Zhuo said without hesitation: "Of course it goes without saying that he deserves the greatest credit!"

"What good plan do you have?"

Dong Zhuo was completely like a curious baby, looking at the deputy general with more and more amazement.

The lieutenant general said: "It is already open and transparent that Shi Changshi is now in control of the government. For this reason, General Zhonglang also needs to write a letter to reveal some of the details."

"detail?"

"General Zhonglang thinks, what do the ten permanent servants least want to see?"

Dong Zhuo hesitated for a while.

"Of course Lu Zhi will become bigger!"

"Then, General Zhonglang only needs to describe Na Lu Zhi's situation here, and those ten permanent servants will naturally make corresponding countermeasures."

"Then I will edit a few more letters."

"General Zhonglang still needs to revise a lot of books and write to His Majesty as quickly as possible, making it difficult for Your Majesty to judge the situation here at once. As the saying goes, three people make a tiger, and a lot of words make money. In addition, the Zhongchang servant is waiting behind you, and the situation here will naturally make it difficult to judge the situation here. Your Majesty is confused."

The deputy general explained in detail that based on his understanding of Liu Hong, the more doubtful something was, the more he would choose to avoid it or ignore it.

Even though Lu Zhi clearly gained a lot.

This point can be said to be vividly reflected in Yuan Shao.

Dong Zhuo understood it immediately, and he immediately began to edit the book with great joy.

Lu Zhi didn't know yet that even though he had just won the battle, someone was already planning how to frame him behind his back.

Lu Zhi and others were still immersed in joy.

Even Liu Bei is dreaming about being rewarded by His Majesty. If he can rely on this merit to gain some impression in front of His Majesty, it will improve his reputation and influence to the next level.

As long as Liu Hong recognized his status as the Queen of Zhongshan Prince Jing, it would no longer be difficult for Liu Bei to be promoted to an official position.

What could be more direct than clan status?

Liu Yan, Liu Yu and others are the most direct manifestations.

Liu Hong has always spared no effort in this regard.

Lu Zhi was busy and did not forget to submit the battle report here.

Even Huangfu Song was celebrating Lu Zhi.

And Luoyang is hundreds of miles away.

However, he received a letter from Dong Zhuo first. Under deliberate guidance, Liu Hong's judgment of the situation on the front line produced some deviations.

When Zhang Rang and others, the Ten Constant Attendants, followed closely and began to report what they had learned, Liu Hong felt even more suspicious.

Are these 20 Yellow Turban Army native chickens and dogs?There were only [-] Han troops, but they were able to capture so much.

Even if there were 20 pigs, it would probably take the Han army several days and nights to catch them all.

Not to mention people.

Liu Hong subconsciously began to deny Lu Zhi.

He thought it was because he was overjoyed about his great achievements, so he started to boast for the sake of a small victory.

Zhang Rang hesitated for a while and remembered some conversations between Wei Yuan Shao and him some time ago.

Regarding Lu Zhi, Zhang Rang actually didn't hate him that much, but he always showed an attitude of being incompatible with me.

If you don't deal with him like this, how can you convince the people and lead all the officials in the world!

After Yuan Shao's explanation, Zhang Rang vaguely understood the deeper meaning.

For this reason, he hesitated between impeaching Lu Zhi and letting Lu Zhi go, not knowing what to do.

(End of this chapter)