Wait, please don't call me Emperor Zhaolie

Chapter 192 Yuan Shu only wastes
While Dian Wei led the cavalry to pursue Huang Shao, Liu Bei led his troops to charge back and forth to kill the Yellow Turban soldiers who were still resisting.

"Buzz!" An arrow flew from the right and pierced his armor hard, immediately causing the knight next to him to be frightened.

"Your Majesty!"

“Envoy!!”

The cavalrymen couldn't help shouting and quickly rode their horses to block the enemy in front, behind, left and right.

Liu Bei pulled out the arrow and weighed it carefully. He looked at everyone and waved his hand and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's just a stray arrow. It didn't even penetrate the inner armor. There's no need to worry."

The knight beside him finally felt relieved when he saw that there was no blood on the arrowhead and that the envoy looked normal.

They were afraid that the general had actually been shot by an arrow, and was only forcibly pulling out the arrow and pretending nothing had happened in order to stabilize the morale of the troops. That would have been a serious matter.

"Sir, the situation is now settled. The Yellow Turban bandits are fleeing in all directions. There is no need for you to risk your life chasing them down. Please move your troops to the rear!"

"Please move the troops to the rear!"

The remaining one hundred or so cavalrymen of the Ruichong Camp all bowed and spoke again.

When we saw the flying arrow just now, we were so scared that our hearts almost jumped out of our chests, and everyone's heartbeat quickened unconsciously.

Even charging alone and drinking blood against a strong army on the battlefield would not be as exciting as this. If it happened a few more times, they would probably be scared to death on the spot.

Liu Bei smiled but said nothing. However, he did not continue to lead his troops to charge. Instead, he stopped where he was and watched Zhang Liao and his men as well as the Huben Cavalry who were constantly chasing after the Yellow Turban fleeing soldiers.

Outside Dan County, which was separated by a wall, it wasn't long before the ground was littered with corpses and a river of blood.

The soldiers' wailing and screaming were endless.

"Surrender, stop killing."

Liu Bei thought for a moment and said.

It would be a pity to kill all of these Yellow Turban rebels who have committed many crimes and have done notable deeds and surrendered and place them in Yuzhou to do lifelong labor to atone for their sins.

Yuzhou is located in the Central Plains and has many rivers, making it very suitable for large-scale water conservancy construction, building ponds and canals, and being able to irrigate more than 100,000 hectares of fertile farmland. In the future, the Central Plains and Huainan and Huaibei alone will be able to feed many people.

Even if a sudden natural disaster occurs, there is no need to transfer grain from Hebei to the south for disaster relief.

Decades later in history, Deng Ai repaired the Guanghuaiyang and Baichi canals, which diverted rivers from upstream to connect Huai and Ying, and rectified many ponds in Yingchuan County. He dug canals over 300 miles long, irrigated more than 20,000 hectares of farmland, and connected Huainan with Huaibei.

At that time, Deng Ai believed that the water resources in Huainan and Huaibei were more abundant than in Longxi. If a large number of canals were dug to divert water to irrigate the fertile fields, five million hu of millet could be accumulated as military rations in a year. In six or seven years, thirty million hu of grain could be stored in the Huaihe granaries, and it would not take long for the granaries to be full and abundant.

As a result, Zhuge Dan was able to have a continuous supply of military supplies when the two armies confronted each other for such a long time in Shouchun, all thanks to Deng Ai's efforts in water conservancy projects and military farming in Huai area in his early years.

This shows that Huainan is indeed a precious land. It was a waste of resources to put it in Yuan Gonglu's hands. He ruined such a good place and turned it into a tragic situation where people's livelihood was impoverished and people competed for cannibalism.

Liu Bei didn't know what to say. He looked back at Jiujiang County in the south and thought to himself, "Yuan Gonglu, please wait patiently for a while. I will go to Huainan to find you after I have wiped out the Yellow Turban bandits who attacked Pei State. Don't run away like Cao Mengde."

At this time, shouts of surrender were heard one after another on the battlefield, as well as the continuous "clang..." sound of spears being thrown away. The Yellow Turbans were killed and completely gave up resistance. In fact, they had wanted to surrender a long time ago, but the Han army did not ask them to surrender, so they did not dare to put down their weapons and stand still. Who knew whether they would be tied up with ropes or stabbed in the head? They could only run around to avoid the pursuit of the cavalry, and survive first by outrunning their comrades.

The soldiers who came from the Yellow Turbans were not as good as the well-armored Han army in fighting, but when it came to long-distance running endurance, they were not bragging. If the Qingzhou army had not launched a surprise attack on them on horseback, preventing them from receiving any messages from scouts, if they had heard the news earlier, they would have been able to run ten miles away by now.

In the eyes of the Yellow Turban bandits, it was normal that they could not defeat the Han army, but if they could not outrun the Han army on foot, then they deserved to die.

They fled at such a speed that they threw away their armor and weapons. Unless the Han army's infantry also gave chase, there was no hope of catching up.

What they didn't expect was that in the battle of Le'an that year, Liu Xuande had used infantry to fight against infantry, which was considered fair and honest. But now he was cheating and using his cavalry on four legs to fight against two legs.

Aren't you bullying them because they have no horses in their barracks?
The soldiers of the Huben Cavalry did not care about the resentment of the Yellow Turban surrendered soldiers. Whether fighting on foot or on horseback, the Huben soldiers were not afraid of these bandits.

It's just that the envoy has ordered them to surrender, otherwise it would be better to just kill them all and save some food for later.

Hundreds of knights dismounted to get ropes, stepped on broken limbs and fresh blood, and approached the surrendered Yellow Turban soldiers step by step with murderous looks on their faces.

The surrendered soldiers who had bowed their heads to the ground were extremely panicked. The resentment they had previously felt instantly disappeared without a trace. Their limbs became weak and they kowtowed repeatedly begging for mercy:

"Don't kill me! Don't kill me!!"

"I surrender, don't kill me anymore."

After someone took the lead, the others followed suit and kowtowed to beg for mercy. Facing the Han army clad in full armor, they were so frightened that they stood up straight. Even if their heads were broken and bleeding, they dared not pick up weapons to resist.

Liu Bei no longer paid attention to the surrendered soldiers. He ordered people to go to the foot of Dan County and shout, asking the county magistrate and the county magistrate to open the city gate and come out to report all the major and minor events that had occurred in Dan County since the invasion of the Yellow Turban bandits.

Ask them to count the destroyed farmland, verify the number of civilians who died tragically, and the losses of the local nobles.

He opened the treasury and allocated money and grain to support the lonely, widowed, elderly and young people in their homes, and sent county officials to assist the military officials in finding out the most heinous criminals among the Yellow Turban bandits, and beheaded them and hung them outside the county to warn their enemies.

The county magistrate and the county magistrate left the city one after another and saw the seal of the Prime Minister of Pei State of Lord Xuande and the remains of Liu Shijun with blood all over his body and his head and feet separated.

The two men trembled and bowed, saying, "Sir, the Yellow Turban bandits were so angry after failing to capture Dan County that they killed almost all the nobles and relatives nearby, and then sent their troops to plunder the villages in Zhi County, which is even farther away.

The head of the noble family who entered the city first was shot to death with the county lieutenant by crossbows while supervising the battle of his troops on the city wall. Now more than half of his troops and county soldiers have been killed or injured. If we want to provide compensation, I am afraid that the taxes and grain collected by Dan County will not be enough. "

Liu Bei listened carefully and nodded, thinking that one county might not be enough to provide relief to so many people.

So he sent military officials to count the specific amount of money and grain in the county government treasury to prevent fraud.

Liu Bei turned his head and looked toward the Yellow Turban camp stationed on the steeper slope to the west. Zhang Liao was still leading his troops in a fierce battle.

Huang Shao has attacked many wealthy families' manors and looted so many people these days, seizing a huge amount of wealth. He and his followers would not have time to carry the wealth when they fled, so they must have left it in the military camp.

"After Wenyuan destroys this camp, maybe he can alleviate Dan County's financial and physical shortages?"

Liu Bei pondered.

(End of this chapter)