Wait, please don't call me Emperor Zhaolie

Chapter 25: Fighting a Way Out
After walking out of the tent, Guan Hai put the trembling woman down.

He gathered the other person's clothes and said in a deep voice, "Follow me first."

Seeing the other person's fear and wanting to retreat.

Guan Hai couldn't help but reach out and touch his thick beard, knowing that the woman might be worried that she had fallen into a wolf's den after hearing his words.

He sneered and said disdainfully: "Don't worry, I'm not interested in the few pounds of meat on your body. If I hadn't had a grudge against that thief, I wouldn't have planned to save you at all."

"I like new wives who are raising children the most. I like them when they are fresh and tender. I don't want to look at old and ugly women like you any more."

The woman's eyes suddenly lit up, and she hurriedly said that she had a daughter who was still in the man's army, and that she was pretty and beautiful. She was willing to give her and her child, both big and small, to the commander.

Guan Hai's hands froze and his voice was choked.

After a slight pause, he glared at her and said, "Get lost!"

I just saved your life and now you're repaying me with evil, making me your husband, son-in-law, and father all at the same time, right?

The woman wanted to beg Guan Hai to rescue her daughter.

Guan Hai immediately waved his hand and refused: "I will save you only this once, and there will never be a second time."

He didn't want to cause internal conflicts in the Yellow Turban Army just for a few women at this time.

Let’s just forget it this time and pretend that I really couldn’t bear to watch it.

I saw the woman's eyes were gloomy.

Guan Hai consoled him by saying, "I don't know where you came from, and why you gave yourself to that thief and suffered humiliation."

"But if you, the nobles, hadn't been constantly encroaching on the people's fertile land, we wouldn't have risen up in rebellion."

"It was not us who rose up and caused the chaos, but the moment you seized all the farmland and grain, the people were forced to live, and that was when the chaos began."

"Do the nobles and aristocrats in the world really lack a few hectares of land? Even if they had a little more compassion, why would it have come to this? Since I, Guan Hai, started the rebellion, I have fought against the unjust and punished the powerful. Wherever I go, I have a clear conscience."

"I saved you because you are a woman, so I felt compassion for you. But how many powerful people would have sympathy for the people who can't survive and have to sell their wives and daughters? They will only become more aggressive, occupying the land and taking the opportunity to rape other people's wives and daughters."

The woman was stunned.

Thinking about the destruction of my family, I felt extremely sad.

She never cared about the family's farmland. When she heard about people selling their wives and daughters, she would only sigh that the world was becoming increasingly difficult. She never thought that one day the common people would break into her house and seek revenge.

The woman couldn't help but fall to the ground and cry loudly.

She had been trying hard to hold back her tears these past few days. She was not even allowed to cry in front of the evil villain. She could only secretly wipe her tears after he fell asleep.

Guan Hai stood aside and sighed quietly, waiting for the woman to finish crying, then waved his hand and sent someone to send her to the rear camp with her relatives for settlement.

Looking at the thin figure walking unsteadily with a hunched back.

The sympathy in his eyes gradually faded away. It was too much like the scene where common people endured hunger and sold their wives and daughters at low prices to be slaves in manors.

Guan Hai shook his head. The woman was pitiful, but the people who were forced to be separated from their wives and children were equally pitiful.

Several generals who followed out also seemed touched.

Of course, they also took in some wives and girls, but that was understandable.

People always have desires. If one can resist taking action when seeing a beautiful and fair-skinned woman from a wealthy family after being in the army for a long time, then he is a saint. Or he must have been stabbed two or three inches in the abdomen in a fight to remain indifferent.

Not to mention them, even the nobles and the emperor would want to take a beautiful woman as a concubine or a noble lady when they saw her, wouldn't they?

From the beginning of the uprising, several leaders had already realized that in this world the strong take everything, while the weak will have nothing.

Having said that, there are still some basic bottom lines, and one still retains a trace of the original intention to follow the Great Sage Master and rise up in rebellion, and will not vent his desires like the two-stroke Hu Qushuai.

Although the bottom line is almost worn out in the troubled times, I still recall the deafening words shouted by the great sage teacher: "The blue sky is dead, the yellow sky should be established, the year is Jiazi, and the world is auspicious!"

It seemed like a long, long time had passed...

Guan Hai turned to several generals and said, "Let's go, everyone, let's go to my camp and discuss in detail."

……

"Because the lake is surrounded by mountains, it is not easily affected by the wind, and there are few waves on the lake surface. It is always flat like a mirror, reflecting the mountains. It looks like it is suspended in the mirror, so it is named 'Earth Mirror'."

"People within a hundred miles of the lake depend on it for survival."

The clerk who had fled to the Han army and was familiar with the terrain of Li County pointed to the map to find the exact location and direction and said. Liu Bei nodded slightly.

According to information from scouts, the Yellow Turban Army chose to set up its main camp twenty miles south of nearby Li County.

After several days of rapid march, they were almost approaching Li County. Liu Bei ordered the entire army to slow down and conserve their strength, and ordered the soldiers to wipe their swords, weapons, bows, crossbows and arrows.

Under the guidance of a guide who is familiar with the local area, they will go around to the rear along a remote path, and then raid the Yellow Turban camp at daybreak tomorrow.

only……

Liu Bei looked up at the dark clouds that had not been blown away by the wind for several days and were getting increasingly darker.

Unexpectedly, the sky got darker as we got closer to the north.

I thought to myself, "I hope it doesn't rain tonight, otherwise I'll be in trouble tomorrow."

After a heavy rain, the ground is slippery and difficult to walk on, so the effectiveness of an attack will be greatly reduced.

If they did not attack, even if the soldiers had tents to shelter them in the mountains and forests, they would easily get wet and it would be difficult to make a fire.

If we stay half a day longer, the possibility of our march being exposed will increase.

Liu Bei's face darkened. He had expected the Yellow Turban Army to be careless and unprepared, but he had not expected the weather to change so suddenly within a few days.

Before setting off, he asked many local people near Li County, and they all said that it rarely rained at this time of year in previous years, so he felt at ease to go forward.

Unexpectedly, on the third day after the departure, the weather became gloomy and windy, but the army was already on the road and the arrows were on the string and had to be fired.

A flash of worry passed through his mind, but Liu Bei did not show it. Instead, he continued to chat and laugh with the soldiers as usual.

Seeing this, the others gradually put aside their worries.

If he, as the commander, gets nervous, the whole army will be in panic.

When it was a little dark, Liu Bei personally led scouts to climb the mountain to investigate and look out at the Yellow Turban Army camp. He saw that the camp stretched for dozens of miles but was not much separated and was connected in many places.

Moreover, in the northwest farther away, not only are there more people, but it is also more chaotic. There is not even a decent wall, and there are women washing clothes and children playing.

Lian and Zhao Yun rode their horses to dozens of places and did not return to the camp until dark.

Liu Bei thought about the other side's army playing around and being on guard in many places, and he felt relieved. Even if it rained tonight, he would surely gain something if he attacked again tomorrow.

After returning to the camp, Zhang Fei, Han Mu and others immediately surrounded them.

Liu Bei pointed out the enemy's weaknesses and said, "In the middle of the night, cut logs to reduce the noise as much as possible, and make heavy weapons tomorrow."

Liu Bei ordered: "Tomorrow at daybreak, Lieutenant Han will lead some of his auxiliary soldiers to attack the western camp first, and Lieutenant Zhao will lead another part to attack the northern camp."

"Yide was the first to reach the camp, followed closely behind."

"The soldiers are divided into two groups. One group will wait for the auxiliary soldiers to attack effectively, and then quickly fill the gap. The other group will go forward to meet the enemy if they receive reinforcements."

"The scouts will be armed with bows and crossbows, and will move around and shoot anyone who dares to wave flags or beat drums!"

"Zilong, lead the waiting cavalry and put on armor. Do not move for now. If there is an attack by cavalry, we will wait for the flag to send an order."

"The Iron Armored Battalion is the center of the army. Do not move it for now. Wait for the enemy to change its mind."

"I will personally supervise this battle. Anyone who dares not advance will be killed immediately! We will defeat the enemy tomorrow. Liu Bei is willing to work with his comrades to achieve this great victory!"

"You can't drink during a war. After we win, I will personally pour wine for you all to drink for three days."

"Yes!" All the generals and captains responded in unison after receiving the military order.

After the generals returned to the camp to prepare, Liu Bei also asked his personal guards to wipe his armor and weapons for him.

He placed the Armored Battalion in the center of the army for fear of other unexpected events.

If there really is a gap, he will have to lead hundreds of soldiers to fill it, but it will be a fight of life and death.

Liu Bei was able to gain his current status by leading his soldiers and comrades, fighting with swords and spears, and stepping on the corpses of enemies. He has long been accustomed to the blood on the blade.

If you want to turn chaos into order, you must first kill your way out.

Liu Bei looked up and thought, "Let's see tonight...who will God be on the side of?"

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