Chapter 168 Taishan Thief, Yellow Turban and Dorgon

On the school grounds in Xiacheng, Hua Mulan and Zang Ba played against each other, each holding a long spear, and snowflakes fell in the air.

Chu Tian watched the battle in person, with Li Guang and Xue Rengui standing behind him. In addition, there is the Taishan Thief Sun Guan.

Zang Ba always thought that he was attacked by Hua Mulan, so he became a prisoner. If it goes head-to-head, he can't possibly lose.

"Fight as quickly as possible."

"Yes!"

Hua Mulan took the lead in launching the offensive, the red spear trembled, and a bright red smeared in the snow, stabbing Zang Ba!

So fast!

Zang Ba gritted his teeth and tried to pick out Mulan's spear.

The two men's marksmanship was fast and fast, the pliable barrel made a whistling sound, and the long spear danced like a pear blossom in Hua Mulan's hands, stabbing, stabbing, stinging, attacking, entangling, and circling, Zang Ba could only passively defend.

"Zang Ba's force is not high, why is the lord so insistent on wanting him to surrender?"

Li Guang always carried a big bow on his back. He didn't understand Chu Tian's insistence on getting the allegiance of Zang Ba and Sun Guan.

Chu Tian rolled his eyes, now Li Guang's force has reached 95, but not all generals have the same high force as Li Guang.

With Li Guang's force, it is normal to look down on Zang Ba.

But the more good will be, the better naturally.

The extra generals can guard the city and serve as the prefect or county magistrate.

Chu Tian lost his mind for a while, Hua Mulan had already defeated Zang Ba.

Chutian's order for her was to fight quickly, so this time Hua Mulan didn't give face to face like Mi Fang and defeated Zang Ba directly.

Zang Ba's red ying spear was taken away, his face was pale, but he did not expect to face Hua Mulan and still lose the battle.

"Now, are you convinced?"

For the third time, Chutian persuaded Zang Ba to surrender.

Liu Bei paid three visits to the thatched cottage, and asked Zhuge Liang. Chutian invited the Taishan thief and used it three times.

This time, Zang Ba finally understood the gap and was dejected: "It's because I'm not strong enough, so I lost the battle. I, Zang Ba, are willing to surrender."

Sun Guan saw that Zang Ba was finally willing to surrender to Chutian, so he hurriedly visited the worship together: "Sun Guan is willing to follow the elder brother and be loyal to the lord."

Chu Tian secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Finally won two Taishan thief generals.

Zang Ba and Sun Guan contributed a lot to Cao Cao's annihilation of Yuan Shao in Hebei, and they could be used as officials to prefects and governors.

【Name】: Zang Ba

[Talent]: Diamond-level generals (infantry)

[Level]: 80

[Identity]: Inspector of Xuzhou of Wei State, General of Zhendong

【Loyalty】: 75

[Commander]: 78 [Army]: 80 [Intelligence]: 52 [Politics]: 61 [Charm]: 80

【Aspect】: chivalrous

[Characteristic 1]: Fighting hard (A-level characteristics, troop attack power +7%, morale +7%, the morale of the attacked enemy troops -7%)

[Characteristic 2]: Raid (level B feature, infantry forced marching speed +7%)

[Special Arms]: Taishan Bandit (ranging from 1st to 3rd rank)

Zang Ba's ability is quite satisfactory, and the special unit Taishan Bandit must not be recruited. It is better to give Zang Ba commander of ordinary infantry.

There were many generals of cavalry and archers under Chu Tian's command, but the infantry with the largest number lacked generals.

At present, the only general of the infantry department is Zhou Yafu.

No matter how powerful Zhou Yafu was, he was only one person. Chu Tian ordered him to be stationed in Yangdu County, so there would be no other infantry generals to use.

Zang Ba just fills this vacancy.

Then there is Sun Guan, who is one grade worse than Zang Ba.

【Name】: Sun Guan

[Talent]: Platinum-level generals (infantry)

[Level]: 80

[Identity]: Inspector of Xuzhou of Wei State, General Zhenwei

【Loyalty】: 75

[Commander]: 72 [Force]: 75 [Intelligence]: 51 [Politics]: 39 [Charm]: 56

【Aspect】: chivalrous

[Characteristic 1]: Vanguard (level B trait, when serving as a vanguard, the unit's attack and defense +2, morale +5%)

[Characteristic 2]: Give up your life (B-level characteristics, when attacking the enemy line, own attack power +7, the enemy's morale drop speed +5%)

[Special Arms]: Taishan Bandit

Unexpectedly, the initial loyalty of the two Taishan thieves is relatively high, while Sun Guan's loyalty depends on Zang Ba.

For the two Taishan thieves, Chutian did not intend to use them directly, but to observe them for a while.

So Chu Tian arranged to go on: "You follow Xue Rengui to crusade the bandits during this time."

Zang Ba and Sun Guan heard what Chu Tian had arranged for them, and knew that it was a nomination.

If you want to integrate into Xiacheng's forces, you must first make contributions to Xiacheng.

Fighting hard can get Chutian's approval.

"My elder brother, Sun Kang, has 20,000 soldiers and horses. He is stationed in Dong'an County. The last general can go alone and persuade his elder brother to come and surrender."

Sun Guan offered Chutian a tantalizing suggestion at this time.

If Zang Ba and Sun Guan could recruit and surrender other Taishan thieves, then half of Langya's counties would fall into Chutian's hands.

You don't need a single soldier to conquer the thieves of Mount Tai...

This suggestion is very tempting.

Not without drawbacks, though.

Fang Xuanling said to Chu Tian in a low voice: "Master, please listen to your subordinates. If the Taishan bandit is defeated, the Taishan bandit will be at the mercy of the master. If they surrender directly, they are willing to give up the soldiers and horses they control and the county seat. If you don't want to, you won't lose your tail, it's just surrender in name, and it will leave trouble after all."

Chu Tian took it seriously.

In history, Cao Cao subdued Zang Ba and then persuaded all Taishan bandits to surrender.

However, the Taishan thieves only surrendered in name, and still entrenched in Qingzhou and Xuzhou.

Later, there were two incidents, the Changxi Rebellion and the Taishan Bandit Rebellion after Cao Cao's death.

What Chutian wants is to completely control all counties and counties, and let all Taishan thieves act according to his instructions, not just make them submit in name.

After making up his mind, Chu Tian said to Sun Guan, "Can you persuade Sun Kang to disband all the Taishan thieves, hand over all the territory, and come to Xiacheng alone?"

"This... the end general is not sure about it..."

Sun Guan did not expect that Chu Tian's appetite was so great, and he directly asked Sun Kang to hand over all his troops and power.

Even if he is Sun Kang's younger brother, it is hard to say that he can let his brother come to surrender.

This group of Taishan thief leaders occupy the county seat, which is equivalent to a local emperor. It is too difficult for them to suddenly give up this position.

Zang Ba and Sun Guan lost their territory, so they were willing to surrender.

"If you are not sure, then there is no need to try, and soon my army will wipe them out. At that time, life and death are unpredictable."

Chu Tian let go of his harsh words, which shocked Zang Ba and Sun Guan.

Chutian's sphere of influence is in the area of ​​Langya Country, and there is no room for two tigers in one mountain, not to mention that there is more than one tiger in Langya Country.

There are also Sun Kang, Yin Li, Wu Dun, and the Langya ministers Xiao Jian and Wu Sangui from Ju County. In addition, there are hundreds of lords.

"The two of you can ask someone to send them a letter. If they are willing to give up their troops and horses, hand over the county seat to the officials of Xiacheng, and move to Xiacheng from now on, and still have the opportunity to reuse it in the future. Otherwise, if they break the city, they will die."

"Yes……"

Zang Ba and Sun Guan found themselves following a ruthless man.

Chu Tian did not accept nominal submission, and only the bandits who handed over their territory and troops were considered good subordinates.

"No way, Zang Ba and Sun Guan have been subdued? Could it be that the entire Taishan thief force will be subsumed?"

"It must be the lords of Qingzhou, Xuzhou or Yanzhou who subdued them."

"Don't guess, it must be that I just want to farm well, that is, he captured Langya City, where Zang Ba is entrenched."

The names of Zang Ba and Sun Guan appeared on the list of heroes in the Eastern Han District, which shocked many lords, especially the lords of Langya Kingdom, who knew what this meant.

Zang Ba and Sun Guan were captured by Chutian, and most likely it was Chutian who surrendered them.

All of a sudden, Chutian was at the forefront of the limelight again. Like the Baibo Army and the Black Mountain Army, the Taishan thieves were well-known pirate forces in the Eastern Han region. Any force that could be conquered would replace them and become a more powerful force.

"Why did Tao Qian, the prefect of Xuzhou, not send troops to attack Xiacheng at that time? If he sent troops, he could reach it in half a month along the Yi River. I was his subordinate at that time."

Zang Ba was puzzled.

When fighting against the Chutian Alliance, Tao Qian, the biggest force in Xuzhou, was indifferent, watching the small forces in the northern part of Xuzhou fight.

Zang Ba was nominally the Cavalry Commander named by Tao Qian.

However, Zang Ba and Sun Guan, who had just integrated into Xiacheng, quickly understood what was going on—he saw the people from the Mi family carrying a few wooden boxes and went directly to the lord's mansion to visit Chutian.

Zang Ba understood why Tao Qian did not send troops. The Xuzhou families seemed to support Chutian to replace him as the separatist force stationed in Langya.

"I defeated Zhang Kai's 100,000 Yellow Turban Army for Tao Qian, and guarded the northern gate for him. Do these noble families think that I can't resist the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army? Has the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army developed to an unstoppable level? Xiang Kong of Beihai What the hell is Rong doing? Even the Yellow Turbans can't defeat it, so what's the use of reading those bullshit sage books!"

Zang Ba muttered.

Although he is the leader of the Taishan thief, there are some differences.

Zang Ba and others helped Tao Qian suppress the Yellow Turban Army, and they were nominally Tao Qian's subordinates.

Now he is forced to become Chutian's subordinate.

Chu Tian was in the lord's mansion at this time, and when he heard that the Mi family had sent people to come, he immediately regarded him as a guest.

The Mi family has repeatedly funded, and is the big financier of Chutian. Chu Tian even had a good friendship with Mi Fang.

"I heard that Captain Kaiyang has been besieged by various foreign lords recently, and his troops and horses have been exhausted. The master sent his servants to send money and horses. Please accept it with a smile. This is the list."

The steward of the Mi family presented a list.

Sure enough, it is funding again. For this kind of funding, the more the better.

"30,000 taels of silver, 20,000 units of grain, a thousand horses..."

Chu Tian flipped through the list, and his expression gradually became a little wrong.

Compared with the previous funding from the Mi family, it is not too little, but too much!

Although he said that the more funding, the better, but Chutian also knew that with such a large amount of funding, Chutian suspected that the Mi family wanted to fund him to wage war.

It's just that the Mi family is a business family, why do they want Chutian to start a war?

"Your Majesty has a lot of things to support the army, and I don't know what to ask for?"

Although he knew that the Mi family had something to ask for, the Mi family had given too much, and it was impossible to return it, and even if he was killed, he couldn't return it.

The steward of the Mi family saw that Chu Tian was on the way, so he said, "This batch of money, grain and war horses is actually a little bit of thought from various families."

"Oh? Does each family have something to ask for?"

Chu Tian was unmoved, but was extremely surprised in his heart.

It is good that Tao Qian is the prefect of Xuzhou, but he is from Yangzhou, and it is the local aristocratic family who controls Xuzhou.

It's just that these aristocratic families, through the Mi family, want him to do what?

"Do you know that the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou has been violent recently, and hundreds of thousands of troops have swept all over Qingzhou?"

"true."

Chu Tian had the impression that he had heard Xia Xia Liang mention this, but he didn't care much at the time.

First of all, this is the Yellow Turban Army operating in Qingzhou, and the lords and princes of Qingzhou tried to suppress it.

Secondly, Chutian could not wait for the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army to come to Langya and let him capture a group of laborers.

Chu Tian thought of Guan Hai, the general of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army. Kong Rong, the minister of the North Sea, had a reputation and was repeatedly defeated by the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army: "Could it be that the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army wants to go south to Xuzhou?"

The steward of the Mi family replied, "There is indeed such a thing."

When Chu Tian arrived here, he already understood the intentions of the Mi family and other Xuzhou families who were related to the Mi family.

Zhang Kai, the general of the Xuzhou Yellow Turban Army, was defeated by Zang Ba, a thief from Mount Tai, and was later killed by Hua Mulan, so the Xuzhou Yellow Turban Army became unpopular.

In contrast, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army next door became more and more violent because of the incompetence of Kong Rong and other prefects, which had affected the safety of Xuzhou.

In order to protect themselves, the family in Xuzhou raised a batch of military supplies and wanted Chutian to help them guard the door instead of Zang Ba.

What puzzled Chu Tian was that Kong Rong had already recruited Taishi Ci, but he was defeated by the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, and even the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army was about to hit Xuzhou.

The Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army attacked Xuzhou, and the first county to be affected would be Langya.

Even if Chutian didn't want to help the family guard the gate, he still had to stop the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army's southward momentum for the sake of his own territory.

Therefore, Chutian accepted this subsidy with a clear conscience.

"Master Chief Inspector has 100,000 soldiers under his command, and there are even fierce generals Cao Bao and Mi Fang. Even if the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army goes south, it is not enough to be afraid of."

Chu Tian thought that with the help of the aristocratic family, Tao Qian was still able to stop the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army.

"No. The Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army is invincible, destroying the dead, I am afraid that Qingzhou is out of control."

The Mi family steward looked worried.

Chutian knew that the current Eastern Han district was very chaotic.

Don't look at the peaceful situation in Langya country where he is located, that is because he can suppress the various lords.

In fact, the rebels of Ma Teng and Han Sui in Xiliang were very powerful. The leader of Hanzhong advocated the Yellow Turban uprising, which swept through Hanzhong. The Wuhuan tribe rebellion in Youzhou had alerted the two princes, Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei, and Sun Jian, the prefect of Changsha in the south, was suppressing the local area. The peasant uprising...

Now the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans are also making a lot of noise.

The steward of the Mi family continued: "Qu Shuai Guanhai of the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou is brave and good in battle, and there is also a general who leads the cavalry. Be careful, my lord."

"Anyone else?"

Chutian had never heard of any other powerful figures besides Guan Hai in the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army.

"Exactly, that person's name is Dorgon, and I don't know where it came from."

"How could it be him……"

Chu Tian had a headache, it must be some lord who recruited Dorgon.

Dorgon, the regent of the Qing Dynasty, defeated the Ming army and Chuang Wang Li Zicheng. He has an exclusive arm of the Eight Banners Army (Zhengbaiqi), but he is a more ruthless character than Wu Sangui.