Chapter 62: The Yellow Turbans of Qingzhou Rise Again

  Li Yu walked behind Wang Tu, looking at Cao Cao: "As a man, I admire your broad-mindedness; as a subordinate, I absolutely cannot tolerate such things from happening... In the future, I don't know how many concubines you will have, what if someone else imitates you? This kind of precedent cannot be set... So... this is letting you off easy!"

  Li Yu suddenly pulled out a knife from behind his back, "Whoosh!...... Whoosh!......", "Ah——!", a shrill cry rang out......

  Li Yu, with a bloody face, pointed his knife at Lai Ying'er and shouted sternly: "I don't kill women, so I'll spare your life, boss. Get out! From now on, don't appear in this northern land... If you're found by me..."

  "Good heavens! You...!", Cao Cao was shocked and speechless, pointing at Wang Tu's corpse, not knowing what to say; Lady Ding and Lady Bian also covered their mouths with their hands, still in shock.

  "Ah!", Li Yu threw away the knife, wiped the blood stains on his body with his clothes, and bowed: "Sorry, Master! I will never let this happen again!" Then he turned around and walked away. As he was leaving, Li Yu said: "Miss, when that child is born, don't forget to tell him it was me who killed Wang Tu..."

  The oriole's daughter fell to the ground in grief and wailed, but when she heard Li Yu's words, she lifted her head and revealed a fierce glint in her eyes.

  "Alas!", Cao Cao sighed repeatedly, waving his hand to let off the coming swallow, and when leaving, he also sent her a sum of money, hoping she could live a better life... What a good man!

  Because of this, Cao Cao trusted Li Yu even more. He thought that Li Yu was already a member of his own family who would think for himself completely. However, Lady Ding was worried about Li Yu's dark side because he mentioned two kinds of punishment and the killing of Wang Tu, fearing that her sister would suffer in the future.

  Later, Cao Cao also asked Li Yu, and Li Yu laughed and said that those were just intimidation, he had never used them.

  In short, the matter was settled under Li Yu's swift and decisive handling.

  After a period of silence, Cao Cao regained his normal state of mind and began to continue working. At this time, it was already late March. The weather conditions at that time were just beginning to get busy in late May, and there were still two months to go.

  Li Yu's initial excuse for deceiving others has become a reality... The Yellow Turbans of Qingzhou have risen again.

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  The Qingzhou Yellow Turbans had been entrenched in the four regions of Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yanzhou and Jizhou for seven or eight years. However, with the drastic change in the current situation, Yuan Shao swallowed up the land of Jizhou, and under the pressure of his powerful military force, the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans could only retreat back to Qingzhou. On their way southward, they encountered the fierce and warlike Dan Yang army of Xuzhou, blocking their path.

  As the busy farming season is approaching, if there is no safe place to settle down, these one million people will starve; The eastern half of Qingzhou is under the protection of Kong Rong, the governor of Beihai. To say that Kong Rong is great in literature! But when it comes to military strategy and fighting wars, he is a total waste.

  Qingzhou Yellow Turban's large account...

  "Heavenly Master, what should we do next?" a burly giant with a face as dark as the bottom of a pot asked in a deep and sonorous voice. He was one of the leaders of this band of Yellow Turbans, named Guan Hai, also a brave and fierce general;

  When they heard the words of Guan Hai, everyone looked at the leader on the main seat, and their leader was actually a woman! She didn't look very old, no more than twenty years old. This girl's name was Zhang Ning, she was Zhang Jiao's daughter, and also the leader of Qingzhou Yellow Turbans. It was because of her planning that the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans were able to grow stronger and stronger, and survive in the cracks.

  From the age of fifteen, she used her intelligence and political acumen to control these culturally unsophisticated peasant uprising armies, for seven years now, it's hard not to admire this clever and wise woman as a rare talent in the world!

  She dressed herself up like a man, with a tie, black clothes and flat chest, but her sparkling autumn water-like eyes still betrayed her deeply.

  Zhang Ning silently looked at the map in front of him: "The western part of Qingzhou is no longer enough for us, Yanzhou is a place with many hills and mountains, not suitable for farming; we can attack the eastern part of Qingzhou controlled by Kong Rong..."

  In fact, she didn't want to attack Kong Rong, this old guy was really not good at military strategy, but he had a status! The 20th generation descendant of Confucius! A great scholar of the time! A famous scholar known throughout the world! This is a beehive, if you mess with him, someone will come out to help him.

  "What if... we can't take it down?", another person asked, this man looked quite elegant, he was originally a declining scholar who followed the crowd to rebel for food, and is currently one of the more capable people among the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans. Who is this person? Zhang Rao!

  "Our battle line is too long, and the strategy of farming and fighting at the same time has its inevitable weaknesses, such as slow marching speed and many people to carry... If we encounter a clever person, he will grasp our weakness at a glance. What if... we can't take Beihai... We'll go north, contact the Black Mountain Army, join forces and attack Yuan Shao, and take down the rich Hebei Province!" Zhang Ning said after careful consideration.

  "We are all vagrants, poor farmers, and proletarians. We are hungry every day, and we struggle to survive every day. We have decided not to accept the slavery of reality anymore. We have decided to resist all exploitation! Everything for survival!" Zhang Ning muttered in a low voice, but his words seemed to have great penetration power, making everyone hear clearly;

  Yes! People who have food to eat will not rebel, only those who can't even get enough to eat will risk their lives and be labeled as counter-revolutionaries in order to fight for that tiny bit of food.

  "General Hei!", Zhang Ning suddenly stood up and shouted; "Yes!"

  "I order you to lead an army of 10,000! As the vanguard! Attack Beihai!", "Yes!"

  "Present!" ; "Here!"

  "I order you to lead 200,000 troops to attack Linzi! After breaking through Linzi, the whole army will not stop and join me in the central army, and take down Beihai in one fell swoop!" "Yes!"

  Zhang Ning seemed to have thought of something: "What about the Governor of Qingzhou, Qiao He?", by rights, this governor should be their greatest opponent, unfortunately he was only mentioned now;

  "We haven't made a move this year, and he's already fled. I heard he's gone to join Yuan Shao!" said Guan Hai with a smirk.

  What a timid mouse, with tens of thousands of well-trained soldiers, yet without even fighting one battle or seeing the shadow of the enemy, he fled in fear after hearing some rumors, I don't know how to evaluate him.

  At least Kong Rong, this scholar, had the guts to resist the Yellow Turbans! Not to mention whether they could win or lose, at least that's what it meant.

  But this governor is really speechless, I don't know how the Han Dynasty selected officials, such a person can actually become the governor of a state, and the entire Han Dynasty has only thirteen states plus one Sili Department, which means that each governor and state shepherd are the sole rulers of a state, and such a person can actually be included in this list of fourteen people, it's really unthinkable!

  In fact, he bought this governorship, which was quite popular during the reign of Emperor Ling of Han.