Chapter 132

"Congratulations to the Lord for achieving the position of General of the Household for Suppressing Rebels, you are only one step away from being appointed as a general and enfeoffed as a marquis!"

Huang Zhong, Dian Wei, Xi Zhicai, and others gathered around one after another, happily congratulating Su Xuan.

"Haha! Same joy! Same joy!"

Su Xuan, upon hearing this, couldn't help but laugh out loud, and immediately promoted the three of them.

Huang Zhong and Dian Wei became Military Commanders, and Xi Zhicai became an Attendant to the General of the Household.

Their positions rose one after another.

3 days later,

Su Xuan separated his troops from Huangfu Song and went alone to kill the Yellow Turban remnants in Dong'e, Dong Commandery.

At this time, Dong'e city had already been besieged by thousands of Yellow Turban remnants and was in imminent danger.

"Kill!!!"

Watching the Yellow Turban army continuously launching attacks on the city.

Xue Fang, the head of a scholar-official family in Dong'e, looked at Cheng Yu, who was directing the county soldiers to defend the city, with a worried face and said: "Zhongde, this is not a way to go! The city will be broken sooner or later. You are brilliant, do you have a strategy to repel the enemy?"

If not, he would have to run away.

After all, compared to his life, some family property could also be abandoned; he was not someone who would defend to the death.

Anyway, the County Magistrate and County Commandant had already run away...

If it weren't for Cheng Yu saying he was confident in defending the city, and he was reluctant to part with his family property, he would have run away long ago.

Cheng Yu, upon hearing this, shook his head bitterly: "Being able to defend until now is already the result of the full support of the Lord and the people in the city;"

"Our army's strength is insufficient, what can we do?"

A clever woman cannot cook without rice!

He only had 1,200 soldiers at this time.

Most of them were temporarily recruited people and refugees from the city.

There was basically no armor, and weapons were also scarce.

Even the stones and logs were temporarily prepared by dismantling some houses in the city.

Being able to hold on until now was already due to his extraordinary ability.

This is also the reason why Xue Fang is so polite to him now.

If it were in the past, the scholar-official magnates and even officials of Dong'e, led by Xue Fang, would have sneered at Cheng Yu, thinking he was just a person who fished for fame.

Of course, it's no wonder others would think so.

Because Cheng Yu was indeed such a person!

Cheng Yu was originally named Cheng Li. In order to become famous, to cultivate a reputation, and to be appreciated, he once said that he had a dream, dreaming that he was holding the sun with both hands on the top of Mount Tai, and was a talent to assist the world.

So he changed his name to Cheng Yu.

In fact, there are many similar means for scholar-officials to become famous and cultivate a reputation.

For example, lying on ice to seek carp, Kong Rong yielding pears... and so on.

These are all routine operations for scholar-official families to make their descendants famous and cultivate a reputation.

After all, if you want to be recommended as a filial and incorrupt official, and want to be appreciated and appointed by the imperial court, even if your background is deep, you still have to polish your surface work, right?

Cheng Yu's idea was good, but unfortunately, it was bad because he didn't have a good background.

No one to praise and echo, to help him become famous, this means naturally fell into the lower ranks and only added to the laughter.

However, I believe that as long as he can defend this Dong'e city this time, I estimate that no one in Dong'e or even Dong Commandery will mock or despise him in the future.

"Sigh!"

Xue Fang, upon hearing this, let out a long sigh and said unwillingly: "Could it be that we can only abandon the city and flee?"

After working hard for so many days, is it finally inevitable to lose money to avoid disaster?

"Not necessarily!"

Cheng Yu, upon hearing this, quickly shook his head and advised: "A few days ago, there was vague news from Yingchuan and Chen Liu, saying that Generals Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, with the cooperation of a general named Su Xuan, broke the Changshe Yellow Turban army and beheaded the rebel leader Bo Cai;"

"The main force of the Yanzhou Yellow Turbans has been wiped out, and General Huangfu Song and General Su Xuan have already marched into Chen Liu for several days;"

"I think they should have already marched into Dong Commandery by now. We only need to hold on for another two or three days, and reinforcements will surely arrive;"

"At that time, the Yellow Turban army will surely be suppressed. I ask the Lord to persist and support for a while longer."

If he gives up halfway now, wouldn't all his efforts these days be in vain?

After that, how could he become famous?

No matter what, he cannot miss this opportunity.

"Really?"

Xue Fang's eyes lit up upon hearing this, and hope was rekindled in his heart.

"True..."

Cheng Yu nodded affirmatively and was about to say something.

"Boom rumble!"

Suddenly, he heard the earth-shaking sound of horse hooves coming from the far west.

His expression was startled, and he suddenly looked up into the distance.

I saw rolling dust being kicked up on the horizon in the distance.

Soon, countless black dots appeared, and the troops were rapidly enlarging.

After a dozen breaths, Cheng Yu finally saw clearly that it was a force of iron cavalry. Looking at the flags and equipment, although they were still a bit unclear, they must be government troops.

Cheng Yu was overjoyed and said to Xue Fang: "Lord! They are here! The government reinforcements are here! We are saved!"

"Is it really the government army?"

Xue Fang was also slightly stunned, and asked with a face full of suspicion mixed with joy.

"It must be!"

Cheng Yu had already completely seen the attire and flags of the cavalry at this time.

The "Su" flag at the head could not be seen more clearly.

"It seems that the one coming is indeed General Su Xuan, who broke the Changshe Yellow Turban army and beheaded Bo Cai!"

"Haha! Finally, I have made it through!"

Cheng Yu couldn't help but laugh as he spoke.

At the same time, he began to review the information about this Su Xuan.

For someone like Su Xuan who rose abruptly, shone brilliantly in the Yellow Turban rebellion, and had limitless prospects, Cheng Yu naturally would not fail to pay attention.

"Perhaps, this is my opportunity, this is the wise lord I have been waiting for? Can I defect to him?"

Cheng Yu thought to himself.

It's just, would he be willing to accept and reuse me?

Cheng Yu felt he should be.

After all, Su Xuan's rise was also recent.

His background is not deep, and his biggest backer is just his father, the County Magistrate of Deng County.

The Nanyang Su family had also long since declined.

Although Su Xuan has now become a General of the Household, he must lack civil and military assistants under his command.

And people from large scholar-official families probably look down on him and cannot possibly recognize him as their lord at this time.

Only people like Cheng Yu, who are from humble families or scholar-official families, would be willing.

"General Su Xuan? Is it that General Su Xuan?"

"Great! Now Dong'e is saved, and I don't have to run away!"

Xue Fang didn't know that Cheng Yu was already prepared to defect to Su Xuan. Hearing Cheng Yu's words, he also looked into the distance and was overjoyed.

"This is... government cavalry?"

The Yellow Turban army naturally heard the earth-shaking sound of the iron cavalry advancing behind them, and immediately turned back to look;

After the iron cavalry got closer and they saw clearly.

The leader of this group of Yellow Turban soldiers was scared out of his wits and immediately ordered a retreat: "Retreat, retreat quickly!! It's Su Xuan! It's Su Xuan's Black Armored Army! Run!!!"

Immediately, this person took the lead and began to run away.

"Kill!!"

It's a pity that in the time it took to delay, Su Xuan led the Black Armored Army and had already approached, less than a thousand meters from the city.

With the blessing of the military formation's power, it only took a few breaths to kill their way in front of this group of Yellow Turban soldiers.