They spend 3 days in Changshe recuperating their body and minds when suddenly an envoy from the Imperial Court arrived bringing them an urgent message from The Emperor in particular for Lie Fan
Zhu Jun immediately order all generals to enter the command tent to receive the Imperil Edict, whoever it is for everyone has to symbolically receive the edict when the envoy reads it
Lie Fan who was training his halberd and having mock duels with his Huang Zhong trying to get more strength goes to the command tent immediately accompanied by his bodyguards, Sun Qian, and Xu Kai as the edict is addressed to him
When he arrived at the command tent, all battalion generals were already in there with Zhu Jun at the front with the Imperial Envoy who by the looks of it the envoy is a Eunuch which makes him raise his vigilance
Zhu Jun: "Little Lie you're here come and meet Eunuch Zuo Feng, he brings Imperial Edict from the Emperor addressed to you"
Lie Fan: "Vice General Lie Fan meets Eunuch Zuo Feng! Thank you for coming to the frontline to bring Your Majesty Edict!"
Zuo Feng: "It is my duty as The Emperor's servant to bring the edict, Vice General Lie now receive your edict!"
Everyone in the tent except for Zuo Feng himself takes a knee before the edict to receive or hear what the Emperor has ordered them to do
Zuo Feng: "Due to bad influence and not obeying Imperial Decree, General Lu Zhi's position as General of his army has been revoked and to replace his position as the General is Vice General Lie Fan of Zhu Jun Army with his merits and excellent service in the battle to resume Lu Zhi position as the General Of Lu Zhi's Army now Lie Fan's Army"
Everyone in there was shocked by the news as Lu Zhi is one of the pioneers that started this campaign and this edict shocked all of them except Lie Fan who already know what will happen after hearing Zuo Feng's name but doesn't expect him was appointed to replace Lu Zhi
Lie Fan: "Lie Fan receives His Majesty's orders and will immediately head towards General Lu Zhi's Army position to resume his post!"
Zuo Feng: "Your Majesty has high expectations for General Lie, only 17 years old this year and has already contributed numerous merits this is one of the rewards Your Majesty bestowed upon General Lie"
Lie Fan: "It's all thanks to Your Majesty Heaven bestowed Luck that I was able to contribute numerous merits to the Imperial Throne"
Zuo Feng: "Hahaha! I will convey what you said back to the Emperor, now may I have a private conversation with General Lie please everyone leave"
Hearing what Zuo Feng said, everyone begin to leave still in shock from the announcement they hear. Zhu Jun was skeptical about the whole situation but decided to obey first and talk with Lie Fan after this
Zuo Feng: "Ahem now that everyone has left the tent, General Lie Fan doesn't want to give me something for the edict that I have brought and announced?"
Lie Fan knew that Zuo Feng will want him to give him something as a 'gift' which was a bribe for him to keep his mouth closed but he doesn't expect this fast
Lie Fan: "Of Course! I only have 50.000 taels in banknotes in me right now, I hope Eumuch Zuo is satisfied with this gift?"
Zuo Feng: "Satisfied pretty satisfied, I thank Young General Lie for his generosity. Then I will take my leave now to report back to His Majesty"
Lie Fan: "Yes, Of Course, may Eunuch Zuo's trip back to Luoyang is safe"
Zuo Femg left the tent and after that Zhu Jun alongside Lie Fan's retinue enter the tent and wanted to discuss what just happened with him
Zhu Jun: "What the hell just happened?! Old Lu will never disobey the Emperor this is lies!"
Lie Fan: "Calm down Uncle Zhu, I think Uncle Lu never disobeys and be a bad influence on the army but it's because the eunuchs don't get bribes from Uncle Lu so they slandered him in front of Your Majesty"
Zhu Jun: "Gosh damn it those bastards! How can they still think of enriching themselves while we are South here fighting a rebellion that threatened to overthrow the Empire?!"
Sun Qian: " General Zhu this is already the routine of the 10 attendants, they always try to take benefits in every situation, and I will not be surprised if some of them even collaborate with The Yellow Turbans"
Zhu Jun: "Do you think so? The 10 attendants can be wiped out if that's true and we can find evidence to prove that"
Lie Fan: "Even though it's true I doubt that Your Majesty will kill all of them, especially Zhang Rang but we can try to search for the evidence, even if it's not true we still need to destroy the Yellow turbans anyway"
Zhu Jun: "Then Little Lie please take care of Old Lu, that stubborn old man can't change his ways, and use him as your strategist in your Army"
Lie Fan: "Of Course Uncle Zhu, please rest assured that Uncle Lu will be safe and happy"
Zhu Jun is assured of what Lie Fan said and say his congratulations on his promotion, telling him don't get arrogant on the battlefield and that he can leave whenever Lie Fan is ready allowing him also to bring his retinues and original soldiers
Lie Fan takes his leave to prepare his generals and soldiers, he planned to depart as soon as possible to minimize bad things happening in Lu Zhi's Army just lost the General in charge
Lie Fan spends 2 days preparing his army and saying goodbyes to the other officers of Zhu Jun's Army as no matter what grievances they had with each other had been replaced by respect with their time spent in battle
After saying his goodbyes and his army is ready, Lie Fan began to ride out while in deep thought that if the event that happened still the same as history then when Zuo Feng slandered Lu Zhi causing him to lose command when Lu Zhi managed to defeat Zhang Jiao's army and right now besieged Zhang Jiao's army in Guangzhong County
The Number of Yellow Turbans is massive compared to Lu Zhi's army, so he ordered Sun Qian to make a letter to the Imperial Court requesting reinforcements as they have to face the main army of the Yellow Turbans as well him requesting Lu Zhi's appointment as his strategist rather than he was sensed back to Luoyang
Xu Kai was entrusted with the letter and alongside Oriole members that were guarding them against shadows they were sent toward Luoyang, while Lie Fan and his army of 5.400 men with a composition of 2.400 men from Huai'An that he brought 360 died in battle and 3.000 from the Prisoners army that Zhu Jun doesn't want to have so he told Lie Fan to brought it with him alongside his retinue toward Guangzhong County Ji Province
Due to the distance, they spend time in the road about 20 to 24 days before they reached Guangzhong County in Ji Province, Lie Fan use a vision map to see where is the exact location of Lu Zhi's Army now and he saw that they were stationed outside of Guangzhong City
Lie Fan led his soldiers March there and on the way there they meet a small yellow turbans group numbering between 100-300 men where Lie Fan send his soldiers to defeat them quickly and efficiently
When he arrived at Lu Zhi's Army, he saw that morale is low and there was a minimum of activity in the camp while the defenses are lazy with almost no patrol in sight and some empty watch towers
Lie Fan's arrival caused some commotion as they see that Lu Zhi's replacement is the Young General from Zhu Jun's army and many of the officers feel indignant thinking this is a humiliation for Lu Zhi who was a senior general to be succeeded by a young general they don't even know
Lu Zhi who was ordered to wait for his replacement heard the commotion and walk out of his tent then shocked as Lie Fan was appointed as his replacement
Lu Zhi: "Little Lie! So you were the one who will replace the old me, that's good at least my replacement is trustworthy and competent enough"
Lie Fan: "Uncle Lu is jesting, I have sent letters to the Emperor for Uncle Lu to stay here as my strategist rather than be sent back to Luoyang"
Lu Zhi: "Haha good good! Little Lie is full of surprises now your mind is as cunning as a fox and knows how to interact with these snakes in the Court"
Lie Fan: "It's nothing Uncle Lu, why don't we enter the command tent and Uncle Lu can brief me about how is the condition right now with the battle against the Yellow Turbans"
Lu Zhi agrees with what Lie Fan said and invites him alongside his retinue to enter the command tent so he can inform them of the situation right now
When all of them entered the command tent, Lu Zhi inform them how he managed to defeat looks like the army of the Yellow Turbans Leader named Zhang Jiao in Julu Commandery then follow them to here Guangzhong County and managed to besiege him but because of Zuo Feng he was stripped from his post halting the advance of his army
Sun Qian: "Master does the Yellow Turbans know that you're stripped from your post causing you to stop the advance of your army? If so then we need to hurry and prepare as if they fight back our army will lose in a morale battle"
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Name: Lie Fan
Title: Yellow Turbans Nemesis
Age: 17 Years Old
Level: 11
Next Level: 412.000
Renown: 75
Cultivation: Art Of War (level 7)
SP: 181.700
•ATTRIBUTE POINTS
STR: 320
VIT: 105
AGI: 102
INT: 104
CHR: 88
WIS: 74
Will: 45
ATR Points: 20
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Sun Qian: "Master does the Yellow Turbans know that you're stripped from your post causing you to stop the advance of your army? If so then we need to hurry and prepare as if they fight back our army will lose in a morale battle"
Lu Zhi: "The Yellow Turbans don't know what happened as I have ordered this news to be sealed and no one can talk about it until the replacement arrives"
Sun Qian: "Okay that's good them, My Lord we can begin to reorganize the army and mount up the attack while waiting for reinforcement"
Lu Zhi: "Reinforcement? What reinforcement?"
Sun Qian: "Master, General Lie Fan's letters that were sent are also asking for reinforcements to be sent here as we know that Zhang Jiao has a big army even though it's scattered right now"
Lu Zhi was happy that Lie Fan requested reinforcements as he know that Zhang Jiao's Army is big but consisted of peasants so that's why he can defeat him and cornered Zhang Jiao in Guangzhong
Lie Fan, Sun Quan, Lu Zhi, and Lie Fan retinue alongside Lu Zhi's now Lie Fan's Army officers discuss their strategies and tactics to be used against the Yellow Turbans
While in Lie Fan's Camp, they were discussing tactics for how to defeat the Yellow Turbans in Zhang Jiao's Camp all officers of the Yellow Turbans including Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang the Vice General of the Yellow Turbans army are gathering also
Zhang Bao: "Big Brother our number is massive! Why don't we just send everything we got to attack the Han Army getting us out of his encirclement!"
Zhang Liang: "Third brother you have to be patient, the numbers of our army are nothing compared to the trained and equipped Han Army if we send everything then our casualties will be too many! Right Big Brother?"
Zhang Jiao: "What Second Brother just said is right Third Brother we need to be patient, and from what I see the Han army morale is low so we need just wait for another few days we can break out from here and join our brothers in the south"
All the Yellow Turbans officers including the Zhang Brothers cheered hearing what Zhang Jiao said even though all of them don't know including Zhang Jiao that their brothers in the south have been defeated while the Han Army morale going to rise with Lie Fan has taken command and Lu Zhi acting as his strategist alongside Sun Qian
Lie Fan checked the number of his army using Sun Tzu and was shown their numbers were 34.847 not including his original soldiers where in total their number will be 40.247 Men
Sun Qian and Lu Zhi tell him to fortify their position by building defenses to hold Yellow Turbans' advances or attack while waiting for reinforcement to come to help them
Lie Fan sends his generals such as Huang Zhong, Chao Bo, Chao Bai, and Zang Ba to train their army battalion to raise morale and keep their physique ready for action
Three days passed by while both sides still doing nothing, Xu Kai finally arrived back at Liw Fan's side and inform him that their reinforcement will come led by a man named Dong Zhuo with a numbered around 40.000 from the main army
Lie Fan: "Dong Zhuo? Do they don't have another general they can send except him?"
Xu Kai: "From what I have learned Big Brother, Dong Zhuo bribe the eunuchs to choose him to become the reinforcement general"
Lie Fan: "Damn it! Dong Zhuo is a good general but he is too arrogant and tyrannical while greedy at the same time, he doesn't listen well to orders or suggestions from others except for his people"
Sun Qian: "We can't do anything now that The Emperor has ordered Dong Zhuo, now my lord should order the attack first on the Yellow Turbans distracting them and giving them no time to rest"
Lie Fan: "Then let's do this, every morning afternoon, and night sound the drum and also let the cavalry run around outside making them alert every time until they don't care about the drum sound even though we will attack them at the time"
Lu Zhi: "Little Lie tactics are pretty good, exhausting their soldiers mentally and physically let's do that first then after 3 days we attack them"
Lie Fan called for Zang Ba and ordered him to prepare all the cavalries explaining the purpose of his tactics waiting for the drum signal from the Camp, Zang Ba obey Lie Fan's order and walk out of the tent preparing the cavalries
The Yellow Turban were relaxing their guard after not seeing activities for so long so when they heard the drum sound and cavalries charging outside the camp the Yellow Turbans soldier who was outside the city using the tents was terrified when they heard those sounds
All of the Yellow Turbans get their weapons and began assuming defensive positions to counter Lie Fan's cavalries, but when they saw the cavalries only circling the city including the camp then entering back to the Han Army Camp they were confused but with the drum still sounding they keep guard for 3 hours until finally they go back to their activities
Zhang Jiao was informed of the activity but told his officers to ignore it and continue waiting for the Han Army morale to hit an all-time low, but he doesn't expect this to happen after the morning afternoon the night exhausting his soldiers
This continues for 4 days, and Lie Fan's army spirit and morale are high while the Yellow Turbans soldiers were exhausted
Sun Qian: "My Lord I think this is the time for the real attack, we send our cavalries to attack and burn their tents causing real damage while reducing the Yellow Turban numbers"
Lie Fan: "Then let's do that! Zang Ba lead your cavalries and began to attack them for real bring some wine and oils and sprinkle them everywhere in their camp while Huang Zhong with Chao Bo lead his archer unit to fire their fire arrows to light them up, Chao Bai lead the infantry to kill the Yellow Turban who ran out from their camp area make a line to let them come to you"
With Lie Fan's order, everyone began to move out while Lie Fan stayed in the camp to observe everything from afar as this battle is not important enough for him to participate at the same time reducing the chance of him getting injured
The Yellow Turban who hear the drum and cavalries hoof sound ignored them as they thought it will be just like before but soon they regret as 5.000 cavalries rush through the camps killing yellow turbans while showering oils and wines toward their tents and other facilities with for began to sprout
With the screams and sound of weapons clashing, Zhang Jiao and his high-ranking officers were alerted but it was too late when they wanted to lead their defenses there was a big fire covering their army camp outside the city
Zhang Jiao: "Hurry and open the gate, tell our brothers to come inside and tell the others to get some water to put out the fire damn it!"
Zhang Jiao's orders were done and even though the gate was opened while the water was brought outside to put the fire out but it was too late as they lost too many soldiers and the camp outside that was made as the first line of defense was burned to the ground
Lie Fan: "Our tactic achieves massive success! Now we have to wait for our reinforcements!"
Sun Qian: "My Lord, why don't we begin preparing the siege equipment the cavalry always patrol the vicinity of the city to ensure none of the Yellow Turban will leave the city while waiting for our reinforcements"
Lie Fan: "Okay then we do as Master Sun Qian said, Uncle Lu do you have anything to add to Master Sun Qian's suggestion?"
Lu Zhi: "Maybe why don't we put some trap in the field to counter the Yellow Turban retaliation?"
Lie Fan: "A great Idea Uncle Lu! Chao Bai order the infantry to make many pit traps in the field with sharp wooden spears of some leftover weapons you found on the former Yellow Turbans camp!"
Chao Bai: "Yes My Lord!"
Sun Qian's and Lu Zhi's suggestion was implemented while they are waiting for Dong Zhuo to bring the reinforcement they needed to storm off the Yellow Turbans
When they waited for 4 days suddenly 10.000 Yellow Turbans left the city led by a Yellow Turban officer targeting the siege equipment that was being built
Thanks to Lu Zhi's suggestion to make traps, The Yellow Turbans' advance was halted and Lie Fan orders the Archer to shoot at them while the infantry made a shield wall waiting for the Yellow Turban's arrival and the cavalry will do a pincer attack from both of Yellow Turbans flank
The Yellow Turban's attack was finally put down and the surviving members were captured as prisoners' army with the promise of freedom and meeting their families back
Zhang Jiao seeing the attack to destroy the siege equipment failed to feel exhausted with anger and suddenly he vomited some blood causing everyone around him to panic as if he dies so does their movement
Lie Fan and his army continued to wait for Dong Zhuo and after another 4 days they finally saw from afar 40.000 men marching towards them with the Han flag and another flag with the word Dong fluttering thanks to the wind blowing the flag
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Name: Lie Fan
Title: Yellow Turbans Nemesis
Age: 17 Years Old
Level: 11
Next Level: 412.000
Renown: 75
Cultivation: Art Of War (level 7)
SP: 181.700
•ATTRIBUTE POINTS
STR: 320 -> 325
VIT: 105
AGI: 102
INT: 104 -> 114
CHR: 88
WIS: 74
Will: 45 -> 50
ATR Points: 20 -> 0
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