On the other side, Dong Zhuo, who was forcibly pulled out by the generals, returned to his tent angrily.

Li Ru, who was studying according to the case, was very surprised when he saw it and asked hurriedly: "What happened?"

Dong Zhuo said angrily: "It's not like Lu Zhi, an old man who is cowardly, let go of such a good opportunity and refuses to let our army attack."

Li Ru narrowed his eyes and shot out a cold light, like a wolf that had found its prey, "Are we the only one?"

Dong Zhuo shook his head and said: "No, it's all the troops."

Li Ru said in relief: "Then what's there to be angry about?"

"What's there to be angry about?" Dong Zhuo slapped Li Ru's desk with both palms and growled: "Who can be willing to miss such a good opportunity in vain? This is the best opportunity to annihilate Taiping Dao in one fell swoop."

Li Ru stretched and yawned. He was not moved by Dong Zhuo's anger at all, and said softly: "Well, father-in-law, how much do you know about Taiping Road and Zhang Jiao? You must know that only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you win every battle."

Dong Zhuo frowned and said solemnly: "We just came back from the west, how do we know what they are doing in the east?"

Li Ru smiled and said: "Yes, our understanding of Taiping Dao is far inferior to that of the people in the court. I think Lu Zhi is first-rate in employing people and soldiers. He is not what his father-in-law said. He must have his reasons for doing this.

We just have to do our part to beat the enemy first."

Dong Zhuo thought for a while, nodded and said, "What you said makes sense."

Zhang Jiao sat and waited in the city for several days, but what he waited for was the news that the officers and soldiers built an earthen city overnight with deep ditches and high forts.

After hearing the news, Zhang Jiao didn't speak for a long time, and finally he could only walk towards the city wall silently with a sullen face. Behind him, the generals who had been listening to the orders followed closely without saying a word. Among them was Xu Kang.

During the three days of entanglement and fighting, Xu Kang did not sit on the sidelines and watch the fight between tigers and tigers. Instead, he took the initiative to take on the task of covering the army by relying on the mobility of the cavalry. He not only took the initiative to attack the army's camp, but also repeatedly harassed their pursuers.

He killed several times and made several pursuits by the army fail, finally attracting Zhang Jiao's attention.

Zhang Jiao came to the west gate, climbed up to the city wall, and looked far away from the wall.

In April, the earth was still relatively humid. As soon as the sun came out, a light mist rose in the air. In this mist, everyone saw the blurry city rising from the ground in the distance like a mirage.

The city was built overnight. This is both a myth and a reality. The shock in the hearts of the Taiping generals could not be greater.

Zhang Jiao took a deep breath and calmed his breathing.

In this ambush battle at Guangzong, Zhang Jiao was caught off guard by Lu Zhi's last-minute stoppage. He had always thought that he had just lost to the natural dangers of the Yellow River, but now he began to face his opponent.

Zhang Jue did not feel that there was any mistake in his strategy of luring the enemy. If he had to find a mistake, it was because he had miscalculated Lu Zhi's influence in the army.

Lu Zhi is a civilian official. It stands to reason that he cannot integrate the troops temporarily recruited from different places in such a short period of time. You must know that the current government and army not only have the powerful Central Army, but also a variety of miscellaneous troops. Every time

Actions will inevitably involve the interests of all parties.

But Lu Zhi did it with less than a month of hard work.

After all, he had been a minister for nearly 10 years. Lu Zhi's upright image was not only known to both the government and the public, but was even used in the army, making a bunch of unruly generals obedient.

"It seems that Lu Zhi's ability should not be underestimated." There was a hint of desolation in Zhang Jiao's words, so that no one below dared to answer him.

Zhang Jiao thought to himself: "However, although he escaped by chance this time, the overall situation has not changed. We still have an army of 150,000, and Lu Zhi only has tens of thousands of officers and soldiers after all. Although he is equipped with

Shangguan's army has the advantage, but we have the advantage in terms of numbers. Now Lu Zhi no longer has the natural barrier of the Yellow River, let alone the cover of the Luoyang Navy. This war has just begun." When the people below heard this, they were immediately stunned.

Get excited again.

For Zhang Jiao, this war may have just begun, but for Xu Kang, it is already over. Zhang Jiao still returns to the old path of besieging Guangzong, so it is very likely that he will never be able to leave Guangzong again.

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However, there was no need for him and his 1,000 brothers to accompany him to the funeral. Xu Kang felt that the time had come and thought about the appropriate wording to see how he could get Zhang Jiao to let him go to Qingzhou.

Hearing Zhang Jiao talk about the current contrast between strengths and weaknesses, he couldn't help but said: "General Tiangong is right. Now the main force of the imperial army has been restrained by us in Jizhou. Only the Taiping armies in Jingzhou, Yuzhou, Yanzhou and Qingzhou are here."

If we can work together and launch an attack together, we will be able to conquer the world soon."

Xu Kang was standing behind everyone. As soon as he said this, Zhang Jiao couldn't help but look at him in surprise. After all, no one had dared to answer his words like this for a long time. He nodded and said, "That's very good. You go on."

Xu Kang immediately squeezed through the crowd and came to Zhang Jiao. He paused, organized his thoughts and said: "Now Zhang Mancheng Qushuai in Jingzhou is attacking Nanyang. I believe the result will be announced soon. Buji Qushuai in Yanzhou

We have already taken control of Dongjun, which is the channel for us to communicate with the states in Henan, so we cannot move lightly. Only Bocai Qushuai from Yuzhou is left, and his subordinates are afraid that he will be alone. But as long as the Taiping Army from Qingzhou can come and join forces, the chance of victory will be

That’s big.”

Zhang Jue suddenly fell silent. He sighed and said, "Qingzhou may not be able to send reinforcements now."

Xu Kang pretended to be surprised and said: "How is that possible? Qingzhou is the key development area of ​​our Taiping Dao. It has hundreds of thousands of believers and can recruit at least 100,000 Yellow Turban elite soldiers. It would be a pity to give up like this."

"Although Tang Zhou is treacherous, the believers in Qingzhou still respect General Tiangong very much. They believe that as long as General Tiangong sends an envoy, he will be able to recruit a large number of elite Yellow Turban soldiers. Even if they cannot recruit them all, there will be ten or twenty thousand.

It’s a big help.”

Zhang Jue was greatly moved when he heard this, and said, "Then who is willing to serve as an envoy and go to Qingzhou to recruit an army?"

There was another moment of silence. Although everyone knew that Xu Kang was right, since the rebellion of Tang and Zhou Dynasty, no one could say for sure what the Qingzhou Yellow Turban meant. Going forward rashly might just be a meat bun beating a dog.

Gone never to come back.

Zhang Liang cupped his fists and said, "Brother, I am willing to go in person and will definitely bring all the troops in Qingzhou."

Xu Kangzheng was secretly happy that no one answered. Unexpectedly, Zhang Liang suddenly intervened. He was shocked and immediately clasped his fists and said: "There is no need for General Digong to take action in this kind of thing. All of my subordinates are cavalry, and now I can't do it here."

If there is no big deal, I would rather go to Qingzhou and borrow tens of thousands of powerful troops to defeat the tyrants together."

Zhang Jiao naturally refused to let his own brother go to Qingzhou to do those dangerous things, but he was a little worried about letting Xu Kang go, so he remained silent for a while.

Xu Kang glanced at Zhang Jiao's face secretly, and then said: "However, I have a small name and a shallow position, so I may not be able to win people's trust. I also hope that General Tiangong can provide a yellow scarf warrior to help."

Zhang Jiao's eyes lit up, he nodded and said, "Who is willing to go with him?"

At this time, Yin Li happened to be an attendant next to Zhang Jiao. Hearing this, he immediately stepped forward and said, "My subordinate is willing to accompany General Xu to Qingzhou to serve General Tiangong."

Zhang Jue did not doubt that he was there. After all, the contact between the two low-level officials was not something he could detect. He said: "It's appropriate for you to go. After all, General Xu came all the way from Youzhou and was not very familiar with the Central Plains, and he was still young."

, you should give him lots of tips along the way."

Yin Li lowered his head and said, "I understand."

Xu Kang cursed in his heart. Damn the old man with a strong nose actually sent a team of yellow scarf warriors to monitor him. But I am afraid he never dreamed that Yin Li was his person. Even if he knew that Yin Li had some connection with him in the past, he would never have imagined that Yin Li had some contact with him.

Yin Li actually abandoned him, a great sage general with an army of 200,000, and took refuge with himself, a small general with only 1,000 troops.

Naturally, Zhang Jiao's token cannot be as simple as a letter. Nowadays, there are many handsome men and women everywhere in Qingzhou, and it is hard to know which one to write to. Fortunately, there are usually tokens in the connection between Taiping Road, so Zhang Jiao took out a square stone

Taught Xu Kang and asked him to use this stone to contact Qingzhou Huangjin.

Xu Kang was overjoyed when he received this token. Although it didn't look like anything on the surface, he believed that as long as it was used properly, it would be able to exert considerable power, so he immediately thanked him.

Xu Kang hurriedly went down to prepare, and left the city to go south that day. The reason was that he was afraid that the army would be late to seal the city. In fact, Xu Kang was afraid that something else would happen and delay his plan.

Xu Kang had 1,000 cavalry when he came out of Youzhou. The continuous fighting on the way south not only did not lose a single horse, but he also gained more than 200 horses.

However, in the battles of the past few days, although the main purpose was to contain and entangle the army, Xu Kang also lost more than a hundred knights and a dozen war horses.

Xu Kang's army now has more than 800 cavalry and more than 1,100 horses.

Yin Li's 1,000 Yellow Turban warriors were relatively complete as they did not directly participate in the battle during the retreat. However, his 1,000 men only had a dozen horses, which could be said to be veritable infantry, so Xu Kang wanted to combine two

The army's idea came to nothing.

However, in order to build a good relationship and win over the hearts of these Yellow Turban warriors, Xu Kang specially selected more than 100 war horses and sent them to Yin Li's army. The Yellow Turban warriors who were already troubled by the lack of war horses were overjoyed and looked at Xu Kang

The Youzhou Army was also much more pleasing to the eye.

More than 1,800 people marched south in a mighty manner, and half of them were cavalry. It was impossible not to attract the attention of the army.

In order to preserve his strength and avoid unnecessary battles, the route Xu Kang chose to go to Qingzhou was basically within the jurisdiction of Taiping Road.
Chapter completed!