Niu Xiaoman led two cavalrymen and chased them in the direction of the South Route Army.

As time went on, his heart gradually sank.

It was already 60 miles away. According to the speed they used when they were the Yellow Turban Army, even the regular Yellow Turban Army would not be able to go this far in one morning.

Did the army really find the main force of the Yellow Turban Army?

After another 10 miles, Niu Xiaoman finally found the Yellow Turban Army's camp.

After showing the token, Niu Xiaoman was successfully taken into the handsome tent.

But the person who received him was a general he had never seen before.

Niu Xiaoman knelt down and reported: "I would like to request an interview with Xu Shuai."

The general said dissatisfiedly: "I am the commander-in-chief of our camp, Senior Senior. What do you have to report?"

Niu Xiaoman said "Ah", then realized his impoliteness, and said quickly: "The officers and soldiers have been chasing us along the road. Please make a decision as soon as possible."

The senior high school student said in surprise: "I'm really chasing you. Xu Shuai is really paying attention to what's going on." After saying that, his face was full of admiration.

Niu Xiaoman couldn't help but ask: "What did Xu Shuai say?"

As a senior in high school, he had no airs. He told the truth: "Xu Shuai told me that no matter what method I use, I must arrive at Niubi Mountain to camp at noon. He said that the officers and soldiers would chase me very closely. Only when I reached Niubi Mountain

, and then you will be safe if you follow the plan." After speaking, he sighed: "I didn't expect that Xu Shuai got everything right."

In fact, how did he know that if he hadn't run to Beef Brisket Mountain with all his might, the officers and soldiers might not have chased him.

When Niu Xiaoman heard that he acted according to the plan, he quickly asked: "What plan did Xu Shuai leave behind?"

Gao Si slapped his forehead and said: "By the way, I almost forgot." He ignored Niu Xiaoman and walked out of the tent directly, shouting: "Brothers, quickly clear all the carriages, ox carts and donkey carts in the camp."

Bring them all out. The army is coming. Do you bastards want to be slaughtered by the army? Hurry up and run away." Niu Xiaoman had an expectant look on his face, but after hearing what he said, he almost fell to the ground.

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It turns out that in order to increase the speed of the senior high school army, Xu Kang allocated all the vehicles and livestock that could be mobilized to increase the marching speed to his use. This way, even if he ran away, he would be much faster.

As the order was given, the neighing of horses, the braying of donkeys, the mooing of cattle, the yelling of men, the cries of women and children, the clash of weapons, and the grunt of wheels all started to sound, and the whole camp was in chaos.

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Huangfu Song's army stopped before they could reach Niubi Mountain because they met the people of Father City who were rushing back. From the people, they also learned that they had been fooled this time.

On the side of Beef Brisket Mountain, there is a suspected army composed of common people. There are only 2,000 yellow scarf thieves, and now they have disappeared without a trace.

Counselor Yan Zhong said: "Sir, should we turn around and go back to pursue him?"

Huangfu Song's face was as gloomy as water. After a while, he said: "No more pursuit. Let's go to Runan first. I heard that Wang Yun, the governor of Yuzhou, has led an army there. Let's go and join them."

When Cao Cao, who was in the rear of the army, heard the news, he couldn't help but look at each other and smile bitterly with Xi Zhicai.

Cao Cao said: "I didn't expect to be tricked by this Xu Kang again."

Xi Zhicai sighed and said: "The Yellow Turban bandits have millions of soldiers, and there are hidden dragons and crouching tigers inside. They should not be underestimated. It seems that there will be more wars to fight in the future."

At Fengxi Slope, Xu Kang had learned from the scouts' reports that the officers and soldiers had been fooled, and the camp suddenly burst into cheers.

Although Xu Kang was delighted, he still did not dare to neglect. Although the army temporarily took care of Huangfu Song's entanglement, they would still deal with him after they arrived in Runan.

When the time comes, it won't be possible to just walk away.

"The army is speeding up and must enter Runan before dark. Order the scouts to go into Runan first to collect information."

All the soldiers agreed with a loud voice, and there was no longer any doubt.

The administrative seat of Runan is Pingyu City.

Runan is a more prosperous county than Yingchuan. It has 37 county towns and more than one million people.

After Peng Tuo defeated Zhao Qian, he originally wanted to capture Pingyu in one go. Unexpectedly, Wang Yun, the governor of Yuzhou, led tens of thousands of county soldiers and arrived in time.

Not only did he block Peng Tuo's attack, but he also fought and defeated Peng Tuo in succession, causing Peng Tuo to lose his helmet and armor. Now he was driven back to Zhaoling by the army.

After hearing the news, Xu Kang couldn't help but sigh. It had only been a few days, but the situation had rapidly deteriorated to the point it is now.

Xu Kang knew that Huangfu Song's army was behind him. If he didn't concentrate his forces in time to destroy Wang Yun's troops, there would be no chance of victory when the officers and soldiers converged.

Therefore, he ordered his army to rush outside Zhaoling City at full speed, contacted Peng Tuo, and told him his plan to join forces with him to deal with Wang Yun outside Zhaoling City.

Peng Tuo hated Wang Yun very much, and at the same time he was also very afraid of him.

The 70,000-strong army huddled in Zhaoling City, never daring to go out to fight.

When Xu Kang said that the imperial army was coming, he didn't want to be beaten passively, so he agreed to Xu Kang's plan.

This was a head-on confrontation, and Xu Kang had no plans to use any tricks.

He issued a letter of war to the officers and soldiers in an upright and upright manner.

Wang Yun, nicknamed Zi Shi, came from a family of officials in Bingzhou. He practiced literature and martial arts since he was a child. When he was young, he was praised by his contemporaries as "Thousands of miles a day, Wang Zuo's talent." He was an all-rounder who could do both literature and martial arts.

After seeing the letter of challenge between Peng Tuo and Xu Kang, Wang Yun sneered and said: "A bunch of rabble dares to challenge my majestic master."

When he was engaged in Shang Shuang, Kong Rong admonished him: "My lord, you must not go to war. The yellow turban thieves are cunning and untrustworthy. If they challenge clearly, there must be deceit in them."

Wang Yun nodded and said: "What you two gentlemen said is reasonable, but the Yellow Turban Thief has already issued a challenge. If I don't fight, won't I lose the reputation of our army? What do you generals think?"

Wang Yun was already tired of these two celebrities around him. Although these two people were famous, they only knew how to write and write, and did not understand military strategy at all.

It's just that the Wang family has always been on good terms with the Central Plains aristocratic families, and it's inconvenient for him to offend these people. He can only force a smile and use the soldiers to achieve the purpose of restricting these people.

Fortunately, these people were a little bookish and could not see Wang Yun's intentions. They only thought that Wang Yun was a good general who respected the opinions of his subordinates.

Sure enough, after several victories, the morale of the generals was high and they asked for battle one after another.

Wang Yun did not wait to discuss what he was doing, and immediately ordered his soldiers to prepare for battle.

On the second day, the two armies faced each other. Seeing the formations set up by both sides, Xu Kang's heart suddenly went cold.

The official army Wang Yun's side consisted of 30,000 people in 6 square formations. Each square formation was neat and orderly. At first glance, it looked like a well-equipped and well-trained strong army.

Xu Kang and Peng Tuo of the Yellow Turban Army did not join forces. After all, the two men joined forces in a hurry, and the soldiers on both sides did not understand it. A hasty joining forces would probably only restrict each other and make it difficult to exert their full strength.

Xu Kang's 30,000-strong army was divided into three square formations, which were barely orderly.

But Peng Tuo's 70,000 men had no formation at all.

The 70,000-strong army covered the sky and covered the mountains and plains, with banners fluttering and gongs and drums roaring. Their momentum was astonishing, but in such a situation, their combat effectiveness was very doubtful.

But now that the matter has come to this, we can't tell Wang Yun that we are not in good condition today and we can fight again tomorrow when we are in good position.

Now we can only hope that with the absolute superiority of troops, we can suppress the army.

What Xu Kang didn't expect was that the Yellow Turban Army, which had an absolute advantage in strength, had not yet indicated that the army had begun to change its formation.

Wang Yun has clearly seen the situation on the battlefield.

The 70,000 Yellow Turban Army in the east is the Runan Army of Bocai, and the 30,000 Yellow Turban Army in the north is the guest army of Yingchuan.

After comparing the formations and morale of both sides, Wang Yun decisively ordered: "Zhao Qian listens to the order and orders you to lead 10,000 people to block Bocai's attack no matter what."

"Yes." Although Zhao Qian hesitated, he still agreed.

"The others will follow me to attack the Yingchuan bandit army."

The two phalanxes began to move, and finally turned into a long line of defense facing Bocai's army, while the other four phalanxes rushed towards Xu Kang at full speed.

Among them, the left and right square formations faced Xu Kang's left and right wing camps respectively.

The two square formations in the middle went straight towards the Chinese army camp where Xu Kang was located.

Xu Kang understood that Wang Yun wanted to eat him first, and then deal with Peng Tuo with all his strength.

At the same time, I felt fierce in my heart, thinking to myself, I can't defeat Huangfu Song's 20,000 Central Army, so am I still afraid of your 20,000 county soldiers?

So without waiting for the officers and soldiers to rush forward, Xu Kang directly ordered the army to rush back.

As soon as the two armies came into contact, the gap between the two sides was immediately apparent.

In terms of individual combat capabilities, the Yellow Turban Army is comparable to the County Soldiers, but the County Soldiers have equipment advantages that the Yellow Turban Army does not have.

Especially armor, even the worst officers and soldiers have a leather armor for protection. These armors were made by Wang Yun after several months of hard work by gathering the strength of the entire Yuzhou.

The officers and soldiers wearing these armors can almost ignore the attacks of the Yellow Turban Army and directly fight with their lives.

Because they knew that the Yellow Turban Army could not defeat them.

Most of the Yellow Turban Army's swords could not harm these officers and soldiers unless they struck twice at the same place.

Faced with such a gap, the Yellow Turban Army almost collapsed at the first touch.

Seeing this situation, Xu Kang immediately ordered Guan Hai's three thousand troops to attack.

Guan Hai's army was heavily equipped by Xu Kang, and it was basically one man per man. Faced with the strong offensive of the official army, they rushed forward without hesitation.

Especially Guan Hai, he was as fierce as a tiger going down the mountain. Wherever he passed, there was no one who could join him.

Seeing that the situation in the Chinese army had finally stabilized, Xu Kang had time to take a look at the battle situation on both wings.

Although the number of the left and right wings was twice that of the official army, they still fought very hard. If Xu Kang's handsome flag had not moved at all, they would have run away long ago, but the losses continued to increase.

The war had completely reached a stalemate, and Wang Yun and Xu Kang's armies were unable to do anything to the other for the time being.
To be continued...