Jia Xu sneered and said: "I don't believe that Duke Lei is not worried about the nearly 300,000 troops around him. As long as Huangfu Song and Liu Yu's army moves, Duke Lei will not be able to mobilize too many troops to attack Hanoi County. When the time comes, the Prime Minister will

Leading a large army to support Hanoi County, not to mention defeating the Thunder Lord, but holding Hanoi County will not be a problem."

"Furthermore, Lei Gong is a stable person. He knows that Hanoi County is the confidant of the Han Dynasty. The Prime Minister cannot give up. Huangfu Song cannot give up. Even Liu Yu cannot give up. As long as the Prime Minister resolutely responds to Lei Gong's temptation, he will

Returned."

"Unless he wants to break out a full-scale war with the Han Dynasty, my subordinates feel that Lei Gong's attack on Hanoi County is not to capture Hanoi County, but to contain the Prime Minister and help the Yellow Turban Army in the Central Plains! Lei Gong really wants to expand his territory in order to

With his steady character, he should attack Youzhou, which is beyond the reach of the imperial court!"

Dong Zhuo was explained by Jia Xu in such a way that he finally understood why Lei Gong went south to Hanoi County. There was no need to worry about 300,000 Tengjia troops swarming down and capturing Hanoi County!

Then he led his 60,000-strong army to massively support Hanoi County. At the same time, according to the imperial court's order, he asked Huangfu Song to attack Shangdang County and Taiyuan County occupied by Tengjia Army in Jizhou, and asked Liu Yu of Youzhou to attack Mayi to contain it.

Stay with Thunder Lord’s army!”

Following Dong Zhuo's order, the entire northern army of the Han Dynasty was mobilized! War north of the Yellow River is about to break out!

Jizhou, Zhao State!

After Dong Zhuo's order was issued to Huangfu Song, Huangfu Song used all his 100,000 troops to attack the outposts and camps in Bingzhou with a small force from the Taihang Mountains, thousands of miles away!

"Does Lei Gong want to test Luoyang City's defense?" Lu Zhi looked strange. It was too strange for Lei Gong to attack Hanoi County at this time, and an army of 30,000 was not enough for him to attack Luoyang City!

Huangfu Song said coldly: "No, Lei Gong may want to contain the main force of the imperial court so that the imperial court does not have an army to encircle and suppress the Yellow Turban Army in the Central Plains. Secondly, he wants to see if there is a chance to eliminate Dong Zhuo. For Lei Gong, a split

The big man is the best to him! Dong Zhuo is his enemy after he defeats Yuan Shao."

"He originally thought that the Kwantung Allied Forces were powerful, so he strengthened Dong Zhuo's strength at all costs, and even gave Dong Zhuo 5,000 sets of armor. However, he did not expect that the Kwantung Allied Forces were so unsatisfactory. They had an army of 200,000 but failed to defeat Dong Zhuo. Lei Gong saw Dong Zhuo

Given the opportunity to integrate the Han Dynasty, he has murderous intentions towards Dong Zhuo. If he can kill Dong Zhuo, Lei Gong will definitely do it. Even if he cannot do it, Lei Gong will still want to destroy Dong Zhuo's prestige so that the Han Dynasty will continue to divide!"

"This is why Thunder Lord attacked Hanoi County, and why Brother Wei immediately helped Dong Zhuo, because now only Dong Zhuo can integrate the strength of the entire Han Dynasty to encircle Thunder Lord, and the current Han Dynasty cannot lack Dong Zhuo!"

Lu Zhi was a famous general of his generation. After hearing Huangfu Song's words, he immediately figured out the inside story, and then said with a wry smile: "Shangdang County should not have been so easily thrown to Lei Gong in the first place. Now Lei Gong's troops are pointing directly at Luoyang City.

It’s too passive for us!”

Without Lei Gong's troops from Shangdang County, the distance to Luoyang City was less than 300 miles, and there was no natural danger along the way except for the Yellow River. It can be said that the battle between Dong Zhuo and Yuan Huai dragged the entire Han Dynasty into the most dangerous situation.

"Brother Yizhen, you can't launch a war against Lei Gong from Jizhou. No matter how many fortifications you build in Jizhou, the defense line of thousands of miles is useless. If Lei Gong attacks one point, your defense line will be completely destroyed. And if

If Lei Gong attacks from Youzhou or Hanoi County, your thousands of miles of defense will be in vain, you are too passive!"

Lu Zhi had long discovered the weakness of Huangfu Song's defense line. If Lei Gong detoured to Youzhou or Hanoi County, this defense line would be destroyed!

Huangfusong smiled bitterly and said: "I tried it. Even Ju Yi's most elite shield and sword soldiers can only exchange one to one with Lei Gong's elite. If the exchange ratio of ordinary soldiers in Jizhou immediately becomes three to one,

, take the initiative to attack, even if Jizhou’s 200,000-strong army is destroyed, it will not be able to destroy Lei Gong’s 100,000-strong army! If we rely on the layers of defense in the Taihang Mountains, my 200,000-strong army will be able to fight!"

"Actually, every day I wonder how Lei Gong will hit my line of defense instead of attacking Hanoi County or Youzhou! It's a pity that Lei Gong is not stupid. He keeps using the Yellow Turban Army to consume me, but he doesn't take the initiative to attack Jizhou. Especially

It was when the Kwantung Allied Forces were attacking Dong Ben that it was the best time for him to attack Jizhou. At that time, Brother Wei was preparing to fight with Lei Gong in a fight where both sides would lose, so he did not pay attention to the war between Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shao."

"But Lei Gong was completely unmoved by the chaos in the Central Plains. Yuan Shao and Dong Zhuo fought fiercely, and the Tengjia Army did not dispatch. Instead, they supported the Yellow Turban thieves in the Central Plains. He wanted to completely divide the Han Dynasty. This forbearance was too great.

It’s terrible, it’s impossible to defeat the current Lei Gong without gathering the strength of the entire Han Dynasty!”

Lu Zhi said in surprise: "The Jizhou Army has been trained by you, Yizhen, for two years. Its combat effectiveness is no worse than that of the Northern Army. How can it be possible to achieve such an exchange ratio?"

Huangfusong smiled bitterly and said: "If only the elite soldiers are better, the Jizhou Army still has the strength to fight, but the weapons and equipment gap between the two sides is too big. Apart from a small number of officers in the Jizhou Army equipped with iron armor, the remaining 100,000 soldiers are all leather armor.

Or the captured ceramic armor of the Yellow Turban Thief.

Lei Gong has an iron-making blast furnace that can smelt hundreds of thousands of kilograms of iron at a time. Now the Tengjia Army has more than 100,000 soldiers wearing iron armor, and the number is increasing by 30,000 every year. It is these armors that make

It takes three Jizhou Army soldiers to defeat one of Lei Gong’s soldiers!”

"100,000 armored soldiers!" Lu Zhi couldn't believe this number. You must know that the price of a set of armor in Han Dynasty was as high as hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. In other words, these 100,000 armors alone are worth tens of billions of dollars.

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Before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the court's revenue was only 3 billion yuan. This armor was worth the three-year treasury income of the Han Dynasty. If the Han Dynasty court wanted to purchase so many armors, it would have needed to be accumulated since Emperor Shizu, Liu Xiu, until now, because the Han Dynasty's financial balance was very small

, Lu Zhi has been unable to make ends meet during the decades he was an official, so it would take a big man 200 years to accumulate so much iron armor. The price is too expensive. This is why the big Han people still use leather armor as the mainstream armor when iron is popular. Iron armor is too precious.

, even a Han officer’s armor can become a family heirloom, passed down from generation to generation for hundreds of years!

After being shocked for a long time, Lu Zhi immediately realized the value of the blast furnace, so he asked: "Brother Yizhen, you don't understand the secret of the Tengjia Army's blast furnace! If the big man had such a blast furnace, wouldn't he catch up with the Tengjia Army in terms of equipment?

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Huangfusong smiled bitterly and said: "I sent many spies, but found nothing. The only thing I know now is that Lei Gong's iron-making furnace is very high, so it is called a blast furnace. Or he uses coal and stone to make iron, but I can't find anything."

The blacksmiths in Jizhou tried it, but the quality of the iron made from coal and stone was very poor and almost useless!"

Huangfu Song played a lot of tricks on Xu Wei. For the fortifications he built, his contribution to the imitation of earth and cement was not small. There was also a rail carriage connecting the four counties, which allowed Huangfu Song to mobilize the Jizhou Army to support the battlefield in all directions.

He even copied the textile machine, but because of the lack of raw materials like wool, the textile factory he built could only produce linen!

After hearing what Huangfu Song said, Lu Zhi smiled bitterly and said: "The blast furnace, wool cloth, iron armor and steel knife, cement, and rail cars all come from the Tengjia Army. If Bingzhou wasn't my Han Dynasty's territory, I would have thought we would have to deal with it.

The enemy is a country that is more powerful than the Han Dynasty! I finally understand the reason why Brother Yizhen is as immovable as a mountain. The Han Dynasty was disrupted by Yuan Wei and others, and its national power declined sharply, but the Tengjia Army continued to improve! Brother Yizhen could only wait.

Mistake with Thunder Lord!"

Huangfu Song solemnly said: "Human beings will make mistakes. Lei Gong is still less than 30 years old. He has been going smoothly since the rebellion. He will definitely be extremely proud. Arrogant soldiers will be defeated. He will definitely make mistakes. We will catch him when the time comes.

This mistake dealt a fatal blow to Thunder Lord!"

Lu Zhi thought for a while, but still shook his head. He found that compared with the Tengjia Army, the big man had a bunch of pig teammates, and they were more likely to make mistakes. If they continued to wait like this, the strength of both sides would become stronger.

The bigger.

Youzhou, Daijun!

Liu Yu took his chief historian Xian Yufu to the government office where Gongsun Zan was stationed in Tuntian!

As soon as Liu Yu saw Gongsun Zan, he immediately asked: "Can your field soldiers fight?"

Gongsun Zan replied: "After my training in the past few years, they are not much worse than the veterans in Youzhou!"

Liu Yu said happily: "That's good, you gather them to attack Mayi!"

Gongsun Zan was surprised and said: "What happened? Ming Gong, you want to attack the Tengjia Army. Although I am not afraid of fighting, the Tengjia Army has 300,000 troops. Our Youzhou army of 80,000 people will only be able to fight against the Tengjia Army with an egg against a stone!"

Xian Yufu said: "Lei Gong led an army of 30,000 to attack Hanoi County and threaten Luoyang. The imperial court issued an order for our Youzhou Army to attack Mayi to contain the Tengjia Army's army and make it difficult for Lei Gong to attack Hanoi County with all its strength!"

When Gongsun Zan heard this, he also knew that this battle had to be fought, otherwise Luoyang City would be captured by Lei Gong!

He thought for a while and said: "The front line of the Sanggan River is the focus of the Tengjia Army's defense, and the Wubao is the star-shaped Wubao that originally defended the 100,000 Xianbei army. It is difficult for us to conquer this kind of force even if we fight hard.

Wubao, let alone Lei Gong's navy in the Sanggan River, if there really is to be a fight, it should actually be our defense!"

The navy in the north basically does not play much role. The local governors and governors basically cannot build a navy. For example, the Youzhou Army does not have a navy. Of course, they do not have the financial resources to build a navy.

But their opponent, the Tengjia Army, has a pretty good navy with thousands of soldiers. If the two sides really fight, the Tengjia Army's navy can span the entire Youzhou and attack everywhere. Instead, they have to find a way to use it.

Prevent the attack of the Tengjia Army with the method of crossing the river with iron ropes!

Xian Yufu thought for a while and said: "Can we send out cavalry to attack Mayi from the grassland?

There is no need to actually conquer Mayi, we just need to contain Mayi’s soldiers and horses and prevent Lei Gong from continuing to increase troops to Hanoi County!"

Gongsun Zan thought for a while and said: "Okay, most of the grassland is now the territory of the Tengjia Army. As long as we learn from the barbarians to break into the territory of the Tengjia Army and burn, kill and loot, with the vastness of the grassland, thousands of cavalry can contain the Tengjia Army."

The army has tens of thousands of soldiers!”

Liu Yu immediately stopped him and said: "We are the army of the imperial court. We cannot do things like burning, killing, looting, etc. This is discrediting the imperial court!"

Gongsun Zan's face immediately turned ugly. This was a war, and people would die. If you have so many restrictions, why fight?

Thousands of his troops went to fight on Thunder Lord's territory, which would have meant a narrow escape. If his military actions were still restricted, he would basically have no chance of returning.

Moreover, all of Lei Gong's subordinates are rebellious. When you don't care about the soldiers and horses of the court, care about those rebellious ones. Which side are you on!

So Gongsun Zan said with an ugly face: "If Duke Ming doesn't want to kill people, there is a way to do it. Use all the imperial troops to threaten Lei Gong outside the Tengjia Army's territory. Lei Gong will definitely mobilize the army to defend us. This can also solve the problem of tens of thousands of troops for the imperial court."

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Xian Yufu saw that Gongsun Zan was angry, so he said: "Brother Bogui, Ming Gong just can't bear the suffering of the people, so he will do it according to brother Bogui's method. If you have any requests, brother Bogui can ask for it as much as possible, but I still ask him to

Brother Kei is experienced in mobilizing the large force of the Fujika Army!"

Gongsun Zan's face looked better now and he said: "I have a 3,000-man White Horse Yicon in my hand, but now I have to fight on the grassland. Speed ​​and logistics are the key. Each soldier of the White Horse Yicon needs 3 horses. One horse

In battle, one horse is needed for riding and one horse is carrying food, so that the Tengjia Army can hardly surround us, so I still need 6,000 war horses as backup!"

Liu Yu thought for a while and said: "I will help you solve these 6,000 war horses. I hope Bogui can make unparalleled military exploits in this battle!"

Liu Yu also knew that his suggestion just now was a bit embarrassing. Gongsun Zan's army was already weak. If he held back, the battle would be unwinnable, so he stopped mentioning what he just said.

At this time, he could only sacrifice the people to save the court.

Just when the entire north was in chaos, Yuan Shao's army also encountered Yu Du, Bai Rao, Zang Ba and other Yellow Turban coalition forces!

Although their fighting strength is not strong, the number of the army exceeds 500,000, and they are not afraid of death with nothing, and they have ten times the advantage. Yuan Shao and his army fought bloody battles with Yu Du and his friends for more than ten days, and they were beaten

They retreated steadily and retreated into Puyang County, Dongjun!

At this time, the noble families from all over Yanzhou also brought their own soldiers to support Yuan Shao. Even Cao Cao, who had been defeated by Dong Zhuo and escaped, brought 5,000 soldiers to support Yuan Shao. This battle became a battle between the Yellow Turban Army and the noble families of Yanzhou.

The final battle, because the wealthy nobles in Yanzhou knew that if they could not resist the Yellow Turban bandits in Dongjun and let them rush into Yanzhou, it would be their turn to be destroyed.
To be continued...