Gongsun Zan disagreed and said: "Xuande, you are trying to embolden others' ambitions and destroy your own prestige! I admit that the Yellow Turban Army is very tenacious, but they don't know how to fight at all, and the leader of the bandits can't command a large army. They can still command a small army.
, but the command of hundreds of thousands of people is not that I look down on them, even I may not be able to command. The entire Han Dynasty is just a teacher. Only a few famous generals such as Huangfu Yizhen have such commanding talents. What talents does Zhang Niujiao have?
Why command an army of hundreds of thousands? The more they have, the weaker their combat effectiveness will be. However, we can rely on the mobility advantage of the cavalry to form a local situation where more troops attack fewer troops. As long as we defeat a few formations of the Yellow Turban thieves, the Yellow Turban army will be defeated.
If the bandits' formation is in chaos, they will become lambs to be slaughtered."
When Liu Bei heard this, his eyes lit up and he said: "Brother Bogui has great views, but I am far inferior! Indeed, the more troops, the better!"
The captains Xian Yufu, Yan Rou, Tian Kai and others on the battlefield all nodded in agreement. Only generals like them know that the more troops the better, but rather how many they can command. Like Xian Yufu, Yan
Rou, Tian Kai can still command a few thousand people, but once they reach tens of thousands, it becomes a bit difficult for them to command them. Hundreds of thousands of people can't be commanded at all.
Liu Yu was still a little worried and said: "After all, this is an army of hundreds of thousands, so it's better to be cautious! We will defend the city in Tang County and wait for Brother Nanrong to lead the Bingzhou Army to come over and fight the Yellow Turbans."
Now Liu Yu is also under great pressure. He has served as the Nine Ministers, so he naturally knows that the court has no money. Even the main army has been dragged to Xiliang. It is very difficult to maintain an army like theirs. If they want to defeat Zhang Niujiao's tribe quickly,
But he also knew that the imperial court no longer had an army.
If the Youzhou Army is defeated, only the 30,000 Bingzhou Army will be left. If the Bingzhou Army is also defeated, there will be no troops left in the entire Central Plains. The imperial court can only watch the Yellow Turbans run wild and attack cities and territories. The Yellow Turban Bandits
It will spread throughout the world again.
He couldn't bear such consequences. Under such circumstances, Liu Yu's pressure was understandable, so he naturally became more conservative.
But Shen Pei said: "It is also very difficult to defend the city. Zhang Niujiao and the others have crowbars that can break through the city wall bricks, and powerful trebuchets that can launch stone bullets weighing hundreds of kilograms from three hundred steps away. Back then,
There were more than 20,000 defenders in Yitao City and Gaoyi City, but it was because Zhang Niujiao and his men were so powerful with their trebuchets that they directly broke through the city wall, so we were defeated. If we were to defend ourselves, we would have to be careful of the bandits' trebuchets.
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"300 steps!"
"Hundreds of kilograms of stone bullets!"
Gongsun Zan and the others are experienced generals, so they naturally know what such a powerful trebuchet means!
It means that they can only be beaten without being able to fight back!
Gongsun Zan immediately said: "Sir, we still have to fight the Yellow Turbans first to rub off the Yellow Turbans' energy."
Liu Bei also said: "If the trebuchet is really so powerful, it will be a big trouble for us!"
Xian Yufu then said: "We must at least find a way to destroy the bandit's trebuchet, otherwise this battle cannot be fought!"
Liu Yu saw that all the generals were going to fight, and thought for a long time: "Okay, let's fight the bandits! Bogui, your cavalry will be stationed outside the city, focusing on the Yellow Turban bandit's trebuchet, and seize the opportunity to find a way to destroy it.
they."
Five days later, Zhang Niujiao finally led 150,000 troops to the outside of Tang County, and Liu Yu also led all 30,000 troops out of the city to fight.
Neither party said anything more and just started fighting.
Xian Yufu, Yan Rou, Tian Kai, and Pan Feng led their troops straight towards the Yellow Turban Army's formation. Gongsun Zan, Liu Bei and others even commanded their cavalry to attack left and right. Relying on the powerful impact of the cavalry, they defeated the Yellow Turban Army one after another.
The army formed several square formations, and the infantry followed the cavalry and moved forward to clear them out.
The Yellow Turban Army was beaten and retreated steadily. If Zhang Niujiao and the others hadn't been outnumbered and had not found someone to help them in advance, we don't know how many Yellow Turban Army people would have died.
But even though most of the Yellow Turban soldiers fled back, Zhang Niujiao counted the losses and found tens of thousands of casualties. The strong combat effectiveness of the Youzhou frontier army was once again demonstrated.
Liu Yu and the others also had a headache. The combat effectiveness of the Yellow Turban Army was obviously beyond their imagination. They suffered 3,000 casualties in one day. If the battle continued like this, the Youzhou Army would be defeated in 10 days.
Even Gongsun Zan began to pay attention to the combat effectiveness of the Yellow Turban Army. Although their officers were not good at command, the soldiers were really fierce and fearless of death, which greatly narrowed the gap in combat effectiveness between the two sides.
So when they returned to the prefect's mansion to discuss the matter, everyone's faces became heavy and they couldn't think of any good way to defeat the Yellow Turban Army.
At this time, Shen Pei said: "Sir, we will continue to retreat to Youzhou to lengthen the front of the Yellow Turban Army. Bingzhou must be coming to Jizhou soon. If Zhang Niujiao leads the army to continue the pursuit, Master Fu Bian can lead people to intercept the Yellow Turban Army."
The thieves' food route will be defeated by the Yellow Turban thieves without a fight."
At this time, spies from Bingzhou came to contact them. Fu Bian had already led an army of 30,000 to assemble and was about to leave Fukou Pass and enter Jizhou, so he wanted to contact Liu Yu and others to encircle and suppress the Yellow Turban bandits.
Liu Yu and others were overjoyed. They approved the trial plan and informed Fu Bian, hoping that he could cut off the Yellow Turbans' food route after they were introduced to Youzhou.
Then Liu Yu's 30,000 men retreated slowly. Zhang Niujiao thought that Liu Yu and the others could not bear the casualties. Daxi led the army to pursue, hoping to keep Liu Yu's 30,000 men in Jizhou, but Liu Yu ordered Gongsun Zan's cavalry to rear, and Gongsun Zan
He also led the cavalry along the way and defeated thousands of Yellow Turban troops, leaving Zhang Niujiao to lead the army and follow Gongsun Zan and others into Youzhou.
At the same time, for the first time, he had plans to build a cavalry force. When fighting in northern Xinjiang, no cavalry force was too passive.
The Yellow Turban Army and the Youzhou Army, hundreds of thousands of troops, were galloping across the land of Northern Xinjiang. Five days later, the army officially entered the territory of Youzhou.
But when Zhang Niujiao set foot on the vast land of Youzhou, he said with great enthusiasm: "From now on, Youzhou will be the territory of our Yellow Turban Army, and we will build this place into the Huangtian World!"
But a spy came to report: "Commander Fu Bian of Bingzhou suddenly appeared in Jizhou, defeated Zhang Bai's cavalry, and has occupied Zhongshan Kingdom."
Zhongshan State is where the Yellow Turban Army's granary is located. Now it has been occupied by the Han army. Not only has his food route been cut off, but his escape route has also been cut off. So when Zhang Niujiao heard these words, stars appeared in his eyes and he vomited blood and fell to the ground!
"Commander, Commander!" Chu Feiyan and the others were startled by this situation. Fortunately, it didn't take long for Zhang Niujiao to wake up and said: "Retreat the troops immediately and return to reinforcements. We must take back Zhongshan Kingdom!" After saying this, Zhang Niujiao fainted again.