He led his cavalry and kept wandering around the outskirts of the Yellow Turban brigade. It cannot be said that there were no opportunities for surprise attacks, but they were not opportunities. Several of them were traps set by the Yellow Turbans.
As soon as the news of the Yellow Turbans digging trenches and cutting off roads and marching westward reached his ears, he rushed over quickly, accompanied by Liu Bei's brothers.
However, whether it is Tian Kai's boldness, Liu Bei's grace, or Guan Zhang's bravery and fearlessness, at this moment, in front of the spectacle created by the huge manpower, they can only marvel.
In fact, even if he wanted to be amazed, Tian Kai couldn't find the right words to express his feelings.
Words like a million-strong army are very common in military books and history books, as if they can be mobilized casually. However, how many people have actually seen such a large army? What can a million-strong army do?
How many people have a clear idea of something like this?
Now, Tian Kai and others have truly realized what a terrifying concept a million-strong army is!
If they want, they can even stop rivers and move mountains!
As far as the current situation is concerned, if they hadn't dug the river bed, the Wen River would probably have an additional tributary.
"Let me tell you, these ditches are not of much use. It's just that the horses can't walk, and the infantry can only pass by laying a few boards." Zhang Fei was the most courageous and had a carefree personality. He was the first to return to normal.
"What if there is someone defending behind the trench?" Guan Yu said expressionlessly.
To a certain extent, this time his brother greatly accepted the love of brother Pengju. If he wanted to repay the favor, this battle was the best opportunity. But when he actually faced the enemy, he realized that he had
The proud bravery is so insignificant in front of millions of troops.
Guan Yu's mood was very complicated.
"Is there someone?" Zhang Fei scratched his head, then thought of something, and smiled: "It's okay if there is someone, so they can divide their forces. Since Pengju dares to set up his formation, he must have some success. Right?"
He asked the last sentence to Yu Jin, who nodded slightly and said nothing.
"The troops have been divided, but..." Liu Bei observed more carefully than the two sworn brothers and saw more things. "Most of those who stayed behind were old and weak, and those who left were all tough bandits and young men.
, although the number of people is reduced, the combat power has not been greatly affected... No, maybe it is stronger, and the marching speed has also become faster, I'm afraid..."
Yu Jin glanced at Liu Bei in surprise. The latter's observation and judgment surprised him. No wonder the lord is very concerned about this person. He is indeed a capable person, but his style and identity are too different.
, which makes people feel very awkward.
The Yellow Turbans divided their troops, leaving the old, weak and wounded behind, and supplemented them with a few elite troops as the rear-end troops.
Yu Jin understood the opponent's thoughts, and the marching speed with the old and weak was too slow. Laiwu was only more than a hundred miles away from Linzi. After the Yellow Turbans captured Linzi, the elite troops arrived at Laiwu City three days later and launched a siege, while the old and weak until
Ten days later, they arrived at Laiwu one after another, and the marching speed was no more than ten miles a day.
There is still Wenhe to assist the march. If not, it is a question whether we can walk ten miles in one day.
Yu Jin was deeply aware of the disadvantages of marching with the weak and old. On the way back to Mount Tai from Luoyang, he spent a lot of thought on this. At that time, the total number of Taishan Army was only 20,000, and the troops were also well-trained, and the total number of Yellow Turbans had already been
There are more than 500,000 people, and they are known as millions of people. When such a giant moves, the speed is not ordinary slow.
Moreover, marching with the old and the weak is very risky, as evidenced by the Duchang raid. In front of well-trained elites, the old and the weak cannot take advantage of their numerical advantage at all, and will only become a weak point that can be targeted.
Drag down the whole army.
"Are they all old and weak?" Zhang Fei stared at him for a moment with leopard eyes, and then shouted: "Then what are you waiting for? Why don't you order all your troops and horses to kill them? After destroying these rabble, I happened to be flanking Moth with Pengju brothers.
The main force of thieves!"
His voice was already loud, and this excitement made his voice even more deafening. It spread far away, and even the Yellow Turban soldiers digging trenches in the distance heard it.
The trench array of the Yellow Turban Army covers a huge area, and the large group of troops cannot pass through it for a while. Everyone is skilled in martial arts, so naturally they will not hide and watch from far behind. Where they are, the most advanced trench is only
A distance of thirty to fifty steps.
Hearing Zhang Fei's murderous cry, before Tian Kai and others could speak, the Yellow Turban soldier who was working raised his head. He was an older man with dark skin and skinny arms and legs.
Like withered branches after winter, the forehead is full of wrinkles, criss-crossing it, as if a trench array is being dug.
Such an old man, let alone Zhang Fei, could grab any cook from the Taishan and Youzhou coalition forces and beat him away with one hand. However, at such a distance, facing such a powerful enemy
, what flashed in the old man’s eyes was a fierce fighting spirit!
He held the wooden handle tightly with his exposed bone hand, as if it was not a wooden shovel, but an indestructible horse-killing sword!
Even with Zhang Fei's courage, he couldn't help being surprised, and then he became furious and raised his legs to rush forward: "You old man, you dare to be so arrogant after being a thief, don't you know what shame? Look?
I don’t…”
"Wait a minute!" Liu Bei and Yu Jin shouted in unison.
Faced with Zhang Fei's questioning gaze, the two of them looked at each other, and Yu Jin turned his head away slightly. Liu Bei then said: "That Zhang Rao had evil intentions. He clearly left these people to be killed by us. If we really do anything,
If you kill me, I'm afraid it will hurt your reputation!"
Zhang Fei shook his head like a drum, and retorted angrily: "Brother, you don't care what you said. We are fighting now. If you are afraid of this, why are you fighting? Are you stretching your neck to let others chop it?
?Kill a few, and the others will be afraid, so they will either run away or surrender."
"The problem is..."
Liu Bei was not annoyed. He raised his finger and pointed at the Yellow Turban soldiers in the trench, "Yide, look at their faces and their eyes. How many do you think we need to kill to scare them away? With the existence of these trenches, the cavalry will
I can’t get up at all, facing these things is a bit..."
He paused for a moment and thought about his words, "Well, can the fanatical old and weak win with just a few thousand of our infantry? I'm afraid it will be difficult to break their morale without killing tens of thousands of people, maybe tens of thousands
It’s not enough…Yide, do you still remember the battle in Julu?”
The Yellow Turbans of Julu are the most fanatical and terrifying ones. Zhang Jiao was still there at that time. Although the Yellow Turbans were besieged by the officers and soldiers from all sides, they were not discouraged at all, no matter the old, weak, women or children, even if they only had a stone, a stick, or even
Even though they are unarmed, they will charge towards the army's formation without hesitation.
That scene was not ordinary terrifying. If Zhang Jiao had not died suddenly, even Huangfu Song and other famous generals in the world would not have been able to win on the frontal battlefield. They could only rely on hunger and cold to destroy their opponents.
At that time, the three brothers had just started fighting. Zhang Fei had witnessed that scene. Although he was not afraid of anything, the thought of experiencing that scene again made his scalp numb.
He is not afraid of killing, but killing more enemies like this will not add to his martial reputation. It will only make him feel sick and make him feel that he is killing people. In fact, it is indeed true.
It is precisely because of this that several famous generals on the battlefield in Jizhou at that time became cold-blooded and cruel. After the Yellow Turban Army laid down their weapons, they still carried out massacres like extermination. They did not want to leave seeds for this scene to happen again, but
If things go wrong in the world, nine times out of ten, the Yellow Turban Warrior will appear again, under the call of another Little Heavenly Master!
…
"Mr. Ziyuan's clever calculation not only freed the army from encumbrances, but also used them to block the enemy forces east of Laiwu! Now, in front of our 200,000 elite troops in Qingzhou, there is already a vast plain. According to the current speed, we can attack it in three days
At the foot of Ying County, if we don’t delay, we will reach Fenggao within five days! Before the first heavy snowfall!”
There was a long queue with no end in sight. Zhang Rao was riding on a good horse that he had snatched from Linzi City. He felt so happy in his heart. The cold north wind blew on his face, which made him feel warm.
"It's nothing, just repaying him with his own way." Xu You walked side by side with him, with a look of contentment on his face.
"Sir, how do you say this?" Zhang Rao hurriedly joked after hearing Xu You's unfinished meaning.
"Wang Yu used hundreds of thousands of people as a barrier to plot against Xu Gongqing during the Battle of Yangren. Although the outside world said that those people rushed to help the battle spontaneously, but a discerning person would know it at the first sight..."
Halfway through, Xu You suddenly asked: "General Zhang, you have also commanded hundreds of thousands of people, how do you feel?"
"tired!"
Zhang Rao replied without thinking: "Looking at the team getting bigger and bigger, I was naturally happy, but when it came to commanding... well, it was really not that tiring! Let alone let them fight, even if they were allowed to walk a few miles
, I have a few more gray hairs on my head, and being able to throw them aside, it really puts a big stone in my heart."
"So, Wang Yu deliberately took advantage of Xu Gongqing's pedantry. Now, it's our turn to plot against him."
Xu You smiled more and more proudly: "The cavalry can't display their combat power. By the time they find a way to break through, the entire Mount Tai is already in the hands of the general. Moreover, without the old and weak, there is no need to worry about Wang Yu's surprise attack.
"
"Surprise attack?" Zhang Rao caught a word that made his heart move.
"Of course it's a surprise attack!"
Xu You sneered and said: "Except for a surprise attack, how could he defeat the 200,000 troops in the general's hands with five thousand soldiers? Although your army's supplies are limited, its morale is high and its fighting spirit is sky-high. With the few men and horses in Wang Yu's hands, he can only hold on
How dare you divide your troops if you are high? Mount Tai is rich, so when the general divides his troops to plunder the surrounding areas, will he be afraid of lack of food? If he wants to defeat the general, he will definitely have to attack by surprise!"
"What method will he use?" Zhang Rao suddenly became nervous.
He had never taken Wang Yu seriously before, but now that he was actually facing this legendary figure, he felt a little cramped in his calves. In the strategy of surprise attack, the thief is captured first, so doesn't that mean that,
Is Wang Yu’s target himself?
"You don't know...but, as long as you take proper precautions and don't leak any flaws, there is nothing to worry about such things as Qimou." Xu You could not guess what Wang Yu was thinking. However, he could not let Zhang Rao down, so he could only start from
From your own perspective, tell the other party some common sense to prevent conspiracies and plots.
"Don't be too hasty when marching. Just march along the river and avoid dangerous terrain... When setting up camp, be sure not to take any trouble. Trenches, antlers, fences, and other defensive measures that can be taken must be taken to avoid repeating what happened under Duchang City.
Tragedy, although Wang Yu only has a thousand cavalry in his hands, Xu Huang leads the troops, but he is extraordinary..."
"The general's personal safety must also be paid attention to. Food and drinks should be tried by the personal guards before they can be eaten... The defense around you, as well as those around the Little Heavenly Master, must not be slack. If they are not protected, will Wang Yu repeat his old tricks?
, Sneak into the camp to assassinate! Also..."
"Yes, yes, I remember." Knowing that what Xu You said were valuable experiences and good advice, Zhang Rao listened very carefully.
There are too many lessons. For example, Dong Zhuo was assassinated by Wang Yu and had his ears cut off. If it hadn't been for Heyin, how would Wang Yu be where he is today? Another example is Jiao He, who just didn't pay attention to his diet and ended up being bribed by Xu You.
, was cursed to death.
After talking for who knows how long, Xu You's long speech finally came to an end. Zhang Rao breathed a long sigh of relief and put aside the heavy feeling that was lingering in his heart.
He deeply understood why the grassroots could never defeat the aristocratic family, because the aristocratic family had too deep a foundation!
Over thousands of years, they have accumulated countless methods that can be used for conspiracy and assassination. They already have many tricks against enemies who are clearly aware of themselves; there are also many tricks against allies, colleagues and superiors who have not yet clearly established a relationship, and they have not even used them before.
of strangers with whom we are dealing.
There are many things that Zhang Rao cannot do even if he has understood them. Take the matter of Jiao He, for example. He knew that Xu You bribed someone to poison him, but if it were him, he had money and knew
method, but there is absolutely no way to start.
This kind of thing must be done without anyone noticing, and it must be coordinated with the rituals outside the city. Zhang Rao cannot describe how difficult it is. Anyway, he knows that he is still far from good at this level.
"Mr. Ziyuan, why can't you stay a little longer? Don't you want to watch with your own eyes as someone attacks Fenggao City and kills Wang Pengju?" He sincerely persuaded him to stay.
At this moment, he even made up his mind to find an opportunity to recruit Xu You under his command! There is a huge difference between having a famous counselor and not having one.
Xu You heard Zhang Rao's attempt to persuade him to stay, but ignored him completely. Instead, he reminded him earnestly: "So just now You reminded the general not to rush for victory. If Wang Yu divides his troops, divide his troops to surround them.
Then plunder the surrounding areas. Wang Yu will not divide his troops, so you can surround them with your main force. Don't rush for success!"
"I know, but..."
"Right now, my lord is about to take over Jizhou, and you are recruiting people. You really don't want to delay too much. The general's side should be a protracted battle. As long as the general makes no mistakes, a big victory is inevitable!"
Yuan Shao was about to enter Yecheng, and Xu You had no choice but to be anxious. Even if he led the Yellow Turbans to defeat Wang Pengju, the credit for this achievement could not be openly acknowledged.
This is a conspiracy! How could the Yuan family of four generations and three nobles have any reason to engage in such devious tactics?
Therefore, only Yuan Shao himself knows about his achievements, and Yuan Shao is not the type who is very nostalgic. If he does not appear in front of the opponent while the iron is hot, Jizhou's authority will not be his own.
For Xu You, this matter is more important than defeating Wang Yu, it is related to the future!
As for Mount Tai, there is such a huge disparity in military strength. As long as Zhang Rao doesn't make a big mistake, there is no way he will lose. He doesn't understand the art of war and strategy. He has done everything he can, so why are he still wasting his time here?
just in case……
This is to say that if Wang Yu really reproduces the miracle, then he will not be able to stay here. A gentleman will not stand behind a dangerous wall. What the ancients said is always very reasonable. (To be continued. If you like
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