I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 242, The Yellow Turban Army's Unity

Jia Xu sneered and said: "I don't believe that Lei Gong will not worry about the nearly 30 troops around him. As long as Huangfu Song and Liu Yu's army moves, Lei Gong will not be able to mobilize too many troops to attack Hanoi County. Leading an army to support Hanoi County, not to mention defeating Lei Gong, but defending Hanoi County is not a problem."

"And Mr. Lei is a stable person. He knows that Hanoi County is the confidant of the big man. It is impossible for the Prime Minister to give up. It is impossible for Huangfu Song to give up. Even Liu Yu cannot give up. As long as the Prime Minister resolutely fights back against Mr. Lei's temptation, he will returned."

"Unless he wants to break out an all-out war with the big Han, the 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 the territory. With his steady personality, he should attack Youzhou, which is beyond the reach of the imperial court!"

Dong Zhuo finally understood why Lei Gong went south to Hanoi County after being explained by Jia Xu, and he didn't have to worry about the 30 Tengjia troops rushing down to capture Hanoi County!
Then he led his 6 troops to support Hanoi County. At the same time, he ordered Huangfusong to attack Shangdang County and Taiyuan County occupied by the Tengjia Army in Jizhou, and let Liu Yu of Youzhou attack Mayi to contain them. Let Lei Gong's army live! "

Following Dong Zhuo's order, the entire Northern Han army was mobilized!The war to the north of the Yellow River is imminent!
Jizhou, Zhao Guo!

After Dong Zhuo's order was issued to Huangfusong, Huangfusong used his 10 troops to attack Bingzhou's outposts and camps with a small army from the Taihang Mountains thousands of miles away!
"Lei Gong wants to test the defense of Luoyang City?" Lu Zhi looked strange. It is too strange for Lei Gong to attack Hanoi County at this time, and 3 troops are not enough for him to conquer Luoyang City!

Huangfu Song said with a cold face: "No, Lei Gong may want to contain the main force of the court, so that the court has no troops to encircle and suppress the Yellow Turban Army in the Central Plains, and the second is to see if there is a chance to eliminate Dong Zhuo. For Lei Gong, a split The big guy is the best for him! Dong Zhuo defeated Yuan Shao and he is his enemy."

"He thought that the Kwantung Allied Forces were powerful, so he spared no expense to strengthen Dong Zhuo's strength, and even gave Dong Zhuo 5000 sets of armor, but he didn't expect the Kwantung Allied Forces to be so weak, with 20 troops, but they failed to defeat Dong Zhuo. Lei Gong saw Dong Zhuo If you have the opportunity to integrate the big man, you will have the intention to kill Dong Zhuo, if you can kill Dong Zhuo, Lei Gong will definitely do it, even if you can't do it, Lei Gong will want to hit Dong Zhuo's prestige, so that the big man will continue to split!"

"This is why Lei Gong attacked Hanoi County, and why Brother Wei immediately helped Dong Zhuo, because now only Dong Zhuo can integrate the power of the whole big man to encircle and suppress Lei Gong, and the current big man cannot lack Dong Zhuo!"

Lu Zhi was originally a famous general of the generation. After hearing Huangfusong's words, he immediately figured out the inside story, and then smiled wryly: "Shangdang County should not have been so easily thrown to Lei Gong. Now Lei Gong's troops are pointing directly at Luoyang City. It's too passive for us!"

There is no Shangdang County Lei Gong's soldiers are less than 300 miles away from Luoyang City, and there is no natural danger on this road except for the Yellow River. It can be said that the battle between Dong Zhuo and Yuan Huai has dragged the whole man into the most dangerous situation.

"Brother Yizhen, you can't launch a battle against Lei Gong from Jizhou. No matter how many fortifications you build in Jizhou, a defense line of thousands of miles is useless. If Lei Gong attacks one point, your defense line will be completely abolished. If Lei Gong attacks from Youzhou or Hanoi County, your thousands of miles of defense will be in vain, too passive!"

Lu Zhi had long discovered the weakness of Huangfusong's line of defense. If Lei Gong bypassed Youzhou or Hanoi County, this line of defense would be useless!

Huangfusong said with a wry smile: "I tried it, even Ju Yi's most elite shield soldiers can only exchange one to one with Lei Gong's elite, if the exchange ratio of ordinary soldiers in Jizhou will immediately become three to one , take the initiative to attack, Jizhou's 20 troops are all wiped out, and Lei Gong's 10 troops can't be wiped out! If we rely on the defenses of Taihang Mountain, my 20 troops 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 has been using the Yellow Turban Army to consume me, but he just doesn't take the initiative to attack Jizhou. Especially It was the best time for him to attack Jizhou when the Kwantung Allied Forces challenged Dong Ben. At that time, my brother was preparing to fight Lei Gong and lose both sides, so he didn’t pay attention to the war between Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shao.”

"But Lei Gong was completely unmoved by the chaotic war in the Central Plains. Yuan Shao and Dong Zhuo fought fiercely, and the Tengjia Army did not dispatch. Instead, they supported the Yellow Turban Bandits in the Central Plains. He wanted to completely split the big man. This forbearance is too great. It's terrible, the current Lei Gong is impossible to defeat if he doesn't gather the strength of the whole big man!"

Lu Zhi was surprised and said: "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 could it be possible to achieve such an exchange ratio?"

Huangfusong said with a wry smile: "If only the elite soldiers are better than the soldiers, the Jizhou Army is still capable of fighting, but the difference in weapons and equipment between the two sides is too great. Except for a small number of officers in the Jizhou Army who are equipped with iron armor, the rest of the 10 soldiers are all leather armor. Or the ceramic armor of the captured Yellow Turban thief.

Lei Gong has an iron-making blast furnace, which can smelt more than 10 jin of iron at a time. Now the Rattan Armored Army has more than 3 soldiers wearing iron armor, and the number is really increased by [-] every year. Only three soldiers of the Jizhou Army can defeat one soldier of Lei Gong! "

"10 armored soldiers!" Lu Zhi couldn't believe this figure. You must know that the price of a set of iron armor in Dahan is as high as hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, which means that the 10 armor alone is worth tens of billions of dollars. .

Before the Yellow Turban Uprising, the imperial court’s income was only 30 billion yuan, and this armor was worth the income of the treasury of the Han Dynasty for three years.And if the Han court wants to buy so many armors, it needs to be accumulated from Emperor Shizu Liu Xiu to the present, because the financial balance of the Han Dynasty is very small, and Lu Zhi’s decades of being an official can’t make ends meet, so the Han Dynasty needs 200 years to accumulate There are so many iron armors, but the price is too expensive. This is why the big men who are popular in iron still use leather armor as the mainstream armor. Iron armor is so precious. Even a pair of iron armor for a big Han officer can become a family heirloom, handed 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 know the secret of the blast furnace of the Fujia Army! If the big man has this kind of blast furnace, he will catch up with the Fujia Army in terms of equipment. "

Huangfusong smiled wryly and said: "I sent many spies, but they found nothing. The only thing I know now is that Lei Gong's iron-making furnace is very high, that's why it's called a blast furnace. It's because he used coal to make iron, but I found out The blacksmiths in Jizhou have tried it, and the quality of the iron made from coal is so poor that it is almost useless!"

Huangfusong has put a lot of wool on Xu Wei, like the fortifications he made, the cottage soil cement has contributed a lot, and the rail carriages connecting the four counties of China Unicom can allow Huangfusong to mobilize the Jizhou Army to support all directions of the battlefield, He even copied the textile machine, but because of the lack of raw materials such as wool, the textile factory he built could only produce linen!
After listening to what Huangfusong said, Lu Zhi smiled wryly and said, "Blast furnaces, wool cloth, iron armor and steel knives, cement, and railcars all came from the Rattan Armor Army. If Bingzhou was not the territory of my big man, I thought we would have to deal with it." The enemy is a country stronger than the big Han! I finally understand the reason why Brother Yizhen is as immovable as a mountain. The big Han was ruled by Yuan Kai and the others, and the national power declined sharply, while the Tengjia Army continued to improve! Brother Yizhen can only wait Let Lei Gong make a mistake!"

Huangfusong said solemnly: "People make mistakes. Lei Gong is not yet 30 years old. Since he rebelled, his journey has been smooth and smooth. He must be extremely proud. An arrogant soldier is bound to be defeated. He will definitely make mistakes. We will catch him when the time comes." This mistake gave Lei Gong a fatal blow!"

Lu Zhi thought about it, but still shook his head. He found that compared with the Rattan Armor Army, the big man had a bunch of pig teammates, and it was easier for them to make mistakes.If we continue to wait like this, the strength of both sides will grow stronger.

Youzhou, Daijun!
Liu Yu brought his long history Xian Yufu to Gongsun Zan's mansion!
As soon as Liu Yu saw Gongsun Zan, he immediately asked, "Can your field soldiers fight?"

Gongsun Zan replied, "After years of training, they are no worse than veterans from Youzhou!"

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

Gongsun Zan was surprised and said, "What happened, Mr. Ming, you are going to attack the Tengjia Army. Although I am not afraid of fighting, the Tengjia Army has an army of 30. Our Youzhou army of 8 will probably hit a stone with an egg against the Tengjia Army!"

Xian Yufu said: "Lei Gong led an army of 3 to attack Hanoi County and threatened Luoyang. The imperial court issued an order for our Youzhou Army to attack Mayi and restrain the Tengjia Army's army, so that it is 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 conquered by Lei Gong!

He thought for a while and said: "The line of the Sanggan River is the focus of the Tengjia Army's defense, and the Wubao is the star-shaped Wubao that defended the 10 Xianbei army at the beginning. Wupu, not to mention Lei Gong's navy in the Sanggan River, if there is a fight, it should be our defense!"

The navy in the north is basically useless, and the local prefects and governors basically don't know how to build a navy. For example, the Youzhou Army has no navy, and of course they don't have such financial resources to build a navy.

However, their opponent, the Tengjia Army, has a good navy with thousands of soldiers. When the two sides really fight, the Tengjia Army's navy can traverse the entire Youzhou and attack everywhere. The method of chaining Yokoe to guard against the attack of the Fujiko army!

Xian Yufu thought for a while and said, "Can we send cavalry to attack Mayi from the grassland?
There is no need to really conquer Mayi, just restrain the soldiers and horses of Mayi, and prevent Lei Gong from continuing to increase troops to Hanoi County! "

Gongsun Zan thought for a while and said, "Yes, most of the grasslands are now the territory of the Tengjia Army. If we learn from the Hu people who broke into the Tengjia Army's territory and burned, killed and looted it, with the vastness of the grassland, a few thousand cavalry can contain the Tengjia Army. The army has tens of thousands of soldiers!"

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

Gongsun Zan's face immediately turned ugly. This is a war, and people will die. You have so many restrictions, why are you fighting.

Thousands of his troops ran to Lei Gong's territory to fight, which was a narrow escape. If his military operations were still restricted, then he would basically never return.

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

So Gongsun Zan said with a grim expression, "Duke Ming has a way if he doesn't want to kill people. He will use his entire army to threaten Lei Gong outside the territory of the Tengjia Army. !"

Xianyufu saw that Gongsun Zan was angry, so he said, "Brother Bogui, Duke Ming just can't bear the suffering of the people, so he will follow Brother Bogui's method. If you have any requests, Brother Bogui can also mention it as much as possible, but please ask Bogui." Brother Gui has experienced mobilizing the main force of the Rattan Armored Army!"

Gongsun Zan's face looked better now and he said: "I have a 3000-strong White Horse Yicong in my hand, but now I am going to fight in the grasslands, speed and logistics are the key. Each soldier of the White Horse Yicong needs to have 3 horses, one horse To fight, one horse to ride and one horse to carry food can make it difficult for the rattan army to surround us, so I still need 6000 war horses as backup!"

Liu Yu thought for a while and said, "These 6000 horses will help you solve the problem. I hope Bogui can make great achievements in this battle!"

Liu Yu also knew that his proposal just now was a bit embarrassing. Gongsun Zan's army was already weak, and if he kept his hands, the battle would be impossible, so he didn't mention what he just said.

At this time, he can only sacrifice the people to preserve the court.

When the entire north was in chaos, Yuan Shao's army also encountered Yu Du, Bai Rao, Zang Ba and other yellow scarf allied forces!
Although their combat power is not strong, the number of their army exceeds 50, and they have nothing to fear, and they have ten times the advantage. They retreated steadily and retreated into Puyang County, Dongjun County!
At this time, the noble families from all over Yanzhou also brought their soldiers to support Yuan Shao, and even Cao Cao, who had been defeated by Dong Zhuo and escaped from the sky, also brought 5000 soldiers to support Yuan Shao.This battle seemed to be the final battle between the Yellow Turban Army and the nobles of Yanzhou, because the nobles of Yanzhou knew about it.If they can't fend off the Yellow Turban bandits in Dongjun and let them rush into Yanzhou, it will be their turn to ruin their family.

So at this time, Yanzhou's elite clans changed their previous penny-pinching characteristics, and instead of paying money and food to Yuan Shao's army, they even added their own private soldiers.

In mid-June, Yanzhou, Dongjun!
It can be said that the Yellow Turban Army of the entire Central Plains is gathered here. The leader of the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou, Yu Du, Bai Rao, the leaders of the Yellow Turban Army in Xuzhou, Sima Ju, Xu He, and the Taishan thief Zang Ba are all united. These leaders immediately began to discuss the alliance. How to deal with Yuan Shao and the others.

Yu Du was the most powerful, so he became the commander-in-chief of the coalition army. He was the first to say: "Now Lei Gong of the Tengjia Army has gone south and restrained Dong Zhuo's 6 troops. Now we only need to defeat Yuan Shao in front of us. There will be no Han army in the Central Plains. The entire Central Plains is ours!

Bai Raowei said: "But Yuan Shao and the others are not easy to fight, especially since he has 1 armored troops in his hands. My army was overwhelmed by this armored army at the beginning! I really don't know which side Marshal Lei Gong is on. How dare you sell such good armor to our enemies!"

If Xu Wei were here, he would have smiled wryly. He sold Yuan Shao 1 sets of iron armor. One was to collect food, and the other was to make Yuan Shao and Dong Zhuo fight more fiercely. Who knew Yuan Shao would surrender to Dong Zhuo. They actually united to attack the Yellow Turban Army!

Sima Ju said: "We can't say anything about Commander Lei Gong, he has helped us enough, the rest depends on our own efforts, we have an army of more than 50, are we afraid of Yuan Shao's tens of thousands of troops! "

Xu He worried: "Although we have defeated Yuan Shao's army steadily, it is difficult for us to annihilate Yuan Shao's army, and it is even difficult for us to cause too many casualties to Yuan Shao's coalition army. Moreover, the nobles in Yanzhou are also constantly supporting Yuan Shao. When we fought Yuan Shao just now, Yuan Shao had only 5 soldiers. We fought for more than ten days and wiped out 1 soldiers of Yuan Shao, but now Yuan Shao has 6 troops in his hands. If the elites in Yanzhou continue to support Yuan Shao like this, I am afraid that we will lose the battle. It will be us, the food and grass consumption of hundreds of thousands of troops is too great, we can't afford it!"

Yu Du resolutely said: "So we have to take the initiative to attack, and we must defeat Yuan Shao and the others no matter how heavy the casualties are. Only in this way can we survive, and we must fight a way out for the millions of people behind us. Only with a large army can we occupy Qingzhou, Yanzhou, and Xuzhou, and with the territory of these three states, we can survive with millions of troops behind us!"

Zang Ba thought for a while and said: "We have a large number of people, as long as we give full play to this advantage, we must be the ones to win! So starting today, we will divide the troops into 6 groups, and each group will attack Yuan Shao's army in turn. Our troops can rest, but Yuan Shao and the others are too small to have time to rest, as long as we continue to consume the energy of Yuan Shao's army, they will collapse sooner or later!"

Zang Ba got the consent of all the commanders of the Yellow Turban Army present, as long as they can defeat Yuan Shao's army, they are not afraid of death.

In early June, Dongjun, Puyang battlefield!

After the Yellow Turban Army changed their tactics, the battle situation changed a lot immediately. The Yellow Turban Army had more than 50 people. Even if it was divided into six divisions, each division had nearly [-] more people than Yuan Shao and the others!

Yuan Shao and the others quickly defeated the 9 Yellow Turban soldiers when they fought against the first Yellow Turban Army!

But after they defeated this wave of Yellow Turban soldiers, the next wave of 9 Yellow Turban soldiers continued to rush over!
Yuan Shao had no choice but to command the army to continue fighting against the Yellow Turban Army, and finally defeated this group of Yellow Turban Army soldiers. The third batch of 9 Yellow Turban Army soldiers rushed over again fearlessly!
But this time Yuan Shao's soldiers no longer had the strength to defeat the Yellow Turban soldiers, and they even had a tendency to retreat a bit.

When Yuan Shao realized this situation, he was very anxious. He supervised the army to attack and commanded the army to attack the Yellow Turban Army's central army, and defeated these Yellow Turban Army soldiers again!
But the battle was not over yet, the fourth batch of Yellow Turban soldiers continued to charge towards Yuan Shao's army, shouting the slogan: "Heaven is dead, Huang Tian should stand".

Seeing such a situation, Cao Cao felt bad. He went to Yuan Shao and shouted, "Everyone has no strength to kill. We can't spend it with the Yellow Turbans like this. If we continue to fight, we will definitely lose! I will stop you. At first you Command the army to retreat to the white horse!"

Yuan Shao thought for a while and said, "The Iron Armored Army around me is powerful, so let me command the army to break the rear!"

Cao Cao shouted: "You are the commander of the army, you can't stay here!"

Yuan Shao yelled: "If I lose the battle, I will have no face to live on, just let me die here!"

He was really about to lose to the Yellow Turban Army, Yuan Shao felt that he had no face to live, it would be better to die on the battlefield!

"Ziyuan, you lead the army to leave, and Mengde and I will cut off the queen for you!"

Cao Cao heard Yuan Shao's words and shouted: "Okay, today our two brothers will break out of the siege! You were defending here at first, and I will lead the army to attack the enemy's flank!"

Seeing Yuan Shao's army retreating continuously, Xu He rejoiced and said, "The Han army has already been defeated. Let the army take advantage of the victory to pursue and kill!"

9 soldiers followed Xu He and shouted: "Kill!"

Then they rushed towards Cao Cao and the others in a dense formation!

Yuan Shao drew out his sword and shouted: "I will die this year, I will die with you, the whole army is not allowed to take a step back, kill!"

Yuan Shao took the lead, and the morale of the Iron Armored Army was boosted again. Facing nearly 10 times the enemy, they still fought fiercely!
At the same time, Cao Cao led 5000 elite soldiers, and detoured to attack Xu He's right wing. The 5000 elite soldiers rushed into the formation of the Yellow Turban Army like a sharp knife. , Not a single soldier escaped, it is precisely because of such an indomitable spirit that Xu and the 9 army were completely smashed by Cao Cao!

The sound of killing on the battlefield was like thunder, the arrows were like rain, and the blood of the soldiers on both sides flowed like a river. The morale of the Han army was greatly shaken by Yuan Shao's encouragement. Cao Cao's attack was even more courageous. Under the attack from both sides of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, the whole army was defeated, and even Xu He was killed by Cao Cao.

After Cao Cao joined Yuan Shao, he pulled Yuan Shao, who was already red-eyed, and said, "We can't continue chasing and killing. Let's take advantage of this opportunity to withdraw quickly. If we don't leave, we won't be able to withdraw!"

Only then did Yuan Shao wake up, and then shouted: "Screw up and withdraw the troops, the whole army retreats, everyone retreats to the white horse!"

Yuan Shao's soldiers receded like a tide when they heard the sound of Ming Jin retreating.

But few soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army felt that they had defeated the Han army. Not to mention tens of thousands of them died, even Qu Shuai Xu He died in battle.

(End of this chapter)