I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 247, Seven Inches of the Rattan Armor Army, the Great War Breaks Out!

When the Yellow Turban Army fought Sun Jian again, Sun Jian chased Liu Pi, the leader of the Yellow Turban Army, to attack as usual!But he didn't expect that there were already hundreds of crossbowmen in ambush beside Liu Pi!

When Sun Jian was about to rush in front of Liu Pi, hundreds of crossbow arrows suddenly appeared, and all the arrows in his hands were shot at Sun Jian.

"Duke Ming!" Cheng Pu, Huang Gai and others were furious when they saw that Sun Jian was shot with dozens of arrows. They led their subordinates to fight the enemy bravely, rushed to Sun Jian's side, and snatched Sun Jian's body back!
But Liu Pi and others saw the death of the great demon king Sun Jian, and excitedly shouted: "Kill back, Sun Jian is dead, everyone has revenge for revenge, revenge for revenge, kill!"

The morale of the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army was greatly boosted. The soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army who were killed by Sun Jian were also killed and returned under the leadership of Huang Shao and He Man. Suddenly fell into a panic, and was beaten back by the Yellow Turban army who had a numerical advantage.

At this time, after Yuan Shu knew that Sun Jian was killed in battle, he personally led the army to support him and rescued Sun Jian's remnants! ,
And the casualties of the Yellow Turban coalition forces were not small. After seeing the retreat of the Han army, they did not continue to pursue them!

But this victory convinced Liu Pi and others to Zhu Min.

They found Zhu Min and said with a smile: "Sun Jian was killed by us, shouldn't we counterattack Yuzhou and completely defeat Yuan Shu's army!"

But Zhu Min shook his head and said: "All the young and strong we have now add up to only 10 people, and even if Yuan Shu lost 5000 elite Sun Jian, he still has 3.5 Han troops in his hands. We are only three times more than the Han army. Are you sure you can defeat Yuan Shu's army?"

Liu Pi and the others shook their heads. After these years of fighting, if they didn’t have enough to eat, they usually had a 10-on-1 chance of winning against the Han army. The larger the number, the more soldiers they need. The 1 Han army needs 2 of their Yellow Turbans to be sure of victory!
But now that they have conquered Wubao, the core soldiers have certain equipment, and ordinary people can also eat enough. They have simple spears and rattan armor, but they need more than 5 times the advantage to say that they can defeat the Han army. And the elite Han army like Sun Jian, even if they have 5 people, they may not dare to say that they can win!
Zhu Min said helplessly: "There is nothing to say if we can't win. Now we can only retreat up the mountain, recuperate, and not fight with Yuan Shu's main force. At the same time, we will mobilize the people around the base area to monitor Yuan Shu's every move, and find ways to attack weak places. , Today we kill Yuan Shu 200 soldiers, and tomorrow we kill Yuan Shu 300 soldiers. This will continue to weaken Yuan Shu's strength and strengthen our own strength. In a few years, we will be able to counterattack Yuzhou again!
Liu Pi was a little embarrassed and said, "It's a bit like bandits and bandits to fight like this!"

In fact, many of the Qu Shuai of the Yellow Turban Army are bandits and bandits. It is because of their poor reputation that they began to call themselves the Yellow Turban Army, so that the people around them can accept them and the refugees can take refuge in them!

It has to be said that Zhang Jiao left behind after treating the common people for decades. The common people know who treats them well and who treats them badly. It's a pity that this surplus was wasted by the generals of the Yellow Turban Army. But there was no success, and in the end all the people who followed them were killed in battle!

He Man also smiled awkwardly: "This seems to be the way the barbarians attack us big men?"

Zhu Min nodded and said: "That's right, this is the tactic of the barbarians, called guerrilla warfare. It is a tactic of defeating the strong with the weak. Now we must preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy. Preserving ourselves is more important than destroying the enemy. As long as we We fight again and again, improving our fighting power time and time again, sooner or later our soldiers will not lose to the big man, and our 10 army will still be afraid of Yuan Shu's 3-4 army!"

But Huang Shao asked: "If we don't go out to fight, how can we support these 10 soldiers and the hundreds of thousands of troops who follow us!

Economic strength is the biggest gap between the Yellow Turban Army and the Tengjia Army. Xu Wei can support hundreds of thousands of Tengjia Army, but the Yellow Turban Army does not fight off its own troops with the Han Army, and these troops will freeze to death in winter. Starved to death, and this is the reason why their combat effectiveness has not been improved. The soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army can be regarded as a one-time army. Few of them can live until the next spring!
Zhu Min said: "That's why we have to find a way to build a base area, that is, to have a place to support our tribes. When our Tengjia Army came to Mayi, the first thing we did was to open up wasteland. Now you also have to find a way Farming, the entire Central Plains is at war this year, if we don’t farm, it will be difficult for us to survive next year!"

Liu Pi wondered: "If we don't occupy the county seat, how can we get food? If we occupy the county seat, we will be suppressed by the Han army. How can we farm?"

Huang Shao and the others also had the same question!

Zhu Mindao: "The food is not in the county seat, but in the countryside. Didn't the commanders realize that even if you occupy the county seat, you have never received tax and food. The county seat is actually of little use to our Yellow Turban Army. The food and grass in the county seat is not as much as that of a Wubao. Instead of attacking the county seat, we might as well attack Wubao!
This remark is a bit against Liu Pi's three views. He said: "How is this possible? Every time we capture the counties and counties of the Han Dynasty, we have enough weapons and food to grow. How can it be said that occupying counties is useless? ?
Zhu Mindao: "Those are the grains in the granaries of counties and counties, but after everyone eats these grains, can you collect grain and grass from the local area?"

Naturally, it is impossible. They don't even have the most basic officials, and there is no administrative system. Who will collect grain for him.

Liu Pi continued to retort: ​​"It's because we haven't occupied the county for long enough, so naturally we can't collect food!
Zhu Min shook his head, and then said firmly: "Everyone, do you think that the officials of the big man will serve us rebels? Taxation, because you commanders don’t have a civil service system to help you collect taxes.”

Zhu Min's words were like a lightning strike on their heads. It turned out that they were almost useless to them to capture counties and counties. If they really wanted food, grass and weapons, it would be more cost-effective to attack Wubao of the powerful and powerful!
Zhu Min continued: "So you commanders must pay attention to building your own territory. As long as your territory can support our army, we will have the ability to expand our power. Otherwise, no matter how many counties we occupy, it will be like this. Once the castles in the air are defeated by the Han army, all these counties will be lost!"

Then Zhu Min continued: "The Han army is powerful, so we can only use the mountains as our base. Liu Piqushuai's base is in the Funiu Mountains. You two can choose the Tongbai Mountains and the Dabie Mountains as your bases. Find a way to build a base in the mountains." Feed your people! If the Han army attacks us, we can support each other. In short, we will continue to grow and develop, and sooner or later we will defeat the Han army!"

Liu Pi and the others also recognized the territory divided by Zhu Min, and then they each left the battlefield with their own subordinates!
On the other side, Yuan Shu saw Sun Jian's body and cried bitterly: "Brother Wentai, you seem to be the overlord, how could you die on the battlefield! How could the Yellow Turban Army be your opponent!"

Cheng Pu said sadly: "Wentai fell into the trick of the Yellow Turban Army. They ambushed hundreds of crossbowmen beside Liu Pi, waiting for Wentai to attack Liu Pi!"

Yuan Shu gritted his teeth when he heard Cheng Pu's words: "Liu Pi, if you dare to kill my brother and my siblings, I will cut you into pieces!"

At this stage, Sun Jian is the strongest general in Yuan Shu's hands, but now that his strongest blade is broken, Yuan Shu is naturally heartbroken.

The next day Yuan Shu mobilized all the troops in his hands to kill Liu Pi, but found that all the Yellow Turbans had run away. I couldn't find the Yellow Turban Army, so I had no choice but to retreat!
Youzhou, Daijun!
After Liu Yu helped Gongsun Zan prepare 200 war horses and food supplies, Gongsun Zan took these supplies from Daijun to the north and entered the grassland, and then continued westward from the grassland to attack the territory of the Tengjia Army. Gongsun Zan's white horse righteousness has always been an elite , and now there are three horses alone, and the marching speed of one person exceeds [-] miles. He quickly broke into the territory of the Fujijia Army on the grassland!Then, using Baima Yicong's powerful combat power, he killed several herdsman settlements of the Tengjia Army, killed the herdsmen, and burned the entire village!
Gongsun Zan burned 6 small herdsmen villages in a row like this, which attracted the attention of the entire Tengjia Army. Wubao in the whole grassland began to take in the herdsmen in the surrounding areas. After discovering Gongsun Zan's cavalry, they immediately lit the beacon fire!

Gongsun Zan originally wanted to attack these forts, but when he got closer, he realized that they were star-shaped forts of the Rattan Army, and they were actually made of cement!

Gongsun Zan could only curse angrily: "Mr. Lei really has so much money and no place to spend it, that he spent such a huge amount of money on the grassland to build a cement dock!"

The price of cement in Youzhou is not low. In Youzhou, only aristocrats can afford it. Like the Wubao in front of Gongsun Zan, it costs tens of millions of dollars to build it in Youzhou!
Guan Jing thought for a while and said: "Duke Ming, the Wubao is expensive. Lei Gong can't build Wubao on the entire grassland. Lei Gong should only build Wubao in the border area! Let's continue to go deep into Leigong's territory. It should not be so strong inside. The Wubao!"

Gongsun Zan made sense once he thought about it, so he continued to assault the Tengjia Army's territory. He believed that such a strong fortress could not exist inside.

Then Gongsun Zan encountered something that ruined his three views. He continued to go deep into the territory of the Tengjia Army and encountered more than a dozen fortresses, but the Tengjia Army really had every fort built with cement. One is very sturdy!

At this time, Gongsun Zan and the others had already been exposed. Sun Qing, the magistrate of Qiangyin County, issued a call-up order, and the young and strong living in the entire Qiangyin County began to gather.

In less than a day, Sun Qing assembled 3 cavalry, and now Gongsun Zan surrounded them under the command of Wubao Fenghuo!

At this time, Gongsun Zan also realized that something was wrong. There were fortresses everywhere on the grassland, and there were beacon fires pointing out their whereabouts. These fortresses were like nets, catching Baima Yicong. He felt dangerous and planned to retreat. , and then met the 3 cavalry led by Sun Qing!
Gongsun Zan tried his best to lead Baima Yicong to fight a bloody road, leading only 1000 Baima Yicong to escape from the territory of the Tengjia Army!

But Sun Qing knew that Gongsun Zan had slaughtered 6 villages on the territory of the Tengjia Army, so he didn't want to let Gongsun Zan go so easily, and chased Gongsun Zan all the way with 3 cavalry!
On the other side of Youzhou, Liu Yu mobilized 8 people in the entire Youzhou to approach the territory of the Tengjia Army, making a gesture of wanting to attack!
At the same time, he also ordered Yan Rou to build 10 huge iron locks, a chain across the river, and 10 chains to directly cut off the Sanggan River connecting Bingzhou.

Liu Yu's actions surprised the senior leaders of the Tengjia Army. They had the impression that Liu Yu was a pacifist. Now they suddenly mobilized an army of 8, and no one could figure out when.Originally, it was acceptable for him to just mobilize the main force of the Tengjia Army, even Gongsun Zan's attack on the territory of the Tengjia Army on the grassland.

But the most unbearable thing for the top of the Tengjia Army is that Liu Yu actually locked the Sanggan River!
You must know that Bingzhou can feed more than 1000 million people now, relying on a large amount of land reclamation and the construction of various water conservancy facilities, but the most important thing is that there is a large amount of soil fertilizer and struvite in the fields, of which the contribution of struvite should be occupied. Seventy percent, the guano shipped from Youzhou to Bingzhou every year is increasing at a rate of [-]%, and the price of struvite has tripled, but the supply is still in short supply.

Now Bingzhou purchases more than 1 million shi of struvite a year, because struvite increases food production by more than 000 million shi. It can be said that if the struvite is broken, the grain production of Bingzhou will be reduced by half .Four or five million people will starve to death.

Liu Yu's move really hit the rattan armor army seven inches above!

So after the Sanggan River was blocked, the masters of the armored army who stayed in Taiyuan County unanimously passed the war against Youzhou!
So the whole Bingzhou began to mobilize, and a large number of troops began to move towards Mayi. The herdsmen in all counties began to put on their armor, which was good for fighting swords. After the cavalry was assembled, they immediately headed towards Mayi!

Looking from a height, a long dragon composed of several armies is heading towards Mayi!

The fierce movement of the Tengjia Army naturally attracted the attention of all parties in the Han Dynasty. After learning that Liu Yu had cut off the Sanggan River, Huangfusong said helplessly: "War is inevitable!"

Huangfusong had known this weakness of the Rattan Armor Army for a long time, but because the court was divided, he did not dare to block the passage of the Rattan Armor Army to import struvite, because he knew that war would definitely break out.But now that Liu Yu has used this method to block the passage of Bingzhou struvite, the Tengjia Army will definitely attack Youzhou!

(End of this chapter)