Three Kingdoms: I will act as a substitute for the Hunjun

Chapter 109 It turns out to be him (Happy New Year’s Day)
  The eight hundred wolf cavalry led by Zhang Liao were all veterans who had been at the border for a long time and had gone through bloody battles. They were not comparable to the pampered royal arms such as the Tun Cavalry and the Yue Cavalry.

Under the leadership of Zhang Liao, the wolf cavalry quickly caught up with the defeated troops, and with one charge they were scattered to pieces.

The Baibo thieves were all over the mountains and plains when they came, and they were all over the mountains and plains when they fled. There was no order at all.

Zhang Liao was not infatuated with the unilateral massacre, but took advantage of the situation and sent his troops straight towards Lu Bu. At this time, Lu Bu was still being beaten.

Lu Bu is undoubtedly a major pillar in deterring enemy thieves. If he is liberated, his lethality will increase linearly.

The generals of the Baibo thieves heard the urgent sound of horse hoofbeats, and when they took a closer look, they saw a group of black cavalry. Their iron armor shone with cold light, as if they were integrated with the cold wind, coming in the cold.

"Don't be reluctant to fight, retreat quickly!" The general who used Xuanhua to open the mountain ax shouted loudly, and the thieves dispersed after hearing this.

Lu Bu is surrounded by thieves and has already lost his temper. Does he want to leave now when he sees you?
  At that time, he rushed forward with his halberd, aimed at a thief who was running a little slower, and stabbed him with his halberd. He stabbed him to the core and screamed as he fell under the horse.

"Don't let the axe-wielder get away, I'm going to skin him!" Lu Bu shouted loudly, urging his horse to catch up.

Unexpectedly, although his own war horse is also a handsome horse that has been in battle for a long time, it is still slightly inferior to the axe-wielding gelding. Seeing that the distance is getting wider and wider, he has no choice but to vent his anger on those headless flies. On the bodies of ordinary thieves who were fleeing.

A premeditated ambush turned into a reverse massacre.

Those who could not escape fell to their knees and surrendered.

This is the difference between the stragglers and the regular army. Their tactics, battle formations, weapons, and personnel are all far apart. Even if they seize the opportunity to attack halfway across the border, they will only end up leaving corpses on the ground and returning without success.

At this time, Zhang Liao came over with a small leader and said: "Your Majesty, this person is Liu Shi, the young commander of the Baibo bandits. According to what he said, the people who ambushed Your Majesty this time were thieves from Wen County and Pinggao County. What you did.”

Liu Ming frowned, "You set up an ambush here in advance. You must have known that I was going to cross the river here. To be honest, how did you know that I was going to cross the river here?"

The young commander named Liu Shi kowtowed and said, "Your Majesty, originally I was more casual and would grab food wherever there was, but Yang Fengqu had a handsome general named Xu Huang. He suggested You can't act blindly, you should set up an informant in Luoyang, the capital, to understand the dynamics of the court. Therefore, on the day of His Majesty's expedition, we got the news and followed up with the scouts, so we made arrangements in advance."

"Xu Huang?" Liu Ming was startled. He didn't expect to meet this good general here. "Is he the general who made Xuanhua use the mountain axe?"

"It's him." Liu Shi replied, "He was also the one who arranged the ambush here today. We believed him when he said that an attack halfway across would achieve miraculous results and capture His Majesty. But we didn't expect that he was also exaggerating. "

Liu Ming knew it in his heart. He was still wondering just now that there was someone in the Montenegrin army who knew how to use the art of war and could still be entangled with Lu Bu for so long. It turned out to be Xu Huang, so everything made sense.

In the novel, Xu Huang is also one of the five good generals in Cao Cao's camp, with great military exploits, courage and strategy. In his early years, he followed Yang Feng, the general of the Baibo Army.

Today, he demonstrated both his courage and his strategy. Unfortunately, the overall military quality of the Baibo Army was so poor that Xu Huang's ingenuity and painstaking efforts were in vain.

Liu Ming immediately fell in love with his talent. He knew that Xu Huang was still unwilling to commit himself to a thief. He only needed to show his kindness a little, and he might be able to recruit him.

"Where are the commanders of our Baibo Army?" Liu Ming asked.

"Yang Feng and Xu Huang are in Pinggao, Han Xian is in Wen County, Li Le is attacking Huai County, Daqu Commander Guo Tai and Hu Cai Qu Commander are still in Hedong." Liu Shihe told the truth.

Liu Ming thought for a while and said, "Where are the Huns?"

"Yu Fuluo Shanyu is also in the east of the river." Liu Shi said, "But I heard that Yang Feng and Han Xian had discussed that if they could not stop your majesty's heavenly troops, they would invite Commander Guo Daqu and the Huns to enter Hanoi to help in the battle."

Liu Ming waved to Shi A beside him and said, "Bring him some dry food."

Shi A agreed and took out a few sticks of dried meat and handed them to Liu Shi. Liu Shi's eyes suddenly lit up, he took them and started eating them on the spot, as if he was the reincarnation of a starving ghost.

"Thank you, Your Majesty! To be honest, the criminals haven't eaten all day today. They are almost going crazy with hunger." Liu Shi said in a vague voice while eating. "You know Yang Feng and Xu Huang so well, are you also a general under Yang Feng?" Liu Ming asked.

"Your Majesty, the guilty man is one of Yang Qushuai's subordinates." Liu Shi replied.

"I can let you go back, but you have to do one thing." Liu Mingdao, "I have plenty of food here. If you go back and widely publicize my kindness, as long as someone is willing to come and surrender, I will forget the blame and provide you with enough food, and there are also Cotton coats for free.”

Liu Shi smiled and said nothing.

"Why are you laughing?" Cao Cao next to him couldn't help himself and asked.

"The guilty people remembered that this is how Pinggao was lost." Liu Shi said with a smile, "Pinggao ordered Zhang Wang to take in the refugees and give them free porridge, so we went to the city in the name of receiving relief and captured Pinggao County in one fell swoop. .”

Liu Ming didn't know whether to laugh or cry for a moment. Zhang Wang was also a loser and said, "Is this another Xu Huang's plan?"

"Exactly." Liu Shi said, "If his strategy hadn't been successful every time, we wouldn't have listened to him to do half-crossing attacks and lose the battle even though we were half frozen to death."

"Very good!" Liu Ming said with a smile, "You continue to do what I just told you, and at the same time, bring a letter to Yang Feng and Xu Huang."

At that moment, Liu Ming wrote two letters himself and gave them to Liu Shi. By the way, he was given another cotton coat.

Liu Shi was grateful and reluctantly left.

"Your Majesty, where will the army march next?" Cao Cao asked, "Huai County, the county government, is being attacked by Baibo bandits. I suggest that we go to rescue Huai County first."

Liu Ming shook his head and said: "If we want to rescue Huai County, we must first pass through Pinggao. We can't go around and hand our back to the Pinggao thieves. The army is stationed under Pinggao City!"

So a small number of soldiers were left to clean the battlefield, bury the corpses, and guard several pontoon bridges to ensure that the military supplies and supplies behind them could pass smoothly.

The army went straight to Pinggao County and set up camp ten miles away from the city.

Emperor Liu Ming does not need to worry about these specific matters.

Liu Ming took Lu Bu, Zhang Liao, Shi A, He Man and other guards around the county town.

He saw that the county town was not big and the city walls were not high, but there were more bandits on the city top. He even vaguely saw Xu Huang standing on the city head.

With his current limited troops, if he were to attack by force, he would definitely suffer serious losses. Fortunately, he had just come up with a plan on the spur of the moment, and it would depend on how effective Liu Shi would be in executing it.

In the evening, when I returned to the camp, I found a woman standing at the gate of the camp. She was in ragged clothes, her face was black and dusty and smeared with dirt. Her true face could not be seen clearly, and she was shivering from the cold.

"Who is this?" Liu Ming asked.

The soldiers guarding the camp quickly reported: "This woman said she has something important to see your Majesty!"

"Want to see me? What do you want?" Liu Ming asked doubtfully.

When the woman heard that the person in front of her called herself "I" and saw that her clothes were magnificent and extraordinary, she hurriedly fell to her knees with a plop and said: "The Shan family, a civilian woman, is the wife of Zhang Wang, the magistrate of Pinggao County. Day and night I hope that the heavenly army will come to quell the rebellion, and I heard that Your Majesty is personally conducting the expedition, so I came here to propose strategies to pacify Pinggao County."

————PS: Another year has come to an end. I wish you all a happy new year, may the dragon fly to the sky, and all the best.

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