Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Chapter 6 Anticipating the enemy thousands of miles away
  "Da da da da..."

A series of rapid hoofbeats continued to stir in the dark night.

After Zhang Fei led the Yanyun Eighteen Cavalry to leave Zhuoxian, they drove southward day and night along the route marked on the map, looking for traces of the Yellow Turbans.

For Zhang Fei, this was also the first time in his life to lead an army. Although there were only eighteen people under his command, Zhang Fei was undoubtedly in a very exciting mood at the beginning.

However, after two days of traveling day and night, Zhang Fei's face no longer had the excitement, and his messy face looked a little more fierce and solemn.

At this moment, Zhang Fei had arrived at the edge of the area where Li Ji predicted that the Yellow Turban Thief would be. What he saw was still peaceful and peaceful.

This made Zhang Fei couldn't help but have a trace of doubt in his heart, and he murmured.

"I won't be teased by Mr. Zikun, right?"

Immediately, Zhang Fei took out the map from his arms, carefully identified the map with the faint moonlight, and confirmed that his position was correct before stuffing it into his arms again.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Fei turned to look at the Eighteen Yanyun Cavalrymen behind him. His face was full of exhaustion that could not be concealed, and he was even swaying a little while sitting on the horse.

In the past two days, apart from giving the horses necessary rest, they had been driving almost non-stop, and they were already tired.

However, Zhang Fei knew the importance of time. The sooner he confirmed the Yellow Turban thief from Jizhou, the more adequate preparations and arrangements he could make for Liu Bei.

Therefore, even though Zhang Fei wanted the Eighteen Cavalrymen of Yanyun, who were like him, to rest first, he still raised the Zhangba Snake Spear and ordered.

"Spread out three hundred feet apart and search all the way south. If you find anything, use three long whistles as a signal. No matter what, you must find traces of the Yellow Turban thieves tonight."

"Yes."

The Eighteen Yanyun Cavalry responded neatly with a somewhat tired voice, and quickly spread out three hundred feet left and right without any complaints, and began to search the area from north to south like a big net.

And this is also a method Li Ji taught Zhang Fei.

Zhuojun is so big that a dozen people thrown into it are just a drop in the ocean.

Even with the scope further defined by Li Ji, if you search like a headless fly, more than a dozen people may not be able to find it.

However, just as Zhang Fei gritted his teeth, he was ready to search the area in this way all night long.

Less than a moment later, Zhang Fei and Yan Yun's Eighteen Cavalry reunited under three whistles, and they all looked at the black shadow that seemed to be crawling forward little by little under the continuous torches.

"We have really found it. The Yellow Turban Thief is really in this area..."

Although Zhang Fei had subconsciously believed in Li Ji's ability, he was still shocked after personally confirming Li Ji's prediction.

"Could this mean that you can predict the enemy thousands of miles away? Mr. Zikun is truly a god."

With Zhang Fei's IQ, the scene in front of him felt unbelievable. It was really hard to understand how Li Ji could predict the location of the Yellow Turban thief thousands of miles away two days ago.

However, as Zhang Fei led the Eighteen Yanyun Cavalry to quietly touch the flanks of the group of continuous black shadows in front of them, their faces were all complicated and ugly.

As far as the eye can see, the faces of old, weak, women and children can be seen everywhere in the shadows, slowly and difficultly walking in the direction of the torch.

Only those holding torches were strong men with yellow scarves on their heads, and from time to time, the insults of these yellow scarf thieves holding broadswords were heard, shouting at the old, weak, women and children to move forward.

Even though Zhang Fei and Yan Yun's Eighteenth Cavalry were still quite far away from the Yellow Turbans, in the dark night, the shouts of the Yellow Turban thieves, the cries of women and children, and the wailing sounds from time to time formed a scene that made people laugh. A scene that is both chilling and angry.

In Zhang Fei's eyes, this is not even a march, but a drive to drive the people forward!

Yellow scarf!

"Yellow Turban!!!"

Zhang Fei clenched his teeth and his eyes widened, as if he wanted to bite someone.

From the accents of those Yellow Turban thieves and the large number of driven old, weak, women and children, it was not difficult for Zhang Fei to judge that most of those old, weak, women and children were from Zhuojun, while those Yellow Turban thieves should have Jizhou accent.

Before, Zhang Fei could not fully understand what Li Ji said, that the Yellow Turban thieves would rob the people along the way and grow rapidly like a snowball.

And no matter what, we must find out where the Yellow Turbans' headquarters is in order to truly defeat this group of Yellow Turbans.

Now, Zhang Fei still doesn't understand that the robbery methods of the Yellow Turban thieves are much more terrifying than those of ordinary mountain bandits.

Wherever these Yellow Turban thieves went, they not only plundered the property and food of the local people, but also forced the people to join the Yellow Turban crowd.

With a steel knife in one hand, food in the other, and the people being robbed with almost no way to survive, where are there any more options?

As for pretending to join and then resisting?
  When a common man is forced to join the Yellow Turbans with his whole family, where is the chance to resist?
  The old, weak, women and children had no ability to escape and could only be guided and driven along the way.

And when the old, weak, women and children in the family are forced to become part of the Yellow Turbans, the young and middle-aged people who are forced to join have no choice but to obey, even if they want to protect their families.

Even in order to make the old, weak, women and children at home stutter, the only choice for those young and middle-aged people was to follow the other yellow scarf thieves to rob other people.

anger!
  Zhang Fei's tiger-like gaze was fixed on the Yellow Turban thieves holding torches among the Yellow Turban crowd, and he wished he could rush forward and poke holes in those thieves one by one with his eight-foot-long snake spear.

The huge crowd of Yellow Turbans in front of him did not intimidate Zhang Fei. Instead, looking at the huge number of people advancing loosely and chaotically, an idea subconsciously came to his mind - "night attack".

This group of Yellow Turbans are not even soldiers in the true sense. Even the outermost perimeter is always without any defense. Zhang Fei feels that even with only eighteen people, he can penetrate the Yellow Turbans under the cover of night and kill as much as he likes. .

However, Zhang Fei looked back at the extremely exhausted Yanyun Eighteen Cavalry behind him and gave up the idea.

More importantly, during the night attack, Zhang Fei also understood that even if he could kill a hundred and eighty Yellow Turban thieves to vent his anger, I am afraid that those old, weak, women and children with no fighting ability would die even more in the chaos and trampling.

"hateful!"

Zhang Fei said harshly. "I will make sure you thieves look good tomorrow."

Immediately, Zhang Fei led Yan Yun's Eighteen Cavalry back to a certain distance, and then rested while thinking about how to quickly find the headquarters of the Yellow Turban Thieves.

……

Three days later.

Just when Li Ji put down the "Chun Qiu Zuo Zhuan" in his hand and prepared to sleep in his clothes.

"boom!"

The door was suddenly knocked open, and Liu Bei burst in excitedly.

This made Li Ji sit up subconsciously, feeling a headache. During these five days, Liu Bei was busy with the affairs of the rebel army almost day and night, constantly recruiting local warriors.

However, even so, Liu Bei still did not forget to greet Li Ji every day. No matter how busy and urgent he was, he could not stop eating and sleeping with Li Ji at the same table...

Sleep, of course this is impossible!

Or maybe it was a matter of habits of this era, but Liu Bei wanted to have long talks with Li Ji many times and sleep together to express Liu Bei's importance and friendship to Li Ji.

However, Li Ji couldn't stand this habit and resolutely refused, almost saying "I love killing people in my dreams".

Therefore, when he saw Liu Bei appearing at this time, Li Ji almost subconsciously thought that Liu Bei wanted to invite him again.

"Zikun, Zikun..."

Liu Bei was so excited for the first time that his face turned red. He rushed straight to Li Ji, held Li Ji's hand, and said repeatedly.

"You are so awesome, a god! A god!"

? ?
  Li Ji.

Why is Liu Bei so crazy in the middle of the night?

Just as Li Ji couldn't help but lean back, slightly away from Liu Bei's excited and rosy face.

"Brother Xuande, what are you doing?" Li Ji asked warily.

Liu Bei said as he reached into his clothes. "Yes, yes, Zikun, let me show you something wonderful first, then you will understand."

Immediately afterwards, Liu Bei took out a bamboo slip from his arms and handed it to Li Ji.

Li Ji took the bamboo slips, pretended to get up and sat on a couch far away from Liu Bei. By the candlelight, he opened the bamboo slips and started reading.

[Yours sincerely, eldest brother, second brother, and Mr. Zikun...]

This tone shocked Li Ji's spirit, and he immediately understood the information Zhang Fei had sent back. This was also the information Li Ji was also eagerly waiting for.

Without knowing anything about the Yellow Turbans, even Li Ji's "strategy simulator" has no meaning.

The more detailed the information, the more helpful it will be for Li Ji to use the "strategy simulator" ability to conduct deductions.

However, what surprised Li Ji was that the next sentence in the bamboo slips was "Mr. Zikun is really a god. I left Zhuo County for two days and traveled day and night. I found the Yellow Turban thief at the location mentioned by Mr. Zikun..."

As the bamboo slips were unfolded little by little, they also recorded a large amount of Yellow Turban information discovered by Zhang Fei.

After Zhang Fei led the Yanyun Eighteen Cavalry to rest for a night, he began to collect information about the Yellow Turbans the next day.

One hundred thousand!

Counting a large number of old, weak, women and children, the number of Yellow Turbans exceeded one hundred thousand according to Zhang Fei's visual estimation.

The real Yellow Turban thieves are hidden in this overwhelming crowd of old, weak, women and children. The specific number is unknown, and the location of the Yellow Turban thieves' headquarters is unclear.

Among them, Zhang Fei specifically recorded that every time the Yellow Turbans marched for a day, a large number of old, weak, women and children fell down unable to support themselves.

Wherever the Yellow Turbans marched, they were almost covered with corpses of old, weak, women and children, and they were also carrying more and more people with them.

Because, Zhang Fei and Yan Yun's Eighteen Cavalrymen, who had been running back and forth around the Yellow Turbans for most of the day, finally made a decision.

That is to attack the Yellow Turbans!

And instead of taking advantage of the cover of night, they directly attacked the Yellow Turbans in broad daylight.

Nineteen people attack 100,000 people? !
  When he saw this, Li Ji's brows couldn't help but twitch.

However, Zhang Fei was not a completely brainless man. He deliberately selected the weakest flank and inserted it fiercely, and specially selected the yellow turban thieves wearing yellow turbans to rush to kill.

Zhang Fei quickly caused a small area of ​​chaos, either intentionally or unintentionally.

Moreover, those panicked old, weak, women and children who were not guided and expelled by the Yellow Turban thieves, instead of posing a threat to Zhang Fei and others, actually protected Zhang Fei's small group of people to a certain extent.

In addition, using Zhang Fei's force to kill ordinary yellow turban thieves is almost an unparalleled way to cut grass.

Then, the small-scale chaos on the flanks quickly attracted the attention of the real Yellow Turban Thief Headquarters. Thousands of thieves wearing yellow scarves quickly surrounded Zhang Fei and Yan Yun's Eighteen Cavalry.

However, with the help of the obstacles of the old, weak, women and children, Zhang Fei and Yan Yun's Eighteen Cavalry retreated quickly and safely.

Later, Zhang Fei quickly found the true location of the Yellow Turban Thief's headquarters based on the exposed part of the Yellow Turban Thief. Then, by identifying the smoke in that area from a distance, he judged that the Yellow Turban Thief's headquarters was probably somewhere between five thousand and six thousand. between.

Secondly, among the people who were robbed and joined the Yellow Turbans, the number of young men and women who could be driven away by the Yellow Turban thieves and who were a threat was about 20,000, and the remaining more than 70,000 were old, weak, women and children who were not a big threat.

Finally, in the area that was gradually left, there was a long paragraph of words praising Zikun's ability to predict events. Based on Zhang Fei's actual judgment, the Yellow Turbans' traveling speed arrived at Zhuoxian on the tenth day from before. nearby.

Li Ji slowly closed the bamboo slips, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said.

"There are still five days before the Yellow Turban thieves will actually arrive in Zhuoxian County. If Zhuoxian County does not resist the Yellow Turban thieves, then these Yellow Turban thieves will spread their enlightenment like a goddess scattering flowers and begin to gradually cover the entire territory of Zhuoxian County. Invade other counties in Youzhou."

With this moment of buffering, Liu Bei recovered his due calmness from the excitement of confirming that Li Ji knew that the enemy was thousands of miles away, sighed and said.

"In the past few days, Governor Liu Yan has mobilized all the troops of Zhuo County to the city of Zhuo County. I am afraid that as Zikun said before, he intends to abandon the entire Zhuo County and defend the city of Zhuo County."

"It's not surprising that the Yellow Turbans are so powerful, but within a month or two they have swept through the eight states of Qing, Xu, You, Ji, Jing, Yang, Yan, and Henan. It can be said that they have occupied nearly half of the Han Dynasty. How amazing It is normal for Liu Yan to be frightened and frightened by the momentum."

Leechi commented calmly.

The information held by different classes is obviously very different. When Liu, Guan, Zhang and more ordinary people saw the rebel list and learned about the existence of the Yellow Turban thieves, the prefect Liu Yan obviously had more information about the Yellow Turban. information.

Therefore, when the Yellow Turbans showed their intention to invade Youzhou, Liu Yan lost his composure and even made plans to abandon the entire Zhuo County and defend one city of Zhuo County.

In the past few days, Liu Bei also visited Liu Yan as the leader of the rebel army and a clan member of the Han Dynasty, intending to make a last-ditch effort to persuade Liu Yan to protect more people. Only then did he learn about the Yellow Turban Thief from Liu Yan Shocking news sweeping across eight states in the world.

At this moment, Liu Bei's expression couldn't help but show a trace of doubt and hesitation, and he asked.

"Zikun, can we win this battle? Can the big man win?"

(End of this chapter)