Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Chapter 7 Poison Master? ? ?

"Can win."

The plain voice sounded, and Liu Bei subconsciously raised his head and looked at Li Ji in front of him.

And in the faint candlelight, Li Ji's eyes were shining, as if he had seen the future direction.

The millions of yellow scarves that swept away the big man seemed to Li Ji to have been nothing but local chickens and dogs in the wind.

Liu Bei was slightly startled and asked curiously. "Why is Zikun so sure?"

Even if he is as tough as Liu Bei, facing the Yellow Turban crowd that makes Liu Yan shy away, his heart is actually full of hesitation and hesitation about the unknown.

Liu Bei even learned from Liu Yan that even the supreme emperor of the Han Dynasty was also frightened by the huge momentum generated by the millions of Yellow Turbans. He devoted all his strength to guarding Sili, and even ordered the lifting of party imprisonment. Win over a large number of party members to avoid falling to the Yellow Turbans.

You must know that in order to gather power and stabilize his position, the Han Emperor Liu Hong single-handedly caused the "Second Disaster of Party Confinement". Six to seven hundred officials and scholars were executed, and countless people escaped and were exiled. .

Therefore, the emperor of the Han Dynasty lifted the prison from the party. In a sense, it was almost equivalent to slapping himself in the face. On the surface, it may not be as good as the "Edict of Sin", but in fact, the loss of prestige and power was even greater than the "Edict of Sin". This shows what the emperor of the Han Dynasty was forced to do. degree.

"First, Brother Xuande has the heart to help the world and save the people, and with Yun Chang and Yide working together to help, we will definitely be able to make a difference if we work together;"

"Secondly, although the Yellow Turban Rebellion is huge, it actually lacks internal logistics and few good generals. With the number of people, it is okay to defeat the enemy in one strike. Once it falls into a stalemate, it will be full of flaws and defeat will be inevitable."

"Third, and also the most important point..."

When Li Ji said this, his voice paused slightly and he looked at Liu Bei with bright eyes.

Upon seeing this, Liu Bei bowed and said sincerely. "Please also ask Zikun to teach me."

Li Ji replied slowly. "The Yellow Turbans have lost their foundation. Even if the Yellow Turbans defeat the imperial troops and attack Sili, or even capture the capital Luoyang, they will surely collapse."

Liu Bei thought for a moment, still puzzled. "Why?"

"The Yellow Turbans were originally founded by Zhang Jiao by relying on religious people to fool the people. On the surface, Zhang Jiao is the spiritual symbol and core pillar of the entire Yellow Turbans, but from beginning to end, there is always only one core of the Yellow Turbans, and that is... the people... …”

Li Ji said quietly.

"Today, the Yellow Turbans continue to absorb the people and strengthen themselves in this predatory way, but in fact they are completely abandoning their own roots."

"Brother Xuande, I hope you will remember one thing. Power... always comes from the bottom up. Power that betrays the lower level is just a castle in the air."

"Therefore, the Yellow Turban will definitely be defeated. Even if he eventually sweeps the entire Thirteen States of the Han Dynasty, he will definitely be defeated. The only difference is time and process."

Liu Bei opened his eyes wide and seemed to be lost in thought.

Li Ji looked at the bamboo slips in his hands and couldn't help but sigh.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion was a failure. In the end, even Sili did not invade, and they never touched the foot of the royal city until their death. Sili's dignitaries did not have the opportunity to see the revolting Yellow Turban thieves with their own eyes.

But more than a thousand years later, the rebel army led by King Chuang successfully invaded the capital and killed countless dignitaries one after another like chickens.

However, the rebels who invaded the capital were still defeated. The fundamental reason was that the young dragon-slaying boy eventually turned into an evil dragon and betrayed the people who were his foundation. It only took a little external force and changes to disintegrate the entire rebel force.

On the contrary, more than three hundred years after King Chuang's death, another rebel army that had always been integrated into the people succeeded in starting a business and created an unprecedented foundation.

Therefore, in Li Ji's view, the failure of the Yellow Turbans and King Chuang was essentially due to their betrayal of their own fundamentals.

When the Yellow Turban Rebels began to plunder the people and strengthen themselves, they were already doomed to defeat. They completely transformed from the Yellow Turban Rebels into the Yellow Turban Thieves. Their defeat was only a matter of time.

After a long time, Liu Bei's somewhat distracted eyes gradually regained their luster and said.

"Thanks to Zikun for your advice, I must never forget my original intention, base my life on benevolence, and build my body on morality until death!"

"So, can Brother Xuande regain his confidence?" Li Ji asked with a smile.

"We must win. Even if we are prepared to die in this battle, there are still more Li Xuande, Chen Xuande, and Zhao Xuande who can defeat the Yellow Turbans." Liu Bei replied loudly.

"What is the current scale of the rebel army formed by Brother Xuande?" Li Ji asked.

"There are two thousand strong men, fully equipped with weapons, and a gift of fifty horses and a hundred loads of grain and grass from Zhongshan merchant Zhang Shiping. It only takes one or two days to prepare and we will be able to fight." Liu Bei replied.

When Li Ji heard this, he made a basic judgment in his heart...

If you are fully equipped with weapons, you have no armor;

One hundred tons of grain and grass means there is no more grain and grass;

With the power of a single battle, I'm afraid they would collapse on their own if they fought even a little longer.

However, this is normal.

Even though the people of Youzhou are simple and tough, this is just a hastily formed rebel army.

Reality is not a game. Just click the mouse and consume food and grass money, and you will immediately gain standard soldiers calculated per unit.

Normally, it would take nearly a year to train a group of soldiers who obey orders and prohibitions.

If it is a truly strong and elite army, it cannot even be accumulated simply by time. The commander-in-chief, the number of battles, combat experience, etc. are all important factors.

Of course, the Yellow Turbans will just have more fun.

Nearly 80% of the old, weak, women and children were almost unarmed, and most of the young and middle-aged people who were robbed were only farm tools.

Only the real headquarters of the Yellow Turban thieves have weapons, and according to the intelligence compiled by Zhang Fei, there are almost no armors among the nearly 100,000 Yellow Turbans.

This is normal. Although people are not strictly prohibited from holding iron weapons, ordinary people naturally do not have the ability to make weapons independently. Almost all iron weapons are just farm tools.

The Yellow Turban thieves were just a group of poor people, so naturally they could not be so arrogant as to rob as many people as they could and distribute as many weapons as they could.

As for armor, hiding armor privately is a serious crime of confiscating a family and exterminating a clan. The number of armor privately hidden among the people is even smaller. However, Li Ji did not mean to look down upon the Yellow Turbans at all.

When the number reaches a certain level, even stones can kill people.

If Li Ji were the commander-in-chief of this group of Yellow Turbans, he would always keep the entire Yellow Turbans in a state of semi-starvation, and reward them with a full meal every time they conquered a place.

Coupled with the constant religious brainwashing methods, they call it a conquest of a place where they are not obeying God's edict, further deceiving themselves.

This kind of physical and mental whipping may not be able to temper a group of fanatical soldiers based on the weaknesses of human nature.

And as long as they are fanatical enough, the old, weak, women and children can also kill people!
  In a sense, in Li Ji's view, the Yellow Turban Army's top-to-bottom approach is too immature, not resolute enough, not thorough enough, and has not explored the true potential of its own special model.

'Wait a minute, I'm not the Yellow Turbans' strategist, why would I make such an assumption? '

Li Ji gently rubbed his eyebrows, suddenly came back to his senses, and turned to think about how to deal with the Yellow Turbans in front of him.

Similarly, Liu Bei is also thinking about this issue at the moment.

Liu Yan, the prefect who was determined to defend Zhuoxian, would not provide any reinforcements to Liu Bei. All Liu Bei could rely on was the two thousand rebels he had just recruited.

"Two thousand versus a hundred thousand."

Liu Bei, who had never actually set foot on the battlefield, frowned involuntarily when he thought of this astonishing numerical gap.

Although in Li Ji's words, the one hundred thousand Yellow Turbans seem to have only chickens and dogs that can be easily killed, but with a fifty-fold difference in numbers, even if the One Hundred Thousand Yellow Turbans remain motionless and let themselves be slaughtered, they may not be able to kill them all even if they use the curling blade of their weapons. .

Finally, Liu Bei, who had been thinking hard for a long time without any good ideas, asked.

"Zikun, how can we resist a hundred thousand people?"

Recalling the information conveyed by Zhang Fei, Li Ji vaguely had several directions in his mind, but he was not completely sure of any of them.

Immediately, Li Ji felt that after five days of training, his spirit had almost completely recovered, and he once again immersed his consciousness in the "strategy simulator".

[Under a series of accidents, you finally got your wish and temporarily went with Liu Bei.

However, based on various considerations, you are no longer in a hurry to join Liu Bei immediately, but what you need to do now is to prove your ability and try to change Liu Bei's original life trajectory, so that you can realize your ideals and ambitions through Liu Bei.

Your first priority is to help Liu Bei face the 1 Yellow Turbans who will arrive in Zhuoxian in five days. Your choices are: 2. Confront them head-on; 3. Lay out traps; . Find opportunities for sneak attacks. 】

Li Ji mentally sensed the options of these three different ideas and found that there are more detailed strategic choices in the follow-up of different ideas.

Traps are also divided into water attacks, fire attacks, falling rocks, etc.

As for the options for sneak attacks, there are more options, such as: night attacks, rear attacks when the enemy is exhausted, and sneak attacks from behind when the Yellow Turban thieves are attacking Zhuoxian City.

[After some thinking, you chose the safest option: looking for an opportunity to attack. And because of Zhang Fei’s investigation, you knew that most of the 100,000 Yellow Turbans were just a mob in nature. As long as they attacked the weak points directly, they might be able to fight. And win.

Therefore, under your persuasion, Liu Bei led two thousand rebels to quietly leave the city two days before the Yellow Turbans arrived in Zhuoxian. Then, taking advantage of their familiarity with the terrain, they first headed north to confuse the Yellow Turban spies lurking in Zhuoxian. , and then quietly circled back to hide in the valley about twenty miles outside the Zhuoxian city. 】

[Because you chose a hiding place to avoid the Yellow Turbans' route, and the two thousand troops were inconspicuous, you successfully hid the Yellow Turbans from the enemy, and miraculously ambush you behind the Yellow Turbans.

After the Yellow Turbans arrived in Zhuoxian, they looted wildly around Zhuoxian for three days and three nights. The number of Yellow Turbans that originally numbered only 50,000 quickly expanded to as many as 200,000.

Subsequently, the Yellow Turban bandit leaders were no longer satisfied with the surrounding Zhuoxian County, which was gradually being wiped out, but instead set their sights on the wealthy Zhuoxian City itself.

The brutal siege has begun!

Relying on their absolute numerical advantage, and in order to consume some of the old, weak, women and children, the Yellow Turban leader drove a large number of Yellow Turbans to surround the Zhuoxian city on all sides, and then began to attack the city with extremely crude siege equipment.

No matter they were old people, women or children, they had to die under the city of Zhuoxian one after another under the intimidation and threats of the Yellow Turban thieves who were supervising the war team. 】

[The siege lasted for two days. With a numerical advantage that was twenty times that of the defenders of Zhuoxian City, the Yellow Turbans used their corpses to pave a way to attack Zhuoxian City.

Just when the gates of Zhuoxian City were breached and more than half of the Yellow Turban thieves and the Yellow Turban crowd poured into Zhuoxian City, the opportunity you had been waiting for most came. The already furious Liu, Guan, and Zhang led two thousand rebels and charged directly at the Yellow Turban. The direction of the thief's headquarters.

The anger that had been accumulated for a long time allowed Liu, Guan, Zhang and the two thousand rebels, who were almost all from Zhuoxian County, to unleash an astonishing fighting force, charging straight towards the headquarters of the Yellow Turban leader with almost overwhelming force.

And more than half of the more than 100,000 Yellow Turbans have entered Zhuoxian City, and more than half of the Yellow Turbans stranded outside the city are also in a chaotic formation, with no order at all.

Therefore, the Yellow Turbans, who were dozens of times larger than the rebel army led by Liu Guanzhang, failed to make any effective obstruction. In the end, Liu Guanzhang and the three men successfully rushed to the headquarters of the Yellow Turban thief, and successfully killed the Yellow Turban thief. 】

[Suddenly, the Yellow Turban crowd was in chaos!
  Witnessing this scene, the Yellow Turbans began to flee in all directions, but more than half of the Yellow Turbans who entered Zhuoxian City had already fallen into madness and continued to burn, kill and loot in the city.

Although Liu, Guan, and Zhang also rushed into the city to quell the chaos, the strength gap caused by the already exhausted Zhuoxian defenders was unable to quell the aftermath in a short time.

This chaos lasted for two full days before the entire Zhuoxian city returned to basic order. However, not only were the buildings outside Zhuoxian city empty, most of the buildings in the city were burned to the ground, and nearly half of the people in the city died. In chaos.

Even Liu Yan, the prefect, also died under the butcher's knife of the Yellow Turban bandits.

The rebel army led by Liu Bei was almost completely destroyed in the aftermath of the pacification, and was unable to gather the Yellow Turban prisoners. The losses were also extremely heavy.

And in the remaining nearly half a year, Liu Guan and Zhang had to go around Zhuo County to wipe out the remnants of the Yellow Turbans.

However, this completely deviates from your plan to pacify the Yellow Turbans in Zhuojun and then move south to Jizhou.

In the end, as the Yellow Turban Rebellion gradually subsided throughout the world, Liu, Guan, and Zhang also made great achievements in resisting the Yellow Turbans in Zhuoxian County, and each of them was rewarded by the court.

Among them, due to the destruction of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the entire Zhuojun County was almost empty, and no governor was willing to take over this mess. The imperial court directly appointed Liu Bei as the prefect of Zhuojun County.

However, because your strategy was successful at the expense of using countless fellow villagers in Zhuo County as bait, you and Liu, Guan, and Zhang, who valued your fellow villagers, gradually drifted away from each other. Although Liu Bei respected you throughout his life, he rarely asked Because of you, I think you are too willing to pay any price for success, which is harmful to the harmony of the world. 】

[Evaluation: With one plan, Liu Bei was defeated by a weak man dozens of times stronger, and then your reputation spread to the ears of the princes. Because you were too ruthless and did not hesitate to sacrifice the lives of your fellow villagers to achieve your own success, you were called the "poisonous man" by the world. 'The name is especially better than Jia Xu.

However, due to the conflict of ideas between you and your lord Liu Bei, you were ultimately unable to show off your talents in this era. This also made it a pity for many fraudsters in later generations who admired your reputation. 】

(End of this chapter)