People in the Three Kingdoms: Starting from Preaching

Chapter 543 Zhou Yu is out of work
From the top of Changsha City, you can see the quiet Yellow Turban camp in the distance.

Since the Yellow Turbans arrived in Changsha and launched their first attack, they have not made any further moves. This confrontation lasted for half a month, and both sides had understood each other's combat intentions.

Zhou Yu, who climbed onto the top of the city wall, saw that the Yellow Turban position was still silent. He could not help but punch the parapet, with anxiety and anger visible in his eyes.

The reason why he reacted like this was because the current situation was completely different from what he expected.

We agreed to fight to the death to attack the city, why did nothing happen after just one battle?

"Why don't you fight? Xu Chen has such a huge advantage, but he doesn't even dare to retreat. He is unworthy of being called a hero!"

Zhou Yu was unusually emotional, and at this juncture he could only utter these words in frustration.

He only hoped that the Yellow Turbans would attack as hard as they did in the beginning. Even if this would put him under great pressure, it would be ten thousand times better than the current confrontation.
But more than half a month passed and there was no sign of the Yellow Turbans moving, which made Zhou Yu a little anxious.

I've put so much effort into building a solid defense. If you don't fight, then all my efforts would be in vain.

"No, this won't work. If we continue this confrontation, our army will just die."

Zhou Yu's face was gloomy, and after a while he finally blurted out a sentence: "Listen to my orders, tomorrow we will send the light cavalry out of the city to provoke and taunt the Yellow Turbans. We must do everything we can to lure the Yellow Turbans to attack."

Lu Su, who was standing by, immediately looked embarrassed: "Gongjin, this move may not work, and it will show that our army is anxious, which is not a good thing."

Zhou Yu gritted his teeth and said, "Of course I understand. However, at this point, both sides are clear about the situation. We know what they are thinking, and they also know what we are thinking. There is no need to worry about showing weakness. Even if we can't lure them to send troops, we can at least take advantage of their arguments to some extent and dampen their momentum!"

Lu Su was silent for a while after hearing this. He had to say that Zhou Yu had explained everything.

When the Yellow Turbans gave up the siege and began the siege, it showed that they had realized that the forced siege was a trap set for them by Wu and Shu. Once the Yellow Turbans came to their senses and gave up the siege, the defense line carefully arranged by the Wu-Shu coalition forces would become useless.

No matter how solid a barrier is, its value can only be realized when the enemy attacks.

Now that things have come to this, maybe we can give Zhou Yu's method a try. We should try it out as much as possible. Who knows, if it really works, we might even anger the Yellow Turbans.

Lu Su went down to arrange this matter. His arrangement was very clever. To prevent the Yellow Turbans from finding out in advance, many hanging baskets with people and horses on them were not lowered from the city wall until dawn the next morning. There were about a dozen riders in total.

Under the cover of the dim sky before dawn, the dozen riders approached the Yellow Turbans' camp without the Yellow Turbans noticing.

However, the Yellow Turbans' defense was very good. They discovered the attack when the dozen riders were still half a mile away from the camp, and immediately issued an alarm. The camp also quickly took precautions.

However, what the Yellow Turbans did not expect was that what came was not a large enemy army, but just a dozen knights.

What they didn't expect was that these cavalrymen quickly approached within a distance of about 100 meters, and then they drew their bows and shot, shouting loudly, uttering foul language, and even loudly insulting Xu Chen, Wang Dang and other Yellow Turban leaders.

What's more, some of them even boldly jumped off their horses, took off their pants, exposed their bare buttocks and humiliated the Yellow Turban camp.

In an instant, the Yellow Turban camp fell into deathly silence.

They had not expected such a tactic from the enemy, but it had to be said that it was not useless. In fact, the Yellow Turban soldiers who witnessed all this in the camp were really spitting fire from their eyes. After a brief silence in the camp, the soldiers were restless and could not calm down.

The Yellow Turbans were also proud. How could they tolerate such ridicule and humiliation from the enemy? What's more, the enemy's words directly attacked the leader who could not be slandered in their minds. This was even more of a sore spot in the hearts of the Yellow Turban soldiers.

At this moment, the fifty thousand Yellow Turbans immediately wanted to grind these dozen riders to ashes, and then flatten Changsha to vent their anger!

"Master, we cannot allow the bandits to be so rampant in front of our army. Zhao Yun is willing to lead the troops to kill the bandits!"

The generals who were alarmed by the noise in the camp and rushed over were speechless at the scene before them. It was Zhao Yun who could not bear it anymore and stepped forward first to ask Xu Chen for a fight.

Xu Chen nodded in agreement. Although this did not cause any actual harm, it was extremely insulting and he could not ignore it.

Zhao Yun immediately ordered a team of cavalry to go out of the camp to kill the enemy, but the enemy was also very clever. Before Zhao Yun could rush out of the camp, they retreated early and quickly ran back to the city. Zhao Yun had no choice but to give up chasing them.

"Damn it, Zhou Yu doesn't dare to fight in an open battle, but only dares to use such insidious means. He is really not a human being!" Seeing these cavalrymen fleeing, Wang Dang was very angry.

He was not a good-tempered guy, and he was naturally unhappy when being treated with such contempt and insult.

Xu Chen looked calm: "It seems that Zhou Yu is really dead."

Ju Shou, who was standing by, nodded repeatedly in agreement: "How could our army be provoked by such a provocation? He even resorted to such means, which only shows that he is really anxious."

Xu Chen said: "Although the enemy's provocation is not presentable, it is quite disgusting and cannot be ignored. From now on, when guarding the camp, remember to send a team of cavalry to patrol outside every day to prevent the enemy from repeating the same trick."

This little disturbance was just an episode during the confrontation between the two sides. Not to mention that the Yellow Turbans saw through Zhou Yu's desperate situation, even Zhou Yu himself did not have any hope for this trick.

Sure enough, in the early morning of the next day, when he wanted to repeat his old trick to continue the provocation, he found that it didn't work.

There was only one chance for this kind of thing to happen, and after it happened, the Yellow Turbans immediately responded.

Just by looking at the Yellow Turban cavalry patrolling outside the camp, Zhou Yu knew that if he continued to do so he would be sending his own cavalry to their deaths.

His heart sank to the bottom, not because the trick didn't work, but because he found that he really had no idea what to do about the current situation.

"Zi Jing, it seems we have to accept the reality and be prepared for a long-term attrition war with the enemy." Zhou Yu knew that the Yellow Turbans had already made their strategy clear and there was no way for him to lure them into attacking, so he finally accepted his fate.

Lu Su sighed: "The current situation is difficult and I have no choice. I can only wait and see."

Zhou Yu said in a deep voice: "From now on, all materials in the city will be rationed. We should try to reduce consumption as much as possible. We should delay as long as possible. Now we can only compete with the Yellow Turbans in patience."

Lu Su hesitated for a moment and said, "What if we can't delay any longer?"

Zhou Yu took a deep breath and showed a determined look: "When we are at our wit's end, we will fight them to the death!"

(End of this chapter)