Three Kingdoms Summoning: Peak Resurgence

Kaifeng, Huang Chao’s main camp.

"General Ge, what did you say? Not only did Yuchi Gong not enter our ambush circle, but he led his troops towards Chenliu?" After getting the news from Ge Congzhou, Huang Chao subconsciously raised his voice.

Due to Wang Yu’s butterfly effect, Huang Chao’s lineup of generals in this life is much stronger than in the original work.

Take this battle plan for example, it was mainly aimed at Xiang Yu. For this purpose, Zhang Jue did not hesitate to plunder the elite of the entire army and concentrate them in Xiang Yu's army.

But even so, Huang Chao still has many generals under his command, such as Ge Congzhou, who is now in charge of leading the army, and Han Jiao, who is from the same Yin-Yang School as him.

In addition, there were generals such as Zhang Guiba, Zhang Guihou, and Pang Shigu who were at Hulao Pass and whose injuries were not too serious.

As for Ge Biao and Zhu Wen, their injuries were too severe to allow them to participate in the next battle, and they are now recuperating in Chenliu.

But even so, Huang Chao's subordinates can be said to be numerous and powerful. At least with his current lineup of generals, if he meets Ri Tian in the original novel, they can definitely beat him up.

Even at that time, Japan already had Yue Fei.

The task Zhang Jue gave to Huang Chao this time was to assist Xiang Yu, to tie down the Han cavalry, and to prevent the Han cavalry from retaking Mengjin Pass before Xiang Yu had a stable foothold.

Although this task was not difficult, Huang Chao felt very uncomfortable because he did not expect that Zhang Jue would sided with Xiang Yu after he had apologized for his crime.

If Xiang Yu really completed the plan this time, and Huang Chao himself did nothing, then he would never have the chance to compete with Xiang Yu for the position of the Yellow Turban successor.

After all, the reason why Huang Chao was chosen by Zhang Jue as the successor of the Yellow Turban Army was because he established the development direction for the Yellow Turban Army before the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

It can be said that Huang Chao’s strategic planning played a vital role in the Yellow Turban Army’s ability to develop to the point of occupying half of the Han Dynasty in such a short period of time.

Logically speaking, if the situation continued to develop in this way, Huang Chao might really have a chance to take over the position of Yellow Turban successor from Zhang Jue.

Unfortunately, things don't always turn out as planned. With the sudden appearance of Guo Jia, Xiang Yu is slowly changing himself. Although he is still not as good as Huang Chao in some aspects, he is much better than before.

Besides, a son-in-law is half a son. Compared with Huang Chao who is a military advisor, Zhang Jue naturally prefers to give the position of heir to his son-in-law Xiang Yu.

After Huang Chao integrated the personality of the novel and his intelligence was further improved, he slowly realized this, so he started the next operation without forming a clique and keeping secrets as before, and slowly regained Zhang Jue's trust.

However, even Huang Chao himself did not expect that Xiang Yu would come up with such an amazing strategy, which allowed Zhang Jue to directly put all the treasures on him.

If Xiang Yu had really succeeded, Huang Chao would have no chance of becoming the successor to the Yellow Turbans.

Huang Chao was also well aware of this. He knew very well that the more than 70,000 cavalry sent by Wang Yu this time would be the key to helping him escape from the predicament and continue to keep pace with Xiang Yu.

Although the order Zhang Jue gave to Huang Chao seemed very simple, it was not really that easy, because Zhang Jue wanted Huang Chao to delay the Han cavalry commanded by Wang Yu.

As for annihilating this cavalry unit, Zhang Jue had no such idea. After all, in the Battle of Hulao Pass, Zhang Jue witnessed with his own eyes the true strength of the Han cavalry.

In his opinion, even if the Yellow Turban Army deployed four times the force, plus 10,000 or 20,000 cavalry to cooperate with each other, if it was a head-on confrontation, it would be difficult to annihilate this army, or even severely damage it. It was for this reason that Zhang Jue gave Huang Chao the order to hold back Wang Yu's 70,000 cavalry.

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However, Huang Chao now doesn't think so. Although Huang Chao has seen the strength of the cavalry under Wang Yu, in his opinion, as long as the command is proper, these 70,000 Han cavalry can be wiped out with minimal losses.

If Huang Chao had really achieved his goal, the result of destroying more than 70,000 Han cavalry would be no less than destroying 300,000 Han troops.

Even if Xiang Yu really completed that bold plan, Huang Chao would be able to be on par with him with his achievements.

Therefore, while the Han army was still unaware of what was happening, Huang Chao decided to make a deliberate move. In order to ensure the complete annihilation of Wang Yu's 70,000 cavalry, Huang Chao transferred all the 200,000 troops around Chenliu and set up an ambush circle with a total of 300,000 troops.

However, Huang Chao underestimated Wang Yu after all. He did not expect that Wang Yu was a time traveler, and the world he traveled to was a novel world.

He knew exactly what happened here.

Therefore, Wang Yu made plans to go to Chenliu from the beginning.

Chenliu was not only the Yellow Turbans' base camp, but also one of the largest granaries.

Once Wang Yu breaks through, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Logically speaking, with Huang Chao's ability, it is impossible for him to be lax in defending such an important place and give the Han army an opportunity to take advantage. However, in order to completely annihilate Wang Yu's 70,000 cavalry army, the garrison in Chenliu was also mobilized by Huang Chao, and now there are only 50,000 defenders left.

However, since Zhu Wen and Ge Biao were seriously injured in the battle of Hulao Pass, they stayed in Chenliu. For now, they may be able to hold out for a while.

When Huang Chao thought of this, he immediately issued an order: "Pass the order down, order the garrisons of the counties around Chenliu to abandon their local areas, concentrate the army in Chenliu and defend it to the death, and obey the command of General Zhu Wen."

When millions of Yellow Turbans gathered in Yanzhou, Zhang Jue built five large granaries in Yanzhou for the purpose of subsequent training and better allocation of food and fodder resources.

Chenliu City, the capital of Yanzhou, is the largest granary.

In Huang Chao's view, the most important thing in Chenliu County was its capital, Chenliu City. As long as this city was in the hands of the Yellow Turban Army, it didn't matter even if other surrounding counties were lost.

However, Huang Chao felt a headache when he thought of the strength of the generals under Wang Yu. Although Zhu Wen was capable, he might not be able to defend Chenliu by himself.

Moreover, Wang Yu did not need to attack the superior forces at all. He only needed to delay Zhu Wen and make him afraid to act rashly. Then he could use the mobility of his cavalry to wreak havoc throughout Yanzhou.

The number of troops Huang Chao now controls is several times that of the Han cavalry. He can completely rely on this huge advantage to first build a large encirclement and then continuously shrink it, so as to completely annihilate the Han army.

However, Huang Chao’s only worry now is that during the time when he is deploying such a terrifying force, something uncontrollable will happen.

(End of this chapter)