Chapter 180 - Stalemate
A few days later, Liu Bei and others came to the camp of the conquest army.
The war is in full swing, the battle between the conquest army and the Yellow Turban Army is in full swing, one of the eight generals of the Yellow Turban, the great virtuous and good teacher, the great disciple **** Yi, is commanding the Yellow Turban Army to carry out a defensive counterattack, so that Lu Zhi, Zhu Jun, Huangfu Song, the three lieutenant generals led by the conquest army did not ask for a little sweetness, so that the conquest army fought for several months, and now even the shadow of the city wall of Julu County can not be seen, the battlefield is constantly changing forward and backward, and the front is advancing very difficult.
When Cao Cao saw Long Xiangtian, his face was very surprised, he didn't expect Long Xiangtian to come back from the furnace world, for Cao Cao, this is undoubtedly an incredible thing, Cao Cao wanted to ask Long Xiangtian, but there was no good opportunity, Long Xiangtian was always with Liu Bei and others, and Long Xiangtian looked like he didn't know Cao Cao at all, which made Cao Cao embarrassed to approach Long Xiangtian, firstly, he was guilty, and secondly, he was afraid that others would know some of his things, so he never came to say hello to Long Xiangtian.
Everyone knows that this battle will become the final battle to the death, and survival and victory are in this battle, so both sides have invested a lot of troops, so that on the battlefield that stretches for thousands of miles, mountains, plains, basins, canyons, Rivers and other geo-shaped areas, can be seen that the soldiers of the two armies are fighting, the conquest army mainly relies on the battle formation to attack, and the Yellow Turban Army relies on the numerical advantage to suppress, because the two sides have invested too many troops, so the commanders on both sides can not fully control their respective armies, a small part of the chaotic place, the soldiers on both sides are fighting separately, often a group of thirty or fifty people, killing the enemy when they see it, because there is no leader with a high position, they don't care where the battle line advances, and even some immortal villages have become the location of the battle.
The Yellow Turban general who commanded this battle is the eldest disciple of the great sage and good teacher, the **** righteousness of the self-proclaimed methodist general, Long Xiangtian knows that this person is in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but he died before the Yellow Turban Rebellion began, but in this world, he is still alive and well, I don't know if this is the future is affected by changes, so that some people who should not be alive survived, so Long Xiangtian knows very well, **** Righteousness can survive, which means that the Yellow Turban Uprising may also succeed, what Long Xiangtian has to do is to set things right, and put the future back on the right track of history, the Yellow Turban Uprising, this uprising that is doomed to failure, must not be allowed to win, otherwise, it will cause a terrible chain disaster to the future.
Although **** Yi has not yet shown his specific strength, he just commands the Yellow Turban Army to fight, and never accepts the call of the conquest army, but in terms of his command ability, he can already see his extraordinary, blocking the conquest army of Lu Zhi, Zhu Jun, and Huangfu Song thousands of miles away from Julu County, which shows this person's command ability.
The battlefield is divided into frontal battlefield and local battlefield, the frontal battlefield concentrates the superior strength of the conquest army and the main force of the Yellow Turban Army, all of which are the elites of both sides fighting, so the battle is very anxious, and on the local battlefield, it is a big melee, all of which are ordinary generals commanding their respective armies, far away from the main forces, and almost no arranging troops, so they are all fighting indiscriminately, rushing up to annihilate when they see a small group of enemy troops, and fleeing when they see that the enemy army is more than their own people.
Yi knew that there were many powerful Jindan generals in the conquest army, so he ignored the call of the conquest army, and as time went by, the return of Zhang Mancheng, Guan Hai, Bu Ji and other Yellow Turban leaders in various places greatly improved the situation that the strength of the Jindan generals of the Yellow Turban Army was not good.
Protracted war, the loss is huge, the soldiers are injured, and the pills need to be healed, this healing pill is equivalent to grain and grass, it is an indispensable thing for the soldiers every day, daily battles, the loss of pills is a huge amount, although the Great Han Xiuxian League provides a large number of pills for the conquest army behind the scenes, but the Great Han Xiuxian League will not provide them endlessly, after all, this war is very expensive, so the pills supplied are all standardized, plus the corruption on the way to transport, in this way, the pills acting on the conquest army are not enough at all, which has to rely on some families, the help of the Hao clan, they have money, enough to make up for the lack of pills for the conquest army, but they will not provide free pills for the conquest army, these either need to be purchased, or they will sign some agreements with the Han Xiuxian League to obtain future benefits, and make a lot of war money. Because of this, the Great Han Immortal League was not willing to carry out such a big crusade at all, if it wasn't for the Yellow Turban forces being too strong and threatening the rule of the Great Han Immortal League, otherwise let the states and counties solve it themselves, it was because of this war to eliminate the Yellow Turban Uprising that greatly consumed the financial resources of the Great Han Immortal League, making the later chaotic situation, and the Great Han Immortal League had no power to deal with it at all.
The Yellow Turban Army is not as good as the supply of elixir from the Great Han Immortal League behind the conquest army, and no family will help them, but the Yellow Turban Army has many kinds of strange rune paper, including healing rune paper, the Yellow Turban soldiers stick the rune paper on the wound, they can heal the wounds, and recover quickly, so the Yellow Turban Army does not need too many pills at all, so that the Yellow Turban Army even has an advantage over the conquest army, the effect of the pill is not as fast as the rune paper, but the pills provided are also uneven, when the two sides are deadlocked, the conquest army is very disadvantaged.
Lu Zhi was also distressed by this, unable to quickly defeat the Yellow Turbans, which made the Yellow Turban Army fall into a stalemate, once the supply of the pills was limited, resulting in a large number of deaths of soldiers, this was undoubtedly a fatal blow to the conquest army, fortunately, Lu Zhi followed the advice of Cao Cao and others, strictly guarded the place where the elixir was stored, strengthened the protection of the troops transporting the elixir, and smashed the Yellow Turban Army's several sneak attacks on the conquest army pharmacy and attacks on the pill delivery troops.
Lu Zhi lamented that in ancient times, when the two armies fought, the generals went into battle to fight, and if one side of the general was defeated, the army of that side must be defeated, and to this day, how can there be the rules of that time for the generals to fight, there are many people on the field, there are more to fight less, and there are secret sneak attacks, as well as wheel warfare, etc., and the purpose of the battle has become to weaken the enemy's morale, even if one side of the general is defeated, it only makes the morale of that side low, not to be defeated immediately.
Lu Zhi lamented the change of the times, to the military war brought a lot of changes, Xianqin and even before the Warring States, the two armies were fighting, mainly relying on the fight between the generals, one side of the general lost, the other side of the soldiers must surrender, so that the casualties on the battlefield were greatly reduced, and with the development of the population, to the Warring States, especially the time of Xianqin, the battle array has been greatly developed, in addition to the battle of the generals, but also began the situation of the battle of the two armies, with the further development of the battle array, the power and importance are higher than the generals, so that the battle of the generals gradually declined, and evolved into today, the battle of the generals depends purely on the will of each person, and the battle is fought in a timely manner, but also to weaken the opponent's morale to achieve the purpose of defeating the opponent's battle formation.
Thinking about it a lot, Lu Zhi couldn't help but sigh in the end: "Alas, if the war is still like in ancient times, why worry about the Yellow Turban forces not being defeated?"
In order to prevent the conquest army from falling into a situation where the pills were running out due to stalemate, Cao Cao and others suggested to Lu Zhi, Zhu Jun, and Huangfu Song that these Jindan generals should personally fight in order to be able to quickly and effectively kill the Yellow Turban soldiers, consume the strength of the Yellow Turban Army, and finally make the Yellow Turban Army retreat.
Liu Bei knew that this suggestion should be the suggestion of Guo Fengxiao, the strategist beside Cao Cao, and thought: It is indeed a simple and efficient matter for the Jindan generals to take action to eliminate the Yellow Turban soldiers. The monks who build the foundation are like ants, the martial arts and spells of Jindan Zhenren, they can't bear it at all, and they will definitely die a large number, and they are all masters among Jindan Zhenren, and they are not ordinary Jindan Zhenren, once they shoot, it must be a bloody situation, but can they really do it? Those Yellow Turban soldiers, originally just some simple immortals outside the city, suffered from the imbalance of vitality, had to join the Yellow Turban to seek a way out, and they are all soldiers who are one or two realms lower than themselves, although it is understandable for generals to kill enemy soldiers, but to kill a large number of enemy soldiers, that is, slaughter, it is inevitable to make morality, thinking that the Qin general Bai Qi killed 400,000 enemy soldiers alone, for which he was deeply criticized by later generations, and he did not want to be this kind of person!
In this regard, Liu Bei raised objections to Lu Zhi and others, believing that Jin Dan Zhenren personally went to war to eliminate the Yellow Turban soldiers, which was a massacre, contrary to morality, and would make the people of the world think that our army was cruel and unkind, but Cao Cao said that only in this way can we get rid of this stalemate situation, and obtain a chance to win for the conquest army, although it is a sacrifice of the lives of some of the Yellow Turban soldiers, but it saves the lives of our soldiers, and cannot be defeated by the conquest army because of the kindness of the woman, so that it will be scolded by the world.
Liu Bei and Cao Cao quarreled over this, and no one could convince anyone, at this time Guo Jia, who was beside Cao Cao, said: "Why do you two bother to say more, it's better to see how the three true monarchs decide!"
Seeing that everyone looked at the three of them, Lu Zhi, Zhu Jun, and Huangfu Song glanced at each other, but they all looked at each other, indeed, the decision is in their hands, but when it comes to really making a decision, everyone is very hesitant, after all, Cao Cao and Liu Bei are right, but their positions are different, Cao Cao is for victory, for long-term considerations, Liu Bei is for morality, for the sake of future reputation, which really makes Lu Zhi and the three of them very difficult. After thinking about it, the three of them finally decided to listen to Cao Cao's advice, although this is a bit cruel, but war is a cruel thing, either you die or I die, and now there is no other good way, if the defeat of the conquest army is caused by the so-called benevolence and reputation, then the three of them will also not have a good reputation. So Lu Zhi and the three of them ordered the generals of the whole army to go into battle to kill the enemy to eliminate the Yellow Turban soldiers, and there must be no mistake in this, Liu Bei had to sigh, because he was a subordinate of the righteous army, he had to obey the military order, and he had to go into battle to kill the enemy.