The 25,000 Ding Zhuang selected from the tens of thousands of bandits, as well as the 5,000 Tuntian army at the end of Zhang Xiu's battle sequence, were all the combat power of Zhang Xiu's ambush here.

The more than 25,000 bandits sounded quite bluffing, but Zhang Xiu knew that under normal circumstances, the 25,000 bandits could not even be eaten by 2,500 ordinary Cao Jun.

You must know that Cao Cao has always been a streamlined soldier. Although the Central Plains has been war-torn for a long time, it cannot stand up to a strong foundation, and there is no problem in arming 670,000 troops. However, Cao Cao deliberately kept his army below 400,000, even if he unified Yuzhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou, and Sizhou, he only planned to replenish the troops to 400,000. At this point, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, who expanded the army of one million in Hebei, Yuan Benchu acted greatly!

Although Cao Cao insisted on the establishment of an army of 400,000, his military expenditure was no less than that of Yuan Benchu's million troops in Hebei. Cao Cao has always insisted on giving his soldiers full salaries, and the war horses and ordnance are all standard parts, and the old armor, tents, chariots and horses have never been seen in the army. In addition, it is located in the Central Plains, where the four wars were fought, and the attendance rate and renewal rate of Cao's army are very high, and a large-scale expedition must be made every three months at the latest, and the renewal rate of soldiers in a year will reach at least 30 percent! As a result, military spending and food salaries have always been no lower than those of Yuan Benchu, who had few large-scale wars in Hebei Province.

In other words, Cao Cao used double the money and food to feed his own 400,000 troops. The actual combat strength of the 400,000 Cao Army, which can eat enough every day, change into clean cloth clothes every week, and receive full military salaries every month, is also worthy of an army of 780,000!

And the so-called bandits under Chen Ce, calling them bandits seems to be a bit too extravagant. If it weren't for the fact that Liao Hua brought 10,000 sets of Zhang Xiujun armor to fill the scene for Chen Ce's subordinates when he came from Tuntian in the south of Pei County, it is estimated that Chen Ce would still have to wear a single coat and command his subordinates wrapped in hay to fight.

Even if the clothes are bad, when he connected with these 25,000 people, Liao Hua only felt that he had met a group of people who had not eaten or drunk for seven days and seven nights, and he actually ate the dry food that his subordinates had brought enough to support 30,000 people for three days! All of them are starving ghosts!

The most important thing is that from the moment I met Liao Hua, I found that this group of "bandits" didn't even seem to have the fighting quality of the bandits. Not to mention that they are all hungry and skinny, and they only feel like hemp rods when they put on their clothes and armor. And when the army was marching and ambushing, there was no order, so casually found a bush of grass or a big rock, and even bothered to dig a pit and squat in.

Fortunately, the hay on them helped this group of "bandits" who didn't know how to hide a lot, and every member of Chen Ce's subordinates, regardless of whether they received the armor of Liao Hua's belt, was wrapped in thick hay. It happened to be the same color as the lush dead grass in the vicinity, and with the mist, it was impossible to see anything from a distance.

Let's talk about how they fight. After the start of the war, all the bandits rushed forward in a swarm, like a group of peasants rushing to the wheat field to harvest the wheat, and then they were killed by a small number of Cao troops in a neat array.

Fortunately, there are 5,000 Tuntian soldiers of their own, coupled with the poor state of the Cao army, plus as an ambush party, there are psychological and terrain bonuses, and because of the seven or eight times that of the Cao army, coupled with the huge psychological oppression posed by Zhang Xiu's thousands of cavalry in front, this ambush battle was able to stabilize the position.

While Liao Hua sighed that the quality of this group of bandits was worrying, Chen Ce also knew that his subordinates were too scum, so he didn't dare to take the initiative to open up to Zhang Xiu.

Zhang Xiu understands this group of peasants who have long been accustomed to hoes and sickles. It is too much to say that they are bandits, because they are only farmers who put down their farm tools half a month ago, and they can take the initiative to launch an ambush against tens of thousands of Cao troops, and there are not many people who are in the battle for stage fright, which is already very satisfying to Zhang Xiu.

Although, among them, the fog that has not yet dissipated in the early morning helped them shield the continuous Cao army with bright armor.

To be honest, Zhang Xiu didn't think that this last trick would really scare Cao Cao away, as long as the situation was not right, Zhang Xiu would never mind leading his regular cavalry to retreat, anyway, it was not true that he defeated Cao's rear army, counting his own defeat last night, everyone was even.

Fortunately, God opened his eyes, and the war went so smoothly because of all kinds of mishaps. After this battle, Cao Jun had to prepare well if he wanted to plot against Huainan.

Why is it a mistake? Originally, Zhang Xiu still wanted Cao Jun to completely enter the ambush circle, and then kill and injure Cao Jun in large quantities on the spot. It was only for some reason that Cao Jun only stepped into the ambush circle in half a step and noticed it.

This "some reason" was originally unknown to Zhang Xiu. But the closer he got to the battlefield, until Chen Ce came over, Zhang Xiu finally understood why Xun You found an ambush.

That's the taste.

Chen Ce's subordinates, all tied with hay, made the grass around here much "denser", but Xun You, who was pondering the problem, didn't pay much attention. On the contrary, it was the touch sensation from another sense, which directly touched Xun You's nerves.

It was the smell of a man who hadn't bathed in months—a reaction from the scribe.

That's right, since the great drought in Huainan, Chen Ce and his bandits have been farmers in the mountains. Huainan has a dense water network, and there are many rivers even in hilly areas. But the stream that flows down from the mountains is barely enough for the village to drink, not enough for anything else. Especially after hiding in the mountains as a bandit, no one has ever experienced the taste of bathing. Even in previous years, not to mention that it was difficult to bathe in this cold winter, the temperature on the mountain was enough for people.

In fact, in the humble living conditions of ancient times, many people only took a few baths a year. First, there is no popularization of health knowledge, but there are real conditions. It's easy to say in summer, just jump into the river. But in winter, it's good to take a bath once during the New Year.

And if you catch a cold from bathing, this may not be a problem in modern times. But in the three countries where traditional Chinese medicine has not been fully developed, wind and cold are the number one killer of people's lives!

Zhang Zhongjing, the author of the historical work "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" about wind and cold, is also a person of this era, Zhang Xiu still remembers that Zhang Zhongjing was appointed as the Taishou of Changsha by the imperial court last year, and he completed the epoch-making masterpiece of Chinese medicine a few years after he became the Taishou!

Let's talk about Zhang Zhongjing, according to historical records, his family had more than 200 people before Jian'an. Ten years after Jian'an, two-thirds of them died of epidemics caused by military disasters and natural changes, and seven-tenths of them died of typhoid fever!

The Zhang Zhongjing family, a bureaucratic family, is in this tragic situation, not to mention civilians. Many towns and cities have become empty cities in just a few days, which is very common in the Eastern Han Dynasty!

Therefore, ancient people did not bathe often, in fact, in their own eyes, it was not a bad habit, but a very normal one.

In this regard, Zhang Xiu believes that modern people cannot compare. After coming to the Three Kingdoms, Zhang Xiu felt that the resistance and immunity of ancient people were much higher than those of modern people. But if you think about it carefully, it's all the result of natural elimination, those who have poor resistance and immunity are eliminated from birth, and those who can survive are quite good genes.

Zhang Xiu couldn't help but think of a sentence: Before you came to this world, you had actually defeated a billion people, or even more.

But in ancient times, the rate of infant mortality was very high, especially in ordinary families, and it was usually at least three or four children to survive one!

Especially in the middle, once a woman has a difficult birth, it is often a dead body. Even if the baby is unharmed, but the woman has postpartum hemorrhage, the child will not survive.

Without breastfeeding, in this era when there is no milk powder and rice noodles, the newborn baby will never live for more than three days. Because ordinary people can't afford to hire a nurse, in this era of general lack of nutrition, every woman's breast milk is extremely limited, and if she helps someone else's son, her own son will starve to death.

So Zhang Xiu had to say one more thing: when you were born safely, spent the dangerous period in a thatched house that did not deal with bacteria and viruses, and were able to live to be seven or eight years old, you have already defeated at least ten of your peers. When you are pregnant with parasites, always eating and living in the middle of life, then you have defeated twenty people. When you have not died of illness, nor have you been killed by force majeure such as natural disasters, nor have you been killed by ignorant soldiers and thieves, and you have lived to be seventy or eighty, congratulations, you can't help but defeat at least 100 people, and you have received free state support guaranteed by the laws of the Han Dynasty!

It seems to be a bit of a lot, but Zhang Xiu finally understands how difficult it is for his pair of five or six-year-old children to be and how tenacious their vitality is!

Shouldn't you always think about kicking these two bear children in the future?

Alas, I actually thought of my son and daughter, and even her who had only seen two or three sides, what happened to me, obviously I had nothing to do with this world, but now I seem to always think about them and don't want to leave them.

Have you settled into this era?

……

When Zhang Xiu was still alone on the north side of the Huai River, Yuan Lan, the princess of the former "Emperor Zhong", was at the Lujiang Wharf, looking at the few ships floating on the Yangtze River in the New Year.

Yesterday's news should have come from Jiujiang County a week ago. Cao Cao has announced in public that he will take Zhang Xiu, Ji Ling, Zhang Xun, Zhang Liao, Jia Xu, Yan Xiang, Yuan Jian and others to teach Xuchang after the Spring Festival.

In the civil and military list of all Zhang Xiujun's military and military affairs with the army, Wenchen, a general from Huainan or Yuan Shu, went to Xuchang with the army, and Cao Cao only left his cronies Cao Ren and 50,000 Cao troops to guard Huainan.

Jun is gone, life and death are uncertain; Jun is gone, and he will not return; If you are separated from you, I am afraid that you will never see you again.

……

A fleet of merchant ships bound for Jingzhou sailed away from Lujiang Bay and headed for Xiangyang, Jingzhou.

When he left, he said that Jingzhou had been safe for at least ten years. And quickly asked someone to write a letter, saying that he was looking for a Mr. Shuijing, and he would settle down by handing him the letter.

When his brother Yuan Yao came out of Shouchun, he was unwilling to go to Jingzhou to take refuge according to the plan, but instigated Yuan Lan to abandon Zhang Quan and Zhang Ruo, and went to Jiangdong with him to join Sun Ce. said that relying on the relationship between the Yuan family and the Sun family, as well as Yuan Lan's beauty, Yuan Lan will be guaranteed to become Sun Ce's wife who has not yet married a wife!

It's just that Yuan Lan, who has always been obedient to his father and eldest brother since he was a child, insisted on going to Jingzhou, and in desperation, Yuan Yao had no choice but to go to Sun Ce, who had a young friend with him. left his brother-in-law Huang Yi's family to accompany Yuan Lan.

Of course, if Zhang Xiu hadn't secretly dispatched a team of flying bear soldiers and a capable commander when he left the city, with Yuan Yao's character, he would have directly forcibly taken away his sister.

When he came to Shouchun, Yuan Lan assumed the pseudonym Liu Lan, and in the name of the Liu clan, he was able to live in the mansion of Liu Ye, the current Taishou of Lujiang. Yuan Lan has been living in Liu Ye's house for more than a month, and all the news was told to her by Liu Ye.

Liu Ye, who has the blood of the authentic Han royal family flowing in his body, is a smart person, since he can see in his heart that the world will definitely change his surname, can he not tolerate the children of a defeated general?

personally sent Yuan Lan to Jingzhou, seeing that the shadow of the sail disappeared, Liu Ye finally sighed lightly, turned around and wanted to leave.

As soon as he rode a fast horse, Liu Ye naturally stopped and waited for the fast horse to gallop!

It was the famine season, and the war horses in the army were rarely dispatched. To be able to send such a fast horse to deliver the news, something big must have happened!

Sure enough, the knight's face was in a hurry, and he dismounted and said: "Yu Taishou, there was a mutiny in Shouchun four days ago, Zhang Xiu regained control of Shouchun, and Cao Gong lost 70,000 soldiers and horses overnight!" ”

Chinese New Year's Eve?

Could it be that Cao Cao is also a wasted name, and he is unprepared for such a critical time?

Without thinking too much, Liu Ye suddenly immediately ordered the guards next to him: "Hurry up and hurry upstream, they can't go fast against the wind and water, and call them ashore after catching up, just say, just say that Huainan has been decided!" ”

A thunderbolt exploded with Liu Ye's last sentence, and a bright light flashed in the hazy sky of Huainan!

Liu Ye looked at the sky in surprise: "At this time it is raining, is it spring in Huainan?" ”

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