Chapter Ninety-Seven: Ignorance and Inaction

The baggage battalion is burning.

Yan Xing is not Zhang Niujiao's opponent, but he is still a Han army in formation, Zhang Niujiao dragged him for half a moment, holding Yan Xing's iron spear and dragging him off the horse, riding his horse and fleeing, besieged by Yan Xing and more than ten Han soldiers, he was hit by three arrows and couldn't be dragged back.

At this time, Ma Yue noticed that the baggage camp behind him was burning.

The young man who escaped from the tiger's mouth in his hands, preferred his sleeves to be burned by the fire than to throw away the torches, and took advantage of Ma Yue's loss of interest in him to take off his clothes and set it on fire, and finally covered the sacks of grain and grass in the baggage camp.

The flames ignited the pride of the remaining Yellow Turban wrestlers, some of whom took advantage of the chaos to grab their horses and retreated, fleeing northward, and many more Yellow Turban wrestlers formed a three-way battle to fight the Han army.

The fire in the granary caused the temperature around the baggage camp to rise rapidly, and the heat was blowing, and Ma Yue was stunned in the chaotic battlefield.

Yan Xing stood in front of the horse, his current appearance was a little embarrassed, seeing Ma Yue looking at the Yellow Turban Army fleeing from the north with a blank face, Yan Xing thought for a while and said, "Lord, do you want to chase and kill?" ”

"Huh?" Ma Yue was stunned for a moment, then came back to his senses, shook his head, and said a little frustratedly: "No need to chase, the granary has been burned, what's the use of killing more people?" ”

After that, Ma Yue looked at the Yellow Turban Army who were still desperately resisting not far away, patted Yan Xing with his horsewhip and said, "Let others deal with those people, let our brothers go to fight the fire." ”

Yan Xing clenched his fists and left, and Ma Yue looked at the corpse on the ground and was stunned.

These Yellow Turban Army were completely different from what he had encountered before, they had sharp armor and brave combat, and the performance of the three of them was extremely dazzling, and just three of them could be worthy of the combat ability of the Han Army.

There were only a thousand people, even if it was a sneak attack, but it also caused great damage to the Han army.

It's not easy to open the corner.

It is not easy to train a group of peasants who live at sunrise to be proficient in night raids.

This night attack came to an end with the generals leading the troops to encircle and the granary caught fire, although the Yellow Turban wrestlers were brave and good at fighting, they still had only one way to defeat the Han army, which was several times their size, and the Han army was victorious, but it was better to lose.

Accompanied by the rooster crow on the fifth watch, the busy Han army in the green smoke in the northern military camp ran around.

Counting casualties, rebuilding barracks, inspecting food and grass, there are so many things that they need to do.

The scribe in the battalion wrote the battle report in the afternoon and sent it to Huangfu Song's account, along with all the officers of the Han army who were more than 1,000 stones.

There is a topographic map of mountains and rivers in the big tent, Huangfu Song sits in front of the map, and below the five captains of the Northern Army sit on their knees, Cao Cao, Guo Dian, Sun Jian and Guan Yu of other departments, and Liu Bei, who acts on behalf of Zou Jing.

Liu Bei had never seen so many generals in the army, and he was a little uneasy in his heart, but he knew better that this was also his chance to get ahead, and he had fought to the death for so long, wasn't it just for such a day? Liu Bei tried his best to make his appearance appear indifferent.

He was not a candidate in the Northern Army, and he did not have a clear position in the army, and even the reason why he stayed among a group of craftsmen was because Lu Zhi, the former Zhonglang general, had ordered him to supervise the craftsmen to build ordnance. But now, the baggage battalion wants to send people to participate in the military meeting, and he has to do it.

The craftsman was almost dead, and there were only two lame men left. Zou Jing, the middle marquis of the Northern Army, is also dead, and the entire baggage battalion can now take him out Liu Bei to listen to the military discussion.

Huangfu Song frowned, the battle situation was very bad, but he had encountered something even worse in Liangzhou, what made him frown was the battle report sent from Luoyang last night and the secret report in the army.

Stretching out his hand to lightly buckle a few cases, Huangfu Song said: "Last night, a war report was sent from Luoyang, Yuzhou assassinated Shi Wang Yun, pacified the Yellow Turban in Yuzhou, and reduced tens of thousands of people. ”

After a pause, Huangfu Song stretched out his hand and rubbed his face, and said with a self-deprecating smile: "My Huangfu Song was attacking Jizhou, was attacked by the Yellow Turban at night, broke the second battalion of the Northern Army, burned grain and grass and ten thousand stones, killed 700 enemies and killed more than 3,000. ”

"But what makes me strange is that Captain Changshui, Captain Yueqi, can you tell So-and-so, what were you doing before the Yellow Turban stole the camp last night?"

Ma Yue's heart jumped, before the Yellow Turban stole camp last night, wasn't he talking to Guan Yu about things in the tent? How did Huangfu Song know?

Jumping with Ma Yue and the same heart was Cao Poshi, the captain of Yue Cavalry who was kneeling beside him, Cao Poshi glanced at Ma Yue with some surprise, and thought that the two of them were fellow believers.

Cao Poshi was not in the camp last night.

Without waiting for the two to speak, Huangfu Song asked: "Captain Guo Dian, how to deal with drinking in the camp and delaying the military plane?" ”

1 Guo Dian glanced at Ma Yue, he heard what Huang Fu Song meant, is to deal with Ma Yue strictly with military law, there was some hesitation on his face, they had fought side by side in the north, Ma Yue's wit and bravery made him firmly remember the young county lieutenant of the year, but he had no choice, since he was young, he has been following Huang Fu Song for more than 20 years, he knows that his superior is a general who orders and prohibits military law strictly, so he has to nod and say: "Drinking in the camp, you should be punished with a cane for twenty." After a pause, he saw the blood stains on Ma Yue's body and said: "Captain Changshui was injured in battle, although it violates military law, but it should be halved." ”

Huangfu Song glanced at Guo Dian, nodded and asked, "What if the commander of the army does not return to the camp at night?" ”

This is Cao Poshi.

Guo Dian frowned, this crime can be said to be big or small, so he said: "If you don't return to the camp at night, you should be punished with a cane for thirty, and there is no loss in the Yue Cavalry Camp, and it should be halved." ”

Halving is halving, fifteen sticks and thirty sticks are actually not much different, the military stick, after five sticks, it feels like there is no difference, just the difference between lying on the couch for a month and two months.

Hearing that the cane was halved, Cao Poshi exhaled, and he was also a little grateful to Guo Dian in his heart, he suffered a lot from the cane scolding, since his brother passed away, any cat or dog dared to use military law against him, and at most he even received fifty military sticks, and he almost died. But so what, Cao is still going his own way, as long as the eunuch does not fall, the official position of 2,000 stone can be reinstated even if he is dismissed, as long as he does not die, there is always a way out.

The reason why Zhang Rang holds his current status is that on the one hand, he is naturally talented, but it is also indispensable for the promotion of Shangguan, and this is true for anyone.

And the person who carried Zhang Rang was Cao Poshi's brother, Cao Jie.

Zhang Rang had a good personal relationship with Cao Poshi in the past, and later Zhang Rang's current power leaning towards the government and the opposition also has Cao Poshi's contributions, so as long as he does not commit major crimes such as rebellion, no matter how much they hate him, Cao Poshi will not be afraid.

Huangfu Song nodded, he was quite satisfied with Guo Dian's answer, stretched out his hand and buckled a few cases and said, "Tonight, the three divisions of the shooting, the tun cavalry, and the infantry will feint to attack Guangzong by boat, and the captain of the Yue cavalry will lead the troops and horses from the south to Nanhe to ambush to prevent Quyang from continuing to increase troops to Guangzong, and make meritorious contributions to the crime. Captain Changshui, your troops will form an army of their own, give you one month, the troops will go to Handan, and then advance to the north, otherwise the crime will be increased by one degree. ”

"Other subordinates Guan and Sun ordered the two generals to go north to Xiangguo, block the Yellow Turban of Zhao to come to help, and sweep Guangzong County from the north and south."

"Liu Xuande, for the time being, is responsible for recruiting craftsmen to make ordnance. Guo Duwei stayed in the Chinese army to obey orders, and Cao Duwei led the cavalry of his headquarters to raise craftsmen and grain and grass from the surrounding counties. The Yellow Turbans are intending to delay our time in robbing the camp this time, and I hope that you will be strict with yourself and fight diligently! ”

Everyone thought that Huangfu Song didn't like Ma Yue and Cao Poshi.

In fact, no one knew that Huangfu Song was giving these two a chance.

In several cases of Huangfu Song, in addition to a battle report that killed more than 700 people and more than 3,000 people, there was also an official letter found from Zou Jing.

"Captain Changshui is contemptuous and inactive, and the captain is outnumbered and unkind......"