——July of the first year of the first peace

After the battle of Dong, the Plains Army was dispatched in large numbers again, this time their target was Licheng, which was also in Qingzhou, and the opponent was the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, which was already known as one million.

Licheng is located in the junction of the low mountains and hills in the south of Luxi and the Luxi Plain, the terrain is high in the south and low in the north, the ladder mountain at the highest point is nearly 1,000 meters above sea level, and the plain at the lowest point is only 20 meters, plus there is Jishui in the north, and there is Taishan Mountain Range in the south, which makes it easy to defend and difficult to attack here, and at the same time the Yellow Turban Army does not capture this place and goes north, its grain road is easily cut off by the soldiers and horses of Licheng down the river.

Ma Qiang sat in the carriage, with a military map in the middle, and Jia Xu sitting opposite.

"Xu He and Sima Ju's soldiers and horses are all hoarded on the plain east of Licheng City, and there are hundreds of thousands of them, and Ming Gong only brought less than 20,000 soldiers and horses this time, and it is not easy to subdue them."

"Although Yuan Shao's attention is now in Jizhou, he can't help but guard against it, and the plain is not as stable as it seems, so I don't dare to send too many soldiers and horses south... And I think Wen He will inevitably have a way! ”

Jia Xu touched his chin, and then talked about white smoke.

"White smoke is huge, so I'm afraid I eat a lot."

Ma Qiang couldn't help recalling the past when he fed Baiyan Xiaoyu dry, his face was full of doting on him, and said, "Yes, Baiyan now has to eat dozens of catties of meat a day, that is, me, if you change someone, you can't afford to raise it!" ”

As he spoke, Ma Qiang remembered Sister Tiger again.

A few years have passed, and the Red Star Camp often calls to say that Sister Tiger has come to find Baiyan with loess, and the next time she finds an opportunity, she will have to take Baiyan back to see her father.

"Yes, the bigger the beast, the more it will eat, and the same is true for people, the Yellow Turban Army is hundreds of thousands, and I don't know how much food is needed to feed them."

Jia Xu pointed to the map while continuing to say, "The Yellow Turban Army is a rogue army, and there is no stable foundation, although its people are numerous, but the soldiers and relatives are mixed, and they follow each other before and after, and there is no heavy grain and grass in the thief army, just to make a living by plundering, and now the east of Licheng is their place, it is already a place that can not be robbed, and there is no plunder, as long as Licheng sticks to it, our army will attack its periphery, cut off its grain and grass, and it will be chaotic in a few days!" ”

Another lack of food?

Ma Qiang touched his chin, yes, although the strategy is old-fashioned, it just works.

"Then how do you get into the army?"

"Our army can cross the Jishui, go down to Taixian County to Dongpingling, and then besiege the thief army, and wait for the thief army to surrender with grain!"

Ma Qiang nodded and said, "That's great!" ”

Not far behind Ma Qiang's soldiers, a weak-crowned scholar rode a donkey, held a pot of wine, and looked at the book in his hand while drinking, following from a distance.

- Licheng

Jiao He was lying on the bed, and a god and witch next to him had words in his mouth, not knowing what he was saying.

Jiao He is a literati like Kong Ling and Kong Rong, if you ask him about the Four Books and Five Classics, what he can say is the Tao, but if you want to talk about governing the country and the army, it will really be difficult for him.

After Jiao He arrived in Qingzhou, he was quickly influenced by the strong local religious culture, and he governed the place or used soldiers, never asking his subordinate generals, but relying on fortune telling.

In his words, the king of Shang must decide everything, and he has won the country for 600 years, which can be seen in his merits.

It doesn't matter if others believe it or not, he believes it anyway.

Probably because he didn't have a good way to deal with such a complicated situation today, he could only pin a glimmer of hope on the ethereal gods and Buddhas.

But the gods in the sky don't seem to care too much about him, anyway, he has been defeated repeatedly, but in the words of the gods and witches, this can't actually be blamed on the gods, the gods in the sky are also fighting with the evil gods believed in by the yellow turban thieves, all of them will be like this...

Don't say it, Jiao He still thinks it makes sense.

"I saw it! I see it!! The witch suddenly shouted and screamed, and his face was hideous, as if he had really seen something terrible.

"See.. What do you see?? Jiao He endured the pain and hurriedly asked.

"The man who wants to take the king's life is coming, he is coming! He's coming!! I saw that your head was packed into a box, and the envoy... Danger, envoy!! ”

"The one who wants my life?" Jiao He muttered, thinking about who he was talking about.

Before Jiao He could figure it out, Zhao Yun and Jiao He's subordinate Wang Bao walked in together.

"Envoy! News has come from my father-in-law, he has led an army of 20,000 to help, and it will arrive soon! ”

"Ma Qiang is coming??"

If Jiao He would be relieved if he learned that Ma Qiang was coming, now he is worried.

Could it be that the person who wants to take my life is Ma Qiang?

Jiao He suddenly looked at Zhao Yun with the wrong look.

"Since Ma Pingyuan is here to help, why don't you bring more soldiers and horses? There are five or six hundred thousand yellow turban thieves outside the city.

20,000 soldiers and horses, does Ma Pingyuan want to save me, or do you want to harm me? ”

As he spoke, Jiao He, who was a little excited, suddenly felt a sharp pain in the wound.

"Why did the envoy speak like that?" Zhao Yun suddenly said angrily, "My family Ming Gong has just asked Dong to return, I have to make Jun trapped, immediately send the last to help, a few days ago, so that Jun was hit by an arrow, if there is no good medicine in our army, how can he save his life?" At this time, my Ming Gong's soldiers and horses rested for a while, and immediately brought troops to fight the moth thieves, which can be said to be non-stop to serve the country, I don't know where to be sorry for the envoy? ”

As he spoke, Zhao Yun pulled out his sword, looked at Wang Bao, who was a little flustered, and said, "The ancients, the king humiliates the ministers to death!" The envoy insulted my Ming Gong today, did he think that the sword in my Zhao Zilong's hand was unfavorable? ”

After speaking, Zhao Yun angrily snatched the door, and the sergeant guarding outside saw Zhao Yun draw his sword, no one dared to stop him, and let Zhao Yun go straight back to the barracks.

When Wang Bao saw Zhao Yun leaving, he stomped his feet and asked Jiao He, "Ma Pingyuan can fight well, and Ming Gong wants to appease the place, how can he leave him?" Today, he has hated his generals, and if we see each other again in the future, I'm afraid it will be ugly! ”

Jiao He didn't regret it at all in his heart, he pointed to the gate and shouted, "That Zhao Yun is just a wild martial artist, and he dares to be so rude to me, seeing the leaves falling, he can know the autumn, then Ma Qiang must not be a good person!" ”

This book business is booming, but you can ignore everything.

Jiao He immediately said to Wang Bao, "If you immediately take the soldiers and horses to drive that Zhao Yun out of the city, I won't believe it, without their plain soldiers and horses, I won't be able to retreat this yellow turban thief!" ”

The leopard is about to vomit blood, my envoy, if you can retreat from the enemy, I will write my leopard upside down!

Jiao He saw that Wang Leopard didn't react, and said angrily, "Do you want to do the opposite?" ”

Wang Bao sighed, and could only go to the barracks to transfer troops, preparing to drive away Zhao Yun.

But Zhao Yun returned to the barracks and was not idle, he only brought a thousand horses, facing the thousands of Jiao and soldiers and horses in the city is an absolute disadvantage, he ordered the sergeants to be divided into three teams, take turns to rest, and he himself was draped with a gun, riding alone outside the barracks and looking at the Jiaohe military camp not far away, as if waiting for the fight.