Chapter 77: The Humble Yellow Leaf

The battle lasted for an hour, and Xue Yun's side paid thousands of casualties, slaughtering all the 20,000 elites of the Yellow Turban Army, and there was not a single one left.

This is a great victory in the history of warfare.

Xue Yun explained to Yan Liang that none of the Yellow Turban Army could be left, but their armor and equipment, and horses were all packed and taken away by me.

Because these equipment costs a lot of money, even a wealthy prince like Yuan Shao wants to build 20,000 pairs in one go, which makes him feel a little distressed.

Instead of throwing it here, wait for Zhang Liang to bring it back, and then conjure up 20,000 troops for you.

It's better to take it away and enrich your troops.

After all, there are quite a few people under his hands, and the armor on his body is not as good as that of the Yellow Turban Army, and this time he brought it back just in time to change the gun.

Yan Liang led the team and returned to Jizhou with Xue Yun and others.

In the house, they are all praising Xu Shu's strategy, which is really powerful.

It turned out that Xu Shu's purpose in asking Xue Yun to write a reply letter was to let Zhang Liang see it.

The purpose of writing the information in detail was to make Zhang Liang suspicious and make him think that Yuan Shao had seen through his plan.

Then a large army will definitely be sent to carry out a counter-encirclement of Zhang Liang.

And Zhang Liang thought that this was a good opportunity to eliminate Yuan Shao in one fell swoop, and took all the main forces away, leaving only some soldiers to guard the camp.

And the reason why the route was set at Xishan was because Xishan was fifty miles away from Jizhou, and it was inconvenient to march at night.

Even if Zhang Liang saw through this conspiracy, he wouldn't be able to come back for a while.

Xu Shu knows very well what Zhang Liang wants most in his heart at the moment?

That is to give him a chance to ambush all of Yuan Shao's main forces and then eliminate them in one fell swoop.

So Xu Shu happened to do what he liked and gave him a fake news to make him believe it.

In the end, an empty camp was left, which gave Yuan Shao the opportunity to attack the camp at night and burn the grain and grass.

Xue Yun said with a smile: "Right now, Zhang Liang has no food and grass, so he must definitely send someone to the nearby city to ask for food." Then we arranged to go out, and the army responsible for cutting off the Yellow Turban Army's food route is already in place? ”

Tian Feng on the side replied, "My lord, an hour ago, I got the news that I had gone around to the back of the Yellow Turban Army, and as long as I saw their grain transport troops, I would destroy them. ”

After Xue Yun heard this, he nodded slightly and said, "Okay, it's not too early, everyone go back and rest." In addition, the fact that we have annihilated Zhang Liang's 20,000 horses today will be spread out tomorrow to deal a blow to Zhang Liang's arrogance; Second, let the world know that the Yellow Turban Army is not terrible. They claim to be invincible in the world, and they are all cleaned up by us? This will greatly inspire the confidence of the people of the world, and this world needs this kind of morale-boosting victory so much. ”

After hearing this, everyone also nodded, which was also their original intention for tonight's night attack.

So everyone dispersed, and only Xue Yun was left in the hall.

Xue Yun looked at the candle flame on the table and fell into deep thought.

"According to the time, Yuan Shu's army will arrive at Youzhou City tomorrow, and the Yellow Turban Army in Youzhou will not be a problem at that time; And Cao Cao has returned to Yanzhou, as well as his outstanding strategists and generals such as Guo Jia, Cheng Yu, Xun Yu, Xu Chu, Xiahou Yuan, Xu Huang, etc., and there is no big problem. And here, he defeated the Yellow Turban Army twice a day and beheaded more than 50,000, which was also a big victory. Besides, Zhang Liang's grain and grass have also been destroyed, and as long as he holds the city, it is not a big problem to force him to withdraw. ”

Xue Yun analyzed the situation, and he knew that by doing his best, he might be able to make Zhang Liang's remaining 100,000 troops suffer heavy casualties, but his own casualties were not optimistic.

When the time comes, he will blow the morale of the Yellow Turban Army and boost the morale of the people in the world, but what substantial benefits will he bring to himself?

If your own army is lost, you can gather more soldiers.

But those are all recruits, and their combat effectiveness cannot be compared with their own elite at all.

The soldier is not expensive, what he wants is an elite journey with one as ten; Instead of indiscriminately filling the shrimp soldiers and crab generals.

Moreover, Xue Yun knew that once his strength suffered a huge loss, Yuan Shu would take the opportunity to become bigger, because he was not the kind of person who was willing to live under others.

After all, he can be said to be one of the first princes to be the emperor in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and the ambition in his heart is self-evident.

And Yuan Shu's cooperation with Zhang Rang now is only temporary, Zhang Rang can give him what he wants, and to a certain extent, he can suppress Yuan Shao.

But as long as Yuan Shao suffers a heavy blow, then Yuan Shu will reveal his true colors.

Suddenly, Xue Yun thought of an interesting thing: Zhang Liang, who was still feeding mosquitoes in Xishan, how is he doing now?

Huang Ye, who fled alone on a fast horse, walked for two hours at night before finding the place where Zhang Liang's army was ambushed.

Zhang Liang asked him why he came here, and Huang Ye told Yuan Shao about sending troops to attack the camp, and Zhang Liang knew that he had been tricked.

"Damn! Yuan Shao, I have to pick up your ancestral grave! ”

He originally thought that he would be able to catch Yuan Shao off guard, and after eliminating most of his main force, he would be able to command Jizhou City.

But I didn't expect that I still fell for the plan to divert the tiger from the mountain.

Yuan Shao asked Zhang Liang and his army of 100,000 to feed mosquitoes here, and he led people to attack Zhang Liang's camp and burned his grain and grass.

As for the 20,000 soldiers he left behind, he may have been wiped out by this time.

Thinking of this, Zhang Liang almost fainted again, on the first day of the battle between the two sides, Yuan Shao used all kinds of conspiracies and tricks to directly lose 50,000 troops.

It was a shame that his human army had never had, and then he looked at Huang Ye.

Coldly asked, "My 20,000 elites are dead, why are you still alive?" ”

Huang Ye hurriedly knelt down and said, "The little one is to send news to the public, not to be greedy for life and afraid of death." ”

"Oh? Is it? Zhang Liang nodded slightly, and said slowly, "Okay, tomorrow I will launch a general attack on Jizhou City, and there is a lack of a vanguard general, I think you are very suitable." ”

Huang Ye heard the drastic change in color behind him, and said in a panic, "Our siege equipment has all been destroyed by Yuan Shao. In addition, our soldiers did not rest all night, and attacking Jizhou City at this time was tantamount to a sheep falling into the mouth of a tiger. ”

Zhang Liang shook his head and said, "The person I sent to the nearby city to look for catapults has already replied, saying that twenty catapults will arrive tomorrow." As for your worries about the exhaustion of my soldiers? My warriors, are you tired? ”

"Not tired, not tired!"

Without waiting for Huang Ye to find other explanations, Zhang Liang directly put a sword on his neck.

He smiled and said, "If you don't accept this order, I'll let you go underground to meet my 20,000 soldiers now, and you go and explain to them why you abandoned them and ran away alone." ”

Huang Ye saw that Zhang Liang had already become murderous, and hurriedly said, "Don't, don't, I'll go." ”