Chapter 10 Appointment of Military Candidates

Zhang Xiao saw that his attitude did not cause dissatisfaction among several people, so he repeated what he said to Zhang Bao before.

After listening to Zhang Luo's words, Zhang Liang and Zhang Baiqi's faces did not change, and Zhang Liang nodded: "Zhang Jun waits for you to go down to rest first, and attack as soon as possible after receiving his subordinates tomorrow." If you can snatch the Han army's grain transportation team again, it will be of great help to defend the city. You must do this well! ”

"Obey the general's order!" Zhang Luo replied.

"If you can snatch the things of the Han army again, you must bring back weapons and salt first. Brother, remember this! Zhang Liang finally couldn't help but admonish.

All the explanations were for Zhang Luo's attack on the grain road, and Zhang Liang was completely unimmittant on Zhang Luo's strategic concept of pulling the Han army out to fight.

Zhang Luo did not think that the proposal he made to Zhang Liang and others could be adopted, and the strategic proposal made by a junior officer who had just been promoted to Qu Commander could not be taken seriously at all.

After Zhang Luo left the Chinese military tent, Zhang Liang, Zhang Bao, and Zhang Baiqi continued to discuss the future strategy of Taiping Dao. Zhang Luo's capture was a good thing for the Yellow Turban Army, which was short of supplies, but it was not a great joy. More than 1,000 catties of materials can't reverse the current predicament of Taiping Road. Even if Zhang Luo successfully attacked the Han army's grain transport team again, the looted materials would not be able to solve the dilemma faced by Taiping Dao, so Zhang Liang didn't care what kind of results Zhang Luo could achieve.

As for the prominent strategy proposed by Zhang Luo, the method of solving the Han army in the field, Zhang Liang did not feel that there was any need to discuss. The encirclement of the Han army is tightening day by day, and Taiping Dao has gradually reached an agreement on the future strategy, and it is absolutely impossible to defend it. In the battles of the previous few months, Taidao repeatedly attacked the Han army in the field, and the commander of these battles was basically Zhang Liang. Since the upper echelons of Taiping Dao have basically determined this tactic, it is very meaningless whether Zhang Luo agrees with it or not.

The question at hand is where to go after highlighting Guangzong? The Han army mobilized nearly 50,000 troops to besiege Guangzong City, and the real core combat strength of Taiping Dao was only 30,000 troops, and there were more than 50,000 family members. Once out of this city, 30,000 Taiping soldiers and tens of thousands of Han troops fought a decisive field battle, and there was no possibility of victory. In this case, Taipingdao had no choice but to adopt the previous tactics and strike a decisive blow at the Han army marching separately in the field. Where to go and what route to take are the focus of high-level discussions in Taiping Road recently.

Discussions have come and gone, but there is still no more detailed and specific implementation strategy. The more likely direction of the breakout is to the west. It's just that even if the Han army is annihilated after breaking through, how to fight next, the upper echelons of Taiping Road still have no unanimous idea.

The generals of Taiping Dao are in a good mood, which means that the generals of the Han army will not be in a good mood. On the night of the day when Zhang Luo transported the things he had stolen to Guangzong City. The deputy commander of the Han Army's Beida Battalion in Guangzong City finally entertained the new eunuch, and then returned to his Chinese army tent with a serious face.

At noon, Taiping Dao suddenly attacked, and the sect had to lead the troops of the Northern Battalion to meet the attack. But Taiping Dao didn't know what tricks he was doing, so he just harassed him and went back. Then I received the situation that the grain transport team was attacked and Xu Rong's whereabouts were unknown.

Fifty-six years old this year, the sect member is a veteran of the Han army. In the case of his city, even if he can't do it, he can see many things. But at this time, the sect member could not be at ease with what was happening. The reason for his concern was not entirely the more than 1,000 catties of materials that Zhang Luo had robbed. No matter how much you shout about the difficulty of logistics and transportation, Beidaying does not lack that little thing. What the sect member really cares about is whether the eunuchs of the prison army will support his idea of suppressing bandits.

The northern camp of Guangzong was led by a member of the sect, and the southern camp was led by Dong Zhuo. These two are both border generals, and they should not be weak in their use of soldiers.

There is no deep hatred between the sect member and Dong Zhuo for personal reasons, but the two sides belong to a very traditional discord. Dong Zhuo advocated "encircling and attacking" and gradually eliminating the Taiping Dao's stronghold outside Guangzong City by gradually pulling out nails. In the end, Taiping Road was completely annihilated in the city. The sect members advocated "covering it up", which is the traditional tactic of "besieging the city and missing one side".

The worse thing is that Dong Zhuo tried to pull out the nails, but he couldn't win several battles, and he couldn't pull out Taiping Dao's stronghold outside the city. The sect members advocated the siege of three and one, and not only failed to win in the field battle, but even suffered a lot of losses.

So the contradiction exploded, since no one's ass was clean, the two sides refused to admit that they were wrong. Both the sect member and Dong Zhuo thought that the other party was unwilling to be a green leaf to accompany the red flower, and the contradiction was intensifying. The generals of the northern and southern armies were not in harmony, and the northern and southern armies naturally could not fight in coordination, and the siege lasted for a month, but in the end there was no success.

Of course, the sect member is a veteran after all, and he knows that the relationship between superiors and subordinates should not be stiff, but he changed his previous practice and actually adopted the tactic of "encircling and attacking" advocated by Dong Zhuo. He first moved the camp thirty miles away from Guangzong City to a place fifteen miles away from Guangzong City, and launched a fierce attack on Taiping Dao's stronghold in the north of the city. Tried to solve the outlying strongholds of Taiping Road first, and then marched under the city of Guangzong. In August, the sect members continued to move forward several times, and after a series of bloody battles with the troops of Taiping Dao, they finally moved the camp to the outpost of the Taiping Dao army.

It can't be said that the matter of changing the tactics can be done, what the sect members don't want is that the eunuchs of the prison army use this as an excuse to suppress themselves, and they don't want Dong Zhuo to get the dominance of the war.

"My lord, your worries are unnecessary." The advisor under his command knew the sect member's worries, and he said with a calm expression while sipping tea.

"How?" The sect member trusted him very much, and immediately said anxiously.

"My lord, whether it is Zuo Feng before or the current prison army, they have only one temperament: to break through Guangzong! Dong Zhongying did not do well, and the encirclement and suppression were fruitless. The Son of Heaven was dissatisfied with it, fearing that he would repeat Lu Zigan's mistakes. The strategist replied calmly: "Dong Zhongying's cunning man, I'm afraid I'm going to go through the back door." ”

For these things in the officialdom, this strategist is more proficient than the sect member, and he immediately persuaded: "My lord, this time I heard that the Son of Heaven transferred Dong Zhongying to be the commander, just to change Lu Zigan's method. If the newly arrived prison army still wants to rely exclusively on the people of Liangzhou as before, they will naturally supervise the battle in Xiaquyang. Until now, the prison has not mentioned this matter. Instead, they sent guards to our northern camp. This is the intention of the supervising army to supervise the battle in Beidaying. Since the prison army has such a plan, please also ask the lord to quickly invite the prison army to come to the Beida camp to supervise the battle. ”

When the sect member heard this, he suddenly realized that since the Han army had large camps in the north and south of Guangzong, which camp the eunuchs of the supervising army went to supervise the battle, which camp would become the main camp. The sect member immediately replied: "In that case, bring some goods and ask the prison army to come to the northern camp." ”

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Just when the commander and deputy marshal of the Han army were still fighting for command, Zhang Luo had already left Zhang Liang's barracks, and what he wanted to do most at this time was to hurry back to the station to rest. But it backfired, and the small amount of mental and physical strength he had to gather at this time was entirely for another task that he had to accomplish—that is, to arrange a place to be stationed.

After Taiping Dao retreated to Guangzong, the Han army would soon start a siege of Guangzong. Because of the war, a large number of people fled from Guangzong, and Taiping Dao collected the vacant houses. Ten days ago, when Zhang Luo led his subordinates to attack, he and his subordinates were stationed in two rooms in an ordinary courtyard, and these two rooms accounted for half of the house. Ten days later, when he returned to the station, he was worried that the place had been occupied, and it was only more urgent to report to Zhang Liang that he asked his brothers to go back to the station first.

When Zhang Luo arrived at the house, the imaginary quarrel that might have occurred did not happen. There was no need to prepare any sentinels in the city, and the gate of the garrison was slightly closed, and no one could be seen quietly. Pushing open the tattered door, there was silence in the courtyard, and the doors of all four rooms were closed. When I opened one room, I saw five or six brothers lying neatly in the room, and they were laying their own marching bunks on the straw floor, and they slept very deeply and sweetly.

Looking at the four rooms one by one, Zhang Luoxian's other Yellow Turban Army brothers who had been living with them had moved away, and Zhang Luo's troops completely occupied the house.

Why the other troops moved away, and where they moved, Zhang Luo didn't care at all at this time. He closed the gate of the courtyard, and lay down exhausted on the vacant grass that had been left in one part of the main house, and fell into a deep sleep in a moment.

After accumulating too much tiredness, Zhang Luo slept until dawn this night. Even if someone around him spoke louder and alarmed him, he continued to fall asleep as soon as he woke up. By the time he woke up completely, it was almost noon the next day.