"Junhyuk, what should we do next? Straight to the long company? ”

Xiang Qing paced a few steps in place, shook his head and said, "Big brother, I don't know what to do?" ”

Everyone was silent for a while, and suddenly learned the news that General Zhu Jun was defeated, and everyone was a little depressed, although the Xiahou brothers and the Cao brothers would not be affected, but the following generals were not necessarily.

Cao Cao thought to himself that this would not work, the elation of the army that had just defeated the Yellow Turban pursuers had been swept away, and the morale had been slightly low before the Yellow Turban Thieves had not been confronted.

Just when they didn't know what to do, Xu Shu and Xi Zhicai said in unison: "Lord, there is a plan below!" ”

Xu Shu's lord is Xiang Qing, and Xi Zhicai's lord is Cao Cao, the direction of the two salutes must be different, and the two turned around and faced each other.

"Yuan Zhi, you can say it first." Xi Zhicai gave way.

Xu Shu stepped forward and said, "I dare to guess that the things that the lord and Cao Gongzi are worried about are four words. ”

Cao Cao asked, "Which four words?" ”

"It's just that the enemy is strong and I am weak."

Xiang Qing nodded and said with a smile: "Then what can we do about it?" Yuan Zhi, hurry up. ”

Cao Cao can't nod these four words, the army commander of the 5,000 people is him, if he nods and admits that the enemy is strong and I am weak, it will definitely have a greater impact on morale, but this kind of thing cannot be generalized, it must be divided into specific situations, in short, as a commander, you must be cautious of your own speech, Cao Cao did a good job at this point.

Xu Shu continued: "The so-called enemy is strong and I am weak, there are two main reasons, one is that the Yellow Turban has just risen, the morale is booming, it is the time to be full of energy, on the other hand, the Han army, the soldiers of the Luoyang battalion are running around all the year round, suppressing thieves and helping the Han, they are already exhausted, with a tired army, how can the army be victorious? ”

"Two, if according to what the sentry said, the Yellow Turban Army gathered 100,000 troops in Yingchuan, and the Han army was no more than 50,000, how could they win the battle with the weak?"

"Regardless of the supply of armor, the time and place are favorable, even if this morale and strength are already invincible, even if General Zhu Jun has a great strategy, it will be difficult to escape this defeat."

Everyone silently pondered Xu Shu's words, these things are not difficult to analyze, you can know if you think about it carefully, everyone is more concerned about what tricks Xu Shu has to defeat the Yellow Turban Thief.

Xu Shu said eloquently: "In fact, General Zhu Jun's defeat is not so serious, according to what the centurion Yu Ban said, General Huangfu Song supported in time, the Changshe was not lost, and the Yellow Turban thieves did not attack the hinterland of Yingchuan, then the battle situation is not very clear. ”

Speaking of this, he couldn't understand it, Xiahou Yuan stood up and asked: "Yuan Zhi, you just said that the enemy is strong and I am weak, how come it is that now I am weak and I am strong?" ”

"Yes, yes, there are 100,000 yellow turban thieves! Our total number of foot riders is only 5,000! ”

Everyone was waiting for Xu Shu to answer, Xi Zhicai and Xu Shu glanced at each other, and the two smart characters didn't need to talk much to understand each other's meaning.

Xi Zhicai stood up and said: "Don't worry, everyone, I have the same meaning as Yuan Zhi, I'll explain it to you." ”

"First of all, the soldiers brought by General Zhu Jun, including the elite of the Luoyang battalion, and the sergeants recruited along the way, are about 50,000, and the Yellow Turban thieves attacked the camp at night and won by luck, can my 50,000 Han army be wiped out overnight? They just retreated, to put it mildly, they fled, but they were alive, and as long as they were alive, that means that as long as they were regrouped, they would still be an army that could fight well! ”

Cao Cao stroked his palms and smiled, and said: "Zhicai is right, we have gathered a lot of defeated troops on the way from Chen County, and now our strength is far more than 5,000, Cao Ren Cao Hong, wait for you to count the specific number of each battalion, including which defeated soldiers." ”

"No!"

"Zhicai, you go on."

"The emperor's edict that all localities can recruit militia and villagers to fight against thieves together, and we can raise troops, so won't the great princes of other places raise troops? The Yellow Turban Thieves gathered 100,000 people in Yingchuan, so are there 100,000 Yellow Turban Thieves in other places? ”

Xiang Qing suddenly realized: "I see, the Yellow Turban Thieves want to fight in Yingchuan, and the Yellow Turban Thieves in other places may not have such great strength, so after the princes in various places have exterminated the local Yellow Turban Thieves, they can rush to the aid of Yingchuan, sandwich the Yellow Turban Thieves in Yingchuan, close the door and beat the dogs!" ”

"Exactly." Xu Shu nodded: "Actually, not only the princes from all over the world, but also the friends of the lord and Cao Gongzi, such as the Yuan family of the fourth and third princes, the two brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, don't you be moved when you see such a great achievement?" Sun Jian under Yuan Shu's tent is also a tiger-like hero, there are so many heroes, the Yellow Turban Thief doesn't want to break through the Changshe! Winning Yingchuan is even more wishful thinking! ”

The generals clapped their hands one after another, and they only felt that the Yellow Turban Thief was simply vulnerable.

"That's right! That's right! ”

"The yellow turban thieves are all traitors who insert bids!"

……

Later, they discussed some details, and then the generals returned to their own troops, after counting the number of people, except for the tiger and leopard cavalry did not change, the number of infantry troops nearly doubled, those Han army rout, after issuing them armor weapons, is also a good combat effectiveness of the army, the morale of these routs, let the generals worry about it.

Cao Cao is writing letters to his friends, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Bao Xin, etc., in those days of wandering, Cao Cao made many friends, according to his network, the friends must be the children of wealthy families, Cao Cao has the strength to organize an army of 5,000 people, and they must be able to.

And Xiang Qing wrote a letter to a person, and when he wrote the letter, he also deliberately glanced at Chen Zhi, the commander of the front army, after the first battle of Chen County, Chen Zhi also decided to follow Cao Cao, but he did not call Cao Cao the lord, and he led the troops he brought out from Chen County.

Xiang Qing silently thought in his heart: "Alas, I'm sorry Brother Xuande, I robbed you of the commander of the Bai Yu Army, and now I have to write to you to help, I really don't want to go." ”

The person he is sorry for is Liu Bei Liu Xuande, when Xiang Qing traveled the world, he once communicated with Liu Bei, and his Gu Hou swordsmanship also left a deep impression on Xiang Qing.

Presumably at this time, the future Uncle Liu Huang has also recruited Xiang Yong and embarked on his own path, and now calling him to Yingchuan to help in the war is also to give him a chance to show his face.

Soon, Cao Cao received a report on the number of people handed over by the generals of each battalion, 3,000 cavalry and 4,000 infantry troops, a total of more than 7,000 people.

Aside from the war horses ridden by tigers and leopards, there are 3,000 extra war horses, but these 3,000 horses, it is impossible to have more than 3,000 cavalry out of thin air, a person who has never fought before, you give him a knife, he can become an infantry army, and he can go into battle after two days of training, you give him a horse, and he may not even be able to ride a horse for two days of training, let alone fight on horseback, this is the preciousness of cavalry compared to infantry.

The captured weapons are barely enough, but the problem of food and grass is not easy to solve, and the extra 2,000 troops are equivalent to 2,000 more mouths, and they also have to eat, fortunately, some were captured from the camp of Zhang Mancheng, the Yellow Turban thief in Chen County, which is barely enough, but it can only support seven or eight days at most.

The whole army marched to Yanling, and according to the map, it was less than three hundred miles away from Changshe, almost a day and a night's journey, and they had to stop here, because Yanling City had already been lost.

In the early Eastern Han Dynasty, the Yellow River migrated for the second time, that is, after 69 years in the park, the ancient Yancheng was washed away by the flood, and the current Yanling City was migrated.

The army set up camp ten miles outside the city, and Cao Cao's arrangements were quite proper, and he also learned from the experience of Zhu Jun's defeat and specially prepared for night attacks.

The Yellow Turban guard in Yanling City is the Yellow Turban General Bocai, this person is quite strategic, and I heard that the Yellow Turban Army's plan to attack Zhu Jun's camp at night was his suggestion to Zhang Jiao.

In the night when he couldn't see his fingers, Cao Ying lit a torch, and the guards at the camp gate couldn't see ten meters away, everything in the sky was shrouded in dark clouds, and even the afterglow of the stars could not penetrate the thick clouds.

The soldiers on patrol were drowsy, and the fatigue of rushing rushed to their hearts, and by the third watch in the middle of the night, everyone was exhausted to the extreme, and the time when people were most tired was the most lax.

At this moment, a group of black-clothed men came out of the camp, and they first used their bows and arrows to shoot out the guards at the camp gate and the archers on the lookout on the camp wall, and then they rushed in and killed the Cao camp.

"The heavens are dead! Huang Tian should stand! Years old in Jiazi! The world is lucky! ”

"Kill!"

Entering Cao's camp, they opened a camp tent, but found that there was no one inside, and they opened several camp tents one after another, and they also knew that they were planning it.

"Hit the mark! Remove! ”

At this time, the generals of each battalion led their troops to surround them, and the camp wall behind them was already densely packed with archers, and the camp gate guards they had just shot were just scarecrows.

Xiahou Yuan roared angrily: "Where are the thieves going!" ”

Seeing that there was no hope of escape, these black-clothed people drew their swords and killed themselves, leaving no one alive at all, and when Xiang Qing Cao Cao arrived at the scene, what he saw was a pile of corpses.

"What's going on! Didn't you say that you want to stay alive! Xiang Qing angrily questioned the generals.

Cao Hong touched the back of his head and replied, "No, second brother, we haven't done it yet." ”

Xiang Qing's face became solemn, and Cao Cao also shook his head, this Yellow Turban General Bocai is not simple, the corpses on the ground are only a hundred people, and with a hundred people, they have tested their carefully designed ambush, and the price is not big.

Just imagine, Zhu Jun led an army of 50,000 people, and as soon as he arrived at Changshe, the Yellow Turban army poured out of the nest to attack the Han army camp at night, while Cao Cao Xiangqing only had 7,000 people, but Bo Cai only sent 100 people to be the bait for the temptation.

"Junhyuk, our opponent, I'm afraid it's not simple."