If the heart of the Yellow Turban Army is fluctuating, it will definitely be easier for the official army to attack than before, and those Yellow Turban Army who are about to move, seeing that the official army is menacing, may revolt on the battlefield, and Quyang City is not in their pocket at that time.

Huang Fu Song has great confidence in this battle, after Cao Cao came up with this method, Huang Fu Song has considered this matter from Zhang Jiao's point of view, if the Yellow Turban Uprising at the beginning, the Yellow Turban Army is ironclad, his own chaotic plan will naturally have little effect. But the Yellow Turban Army at this time was very different from the original, and the Yellow Turban Army at this time absorbed too many rogues and defeated troops, which can be said to be a group of rabble. It is normal for the morale of the military to be affected.

"Okay, let's have a beautiful fight." Huangfu Song agreed to Cao Cao's plan and sent an army of 20,000 to attack Quyang City.

Cao Cao and Liu Bei led the order to bow down, ordered the soldiers and horses to the foot of Quyang City, and looked at the city gate from a distance, Liu Bei felt that this killing aura was much stronger than before: "Meng De, the situation in Quyang City is a little wrong, the soldiers do not see the color of decadence, is our plan ineffective?" ”

Cao Cao naturally felt this strange atmosphere, but he didn't turn back when he opened his bow, could it be that seeing that the situation in the city was different, the 20,000 army retreated without a fight? The attack still had to be attacked, but Cao Cao was much more cautious than before.

The officials and soldiers shouted that the sound of killing shook the sky, and attacked Quyang City, and the Yellow Turban Army on the city resisted to the death, throwing down the rolling wood and thunder stones and killing many soldiers.

The two sides fought for an hour, and the officers and troops suffered heavy casualties, and Cao Cao and Liu Bei hurriedly ordered the withdrawal of their troops. As soon as the officers and soldiers withdrew, a group of Yellow Turban troops chased after them in the city, and the general with a long knife roared: "The thieves are gone!" "Lead the soldiers to rush over.

The retreating officers and soldiers were killed and injured by a team of Yellow Turban troops who rushed out of the city, and the Yellow Turban generals were killing, and a team of officers and soldiers turned their horses' heads and rushed over against themselves, led by Guan Yu!

When the general saw someone in the army rushing towards his headquarters, he shouted: "Good come!" The horse was greeted by him, but his strength was not higher than his ambition, and he fought with Guan Yu for less than two rounds, and was cut off the horse by Guan Yu with a knife.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei led the soldiers of the headquarters to rush to the Yellow Turban Army that rushed over, defeated the Yellow Turban Army that was chased out, Zhang Liang, who personally led the army, saw that the vanguard had rushed out, and just wanted to command the army to defeat Cao Cao's part of the official army, and when he came to the city gate, he saw Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, two generals, who were rushing over, and no one in the Yellow Turban Army could stop them, seeing the defeated officers and soldiers, under the leadership of these two people, they actually regained their fighting spirit, and many people turned their guns and followed Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to fight back.

Zhang Liang ordered the soldiers to quickly retreat and close the city gate, returned to the palace, and angrily threw the horsewhip on the ground: "If it weren't for those two people, the main force of Huangfu Song's army would have been annihilated by our army at this time." It's a bit incredible that two people alone can save the day. ”

Zhang Jiao looked at Zhang Liang's angry appearance and shook his head slightly, Zhang Liang was still too young to control his emotions. "Since the previous dynasty was able to prosper the country with one person, it is natural that now it can also prosper the army by one person. The third brother doesn't need to make a fuss. In fact, Zhang Jiao and Zhang Liang have seen a person who rejuvenates the army more than once, and Zhao Yi is the best among them.

"Big brother, I'm not surprised, I'm just a little angry, why aren't the generals in our army the opponents of those two." Zhang Liang sighed, although he had many soldiers, there were no brave generals. If you have fierce generals like Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, it will definitely be easier to attack cities and land in the future.

"Third brother, don't worry, as long as our reputation grows bigger and bigger, are you afraid that there will be no heroes to vote?" A smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he didn't seem to care much about it. Unfold the map and greet Zhang Liang: "At this time, the Huangfu army is newly defeated, and the soldiers have lost many people, and they will not attack Quyang again in a short time." As he spoke, he pointed out a few places on the map, "We can take advantage of this opportunity to take these places." You go down and get ready. The successive victories of the Yellow Turban Army greatly increased Zhang Jiao's confidence, not limited to Quyang, but expanded its tentacles to the surroundings.

Zhang Liang immediately went down to prepare, because the victory of his own army was greatly boosted, and he was very sure of attacking the city at this time.

In the official camp, Cao Cao and Liu Bei led the army back to the camp tent, and Cao Cao bowed down with a serious face: "The failure of this attack on Quyang is all caused by the last general, please punish the general." ”

This time, the soldiers lost more than 5,000 people, if it weren't for Guan Yu and Zhang Fei leading their troops to rush and kill, this number might be even more, Huangfu Song helped Cao Cao up: "The responsibility for the defeat of this battle is not all on you, it is me who is in a hurry." ”

Cao Cao sighed, he didn't think of his chaotic plan, it didn't have any effect: "The morale of the army in Quyang City is stable, our strategy has not succeeded, and I am afraid it will be more difficult to attack in the future." Then he thanked the two generals, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei: "If it weren't for the two generals who led their troops to rush and kill, our army would definitely have suffered heavy casualties." ”

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei hurriedly returned the salute: "The general is polite, everyone is an officer and a soldier, so naturally we should support each other." ”

Cao Cao glanced at Guan Yu appreciatively, and just wanted to say something, when a soldier outside the camp reported: "General, General Zhou's headquarters is ten miles away from the east gate, and the corpses of more than 200 Yellow Turban soldiers have been found, and they are in a very miserable state. ”

"East Gate?" Liu Bei and the three of them glanced at each other, they were all a little strange, they didn't attack the east gate today, why were there the dead bodies of the Yellow Turban Army?

Cao Cao sensed that there was something wrong with these dead bodies, so he asked General Zhou to come over and asked him to bring two corpses over.

Within a quarter of an hour, General Zhou came here with the corpse, briefly described the scene where he saw the corpse, and then lifted the cloth: "General, this is the corpse we found." ”

Dressed in the uniform of the Yellow Turban Army, and his body was already stiff, as if he had been dead for a long time, Cao Cao checked the wound on the corpse: "A shot pierced the heart, and another cut in the throat, obviously trying to kill people and kill people." According to General Zhou, these people had surprisingly uniform wounds, and there was no sign of resistance, as if they were standing for someone else to kill, and there were no weapons in their hands.

Cao Cao thought for a moment and slapped the table suddenly: "I've been tricked!" ”

"Tricked?" Huangfu Song and Liu Bei looked at Cao Cao strangely, not knowing what Cao Cao meant by this.

Cao Cao pointed to the corpses: "The reason for our failure in the siege should be on these corpses, these people should have come to surrender late at night, but they were killed by the people sent by Zhang Jiao." ”

"The people who opened their horns? How could they be defenseless in the face of Zhang Jiao's pursuers? Liu Bei was a little strange.

Cao Cao smiled bitterly: "Brother Xuande, have you forgotten, how did we break the Changshe in the first place?" Since we can disguise ourselves as the Yellow Turbans, the Yellow Turbans can naturally disguise ourselves as well. If my prediction is correct, Zhang Jiao must have sent soldiers to disguise themselves as officers and soldiers, induced these people to lay down their weapons, and killed these people without defense, and pushed all this on us, and the Yellow Turban Army in the city must resent us because of this incident and died to our officers and soldiers. Therefore, when attacking the city today, those Yellow Turban troops will resist desperately, resulting in a great defeat for our army. ”

Huangfu Song and Liu Bei nodded, and what Cao Cao said penetrated into it, and every sentence hit the nail on the head. If it is said that when the defense of the soldiers of Toucheng is lax, it must be after seeing the person they defected to.

"But at this moment, even if our army knows that this is a plan by Zhang Jiao, it cannot be reversed." Liu Bei sighed, he thought that his strategy was very clever, but compared with Zhang Jiao, it was a little weaker. The Yellow Turban Army in Quyang City was deceived by Zhang Jiao. Even if he exposed Zhang Jiao's conspiracy, it would be useless, because the Yellow Turban Army would not listen to Liu Bei and others at all.

Huangfu Song waved his hand for the soldiers to carry the body down and bury it: "This matter is a foregone conclusion and can no longer be changed, our army has suffered heavy losses, and we need to replenish the troops, I want to gather the defenders of the nearby counties and counties to fight against the Yellow Turban Thieves, what is the opinion of Meng De and Bolai?" ”

The two naturally have no opinion, the more Yellow Turban soldiers to deal with, the better, Liu Bei proposed: "General, this place is not far from Youzhou, if you can transfer the Fanyang garrison from Bolai, it will definitely be beneficial for our army to attack the city." ”

Guan Yu was deeply impressed by the defenders of Fanyang County trained by Zhao Yi, and immediately seconded the proposal after Liu Bei finished speaking: "General Zhao's soldiers are brave and good at fighting, and General Zhao relied on 4,000 elite cavalry to defeat Zhang Jiao's 10,000 guards that day. ”

Zhang Fei added another dose of fierce material, saying that most of Zhao Yi's 5,000 soldiers were chasing and killing the remnants of the Yellow Turban, and the soldiers in Fan Yang's headquarters were even more fierce than them.

Huangfu Song was very satisfied with the soldiers of Zhao Yi's department, if the defenders of Fanyang County were more fierce than Zhao Yi's current soldiers, it would really be a rare tiger and wolf army: "Since several generals have high respect for the Bolai department, I immediately wrote to the county to send troops over." As he spoke, he unfurled the cloth.

Liu Bei stopped Huangfu Song: "The general had better let Bo Lai give orders to Fan Yang, otherwise you may not be able to move Fan Yang's soldiers with this warrant." ”

Huangfu Song frowned slightly: "I am a general in the imperial court, and I have the right to mobilize troops, does a small Fanyang County dare to resist my military order?" ”

Liu Bei explained the situation in Fanyang County with a wry smile: "The general doesn't know, ninety percent of the soldiers in Fanyang County are born in yellow turbans, and they are all trained by Bolai, and the concept of the army is not so clear, except for Bolai, it is estimated that no one will recognize the warrant." ”

This situation is understandable, and asked the soldiers to quickly deliver the letter to Zhao Yi, and asked him to send troops to rescue. In addition to Zhao Yi's Fanyang soldiers, Huangfu Song also invited soldiers from several counties in Jizhou. These heralds went out, and Liu Bei and the others could only wait for news in the camp.

And when Cao Cao and Zhang Jiao were playing tricks, a very strange scene happened in Zhu Jiao's camp that night.

Zhao Yi asked the soldiers to take out all the wine in the general, and also took a lot of wine in the surrounding villages, and ordered the soldiers of the whole battalion to cook wine. And the soldiers were required to cover the mouth of the altar with three layers of cloth.

Seeing three or five people sitting around cooking wine, even though Zhao Yi had already told Zhu Yi and Sun Jian about their strategy, the two of them were still a little skeptical when they saw the current situation: "Cooking wine with the mouth of the altar can break through Yangcheng?" ”