Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Wrath of Thunder (Part 1)

Although Zhu Ling knew that he didn't fight well in this battle, how could he be willing to go back like this, not to mention that he couldn't raise his head in front of the other brigade commanders, and the division commander Xu Huang had to withdraw him and reduce him to a gang. Besides, I have suffered so many casualties, and I have to take revenge.

"Lord, give us another chance, if you don't beat this Zhang Liang out of the, I, Zhu Ling, will go to be a groom and feed you the horses."

Lu Bu's eyes were red when he looked at Zhu Ling, and he also knew in his heart that Gao Shun couldn't blame Zhu Ling for his arrow, and the main force of the Yellow Turban Army was also an encounter, and it was a good thing to not understand the opponent and suffer a little setback.

He put on a straight face and said to Zhu Ling word by word: "Zhu Ling, then I will give you another chance, three days later, we will attack Gaoyi again, and if we can't take it, you can go back to the clouds and feed the horses." ”

"Yes, mission guaranteed!"

"Okay, let's discuss how to take Gaoyi next, Wenyuan, you can also participate and express your opinions." Lu Bu called Zhang Liao on the side, this kid has scored high in his tactics class, and he still has two hits.

A few people gathered in front of the big map, and you carefully studied and scrutinized every word.

Gaoyi County.

Since he shot Gao Shun with a poisoned arrow and repelled the undefeated Bingzhou army, Zhang Liang has swelled very much.

He didn't know that the Bingzhou Army had a large number of military doctors and medical personnel accompanying the army, and the minor injuries could quickly recover their combat effectiveness, and the seriously injured ones would not die.

There was no way, poverty and backwardness limited his imagination.

Zhang Liang sent people to recollect the scattered Yellow Turban Army, and even caught a lot of strong men in the surrounding area to supplement them.

The Yellow Turban Army under his command has been replenished to nearly 50,000 people, but unfortunately his Yellow Turban elite soldiers have lost 4,000 people, and they will not be able to replenish it for a while and a half.

After waiting for a few days, and seeing no sign of the comeback of the Bingzhou army, he relieved himself and seemed that he would not attack him for the time being.

Although none of the scouts he sent to Xiaquyang came back, they were very clear in other directions, and they were safe and sound, and in the short term, the Han army would not come to touch their hard bones.

On this day, he had just returned to the county government after inspecting and training from the big camp, when a messenger came, but it was sent by Zhang Bao, the second brother who occupied the county of Julu County.

It is said that yesterday, a large group of Han troops suddenly came to the outside of the city of Gatao County, and one of their own grain collection teams was completely wiped out.

Looking at the banner of the Han army, it was Lu Bu's annexed state army, and there was also the banner of the trapped camp, and they set up camp outside the north gate of the county town of Glottao.

Zhang Bao saw many soldiers cutting down trees, as if building siege equipment. The army of Gao Tao is now empty, and Zhang Bao's subordinates have been sent out to collect food and attack other places, with only four or five thousand people in their hands, and there are at least tens of thousands of people in the observation and state army.

Zhang Bao could only ask for help from Zhang Liang, who was closest to him. His second brother asked him for help, Zhang Liang didn't dare to slack off, he had to come to him for revenge, but it turned out that he took advantage of the weakness to fight the second brother's idea.

He left Pei Yuanshao to bring 1,000 Yellow Turban soldiers and 10,000 miscellaneous troops to defend the city, and he led 5,000 elite soldiers and more than 30,000 recruits to gall Tao to reinforce Zhang Bao.

The two county towns are not far apart, only more than a hundred miles. Zhang Liang was afraid that something would change later, and he didn't rest along the way, and he hurried all night.

The next morning, I had already rushed most of the way, and at this speed, I could see the county seat of Gaunta at about noon.

The Yellow Turban Army marched along the main road, like a winding yellow dragon, and had just walked through a large wooded area before the front army stopped.

Zhang Liang asked what the situation was, and the former army general came to report that the road ahead had been dug up, and a wide and deep trench extended out into the grass on both sides, and I don't know how long, the width was four or five zhang, and two or three people deep.

Zhang Liang couldn't help but tremble in his heart, he had a bad premonition, at this moment, there was also a commotion in the rear, and there was a fire.

Zhang Liang personally beat the horse to the end of the team this time, only to see that the road was blocked by a taxi full of dry wood and hay, and it should have been poured with fire oil, and the fire burned very strongly.

Just when Zhang Liang was at a loss, a large number of Han archers and crossbowmen appeared in the grass on the north side of the road, and they dug a half-man-deep ditch in the ground, and they were obviously lying on their stomachs in the ditch just now.

The rain of arrows in the sky shot at the Yellow Turban Army, and there were only 1,000 longbowmen left in the Yellow Turban Army, and there were originally 2,000 of them.

However, only half of the Han army was exposed to the ground, and the target was much smaller than that of the Yellow Turban Army. So after just shooting at each other for a while, there weren't many longbowmen left in the Yellow Turban Army.

The Yellow Turban Army Brigade covered by the rain of arrows, the Yellow Turban elite soldiers with armor protection were better, and those ordinary soldiers fell to the ground one after another, and when they saw the woods on the south side of the road, they ran over one after another.

Wanting to use the cover of the woods to reduce casualties, Zhang Liang felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't stop it.

Many of the Yellow Turban soldiers also began to withdraw towards the woods, but fortunately there seemed to be no ambushes in the woods.

Zhang Liang, surrounded by his guards, also retreated to the edge of the woods. Fortunately, the Han army did not pursue desperately, but just shot with bows and crossbows from a distance, but with the shelter of trees, the killing of bows and crossbows was much less, and this forest was not small, and most of the Yellow Turban troops hid in.

But there was always a trace of uneasiness lingering in Zhang Liang's heart, he seemed to smell a familiar smell, like the smell of fire oil, and he asked his subordinates to smell it.

Sure enough, everyone smelled the smell, and followed the smell to find its source, which turned out to be coming from these trees around them.

Because there were many people before, they covered up this smell, but now they deliberately look for it, and it is easy to find it.

Zhang Liang shouted and immediately shouted: "Quickly retreat, leave the woods." ”

Then they ran out of the woods first, before most of the Yellow Turbans could figure out what was wrong.

Suddenly there was a loud bang in the depths of the woods, like thunder, and a huge flame rose into the air, bright and dazzling, and then a thick smoke filled the air, and a huge pillar of smoke rose upwards into the sky.

The trees coated with fire oil were ignited by the flames, and the sparks that fell ignited more trees and weeds.

More loud noises came one after another, and Zhang Liangchong was the fastest, and at the same time as the explosion occurred, he had already run out of the woods.

When he looked back, it was the moment when the explosion occurred, and the loud sound, bright flames, and smoke and dust that rushed into the sky all brought a huge impact to Zhang Liang.

What is it? Could it be the wrath of thunder from heaven? There were only a dozen loud explosions, but a fire was ignited, and the entire forest was turned into a sea of fire.

The Yellow Turban Army on the outskirts of the woods fled from the fire one after another, leaving their lives, and those in the depths of the woods were probably killed in the fire.