Chapter 195: Across Qingzhou (2)
The smoke rose up like a cloud pillar, and countless people tied yellow scarves around the cloud pillars, looking at the coarse rice being cooked in the cauldron. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
These foods, which are already making many people shy away from their appearance, have become staple foods for people in this era. Especially for these people with a head pierced, being able to eat a full meal is already their greatest luxury.
As the largest gang of thieves in this era, the Yellow Turban Plague is the biggest kind of man-made disaster, and these people were originally just ordinary people. Forced by hunger, they attack villages or towns in order to survive, and even some cities that are not very well guarded are their best targets and targets.
Many villages were razed to the ground because of the Yellow Turbans, and even those cities would have been reduced to ruins if they were not defended, and these Yellow Turbans continued to grow by coercing the people in the villages and cities, and finally became a scourge like locusts.
And now the gang of thieves who have almost frightened Qingzhou are now in front of Yan Shao.
The camps made of scattered logs, one after another, were arranged side by side, forming a long queue that stretched for more than ten miles, and the dense flow of people was almost shocking.
Although there were hardly any patrols on the periphery of the camp, just looking at the number of troops in it was enough to be daunting.
At least, for those who don't have much experience...
"What a rabble..."Dressed in armor, looking at the camp in the distance and the smoke wafting in the air, Guan Hai said disdainfully.
"Don't underestimate them..."Yan Shao said with a smile. Anyway, at least they're pretty objective in terms of numbers..."
Guan Hai was a little unimpressed, but he didn't refute Yan Shao, but his face showed disdain when he looked at the yellow scarf opposite, and the other generals who didn't interject also showed a disapproving attitude.
For no other reason, they are too familiar with the yellow scarf. Not to mention others, Yan Shao, Guan Hai, Sun Guan and others started by killing the yellow scarves. When I followed Huangfu Song back then, I don't know how much I have experienced, even if it is a bigger scene than now, it is not that I have never experienced it, and it would be too naïve to want them to be shaken by this scene alone. Even Zhao Yun, who had just joined the Beihai Group, was very familiar with the thieves with yellow scarves in front of him. At that time, Jizhou was one of the hardest hit areas of the Yellow Turbans, and Zhao Yun once personally killed many invading Yellow Turban thieves in Changshan, so he was famous.
Later, I will go down the mountain not only for the ideal in my heart, but also for the sake of my heart, and I want to use the spear in my hand to create a peaceful and prosperous world. There is also a fundamental reason that is to be able to find an opponent who can fight in the outside world.
It can be said that Yan Shao has no experience against the Yellow Turban, and only Huang Zhong and Gan Ning are left. The former has been taking care of Huang Xu in Jingzhou, and he has no time to pay attention to the yellow scarf. Although Liu Biao is more than successful and not enterprising, he will not let the yellow scarf bully him.
As for Gan Ning, as a water thief, he really hasn't had much contact with the Yellow Turban.
Yan Shao was a little helpless against the light enemy of his generals, but he couldn't help but marvel when he looked at the camp opposite. "There are really enough people, in the past, I always thought that the so-called 100,000 yellow scarves were just boasting, but I didn't expect it to be true."
Since hearing the news of Wang Xuan's collusion with Xu He, he began to reorganize his arms and fight, and even Sun Guan, who was far away in Donglai to suppress bandits―――――― was called back by him.
It was almost Yan Shaozheng's amazing kung fu, and in the camp opposite, a middle-aged man wearing a simple armor was also surrounded by several other leaders and looked at this side, looked at it for a long time, and then sighed lightly.
"It seems that this battle may not be so easy..."
The camp on the opposite side was in good order, and the soldiers on patrol were all well armed, at least on the surface, the words 'invulnerable'.
But it is precisely because of this that Xu He felt that his decision this time was not wrong. If he ignores this side as he did in the past and sits back and watches Yan Shao continue to sit big, then he may no longer have a place for the Qingzhou Yellow Turban in the future.
"That's true," the leader next to him nodded. I thought that this Yan Shao was just a vain name, but now it seems that there is no vain under the fame, leader, I'm afraid I'll have to be careful this time..."
"You don't have to just boost the popularity of others!" Hearing the words of his subordinates, Xu He laughed loudly. "This Yan Shao is really powerful, but this time he also committed a lot of taboos, not to mention anything else, and now the officials of other counties in Qingzhou are very dissatisfied with him, I am waiting for everyone to pour out all the horses this time, even if this Yan Shao is powerful, what can I do?"
It's just that...
"By the way, Brother Pei, what happened to the money, food, and ordnance promised by Wang Xuan?" Speaking of this, Xu He looked at Pei Yuanshao next to him.
To be reasonable, he has really never been so defeated and confronted with others, and the past few times he has had to go out when he was about to run out of food. Every time in order to get the desired food as quickly as possible, it is almost like a locust passing through the ground, and there is no grass growing everywhere it passes, and it is impossible to endure so much temperament.
But this time it's different, this time there is someone behind it. That is, the other counties he talked about before, let these people deal with Yan Shao, they definitely don't have the guts, but let them give some money, food or ordnance, it doesn't matter.
This time, in order to invite Pei Yuanshao, Wang Xuan and others promised many benefits, not only money and food, but also ordnance. Otherwise, Xu He really didn't have the confidence to play face-to-face with Yan Shao.
"Commander, please rest assured, the grain, grass and ordnance promised by Wang Xuan are already on the way, and they are being personally escorted by my brothers, and now they are almost here." Pei Yuanshao immediately hugged his fists.
Although his qualifications are not much inferior to Xu He, he can even be called an equal. However, he is now the leader of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, and he is just one of the leaders under Xu He's account, and the identity gap between the two is inevitably bigger. Qualifications also need strength to set off, otherwise it is easy to become the kind of character who relies on the old and sells the old, and I don't know when I will be slapped in the face by an unknown character who jumps out of the corner.
Pei Yuanshao is very clear about his current position, and when facing Xu He and his cronies, although he will not belittle himself excessively, he will definitely not rely on his qualifications to point fingers, and the two sides get along quite well.
"Well, with Brother Pei in charge, I will rest assured, and the rest is to go all out to solve these officers and soldiers in front of me..."To be honest, Xu He really has a little appreciation for Pei Yuanshao, not to mention anything else, it is nothing to escape a life from the Quyang battlefield, but it is not easy to start from scratch again in Qingzhou with more than a dozen brothers.
Moreover, Pei Yuanshao has more than 10,000 people in his hands, and there are no less than 3,000 young people available, even if this strength is under his account, it can be regarded as first-class. Coupled with Pei Yuanshao's own bravery, I'm afraid no one can compare.
"Don't worry too much, now I am waiting for 100,000 people, and then I only need to lead the brothers to kill them directly, and I will definitely be able to kill the officers and soldiers on the opposite side and throw away their armor!" A reckless man next to him spoke, and at a glance he knew that it was the kind of force value that was good, but the intelligence value was close to the negative number.
If Xu He really listened to him, this battle would basically not have to be fought. However, Xu He didn't plan to say anything, it was also a good thing for his subordinates to be eager to fight, and it was rare to pour a basin of cold water on it.
Moreover, there are 100,000 people, but in fact, there are less than 50,000 young people who can be put into battle here. Many of them have almost no weapons on their bodies, and there is basically no need to think about armor or anything, and the armor that ordinary officers and soldiers have, is almost a high-end product that can only be possessed by the boss here, and it is already quite good for ordinary thieves to have a piece of leather armor.
On the other hand, although it is not very clear about the reality and the truth, it can be seen from just looking at the camp that there are about 10,000 officers and soldiers on the opposite side.
Considering the conversion of the combat effectiveness of the Yellow Turban and the official army in peacetime, strictly speaking, the advantage of Xu He's side is really not very big.
"But..."Weighing the other side, Xu He thought about it. Our army is heavy, so it's not a matter to wait like this, and it's not certain how long Wang Xuan's grain and grass can last, so let's test it first and see how good the other side is..."
Pei Yuanshao and the others glanced at each other and said in unison. "No!"
Just when Yan Shao, Dong Zhao and others were discussing a strategy to break the enemy, they saw that the gate of the camp on the opposite side suddenly opened, and countless thieves poured out of it. Despite their rudimentary armament, many of them had nothing but what resembled a fork in their hands, and many simply used sharpened sticks as blades.
But even if it's ants, it's just as intimidating when there are so many of them, but...
"If it's an ant, it's really not easy to deal with, but if it's a human...", Yan Shao clapped his hands with a sneer. It seems that the other side is not going to spend time with us, so let's go out and accompany them..."
With Yan Shao's order, groups of sergeants walked out of the neat array from the walled gate, although the number was far less than that of the Yellow Turban Army opposite, but it was not inferior in momentum.
Especially the generals who are the leaders, one by one, exudes a proud momentum.
This time, not only Xu He brought out all his net worth, but Yan Shao was also the same.
However, just as he was thinking about how to do it with the other side for a while, he saw that there was already a reckless man riding out of the opposite side.
Looking at the reckless man, Yan Shao was stunned for a moment, and then became happy.
That's a real hit...