Chapter 3 Troubled Times Descend Section 25 Danger lurks

In the following days, we slowly advanced towards the Bohai Sea.

Since Zou Jing knew that there were 100,000 yellow scarves around us, he also strengthened his vigilance. Every day, when we began to drill the soldiers, Zou Jing also sent people to our camp to observe. Gradually, he also began to learn our formations. It is precisely because of this that the cooperation between the officers and soldiers and the townsmen has gradually strengthened, and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers has increased rapidly.

It takes three years to train a qualified non-commissioned officer, but because we have a large number of lieutenants trained by Izumo Castle as the backbone, the training time for the entire team is shortened to one year. Therefore, I am not afraid that Zou Jing will observe my military training, since three years ago, I began to train lieutenants, without these lieutenants as a foundation, no matter how Zou Jing learns, it is just a superficial learning.

Three days later, we began to contact with the Yellow Turban Bandit Zhang Niujiao's department, at first, just scattered small bandits attacked us one after another, the next day, the Yellow Turban Bandits seemed to have suddenly disappeared, not even a single can be found, our scouts have arrived in Bohai, but the bandits who were still besieging Bohai the day before are now suddenly not found.

This is the horror of the people's war, you know that the other side is starting to shrink its forces and is ready to give you a fatal blow, but with the Yellow Turban bandits everywhere, you can't send enough scouts to reconnoiter the surrounding enemy.

You know that the enemy army is hiding around you, but you don't know the exact location. As the saying goes, "those who control people hold power, and those who control others obey orders."

For the first time since I joined the army, I felt fearful, as if I could be attacked at any moment. Fear surged up like a surging tide, swept away my reason, and slowly my reason slowly faded like gravity, and the tide rose and fell, always lurking in the bottom of my heart, unable to be calmed.

I've been through countless tough battles and bad battles before, but this one feels so uncontrollable. It's terrible, but behind the calm is a danger.

Looking around the four fields, the dark clouds in the sky cover the sky like a curtain, the mountains in the distance are gloomy and terrifying, it seems that there are enemy troops everywhere, and they will become battlefields at any time, and the branches of the trees in the vicinity are luxuriant, as if they are hiding a sinister conspiracy, and they will become the Yellow Turban Army with weapons in hand at any time.

There have been many times when our scouts have encountered a large number of Yellow Turban bandits, and if they had not fled on horseback, they would have been sacrificed hundreds of times. Horses, when we were in Zhuoxian, considering that the supply of grain and grass might be a problem after the war disaster, and the horses consumed too much grain and grass, we left all the horses in the fields except for the generals and sentries to transport the displaced people. Now it seems that if there is a war, it will not work without horses.

Ignoring lamentation, before noon that day, I ordered the whole army to set up camp, and the generals gathered in the big tent to begin to discuss the military situation.

"Did the Scout Rider send out?" I looked at the frustration with a heavy heart, and asked first.

Fu Zhi immediately replied confidently: "Six squads have been sent to search in three directions, and it is estimated that they will return in an hour." ”

I nodded with satisfaction, feeling a little relieved, and then spread out the map and said to Tian Feng: "Fu Hao, you mark the place where our reconnaissance cavalry encountered the enemy recently." ”

Tian Feng received the order and carefully marked the enemy troops found by our reconnaissance cavalry on the map. Looking at more and more signs, we all took a breath of cold air, and everyone could feel a sense of murder permeating the air.

I turned my brain quickly, I encountered the enemy on three sides, did the enemy army want to surround us, so bold. It takes three years to train an archer, and it also costs a lot of money to let the archers practice. Our army has Zou Jing's regular officer army, the archers don't worry, the Yellow Turban Army wants to surround us and attack our camp, what about the archers from him?

However, looking back, didn't the yellow turbans without bows and arrows also attack the city? The idea of the Yellow Turban Army is not based on common sense, but unfortunately, I also lack a trained archery team now, and the village warriors who are familiar with archery skills use soft bows, and the shooting power is not great, and the rate of fire is not fast, if the enemy charges, we can shoot two rounds of lethal arrows. It seems that in the future, we will have to rely more on the officers and the military.

When I thought of this, I immediately respectfully bowed my hand to Zou Jing and said: "Captain Zou, when the two armies meet, the bow and arrow come first, if the enemy army starts to besiege, you will have to rely more on Captain Zou's archers." ”

Zou Jing immediately returned the salute and said sincerely: "Duke Xuande is polite, you can directly order something." ”

I turned around again, stabilized my mood for a moment, and asked the two of them, "Two military advisors, in your opinion, when will the Yellow Turban Army attack us?" ”

After pondering for a while, he replied cautiously: "The sentry has found that the enemy on the left and right of our army is facing our army with their tails facing our army, so I think that the left and right armies cannot be in a formation for the purpose of attacking our army, and they look more like they are assembling in the center, so it seems that when the enemy army in the center completes the assembly, it is the time for the enemy to attack." However, if our army speeds up its march, it will be able to reach Bohai County in one day, so the enemy army will set up a block in front of Bohai County, and it is estimated that the enemy's attack will be in these two days. ”

Tian Feng added with some anxiety: "Our army broke the enemy army in a row, and a small group of enemy troops no longer dared to attack our army, judging from the posture of the enemy army beginning to assemble the Chinese army, I estimate that the enemy leader Zhang Niujiao is a person who knows the soldiers, he gathers his strength and prepares to fight with me, I am afraid that he will rely on the advantage of a large number of people in the march of our army, and kill our army all over the mountains. ”

Zou Jing cautiously suggested: "Can we quickly enter Bohai City in the form of a rapid march, and with the impact of our army, even if we encounter a large number of enemy troops, we can rush through." I don't know what you are still wondering about? ”

Zhang Fei had an indifferent expression on his face, and immediately agreed: "Not bad, who can block our impact?" ”

All eyes were on me, and when I saw that I didn't speak, I immediately replied to him, "Our brigade can rush over, but what about our baggage brigade?" Besides, we are here to reinforce Qingzhou, if our army is surrounded in Bohai County, won't the war be protracted? ”

"Two days", I raised my hand and gestured, and said with great ambition: "We will hold out for two days at most, and I estimate that the 500 soldiers of the Iron Cavalry Left Brigade, which was reinforced in advance from Yuncheng, will arrive." These soldiers have been trained by me for three years, known as wolf riders, they used to be led by Guan Bingyuan, and now they are in command of their flying cavalry general Taishi Ziyi. The Left Brigade Wolf Cavalry and the Right Brigade Thunder Cavalry led by General Gao Shun are called the two iron arms of Izumo Castle. Although not all the wolf cavalry who came to reinforce this time, with these 500 soldiers, we can completely defeat these 100,000 yellow turbans. If we go into the city now......"

I raised my head, looked at the people who were encouraged, and after a moment of conversation, I continued: "If we enter the city brazenly now, the wolf riders have just arrived, and the situation is unknown, and they are light horses to help, and there are not many supplies, if we add that we are alone outside the city, the wolf riders are mighty. ”

Breathing a sigh of relief, I said sternly: "Therefore, our task is: to smash these 100,000 yellow turbans, hold on until the wolf rider arrives, and never enter the city." Now, all of our considerations revolve around that goal. ”

At this time, Tian Feng raised his eyes from the map and said inquiringly: "I have an idea, we divide the troops to advance, some of the soldiers stay in the current camp, some of the soldiers go forward, and set up a village 15 to 25 miles away from the old village, and wait until the new village is established, the old village soldiers move to the new village, so that step by step for the battalion to advance to the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Turban thieves see no chance to take advantage of, and will inevitably attack our camp, so that our two camps echo from end to end, and the front is supported after the attack, and the Yellow Turban will be defeated. ”

When everyone heard this, they looked happy, rubbed their hands, and said yes in unison. Zou Jing and I immediately discussed the division of troops.

According to the agreement, I will go first, and Zou Jing will support me with another 1,000 archers. Some of Jian Yong's baggage troops were accompanied by the commander of the frustration. Guan Hai had seen wolf riders, and Zou Jing's official army also needed a backbone, so Hetian Feng stayed in the rear. We went 20 miles to the village, and then left archers and heavy soldiers to guard the village, and I went out of the camp to pick up Zou Jing's department to come to the new village.

Sure enough, as we expected, not long after we established the new village, the Yellow Turban Army sentry began to spy around us, and when we began to demolish the old village and transfer the soldiers, the main force of the Yellow Turban Army, which had not been seen for a few days, suddenly appeared around us.

Seeing that there was no chance for the Yellow Turbans, they also camped next to our village to confront each other. I knew that the big war was about to begin. I was like a captain commanding a fight in a stormy sea, and I was exceptionally calm and composed.

The next day, when the rooster crowed, the Yellow Turban Army began to line up a stone's throw away from our camp, and before we could leave the camp to line up, under a command, the Yellow Turban Army had launched an attack on all fronts, and the battle began.

When I came out of the tent, the Yellow Turban Army had begun to climb over the wall, there was no queue, no armor, no good weapons, the Yellow Turban Army was like locusts, just pounced on it with its teeth, tore it with its mouth, punched and kicked us soldiers, this madness, fearless despair, shook the soldiers' determination to fight, the camp, crumbling, the soldiers were on the verge of collapse.

As soon as I saw this, a biting cold rose from my feet to the top of my head, and my cold sweat immediately flowed down, and a terrible word came to my mind: "bomb the camp", the soldiers are now on the verge of bombing the camp, once one of the soldiers begins to flee, it will immediately be like an avalanche, the soldiers will rush to run, and fear will spread to the whole camp. At that time, even if Sun Wu was alive, he was powerless to return to heaven.

What should I do, seeing Guan Zhang and the two of them also come out in armor, I suddenly had an idea. At this moment, I have a super loud voice by my side, with the martial courage of these two people, it is not a problem to protect me from the battle, I shouted: "Yun Chang, Yide, come to me."