Chapter 6: The Coalition of Confusion
Just when Sun Jian and Xu Yan were at a loss, their enemy Zhao Hong was extremely relaxed.
Since Zhang Mancheng was killed by Qin Jie's generals, his life has been getting better day by day.
Before, Zhao Hong was just a subordinate general under Zhang Mancheng, but since Zhang Mancheng captured Nanyang County and killed the county guard Chu Gong, he has become more and more arrogant.
This seems to be a common problem of the leaders of the peasant uprisings in ancient times, as long as they achieve even a little success, they will become unpopular and arrogant!
Zhang Mancheng is not free from clichés, after he occupied Nanyang, it was a night and night sheng song, Zhao Hong persuaded Zhang Mancheng for a long time to still go his own way!
As a result, Zhang Mancheng's good days soon came to an end, and in a battle with Qin Jie, the arrogant Zhang Mancheng fell for Qin Jie's poisonous plan and was killed on the spot by Qin Jie's generals.
At that time, everyone thought that the Nanyang Yellow Turban Army was over, but at this most critical juncture, it was Zhao Hong who stepped forward to save the entire Nanyang Yellow Turban Army.
He first retreated to Wancheng with his troops, and then used his subordinates' hatred for the clan gentry to boost the morale of his subordinates again.
Then he fought several battles with Xu Chang, Qin Jie, and Sun Jian in Wancheng, although the battle was mixed, but the morale of the Wancheng Yellow Turban was getting higher and higher.
And with the development of the war, the combat effectiveness of his subordinates is also constantly strengthened, and now anyone who wants to say that his subordinates are all untrained peasant troops is absolutely blind.
Zhao Hong's subordinates not only look like regular troops now, but they are not worse than the regular army when they fight, and even Zhao Hong is still among his subordinates, and he has also discovered a rare talent.
This person's surname is Tan Mingsongzi Haonan (played by book friend Tianyou 66), originally he was just an ordinary person near Nanyang, but after joining the Yellow Turban Army, this person glowed with new brilliance.
Tan Song used to learn martial arts from a martial artist in the village in his early years, and at first it was just to strengthen his body, but no one thought that this person's talent was very good.
Under such humble conditions, he has grown to the point where most generals are impressed.
And with this excellent ability, he also found a position in Nanyang County.
Tan Song is a very righteous person, and when he stood up for his brother once, he offended his superiors, and then was retaliated against by his superiors.
At that time, Tan Song was put on death row, and it was his brothers who desperately rescued him, but all the people who saved him died in the battle of robbing the prisoners.
Tan Song, who died for nine days, fled into the deep mountains and old forests, and most of the time passed, until the Nanyang Yellow Turban successfully defeated Nanyang County, and Tan Song came out of the mountains and forests.
At that time, Zhang Mancheng regarded Tan Song as a wild man, if it weren't for Tan Song's ability to be not weak, maybe Zhang Mancheng would have directly driven Tan Song out of his military camp.
Although Tan Song is not reused under Zhang Mancheng, this person is still conscientious and does a good job of any tasks assigned to him by his superiors.
After Zhang Mancheng was killed by Qin Jie, Zhao Hong discovered Tan Song's talent, and in a previous battle, Zhao Hong was directly picked off by Sun Jian The weapon in his hand.
At that time, Sun Jian's ancient ingot knife was about to slash at Zhao Hong's head, and it was Tan Song who saved Zhao Hong from Sun Jian's men, and fought against Sun Jian for dozens of rounds.
Then Tan Song was like riding a rocket, and was quickly promoted by Zhao Hong.
Now the partial division on the retreat of Xu Yan and them is Tan Song as the main general, Tan Song is very grateful to Zhao Hong, because Zhao Hong is the first person to appreciate and reuse him.
During this time, Zhao Hong and Tan Song's two-sided attack gave Sun Jian and Xu Yan a headache, and tonight was the time for the two of them to set a time to break the enemy.
The men sent by Zhao Hong had already made contact with Tan Song, and they agreed to attack Xu Chang and Sun Jian's troops together at the third watch tonight.
And Zhao Hong also set up a very rogue plan, that is, to take advantage of their numerical advantage to constantly harass Sun Jian and Xu Chang's troops.
From the time the sun had just risen in the morning, Zhao Hong and Tan Song's troops began to attack Xu Chang and Sun Jian's troops in batches.
The number of people they put into the attack each time was not large, and the two sides combined were only 10,000 to 20,000 people, but so many troops were enough for Xu Yan and them to drink a pot.
After all, they only had more than 6,000 troops in total, and Xu Chang and Sun Jian had already realized that something was wrong by noon, but even so they couldn't do anything.
It is difficult for the Qiao women to cook without rice, and there are so few available soldiers at their disposal that even if they scratch their scalps, they have not come up with a good way to deal with the past.
Xu Chang has always insisted that Sun Jian go to rest first, because Sun Jian is the main force of this team, and without Sun Jian's army, it is like a tiger without fangs.
But Sun Jian never dared to relax, he knew very well Xu Yan's combat effectiveness, Xu Yan was originally a literati, and his martial arts were more or less proficient.
But if Xu Chang met a fierce man like Tan Song on the battlefield, he would be killed in no more than three rounds, and Sun Jian would not dare to take such a risk.
After all, Xu Chang is the rightful commander of this army, and once the commander has any mistakes, their morale that they don't have much left will immediately collapse completely.
At that time, maybe they won't need the Yellow Turban Thieves to attack, and their army will be directly defeated.
As for Qin Jie, another person who can call the shots in this army, Sun Jian is not even willing to mention it now.
When Qin Jie first joined them, Sun Jian heard that he had beheaded Zhang Mancheng, the commander of the Yellow Turban Qu, and naturally thought that Qin Jie was an amazing hero.
But then Sun Jian knew that where was Qin Jie's array beheading Zhang Mancheng, it was all the results of the blow, and it was actually a member of Qin Jie's subordinates who killed Zhang Mancheng.
Qin Jie just took the credit of that general!
For such a person, Sun Jian looked down on him from the bottom of his heart, so let alone discussing the military situation with Qin Jie, even if it was an ordinary conversation, Sun Jian didn't bother to talk to him.
At this time, Qin Jie was also extremely depressed, the battle report reported to the imperial court before was completely different from what was conveyed, but he did not have the credit of greedy for his subordinates at all.
But under the mission of the gods, the holy decree issued by the court praised him lavishly.
As for the general who said that he reported to the real battle to behead Zhang Mancheng, he did not mention anything in the imperial court's holy decree.
At this time, rumors spread throughout the army, saying that he Qin Jie was jealous of being a villain in vain, and he was greedy for the merits of his generals.
The worst thing is that the general under him happened to have a fatal event in his family, and he was forced to leave the army temporarily, and the rumors spread even more outrageously.
Some people even said that he was afraid that his generals would expose him, so he secretly killed his generals, making him even more wronged than Meng Jiangnu.
Now he can't even raise his head in the army, and since he was united with Xu Chang and Sun Jian, Qin Jie hasn't even walked out of the door of his big tent!