Chapter Seventy-Eight: The First Arrival in Yingchuan (Two More Requests for Subscription)
Yingchuan, Chosha.
At the beginning of April, Bocai defeated Zhu Jun's army, forcing Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song to retreat to Changshe.
It's just that seeing that a month has passed, Bo Cai led the 100,000 Yellow Turban Army to attack several times, but he couldn't shake the Changshe in the slightest, and seeing that he couldn't capture the Changshe in a hurry, Bocai ordered people to garrison the Changshe on all sides, cut off water and food, and forced Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun to go out of the city to fight him in a decisive battle.
"Newspaper~"
On this day, Bo Cai was discussing with the Yellow Turban generals under his tent where to get Liang, but he saw a Yellow Turban thief rushing into the account, bowed down and said: "Qu Shuai, in the direction of Yanling, I found a trace of the Han army. ”
"Yan Ling?" Bo Cai was stunned when he heard this, and frowned: "Can you see who led it?" ”
"I don't know what I do!" The Yellow Turban Thief shook his head, most of the Yellow Turban Army were from peasant households, even if Ye Zhao showed the banner now, he couldn't recognize it, and he could only judge that it was the Han Army by the equipment.
"How many centaurs are there?" Bocai rubbed his eyebrows and asked patiently.
"It should be no less...... There were about three to five thousand people. The Yellow Turban thief said.
Bocai looked helplessly at a yellow turban general under the tent and said, "You go and take a look." ”
"Whoa!" The yellow turban general nodded in agreement and left.
Just to explore the basic situation, let the generals go in person, it seems to be a bit of a fuss, but it is also Bocai's helplessness, scout sentry detectives can not be done by anyone, not only to be agile, but also to be active, at least to recognize the words, can roughly judge the number of the other party from the military array, there are special scouts in the Han army, but in the Yellow Turban Army, there is this ability to be a general, and therefore, in order to ensure the lack of intelligence, Bocai can only let the generals do this kind of thing.
An hour later, the Yellow Turban who had been sent out returned to his life.
"Qu Shuai, it's the reinforcements of the Liang State, there are about a school of soldiers and horses, and now it's about thirty miles away from my army." The Yellow Turban General bowed.
"It turned out to be a county soldier." A Yellow Turban general smiled with some disdain when he heard this, the elite of the imperial court is well-equipped and has strong combat power, but the words of ordinary county soldiers are vulnerable in the eyes of the Yellow Turban Army.
"Do you know who led it?" Bo Cai frowned, Liang Guo Yellow Turban failed, he had already received the news, but how he was defeated, because the elite of Liang Guo Yellow Turban was almost completely wiped out, and Bo Cai did not know at the moment.
"Liang Guoxiang Ye Zhao." The Yellow Turban will lead the way.
"Ye Zhao?" Bocai frowned and said: "I heard Liang Fa mention this person, saying that this person is like a god in judging the case, and the last time Liang Fa was arrested, it was this person who did it." ”
"Qu Shuai doesn't have to worry, but he is a nobody." A yellow turban general stood up and said: "Besides, even if he decides the case like a god, this battle is not to solve the case, the last general is willing to go and take this person's head, dedicate it to Qu Shuai, and avenge my Liang country colleagues." ”
"How many soldiers do you want?" Instead of answering, Bocai asked.
"This ......" the Yellow Turban General thought for a moment and said, "How about four thousand?" ”
The combat effectiveness of the Yellow Turban Army is low, not much stronger than the county soldiers, and even inferior to the county soldiers, they generally rely on more people to fight with the wind, although they despise the enemy, but they know that most of the generals of the Yellow Turban Army have it.
"I'll give you four thousand soldiers and horses." Bo Cai thought for a moment, then nodded.
Although there are 100,000 soldiers around the Changshe now, but like Liang Fa, Bo Cai has gradually noticed Liang Fa's weaknesses, the difference is that Bo Cai has a set of plans to govern the army, and in the past two months, he has promoted a lot of more capable Yellow Turban Army, although it is not as orderly as the Han army, but it is also reluctant to get out of the rabble level, and the command will not be too sluggish.
It is also for this reason that Nanyang Zhang Mancheng has claimed to have an army of 400,000, but the men and horses in Bocai's hands have always been maintained at about 100,000 and have not been overexpanded.
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On the official road, Ye Zhao stopped when he was still twenty miles away from the Bocai army, after all, there were few soldiers on his side, two thousand soldiers and horses plus baggage, and the marching speed was not fast, if he rushed forward, even if the two thousand soldiers and horses were one as ten, the field battle and the command system was intact, Ye Zhao could not take two thousand soldiers to expel the 100,000 army, therefore, Ye Zhao began to set up camp when he was still twenty miles away from the Bocai army, and at the same time monitored the movements of the Bocai army at any time.
It is impossible to rush up, after all, in terms of the size of the army, he is now just a small shrimp, and the imperial army of Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun is the real feast, and it is impossible for Bocai to give up the big meal in the city because of such a small shrimp as himself.
After all, they are characters who can defeat famous generals such as Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, no matter how much water there is, if Bocai's ability is poor enough to make such a common-sense mistake, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun may also be embarrassed.
So this distance is also just to wait and see, if Bocai mobilizes a large number of soldiers and horses to attack, then he is ready to run away at any time, if it is only a small number of soldiers and horses to attack, Ye Zhao will take advantage of the situation to eat it, and therefore, as soon as there is movement in the direction of Bocai's army, Ye Zhao quickly received the news.
"Two schools of soldiers?" Ye Zhao stood on the top of the sentry tower that had just been erected, and he could already vaguely see the continuous battalion of the Bocai army, but it was too far away, and it was impossible for Ye Zhao to see the four thousand Yellow Turban Army, and after hearing the report of the little colonel, he repeated it with some surprise.
"Yes, the exact amount." The little school bowed.
"Probe!" Ye Zhao's fingers tapped on the horizontal bar in front of him, and then looked at Xiao Xiaodao.
"Whoa!"
"Lord, if these 4,000 Yellow Turban thieves are like the Yellow Turban of Liang Kingdom, only 500 soldiers can be driven away, and if there are 1,000 soldiers and horses, the last general can annihilate them!" Ding Li, who was standing behind Ye Zhao, saluted Ye Zhao.
"Don't worry, let's take a look first, after all, if you can defeat the elite five schools of the imperial court, who knows if they have real skills?" Ye Zhao shook his head, it was not a last resort, he would never fight a battle that he was not sure of, he had this little capital in his hand now, and any unnecessary loss was shameful.
"Yuan Jian, although you are a Yellow Turban, but you are different from Guan Hai, you are from a family, and now the Yellow Turban Army is an enemy, I don't want you to have any benevolence towards them!" Ye Zhao turned his head to look at Liao Chun beside him.
"Don't worry, you know." Liao Chun nodded, he belonged to the kind of person who was capable but not very valued in the Taiping Sect, and his sense of belonging to the Taiping Sect was not high.
"Then tell me about Bocai."
"Bo Cai......" Liao Chun thought about it carefully, and said in a deep voice: "Among the many disciples of that Zhang Jiao, although Bo Cai was born in a poor family, he was quite knowledgeable, and in the early years, the green forests around Yingchuan were all under his control, and in Yingchuan, Chenliu, Runan and other places, they all had prestige, and it was rumored that his martial arts were not bad. ”
"Does he have a school?" Ye Zhao asked suddenly.
"In the early years, I begged for Yingchuan celebrities, but this person was white, no one was willing to take him in, he was insulted in Yingchuan Academy, and since then, he no longer talked about studying, before the Taiping Sect came out, he had organized the green forest bandits to fight with the official army several times, and the defeat was less and the victory was more, but most of them were battles of hundreds of people." Liao Chun looked at Ye Zhao.
"It's a pity." Ye Zhao nodded, didn't ask any more, and had a rough outline of the wave in his heart.
There is a desire to learn, and he is also very motivated, but unfortunately this is an era of paying attention to his origin, as a white body, he does not even have the qualifications to study, and his heart is dissatisfied with the imperial court in this world, I am afraid that it is the strongest in the Taiping Sect, and he is eager to win, not only because of the so-called great cause of the Taiping Sect, but also to raise his eyebrows and prove his excellence to those who have rejected his family and those celebrities.
Of course, these are just Ye Zhao's own speculations, and he has not officially fought yet, so he can't really make a judgment yet, but his previous phalanx is correct.
Ye Zhao watched the time, and half an hour later, there was a report from the Malay that the Yellow Turban Army had reached ten miles away, and Ye Zhao could already vaguely see the other party's military appearance.
"Half an hour, with plenty of physical strength, march ten miles." Ye Zhao thought for a while, looked at Ding Li and said, "Lead five hundred people out to meet the enemy, just defeat them, don't chase them." ”
"Whoa!" Ding Li saluted, went down from the watchtower, and in a quarter of an hour, he selected five hundred soldiers, called the gate open, and rushed to the Yellow Turban Army, which could already see the appearance of the army clearly.
On the sentry tower, two armies of soldiers and horses could be seen approaching rapidly, and the rain of arrows began to soar into the air, intertwining in the air, and the sound of shouting and beating drums sounded together.
"My lord, the thief army is eight times as large as our army, and it is in full swing, is it too big?" On the sentry tower, seeing Ding Li going on the expedition, the eyes of everyone around were attracted by the battle in the distance, Qiu Chi came to Ye Zhao's side and said in a low voice.
Ye Zhao shook his head and didn't explain anything, just looked at the military formation in the distance.
After a short period of firing at each other, the two armies gradually approached, and the five hundred Han troops were like a sharp dagger, easily tearing a hole in the Yellow Turban Army, dividing the Yellow Turban Army, which was several times larger than itself.
Ball's face became stunned.
After a hedge, the formation of the Yellow Turban Army was already a little scattered, but Ding Li quickly commanded the soldiers to switch camps, but the Yellow Turban Army has not fully recovered from its senses, it has already entered from the rear, the formation of the Yellow Turban Army collapsed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and when Ding Li organized the third charge, the 4,000 soldiers and horses completely changed from rout to rout, and Ding Li chased them for ten miles before collecting troops and retreating.
"The soldiers are not as good as me, the formation is not as good as me, and they will be even worse than me! What's the use of having a large number of people? Ye Zhao stood on top of the sentry tower and shook his head and smiled: "Now the situation is not as good as mine, the Yellow Turban Army is not worried!" ”
"Collect the troops, you can sleep well tonight!" Seeing Ding Li coming to restore his life, Ye Zhao laughed and said.