That night, in the temporary official office of Huangfu Song, the civil and military commanders of the Han army, the main force of the Han army to pacify the Yellow Turban Moth thieves in Yuzhou, gathered here to discuss how to pacify more than 200,000 Yellow Turban Moth thieves gathered in Runan and Chen Guo outside Xihua County.

At this time, Fuquan saw the "Ciming Peerless" Xun Shuang, who was in the lobby, accompanied by a young man from the Xun clan, but it was conspicuous and abnormal, and he looked about fifty years old, with white temples.

However, taking the initiative to come forward to talk, his person was a little different from what Fu Quan thought of and his uncle Fu Wan, who was self-denying and rude-minded, old-fashioned and stubborn. Although Xun Shuang's speech and demeanor strictly abide by etiquette, it does not make people feel deliberate, as natural as flowing water, his voice is soft, and his speech is gentle, which is no different from Xu Shao's evaluation of his "kindness and openness", but Fu Quan feels that he is cautious when he speaks.

Thinking about Xun Shuang like this, it is probably because he has been hiding his identity all these years, not daring to show others easily, and fleeing outside. It is said that after the party was lifted, he risked being violated by the yellow turban moth thief and returned homesick.

Fortunately, Xun Shuang was safe all the way, although he encountered a few yellow turban moth thieves on the road, but he fled and returned home, without much property, and reported his identity, the yellow turban moth thieves heard that they were fugitives from Yuzhou, and they did not dare to infringe, and sent them away. When Fu Quan heard this, he secretly said that Huangfu Song also knew these news, so he specially recruited Xun Shuang to come to help, but this is fine, but let himself get acquainted with Xun Yu and others in advance, otherwise, let him wait until the war to pacify the Yellow Turban Chaos to visit, and it is estimated that it will take him for a long time.

With the sound of leather boots stomping on the ground, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun led their generals to come.

Fu Quan himself also quickly followed Huang Fu Song's side, and together with Zhu Jun, he was around Huang Fu Song. Although he and Huangfu Song belong differently, on the contrary, his status should be much higher than him, but the main person designated by the imperial court to quell the Yellow Turban Rebellion is Huangfu Song, which is also why Fu Quan must abide by the iron law of respect and humility in the Han army.

Everyone in the hall saluted, and then Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun, and Fuquan, the three generals designated by the imperial court to quell the rebellion, sat down in the hall according to their priorities, and began the discussion of this military meeting.

"There are more than 200,000 people in Runan and Chen Guo, and the army is very large, how long has the Han army in Xihua City not practiced fighting, if you want to win, it will be very difficult!" Above the lobby, Zhu Jun took the lead in talking about the current situation, and shook his head and sighed: "What can I do? What can I do? ”

When the words fell, Cao Cao, the commander of the cavalry, shouted: "There are millions of moths and thieves, we can only fight to the death, what are we afraid of!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the hall was shocked, as if a topic had been opened, all the civil and military departments thought about each other and discussed countermeasures, but they dared to speak out about Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, and there were very few people who thought of countermeasures, and their countermeasures were adopted by the civil and military forces in the hall and Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun, and Fuquan.

Looking at the people in the hall, they all frowned and thought hard, seemingly discussing, but there was no countermeasure, Fu Quan couldn't help but shake his head, at this moment, the situation of the Han Dynasty is now "out of the Kanto and the general in the Kansai" is already clear, these generals of the Han army who have not practiced war for a long time, the military quality is still poor, no wonder they were defeated by Dong Zhuo, the Liangzhou army in the west of Kansai.

Of course, seeing Cao Cao shouting loudly in the lobby, with a resolute and resolute expression, Fu Quan's eyes couldn't help but show a trace of surprise, no matter what Cao Cao experienced and what he became, but now, he is still the aspiring young man who wants to engrave "The Tomb of Cao Hou, the General of the Han Dynasty's Expedition to the West" on the tombstone. He wanted to make contributions to the Han Dynasty, but he didn't expect that history played a big joke on him, and finally made him the founder of Wei.

Seeing this, Huangfu Song interrupted everyone: "Today, Fu Pingkou is coming to help, and at the right time, I have a plan, breaking the thief and changing ears!" ”

Everyone shut up when they heard this, looked at the emperor in the hall with doubtful eyes, and secretly said what his plan was.

Huangfu Song looked at everyone's eyes, but did not say much, only ordered the generals to reorganize the soldiers and horses tonight, arrange for the soldiers to rest, and wait for the third watch to go with him. Although everyone did not understand what he meant, Huangfu Song, as the chief general and knew the military affairs, would not make trouble unreasonably, so he could only listen to the order and arrange their own soldiers and horses when the discussion was over.

Before leaving, Huangfu Song called Fuquan and asked: "Liuchuan first came, there was a lack of people and horses, so he ordered to fight, Song was very ashamed, but today the time has come, I hope Liuchuan will help him!" ”

Fu Quan was surprised when he heard this, according to Huangfu Song's words, he would be an important factor tonight, and then asked, "I don't know what Zhonglang means?" ”

"The time has not come, don't leak it, when you go to war, Liuchuan will know."

Seeing that the old god Huangfu Song was pretending to be there, Fu Quan really wanted to leave the stall, but he still held back, greeted him, and then left. And the other civil and military forces in the hall also left one after another, and in an instant, only Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun and the personal soldiers brought by the two were left.

"Nakaro! Fuliuchuan has come from afar, and we will order it to send troops, what can it do? Zhu Jun looked at the back of Fu Quan's departure, and asked Huangfu Song with concern, after all, outside the city of Changshe before, Fu Quan was resentful, so that they had been cannon fodder for a long time before sending troops, seeing Fu Quan's strong temper, he really couldn't help but let Zhu Jun worry about whether Fu Quan would be suddenly ordered to send troops this time, and leave the stall.

"Our army's elite cavalry is all in his hands, and now the military situation is urgent, if he dares not to obey, don't blame my military law for being ruthless!" Huangfu Song also looked at Fu Quan's back and responded coldly, and then changed his tone and said: "Besides, he has stayed in Yingchuan for a long time and came to Xihua from afar, but his army also has strength, how should he not?" ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhu Jun nodded suddenly, and didn't ask any more, secretly saying in his heart that it was no wonder that Huangfu Song was so anxious to follow the strategy he had formulated before after Fuquan entered the city today, and ordered Fuquan to send troops, it turned out that he had already seen that the reason why Fuquan stayed in Yingchuan for a long time was that he had been recuperating for a long time.

Outside the official office, the Xun clan walked back to their residence, and the horses they brought when they came were all requisitioned and transferred by Huangfu Song on the grounds of lack of horses in the army, resulting in even if they had a car, they had no horses to urge them.

At the beginning, the young people of the Xun clan complained about Huangfu Song because of this, but under Xun Shuang's suppression, they could only hand over the horses. Later, I learned that the horses in the entire city, whether rich or poor, had been forcibly requisitioned by Huangfu Song, and if they were not handed over, they would be punished as thieves, and they had no complaints.

In fact, it is no wonder that Huangfu Song, when he was in Changshe, Fu Quan took away all the horses in the army of the two, and in the entire army, there were only some high-ranking generals, and there were still horses to walk, and the others could only walk. And Huangfu Song was born in the northwest, naturally knows how important the cavalry is to the army, especially to deal with those yellow turban thieves, it is one of the sharp weapons, in order to get together a considerable number of cavalry troops, along the way, Huangfu Song is everywhere, in addition to recruiting soldiers, is to recruit horses, and then turn into cavalry with Liangzhou infantry under his command.

The people of Liangzhou are also good at horses, even if they are foot soldiers, but as long as they are selected, they will find good cavalry soldiers. Soon, Huangfu Song gathered a cavalry team of more than 1,000 people, but although the quality of the soldiers was good, the quality of the horses was a little uneven.

Although the Han Dynasty was good at raising horses and mules, since the former Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, horses in the world are not as scarce as the later Song and Ming dynasties, or Yuzhou can also scavenge thousands of horses and mules. But after all, there is a difference between water and soil, whether it is physique, strength, degree, or endurance, the Central Plains are far inferior to the border horses.

This is also the reason why Huangfu Song obviously has a strategy, but he has never dared to use his improvised cavalry to fight, it is really not good for cavalry horses, and they are not up to the needs of combat. Therefore, these days, in addition to leading troops to defend the city, Huangfu Song is waiting for Fuquan to bring back the main cavalry of the Han army that he took away, because those elite cavalry of the Han army are one of the two important factors that can win this battle.

But it was said that Xun and his party walked home, and along the way, some clansmen discussed what Huangfu Song would do, but they thought about it left and right, and they were all unable to do it, until someone saw Xun Yu, Xun You's uncle and nephew, all of whom had a look of wisdom beads in their hands, and asked out loud.

However, Xun Yu was clumsy in words and deeds and did not speak, and Xun Yu also knew that it was not good to leak the secret of Huangfu Song in advance, so he also did not speak. When the Xun clan saw this, they could only ask, and the uncle and nephew also insisted on not saying it, until Xun Shuang was also aroused by curiosity over there, knowing the abilities of Xun Yu and Xun You, he asked each other, and the two saw Xun Shuang asking, looked at each other, and finally hindered their dignity and humility, and could only say what they thought in their hearts.

Of course, only Xun Yu was saying this, but as for Xun Yu, he stayed aside and did not speak.

Just listening, Xun Yu looked at his people and said: "Do you remember that Huangfu Zhonglang ordered the whole city to collect fire oil and other things in the past few days?" ”

Someone in the group replied: "Remember, Huangfu Zhonglang said that there is no fire oil in the army, and it is necessary to collect and defend the city." ”

Xun Yu nodded, and then asked rhetorically: "However, the fire oil in the army has long been used up, and it has not been used for the past few days, why did you suddenly collect it?" ”

"Maybe it's urgently needed in the army at this time!"

"However, you can see the defenders in the past two days?"

"This ......"

Xun Yu's inquiry made everyone a little at a loss, indeed, Xun Yu didn't say, they hadn't noticed that Huangfu Song defended the city with the lack of fire oil in the army, and ordered the whole city to collect fire oil and other flammable materials, but he didn't use those fire oil at all, which is really a bit contradictory.

Soon, someone asked, "If you know the text, just say it!" ”

"This matter is easy to know, Huangfu Zhonglang wants to attack at night and attack the moth thief with fire!" Xun Yu replied in a positive voice: "The moth thieves of Peng Tuo's department, camping according to the grass, is a taboo for soldiers, it is summer at this time, if you attack with fire, the thief will be defeated!" ”

Everyone was shocked, and then they were stunned, but there was a humanitarian: "Even so, in the past few days, there has been a strong wind blowing, why is Huangfu Zhonglang delayed until today?" ”

"Without it, the Lack of Sperm Rider! As soon as the fine rider arrived, in case of unforeseen weather and no wind to follow, he should attack the thief camp at night as soon as possible. ”

"Where's the Spirit?"

"Fu Pingkou is also here!"

……

With Xun Yu's explanation, everyone finally understood Huangfu Song's thoughts, indeed, if it is really as Xun Yu said, then the Han army does need fine cavalry, and the more than 1,000 horsemen in Huangfu Song's army, whether it is quantity or quality, are obviously not enough to break through the Yellow Turban Moth thief camp, so as to set fire.

From ancient times to the present, there are many examples of using cavalry to win more with less, but most of them are concentrated in the case of the elite of their own cavalry, and the so-called elite is naturally from the quality of horses to soldiers, and the combat equipment is excellent, there is no doubt that the more than 1,000 horses under the command of Huangfu Song cannot meet this standard.

This is also the reason why Huangfu Song entered the city under the command of Fuquan, and hurriedly arranged the battle, it was really a continuous wind in the past few days, Huangfu Song did not dare to guarantee that after a few days of rest, there would still be such good weather, so he could only immediately convene the generals and order the battle.

As for the discussion of countermeasures just now, Huangfu Song and the others asked the generals in the city to discuss countermeasures, in addition to confusing everyone and worrying about the leakage of news, they also wanted to see if anyone would think of a better plan. However, it is obvious that the strategies proposed by those civil and military generals did not satisfy the two, it may be that their resourcefulness is the only way, or it is possible that those who have wisdom do not have the opportunity to speak and show their talents.

In fact, Huangfu Song had already prepared for the fire attack, which was a plan that he accidentally thought of one day and night when he inspected Xihua County and saw the Yellow Turban Moth Thief camp outside the city.

It was summer, the sun was scorching, and those yellow turban moth thieves were afraid of the heat, so they all chose to camp outside Xihua County, in a cool and damp place. In addition to the loyal believers of the Taiping Dao, they have never abided by military discipline, have no law, and do not know the taboo of soldiers, so they camp according to the grass.

Of course, in this, in addition to those homeless people, even Qu Shuai Peng Tuo does not know the harm of camping according to the grass. Although in order to prevent the Han army from attacking, he carefully ordered his soldiers to cut down the trees outside Xihua County and ordered all the people to use them to make siege equipment, but he did not pay much attention to the weeds that were all over the mountains outside the city, and did not let people get rid of them, thus leaving a bane and allowing Huangfu Song to find a good opportunity.

However, I am afraid that even if Peng takes off the strict order, it is estimated that it will be impossible to get rid of those weeds, after all, these yellow turban moth thieves are far from the disciplined and strictly trained regular army.

However, it was said that outside the official office, the Xun clan listened to Xun Yu's explanation and understood what Huangfu Song was thinking, and on the other side, Fu Quan also understood Huangfu Song's intentions under the explanation of Xi Zhicai and Xu Fu.

After hearing the news, compared to the generals around him, who were gearing up to attack the Yellow Turban Moth Thief camp at night and making meritorious contributions, Fu Quan's face was a little strange, and he secretly said that he had his own providence in the dark, and he cut off the original Huangfu Song's fire attack in the Changshe, but let him copy his historical merits in Xihua?