"Ziyuan! Be careful! Cao Cao glanced at the pedestrians around him a little nervously, but fortunately, because it was already approaching night at this time, there were not many pedestrians on the street. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info And because there was Xu Chu guarding behind him, when Wu Yi was talking just now, there were no strangers around who could get within twenty steps.

Wu Yi shrugged his shoulders a little indifferently: "Brother Meng De, isn't he worried that someone will tell me these words to that one?" Hehe, the so-called defense of the people is worse than the defense of Sichuan, and there are countless people in the world who have been ruined because of that one, if every critic of him has to be arrested, maybe all the prisons of this big man are not enough. ”

Cao Cao wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and complained with some fear: "Even if others say anything, they won't stand on the street of Luoyang like Ziyuan." ”

Wu Yi rubbed his swollen belly and burped very imagelessly: "Don't worry, now the court doesn't have time to care about such trivial matters, they should be worried about the Xiliang rebels now." ”

"Didn't you say that the imperial court had already transferred General Huangfu Song from Jizhou? With General Huangfu Song personally out of the horse, there are only a few Xiqiang barbarian thieves, how easy is it to break? "In the previous Yellow Turban Rebellion, among so many generals in the country, only Huangfu Song's performance was the most dazzling. The imperial court transferred Huangfu Song, a victorious general, from Jizhou to deal with those Xiliang rebels, which in Cao Cao's eyes was simply overkill.

The corners of Wu Yi's mouth raised a mysterious smile: "Brother Meng De will say this, it is definitely not clear about the reality of those Xiliang rebels, in my opinion, although the number of this group of Xiliang rebels is not as good as the previous Yellow Turban Army, but the overall strength is even slightly better than the Yellow Turban Army." ”

Cao Cao looked incredulous: "Ziyuan, isn't he talking nonsense after drinking too much?" Can a mere hundred thousand Xiqiang barbarian thieves be compared with nearly a million Yellow Turban thieves? ”

"Brother Meng De, don't rush to make a conclusion, and listen to me and you analyze it carefully. Well, let's talk about the Yellow Turban Army first, the biggest advantage of the Yellow Turban Army is naturally the number of people, if nearly a million Yellow Turban soldiers are gathered together, it can almost be called an invincible and terrifying force. But the Yellow Turbans simply could not do this, neither in terms of the supply of food and grass nor the concealment of their movements, and they were unable to gather all the soldiers of the country together before the uprising. As a result, the nearly one million Yellow Turban Army could only be scattered in various states and counties across the country to fight their own battles, and finally ended up being defeated by the counterinsurgency army of the imperial court.

Besides, the Xiliang rebels who are currently wreaking havoc in the Sanfu Land of Guanzhong, although they are far less numerous than the Yellow Turban Army, all their forces are gathered together. The more critical difference between the two is that most of the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army were originally farmers or women, children, old and weak, but most of these Xiliang rebels were Xiqiang Hulu who lived in this bitter cold land, and these people were almost all riders who lived on horseback since childhood, and they could become a qualified cavalryman with a little training. Now that Brother Meng De is up to you, will you choose to deal with the Yellow Turban Army infantry scattered all over the place, or will you choose the hundreds of thousands of Xiqiang cavalry concentrated in the Guannei Plain? ”

If the commander of the crusade against the Yellow Turban Army and the commander of the crusade against the Xiliang rebels are two people, then perhaps Wu Yi's remarks are a little unconvincing, but in history, it was Huangfu Song who first led the army to attack the Xiliang rebels, but the result was that Huangfu Song commanded the elite army, and spent countless money, food and manpower, but in the end he failed to defeat the Xiliang rebels.

After listening to Wu Yi's analysis, Cao Cao realized the seriousness of the situation: "As soon as Zhao Ziyuan said this, I knew how those Xiliang rebels could destroy and kill all the way from Xiliang to Sanfu. Ziyuan, in your opinion, General Huangfu Song's counterinsurgency army is really difficult to do this time? ”

After several months of preparation, Huangfu Song's counterinsurgency army had just sent a letter to Guguan some time ago. Originally, Cao Cao was still full of confidence in Huangfu Song, but now Cao Cao began to worry about the success or failure of Huangfu Song's rebellion army after learning about the general situation of the Xiliang rebels.

"Although the hope of winning is very confused, General Huangfu Song is a battle-hardened general after all, and he will definitely not be easily defeated. Well, the only thing to worry about is that after a long and fruitless battle, there will inevitably be people in the court who will stand up and criticize General Huangfu Song. Wu Yi is still very relieved of Huang Fu Song's ability, but he knows that Huang Fu Song's performance in the Yellow Turban Rebellion was too dazzling before, and now once he has fought with the Xiliang rebels for a long time without success, he will inevitably be defeated by people with good intentions.

"In that case, Ziyuan has a plan to deal with it?"

Wu Yi shook his head: "Even if there is any countermeasure, it will be difficult for us to implement it." It's not that I don't do anything, but just because you and I are in such a lowly position, what qualifications do we have to interfere with the decisions made by the ministers of the court? You must know that if you are not in your position, you will not seek your own government. ”

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In the past, when dealing with the Yellow Turban Bandit Army, as long as the gap in numbers was not particularly large, after the imperial army set up a tight military formation on the frontal battlefield, even if it was more with fewer blows, it could often win the final victory. Therefore, Huangfu Song's army rushed to Sanfu for some observation, and found that the Xiliang rebels were scattered in formation and the number was not superior, so they directly led more than 100,000 imperial army to launch a general attack on the camp of the Xiliang rebels.

But what Huangfu Song didn't expect was that those chaotic Xiqiang Huqi and Xiliang rebels actually 'fled' without a fight in the face of the Han army's array attack! Before Huangfu Song could rejoice in the easy-won 'victory' for long, the Han army was attacked by Xiqiang Huqi several times in the next few days. These Xiqiang Hu cavalry used the excellent explosive power of the Xiliang war horse and their own superb riding and archery skills, and every time they could launch a surprise attack when the Han army was unexpected, they could escape smoothly when Huangfu Song sent troops and horses to chase and kill.

These Xiqiang Hu cavalry, who gave full play to the flexibility of the cavalry, were like a group of bloodthirsty wolves with excellent patience, and every time they saw the weakness of the Han army, little by little, they tore the slow Han army all over the body.

Huangfu Song suffered from not carrying enough cavalry, so he could only use crossbowmen to passively defend against those Xiqiang Hu cavalry. Although the salvo of the crossbowmen did make some gains, those Xiqiang Hu cavalry were all cavalry that came and went like the wind after all, and compared to the slow Han infantry, the battle losses of both sides were obviously more than the Han army.

Huangfu Song pondered the strategy of breaking the enemy in the camp of the Chinese army for several days but gained nothing, and finally could only lead the army to set up a large camp to defend the camp on the one hand, and send people back to Luoyang to ask the imperial court to send another cavalry to support the war situation. In Huangfu Song's mind, since the army has lost the initiative on the battlefield due to a lack of it, it is naturally normal to ask Luoyang for help. But Huangfu Song didn't think about how much hope Emperor Liu Hong pinned on him with the prestige he had built up in the Yellow Turban Rebellion. As a result, Huang Fu Song sent people to Luoyang for help in vain, and Liu Hong was disappointed and gave those who were jealous of Huang Fu Song an opportunity.