Since the uprising at the beginning of the year, with the help of the followers of Taiping Road in Yuzhou, Bocai has captured several county seats, including Yuzhou, in one fell swoop. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 But although the advantage of the battle situation is still on the side of the Yellow Turban Army, because all the counties and counties in Yuzhou have taken precautions for some reason, Bocai's plan to capture the entire territory of Yuzhou within two months has failed. Especially after Huangfu Song's counterinsurgency army entered Changshe County, Bocai had to concentrate most of his energy on Changshe City.

After several attempts to attack the city but lost many elite soldiers, Bocai's subordinate Huang Shao persuaded Bocai to exert all his strength to mobilize all the Taiping Taoists in Yuzhou to storm Changshe City regardless of life and death. Of course, this proposal was rejected by Bocai. What are you kidding, do you know how many Taiping Taoists there are in the whole of Yuzhou? Counting the old and weak women and children scattered all over the place, there are two or three hundred thousand! You've been mobilized, do you have so much food to make sure all the sergeants are fed?

What's more, Bocai knew that Shizun Zhang Jiao's plan was to occupy the whole country and change the day, so in the cities captured by Bocai, those 'ownerless' fertile fields were distributed by Bocai to the family areas of some meritorious soldiers for planting. This measure can show that Bocai has rewarded and punished and boosted morale, and secondly, Bocai really wants to manage the territory of Yuzhou well, after all, the army can not put all the hope of obtaining military rations on looting and looting. And at this time, if those Taiping Taoists who were farming were summoned to fight a tragic siege battle, would the crops in the occupied area be left in the field and weeds?

At this time, just after the spring planting, the increase in unnecessary mobilization is only a waste of precious food, and the end of April and the beginning of May is the time of the green and yellow, and the highest mortality rate of the people is during this time. How many peasants would rather starve to death than touch the seeds around them in order to have a little more harvest in the coming year, and this season Li Bocai does not have much food allocation in hand, and it is already very difficult to ensure that the people of this hundreds of thousands of troops eat and chew horses, and where can they supply more people's rations.

"Dashuai, are you looking for me?"

Bo Cai raised his eyes to look at the young general outside the tent door, and beckoned him to come in and sit down: "He Yi, how is the progress of the siege equipment you built a few days ago?" ”

He Yi scratched his head a little embarrassed: "Don't blame the commander, except for the ladder, which is easier to build, the rest of the equipment is very cumbersome. In particular, the well that Dashuai specially asked us to build, so far only three cars have been built. And if you want to reach the number of all the equipment that Da Shuai said before, I'm afraid it will take another month or two. ”

Bo Cai sighed lightly when he heard this: "You have been working hard these days, and the reason why the process is so slow should be the reason why there are too few craftsmen in the army." The handsome has clear rewards and punishments, so naturally he won't blame you. Tonight you go and pack up all the siege equipment, and tomorrow the commander will lead the whole army to continue the siege. ”

"Didn't the marshal say before that there were not enough siege equipment, and if you want to capture Changshe City, there will inevitably be huge casualties?" He Yi is Bocai's confidant, and she knows Bocai's previous thoughts very well, so she is very curious about why Bocai changed his plan again.

"It's not that Ben Shuai doesn't want to wait any longer, but that the grain and grass in the army are only left with a monthly share. If we do not capture Changshe as soon as possible, once the grain stock is exhausted and there is a situation of running out of grain, the morale of the army will inevitably be unstable, and the battle situation in Yuzhou may be in danger of overturning. Secondly, Ben Shuai has found out the details of the army that joined the Changshe before, but it was the army that destroyed Bian Xi and Yu Poison. Although Bian Xi and Yu Poison are overwhelmed, after all, they have tens of thousands of sergeants under their command, and their failure is a warning to our army.

Moreover, before that army entered Changshe City, the old thief of Huangfu also went out of the city several times to meet him, but after this batch of foreign aid, the defenders in Changshe City never went out of the city to fight again. Ben Shuai was worried that the officials and troops in Changshe City would inevitably plan some more conspiracies, so in order to prevent the night from being long and dreamy, Ben Shuai decided to send troops to attack the city early. With the siege equipment built at this time, even if you pay some casualties, you should be able to capture Changshe Castle in a few days. ”

Bocai has been having a sense of foreboding in the past few days, and after thinking about it, he still plans to take down the Changshe as soon as possible, even if tens of thousands of soldiers are lost because of this, but at least he can cut off a counterinsurgency army in the imperial court, and at least he can develop with peace of mind in a short time.

Suddenly, a strong wind suddenly blew outside the tent, blowing the handsome tent of Bocai, and the exclamations of the soldiers could be faintly heard outside.

Bo Cai and He Yi glanced at each other, and hurriedly got up and rushed out of the camp. The sudden strong wind blew the whole camp and scattered sand and rocks, Bo Cai pulled a panicked guard sergeant and asked, "What happened, why is there a noise in the camp!" ”

Then the guard sergeant saw that it was Daqu Shuaibo who grabbed him, and hurriedly replied: "Dashuai, a strong wind suddenly blew just now, and your handsome flag was blown off!" ”

"There are so many of you, and you still can't keep a handsome flag?" He Yi was so angry when he heard this, he kicked the soldier to the ground.

No wonder He Yi is so excited, it is really Shuai Qi who represents the main generals of the three armies in the army. The flagpole of the handsome flag is the thickness of a wrist, and it may not be cut even if it is cut with a knife. It is precisely because the flagpole of the handsome flag is so strong that there has always been a saying in the army that if the handsome flag is broken, there will be disaster. The Yellow Turban Army started with the theory of ghosts and gods, and at this time, Bocai's handsome flag was suddenly blown off by a vicious wind, which had to make the surrounding soldiers suspicious.

As Zhang Jiao's personal disciple, although he is also a Taoist disciple, he doesn't care much about the ghosts and gods. Seeing that the source of tonight's riot was just that the handsome flag was blown off by the wind, and He Yi, who wanted to kick and beat the unlucky soldier, he was ready to open his mouth to appease the army.

At this moment, there was a sudden warning drum beating outside the camp. Bo Cai's heart tightened, and he hurriedly climbed the high platform to look up, but saw countless rockets soaring into the air, setting his own camp on fire, and the sparks were immediately blown into a sea of fire by the fierce wind at the moment. Countless Yellow Turban soldiers screamed and screamed in the sea of fire, but they were finally couled by the ruthless tongue of fire. Smelling the aroma of barbecue wafting in the wind, Bo Cai's chest and abdomen tumbled, and he vomited out the meal he ate at night along with the yellow bile water.

"Quick! Gather the soldiers to withdraw from the camp and assemble in the southwest direction! Although his face was pale, Bo Cai knew that at this time, as the commander of the Yellow Turban Army, his first duty was to lead hundreds of thousands of soldiers to escape from this sea of fire. Therefore, Bo Cai wiped the stains on the corners of his mouth with his sleeve, and immediately issued his general order to He Yi and the rest of the guards.