The 300 Yellow Turban Army in Xucun suffered heavy casualties before they could make contact with the enemy, and the screams, wails, and shouts for help resounded.

In this case, before the surviving more than 100 soldiers had time to consider whether to fight or flee, more than 300 cavalrymen wearing black armor and leather gloves had already dismounted, divided into a team of ten people and slaughtered into the house like wolves, slaughtered all the Yellow Turban soldiers with sharp scimitars and dense arrows, and then cut off their heads one by one, searched all the bronze and iron weapons, and helped their wounded companions to get on their horses and leave.

In the next two days, the small village of Xu became a battlefield where the Yellow Turban scouts and the officers and soldiers fought each other, and in two days there were eleven battles of 100 people, and the Yellow Turban scouts were all defeated, leaving behind 427 corpses.

The Yellow Turban scouts have been terrified since then, no matter how the big and small leaders urge and intimidate, they just dare not approach Xu Village within ten miles, they have never encountered such a fierce officer and soldier scout, never encountered a strong crossbow that shoots five sharp arrows in a row between several breaths, and only needs to pause for a few breaths and can shoot continuously, let alone seen groups of officers and soldiers scouts cooperate with each other, with fast and effective strange tactics to carry out the slaughter, no matter how high the martial arts are, no matter how strong the body, the Yellow Turban scouts will eventually die under the sharp arrows and sharp horizontal knives of the officers and soldiers.

The Yellow Turban Marshal was very surprised when he received the urgent report, but he did not know how to deal with it in a short time, and the supreme commanders of the various departments gathered in Nanwuyang at this time, and quarreled over how to distribute the large amount of food and armor and weapons that had been seized, and Xu Village and the area east of Xu Village have since become the control area of the officers and soldiers.

Just after mid-afternoon, when the gray sky was about to darken, thousands of cavalry suddenly roared along the official road along the river to the east, and led by two heroic young officers in silver and black armor, crossed the village like a violent wind and went straight to Fei County in the west.

In less than a quarter of an hour, 5,000 officers and men with long knives on their waists and spears in their arms drove into the village, and quickly occupied the west and south sides of the village and laid out formations, so the officers and men all wore black or brown-yellow leather gloves on their hands, and warm black scarves around their necks.

Not long after, a huge convoy of nearly 1,000 horse-drawn carts and ox-carts drove towards the village, and tens of thousands of soldiers wearing leather armor and helmets but without any weapons swarmed in.

The soldiers on both sides of the carriage unloaded logs and all kinds of tools from the car, hundreds of men with eye-catching red scarves around their necks lifted buckets of lime, and sprinkled three interconnected white lines around the periphery of the vehicle, and thousands of men with steel picks and shovels quickly entered the white lines, laid dry firewood and withered grass and set fire to the frozen land, and then waved the tools in their hands to do it, and the whole Xu Village was suddenly filled with dust and smoke.

At the same time, the humble wharf north of Xu Village was heavily guarded, and the commanders Liu Cun and Wang Qi were squatting on the edge of the frozen river, and not far away, a dozen young officers kept stabbing their spears into the ice, and soon heard the seeping sound of the ice cracking.

Liu Cun glanced at the frozen river less than a hundred steps wide, stood up and slapped off the ice slag in his hand, explained in a low voice to Lu Pei and Cheng Ji and other disciples who followed him, and subconsciously looked at the gray sky to make a judgment:

"The ice is not thick enough to bear the weight of two feet, but the temperature will not rise and the ice will not crack for at least half a month, which is very beneficial for building a pontoon. Due to the undulating terrain on the south bank, compared with the north bank where our army is located, the offensive surface is very narrow, our army only needs to occupy the favorable terrain on the south bank, build a camp that can accommodate 2,000 infantry and 800 crossbowmen stationed, can block the attack of tens of thousands of Yellow Turban troops, plus build a pontoon bridge to connect the north bank, each other can quickly deploy and support each other, effectively blocking the enemy in Fei County to the west of Xu Village. ”

Lu Pei and more than a dozen junior disciples nodded frequently, and Cheng Ji boldly asked, "Master, does today's sudden action of our army reflect the principle that Master said before to avoid fighting on your own land as much as possible?" ”

Liu Cun pulled Wang Qi, who was happy to haha: "Your uncle has the most say in this point, he was guarding Yanmen Pass for six years, and he fought with the roaring Hu cavalry. ”

Wang Qi happily said slowly about the three bloody battles he had experienced, and finally summed up very sadly: "It is precisely because the combat effectiveness and movement speed of my Han army lost to the Hu people, that the Han people within Yanmen were looted and slaughtered by the Hu cavalry, every time the Hu cavalry broke through, there were thousands of Han soldiers and civilians who suffered poison, because the battlefield was on our land, and even reached the southern depth area hundreds of miles away from the Great Wall, where the Hu cavalry passed, not only the blood flowed, but even the crops in the fields were suffered. Either they were eaten by the Hu people, or they were brutally trampled on the horses. ”

Wang Qi paused for a moment and said loudly to the resentful young man: "This time our army suddenly marched forty miles, mainly based on military needs, but there are also political reasons: first, our army is aggressive, can win the support of the people, and can also reassure the monarch and civil and military officials, as well as the celebrities and virtuous people in the surrounding counties; Second, the spring ploughing has arrived, and our army will go out forty miles ahead, and millions of acres of fields behind it will be cultivated, millions of acres! Even if only one stone of grain is harvested per mu, there are millions of stones, how many people can be fed? If the season is over and there is no million stone of grain, how many people will sell their children and daughters and starve to death on the side of the road this year? Therefore, for a general, it is necessary to calculate not only the military gains and losses, but also the gains and losses of the people's will, and only in this way can he be a qualified general. ”

The teenagers remembered Wang Qi's words, even if they couldn't comprehend the deeper meaning for a while, Wang Qi's words were like seeds, sprinkled on their hearts.

In this way, Liu Cun seized every opportunity to teach his disciples his concept of governing the army and the people, and let the disciples establish the ideological principle of putting the people first as much as possible.

As night fell, the 2,000 cavalry on guard returned to the camp one after another, the recuperated hundreds of scouts attacked again, and the 5,000 foot soldiers returned to the village where the trenches were dug and logs were erected, and then went into the empty houses to rest.

At midnight, when the main body of the camp was built, and 10,000 young men began to rest and work in three shifts, Liu Cun still led his disciples, holding torches around the outer wall of the camp that was constantly stacked and tamped, and told the disciples on the spot about the significance of the trench camp in the field battle, the purpose to be achieved, the way of rapid construction, the calculation of the amount of civil engineering, the overall arrangement of labor and materials, and so on.

In the early morning of the next day, two middle-aged men in ragged clothes struggled to avoid rounds of searches by scouts and cavalry, and climbed like geckos to the high post in the southwest through dense bushes.

When the two of them slowly stretched out their dirty and disordered heads, and looked at Xu Village three miles away with bloodshot eyes open, they could hardly believe their eyes, and they were so shocked that they almost screamed-

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