Originally, the Tianping Army was quite restrained on the march along the way, and there was no entanglement with these indigenous heroes. It stands to reason that these local tyrants whose main purpose is self-preservation should not be interested in engaging the elite Yellow Turban Army of the brigade.

For future generations, it may be strange to discover this phenomenon. For example, at the moment when Zhang Qi had just crossed, he couldn't understand that the Yellow Turban Army would actually have a tacit understanding with the local Haoqiang in private. In his opinion at that time, the Yellow Turban Army was to overthrow the local powerful clans and lay down a world of their own.

But after staying in the Han Dynasty for a long time, and through absorbing the memories of the original owner of the body for more than half a month, Zhang Qiang slowly understood that the essence of the Yellow Turban Army was actually completely different from the "peasant rebel army" such as Chen Sheng and Wu Guang. Under the leadership of Taiping Dao, the Yellow Turban Army did not want to do chores such as "fighting local tyrants and dividing the land". They have higher and more direct political demands, namely:

-- Eliminate the castration and help the big man!

According to the long-standing doctrine of "five virtues" in the world, the Han Dynasty belongs to the virtue of fire, and if you want to restrain the virtue of fire, what you need is the virtue of water. However, the Yellow Turban Theory proposed by Taiping Dao is based on the principle of Tude. According to the theory of the five virtues, it can be seen that Zhang Jiao, the "great sage and good teacher", actually has no intention of overthrowing Liu Han and becoming the king. His thoughts are somewhat similar to those of the party members more than ten years ago, all of which are to clearly entrench the shameless eunuchs in the court, and then use the Taiping Dao theory of governing the country to promote the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, in the face of the Yellow Turban Army uprising set off by Taiping Road, the imperial court immediately abolished the "party system" and reactivated a large number of capable and prestigious party members, which was really a wise plan to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle.

According to the arrogant vision of later generations, if the party is not removed, the party members are afraid that they will join the Yellow Turban Army one after another, so as to kill the eunuchs in the imperial court, so as to seize the authority of the central court. As now, among the forces dealing with the Yellow Turban Army, the local heroes to which the party members belong are the most active......

Of course, the hostility of the local heroes to the Yellow Turban Army has not reached the point of not sharing the sky. After all, from the perspective of interests, the powerful people are their own, the money and food are their own, and even the weapons and armor are their own, and once there is any loss, the Han court will not compensate for it. Although it is said that if the powerful are defeated, they can ask the Han family for a reward by virtue of the head they have obtained. However, if the battle is lost, it will be a big loss.

The private soldiers of the powerful are generally organized with their own clansmen as the backbone, and the local peasants as the main force, relying on blood relations and neighborly relations. The people in the team usually have an invisible network of relationships. The so-called "fathers and sons go into battle, fight tiger brothers", a team composed of local blood, is quite good in terms of cohesion, but in terms of regional mobility, there are huge limitations.

If they die in battle to protect their homeland, the families of these people naturally have nothing to say. However, when the enemy did not press on the doorstep, he took the initiative to attack the enemy. It is good to say that once the battle is lost, the aftermath of those dead and wounded will be extremely headaches. Not to mention anything else, the offerings of those orphans and widows are enough for the powerful leader of the family to bleed hemorrhage.

Therefore, for a long time, Zhang Qiang strictly controlled his subordinates and did not go to trouble the local indigenous heroes at will. Correspondingly, those local tyrants will not have many hostile thoughts towards the Tianping Army, which seems to be extraordinarily powerful. This approach greatly reduced the obstacles encountered by the Tianping Army along the way.

Many heroes who know a little about the name of the Tianping Army are willing to maintain a tacit understanding with the Tianping Army in private. As a result, the only ones who are really the enemy of the Tianping Army are only a few eyeless Haoqiang and county soldiers from all over the country. When those blind guys were hit hard by the Tianping Army one by one, there were few local tyrants who liked to suffer for themselves.

This is the main reason why the Tianping Army was able to run from Changshe to Taishan County all the way, and then from Taishan County to Stubble, and then fought for thousands of miles, but it has not suffered much loss.

However, in the current situation, the heroes took the initiative to break the tacit understanding between the two sides.

These heroes may not be strong in combat, but they are extremely annoying. If one is not dealt with properly, the Tianping Army will fall into a quagmire of difficulty. As local tyrants who are familiar with the local terrain and have a solid stronghold, their difficulty is only slightly inferior to the famous "people, people, war" in later generations!

When something goes wrong, there must be a reason.

After torturing more than a dozen captured captives one by one, Zhang Qiang finally found the culprit who caused all this.

- Changshui Captain Yuan Shu!

For a long time, due to the impression he got from "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhang Qi felt that Yuan Shu was just a "second ancestor", and his ability was a scum. Although two days ago, the brief meeting with Yuan Shu made the sense of arrogance change slightly. However, the long-term impression is still ingrained in the insolent mind.

When encountering Cao Cao, Zhang Qiang will be highly nervous. When he met Liu Bei, he would be highly excited. When encountering Sun Jian, Zhang Qi must go all out to avoid failure. However, when he encountered this later generation called "the dry bone Yuan Highway in the road", he was arrogant from head to toe, and he couldn't get nervous at all.

However, it was this Yuan Shu, who was almost arrogantly ignored, but unconsciously suddenly exerted his force and secretly organized a siege, and the consequences may be extremely serious!

Because the status of the captured captives was too low, Zhang Qi didn't know much about other things except that Yuan Shu was behind the "local tyrant war". However, the arrogance of vigilance decisively sent all the scout teams out to conduct a strong reconnaissance. After a day's operation, the scout team, which had lost six people, finally reported the distribution of the enemy's troops in the vicinity of thirty miles to Zhang Qiang in a relatively complete way.

According to the scouts' reconnaissance and the prisoners' confessions, Zhang Qi finally had a general understanding of the current situation he was in.

Within a day's journey around, a total of more than a dozen heroic teams responded to Yuan Shu's call and gathered in Linyi County, near the southeast of Stubping County, preparing to take advantage of the disadvantage of the Tianping Army crossing the Yellow River to besiege the rearguard of the Tianping Army!

And that's not all about hostility.

In addition to the local heroes entangled by Yuan Shu, there was also a team of volunteers under the leadership of Yilang Tao Qian, numbering no less than two thousand, gathered in the southwest of Stubble Ping County, ready to attack the Tianping Army on both sides!

According to such a rough estimate, the 700 officers and men of the Tianping Army who have not yet crossed the river will face the siege of an enemy army with a superior number of more than 5,000!

In other words, every soldier of the Tianping Army will have to deal with seven or eight, or even more enemies!

――What should I do?

The generals of the Tianping Army, who were summoned by the arrogant, were all seriously thinking about the strategy of breaking the enemy.

Among the generals, Zhou Cang, because he was proficient in water, was sent as the pioneer of crossing the river and went to land on the beach. He Yi, as Zhou Cang's deputy general, assisted on the side. Dian Wei, as the strong man of the "10,000 enemies" who pressed the formation, was the second batch of teams to cross the river to support.

In order to organize the crossing of the river for the heavy and the old and weak, and to settle them smoothly, the military advisor Wang Guo was also sent to the other side of the Yellow River.

Han Dang, as a personal guard, led people to guard outside the big tent. Guan Yu went his own way, silently standing behind Zhang Qiang. There is also a wise Cheng Li, who quietly hid in a corner, watched coldly, and didn't say a word.

Now, the only people who are still on the south bank of the Yellow River and are qualified to participate in the military assembly are Yu Ban, Le Jin, Zang Ba, Xie Xun, Shen Fu, He Man and others.

"Everyone, now that the situation is clear, what do you have to do?"

Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Zhang Qi asked.

The generals' expressions were extremely heavy. After all, they will face an enemy who is seven or eight times superior in numbers.

Although it is said that these enemies are either powerful private soldiers or so-called "righteous soldiers" who are entangled on their own, they are basically a group of rabble. However, the Tianping Army itself has only been in the army for three or four months, what kind of elite can it be regarded as?

"The art of war says: Therefore, the method of using soldiers, ten is to surround it, five is to attack it, and if it is doubled, it will be fought, and the enemy can be divided, and if it is less, it can be escaped, and if it is not, it can be avoided. Now that the enemy is ten times closer to our army, it is difficult to have a chance of victory if it encounters head-on. It's better to avoid ......"

Shen Fu has been studying "The Art of War" recently, so he quoted a passage as soon as he opened his mouth. However, as a beginner, he obviously did not take into account the problems too sufficiently.

"Avoid? Where can you avoid it? ”

As the leader of the scouts, Homan is most familiar with the geography around him. As soon as he opened his mouth, he refuted Shen Fu geographically.

"Our army is surrounded by the Yellow River to the north, Stubble County to the west, Yuan Shu to the east, and Tao Qian to the south. Where can you go if you want to avoid enemy forces? Crossing the Yellow River? ”

If the whole army could cross the Yellow River before the enemy arrived, then there would be no need to worry about this meeting.

After He Man finished speaking, silence returned to the tent again. Obviously, it is already impossible to retreat with all the troops.

In fact, everyone thought that the generals and the backbone of the army could take the few boats that were still in their hands and retreat safely to the north shore. However, no one wants to say anything about this practice of abandoning at least four or five hundred strong soldiers.

After a while, Zang Ba saw that his colleagues were silent one by one, and he was very unaccustomed to such an atmosphere, so he couldn't help but exclaim:

"Why bother? Isn't it just a bunch of local chickens and dogs? I don't care about these guys. If they dare to come, they will naturally come and kill one. Let's do two, just kill a pair! ”