Chapter 297: Bocai's Dilemma

The afterglow of the sunset in Luoyang is scattered, Luoyang soaked in blood and water, it is dazzling, today is the fourth month of Bocai's siege of Luoyang, but Luoyang is like an iron bucket, there is no sign of breaking the city at all, originally Bocai also planned to trap Emperor Han Ling and the court officials in Luoyang City alive.

But what Bocai didn't expect was that there were unimaginable amounts of grain and grass materials in Luoyang City, and the equipment to defend the city was continuously squandered, and there was no end in sight, and Bocai was desperate, because Bocai had received the latest information, Huang Zhong's 300,000 troops had crossed the Yellow River, and Baimajin's 180,000 Tianci Army was also ready to send troops to Luoyang at any time.

No one knows the situation of the Yellow Turban Army better than Bocai, these four months of uninterrupted siege, the Yellow Turban Army has no strength to fight again, although there is fresh blood to replenish, but it is simply impossible to form enough strength in a short period of time, the left army of the Tianci Army can have a full 200,000 Qinglin Army iron cavalry, how can Bocai resist? Isn't it possible to let the soldiers take their flesh and blood to block it?

Bocai can't see hope, today's Bocai is crazy or crazy in addition to madness, because Bocai knows that anyone can be spared death, but Bocai, who is responsible for attacking Luoyang, must die, this is about the face of the big man, even if Bocai surrenders now, it is useless!

Now Bocai still has more than 200,000 troops, and these 200,000 troops are no longer the army of four months ago, because the army of four months ago has already died outside Luoyang City.

The Yellow Turbans are now notorious, so why do anyone still follow them? In fact, I don't blame these people, because the years of disasters have left the people with no surplus food at home, and if they want to survive in this troubled era, they must have a place to eat, which is the simplest requirement, and it just so happens that Bocai provides food to eat, and there is also wine and tea, so in order to survive, the people can only serve Bocai, and exchange their lives for a mouthful of food.

Some people will ask, when Bocai has besieged Luoyang for four months, and most of Yuzhou has been recovered by Chen Wang Liu Chong, how can there be enough grain and grass to supply the army? Dare to ask where is the Bocai army? Si Li! That's right, it's Si Li! The military and political center of the Han Dynasty, the richest place, is also the concentration of the gate lord clan produced by the Eastern Han Dynasty in the past century.

Will there be a shortage of gate lords? Will there be a shortage of food? If proportionally speaking, the grain reserves of the gate lord clan in the Sili area are more than 30% of all the grain in the world! What a terrifying number is that? Even if the Mi family, the world's largest grain producer, does not dare to say that it can store one-tenth of the world's grain, but Si Li has more than thirty percent!

What is the Yellow Turbans? As mentioned earlier, it's a robber, it's a bandit! Since it's not a good thing, do you still reason with the gate lord clan and buy food? After entering the division, Bocai did not hesitate to order to clean up the division of the door valve clan, and there is no one left for more than 100 door valves!! Grab what you can grab, grab what you can!

Si Li's gate lord clan cried, when the imperial court repeatedly ordered the gate lord clan to sell grain to the imperial court, there were few gate lord clan to deal with, and even wanted to sit on the ground and open his mouth, now it's good, the Han army is defeated, the land is lost, no one is protected, who will tell you what price? The Yellow Turban Army robbed the gate lord clan, and destroyed the gate lord clan, how many to kill, how many to catch, how many to destroy, so that the door valve of Si Li can be said to have suffered the biggest disaster since the founding of the Han Dynasty, and the entire gate valve clan around Luoyang was baptized by Bocai's painful bloodbath.

The blood is flowing like a river, but there are not many people going to the official, the Han Court is now difficult to protect itself, and with Emperor Ling by his side, it would be good if he didn't encourage the Yellow Turban Army, and he would stop it? As for the officials, seeing their clan being baptized in blood, although they were very distressed and gritted their teeth and wanted to take revenge, it was a pity that the army was in He Jin's hands, what could they do?

Millions of Yellow Turban generals sat in the camp tent in the Yellow Turban Army, Bo Cai sat in the first place, the atmosphere was very dull, everyone closed their eyes and pondered, and no one refused to speak first, as if they were comparing endurance.

Today it was Bo Cai who ordered to summon all the generals to come, because Bo Cai understood that it was no longer possible to go on like this, before the arrival of the Tianci army, if Luoyang was not conquered, then it must be evacuated, otherwise He Jin of Luoyang City and the Tianci army who came to attack inside and outside, Bo Cai finally gathered the soldiers and horses, all of them had to die under Luoyang City, Bo Cai was reluctant, but Bo Cai did not dare to retreat, because as soon as Bo Cai retreated, he would become a sinner of the Yellow Turban Army, and then Zhang Jiao would be blamed, after all, it was not an easy thing to surround Luoyang.

"Generals, tell me what we're going to do next." Bo Cai opened his eyes and glanced at the hundreds of generals in the camp, sighed slightly in his heart, and said.

"General, our army is in full swing, as long as Luoyang is defeated and the Son of Heaven is coerced to order the princes, can the Tianci army not retreat?" A wise-looking man stood up and said to Bo Cai.

The world is always a deep pool, no one can guess where and what characters will appear, such as the idea of coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, long before the princes were fighting, they had appeared in the camp of Bocai, who could guess in advance?

"Heh" Bocai couldn't help laughing, Bocai is not a fool, everyone is not a fool, if you can lay Luoyang, you would have laid it down a long time ago, why wait until now?

"Hold the Son of Heaven hostage to order the princes? How easy is it to say, I don't know what kind of high opinion you have to capture Luoyang within ten days? Bo Cai squinted his eyes, looked at the man who spoke with a playful expression, and said out loud.

"This" young man's face turned red, although he had a little wisdom, and he also wanted to get ahead with his little wisdom, but unfortunately, the young man did not have the wisdom to match his ambitions, and the young man was born in a poor family, and he was immediately defeated under the gaze of many yellow turban generals.

"General, if it is really not feasible, the last general suggests that the three armies slowly retreat to the Nanyang area, Nanyang is the capital of the Han Dynasty, with a large population, as long as we can negotiate with the divine envoy, our army can make a comeback in Nanyang." Bo Cai sat down on the right, and a middle-aged warrior stood up and said to Bo Cai without humility or arrogance.

This person is Bocai's deputy general Peng Tuo, Peng Tuo has the courage of ten thousand people, he is very prestigious in the army, and his rights are second only to Bocai, and his tens of thousands of troops are considered elite troops in the Yellow Turban Army, and they are very good at fighting.

"Retreat to Nanyang and shelter Zhang Mancheng?" A disdainful smile hung on the corner of Bocai's mouth, took out a battle report from the case in front of him, threw it on the ground in front of the case and said: "Look at it, this is the information that Nanyang just transmitted, Zhang Mancheng's kid was pressed by Jiangdong Tiger Sun Jian in Wancheng and couldn't move, what else can he do to save our army?" ”

"Tiger Sun Jian?" Peng Tuo couldn't help frowning, stepped forward to pick up the battle report, the more he looked at it, the more cold his heart became, Zhang Mancheng's hundreds of thousands of troops were weaker than the Yellow Turban Army besieging Luoyang, and now they were surrounded by hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers in Wancheng, and it seemed that they had not been better for a few days.

"We can't retreat to Nanyang, and Hangu Pass is guarded by Dong Zhuo's 200,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry, can't it be that we are waiting to die here?" Bocai's general, Liu Bi stood up with an angry face and said, Liu Pi is in the south of Ru, which is considered a yellow turban in the south of Yuzhou, and now most of Yuzhou has been captured by Chen Wang Liu Pet, and his hometown has fallen, so it is inevitable that he will be in a bad mood.

"The 200,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry in Hangu Pass, we are definitely not opponents, but there is a way, and it is not hopeless." Peng Tuo's eyes lit up, the corners of his mouth pulled up a trace of arc, and he said to Bo Cai.

"Oh? Which way? "Although the army is discussing how to run, it is a bit speechless, but it is really forced by the situation, after all, the 700,000 troops of Cheng Yuanzhi in the north have been wiped out by Liu Tai in a month, and under the city of Luoyang, there are only more than 200,000 people, how can they dare to fight with the same number of troops in the northern Xinjiang? Isn't this looking for death?

"Chen Wang Liu Pet!" Peng said loudly, looking very confident, in fact, Chen Wang Liu Pet is indeed the breakthrough direction of the 200,000 army of Bocai.

"As we all know, the 150,000 horses of King Chen and Liu Pet are just a patchwork army, and their combat power is incomparable with the Tianci Army and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and although our army is not much better, at least it is higher than the soldiers and horses of King Chen and Liu Pet in terms of experience, and the last general does not dare to guarantee that Xinzheng will be captured and returned to the territory of Yuzhou, but this is definitely our greatest hope." Peng Tuo glanced around at the many generals in the tent, then put his gaze back on Bo Cai, and arched his hand.

"The last general Wu Ba does not dare to agree, there is no oil and water to fish in Yuzhou today, if the army marches to Luoyang in a hurry, most of the materials must be abandoned, if there is not enough food and grass support, even if you return to Yuzhou, what is the difference between the fate of our army and in Luoyang?" The general, named Wu Ba, stood up and said to Bo Cai.

Although Wu Ba is just an ordinary general, he has a very unique vision, and understands that if the army withdraws, if he wants to leave Sili before the arrival of the Tianci army, he must abandon the grain and grass, and the grain and grass are the lifeblood of the army, will Bo be willing? Obviously impossible.

If you don't give up food and grass, the two-legged Yellow Turban Army wants to compete with the four-legged Tianci Army, which can be described as a fool's dream, Wu Ba doesn't have this confidence, I believe that everyone in the field doesn't have this confidence.

"Retreat is death, if you don't retreat, you will die, grandma, just fight with the Tianci army, Lao Tzu doesn't believe that the Tianci army can really kill us." A general stood up angrily, although the confidence was a little insufficient, but he said what everyone wanted, most of the generals in the tent joined the Yellow Turban Army with a sharp spirit, and wanted to create a career, but now they are forced to flee, how can they be willing?

"Yes, General, horizontal is also death, vertical is also death, let's just fight." Standing up again, a general shouted, a little coaxing, of course, not many people could hear it.

"General, we are not wrecks, why do we have to run away when we see the heaven-sent army? Cheng Yuanzhi is a bad seed, and his soldiers and horses are also bad seeds, but we are not, we are good sons of the Yellow Turban Army, and we will definitely earn back this face for the Yellow Turban Army. A general who looked a little bloody stood up and shouted at Bo Cai with a flushed face.

Everyone has their own opinions, and opinions are different, and some people even propose to surrender to the Tianci Army, but this proposal was rejected by Bocai without much talk at all, surrender? Joke! Everyone else surrenders and has a way to live, if Bocai surrenders, he will definitely be sacrificed to the Han Dragon Banner! In the end, everyone's opinions were divided into two rows, one was based on Peng Tuo's opinion, immediately withdrew from the division, rushed through the new policy garrisoned by Chen Wang Liu Chong, and returned to Yuzhou to make plans again.

The other faction's suggestion is to storm Luoyang, attack it day and night, and all the generals will also play, and show an attitude of not dying, even if Luoyang cannot be captured, it is necessary to let the dignitaries and nobles in the city compromise, promise to let go of the Yellow Turban Army, and let Bocai safely lead the army away.

Both opinions are good, but Bo Cai can't make a decision for a while, because this decision is related to the life and death of 200,000 people, Bo Cai has to think about it, think about it, there is still time, although it is running out

(To be continued)