Chapter 242: Arrogance
Huangfu Song has been fighting with the Yellow Turban Army for a long time, and he knows too much about the combat methods of the Yellow Turban Army.
The Han soldiers fought against the Yellow Turban soldiers, and the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers could definitely be called one enemy five, or even one enemy ten. But a Han soldier killing a Yellow Turban soldier can scare away the remaining nine, but 10,000 Han soldiers can't kill 10,000 Yellow Turban soldiers and then scare off the remaining 90,000 people, at least in the current war situation, this can't be done, after all, the morale of the Yellow Turban Army is booming.
Although the battle is unorganized, the number of people is one of the key factors, and the Han army is often defeated!
If it is a large army fighting, in fact, the number of people is only one of the key factors, not a factor of victory, the victory or defeat mainly depends on the number of generals, will be the courage of the soldiers, as long as there are enough outstanding generals, then even if the number of soldiers is small, you can also get victory, which has been proven countless times in history!
But now the situation of Julu is that the Yellow Turban Army not only has a large number of people, but also has a lot of generals who can fight, and many of them are low-level Han scholars, these Han scholars can not get the way to enter the Han officialdom, but they have both culture and courage, and many people have read military books, especially they all know that rebellion is a dead end, so they don't want to die when they start a war, all kinds of factors come together, and the Han army can't do anything to them in a short time.
In fact, in real history, the Han army suppressed the Yellow Turban Army, firstly, it found the weakness of the Yellow Turban Army on the battlefield in the later period and adopted tactics to break it one by one, and secondly, Zhang Jiao died suddenly, and the Yellow Turban Army was leaderless.
When Huang Fu Song led the troops to suppress the Yellow Turban Army, the initial battle was unfavorable at the beginning, and all the generals were all defeated in the first battle, not only he lost, but then Huang Fu Song adopted the tactics of waiting and seeing, just like two people boxing, if a person's arm is always straight, the strength of the punch is not enough, and it cannot effectively hit the opponent, but if you take half a step back, withdraw the fist, and then hit it out, the strength is enough. After the defeat of Huangfu Song, he adopted this tactic, he first led the troops to retreat, and then saw the weakness of the Yellow Turban Army, and then suddenly attacked, using fire attack and other tactics, and then won consecutive battles.
Huang Fu Song's several major victories in suppressing the Yellow Turban Army basically adopted the tactics of waiting for the opportunity to attack the enemy's weak points, so he had the last laugh.
The current battle situation is just in the right place, Huangfu Song did not find the weakness of the Yellow Turban Army, and when the morale of the Yellow Turban Army was at its highest, it was normal for the Yellow Turban Army to lose temporarily, and it was said that the Han Army would have the upper hand during the holiday, but the Luoyang Imperial Court couldn't wait and sent Yuan Shao.
Huangfu Song knew that it was unrealistic to fight the Yellow Turban Army by hard work, and he had to find the weaknesses of the Yellow Turban Army, but he didn't have time to find the enemy's weaknesses now. But now that Yuan Shao is here, he didn't find any weaknesses, attacked with a thousand soldiers and horses, and actually defeated the Yellow Turban Army of more than 10,000 people, and won the battle with all his strength, which surprised him.
The generals under him were also surprised, and followed Huangfu Song out of the big tent and looked outside the camp. Seeing those Yulin troops who had just arrived, those who did not follow Yuan Shao to fight, they did not camp anymore, and they all ran out of the camp with cheers to meet Yuan Shao, who had returned from victory.
Huangfu Song stood in front of the tent and muttered: "Could it be that this Yuan Shao has really trained a strong army, and he is far better than me?" ”
The generals under him were not convinced, and said: "General, what is he, he just picked up a cheap one by chance, how can he compare with you, the general looks down on him too much!" ”
After a while, there was an earth-shaking cheer outside the camp, the Yulin army of the brigade came back, all of them were singing, and many Han soldiers also surrounded the past, followed by coaxing, giggling and looking at the excitement, the small soldiers and the generals of course have different ideas, the small soldiers hope to end the war as soon as possible, so that they can return to reunite with their relatives as soon as possible, as for who won, whose credit is greater, it has little to do with them, anyway, even if the victory is won by the imperial court, there is a reward, and it is divided and distributed to them in the end, and there is nothing more, It's normal that there isn't even anything, so they aren't jealous that the Yulin Army has won.
Yuan Shao took the lead, holding a bloodstained banner in his hand, galloped all the way to Huangfu Song, jumped off the horse, held the banner behind him, and shouted at Huangfu Song: "General, I snatched Zhang Bao's battle flag!" ”
Huangfu Song looked at the battle flag, he recognized this flag, it was indeed the battle flag of Zhang Bao, the general of the Yellow Turban Army, Zhang Bao was Zhang Jiao's younger brother, the number two person in the Yellow Turban Army, he and Zhang Bao fought several times, and they won and lost each other, but they never approached Zhang Bao, let alone took down his battle flag.
Huangfu Song nodded slightly, a smile appeared on his face, and said: "General Yuan has good skills, and he will win the battle, I should immediately write a chapter for this merit, report to the imperial court, and ask for credit for General Yuan!" ”
Yuan Shao threw the banner to the ground, stepped on it a few times with his foot, and laughed: "It's just a small victory for a while, the general doesn't have to worry, wait for Shao to sweep the Yellow Turban Army and cut off the head of Zhang Jiao, and then report to the imperial court at that time, and ask for merit together, otherwise it will be troublesome to fight and report once!" ”
Yuan Shao was originally only sixty percent confident in the Yellow Turban Army, he knew that he would definitely be able to win the Yellow Turban Army, he had seen the appearance of the Fujiao soldiers in battle, so he believed that the new army he trained according to the same method would not be far behind. But he was also afraid that the initial battle would be unfavorable, in case of a small defeat, he was afraid that it would affect the momentum of the Yulin Army, so he only took a thousand Yulin Army to fight, even if the loss was not big, and he could also find experience, and when he fought with the Yellow Turban Army again, he could have the upper hand.
However, not only Huangfu Song didn't expect it, but even he didn't expect that he would go out to battle with a thousand feathers, and when he arrived in front of the formation, he only pulled the formation, and the Yellow Turban Army was frightened, and he didn't dare to come directly after grinding for a while. Zhang Bao, who led the troops, saw that the Yulin Army actually had nothing, but just lined up in a hollow array, so he urged the Yellow Turban soldiers to charge over.
But as soon as the Yellow Turban Army rushed up, the power of the hollow array was immediately revealed, and the Yulin Army trained by Yuan Shao was the same as that of the Fujiao Army in terms of formation, the surface was the same, it was not too much, the difference was in essence rather than on the surface, but this surface was enough to defeat the Yellow Turban Army, and the Yulin Army first released arrows, and after only a few rounds of arrow rain, nearly a thousand Yellow Turban soldiers were killed!
But the Yellow Turban soldiers were really fierce enough, and they rushed over from all directions under the rain of arrows, surround the 1,000 Yulin Army! The soldiers in the Yulin Army, most of them are the children of nobles, who have seen this formation, many people are about to pee their pants in fear, but Yuan Shao personally raised the knife, stood behind the formation, and led a group of personal soldiers to supervise the battle, which Yulin Army soldiers dared to escape, beheaded in front of the battle, and never spared!
Although the military law is harsh, the soldiers of the Yulin Army still have to escape, but just before facing the collapse, the Yellow Turban soldiers rushed in, and the soldiers of the Yulin Army could only obey the command and stab the enemy together!
Both expected and unexpected, a group of Yulin soldiers who were about to pee their pants only stabbed together a few times, and then in front of their formation, they put down countless Yellow Turban soldiers, and the Yellow Turban soldiers had no power to fight back, and the overall power of the military formation was reflected in an instant, far better than random fighting!
After winning the first battle, the Yulin army was immediately full of confidence, but he didn't expect to kill the enemy in front of the battle, it turned out to be such an easy thing, these Yellow Turban soldiers were too vulnerable!
Under the command of Yuan Shao, the Yulin army shouted in unison, these soldiers are different from the Fujiao soldiers, none of them obey the order not to speak out before the battle, as long as I can win, I can kill the enemy, you don't care if I am silent, even shouting and screaming and sprinting, not long after, the hollow array is chaotic, and many Yulin troops have run to chase and kill the fleeing Yellow Turban soldiers. After all, the Yellow Turban soldiers are not warriors of a hundred battles, they are not trained, they can move forward bravely when they win, and once they lose, they will flee faster than anyone else, and they will scatter in a hurry.
The Yellow Turban soldiers who turned around and fled for their lives disrupted Zhang Bao's personal guards who were pressing the formation behind, and Zhang Bao originally wanted to grab more of the Yulin Army's war horses after the victory, but the result was that he was quickly defeated as soon as he fought, and he didn't even have time to react! Surrounded by the chaotic army, Zhang Bao can only retreat!
In the process of pursuit, the Yulin army almost caught up with Zhang Bao, although they did not catch the general of the earth, but they successfully grabbed his battle flag. Yuan Shao led the troops to fight for the first time, and when he saw that it was good, he accepted it, and only chased it out for a few miles, and then collected his troops and returned to the camp.
Once he returned to the camp, Yuan Shao was different from when he first saw Huangfu Song, he was originally a person who was very happy, and now he was young and vigorous, not to mention that victory came so easily, which made him full of confidence, not only thinking that he could completely defeat the Yellow Turban Army of Julu, but also thinking that Huangfu Song was too wasteful, and he couldn't even win such a weak Yellow Turban Army, I really don't know what he was eating!
Easy victory, the expression is inevitably proud, and the attitude is inevitably arrogant, the current Yuan Shao is like two people when he first saw Huangfu Song, and he changed his expression of worrying about the country and the people, and his face was full of arrogance, and he even said that he wanted to behead Zhang Jiao.
Jiang is still old and spicy, Huangfu Song is unhappy, but he tries not to show it on his face, he clapped his hands and smiled: "General Yuan has this heart to win, it is really gratifying!" It's better to be like this, you have a good rest tonight, and we will send troops to the giant deer together to capture Zhang Jiao? ”
Yuan Shao nodded and said, "That's how it should be!" ”
Huangfu Song didn't say anything anymore, he asked his generals to prepare wine and meat for the Yulin Army as a reward, and asked the Han soldiers to set up tents for the Yulin Army, and the Yulin Army served like an uncle, his generals were not angry, but there was no way, who let Yuan Shao win the battle as soon as he arrived, but everyone cursed in their hearts, hoping that Yuan Shao could fall a big way!
Yuan Shao and his Yulin army were eaten, but he strictly ordered the Yulin army not to drink, and quietly passed the order to go, according to the Fujiao army's tricks, to win during the day, and when camping at night, we must prevent the enemy from counterattacking, and we must be prepared for the enemy to rob the camp.
The Yulin Army won the first battle, so they naturally obeyed Yuan Shao's words, although they felt that the Yellow Turban Army did not dare to fight at night, but Yuan Shao ordered so, and they did it!
(To be continued)