Although most of the elders in the Bai Bo army are coarse, Guo Tai and Yang Feng also have some resourcefulness, and these two people are discussing with Li Le, Han Xian, Hu Cai and others. I only heard Guo Tai, the leader of the Baibo Yellow Turban Army, get up and say: "Brothers, Anyi City is well defended, and it is difficult for our army to capture it for a while, even if it is a forced siege, it can only be a heavy loss, what do you think our army should do now?" ”

At this time, the second leader, Yang Feng, saw the boss and asked: "I think that Niu Fu is also a member of the Xiliang Army, but I didn't expect that after being beaten by our army, he actually became a turtle with a shrunken head." When everyone heard this, they all laughed.

It is said that during this time, he was invincible, invincible, won several battles, robbed many rich households, obtained a lot of grain and grass, and a large number of cattle, sheep and livestock, and fine wine. Every day, I eat meat and drink a lot of wine, and I am very happy!

These people inevitably have some limitations, and they begin to be complacent with a little achievement, so what's the matter? began to think about how to enjoy, eating meat and drinking wine, brocade clothes, five people and six people.

How others bullied themselves at that time, how do you bully others now.

After possessing a certain amount of wealth, he began to become unenterprising, and he lost the momentum he had at that time. In addition, their own combat effectiveness and equipment are insufficient, and the leaders are generally peasants, with insufficient command experience, and cannot effectively bring into play the combat effectiveness of the army.

Some even imitated the big landlords before the uprising, and continued to oppress the good and act as a blessing. This is also the sorrow of these rebels. Most of them were glorious for a few days, and the better ones were absorbed or merged by other ruling groups, and the bad ones were directly extinguished.

After a pause, Yang Feng said to Mrs. Guo again: "Big brother, the official army is so cunning, I am afraid that a rash attack will cause heavy losses, and it will be disadvantageous to the army!" Besides, our army does not have large-scale siege equipment, and it is quite difficult to forcibly attack the city! ”

At this time, Hu Cai said: "Our army is now relatively numerous, but the grain and grass are difficult to last long, so it is better to divide the troops to various places to collect more grain and grass as a supplement." ”

After listening to this, Mrs. Guo said: "Brothers, since our army started in Xihe, it has been invincible and invincible, and today Anyi City is high in walls, so it is better to temporarily divide a part of the men and horses to capture other counties, and after success, return to Anyi and Niu Fu to fight to the death." What do you think you mean by this, brothers? ”

Most of the Baibo Yellow Turban Army are from peasant backgrounds, who know what tactics of war, they all feel that the high walls of Anyi City are deep and difficult to attack, and they all know that the boss Guo Tai's head is easier to use, and whatever Guo Tai says, they can do it.

He left the main force to besiege Anyi, and then asked Li Le, Han Xian, Hu Cai and others to divide their troops to take other counties, and then listened to the detailed report, Dong Zhuo arranged reinforcements to support Niu Fu, and guessed the specific route of the march.

Although the Baibo Yellow Turban Army is called Baibo, it is mainly because its original main force of 10,000 or 20,000 people hid and made their fortune in the Baibo Valley near Fenshui on the north side of Linfen County, Hedong County.

Among them, a considerable number of later people were from Hanoi or Shangdang County in Bingzhou, and even some were displaced people from Wei County and other places in Jizhou.

Mrs. Guo learned from the mouths of these newly joined Hanoi people that the relationship between Hanoi Taishou Wang Kuang and Dong Zhuo was ambiguous, which could basically be said to be a hostile relationship. Therefore, Dong Zhuojun crossed the river from Mengjin Ferry into Yi County of Hanoi County and then took Kei Pass to reach Hedong County, although this route was the best and the fastest, but there was no doubt that it would encounter the obstruction of Wang Kuang, the Taishou of Hanoi, and it was even possible to lead the reinforcements to be wiped out.

Guo Tai, Yang Feng and others speculated that it was very likely that Niu Fu's reinforcements would land at Fengling Ferry, so they asked Li Le, Han Xian, Hu Cai and others to postpone their attacks on other counties and intercept Niu Fu's reinforcements.

In fact, a big reason for the rapid development of the Baibo Yellow Turban Army is because of the assassination of Shi Ding Yuan.

First of all, the Baibo Army originated in the Baibo Valley of Xihe County, which was under the jurisdiction of the merged state. When He Jin wanted to kill the Ten Standing Servants, he ordered Ding Yuan, the then Bingzhou Assassin, to lead troops into Beijing to help He Jin kill the Ten Standing Servants. When Ding Yuan entered Beijing, he brought most of the men and horses of the Bingzhou army to Luoyang, which caused the emptiness of the Bingzhou army and gave the Baibo army an opportunity.

Ding Yuan was killed by Lu Bu, and the Bingzhou army was also owned by Lu Bu, but he did not return to Bingzhou in time to continue to deploy defenses, and at this time the Baibo army took advantage of the situation to revolt, raging extraordinary, and because the Bingzhou army was not stationed in time to merge the state, it also caused the Southern Xiongnu and other frequent southward entry into Luoyang, and even some rebel armies or princes colluded with the Southern Xiongnu to let foreign races wreak havoc on the land of China.

Later, Yuan Shao sent his nephew ** to lead the army into the main state, and the situation improved, and finally after Cao Cao unified the north, he defeated the Southern Xiongnu and divided the Southern Xiongnu into five divisions, which made it impossible for the Southern Xiongnu to enter the state or enter Luoyang.

Because the state is barren, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and there is less oil and water, basically nothing can be grabbed, so the Baibo Yellow Turban Army turned to Hedong County, the big county of Sili, Hedong County, and there are many wealthy families, and the Baibo Yellow Turban Army is naturally very happy to rob, and it is very happy to rob!

At this time, because Dong Zhuo was in power, Dong Zhuo was also a son of a good family in the six counties, and he also had Qiang blood, and most of the big families in the world looked down on him, and most of these big families were ministers of the old world, so they naturally looked down on Dong Zhuo, who was born in a poor family, and opposed Dong Zhuo's governance.

This is the Baibo Yellow Turban Army ravaging Hedong County, Dong Zhuo ordered Niu Fu to suppress it, and those family clans refused to cooperate with Niu Fu to clean up the Baibo Yellow Turban Army, and some family clans also secretly funded the Baibo Yellow Turban Army to oppose Dong Zhuo.

In this way, Niu Fu could not get the cooperation of the local clans, and it was naturally extremely difficult to fight with the Baibo Yellow Turban Army, and there were many constraints, so he lost without suspense. After all, in that era, the family controlled most of the resources in the world, and without their support, it would be too difficult to achieve some big things.

Guo Tai arranged for Li Le and Han Xian to lead 10,000 people to ambush near the Fengling Ferry, and when the enemy army crossed the river halfway, a surprise attack broke out, and the enemy army would be in chaos and at a loss, and it would be decided in a battle.

Even if there is a difference, near Shouyang Mountain, arrange for Hu Cai to lead 5,000 people and set up a second line of defense. In this way, the reinforcements can be eliminated, and you can rest easy.

The people of the Baibo Army would never have imagined that their powerful opponent would not cross the Yellow River from the Fengling Ferry and enter their encirclement, so that they would be annihilated. Instead, it is a different way, putting the water surface of the Yellow River stable, and there is no turbulent Fengling Ferry not to go, but to go up the river, through the turbulent zigzag tail bay and upstream, rather than detour for several days to land at the Pubanjin Ferry.

The battle between the soldiers and the family affects the whole body. If you miss the plan, you may die and the country will be destroyed. You don't see that in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, Shi Dakai, the winged king of the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom, was lost in the Dadu River because of that moment, and the whole army was destroyed!

And why did most of the generals of the Baibo Yellow Turban Army think that Niu Fu's reinforcements would land at Fengling Ferry?

Fenglingdu has been the largest ferry on the Yellow River since ancient times. For thousands of years, Fengling Ferry has been used as an important point on the Yellow River, and more than how many people have walked into the Qin and Jin dynasties through Guò.

Jin Ren Zhao Zizhen's "Title Fenglingdu" has a sentence: "A water north and south, the Central Plains is self-contained." Yunshan borders Jin, and smoke trees enter Qinchuan. ”

After the Yellow River flows through Hekou Town, it is blocked by the north-south direction of Luliang Mountain, turns to the south, and rushes between the canyons on the border of Shanxi and Shanxi provinces. After the river pours down from Hukou Waterfall, it continues to flow south out of Longmen to the vicinity of Tongguan, where it flows eastward because it is leased by Huashan, one of the branches of the Qinling Mountains that runs east-west. A relatively gentle and wide river surface is formed, so a ferry is set up here.

The reason why it is called Fenglingdu is because of the nearby Fenghou Mausoleum. Legend has it that in the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor vs. Chiyou and the field of chasing the deer, Chiyou made a fog, and the zombies of the Yellow Emperor tribe could not distinguish the things, lost the way, the emperor's virtuous ministers offered a guide car after the wind, pointed out the direction to the army, and finally got rid of the predicament and defeated Chiyou. It's a pity that the Wind Queen was also killed in this war, and the Wind Queen Mausoleum was built here. After the completion of the ferry, it was named after Fenglingdu.

Since ancient times, Fenglingdu has been the throat of Hedong, Henan, and the audience, and it has always been a place for soldiers. This place of "listening to the three provinces with a rooster crowing" has been the battlefield of conquest since ancient times, and the famous wars such as Cao Cao's battle against Ma Chao and Han Sui during the Three Kingdoms period, and the great destruction of Gao Huan by Yuwentai in the Western Wei Dynasty all took place in Fenglingdu. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, more than 30,000 Kuomintang and Communist allied troops fought against the Japanese army here, killing more than 8,000 people.

Do you think about such an important position, can ordinary people give up easily? And it is reasonable for Guo Tai and others of the Baibo Yellow Turban Army to guess that Niu Fu's reinforcements will cross the river from here. Who would have thought that anyone would have the courage to abandon such a battleground and take a detour from a farther place?

In fact, this is Dong Shouye's reverse thinking, for the situation of this battle with Bai Bojun, the main thing is: You can think of it, I can think of it; What I can think of, but you can't imagine, only by using divergent thinking, using some ideas that are out of the norm, can we be surprised and defeated.

In fact, Dong Shouye led the army to bypass Fenglingdu and land from Pubanjin this time, one was because he thought that the Bai Bo Army might snipe at him, and the second was also because he wanted to reduce the risk and do it perfectly.

The source of the idea still comes to mind the allusion that Cao Cao fought against Ma Chao and Han Sui in history, and sent Xu Huang and Shi Lian to cross the Yellow River from Pubanjin to Hexi, copy the back road of Ma Chao, Han Sui and others, and finally achieve victory. Using reverse thinking and doing the opposite is what makes people unguardable. Although these ancient people are very smart, they are not as informative as modern people, and they have so many fancy intestines. If you don't check it for a while, you will inevitably be exploited by the East Day and Night.

Sun Tzu said in the Art of War: "The husband who does not fight and the temple is considered the winner, and he has to count a lot; The temple is not victorious without a fight, and it is considered to be less. More wins, less wins, and nothing counts. I look at it this way, and I can see the victory or defeat. ”

It's still good as Sun Tzu said!