Facts have proved that Zhang Huang's ominous premonition is quite accurate, and within a few days, the fine work on the side of Youzhou sent an extremely cruel bad news: the tens of thousands of Yellow Turban troops of Anping State sent by the Digong general Zhang Bao to capture Youzhou were defeated by Youzhou Taishou Liu Yan and the school captain Zou Jing, while the main general Cheng Zhiyuan and the deputy general Deng Mao were respectively cut off by the two fierce generals of the other side.

[500 people break 50,000 troops......]

Holding the news of the defeat, Zhang Huang didn't say that his hands were even trembling.

An army of 50,000 people, even if it is far inferior to the Northern Army, but it is also the army that Zhang Bao has been operating in Anping Country for a long time, and it was buried so lightly?

"There are such fierce generals in Youzhou? In the midst of the chaos, he actually beheaded my Yellow Turban Lord and the deputy two generals? ”

Beside Zhang Huang, Zhang Yan, who had just taken up the position of "number general", was also shocked, with a look of disbelief.

In order to facilitate management and command, the Yellow Turban Army also followed the military attache system of the Han court, but with slight differences.

From the "commander-in-chief" Zhang Huang down, only Zhang Yan and Guo Tai are the two people who temporarily serve as "generals" to assist Zhang Huang in managing and commanding the rest of the generals in the army. From the two of them below, the general military position is divided into two positions: "Captain of the Trumpet Army" and "Captain of the Trumpet Army", of which the captain is the main position, and is generally responsible for most of the military affairs of the Yellow Turban Army on weekdays, which is temporarily held by Yan Zheng, a general under Zhang Bao; The deputy position was held by Zhang Huang's other two henchmen, Han Xian and Yang Feng, to assist Yan Zheng in managing the huge army.

And further down, that is the generals of all ranks, at the moment when the world generally believes that the title of "general" is under the title of "captain", it is basically only named on the generals who directly lead the troops to fight, and the Yellow Turban Army is inevitably vulgar, therefore, generals such as Bian Xi, Lang Ping, Yu Poison, Zheng Gu, Tao Sheng and other generals are generally in this class, including Yan Lei, who is pretended by Zhang Liang, the general of the people.

The above is the division of the positions of the Yellow Turban generals in Jizhou.

[Two generals......]

Hearing Zhang Yan say that sentence in shock, Zhang Huang smiled bitterly in his heart. In front of the future "Martial Saint" Guan Yu and "Huan Hou" Zhang Fei, Cheng Zhiyuan and Deng Mao, who died in battle after almost only one appearance in the romance book, are considered generals on the ground? It's purely to set off the background and green leaves of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. Similarly, He Yi who is used to set off Xu Chu, Pei Yuanshao who sets off Zhao Yun, and so on, as if in front of these fierce generals, the generals of the Yellow Turban Army only serve as green leaves in the background.

This is obviously the sorrow of the Yellow Turban forces: there are not many believers who trust the religious ideology of "Taiping Dao", but too few of them are really on the stage, especially when the Yellow Turban Army Qu Shuai and Xiao Qu Shuai in Jiazi Year were defeated and killed one after another, they still bear the name of the Yellow Turban Army. There were only two or three shrimp soldiers and crabs left, so that they became the targets of beating and looting by powerful forces from all sides. Otherwise, how do you think Cao Cao's extremely powerful "Qingzhou soldiers" came from in the future?

"Youzhou, let's stop thinking about getting involved...... Next. Sighing, Zhang Huang handed the battle report in his hand to another Guo Tai, and took another bad news from him.

When Liu Yan, the Taishou of Youzhou, and Zou Jing, the captain of the school, joined forces to defeat Cheng Zhiyuan and Deng Mao, Sima Ju of the Yellow Turban of Qingzhou was besieging Guangxian County, Qingzhou, and Gong Jing, the Taishou of Qingzhou, asked for help from Youzhou a few days later. Youzhou Taishou Liu Yan sent the captain Zou Jing to lead 5,000 elite soldiers, broke the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Canal Marshal Sima Ju, and defeated Sima Ju within three days after arriving in Guang County, who led the remnants of the army to retreat to Jinan County.

[……]

Looking at this second bad news. Zhang Huang was full of exhaustion, pinching the bridge of his nose and not drying.

You must know that in the past, in the whole of Hebei (north of the Yellow River), the Yellow Turban forces can be roughly divided into Zhang Huang's Pingxiang Yellow Turban, Zhang Niujiao's Black Mountain Yellow Turban, and Zhang Bao's Anpingguo Yellow Turban. But these three originally belonged to the Jizhou Yellow Turban, and the only one that can really be counted as a sub-force is the Qingzhou Yellow Turban. Since Zhang Huang ordered the Yellow Turbans to launch an anti-Han campaign. The Qingzhou Yellow Turbans showed a ferocious momentum, fighting from the south of the Yellow River to the north of the Yellow River, and the sphere of influence successfully bordered the Jizhou Yellow Turbans as the main army, so that the Jizhou Yellow Turbans would not have to worry about being attacked from behind.

And now it's good, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban was directly beaten back to its original shape, and the gray retreated to the south of the Yellow River, which means that the Jizhou Yellow Turban will once again face the threat from Youzhou, Qingzhou, and Jizhou alone.

As for the fierce generals of the imperial court who defeated the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, Zhang Huang didn't have to think about it to guess that it was Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, after all, in this period when the "Taoyuan Three Alliances" had not really emerged, the credit of the school captain Zou Jing could almost be regarded as the credit of the three people, there is no doubt about it.

[Really annoying!] ]

After thinking for a while, he instructed Guo Taidao, "Immediately send a letter to Sima Ju in Qingzhou, telling him not to think about attacking Qingzhou again, and to fight steadily and steadily to control the nearby cities and counties." ”

In all fairness, Zhang Huang's idea was right, he hoped that the Qingzhou Yellow Turban would temporarily recuperate and preserve his strength, so that he could assist him in the future. But as the so-called world is unpredictable, even Zhang Huang didn't expect that Sima Ju, who suffered a big loss in Qingzhou, was beaten by Guan Yu and Zhang Fei with fear, and it was true that he gave up the attack on Qingzhou, but he set his goal on Yan and Xu in the south.

It is undeniable that there is nothing wrong with Sima Ju's decision, but the problem is that his wanton occupation of Yan and Xu Prefectures has provoked a strong counterattack from local forces. At the same time, Taishan County, which borders Jibei Kingdom, realized the truth of "cold lips and teeth", which led to the only overlord in Taishan County at that time, Taishan Kou.

Under the attack of Bao Xin's Jibei Army and Taishan Ku of Taishan County, Sima Ju was defeated, and the entire Qingzhou Yellow Turban was beaten into two sections by the lazy waist: part fled to the Lu State to throw himself into the general Bai Rao; The other part defected to Beihai and joined forces with the Beihai Yellow Turbans.

It is no exaggeration to say that even if the strength of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban still exists, it is beyond the reach of Zhang Huang's Jizhou Yellow Turban, and it can no longer provide any help.

This sudden change made Zhang Huang, who later got the report of defeat, feel very incredible, after all, Sima Ju, Xu He, Bai Rao, the entire Qingzhou Yellow Turban is the most capable of such a few people. Even if you lose to Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, how can you be a fiasco in front of Bao Xin?

Later, Zhang Huang learned that among the villagers recruited by Bao Xin, there was a guy named Yu Ban......

In addition, more importantly, is the addition of Taishan Kou, and its new coach is called Zang Ba! Former Black Feather Crow member Zang Ba!

Well, it can be said that it is Taishan Kou, a sub-force of the Black Feather Crow, under unknown circumstances. In order to dominate Xuzhou in the territory and not be disturbed by the Yellow Turban Army, he assisted Bao Xin, the prime minister of Jibei, to defeat the sub-force of the Yellow Turban in Jizhou, Qingzhou Yellow Turban, where Zhang Huang, the leader of the Black Feather Crow, was located at that time, and the flood washed down the Dragon King Temple.

When the matter was finally verified, Zhang Huang, who was shown to the outside world under the pseudonym Zhang Sheng, couldn't cry or laugh, and could only regret helplessly because of this incident: This is called unpredictable providence!

To get back to the point, at this time, Zhang Huang's mind was still on the side of the Northern Army in Pingxiang County, where the main forces were stationed on the opposite side.

Lu Zhi's "steadiness" made Zhang Huang feel terrified, and it was clear that Pingxiang County was only about thirty miles away from Guangzong County. However, although Lu Zhi spent more than ten days clearing all the trees in the desert to prevent Zhang Huang's sneak attack, he also surveyed the nearby water sources and gradually dug ditches. It can be said that from Gwangjong Castle, you can look at all directions. Almost all of them are trenches dug by the Northern Army these days.

There is no doubt that Lu Zhi planned to trap "Zhang Baiqi" in Guangzong, so that "Zhang Baiqi", a tricky opponent, would flee to Qinghe Kingdom.

However, on the contrary, it can also be seen that this is also Lu Zhi's fear of the two battalions in Guangzong City and the two camps outside the city of Guangzong, a total of 150,000 Jizhou yellow turbans. After all, about 25,000 northern troops against 150,000 Jizhou Yellow Turbans, although the former has an absolute advantage in the strength of soldiers, but the number is too far apart.

But the most critical thing. It has to be counted Zhang Huang is very clever not to put the 150,000 army in the city, but to add two military camps outside the city, and Guangzong County into a corner of each other, this kind of layout that can advance and retreat, really makes Lu Zhi a little puzzled, where does he know, it is just Zhang Huang deliberately created a momentum, really calculated, the so-called 150,000 army, but about 30,000 veterans plus 120,000 barely trained recruits, there is no combat power at all.

Of course, not being able to achieve combat strength for the time being does not mean that it will be in the future, while Lu Zhi is "treating it steadily", the generals and colonels under Zhang Huang are training the recruits almost day and night, although they have not achieved results in a short period of time, but at least they can see the progress of those recruits every day.

It's no wonder that those generals are so anxious, after all, Lu Zhi and the Northern Army under his command are like a sharp sword hanging above the head of the Yellow Turban in Jizhou, maybe they will be cut down at any time, and they can't afford to slack off in the slightest.

In this way, day after day, just as Lu Zhi expected, the rice and grain reserves in Guangzong City became smaller and smaller, even if the Jizhou Yellow Turban hoarded a lot of rice and grain here before the war, it could not withstand the consumption of 150,000 people.

Seeing that the rice grain in the city is getting less and less, I have to say that the generals of the Jizhou Yellow Turbans are a little impatient and a little uneasy, because they can imagine what kind of scene it will be like once the food in the city runs out.

"Let's fight!"

"Let's fight, Little Heavenly Master!"

"Little Celestial Master ......"

More and more generals asked Zhang Huang for instructions to fight, because in their opinion, if they continued to be trapped like this, they would only usher in the end of running out of food and being completely annihilated by the northern army.

But these requests were all suppressed by Zhang Huang.

He was waiting, waiting for the only chance for Jizhou to take the initiative......

After many days, just when the generals of the Yellow Turban Army in the city were a little panicked, Zhang Huang finally rested in the middle of the night, and heard the news that he was waiting for from the mouth of the fine work from Pingxiang: The emperor of the Han Dynasty sent Huangmen Zuofeng as an envoy to reward the northern army!

Hearing this, Zhang Huang simply felt a sense of joy that kept the clouds open and saw the moon, and the joy of seeing the moon rose from the bottom of his heart.

[Finally here......]

Zhang Huang secretly rejoiced, the arrival of Huangmen Zuofeng means that Lu Zhi, a difficult and tricky opponent, can temporarily get out of the Northern Army, and Lu Zhi's replacement is precisely the one who has had a few encounters with Zhang Huang and has a very good impression at first sight, the current Hedong Taishou, Dong Zhuo!

On the same day, on the day and night when Huangmen Zuofeng arrived in Pingxiang, Zhang Huang's meticulous workers who had deliberately stayed in Pingxiang spread a small rumor that the Northern Army led by Lu Zhi had seized a large amount of jewelry and property after conquering many cities and counties of the Yellow Turban Army......

[There is still a shortage of military rations, and An has spare money to flatter the angels? 】

No matter what Xiao Huangmen Zuo Feng said when he saw Lu Zhi, he only knew that Lu Zhi, an honest and upright Confucian, said such a sentence when he faced Huang Men Zuo Feng asking for a bribe.

Xiaohuangmen Zuo Feng was full of hatred, and sure enough, when he returned to Luoyang, he faced Liu Hong, the son of heaven, and vigorously slandered Lu Zhi: "Guangzong thieves are easy to break their ears." Lu Zhonglang is fortified and rests the army, waiting for the heavens! The implication is that Lu Zhi neglected the military plane and waited for God to kill the Guangzong thief.

Sure enough, the Son of Heaven was furious, issued an edict to remove Lu Zhi from his position, sentenced him to a reduced death sentence (life imprisonment), and worshiped Dong Zhuo as the general of Dongzhonglang, replacing Lu Zhi to perform all military affairs in Jizhou.

In June, when the generals of the Yellow Turban Army in Guangzong City gradually began to commotion, they suddenly discovered that the "Lu" character handsome flag on Pingxiang City was replaced by the "Dong" character handsome flag at some point.

[Change of Commander on the Spot?] ]

Zhang Yan and Guo Tai, who felt inexplicable, looked thoughtfully at Zhang Huang, who was laughing endlessly.

"Hello Old Man Lu, goodbye Old Man Lu." (To be continued......)