In history, when Hedong Taishou Dong Zhuo encountered disadvantages when he fought against the Jizhou Yellow Turban, it was thanks to Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei who happened to bump into each other, and joined Dong Zhuo on the way to help him, which made the Northern Army under Dong Zhuo's command not be completely defeated by the Jizhou Guangzong Yellow Turban.

But what has been quite puzzling for a long time is that Dong Zhuo can also be regarded as a hero with a discerning eye, but he does not pretend to Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei.

[The three rescued Dong Zhuo and returned to the village. Zhuo asked the three of them where they lived. Xuande said: "White body." "Zhuo is very light, not polite. Xuande came out, Zhang Fei was furious and said: "I waited for my relatives to go to the bloody battle and saved this guy, but he was so rude." If you don't kill him, it's hard to get rid of my anger! ”】

[Xuande and Guan Gong hurriedly said: "He is an official of the imperial court, how can he kill without permission?" Fei said: "If you don't kill this guy, you have to obey his subordinates, but you are actually unwilling!" If the second brother wants to live here, I'll go somewhere else! Xuande said: "The three of us are righteous and die together, how can we be separated?" Why don't they all go elsewhere? Fei said: "If this is the case, relieve my hatred a little." ”】

To summarize these two paragraphs, it is nothing more than Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei helping Dong Zhuo repel the Yellow Turban of Guangzong in Jizhou, but they did not get Dong Zhuo's respect, so they aroused Zhang Fei's hatred, and he wanted to kill Dong Zhuo to vent his anger.

But in reality, this is the truth......

"Damn it! Outrageous! ”

When Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei left the handsome tent with indignation on their faces, Dong Zhuo, who was still pretending to be expressionless, suddenly changed his complexion, and a look of anger jumped on his face.

"After many days of planning, it fell short! …… Three bastard things! ”

With a bang, the tea cup in Dong Zhuo's hand was smashed to the ground by him.

From the side, Dong Zhuo's henchman Li Ru also sighed helplessly, shook his head and said with a wry smile, "This is called, people are not as good as heaven......

Looking back on this period, even during the period when Zhang Huang rushed to Yingchuan alone. In fact, the "cooperation" between Dong Zhuo and Li Ru and Guangzong Yellow Turbans has not been interrupted, and Guo Tai, an insider of Guangzong Yellow Turbans, is presiding over this "acting" battle instead of Zhang Huang.

Under the full planning of Li Ru, the Northern Army and Guangzong Yellow Turbans continued to fight, although it seems that the Northern Army's record has improved, but in fact, the strength of the Northern Army is gradually weakened and disintegrated, and the Guangzong Yellow Turban on the opposite side, because of the initial 150,000 troops, therefore, even if the Northern Army has repeatedly played several good reports to the court to kill thousands of enemies. But it can no longer shake the main trend that Guangzong's Yellow Turban has gradually suppressed the Northern Army.

Today, after many days of hard work, the day has finally come to fruition, Dong Zhuo led the remnants of the Northern Army to fight the Guangzong Yellow Turban again, if it is Shun, this battle, the Changshui Battalion, the Infantry Battalion, the Yue Cavalry Battalion, and the Shooting Battalion in the Northern Army will all become history, and the only "chosen" surviving Tun Cavalry Battalion will gradually evolve into Dong Zhuo's personal team in the near future.

Yes, this is the real script in the hearts of Dong Zhuo and Li Ru: while gradually weakening the military power of the imperial court. Absorb armies that do not take a firm stance to strengthen themselves.

But what Dong Zhuo and Li Ruwan never expected was that just when they were trying to send the northern army into the mouth of the Yellow Turban Tiger in Guangzong, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, who happened to be passing by, joined Dong Zhuo's side without knowing why.

You must know that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are the big heroes who will be famous in the future, even if they are Liu Bei, who is relatively weak. At least they have the level of a great general, what changes will the joining of these three people bring to the entire battle situation?

To put it mildly, don't say that Zhang Huang is not there. Even if he was in Guangzong at this time, at best, he could only parry one Liu Bei, but the two righteous brothers of the future Uncle Liu Huang. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, he can't resist it, after all, the latter two are almost the same level as Sun Jian and Dong Zhuo.

[I'm going to slaughter them!] I'm going to kill them!" ]

When Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei came to the Shuai tent happily after winning the battle to ask to see Dong Zhuo, in fact, Dong Zhuo had been scolding his mother in his heart, and he wanted to kill the three of them as soon as possible.

But isn't it, obviously he and Guo Tai of Guangzong's Yellow Turban have secretly finished discussing and making the Northern Army completely history in this battle, but they were all disturbed by Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei.

Now it's okay, Guo Tai of Guangzong Yellow Turban suffered a defeat under inexplicable circumstances, and it was a fiasco, although it was not enough to suspect Dong Zhuo and Li Ru, but it was impossible to send troops again in a short time, which means that the schedule of "the Northern Army was wiped out except for the Tun cavalry" will have to be postponed.

In the past, this would have been the case, but when is this now? Now is the most critical time!

You must know that Dong Zhuo has always paid attention to Huangfu Song, a contemporary famous general who he has not been able to surpass in a short period of time, so he naturally learned from the news of the imperial court that Huangfu Song has defeated the Yingchuan Yellow Turban, Chen Guo Yellow Turban and Runan Yellow Turban with lightning speed, according to Li Ru's judgment, Dong Zhuo concluded that the day when Huangfu Song led the army to set foot in Dongjun and crossed the Yellow River to participate in the Jizhou battlefield will not be far away.

Therefore, Dong Zhuo and Li Ru were eager to let the northern army completely mute before Huangfu Song set foot on the Jizhou battlefield, otherwise, once Huangfu Song's army arrived at the hinterland behind Guangzong Yellow Turbans and attacked from both sides, even if the strength of Guangzong Yellow Turbans exceeded the sum of the two, it would be difficult to escape the end of destruction. This is what Dong Zhuo does not want to see.

The situation that Dong Zhuo wanted to see the most was that the imperial court stepped into the quagmire of the Yellow Turban Rebellion and could not get out, consuming a lot of manpower and material resources, which was a very beneficial thing for him to control Longxi and even extend his power into Gyeonggi Luoyang. On the other hand, if the Yellow Turban Rebellion had been ended without the Han Dynasty breaking its bones, then God knows what kind of attitude the Imperial Court would have towards Longxi under his control?

Some people may think that now that the Northern Army has lost most of it, even if Huangfu Song leads the thousands of Sanhe cavalry to the back of Guangzong's Yellow Turban, can it really change the entire battle situation?

But in fact, the key is that if Huangfu Song really participated in the Jizhou battlefield, then Dong Zhuo would not dare to cheat anymore, after all, once this kind of "capital enemy" conspiracy was perceived and debunked by Huangfu Song, and then immediately played to the imperial court, then Dong Zhuo would face the wrath of the Son of Heaven and the imperial court. Even Dong Zhuo will have no place to stay.

Therefore, when the time came, Dong Zhuo had to "cancel" the cooperation with Guo Tai of Guangzong Yellow Turban, and he also had to cooperate with Huangfu Song against his will to show his true strength. The Yellow Turban of Guangzong was destroyed. Even if the Jizhou Yellow Turban is destroyed at this stage, it is not in Dong Zhuo's personal interests at all.

"White body."

When Liu Bei thought he had answered that sentence frankly, he didn't know that Dong Zhuo's heart was actually full of killing intent.

After all, killing a few "white" civilians is nothing to Dong Zhuo, you must know that Dong Zhuo is even Ma Dou, the captain of the Changshui Battalion, one of the captains of the fifth battalion of the Northern Army, is cutting first and then playing, not to mention Liu Bei?

The only concern is only one point, that is, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei "helped" him to win the Guangzong Yellow Turban, and this incident was witnessed by countless Northern soldiers. Killing such a meritorious person for no reason, if the court investigates it in the future, it will be difficult for Dong Zhuo to reply.

Therefore. Dong Zhuo, who had been thinking about it for a long time, gave up the idea of killing Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei under Li Ru's hint, but the anger in his heart could not be vented. This made Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei mistakenly think that Dong Zhuo despised their brother with a white body, and left angrily.

"There is news from the direction of Dongjun, General Zuo Zhonglang and Lord Huangfu Song have taken Cangting yesterday and are preparing to forcibly cross the Yellow River, hoping that our army will be ready to stand in front of the station, so that when its army arrives, it will flank the Guangzong thieves in front and back!"

An inopportune news came. made Dong Zhuo and Li Ru look at each other helplessly, and smiled bitterly at each other.

"This is the will of heaven...... Shaking his head, Dong Zhuo said to Li Ru with regret on his face, "It's not in vain to get acquainted." Ah Ru, do you want to find a way to inform the Guo Tai kid about this, I'll wait...... I had to draw a line with him. ”

"Hmm." Li Ru nodded in agreement. After all, they cooperated with Guo Tai in secret, and it was okay to deceive ordinary guys, but if they wanted to deceive the eyes of Huangfu Song, a famous general. It was simply overwhelming.

Rather than being seen through the trick by Huangfu Song at that time, it is better to make it clear to Guo Tai of Guangzong Yellow Turban now. Draw a clear line, I believe Guo Tai can also understand. After all, with the secret help of Dong Zhuo and Li Ru, Guangzong's Yellow Turban almost crushed the famous Northern Army, which no army could do for decades.

"I don't know where the boy is now? Do you know or don't you know that Huangfu Song has taken the cangting? ”

Dong Zhuo touched the beard on his chin and muttered.

――――At the same time――――

At this time, Zhang Huang knew that Huangfu Song had conquered Cangting. More precisely, he witnessed the banner with the words "Zuo Zhonglang General Huangfu" fluttering on the camp at Cangting Ferry.

"After all...... It's still a step too late. Beside Zhang Huang, Dongjun Yellow Turban Qu Shuai Bu Si clasped his fists with a gloomy face, and his eyes were full of unwillingness.

"......" Zhang Huang was silent.

Two days ago, Zhang Huang had a plan in his heart, and finally killed the tail that had been following him for the past two days, that is, the three hundred cavalry of the Three Rivers.

It's not a whimsical trick, it's nothing more than "treating the enemy as weak" and deliberately exposing the flaws that do not exist to the other party, so that the three hundred cavalry of the Three Rivers Cavalry mistakenly think that there is an opportunity to take advantage of. As for the outcome, when the mere 300 cavalry and the Three Rivers cavalry rashly broke into an ambush set by nearly 40,000 Yellow Turban infantry, the annihilation of the entire army had become their only result.

"Huangfu Song...... Found us. ”

Bu Si went in the direction of Cangting Ferry, Nunuzui, and the Huangfu Song in his mouth actually referred to the Sanhe cavalry under the command of Huangfu Song. It was about a stick of incense time before they surveyed the situation of the Cangting Ferry here, and the vigilant Sanhe cavalry seemed to have sensed the arrival of their "main force of the Yellow Turban Army of Dongjun originally stationed in Puyang", and the alarm bells rang one after another.

"Forget it."

Zhang Huang shook his head a little frustratedly, he understood that Bu Si Fang's intention in reminding him was nothing more than to remind him that he had to give the order to attack Cangting, and not to give Huangfu Song and his Sanhe cavalry more time to deal with it.

But the problem is that Zhang Huang doesn't think they can gain anything from attacking Cangting this time. You must know that as far as he knows, the Yellow Turban Qu Marshal of Dongjun next to him was captured by Huangfu Songsheng near Cangting.

Although Zhang Huang did not know how Huangfu Song, who had far fewer troops than Bu Si, did this, the established historical course has fully explained the outcome of this battle.

"Little Heavenly Master?"

Seeing that Zhang Huang never had the intention of ordering an attack, Bu Si couldn't help but be a little anxious, after all, the strategic significance of Cangting was very important.

Finally, Zhang Huang spoke slowly, and he asked Bu Si a seemingly unrelated question.

"Bu Si, when do you think Huangfu Song arrived at Cangting?"

Bu Si was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it in his heart for a while, he replied not very confidently. "It's probably a day or two, right?"

In fact, Huangfu Song had already led his Sanhe cavalry to Cangting three days ago, but counting the time he had taken to rest his army to conquer the Cangting Ferry, Bu Si's answer was not wrong.

However, after Zhang Huang heard this answer, his face became more solemn. He looked intently at the seemingly calm Cangting Ferry in the distance, and said slowly, "I believe that Huangfu Song at this moment is also very eager to join the Jizhou battlefield, but why...... Why did he still have to delay for a day or two at the Cangting Ferry at this time? …… He's already conquered the Cangting Ferry, hasn't he? He could cross the Yellow River at any time. ”

"This ......," Zhang Huang said. Bu Si's face also showed a look of doubt.

[Unless...... That Huangfu Song plans to get rid of the Dongjun Yellow Turban here in one fell swoop! ]

A gleam flashed in Zhang Huang's eyes.

"Bu Si."

"Yes."

"According to what you said, you haven't taken over the Dong'e area yet?"

"Uh......" Bu Si was a little embarrassed, and replied truthfully, "Xue Fang in Dong'e County has some ability, I besieged his county for half a month before, but I didn't take ......" Speaking of this, he seemed to have woken up to something, and looked at Zhang Huang with a strange expression and tentatively said, "What does Little Heavenly Master mean." Is it possible that Huangfu Song may unite with Xue Fang in Dong'e to ambush our army? ”

It's no wonder that Bu Si showed such an expression, after all, although Xue Fang, the head of the Xue family in Dong'e, had defended the city and county under his Bu Si's large-scale attack before, he was only defending himself from the city. As for sending troops to help Huangfu Song, I believe that the latter does not have the courage and strength.

"It's not Dong'......" Zhang Huang shook his head, and then said in a deep voice, "You immediately order someone to search the surroundings." Let's see if there are soldiers and horses of the imperial court lurking in the area from this Cangting to Dong'e. ”

"Uh...... Promise! ”

In all fairness, Zhang Huang is not worried about Dong'e's Xue Fang, but the problem is. Like Cangting, Dong'e is also a ferry county, connecting Dongjun and Yanzhou.

Yes, what Zhang Huang is really worried about is actually Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, another Yanliu royal nobleman who is not inferior to Liu Biao and Liu Jingsheng!

Although Liu Dai was forced to give up many territories in Yanzhou under the coercion of Bai Rao, the Yellow Turban of Qingzhou, in the final analysis, it was actually the armies of several feudal princes such as Jibei State, Dongping State, and Lu State that lost Yan Zòng in those battles, and Liu Dai's own forces were not hit hard. On the contrary, as the territory of the guards gradually shrank, the sergeants under his command also retracted. If he really reached a tacit understanding with Huangfu Song at this time, and struck a hard blow in the back when the Dongjun Yellow Turban attacked Cangting, then the ending may be as recorded in history: Huangfu Song broke the Dongjun Yellow Turban in Cangting and caught the thief Bu Si.

"Order the whole army to retreat to Wuli Anzha and set up a village, and beware of the Three Rivers cavalry in Cangting!"

"No!"

After pondering for a moment, Zhang Huang gave the order to temporarily withdraw his troops.

This surprised the three fathers, sons, and nephews of Huangfu Song, Huangfu Shoujian, and Huangfu Li, who were paying attention to the Dongjun Yellow Turban at Cangting Ferry.

"I didn't see Wang Li's three hundred horsemen...... Killed? ”

In fact, when Zhang Huang's army first arrived in Cangting, Huangfu Li was keenly aware of something wrong.

"It seems that most of them are ......," Huangfu Shoujian interjected with a little surprise, "I can't figure it out, my father has obviously told Wang Li to them several times, why would they still be killed by the Yellow Turban Thieves of Dongjun?" ”

Hearing this, Huangfu Song glanced at his son and did not speak.

After all, in the heart of this famous man who uses soldiers like a god, I am afraid that there are a hundred ways to counter the endless harassment of Wang Li's three hundred cavalry and three rivers. However, in the case of the exchange of positions, he was also a little surprised by this matter.

[Underestimate these bandits?] ]

Huangfu Song smiled self-deprecatingly, although he felt a little sorry for the loss of Wang Li's three hundred cavalry, but he did not regret it, after all, it was precisely because of Wang Li's delay that he was able to take this ferry without danger before the Yellow Turban rescue Cangting in Dongjun County, and get the ticket to join the Jizhou battlefield.

As for whether this ferry will be gained and lost, Huangfu Song is not worried, on the other hand, he can't wait for the Dongjun Yellow Turban to attack Cangting.

Zhang Huang guessed correctly, in fact, as early as when Huangfu Song decided to abandon Puyang and take Cangting, he had already sent to contact Liu Dai, the Yanzhou assassin who was stationed in Yecheng, and tried every means to dig a deep pit for the Yellow Turbans of Dongjun in Cangting that was enough to wipe them all here.

There is no doubt that when the Dongjun Yellow Turban learned that Cangting was lost, and couldn't wait to storm the ferry to recapture this place, suddenly the rear was attacked by the army of Yanzhou Assassin Liu Dai, how panicked the Dongjun Yellow Turban would be, and when the time came, Huangfu Song only needed to lead the Sanhe cavalry to carry out a round of charge, and I am afraid that he would be able to completely defeat this army that was originally only composed of civilians.

However, for some reason, the Dongjun Yellow Turban on the opposite side chose to retreat.

"......" looked at the Dongjun Yellow Turban that was slowly retreating, and a trace of confusion flashed in Huangfu Song's eyes.

Just half a day later, Zhang Huang's ominous premonition was verified, because the scouts sent by Bu Si really found traces of an army thirty miles southeast of Cangting, because the terrain of the place was single, so the scouts could clearly estimate the number of this army, almost 30,000!

[30,000 Yanzhou troops?!] ]

After repeatedly checking the authenticity of this news, Zhang Huang's heart was inevitably a little bitter.

Because with these 30,000 Yanzhou troops, it is destined that it will be difficult for the Yellow Turbans of Dongjun to recapture the key Cangting Ferry, and there is even a danger of being broken by Huangfu Song and Liu Dai.

[Yellow Turban, is it really doomed?] ]

Late at night, Zhang Huang stood in the temporary camp tent, silently looking up at the sky.

Perhaps he always thought that the Yellow Turban Army was just a bargaining chip for him to take revenge on the Fifth Gong Yuan, but it was undeniable that he, who had firmly established himself as the commander-in-chief of the Yellow Turbans in the world, inevitably began to think about the soldiers under his hands. After all, those are all living lives, and they are the lives that keep calling him "Little Heavenly Master" with respect.

"Little Heavenly Master, you called me?"

Behind him, there was a suspicious inquiry from the Yellow Turban Qu Shuai Bu Si of Dongjun.

Zhang Huang slowly turned his head and looked at Bu Si.

"If you can't turn the tide, you can only lie down and taste the guts! It's time to ...... Let my Taiping Road be hidden in the fog again! ”

"......" (To be continued......)