When Xu Chu took Ao Lie and his party to Xujiazhuang and saw Xu Chu's father, Xu Laozhuang, Ao Lie understood why Xu Chu would call himself Engong. It turned out that the old owner of Xu Zhuang, like Ao Lie's grandfather, was also a merchant, and a few years ago he led a caravan to Youzhou to do business, but unfortunately met a group of mountain bandits who wanted to rob the old owner of Xu and his party.

At that time, Ao Lie was training troops in Youbeiping, and let Zhang Liao train his troops in battle, so Zhang Liao led the elite of the Huben battalion to suppress the bandits, and happened to save Xu Laozhuang and his party. Afterwards, the owner of Xu Lao Zhuang went to Ao Lie's Taishou Mansion to thank Ao Lie in person, and Ao Lie also took out a bottle of West Wind Lie to entertain Xu Lao Zhuang and shocked him. When the old owner of Xu said goodbye, Ao Lie personally sent it to the door.

Later, the owner of Xu Lao Zhuang returned to Qian County and told his son Xu Chu about it, and the father and son immediately built a shrine for Ao Lie and worshiped it day and night.

Upon learning of Ao Lie's arrival, the owner of the old village Xu was inexplicably surprised, and personally served tea and water, which made Ao Lie embarrassed. On the same day, the owner of Xu Lao Zhuang set up a very rich banquet and entertained Ao Lie. and let his son Xu Chu follow Ao Lie in the future and charge for Ao Lie.

After the banquet, Ao Lie said goodbye to the old owner of Xu Laozhuang, who knew that Ao Lie was in military affairs and wanted to pacify the rebellion in Wancheng, and it was not good to stay, so he shed tears to say goodbye.

After returning to the camp, Ao Lie sat in the middle military tent, introduced Xu Chu and Dian Wei to his subordinates, and appointed the two as captains, temporarily serving as deputy generals under Zhao Yun, assisting in commanding the bloody killing camp and being responsible for guarding his own safety.

After resting for the night, the army marched forward again and advanced towards Wancheng.

A few days later, Ao Lie's army entered the territory of Nanyang County. A scout came to report: "My lord, under the leadership of Zhang Shao, the bandit leader of the Wancheng Bandits, raised 150,000 troops and went straight to Luoyang. ”

Listening to the scout's report, Ao Lie understood in his heart that this was Zhang Shao finally unable to hold back, and wanted to break through Luoyang in one fell swoop and complete the great thing that his father Zhang Jiao had exhausted his life's energy and failed to complete - to establish himself as the king!

"Bring me the map!" Ao Lie spoke.

Immediately, the elite of the Blood Killing Battalion held the map in front of Ao Lie's eyes.

Ao Lie took the map and looked at it carefully. After a long time, Ao Lie clicked heavily on a location on the map and said, "Lu Yang! It is the throat road from Jingzhou to Sili, and the Yellow Turban Yu Party must go to Luyang! Ordered the whole army, march quickly, and rush to Luyang before dark! ”

With Ao Lie's order, the six thousand army once again threw off their footsteps and strode towards Luyang.

When the sunset fell half-covered to the top of the mountain, revealing half of his face and looking down on the earth, Ao Lie's army came to the foot of a mountain ten miles outside Luyang City.

Ao Lie, who took the lead, galloped wildly, often looking down and thinking about something. Suddenly, Ao Lie restrained the war horse, then turned over and dismounted, squatting on the ground and carefully looking at the hooves of the night snow dragon horse. The generals didn't understand what Ao Lie was doing, but out of great trust in Ao Lie, no one asked questions,

It turned out that Ao Lie was bowing his head and pondering on the horse just now, and he accidentally saw the hooves of the snow dragon horse trampling on the ground, and the dirt brought up was faintly black.

After observing for a while, Ao Lie suddenly got up and asked, "Who knows what the name of the mountain we passed by just now?" Xu Chu stood up and replied: "Lord, I came here the year before last, and that mountain seems to be called Funiu Mountain." ”

"Funiu Mountain?" With a smile on his lips, Ao Lie repeated softly. Then he turned over and got on the horse, pointed his finger at Funiu Mountain, and said loudly: "Zilong! Take the brothers of the bloody killing camp to Funiu Mountain and draw a fine map for so-and-so! ”

Zhao Yun responded to a promise and rode away with the elite of the ten blood killing battalions.

Ao Lie turned his head to Xu Chu and Dian Wei and said, "The two of you take a hundred people into the mountain with a certain person, and the rest rest rest in place." After saying that, he grabbed the horse's belly and ran to the mountains first. Xu Chu hurriedly rode his horse to keep up, Dian Wei was not used to riding a horse, threw off his two long legs, and chased after Xu Chu's side. Speaking of Dian Wei, he is really talented, he can carry five hundred catties on his back, travel seven hundred miles a day, and just rely on his legs, he can compete with the best war horses.

A hundred cavalrymen hurriedly urged their horses and chased in the direction of Ao Lie.

Entering the mountains, Ao Lie began to slow down his horse, and sometimes even dismounted and stood in front of the jet-black stones, looking at them seriously for a while. Dian Wei came to Ao Lie's side humbly, and when he ran all the way, his face was not red or breathless, and his voice was still as stable as ever: "Lord, what are you looking at?" ”

Ao Lie replied casually: "Fighters." Then there was a walk to the depths of Funiu Mountain. Dian Wei scratched his scalp, unable to figure out why Ao Lie said that these black stones were fighters to break the enemy. Xu Chu led the horse over, touched Dian Wei with his shoulder, and said teasingly: "Hey, Lao Hei, we are all rough people, don't bother with that brain, anyway, when the two armies clash, the lord will have to use us to kill the enemy, are you afraid that there will be no credit at that time?" ”

grinning widely, Dian Wei said humbly: "Yes, it's still a tiger, you have a good brain, hehe." With the march all the way, the relationship between Dian Wei and Xu Chu has also improved a lot, and the two were originally just a battle of will, but there is nothing to do if they say it. What's more, through fighting, the two admired each other's martial arts, and they actually gave birth to a taste of sympathy. So in private, Xu Chu is called Dian Wei Lao Hei, and Dian Wei is called Xu Chu Laohu.

Both of them smiled, and then chased in the direction of Ao Lie.

Entering the depths of Funiu Mountain, Ao Lie stood in the middle of a piece of black soil and observed for a long time, and then suddenly looked up to the sky and smiled. Xu Chu and Dian Wei, who were laughing, were a little dazed.

After laughing enough, Ao Lie regained his composure, his eyes flashed with excitement, and he instructed Xu Chu and Dian Wei: "You two quickly lead the sergeants to dig up this black soil in the mountains." ”

Xu Chudianwei and the others didn't ask much, and beckoned the hundred sergeants who came with them to start digging.

After the time of the three incense sticks, hundreds of sergeants had dug a large pit in the black soil where Ao Lie had stood, revealing the pitch-black mud inside.

Ao Lie walked quickly to the edge of the big pit, squatted down to carefully look at the black mud in the pit, the excitement in his eyes gradually became more intense, and he whispered to himself excitedly: "It's oil!" It's still a dried crude oil block, hehe, I'm going to give Zhang Shao a barbecue dinner! ”

Standing up suddenly, Ao Lie said, "Old black! Run fast, go out of the mountain and call two hundred sergeants to bring me all the black mud in the pit and carry it out of the mountain. ”

Dian Wei replied, turned around and ran out quickly.

Two hours later, hundreds of sergeants removed all the black mud that had been excavated.

Zhao Yun also came back and handed the map to Ao Lie.

Ao Lie looked at the map, thought carefully for a moment, turned his head and asked Zhao Yun: "Zilong, if you were Zhang Shao and the others, where would you camp?" ”

Zhao Yun said without thinking: "Naturally, the road is stationed in the camp, there are mountains and forests on both sides of the road, and the way to use troops is to enter the forest." ”

Nodding slightly, Ao Lie said happily: "Zilong's martial arts are becoming more and more sophisticated, and now even the way of arranging troops is also making great progress, and he will definitely grow into a right-hand man in the future." Tomorrow, Zhang Shao will definitely camp here. ”

Zhao Yun hurriedly said humbly: "Senior brother has a good reputation, Zilong is ashamed. ”

Ao Lie smiled and didn't argue with Zhao Yun, but turned his head and shouted, "Wu Xi! I ordered you to lead 300 soldiers to dig the avenue and dig a pit a thousand feet long and one foot deep, and it must be completed by tomorrow morning! ”

Wu Xi replied loudly: "No! ”

"Wu Qiong, you lead two hundred troops to crush these black mud blocks, mix them with sulfur and nitrocarbon, be sure to stir them evenly, and then wait until Wu Xi finishes digging the pit, bury these things in the pit!" Ao Lie continued to call the shots.

"No!" Wu Qiong agreed and went to prepare.

Ao Lie said loudly again: "Xu Huang, order you to lead a thousand soldiers up the mountain to chop firewood, the more the better, and then go to the top of Funiu Mountain to ambush, tomorrow when you see a fire under the mountain, throw down all the dry firewood, and then use rockets to serve!" ”

Xu Huang received the order in a deep voice: "No! ”

"Zhao Yun! Order you to lead 2,000 troops to ambush in Funiu Mountain, and tomorrow when you see a fire in the Yellow Turban camp, you can lead your troops to attack the left flank of the Yellow Turban! ”

"No!"

"Xu Chu! After ordering you to lead 2,000 troops to ambush on the dirt slope twenty miles outside the official road, you saw the Yellow Turban camp on fire and led your troops to attack the right flank of the Yellow Turban. ”

"No!"

"Dian Wei, you and a certain leader of the rest of the sergeants, let's take the small road to outflank the back road of the Yellow Turban, and explode their chrysanthemums fiercely tomorrow!"

"No! But my lord, what do you mean by popping chrysanthemums? Dian Wei once again used a simple voice to ask the puzzle in his heart.

Rolling his eyes weakly, Ao Lie stretched out his hand and gave Dian Wei a burst of chestnuts, and scolded with a smile: "If you are told to go, you will go, what are you verbose!" ”

"Oh, I know what happened."

After assigning their respective tasks, Ao Lie selected another hundred marksmen and whispered to them: "Prepare rockets and Zephyr spirits, first ambush in Funiu Mountain, and tomorrow evening, immediately throw rockets and liquor into the Yellow Turban camp!" ”

A hundred sharpshooters nodded their heads in understanding.

After thinking carefully for a while, and finding that there was nothing missing, Ao Lie turned over and jumped on the back of the horse of the night snow dragon horse, beckoning Dian Wei and nearly a thousand sergeants to pat their horses and leave.

The next day, Zhang Shao took more than 100,000 Yellow Turban troops along the main road and came to the main road ten miles away from Funiu Mountain. This Zhang Shao is Zhang Jiao's only son, so he has a high prestige in the Yellow Turban Army. The remnants of the Yellow Turban Party, led by Taishan Zang Ba and Montenegro Zhang Yan and others, all obeyed Zhang Shao's orders. This also made Zhang Shao more and more proud and complacent.

At this moment, looking at the procrastinating army, Zhang Shao was very dissatisfied in his heart, and said coldly: "Speed up the march, from early morning to dusk, the army has only walked more than 20 miles, at this speed, when will it be able to reach Luoyang?" ”

A captain with a yellow scarf on his head came over and said in a low voice: "Little Heavenly Master, our troops are all improvised, and there are only 30,000 or 40,000 people who have been on the battlefield, and the rest are farmers who have just put down their hoes. ”

Listening to what the captain said, Zhang Shao also sighed secretly, this is the limitation of the Yellow Turban Army. Since the Yellow Turban Uprising, whether under the leadership of his father Zhang Jiao, or under the control of his two uncles Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao, until now he has commanded the army, the vast majority of the people in the Yellow Turban Army are untrained farmers and hunters, and they have always won by quantity, but the quality is poor, and there is no way to compare with the regular army of the imperial court. After more than a year of training, he finally barely trained 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers, which also gave Zhang Shao the ambition and confidence to attack Luoyang and ascend the throne as emperor.

"Alright then, let's set up camp and rest for the time being, and leave early tomorrow morning." Zhang Shao sighed helplessly.

After receiving Zhang Shao's order, the army of more than 100,000 Yellow Turbans began to get busy, some set up camps, some set up antlers, some dug trenches, and some made fires for cooking. All of a sudden, a commotion came from the mouths of more than 100,000 Yellow Turban soldiers, hovering in the air for a long time.

Looking at the more than 100,000 yellow scarves that were busy shuttling at the foot of the mountain, Xu Huang sighed softly on the top of Funiu Mountain, and whispered to himself: "The lord is really clever, and he has already calculated that the yellow scarves must camp here and rest." In this battle, our army will win! ”