Chapter 252: The Wind Rises
On 25 August, Lu Shuang led a large army across the Yellow River, starting from Yangping County on the north bank of the Yellow River, and advancing northwest to Guangzong (east of present-day Qixian County, Hebei Province).
Huang Fu Song's imperial army had crossed the river the day before yesterday, and Huang Fu Song himself led a cavalry to Quzhou County day and night, taking over the position of Dong Zhuo's chief general, and commanding nearly one million imperial army confronting Zhang Jiao.
Due to the high rank of the Flying Sky City Legion, if they marched at full speed, they could come to the Guangzong battlefield before Huangfu Song's army reached Quzhou County. However, after all, taking the land route is not as good as the water route, and if you travel by land, you need to spend a lot of time camping and eating every day, and the time you can spend on the march every day is only about half a day, and it will take about ten days for the Flying City Legion to come to the area near Gwangzong.
And on the day Lu Shuang met with Huang Fu Song, he formulated the next battle plan of the Flying City Legion, Huang Fu Song hoped that the sharp knife force of the Flying Sky City Army could give the Yellow Turban Army a fatal blow, and Lu Shuang needed to use the imperial army to contain the Tiangong General Zhang Jiao head-on, and pick up the cheap in the rear.
Guangzong County is located in Julu County, Jizhou, separated from the Qinghe country in the east by a Qinghe River, and the county seat of Guangzong is built near the Qinghe River. It is recorded in the history books that after Zhang Jiao died of illness, Huangfu Song took advantage of Zhang Liang's carelessness to raid Guangzong, killing Zhang Liang and tens of thousands of Yellow Turban Army, and the number of drowning people was also not less than the number of people killed in battle.
Huangfu Song led the army to the area of Quzhou County to continue to confront Guangzong's Zhang Jiao, Lu Shuang naturally would not lead the army to join forces with Huangfu Song, but in order not to be discovered by the Yellow Turban Army, Lu Shuang chose to take the same route as Huangfu Song's army. The general route is to start from Yangping County, the eastern county of Yanzhou, pass through several counties east of Wei County in the south of Jizhou, and first settle in Quzhou County, Julu County, stabilize the situation in Guangzong and then make further plans.
The Flying City Legion would not follow Huangfu Song's army into Quzhou, but disguised as a regular army of the imperial court and came to Ping'en County in Wei County, which was located in the upper reaches of the Qinghe River near Guangzong. Although Wei County is also a county in Jizhou, Liu Bei and Gongsun Zhan's teacher, Lu Zhi, the general of Beizhonglang, led the elite soldiers of the five schools of the Northern Army to fight against Zhang Jiao, and fought successively, forcing Zhang Jiao to retreat and defend Guangzong City, surrounded by the imperial army. While besieging Guangzong, Lu Zhi not only dug trenches and manufactured siege weapons, but also cooperated with local officers and soldiers to clear the Yellow Turban Army in the area of Julu County and Wei County.
On the sixth day of the ninth lunar month, the Flying Sky City Legion, which had been marching for several days, finally arrived in the north of Ping'en County, and its troops were stationed on the border between Wei County and Julu County. The main task of the Flying City Legion this time was not to siege the city, so Lu Shuang did not bring a large number of siege weapons, and even the absolute siege weapon trebuchet was left on the ship, and only filled the space ring with crossbows and special arrows, in order to give the Yellow Turban Army a fatal blow at a special time.
During the march, Lu Shuang went offline to the forum to search for some information about Tiangong General Zhang Jiao, knowing himself and knowing his opponent, so that he could not be defeated in a hundred battles, because in "The Real World", there is the profession of warlock, and Zhang Jiao is the master of warlocks, Lu Shuang does not know much about it, so he has to understand it in advance.
There is not a lot of information about Zhang Jiao on the forum, mainly the posts made by players, or some analysts analyzing Zhang Jiao's status and role in the game. Lu Shuang started from the post a few months ago, and found that Zhang Jiao was worthy of being a historical figure who claimed to be the general of Tiangong, although he was at a disadvantage in the battle against Lu Zhi, it did not prevent him from exerting the power of his top warlock.
In some previous game screenshots or videos, Lu Shuang saw Zhang Jiao's several spells, although they were not as devastating as in traditional online games, but in the era of cold weapons in the "real world", the appearance of skills such as spells is indeed shocking. Especially when the two sides confronted each other, Zhang Jiao cast a spell that called for wind and rain, and suddenly dark clouds were in the sky above the imperial army, launching a violent wind and torrential rain. At the same time, another thunderous spell was cast, and thunder and lightning struck one after another above the camp of the imperial army, and suddenly the soldiers were frightened and their morale plummeted, and the imperial army suffered a big loss in the first battle.
However, Lu Zhi is a famous general in the world after all, even if he knows that Zhang Jiao may have many spells, but in terms of marching and fighting, warlocks are much worse than military generals. "Real World" is a game that focuses on the balance of many parties, and although rare classes such as Warlocks can sometimes play a role that generals or strategists cannot, they are not strong in individual combat ability, and they are far inferior to generals and strategists in terms of strategic planning and military command. Therefore, in the following battles, Zhang Jiao relied on his magic to gain some advantages in the frontal battlefield, but Lu Zhi's command almost crushed Guangzong's Yellow Turban Army, and Guangzong's Yellow Turban Army was defeated and retreated, and in the end, even the frontal battlefield with Zhang Jiao could not defeat the imperial army.
Lu Shuang knew that the spell of General Tiangong Zhang Jiao was indeed infinitely powerful, powerful and wide-ranging, but the art of war was nothing more than avoiding the real and attacking the false, there was only one Zhang Jiao, and this place could win the victory with Zhang Jiao's spell, but what about the division, the flank, the grain road, and the rear camp? If these are delayed, and the main force on the frontal battlefield cannot quickly solve the opponent, then it will fall into a top-heavy situation, and Zhang Jiao may choose to retreat to Guangzong may be the best way.
As for the historical record, Zhang Jiaohui died of illness in October, and Lu Shuang saw some clues from the posts made by the players. First of all, in the entrenched Guangzong City, Zhang Jiao appeared to teach the "Taiping Sutra" less and less, and he didn't even show his face for more than a month later, and Zhang Liang was mainly responsible for the usual affairs. Secondly, in the process of fighting Dong Zhuo, Zhang Jiao used the ultimate skill Yellow Turban World once, increasing the combat effectiveness of all the Yellow Turban Army under his command by 100%, and he vomited blood and fainted on the spot.
Dong Zhuo was born in a good family, served as a local official in charge of public security as an adult, served as a Yulin army, and made outstanding achievements in the battle with the Xiongnu and Qiang people, with very rich combat experience and superb martial arts. Now he is very different from the image of the big fat man in the film and television, Dong Zhuo at this time can be described as a tall man and a big horse, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and repeatedly killed enemy generals and injured Zhang Liang in the battle with the Yellow Turban Army, and no one in the Yellow Turban camp was his opponent. It is estimated that Zhang Jiao was also forced to lure Dong Zhuo to fight to the death with him, and then launched the ultimate skill Yellow Turban World to reverse the situation and defeat Dong Zhuo.
"Zhang Jiao, Zhang Jiao, I respect you as a person, you have been preaching for more than ten years, and you almost overthrew the declining and decaying dynasty overnight. Whether it is a genius or a jealous genius, future generations will not know, but after you die, there will be countless people who will come to tear down this dangerous wall that is on the verge of collapse. ”
Lu Shuang already had a general understanding of some information about Zhang Jiao, in fact, no matter whether Zhang Jiao died of illness in the end, the ending would hardly change much, at most Guangzong's Yellow Turban Army could survive for a while longer. However, the Yellow Turban Army in Yingchuan and Nanyang has almost been wiped out, and the imperial court can concentrate on dealing with Guangzong's Yellow Turban Army, and a court army led by Lu Zhi, plus another army led by Huangfu Song, the two imperial armies are combined, and the two special arms of the Han Forbidden Army and the Yulin Army are two special troops, even if the Yellow Turban Lux is a special high-level special army, the background is not comparable to the imperial court, and the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse.
What's more, the Guangzong battlefield also needs to add Lu Shuang, a-stirring stick, and the addition of the Flying Sky City Legion can become the last straw that crushes the Yellow Turban Army. After Huangfu Song arrived at the front line, he would command the imperial army as soon as possible to re-encircle Guangzong's Yellow Turban Army, and could rely on the strength advantage of the Yellow Turban Army to fight several fierce battles with the Yellow Turban Army, consuming its morale and the strength to defend the city. Fupin Chinese