Seeing the two sides standing at the gate of the city and talking for a while, Qin Xiao was a little anxious, he knew that he should have taken advantage of the night to sneak attack last night, but now that this batch of reinforcements arrived, he had lost the opportunity. The more than 4,000 troops were all young and middle-aged, and there was no chance of victory at all.

"Shuoqing, this time General Mancheng ordered me to be the vanguard of grain and grass, and first stationed in Yangcheng with 100,000 grain and grass, and the army will arrive later. During this period of time, the safety of grain and grass is related to the future of you and me, and I hope you know that it is a great relationship! ”

"The last general understands!"

"The army is in the city!"

With the shout of the middle-aged man, hundreds of grain and grass trucks were pulled into the city, and at this time, Qin Xiao suddenly found that thousands of soldiers poured out of the city gate, and it seemed that they had been waiting inside the city gate, and many armor suddenly jumped out under the yellow sand outside the city gate.

"There are ambushes!" Qin Xiao suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and couldn't help but be glad that the grain and grass army had come at the right time, otherwise he was afraid that he would not be locked up in the city and besieged to death.

"Big Boss, what are we going to do now?" Han Kui said in a deep voice.

"Can't move now! As soon as we moved, it was exposed, and we continued to lie in ambush here to watch what happened, telling the brothers to rest and recuperate, and not to make loud noises! ”

In this way, Qin Xiao waited from morning to noon, survived the scorching afternoon, and the whole army was exhausted. Qin Xiao looked at this situation, the grain and grass army was afraid that it was stationed here, and it seemed that he had to withdraw at night, and then think about it in the long run.

In the evening, Qin Xiao asked everyone to start eating and replenishing water, and began to retreat as soon as it was dark, but he didn't wait for them to get ready. Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves on the post road shook the sky, and a large number of cavalry rushed over, Qin Xiao saw at a glance that there were tens of thousands, followed by a total of more than 20,000 horses.

The cavalry rushed into Yangcheng Road first, and a large flag was waving in the wind, and a red character was very conspicuous.

"Zhu?" Qin Xiao lowered his head and pondered, and suddenly he looked up and exclaimed: "Could it be Zhu Jun (here is simplified for reading convenience)?!" ”

Zhu Jun, one of the two heroes who swept away the yellow in history, fought the yellow turban with Huangfu Song, and became the marquis. This is a big guy! I didn't expect to be able to see the big shots of the Three Kingdoms so soon, could it be that the army of the Yellow Turban was on the other side?

It's not right to think about it carefully, if it's a wave, how can it be only a few thousand people, or tens of thousands. Qin Xiao quietly checked the level of this army, and found that all of them were third-level soldiers, well-equipped and in good spirits.

"Big Boss! The army of the imperial court has arrived, what should we do now? Remove? ”

"Withdraw? Now is the opportunity to pick up someone's head and show his face! Qin Xiaoxi said, he already had a plan.

"Report! My lord, there are yellow turban thieves stationed in Yangcheng ahead! ”

A scout horse came from the main road at a rapid speed and kowtowed in front of a middle-aged man in his forties, with a sturdy body, a rough and resolute face, wearing a brass gilt battle armor and a golden helmet.

"Have you ever found out which one is the Yellow Turban Thief? The number of soldiers and horses? "The middle-aged man holds a horsewhip in his hand, his eyes are deep, and his momentum is extraordinary.

"Not yet identified!"

"Check again, report again!"

After speaking, the middle-aged man said to the deputy general next to him: "Pass the order, the whole army will be on guard outside the city, and when the situation is ascertained, attack the city immediately!" ”

After the middle-aged man finished giving the order, the army suddenly moved, and the cavalry took the lead in entering a place hundreds of meters outside the gate of Yangcheng and stopped.

The defenders inside Yangcheng had already discovered the army outside the city and hurriedly closed the city gates, and the low city walls were covered with crossbowmen. By the time the army approached, everything was ready.

The middle-aged man rode to the front of the battle and said: "Although this city is small, it can also garrison 10,000 people, although I have 20,000 soldiers and horses, but more than half of the cavalry, it is not suitable for fighting in the city." If you can't find out the enemy's situation, how can you attack? ”

The middle-aged man was groaning, and suddenly another subordinate came down to report: "General! A man came before the battle and said that he had something important to tell him! ”

The middle-aged man was puzzled: "My military has just come here, who came to see me?" ”

"Pass him over!"

Qin Xiao walked towards the cavalry phalanx under the guidance of a guard, he had already asked Han Kui to continue to standby, no matter what happened, don't expose it, everything will wait for him to go back.

When he arrived at his destination, Qin Xiao saw a middle-aged man in tiger armor standing next to a mighty horse looking at the city tower. He immediately stepped forward and clasped his fists with both hands and said, "Grass people Qin Shige greets the right Zhonglang general!" ”

Hearing the voice, the middle-aged man turned around and said in surprise: "I haven't reported my home, how do you know me?" ”

Qin Xiao's dark and bright banner is placed there, and you have a domineering and penetrating temperament, which everyone can guess.

"Today, Your Majesty is in order to quell the thief chaos, and personally ordered the general of the three roads to lead the army to rebel, and the words on the banner of the lord are clear, but it is not difficult to guess."

"You call yourself a grass farmer, but you know a lot! What are you doing here? Zhu Jun turned his head to look at Qin Xiao.

Qin Xiao bent down slightly and said: "I learned that the Zhonglang General led the Changshui, and the Yueqi and the Zuo Zhonglang General Huangfu Song jointly sent troops to Yingchuan to defeat the Yellow Turban Thieves, so I waited here for the arrival of the adults." I have already identified the enemy soldiers in this city, and I am waiting for the general to attack! ”

"Oh? Do you know the deployment of troops in the city? Zhu Jun listened to Qin Xiao's tone and seemed to know Yangcheng very well.

"My lord, there were originally more than a thousand Yellow Turban thieves guarding Yangcheng, and just an hour before Lord Fang arrived, an army of grain and grass had just entered here."

"An army of grain and grass!" Zhu Jun's eyes lit up obviously, and he hurriedly asked, "How many grain trucks are there?" How many centaurs? ”

Qin Xiao smiled secretly, the generals who led the army have always attached great importance to grain and grass, judging from Zhu Jun's reaction, it is estimated that he will definitely fight in Yangcheng.

"There are six or seven hundred vehicles, and more than 3,000 soldiers!"

"Six or seven hundred!"

When Zhu Jun heard this, he couldn't wait to look at Chaoyang City, and said loudly: "Six or seven hundred cars are enough to hold 100,000 grains and grass!" This must be the Yellow Turban Thieves' generous advance grain and grass, so to speak, I am afraid that most of the Yellow Turban Thieves will arrive here in a few days, if I take out Yang City, and then set up an ambush in the city, I will definitely win a big victory! ”

Zhu Jun is worthy of being a general who can fight well, and he can quickly think of many possible situations, and even the strategy has been thought of, Qin Xiao can't help but admire the intelligence of these NPCs.

"It's just that although there are many soldiers and horses in our department, but the cavalry is the mainstay, and the rest are chariot and foot archers, only more than 10,000. It will take two days for our army to arrive, and if we wait until then, we may miss a good opportunity! ”

Qin Xiao had seen the Yellow Turban Army in Yangcheng before, most of them were second-level spear and shield soldiers, with about a thousand crossbowmen. Zhu Jun's chariot soldiers are second-level catapults, but they can first storm the city wall and weaken the archers of the Yellow Turban Army. Then they approached the siege with spears and archers, and as soon as the city was broken, the cavalry naturally won a great victory. It's just that in this way, the spear and archers suffered large losses, which was indeed unfavorable to the ambush of the Yellow Turban army behind.

Qin Xiao touched his chin and spun around, and suddenly had an idea.

"There it is! My lord, the grass people have a plan, and it will work! ”