Chapter 20 The Right Time to Meet

Now it has been almost five months since Li Xuan first entered the Three Kingdoms of Chaos, according to the calculation of time, after the explosive development in the early stage, the shortcomings of the Yellow Turban camp's lack of stamina and scattered management have gradually become apparent, although the Eastern Han Dynasty is rotten, but even so, once this rotten state machine is in operation, the Yellow Turbans have no clear plan, only know that the peasant uprising of burning, killing and looting cannot be resisted after all.

Historically, in the short year of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, in the middle and late periods, there have begun to appear signs of separate politics and even mutual tilting, among them, there is naturally no lack of the handwriting of those wise men in the court, but it also exposes Zhang Jiao's biggest shortcomings, although he has enough prestige among the people to subvert the rule of the Han Dynasty, but he is not a material for playing politics, and there is a lack of talent in this area.

However, during this period, although the Yellow Turban has been in decline, as the base camp of Zhang Jiao and the birthplace of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, this phenomenon is not obvious, and the Yellow Turban is still rampant, but with the arrival of the rebel army led by Lu Zhi, it also indicates that the peasant uprising that shook the foundation of the entire Han Dynasty is about to come to an end.

Historically, with Zhang Jiao's death, the Yellow Turban immediately fell apart and collapsed, and it can be said that the entire Yellow Turban Uprising has been able to survive until now because of Zhang Jiao's reputation in the folk business for decades.

Jizhou, Julu County, a huge grain transport team slowly along the spacious official road.

In ancient times, in the regular cold weapon war, in addition to the two armies, in the final analysis, it was the grain and grass, logistics and heritage of both sides that were fighting.

In order to overthrow the rule of the decadent Han Dynasty, Zhang Jiao worked hard for decades, this truth, even a layman, it is impossible not to understand, but although his prestige is high, but his personal strength, how can it be compared with the state of the entire Eastern Han Empire, in this background, even if he is given another ten years, he is definitely at a disadvantage.

And because of the suddenness of the incident, did not do a good job of specific planning and deployment, the expansion rate of the Yellow Turban army far exceeded expectations, sometimes, more people may not be a good thing, although Lu Zhi's counterinsurgency army is not as large as the Jizhou Yellow Turbans, but it has a perfect logistics supply, plus the help of the local gentry in Jizhou, it can be said that the location is advantageous.

Lu Zhi obviously also saw the fatal shortcomings of the Yellow Turban, and did not rush to fight, but fought steadily, cleared the wilderness, and constantly compressed Zhang Jiao's living space, Lu Zhi's strategy was very simple, that is, to drag the other party to death, once the Jizhou Yellow Turban was destroyed, the remaining Yellow Turbans would fall into the dilemma of a group of dragons without a leader, fighting for each other or even falling into each other, and it would only be a matter of time before they perished.

"General Zong, this generation is now within the scope of our army's activities, why be so cautious, it is rare for the brothers to get together, how about going to drink a bowl together?" In the evening, the grain team set up camp, and a deputy general came to the grain transport officer and said with a flattering face.

Zong Sheng is the main general of this grain transportation team, and he is a stable person, and Lu Zhi took a fancy to him, so he entrusted him with the heavy responsibility of holding grain.

Zong Sheng glanced indifferently at the flattering lieutenant general, a touch of disgust flashed in the depths of his eyes, and he waved his hand: "The military order is like a mountain, Lu Shuai entrusted me with the heavy responsibility of transporting grain, how can it be contrary to military regulations?" ”

"What the general said is very true." Facing Zong Sheng's cold gaze, the deputy general shuddered deeply and hurriedly bowed his hand.

"Let's write it down for the time being, if there is a next time, I can tolerate you, but the military regulations can't tolerate you, and the two crimes will be punished together, and you will be hit on the ground!" Go down! Zong Sheng snorted coldly, waved his hand, and said coldly.

"Yes, the last general will retire!" The adjutant general confessed again and again, and his confidant withdrew from the camp, but when he turned around, a touch of coldness flashed on his originally flattering face.

In addition to the camp tent, the adjutant general did not return to his camp tent, but turned a corner, and after seeing that no one was paying attention, he quietly left the camp and came to a small forest.

In the silent forest, there were suddenly a few more black shadows, and they galloped through the woods with agility, and in an instant they came to the deputy general, knelt on one knee, bowed and said: "Subordinates see Qu Shuai"

"Get up." The adjutant general waved his hand, his face was no longer groveling and flattering when he was in the barracks before, and his face was somewhat rough, with a touch of cold arrogance.

"Qu Shuai, the brothers have arrived, according to the speed of this grain team, we can arrive at the official and bandit barracks tomorrow, if we don't do it, we won't have a chance." One of the men stood up and asked, bowing down.

The deputy general nodded, took out a Baijuan from his arms, spread it on the ground in the moonlight, gritted his teeth and snorted coldly: "This is the defense map of the barracks of the grain team, I am responsible for the defense of the south gate, tonight I will transfer the vigil team and replace it with our people, I will raise the fire as a number, you take people, kill from here, don't worry about the grain and grass, you can go straight to the Chinese army, kill Zong Sheng first, I have my own way to drag the other three battalion guards!" ”

"If it weren't for Zong Sheng's thief's lack of oil and salt, and he repeatedly ignored my good intentions with military regulations, why would this operation take such a big effort?" At the end, a thick anger flashed in the lieutenant's eyes.

"Qu Shuai rest assured, tonight, my brothers will send Zong Sheng's head in front of Qu Shuai, in order to vent the hatred in Qu Shuai's heart!" A man bowed.

"It's been out for a long time, in order to prevent that Zongsheng from seeing the flaw, you must go back as much as possible, wait for you to be vigilant, don't miss the line!" After the adjutant general gave an explanation, he turned around and quickly returned to the camp.

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"Lord, there are more and more Yellow Turban thieves nearby, and we haven't been able to successfully strangle the Yellow Turban Thieves for two days." On the official road, Li Lin was a little depressed and spit bitter water at Li Xuan.

Unlike the steady Li Shan, Li Lin's figure is not as burly and tall as Li Shan, and even not as burly as ordinary sword and shield hands, with an angular face, but with a little cunning, at a glance he knows that he is a restless master, unlike Li Shan's rules, Li Lin's personality is much more active, and along the way, he is also the one who talks the most.

"This is already the scope of Julu County, Zhang Jiao's base camp, naturally different from other places, if there are some stragglers here, then the defeat of the Yellow Turban is not far away." Li Xuan rolled his eyes, turned his head to look at Li Shandao, "How far is it from Lu Shuai's army?" ”

Li Shan looked around and said in a sullen voice: "If there is no harassment from the Yellow Turban Bandit Army on the way, before sunset, we should be able to meet with the main force of my imperial court." ”

"Then step up the march." Li Xuan rubbed his face fiercely, since he had already made a decision, there was nothing to hesitate, the Yellow Turban Rebellion was a great opportunity, in the last few months, he had to drink a few mouthfuls of soup, I remember that in the original book, in the end, Liu Bei was named the county lieutenant of Pingyuan, but it seems that it didn't take long for him to hang up the crown and leave, since Liu Dada can't look down on it, then it's better to leave it to me, I'm not a picky eater!

In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei's biggest feeling to Li Xuan in the early stage was that he was ambitious and talented, and he had no ability, but he was unwilling to be ordinary. In the first year of Zhongping, he got the position of Anxi County Lieutenant, which is indeed not a big official, but how to say that he also holds the real power of the county army, in this era of attaching importance to the family, you Liu Bei said it bluntly, but a white body, what is there to be dissatisfied with, if you manage it well, the battle of Dong will not be alone after the three people who ran to ridicule others, and later the battle of Guandu, if Liu Bei began to operate in the first year of Zhongping, with his means of winning people's hearts, Even if you can't get Jizhou, with his means, it is more than enough to be the actual ruler of Youzhou, plus so many years of business deployment, once the Yuan family is defeated, I am afraid that you can take the opportunity to encircle many old ministers of the Yuan family, in that case, and Jiangdong one south and one north to attack Cao Cao, Cao Cao is no matter how against the sky, it is difficult to take care of the end.

"Huh!?" Just when Li Xuan was wandering outside the world and thinking about it, a sense of crisis suddenly flashed in his mind, and he instantly woke up from that state.

"Alert!" After cultivating the "Yellow Emperor's Heart Sutra", not only has his strength improved by leaps and bounds, but the biggest change is the change of the five senses, and he can often perceive the approach of the crisis from afar, and it is also by relying on this wonderful five senses that he has avoided the vigorous encirclement and suppression of the main force of the Yellow Turban again and again.

"Boom~" With Li Xuan's order, although he didn't see the enemy, the troops still quickly lined up on the official road with the assistance of Li Shan, Li Lin, Li Huo, and Li Feng.

The largest number of sword and shield men blocked the outermost part, forming a tight shield array, a row of spearmen lined up in front of Li Xuan's five people, and the cold spear blades converged into a suffocating death jungle, and the few twenty archers were protected in the middle, waiting for them.

Li Xuan raised his head, and at the end of the Polar Eye Official Road, there, there was a faint black line that was constantly squirming and thickening.

"Archer, prepare." Li Xuan's face was calm, with a touch of calmness, his military career in the past few months plus countless battles had already transformed from that somewhat ruffian student in reality into a qualified general.

The black lines on the horizon were getting thicker and thicker, and the speed of squirming forward was getting faster and faster, and the wind was faintly mixed with the clashing of weapons and the screams of despair before death.

"Someone being hunted down?" Li Xuan frowned, the experience of months of fighting allowed him to roughly discern what was happening in front of him from his voice.

"Bow and arrow wind!" Li Xuan's face was solemn, chasing and killing in such a sensitive place, it was the Yellow Turban that was hunted down, but if it was the Han army, that fierce battle could not be avoided.

"Crunch~" Twenty archers are the elites that Li Xuan has worked hard to cultivate during this time, each of them is a veteran of a hundred battles who has experienced more than ten vicious battles, although there are only twenty people, but each of them is a top elite archer, with amazing attack power, not to mention a hundred steps through Yang, but the effective killing range is definitely a hundred steps away.

After a short wait, the outlines of the two sides finally fell into Li Xuan's eyes.

The first person was dressed as a Han army general, dragging a big knife in his hand, the originally bright chain mail had been tattered, stained with a lot of blood, and his resolute face was full of anger, unwillingness and thick exhaustion, which had reached the point of running out of oil and lamps, and behind him, there were more than a dozen Han soldiers, even if they were faced with the enemy's killing at any time, they still loyally guarded the generals' surroundings, and exchanged their bodies for their generals for a glimmer of life.

"I'm the captain of the Northern Army, please save me!"