In the autumn of the fourth year of Jian'an, 193 A.D.

The mighty Yellow Turban Thief Army has suffered heavy losses in just a few months, first of all, Qu Shuai Guan Hai was killed by Zhang Fei, the pioneer of the imperial court, when he took the initiative to attack the imperial court soldiers and horses, and then the Yellow Turban Thief Army led by him also lost more than half of it in that battle - Zhang Fei did not kill so much, but after several rushes and kills, and then cooperated with his soldiers and horses to chase and arrest, this army of soldiers and horses has basically collapsed, and a few have fled without a trace.

When the news spread, several princes who had fought several times with the Yellow Turban Bandit Army regarded it as a very ordinary battle, but only a few months later, they realized that this was only the beginning of the imperial army's military horses to show their strength.

At the end of summer, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, the pioneers of the imperial army, each led a division of troops and horses to attack Taishan County, and in early autumn, Taishan County returned to the control of the imperial court.

At the same time, when Cao Cao, the general of Zhendong, actually divided his troops into addiction, when he sent Zhang Fei and Guan Yu to attack Taishan County, he led the army to attack Lu with Cao Hong, the captain of the tiger and leopard cavalry, and then mixed up the chaos of Lu State, followed by Xiahoudun, the commander of the army, and wiped out the remnants of the Yellow Turban of Lu State.

Because Xiahoudun started very fast, and quite ruthless, but the light of the moon cleaned up the yellow turban of Lu State, it is said that no less than 3,000 heads were cut off, and the heads of the yellow turban thieves can be piled up into a hill, and the scene of corpses all over the field made everyone shudder when they saw it, obviously in the hottest time of summer, but it was like being in the middle of the cold winter wax moon.

Immediately after the autumn, the imperial army did not stop their rapid advance, was expelled to Dongguan The remnants of the Yellow Turban were attacked by Cao Hong, Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, and almost within a few days they were beaten to a pulp, so when the autumn came, the imperial army actually connected the three counties within a few months, and annihilated the Yellow Turban thieves army more than 10,000, and the thief generals also beheaded several people, the most famous is naturally Guan Hai, who created the Langya Massacre.

Looking at the several military newspapers in his hand, Sun Ce didn't say a word for a long time, and looked up at the veteran Cheng Pu, who was sitting at the bottom, and Zhou Yu, who was sitting opposite him, the two people he trusted the most also had the same expressions.

"Gong Jin...... What do you think of these great victories of the imperial army?"

As soon as the imperial army attacked, they recaptured three of the states and counties that had been lost one after another in a few months, and if such a record was not a big victory, then Sun Ce didn't know how to count it as a big victory.

Zhu Zhi on the side even muttered: "Then Cao Cao is really that powerful?"

He didn't think that Cao Cao was powerful, especially in these victories, he really couldn't see any cleverness in Cao Cao's command, but he made many mistakes that commanders couldn't make one after another - dividing the troops and sending troops to go deep alone. Any one of them is enough to change the tide of a battle and suffer a big defeat. It's just that the imperial army actually won a miraculous victory, and there is no suspense.

That's it, let it be more and more difficult to think about it, looking at the military newspaper in his hand again and again, I wonder if it is fake?

"There is nothing brilliant about the tactics, but the combat power of this imperial army is too terrifying?"

From these battle reports, it can be known that the army of the imperial court did not play any tricks at all, and it was forced to collapse the Yellow Turban Army with its strong strength.

And the difficulty of the Yellow Turban Army, Zhou Yu is also very clear, since his righteous brother took over the Yangzhou Mu to deal with the Yellow Turban thieves in the south, he also led the soldiers and horses to fight the Yellow Turban Thieves several times, so he naturally knows what means this group of strange anti-thieves have.

As soon as the evil method of initiating madness is used to fight desperately with others, even the elite of a hundred battles will be difficult to parry, and if one is not careful, the other party will be disrupted and defeated.

Even if he stabilized the position and defeated the opponent, it would be a disastrous victory, and there was no possibility of pursuing the opponent to further attack the enemy.

If it weren't for Sun Ce's martial arts and his ability to think of some schemes from time to time, I'm afraid that the Yellow Turban Thieves would have entered Yangzhou long ago.

"Has the imperial court's army always been so strong?" Sun Ce turned his head to look at Cheng Pu, Cheng Pu was a figure of Sun Ce's uncle according to his generation, but now that the master-slave relationship between the two sides has been determined, he can maintain appropriate respect in normal times, but it is not good to mess up the dignity and humility when discussing matters.

I saw Cheng Pu turn his head and Huang Gai and Han Dang, these three are all old men who have followed Sun Jian for many years, and they naturally have a lot of understanding of the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, and they looked at each other for a while at this time, and found that each other's eyes were full of incomprehension.

"The soldiers and horses of the five schools of the Northern Army of the Imperial Court are indeed more elite than the soldiers of many counties, and when the Yellow Turban was in turmoil, various places were lost one after another, but after the imperial army dominated by the five schools of the Northern Army came out, the chaos was quickly pacified......!

Cheng Pu considered his words before continuing.

"However, although the imperial army is strong, it is only that it has received more training than ordinary county soldiers, and the generals are easier to command, and they can better play the role of the formation, and in terms of the ability of each soldier, it is not necessarily much stronger than the county soldiers!"

What Cheng Pu said was what he had seen and heard at the beginning, and it was precisely because of these impressions that he felt very incomprehensible that Cao Cao had wiped out the Yellow Turban thieves in the three counties with only three lone troops.

If the three-way lone army itself has a huge army, but these three-way lone army is only two or three thousand soldiers and horses, and these soldiers and horses are thrown into that group of Yellow Turban maniacs, it is estimated that they can't even turn over a big wave, why did they defeat the Yellow Turban Thief Army instead?

He couldn't have imagined that today's imperial court soldiers and horses are very different from those back then, not to mention the existence of tiger and leopard riding, which has completely exceeded the understanding of mortals, even if it is an ordinary forbidden army soldier, because he receives strict training every day, his combat effectiveness has reached the limit of ordinary people, not to mention that the commanders and generals of these soldiers and horses are a group of non-human existences, and fighting a group of yellow turban thieves who are not even as good as ordinary people, but will go crazy, is naturally easy to win.

What's more, Zhang Fei and Guan Yu both understood that the reason why the other party's Yellow Turban Thief Army would go crazy and their own desperate efforts was that the commander of the army had cast an evil law, and with this understanding, the first thing the two did after encountering the Yellow Turban Thief Army was to rush into the enemy army and kill the enemy general with their strong martial arts.

Without that crazy evil method, this group of Yellow Turban thieves is not even as good as ordinary county soldiers, how can they resist the tyrannical forbidden army soldiers and horses? Not to mention the existence of monsters like Zhang Fei and Guan Yu that they can't stop at all.

Staying there is the end of being slaughtered, and people who are not bad brains know to run quickly, and running away will cause a rout - it can be said that these imperial court soldiers and horses are driving the Yellow Turban thieves all the way to rout, chasing from Shanyang to Mount Tai and then from Mount Tai to Dongguan, and finally meeting with Cao Hong, who also killed all the way, to surround and kill the last remnants of the thieves.

Of course, Sun Ce, who was far away in Yangzhou, didn't know about these things, and at this time he was still having a headache with the generals for the strength of the imperial army.

If you want to say that Sun Ce has no ambition, the fool doesn't believe it, since he was named Yangzhou Mu, he knew that his opportunity had come, and he didn't even hide it in private: "The imperial court avoided the northwest and the eastern part of the country, and now there is a resurgence of the Taiping thief, the momentum is terrifying, and the court is difficult to take care of, so that I can lead Yangzhou, this is a godsend!"

His cronies, who didn't know that Sun Ce wanted to take the opportunity to divide the southeast, originally for Sun Ce to enter Yangzhou, most of the Yangzhou locals were not very willing, but the Taiping thief road in the north was eyeing the tiger, and this Yellow Turban thief army regarded the wealthy family as a thorn in the side, if the Yellow Turban Thief Army was really defeated, they didn't think about it.

In this case, the Jiangdong gate lord reached a consensus in the shortest possible time - to assist the new state pastor Sun Ce to fight against the Taiping thief army.

So don't look at Sun Ce for a long time to lead the state pastor, but he has a lot of martial arts, and his momentum even overshadowed his original Yuan Shu in an instant.

At this time, Sun Ce has already begun to think about how to continue to strengthen his power, as for the Yellow Turban Thief, he really doesn't take it seriously, after all, Sun Ce has countless capable people, and after helping him analyze it, he understands that although the Yellow Turban momentum is fierce, it can't last long, as long as it withstands for a few years, it can consume the Yellow Turban Thief to death!

Why? Because the Yellow Turban Thieves do not produce anything, and the Yellow Turban Thieves do not know how to govern the localities, they will only rob by force! They will rob for a while, but they can rob for a lifetime? When they turn the area they occupy into a scorched earth and are unable to lay new places for them to plunder, then the day of destruction will come.

Therefore, Sun Ce sent letters to Tao Qian in Xuzhou, Liu Dai in Yanzhou, and even Yuan Shu in Nanyang, asking them to shrink their forces and defend to the death, trap the Yellow Turban Thief Army within a certain range and consume it to death—this is undoubtedly the best plan in a head-to-head duel that always suffers losses.

It's just that he didn't expect that the Yellow Turban Thief Army suddenly transferred troops north to attack Yanzhou, and Liu Dai, who was beaten, complained bitterly, and had no choice but to ask the court for help, which was the only thing that exceeded Sun Ce's expectations.

So far, it is not worth Sun Ce's trouble, he even began to think about waiting for the Yellow Turban Thief Army to be pacified, he will take advantage of the strength of the soldiers in his hands to directly attack Jingzhou.

One is to take revenge on one's father, and the other is to snatch the Jiangdong gateway so as not to be controlled by others in the terrain in the future!

At this time, it was reported that the imperial court sent troops to garrison Yanzhou, and then the Zhendong general Cao Cao divided the troops and horses into three roads in one go, and the Yellow Turban thieves were defeated and recovered the three counties in a row.

"The soldiers and horses of the imperial court are so strong, if I really divide Jiangdong, can the imperial court tolerate it?

Although he didn't ask the words, who was not his closest person present? Naturally, he knew what the young master was worried about. What's more, if the imperial court shows strong strength, then those scholar clan gate lords who are now attached to and support the young master are estimated to immediately fall to the imperial court, right?

Everyone had nothing to say, and suddenly found that there was an extra person in this tent, only to see that this person was dressed in a Taoist robe, his face was thin, and his silver hair was just tied up at random, and he was not properly tidied up.

In his hand he carried a wooden cane, which was tall by one person, and at the top was a gourd tied to it, which swayed and made a gurgling sound, and I did not know whether it was water or wine.

Everyone was shocked, but no one noticed when or how this person came in.

Cheng Pu and the others even drew their swords in their hands and asked, "Who are you?"

The old man smiled and stroked his silver-white beard casually: "Poor Yuji, I've seen Sun Yangzhou!"

P.S: It's still Carvin, and it took me a long time to write a chapter...... It's so depressing...... (To be continued)