Huang Zhong held the golden-backed phoenix mouth knife firmly on the bow of the fighting ship, motionless, and let the ship break the waves above the blue sea. The fierce sea breeze and the drizzle of early spring blew on Huang Zhong's cheeks, and the foot-long beard floated back down his neck, revealing Huang Zhong's resolute lips.

Hearing the sound of someone approaching behind him, Huang Zhong's face moved, and he asked, "Jiang Qin, how is the captain of the ship?" What about the soldiers of the other ships? What can a military doctor say? ”

Jiang Qinshen frowned and bowed his hand: "Back to the commander, sixty percent of the four hundred Beihai soldiers in the ship are seasick, and dozens of them are about to vomit bile. After contacting Guan Junhou, there were more seasick soldiers in other ships, among which the Luoyang soldiers were the heaviest. In particular, almost no one in the 300-material Mengchong ship could stand up. Even Wu'an Sima and Zong Sima all fell, and they had no ability to appease the soldiers. The military doctor with the army had no choice but to say that he had to rest on the shore. ”

Huang Zhong was furious when he heard this, and couldn't help shouting: "There are only more than three hundred miles of sea route, and at this time it is a southeast wind, but can't you hold on to it for a day and night?" ”

Jiang Qin sighed and said: "Commander, the villain has been begging for a life on the Yangtze River since he was a child, but when he followed Guan Junhou into the sea for the first time, he was also uncomfortable, and he was afraid that the ship would capsize. It took three or five days until it was close to the boundary of Tokai County. If the villain is still like this, how much better is the other? The Beihai soldiers were relatively fine, and there were half of them who were just pale and did not get seasick. And the new army of Luoyang is afraid that it will not be successful. If you don't dock to the shore to rest and recuperate, even if you go to Donglaihuang County, you won't be able to go to the battlefield. ”

Huang Zhong couldn't help but hate, he was deeply trusted by the lord He Bai, from a retired military marquis to a 300 households to support his relatives and children, and then to the Beihai County soldiers to stay in the camp Sima, and now he is in command of 11,000 troops including Xintou pirates. The lord gave him the first major task of attacking 100,000 Yellow Turban thieves from the sea, and he didn't want to be defeated by the wind and waves of the sea before he saw a single thief and a soldier. How can this make oneself willing?

Jiang Qin persuaded: "The main general, the lord said before parting that he would try his best to ensure the safety of the eight thousand soldiers...... Still is...... Let's dock ......"

After a long time, Huang Zhong raised his knife and slammed it, temporarily suppressed the resentment in his belly, and shouted: "Order, all ships dock, and the army go ashore to rest." ”

Jiang Qin immediately beckoned, and the water thief who was looking from the mast immediately raised the cyan military flag in his hand, and blew the horn in his hand, calling all the ships to come ashore. The other eighty-eight ships, large and small, all obeyed the order and approached the shore on the right.

Huang Zhong first stepped on the beach, and rode the same sick and crooked Qianli Huangqi horse to look around, and found that this was the southwest border of Donglaiye County. It is estimated that the lord He Bai has just led the army to pass by here, so he ordered the whole army to disembark and camp on a high slope near the water ten miles from the sea, and command the soldiers to rest in the camp.

At night, after Huang Zhong, who had been tired all day, inspected the barracks, he returned to the main tent to prepare for rest. didn't want to, but Guan Cheng and Jiang Qin's two generals came together, and Huang Zhong had to summon the two generals in clothes.

I saw Jiang Qin ask with a happy face: "Can the Lord be resentful and aggrieved today?" ”

Huang Zhong was furious, slapped the case and shouted: "Jiang Gongyi, what do you want to do? Do you want to humiliate the old man? ”

Jiang Qin waved his hand again and again: "How dare you dare, how dare the villain humiliate the main general." But today the Lord will have resentment against the waves, and he will be unable to display the grievances in his heart. So he thought of a plan to solve the dilemma of the main general, so he begged the military marquis to come to meet the main general. ”

Huang Zhong's anger subsided a little, and after calming down for a while, he invited the second general to sit down and asked, "What is Gong Yiru's plan, can you talk about it." ”

Jiang Qin bowed his hand and said, "The lord ordered us and our footmen to go to Donglai Huang County by sea and attack 100,000 Yellow Turban thieves from the north. This strategy is not unclever, and it is deep beyond the material of the Yellow Turban thief. The villain and the marquis of Guan Jun also inspected the army, and counted the soldiers who would not get seasick, about 1,500 people. But if we add 2,900 sailors, then our army will have about 4,500 soldiers and horses. ”

Guan Cheng said: "Lord, I have had dealings with Zhang and Guan and the two thieves, and I know the ability of the two thieves. These two thieves are wise and brave, and they are very treacherous. There is no hiding place on the sea, and if tens of thousands of troops approach the sea off Huangxian County on nearly 100 warships, they are afraid that they will immediately know that there are officials and soldiers who will come to ask for it. Our army failed to make a surprise attack, but I am afraid that it will turn into a strong attack. Therefore, the two of us thought that when the size of the surprise army should be reduced, only 4,000 troops should be sent to it. Landing in the middle of the night, using the method of night attack and quick attack, you will definitely be able to break the yellow scarf. ”

Jiang Qin responded: "Exactly, the main general, according to the speed of the five thousand cavalry led by the lord, I waited here for a day, and when the night attack was launched, the lord must have almost arrived at the battlefield, and then the chaotic yellow turban thieves were attacked by the five thousand cavalry again, but I am afraid that it will not take one night, and they will all be broken." ”

After hearing this, Huang Zhong asked hesitantly: "There are only 1,500 soldiers who can't get seasick, but there are as many as 2,900 sailors. ”

Guan Cheng and Jiang Qin looked at each other and smiled, and said: "When we yearn for a life in the rivers and seas, we like to bully the weak and avoid the strong. Although there are tens of thousands of Yellow Turban thieves, most of them are ordinary people who have been coerced recently, and there will be no more than 3 or 5,000 Yellow Turban believers who are truly loyalist. Moreover, there are still 1,500 troops led by the main general as the main force to break the formation, and the two of us can only take advantage of the chaos to set fire to the rear and kill people in troubled waters, so what is so difficult about this. ”

Huang Zhong then stood up and walked around the tent a few times, and immediately shouted: "Early tomorrow morning, the two Simas of Liuwu Anguo and Zongbao will stay here, and I will personally lead more than 1,000 troops and you to Huangxian to break the thieves." ”

Guan Cheng and Jiang Qin were overjoyed, and finally persuaded the main general Huang Zhong to use the naval army that was supposed to transport troops as the main force of the battle, and the two of them would definitely be able to take the opportunity to achieve great success, and they would be valued by the lord He Bai.

Early in the morning of the second day, the three generals Huang Zhong, Guan Cheng, and Jiang Qin led an army of 4,500 people and took 30 short and fast Mengchong boats to look at Donglai Huang County. Under the hard rowing of the sailors and the blowing of the southeast wind, it took only eight hours to gallop nearly 300 miles by sea and arrive at the sea of Donglaihuang County.

The three generals left 500 sailors to guard the ship, and led 4,000 troops to go ashore in the dark, and under the faint moonlight, they traveled more than ten miles in a row, and finally saw the camp of tens of thousands of yellow turban thieves surrounding Huang County in all directions.

At this time, it was almost the fifth watch of the second day, and there was less than an hour and a half before the sky was bright, and if you wanted to break the hundreds of thousands of yellow turban moth thieves in front of you, you had to find the main camp of the thief Zhang Rao and Guan Hai.

If you attack in the wrong direction, when the sky is bright, you are afraid that you will be attacked by a steady stream of Yellow Turban Moth thieves. Under the command of the die-hard believers of the Yellow Turbans, the moth thieves who were originally the people will surely burst out with the tactics of charging in the sea of people who do not care about life and death, such as moths to the fire. At that time, the 4,000 troops he led will only be caught in the sea of moth thieves.

Guan Cheng took advantage of the waning moon in the west, pointed to the enemy in front of him and said: "I have heard that although Zhang Rao is wise, he is timid, and he will not be able to be in the west and south of the lord to help, but must be in the east and north. In the east, there are troops from other counties to come to help, and with Zhang Rao's nature, he will not bear the brunt. I expect Zhang Rao himself to be in the camp in the north, that is, the enemy in front of us. ”

Huang Zhong raised his eyes and saw that the enemy's camp in front of him was about 30,000 people. The side facing Huangxian is heavy, and the side facing the sea is thin. The thieves had no other tent to shelter from, so they could only huddle together to make a fire to keep warm. It's just that the bonfire has been burning all night, and it is the time when sleep is fragrant, and the bonfire is mostly faint.

Huang Zhong said secretly, such a stupid thief, if he waved his troops straight at the thief army, it would not be difficult, and the enemy in front of him was only about five thousand thieves. And it would be good if the 5,000 thieves could respond with hundreds of them and resist the army. It is not difficult to kill Zhang Rao, but I am afraid that Zhang Rao is not here.

Huang Zhong looked at the sky, and finally made up his mind to give it a go, even if he didn't succeed today, he wouldn't fail. At most, he will meet with the lord and ask for the guilt, and then fight the thief with a dignified and upright soldier. With the five thousand elite soldiers of the lord, it is not too difficult to break the enemy, but it was a major event for the lord to break the enemy himself, but it has become a matter of shame for the lord to break the enemy himself.

Huang Zhong immediately led 100 people to the ground and touched the Yellow Turban Thief Village. Although the Yellow Turban Thieves had been in turmoil for a long time, no one taught them how to march and fight, and the camp they set up was not tight. In addition, because it was close to the coast, it was impossible to expect a large army to come from the sea, so the inspection of the north was inevitably a lot more careless. Until Huang Zhong and the others touched the front of Ying Han, no one noticed their movements.

Huang Zhong glanced at the guards of the thief village slightly, there were only about twenty people, it was already the fifth watch at this time, it was the time of drowsiness, most of the Yellow Turban thieves were sitting on the wooden fence of the camp and dozing off by the fire. Huang Zhong was overjoyed, summoned twenty fine soldiers and cats to the waist, and stretched out their hands outside the fence to assassinate the thief.

After a muffled grunt, all twenty thieves were killed. Huang Zhong jumped up, brandished a big knife and stepped forward to slash hard, and immediately cut open the wooden fence of the thief village, and the back door of the thief village suddenly opened. It's just that the thieves dozens of steps away didn't know anything about it, and they were left to sleep soundly.

There are army led by the county soldiers, the marquis and Guan Cheng and Jiang Qin who arrived in turn. Huang Zhong rode a thousand-mile yellow fat horse, swung his big knife forward, and shouted in a deep voice: "Kill." ”

The 4,000 army was immediately divided into three divisions, Huang Zhong led the troops to charge forward rapidly, Guan Cheng was on the left, Jiang Qin was on the right, and the two generals led more than 1,000 sailors to look at the thieves and slash the past.

The thieves, who thought they were in a safe place, were suddenly killed by a surprise attack nearby, and they suddenly woke up one after another. However, when they saw the countless soldiers and horses around them with their teeth and claws, as if they had suddenly come out of the ground, and like the heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals suddenly coming from the sea, they immediately collapsed in horror, and did not dare to make any resistance at all, and shouted mournfully, like headless flies running around, and even more stupid thieves fleeing towards the officers and soldiers, and they were greeted only by cold blades.