"What? Liu Bei actually took the initiative to fight with Youzhou army?"

In Duchang County, Zhang Rao, who had just had lunch, was picking the shredded beef between his teeth with branches. When he heard the military situation reported by his subordinates, he was quite surprised.

He is an old world in the Yellow Turban Army.

Although he only grew completely last year and became a small coach with tens of thousands of people, his "year of thief" is not short at all.

After more than four years of dealing with the court, he had never seen the court generals who came to encircle and suppress it so actively. Even Huangfu Song would not have killed all the people like this. Did Liu Bei take the wrong medicine? He actually attacked without any grievances?

If you want to talk about Zhang Rao’s qualifications, he is definitely knowledgeable.

As early as the first year of Zhongping, he was the great wise and good teacher Zhang Jiao, the commander of Qi Fangqu, Bu Yi, the commander of Jinan, Zhang Bo, the commander of Dongchaoyang, under his command!

However, both Qu Shuai and Fen Shuai were captured and killed by Huangfu Song and his other troops in the Battle of Cangting in the first year of Zhongping. After killing Buqu Shuai, Huangfu Song rushed to pick up Lu Zhi's team and kill the great sages, so he was too lazy to call Zhang Rao, such a small fish and shrimp, so he could escape. This time, while Wusu disrupted Mount Tai and Qingzhou, Zhang Rao gathered again.

Although Zhang Rao is unknown in the Romance, he fought against Liu Bei for three years in official history! From early 189 to the end of 191.

When Liu Bei was secretly in charge, he was defeated by Zhang Rao's subordinates, and his wife was also killed by him. When Liu Bei was a Gaotang lieutenant, Zhang Rao conquered the county town. He was seriously injured and almost died. He was chased and crossed the Yellow River north and fled to the plain opposite the river before he gained a foothold.

In history, Liu Bei finally relied on his elder brother Gongsun Zan to lead the main force to attack the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans. Liu Bei was the vanguard and avenged the serious injury and killed his wife, and drove Zhang Rao all the way back to Beihai. But even so, Zhang Rao, who was seriously injured, still turned over and beat Beihai Xiang Kong Rong to the ground for teeth.

Zhang Rao and Liu Bei don’t know all this now, but fate is to arrange for them to fight again and make a final decision.

But this time Zhang Rao could not bully hundreds of people with tens of thousands of people. He only had more than 10,000 soldiers, and Liu Bei's first batch of troops landed in the army also had 8,000.

Duchang County was captured and looted by Zhang Rao last month. At that time, the Yellow Turban Army smashed all the city gates and attacked several areas of the city walls to a gentle slope. However, the Yellow Turban Army never liked to organize corvee labor to attack the city, and with the people's strength, it was at best used to farm fields.

Therefore, in the past twenty days when Duchang County was controlled by Zhang Raozhi, it was not repaired at all. When Guan Yu led the army to the door, the gap in the city wall was still there, and the city gate could only temporarily take some messy wooden boards and nail them. The defense is very questionable.

It is better to defend such a broken city than to directly manage a camp for a month (the camp was established outside the city when Zhang Rao attacked Duchang County)

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"Haha, Zhang Rao is dead, and he actually chose to defend the old village outside Duchang City? Just such camps have no trenches and no antlers, how much defense can they have?

It’s better to deploy defense along the Wei River to fight against our army halfway. Now, six thousand elite soldiers have completed the construction of armor and crossing the river. Zhang Rao is probably just waiting to put the bid to sell his first place.”

On the plain east of Duchang City, Guan Yu brought 6,000 troops across the river and made a formation. Seeing that Zhang Rao still gathered more than 10,000 people in the tent and did not move, he shrank and did not dare to go out at all, he knew that Zhang Rao was gone.

Guan Yu didn't know that he was here to help his elder brother end his destiny and make a thorough division from the past.

After proudly stroking his beard for a while, Guan Yu waved his Qinglong sword and directly commanded the troops to attack the battalion.

Two thousand crossbowmen took the lead, three thousand Danyang soldiers lined up to prepare, and one thousand cavalrymen were on the wings of the two wings.

The Yellow Turban Army had few crossbowmen and some bows and arrows, so they were obviously at a disadvantage in fighting against the Han army for long-range firepower. Even if there was a sparse camp fence as a cover, it was still obvious that they could not shoot the Han army.

After seeing the copycat version of "The Wrath of the North Sea" for a quarter of an hour, Zhang Rao's archers suffered heavy losses, killing and injured hundreds of them.

The other soldiers gave up the fence and retreated, preparing to bring the enemy closer, and waited for the right time before repulsing up and fighting, and squatting together.

So what is the right time?

For example, Zhang Rao felt that "the Han army swarmed up to capture the camp gate and was blocked in a narrow hole" was the best time.

At this time, if the repulses up, the Han army cannot re-expand its formation and will not be able to exert its advantages in crossbows. They can only fight with the Yellow Turban Army as a tactic of adding fuel to the body.

Everything was indeed developing as Zhang Rao expected.

Seeing the Yellow Turban Army's archers collapse and retreat, and gave up defending the village wall, Guan Yu waved his Qinglong sword, and the crossbowmen shot out the last three waves of suppressed arrows. Then three thousand Danyang soldiers rushed forward with a roar and roar, grabbing the village gate.

"It's this moment! Let the Yellow Turbans all rushed up! Retake the village gate!" Zhang Rao had no choice. He knew that it was impossible to escape today and he could not escape unscathed. Guan Yu had cavalry, and being caught up on the way to retreat would be a collapse. It would be better to rely on the camp to fight again.

He also instilled this truth with his grassroots officers before the war, and repeatedly emphasized the truth that "if he fled, he was surrounded and suppressed by the Han cavalry, he would definitely die." So now his morale is still available. The Yellow Turban Warehouses did not want to sit and wait for death, and they all rushed to jump over the wall.

However, as the Yellow Turban Strongmen under his command fought against the Danyang soldiers at the gate of the village, Zhang Rao soon discovered that something was wrong.

He had never fought with the Danyang soldiers before, and Tao Qian, the new governor of Xuzhou next door, had just taken office, and the Yellow Turbans of Qingzhou had never fought with Tao Qian's Danyang soldiers.

"Why are these sword and shield soldiers so strong? My Yellow Turban Soldiers are also ring-headed sword and wooden shields. The soldiers and armor are the most suitable for crowding and fighting. They are strong in physical condition. How can they be like this in front of the general named Guan...so..."

Zhang Rao took a breath as he looked at it, and he couldn't bear to say the four words "vulnerable" he himself couldn't bear to say.

The Yellow Turbans are already the elite among the Yellow Turban infantry, and the equipment of other ordinary infantry is not that good.

Even the ring-headed knife made of wrought iron cannot be used, it can only be a hatchet or a sickle; the shield may not be matched, at most it is just a few long wooden boards that are interlaced horizontally and vertically.

However, the Yellow Turban Strongman with a ring-headed sword and a standard round shield was still like a rolling snow in front of the Danyang soldiers. He did not block the Danyang soldiers at all. Instead, the gap at the gate of the village became larger and larger, and more Danyang soldiers poured into the camp.

Guan Yu's direct line, the three hundred axe and shield soldiers, and the five hundred hammer shield soldiers were the first to kill, holding the shield to jump and slash, and smashing with the combined force of gravity of the body and the gravity of the weapon. The explosive power of the short-term melee was simply terrible.

The single-layer wooden boards and horizontal spokes of the Yellow Turbans, which are simply painted on the outside, have no defense under this blow. Even if they are covered with leather, it is useless, let alone the Yellow Turbans are so poor that their shields cannot afford to be covered with skin.

If you are swung by a sharp axe, you will be smashed directly.

If you hit the nail with a pure hammer head, it may not be broken, but many Yellow Turban Rex's arms holding shields were directly broken.

The military restraint attribute of "blunt weapon to smash the armor and shield" instantly exploded and exerted.

The bloody battle at the village gate lasted for less than ten minutes, and the Yellow Turbans finally completely collapsed.

Zhang Rao's most elite troops were all collapsed, and the rest was just a matter of time.

Seeing this, Zhang Rao fell to the ground, feeling dizzy and dark, knowing that all the capital he had saved in the past six months had been lost.

"Hurry, let Liang Ming and Geng Ning and the others take it for the time being! Tell them to take a stick of incense, and put them in again after packing up the Yellow Turban Strongman!"

Zhang Rao ordered several younger brothers who had just been taken over in the past two months to die, and he took the opportunity to gather the defeated Yellow Turban Strongman.

He deserved the two new brothers who deserved it, and actually believed the boss's order, thinking that as long as he pushed Guan Yu for a stick of incense, someone would really take turns to replace them. So as a physically energetic new force, they were willing to take over.

But the fact is that not long after Liang Ming and Gengning took over, Zhang Rao gathered hundreds of Yellow Turban soldiers and quietly abandoned the army and fled.

He knew that only by leaving early and scattering would he not be caught by Guan Yu's thousand cavalrymen and Guan Yu could not catch up with him.

This kind of escape instinct is not taught by people. It is like the escort fleet of later British people who heard that the Tirpitz disappeared from the military port, they would let their fleets escape in scattered ways, and how much they could survive. No matter how strong Tirpitz was, they could not kill all the entire fleet.

Liang Ming and Gengning held on for a while, and when their brothers were about to collapse, they looked back and found that Zhang Rao's Qu Shuai's banner was still standing there, but the soldiers under him obviously did not look like elite Yellow Turbans.

"Zhang Rao ran away?"

"He sold us?"

Everyone was stunned for a moment. In a few minutes, the remaining seven or eight thousand living Yellow Turban Army were all scattered and fled to their own lives.

Guan Yu tried his best to capture the prisoners, but only less than 5,000 people were captured, and the rest successfully fled.

This is the first time Guan Yu has seen him as a general who runs so simply.

"I didn't kill Zhang Rao? It's so hateful. This guy didn't buy it in the capital." After cleaning the battlefield, Guan Yu was depressed. Even the absolutely neat victory was still angry.

Taishi Ci, who was standing aside, tried to comfort her: "The Duwei, after all, he won the enemy today, so he should be happy. The Duwei ordered to defeat Zhang Rao within two days and fight Guan Hai again. The Duwei only took one day to make a contribution, which was one day earlier than the Duwei's request!

I see that Zhang Rao is no longer afraid. Even if he runs away, he will just go to Wusu or Changxi, and be absorbed by them from now on. There are only two or three thousand remaining soldiers. At least he can no longer attack our army with Guan Hai."

After repeated persuasion, Guan Yu's anger was temporarily suppressed and saved: "Well, my brother was just to deal with the stronger Guan Hai. He was afraid of being attacked on both sides, so Zhang Rao ran away, and this tone came out of Guan Hai! Guan Hai was a life-escape battle this time, so he couldn't let him break through Weishui. I want him to wipe out his entire army, at least he would surrender!"

With the elite Youzhou soldiers who fought with the Hu people and Zhang Chunyu, it would be too embarrassing to fight against the Yellow Turban Army, which is not many times the scale.

Guan Yu's army spent several hours back to Xiami, and then continued to strengthen the defense line and prepare for the war.

Because he defeated Zhang Rao very quickly, the subsequent preparation time was very sufficient. In the afternoon two days later, Guan Yu waited for Guan Hai, who had been harming Donglai before.

...

Guan Hai came very hard because four days ago he got Zhang Rao's messenger to find horses, telling him that the Han army had a total of seven or eight thousand landed in Weishui, captured Xiami County, and cut off Guan Hai's retreat to Beihai.

Moreover, Zhang Rao's messenger also revealed a news: the Han army's sea ships returned after unloading their troops.

Although Guan Hai was a Yellow Turban Army, he was still a local tyrant. He was born in the Guan family in Beihai. He still knew a few words and had read a little books to know a little history.

When the Han army fleet returns, it means that there may be insufficient ships and cannot transport all the troops at one time, and there may be reinforcements in the future.

Combined with Liu Bei's "Liaodong Prefect" banner, the fool also knew that he was a soldier who crossed the sea from Liaodong to get into a trap. Everyone would calculate the distance, and there might be the next wave of reinforcements within seven or eight days.

Therefore, Guan Hai rushed back almost without stopping, wanting to join forces with Zhang Rao as soon as possible to break through the siege.

Before he set off, he called his distant clan Guan Cheng, but Guan Cheng didn't want to run away or take the risk to take the lead - he had a small boat at least to escape back to Shaman Island and continue to be a pirate.

Guan Hai had no choice but to rely on himself.

The four-day journey was so hard. In the end, he felt that it would be better to give up some of the elderly, weak, women and children, and take the young and strong first.

At worst, the family members are not needed anymore. The Han army will not massacre those people.

It would be great that young and strong soldiers could escape.

Even so, relying on the two legs of the infantry, it was difficult to get from Donglai County to Xiami in four or five days.

Except for those officers riding horses, everyone was panting and weak when they arrived at Weishui.

As a result, when I got to the place, I saw that Zhang Rao's answer did not exist at all!

Guan Hai simply wanted to scold him. Zhang Rao really has no loyalty at all!

He wanted to rest and fight with Liu Bei again, but the time was at most one or two days, and the second batch of Han reinforcements was about to arrive again!

Zhang Rao is not here, and he has no hope of fighting against the Han army alone. If he faces 15,000, what else can he fight? Just surrender!

"What should I do?" Guan Hai held his big knife tightly and rode his horse in front of the formation to patrol the Han army along the defense line of Weishui, his expression becoming unprecedentedly solemn.

The soldiers rushed for hundreds of miles in four days, but their physical strength was no longer enough. They would definitely not be able to fight this afternoon.

The more he thought about it, the more disappointed he was. The big sword that had killed Beihai Commander Wang Chong and Donglai Commander Han Yong last month was snatched in anger.
To be continued...