Chapter 248, Seven inches of the Fujijia Army, the war broke out!
When the Yellow Turban Army fought against Sun Jian again, Sun Jian pursued Liu Pi, the commander of the Yellow Turban Army, to attack as usual! But he did not expect that Liu Pi had already been ambushed by hundreds of crossbow archers!
When Sun Jian was about to rush in front of Liu Pi, hundreds of crossbow arrows suddenly appeared and he shot all the crossbow arrows at Sun Jian. Sun Jian was unable to dodge and was killed by dozens of arrows.
"Ming Gong!" Cheng Pu, Huang Zhong and others were furious when they saw Sun Jian being shot with dozens of arrows. They led their men to kill the enemy bravely, rushed to Sun Jian's side, and snatched Sun Jian's body back!
But when Liu Pi and others saw that Sun Jian, the great demon king, was dead, they shouted excitedly: "Kill back, Sun Jian is dead. Everyone has revenge and grievances, kill him!"
The morale of the Yellow Turban soldiers was greatly boosted. The Yellow Turban soldiers who were killed by Sun Jian were also killed under the leadership of Huang Shao and He Man. Sun Jian's army was already demoralized because of Sun Jian's death in battle, and now it was surrounded by more than ten times the army.
Suddenly they fell into panic and were defeated by the Yellow Turban Army who had a numerical advantage.
At this time, after Yuan Shu learned that Sun Jian was killed in battle, he personally led the army to support and rescued the remnants of Sun Jian's troops!
The casualties of the Yellow Turban coalition were not small. After seeing the retreat of the Han army, they did not continue to pursue it!
However, this victory made Liu Pi and others very convinced of Zhu Min.
They found Zhu Min and said with a smile: "Sun Jian was killed by us, should we counterattack Yuzhou and completely defeat Yuan Shu's army?"
But Zhu Min shook his head and said: "The total number of young men we have now is only 100,000. Even though Yuan Shu lost Sun Jian's 5,000 elites, he still has 35,000 Han troops in hand. We are only three times more powerful than the Han army.
Are you sure you can defeat Yuan Shu's army?"
Liu Pi and the others shook their heads. After these years of fighting, without a full stomach, they would usually have a chance of winning when fighting the Han army 10 to 1, and this was only when the Han army had less than 10,000 people.
The larger the number, the more soldiers they need. The 20,000 Han army needs 300,000 Yellow Turbans to be sure of victory!
And now that they have conquered Wubao, the core soldiers have certain equipment, and ordinary tribesmen can also have enough to eat, and have simple spears and vine armor, but they still need more than 5 times the advantage to defeat the Han army.
As for the elite Han army like Sun Jian, even if they have 50,000 people, they may not dare to say that they can defeat it!
Zhu Min said helplessly: "There is nothing to say if we can't win. We can only retreat up the mountain to recuperate and not fight Yuan Shu's main force. At the same time, we mobilize the people around the base area to monitor Yuan Shu's every move and find ways to attack weak points."
, Today we kill Yuan Shu's 200 soldiers, and tomorrow we kill Yuan Shu's 300 soldiers. This will continue to weaken Yuan Shu's strength and strengthen our own strength. In a few years, we can counterattack Yuzhou again!
Liu Pi was a little embarrassed and said: "In war, bullying the weak and fearing the strong is a bit like the style of bandits!"
In fact, many of the commanders of the Yellow Turban Army were bandits. It was because of their poor reputation that they began to call themselves the Yellow Turban Army, so that the people around them would accept them and the refugees would seek refuge with them!
This has to be said to be Zhang Jiao's residual talent left over from treating the people for decades. The people know who is good to them and who is not good to them. It is a pity that this residual talent was wasted by the Yellow Turban generals. Although they repeatedly started to cause trouble,
But they never succeeded, and in the end all the people who followed them died in the battle!
He Man also smiled awkwardly and said: "This seems to be the tactics used by the barbarians to attack our big men, right?"
Zhu Min nodded and said: "Yes, this is the tactic of the Hu people. It is called guerrilla warfare. It is a tactic of defeating the strong with the weak. We must preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy now. Preserving ourselves is more important than destroying the enemy. As long as
We fight again and again, and improve our combat effectiveness again and again. Sooner or later, the combat effectiveness of our soldiers will not lose to the Han Dynasty. By then, our 100,000-strong army will still be afraid of Yuan Shu's 3-4 troops!"
But Huang Shao asked: "If we don't go out to fight, how can we support these 100,000 soldiers and the hundreds of thousands of tribesmen who follow us!
The biggest gap between the Yellow Turban Army and the Tengjia Army is their economic strength. Xu Wei can support hundreds of thousands of Tengjia Army, but if the Yellow Turban Army does not exhaust all its troops and the Han army, these tribes will freeze to death in winter.
Starved to death, and this is the reason why their combat effectiveness has never been improved. The soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army can be regarded as a disposable army, and few of them can survive until the next spring!
Zhu Min said: "That's why we have to find a way to build a base area, which is to have a site that can feed our tribesmen. When our Tengjia Army came to Mayi, the first thing we did was to open up wasteland. Now you have to find a way too.
Farming, the whole Central Plains is at war this year, if we don’t farm, it will be difficult for us to survive next year!”
Liu Pi wondered: "If we don't occupy the county seat, how can we harvest food? If we occupy the county seat, we will be suppressed by the Han army. How can we farm?"
Huang Shao and the others also have similar questions!
Zhu Mindao: "The food is not in the county, but in the countryside. Haven't you realized that even if you occupy the county, you have never received taxes or food. In fact, the county is of little use to our Yellow Turban Army, and
The county town does not have as much food and grass as a Wubao. Instead of attacking the county town, we might as well attack Wubao!
This was a bit contrary to Liu Pi's views. He said: "How is this possible? Every time we capture the counties of the Han Dynasty, we have enough weapons and food to develop and grow. How can we say that occupying the counties is of no use?"
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Zhu Min said: "Those are the grains in the county granaries, but after everyone eats these grains, can you collect grain and grass from the local area?"
Of course it's impossible. They don't even have the most basic officials and no administrative system. Who will collect grain for them.
Liu Pi continued to retort: "This is because we have not occupied the counties long enough, so naturally we cannot collect food!"
Zhu Min shook his head, and then said firmly: "Commanders, do you think that the officials of the Han Dynasty will still serve us rebels? This is simply impossible. Even if the commanders occupy the counties until the autumn harvest, it is impossible to collect
Taxation, because you, Qu Shuai, do not have a civil service system to help you collect taxes."
Zhu Min's words were like a bolt of lightning striking their heads. It turned out that their capture of counties was almost useless to them. If they really wanted food, grass and weapons, it would actually be more cost-effective to attack the Wubao of the powerful nobles!
Zhu Min continued: "So you commanders must pay attention to building your own territory. As long as your territory can support our army, we will have the ability to expand our power. Otherwise, no matter how many counties we occupy, we will still be like now.
The castles in the air were defeated by the Han army, and all these counties were lost!"
Then Zhu Min continued: "The Han army is so powerful that we can only use the mountains as our base. Liu Piqushuai's base is in the Funiu Mountains. You two can choose the Tongbai Mountains and the Dabie Mountains as your bases. You have to find a way in the mountains.
Feed your tribe! If the Han army attacks us, we can support each other. In short, we will continue to grow and develop, and sooner or later we will defeat the Han army!"
Upon hearing this, Liu Pi and the others agreed with Zhu Min's division of territory, and then each left the battlefield with their own subordinates!
On the other side, Yuan Shu cried bitterly when he saw Sun Jian's body: "Brother Wentai, you are so brave as an overlord, how could you die on the battlefield! How could the Yellow Turban Army be your opponent!"
Cheng Pu said sadly: "Wentai fell into the Yellow Turban Army's trick. They ambush hundreds of crossbowmen around Liu Pi, waiting for Wentai to attack Liu Pi!"
Yuan Shu gritted his teeth when he heard Cheng Pu's words and said: "Liu Pi, if you dare to kill my brother and harm my limbs, I will cut you into pieces with a thousand knives!"
At this stage, Sun Jian is the strongest general in Yuan Shu's hands, but now that his strongest blade is broken, Yuan Shu is naturally heartbroken.
The next day, Yuan Shu mobilized all the troops in his hands to kill Liu Pi, but found that all the Yellow Turban troops had fled. They were divided into three groups: the Funiu Mountains, the Tongbai Mountains, and the Dabie Mountains. After pursuing for a while, Yuan Shu found that there was no way to find Liu Pi.
Without the presence of the Yellow Turban Army, we have no choice but to retreat!
Youzhou, Daijun!
After Liu Yu helped Gongsun Zan prepare 6,000 war horses and grain and grass supplies, Gongsun Zan took these supplies from Daijun north to the grassland, and then continued westward from the grassland to attack the territory of the Tengjia Army. Gongsun Zan's white horse Yi Cong was already an elite.
, now there were three men and three horses, and each of them could march at a speed of more than 200 miles. He quickly broke into the Tengjia Army's territory on the grassland! Then he used the powerful combat power of the White Horse Yi Cong to kill several herdsmen settlements of the Tengjia Army.
Kill the herdsmen and burn down the entire village!
Gongsun Zan burned six small herdsmen villages in a row, which attracted the attention of the entire Tengjia Army. Wubao across the grassland began to shelter the surrounding herdsmen. After discovering Gongsun Zan's cavalry, they immediately lit beacon fires!
Gongsun Zan originally wanted to attack these forts, but when he got closer, he discovered that they were the star-shaped forts of the Tengjia Army, and they were actually made of cement!
Gongsun Zan could only curse angrily: "Lei Gong really has a lot of money and no place to spend it, so he actually spent so much money to build a cement dock on the grassland!"
The price of cement in Youzhou is not low. Only wealthy nobles can afford it in Youzhou. For example, the Wubao in front of Gongsun Zan would cost tens of millions of dollars to build in Youzhou!
Guan Jing thought for a while and said: "Ming Gong, the Wubao is expensive. It is impossible for Lei Gong to build Wubao on the entire grassland. Lei Gong should only build Wubao in the border area! We continue to go deep into Lei Gong's territory. It should not be so strong inside.
The Wubao!"
Gongsun Zan thought that it made sense, so he continued to attack deeply into the Tengjia Army's territory. He believed that there could not be such a strong fort inside.
Then Gongsun Zan encountered something that completely ruined his outlook. He continued to penetrate into the territory of the Tengjia Army and encountered more than a dozen forts. However, every fort of the Tengjia Army was built with cement.
All very sturdy!
At this time, Gongsun Zan and others had been exposed. Sun Qing, the magistrate of Qiangyin County, issued a recruitment order, and the young people living in the entire Qiangyin County began to gather.
In less than a day, Sun Qing gathered 30,000 cavalry, and then under the command of Wubao Fenghuo, Gongsun Zan surrounded him!
At this time, Gongsun Zan also discovered that something was wrong. There were forts everywhere on the grassland, and beacons were everywhere pointing out their whereabouts. These forts were like a net, trapping Baima Yicong. He felt dangerous and planned to
Retreat, and then encounter 30,000 cavalry led by Sun Qing!
Gongsun Zan tried his best to fight his way out with the Baima Yicong, but only led 1,000 Baima Yicong to escape from the territory of the Tengjia Army!
But Sun Qing knew that Gongsun Zan had massacred 6 villages on the territory of the Tengjia Army, and he did not want to let Gongsun Zan go so easily, so he led 30,000 cavalry to chase Gongsun Zan all the way!
On the other side of Youzhou, Liu Yu mobilized the entire 80,000 people in Youzhou to approach the Tengjia Army's territory and made a move to attack!
At the same time, he also ordered Yan Rou to build 10 huge iron locks, and sent an iron cable across the river. The 10 chains directly cut off the Sanggan River that connected Unicom to Bingzhou.
Liu Yu's actions shocked the top brass of the Tengjia Army. They had the impression that Liu Yu was a pacifist. Now that he suddenly mobilized 80,000 troops, everyone was confused. Originally, he only mobilized a large army and the Tengjia Army could tolerate it. Even
Even Gongsun Zan's attack on Tengjiajun's grassland territory was bearable.
But the most unbearable thing for the senior officials of the Tengjia Army was that Liu Yu actually locked the Sanggan River!
We must know that Bingzhou can now feed more than 10 million people, relying on a large amount of land reclamation and the construction of various water conservancy facilities. But the most important thing is that there is a large amount of soil fertilizer and struvite in the fields. Among them, struvite accounts for most of the credit.
70%. The amount of guano transported from Youzhou to Bingzhou every year is increasing at a rate of 500%. The price of struvite has tripled, but the supply still exceeds demand.
Bingzhou now purchases more than 10 million shi of struvite a year, because struvite increases grain production by more than 100 million shi. It can be said that if the struvite is cut off, Bingzhou's grain production will be reduced by half. Yes.
Four to five million people will starve to death.
Liu Yu's move really hit the Tengjia Army seven inches above it!
So after the Sanggan River was blocked, the masters of the Iron Armored Army who stayed in Taiyuan County unanimously approved the war against Youzhou!
So the entire Bingzhou began to mobilize, and a large number of troops began to move towards Mayi. The herdsmen in each county began to put on armor and use their swords, and began to assemble in counties one by one. Each county assembled 20,000 cavalry. These
After the cavalry was assembled, they immediately headed towards Mayi!
Looking from a high place, we can see a long queue of several large armies moving towards Mayi!
The fierce movements of the Tengjia Army naturally attracted the attention of all parties in the Han Dynasty. After Huangfu Song learned that Liu Yu had cut off the Sanggan River, he said helplessly: "War is inevitable!"
Huangfu Song had known this weakness of the Tengjia Army for a long time, but because of the split in the imperial court, he did not dare to block the passage for the Tengjia Army to import struvite, because he knew that a war would definitely break out. And now Liu Yu uses this method
If the passage through Bingzhou guano stone is blocked, the Tengjia army will definitely attack Youzhou!