Xuande

Chapter 729 Xu He, Sima Ju, Don't Blame Me
From this day on, Guan Yu's army slowly advanced among the hills in this way, constantly conquering the garrisoned hills.

Even when they encountered some hills blocking the road and were unable to determine whether there were Yellow Turbans on the hills, they didn't care about anything else, and directly fired the oil tanks to open the way.

A big fireball fell from the sky, burning his mother first, and after the fire burned, it was natural to judge whether it was a safe hill or an unsafe hill. After all, the flames and screams were not deceiving.

The marching speed of the army is relatively slow, and sometimes it is even necessary to do some work to control the fire, and even help to put out the fire, so there are some wounded.

But overall, this loss is minimal.

Compared with the Yellow Turban Army's hills being conquered one by one by the Han Army, and the living space being continuously compressed by the Han Army, the Han Army here suffered relatively little losses, and because of the brilliant technical arms, the combat troops seemed somewhat useless. Guan Yu still needed to spend some time to appease the combat troops.

Don't get entangled, there will be room for you to play in the future.

Compared with Guan Yu's leisurely walk in the courtyard, the Huangjinshan Yue coalition army seemed a little caught off guard and flustered.

From the first day Guan Yu launched the offensive, they kept receiving bad news. The defense line around the main base was constantly breached, and the important hill defenses were constantly captured by the Han army, which could hardly stop the Han army's advance step by step.

According to the frontline battle reports, it is said that the Han army used black magic to summon fire rain, and the fire rain fell from the sky. The burning flames could not even be extinguished with water.

If the Han army does not attack the defensive facilities on the hills, it will not achieve good results. The Huangjinshan-Vietnamese coalition forces will only confront the Han army and engage in some hand-to-hand combat when they break through.

However, the fighting power of the Han army is also quite strong. After the confrontation, the Huangjinshan-Vietnamese allied forces are often defeated, or even unable to break through, and are wiped out. Usually, less than one-fifth of the people who can break through alive.

The Huangjinshan-Vietnamese Allied Forces suffered a huge loss of troops, but caused little hindrance to the Han army. Seeing that Guan Yu was approaching the core area where the Huangjinshan-Vietnamese Allied Forces survived.

There are not only combatants here, but also a larger number of non-combatants, who are their foundation, and they are the families of the soldiers, who followed them all the way here.

If the Han army breaks through here, the situation will be very dangerous.

Originally, the Huangjinshan-Vietnamese allied forces did not want to confront the Han army head-on, so they used layers of obstacles, hoping to drag down the Han army, make their logistics unsustainable, and end the war.

But now not only did it not bring down the Han army, but it also ended up in a complete defeat.

How can this battle continue?
The tactics that were very effective against the general Han army have now been declared bankrupt. If the tactics are not changed, it is only a matter of time before the entire army is wiped out.

So in desperation, Sima Ju proposed a plan.

Be proactive.

Continuing to stick to it has proved to be a stupid choice, unless there is heavy rain or snow, but in the cold winter, don't count on heavy rain, and you don't know when the heavy snow will come.

It is easy to be cheated to death if you leave everything to God, so the remaining choice is to take the initiative to attack the Han army in the mountains and fields, start hand-to-hand combat with the Han army, and try to avoid fighting with the Han army.

The fireball that fell that day must not be some sorcery, but some kind of long-range attack method of the Han army. If you don't know the specific situation, if you want to avoid this kind of attack, the best choice is to take the initiative and fight hand-to-hand.

Regarding this choice, there are different opinions within the Yellow Turban Mountain and Vietnam Allied Forces. Xu He agrees, but Fei Zhan is not very willing——

Seeing that the Yellow Turban Army was dying, Fei Zhan's originally firm and unshakable will was shaken.

He began to wonder whether he should continue to stand on the united front with the Yellow Turban Army.

If you continue to unite with the Yellow Turban Army, maybe the Han army will beat the rabbits with grass and kill them all, and nothing will be left. Now it seems that this possibility is relatively high.

If you don't unite with the Yellow Turban Army and leave this place, not to mention whether you will be held accountable by the Han army, at least you are safe now, and if you flee to a more distant place, the Han army will definitely not be able to catch up.

Of course, there is another option.

Fei Zhan looked at Xu He, then at Sima Ju.

Are these two heads worth anything?
If you can jump back, provide help to the Han army, turn around and attack the Yellow Turban army, and exchange the lives of Xu He and Sima Ju for the forgiveness of the Han army, then not only can you continue to domineering, but you might even get an official position.

As far as he knew, the Han court was relatively lenient to the rebels who voluntarily surrendered. As long as they voluntarily surrendered, they would basically be rewarded, and they could continue to dominate and live a good life.

Originally, he thought it would be profitable to help the Yellow Turban Army, because he felt that he could gain a higher status and greater power, establish his own position in the Shanyue Group, and even affect the Shanyue Group in other regions.

Now that he has become the leader of a region, it is hard not to want to continue to expand his power.

At least, he could use the Yellow Turban Army to help him fight against the Yangzhou government army, so that his power would continue to develop and become stronger, but looking at it now, this was not only an opportunity to strengthen his power, but even became the fuse of his demise.

He didn't want a fireball to fall from the sky one day, land on his head, and burn him into a ball of black coal.

Taking a ten thousand step back, he has no enmity with the Luoyang court, at most he has some enmity with the Yangzhou local government.

The local people, whether local tyrants, gentry or the government, have acquiesced to this phenomenon and accepted this situation. As long as the two sides do not completely tear their skins apart and do not enter into an all-out confrontation, it will be a day to day.

So Fei Zhan felt that even if he had cooperated with the Yellow Turban Army before, he could still be exempted by relying on his local status. If he had some credit as an opportunity, even the Luoyang court would not embarrass himself.

Unless they want to fight against the entire Shanyue Group.

Therefore, if the official army is really strong and capable of fighting, then he has to think about his own future. It is not an impossible choice to jump back and abandon the Yellow Turban Army.

Whoever takes others seriously if they are deep in routines, that's how it is in this world.

Xu He, Sima Ju, don't blame me when the time comes.

While Xu He and Sima Ju were worried, Fei Zhan had quietly completed his logical closed loop and decided to adopt a new set of plans to change his predicament.

If everything is really irreparable, then at least life and future can be saved.

It has to be said that Xu He and Sima Ju still lacked fighting experience, did not fully understand the excellent struggle matching mechanism in Yangzhou Region, and never felt the sharp and contradictory fighting atmosphere in Yangzhou Region and the overall xenophobic sentiment in Yangzhou.

After all, they are outsiders, from Xuzhou, some are from Qingzhou, and belong to the north. They are not considered as their own people in the south of the Yangtze River. If they abandon them, they will abandon them.

Anyway, the northerners never look down on the southerners, and Fei Zhan under the leadership of this consciousness will not feel any guilt towards Xu He and Sima Ju.

He just calculated how much he could sell them for.

This kind of wrong thinking that they have integrated into the local sentiment is the biggest strategic mistake made by Xu He, Sima Ju and others. This strategic mistake made them put too much trust in the local Shanyue Group headed by Fei Zhan.

But they themselves don't have the slightest awareness.

(End of this chapter)