The Three Kingdoms: If you don't have money to buy an official position, you can only be the em

Chapter 11 Target: Liu, Guan and Zhang
Chen Gong is worthy of being the top strategist of the time. His thinking is not limited to simple defense. Instead, after having soldiers available, he first thinks of counterattack and the outcome of the entire battle.

Where is the Yellow Turban suffering now?
On the one hand, there is a peerless warrior who is unstoppable and can defeat thousands of enemies; on the other hand, there are just a bunch of peasants who cannot form an army.

An elite army does not just have people and equipment, but must be able to form an array, have "heavy armored soldiers" to attract enemy fire, "vanguard suicide squads" to penetrate enemy formations, archers for long-range output, highly mobile cavalry dedicated to field battles, and so on.

The combat effectiveness of the army is ultimately achieved through the cooperation between various arms.

In this regard, the imperial court has a complete system inherited from its predecessors.

After the pioneering efforts of Han Xin and Zhang Liang, the improvements made by Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, and the reorganization by Emperor Guangwu, you can say they are corrupt, you can say they are drawing salaries without doing any work, but you cannot say they are incompetent.

Since Lu Zhi was able to teach disciples like Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei, it is impossible that he was not good at fighting.

Although the Yellow Turbans and Zhang Jiao brothers were descendants of Zhang Liang, they did not inherit much due to the suppression of the royal family. They were just a side branch and did not know much about military formations, and they had only a few generals under them.

If you try to fight with the array head on, you will definitely lose.

Impossible to win.

However, if they could break up the enemy's formation and rely on brute force to attack, the Yellow Turban Army might not be outmatched - after all, they had the advantage in numbers, their brainwashed belief made them fearless and they were no match for the cowardly imperial army.

"But Lu Zhi was not stupid either. He built a camp," said Jiang Cheng.

Why hasn’t the fight started yet?
Lu Zhi still chooses to play it safe.

The camp can effectively defend against the enemy, so that if the battle situation is unfavorable, we will not be completely defeated.

You can sit firmly in the military tent without worrying about being attacked.

"Don't worry about that. He will take the initiative to lead the troops out!" Chen Gong said, pointing to the sand table.

There are two sides of the terrain above.

At this time, the place occupied by the Yellow Turbans was a valley a hundred miles away from Julu City. There were mountains on both sides and it was impassable. The entrance to the valley was also guarded by a large army.

The road behind leads directly to Julu City and the entire north.

Food and grass flow smoothly.

Even if we guard him for ten or eight years, there won't be too much pressure in logistics.

But Lu Zhi was different.

There was a plain outside the valley entrance, and he built a camp on the flat ground, aiming at the valley entrance. Although he blocked the main force of the Yellow Turbans in one fell swoop, preventing them from attacking the imperial court, he was at a disadvantage in a war of attrition.

The Yellow Turbans attacked by attacking from all sides, and he wanted to fight back, but it was like getting stuck in a dead end.

As one thing grows while the other shrinks, it will become more difficult.

Therefore, the best way is to take the initiative, lure the Yellow Turban Army out first, and then strike them head-on - and if you want to lure Zhang Jue out to attack, the best bait is himself.

When the head coach of one side goes to the front line, the head coach of the other side must follow suit.

Otherwise, if we lose momentum and morale drops, it will be a big problem.

"Since both coaches are about to take the field, there is no need to wait for them to attack. Let's take the initiative into our own hands!" said Jiang Cheng.

However, plans often cannot keep up with changes.

When he went to Zhang Jue and actually participated in the war, he found that the two sides had actually been fighting for three days.

It was a small-scale battle, testing and harassing each other.

"As soon as Lu Zhi arrived, he sent his soldiers to the surrounding areas to suppress bandits and killed many Yellow Turban warriors!" Zhang Jiao and his three brothers were discussing military affairs at this time. The eldest of the three generals, General Zhang Liang, said, "The most active one among them is Lu Zhi's disciple Liu Bei. He brought his two sworn brothers and several hundred soldiers with him. He was very arrogant."

Hearing this, Jiang Cheng's expression immediately froze.

"Uncle San, please tell me in detail."

After getting engaged to Zhang Yue, he called Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang "Second Uncle" and "Third Uncle" to show their closeness. They were both very satisfied with this.

Hearing that it was him who asked the question, Zhang Liang immediately told the details: After arriving here, Lu Zhi's main force was very well behaved, but the local militia who followed the army were fighting everywhere.

Especially the three brothers Liu, Guan and Zhang.

No matter how small the village was, whether it was a village of dozens of people or a stronghold of thousands or even tens of thousands of people, the three brothers would lead their men to charge.

No effort is made to inquire about the enemy's situation.

The marching speed was faster than the speed of scouts' reports. Before many Yellow Turban leaders received the news, the red-faced man rushed up with a big knife in his hand as if he was in an empty space.

Sometimes, while the enemies in the previous stronghold were cleaning up the battlefield, Da Hong Lian would rush to the next stronghold alone.

He totally doesn't treat his opponent as a human being!

"What's infuriating is that those three men are quite skilled in martial arts. Unless my second brother and I attack them, ordinary people can't be their opponents at all. But unfortunately, that guy Lu Zhi killed the main force of our army. It's really hateful that he keeps encroaching on us!" said Zhang Bao.

Although they were all real bandits who responded to the call, they could not actually be considered as members of the Yellow Turbans.

But they were under the banner of the Yellow Turbans, which was a sign of their power.

Although he was being eroded bit by bit by Lu Zhi, his power and influence were constantly expanding, which was a loss for the other, and was very unfavorable to the war situation.

"The most difficult thing is the fighting power of those three!" Zhang Jue said, "They only have a few hundred people, but they dare to charge into the middle of a huge army of tens of thousands. It's easy for the army to take the enemy's heads. If we leave them alone, once they have enough food and drink, I'm worried that they will charge in here and affect the battle situation!"

The so-called "eating and drinking enough" does not refer to food, but money, food and weapons.

Horses, armor, and weapons.

The imperial court will not distribute these things to the local militia, so Liu Bei's soldiers are still peasants for now.

But if they continued to fight like this, they would surely capture a lot of money and grain, and with money they would not have to worry about getting weapons, and they could even recruit soldiers. Once the snowball started to roll, even if Lu Zhi did not use him, he could not be ignored.

"So, someone has to go out and fight guerrilla warfare. Even if we can't wipe them out in one fell swoop, we have to suppress the momentum of these three people's growth?"

"That's right!"

Then, Zhang Jue told his plan: to let his daughter Zhang Yue, the Saint of the Taiping Dao, personally lead a thousand elite soldiers to attack with "thunder, fire, wolf and smoke" ambush and eliminate Liu, Guan and Zhang.

The so-called thunder, fire and smoke signal is a weapon made of gunpowder, poisonous grass and lime.

It can explode to scare horses and emit poisonous smoke to kill enemies.

If blocked by a military officer, it will explode and blind the officer with lime, making him lose his combat capability.

Since the uprising, many famous generals have been killed with this thing.

The power is indeed impressive.

"But, let Yue'er take thunder, fire, wolf smoke and a thousand people to ambush Liu, Guan and Zhang..." Jiang Cheng suddenly understood why there was no record of Zhang Yue, the Saint of the Taiping Dao, in either history or novels.

Once you leave, you can never come back!

If they could be killed by a small "thunder, fire, wolf, and smoke", Liu, Guan, and Zhang would not be worthy of being called "the invincible cockroach".

The person most likely to be killed is Zhang Yue.

This is not okay.

Now that Zhang Yue is his fiancée, how can he watch her die?

"Not right. If Yue'er goes, she will never come back. Great Sage Master, you underestimate the three Liu Bei brothers!" Jiang Cheng shook his head and said, "Let her take a thousand elite soldiers, plus a thousand Shennong troops from my headquarters, a total of two thousand troops will go together!"

(End of this chapter)