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Chapter 38 Huangfu Song's Last Chance

"It's nothing. I just discovered that when people who have been in the dark for a long time are suddenly exposed to strong light, they will be temporarily blinded. This is how I was able to control the enemy troops escorting food and grass," said Zhang Lu.

As for the generals, they were so angry that they foamed at the mouth.

"How were the grain and fodder transported?" Zhang Jue asked.

The Yellow Turban Army has a million soldiers, but they have been divided into small groups. If they are summoned, there is no way they will not move. But if there is no army, how can they enforce discipline?

Even having a large army won’t work.

Such a short time and such a fast speed is simply not something an ordinary army can do.

"You should ask the great Heavenly Master Shennong about this!" Zhang Lu said.

It turned out that he mobilized civilians and even drained the "Taiping Taoists" from hundreds of miles around, and asked them to lead the guerrillas he had gathered and the villagers from their respective villages.

All the old, weak, women and children went out to move the food and fodder away.

Not as exaggerated as a million people.

However, it did take hundreds of thousands of people to clear out the food and supplies right under the enemy's nose - those people were hiding in a nearby village, but it was ignored by the enemy.

Why?

What's there to worry about in a small village with dozens of households by the river?
There is no way to hide a few people!

But under the cover of night, hundreds of thousands of people came!
Zhang Lu launched a surprise attack and killed the enemy, while the guerrilla militia pulled the carts, and some civilian workers laid out the wooden boards that had been prepared in advance, from the roadside to the river surface, and directly to the village opposite.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians then helped transport the goods, breaking them up into small pieces and carrying them into the mountains.

Naturally, the food and supplies disappeared without anyone noticing!
"In fact, I mainly transported the food and grass to the other side of the river and removed the wooden planks within the time of an incense stick." Zhang Lu said: "If they crossed the river to chase us, no one would be able to escape, but they didn't think about crossing the river!"

The construction of the wooden planks and makeshift bridge actually began at nightfall.

It just gets dismantled faster.

The four generals never thought that anyone could build or demolish a bridge in such a short time, let alone believe that food and grass could be transported across the river. This gave everyone an opportunity.

When it was daybreak, Huangfu Song hurried over, but the man had already disappeared.

"It's there. Although the village is small, there are an astonishing number of footprints. And everyone has evacuated. Originally, you could see curling smoke from cooking fires in the evening, but now you can't even see a chicken feather!" said Cao Cao.

None of them are ordinary people.

Zhang Lu caught him off guard at first, but after careful investigation, he was able to roughly restore the truth.

But this truth is a little hard to accept.

"At least they have the ability to command hundreds of thousands of people!" Huangfu Song said gloomily, "If these hundreds of thousands of people were soldiers, even if they were old, weak, sick or disabled, once they were deployed at the right time, they would cause us great trouble."

"What if they are women, children and ordinary people?" Cao Cao said.

He guessed that they were not Yellow Turban soldiers. Without transferring troops from Qingzhou and the capital, the Yellow Turbans could not spare so many troops, even the old, weak and sick.

The possibility is greater for women, children and ordinary people.

"That would be a big problem!" Huangfu Song said, "If women and children are willing to follow the Yellow Turbans all the way to the end, and can follow their orders and prohibitions like an army, how terrible would that be?"

The soldiers are powerful, no problem, who doesn’t have a few strong soldiers?

But it would be outrageous to think that civilians could be mobilized as effectively as soldiers.

The reason why mud-legged people are called mud-legged people is because they are not good enough for any important purpose.

Children are naughty and women are unreasonable.

They were uneducated and the imperial court could not mobilize them, so they could only be handed over to local gentry for management.

But can the Yellow Turban be used?
If the people could really be organized and armed, then out of the 50 million people at the end of the Han Dynasty, 49 million would be potential Yellow Turban troops. How could such a war be fought?
"They must be eliminated!" said Huangfu Song.

But everyone is worried about this.

"But how many days can the food and grass last?"

"Their food and grass won't last long!" Huangfu Song said, "Our last chance to win is to intercept them between Handan and Nuwa Mountain, so that they can rob the food and grass and prevent them from supplying the elite army. Only by fighting to the end and killing the bandit leader Jiang Cheng and the evil Taoist Zhang Jiao can we solve the Yellow Turban Rebellion from the root!"

Although he was unaware of the "Tianshi going to the countryside" strategy, he vaguely guessed that Jiang Cheng was planning something.

Otherwise, who would break up an army of 100,000 into 10,000?
And now, mobilizing the people is obviously the effect of Jiang Cheng breaking up the troops.

If you win the hearts of the people, how far can the world be?
"Continue to attack the city. I don't believe that a mere 20,000 or 30,000 people can withstand the attack of an army of 200,000!" Huangfu Song ordered a crazy attack.

This time, he was determined to fight to the death.

The fierceness of the siege shocked even Chen Gong in the city.

"If it were an ordinary army, they would have been defeated by now after suffering so many setbacks. But their troops are still able to bravely attack the city without fear of death. Huangfu Song is really good at leading troops!"

Zhang Jue was also full of admiration.

Although they are enemies, they are still worthy of respect.

"He has been forced into a desperate situation and has no way to retreat. We must fight to the death and attack the city!" Jiang Cheng said solemnly, "He will not retreat this time. We just need to hold on and wait for the food and grass to arrive, and the outcome will be decided."

Zhang Jue was puzzled about this.

"Even if the food and supplies arrive, do we have to counterattack?"

The defense of the city was OK, and they could easily inflict a ten to one casualty ratio, which could be considered "equally matched."

But if they took the initiative to attack, the enemy had four extremely powerful generals and an army of 200,000. As long as they were prepared and launched a counterattack, the Yellow Turban Army might be wiped out.

"By then, they will retreat!" Jiang Cheng said.

As he spoke, he took out a torch and threw it towards the long-abandoned "beacon tower" in the city.

It wasn't long before smoke billowed up.

It can be seen from dozens of miles away.

Soon, smoke signals rose in Julu and Xingtai, and then villages across the eastern part of the Taihang Mountains responded. In just one day, the entire area was filled with smoke signals.

Although he had an army of 200,000 at his command, at this moment, Huangfu Song felt as if he was surrounded by enemies on all sides.

Quite strange.

"Don't worry about it, attack the city and capture Jiang Cheng, then we will win!" said Huangfu Song.

At the same time, on the other side, in the Taihang Mountains.

At Zhang Yue's command, a group of soldiers lit fires and lifted leather "big balls" into the sky. Under the balls was a big basket with people and bags of food inside.

It slowly rose into the air and flew directly towards Handan City across more than a hundred miles.

"This is?"

"Jiang's supreme magical power - hot air balloon!"

　I got up late, so I'll update one chapter first and continue writing the rest. You can read it when you get up in the morning.
　　
　
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