At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

The art of war is the art of war, and the reality is the reality. Copying and copying the art of war will only result in defeat.

After Lu Zhi taught Guo Peng in this way, he asked Guo Peng another question.

"Do you know why the division wants to set up camp on the north bank of Zhangshui, and face off against the Yellow Turban thieves across the bank?"

Guo Peng thought for a while.

"Setting up camp across the Zhangshui can give our army more room to turn around. If the Yellow Turban thieves want to attack, they need to cross the river to attack. We can prepare for this period."

"Then what does it mean to me that the Yellow Turban thief can have the same advantage?"

Lu Zhi smiled slightly and continued to guide Guo Peng.

Guo Peng frowned, recalling Lu Zhi's movements in the past few days.

In addition to daily inspections of the military camp, Guo Peng was also required to protect him to inspect the upper reaches of the Zhangshui River. He walked along the banks of the Zhangshui River all the way to the west. After a long walk, he stopped and walked, not knowing what he was doing. Peng didn't ask, and he didn't say anything.

"The place where we camp is on a higher ground, isn't it?"

Lu Zhi gave another hint, Guo Peng was stunned for a moment, and then he made a bold speculation.

"Isn't the teacher planning to use Zhangshui?"

"How to use it?"

"Han Xin?"

Guo Peng asked tentatively, and Lu Zhi nodded with satisfaction and smiled.

Lu Zhi taught Guo Peng the art of war, and often took out actual battle examples to explain to Guo Peng. Guo Peng remembered many battle examples that occurred in his predecessors.

In the Han Dynasty, Han Xinbing and Zhang Liang were highly regarded for their tactics, and the battle cases of Han Xinbing were also the focus of Lu Zhi's narration.

Lu Zhi slowly told Guo Peng that before Guo Peng told the story, he already had a plan to defeat the enemy, and told the surrounding counties to immediately organize manpower and material resources to prepare more than 1 sandbags, which were blocked in the upper reaches of the Zhangshui River. People are ready to dig sandbags to release water at the place where the river is blocked.

It is impossible to drown the enemy army, and there is no need for that. What Lu Zhi did is just part of the deception strategy.

From cheating defeat to fighting back, you need an opportunity. Otherwise, if you lose, you will lose. The soldiers don’t know that you are cheating.

However, if Zhangshui is used to dig sandbags and let down the water while the opponent is chasing across the river, then the sudden surge of river water will cut off the path of the enemy's pursuit.

The part that has crossed the river and the part that has not crossed the river are separated, and the part that is crossing the river is washed away by the water. Such a huge momentum and reversal of the situation will give the defeated soldiers the determination to fight back.

This is the opportunity. At that time, as long as the leading generals know how to motivate morale and take the lead, they will be able to defeat the chasing soldiers who are chasing and losing the retreating army. After the chasing soldiers are eliminated, the battle situation will be reversed.

Lu Zhi and Guo Peng knew that there were no master planners who had a deep understanding of strategy and tactics in the Yellow Turban Army.

Lu Zhi was very happy that Guo Peng saw his intentions, so he asked Guo Peng to accompany him to do things, and asked Guo Peng to join him in leading the army to cross the river to attack the Yellow Turbans, and then cheated defeat, and then prepared to implement the plan.

This plan is very important. It needs the general to lead the mission in person, otherwise it will not be suitable for anyone to do it. Lu Zhi must take the lead, stay in the army, and keep abreast of the movement of the army.

The number of troops and horses dispatched cannot be too many or too few, and [-] is just right.

On the other hand, Guo Peng had to lead his cavalry team to follow Lu Zhi closely and protect Lu Zhi. In the event of an emergency, he would be Lu Zhi's last line of defense.

On April [-], Lu Zhi led his army to cross the river, leaving a force in charge of a large number of ferry boats, and then led his army to form an array on the south bank of the Zhangshui River, preparing to attack the Yellow Turbans.

As for the Yellow Turbans, Zhang Bao stayed behind in Xia Quyang, Zhang Jiao led the main force with his third brother Zhang Liang to attack everywhere. Seeing that Lu Zhi took the initiative to lead the army to attack, he immediately reorganized his troops and waited.

Zhang Jiao learned that Lu Zhi led about 1 people to attack him, and after a little thought, he ordered [-] soldiers to march out to fight.

He wants to fight a victory and wipe out Lu Zhi's troops.

At the very least, the formation of Zhangjiao can still be done quite decently. Although Lu Zhi looks a bit rough in this formation, the morale of the Yellow Turbans should not be underestimated.

Lu Zhi said to Guo Peng beside him: "Look carefully at the changes in the battle situation, watch any changes on the battlefield, our army, the enemy army, feel the changes in the momentum of the enemy and our army, this is obvious."

Guo Peng nodded, looked around, clenched the long knife in his hand, and tried to control his breathing.

Chapter 67

On the open plain, the two armies faced each other in formation, the flags were flying, the horses were neighing, and a war was about to begin.

Lu Zhi was observing Zhang Jiao's formation, and Zhang Jiao was also observing Lu Zhi's formation.

"Brother, the number of troops and horses under Lu Zhi's army is much smaller than ours, and it doesn't look as strong as expected, and the number of cavalry is not large. Let me lead the troops to battle, brother, just wait for my good news. "

Zhang Liang followed Zhang Jiao and said slowly.

In the past two months, Zhang Liang followed Zhang Jiao to sweep most of Jizhou, and he never lost a battle. Wherever he went, the Han army fled when he heard the wind, which nourished his inexplicable self-confidence, and the whole person was inflated.

Zhang Jiao didn't think so.

Ma Yuanyi's death and the revelation of his plan to rebel told Zhang Jiao that some of the people who had promised to support him had betrayed him.

He had no choice but to rebel in advance and fight for the initiative for himself, but he knew that if the other party was not prepared, he would not rashly reveal his plan.

Zhang Jiao only hated that he didn't see Tang Zhou's true face clearly. He lost the dark line in Luoyang City and his loyal Ma Yuanyi in vain. At that time, he was already in trouble and had to turn his back.

Contrary, there is still a chance of life, if not, you will surely die.

The overwhelming attack for more than two months has given him some confidence in himself, making him believe that he can achieve victory even without the support of those people.

Occupy Jizhou, occupy Hebei, even if Luoyang is not taken, you can still confront Hanting across the river.

The plan to attack Luoyang has come to nothing, and the Han court has been prepared, so Zhang Jiao has no idea of ​​continuing to attack Henan.

He worked hard to fight in Jizhou, thinking that if the worst was to be the worst, he would have to dominate the Han court and fight against the Han court. In this way, he did not waste more than ten years of preparation.

As for those believers in Henan...

Just buy time for me to dominate Hebei!

Therefore, Zhang Jiao has actually given up on overthrowing the Han court, and all he wants is to separate one side.

Therefore, he simply abandoned the Yellow Turbans in Nanyang, Yingchuan, and went all out to attack the counties and counties in Hebei, expanding the territory and strengthening the strength.

This strategy went very smoothly, and until the arrival of the Han court reinforcements Lu Zhi's department, he had not lost a single battle, and most of Jizhou had already obtained it.

Perhaps, I am also a famous general.

Zhang Jiao sometimes mocks himself like this, mocking the corruption and incompetence of the Han court.

This time, the leader of the army was Lu Zhi, a well-known Confucian general.

Lu Zhi's hometown is in Fanyang County, not far from Zhang Jiao's hometown. Zhang Jiao knows his reputation, so he is somewhat jealous of him, feeling that Lu Zhi is not as easy to deal with as those mediocre and incompetent officials.

Therefore, he did not agree to Zhang Liang's request, but led his own troops out of the camp to face Lu Zhi with an absolutely superior force.

Although he was apprehensive, he also had a sense of self-confidence. Before the battle, he boosted his morale and used the Taiping doctrine to agitate his followers and soldiers, which received a strong response from the latter.

The sound of shouting shook the sky and earth, and Zhang Jiao felt that under such power, it was unlikely that he would be defeated.

And this kind of shouting was also heard by the Han army, and the Han army soldiers showed a look of fear.

Guo Peng noticed this sign and immediately looked at Lu Zhi, but Lu Zhi didn't change his face, he pulled out the saber in his waist and swung towards the sky.

"Drumming!!!"

The sound of the war drums of the Han army suddenly sounded, and the rumbling sound of the war drums stimulated the nerves of every Han army soldier.

Then, under the leadership of Lu Zhizhong's army, the Han army shouted war horns.

The unison of the battle horns gradually weakened the fear in the hearts of the Han soldiers, and their momentum gradually increased.

The momentum must not be weak, otherwise it is easy to collapse at the touch of a battle, and at that time, it will not be possible to cheat, but it will definitely be defeated.

Defeat requires a bit of a methodical defeat, like the feeling of desperately trying to quit the battlefield after being unable to continue the fight.

There are even troops that retreat to the rear of the army and fight desperately, so it looks more like this.

Such a person needs to have a wealth of experience and command ability.

Lu Zhi wants to lead the army to execute the plan, then the deputy general will become the commander of the rear troop, and will lead the rear troop to buy time for the army to retreat until the task is completed.

The priest said that he would definitely complete the task successfully.

To be honest, such a mission is indeed a life-threatening task. With the superior strength of the Yellow Turbans chasing wildly on the top, it is possible to wipe out the entire army if one is bad, but for the overall situation, some sacrifices are necessary.

At this moment, the Han army was in strict order, and Lu Zhi erected his flag to declare his existence.

The Yellow Turbans also formed their formations and unfolded the formations. The central army erected the banners of "General Tiangong" and "General Ren Gong".

It seems that Zhang Liang is also there.

However, Guo Peng didn't have the time to think about Zhang Jiao and Zhang Liang. He was in the midst of the army, and then he saw the enemy army with twice as many troops as his own. What kind of feeling would that be?

I've never seen so many people.

It was so dark that I couldn't see the head from left to right, and I couldn't see the edge at a glance, as if there were people on the opposite side, creating a feeling of "how can we defeat so many people".

Guo Peng finally understood why the battles of winning more with less were rare in ancient times.

It is true that there are many people and great strength, not to mention confrontation, just stand there and confront each other, you can feel huge pressure, and such pressure is obviously fatal.

The drums of the Han army stopped abruptly, and the Yellow Turbans began to beat the drums and shout, and the momentum far surpassed that of the Han army.

intuitive feeling.

Guo Peng couldn't help but feel a little fear and the urge to withdraw, let alone the ordinary Han army.

Indeed, the Han army has once again shaken to some extent.

At this time, Lu Zhi was still calm, his face did not change, he raised his knife again, the Han army's war drum sounded again, the war horn shouted again, and the Yellow Turban Army shouted.

At the back, it turned into a frantic shouting formation to cover up their fears. Tens of thousands of people shouted loudly to naturally form an imposing manner, and the two sides started the first round of contest with such an imposing manner.

The result of the contest was a dead end, because everyone's throat was not very comfortable.

Zhang Liang rode on his horse and said to Zhang Jiao, "Brother, the Han soldiers are panicking. We should take the initiative to attack at this time."

Zhang Jiao nodded slowly.

"Okay, beat the drum, blow the horn, and the former army is dispatched!"

With the sound of war drums and trumpets, three infantry phalanxes and one crossbow phalanx of the front army of the Yellow Turban Army began to march. The number of people was about 5000.

As they marched, they shouted slogans, and stopped drinking at two steps, forming an extremely strong force, like a carnivorous beast rushing towards them.

This kind of power, the new recruit Danzi who is on the battlefield for the first time can't bear it, and it is easy to collapse when his legs tremble.

Collapse before the battle, or collapse at the touch of a button.

What will Lu Zhi do?

Guo Peng tightened his grip on the spear and looked at Lu Zhi.

Lu Zhi responded calmly with no expression on his face.

"Go forward!"

A short drum sounded, the flag swung, and the horn sounded.

The phalanx formed by the elite sword and shield soldiers and gunmen of the former Han army began to advance, and the bowmen, which were more numerous than the Yellow Turbans, also began to advance under the cover of the shield soldiers. When they advanced to a certain distance, the advancing The drumming stopped abruptly.

The Han army's formation stopped advancing, and the Han army's crossbowmen had already stood still, bent their bows and shot arrows, and then resolutely released arrows under the command of the officers.

The Han army was the first to attack.

Arrows poured down like rain, shooting down a large number of Yellow Turban soldiers who lacked shields and armor.

There was some turmoil in the formation of the Yellow Turbans. Zhang Jiao saw that it was not good, and immediately ordered the Yellow Turban infantry to advance at full speed, and the bowmen immediately launched a counterattack.

It is a pity that the Yellow Turbans had few bowmen, short training time, poor shooting skills, and problems with the coordination between infantry and bowmen.

Their combat skills and combat equipment are far less powerful than the elites of the Han army who are professional soldiers, and this disadvantage cannot be made up for by a two-month tailwind.

It took Guo Peng three years to train [-] cavalrymen and hundreds of infantrymen to be considered elite soldiers. How could these Yellow Turbans, who had only rebelled for two months and some had never killed anyone, be the elite opponents of the Han army?

Chapter 68 Reversal of the Situation

Although there were also many newly recruited volunteer soldiers in the Han army, most of the soldiers and horses recruited near the capital Luoyang had combat skills.

It can also be seen from the equipment that the Han army mostly wore armor. Although most of the Yellow Turbans had weapons, iron armor, shields and crossbows were really lacking. Most people just wore coarse clothes and wrapped yellow turbans.

Under several rounds of salvos from the Han army's bowmen, the Yellow Turbans collapsed and suffered a little blow.