The Empress came ashore and beheaded the meritorious officials, forcing me to wear the yellow robe

One hundred thousand people! Zuo Santong's troops are said to have an army of one hundred thousand!

Even if there were 100,000 pigs, it would take the barbarians three days and three nights to catch them. How could they be defeated so quickly?

Why? Why?

The empress rushed out of the Yangxin Palace like a madman, stood in front of the soldier who reported the news, and shouted loudly: "Where did you get this information? Who saw Zuo Santong defeated?"

Whose servant is the soldier who came to report the news?

Of course it couldn't be Zuo Santong's people. He only reported good news and not bad news. How could he send someone to tell the court that he had been defeated?

That’s right! The person who sent the urgent message, which traveled eight hundred miles, was Li Yuanlu, the prefect of Quzhou City.

Li Yuanlu was also unlucky. He was a civil servant but not part of the civil servant group! He disdained to form cliques with Ye Xianggao and his group of civil servants, so he was sent to Quzhou to serve as the prefect.

Where is Quzhou?

The Imperial Mausoleum! What good job can it be to look after the Imperial Mausoleum? It's like being exiled!

Li Yuanlu didn't care. Instead, he felt it was quite good to be able to stay away from the intrigue of the court and focus on governing the people and writing articles.

Yet, history has pushed such a clear-minded person to the forefront.

The barbarians are coming!

In order to "besiege and attack the reinforcements", the barbarian prince Lao Liu actually attacked the Quzhou Imperial Mausoleum.

Instead of waiting for Li Jize and his Beiliang Wolf Cavalry, they waited for Zuo Santong's army.

Bochijin fought a battle of wits and courage with the "air", while Zuo Santong was afraid of death and just ran along throughout the whole process.

The two sides set up their own camps and engaged in internal conflicts.

On the first night, Li Yuanlu refused to sit idly by and wait for death. He sent a messenger secretly out of the city to contact Zuo Santong. Tonight at midnight, he would organize a death squad to break out of the city, hoping that Zuo's troops would cooperate and attack the barbarians from both sides.

Even if we cannot win a complete victory, we can make the barbarians pay the price.

But Zuo Santong refused because our troops had just arrived, were tired and exhausted, and were not familiar with the terrain!

The next day, Li Yuanlu sent someone to invite him again, but Zuo Santong refused again.

This happened three times in a row. Li Yuanlu knew that if he continued to waste time, he would surely die!

He no longer expected Zuo Santong's help, and led the team himself to launch a night attack on the barbarian camp that night.

have to say……

In this battle, Li Yuanlu led the troops personally. As a civil servant, he actually took up his knife and went into battle himself, which gave great encouragement to his men.

Unfortunately, even though they caught the barbarians off guard at the beginning, they did have a certain advantage.

But how many people are there in Quzhou City?

After the barbarians were in a panic, Bochijin quickly organized his troops to counterattack and pushed Li Yuanlu's men back.

From beginning to end, Li Yuanlu watched Zuo Bu motionlessly, watching the fire from the other side of the river.

He truly experienced the feeling of "wanting to kill the enemy but being powerless to do anything about it".

It's over! It's over! Quzhou City is beyond saving.

Sure enough, the failure of the night attack made Bochijin suspicious.

Why didn't Zuo Santong's troops attack them in such a chaotic situation? Could it be that the enemy had set up a false camp? Had the main force already entered the city, or perhaps they had bypassed them again?

Facts have proved that the "Empty City Strategy" is really just a fiction and is basically impossible to achieve in reality.

Old Zhuge was playing the qin on the city wall, and the gates were open. Old Sima said, "Zhuge is full of tricks, there must be something fishy going on here!"

Then, the order to withdraw was given!

The soldiers: “???”

What I mean is, he is alone on the city wall, can we send a sharpshooter to shoot him down?

Even if there really is an ambush in the city, can you send a few people in to take a look? If there is an ambush, only a few scouts will die!

There was only one way the Empty City Plan could succeed! Sima Yi, like Zuo Santong had done to Li Zhenbei, was keeping the enemy at bay for his own safety! He knew that even if he killed old Zhuge Liang, he would also be killed by the Cao family.

and so……

How did Zuo Santong realize that it was not that he was so clever and was just trying to use the empty city plan, but that he was at his wit's end?

Because among the barbarian generals, there was a rough guy who was hot-headed and not afraid of death and asked to lead the team to try the challenge personally.

Although Bo Chijin was worried that his men would never return, this was war, and kindness was not the way to command an army! How could kindness accomplish anything great?

Thus, this man named "Bigler" was about to achieve the title of the first barbarian bater (warrior).

Day 4, early morning!

Bigler gathered two hundred knights, slaughtered pigs and sheep, and before setting off, Bochijin toasted the two hundred warriors in front of all the soldiers of the three armies.

because……

These two hundred barbarian warriors are about to complete the barbarian version of "King Qin Li Jize".

The difference is that Li Jize used 3,000 Beiliang wolf cavalry to break through the camp of the 100,000-strong barbarian army and directly chased after the barbarian Khan's central army camp.

This time, what Bigler had to accomplish was to use two hundred cavalrymen to attack the Zuo Santong unit of the Qi army, which was said to have 100,000 men!

Which one is more difficult?

It’s really hard to compare!

After all, it is really hard to compare the combat effectiveness of the barbarians and the Qi army.

At sunrise, as the sun rose in the east, Bigler's two hundred cavalrymen set out.

These two hundred men were the blade, with fifty heavily armored soldiers as the blade heads, and one hundred and fifty rangers as the two wings to directly attack Zuo's troops.

Heavy armored soldiers all wear three layers of heavy armor!

A layer of shuttle armor inside, a layer of cotton armor in the middle, and an iron armor outside. Wearing this, not only ordinary bows and arrows, but even a frontal shot with a musket would not be able to penetrate.

Of course, the heavy cavalry is mainly responsible for taking damage and attracting firepower, and the real output is caused by their approximately 150 rangers.

The barbarians have been a nation that grew up on horseback. Their most famous tactic has never been hard steel, but cavalry, which is what later generations commonly call "kite flying"!

Cavalry and infantry without good archery skills will basically be beaten! Even if you have a numerical advantage, they will resort to kite-flying tactics and directly kill you.

But this time, there's no retreat! No kites!

Bochijin and his subordinates had already prepared to "mourne" for Bigler and were prepared for the possibility that their two hundred people would not come back alive.

But what happened next...

It simply shattered all of their perspectives!

A hundred thousand troops! A hundred thousand troops from the Sabu!

Even when they were still sleeping in the morning, the barbarians had already attacked the camp. When they heard the sound of horse hooves, roars and screams, they realized that the barbarian cavalry had entered the camp.

The reaction of the Zuo army was also shocking. Instead of shouting to each other and organizing a counterattack, they shouted loudly, "The barbarians are coming! The barbarians are coming to kill us!"

Then, they fled and trampled on each other. The two hundred barbarian cavalrymen were like entering an empty land, killing their way through the entire camp of Zuo's army.

Where is the coach, Zuo Santong? Why didn't he organize a resistance?

A! When he heard that the barbarians had entered the camp, he ordered his retainers and private soldiers to escort him and fled.

afterwards……

After capturing the prisoners, Prince Six, Bo Chijin, whose worldview was shattered, interrogated them and got a result that made him laugh and cry.

God bless you! We've all been fooled by that idiot Zuo Santong.