Chapter 188: Harassment all the time
"This, this, this...what should I do?"
After getting the latest news, I learned that Huangfu Song led thousands of troops around Puyang and went directly to Cangting. Bu Si, the commander of the Yellow Turban Qu in Dongjun, couldn't help but feel a little confused.⊥
Although Dongjun does have several ferry counties that are convenient for crossing the river, such as Yanjin in the southwest of Puyang and Gaotang in the far northeastern direction, the most important thing is to cross the river from Cangting to Dongwuyang opposite the Yellow River, and then you can directly reach Qinghe Country through Yangping, Leping and Liaocheng counties.
What is Qinghe Kingdom? It is not only behind the Yellow Turbans of Guangzong, but also the strategic place occupied by the Yellow Turbans of Anping Kingdom led by Zhang Bao. It is no exaggeration to say that if Huangfu Song really attacked Qinghe Kingdom, then first of all, the Guangzong Yellow Turbans under Zhang Huang's command is in the most unfavorable situation of being attacked from both sides. In front of him is the Northern Army that still retains a certain strength, and behind him is the threat from Huangfu Song. Secondly, Zhang Bao's situation will become extremely unfavorable. No matter how steadily he controlled the territory of the three princes of Qinghe Kingdom, Anping Kingdom, and Hejian Kingdom before, his military strength has been greatly damaged, and he will most likely be Huangfu Song's opponent.
In other words, crossing the Yellow River from Cangting is the shortest and fastest route to join the battlefield in Jizhou. Once Huangfu Song invades Qinghe Kingdom, then if he wants to attack Zhang Huang, he will fight Zhang Huang, and if he wants to attack Zhang Bao, he will fight Zhang Bao, and both of them will be restrained by him. At that time, even if Zhang Huang has two "insiders" of Zhang Huang in the Northern Army, Dong Zhuo and Li Ru, it will probably be difficult to defeat the front and back attacks of the Northern Army and Huangfu Song's army, and he will not be able to defend Guangzong in the attacks of these two armies, which had become an isolated city at that time.
[Before comparing the tactics, I lost the strategy first...]
He thought to himself, and Zhang Huang also smiled bitterly.
What a punch hit the air hard, this could not describe Zhang Huang's depressed moment.
It should be like Zhang Huang stayed on the road that Huangfu Song had to pass, and was fully prepared to punch Huangfu Song. But who expected that Huangfu Song had a cold glance and walked to his door in front of Zhang Huang. He raised his foot and kicked Zhang Huang's door away. And that's not all. Judging from Huangfu Song's posture, he clearly planned to walk into the house and ruin Zhang Huang's entire house.
"Save Cangting."
After waiting for a while, Zhang Huang said to Bu Si, who was also depressed by this.
Although he was very unwilling to accept it, Bu Si also understood that the only way to give up Puyang and go to Cangting. After all, Cangting is the most convenient channel to the battlefield in Jizhou. It would not have been a difficult situation for the sake of Puyang that the entire Jizhou Yellow Turban was attacked from both sides.
"At this point, I'm afraid Huangfu Song wouldn't ask our army to rescue Cangting so easily..."
Zhang Huang agreed with this. As the saying goes, one learns from one’s mistakes. After experiencing Huangfu Song’s “crawl”, he also felt that their journey to rescue Cangting would never be so calm.
He guessed it right. When he and Bu Si gave up Puyang and led nearly 40,000 Yellow Turban troops out of the city and rushed to Cangting, the scouts who had taken the lead to explore the way forward indeed brought a rather bad news.
"A cavalry of about three hundred men?"
When Zhang Huang and Bu Si heard about this from the scout, they looked at each other. Although it was not surprising, they really deserved to know about it. They were really a little depressed.
If there is no mistake, this cavalry of about 300 people will be accompanied by them as they go to Cangting, like a lingering nightmare, making the Yellow Turban East County terrified and must be wary of this cavalry at all times.
As expected, when Zhang Huang and Bu Si led nearly 40,000 Yellow Turbans in the East County to set off, the 300-man cavalry mentioned by the scout came as scheduled, slowly following them on the flanks, neither attacking nor retreating.
What's more. When the Yellow Turbans of Dongjun rushed to the road, the cavalry also set off on horseback; when the Yellow Turbans of Dongjun stopped to rest, the group of people also set off on horseback. Judging from this situation, it seemed that they were planning to die with the Yellow Turbans of Dongjun.
"This bunch of bastards!"
Bu Si was extremely angry after traveling twenty miles and could not drive away the cavalry.
Although the 300-man cavalry was just following along the way, and there seemed to be no intention of attacking and attacking, who in the Yellow Turbans in the East County dared to take it lightly? You should know that the impact of the cavalry in the wilderness is unparalleled. As long as the Yellow Turbans in the East County reveals any flaws, then perhaps this cavalry will immediately change its seemingly harmless appearance and launch a sneak attack on the Yellow Turbans in the East County.
Many examples of winning with less and more in history made Zhang Huang dare not relax his vigilance at all. Although he had nearly 40,000 Yellow Turbans around him, once he was attacked by this cavalry without any defense, let alone 40,000, even 400,000 would probably be in danger of collapse.
Have you seen that Gan Ning, a famous general of the Eastern Wu in history, could rush into Cao Cao's 400,000 military camp in Ruxukou? Have you seen that Zhang Liao, a famous general of the Cao Wei, could rush directly into the original formation where Sun Quan was located, which was so powerful that Xiaoyaojin?
It can be seen from this that sometimes the advantages and disadvantages of the number of people will not completely determine the final victory or defeat. The lion fights the rabbit and uses all his strength! This is the way for military strategists to win!
Under Zhang Huang's indifferent gaze, Bu Si temporarily left the team with five hundred soldiers and headed for the three hundred cavalry in the distance.
As Zhang Huang expected, the three hundred cavalrymen saw Bu Si personally leading his troops to fight, and ignored them, and immediately climbed over and fled far away. When Bu Si returned to the large team angrily, the three hundred cavalrymen came back quietly and continued to follow the Yellow Turbans of Dongjun.
It's not counting that following alone, these three hundred cavalry launched charges from time to time to scare Zhang Huang and the others. For example, suddenly, these three hundred cavalry would suddenly speed up and sprint towards the Yellow Turbans of Dongjun. When the Yellow Turbans of Dongjun noticed this, the soldiers in the army subconsciously prepared for the battle, these bastards suddenly turned around and left.
For example, when the Dongjun Yellow Turbans were resting halfway and were chewing dry food, the three hundred cavalry would probably charge towards the Dongjun Yellow Turbans again. When most of the Dongjun Yellow Turbans got up from the ground in panic and hurriedly held their weapons to prepare for the battle, the three hundred cavalry suddenly turned around. Amid the gritting curses of a group of Dongjun Yellow Turbans who had accidentally knocked over the dry food pockets due to panic, they left with a laugh.
Harassment, endless harassment!
This is the absolute advantage of a light cavalry that makes the enemy infantry feel most disgusting and helpless in the wilderness!
"It's not good to continue like this!"
A cold sweat gradually oozed out of Bu Si's forehead. I remember that when he first left Puyang, he did not think that there was anything difficult for only 300 cavalrymen. As long as he was careful and did not let the other party find flaws, he believed that the 300 cavalry would not dare to easily attack an army of nearly 40,000 people. But now, after fully experiencing the power of this cavalry's harassment tactics, especially after tasting the taste of anxiety about this, Bu Si would not dare to underestimate the existence of this cavalry.
Three hundred people, just three hundred cavalrymen, can make an army of 40,000 people feel as if they are on pins and needles, as if they are on the back. Even when they are rushing down, they must occasionally glance at the cavalry in the distance. Once the opponent suddenly disappears, nearly 40,000 soldiers from the entire army will feel uneasy, especially when passing through valleys, woods and other blind spots, nearly 40,000 soldiers have to subconsciously widen their eyes, prick up their ears, pay attention to the movements around them, for fear of being suddenly attacked.
Even on the night of the first night, Zhang Huang and Bu Si arranged thousands of soldiers to patrol and guard the night, but there were still many Yellow Turban soldiers in the East County who couldn't sleep all night. They were afraid that they would suddenly appear in their sleep and beheaded by the cavalry who attacked them and died indecipherment.
[The harassment tactics of this cavalry are absolutely amazing!]
From an objective perspective, Zhang Huang couldn't help but admire the tactics used by this cavalry. After all, the opponent perfectly achieved the third essence of the guerrilla harassment tactics: "The enemy retreats, I advance, I retreat, the enemy stands, I disturb me, and I fight." With only three hundred cavalry, nearly 40,000 people in the Yellow Turbans in Dongjun could not sleep or eat.
But after all, these 300 cavalrymen only took advantage of the Yellow Turbans of Dongjun, and there was almost no advantage in the cavalry team. If Zhang Huang was given a cavalry team at this moment, there would not be too many people. Only 300 or 500 people, then the harassment tactics of the three hundred cavalry under Huangfu Song would not be able to succeed again.
"This group of bastards clearly want to drag us down!"
Bu Si said a little angry.
Because he noticed the status of his soldiers, he was depressed and his morale was low. Thinking about it, it was fine if he was frightened during the day, but he would have to suffer insomnia due to the three hundred cavalry at night. It can be imagined how good the nearly 40,000 Yellow Turban soldiers in the East County could be.
"If this continues, even if we arrive at Cangting, our army will be just a tired army and will not be able to immediately enter the battlefield to fight Huangfu Song!" Bu Si turned his eyes to Zhang Huang. He hoped that the little Tianshi, who had created a miracle in the battlefield in Jizhou, could stand up at this moment and give them a clear path.
"Don't be anxious." Zhang Huang looked at Bu Si and smiled and comforted, "Do you think the other party is not tired?... In fact, they are also tired."
"So what?" Bu Si frowned and said, "It is definitely a sure-making deal to drag down my nearly 40,000 troops by just three hundred cavalry!"
This is true, Zhang Huang also admitted this, but he had his own plans.
"Put the soldiers and rush on the road as planned... No, speed up the process!"
"..." Bu Si looked at Zhang Huang in shock when he heard this. You must know that the soldiers under his command were already very tired. If you speed up the process at this moment, it would have killed the lives of the soldiers under his command.
"Believe me!" Zhang Huang patted his shoulder and comforted him.
"……yes!"
On that day, under Zhang Huang's order, the Yellow Turbans in Dongjun rushed for an additional twenty miles, which was definitely good news for the 300 cavalrymen who were always paying attention to the progress of the Yellow Turban Army's daily journey.
After all, more travel means that the Dongjun Yellow Turban will become more tired and the more sleepy you will be at night. If you harass them at this time, the better the effect will be.
Even if you try to sneak attack and take a look, it’s okay! (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
Chapter completed!