Chapter 460: The Stories of the Dragon (Part 2)
Chapter 459: The Stories of Dragon Stripping (Part 2)
"What the **** is Huang Chao doing? After so long, he has not solved a small Song Jiang. Even if Liangshan is not strong, he can''t be so slack."
Xiang Yu couldn''t help but blame Huang Chao for coming, believing that the existence of Liangshan was the reason why Huang Chao was slack, but he didn''t know about Huang Chao''s trouble.
With the Yellow Turban power in Qingzhou, it is not difficult to eliminate Liangshan, but it cannot withstand that Zhang Jiao always draws elite troops from Qingzhou, so that the "bandit suppression" matters are always delayed.
Huang Chao finally trained an elite soldier, but before he could use it to suppress bandits, he was transferred to Sizhou by Zhang Jiao. Therefore, no matter how strong Huang Chao''s ability is, it is impossible to wipe out Liangshan with just one group of new recruits.
However, under the continuous encirclement of the Yellow Turbans, Liangshan struggled to train an elite naval army, which also gave the Han army all the conditions to attack Mengjin, and of course it was still very difficult to win.
Suddenly, Xiang Yu seemed to have thought of something, breathed a sigh of relief, and smiled, "The Han Dynasty''s mechanisms were all calculated but a little missed, that is, it is impossible for the Liangshan bandits to break through Mengjin Pass, and the Han army did not have any extra military support, so this situation of trapping dragons was impossible."
Mengjin Pass is different from Dagu Pass. Since the two Hebei prefectures in the north have not been taken down, the Yellow Turbans have placed a large number of defenders in Mengjin in order to prevent the Han army from invading Sizhou in the two prefectures.
Although Liangshan''s naval army was brave, it was impossible to capture Mengjin Pass, which was almost flawless with Song Jiang''s strength.
Everything Xiang Yu said was logical. Then the "Dragon Trap" was Guiguzi''s calculation. Could it be carried out according to normal logic?
Guiguzi turned his back to Xiang Yu and said lightly: "Who said the Han army has no extra troops? Isn''t Huangfu Song''s 100,000 army not the Han army?"
Xiang Yu immediately said as soon as he heard this, "It is impossible. Huangfu Song was restrained by Zhang Bao''s 200,000 army. How could he attack Mengjin? Unless... could he...?"
Xiang Yu widened his eyes and thought of another possibility, that is...
"That''s right, before you were defeated, Zhang Bao was defeated by Huangfu Song. Now Huangfu Song should have led his troops to Mengjin."
Just the day before the Han River Battle, the Battle of Changshe also started, so Xiang Yu naturally didn''t know.
In the Battle of Changshe, Huangfu Song adopted Han Xin''s plan, first burning Changshe and then launching a general attack, not only breaking through the blockade of 200,000 Yellow Turbans, but also destroying more than 100,000 Yellow Turbans in one fell swoop.
After this battle, the Yellow Turbans in Jizhou were basically crippled, and several people were killed in the battle, including Deputy Commander Zhang Xianzhong.
Zhang Xianzhong was really miserable. As the first anti-king, he met Qin Wen in the first battle to enter the world.
It was a battle with great advantages, but as the right-hand man, Sun Kewang died in battle, and Li Dingguo was also captured and surrendered. Zhang Xianzhong has since become the commander of the bare commander.
Zhang Xianzhong was the anti-king king in the late Ming Dynasty. Even though he was alone, he still became the senior executive of the Yellow Turbans. He also recruited a lot of talents with his identity as the coach of Qu. Of course, there was no one who could compete with Li Dingguo.
After the defeat in the Battle of Changshe, Zhang Xianzhong led his troops to break out, but who would have met Han Xin who had been ambushed a long time ago.
With thousands of arrows at once, Zhang Xianzhong was shot into a sieve and became the first anti-king to die in battle.
Zhang Bao, who was also seriously injured, handed over the military power to Dou Jiande, and the Yellow Turbans had only 60,000 to 70,000 remaining troops in Jizhou, so he naturally was unable to stop Huangfu Song from leading the army south.
After listening to Guiguzi''s narration, Xiang Yu couldn''t believe it was true.
Two or three days ago, the Yellow Turban seemed to be in a state of unification.
But after two or three days, the 600,000 troops from both north and south were defeated by flooding and fire attacks.
The last 800,000 army is about to be trapped and killed in Sizhou. This is too... "Damn it, is Han Xin the reincarnation of Huaiyin? Such a general helps the Han Dynasty, so many talents." Xiang Yu said unwillingly, but he still couldn''t understand one thing.
800,000 troops are not small numbers. After learning that they were trapped in Sizhou, they would definitely break through desperately, and the Yellow Turbans in the Kanto states would definitely not ignore them.
So even if the Han Dynasty regained the four gates of Sizhou, how could it block the two sides of the Yellow Turban attack?
Another point is that Sizhou''s cage is too big, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a new world. Can it really trap 800,000 Yellow Turbans?
Xiang Yu knew that he had missed the most important point, because the great man could not do useless work, but after thinking hard, he still couldn''t remember it, and his face turned red in a hurry.
"What exactly is missing? The Han army paid such a great price, it is impossible for them to be impossible to imagine." Xiang Yu said anxiously.
Seeing this, Guiguzi smiled and reminded: "Food and grass."
Xiang Yu suddenly realized and finally figured out the key.
Since the Yellow Turban attacked Sizhou, it seems that the total grain and grass seized did not exceed 10,000 stones, and all the private grain storage was collected by the Han Dynasty.
The big man''s actions did not attract the attention of others except Zhang Liang. After all, it is normal not to leave supplies to the enemy in life and death.
Xiang Yu didn''t care at that time, after all, the Yellow Turban had a grain warehouse of tens of millions of stones in Yanzhou, so he was not worried about the shortage of food and grass.
But if you cooperate with this trapped dragon situation, then the problem will be big.
Once the connection between Sizhou and Yanzhou is cut off, Yanzhou''s grain cannot be transported. Once the basic military grain storage in Sizhou is exhausted, the three million people and the eight hundred thousand troops of Sizhou will face a situation where there is no food to eat.
By then, Sizhou, which has no food to be repaid, will not only not become a support for the Yellow Turbans, but will instead become a resistance.
After all, three million people have to eat. If the Yellow Turbans are not given, the people can only resist in order not to starve to death.
But if it is given, how can the Yellow Turban break the cage when military rations are insufficient?
The Yellow Turbans are not without the power to fight back, but in the severe cold climate, the difficulty of siege is more than doubled, not to mention that they have to face the situation of no food and grass inside.
The most important thing is, will Zhang Jiao watch the people of Sizhou and the Yellow Turban Army starve to death?
Based on Xiang Yu''s understanding of Zhang Jiao, Zhang Jiao may order surrender to the Han Dynasty when there is no hope of breaking through and no food is left waiting for death.
As soon as she thought of this, Xiang Yu couldn''t help but take a breath. What a huge and terrifying plan this was.
Taking the entire Sizhou as the cage, the eight passes of Luoyang as shackles, the climate and the people as sharp blades, and even the people have considered it, it is to capture the 800,000 Yellow Turban Army of Sizhou in one fell swoop.
Under such a series of calculations, where does the Yellow Turban have a future?
"Who came up with such a vicious plan? This person deserves to die."
Seeing Xiang Yu gritting his teeth, Guiguzi touched his nose awkwardly.
Guiguzi even suspected that if he told Xiang Yu that he was the maker, Xiang Yu might ignore his life-saving grace and directly dismantle his old bones.
?The pit has been filled, and the final decisive battle will be the last one. The pace may be a little fast, and the secondary plot will not be described in detail. We strive to write the most exciting battle for hegemony as soon as possible.
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(This chapter ends)