The portable magic tower of the Three Kingdoms

Liu Tao knew this very well, so when he met Zou Jing for the first time, he arranged twenty scouts to go out in turn to patrol.The distance is extended to Fanyang County, which is hundreds of miles away.After all, when the thieves went north, no matter whether they entered Zhuo County from Hejian County or entered Zhuo County from Zhongshan County, Fanyang County was an unavoidable area.

Lu Yan didn't understand why he suddenly had to send people out to patrol, so Liu Tao said that he would give an early warning, and at the same time exercise some scouting horses.

This excuse, let alone Lu Yan, even Zhang Fei and Guan Yu think it is unreasonable.For general scouts, the maximum scouting range is about ten miles, and the transmission of news will be delayed any further, which is not conducive to the judgment of the general.

Fortunately for Liu Tao, not only ten miles, but a full hundred miles, it is really puzzling... It's just that he can't resist, so he can only send people out. If there is no horseshoe, which is not afraid of wear and tear, I am afraid that Lu Yan will not agree to anything.

"Can you find out clearly?" The detective cavalry came to report suddenly, which really surprised Liu Tao and Zhang Fei, and Zhang Fei immediately stepped forward to ask.

"True!" The detective quickly replied, "It doesn't look like a refugee at all. The team of the Chinese army has yellow scarves on their heads! A large army is moving towards the north like a tide. During this time, it is estimated that We've arrived near Fanyang County, so we don't seem to have any intention of going there, I'm afraid they plan to come directly to Zhuo County!"

"Strange..." Liu Tao was surprised, "If the thieves went north, they should pass through Beixincheng County. Why didn't the county magistrate over there send anyone to ask for help or warn them?"

Of course, it is also possible that the thieves really went north from Hejian County. If they started from Yi County in the north of Hejian County, they could come directly to Zhuo County without passing through Fanyang County.

From a strategic point of view, as long as Zhuo County falls, the counties in Zhuo County will inevitably be in panic. At that time, they will either fight alone or surrender obediently.It is not difficult to see that Qu Shuai, the yellow scarf thief, actually has some brains!

"The county magistrate of Fanyang may not know that the Yellow Turban Bandits have come. After all, the bandits may not have come from Fanyang County at all. Even if they receive the news later and send someone to inform them, it will probably be after tomorrow. Don't delay... No, I'll go to Colonel Zou immediately, and you immediately arrange for soldiers to assemble and prepare for battle!" Liu Tao immediately ordered that Zhuangzi was outside the city, although it was to the east, he must be the first to receive the yellow scarf The attack of the thief.

"Here!" Seeing that the enemy took the initiative to attack, Zhang Fei no longer ordered his soldiers to prepare for the expedition. Instead, he immediately prepared for battle and made preparations to meet the enemy.

The soldiers originally thought that it would take some time before they could meet the enemy.Who knew that he hadn't gone out yet, the enemy would come over first.Fortunately, apart from some chaos on the side of the heavy soldiers, Zhang Fei's Zhuang Ding was originally on the Zhanbing side. After a little confusion, he quickly got ready.

For them, their lives belong to the Zhang family. To escape is not only a deserter, but also a slave. It is death anyway. Officers are worth it!

It was just that Guan Yu considered that the enemy was hundreds of miles away, and at the same time it was getting late, and it was estimated that he would arrive in Zhuo County tomorrow or even the day after tomorrow, and it might even take the third day to launch an attack, so he explained the matter to Lu Yan.

"Well, take turns to rest tonight, it's best to keep your weapons and armor by your side, and prepare for battle as soon as you need it!" Lu Yan thought for a while, and felt that there was no need to be so nervous, otherwise the enemy didn't come, and she would put the armor on her own. I am exhausted, so how can I fight?

On the other hand, Liu Tao brought that detective to Zhuo County.At this moment, it was already the curfew time, not to mention the riots caused by the yellow turban thieves, even at the usual time, the gates of the city were closed, and the curfew was not so strict at most.

Now that Liu Tao came over, he wanted to go in, but he had to go through some formalities.Fortunately, he had a token, and it was an emergency military situation, so the guards were not easy to make things difficult for him, so they let him in within 10 minutes of checking.

Entering Zhuo County, Liu Tao arrived at the place where Zou Jing was staying at the first time, and it took some time to report. After all, Zou Jing usually started to rest at this time.

But these few days are a bit special. After Zou Jing got the "Summary of Military Training", he would recite it every day for the past few days, and at the same time make annotations based on what he saw and heard during the day. Every time he summed up, there seemed to be new discoveries, and he enjoyed it for a while.

"Huh? Come so late, I'm afraid there is something important..." Hearing the porter's report, Zou Jing was surprised at first, then realized something was wrong, got up immediately, put on his normal clothes, and went to the main hall.

"General, some time ago, I sent scouts to patrol around Zhuo County. Just a quarter of an hour ago, the scouts came back and reported that they found a large group of bandits crossing Fanyang County and heading towards Zhuo County. "As soon as Liu Tao saw Zou Jing, he immediately reported the incident.

"Really?!" Zou Jing was not calm when he heard this, and asked.

"It's true. I didn't take it seriously when I was ordered to go out for inspection. Before and after Shenshi, I saw a team from a distance, coming towards me. Curious, I went to have a look, and found that these were not like refugees. The front part They are all young and strong. Although their clothes are ragged and their weapons are not neat, they form several square formations, like an army. When you see a small one, you immediately send someone to chase after it. Fortunately, the horses are strong and they come back alive." He quickly reported what he had seen and heard.

"How many people are there?" Zou Jing was affirmed, his mood was suddenly confused, he hesitated for a moment, and continued to ask.

"I don't know, it's so dark, I'm afraid there are tens of thousands!" The detective cavalry was also not sure, if he walked slower at that time, he might be finished.Besides, it is impossible for the other party to give it to him, and slowly count it there.

"After the number reaches several thousand, the number will become blurred. It may be less than [-]..." Liu Tao thought for a while.

Don't look at what later generations say about 80 or millions of troops. In fact, after thousands of people, the scale looks very powerful. There are 20 people. If you claim to be 80 troops, others will believe it if you look at it from a distance. .

"Ten thousand is not easy to deal with!" Zou Jing was distressed. In Zhuo County, the only ones who could have the strength to fight were his original 2000 subordinates and Liu Tao's [-] militia.The county soldiers can't be counted on at all, and the recruits have no combat power.

"General, you don't need to worry!" Liu Tao thought for a while, "The enemy army may be tens of thousands, maybe [-], even [-] or [-] are fine. Most of them are civilians who have been kidnapped by the Yellow Turban Bandits, and this probably accounts for more than [-]% of the Yellow Turban Bandits. The remaining [-]% ​​are recruits who believed in the Taiping Sect and had to follow the rebellion, and only about [-]% were soldiers from the Yellow Turban bandits. But this part of the soldiers lacked weapons and armor, and there was no way for them to practice publicly before the rebellion. It’s about the level of ordinary recruits.”

In other words, even if there are 3 or even 5 Yellow Turbans who come here, only about 3000 of them are truly capable of fighting. Besides, other beliefs are not firm. Natural breakdown.

For an army of 1 people, after deducting supplies and auxiliary soldiers, there are only two to three thousand soldiers.So usually on the battlefield, if [-]% of the troops are killed in battle, a certain army will collapse. The reason is that the remaining auxiliary soldiers and heavy soldiers are really powerless.

"Yes, it should be so!" Zou Jing also realized that he had just taken it as a normal situation before, so he was a little flustered. Thinking about it carefully, it seems that the tens of thousands of yellow scarf thieves have nothing to be afraid of, "However, we must take precautions early. Just do it!"

Chapter 35

The yamen of Zhuo County, the prefect and the county lieutenant, as well as the county officials and county officials of Zhuo County, as well as Zou Jing and Liu Tao are all sitting together at this moment.

Suddenly I heard that there are tens of thousands of yellow scarves going north, and they may arrive in Zhuo County tomorrow. People deliver food.

"Tens of thousands of yellow scarf thieves are going north, are you serious?" the sheriff still asked, after all, he had never seen it with his own eyes.Moreover, before a disaster strikes, people often do not face it head-on, but subconsciously avoid it, even if it is self-deception.

The other county officials and county officials were also looking at that detective at this moment. They were watched by so many people, especially officials.

"Don't worry, just say whatever you see..." Liu Tao patted him on the back.

"Here!" After being photographed painfully on the back of the detective, he calmed down a lot and told what he saw and heard again, at the same time guaranteeing his life, it is absolutely true!

"Tens of thousands... Originally there were only a thousand soldiers in the county, plus the militia and newly recruited soldiers, the total was only seven thousand..." The prefect was really not optimistic about this war. He knew better what was going on with the county soldiers.

"The governor doesn't need to worry..." Liu Tao stood up and spoke out his theory.

"Indeed, the Yellow Turban bandits are all from common people, and their combat power cannot be compared with that of the regular army." The county lieutenant also realized this, and was a little excited. Although his soldiers were not well trained, the combat power of a group of common people was higher.

"At the same time, a large number of civilians who have no combat experience are involved. It seems that they are in a state of momentum, but in fact these people are unstable, and they will riot when they encounter a slight setback. Therefore, it is really worth noting that only the elite yellow scarves who do not exceed [-] !" Zou Jing nodded, "That's why I propose, go out of the city to fight!"

"Out of the city to fight?" After hearing Zou Jing's words, the others jumped up immediately.At this time, I am afraid that they will not be able to defend the city, so why not go out of the city to fight? !

"Listen to me!" Zou Jing shouted immediately upon hearing the words, urging everyone to be quiet, "If the thieves attack the city, they will attack the city first with the coerced civilians, and then there will be tens of thousands of thieves attacking the city, which is no different from a regular army attacking the city. We will fight very hard, and even Zhuo County may lose because of it!"

After a pause, seeing everyone's expressions relieved, he continued: "On the contrary, to go out to fight in the city, you only need to defeat the opponent's 3000 elite soldiers, and then disperse the opponent's recruits, so the people who are engulfed will be left unattended and will naturally disperse. Our enemies, in fact, only have these [-] people, so the pressure is much reduced!"

"Don't make it so simple, how to rush through the camp of tens of thousands of people and attack their central army is the most difficult thing!" The prefect is not fooled, and the risk of a frontal charge is still very high.

"But it's much easier than defending the city. As long as the coerced people know that we are not targeting them, they will definitely not try their best to resist!" Zou Jing retorted.

This is the truth. They have already been forced to attack the city. Considering that the defenders will not take the initiative to fight, and there is a supervisory team behind them, the people who are coerced can only rush forward. They only hope that the city can be taken down quickly so that Survive yourself.

But if they go out to fight in the city, then the people will know that they are not coming for them, so naturally they will not resist desperately, and they may even take the initiative to let go.Although you have to take some risks, the battle itself is not guaranteed.

"My troops charge in person!" Zou Jing knew that these guys were unreliable, so he could only rely on himself.Besides, those recruits and county soldiers, he also felt unreliable.

"General!" Liu Tao had another idea, "May I ask the general to use two thousand troops from the headquarters to restrain the recruits, and to contain the people who are being coerced for us. As for the enemy headquarters, let our militia deal with it!"

"Why is your militia more elite than my subordinates?" Zou Jing retorted. The soldiers under his command were killed at the border, and they were not at the same level as the militia that had only been practicing for a month.

"But if the general didn't come forward, how would he restrain the recruits?" Liu Tao retorted. Anyway, he didn't think that his thousand militia soldiers could make the recruits charge obediently. After all, most of them had only trained for a few days.

"Thousands of recruits are useless!" Zou Jing shook his head, it would be safer to take the risk and charge directly than to go out with restless recruits.

"The coerced people on the opposite side don't need them to be any better! Besides, they are just containment, and there is no need to fight head-to-head!" Liu Tao also has his own ideas. Thousands of recruits are better than tens of thousands of coerced people. It is also good to kill a gap and let them kill them.

"Are you really going to take the risk?" Zou Jing weighed it up after hearing the words.

"Adventures must be taken, and the risk of taking risks is much smaller than not taking risks! It's just that if the militia loses troops because of this, I hope to replenish some of the recruits!" Liu Tao also offered his price, and the sacrifice must not be in vain.

"Okay, I can promise you this! Not only that, if you can kill the enemy army, I will show you the first credit to the governor!" Zou Jing agreed without thinking.

The first contribution is not the first contribution, but the team that made the greatest contribution.Liu Tao couldn't calm down even after hearing the words!