The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

After Liu Zheng heard his scouts report the news to him, he fell into deep thought.

But Zhou Cang didn't think so.

"Shuai Qu, what are you afraid of? At the beginning, we had 6000 people, but we killed Zhu Jun's 2 people. Now that our strength has increased greatly, and we have more than 3 people under our command, are we still afraid of the imperial court's [-] troops?"

"As long as we defeat these 2 people again, the imperial court may have nothing to do with us!"

Zhou Cang didn't understand Dong Zhuo's strength, so he was not afraid of Dong Zhuo at this time.

Liu Zheng didn't take Zhou Cang's words to heart, although his current strength had greatly improved compared to before.

The 3 people, compared with the previous 6000 people, have greatly changed in terms of numbers, but these 3 people are not the same as those elites under his command before, possessing complete weapons and honed by the battlefield.

Furthermore, Zhu Jun did not have cavalry under his command, but Dong Zhuo was different. I am afraid that this time, among the 2 soldiers Dong Zhuo brought over, half of the soldiers and horses were cavalry.

"I don't know what the court will do for the time being, but Dong Zhuo's army must have come to deal with us, Pei Yuanshao."

Liu Zheng thought for a while, and immediately yelled at Pei Yuanshao.

"The end is here."

Pei Yuanshao immediately stepped forward and stood up in response.

"Go to Nanyang quickly and say hello to Zhang Mancheng, the envoy of God. He said that the imperial court has sent [-] troops to encircle and suppress us. Please send troops to support us immediately."

"Yes."

Pei Yuanshao took the order and left.

"Zhou Cang!"

"The end is here."

"Immediately dispatch five thousand troops from the city to Shangcai County. Be sure to block the footsteps of the officers and soldiers in Shangcai County first. But remember that you cannot be defeated. If the enemy is strong, I will allow you to abandon the city and escape, and come back to Runan and me. confluence."

"Yes!"

Zhou Cang then took orders to leave.

After Pei Yuanshao and Zhou Cang left, Liu Zheng didn't continue to speak, leaving Xu Huang alone in a daze.

Xu Huang became a little anxious, couldn't help but glanced at Liu Zheng angrily, and immediately asked.

"Does he handsome me? Lao Pei and Lao Zhou already have work to do, what am I doing?"

"you?"

Liu Zheng looked at Xu Huang and smiled lightly.

"Follow me, let's make a big one!"

"Make a big one? What do you mean?"

Xu Huang didn't understand what Liu Zheng's words meant, so he immediately glanced at Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng didn't explain to Xu Huang either.

Just smiled lightly.

"When Dong Zhuo's people call, you will know."

Dong Zhuo's troops came from Luoyang.And Luoyang is located not far above Yingchuan County.

Going from Yingchuan County to Luoyang is even closer than going from Yingchuan County to Runan County.

If Liu Zheng can defeat Dong Zhuo in Yingchuan County, he can even take the opportunity to attack Luoyang directly from Yingchuan. This is why Bo chose to raise troops in Yingchuan.

Bocai's initial idea was actually to surround Luoyang's imperial capital at the very beginning of the uprising. As long as he killed the outermost wave of government troops, he could directly enter Luoyang.

But this kind of thought was only in Liu Zheng's mind, and it was directly denied by himself after a flash.

Even if he can really lead people to kill outside Luoyang City, it is impossible to break into Luoyang City.

Let alone the strength of the Yellow Turban Army, when attacking the city, without enough siege equipment, it must be extremely tragic. If you want to break into Luoyang City, the walls that are more than ten feet high, just think about it. Not too possible.

And even if he could avoid the guards at the eight major passes around Luoyang and come back to King Qin, the guards near Luoyang alone would be enough for him to drink a pot.

Those imperial guards were the most elite troops around the emperor.Compared with the soldiers and horses under the three generals of Zhonglang, their strength should not be underestimated.

Moreover, there are soldiers and horses of General He Jin in Luoyang.The royal guards in the palace alone are enough to suppress the mere 3 people under Liu Zheng's command.

So Liu Zhengming knew that this was a huge temptation, so he gave up the idea of ​​attacking Luoyang.Instead, think about how to deal with Dong Zhuo, who is constantly attacking Runan in Yingchuan County.

In the following time, Liu Zheng quickly dispatched his cavalry to inquire about Dong Zhuo's activities.

Dong Zhuo didn't, and rushed to Runan City.

Maybe he knew that Liu Zheng's Yellow Turban soldiers were different from other Yellow Turban soldiers.Dong Zhuo was quite cautious, advancing step by step from Yingchuan County, and it took three days to get close to Shangcai County.

Shangcai County was not taken back by Liu Zheng's troops, but it was occupied by a group of gold remnants.

After Zhou Cang, a small group of more than 2000 people, was sent by Liu Zheng to take over Shangcai County, these Yellow Turban remnants joined Zhou Cang's command and obeyed Zhou Cang's dispatch.

Although Zhou Cang only brought 5000 people to Shangcai County.Arranging defensive measures in Shangcai County, there is no problem in dealing with Dong Zhuo's next attack.

Three days later, Liu Zheng also brought his elite troops to Shangcai County.

He didn't bring all the soldiers and horses here, but just hundreds of cavalry and a group of newly trained shooters.

Liu Zheng didn't intend to fight Dong Zhuo's men to the death in Shangcai City. Without knowing Dong Zhuo's strength, fighting to the death with the opponent was just seeking his own death.

Chapter 71 Yang Feng's Experience

And the reason why he came to Shangcai County was mainly to find out what kind of soldiers Dong Zhuo had brought this time, and what kind of strength he possessed.

Find out what's going on with Dong Zhuo first, and then make plans for the next step.

When Liu Zheng came to Shangcai County with his troops, he inquired about Dong Zhuo's situation from the scattered scouts.

Dong Zhuo came to attack Liu Zheng this time, and he did bring 2 horses.

However, the 2 horses were not allocated to him by the imperial court, but Dong Zhuo's own private soldiers raised in Hedong.

These soldiers and horses are all under Dong Zhuo's command.

Part of it was the Xiliang iron cavalry that he had brought from Xiliang and had been by his side all the time.But there are not many soldiers and horses in this part, only 3000 people.

The remaining 5000 people were the county soldiers he had raised when he was the prefect of Hedong.

The last more than 1 people were Xiangyong temporarily recruited to deal with Liu Zheng who occupied Runan City.

In short, apart from the [-] original county soldiers, only the [-] Xiliang iron cavalry were left that could pose a huge threat to Liu Zheng himself.

As for the more than 1 township braves recruited temporarily, I am afraid that they are not much different from the Yellow Turban Army under Liu Zhenghui. If they really want to fight, Liu Zheng even thinks that the Yellow Turban Army under his command is even stronger. Although the morale of his Yellow Turban Army is not good, it should still be stronger in the face of some village braves who have never been on the battlefield.

After knowing Dong Zhuo's strength, Liu Zheng's fear of Dong Zhuo was reduced a lot.

"Zhou Cang, have you found out where Dong Zhuo's troops are now?"

"Huai Qushuai, my people told me that Dong Zhuo led the people to advance very slowly, and it took three days to push to Wuyang County, the border between Yingchuan County and Runan County."

"According to Dong Zhuo's marching speed, it is estimated that it will take two days to reach our vicinity of Shangcai County."

After listening to Zhou Cang's report, Liu Zheng fell into deep thought.

Ever since he knew that Dong Zhuo's soldiers and horses had appeared near Runan County, he had already started to observe Dong Zhuo's movements.

But Dong Zhuo didn't lead people directly to attack Runan City to fight him head-on as he expected. Instead, he carefully led a large group of troops and slowly advanced towards Runan County where Liu Zheng was located.

From Dong Zhuo's actions, it is not difficult for Liu Zheng to see that Dong Zhuo is planning to destroy the remnants of the Yellow Turbans nearby first, and then come to surround and kill Liu Zheng's army in Runan City after the remnants of the Yellow Turbans nearby have been wiped out one by one.

The benefits of doing so are obvious.One is that Liu Zheng's possible reinforcements can be directly dispersed, and when a small group of Yellow Turbans are eliminated, the effective strength of the Yellow Turbans can be greatly reduced.

Secondly, a large part of Dong Zhuo's soldiers and horses are newly recruited heroes. These people have not experienced fighting on the battlefield. On the battlefield, the morale of the army is unstable, and there is a situation of rout.

It is still necessary to let them fight, train, and improve their fighting will and experience with a small group of Yellow Turbans in advance.

After all, the [-]-strong army of the Yellow Turban remnants who killed thousands of people, such a one-sided battle, can not only quickly improve the combat experience of Dong Zhuo's soldiers and horses, but also increase their morale. When they officially fight Liu Zheng's army when.

The soldiers and horses displayed are definitely not what they were when they were first recruited.

Thinking of this, Liu Zheng guessed that Dong Zhuo, a fat man, would definitely not have such brains and wisdom.

The person who can come up with such a method must be someone who has an expert around Dong Zhuo.

As for this person, Liu Zheng could guess with his eyes closed that he was probably Dong Zhuo's son-in-law Li Ru.

"We can't continue to sit and wait in Shangcai County, and continue to send troops to station here. Only the army sent by Dong Zhuo will be waiting. Take the initiative to attack. Before Dong Zhuo arrives in Runan County, let him be disarmed first."

After Liu Zheng understood Dong Zhuo's intentions, he quickly thought of a countermeasure.

"Shuai Qu, do you want to take the initiative and break up Dong Zhuo's troops first?"

After hearing Liu Zheng's words, Xu You immediately pondered for a moment with a sullen face.

"Yes, Dong Zhuo didn't intend to train recruits on his way to Runan City? Then we will give him a huge blow to this group of recruits, and make his ideas come to naught!"

"As long as you can eliminate his group of recruits first, Dong Zhuo's spirit will be severely dampened."

Liu Zheng's thinking was very clear, so Xu You naturally didn't say much, just nodded and didn't stop Liu Zheng.

After thinking about this, Liu Zheng took Huang Zhong and Xu Huang with him, and then led his 700 people, left Shangcai County, and rushed to Wuyang County.

Wuyang County.

It is not very far from Quyang County. Liu Zheng is not unfamiliar with this area. After all, when he first followed Yang Feng to support Bocai, he had been active in this area.

And here in Wuyang County, there is a group of remnant Yellow Turbans.

Originally occupying Wuyang County, the leader gathered some remnants of the Yellow Turbans, more than 3000 people, who meant to occupy the mountain as king, but after learning that Dong Zhuo's army was coming from Yingchuan, these remnants of the Yellow Turbans here simply abandoned the city Ran away.

If Liu Zheng were here, he would definitely find out that the leader of this group of Yellow Turban remnants is actually the boss he followed before, Yang Feng.

Yang Feng, after being attacked by Cao Cao in Quyang, although he fled on the battlefield, he didn't go to Bocai because his [-] soldiers were scattered by Cao Cao.After he fled, although he gathered some soldiers and horses, there were only a few hundred of them.

Using hundreds of people to seek refuge with Bocai will definitely not be taken seriously, so Yang Feng did not go to Bocai, but continued to hide in the mountains and forests of Yingchuan.

He pretended to wait for himself to gather some troops again and seek refuge with Bo Cai, but who knew that the news that he was waiting for was that Bo Cai was defeated in Changsha, so Yang Feng was even more unwilling to seek refuge with Bo Cai.

He continued to cultivate temporarily in the mountains and forests on the Yingchuan side, but it didn't take long before news spread that Bo Cai was beheaded by Huangfusong.

Bocai died, and Yang Feng gathered more than 2000 soldiers. He had no chance to go to Bocai again, so he stagnated. Later, Liu Zheng returned to Runan City and regained control of Runan City under the control of the Yellow Turban Army. hands.

Although Yang Feng heard the news, he did not go to join Liu Zheng, because Yang Feng vaguely heard that Liu Zheng and Xu Huang seemed to be his own soldiers before.

Yang Feng couldn't save face for a former big brother to join his former younger brother, so he has been occupying Wuyang City, planning to wait for the opportunity to act.

Chapter 72 Meeting

But his men stayed in Wuyang City, and within a short period of time, there was news that Dong Zhuo's army had arrived and wanted to sweep Yingchuan County again.

When the [-] army came, Yang Feng was not sure about fighting against Dong Zhuo's men, so he was able to abandon the city and escape.

Yang Feng took the [-] Yellow Turban remnants that he had accumulated with great difficulty and hid in the deep mountains and old forests. He thought he could escape Dong Zhuo's attack in this way, but this time Dong Zhuo did not intend to let them go.

Dong Zhuo's pretext was to train recruits, but after finally finding a wave of remnants of the Yellow Turbans with [-] soldiers, how could he easily let them go.

In this way, Dong Zhuo waved his hand and ordered Niu Fu to take the newly recruited [-] soldiers and horses to wipe out this wave of Yellow Turban remnants.

And when Yang Feng knew that Dong Zhuo's soldiers and horses were following them and had been tracking them.Everyone panicked.

There are only [-] Yellow Turban remnants under his command. Although these [-] soldiers are veterans who managed to survive the battlefield, they are still not enough to face Dong Zhuo's [-] troops.

At first Yang Feng thought he could fight these officers and soldiers, but who would have thought that Yang Feng's soldiers would be defeated in just one face-to-face meeting, if he hadn't run fast and escaped from Niu Fu's grasp with hundreds of remnants, Maybe this time the battle will cause the loss of his men again.

"What should Shuai Qu do? The officers and soldiers behind are chasing us, and they are only a few miles away from us. It won't be long before they can catch up with us."

After escaping from Niu Fu's grasp, the soldiers around Yang Feng looked extremely ugly, and gathered around Yang Feng anxiously, wanting to ask Yang Feng's opinion and ask Yang Feng to come up with a solution.

But what can Yang Feng do? At this time, he looked at the remnant soldiers gathered around him. More than 3000 soldiers and horses escaped from the officers and soldiers, but only 500 remained.

These four 500 people are his last strength.After a moment of silence, Yang Feng finally raised his head, with a look of determination on his face.

"Brothers, there are only two ways left for us to go, or continue to hide in the forest. With our familiarity with this forest, even if those officers and soldiers want to encircle us, it will not be so easy. Our number Not many, it is easier to hide our figure, even if the officers and soldiers enter the mountain, it is not easy to find our traces."

"The other is to seek refuge in Shangcai County, which is not far from here. I heard that a group of Yellow Turbans came over there. If we go to join that wave of Yellow Turbans, we may be able to fight against the government again under their protection. "

In fact, Yang Feng knew that most of the yellow scarf soldiers who went to Shangcai County were sent by Liu Zheng to ask Yang Feng to join Liu Zheng. A little face, what is it.

As soon as Yang Feng said what he said, he immediately got a response from the remnants of the Yellow Turbans present.

"Shuai Qu, go and seek refuge with those comrades in Shangcai County. With our little manpower, we can't compete with the official army. Only when we gather more brothers can we fight against Dong Zhuo. He died for us. Brother revenge."

A personal soldier said something to Yang Feng immediately after Yang Feng finished speaking.