The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

After all, once there is an army doctor like Zhang Zhongjing, the probability of casualties for the two thousand Yellow Turbans under his command will be greatly reduced.

After realizing that the other party was Zhang Zhongjing, Liu Zheng was not in a hurry. Using his injury as an excuse, he asked Zhang Zhongjing to stay here for a few days and take care of his injury at any time.

Zhang Zhongjing didn't refuse either. After all, he was very smart and knew that it was useless to refuse, so Xu Huang quickly took him down and settled down.

Although Liu Zheng hadn't publicly become the leader of the two thousand Yellow Turbans in Quyang City, with Xu Huang's approval, those Yellow Turbans had privately regarded Liu Zheng as the talker.

After Zhang Zhongjing left, Liu Zheng approached Xu Huang, wanting to discuss with him about the last battle with Cao Jun.

"Brother Xu Huang, how about our casualties in the last battle with Cao Cao?"

Because Liu Zheng fainted last time, in the end he didn't know what the final battlefield statistics were like.

So Liu Zheng wanted to know something about Xu Huang.

"After you fell into a coma, Cao Jun withdrew. The exact whereabouts are unknown. Presumably, he must have gone to the Changshe. The personnel on our side did not suffer much damage. After all, Cao Jun's arrows did not hit us hard. Only seven people died. Eight brothers, but more than 100 were injured."

Xu Huang roughly told Liu Zheng about the results of the battle, and when Liu Zheng found out that his soldiers and horses were not too damaged, he had a general understanding in his heart.

But later Xu Huang told him that they actually got some war horses during the battle with Cao Cao.Liu Zheng became happy in his heart.

"In the battle with Cao Cao, although we didn't lose many people, we have already seen from the side that our personnel are inferior to Cao Jun in terms of equipment and personnel quality. Our manpower is definitely not Cao Jun's opponent, but the good news is that when Cao Cao retreated, he left behind a lot of horses in a hurry."

"What! Are you talking about the war horses left behind by Cao Jun's tiger and leopard riders?"

When Liu Zheng heard Xu Huang say that Cao Jun left some war horses behind when he retreated, he immediately felt a little surprised.

"Ah."

"how many!"

War horses are high-level strategic materials in this era.In many cases, these things are all under the control of the government.Ordinary people can hardly touch it, especially in places like the south where war horses are even rarer.

Like Liu Zheng's Yellow Turban Army, the army of thousands of people has only a few dozen horses.

Moreover, these war horses are all short-footed horses that are not too strong, and they are the spoils that Yang Feng led these Yellow Turbans to rob the officers and soldiers.

Now Liu Zheng was quite surprised when he heard from Xu Huang that they got a lot of war horses in Cao Cao's battle.

"I didn't calculate the exact number, but the people under my command reported that there should be more than 100 horses. When Cao Jun came over, he originally had seven to eight hundred people, all of whom were cavalry. However, when they withdrew, many of them died in the attack. During the battle in the city, the horses of those cavalry fled in all directions, and later our people captured those horses!"

The war horses at this time can equip Liu Zheng and the others with a cavalry like Cao Jun.

So after Liu Zheng heard what Xu Huang said, he immediately thought of an excellent idea, and immediately said something to Xu Huang.

"Brother Xu Huang, I have an important matter that I want to entrust to you!"

"What's the matter? Brother Liu Zheng, you just said it's okay, as long as I, Xu Huang, can do it, I will definitely not refuse!"

Chapter 10 Cavalry Squad

"When I was on the tower before, I saw that your archery skills are extraordinary. I would like to invite you to choose some people with good archery skills from the more than 2000 Yellow Turbans, or those who are familiar with riding skills to serve as the cavalry we are about to form."

After seeing the power of cavalry under Cao Cao's command, Liu Zheng understood that in this troubled world, ordinary infantry had no ability to fight back against cavalry. The army is necessary enough.

In the past, he had no ability and could only play the role of miscellaneous soldiers under Yang Feng's men. He couldn't protect himself, so how could he possibly think about the dream of forming an army and striving for world hegemony.

But it's different now. After Yang Feng disappeared, the Yellow Turban soldiers here seemed to be headed by him. He was able to govern these Yellow Turban soldiers and form his own forces. It became necessary to train a strong enough soldier.

At first, Liu Zheng didn't expect Xu Huang to say that they now have more than 100 war horses, but he just wanted to ask Xu Huang to find some people who can shoot arrows to form a team of archers, which can suppress the cavalry to a large extent.

But now after hearing Xu Huang say that he has a group of war horses under his command.Liu Zheng's ambition became even greater. He also wanted to form cavalry, even if it was just the worst cavalry, it was much better than infantry.

"Form cavalry?"

When Xu Huang heard Liu Zheng's words, he looked very confident just now, but now he showed a little surprise.

"Brother Liu Zheng, forming a cavalry is not just about having a few horses. If ordinary people don't know how to ride a horse, it is difficult for them to successfully ride on a horse. Even if they can barely ride, they may not be able to ride on a horse." Fight. It takes at least three months to train a cavalry."

Liu Zheng understands Xu Huang's words, but this issue is not something he can consider now.

"It doesn't matter, Brother Xu Huang, we don't need this cavalry to fight. You first choose a group of people, preferably those who can ride horses and archery. If it is really not possible, let's focus on horse riding. Choose a hundred men, form a small troop of cavalry, teach them how to ride horses first, and then figure out how to fight on horseback.”

"Well, since you said so, I will do as you said."

How Liu Zheng's idea will be implemented is currently unclear to Liu Zheng himself, but he has already handed it over to Xu Huang, and it will be known in the future what it can be done.

But in the past few days, Liu Zheng has no time to take care of other things. While he needs to recover from his injuries, he has to train the more than 2000 yellow scarves under his command here.

Liu Zheng lay on the bed for two days. After his injury got better, he was unwilling to continue lying on the bed, and joined Xu Huang's recruitment of soldiers and horses.

Xu Huang is still good at picking soldiers, and now these Yellow Turban soldiers in Quyang City.In fact, they were selected after repeated battles.

Who can escape from Cao Jun's command to Quyang City is the old, weak, sick and disabled.The Yellow Turban soldiers who can come here are considered the elite of the Yellow Turban Soldiers, and they are the elites of the two Yellow Turban soldiers, Yang Feng and Guo Tai.

In addition, most of these Yellow Turban soldiers are farmers or hunters. Some of them come from poor families, and many of them are physically strong. Many of them can also do some archery. As for riding horses, few people know how to ride horses, but Xu Huang still chooses from among these people. Dozens of people who could ride horses and shoot arrows were selected to form the first wave of cavalry that Liu Zheng wanted to build.

Back then, Cao Cao was able to select a group of people from the Qingzhou Yellow Turban soldiers to form a powerful Qingzhou soldier. Liu Zheng can also use the current more than 2000 Yellow Turban soldiers to select and gather 100 people to form his cavalry squad.

Although the first wave of selection failed to gather 100 people.But with Xu Huang, who is good at riding horses, it is not difficult to teach these yellow scarf soldiers to ride horses in just a few days.

So Xu Huang selected some young and middle-aged men to join Fengyun's cavalry team. In the next few days, Xu Huang was busy teaching these people how to ride horses.

And Liu Zheng himself was not idle, he first followed Xu Huang to practice horseback riding here for a few days.After almost mastering it, I wanted to find some blacksmiths in Quyang City.

After Liu Zheng inspected these cavalry in the past few days, he found that although these cavalry could be formed in a short time, they did not have enough armor and weapons, and they did not have much effect on the battlefield.

So he wanted to find some blacksmiths to make a batch of weapons, but to his disappointment, there was not a decent blacksmith in Quyang City.

This can't be blamed on Liu Zheng's incompetence, but the profession of blacksmiths was rare in the Three Kingdoms period. Where will I wait for Liu Zheng?

No blacksmith was found, and Liu Zheng didn't give up. He could just find some wooden sticks and whittle them into wooden spears, which could still be used as weapons.

Due to limited conditions, Liu Zheng can think of not many weapons.

He ordered people to find two-finger thick trees near Quyang City, about 1.5 meters long, with one end sharpened, and use these trees to make javelins.

After experiencing the battle on the Quyang City Tower, Liu Zheng has realized the power of the javelin. When everyone can't use arrows, this kind of javelin is not particularly long, and it is not made of iron. It is not particularly heavy in weight. If you go out, the distance is not short.

If you have more strength, you can also project a dozen or 20 meters.Although the distance is not as long as the arrow, but the lethality is better than the arrow.

The cavalry formed by Liu Zheng really does not expect them to be able to practice riding and shooting on the battlefield.Therefore, equipped with a few javelins for long-distance projection may be able to play some unexpected roles.

It took several days for Xu Huang to teach these cavalry to practice riding, while Liu Zheng taught them how to use these javelins and how to use them to throw Zheng.After a few days, the cavalry has also trained well, and it can barely be pulled out to show off.

At the same time, news finally came from Changsha.

Sure enough, as Liu Zheng expected, Changshe fought against Shangbo Caijun, and Huangfu Songzhonglang general used fire tactics to surprise him.

The 20 Yellow Turban Army suffered heavy losses. Not only did Changshe City be breached, but Daqu Shuai Bocai also fled in embarrassment, fleeing to Runan with the only remaining troops.

When the news reached Quyang City, it was already a few days later.Xu Huang hurriedly came to Liu Zheng's room from the school grounds and found Liu Zheng.

"Brother Liu Zheng, something is wrong. There is news from the Changshe that Bocai Daqushuai returned from the Changshe after a big defeat with heavy losses."

Chapter 11 Where to go

After Liu Zheng heard the news, his face was not moved in the slightest.It seems that this result has long been expected.

"Brother, now you know why I don't want to take you to Changshe to support Bocai Qushuai."

Xu Huang was shocked and blurted out.

"It turns out that you have already guessed the result!"

Liu Zheng nodded.

"The reason why Commander Bo Caiqu was able to kill many officers and soldiers along the way, and the soldiers and horses swept across the entire land of China was not because of the strength of Commander Bo Caiqu, but because the officers and soldiers were defenseless. Now the three major Zhonglang will respond Come here, the men under Yibo Caiqu's command are not much different from Yang Feng Guo Tai and his like, so they are definitely not the opponents of the three great Zhonglang generals!"

"Now Bocai Qushuai is newly defeated, what should we do next?"

Xu Huang lost his mind for a while. Although they had more than 2000 Yellow Turbans here, compared to the overall situation, these 2000 people were nothing.

Recently, when Xu Huang and Liu Zheng stayed together, Liu Zheng guessed many things correctly, so in Xu Huang's heart, he already regarded Liu Zheng as a very smart person.

When encountering such a thing, he would usually seek advice from Liu Zheng.

"If my predictions are correct, Bocai should retreat towards Runan. If we don't want to be swept away by the officers and soldiers, we must rush to Runan in the shortest possible time. The Yellow Turban Army that joins in Runan may still be able to fight with us. The officers and soldiers made the last wave of resistance."

The Yellow Turban Army in history was defeated by Bocai in Changshe, which caused the morale of the Yellow Turban Army to plummet. The whole group began to go downhill. One after another failed in battles. , from now on to the end.

But even though Bocai failed at Changsha, things haven't reached the worst point yet.It is only necessary to block the attack of the official army on the road from Yingchuan to Runan, and the Yellow Turban Army may not fail so quickly.

Although the possibility of blocking the official army is very small, Liu Zheng still wants to try it. If it succeeds, it will be a good thing for him.

"Let's go to Runan and meet Bocai!"

With Liu Zheng's decision, Xu Huang didn't seem to have any objections, and he also understood that it was impossible to compete with the official army with the more than 2000 miscellaneous troops in their hands.

The only way out is to join the big army. Only by getting together with the big army can we gather the energy of the small team and gather strength to compete with the official army.

After deciding to abandon the city and go south, Xu Huang quickly reorganized his staff and took away those who should be taken away, and those who could not be taken away were not burned down with a fire, but just abandoned.

Liu Zheng also brought people to the residence of Zhang Zhongjing and Zhang Muyu.

"Mr. Zhongjing, we may have to leave Quyang City."

"Leave? Where are you going?"

Liu Zheng came to Zhang Zhongjing's residence and said something to Zhang Zhongjing respectfully.He wanted to ask Zhang Zhongjing to go with him.

But he knew that with Zhang Zhongjing's character, he would definitely not join their Yellow Turban Army, so Liu Zheng didn't come here with the idea of ​​asking Zhang Zhongjing to join their Yellow Turban Army, but wanted Zhang Zhongjing to be his personal physician to accompany him to treat him. arrow wound.

Liu Zheng spoke, but Zhang Zhongjing didn't answer him.

On the contrary, Zhang Muyu, a girl next to Zhang Zhongjing, asked Liu Zheng curiously.

"It should be to Runan. After all, the leaders of our Yellow Turban Army will meet in Runan. Only a small army like mine can survive in this troubled world if we go to join the big army."

Facing the girl's inquiry, Liu Zheng did not lie, but told the truth.

If he wanted to win over Zhang Zhongjing and wanted Zhang Zhongjing to be his military doctor, he had to be honest with Zhang Zhongjing. Only when he was honest with each other could Zhang Zhongjing recognize him.

Zhang Zhongjing could not recognize the Yellow Turban Army, but Liu Zheng hoped that Zhang Zhongjing would recognize him.He represents himself, not the Yellow Turban Army. Liu Zheng's favorability and recognition for the Yellow Turban Army is also not high. The reason why he is still in the Yellow Turban Army is just to protect himself.

"It's a good thing for you to leave here, after all, the officers and soldiers will call back at any time."

Zhang Zhongjing didn't know if he was pretending to be stupid, as he didn't seem to understand the meaning of Liu Zheng's words.

Liu Zheng spoke more bluntly again.

"Mr. Zhongjing, I would like to ask you to follow us to Runan. I don't want to coerce you, but because my injury is not completely healed. I hope you can take care of my injury along the way."

"I'm afraid there is something wrong with this."

Zhang Zhongjing can be called a medical saint, so he is naturally a smart person.Saying this now is actually considering his own safety.

If he really agreed to Liu Zheng and left Quyang City with the Yellow Turban Army, most of the officers and soldiers would think that Zhang Zhongjing had joined the Golden Rebels, and when the Yellow Turban Army was destroyed, Zhang Zhongjing would not be able to escape the crime.

But Zhang Zhongjing couldn't control Liu Zheng's personal character, and the reputation of the Yellow Turban Army was really bad. Zhang Zhongjing was also worried that if he refused Liu Zheng, he would be killed by Liu Zheng in a fit of anger. It was not good for a while. Rejection can only show such a hesitant look.

Liu Zheng knew what Zhang Zhongjing was worried about, so when Zhang Zhongjing expressed doubts, he immediately said something from Zhang Zhongjing again.

"Mr. Zhongjing, you don't need to worry. I am not forcing you to join the Yellow Turban Army. I just want you to take care of my injuries. Once I get better in Runan, I will let you go. You can stay or stay as you please. I will never stop."

Liu Zheng was sure again that he would not hurt Zhang Zhongjing, and the expression on Zhang Zhongjing's face eased a little.

However, his expression was relaxed, but he didn't intend to promise Liu Zheng to go to Runan.

Fortunately, Zhang Muyu, the girl next to Zhang Zhongjing, said something at this time.Zhang Zhongjing immediately changed his mind.

"Sir, we have stayed in Quyang for a long time. It's time to visit other counties and counties. Don't you want to collect some typhoid symptoms? Now that the Yellow Turban Army will go to Runan, there will definitely be a large number of patients there. If we go, there may be diseases such as plague, and if we go there, we may collect some patients that we have not seen before."

What the girl said made Zhang Zhongjing's eyes light up.

"Xiaoyu, you are right. It seems that we really need to go to Runan."

Zhang Zhongjing didn't agree to Liu Zheng's repeated requests. On the contrary, Zhang Muyu persuaded Zhang Zhongjing to let Liu Zheng, who was standing by the side, take a high look at this clever girl immediately.

Liu Zheng gave the girl a grateful look, and happened to see the girl looking at him at this time.

There is a hint of pride in the eyes.

Liu Zheng didn't think too much, but immediately asked Zhang Zhongjing and the girl to prepare and set off for Runan immediately.

Chapter 12 Robbery

The uprising of the Yellow Turban Army was so powerful that states and counties all over the country responded.

But there are only three places that can really make a lot of noise and have a huge impact on the officers and soldiers.

The Yingchuan and Runan Yellow Turban Army headed by Bocai.The Nanyang Yellow Turban Army led by Zhang Man, and the Jizhou Yellow Turban Army led by the three brothers Zhang Jiao.Although there were responses from other places, they did not cause much disturbance.