There are two flowers, one on each branch.

However, it was said that after Chen Xu and others left Guangzong, on the third day, the Tiangong General of the Yellow Turban Army had died of illness.

After the news spread, the entire Guangzong cried and shook the sky, and the Yellow Turban Army and the people automatically wore filial piety for the deceased great sages and good teachers.

However, from that moment on, it seemed that Huang Tianzhen had abandoned the Yellow Turban Army he loved.

On the second day of Zhang Jiao's death, more than 1,000 Yellow Turban soldiers from Qiu County came to Guangzong, bringing the bad news that Qiu County was lost and more than 8,000 Yellow Turban troops were killed in battle.

It turned out that since the Yellow Turban Army heard the news that Huangfu Song was in the Wei County Pavilion and did not move, Zhang Liang left Qiu County and came to visit Zhang Jiao, who was seriously ill.

The news that Huangfu Song was hesitant naturally made the Yellow Turban Army in Qiu County relax their vigilance.

Instead of defending the city as well as before, they opened the gates and allowed the people to go out of the city freely.

However, Huangfu Song asked people to pretend to be him in the Pavilion Tao and visited the Pavilion Tao officials with great fanfare. He himself took more than 3,000 cavalry, hid his whereabouts along the way, and came to the vicinity of Qiu County.

When Zhang Liang left and the officers and soldiers relaxed, he asked 500 officers and soldiers to disguise themselves as homeless people and blend into the city in batches.

In this way, on the third day after Zhang Liang left Qiu County, Huangfu Song seized the opportunity and led 3,000 cavalry to attack the city. Under the cooperation of the officers and soldiers, Qiu County was soon lost.

Although the Yellow Turban Army is not afraid of death, it uses infantry to fight against cavalry, and it is the elite cavalry of Sanhe, which is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg. Under the iron cavalry of officers and soldiers, the Yellow Turban Army was overwhelmed and was chased by Huangfu Song for more than 20 miles.

In the end, only a little more than 1,000 Yellow Turbans escaped with their lives.

After Huangfu Song conquered Qiu County, his subordinates said to him: "Now that we only have 3,000 men and horses, since we have already broken through Qiu County, it is better to stick to the city, wait for the arrival of the Wei army, and then attack the other cities of the Yellow Turban Army." ”

Huangfu Song didn't listen, but said: "Now, our army has taken Qiu County by surprise and attacked Qiu County in one fell swoop, and the morale of the soldiers is high at this time, why should they hold back?" ”

"Quzhou connects the east and west, north and south, and is a traffic artery. If we don't take advantage of this opportunity to attack Quzhou, when the Yellow Turban Army comes to its senses, we will definitely transfer a large army to garrison. At that time, it may be difficult to overcome. ”

When the officers and soldiers heard this, they bowed in their hearts.

Huangfu Song left only 1,000 officers and soldiers to garrison Qiu County, and then asked a general to take 1,000 officers and soldiers to the bank of the Zhanghe River. Huangfu Song asked them to cut down wood and build ships, put up flags, and put on an offensive posture.

When General Qu Zhou saw the officers and soldiers descending from the sky, he was terrified. When he saw the banners covering the sun and shouting killing in the tents of the officers and soldiers, he urged the Yellow Turban Army to strictly defend the Zhanghe Bridge.

At this moment, he remembered a letter from General Rengong to him, and his heart suddenly woke up. While sending people to closely watch the movements of the officers and soldiers on the other side of the river, he also sent scouts to reconnoiter the upper and lower sections of the Zhanghe River.

His move was undoubtedly correct. It didn't take long for scouts to report that they had found another section of the river, where officers and soldiers were cutting wood and building ships.

When the Yellow Turban guard of Qu Zhou heard this, he secretly praised the general in his heart for his clever calculation.

Qu Zhou Shou will be a yellow turban commander, so he naturally has some skills. While sending people to plant flags to confuse the officers and soldiers on the other side of the river, he personally led the Yellow Turban Army to secretly come to the section of the river where the officers and soldiers were preparing to cut down and cross the river, and secretly hid it.

After the officers and soldiers finished building the boats, Huangfu Song began to transport soldiers and horses to the other side of the river. But he didn't want to, as soon as the officers and soldiers crossed over more than half of the men, the Yellow Turban Army suddenly killed.

The terrain on the banks of the river was so rugged that the cavalry could not function at all. In addition, the Yellow Turban soldiers were numerous, and the officers and soldiers were suddenly attacked, and every inch was in chaos.

Under the elimination of each other's strengths, the Yellow Turban Army charged down and killed more than 800 cavalry who crossed the river. Even Huangfu Song almost died in the formation. Fortunately, his personal soldiers fought to the death to protect him, so he was brought to the boat and crossed the Zhanghe River.

Rao is like this, Huangfu Song's left arm is still hit by an arrow.

Although Huangfu Song escaped, the 800 officers and soldiers who crossed the river were killed and wounded, and 600 horses were captured by the Yellow Turban Army.

Huangfu Song led the remaining more than 100 people to rush to the bridgehead of the Zhanghe River like a lost dog. The officers and men who were bluffing there were all shocked to see their own commander so embarrassed.

In their eyes, Huangfu Song is an invincible existence, and since the beginning of the crusade against the Yellow Turban, he has been like a split. But I don't want to, and now I almost died in a small Quzhou.

Huangfu Song returned to the camp, sighed, and said to his subordinates: "I underestimated the heroes of the world!" ”

Then, he led more than 1,100 people and returned to Qiu County.

This failure made Huangfu Song a lot more cautious. On the one hand, he sent people to urge the officers and soldiers of Guantao to go north as soon as possible, and on the other hand, he requisitioned and mobilized county soldiers to defend the city to the nearby county.

He originally thought that the Yellow Turban Army, which had lost Qiu County, would definitely come to attack the city with a large army. But he didn't want to, and waited until all the officers and soldiers of Guantao arrived in Qiu County, and there was still no movement on the side of the Yellow Turban Army.

It wasn't until the scout came with the news that Zhang Jiao was sick and died, and Huangfu Song suddenly realized. Then he laughed and said, "God help me!" ”

It can be said that Zhang Jiao's death made the Yellow Turban Army miss the best opportunity to seize Qiu County.

This time, Huangfu Song's soldiers were divided into two routes, one was a team composed of cavalry, and attacked Wei County. He himself led the army with his wounded relatives and vowed to break through Quzhou.

Qu Zhou's soldiers and horses are obviously much stronger than last time.

Today, the strength of the Yellow Turban Army in the south of Jizhou is far lower than in real history. On the one hand, it was because Chen Xu took away 10,000 Yellow Turban elites, and on the other hand, because the time when Huangfu Song went north was far earlier than the real history.

Therefore, the Yellow Turban Army was not given the slightest time to develop believers and recruit troops.

The enhancement of Qu Zhou's soldiers and horses is mostly men selected from the families of the Yellow Turban Army. Now that the Yellow Turban Army is scattered to three cities, its strength is already somewhat stretched, and there is no extra troops to reinforce Qu Zhou.

When Huangfu Song led the officers and soldiers to the bank of the Zhanghe River outside Quzhou City, the Yellow Turban Army had already cut the drawbridge.

When the Qu Zhou guard saw that Huangfu Song led 30,000 soldiers and horses to attack, he did not dare to slack off. While closely guarding the officers and soldiers on the opposite bank, he sent scouts to other sections of the river to reconnoitre.

Sure enough, this time two more men and horses were found, and they secretly cut wood and built ships in other river sections, preparing to cross the river.

"Hmph, does the old thief of Huangfu think that he can hide from me by sending out two groups of people this time?"

After hearing the report from the scout, General Qu Zhou looked at the other side of the river with the flag covering the sun, and said with a sneer.

Having had the experience of the last victory, this time the Qu Zhou guard sent out a large number of men and horses, divided them into two parts, and ambushed them on the other side of the river where the officers and soldiers were secretly building.

Qu Zhou's guard general had already expected that the officers and soldiers on the other side of the river must be bluffing again like last time.

However, the truth is always brutal.

Just after the Quzhou guards transferred most of the soldiers and horses in Quzhou, the officers and soldiers on the other side began to forcibly cross the river. How can Quzhou City, which is empty of troops, be able to guard against more than 20,000 officers and soldiers?

In this way, Huangfu Song captured Quzhou without much effort. Qu Zhou, who was preparing to ambush the officers and soldiers in other river sections, killed himself after hearing the news.

The officers and soldiers were puzzled that Huangfu Song could take Qu Zhou so easily this time, and they asked him one after another.

Huangfu Song replied to everyone: "The first time I wanted to use the strategy of Darkness Chen Cang, but I was discovered by the Yellow Turban thieves, and our army was defeated. Although the strategy this time does not look very different from the last time, the real situation is very different. ”

"Last time, I was trying to attract the attention of the main force of the Yellow Turban Army on the other side of the Zhang River in Quzhou, and then crossed the river from other places to attack Quzhou. But this time, the two men I sent out were to make Qu Zhou's guards mistakenly think that we still wanted to sneak across the river. ”

"After the Qu Zhou thief general reconnoitred the two men and horses I sent out, and saw that their banners were ten thousand people. When I saw the banner covering the sky and the sun on the other side of Quzhou, I must have thought that our army was bluffing again like last time, in order to cover the other two men and horses crossing the river. ”

In this case, he would have withdrawn the defenders on the other side of the river and ambushed the officers and soldiers in the other two places. At this time, our army will do its best to cross the Zhanghe River, and Quzhou City can be decided in a battle! ”

When the generals heard this, they were convinced.

If Chen Xu is here, when he hears Huangfu Song's remarks, he will definitely praise: "What a plan to hide from the sky and cross the sea!" ”

At this time, there was no such thing as 'hiding from the sky and crossing the sea', but there was a similar record in "The Art of War" - preparing for Zhou was lazy; Common is not undoubted. Yin is within the yang, not in the yang pair.

Although 'Hiding from the Sky and Crossing the Sea' and 'Darkness Chencang' are similar, they are also very different.

They are similar in that they both employ deceptive means to confuse their enemies.

The difference lies in the fact that concealing the truth is a tactic to show the truth and conceal the truth, through strategic camouflage, in order to achieve a surprise combat effect.

Just like Huangfu Song this time, he sent two teams of men and horses to make the illusion of secretly crossing the river, and when the Yellow Turban Army was confused, he would attack head-on by surprise.

When the enemy army was pinned down by its own side and assembled and fortified, it quietly sent a force to detour behind the enemy and take advantage of the situation to carry out a decisive surprise attack.

It can be said that although Huangfu Song only began to secretly fail in Chen Cang, he still used these two strategies to the fullest, worthy of his title of a famous general of the Han Dynasty.