Listening to Qiao Mao's words, Li Yi nodded. He also thought of attacking the Yellow Turban Army's supply transportation, but because the terrain was unfamiliar, it was difficult to capture the accurate supply route of the Yellow Turban Army, so he had to give up. At this time, he suddenly heard Qiao Mao say definitely that there would be a shortage of food in the Yellow Turban Army, and asked in great surprise, "Why?" ”

Qiao Mao said: "Now in the several counties controlled by the ant thieves, there are more than one million displaced people alone, plus two or three hundred thousand soldiers, and the local people have a population of nearly two million, and Zhang Jiao simply does not have so much food to supply them. If the soldiers did not fight, their daily ration was three liters (about 900 grams of corn today), and when they arrived on the battlefield, the soldier's ration supply was doubled to six liters. This is the minimum ration to maintain a soldier on the battlefield. But three liters of rice can feed at least five or six ordinary refugees for a day. ”

Qiao Mao probably talked too much, which touched the wound. He groaned in pain* a few times, struggled and continued: "Zhang Jiao is the great leader of the ant thieves, he is responsible for the soldiers who follow him and the people who support him, and he must at least let these people who follow him live. Therefore, once Zhang Jiao stays in Gaotang for too long, the food problem will immediately come to the fore. At this point, he had only two paths to take. The first is to withdraw the army immediately, and the second is to break through Gaotang in the shortest possible time and use Gaotang's grain to supply the army. ”

When Li Yi heard this, he already understood it, and the distress that had accumulated in his heart immediately disappeared. He exclaimed happily, "I know, I know." Thank you so much Mr. Joe. ”

Qiao Mao frowned painfully, gritted his teeth, and asked in a trembling voice, "Does General Li understand?" ”

"I see. Thank you Mr. Joe. Li Yi said excitedly.

"According to my estimate, Zhang Jiao should still have more than ten days of grain and grass in his hands. Therefore, the key at the moment is to ensure that Gao Tang is not lost before the ant thieves run out of food. If Zhang Jiao is bent on taking Gao Tang before the food runs out, then Gao Tang will be very dangerous. Gaotang is not a strong city, plus Liu Zijing and Liu Yuanjun's troops in Gaotang are limited. There were only 5,000 people, and under the ferocious attack of 200,000 ant thieves, it was almost impossible to hold the city. ”

"As long as Liu Zi stays quiet until the ant thief's food is exhausted, the pain will be Zhang Jiao." Li Yi said with a smile, "Mr. Qiao, if you don't get hurt, with your ability, you can completely help us defeat Zhang Jiao." ”

Qiao Mao stretched out his left hand from the carriage and waved it at Li Yi twice, barely squeezing out a smile and saying, "Thanks to General Li's attention, Qiao Mao is ashamed." Thank you. Thank you for saving my life. ”

Li Yi stood silently on the side of the road, motionless looking at the carriage that gradually disappeared from view.

The so-called celebrities, the upper support of the community, the lower dawn, not afraid of the powerful and powerful, unwilling to degenerate customs. Thinking of what Qiao Mao said at the beginning, Li Yi couldn't help but sigh secretly.

The huge power of the Shi clan played a pivotal role in the Han State, and many learned and influential people were all born in the Shi clan. They have royal kinship. There are official families, and there are wealthy families...... Each faction held the power and wealth of the Great Han Kingdom. All the children of the Shi clan are busy all day long in order to survive better.

Although Li Yi believes that it is these noble clans that have led to the current crisis of the Han Kingdom, he also understands. Without them, the Great Han Kingdom would immediately collapse completely. It's like a seriously ill patient who is addicted to drugs, knowing that it is a harmful thing, but he can't quit it all at once. Because of its fragile physical condition, it can't stand the toss at all.

Even if the Yellow Turban Army wins, will it be able to govern the world with those few learned leaders? Most of their subordinates were ordinary people who could not read a large number of characters. They don't understand anything, can they help the people to eat their stomachs?

Why can't the thousands of untouchables in the world go to study, become officials, and learn things? How can we make the common people, like the scholars, well-fed and clothed, educated, and become officials?

Thinking of this, Li Yi thought of the memories of his previous life. Perhaps, he could take some inspiration from it.

However, he also knew very well that freezing three feet was not a day's cold, and Rome was not built in a day. The top priority now is to resolve the crisis of the war situation in Hebei. As for other ideals or ambitions, when the Yellow Turban Rebellion is pacified, and you have status and strength, you can slowly think about and practice it.

Li Yi shook his head, suppressed the chaotic thoughts in his heart, turned around and mounted his horse and galloped in the direction of the camp.

The next day, Li Yi led his troops to set off and rushed to Gaotang with a large army.

………………

The scout flew into Zhang Jiao's big tent and reported: "Great sage and good teacher, the Youzhou army has moved." ”

Zhang Jiao was lying on the desk writing papers, and when he heard this, he looked up at a scout, and asked unhurriedly, "All of them are dispatched." ”

The scout nodded and said affirmatively, "Back to the Great Sage and Good Master, their camp in Ling County has been withdrawn. The former army Zhao Yunbu had already rushed to Xinjiazhai along the river. ”

Zhang Jiao waved his hand, and the scout quickly retreated.

Zhang Jiao leaned over and picked up the map, spread it on the desk, looked at it carefully, and muttered to himself, "I don't believe you won't come." ”

Then he shouted loudly: "Order all the troops, starting at noon, to attack." ”

The more than 200,000 troops of the Yellow Turban Army were divided into four divisions and besieged Gaotang City. Zhang Jiao personally led the men and horses of his headquarters to unite with the army of his younger brother, the general Zhang Liang, the third person of the Yellow Turban Army, and a total of 80,000 troops from both sides were stationed at the east gate. In addition, Chu Yan led the 50,000 troops of his headquarters at the north gate, Zhang Niujiao and Yu Poison's coalition army of 50,000 people at the south gate, and Yang Feng's 30,000 troops were stationed at the west gate.

The Yellow Turbans had been besieging the city for three days, but they had not launched an attack for a long time.

Zhang Niujiao is a native of Boling, in his forties, and can be said to be an old man in the Yellow Turban Army. Generally speaking, the older a person is, the less ** should be, but Zhang Niujiao is not, he hopes that he can lead the Yellow Turban Army.

As an old man of Taiping Dao, Zhang Niujiao has followed Zhang Jiao to travel the world for many years, and is the earliest batch of disciples included in Zhang Jiao, and his qualifications are very old in Taiping Dao, together with Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, Zhang Liang, Zhang Qun, and Zhang Mancheng, collectively known as "Taiping Liuzhang".

Now, Zhang Bao, Zhang Qun and Zhang Mancheng are all dead, although Zhang Liang is still there, he has no ability and no ambition. Therefore, in Zhang Niujiao's view, as long as Zhang Jiao is brought down, he will be the leader of Taiping Dao and the Yellow Turban Army.

Therefore, after learning of the defeat of Zhang Jiao's Western Expedition, Zhang Niujiao thought that his opportunity to seize the leader of the Yellow Turban Army had come, and immediately remotely controlled several of his disciples in Bohai County, looking for an excuse to stir up trouble in Ganling Kingdom.

Then he was unlucky. He didn't expect Chu Yan's army to arrive so quickly, if it weren't for Chu Yan's scruple that he was a senior of the Taiping Sect, and there were many leaders of the Yellow Turban Army who came forward to help him speak, he would have been angry a long time ago.

This turmoil did not cause greater losses to the Yellow Turban Army, but the more than 200,000 troops of Zhang Jiao's westward expedition were all annihilated on the battlefield of Wei County, which still dealt a heavy blow to the Yellow Turban Army.

Zhang Jiao did not step down, so he should be grateful to Chu Yan and Zhang Liang. Chu Yan and Zhang Liang together had an army of more than 100,000 people, and no one in the Yellow Turban Army shook them.

Although Yu Poison's subordinates are also known as 100,000 troops, he only has more than 20,000 people at most, and the rest of the soldiers are refugees with wooden sticks and sticks.

But it is precisely because of this that Yu Poison is the easiest object for Zhang Niujiao to control.

Yang Feng, another general of the Yellow Turban Army, also had an army of 30,000 under his command, but Yang Feng was very assertive, and as one of Zhang Jiao's personal disciples, he was also very loyal to Zhang Jiao, and Zhang Niujiao was not sure to persuade him to defect.

Zhang Niujiao came early in the morning to shout that he was drinking poison.

"Brother Horn, what are you thinking?" Yu Poison smiled: "I just won the battle, and I almost killed Huangfu Song, if we defeat Gaotang in a few days and cross the river to the south smoothly, our good days will come." ”

"Didn't Yu Shuai see that the great sage and good teacher were excluding dissidents?" Zhang Niujiao smiled coldly and said slowly.

Yu Poison laughed, pointed to Zhang Niujiao's nose and said, "You think too much." In Suijiashan, the great sage and good master ordered us to attack on the flank, and the losses were not great. This time we feinted at the south gate, and the losses will certainly not be too great. I know what you want, but the time hasn't come, the time hasn't come. ”

Zhang Niujiao looked at him and asked in a low voice, "Is there still a chance?" ”

"Absolutely." Yu Poison smiled, "If you hadn't helped me last time, my army would have been fought in Ganling Country." So I'll definitely help you with this favor. ”

He took a sip of wine and continued: "Now the strength of the two of us combined, compared with Chu Shuai's troops, the strength is a cut worse, and even the strength of General Rengong is not comparable. But as soon as the battle was over, the situation was different. You see, whether it is attacking the city or blocking the Youzhou army, the army of General Rengong and Chu Shuai is the main force. Zhang Jiao had no troops of his own, so he had to charge into battle with the army of his younger brother and Yizi. After the war, the army of General Rengong and Chu Shuai must have suffered heavy losses, and there was not much left. At that time, we pulled Yang Shuai over, and then united with a group of yellow turban leaders to force Zhang Jiao to give up the position of the big leader. ”

Zhang Niujiao smiled bitterly and said, "Are you drinking too much, what kind of bullshit idea is this?" At that time, the great sage and good teacher fought successively, defeated Emperor Fu Song, killed Liu Ding, and his reputation was skyrocketing, and there were even more people who were willing to take refuge in him. Who will follow me? Will you? ”

Yu Poison looked at him and smiled sadly: "Then what do you say?" You can't send someone to kill Zhang Jiao, right? ”

Zhang Niujiao was startled, subconsciously looked around, and said angrily: "What do you want to do?" Can this also be said? (To be continued.) )