Chapter 125: The Mighty Shield Formation
Huangfu Song was willing to pay, so Zhang Yu had no reason to refuse to play.
This battle is related to the fate of the entire Han Dynasty. Since Zhang Yu is an official of the Han Dynasty, he cannot refuse.
After returning, Zhang Yu began to prepare for the battle.
He has arrows, and points can be redeemed, but points are precious, and you can use them if you can, that's why he let Xi Zhicai build them.
But now he can't control that much, so Zhang Yu first exchanged for 50,000 arrows, plus the previous inventory, so that he has 100,000 arrows.
The next day, Zhang Yu went to battle.
Six thousand people huddled in the shield formation.
"Order, 10,000 troops defend Zhang Yu's shield formation, and he must not be allowed to break into the battlefield." As soon as he arrived on the battlefield, Zhang Bao saw Zhang Yu's huge tortoise shell.
They did a lot of damage to their army yesterday, and today they can't give Zhang Yu another chance to sneak attack them.
"What? What is Zhang Yu doing?"
Zhang Bao saw that Zhang Yu's tortoise array was slowly moving towards the middle of the battlefield, instead of staying in place and waiting for them to fight.
Zhang Yu led the army to the middle of the battlefield, directly threatening all the people in the Yellow Turban.
"Fight, open a gap for me and destroy them, otherwise we will not be able to fight the official army at all." Zhang Bao saw Zhang Yu's intentions and immediately dispatched troops and said.
"Second brother, let's call in elite soldiers and beat them up. We only need to spare Zhang Yu's life, otherwise his shield array will pose too much threat to us." Zhang Liang said to Zhang Bao.
Zhang Yu's shield array was lying across the battlefield. If he didn't solve it, he could attack them in any direction at any time. It was very dangerous, so it had to be solved.
"Okay, second brother, you and I are combining elite soldiers, and we're calling two teams of ordinary soldiers over to deal with the huge shield formation in front of us first," Zhang Bao said.
So Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang personally commanded, plus a large number of ordinary yellow scarves, Zhang Yu and the others were immediately besieged in the middle.
The Yellow Turbans started to attack wildly, showing their desperate posture.
Zhang Yu and the others were already prepared.
"Arrow attack, aim at their elite."
Zhang Yu stared at the elite fighters of the Yellow Turban, and the arrows were fired together. Three thousand arrows were fired together to form an arrow array, which was very powerful.
When a wave of arrows rained down, hundreds of people in the Yellow Turban were killed or injured.
"Be careful of the arrow array, scatter."
Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang felt extremely distressed when the arrow formation inflicted huge damage on the elite Yellow Turbans.
The Yellow Turbans continued to attack, and Zhang Yu's arrows did not stop, hitting wherever there were too many Yellow Turbans.
After a few rounds, the Yellow Turbans suffered heavy casualties, but the arrow array was still very stable under their attacks.
"Half of the people stayed to guard the camp, and the other ministries went out under the leadership of their generals."
Seeing that Zhang Yu was surrounded by yellow scarves, Huang Fusong ordered to attack from all sides.
Zhang Jiao on the top of the city saw that Zhang Yu was in the middle below, surrounded by a layer of yellow scarves, and then the officers and soldiers surrounded them from other directions and attacked the yellow scarves.
Surrounded by layers, the Yellow Turban was blocked by Zhang Yu in the middle, and the ministries could not look after each other.
At the beginning, Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang didn't realize it in the battlefield, but after the two sides fought for a while, they found that the mobilization of troops was not flexible, and the command of each department could not move.
"Retreat, withdraw quickly, if this continues, we will suffer a lot." Zhang Bao was anxious, and immediately ordered the retreat.
But he was still a step too late. When retreating, the officers and soldiers clung tightly, and it was very difficult to withdraw.
In the end, Zhang Bao could only cut off the wrists of the strong men, leaving some of them, and then he took some of the elite back.
In this battle, the Yellow Turbans lost more than 30,000 people, while the official army lost less than 2,000.
More than 30,000 people were lost at once, and the Yellow Turbans fought for days, and the total loss of soldiers and horses was nearly 200,000.
This method is effective, and the Yellow Turbans are very considerate. When there is no way to break the formation, the Yellow Turbans dare not attack easily.
But if the Yellow Turban does not attack, Huangfusong will have enough time to wait for reinforcements from the court.
After returning, Huangfusong gave Zhang Yu another 100,000 yuan and asked Zhang Yu to continue playing the next day.
An arrow cost about three copper coins, and one hundred thousand would cost three hundred thousand yuan, which was a lot of money, and Huangfusong didn't have that much military expenditure.
But this method worked, and he couldn't squeeze out another hundred thousand dollars.
Taking money to do things has always been the principle that Zhang Yu believes in, and Zhang Yu is very happy to use other people's arrows to brush up his points and military exploits.
After one day of fighting, each of them went home and licked their wounds.
Zhang Jiao called the two brothers Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang, and Ma Yuanyi was also there.
If Zhang Yu saw Zhang Jiao at this time, he would definitely find that Zhang Jiao's complexion is very bad now, and he looks seriously ill.
Although Zhang Yu's elixir worked well, Zhang Jiao gradually deteriorated after time passed.
The simple thing is that Zhang Jiao prescribed medicine for himself and used the ten days to raise him, so he can still walk at this time, but it is getting worse day by day.
"In more than ten days of fighting, we consumed nearly 200,000 troops, and the city was completely empty. Our food pressure was also resolved. At the same time, we also consumed nearly 50,000 officers and soldiers. The goal has been achieved, and there is no need to continue to die with them like this. Knock." Zhang Jiao said.
Both Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang breathed a sigh of relief, because Zhang Yu's shield formation put a lot of pressure on them today, and they still have no way to break it.
"Brother, how do we fight next?" Zhang Bao asked.
"Directly use elite soldiers to fight against us. Now we still have 200,000 troops, and the official army's strength is less than 100,000, and there are still a steady stream of yellow scarves coming around. We can replenish them when they are consumed." Zhang Jiao said. .
Having consumed so many Yellow Turbans before, many places in the city have been vacated, and these Yellow Turbans also have places to train. Zhang Jiao is ordering the Yellow Turbans to attack day and night.
"In addition, I plan to send Ning'er to find Zhang Yu, so that Zhang Yu will not only trade population, food, medicinal materials, but even weapons with us. Half of us have no weapons." Zhang Jiao said.
"Brother, can Zhang Yu agree?" Zhang Liang asked suspiciously. After all, the two sides are enemies, and what they are trading is weapons.
"There is no loss in trying, but I guess Zhang Yu will agree." Zhang Jiao said.
After saying this, Zhang Jiao said: "Tomorrow, the three of you will each lead elite soldiers out of the city to fight. Ma Yuanyi will lead 20,000 elite soldiers to hold Zhang Yu back, and the second and third brothers will lead soldiers who have taken drugs to ambush the officers and soldiers, trying to injure them severely."
Then the four people in the room began to plan.
None of the officers and soldiers, including Zhang Yu, knew that the Yellow Turban had changed its strategy.
The next day, Zhang Yu took his shield out early in the morning.
"Hey, my lord, the other yellow scarves are calling. It's just that the yellow scarves opposite us are not calling."
After the Yellow Turbans left the city, the formation had changed, and all those who came out were elite soldiers.
Dian Wei saw that the other yellow turbans were serious, and his hands were already itchy, but the yellow turbans opposite them didn't call a battle. If they called a battle, Dian Wei would definitely fight out.
"It seems that the Yellow Turban's troops are almost exhausted, and the rest are elite soldiers, and the next battle will be tough." Zhang Yu said looking at the battlefield.