From this day on, Guan Yu's army slowly advanced in the hills in this way, constantly conquering the garrisoned hills.
Even when they encountered some hills blocking the road and were unable to determine whether there were Yellow Turban troops stationed on the hills, they did not care about anything else and just opened fire on the oil tanks to open the way.
A big fireball falls from the sky, burning the damn thing first. After the fire burns, you can naturally judge whether it is a safe hill or an unsafe hill. After all, flames and screams cannot lie.
The army advanced slowly, and sometimes it even had to do some work to control the fire or even help put out the fire, so there were some wounded.
But overall, this loss is minimal.
Compared with the Yellow Turban Army, where hills were conquered one after another by the Han Army, and the living space was constantly compressed by the Han Army, the losses incurred by the Han Army here were quite small, and because of the brilliant performance of the technical arms, the combat troops seemed somewhat useless. However, Guan Yu still needs to spend some time to appease the fighting troops.
Don't worry, there will be room for you to play later.
Compared with Guan Yu's leisurely stroll, the Yellow Turban Mountain-Vietnam Allied Forces seemed a little unprepared and in a hurry.
From the first day when Guan Yu launched the offensive, they continued to receive bad news. The defense lines around the main base were continuously breached, and important hill defenses were continuously captured by the Han army. It was almost impossible to stop the Han army's advance.
According to the frontline battle report, it is said that the Han army used sorcery to summon fire rain. The fire rain fell from the sky. The burning flames could not even be extinguished with water. Once burned, the clothes would be burned quickly and the whole person would be burned. Hopeless.
The Han army did not attack the hills, and the defensive facilities on the hills would not be effective. The Yellow Turban-Vietnam Allied Forces would only engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Han army when they broke through.
However, the fighting power of the Han army is also quite strong. After the confrontation, the Yellow Turban-Vietnam Allied Forces are often defeated and even unable to break out. After being wiped out, less than one-fifth of the people who can break out alive are often less than one-fifth.
The Huangjinshan Vietnamese Allied Forces suffered huge losses in strength, but the hindrance to the Han army was minimal. Guan Yu was about to approach the core area where the Huangjinshan Vietnamese Allied Forces survived.
There are not only combatants here, but also a larger number of non-combatants, who are their roots and the family members of the soldiers, who have followed them here to fight.
If the Han army breaks through here, the situation will be very dangerous.
Originally, the Yellow Turban Vietnam Allied Forces did not want to confront the Han army head-on, so they used layers of obstacles in the hope of wearing down the Han army, making their logistics unsustainable, and ending the war.
But now instead of defeating the Han army, it has ended up in a complete defeat.
How can we continue to fight this battle?
The tactics that were very effective against the general Han army have now been declared bankrupt. If the tactics are not changed, it will only be a matter of time before the entire army is annihilated.
So in desperation, Sima Ju proposed a plan.
Take the initiative.
Continuing to stick to it has proven to be a stupid choice, unless it rains heavily or snows heavily, but in the cold winter, don't count on heavy rain, and you don't know when the heavy snow will come.
Leaving everything to God will easily lead to death, so the remaining option is to take the initiative, attack the Han army in the mountains and fields, engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Han army, and try to avoid confrontation with the Han army.
The fireball that fell that day must not be some kind of sorcery, but some kind of long-range attack method by the Han army. If you don't know the specific situation, if you want to avoid such an attack, taking the initiative and fighting hand-to-hand is the best choice. There is no one. .
Regarding this choice, there are different opinions within the Yellow Turban Mountain-Vietnam Allied Forces. Xu He agrees, but Fei Zhan is not willing -
Seeing that the Yellow Turban Army was dying, Fei Zhan's originally very firm and unshakable will was shaken.
He began to debate whether he should continue to stand on a united front with the Yellow Turban Army.
If we continue to unite with the Yellow Turban Army, they may be beaten by the Han Army and killed together, leaving nothing behind. Now it seems that this possibility is relatively high.
If we don't unite with the Yellow Turban Army and leave this place, we won't be held accountable by the Han army. At least we are safe for now. If we escape to a more distant place, the Han army will definitely not be able to catch up.
Of course, there is another option.
Fei Zhan looked at Xu He and then at Sima Ju.
Are these two heads worth anything?
If you can jump out of the line of fire, provide help to the Han army, turn around and attack the Yellow Turban Army, and exchange the lives of Xu He and Sima Ju for the forgiveness of the Han army, then not only can you continue to dominate, but you may also get an official position. .
As far as he knew, the Han court was relatively lenient to rebels who voluntarily surrendered. As long as they voluntarily surrendered, they would basically be rewarded and could continue to dominate and live a good life.
Originally, he thought it would be profitable to help the Yellow Turban Army. He thought he could gain a higher status and greater power, establish his own position in the Shanyue Group, and even influence the Shanyue Group in other areas.
Now that he has become the leader of a region, it is difficult not to want to continue to expand his power.
At least, he can use the Yellow Turban Army to help him fight against the Yangzhou official army, allowing his power to continue to develop and become stronger. But now, it seems that this is not only an opportunity to strengthen his power, but also a trigger for his demise.
He didn't want a fireball to fall from the sky one day, land on his head, and burn him into a ball of black carbon.
To take a step back, he has no grudges with the Luoyang court. At most, he has some grudges with the Yangzhou local government. The two sides dislike each other, do not deal with each other, and set each other up. There have also been confrontations, but for a long time This has been the rule of survival in Yangzhou since then.
The locals, whether they are local tyrants, nobles, or government officials, have all acquiesced to this phenomenon and accepted this situation. As long as the two sides do not completely break up their faces and do not enter a full-scale confrontation, they can survive for a day.
Therefore, Fei Zhan felt that even if he had cooperated with the Yellow Turban Army before, he could still be exempted by relying on his local status. If there were some more achievements as an opportunity, even the Luoyang court would not embarrass him.
Unless they want to go against the entire Sangoe Group.
Therefore, if the official army is really strong and capable of fighting, then he must think about his own retreat. It is not an impossible choice to jump to the front of the line and abandon the Yellow Turban Army.
The tricks are played deeply, whoever takes whom seriously, this is the way of the world.
Xu He, Sima Ju, when that time comes, don't blame me.
While Xu He and Sima were both worried, Fei Zhan had quietly completed his logical closed loop and decided to adopt a new plan to change his critical situation.
If everything is really irreversible, then at least life and future can be saved.
It has to be said that Xu He and Sima Ju still lacked struggle experience, did not fully understand the excellent struggle matching mechanism of Yangzhou Region, and did not feel the sharp and contradictory struggle atmosphere of Yangzhou Region and the overall anti-foreign sentiment in Yangzhou.
Are they outsiders or Xuzhou people? Some of them are Qingzhou people and belong to the north. From the perspective of Jiangnan, they are not considered their own people. If they are abandoned, they will be abandoned. It is no big deal.
Anyway, the northerners never looked down on their southerners. Under the guidance of this consciousness, Fei Zhan did not feel any guilt towards Xu He and Sima Ju.
He only calculates how much he can sell them for.
This mistaken belief that they had integrated into the local sentiment was the biggest strategic mistake made by Xu He, Sima Ju and others. This strategic mistake made them overly trust the local Shanyue Group headed by Fei Zhan.
But they themselves don't have the slightest awareness.
(End of chapter)
