Chapter 151 Attacking Zhang Niujiao

Boling, in the mountains.

In a spacious hall, an oil lamp was burning on the left and right sides, and in the center sat a black-faced man with a beard on his chin, who was about forty years old.

Tread.

There was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and it stopped suddenly, followed by a human voice: "Father, Feiyan sees you."

"Come in, my son."

The person who came in was tall, with slender limbs, he was exactly Chu Feiyan who was defeated by Liu Ye and captured the horse that day, and the person sitting in the center was naturally his adoptive father and the leader of the Boling bandit army, Zhang Niujiao.

Zhang Niujiao called Chu Feiyan to his side, with a friendly smile on his face: "Feiyan, what's the matter?"

Chu Feiyan cupped her hands slightly, raised her head and said, "Father, do you still remember the last time my child was defeated?" He was talking about the time when he captured the county seat and was defeated by Liu Ye.

Zhang Niujiao frowned when he heard this: "Why are you still mentioning this matter? I told you about it for my father, and I can't blame you for this matter. Who just met Liu Ye?"

As Huangfusong moved to the north and south, Liu Ye's reputation even reached the ears of today's emperor Liu Hong, and now he can be regarded as a hero, especially when the bandits everywhere heard Liu Ye's name like thunder.

Chu Feiyan lowered her spine and clasped her fists together: "Father, my son, please invite five thousand elite soldiers to attack Yingtao."

Zhang Niujiao was taken aback: "Why attack Yingtao?"

"Old man Huangfu was appointed as the shepherd of Jizhou, and went south to sit in Yecheng, leaving Liu Ye with a light army to guard Julu, and our army besieged Yingtao. Liu Ye will definitely not sit idly by, and the time will be his chance to win!"

Hearing Chu Feiyan's bold words, Zhang Niujiao sighed and patted Chu Feiyan's shoulder.

"My son, let's have a good life in Boling. Why are we going to provoke Liu Ye? What if Huangfu Song leads an army northward and joins forces with him, and Zhang Jiao's three brothers with 200,000 soldiers are all defeated. Ten thousand people, can they stand the toss?"

Chu Feiyan was heartbroken, raised her head, and looked at Zhang Niujiao with a pair of piercing eyes.

"Father Commander, Sun Qing and Wang Dang are in a dangerous place. If they hadn't been defeated by Liu Ye last time, the boy would have said that the two of them would join. Liu Ye is just the Sima in Huangfu Song's army, with no more than a thousand soldiers, and our army has tens of thousands. The crowd is so afraid, if Huangfusong has been serving as the shepherd of Jizhou, Liu Ye will have to sit in Julu all the time, and our army will be unable to move?"

This sentence hit Zhang Niujiao's mind. Although he is old, he has great ambitions, otherwise he would not have invited Chu Feiyan to join his gang and join forces with tens of thousands to attack counties.

The imperial court promoted Huangfusong to be the governor of Jizhou. Hundreds of thousands of yellow scarf thieves were wiped out by this old guy. Isn't he a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh in Huangfusong's eyes?

"Father! If you don't preempt others, you will be controlled by others."

Hearing Chu Feiyan's words, Zhang Niujiao sighed, clenched five fingers tightly, and agreed to Chu Feiyan.

"Okay, but this time you and my father and son will join forces and come out in full strength. No matter how powerful Liu Yuqing is, without old Huangfu, can he defeat more than ten thousand of our army with just a thousand soldiers?"

Zhang Niujiao agreed to Chu Feiyan's suggestion, and the next day he commanded an army of 23,000 rebels to attack Yingtao with great fanfare.

However, there are many war horses in Hebei, so the counties and counties along the way saw the Black Mountain army approaching with great fanfare, and immediately sent messengers flying horses to report to Julu.

Liu Ye just came back from the school grounds. Although he was in Julu these few days, he was still busy. Zhang Jaw was temporarily attached to him, and more than two hundred Hejian soldiers naturally followed Liu Ye. Now Liu Ye has a total of more than 1,200 Liuqu soldiers and horses, but there are only more than 500 war horses, and Liu Ye took them from Guangzong and Quyang. The seized money went to Youbing Erzhou District to buy horses, but it has not come back so far, and it will take another ten and a half months.

"Liu Hou, Prefect Feng invites you to discuss important military affairs." A member of the prefect's mansion hurried over to report to Liu Ye. Huangfu Song went to Yecheng, Julu prefect Feng Yi who had been kicked out of the city earlier by Zhang Jiao took up his post again, and Liu Ye and him were on the same page.

"I know, this is the past."

Liu Ye didn't have time to go back to the mansion to rest, so he rode his horse to the prefect's mansion. Today's Julu City can be said to be a waste of time, even if Feng Yi puts up a list to calm the people, not many residents in the city are willing to come out to the streets, so the city is full of business. It looks depressed and there are very few tourists, so no matter how fast Liu Ye runs in the city, he doesn't have to worry about bumping into people.

In a short time, he arrived at Miyagi from the school grounds. Liu Ye got off his horse, handed the horse to the attendant, and strode into the hall, only to see Feng Yi holding a bamboo slip in his hand, with a worried look on his face.

Seeing Liu Ye entering, Feng Yi hurriedly stood up: "Liu Hou, the Boling bandits have invaded!" Feng Yi then told Liu Ye what happened, which made him frown.

"Where is Zhang Niujiao?"

"Yingtao, the bandit army is attacking the city, Yingtao sent seven messengers, five of them died, and only two were left to report."

Liu Ye's face remained unchanged, but he suddenly understood: Zhang Niujiao probably didn't come here for Yingtao at all, and tens of thousands of people were mobilized just to take down a small county?

"Someone leads his troops to battle, the prefect only needs to guard the city well, and someone will make arrangements for breaking the bandits."

Hearing Liu Ye's confidence, Feng Yi tentatively asked, "Do you want to ask Yecheng for help?"

Huangfusong is the governor of Jizhou, and he has tens of thousands of elite troops under his command. Although Zhang Niujiao is not as good as the 200,000 troops of Zhang Jiao's three brothers, he still has more than 20,000 people, so you can go to war with the 1,000-odd men you have. ?

"We need Huangfu's chariots to deal with these stragglers?" Liu Ye said and suddenly paused, "By the way, there is one thing that I would like to ask Prefect Feng to help."

Feng Yi was stunned: "I don't know what Liu Hou needs? I will try my best to help."

Liu Ye smiled slightly: "Someone wants to recruit eight hundred civilian husbands."

Feng Yi was a little surprised when he heard it: "It's easy to talk about eight hundred civilian husbands, and the food and grass official will definitely prepare it for the general." When an army goes out, civilian husbands are indispensable, and it is impossible for soldiers to carry food by themselves, which will consume a lot fighting power. The heavy infantry in ancient Athens even had to carry their armor on their backs, and put them on before going into battle. Therefore, in the later Battle of Sicily, after trying to escape, the heavy soldiers had to carry their own armor, but they were defeated by the Spartans. That collapses.

Unexpectedly, Liu Ye shook his head: "It doesn't have to be like this, the prefect's rations for two thousand people for three days are enough."

Feng Yi couldn't understand more and more, Yingtao was indeed very close to Julu, but the confidence that Liu Ye brought to defeat 20,000 rebels in three days? Besides, food and grass for two thousand people for three days is only more than three hundred stones, so you don't need eight hundred people?

This mysterious Liu Ye, what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd?