It wasn't that Liu Xuan looked down on Zhang Liang.
It was not that Liu Xuan looked down on the Yellow Turban Army, but that the Yellow Turban Army was not worthy of Liu Xuan's respect.
According to Liu Xuan, Cheng Yu, Jian Yong, and the others 'analysis and calculations, among the 80,000 troops led by the Yellow Turban Duke General Zhang Liang, there were only about 3,000 to 5,000 true elites of the Yellow Turban Army.
The remaining 70,000 or so were people who had no choice but to join because they could not eat enough.
The commoners who joined at the last minute had not even come into contact with the most basic military training. How could they be a match for the elite soldiers that Liu Xuan had carefully trained for four years?
In fact…
Liu Xuan estimated.
Their combat strength was not even as strong as the 80,000 construction corps in his hands!
At the very least, the 80,000 soldiers of the Construction Corps were well-fed and well-rested in the past four years. They were all strong and strong, and they would receive two hours of quasi-military training every day.
Although he said that, Liu Xuan did not let his guard down.
In terms of strategy, one should look down on the enemy, but in terms of tactics, one should pay attention to the enemy. Liu Xuan had always remembered these words of a great man.
After learning of the Yellow Turban Army's movements, Liu Xuan immediately summoned Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and the others to discuss the battle plan.
Although they did not come up with a battle plan in a short period of time, they came to a consensus.
That was…
They would eliminate the Yellow Turban Army before they entered Dai County.
The reason for this consensus was that about half of the fertile farmland in Dai County was on the southern plains of Dai County.
The Kingdom of Zhongshan was just south of Daijun.
If the Yellow Turban Army could not be eliminated in advance, the Yellow Turban Army coming from the north of Zhongshan Kingdom would definitely pass by the 80,000 - 90,000 mu potato fields.
Liu Xuan did not want the potato fields to be destroyed by the Yellow Turban Army.
After some discussion.
In the end, Liu Xuan and the others decided to stop the Yellow Turban Army in Guangchang County of Zhongshan Kingdom.
In order to ensure that they could swallow up the 80,000 Yellow Turban soldiers brought by Zhang Liang as much as possible.
Yes, it was!
It was to swallow.
As mentioned earlier, when Liu Xuan learned that Zhang Liang had led 80,000 Yellow Turban soldiers to attack Dai County, he raised his head and laughed happily. It was not because he was mocking Zhang Liang's naivety and overestimation of his own abilities.
The reason why Liu Xuan was so happy and excited was entirely because of the 80,000 Yellow Turban soldiers.
Perhaps at this moment.
To the imperial court and the officials of the other prefectures, the Yellow Turban Army was as annoying as locusts.
However, in Liu Xuan's eyes.
The Yellow Turban Army's mobile labor force and source of soldiers!
There were no elderly or children in the Yellow Turban Army. There were only a very small number of women and children.
In other words.
These Yellow Turban soldiers were all young and strong!
Although the population of Daijun Prefecture had been increasing steadily over the past 4 years, most of them were from other prefectures of Youzhou Province. Only a small part of them came from Bingzhou Province or Jizhou Province.
In other words!
Actually, the total population of Youzhou Province didn't increase much. It was still only 2 million.
Other than having a slightly larger population than Liangzhou and Bingzhou, the population was far inferior to other big provinces such as Si Li, Yanzhou, and Jizhou.
The population was directly proportional to the economic and military strength of the place.
The greater the population, the better the economy and the stronger the military.
In order to develop Youzhou Province as fast as possible after becoming the Prefecture Overseer of Youzhou Province, Liu Xuan needed a large number of people.
The Yellow Turban rebellion this time was his greatest opportunity.
As long as they subdued or persuaded the Yellow Turban Army to surrender, they could obtain a large number of young and strong labor forces for nothing.
Such an opportunity!
It was like a dream.
Therefore…
Liu Xuan was only so happy when he heard that Zhang Liang had led 80,000 Yellow Turban soldiers to attack Dai County.
Back to the main topic.
In order to swallow as many of the 80,000 Yellow Turban soldiers as possible, Liu Xuan had mobilized 10,000 soldiers this time!
Among them, other than the 3,000 cavalrymen who stayed at the border, 6,000 of them were brought out. 5,000 of them were led by Guan Yu to lie in ambush in the forest outside Guangchang City, and the remaining 1,000 were led by Zhang Fei to guard Guangchang City.
Not only that.
He also brought four thousand infantrymen to guard Guangchang City.
Other than that.
Even the Construction Corps had 20,000 soldiers.
However, Liu Xuan's purpose in bringing the Construction Corps here was not to let them fight, but to let them be responsible for logistics and transportation, as well as capturing prisoners after the Yellow Turban Army was defeated.
As the Yellow Turban Army approached, the situation in Youzhou became tense again.
Liu Yu had once asked Liu Xuan if he needed help, but Liu Xuan had rejected her.
This was because Liu Xuan did not want to expose too much of his strength for the time being.
Liu Yu didn't insist. After all, although the Yellow Turban Army's target seemed to be Daijun, who knew if they would change their mind midway?
After all.
Not only was Dai County adjacent to Jizhou, there were Zhuo County and Shanggu County!
Liu Xuan's reason for rejecting Liu Yu was also the matter of Shanggu County and Zhuo County.
Liu Xuan asked Liu Yu to support Shanggu County and Zhuo County in case the Yellow Turban Army suddenly changed their mind or suddenly split into three groups to attack Dai County, Shanggu County, and Zhuo County at the same time.
That's why.
Shanggu County and Zhuo County had arranged about five thousand soldiers at the border with Zhongshan Country.
Guangchang.
On the city wall.
Liu Xuan looked at the blood-red clouds in the west and muttered,""Everything is ready. Now, we are just waiting for Zhang Liang to arrive!”
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