Chapter 194: Open Plot

"Brother Ning'an, if it were you, how would you choose to deal with the two Yellow Turban armies of Bo Cai and Peng Tuo?" Xi Zhicai suddenly asked.

He was quite admiring of Su Fan's ability. The other man came from a family lineage, although the Guangling Gao Clan didn't count for much in the entire Divine Han.

However, personal ability and background were not completely bound.

Moreover, he was even more curious about who the other man had studied under. He was young and had extremely high cultivation. Although he didn't know Su Fan's specific cultivation, he roughly knew from others that it was at least above Soul Refining.

To be so young and have reached this realm, and to be able to manage the millions of people in the East Sea wilderness in an orderly manner.

This kind of practical talent was even more remarkable.

As for military strategy and the like, through their exchanges these days, he vaguely felt that the other man was also proficient in it.

So he had this question at this moment.

"Me?"

Su Fan was stunned when he heard Xi Zhicai's words, but he quickly recovered and then remained silent for a moment before saying: "If it were just Peng Tuo's camp, it would be simple; just send the elite Imperial Guards to charge the formation."

"But now it is impossible. Bo Cai is connected to him, looking after each other. Attacking either side will result in the other side providing support very quickly."

"The most troublesome thing about the Yellow Turban Army is the Yellow Turban Warriors. If there were no such Yellow Turban Warriors, if the Imperial Army were willing to invest, it would not be impossible to defeat Bo Cai's army."

"After all, Bo Cai's Yellow Turban Army has only been around for a few months, and their will cannot be compared to true elites. So if I were to deal with them, there are actually two strategies."

"The first is to send people to attack continuously, forcing Bo Cai to deploy the Yellow Turban Warriors, and then use Gang Refining martial artists as the vanguard to kill these Yellow Turban Warriors as much as possible."

"Yellow Turban Warriors need the Taoist masters of the Taiping Dao to cast spells and use runes to create them; they are not infinite. Of course, it would be even better if one could send people to assassinate these Taoist masters, but these people have been hiding at the very back of the camp, making it very difficult to assassinate them."

"As long as there are fewer Yellow Turban Warriors, Bo Cai's army will still have a large gap compared to the Imperial Guards. However, the disadvantage of this method is also very obvious: one must have fierce generals, and in large numbers. At the same time, the losses of the Imperial Army will also be very large, almost a case of killing a thousand enemies while losing eight hundred of one's own."

"Hmm! This method, I suppose they must have considered it over in Yangzhai. As far as I know, the Imperial Army did indeed dispatch troops frequently at the beginning, but since losing two Gang Refining martial artists, the Imperial Army has rarely left the city."

Xi Zhicai nodded upon hearing this. This was indeed a method, but the losses for the Imperial Army were also extremely large; it just depended on whether the person in power had the ruthlessness for it.

"Oh! The Imperial Army tried it, it seems they failed."

Su Fan understood immediately. His method was to use the Imperial Court's elites to consume them. Zhu Jun had the courage to try, but not the courage to continue.

If he really exhausted the Imperial Court's elites, I fear that even if he eliminated the Yellow Turbans in Yu Province and returned to Luoyang, he would not be promoted or get rich.

He might even be punished.

The Imperial Guards were the force the Liu Clan used to suppress the world.

"Then Brother Ning'an, what is your second strategy?"

"The second one? Actually, it can also be considered a form of attrition. Bo Cai and Peng Tuo have now trapped the Imperial Army in Yangzhai City, but there is a fatal flaw, and that is grain and fodder."

"Before, when there was only Bo Cai's million-strong army, it was fine. Now that Peng Tuo has arrived with tens of millions, although their strength has increased, the consumption of grain and fodder is even more terrifying."

"The Yellow Turban Army has no grain storage specifically for the Imperial Court. Before, all their grain relied on looting, and now it is the same. If I were the Imperial Army, I would send a cavalry force to attack continuously from the outside, targeting the Yellow Turbans' teams that go out to loot grain."

"At the same time, let the local government offices that are still standing implement a scorched-earth policy, not giving the Yellow Turban Army any more grain to loot."

"Slowly consume them. Once the Yellow Turbans run out of grain, they will reveal flaws. Then, strike with a thunderous blow."

Su Fan said.

Su Fan's words made Xi Zhicai's expression one of surprise. This strategy was simply an open plot, although there were some difficulties within it.

But generally, it could work. The Yellow Turbans were ravaging, and their grain relied entirely on force; they did not produce grain, so there would always be a day when it was exhausted.

As long as the government offices did not let the Yellow Turban Army loot any more grain, then this strategy would be successful.

This was an open plot.

Xi Zhicai's gaze toward Su Fan changed again.

"Brother Ning'an is a great talent."

"Haha! This is just my wild imagination. I suppose someone in Yangzhai City must have considered it, but wanting to achieve this is also very difficult."

Su Fan shook his head. He had self-knowledge; this strategy was not particularly brilliant. This plan had very high requirements for the local areas.

Implementing a scorched-earth policy in the local areas was not that simple; it could not be achieved with just a single word from you.

Secondly, sending cavalry to attack the Yellow Turban Army's grain teams—if something went wrong and they were ambushed by the Yellow Turban Army, there was a possibility of the entire army being wiped out.

After all, as long as the Yellow Turban Army's high-level officials were not fools, they would definitely come up with countermeasures after being attacked a few times.

Of course, his strategy was not unfeasible, at least better than the Imperial Army being trapped in the city all the time.

This was also the reason why Xi Zhicai was full of admiration.

"Brother Zhicai, as for Bo Cai's army, it will ultimately be up to Commandant Zhu and the others to deal with it. We can only wait. However, you can take your revenge first."

In this world, Su Fan could not be sure of Bo Cai's ultimate fate. He did not believe that the Imperial Court did not have the power to take down Bo Cai.

If they sent two top-tier powerhouses, such as that Sword Saint from Luoyang, to carry out a decapitation operation directly, Bo Cai probably wouldn't be able to stop it.

"Found that person?"

Xi Zhicai's killing intent surged upon hearing Su Fan's words.

"Correct, that guy is a Colonel under Peng Tuo, with tens of thousands of troops in his hands, and now he is going out again."

These days, they had been waiting on the outskirts of the Yellow Turbans for this person. In order to recruit Xi Zhicai, Su Fan had also accompanied him, waiting for that person to appear.

"Good! At that time, I will have to ask Brother Ning'an to lend me a hand."

Xi Zhicai knew clearly that relying on his current cultivation alone, it would not be easy to take revenge. The Yellow Turban Colonel who broke through his father-in-law's fort had strength at the eighth layer of Strength Refining, and he had tens of thousands of troops in his hands.

He was not the other man's opponent in a one-on-one fight, let alone the fact that the other man had tens of thousands of troops.

"Naturally, I can."

"Let's go! Gao Niu has already followed him."

"We will follow as well. It seems this person is going out to loot again."

Su Fan naturally did not have a good impression of the Yellow Turbans; after all, most of them only knew how to destroy. Who would be willing?

This was also the reason why the aristocratic families were unwilling to accept the Yellow Turbans, and even many scholars without connections were unwilling to join them.

In their eyes, the Yellow Turbans had no future at all.

This was also the biggest shortcoming of the peasant uprising army. ===== CHAPTER 195 =====