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Even though Yang Rui needed a few days to recover, Yang Rui still sent Li Dong and thirty other beginner generals south to keep an eye on Yang Rui's headquarters. Yang Rui only left three beginner generals and all the soldiers with him.
Zhang Bao's army was only four hours away from the village that Yang Rui had conquered. Moreover, Zhang Bao and his men had been traveling north all this time. Li Dong and the others quickly found their target after just two hours. Once again, they attracted the attention of three Yellow Turban Generals, several dozen Fifth Grade Yellow Turban Knights, and over three hundred Fifth Grade Yellow Turban Soldiers who had used Horse Travel Talismans!
According to Yang Rui's instructions, Li Dong didn't fight the pursuers head-on. Instead, he led the pursuers to Yang Rui's village. There was no clear way to revive beginner generals at the moment. Any death or injury would be a significant loss. That was why Yang Rui told Li Dong and the others to act according to their strength. If they weren't confident in winning, they had to avoid battle!
When the Yellow Turban pursuers were led to Yang Rui's village, the Fifth Grade bandit leader who was patrolling outside reported back. Yang Rui was able to make preparations in advance! When the Yellow Turban pursuers arrived, they were first ambushed by the archers arranged by Yang Rui. Many of them died!
With the cooperation of the Fourth Grade archers and the Fourth Grade cavalry, the remaining Yellow Turban pursuers couldn't do much. They were quickly exterminated!
However, one of the three yellow-turban generals was an intermediate level general. Because Yang Rui was injured and couldn't participate, the junior level generals under him surrounded the yellow-turban intermediate level general and fought for a long time before he fell to the ground. A few of the junior level generals even suffered some minor injuries! However, it didn't affect their combat ability!
This group of Yellow Turban pursuers dropped one beginner internal cultivation technique skill book, one advanced special skill book, two basic internal cultivation technique skill books, two special skill books, nearly twenty Fifth Grade 'Charge' skill books, over a hundred advanced Fifth Grade Yellow Turban Strongman skill books, over fifty riding skill books, and related weapons and equipment.
Everything was ready. Li Dong once again brought 30 Junior Generals with him and headed south. Among them, 3 of the Junior Generals who were slightly injured were replaced by Yang Rui. They stayed in the village.
As the distance between Yang Rui and Zhang Bao's troops had been shortened once again, Li Dong only spent a little more than an hour to bring back another group of pursuers. As usual, they were easily dealt with by Yang Rui's troops. However, the number of pursuers had decreased slightly this time. There were only forty Fifth Grade Yellow Turban Cavalry and less than three hundred Fifth Grade Yellow Turban Strongmen. Apart from that, there was an additional Yellow Turban General amongst the pursuers. However, he was only a beginner general!
This happened again and again, and Zhang Bao's forces kept getting aggro. Every time they were lured, they would chase relentlessly until they reached Yang Rui's village. This gave Yang Rui the opportunity to lure and kill the Yellow Turban Cavalrymen!
By the time the sky turned dark, Li Dong and the others had already lured and killed over two hundred Fifth Grade Yellow Turban Cavalrymen, twenty-three Yellow Turban Generals, and eighteen hundred Fifth Grade Yellow Turban Strongmen! Yang Rui had obtained over sixty thousand merit points and credits. The number of skill books and equipment dropped by the Yellow Turban Cavalrymen was also increasing!
Yang Rui had also figured out a pattern from the numerous lures. Every time Zhang Bao's Yellow Turban Cavalrymen were sent out, the number of Fifth Grade Yellow Turban Strongmen was decreasing. At the same time, the number of Fifth Grade Yellow Turban Strongmen was also decreasing! By the time Li Dong lured and killed the Yellow Turban Cavalrymen for the last time, the number of Fifth Grade Yellow Turban Cavalrymen had decreased to ten, and the number of Fifth Grade Yellow Turban Strongmen was only forty to fifty!
The change in the number of Yellow Turban Cavalrymen allowed Yang Rui to see some clues. It was very likely that there were not many cavalrymen and 'horse talismans' left in Zhang Bao's army!
Just as Yang Rui expected, when Li Dong and the others continued to harass and lure Zhang Bao's Yellow Turban Cavalrymen the next day, the number of Yellow Turban Cavalrymen in Zhang Bao's army had decreased drastically. The number of Yellow Turban Soldiers that could chase after them became fewer and fewer. In the end, only three or four Yellow Turban Generals were able to catch up! Li Dong and the others no longer needed to return to Yang Rui's village. They could eliminate the Yellow Turban Cavalrymen on their own!
At this time, Yang Rui and the others had already fallen behind Zhang Bao's army. After a day of marching, Zhang Bao's army had already surpassed Yang Rui's village. They continued to head north! Yang Rui chose to follow behind the Yellow Turban Cavalrymen, waiting for an opportunity to attack and harass them.
It was unclear what the reason was. Zhang Bao's army could not increase their marching speed. Normally, it would only take four to five days to travel from Guangzong City to Crooked Sun City. However, ten days had passed, and Zhang Bao and the others had only covered half of the distance! One had to admit that it was very strange!
As the threat of the Yellow Turban Cavalrymen and Yellow Turban Strongmen had been eliminated, Li Dong and the others had investigated Zhang Bao's army a few times. There were not many resources in the army that could affect their marching speed, nor were there any soldiers that moved too slowly. As such, they could not tell what was affecting Zhang Bao's marching speed!
Zhang Bao's slow marching speed was naturally to Yang Rui's advantage. If he could kill more of the Yellow Turban Cavalrymen along the way, Yang Rui would probably be able to obtain more storyline mission verification by the end of the mission!
Since Zhang Bao's army had basically lost their mobility, Yang Rui decided to send one thousand five hundred Fourth Grade Cavalrymen to Li Dong. Li Dong and the other thirty Beginner Generals would lead them respectively. They would constantly harass Zhang Bao's Yellow Turban Cavalrymen, causing their already slow marching speed to decrease significantly!
"System Announcement: In the regional storyline [Battle of Guangzong], Left Commander Huangfu Song's army, Cavalry Commandant Cao Cao's army, Julu Governor Feng Yi's army, Revolutionary Army Liu Bei's army have broken through Guangzong City. Commander Zhang Liang led the remaining Yellow Turban Cavalrymen to the north! Guangzong City has been reclaimed by Han Ting's camp … "
Just as Yang Rui was using the mobility of his troops to tail and harass Zhang Bao, a system announcement suddenly came. Guangzong City had been broken through! Commander Zhang Liang did not die in Guangzong City. Instead, he led the remaining Yellow Turban Cavalrymen to the north!
Although Zhang Liang only led the remaining Yellow Turban Cavalrymen, Yang Rui guessed that their numbers would not be small. There were more than a million Yellow Turban Cavalrymen in Guangzong City. Even if it was just the remaining Yellow Turban Cavalrymen, their strength should not be underestimated! Most importantly, the system announcement did not mention anything about Big Boss Zhang Jiao. If he had died in battle, the system announcement would have been made long ago. Therefore, it was very likely that he was with Zhang Liang's army!
Actually, what Yang Rui did not know was that after the previous system announcement, most of the players had received a notification about the next phase of the quest! The quest for the final battle of Guangzong had ended. While the system was calculating the rewards, the players had also received a new quest, 'Hunt down the remaining Yellow Turban Cavalrymen'! It was not like Yang Rui was worried that he would have to face both Zhang Bao's and Zhang Liang's Yellow Turban Cavalrymen at the same time.
Not long after the system announcement, Zhang Bao's Yellow Turban Cavalrymen also started to move. Zhang Bao originally had twenty thousand Yellow Turban Cavalrymen, but now, two-thirds of them were heading south again. The remaining Yellow Turban Cavalrymen numbered only seven to eight thousand! This made Yang Rui very confused. He did not know what Zhang Bao's plan was!
Zhang Bao had left Guangzong City early. It was very suspicious that he had left his two brothers and acted alone. At this time, it was obviously too late for him to turn back. Therefore, Yang Rui was confused about the purpose of Zhang Bao's Yellow Turban Cavalrymen heading south!
However, Zhang Bao's Yellow Turban Cavalrymen had created more opportunities for Yang Rui. At this time, the number of Yellow Turban Cavalrymen under Zhang Bao's Yellow Turban Cavalrymen was only twice the number of Yang Rui's Yellow Turban Cavalrymen! Yang Rui immediately increased the intensity of his harassment and ambushes. He planned to quickly reduce the number of Yellow Turban Cavalrymen. In the end, he even planned to take them all down!
However, to Yang Rui's surprise, after Zhang Bao's Yellow Turban Cavalrymen split up, no matter how many times Yang Rui sent people to harass them, the Yellow Turban Cavalrymen only stayed where they were. They were no longer aggroed and lured by Zhang Bao's Yellow Turban Cavalrymen. They were probably bound by a compulsory order!
As such, baiting and killing the Yellow Turban Cavalrymen like before was no longer possible! Yang Rui had no choice but to send out Li Dong and the Fifth Grade bandit leader during the night to kill some of the Yellow Turban Cavalrymen outside the camp. Then, he had his archers hide in the Yellow Turban Cavalrymen's paths and ambush some of the Yellow Turban Cavalrymen! All in all, the efficiency of killing the Yellow Turban Cavalrymen had decreased significantly. The number of Yellow Turban Cavalrymen they killed each day had decreased by seventy to eighty percent!
However, as the Yellow Turban Cavalrymen would always stay where they were when they were ambushed, Yang Rui had already divided his cavalry into several groups. Each group was led by two or three beginner generals. They were constantly sent to harass Zhang Bao's Yellow Turban Cavalrymen. As a result, the marching speed of the Yellow Turban Cavalrymen was even slower. They couldn't cover much distance in a single day!
Another two days passed in this manner. Zhang Bao's forces were starting to get anxious. They stopped when they passed by a riverbank and got into formation, as if they were going to fight to the death with Yang Rui's forces!
At this time, the Three Kingdoms Civilization Area was suffering from a drought. Although the riverbank was very wide, it was already close to drying up. Zhang Bao's troops did not have any protection here. Yang Rui did not know what the purpose of this was. He was very suspicious!
Before Yang Rui could figure out what was going on, a Daoist slowly walked out from Zhang Bao's formation. This person was tall and thin. He had a lean face and a haughty gaze. His wide Daoist robe fluttered in the wind, giving him the demeanor of a transcendent being!
This person held a slender wooden sword in one hand and slowly threw out a talisman with the other. When the talisman was several feet away from the Daoist, this person pointed with the slender wooden sword and a huge ball of water immediately appeared in the air. Then, with a whoosh, it all spread out on the riverbed! The originally dry riverbed was immediately flooded, surging toward Yang Rui and his forces on the other side of the river!
There was such a Daoist among Zhang Bao's forces! Yang Rui couldn't help but be surprised!
In fact, if Yang Rui had participated in the battle when Dong Zhuo besieged Guangzong City, he would have recognized this Daoist! This Daoist was Zhang Jiao, the leader of the Yellow Turban Cavalrymen, who used the Divine Power of Water and Divine Power of Fire to defeat Dong Zhuo!
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