"Big leader, although our army has tens of thousands, it is mainly focused on capturing Yang's County. Looking at the city head of Yangshi County, there are quite a lot of people and horses, and I think that the people in the city have been recruited to help defend the city. Therefore, if we want to seize this Yang County as soon as possible, we must invest enough troops to attack the city. This will be a vicious battle, but as long as we fight them in one fell swoop, then Yang's County will be our Yellow Turban Army. As for Liulin Village on the other side of the river, after all, it is only a village and town, and it is not appropriate to waste too many troops there, I believe that there are 3 to 5,000 troops enough to destroy the enemy in Liulin Village. The key now is actually the question of crossing the river. A two-pronged approach is recommended. Chu Feiyan said.

"Oh? How is it? Zhang Niujiao admires Chu Feiyan very much, this nominal righteous son, who is brave, resourceful, and courageous, and many times, he is willing to listen to his opinions.

Chu Feiyan pondered for a while and said: "It turns out that there are more than 3,000 people in the vanguard army of Luo Shiqu Shuai, and you can send two or three thousand more men and horses together, and then order a general to take command, and lead these thousands of men and horses to build a pontoon bridge on the one hand, and make a raft on the other." If the pontoon bridge is successfully built, the original vanguard army of 3,000 men and horses will be the vanguard to immediately cross the river to Liulin Village, and the rest of the men and horses will follow to cross the river as a support team. With thousands of people crossing the river, Liulin Village is within our control. If the pontoon bridge could not be built smoothly, the raft was used to cross the river, but with the addition of the original raft, a raft that could cross 3,000 people and horses at a time was made, so that the 3,000 men and horses of the original vanguard army could cross the river first. They crossed the river, not seeking a quick battle, but only hoping that they could stabilize their positions after crossing the river, and then wait for the rest of the men and horses to cross the river and kill together in Liulin Village. ”

"What's so important about this?"

"Great Chief, based on the experience of the men and horses who crossed the river to fight earlier, it can be proved that there should be an army in Liulin Village now that can easily destroy more than 1,000 of our horses. But the last general thought that this should also be the limit of Liulin Village. It's a pity that none of our people will be able to flee back and report their situation, otherwise we would have known the strength of the other side. But don't worry, according to the general's estimate, there are more than 2,000 people in Liulin Village at most, and it will never exceed 3,000 people. In this way, as long as our army can cross 3,000 men and horses at a time, then it is enough to fight against the men and horses of Liulin Village, and increase more than half of the men and horses, can't this destroy them? If the men and horses of Liulin Village can fight head-on with our five or six thousand men and horses and can still win the battle, then we don't need to stay here to attack Yang's County, and it is better to withdraw our troops quickly. Because if the soldiers and horses of Liulin Village can destroy our five or six thousand military horses, then it is enough to show that they can attack any side of our Yang County at any time. If you add in the fact that the men and horses in the city can go out of the city to attack at any time, our army is in danger. Then it is not advisable to stay here for long. ”

Chu Feiyan explained to Zhang Niujiao.

After listening to this, Zhang Niujiao nodded, agreeing with Chu Feiyan's analysis.

He turned his head to look at the leader to his left and right, and his eyes fell on a leader who was covered in a pair of leather armor and wore a tuft of long feathers on his head.

"Marshal Wulu Qu, I originally planned for you to divide your troops to loot Liulin Village. So how about you lead 3,000 men and horses to attack Liulin Village now? The 3,000 men and horses of the former Luo City Qu Shuai will be included in your headquarters in the future and will be commanded by you. However, the remaining military horses of your department must be included in the base camp, and they will be uniformly dispatched by me to participate in the siege of Yangshi County. ”

"Subordinates obey!" Wulu hesitated for a moment, then answered loudly.

Wulu's headquarters of men and horses, in fact, a total of seven or eight thousand horses, left two or three thousand people to guard his cottage camp in Montenegro, and brought about five thousand men and horses out this time. Now the big leader Zhang Niujiao directly assigned the 3,000 men and horses under the command of Yuan Luo City to him, which is a good thing. Although he wants to hand over his 2,000 men and horses to Zhang Niujiao, this two or two is equivalent to giving himself an extra 1,000 men and horses. In addition, if Yang County is successfully captured, the 2,000 men and horses that are now under Zhang Niujiao's command will definitely return to his command. In this way, when he returns to Montenegro, his men and horses will reach tens of thousands, and his strength will increase greatly.

"Okay, then you go first, remember to do it as soon as possible, don't wait for us to attack the city, as long as you are ready, you can act immediately. After all, Liulin Village is different from Yang's County, and if it's late, it's not good to let the people of Liulin Village transfer the money and grain. ”

Zhang Niujiao waved Wulu away.

"Marshal Huanglongqu, please lead a group of men and horses to attack the north gate of Yangshi County, the left colonel to attack the south gate of the city, and Yu Yigen to attack the east gate." Zhang Niujiao gave another order to the Yellow Turban leaders on the left and right, then took a deep breath and said loudly: "The whole army listens to the order, and in an hour, the whole army will attack the city together!" ”

In order to show his determination to attack Yangshi County in one go, Zhang Niujiao did not let people set up camp first. He thinks that there is no such need, as long as Yang County is captured, then the military horses can enter Yang County, not to mention spending effort to camp outside the city? He didn't want to stay here and fight a protracted battle with Yang's County, even if it was three or two days, he thought it would be a waste of time.

Uneasy battalion, this can also directly give a message to the military horses below, that is, the determination to capture Yang County.

Zhang Niujiao followed the generals to retreat to the back, found a clean place, and temporarily set up a simple camp tent as a big tent for the Chinese army. This is mainly to block the continuous rain.

Not far away, there were woods, and the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army, who had been assigned to make siege equipment, ran to cut down the trees. For a while, the sound of cutting down trees came and went, and trees fell one after another.

Two hours in an hour is indeed enough for them to do a lot of things.

It didn't take long for them to get out of the city with simple siege ladders.

Most of these ladders are a long tree pole more than 10 or 20 meters long, using some branches on the big tree pole, and then chiseling a hole in the middle of the tree, and inserting a horizontal branch into it. That is, to make it like a centipede, such a simple siege ladder was made.

During the siege of the city, several people carried such a large tree pole to the top of the city, so that their soldiers could step on the horizontal branches of the tree pole and rush to the top of the city.

Because such ladders are simple, it takes some time to dig through tree holes, and some tools are used, but this is nothing, so they have made a large number of siege ladders.

In comparison, it took more time for Wulu to lead the people to erect the pontoon bridge and make the raft.

At the beginning, Wulu really wanted to use the hundreds of intact rafts to build a pontoon bridge, and wanted to cross the river as soon as possible to loot Liulin Village. He also had the same mind as Luo Shi earlier, as long as he looted Liulin Village, whether it was justified or not, he would get a batch of money and food first. In this era, you won't panic if you have money and food in your hands, and as for the money and grain in Yang's County, you have to take it down. Therefore, Wulu's heart is also more anxious.

It's a pity that when he was letting people support the raft and wanted to fix the bridge piles in the river with the big tree poles he cut down first, Huang Zhong led the cavalry to appear on the other side of the river. As soon as the soldiers holding the raft reached the center of the river, about a distance of one or two hundred meters from the shore on the opposite bank, Huang Zhong used his bow and arrow to shoot the soldiers on their raft.

This ability to walk through a hundred steps really scared Wulu. The soldiers on the raft were shot, the raft lost control and was washed away by the river, and after losing a few rafts, Wulu also gave up the idea of building a pontoon bridge.

If the two armies are fighting and need to cross the river to fight, even if they want to build a pontoon bridge, it is impossible to complete the construction under the eyes of the other side. After all, it is impossible for the other party to build the pontoon bridge smoothly if it is changed to one side. It is necessary to avoid the eyes and ears of the other party, build the pontoon bridge without the enemy's knowledge, and then cross the river quickly and secretly.

In another place, it is not feasible to drive the men and horses upstream to build a pontoon bridge, especially if you see that the other party has hundreds of cavalry and a master of archery. After all, all the movements on his own side are in the eyes of the other party, and if he changes places, he will not be faster than the other party's war horse.

Instead of doing some useless work, it is better to honestly cut down raft trees to make a raft.

Soon, an hour passed.

In this hour, the Black Mountain Yellow Turban Army was not all waiting, and their men and horses moved quickly to the surroundings of Yangshi County, completely surrounding Yangshi County.

At the same time, they also sent men and horses to constantly harass Yang's county, either sending some generals to fight under the city, or sending some archers to rush forward to fire arrows at the city.

These are all common tricks in siege warfare, if you are in a hurry to attack the city, then you must constantly put pressure on the city, so that the defenders are always in a tense and tense state of mind.

Fighting and scolding, scolding as ugly as the words are, this is not only to provoke anger, if the enemy does not dare to fight, this is also invisibly equivalent to a blow to the morale of the other party. In addition, if you can shoot arrows at the head of the city from time to time, if you can shoot some of the soldiers defending the city, it can also do the same to reduce the morale of the defenders.

War is about using everything, and any means can be used.

Of course, in this ancient era, there were rules of war, or they were not rules, but there were some traditional conventions and rules of war.

For example, when the two sides are at war, they first write a war book, then lay out the carriages and horses, agree on a battlefield, put out a formation, and then attack each other. However, such an ancient method of warfare has long been outdated for the present. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, these ancient conventional methods of warfare have been eliminated.

Anyway, it's just a sentence, war is to do everything, one attack and one defense, and its purpose is to attack the other side and defeat the other side.

In Yang's County, the generals have not been idle, they keep walking around the city, staring at the situation outside the city, and constantly cheering up the soldiers defending the city on their side.

Earlier, what they said to the soldiers defending the city compared the Yellow Turban Army under the city to the waves of the sea is indeed very vivid, so that the people at the head of the city no matter how high the wind and waves are outside the city and under the city, but I stand still, let you pounce, let's wait for you to pounce, and then watch you pounce to pieces.

At this time, no matter what happened to the Yellow Turban Army under the city, everyone looked at them indifferently from the perspective of a bystander, and when they attacked, everyone did what they had prepared.

Therefore, at this time, the soldiers and civilians at the head of the city are indeed relatively calm, even if they are surrounded by the Yellow Turban Legion, they will not be particularly alarmed.

Of course, the main thing is that everyone knows that the viciousness of these Yellow Turban thieves makes them have hatred in addition to fear of them. Everyone knows the consequences if these Yellow Turban troops are allowed to break through the city, so they are now all united, and they will fight them no matter what, and they will definitely fight to the end.

Knock knock!

When the hour comes, the drums of war rise.

The Yellow Turbans officially began the siege war.

On the side of the Yellow Turban Army, although they were in a hurry to capture Yang's County, they didn't really want to attack the city desperately, after all, they all knew that the siege war was extremely cruel, and it could almost be said that whoever went first would die first.

Therefore, they must first consume some materials for defending the city, first carry out some tentative attacks, and then find out the weaknesses of the defenders through observation, and then attack the weak section of the city wall as the direction of the main attack.

However, even if it was a tentative attack, they dispatched a relatively large number of troops. On each side of the city wall, the first wave of attacks by the Yellow Turban Army dispatched thousands of men.

In this way, the sum of the four walls is equivalent to the dispatch of 4,000 men. Relatively speaking, 4,000 people is already much more than the official people in Yangshi County.

Huang Xu, Wang Bao and Huang Wudie were responsible for commanding the men and horses in the west of the city to defend the city. This direction can actually be regarded as the main direction of attack of the Yellow Turban Army.

The 1,000 men and horses of the Yellow Turban Army, they lined up and slowly drove towards the city wall.

When they reached the range of their bows and arrows, they suddenly heard in unison, and they sped towards the city walls.

Because the time was too tight, Yang's County did not have time to do too many actions to defend the city. For example, there was no time to dig a moat outside the city, nor did he have time to dig some traps outside the city to delay the enemy's siege. The Yang County side only had time to make a number of obstacles such as antlers in the area in front of the city gate to block the direct impact of the Yellow Turban Army on the city gate.

But these don't make a big difference, and they can easily be damaged.

What's more, at this time, the siege men and horses of the Yellow Turban Army did not come directly towards the city gate, but rushed to the city walls on both sides of the city gate.

Comparatively speaking, the towers at the gates are definitely taller, and the walls on both sides are slightly lower.

When the Yellow Turbans rushed within range of the bows and arrows at the head of the city, the defenders at the head of the city were not idle.

With the general's shouting order, a flurry of arrows shot down.