Before the Yellow Turban Army outside the city attacked the city, Liu Xian allowed ordinary people to climb to the top of the city to see the situation outside the city.

And the people who saw the Yellow Turban Army outside the city felt a little flustered, and their scalps were numb. The main reason is that there are too many Yellow Turban thieves, and they have surrounded Beihai City on three sides and are preparing for a large-scale attack.

"Fellow fathers and fellow villagers, have you seen it? Those outside the city are the Yellow Turban Bandits, who have killed our Beihai City before dawn, intending to attack our city. Fortunately, this time, the Liu Mansion caravan from Liulin Village, Julu County came to our Beihai. With Liu Xian, the young lord of the Liu Mansion, Liu Xian based on his experience in defeating the Yellow Turban Army in Liulin Village and Yangshi County, let the people of Beihai City participate in the matter of defending the city. Fortunately, our Beihai City was not successfully attacked by the Yellow Turban Army. ”

"Fathers and fellow villagers, everyone has made a strong contribution to the defense of the city as much as possible, which is related to the personal safety, life and property of our whole city. Only by guarding Beihai City can we live a better life. ”

"Everyone should also remember Liu Xiangongzi's life-saving kindness to the people of Beihai."

"Okay, let's all go down and help, the Yellow Turban thieves outside the city have nothing to look at, they are about to attack the city. Rest assured, with our government officers and soldiers, and our soldiers, we will definitely be able to defend the city. ”

"Haha? Scared? Seeing so many Yellow Turban thieves makes you scared and worried, right? In fact, you can rest assured, if there are many people, we have more people in Beihai City. Liu Xiangongzi said, we have more than 100,000 or 200,000 people in Beihai City, and the mass strength of our people is huge, as long as everyone obeys the order and works together, they will definitely be able to defend Beihai City and defeat the Yellow Turban Thief Army! ”

At the head of the city, some officials of the county guard, they recruited some literate and ink-literate people, and they were desperately preaching some things to the people, among them, they spared no effort to promote Liu Xian's goodness.

This is to brush up Liu Xian's prestige among the people of Beihai City in an open and honest way.

But not to mention, at this time, the people in the city really knew the whole process of defending the city this time, and knew that it was indeed because of Liu Xian's presence, so they mobilized the people of the whole city to defend the city together. No matter what you say, it was indeed Liu Xian who saved them all.

In normal times, the officials of the county guard, especially those like Taishou Liu Jie and several other officials who hold real power, they are not reputable in the minds of the people of Beihai, but they must be the most prestigious. But now, no one is talking about those officials, and they are basically mainly promoting Liu Xian.

Liu Xian was on the city gate tower at this time, and when he heard those shouts that openly brushed up his reputation, Liu Xian himself felt a little embarrassed.

Fortunately, Liu Jie, who was with Liu Xian, didn't care about this, otherwise, it would really not look good.

Speaking of which, Liu Jie, the county guard, is really useless, he didn't plan to defend the city, he was going to run away, if it weren't for Liu Xian, he was afraid that as soon as the Yellow Turban Army appeared, he would have fled first.

Now what Liu Jie cares about is whether he can really keep Beihai City safe according to Liu Xian's order. As for everything else, it's secondary.

Liu Xian asked people to report on the preparations for the defense of each city wall, and after listening to the report, he knew what to expect.

Each city wall has prepared a large number of materials to defend the city, and those materials are enough to give the Yellow Turban thieves who are besieging the city a headache.

Yesterday, when they just began to recruit the children of the people into an army, and when they collected some materials from the people to defend the city, they were not too active, if it were not for Liu Xian through the name of the government, if they had a certain amount of compulsion, then I am afraid it would be really difficult to form an army, and there would not be much collection of materials to defend the city.

But now it's different, the Yellow Turban Army really came to Beihai City, if they can't hold the city, then they will be the ones who will suffer. Therefore, as soon as the morning dawned, the people in the city, almost every household, desperately moved some of the heavy objects of their homes to the city and contributed them to the soldiers defending the city.

The heavy objects in the people's homes are generally bricks and stones, and if they don't have them, they will tear down the walls and houses, but anyway, they can always get some.

If one contributes some, then it adds up.

Today, the fortification materials on the head of the city have piled up.

Of course, some materials can be recycled after this incident has passed. Moreover, the battle has only just begun, and it is not yet time for the people to tear down the walls and houses.

The Yellow Turban Army only had a total of 30,000 men, and there were more Yellow Turban troops in the west of the city, about 10,000 in total, and then the more than 10,000 Yellow Turban troops who wanted to attack Beihai City from the south of the city had been divided into two, and half of the men and horses were transferred to the east of the city. In this way, the Yellow Turban Army in the south and east of the city is actually about seven or eight thousand people.

Just as those who preached shouted, the Yellow Turban Bandits outside the city looked like they had 30,000 troops, but if you only talked about the number of troops, the defenders of Beihai City were more than twice as many as them.

Originally, siege warfare was different from formation warfare, and it was different from a frontal decisive battle with a formation. The combat effectiveness of the sergeants on both sides is actually really negligible in the siege battle.

Regardless of whether the besieging horse's horses are strong or weak, they are actually on the disadvantageous side.

The siege of the city horses, whether strong or weak, as long as they kill close to the city wall, when attacking the city, in the face of the heavy objects smashed down from the city, as long as they are smashed, they will also end up with a whimper.

Therefore, the advantage of defending the city is this, even ordinary people, defending the city at the head of the city, without having to engage with the besieging side of the city, they can infinitely reduce the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the stronger besieging side.

It's just lifting heavy objects and smashing them down, even if it's a child or an elderly person.

Of course, the most important thing is that the defenders of the city must not panic, cannot be cowardly before fighting, and dare to fight the enemy who is besieging the city at a critical moment.

Now, whether it is the officers and soldiers, or the ordinary people and soldiers of the new army, they have no fear of fighting, especially the people in the city, they are constantly encouraging their own children, and when the people meet their own children in the city, they will deliberately step forward to encourage them.

In addition to telling them to pay attention to safety, he also told them to obey orders and smash and kill those dog-day yellow turban thieves.

Outside the city, compared to the city head that looked a little lively, the Yellow Turban thieves in front of Beihai City seemed a little quieter. Of course, they were busy making a fire, then having breakfast and gathering again.

At this time, the situation at the head of the city, especially the crowded and bustling situation, naturally could not hide from the eyes of the Yellow Turban Army under the city.

Seeing these situations, the Yellow Turbans couldn't help but wonder if they would be able to capture the city wall guarded by so many people.

At this moment, their hearts are bottomless.

However, even after seeing such a situation, the Yellow Turban leaders of the various tribes did not stop the idea of attacking the city.

At this moment, they really couldn't go home empty-handed, thinking in their hearts that they must capture Beihai City. Of course, in their hearts, they still fantasize that as long as they really attack the city on a large scale, let the officers and soldiers defending the city see the momentum of their army. Then it will definitely be able to deter the officers and soldiers defending the city, and when the time comes, it is best to scare them into abandoning the city and fleeing.

Gong Kuang's plan to encircle the three and one was really good, leaving a way for the officers and soldiers of Beihai City and the people to escape. Let the soldiers and civilians in Beihai City think that they can escape, and they don't have to fight desperately with their own army.

If the soldiers and civilians of Beihai City really escaped from the north, then Beihai City would immediately fall into their hands. As for the soldiers and civilians of Beihai City who escaped, they thought they could flee for their lives, but in fact, they would immediately send troops to pursue after capturing Beihai City. When the time comes, they will definitely have no way to escape, at least, the vast majority of people will not be able to escape.

With such a mentality, they gathered their men and horses and sent their siege troops.

Attacks were launched from all three sides.

At this time, Liu Xian was in front of the south of the city.

The Yellow Turban Army attacking the city dispatched about 3,000 men and horses, and slowly advanced to a place about 200 steps away from the city.

A member of the Yellow Turban military general slapped out.

"Listen to the officers and soldiers in the city, we are the Taishan Yellow Turban Army, this general Cheng Yi. Originally, our army only asked you Beihai County to pay us a certain amount of money and grain, so that we could coexist peacefully with each other, but unfortunately, you failed to pay money and grain according to our army's requirements, and you had no choice but to meet each other with swords and guns. Do you still want to resist now? Open the city gate and surrender, and our army can let you live. Otherwise, the day our army breaks through the city will be the time to slaughter the city! ”

"I want to teach you to know that this world will be the world of the Yellow Turban Army in the future, at least in this Beihai, in this Qingzhou, it is the territory of our Yellow Turban Army, and today our soldiers are 30,000, if you dare to fight with my Yellow Turban Army, then tomorrow may be 100,000, 200,000 troops, or even more military horses. Until you bulldoze Beihai City! ”

This is a pre-war declaration, ridiculous, completely unjustified, and simply untenable.

What is to give them money and bread? Who are they Yellow Turbans? The government still has to pay food to your Yellow Turban thief army?

"No more nonsense! A thief is a thief, he can't get on the stage, he plunders it, what other excuses do you need to find? We are not afraid of Beihai City! I'm here today waiting for you to attack, and see if you have three heads and six arms to attack. As for the 100,000 or 200,000 troops coming to attack in the future, that will be later. If you love to fight, you will fight, if you don't fight, get out! ”

Zheng Qing shouted at the head of the city and scolded unceremoniously.

"Who are you? Do you dare to go out of the city to fight? Cheng Yi heard someone answering, looked in the direction of the sound source of the city, and grabbed and pointed and shouted.

"Your brain got the donkey kicked? What are you? Going out of town to fight you? You are not qualified to fight General Ben. But it doesn't hurt to tell you, this general is Sima Zhengqing of the Beihai County Army, remember, when you go to hell, don't forget who killed you. ”

"Haha......"

The soldiers and civilians at the head of the city burst into laughter, and the morale of the anti-thieves was not at all problematic.

"Humph! You let your mouth be hard, and when the city is broken, don't cry and beg for mercy! ”

Cheng Yijian saw that it was difficult to deceive the city gate by scolding the fierce generals, and they did not have the patience to entangle with the officers and soldiers.

"Don't shed tears if you don't see the coffin, all the soldiers, give me a siege!"

At the sound of an order, the men and horses besieging the city moved in unison, shouted in unison, and rushed to the city wall.

It's a mess.

Those Yellow Turban soldiers who rushed towards the city wall really had no discipline to speak of, and there was nothing to say about the military formation.

It is no wonder that since the beginning of the uprising, they have been constantly plundering and plundering, and then fighting with the officers and soldiers of the imperial court, whether they attack or retreat, win or lose, they will not really train military horses, and there is no time for them to train military horses.

Anyway, it's just fighting and escaping, and that's how it came over.

Therefore, the Yellow Turban Army that rushed to the Beihai city wall, they were really like a swarm of bees, chaotic, and had no rules.

How so? Most of these Yellow Turban soldiers are actually disheveled, and it is not an exaggeration to describe them as ragged. The weapons in their hands are also strange, and they use everything.

If, ignoring the weapons they hold in their hands and the fierce demeanor with which they shout to kill, they look more like a group of beggars and outcasts who rush forward to grab a bun to fill their stomachs when they see someone handing out bread.

Some of them carried long siege ladders, and some carried hooks and ropes. If there is a rule of law, it is those Yellow Turban soldiers, who basically follow the siege equipment such as ladders.

But beware, they have little protective cover to speak of.

You know, when they rushed into the range of bows and arrows on the city, the officers and soldiers on the city had already begun to fire arrows at them.

This was not the time to attack the city in the early hours of the morning, and during the day, you could see the enemies rushing towards you, so you would definitely fire arrows at them before they rushed to the city walls.

In the face of the bows and arrows shot down from the city, the charging Yellow Turban soldiers, they basically took care of their own things, and no one would cover for those soldiers carrying the ladder, and they would not block the bows and arrows that came from the lower levels.

In this way, at a distance of more than 100 and 200 paces, there were Yellow Turban soldiers who were hit by arrows one after another, and the screams of the arrows fell to the ground.

Fortunately, even if it is an official officer and soldier, there are not too many bows and arrows, and there are only three or four hundred archers among the two thousand officers and soldiers in the entire Beihai county, which are divided into three other city walls, so one city wall is more than a hundred archers.

Of course, some of the guards of those noble families and landlords and wealthy families also brought their own bows and arrows, but this would not add up to more than three hundred archers.

In addition, it should be said that the thieves under the city are charging, rushing towards the city wall, in this high-speed movement, the bows and arrows shot down from the city, except for a very few of the archers who have good archery skills, the rest of the bows and arrows, most of them are shot in the air, even if they hit the Yellow Turban soldiers, it is also luck.

In this way, when the three thousand Yellow Turban thieves approached the city, they did not shoot many thieves, and it is estimated that there were less than 100 people.