Han Zhan and Dian Wei rushed to the north gate with five hundred soldiers, and saw that a neat wooden fence had been erected at the gap. Outside the city gate tower, a group of people who participated in the repair of the city wall were gathered, and they were going to the designated position for defense under the arrangement of the officials. Except for a few who had weapons, most of the men carried hoes or poles.

When Han Zhan went up to the city wall, he suddenly heard someone shouting to himself: "Envoy, envoy." ”

He turned his head to see that it was the lame carpenter who was helping him make the wheelbarrow, and he smiled and nodded at the other man. Seeing that Han Zhan was so approachable, the carpenter boldly asked, "Envoy, I heard that there are thousands of Yellow Turban thieves who are coming to attack, can we stop them?" ”

Hearing the lame carpenter asking Han Zhan, the people who were standing next to the battlements also gathered around. Dian Wei and Rob hurriedly stood in front of Han Zhan, trying to isolate him from those people.

Han Zhan pushed aside Dian Wei and Luo Bu who were blocking in front of him, and asked the people standing in front of him, "Everyone, I don't know what you have to say, do you want to say to this envoy?" ”

"Your Excellency," as soon as his words fell, someone immediately repeated the lame carpenter's words in a loud voice: "There are thousands of Yellow Turban Thieves, and we have such a few people, can we stop them?" His words drew an immediate response.

Seeing that the people were full of fear of the approaching Yellow Turban Army, Han Zhan hurriedly raised his hands and waved forward in the air, signaling everyone to be quiet first. When the city walls were quiet again, he said loudly: "Don't panic, people, although there are thousands of Yellow Turban thieves, they have come from afar, and they have no siege equipment, so they will never be able to rush into the city. ”

In order to reassure the people, he added: "This envoy will fight the enemy on the city wall with all the people, and will never take a step back and fight the Yellow Turban Thieves to the end." If the thieves want to enter the city, they must not step on the corpse of the envoy! ”

After he finished speaking, there was silence on the city walls. After a while, I heard the lame carpenter say in a loud voice: "Fellow villagers, so that you can come to the city in person, and fight the enemy side by side with everyone, what else are you afraid of, we swear to advance and retreat with the envoy, and fight the Yellow Turban Thief to the end!" ”

Hearing the lame carpenter's words, the surrounding people shouted in unison: "We swear to advance and retreat with the envoy and fight the Yellow Turban Thief to the end!" The louder they shouted, the more neatly they shouted, to the surprise of the little officials standing aside, who had just made a lot of effort reluctant to accept the task of defending the city. can make a few words, and everyone's enthusiasm will be mobilized.

When the people around dispersed, Han Zhan asked the lame carpenter with concern: "Your legs and feet are not good, don't participate in the defense of the city, let's go back and rest." ”

The lame carpenter replied with a smile: "Please rest assured, although the grass people have inconvenient legs, their hands are quite flexible. He raised the axe he was holding in his hand, "The grass people are standing by the battlements, and if a yellow turban thief comes up, I will cut him down with an axe." Let's split one by one, and come with two split a pair. ”

The scene described by the lame carpenter reminded Han Zhan of the game of whack-a-mole he had played in the playground before, and he couldn't help but laugh dumbly. He raised his hand and patted the carpenter on the shoulder, and then led Dian Wei and a few hundred soldiers towards the gap in the wall not far away.

When he arrived at Muzha, Dian Wei began to dispatch troops. The two hundred soldiers who followed Han Zhan from Jizhou were all sword and shield hands; And the recruits who were recruited after arriving in Sheguo County were all pikemen. Immediately against the wooden fence was a column of sword and shield men, and behind them, two columns of pikemen. The remaining column of sword and shield men and a column of pikemen remained behind.

Rob with one hand on his waist and the other on the hilt of his sword, followed closely behind Han Zhan, not leaving an inch. The reason why he did this was because before leaving the county office, Xun Yu had privately told him that he must protect Han Zhan's safety, and if he saw that the situation was not good, he would immediately take Han Zhan and flee for his life.

In order to complete the task assigned by Xun Yu, he not only stuck to Han Zhan like a dog skin plaster, but also the ten cavalry under his command stayed in an alley near the city wall at the moment, and if they found that the situation was wrong, they would immediately rush out to respond.

After Dian Wei arranged the defensive formation, he listened to the faint sound of gongs in the city, and knew that this was a government official who had been ordered by Han Zhan, and was informing the residents on the street not to walk around and stay at home, so as not to cause unnecessary chaos. He walked in front of Han Zhan, pointed to the city tower more than twenty zhang away, and said to Han Zhan: "Envoy, anyway, the city tower is not far from here, you should go to the city tower." ”

After hearing this, Han Zhan waved his hand and said resolutely: "No need, this envoy wants to stay with you and see with your own eyes how you repelled the attack of the Yellow Turban Thieves." ”

Through this period of contact, Dian Wei had some understanding of Han Zhan's character, and knew that he must have decided something and would never change his mind again, so he did not continue to persuade, but threw a meaningful look at Luo Bu, who was standing behind Han Zhan, signaling that he must protect Han Zhan's safety.

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After a long wait, a black line appeared on the horizon in the distance, and soon the black line grew thicker and thicker, resembling a black belt. Han Zhan understood in his heart that the Yellow Turban Army was coming.

Since coming to this era, Han Zhan has seen countless lives and deaths, and even killed one person with his own hands, but at this moment, facing the thousands of Yellow Turban troops who were coming towards the city, his heartbeat still accelerated uncontrollably.

Soon, the Yellow Turbans were only two hundred paces from the city walls. Han Zhan, who was condescending, saw that these Yellow Turban troops wearing coarse cloth clothes, although there were many of them, they did not carry any siege equipment, and even most of them were holding some sharpened wooden sticks in their hands.

After seeing such equipment from the Yellow Turban Army, Han Zhan put the heart he had chosen in his throat back into his stomach. He shouted at the soldiers who were waiting for him: "Brothers, you have all seen it. Although the Yellow Turbans were numerous, they did not carry any siege equipment, but they did not have any decent weapons in their hands. And ye said, Can ye stop them? ”

"Yes! We can! Five hundred soldiers replied neatly.

"Since the brothers are so confident," Han Zhan said while the iron was hot, "then we will kill them one of them." ”

"Kill them and drop them!"

When the vanguard of the Yellow Turban approached the city wall, the leader of the group saw a huge gap and thought that he could rush into the city by rushing up the slope. He was in a hurry to grab the merit, and he didn't send anyone to report to the Qu Shuai behind, so he personally rushed up with hundreds of Yellow Turban soldiers.

Facing the rushing Yellow Turban Army, Dian Wei behaved extremely calmly, he raised an iron halberd high, his eyes were fixed on those Yellow Turban Army, and when they were only five or six steps away from the wooden fence, he suddenly waved the iron halberd downward, and shouted in a voice like thunder: "Thorn! ”

At his command, a row of spears stabbed out of the gap in the shield behind the fence like a viper spitting out letters, and then quickly retracted. After a series of screams, a group of Yellow Turbans fell in front of the wooden fence, and some of the wounded, who had not been stabbed and could not move, were falling to the ground covering their wounds and howling.

Because everything happened so quickly, the Yellow Turbans behind continued to rush towards the wooden fence under the action of huge inertia, but were immediately pierced by the spears and bayonets on the ground. Some fell directly in front of the wooden fence, while others fell on their backs and rolled down the slope. Seeing the officers and soldiers here in the gap, they easily killed the first group of Yellow Turban troops who rushed up, and the people on the nearby city wall immediately cheered.

The commander of the Yellow Turban Army was taken aback when he learned of the defeat of the front team, and immediately drove his horse to the front team, wanting to find out the reality of the defenders, and then launch an attack to see if he could break through the defenders' defenses. When he came to the front team and was observing not far from the city wall, he suddenly heard the rear team messing up as if it had blown up a nest, and he couldn't help but turn his head to look behind him in annoyance, trying to figure out what was going on.

A leader ran up to him and shouted: "Qu Shuai, something is wrong, there are officers and soldiers coming up from behind us!" ”

"Nonsense!" Qu Shuai glared at the leader and said viciously: "There are only a few hundred county soldiers in the city, how can they come from our rear to sneak attack?" If you lie about the military, believe it or not, I'll kill you right away. ”

"It's not the county soldiers in the city," said the leader with a crying voice, "the strong crossbowmen from other places are still far away, and they release arrows, and the brothers in the rear team have no strength to fight back, and they have suffered heavy losses at this moment." ”

Qu Shuai set up a pergola with his hand and looked into the distance, only to see hundreds of officers and soldiers wearing Jizhou costumes, shooting at his rear team with crossbow arrows. Arrows flew like locusts to their men in patches. In the midst of the screams, his subordinates fell in pieces, and the rest were even more panicked, scurrying around like headless flies.

Seeing this emotion, Qu Shuai was so frightened that he quickly turned his horse's head and fled in the northwest direction, shouting in his mouth: "The officers and soldiers are coming, run!" ”

Seeing that Qu Shuai had already taken the lead in running, those leaders immediately followed, and the surrounding Yellow Turban Army saw that the officials had run away, although they didn't understand what was going on, they felt that it was definitely right to run along, and they also chased down the route where the officials escaped.

Han Zhan, who was standing at the head of the city, looked blankly at the support army that suddenly appeared in the distance, and was very surprised, and said in his heart, where did this army come from? Because he couldn't figure out the origin of the other party, and the number of defenders in the city was small, he did not give the order to pursue, but ordered his men to open the city gate to welcome reinforcements into the city.