85. Pingding Hebei

Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song never expected that they would fall behind, and they didn't expect Lu Zhi to be so powerful that he could capture the head of the Yellow Turban alive, which is a great credit.

Later, more accurate news came, it turned out that Lu Zhi led his troops to attack the city, and his subordinate Changshui Sima Guo Peng led the army to break through the city first, rushed into the city and took the lead in breaking through the defense line of Zhang Jiao and capturing Zhang Jiao.

The first credit for affection is Guo Peng's.

Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun looked at each other, Sun Jian looked at Cao Cao with envy, Cao Cao's face was very complicated, excited, and unwilling to be left behind.

Nanyang Taishou Qin Jie looked at the four people with different faces, and his heart became even more anxious.

So the five main leaders reached a consensus.

Break the city at all costs!

As a result, the news that Zhang Jiao was captured alive and the Hebei Yellow Turban Army was pacified soon spread among the Han army in Nanyang.

The Han army was greatly shocked, and then there was a great psychological change, and Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun took this opportunity to launch a psychological offensive against the Yellow Turban Army in Nanyang City.

Zhang Jiao was captured alive, and the news of the end of the Yellow Turban Army in Hebei had a great impact on the Yellow Turban Army in Nanyang City.

Even if Han Zhong and the others, who were in the lead, tried their best to claim that this was fake and a ploy of the Han army, they didn't have to use a plan to play a trick for a long time, but at this time, anyone with a little brain could detect that something was wrong.

And after that, the offensive of the Han army suddenly became extremely fierce.

Cao Cao and Sun Jian personally led the army to attack the city, Qin Jie also personally went into battle, Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song personally went to the front line to supervise the battle, and the offensive of the Han army was several times more fierce than before, and the Yellow Turban Army in the city could not raise its head.

Han Zhong and other leaders are also beating drums in their hearts, although there is no real evidence to show that Zhang Jiao is finished, but once such news comes out, they can't hold it back.

During the day, they encouraged the soldiers and said that it didn't matter, the great sages and good teachers must still be fighting, it was the strategy of the Han army, but at night they held a private meeting to discuss the possibility of this matter.

Their hearts beat drums.

Compared to the doubts of the Yellow Turban Army in Nanyang, the Yellow Turban Army in Quyang collapsed completely, because they saw the decisive evidence-

The banner of the "General Tiangong" and some of the magic weapons used in the Taiping Dao sacrifice are very important, and what Zhang Jiao himself has mastered, but now they are all in the hands of the Han army......

Is General Tiangong really finished?

Is Guangzong finished?

They all looked at Zhang Bao, Zhang Bao's face was blue and white for a while, and he was at a loss.

He wanted to say that all this was a conspiracy of the Han army, and that the Han army was deceiving them, but how could he deny that flag and those magic weapons? That's what many people have seen, Zhang Jiao carries with him, doesn't this mean that Zhang Jiao has ......

The morale of the Yellow Turban Army in the city is close to collapse, everyone is in danger, everyone is worried about their own situation after Zhang Jiao dies, will they also die?

This battle of the Mandate of Heaven is obviously just, and it is clear that the sky is dead, why should our Huang Tian also die?

They are very puzzled and puzzled, there is no such chapter in the teachings of Taiping Dao!

How can this be explained?

However, before they could think of anything, the fierce offensive of the Han army began, and Lu Zhi led the main force to join forces with Dong Zhuo, and the strength reached 50,000 troops.

And there are more than 100,000 Yellow Turban troops in Xiaquyang, and there are only more than 20,000 who can fight, not more than 30,000, and more importantly, there is not much food in Xiaquyang.

And Zhang Bao didn't know how to deal with the current situation at all, he didn't know what else he could do, he was out of proportion, and he didn't know whether he should continue to fight or surrender or be gone.

Zhang Bao's confusion naturally caused very serious consequences.

For example, the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army lost the will to continue fighting, and fought the Han army purely by the instinct of survival, and the rules that did not have much became very chaotic, and finally there were rebels who tried to escape from Xiaquyang City to fend for themselves.

Zhang Bao had no choice but to lead the army to suppress it, and as a result, the rest of the Yellow Turban Army fought each other in Xiaquyang City while fighting the Han army outside the city, which was very funny.

The result is also self-evident, the more fierce the Han army's offensive, the more panicked the Yellow Turban Army couldn't find a way out, the more they wanted to go out of the city to escape, the more intense the civil strife became, and finally there was arson and burning the granary to force Zhang Bao to open the city gate and let everyone escape.

At the end of July, the food in the city of Xiaquyang was exhausted, and the defenders were exhausted and could no longer resist the offensive of the Han army.

On the first day of August, Lu Zhi led the army to launch a general attack, and Guo Peng led 3,000 soldiers and horses under his command to join the pace of charging and attacking the city with shields, and arrived at the city of Xiaquyang in one fell swoop, and set up a cloud ladder to rush up the city wall.

The Yellow Turban Army was powerless to resist, the Han army ant attached to the city, Guo Peng led the army to climb first, killed the Yellow Turban Army at the head of the city, attacked the city, opened the city gate, and let Dong Zhuo's iron cavalry in.

Dong Zhuo personally led the cavalry into the city and launched a bloody massacre of the weakened Yellow Turban Army and Taiping Daoists in the city.

Zhang Bao led the last Yellow Turban elite to fight and retreat, wanting to leave Xiaquyang to find another way to make a living, but was besieged by Dong Zhuo's subordinate Duan Xuan led by soldiers and horses, and after a fierce kill, Zhang Bao's head was cut off by Duan Xuan, and the Yellow Turban Army in the city completely collapsed.

What happened to Guangzong happened again in Xiaquyang, and this time, due to the addition of the Liangzhou soldiers whose life style was close to the Hu people, the bloodiness was even worse than that of Guangzong.

Guo Peng was still the same, and after leading the army to besiege and kill a group of Yellow Turban troops and loot some property to satisfy his subordinates, he restrained his subordinates to slowly withdraw from Xiaquyang City.

Looking at Xiaquyang City, which was shrouded in black smoke and howling miserably, Guo Peng's heart no longer fluctuated.

Who is right and who is wrong, who is right and who is wrong, there is no meaning for Guo Peng, he doesn't care anymore.

He killed Zhang Liang, captured Zhang Jiao alive, and repeatedly made war exploits, so it is no problem to find an official who is higher than Changshui Sima.

However, his age is a hard injury, Cao Cao and other thirty-year-old mature men can directly release two thousand stone officials after making merits, and he may not be able to obtain the position of two thousand stones so smoothly.

He didn't know how Lu Zhi would help him plan, but Guo Peng felt that it was no longer a problem for Lu Zhi to take the title of marquis.

Guo Peng asked the Xiahou brothers and Cao Ren what their plans were after this battle, Xiahou Yuan and Cao Ren did not hesitate to say that they would follow Guo Peng to continue to make contributions and be his subordinates, while Xiahou Yuan hesitated a little and said that he was willing to follow Guo Peng to continue the war.

Guo Peng smiled and nodded, and accepted their following, no matter what position he would be assigned to in the future, he would also take these three people, who were also his own family, trustworthy and reliable.