Cheng Li was surprised by the movements of the Yellow Turban Army.

Standing next to him was his friend Xue Fang, the head of the Xue family in the city, who also felt strange when he heard Cheng Li say this.

"Zhongde, what's wrong with the Yellow Turban Thief? It's still early, and the troops are withdrawn? ”

Cheng Li frowned and thought for a moment, unable to think of a reason.

"The thieves have the advantage, we are in danger, they suddenly retreated, either there is a treacherous plan, or there is nothing to be done, isn't there reinforcements?"

Xue Fang was overjoyed and said, "Are there really reinforcements?" Imperial reinforcements have arrived? ”

Cheng Li was noncommittal.

"I also hope that reinforcements have arrived, otherwise, we may not be able to hold out for long."

A few months ago, the Yellow Turban Uprising, Dong'e County Cheng Wang Du secretly joined the Yellow Turban Army, cooperated with the Yellow Turban Army to try to capture Dong'e, and once occupied Dong'e.

However, under Cheng Li's planning, Dong'e County was recaptured, Wang Du fled, and Dong'e was preserved.

But soon after, Wang Du was unwilling to fail, and actually attracted an army of yellow turbans, which were numerous and extraordinary, and the leader was called Bu Ji, who was very fierce.

Dong'e County Ling was so frightened that he fell ill in bed and was unconscious, but at the critical moment, Cheng Li stood up.

He was publicly elected as the general of Dong'e County, acting as the position of Dong'e County, recruiting and commanding the fathers and elders of Dong'e County to form more than 1,000 defenders, and more than 3,000 strong men were responsible for serving them and defending Dong'e County together.

Fortunately, the Yellow Turban thieves lacked siege equipment, the siege methods were very simple, and the combat skills were also very poor.

However, the lack of soldiers and horses in Dong'e County could not give the Yellow Turban Army a great trauma and could not repel them, Cheng Li sent people out of the city to find support, but no one came back with support.

Either he died, or he escaped, Cheng Li guessed like this.

Cheng Li gradually despaired, feeling that he could only rely on his own efforts to exhaust the grain and grass of the Yellow Turban Army in order to protect Dong'e County, so he racked his brains to use various tricks, and was stunned not to let Bu already succeed.

Just when he felt that it was getting more and more difficult to support, the situation took such a turn.

He really hoped that reinforcements would come, give him a little hope, and let him support him.

He prayed to Heaven for reinforcements to arrive, and they did.

The soldiers on the watchtower in the city saw a force approaching from the west of Dong'e County to Dong'e County, with a clear banner and a strict military appearance, definitely not the Yellow Turban Army, not the reinforcements sent by the imperial court or the local volunteer reinforcements, in short, they came to save Dong'e.

The volunteers on the city wall were greatly surprised, and Cheng Li couldn't help but get excited.

On the other hand, Bu had learned that there were only two or three thousand Han troops who came to support Dong'e County, and after estimating and counting the number of people on his side, he felt that the number of people on his side far exceeded that of the Han army, and he suddenly felt confident again.

So he ordered the men in the Taiping Dao congregation, including the elderly and boys over ten years old, to also pick up weapons and join the war group, and gathered 10,000 troops to go out of the camp to meet the Han army.

Guo Peng made people observe the appearance of the Yellow Turban Army, and learned that the Yellow Turban Army was huge, about 10,000 in number, divided into several phalanxes, but the phalanx lacked shields, the soldiers were poorly dressed, the weapons were messy, and there were even wooden sticks and bamboo guns.

There are few cavalry, many foot soldiers, and even old men with white beards and boys who are less than five feet tall, which are not at all like elite divisions.

That's right, where did the Yellow Turban Army come from? The elite divisions were all wiped out by him, and all that remained was a rabble.

Guo Peng had confidence in his heart.

A rabble of 10,000 people, as well as miscellaneous fish with wooden sticks and bamboo guns, as well as old people and children, this is completely pulled out to scare the Han army, right?

It's a pity that it is still possible to deal with other Han armies, and it really doesn't work against the Han army that has just broken Zhang Jiao and Zhang Bao's Lian Zhan, or the Han army under the command of Guo Peng, who has established his prestige.

So Guo Peng led the soldiers and horses to approach the Yellow Turban Army, and the two sides held each other in an open field, it was about two o'clock in the afternoon, the temperature was high, the wind was weak, and there was almost no wind.

Guo Peng looked at it from afar, this number was indeed a bit frightening, more than 10,000 people were densely lined up, and they couldn't see the end at a glance, so Guo Peng ordered the war drums to be beaten, and the army shouted the battle horn to strengthen the momentum.

The war drums of the Han army sounded, and the soldiers shouted the battle horn in unison, and the sound was majestic all day long, and the Yellow Turban Army seemed to be a little slow to react, and it took a while to beat the war drums, and then there was a burst of shouting that was not orderly and untidy at all, and there was no momentum at all.

Guo Peng's confidence was even more sufficient, and he ordered the Han army to start advancing and attack first.

He ordered Xiahou Yuan to lead 500 cavalry on the left side of the Chinese army, Xiahoudun to lead 500 cavalry on the right side of the Chinese army, Cao Ren to lead 500 sword shield men and 500 spearmen to stand in front of the Chinese army, and he personally led 1,000 crossbowmen in the large array, and the whole army slowly advanced.

With the slow beating of the war drums, the Han army marched forward in a solemn manner, with a steady pace and a uniform speed, even the cavalry.

Compared with the steady advance of the Han army, although the Yellow Turban Army also beat the war drums, there were some problems in advancing, some phalanxes advanced, some phalanxes were relatively slow, I don't know whether to advance, some people in the phalanx advanced and some did not, and the lineup was a bit chaotic.

Guo Peng saw that the lineup of the Yellow Turban Army was a little chaotic, and realized that this Yellow Turban Army could not even carry out the most basic military order to advance and stop fighting, so he was more confident in his heart, and ordered the war drums to beat quickly, and the army to advance faster, and then stopped abruptly.

At this moment, the Yellow Turban Army was still advancing in confusion, and the Han Army had stopped to stabilize the formation, the sword and shield hands were at the front, the spearmen were fighting side by side with the spears and the sword and shield hands, Guo Peng ordered the crossbowmen to bend their bows and arrows and raise them at an angle of forty-five degrees.

A platoon of two hundred people, a total of five rows of crossbowmen, shooting alternately.

"Put!!"

At the sound of an order, two hundred bows and arrows rose into the sky, galloping towards the Yellow Turban Army with an indomitable momentum, and then quickly landed, nailing a large number of Yellow Turban Army to the ground.

The Yellow Turban Army lacked armor, shields, and a chaotic phalanx, and could not withstand the Han army's bow and crossbow fire.

The Han army's bow and crossbow shot one round after another, and the arrows rained down, and the Yellow Turban side that was walking in the front couldn't bear to maintain order, so they broke up directly and began to run back.

As soon as Bu had ordered the crossbowmen on his side to move forward quickly so that they could return fire, the phalanx at the front broke up.

As soon as the phalanx at the front collapsed, the two phalanxes on the left and right sides were also fired by the crossbows of the Han army, and there was another chaos.

Guo Peng saw that this Yellow Turban Army was so vulnerable, and immediately ordered the horn to blow and the cavalry to dispatch.

The Changshui cavalry, who was good at cavalry and archery, was divided into two halves, and each handed over to Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Yuan to lead, and after Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Dun received the order, they immediately led the cavalry team to charge from both flanks to the phalanx of the two wings of the Yellow Turban Army, and they were not in a hurry to fight in close combat, first of all, they were cavalry archery.

The Changshui cavalry quickly approached the Yellow Turban army formation with rapid mobility, and shot past it with a round of cavalry shooting, and the arrows fell in the Yellow Turban military formation, a few were blocked, and most of them hit the Yellow Turban sergeants.

Suddenly, the Yellow Turban soldiers fell to the ground, howling miserably, and then the cavalry shot around the phalanx, and did not fight hand-to-hand, but only shot with bows and crossbows, the Yellow Turban army formation was already unstable, and now it is even more so.

The most ironic thing is that the boys who were brought in to fill the number cried out loudly when they saw that people were dead in front of them or that they were injured, and after the collapse of the military formation, they pushed each other and pushed each other, and the old man and the boy would be pushed to the ground and trampled to death, while those who did not die were seriously injured and lay on the ground unable to move.

The first three formations quickly collapsed, and this was only the beginning of the collapse wave.

Because of their collapse and flight back, the crossbowmen were unable to advance, but the crossbowmen of the Han army followed so closely that the crossbowmen of the Yellow Turban Army broke up before they could return fire.

Everywhere you can see white-bearded old men and diminutive boys running around, seeking a way to survive.

The Han army will not have any mercy for this, on the battlefield is the enemy, and if the enemy is killed, Guo Peng ordered the drums of war to advance, and the whole army continued to advance.

Cao Ren led the sword, shield and spearmen to slowly advance towards the army formation that had not yet collapsed, and the Yellow Turban soldiers who were not dead on the way would also make up for them with a knife or a shot, and then strode forward.

At this moment, the distinction between a well-trained iron army and a rabble appeared.