Tian Jian knelt down on one knee and reported to Zhang Hao: "General, basically the thief army has now been concentrated at the east gate, and there are only a few remnants in the city. ”

Zhang Hao nodded: "Very good, this time to attack the city, you are the first merit, now I order you to be the military Sima, and lead all the cavalry to exterminate the remnants of the Yellow Turban in the city." ”

The east gate was too small for cavalry to participate in the battle.

"The subordinates obey the order, and General Xie loves him."

Tian Jian's face was full of joy, and he gambled his life to join the army for this.

"Brother! Elder brother. I'm here! I'm still alive, are you happy to see me? ”

Zheng Meng stood up from the crowd and looked at Zhang Hao with a happy face.

In fact, Zhang Hao, who was riding on a horse, had already seen him, and the guilt and sadness for Zheng Meng in his heart all turned into joy. It's just that this occasion is not suitable for reminiscing.

Seeing that he took the initiative to stand up, Zhang Hao also smiled and said to him: "If you have something to say, I'll talk about it when the fight is over, how about going with me to find revenge on the thief army now?" ”

"Hey, that's what I thought, man."

Zhang Hao motioned for one of his guards to untie his war knife and give it to Zheng Meng, his original knife had already been curled.

"Let's go, head to the East Gate!"

Two thousand men marched toward the east gate.

……

The rain of arrows outside the east gate had stopped, and Xiao Shuai personally ran to the city and looked out. It's just that I didn't see a single person, and the officers and soldiers outside the city seemed to have withdrawn.

It's so weird. During this time, the officers and soldiers should have shot tens of thousands of arrows, and then they did not continue to attack the city but ran away, what is this for?

They wouldn't think that they could kill all the yellow turbans in the city with this.

Xiaoshuai was puzzled.

In fact, it was the five hundred crossbowmen outside the city who shot all the arrows in their hands one after another, and then the lieutenant general withdrew with them. Zhang Hao had instructed before that he could withdraw after shooting the arrow.

A guard who had escaped from the West Gate stumbled to Xiao Shuai's side and shouted in a panic: "Lord Xiao Shuai, it's a big deal, it's a big deal!" ”

Xiaoshuai stepped forward and grabbed his shoulders and stabilized him: "What's wrong, what's wrong?" ”

The guard gasped and swallowed: "It's officers and soldiers, officers and soldiers ......"

"You say slowly, what's wrong with the officers and soldiers?"

"The officers and soldiers have already entered the city, and there are probably several thousand people who have entered through the west gate."

The Yellow Turban Army present for a while was shocked, although they also had a total of 5,000 people, but they also knew in their hearts that it was impossible to compete with a similar number of officers and soldiers with this alone.

Xiao Shuai's face also changed greatly: "What! How did they get in, and why did they wait until the officers and soldiers entered the city before reporting to me? ”

The guard trembled a little and said, "Someone opened the city gate for the officers and soldiers from the inside and let them in." ”

When Xiao Shuai heard it, this is not the same way as them entered the city. Could it be said?

He suddenly thought of one thing, when he was inspecting the city defense last night, he punished a group of sleeping guards, and they all said that their heads hurt and that they were knocked unconscious, not sleeping.

But he did not believe it, and thought that they had deliberately offended his authority, and beat each of them forty sticks.

Thinking of this, Xiao Shuai felt tightness in his chest, as if he had been hammered with a hammer. I regretted in my heart, if I had believed them at that time, the whole city of Dasuo would have caught Nei Ying who had sneaked in.

"You bastards, why! Why did you find out that these officers and soldiers had flown over? That's why none of you know! ”

Xiao Shuai scolded and shirked all the responsibility to his subordinates, thinking that they were derelict in their duties, so they knew that they were eating, drinking and having fun behind closed doors, and even when the officers and soldiers came, they took the initiative to remind them.

It's not you who led the way, and many people slandered it.

It's just that there is no time for him to shift the blame to others, and the priority is to confront the officers and soldiers.

At this time, suddenly someone at the head of the city shouted in horror: "It's the officers and soldiers, it's the officers and soldiers who are coming!" ”

Everyone turned around and found a long dragon of flames, which was rapidly approaching the east gate, it was an officer and soldier holding torches, and the firelight shone on a large banner, a big letter. Of course, few people know each other, but Daqi is less than a hundred steps away from the east gate.

Xiao Shuai hurriedly shouted to the city: "Hurry up and line up, hurry up and line up!" ”

Zhang Hao had already seen the Yellow Turban Army assembling under the city gate from a distance, but he would not give the other party a chance to complete the formation.

Zhang Hao shouted loudly: "The whole army attack, kill!" ”

"Kill!"

When Zhang Hao led the people to rush to fifty paces, the archers of the Yellow Turban Army began to shoot arrows at them.

"Raise your shield!"

The arrows were bustling, and some of them were made of wood, which had no deterrent effect on the officers and soldiers led by Zhang Hao. Only a few officers and men were unlucky, being shot naked outside the shield and wounded.

Soon the two sides were engaged in a battle with each other.

Zhang Hao, Zheng Meng and dozens of other people standing in the front row put their shields on their chests and directly collided with the Yellow Turban soldiers in the front.

Looking beyond the shield, Zhang Hao even saw clearly that these yellow turban soldiers who couldn't hold the weapons in their hands had frightened expressions on their faces.

Whether it was this uprising or the aftermath of the rebellion, every time the Yellow Turban Army dared to attack the state and county only when the number was superior, relying on the numerical advantage to win.

At a time when there is not much difference in numbers like now, even they know that the chances are slim.

When the soldiers fought each other, the Yellow Turban soldiers' weapons needed several times to break through the armor of the officers and soldiers. And officers and soldiers can be injured or even killed with a single sword.

Several guards around him protected Zhang Hao, constantly slashing and killing people who tried to get closer. And he slashed cold knives in the crowd, and saw the opportunity to stab the Yellow Turban Army who rushed over.

Zheng Meng is a humanoid beast, with a war knife in his hand that opens and closes, killing when touched, and hurting when touched. No one in the Yellow Turban is his enemy,

The two sides immediately became one-sided, and the Yellow Turban Army gradually lost its strength, and when hundreds of people were killed or wounded, people gradually began to flee.

"Xiaoshuai, the brothers can't hold on anymore, let's run quickly and go to Zhuojun to find Qu Shuai." A cronie said.

Xiao Shuai said angrily: "Run? These are our brothers in trouble, do you want me to leave them behind? ”

The cronies persuaded: "Saving your life now is the most important thing, Xiaoshuai." When we meet Qu Shuai and are mobilizing manpower from him, let's come back to avenge our brothers. ”

He cried with a sad face: "I lost the city, how can I still have the face to see Qu Shuai." ”

"It's the subordinates who didn't fulfill their duties and failed to discover the arrival of the officers and soldiers, it's not a crime of war, and it has nothing to do with Xiao Shuai, Qu Shuai will forgive you."

Since the subordinates have said it, the responsibility is definitely not their own.

Xiao Shuai immediately changed his expression: "It is reasonable, this is not a crime of war, Qu Shuai will forgive me." In this case, you should keep your useful body and lead the troops back to avenge your brothers. ”

It seems that not only the big guys, but also the little guys act in a set.

Xiao Shuai and dozens of people did not go down the city tower, but directly used a rope to climb down from the city.

Zhuo County is in the southwest of Guangyang County, and the officers and soldiers came in from the west gate, and there are still officers and soldiers on the other side, so Xiaoshuai decided to go east first, and then make a detour to Zhuo County.

A yellow turban soldier ran to a family's house and hid, quickly ran into the house, changed his clothes, and pretended to be a citizen of the city.

There was a pretty widow in the house, and he had been here a lot of people for the past two months.

And the reason why they became widows was himself, because he killed her husband and threatened her with their son.

Originally, the woman would rather die than obey, but for the sake of the child, she had to endure the invasion of thieves.

When he was changing his clothes, he saw the widow and said to her, "Lao Tzu use your husband's clothes, and if any officers and soldiers come to check on them, say that I am your husband, otherwise I will kill your son!" ”

Hearing the words officers and soldiers, the widow's numb eyes suddenly had a hint of brilliance.

Due to the constant escape of the Yellow Turban soldiers, the battle ended an hour after it began.

At this time, a ray of sunlight just shone out of the sky, breaking through the shroud of the night.

Looking at the Yellow Turban Army kneeling and surrendering in front of him, Zhang Hao had some indescribable taste in his heart, the joy of victory, the mourning for the victims, the pleasure of revenge, and the indignation at the injustice of the world and the recklessness of the people.

Zhang Hao shook his head and sighed: "In this way, it will be a little redundant for me to let the deputy general ambush outside the east gate." ”

He thought that after the defeat of the Yellow Turban Army, he would open the city gate and escape, so he arranged for the deputy general to wait for the rabbits, but he didn't expect them to surrender.

"Count the battle damage, unload all of them, clean the place first, and transport the bodies outside the city to be buried. Then they were escorted to the entrance of Dongshi Street and waited for the judgment of the people of Jixian County. Then they searched me door to door, and I didn't let go of a yellow turban thief in the city. If you catch one, you will be rewarded with a hundred. ”

Zhang Hao ordered one by one, and his subordinates went to carry it out one by one, while he took Zheng Meng back to his home.

……

There was a knock on the door, and the yellow turban soldier pretending to be her husband went to open the door. Outside the door were five officers and soldiers, a corps commander and his men.

Wu Chang hugged his fists and said: "Fellow, we are the officers and soldiers who have just recovered Jixian County, and we are on the orders of my general, and we want to arrest the remnants of the Yellow Turban in the city, we want to go in and have a look." ”

"It's okay, you can come in and check casually, there are no thieves in our house." As he spoke, the fake husband grabbed a boy under his grip.

At this moment, a woman came out of it: "What's the matter?" ”

The false husband turned his head and stared at the widow viciously, gestured to her for the child in his hand, and replied, "It's okay, it's okay, these adults want to come in and see if there are any thieves who have broken in." Then he turned his head and greeted the officers and soldiers with a smile.

The woman slowly walked behind the false husband, and when the officers and soldiers saw this, they felt that there was nothing wrong with this family, so they said: "Forget it, I don't see any thieves in it, so let's go to the next one." ”

"Hey, you guys go slowly."

But before the false husband could recover his breath, suddenly, the woman slammed into him from behind, knocking him to the ground, and the child fell to the side.

The woman shouted, "My lord, my lord, he is a Yellow Turban thief, he killed my husband, and he pretended to deceive you!" ”

"Slut!" The Yellow Turban soldiers were furious and wanted to take her hostage.

As a result, the captain outside the door put a knife on his neck.

"Hey, brothers, another hundred dollars in hand."