Chapter 30: Heavy casualties and difficult to overcome
"Did you say the rat had bitten his belly?"
"I'll hear it."
Wu Youcai put his ear on the clay pot.
"No, no, please."
The woodcutter's face was trembling, his limbs were tied, and he could only watch passively.
Even the other woodcutter, who had not yet been tortured, was also trembling and did not dare to look at it.
"Ahh The woodcutter screamed, and he felt that the rat in the jar had bitten his belly.
"I said, I'll say anything, get the jar out of the way."
In the end, fear prevailed.
Some people can see death as home, but the mental torture is the most terrible.
"Li De, you dare?" Another woodcutter turned his head and shouted.
"Take him away first." Zhao Hui asked Li Mao to take him away, leaving only Li De, who was about to collapse mentally.
"Say it."
"General, I ......" Looking at the jar in Zhao Hui's hand and looking at the stomach that had been bitten off a piece of skin, Li De told the truth.
The two of them are indeed from Xiaohe Village, but they are also from the Li family.
This time, I came out on the order of the head of the Li family to investigate the news of the Yellow Turban Army.
Although Guangzong City has been besieged, it is not impassable.
Moreover, with such a loose army as the Yellow Turban Army, as long as the people in the city pretend to be the Yellow Turban Army, as long as it is not large-scale, it is not a problem to sneak out and kill people at all.
Even if it is seen by the Yellow Turban Army, it is easy to fool over.
And when these two people went out of the city, they were not discovered by the Yellow Turban Army outside.
The Li family is a wealthy gentry of Guangzong, with 10,000 acres of land, thousands of servants, and 500 clan children. The Li family is deeply rooted in the Guangzong area, and its influence has long extended to the surrounding villages.
Li De and Li Mao, two people from Xiaohe Village, also have a little blood relationship with the Li family, and usually do more things for the Li family.
The reason why Guangzong City has not been defeated by the Yellow Turban Army has a lot to do with the Li family.
"Bite it off and apply the juice to the wound." Zhao Hui threw a handful of herbs to Li De.
A rat's bite wound, even if it's just a broken skin, can become infected.
Then Zhao Hui brought Li Mao again.
After knowing that Li De had said everything, Li Mao did not hide it, and there was basically no difference between what the two said.
"Coach, General Rengong is preparing to attack Guangzong."
After Zhao Hui asked the two, Zhang Liang couldn't help but capture Guangzong in a battle, and sent someone to inform Zhao Hui to go to the front line to watch the battle together.
Zhao Hui said: "Lock them up, and you will set off with me." ”
"Don't you need to leave someone to watch them?" Wu has a way of wealth.
Zhao Hui said disdainfully: "Tie the rope tightly, you can't run away." ”
It's just two spies, and Zhao Hui doesn't care very much.
The camp was only ten miles away from Guangzong, and the 50,000 Yellow Turban troops set off in a mighty way, and arrived at the city in one hour.
Qu Shuai Bian Si, who was in charge of attacking Guangzong before, has been waiting for a long time.
The arrival of Zhang Liang made the Yellow Turban Army, which had not been able to capture Guangzong and was somewhat decadent, slightly improve its morale.
Looking at Bian Si and the other Qu Shuai, Zhang Liang shouted: "A small Guangzong city, you can't conquer it for many days, what crime should you be guilty of?" ”
"The last general is incompetent, ask the general to punish him." Bian Si and the others knelt on the ground and said.
"I'm giving you a chance, attack the city today, your department is the vanguard, if the city is broken, you will be credited with great merit, if you can't capture Guangzong, each person will have a hundred military sticks." Zhang Liang said.
"Break through Guangzong, just today, brothers, charge with me."
A hundred military sticks, not everyone can stand it, at least none of these commanders dare to say that they can survive under a hundred military sticks.
Bian Si and the others took the Yellow Turban Army under their own tent and rushed to the city gate with their feet.
"Rush, ......"
Zhao Hui only saw tens of thousands of people, rushing to the city gate like a tide.
But on the city wall, a round of arrows rained down, and this group of Yellow Turban soldiers with no shields and no armor on their bodies suddenly wailed continuously.
Faced with the rain of arrows pouring on the city wall, their charge, which had just seemed to be full of momentum, was suddenly interrupted.
Not to mention braving the rain of arrows to rush forward, many of the Yellow Turbans have involuntarily begun to retreat with their feet.
They are here to eat, not to die.
In the face of the rain of arrows, with their equipment, they simply couldn't rush through.
"If you enter the city, you will be rewarded with 10,000 dollars."
Bian Si shouted loudly.
"Rush."
Under Bian Si's "heavy reward", the Yellow Turban Army rushed forward again for a distance.
But under the more dense rain of arrows, the Yellow Turban Army that rushed forward fell one by one.
The Yellow Turbans couldn't get any decent equipment and couldn't cover the charging Yellow Turbans.
The defenders on the city walls were very comfortable, and they only needed to bend their bows and shoot arrows.
"Brothers, come with me."
Bian Si saw that his subordinates were blocked again, and this time he was not just shouting slogans, but taking the lead and rushing to the front.
As the commander of the Yellow Turban Army, Bian Si still has some skills, constantly knocking the arrows that come from him flying, and rushing to the city gate with his own strength.
Just facing the closed city gates, how to open them?
Dozens of Yellow Turban soldiers carried two long, thick logs and slammed them into the city gate.
Bang!
Bang!
Again and again, but the gates stood still.
The Yellow Turbans carrying logs kept falling, but soon someone made up for it.
Seeing another Yellow Turban Army falling, Bian Si gritted his war knife with two rows of steel teeth, and grabbed the grip on the log with both hands.
"Hey, hey, hey."
Even though it was hit more than a dozen times, the gate was still firmly blocked in front of it, and it was only slightly loose.
Burst!
A sharp arrow struck Bian Si in the shoulder.
The rain of arrows on the walls of the city did not decrease.
"Withdraw!"
Throwing down the two-zhang long log, Bian Si turned around and began to retreat with the people.
There's no way he's really giving his life here.
Now this result, he recognizes himself to explain to Zhang Liang.
From Bian Si's attack to the wounded retreat, it took less than half an hour, but Bian Si's 10,000 Yellow Turban troops had already suffered more than half of the casualties.
"The subordinates are incompetent, they fail to break through the city gates, and they are willing to accept punishment." The sharp arrow on Bian Si's shoulder has not yet been pulled out.
"Bian Qushuai is heroic, I have seen it in my eyes, come on, quickly help Bian Qushuai take out the sharp arrow."
Even though Zhang Liang was dissatisfied, how could he say the words of Bian Si when he saw that Bian Si was the first soldier and was hit by a sharp arrow.
If this is really beating Bian Si with a hundred military sticks now, it will definitely make other people's hearts cold, the military spirit will be shaken, and Zhang Liang himself is easy to lose people's hearts.
"Liu He!"
Bian Si was defeated and retreated, but Zhang Liang did not give up and continued to let Liu He lead a large army to attack Guangzong.
He is bound to break through Guangzong today.
The number of soldiers under Liu He's tent was far inferior to Bian Si, only 5,000 people.
Although he was very reluctant, Zhang Liang ordered, Bian Si was also injured, and Liu He could only bite the bullet.
"Brother, follow me."
Even if you draw a bow on the city wall, you need strength.
There were only so many people defending in the city, and under his constant attacks, Zhang Liang didn't believe that those on the city wall didn't need to rest.