During the daytime attack the next day, in Zhang Wu's opinion, the strength of the Yellow Turban Army seemed to have weakened a little, and he felt that the Yellow Turban Army should not be able to withstand the uninterrupted strong attack during the day. Thinking of this, he was also relieved in his heart, and the strong attack of the Yellow Turban Army also brought great pressure to him and the soldiers defending the city.

In the afternoon, when the Yellow Turban Army Mingjin withdrew his troops, he routinely asked the wounded soldiers to be carried down for treatment, and all the corpses of his own soldiers who died under the city wall were carried down for burial. As for the corpses of the Yellow Turbans, they were also arranged to be carried down and then burned with fire, not giving them the same treatment as their own soldiers. The reason why it was not thrown directly under the city wall was because it was worried that the corpses under the city wall would be higher and higher, which would be conducive to the Yellow Turban Army attacking the city.

Although Changzi County is the seat of the county guard of Shangdang County, the city wall is not high, only more than two zhang, and at this time, the corpses of the Yellow Turban soldiers are piled up under the east, west and north walls. Zhang Wu wondered if he should send a letter to the Yellow Turban Army and ask them to take back the corpses of their compatriots, otherwise they would be piled up under the city walls, and in case of a plague, the matter would be a big deal.

Thinking of this, he got off the city wall and came to the county guard mansion to ask Taishou Cui Ming for instructions. After Cui Ming heard this, he thought of the horror of the plague and immediately agreed to Zhang Wu's proposal. Zhang Wu received the order and sent a soldier to ride a fast horse and came to the Yellow Turban military camp.

When the Yellow Turban Army saw that there were officers and soldiers out of the city, they came to their camp alone, and they didn't know what medicine was sold in the other party's gourd, so they hurriedly entered the camp to ask for instructions, and finally the news was sent to Zuo Zhangba.

He asked them what they were going to do, and the soldier who delivered the letter told them, "The Taishou and the Captain are magnanimous and can't bear to see the miserable state of the road corpse wilderness, so they allow the Yellow Turban Army to go behind the defenders and take back the bodies of their own dead soldiers, and the officers and soldiers will not disturb them." ”

After hearing this, Zuo Zhangba was a little worried, but one of his lieutenants said: "Don't worry, don't worry, what this person said should be true." I heard that this Taishou is a son of the Cui family in the plains, and he is a person who reads poetry and books, and he will not use the corpses of soldiers who died in battle to make a fuss. And if we can get the corpses of those soldiers back, it will also help our morale. ”

"Okay, I'll leave this matter to you, I'll give you 10,000 soldiers, and bring them back to me before dark." Left Shohachi commanded.

"No!"

In this way, after the end of the Yellow Turban Army's attack, many Yellow Turban Army soldiers appeared under the three walls of Changzi County. said that it was soldiers, most of these people were just ordinary people, and the corpses they carried appeared alive in front of them a few days ago, and the whole scene was filled with a kind of sadness.

Seeing this, the Yellow Turban Army knew the other party's plan, and they knew that many of the Yellow Turban Army were just ordinary people, and although they would not consider anything other than a fierce attack because of the threat to their lives during the siege of the city, they were now carrying the corpses of their companions, and it was inevitable that they would die and be sad. If it is a veteran who has been trained to fight for a long time, it will not have any effect, but for these people who were just ordinary people a few days ago, it can deal a big blow to them.

Thinking of this, a sneer leaked from the corner of the captain's mouth, if it weren't for the Huang family a few days ago, he would still be a little worried, but now, when the army enters the city at night, even if the officers and soldiers have a thousand plans, they are all in vain. Seeing that it was getting dark, he asked all the soldiers to speed up the transportation, because most of these soldiers died in battle were just ordinary people, and the whole family was coerced, so it was very easy to deal with. He arranged for someone to dig a large pit away from the camp and bury all the soldiers who died in battle, at least so that they would not be exposed to the wilderness.

However, considering that there would be an operation at night, Zuo Zhangba did not ask the soldiers to complete it tonight, but only instructed one of the lieutenants under his command to make specific arrangements.

In the evening, except for the soldiers who kept vigil and patrolled, the rest of the Yellow Turbans went to rest at the order of the commander as soon as they had breakfast. The time when the Huang family made an appointment with Zuo Zhangba was about the third watch. The Yellow Turban Army did not have any siege equipment, and its strength was also superior, and the previous days did not take advantage of the night to attack the city, so the defenders in the city were often not very vigilant at night.

The night of early spring was not very bright, and from under the city wall of Changzi County, the distance was blurry, and it was impossible to distinguish the large camp of the Yellow Turban Army by trying to widen your eyes, and it was completely impossible to see the movement in the large camp.

This also provided great convenience for the operation of the Yellow Turban Army, and when they first arrived, the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army woke up one after another at the call of their respective commanders. After briefly using the dry food, they learned that they were going to attack the county seat at night, and everyone was a little worried, but seeing the confident appearance of the head official, they thought in their hearts that maybe the marshal had another plan.

The core of the Yellow Turban Army's 6,000 men, of which 5,000 are commanded by five captains, will lead the Yellow Turban Army and a group of soldiers to enter the city and seize Changzi County after receiving the signal from the Huang family. And Zuo Zhanghachi himself led a thousand directly subordinate Yellow Turban Army and 10,000 ordinary soldiers to stay in the camp, and an accident happened.

Almost as soon as the third watch arrived, a soldier entered the tent and reported to Zuo Zhanghachi that there was an abnormal signal above the east gate. As soon as Zuo Zhangba heard this, he immediately came to the gate of the camp with the fifth lieutenant, and there were three lanterns hanging down from the east city gate, and from their point of view, the three lanterns were extremely eye-catching in the whole night, which was the signal of the agreement between the Huang family and Zuo Zhangba.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the other party's signal has been sent, you attack immediately, and I am here waiting for the news of your victory." Zuo Zhanghachi said to the fifth lieutenant.

"No!"

After speaking, the fifth lieutenant led more than 20,000 Yellow Turban soldiers, with 1,000 subordinates in their respective cores as the vanguard, thinking about the East City Gate. In order to avoid attracting the attention of the other party, they did not light the torches, and they all walked quietly with light steps.

When they arrived outside the east city gate, they saw that the city gate was open, and there was a man in his fifties standing outside the city, who was Huang Xue, the head of the Huang family. He took advantage of his convenience of guarding the city gates, secretly opened the city gates tonight, and personally welcomed the Yellow Turban Army into the city.

The fifth lieutenant didn't know Huang Xue, after they stepped forward cautiously, Huang Xue introduced himself, and the fifth lieutenant asked him to follow him, including the private soldiers of the Huang family, as for the east city gate, it was taken over by two thousand Yellow Turban sergeants.

After they entered the city, the soldiers on the city wall did not notice it, firstly, because the Huang family had replaced the nearby patrols with their own men, and secondly, the officers and soldiers guarding the city did not expect that the Huang family would collaborate with the enemy. As a result, the Yellow Turban Army, under the orders of the five captains, captured the east city gate, and then took the opportunity to seize the east city wall as soon as possible.

Then the five Yellow Turban Cadets first sent people back to the camp to tell Zuo Beard Zhanghachi, and asked him to lead the rest of the men into the city, while they divided their troops into three ways to capture the other three city gates and the county guard. As long as they control the three city gates, then the eldest son county will be completely controlled by them, and if they control the county guard, they will capture the thief and capture the king first.

However, although no one noticed them when they captured the city gate just now, when they attacked the eastern wall, there were still the officers and soldiers who defended the city before they died, so there was not much time left for the Yellow Turbans, unless they were willing to launch a strong attack.

Therefore, after assigning the offensive task, two captains led 5,000 men and horses respectively, and went straight to the north and south gates, while the remaining 10,000 people were led by two captains and headed towards the county guard.

The Yellow Turban Army that attacked the north and south city gates encountered the county officers and soldiers who rushed over to defend after getting the news, they were the county soldiers of Tongba and Xiangyuan County, as for the private soldiers of the families in the city, their reaction speed was far from so fast, and some of them were not particularly willing to participate in the defense of the city, so they came very slowly.

5,000 Yellow Turban troops against 2,000 defenders, although only 1,000 of the Yellow Turban Army were trained, but they had the advantage of strength and had long been prepared. As soon as the application was contacted, the Yellow Turban Army had the upper hand, and although the county soldiers of the two counties struggled to resist under the leadership of their respective county lieutenants, they gradually could not support it.

The Yellow Turban Army was worried that it would be entangled at the gate of the city for too long, attracting other reinforcements, and they all adopted the offensive of capturing the thief and capturing the king first, and attacked the county lieutenant headed by him. These two county lieutenants only had a little martial arts, how could they resist these soldiers composed of Taiping Taoists who had the upper hand, and they were soon besieged to death. Seeing this, the other county soldiers soon lost the will to resist and were captured or killed by the Yellow Turban Army.

Only an hour passed from the Yellow Turban Army into the city, and the north and south gates of Changzi County also fell into the control of the Yellow Turban Army one after another. After the Yellow Turbans left 2,000 men and horses to guard the city gates, they rushed to the last gate together.

There were not many defenders before this last wall, so there were not many defenders, but the shouts of killing resounded everywhere in the city, causing many civilians and officers and soldiers defending the city to flee here, causing the Yellow Turban Army's advance speed to drop significantly. They have to resist the officers and soldiers who rush to support the defense of the city, and they also have to work hard to plunder everything they see, such as money, women, etc.

Although the original slogan of the Yellow Turban Army was "the sky should die, the yellow sky should stand", in order to establish an equal society, but for the following Yellow Turban soldiers transformed from the common people, since joining the Yellow Turban Army, it is equivalent to starting to release the most tyrannical side of their hearts. So at this time in Anping County, you can see all kinds of tragedies everywhere, the Yellow Turban sergeants rushed open the doors of the people everywhere, carried a knife in, and took it away when they saw what they liked.

For these, the captains of the Yellow Turban Army did not stop them, first, they knew that the more these soldiers captured, the more they handed over to them, and second, they advanced slowly, so the officers and soldiers escaped from the West City Gate was also slow, in this case, why not? Moreover, the morale of the Yellow Turban Army was relatively low because of the matter of carrying the corpses of their companions before, but now after entering the city, this loot can just boost morale, and they will not have any losses.