Chapter 158: At stake
Three days later, the defenders of Tongba County felt very strange, the Yellow Turban Army that should have started the siege in the morning, but the whole morning passed, and the Yellow Turban Army camp did not move. It was already afternoon, and there were still more than two hours before sunset, but the Yellow Turban Army still showed no signs of sorting.
Deng Tong, the county commander of Tonglu County, stood on the city wall to observe the situation of the Yellow Turban Army, and suddenly felt that something was wrong.
"Usually the Yellow Turban Thieves should come to attack the city, they haven't moved all day today, what are they planning?"
Deng Tong was surprised by the movement of the Yellow Turbans, who were flanked by his subordinates and some of the city's gentry. Xue Fang, the head of the Xue family, a wealthy family in the city, also felt strange when he heard Deng Tong say this.
"My lord, what's wrong with the Yellow Turban Thief? It's getting dark, and you haven't sent troops yet? ”
"The thieves have the advantage, we are in danger, they don't come to attack, it's just afraid that they have another trick, and we have nothing to do, so we can only block. If you want to break the situation at this time, unless reinforcements come? Deng Tong frowned and thought for a moment, unable to think of a reason.
County Cheng Nie Chuan was overjoyed and said: "Reinforcements? Could it be that the Yellow Turban thieves knew that the imperial court reinforcements had arrived, so they didn't dare to attack the city? ”
"I also hope that reinforcements have arrived, otherwise, we may not be able to hold out for long." Deng Tong was noncommittal.
A month ago, the Yellow Turban Incident occurred, and Tongba County had not yet received an edict from the imperial court to strengthen the garrison and arrest the Yellow Turban Army. As a result, Huguan had already been lost, and the Yellow Turban Army entered Shangdang County and captured various county towns from north to south.
After the original defenders supported the county town were destroyed, Tonglu County re-recruited the elders who commanded the county to form an army of 8,000 defenders. Fortunately, the Yellow Turban thieves lacked siege equipment, the siege methods were very rudimentary, and the combat skills were also very poor, and the two sides were in a stalemate.
However, the county town of Tongba was no longer able to organize more soldiers and horses, could not give the Yellow Turban Army great trauma, could not repel them, Deng Tong also sent people out of the city to find support, but no one came back with support.
Either he died, or he escaped, Deng Tong guessed so.
Deng Tong 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 Tongba County. 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.
Shortly after sunset, a cacophony of voices suddenly came from the Yellow Turban Army camp. Through the torches of the Yellow Turban Army camp, Deng Tong and others saw that a Yellow Turban Army with a number of no less than the original attack on the county town entered the camp.
The reinforcements from the Chinese court did not wait, but they waited for the reinforcements of the other party, which really demoralized the defenders on the city wall. Deng Tong also felt the loss of morale, after all, the arrival of the Yellow Turban reinforcements, even he felt more pressure.
"Folks, behind the city wall are our parents, wives and children, are you willing to let the Yellow Turban Army enter the city, slaughter your parents, and humiliate your wives and children?" Deng informed that if he continued, he was afraid that if the Yellow Turban Army attacked the city tomorrow, these temporarily conscripted rebels would not be able to hold on, so he shouted loudly to everyone.
The soldiers on the city wall were immersed in the blow of the arrival of the Yellow Turban reinforcements, and suddenly heard the realistic and bloody question of their county commander, and immediately shouted in unison: "We don't want to!" “
"Okay, look behind you, that's your family, they believe in us, so we have to take on the responsibility of a man too. In the face of the Yellow Turban Thieves, what we need to do and must do is to keep the enemy out of the city gates, even if it is death, and make the Yellow Turban Thieves pay the price. Deng Tong shouted.
"Fight for your life and swear to kill the thief!" County Cheng Nie Chuan shouted after him.
"Fight for your life, swear to kill the thief~ Fight for your life, swear to kill the thief", all the rebels shouted together.
Seeing that the morale had finally risen, Deng Tong breathed a sigh of relief, but thinking of the Yellow Turban Army that had doubled outside the city, he felt that Tonglu County was in danger this time. And the Yellow Turban reinforcements seem to be coming from the direction of Xiangyuan County, since the Yellow Turban Army can come from there, it means that Xiangyuan County should have been broken by the Yellow Turban Army, and there is one more county seat that Shangdang County has fallen, which makes Deng Tong inevitably feel a kind of sadness about the death of a rabbit and a fox.
He has already made plans to live and die with Tonglu County, as long as he lives for one day, he will not let the Yellow Turban Thieves enter the city for a day.
"Come on, even if I die, I'm going to break a few of your teeth!" Deng Tong said to the Yellow Turban Army in his heart.
In the camp of the Yellow Turban Army, Ding, the captain in charge of attacking Tonglu County, was reporting the battle situation to Zuo Zhangba, and after he finished reporting, he looked at Zuo Zhangba cautiously.
It's no wonder that he was worried, when Zuo Zhangba learned that Tonglu County had relied on some temporary organizations of the people to hold on to the city for so many days, how could he not be angry in his heart.
He originally thought that Tongba County was already in their hands, and they could use it as a base to withdraw to Huguan to the north, and to the south they could directly take Anze and Anping counties.
However, the captain Ding was damaged in the battle and lost more than 3,000 people, but he did not even take the city. And when he came to Tongba County, the scouts sent out found that there was a group of officers and soldiers coming to Tongba County behind him. The other party also found out that their scouts, if it were not for the fact that he had sent more people this time, someone came back alive to report to him, telling him that the officers and soldiers were marching faster than them, and that they were almost a day's journey away.
Zuo Zhangba could guess where the officers and soldiers who followed him came from, and the other party had just made him suffer a big loss in Xiangyuan County. So he immediately came over to join this Yellow Turban Army, hoping to crush the other party through the strength advantage after the convergence.
In the eyes of the school captain, Zuo Zhangba was indeed angry at first, which was directly expressed on his face, but he slowly suppressed his anger.
"Prepare the tent and food for us, eat and rest first, and then decide what to do tomorrow after seeing the specific situation." Left Shohachi said.
Captain Ding Daxi, it seems that Qu Shuai bypassed his attack this time and failed, so of course the orders for Zuo Zhangba were firmly implemented.
As for the Yellow Turban Army below, the soldiers of the headquarters of Zuo Zhanghachi felt that they had joined up with another army, their strength had recovered somewhat, and their morale had recovered from the defeat just now. As for the command of Captain Ding, they have not taken Tongba County, which was originally demoralized, but now that reinforcements have joined, it will be easy for them to break through Tongba County.
For a while, the morale of the entire Yellow Turban Army battalion was greatly increased, and there was even a meal prepared for them by the lieutenant, and everyone had eaten the meal. Except for the patrolling, everyone else began to rest, and the whole camp gradually fell silent.
Early the next morning, Zuo Zhanghachi first sent several teams of scouts in all directions behind him. Since he knew that Zeng Yu's troops were behind him, of course he would pay attention to the other party's movements, and he did not seek to ambush the other party, but at least he wanted to avoid being raided by them.
As for the current form, he thought about it last night, according to the news reported back by the scouts, the officers and soldiers led by Zeng Yu were one day away from them, which meant that they had one day to attack Tongyu County.
He asked General Lieutenant Ding to call him and ask him to lead all the Yellow Turban Army to attack Tongbi County, and make sure to take it before dark.
Captain Ding naturally agreed with confidence. According to his understanding of Tonglu County, there are only about 4,000 defenders left in Tonglu County who have combat effectiveness, and others such as the old man are not in his consideration. And they themselves, now have 10,000 fresh troops from Qu Shuai's headquarters to join, and their morale is high, and taking Tongbi County is like taking something from a bag. Finally be ashamed, this is the thought of Captain Ding's heart.
Just after breakfast, Captain Ding commanded the Yellow Turban Army to launch an attack on Tonglu County from the east, west, and south.
Everyone in the Yellow Turban Army is full of confidence, in their opinion, Tongyu County is already in their hands, and under their attack, the other party will not be able to hold out today.
However, they really didn't expect that as soon as they approached the city wall, a few soldiers fell to the ground suddenly, but there were some iron shards scattered on the ground, and there were also many deep pits.
This is Deng Tong specially led the city defense army to prepare overnight, he knew that since the Yellow Turban Army had reinforcements, it would definitely come to attack the city today, so he prepared these traps, only hoping to kill some more Yellow Turban Army, try to delay time, and wait for his own reinforcements with little hope.
Many of the Yellow Turban Army under the command of Captain Ding are just wearing simple straw sandals, if they step on the iron shards, they will naturally fall to the ground in pain, and as soon as they fall to the ground, the colleagues who can't retreat can only trample on their bodies and crush them to death, and those deep pits are even more terrifying.
Seeing the soldiers he sent to the front fell in rows, and the soldiers under his command continued to decrease, Captain Ding was a little distressed, and he turned around to look at Zuo Zhangbachi who was watching the battle behind him, and saw that the other party was indeed indifferent and calm, Zuo Zhangba squinted his eyes and said to him: "As long as Tongba County is taken, the initiative of the entire Shangdang County will be in our hands, let them continue to attack." “
The Yellow Turban Army suffered about 2,000 casualties under various trap tricks, and only then did they rush to the city wall of Tongba County.
The rebels defending the city gritted their teeth, looked at those Yellow Turban soldiers angrily, grabbed a big stone beside them, used all their strength, lifted the stone, and threw it down towards the ladder suddenly!! The soldier who was climbing the ladder was suddenly smashed by the stone, and with a loud cry, he fell down, and even some of the ladders were smashed together.
Some of the rebels lifted the boiling oil around them and poured it on the ladder, and suddenly a miserable cry sounded under the city wall.
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