Chapter Ninety-Six: Parting Ways (Second Update)

After nightfall, the four gates of Wancheng are still open, because the inside and outside of the city are the Yellow Turban Army's own camp, so there is no curfew, and the city gate has not been closed.

There were still many places in the city that were brightly lit, and there was a faint noise, and the guards at the city gate were also absent-minded, some sat at the base of the wall to sleep, and some gathered in a heap to drink.

Nearly three watches, one of the guards at the east gate drank a lot of wine, and was at the base of the city wall, happily convenient. Suddenly, a dark shadow pounced on him from behind, and actually cut his throat with a dagger, and the guard struggled a few times before falling to the ground.

The sound of the corpse falling to the ground alarmed several other partners who were waiting for him to come back, and some people were holding torches and wanted to see what was going on, but they only saw many dark shadows appearing where the firelight had found, holding all kinds of weapons in their hands, and rushed over.

"Enemy attack... Before he could finish his shout, an arrow struck him in the chest. Immediately afterwards, the black shadows rushed to the bright place, and it turned out to be many people dressed as yellow turbans, but they had tied the yellow scarves tied to their heads and tied them to their left arms.

"What are you going to do?" A small leader guarding the gates of the city will stop the other party.

"What? Rebellion! A yellow turban general appeared in front of him, and the little leader knew this person, who was none other than Zhao Hong, one of the several big leaders of the rebel army.

Zhao Hong inserted a knife into the abdomen of the little leader, then raised his foot and kicked him down, waving the steel knife in his hand, "Brothers, kill me, kill Zhang Mancheng, reward 100 taels of gold!" ”

At this moment, a rapid horn sounded suddenly in the city gate, which was the alarm of an enemy attacking!

Zhao Hong's subordinates were stimulated by the heavy reward, and they rushed into the city, and the guards who sounded the horn were also cut down with random knives.

A similar scene was staged at the four gates of Wancheng at the same time, and groups of rebels all wore yellow scarves on their left arms and brandished butcher knives at Paoze, who was still a comrade-in-arms during the day and was still fighting side by side.

The rebels swarmed into the city, but they soon found that apart from the guards at the gate, there were only a few drunken Yellow Turban soldiers on the street, and Zhang Mancheng's Yellow Turban soldiers did not see any of them.

Zhao Hong, Han Zhong, and Sun Xia soon led their men to meet in front of the gate of Taishou Mansion, and they entered from the city gates in different directions, but the scene they encountered was the same, and they didn't see many of Zhang Mancheng's subordinates along the way.

The faces of the three of them are not good-looking, Zhang Man's results are not simple, he actually expected that the three of them would rebel, but he didn't know where he hid with his yellow turban elite soldiers?

At this moment, someone with sharp eyes shouted loudly: "Three generals, look, there is a fire outside the city." ”

The three of them hurriedly stood on a high place and watched, and sure enough, the fire outside the city was soaring, and there was a sound of shouting and killing, and the direction looked like Zhao Hong's camp.

"It's bad, Zhang Mancheng is an old fox, he tricked us into the city, but he went to attack our camp, hurry back to the camp, there is still a lot of grain and grass and looted property in the camp, I only left 3,000 people to guard the camp." Zhao Hong shouted excitedly.

The three of them hurriedly led the army to get out of the city, but they heard shouts of killing in the surrounding streets and alleys, and some men came down to report, Zhang Mancheng's henchman Liao Hua didn't know where to come out, with thousands of yellow turban elite soldiers, blocking the four gates.

"Sure enough, he hit the plan, quick, he is going to catch turtles in the urn, and all the soldiers will follow me out of the east gate." Zhao Hong raised the steel knife and took the lead in rushing towards the east gate.

When I arrived at the east gate, I saw a mess, the Yellow Turban elite soldiers of the brigade blocked the city gate, and the rebels who ran in front were all cut down to the ground, and the leader was really Zhang Mancheng's henchman Liao Hua. "General Zhao, you really betrayed the big boss, and on the orders of the big boss, arrest you rebels!"

Zhao Hong and he had nothing to explain, so they led people to rush to the city gate, the two sides were in a mess, the city gate was closed, and there were fighting figures everywhere outside the city gate.

The city gate hole is narrow, the space is limited, and Liao Hua brought all the Yellow Turban elite soldiers, whose combat effectiveness was much higher than that of Zhao Hong's subordinates, and he couldn't break through for a while.

Zhao Hong had no choice but to transfer to the north gate, but Liao Hua was blocked by the rebels and could not stop it.

As a result, the north gate was the same, Zhang Mancheng's subordinates closed the city gate, blocked the city gate hole, and fought to the death. Although there were only a thousand people, the space was narrow, and the front of the rebels was only a few hundred people wide.

Zhao Hong could already hear the shouts and drums outside the city from far and near, indicating that Zhang Mancheng had broken through his camp and was on his way back to Wancheng.

Once Zhang Mancheng's army returns to the city, he will really become a turtle in an urn.

Zhao Hong can only try to change the West City Gate again, maybe it is Zhao Hong, when he led the army to the West Gate, he found that the leader of Zhang Mancheng's army who blocked the West Gate turned out to be Sun Zhong, which was a chess piece he buried in Zhang Mancheng's army.

Sure enough, when Sun Zhong saw Zhao Hong and the others coming, he raised his knife and slashed over a few Yellow Turban elite soldiers beside him, and opened the city gate, "General Zhao, go out of the city from the West Gate, you have been tricked." ”

Zhao Hong thanked him and led his men to seize the door.

By the time Zhang Mancheng led the army back to Wancheng, Zhao Hong, Han Zhong and others had already escaped from the West Gate with their subordinates and retreated directly to Bowang.

Although Liao Hua fought hard to kill the enemy, it was a pity that there were few soldiers, and Sun Zhong rebelled to help Zhao Hong, so he couldn't leave Zhao Hong, Han Zhong and others.

Zhang Mancheng wanted to pursue, but Tang Zhou dissuaded him. "Senior Brother Mancheng, although Zhao Hong and the others lost the camp, the main force suffered little loss. Although our army is all elite, there are too many of them, and there are many subordinates in the surrounding counties. ”

"If we don't succeed in this battle, it's impossible to eliminate them. For today's plan, taking advantage of the new defeat of the Han army in Nanyang, the attention of the main force of the central official army is on the righteous army in Yingchuan, Jizhou and other places. ”

"We kept Zhao Hong and they attracted the Han army and the imperial court of Nanyang, and we ourselves moved eastward, captured Wuyin, and then entered Runan County from Dahu Mountain. I heard that Peng Tuo had developed well in Runan County, and had just defeated the Han army of Zhao Qian, the Taishou of Runan County, in Zhaoling. ”

"The Yellow Turban Rebels in Runan echo with Bocai in Yingchuan, the situation is very good, we can persuade Peng Tuo and Bocai to go north with us to support General Tiangong and join the division."

Zhang Mancheng himself has no better idea, through tonight's events, he has a lot of trust in Tang Zhou, and he is also very convinced of Tang Zhou's strategy.

At the moment, he agreed to Tang Zhou's suggestion, opened all the warehouses in Wancheng, distributed weapons to the whole army, requisitioned all the gold, silver and grain in the treasury for military use, and packed up the property and food stolen from the camp of Zhao Hong and others.

Then Zhang Mancheng's Yellow Turban Army marched eastward in the morning, and the soldiers danced in the yin, with great fanfare along the way, recruiting troops and horses, and also taking out excess food to help the victims, and many homeless and hungry people joined the Yellow Turban Army in order to have enough to eat.

By the time Zhang Mancheng easily captured Wuyin County, the army under his command had once again expanded to 100,000 people, and of course the Yellow Turban elite soldiers were still only 30,000.

Zhao Hong, Han Zhong, and Sun Xia heard that Zhang Mancheng had left for the north and went east to Wuyin. They didn't pursue either, and they were happy to see Zhang Mancheng leave Nanyang County, and the three of them were the only family.

Continued to reoccupy Wancheng under the banner of the Yellow Turban Army, and sent troops to attack Champion, Yuxian, Xinye and other places, and incorporated the armed forces of bandits and landlords in various places, with mixed good and bad, crazy expansion of the army, and soon had 200,000 people.