0125: Battle of the Great Deer
Giant Deer City.
More than 100,000 Yellow Turban troops lined up outside the city, although the formation was just an ordinary phalanx, and the arrangement was not very neat, but the terrifying number still made Li Yi, who saw an enemy of this scale for the first time, a little dizzy. Soon, however, Li Yi became excited again, as he was already thinking about how the imperial court would reward him if he could defeat Zhang Jiao and kill him in this battle.
Okay, Li Yi seems to look down on Zhang Jiao and the Yellow Turban Army under his command, but how to say it? Although Lu Zhi only defeated Zhang Jiao when he besieged Yecheng, the successive battles against the Yellow Turban Army, as well as the news that Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun broke the Yellow Turbans, obviously showed the combat effectiveness of the Yellow Turban Army.
And looking at it, although most of these people are armed with spears and wearing wooden armor, but with these alone, even ordinary officers and soldiers can't compare, and Zhang Jiao knows how to use soldiers? Li Yi was very skeptical, he didn't believe that Zhang Jiao really had that awesome Taiping technique in his hand.
On the other hand, what about the officers and soldiers? The front row of swords and shields carried guns, bows and arrows were on the side, and nearly 10,000 cavalry, including Li Yi, were cruising on both wings waiting for an opportunity. In this comparison, how could Li Yi put the Yellow Turban Army in his eyes? The only thing that made Li Yi curious was where the legendary Yellow Turban Lux was. Because looking at the past, it is completely a sea of yellow, and it is too difficult to distinguish the elite troops.
The only clue is the people standing beside Zhang Jiao on the city wall, but at a glance, they are not much different from ordinary Yellow Turban Army.
On the city wall, Zhang Jiao looked down at the officers and soldiers below under the escort of the Yellow Turban Force, and there was no fear in his eyes, although the officers and soldiers were well-equipped, and the results of several previous battles with the Yellow Turban Army ended in failure, but these were within Zhang Jiao's expectations.
After all, if he could defeat the officers and soldiers by virtue of numbers alone, then he would not have to prepare for so many years, and in the end he still chose to take risks.
"Big brother, everything is ready and ready to evacuate at any time." Zhang Liang said respectfully. Since learning that the officers and soldiers had sent troops to prepare to rush to Jizhou, Zhang Jiao asked Zhang Liang to lead the army to retreat to Julu County. Because compared to his second brother Zhang Bao, Zhang Liang made him very worried in terms of personality and strategy.
"Hmm......" Zhang Jiao nodded when he heard this, and then turned his head to look down again, "Then before leaving, let's take a good look at how strong the elite troops of the officers and soldiers are......" As he spoke, Zhang Jiao's eyes suddenly froze, but he saw Li Yi's troops.
Although in the past, he just recruited Li Yi to go to the doctor in a hurry, but then Li Yi's reputation still made Zhang Jiao look sideways. After thinking about it, he summoned the person next to him to explain something.
On the side, after hearing Zhang Jiao's words, Zhang Liang did not interface, but just looked down. Although he has always been arrogant, it doesn't mean that he is really stupid. He was still able to distinguish the enemy's combat effectiveness, and took a step back and said, if there was no doubt that the officers and soldiers in front of him were ordinary officers and soldiers, how could Zhang Jiao spend so much thought?
Soon, in the midst of the huge drums, the officers and soldiers moved, and the sword, shield, and spearmen moved slowly, and with each step, the earth seemed to tremble. Behind the front, the archers followed, and the crossbowmen on either side moved forward under the protection of the sword, shield, and spearmen.
On the other hand, seeing the officers and soldiers getting closer and closer, suddenly a drum beat came from the city wall, everyone looked up, but there was a person who was constantly beating a war drum, although it was impossible to see who it was, but judging from the sudden morale of the Yellow Turban Army, it was obvious that there was no doubt about Zhang Jiao. Because no one else but him can achieve this effect at all.
The Yellow Turban Army, after all, is still a rebel army with Taiping Dao as the main body, even those who joined the Yellow Turban Army just to take advantage of the fire to rob, they also have great respect for Zhang Jiao on the surface. Not to mention that Julu City is the base camp of Taiping Dao, it is not an exaggeration to say that among the 100,000 Yellow Turban troops under the city, 90,000 are loyal believers of Taiping Dao.
"The believers of the Yellow Heaven...... Now it's time to vent your anger on the brutal Han family...... The Yellow Heaven will grant you courage, strength, and wisdom......" Zhang Jiao's voice continued to sound from the city walls, with a strange rhythm, like a ballad, and it seemed to be a spell, and it resounded through the battlefield in this empty space that was not too noisy.
This is very strange, especially although Zhang Jiao's voice is enough for Li Yi on the edge of the battlefield to hear, but Li Yi doesn't feel the hoarseness of shouting loudly in these words, but seems to be speaking gently and elegantly in his ears, with a trace of inexplicable majesty.
"Pretending to be a ghost...... Li Yi muttered a little unpleasantly, although he had never had this feeling, but it made him immediately have a word in his heart, hypnosis. Although Li Yi was not sure, in his opinion, these words of the gods did have a similar function.
In particular, when Zhang Jiao shouted that the sky was dead and Huang Tian was standing, and the group of Yellow Turban soldiers under the city also shouted one after another, Li Yi was even more sure that Zhang Jiao's words did have some special function.
"Attack!" Lu Zhi, who was still listening to Zhang Jiao's words and preparing to refute them, suddenly ordered with some embarrassment. Well, although he didn't know that Zhang Jiao's words were not said to him, when he heard it, he couldn't help but look for the flaws in it and prepare to refute it. In his mind, if he could make the Yellow Turban Army's morale decline or even defect to the battlefield by refuting Zhang Jiao's words, it would definitely be the best result.
It's just a pity that he miscalculated, and what made him even more angry was that before he gave the order to attack, the Yellow Turban Army over there had already rushed up shouting slogans. That crazy appearance is really a little terrifying.
"Stand shield! Guns! Crossbowmen shoot freely! The banner constantly conveyed Lu Zhi's orders, and although the officers and soldiers there were terrified, the long-term training and the victories that Lu Zhi led them to achieve still made them obey orders almost mechanically.
"Boom, boom......" bows and arrows sprinkled at the Yellow Turban Army like a shower, and the crossbow arrows were even more lined up in a straight line, and almost instantly, the Yellow Turban Army produced a large number of casualties. Although the Yellow Turban Army also had a large number of crossbowmen to counterattack, compared with the officers and soldiers, they were still too far behind in terms of number, speed and scale.
But even so, they still couldn't make the Yellow Turban Army waver in any way, they still shouted slogans and kept rushing towards the camp of officers and soldiers.