Chapter 150: Ambush on all sides
"No!" The generals commanded.
It was much more difficult to defend the fortified fortress than to defend the city, they were only temporarily surrounded, and they all knew that there were reinforcements.
When the Yellow Turban soldiers at the front of Zhang Jiao's army were a hundred steps away from the north gate of the camp.
The crossbowman standing on the plank of the fence set up a large yellow crossbow and shot at the yellow turban.
The rhubarb crossbow is a very important kind of bow and crossbow in the Han Dynasty, which is divided into one stone to ten stone crossbows, and the rhubarb crossbow of ten stones is called the yellow shoulder crossbow and the rhubarb crossbow.
The rhubarb crossbow can shoot 350 paces, but it is not used by one person, and it is a sharp weapon against cavalry.
This kind of crossbow requires a force of 120 catties to draw a stone, and the lethality is particularly great.
The crossbowmen of these shooting battalions all used two-stone rhubarb crossbows. Every soldier is very strong.
The Yellow Turban formation is dense, the Han army has no false hair, the Yellow Turban soldiers are all shot down, and the shields in the front row are as brittle as paper in front of the big yellow crossbow.
After the crossbowmen fired a round, Huang Zhong ordered a thousand archers to start firing arrows as well.
Although the bow and arrow could not penetrate the Yellow Turban's shield, the rate of fire was fast, which slowed down the Yellow Turban's attack speed.
Zhang Liang, who was standing in the middle of the Yellow Turban team, ordered several Qu Shuai to lead most of the men and horses to surround the camp of officers and soldiers, and besiege the officers and soldiers from three other directions. to create pressure on officers and soldiers.
After a while, the yellow scarf was in front of the Beizhai gate, with thousands of corpses. From time to time, the Yellow Turban soldiers approached the gate and the fence, and they were all stabbed back by the spearmen.
Huang Zhong led hundreds of soldiers to run along the long defensive line, and once there were holes, he immediately filled them.
The yellow turban suffered heavy casualties at Beizhai Gate, and did not push a single walled wood, which made Zhang Liang angry.
Liu Fan stood on the high platform of the Chinese army and looked in all directions.
The camp was surrounded by 70,000 yellow turbans like iron buckets. And the Han army only had a thin layer on the defensive.
The North Gate soldiers are strong, although the Yellow Turban offensive is the fiercest and the battle is the most fierce, but it still holds steadily.
On the contrary, the West Zhaimen is not optimistic, a section of the wooden wall has been torn down, and the Zhaimen is also crumbling.
"Divide 1,000 people to support Xizhaimen!" Liu Fan ordered the soldiers below.
"No!"
A Sima led the order and led a thousand men to the west gate.
Half an hour later, Dongzhaimen and Nanzhaimen were also in short supply, and Liu Fan separated the last thousand soldiers and dispatched them to Captain Shotsheng and Liu Biao.
"It's finally here!"
Seeing a burst of dust in the north, Liu Fan knew that the four thousand cavalry had withdrawn.
At this time, there was another burst of dust in the south, this was the Three Rivers Knight under the command of Huangfu Song and Zhu Wei.
Stand tall and look far away. At this moment, Zhang Jiao, Zhang Liang and other yellow scarves do not know.
Half an hour later, the cavalry from the north and south appeared on the plain at the same time, accompanied by the deafening sound of horses' hooves, which directly drowned out the shouts of killing.
"This is the cavalry sent by the officers and soldiers to Xiaquyang, I thought that Liu Fan would let the reinforcements withdraw, but why did there be so many cavalry in the south?" Zhang Jiao frowned and said.
He sent 70,000 soldiers to besiege the officers and soldiers camp, leaving 30,000 soldiers in case the officers and soldiers who had just gone to support Xia Quyang came back to help.
This is also deliberately done by Zhang Jiao to reduce the pressure on his third brother Zhang Bao.
"Stop these Han cavalry, the officers and soldiers in the camp won't be able to resist for long, don't let the cavalry rush our army's formation." Zhang Jiao ordered Qu Shuai beside him.
There is no turning back from the bow!
Since you are desperate, you must be determined to the end.
The appearance of a large cavalry unit of officers and soldiers made the Yellow Turban soldiers who were fighting tremble. The Han army began to rise in combat power.
Zhang Jiao ordered the infantry on standby to block the way of the cavalry rushing to the camp of officers and soldiers. But those cavalrymen didn't even think about charging into battle, but isolated the Yellow Turban from Guangzong City.
The 6,000 cavalry stopped in front of the south gate of Guangzong City, lining up a long line of defense, as if to block the Yellow Turban's way back to Guangzong City.
"What is the purpose of the officers and soldiers and cavalry not to support, but to block the gate of Guangzong?"
Zhang Jiao was full of questions, feeling a little inexplicable.
"General Tiangong, do you want to send soldiers to attack the official cavalry." A Qu Shuai asked Zhang Jiao.
"There are 5,000 officers and soldiers in cavalry, and with such a large cavalry team, it may be difficult for our army's idle 30,000 soldiers to win! There are also officers and soldiers who go north up and down Quyang, and the 10,000 infantry will also come back to help. Since the cavalry did not support the officers and soldiers, then leave the cavalry alone, and wait until the officers and soldiers camp was breached, and then pack up the cavalry. Zhang Jiao shook his head and said, he looked at the high platform in the center of the officer and soldier camp two miles away.
A figure can be vaguely seen, he is Liu Fan.
After another hour of fierce fighting, more than one-third of the four gates of the Han army camp were killed and wounded, and the Yellow Turbans dropped from the original 70,000 soldiers to more than 50,000.
At this time, the sect member led 10,000 soldiers back from the north, and quickly scattered the army to surround the west of the Yellow Turban.
This was expected by Zhang Jiao, but why did the officers and soldiers surround our army in the west?
A bad premonition rose in Zhang Jiao's heart.
At the south gate of the Han military camp, Liu Biao commanded the soldiers to fill one gap after another.
His armor was stained with blood, which shows that he had also fought in battle.
Regardless of his future? At this moment, he is just a military general who is ordered to be in danger, fighting bloodily to annihilate the Yellow Turban.
Suddenly, the Yellow Turban soldiers who were attacking Liu Biao's department were in a commotion, and they all gave up attacking Nanzhai Gate and fled to both sides.
When the living yellow scarves were gone, Liu Biao saw an eight-foot strong man with a big axe leading thousands of soldiers to rush towards this side.
With that huge momentum, it's no wonder that the Yellow Turban will run away.
At the same time, there was a Han army of 20,000 men in the south, which quickly detoured to the east of the Yellow Turbans, connected with the northernmost Han cavalry, and completely surrounded the Yellow Turbans.
The 20,000 troops in the east were Zhu Wei and Huangfu Song, and their appearance caused the Yellow Turbans, who were attacking the east gate of the camp, to give up the attack and retreat to the north.
The same is true for the west, after Zong Ze compressed the living space of the Yellow Turban, the Yellow Turban also gave up attacking Xizhai Gate.
Liu Fan raised the command flag, and Xu Huang, Liu Biao, Captain Shotsheng, and Captain Infantry led the soldiers who could fight to gather at Huang Zhong.
These divisions formed 15,000 soldiers and horses, and surrounded the cavalry in the north, Zong Ze in the west, Zhu Wei and Huangfu Song in the east, and the remaining 80,000 yellow scarves of Zhang Jiao.
Just now, the yellow turban surrounded the Han army like an iron bucket, and now the situation is reversed.
The Yellow Turban soldiers were like a dream, how could they be surrounded?
Zhang Jiao, who looked confused, woke up and said with a wry smile: "This is what the teacher said about Nanke's dream, it is really impermanent."
Liu Fan uses soldiers, and he likes the virtual and the real the most, the virtual is real, the real is the virtual, the combination of odd and positive, and the surprise wins.
Huangfu Song, Zhu Yun, and Xu Huang are his strange soldiers. Sect members and other foot riders are also used to confuse opponents.
"Big brother, the officers and soldiers are in ambush on all sides, we have been tricked, what should we do now?" Zhang Liang came to Zhang Jiao and said dejectedly.
The order to attack the camp was given by Zhang Jiao, but Zhang Liang did not blame him, judged the situation, and went to support Zhang Bao, and the ending was the same.
Unless they don't go out of the city and watch Zhang Bao being attacked and killed.
The three of them grew up together, like siblings, how could they not be saved when they died?