Chapter 308: Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army (1)
Jin Liang now lives in a parallel world, which has nothing to do with the original world, and all he cares about is whether he and the people of the Han Dynasty can bid farewell to hunger because of corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, peanuts, and peppers, and usher in the great development of the Han population. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Everything was going smoothly until the news of the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans attacking Jizhou came.
Guan Hai, the commander of the Yellow Turban Canal in Qingzhou, discovered that there was a bumper harvest in Tuntian, Jizhou, and the grain was piled up, and Qingzhou was disturbed by these Yellow Turban thieves who did not produce and was almost useless, Guan Hai persuaded the other Yellow Turban Commanders in Qingzhou to take advantage of the gap between Jin Liang and the main force of the Central Army to quell the rebellion in Bingzhou, and gathered more than a dozen Qingzhou Yellow Turban poles. A total of 400,000 Qingzhou yellow turbans, like locusts crossing the border, swarmed through Pingyuan County. Prepare to cross the Yellow River, attack Jizhou, and seize Jizhou's grain.
Liu Shun, the king of the Plains Kingdom, raised troops in response to the rebellion of the family. It was jointly defeated by Cao Cao, the prime minister of the Plains, and Liu Bei, the commander of the Plains County, and the Plains Country was changed to the Plains County.
When 400,000 yellow turbans swept in, Cao Cao and Liu Bei had just swept away the rebellion of Liu Shun, the king of the plains, and the soldiers were exhausted and could not match, so they had to close the plain city and watch the Qingzhou yellow turbans cross the border like locusts.
Ganning's Yellow River Naval Division was fully cooperating with the troops of Zhang Liao and Yu Ban and the people of Xingyang to cross the river, leaving only a few hundred sailors along the Qingzhou line. They were all killed by the elite troops of the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans, the Yellow Turbans, who collected fishing boats along the Qingzhou line, built pontoon bridges, and crossed the Yellow River.
Zhenggu, who was stationed in Liyang, was leading troops to sweep away the family manor that participated in the rebellion in the Liyang area, when he was caught off guard and attacked by the Qingzhou Yellow Turban that crossed the Yellow River. Almost the entire army was wiped out, Zhenggu was killed on the spot, Liyang fell, and only Zhenggu's division joined the army, Lu Zhao led more than 1,000 remnants of the army to flee back to Xiangyang.
Jin Liang received an urgent report from Xiangyang and was furious. This Qingzhou yellow scarf is too kicking his nose in the face, and he dares to attack Jizhou while he is in Bingzhou.
In addition to personally bringing 40,000 elite cavalry back to Xiangyang, Jin Liang also sent orders to the Quartet, ordering Zhang Jaw of Hanoi County to lead 20,000 central troops and 20,000 county soldiers to attack from the west, and ordered Bohai County, Qinghe County, Hejian County and other county soldiers to attack from the east, leaving Gao Shun to rectify and merge the state military, Zhao Yun and Wei Yanbu then supported Xiangyang, and Ganning's Yellow River Naval Division transported Zhang Liao and Yu Ban's 20,000 horses to the back of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, and the four sides were copied, and the 400,000 Qingzhou Yellow Turbans must be left in Jizhou.
At the same time, Jin Liang sent the hussar general orders to Cao Cao, the commander of Pingyuan County, Liu Bei, the prime minister of Jibei, and other counties and counties along the Yellow River, and let them command the men and horses of their headquarters to carry out a thorough attack on the remaining Yellow Turban Party.
Guan Hai knew that Xiangyang was the center of Jizhou, and all the collected grain was stored in Xiangyang, and the money of the Jinliang Central Army was stored in the central money village in Xiangyang.
Guan Hai had finished discussing with more than a dozen poles and commanders of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, so he abandoned the county seat and dock fort along the road, and directly led the army to Xiangyang, surrounding Xiangyang.
Guan Hai jumped his sword, came to a hundred steps in front of Xiangyang Wengcheng City, and shouted: "I know that you Jizhou has a bumper grain harvest this year, and our Qingzhou grain has no harvest, as long as you let our Qingzhou yellow scarves into the city, we promise to move the grain and leave, and will never harm the people, if you dare to resist, we will enter the city, no matter the old, the weak, the young, no one will be left!" ”
Huang Zhong, who was guarding Xiangyang, smiled contemptuously, did not answer, opened his bow and set up an arrow, and an arrow flew towards Guan Hai's front door.
Guan Hai hurriedly used a knife to stop it, but unexpectedly, the arrow came quickly, Guan Hai's knife did not intercept it, and the arrow feather hit Guan Hai's turban, Guan Hai's soul was rising, and he quickly turned his horse back a hundred steps.
Guan Hai pulled out the arrow feathers on his turban and scolded angrily: "Attack the city, and the chickens and dogs will not be left!" ”
The 400,000 Qingzhou Yellow Turbans surrounded Xiangyang, how could Xiangyang City be high and deep, and the moat was connected to Zhangshui, although there were many people in Qingzhou Yellow Turbans, they could not use the method of attacking the city with heaps of soil, so they had to cut down the trees around Xiangyang and build siege equipment such as ladders and vehicles.
Within two days, Guan Hai built thousands of ladders and began to attack the city frantically.
Guan Hai knew that Jin Liang's brigade was just west of Huguan, only a few hundred miles away from Xiangyang, if Jin Liang returned in time, then his 400,000 horses had not yet entered the city, and he encountered Jin Liang's reinforcements, and in such a flat and boundless field around Xiangyang, the cavalry was equipped with few Qingzhou Yellow Turbans and the cavalry well-equipped Central Army to meet, only the end of being chased by the Central Army's elite cavalry, or attack the city earlier, with the high moat of Xiangyang, and Jin Liang's reinforcements have a good deal.
Guan Hai's plan has been decided, so he desperately attacked the city at any cost, from the first day of the siege of half of the men and horses, 200,000 Qingzhou yellow turbans braved the rain of arrows at the head of the city, carrying long logs and thick planks, rushing to the moat, it turned out that they wanted to build a pontoon bridge, across the moat.
This moat was just within the range of the crossbowmen at the head of the city, and Huang Zhong saw that the Qingzhou Yellow Turban had dispatched 200,000 horses to attack the city, so he unceremoniously mobilized more than 10,000 crossbowmen from all the crossbowmen in the city to shoot at the Qingzhou Yellow Turban who built the pontoon bridge.
After all, there are only more than 10,000 crossbowmen of the central army at the head of the city, and if they can shoot this way, they can't shoot that side, and the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans are used to attacking the city in the Qingzhou area, and they are very experienced, and they all carry wide wooden shields to resist the arrows at the head of the city, so that the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans only lost more than 10,000 people, and hundreds of pontoon bridges were built on the moat.
Guan Hai saw that the pontoon bridge was completed, laughed heartily, and ordered the Qingzhou Yellow Turban behind him to carry thousands of ladders and prepare to cross the pontoon bridge.
Huang Zhong, the commander of the garrison at the head of the city, did not panic when he saw the more than 100 pontoon bridges repaired by the Yellow Turban in Qingzhou, but laughed loudly and said: "Thunderbolt car preparation, smash all the pontoon bridges." ”
The soldiers had already cut the stones into well-proportioned pieces and placed them in the pouches of the thunderbolts, and the thunderbolts shook the mechanisms, and hundreds of thunderbolts buzzed, throwing countless stones, crackling and smashing into the pontoon bridge over the moat.
Those Qingzhou yellow turbans carrying ladders and preparing to rush across the pontoon bridge were hit by the flying stones, all fell into the moat with blood flowing, and were swept into the more turbulent Zhangshui by the surging moat, and the pontoon bridge was also hit by larger stones, all smashed into pieces, and the broken wooden blocks also washed down the moat without a trace, and after a while, more than 200 pontoon bridges that were finally built were all destroyed by the thunderbolts.
Guan Hai's face was pale, he had no way out, he had no choice but to break through Xiangyang and seize the gold, silver and grain, otherwise he would not be able to escape the pursuit of Jinliang's Central Army, let alone the pursuit of more than a dozen other Yellow Turban Pole Qu Shuai.
Under Guan Hai's strong order, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban cut down thicker and stronger wood to make a pontoon bridge, and when building the pontoon bridge, a thick shield was held to prevent the bombardment of flying stones at the head of the city, and more than 10,000 casualties of the Yellow Turban soldiers, Guan Hai only transported 70,000 or 80,000 Yellow Turban soldiers across the moat, and these more than 70,000 Yellow Turban soldiers carried the ladder and rushed to the bottom of the city, leaned the ladder on the city wall, and began to climb up.
If it is according to the original city wall of Xiangyang, there is still a chance to break the city with such an attack method as Guan Hai, but the current Xiangyang outer city is built according to the principle of Jinliang Fortress, the outer city is presented as a concave polygon, and there are three fortress surfaces in each direction, so that no matter how much Qingzhou Yellow Turban attacks any point of the castle, it will be exposed to the defenders of the Central Army in three directions, and the defenders use crossfire to carry out multiple blows to Qingzhou Yellow Turbans, such a building pattern, If Guan Hai wants to take down 40,000 central troops and 20,000 county and county soldiers to defend Xiangyang, it is more difficult than ascending to the sky.
However, Huang Zhong had already received a secret order from Jin Liang, and he ordered that all the crossbowmen should not be cast, and that some Qingzhou Yellow Turbans should be attracted to climb the city for short-handed encounters, so that Guan Hai under the city thought that the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans could still capture Xiangyang.
Guan Hai under the city looked from afar and saw that some Qingzhou Yellow Turbans had already attacked the city, and he laughed loudly: "Haha, brothers, work hard, take Xiangyang, indulge for three days, and let the brothers enjoy the money and food!" ”
Qu Shuai, who had more than a dozen other poles, also thought that Xiangyang was about to be taken, and they all sent their elite infantry to cross the pontoon bridge and climb the cloud ladder, preparing to capture Xiangyang in one go.
Huang Zhong saw that he was a little weak, so he encouraged the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, so he sneered: "Don't give them politeness!" ”
There is also a layer of hidden soldiers under the head of the city, there are thousands of spearmen, they stretched out their spears from the hidden small wall holes, and pushed down the ladder firmly leaning on the city wall, there were originally seven or eight Qingzhou Yellow Turban soldiers who climbed on the ladder, and were pushed hard by the spearmen of the Central Army, and the ladder fell to the ground violently, most of the seven or eight Yellow Turban soldiers were injured, and for a while, thousands of ladders were overthrown to the ground, thousands of Yellow Turban soldiers fell down the city, and the Yellow Turban soldiers who had already attacked the city had no way back, and the central saber and shield soldiers who had been recuperating for a long time were all killed.
Guan Hai's face was gloomy for a while, and then he stretched out again, isn't it just that he has lost thousands of people, it doesn't matter, Lao Tzu still has more than 300,000 people.
After being put on the neck by the Yellow Turban wrestlers under Guan Hai, they were forced to obey the overall situation of Guan Hai Marshal, regardless of life and death, not to mention losses, even to fill with the lives of 100,000 people, but also to attack Xiangyang.
Guan Hai, who is too tall, has a bear's waist, a wide head and a thick neck, and a face full of meat, like a part-time butcher's cook, he shouted in a loud voice: "Brothers, rush, we have broken through Xiangyang, we will have white rice and noodles to eat, there will be golden gold flowers, and there will be white flowers and women to play, all for Lao Tzu to rush!" ”
Hundreds of cloud ladders were set up on the city wall of Xiangyang, and those Qingzhou Yellow Turban soldiers who were provoked by Guan Hai's white flowers and red dew words climbed over the cloud ladders and climbed to the top of the city.
The central army at the head of the city followed the instructions sent by Jin Liang and slowly and leisurely confronted the Yellow Turban army that climbed up to the head of the city.
After three or four times like this, half a day has passed, and the Qingzhou Yellow Turban has lost more than 30,000 people, and the guards at the head of the city have also changed three times.
Guan Hai realized that the guards at the head of the city would use the Qingzhou Yellow Turban for actual combat training.
Guan Hai knew that Jin Liang's army had returned to help, but now he didn't know where it was, anyway, it was not far from Xiangyang, and there was not much time left for him, so he desperately sent five thousand elite Yellow Turban wrestlers under his command. In vain, he tried to use the incomparable Yellow Turban Warriors to break through the defense of the city and open the city gate, so that more than 300,000 Qingzhou Yellow Turbans could pour in.
The 400,000 Qingzhou Yellow Turbans brought by Guan Hai were less than 150,000 real soldiers. Most of the rest are old and weak women and children who are carried, and less than 50,000 of the 150,000 horses are really wearing leather armor for a battle, and only the 5,000 yellow turban wrestlers are wearing iron armor and do not avoid arrows. These 5,000 Yellow Turban wrestlers have only recently begun to be equipped by Guan Hai, and Guan Hai secretly thought that the combat effectiveness of his Yellow Turban wrestlers should be comparable to Jin Liang's guards.
The Yellow Turban Wrestlers were dressed no different from the other Yellow Turban Warriors except for the iron armor under their yellow robes, but they were tall and strong, with cold eyes, with a terrifying blood red, and no human feelings. There was only the murderous aura rising, and the arrows and feathers that came down from the city hit the shoulders of these Yellow Turban wrestlers, and they didn't react, they didn't seem to be in pain at all, and they didn't even pull out the arrows, and continued to rush forward with their swords and shields.
Huang Zhong clearly saw that Guan Hai sent the elite people of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, and it seemed that he had to take Xiangyang desperately. Then he sent an order to go down, and prepare with strong bows and crossbows, and thunderbolts, and be sure to defeat these five thousand yellow turban warriors, and not let them go to the top of the city to kill more.
The strongbow shot the Yellow Turban wrestlers, and the crossbow shot the Yellow Turban wrestlers. Their bodies were shaken by the force of the arrows, but they still rushed forward with expressionless faces, and the stones thrown by the thunderbolt hit their heads, and their heads broke and their heads flowed, but they still rushed forward, as long as they were not shot in the throat or other vital places, they continued to climb up the ladder as if they were not injured.
These Yellow Turban wrestlers attacked the city, and the sword and shield soldiers of the Central Army met them, slashed them, and slashed them on their bodies, as long as they did not cut off their necks with a knife, but cut at other parts, even if the wound was deep and the blood was flowing from the bones, these Yellow Turban wrestlers were expressionless, there was no trace of fear in their eyes, but they were always blood-red, and the central saber and shield soldiers were stunned, and at the moment when they were stunned, the knife of the Yellow Turban wrestlers had been slashed down, and the stunned central sword and shield soldiers were killed on the spot.
Because the soldiers of Huang Zhong's division rarely fought against evil soldiers like the Yellow Turban Lux before, they were very unaccustomed to it, and they were often frightened by the Yellow Turban Lux who were not afraid of life and death and did not avoid the sword, although their knife skills may be more proficient than the Yellow Turban Lux Shi, but they still fell behind, retreated step by step, and followed the Yellow Turban Lux to the city more and more Qingzhou Yellow Turban soldiers.
Huang Zhong saw that the situation was not good, and gave the order to go down and resist the enemy with all his might, but it was still a little late, led by these five thousand perverted Yellow Turban wharves, there were more than 20,000 Qingzhou Yellow Turban soldiers who poured into the city.
Chen Zhi, who was originally holding the first line of the palace and the central castle, saw that the defense of the outer city was tight, so he hurriedly dispatched 6,000 elites to support, and Feng Fang, who held Jinwu, and Xia Mou, the captain of the city gate, also hurriedly mobilized the elite troops of the second line of the inner city to support.
Huang Zhong led the 30,000 defenders on the city to grit their teeth and insist, the battle on the city entered a white-hot state, if there was any slack, Xiangyang would be lost immediately.
Huang Zhong stretched out his bow and arrows to shoot those fierce Yellow Turban wrestlers, and beat a drum in his heart, Lord, if you are late, Xiangyang will be over.
Guan Hai saw that the Yellow Turban Lux was really effective, so he couldn't help grinning, and laughed: "Brothers, work hard, let's go to Xiangyang tonight to enjoy happiness, enjoy the rice noodles of the white flowers, and enjoy the women of the white flowers!" ”
Guan Hai's laughter stopped abruptly, and he suddenly heard the roar of horses' hooves and fierce shouts of thousands of horses from the north, east, and west.
Guan Hai climbed to the top and looked at it, and there was a lot of smoke and dust on all three sides, and he couldn't see how many iron horses there were, but looking at the formation, there were at least more than 20,000.
Guan Hai has always heard that Jin Liang has been promoting Ma Zheng but has never known how many cavalry Jin Liang has under his command, and now at a glance, it seems that Jin Liang has no less than 60,000 cavalry this time, and the infantry following the cavalry is probably more.
Guan Hai panicked, he looked at the remaining more than 300,000 Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, after a day of siege, they were all exhausted, and the more than 100,000 horses that Jin Liang copied from Sanban were all fresh troops, and nearly 60,000 were cavalry, you must know that the elite degree of Jin Liang's central cavalry was that even Dong Zhuo's Xiliang cavalry had to bow down, and although they were brave, most of them were foot soldiers, and they did not have any advantages in the terrain of Xiangyang.
Guan Hai fell into a painful choice, should he attack Xiangyang regardless of life and death, or run away quickly?
When the red banner came into view, the defenders of the Central Army at the head of the city shouted in unison, and their morale was greatly boosted, Guan Hai knew that Jin Liang, the god of war, had personally gone out, and it was too late for the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans to attack the city or escape.
Jin Liang led the 40,000 elite cavalry of the main force of the Central Army to reach ten miles north of Xiangyang, but he just had to wait for the Qingzhou Yellow Turban to exhaust his strength in attacking Xiangyang before giving the final blow, and at the same time, Jin Liang also had to wait for the 40,000 horses of Hanoi County to open his jaw, and the 40,000 county soldiers of Bohai, Qinghe, and Hejian counties led by Bohai General Lu Dai outflanked him from the east and west.
Jin Liang waved the stone dragon broadsword, took the lead, and rushed to the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, which was in disarray.
The red rabbit horse is like a red lightning, flashing in the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Array, a cloud of blood mist rises into the air, where Jin Liang goes, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban people turn over on their backs, and the halberd points to them, invincible.
Behind Jin Liang, there are Pan Feng, Wu Anguo, Cao Xing, Cheng Lian and other fierce generals to follow, everywhere they go, they are also people on their backs, attacking Xiangyang all day Qingzhou Yellow Turban is exhausted, and they are all ragged, unfavorable weapons of foot soldiers, under the fierce cavalry charge, had to scatter and flee, Qingzhou soldiers unique to the courage did not play a little bit at all.
Zhang Jaw waved the big gun, Lu Dai danced the big knife, one left and one right, each leading 40,000 horses to outflank him. (To be continued.) )