On the 19th, Gao Shun sent a junior cavalry to escort Zhang Ning to live in Taoyuan Fort, and wrote a letter to Ma Gui, asking him to take good care of Zhang Ning. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

On the 20th, the troops set off and went to Guangzong City, leaving a heavy army to guard Julu County.

At this time, the news that Zhang Bao and Zhang Jiao had been beheaded one after another had spread all over the world, and Guangzong's Yellow Turban Army had already received the news; The loss of the spiritual leader was a big blow to the Yellow Turbans.

Now that only Zhang Liang is left among the three brothers of the Zhang family, Yan Liang, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are all determined to win, and they all want to get his head, so this time the thief will have a perfect ending and be successfully promoted to Sima of other departments.

To their disappointment, after arriving at Guangzong, Gao Shun ordered the troops to camp in the west of the city, near the bank of the Qinghe River, and the requirements were very strict, the camp wall required rammed earth to be one zhang high and one zhang wide, and an arrow tower was arranged every thirty zhang on it; Three trenches were dug outside the camp, and antlers and other things were densely planted inside the trenches, and many rows of horses were densely packed outside the trenches.

With such a tight defense, everyone felt that this was not like they were here to attack the city, but like the attacked side, and they didn't know Gao Shun's true intentions.

Subsequently, Gao Shun ignored everyone's opinions and asked all departments to pay close attention to military training.

Before Zhang Jiao's death, it was occasionally mentioned that the main force of the Yellow Turban Army was in Guangzong, and the purpose was to fight against the imperial court, and there were about 80,000 people, all of whom were strong and elite soldiers, which made Gao Shun dare not be careless.

In history, Lu Zhi easily occupied Julu City, but he was defeated in Guangzong City, and even Dong Zhuo suffered a crushing defeat in Guangzong, so Gao Shun was more cautious, ensuring his own safety first, and then considering the siege of the city.

Besides, now there are not many Gao Shun cavalry, and even fewer infantry, if he loses once, it will not only affect his personal image, but also make him lose his strength.

In order to stabilize people's hearts, Gao Shun had no choice but to come forward to appease, and synthesized several carpenters, and began to make siege tools such as ladders, cloud cars, and crashes, ostensibly making preparations for siege.

And those newly incorporated soldiers of the former Yellow Turban Army are very satisfied with this kind of day, they have food and drink, and they eat and drink well, they can eat some meat the next day, the training intensity is not large, and they are not used as cannon fodder, there is no danger for the time being, and they are much stronger than being the Yellow Turban Army.

Wen Chou was promoted to Sima of other departments, and now he is in a good mood, no longer cares about the merits of the war, and is busy with the training of the newly added Santun cavalry every day, and when he has nothing to do, he will not only lead the cavalry to charge into battle, but also manage the 12 tun infantry, although he will be equipped with a military Sima, but the military Sima will manage a lot of content at that time, he as the chief officer, must be familiar with the training of the infantry and the formation of foot combat and other content.

At the same time, the opportunity for Sima to go out alone to perform tasks has greatly increased, he must learn more about military knowledge, and when he has nothing to do recently, Lao Ai is close to Li Qiang, asking some things he doesn't understand, Li Qiang likes his kind of motivation very much, and will patiently explain to him.

Yan Liang and Guan Yu couldn't bear to be upset, and asked Gao Shun to attack many times, even if they didn't attack, they could also cheer up the army if they challenged once.

Gao Shun was too lazy to take care of them now, but began to plan for the aftermath of the war.

However, Zhang Liang in Guangzong City was ready for a decisive battle with Gao Shun, Zhang Jiao and Zhang Bao both died at the hands of the Youzhou army, this was his chance to take revenge, otherwise, not to mention the low morale, and even let the Yellow Turban Army lose trust in him.

Since Zhang Jiao and Zhang Bao were beheaded, he became the supreme leader of the Yellow Turban Army, and quickly sent letters to the commanders everywhere to adjust the war strategy.

Many of the Yellow Turban wrestlers who escaped from Julu City and the devout disciples of Taiping Dao came to Guangzong City, Zhang Liang had learned from them the detailed process of the fall of Xia Quyang and Julu, and made targeted adjustments to Gao Shun's tactics, and arranged heavy troops at each city gate, so as not to let the Youzhou army have a chance to sneak attack.

Prepared a large number of city defense utensils at the head of the city, ready to let Gao Shun attack the city first, and after hitting his head and breaking the bloodstream, he organized a large army to counterattack, and he must destroy the Youzhou army, or cripple them, and lose his combat effectiveness from then on, and avenge Zhang Jiao and Zhang Bao, in order to establish his prestige in the Yellow Turban Army.

And before that, he had already transported all the grain seized from the surrounding counties into Guangzong City, which was enough for more than 100,000 of them to eat for 2 years.

More importantly, Guangzong City has been renovated, up to 6 zhang, the exterior is covered with bricks, very strong, if you want to attack, you must pay a heavy price, this is Zhang Liang's biggest reliance.

In order to avoid being attacked like Julu City, Zhang Liang ordered people to use boulders and sand to block all the four city gate holes, even if a small number of enemies successfully sneak attacked, they could not open the city gate in a short time, and the Yellow Turban Army could organize enough soldiers to annihilate the sneak attackers in a short time; At the same time, the retreat of the soldiers in the city was cut off, and they could only desperately defend the city.

Zhang Liang saw that the enemy army stayed in the barracks every day, neither leaving nor attacking, and it seemed that he wanted to adopt the tactics of Julu City, and he also wanted to confuse the Yellow Turban Army defending the city, so that he could launch a sneak attack when the Yellow Turban Army was slack.

Zhang Liang would go to the city wall several times every night, and even spend the night on the city wall, which could not only stabilize the morale of the army and prevent the sneak attack of the Youzhou army, but also be cooler, much better than being stuffy in the house.

At the end of June, Li Qiang and others came to mobilize Gao Shun to send troops, even if they went to fight a few battles, it was better than sitting idle in the barracks.

Gao Shun smiled: "Do you think I don't want to take Guangzong City as soon as possible?" The city of Guangzong is tall and strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, our infantry is not enough for the Yellow Turban Army to stuff the teeth, your cavalry can fly up the city wall? Still want to fight? You really think the Yellow Turbans are stupid, you go and try it, they will definitely not go out of the city to fight. ”

Li Qiang said: "My lord, do you want to adopt the strategy of the Battle of Xiaquyang and besiege them with a big water?" ”

Gao Shun asked rhetorically: "Hehe, the reason why Zhang Bao of Xia Quyang failed was because he had not enough food in storage, and the food in Guangzong City was enough for them to eat for two years, what was the use of besieging the city?" ”

Everyone didn't believe Gao Shun's words, and Gao Shun couldn't explain that this was Zhang Jiao's words, so he ordered them to challenge and see if Zhang Liang dared to send troops to fight.

Li Qiang, Yan Liang and others were overjoyed and immediately led the cavalry of their headquarters to the west gate of Guangzong City.

I waited for an hour under the hot sun, but the gates of the city were not opened.

No matter how Yan Liang and Zhang Fei insulted, it would only cause a burst of laughter from the Yellow Turban Army in the city, and they did not go out of the city to fight.

Everyone had no choice but to return to the camp to rest.

I went to challenge it for a few days in a row, and the results were all the same.

The morale of the Yellow Turban Army was greatly boosted, and watching the Youzhou Army basking in the sun under the scorching sun, they were in a good mood and praised General Rengong's clever strategy.

Seeing that everyone was in a depressed mood, Gao Shun arranged for them to divide into three teams and go out to sweep the scattered Yellow Turban Army in various counties and counties, and be sure to clear all the Yellow Turban Army north of the Yellow River.

Wen Chou, as the Sima of the other department, was solely responsible for the Yellow Turban of Anping Kingdom and took into account the situation of Hejian Kingdom; Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were responsible for Wei County and the part north of the Yellow River in Yanzhou East County; Yan Liang led Zhao Fu to clean up the Qinghe Kingdom and the part north of the Yellow River in Qingzhou Plain County, and prevent the resurgence of the Yellow Turban thieves in Bohai County.

Only Zhao State, Gao Shun did not send the army, and more or less left a small base for the Yellow Turban Army.

In fact, Gao Shun chose to wait, not because he had no way to attack the city, but because he was waiting for the holy decree of the imperial court, and he had sent the heads of Zhang Jiao and Zhang Bao to the imperial court. Even if you don't allocate money and food, etc., it's always okay to give some other benefits, but you can't let the horses run and don't let the horses graze, how can there be such a good thing in the world?

Besides, he couldn't end the battle in Jizhou so happily, otherwise how would the other armies feel? If the court is allowed to develop the mentality of a capable person working hard, then Gao Shun will become a free firefighter, pay a lot, and there is no return, he is not willing to continue to do such a stupid thing.

In this way, the two sides confronted each other in Quang Jong, without fighting a single battle, and both sides were on high alert for their opponents.

By mid-July, north of the Yellow River, except for Zhao, all the Yellow Turban forces were swept away, leaving only the isolated city of Guangzong.