On April 20, the 70,000 army led by Xu He of Qingzhou arrived as scheduled, surrounded Pingling County, and set up a position of encircling three and missing one. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

On April 22, in the early morning, thousands of miles were overcast, covering Dongpingling County. Yellow Turban Battalion, "Qu Shuai, it seems that Dongpingling County is going to defend to the death, in the past few days, the 20,000 subordinates who were ambushed outside the West Gate have not found any movement of the West Gate absconding. ”

An elegant smile appeared on the eight-foot-tall Qu Shuai Xu He's thin face, "I didn't plan to ambush the officials and soldiers in the city, so I just did my best, pass the order down, prepare to attack the city, and use the siege equipment transported from Linzi." ”

"Yes, Qu Shuai," the general replied.

"Knock knock", the sound of drums sounded, like a clear sky and dry thunder. The Yellow Turban soldiers diverted out of the camp and assembled in the east and north, waiting for the next order. The north gate was personally commanded by Xu He, who came from the Qi State, and the east gate was the Qu Shuai under Xu He, who was in charge.

Above the city, Gong Jing and other officials were already full of solemnity, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, and Liu Bei looked at each other, it was really too unexpected for the Yellow Turban soldiers in front of them, all of them were all leather armor, and the weapons were also equipped by everyone, such as Changge, spears, ring-headed knives, knives, axes, shields, etc., and there were thousands of archers standing under the city.

The 70,000-strong army is armed, and its combat strength is not weaker than the main force of Zhang Jiao in Jizhou, which makes the faces of several people a little ugly, not to mention the faces of the soldiers under his command, which are as pale as earth, and they are terrified.

Zhang Fei licked his dry lips, he really didn't know that there were so many weapons in Qingzhou, "Lord Taishou, how many weapons, grain and grass are there in Linzi, and there are so many Yellow Turban Army." ”

Gong Jing's face turned a little pale, and his lips squirmed, "Linzi is the seat of Qingzhou, the center of the state and county, bringing together Qingzhou's weapons, grain and grass, enough to arm less than 100,000 soldiers, not to mention the grain and grass collected from all over Qingzhou over the years, enough for the army outside to support a year and a half." ”

Guan Yu held the Qinglong Yanyue Knife in his hand and glanced at the officials who came with him, "Lord Taishou, they are going to attack the city, except for those guarding the city wall, you and the others will all retreat to the city, and the county soldiers in the reserve are also ready to go to the city at any time to assist." In addition, in addition to the necessary guards at the city gate, the five hundred ironclad guards were divided into three parts, guarding the eastern, northern, and southern gates. ”

"Okay," Gong Jing, who was wearing a straight-sleeved robe, glanced at the city, "I'll leave it to Yun Chang here, so that we don't distract Yun Chang here," and then, Gong Jing pointed at Lu Yun Dao, "Lu Yun, you stay and assist Yun Chang, so as not to run out of manpower." ”

"Yes, Taishou-sama." Lu Yun responded.

Next, Guan Yu allocated manpower, "Yide, you go to the north gate,"

"Yes, big brother." Zhang Fei replied with a spear.

Guan Yu showed concern in his eyes, and advised, "Be careful, there are a lot of equipment in the city to defend the city, so you don't need to save it." ”

"En", Zhang Fei's heart warmed, and he looked at Guan Yu firmly, and then took twenty-five ironclad guards to the north gate.

At this time, Guan Yu's eyes turned to Liu Bei and thought about it, "Liu Bei, you go to the south gate, be careful that the yellow turban attacks the city from the south gate." ”

"Brother Yun, rest assured, unless the Yellow Turban thief steps on Bei's body, otherwise, Beiding will not lose the city wall." Guan Yu nodded and said to Lu Yun, "Lieutenant Lu, you will take some people to the West Gate to prevent the Yellow Turban thieves from cheating and attacking from the West Gate, Guan Yu's face showed a solemn look. ”

"Don't say much, so-and-so will go first," Lu Yun arched his hand.

A quarter of an hour later, 20,000 soldiers stood in front of the Yellow Turban Battalion, and there was a dark shadow as far as the eye could see.

"Beat the drums, siege the city," Qu Shuai Xu He ordered on the tall horse, and at the same time, the Yellow Turban army at the north gate beat the war drums at the same time, and the mighty drums seemed to shake away the dark clouds in the sky.

Under the city, in Guan Yu's sight, he saw a car about three zhang long, on which a huge log was placed, and the beginning of the log was cut into a cone shape and covered by a thick layer of iron, which was the city car. The car was slowly rolling out of the Yellow Turban Camp, and there were dozens of people with yellow scarves on both sides pushing the car forward.

"Archer, release the arrow", about a hundred steps away from Pingping County, the bow and arrow equipment captured by the Yellow Turban from Linzi was given to his command, and several rounds of salvo shots seemed to be the same, but the results of the battle were unbearable to look at, the arrows shot by the Yellow Turban archers were either on the city wall, or they fell down before they rushed into the air, and the follow-up was weak, and there was no impact on the Han army on the head of the city.

After a cup and a half of effort, the Yellow Turban soldiers advanced layer by layer, and unexpectedly encountered the arrows shot from the city head to intercept them, and waves of Yellow Turban soldiers carried the ladder and took the lead in rushing to the city wall, "Brothers, go up," a burly Yellow Turban Tun Commander, glaring angrily, hatred flashed in his eyes, and pointed at the sky with his head knife.

A series of ladders were built together, and there were yellow turban soldiers holding their shields high to form a shield wall, and at this time, a yellow turban soldier with a famous mouth and a knife flashed out from under the shield wall with a firm gaze and climbed up the connected ladders.

Above the city, Guan Yu's command was determined, and a pair of Danfeng eyes were patrolling the east gate at all times, seeing that the time was almost up, Guan Yu gave an order, "Pour oil!" ”

Under Guan Yu's order, the county soldiers defending the city poured the boiling oil that had already emitted pungent green smoke down the wall stacks with iron scoops.

Hundreds of degrees of boiling oil poured down from the height, making a "zizi" piercing sound in mid-air, the climbing yellow turban soldiers were so frightened that they couldn't continue to climb, jumped from the ladder to the shield wall, slammed on the shield wall, didn't care about the blood boiling in the internal organs, rolled on the spot, fell to the ground and rolled into the shield wall.

On the ladder, the slow reaction is to be splashed with boiling oil, the sound of Zila, making people's scalp numb, bursts of barbecue aroma came out, fell directly from the ladder, fell directly on the shield wall, rolled straight on, painful.

Within a short period of time, the Yellow Turban soldiers who attacked the city at the east gate and the north gate were too frightened to climb the siege by the boiling oil, and soon after, there were Yellow Turban generals who ordered the soldiers to climb with shields, and after that, a Yellow Turban soldier gritted his steel teeth and crossed the shield wall, just like the soldiers who climbed the ladder before.

"Throw the wood," Guan Yu, who was slightly frowning with a pair of silkworm eyebrows, had a grim face and issued another order.

As the sound of the order that spread throughout the city, the county soldiers guarding the city were relieved under Guan Yu's order, as if they had eaten a reassuring pill, a steady stream of energy was born from their bodies, and they lifted the wood behind the wall battlement, and saw that the yellow turban soldiers under the cloud ladder smashed it down.

The one-zhang-wide sassal wood shook irregularly on the ladders that were lined up, and the crisp wood collided with the ladders with a pleasant sound, and they smashed down at a very fast speed.

There was a faint wail from beneath the city, the sound of climbing soldiers falling on the shield wall, and the sound of rolling logs smashing against the shield.

At the north city gate, Zhang Fei's voice spread throughout the city wall, faintly suppressing the yellow turban under the city to attack the city, "Scratch the hook, hook the ladder for me!" ”

After the county soldiers connected with the hundreds of soldiers brought by Zhang Fei to smash the rolling wood into the city, they picked up the hooks that were fully prepared under the wall battlements, hooked the end of the yellow turban ladder, and yelled at the hooks to pull the ladder in the direction of the outside of the city.

At the north gate, under the ladder that lacked the cover of the shield wall, a vacant space of four or five people was smashed by the sassalo, so that there was no one to support the ladder, and it was pulled out by the hook, and slowly poured, smashing the Yellow Turban Army under the city to a piece.

Seeing that the hook had an effect, Zhang Fei licked his dry lips, and his face showed a bloodthirsty look, "Put the nail board." ”

Under the operation of Zhang Fei's command, one after another nail board smashed down from the city, and the whistling sound of breaking wind smashed into the dense yellow turban queue, and the person who was hit by the nail board let out a terrible howl, which frightened the yellow turban soldiers on the side as if avoiding ghosts and gods.

At the city gate, the iron-clad cone of the rushing cart slammed into the gate, crunching.

"Throw a rolling stone at me and smash it under the city car," Zhang Fei, dressed in armor, leaned out of the female wall and looked at the city gate, waving one hand.

With a thud, the rolling stones slammed into the storming carts and the yellow turban soldiers with shields on their heads. The fall of the rolling stones made the Yellow Turban soldiers at the city gate turn over on their backs for a while, with heavy casualties, and few people could live at all, and most of them turned into meat sauce at the city gate.

At the east gate, Guan Yu also asked his subordinates to throw down the rolling stones, and smashed the door to the shield wall, and the rolling stones were thrown from a high altitude, which already had the power of dozens of catties, plus the momentum of falling, a piece of dozens of catties of rolling stones had the power of more than 100 catties, and a dull sound, as well as the sound of cracking bones also spread all over the city wall.

The originally intact shield wall trembled violently, undulating in height. Under the shield, some of the yellow turban soldiers who held the shield cracked, grinning in pain; Some spurted blood from their mouths, and their internal organs were severely damaged; Others had broken arms, cold sweat on their brows, and after a while, an intact shield wall was smashed to pieces.

"Archer, archery," At the head of the city, Guan Yu saw the opportunity to release arrows when the Yellow Turban attack was blocked and chaos occurred, killing and injuring the enemy army.

Taishou Mansion, Gong Jing and a cadre of officials were waiting in the mansion, and the anxiety in their expressions was needless to say, but Gong Jing's face was solemn, and he waited quietly in the mansion, which made a cadre of officials even more silent, and a wordless smell permeated the Taishou Mansion.

After a long time, Gong Jing glanced at the officials under the hall with a somewhat pale face, "What time is it!" ”

The first official looked at the sky and replied, "Lord Hui, it has been a quarter now, and it has been an hour and a half since the battle. ”

Gong Jing had a hint of worry on his face, "Are the food, water, and doctors ready?" ”

"My lord, it's ready, all of them are gathered in the long street, and the reservists are also ready, ready to go to the city to fight at any time," Bing Cao Zhi's face was full of worry, but at this point, he could only put his hope on Guan Yu and the others, and fight!

"Since everything is ready, then go to the long street with this official and wait."

"Yes, my lord"

At the west gate, the county lieutenant Lu Yun looked at the north and east gates, his face was gloomy, and his lips were squirming, but he still ordered the county soldiers under his command to be careful and beware of mistakes.

At the south gate, Liu Bei, Jian Yong and Liu Bei were also on guard at the quiet south gate, and this feeling of not being able to work made the two of them feel a little comfortable.

After watching for a long time, Jian Yong couldn't help but ask, "Xuande, can they stop the army of 70,000 Yellow Turbans?" ”

"Block?" A sneer appeared on Liu Bei's face, "It is estimated that it is impossible to block it, and it should be possible to resist for a few days, so in the next few days, I will order my brothers to be ready to break out from here at any time." ”

At that moment, Jian Yong hesitated a little and said, "Xuande, it's not good to do this." ”

"What," Liu Bei glanced at Jian Yong coldly, "Xianhe, do you want to go to war?" ”

"No, no, no," Jian Yong's head shook like a wave drum, "Xuande, you know I didn't mean that, after all, we are both reinforcements from Youzhou, Zou Jing has already encountered an accident, if Zhang Fei and Guan Yu encounter this kind of thing again, how can you reply to Lord Shi." ”

"Xianhe, you don't have to worry about this," Liu Bei's eyes showed a hint of coldness, for the person who broke into the mansion that night and injured him, Liu Bei had already guessed, if it weren't for Zhang Fei's strong soldiers, he Liu Bei would have sent troops to suppress Zhang Fei, now, this is a good time, how can Liu Bei let it go, "Stay out of here, Youzhou, you and I don't have to go back, you and I directly lead the army to serve under Zhonglang Lu Zhidaren, with I am a student under Lord Zhonglang, can't I be a half-official under the command of Lord Zhonglang." ”

"Okay then," Jian Yong said helplessly.