Chapter 217: The siege is frustrated
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In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, especially around the Yellow Turban Uprising, there was a great shortage of horses in the interior of the Han Dynasty.
Like Zhang Yan, the Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro, there are actually 2,000 cavalry, which is already very remarkable. You must know that at this time, even the famous White Horse Righteous Cavalry Army of Gongsun Chan in Beiping has only just been established, and it is still unknown whether Gongsun Chan already has more than 2,000 cavalry at this time.
And Zhang Yan's 2,000 cavalry, in the entire Jizhou and Youzhou areas, can completely cross and cross the enemy. Therefore, not to mention that he only led 2,000 men to dare to raid the giant deer was a risky advance, in fact, if it was before the outbreak of the Yellow Turban, his 2,000 cavalry, even if he attacked the state capital, it was completely possible to capture it.
2,000 people, not too much, not too little, compared with ordinary towns, a town with only a few hundred city defense officers and soldiers, 2,000 people is enough to threaten, deter, and attack. It can be said that even now, as long as it is not an attack on the state capital city with a large number of officers and soldiers, and ordinary towns, 2,000 cavalry can come and go elsewhere at will.
Therefore, when the two thousand Yellow Turban cavalry came to the city of Julu, the officers and soldiers in the city, whether it was the people, were indeed all panicked, and Zhang Yan was also proud for a while, thinking that as long as he waved the army to take the giant deer, after the army entered the city, he would go straight to the official office in the city, and after killing the disaster grain officer Liu Yi, he would then grab the grain and loot the town again, so that the purpose of this trip would be considered a complete success.
As long as you kill Liu Yi, you can get the introduction of the ten permanent servants in the palace, and it is possible to change from a thief to an upright officer and soldier. And with the money and grain he grabbed, Zhang Yan could use these grains and grass to recruit troops and horses, and then expand the army. Hehe, Zhang Yan feels that it is all in his hand.
However, when he gave the order to attack, thinking that he would be able to take Julu City without much effort, he knew he was wrong.
Two thousand cavalry, hooves rumbling, black oppression.
This kind of momentum really made all the soldiers and civilians in Julu City a little panicked, and their faces were afraid.
However, it does not mean that the soldiers and civilians of Julu will give up defending the city on their own, give up resistance and let the Yellow Turban thieves enter the city to loot and kill people. Moreover, the raid that Zhang Yan thought was actually not a raid, and when their cavalry arrived at Julu City for dozens of miles, the county commander Yusa had already received a letter from the scout.
Being prepared and not being prepared is a matter of complete disparity. If there was no arrival of Liu Yi in Julu City before, when he learned that two thousand cavalry would kill Julu immediately, Yu Sa might be at a loss, except to sit back and wait for death or order the whole city to flee, he really had no way at all. But now, although Yu Sa is flustered, he will not lose his square inch.
When Liu Yi left, he had already thought that the Yellow Turban Army might have another army to attack Julu, and deliberately left two hundred officers and soldiers who had been trained for a period of time to defend the city. With two hundred officers and soldiers, as well as the people who have already mobilized the whole city, in this way, even if Liu Yi is not in the city now, this Yusa has a little courage to defend the city.
Under Yu Sa's command, almost the entire city of the people acted together, picking up farm tools and sticks and other guys to rush to the city wall or carrying boulders or wood, preparing to deal with the siege of the Yellow Turban Thieves.
The Yellow Turban cavalry galloped forward, but within a mile of the city wall, the people in the city had already dug a large number of horse traps, and in addition to the moat under the city wall, two more ditches with a width of two or three meters were also dug.
Under the gallop, the Yellow Turban Cavalry was tripped by the countless hidden horse traps, and before they even rushed to the outermost ditch, many Yellow Turban Cavalry had been injured or trampled to death by the galloping horses coming from behind, and the originally neat Yellow Turban Cavalry team was in a mess in an instant.
Before they really reached the city, the Yellow Turban cavalry was caught off guard, and actually lost more than 100 or 200 people because of some horse pits.
When Zhang Yan was furious when he saw that his men were in a mess, with all the dead and wounded, and saw that those ordinary horse traps on the city wall could actually block the cavalry's charging attack, they couldn't help but shout like thunder, as if they had won a battle, happy and excited, and washed away the temporary panic of the Yellow Turban soldiers.
Previously, the county ordered the whole city to mobilize the people of the city to strengthen the city wall, dig trenches outside the city, and dig horse traps to resist the attack of the Yellow Turban Army. It turns out that how to deal with the attack of the Yellow Turban Army has been prepared for a long time, and it turns out that the legend says that the Yellow Turban thieves who kill people without blinking an eye and cook people will also fall down when they step on the horse pit, and it turns out that they will be killed so lightly.
The soldiers and civilians on the city wall saw the Yellow Turban cavalry falling in front of them, which not only made them no longer panic, but also boosted their morale, so that the soldiers and civilians of the whole city understood that the Yellow Turban thieves were not invincible, and aroused the determination of the whole city to defend the city.
The Yellow Turban cavalry was frustrated, and Zhang Yan had to temporarily support the attack. It took them most of the day to fill in the pit in front of the city wall, and when they reached the bottom of the city wall, the big stones and trees on the city fell like rain, and there were not many arrows in them. For a while, it was difficult for Zhang Yan to capture Julu City.
In ancient times, the city wall was the best defensive weapon, otherwise, why did Qin Shi Huang spend so much manpower and material resources to build the Great Wall to resist foreign invasion? Facing the high city wall, Zhang Yan came in a hurry, without any siege equipment, he could only look at the city and sigh.
In the afternoon, he could only choose a place outside the city to set up camp, thinking that as soon as the 50,000 army of his henchman Du Chang arrived, he would let Du Chang's army attack the city. Hehe, the cavalry can be Zhang Yan's baby, today he accidentally lost hundreds of people, which made his heart ache to death, in the case of the city defense is prepared, his two thousand cavalry want to capture the city in a short time, that is just a joke.
At the same time that Liu Yi received that Zhang Yan personally led 2,000 cavalry to attack Julu City, Zhang Yan also received a report from Du Chang's fast horse, and learned that Du Chang's 50,000 troops were actually intercepted at the mouth of the Snake Valley led by the officers and soldiers led by the Zhensheng Grain Officer.
Especially in terms of Du Chang's intelligence, he didn't know how many officers and soldiers there were, and now he was intercepted by less than 2,000 officers and soldiers in Panshekou.
Bark! When Zhang Yan saw that Du Chang actually asked him if he wanted to continue the march or withdraw the army, Zhang Yan was almost not so angry that he was angry, and he was almost so angry that he vomited a mouthful of blood.
NND, is this Du Chang vegetarian? An army of 50,000 was intercepted by less than 2,000 officers and soldiers? was scared to death by the opponent's three or two generals? His army of 50,000 can't stand those three or two generals? Could it be that those generals have three heads and six arms? Hum! It's all a bunch of rubbish!
However, Liu Yi is not in Julu? When Zhang Yan saw this letter, she couldn't help but bow her head and sink.
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