Chapter Forty-Seven: The Bitter Battle in Puyang

East County, Puyang City. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info At this moment, the defense line on the wall of Puyang City has fallen into crisis. After the rushing cars and door hammers collected from more than a dozen small counties were all destroyed in the previous siege battles, Yu Poison simply didn't bother to repair those bulky equipment, but relied on the large number of people in his army and adopted the most cruel ant-attached siege method. The old and weak women and children in the Yellow Turban Army were driven as the vanguard, carrying simple ladders and desperately rushing towards the Puyang city wall, one offensive after another, and there seemed to be no time to break off.

Most of these old and weak women and children who were selected as pioneers were the people in the city who came after the Yellow Turban Army broke through other small counties in Dongjun County before. Although these people were forced to wear yellow scarves on their heads, they had no sense of identity with the Yellow Turbans at all. Their food and money were robbed of their homes, and some of the women were humiliated by the Yellow Turban soldiers, but even after all this, fate did not spare them.

Under the persecution of the swords, guns, swords, and halberds of the yellow turbans behind the battle, these defenseless old and weak women and children were forced to rush to Puyang City with heavy ladders and cloth bags full of dirt. In the rain of arrows shot from the city, these people in cloth clothes suffered heavy casualties, and some of the people who survived threw down the ladders and cloth bags in their hands and wanted to flee back to the formation, but they were mercilessly killed by the Yellow Turban wrestlers who supervised the formation.

The defenders of Puyang City shot out the few arrows left, desperately threw everything that could be thrown down the city wall, and even simply poured the whole pot of boiling water on the city. But there are too many people in the city, and they have plundered most of the cities in Dongjun, and there are twenty or thirty thousand old and weak women and children from all the cities alone.

Batch after batch of these men were sent to their deaths, depleting the defensive weapons of the defenders at the head of the city. These old and weak women and children in yellow scarves under the city did not cry out for help, hoping to make the defenders of the city open the city gate and let them in for refuge. But the generals of the defenders of the city and the powerful families who came to help in the war had already taken the thick walls of Puyang City as their last line of defense, where would they open the city gate for these Yellow Turban thieves of unknown origin?

The old and weak women and children, who had been cut off by the defenders of the city, seemed to arouse the anger in their hearts after being killed and injured by arrows and rolling stones, and with the idea of dying together, they filled the trenches outside the city with cloth bags full of dirt and the corpses of their companions, and put heavy ladders on the Puyang city wall against the rain of arrows at the head of the city. Although countless people lost their lives in the process, at least Yu Poison's plan succeeded, and his army could finally meet the defenders in the city!

Stepping on the mutilated corpses of those old and weak women and children, under the leadership of the Yellow Turban Warriors, tens of thousands of Yellow Turban Army sergeants shouted the slogan 'The sky is dead and the yellow sky should stand', and followed the ladder to kill the originally unattainable city wall of Puyang City, and launched a life-and-death struggle with the defenders in the city on the head of the city.

The defenders of the city were exhausted from the days of defending the city, and many of the archers were too sore to draw their bows. In the face of the fierce offensive of the Yellow Turban Army, it was seen that the defense line of Puyang City was about to be breached. Suddenly, countless young and strong people armed with sticks and rakes poured out of the city, all of them were residents of Puyang City, and when they were helping the defenders of the city to transport arrows and rolling logs, they saw with their own eyes the old and weak women and children who were sent to the front line to die. They knew that if Puyang City was captured like this, they would be forcibly filled into the main force of the Yellow Turban Army, and their wives, children, and parents would become a new batch of 'cannon fodder'.

For the sake of their wives and children, these young people in Puyang City spontaneously organized, armed with rudimentary weapons such as sticks and rakes, and cooperated with the defenders in the city to temporarily block the offensive of the Yellow Turban Army, and even drove all the Yellow Turban soldiers who climbed the city wall down from the city in a steady stream of support.

"Keep attacking Lao Tzu! No one is allowed to retreat without an order!! The whip in Yu Poison's hand was whipped into the air fiercely, and he wanted to beat to death all the officers and civilians who dared to resist his army at the head of the city.

Just as the guards sergeant beside Yu Poison was about to convey Yu Poison's military order, several Yellow Turban Army scouts rushed to the battlefield and shouted loudly: "Qu Shuai! Reinforcements from the officers and soldiers are coming!! ”

A trace of surprise flashed in Yu Poison's inverted triangular eyes, in addition to Puyang in this Dongjun territory, there are still officials and soldiers who dare to face their own tens of thousands of Yellow Turban Army? Where did this sudden arrival of reinforcements come from? Why didn't anyone send the news in advance from Dong'a, and they still had to rely on the scouts in the army they sent out to warn themselves?

No matter how incomprehensible Yu Poison was, since there were already reinforcements from the official army rushing to the battlefield, in order to avoid being attacked from both sides, Yu Poison could only order Mingjin to withdraw his troops. The Yellow Turban Sergeants retreated like a tide, leaving behind countless mutilated corpses wrapped in yellow turbans, silently telling the cruelty and bloodiness of war.

After this battle, there were only more than 1,000 defenders left in Puyang City, and the powerful soldiers of the family were almost completely lost. As for the Yellow Turban Army of the Narcotics Department, the largest losses were the elderly, weak, women and children of the more than 10,000 Yellow Turban Army, as well as more than 2,000 Yellow Turban Army sergeants and more than 100 Yellow Turban wrenchmen. As for the offensive and defensive armaments, the arrows, logs, and stones in the city were almost all consumed, and the only remaining bed crossbows were also destroyed by the Yellow Turban soldiers who rushed up the city walls. The Yellow Turbans lost all their siege equipment, but as long as there were trees around, some improvised ladders could still be made quickly.

Both the offensive and defensive sides seemed to have suffered heavy casualties, but Yu Poison still had more than 20,000 main sergeants of the Yellow Turban Army, and most of the losses were the old and weak women and children who were coerced. If it weren't for the people in the city to help defend the city, I am afraid that Puyang City would have been captured by Yu Poison's sea of people tactics just now.

Seeing his sergeant return to the camp, Yu Poison calmly set his eyes on the southeast of the military village. Although the battle situation was disrupted by this sudden imperial army of the imperial court, with more than 20,000 Yellow Turban soldiers in his camp, Yu Poison was confident that he would capture Puyang City after breaking through the imperial court's reinforcements.

In the distance, the dust was flying, and several large banners with the character 'Han' representing the officials and soldiers of the imperial court slowly appeared in Yu Poison's field of vision accompanied by the sound of drums.

"Huh? It looks like there are at least six or seven thousand officers and soldiers. But didn't General Bocai say that Huangfu Song's more than 20,000 Han troops had been trapped by him in Yingchuan Changshe? ”

A few days ago, Yu Poison received a letter from Yuzhou Daqu Shuai Bocai, which contained the latest battle report of Bocai's department, and it was learned that Huangfu Song's imperial army was trapped in Changshe by Bocai, and Yu Poison was relieved to surround Puyang. But now, six or seven thousand officers and soldiers suddenly rushed out, although Yu Poison was not afraid, but it really disrupted Yu Poison's plan.