Chapter 32 The Destruction of Dong'e City

The Yellow Turban Army, which is now in the limelight, was formerly known as Taiping Dao founded by Zhang Jiao. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe main body of Taiping Road is the peasant class, and most of them are displaced and disaster victims who have no land to grow due to natural and man-made disasters. Although Zhang Jiao's demagogic ability has also attracted some wealthy families or officials of the dynasty, these people are almost negligible compared to the huge total number of followers of Taiping Dao.

In the current era when book knowledge is monopolized by wealthy families, most of the Yellow Turban Army, which is composed of peasant classes, and the vast majority of generals have not received perfect military and cultural education. Only Zhang Jiao explained some basic knowledge to dozens of his personal disciples when he was preaching, so that they would not be illiterate or even have difficulty in communicating.

But these Zhang Jiao's personal disciples are the same as those of the wealthy families who have defected to the Yellow Turban Army, and the number is too small. Compared with the Yellow Turban Army, which was often tens of thousands, those people could not fully control the army at all, so Zhang Jiao was forced to select some people from among the bandit leaders from all over the country collected from Taiping Road as the leaders of the Yellow Turban Army.

And Du Yuan is one of them.

Compared with Bian Xi, who is a disciple of Zhang Jiao, Du Yuan was born as a robber mountain bandit. Later, Du Yuan saw that Taiping Dao was frantically expanding its power in various places, and out of consideration for his background, Du Yuan led his troops to serve Zhang Jiao, and by showing his martial arts, he was appreciated by Zhang Jiao, and was appointed as the deputy of Bian Xi, the missionary of Chen Liu, Taiping Dao, responsible for commanding the elite force of hundreds of sects - Yellow Turban Force.

Du Yuan is not a reckless man, the reason why he has always played the image of a reckless man who does not use his brains in front of Zhang Jiao and Bian Xi is because he is a foreign refuge who does not use his brains and relies on martial arts, and to a certain extent, it is easier to gain trust than those who show that they are calculating. Because a reckless man can make him fall in love with him as long as he gives a little benefit, and a calculating person will always give people a feeling that it is difficult to control, and it is naturally difficult to become a confidant of those in power.

Du Yuan knew that his wisdom was not as good as that of those children of the family who had studied since childhood, and he also knew that he did not have the command power to command thousands of troops and horses to arrange troops. The reason why he can exist well in the world and live so nourished is because of his own martial arts and the bloody nature that dares to fight.

He once tried to compete for Bian Xi's position as the commander of the Qu Shuai with the image of a reckless man, but after he failed, he simply accepted Bian Xi's woo and continued to serve under Bian Xi with a brave and unscrupulous image. In this campaign to attack Dong'e City, tens of thousands of men and horses besieged the city guarded by more than 3,000 people on all sides, but they lost more than 5,000 people and did not capture it. Looking at the mountains of corpses of the Yellow Turban Army under the city of Dong'e, and the increasingly scarce guards on the city wall. Du Yuan knew that it was time for him to show his skills, so he took the initiative to ask Bian Xi for orders to lead the Yellow Turban Lux to participate in the next wave of attacks.

Hearing that Du Yuan, who has always been famous for his martial arts, wanted to personally participate in the siege of the city, Bian Xi was overjoyed and even believed that Du Yuan, a reckless man, had finally been sincerely loyal after he threw out a lot of money.

With Bian Xi's consent, Du Yuan picked up a ring-headed knife and a wooden shield, and then took the Yellow Turban Warriors, which had expanded to six hundred people, and launched an attack on Dong'e City among ordinary Yellow Turban sergeants.

Although it is also a yellow turban wrapping forehead, the Yellow Turban Lux, as the only elite force in the Yellow Turban Army that has received military training, is by no means comparable to those ordinary Yellow Turban soldiers with hoes, nails, rakes and kitchen knives. After each capture of a county town, the weapons and armor obtained from the county arsenal are given priority to supply the Yellow Turban wrestlers with equipment, and every time they loot food and money, they also take out a part of the rewards to these Yellow Turban wrestlers. The food is the best and the best, and the morale of the Yellow Turban Lux is naturally the best in the army.

The Chen Liujun soldiers led by Fan Xiang of the city head are about to collapse, no matter how many yellow turban thieves he kills with swords, guns, swords, and halberds, there are always more maniacs with yellow turbans on their heads to rush to the city head. Originally, the strongest weapon to defend the city, the bow and arrow, had long been used up in the first few waves of attacks launched by the Yellow Turban Army, and now the only thing these soldiers could rely on was the weapon in their hands, which had some broken blades, numbly stabbing into the Yellow Turban Army that rushed to the city wall.

Du Yuan bit the ring head knife in his mouth, put the wooden shield behind his back, and quickly rushed from the siege ladder to the city wall of Dong'e County with his free hands. Dodging the corpse of a Yellow Turban Army that fell from the city, Du Yuan flew from the siege ladder to the city wall. Several of the two Chen Liujun soldiers closest to him were armed with swords and spears, and killed him when he was not on a firm footing.

Du Yuan took off the ring-headed knife in his mouth and first cut off the head of the spear that stabbed his chest, and then dodged the long sword that slashed at his neck, and took advantage of the situation to cut the belly of the sword-wielding soldier, the colorful intestines suddenly flowed to the ground, and the stinky blood sprayed Du Yuan's face, but Du Yuan didn't care, but showed a hideous smile, and brutally cut the throat of the spearman who lost the head of the spear, and let him fall to the ground and hold the bloody throat and convulsed.

"Kill!!"

Seeing that Du Yuan killed his two robes, the other three Chen Liujun soldiers killed Du Yuan with hook inlays and ring-headed knives.

The hook setting is a strange iron shield unique to the Han Dynasty army. The shield is a thin iron plate with rounded corners and square with protruding tips in front; The hooks are cylindrical long iron collars, all slightly bent back. The top of the hook is sharp, and the end of the bottom hook is a small ball. The handle behind the shield is connected between the two hooks. The hooked shield part can be used to push and block, and the hook part is used to hook enemy weapons. This kind of weapon has the functions of defense, hook and push, although it can not effectively prevent the rain of arrows and shooting, but in hand-to-hand combat, with a sharp ring knife, it can often have a chance to win by surprise.

Du Yuan used to be a road robber and a mountain bandit, and he had a lot of dealings with the officers and soldiers of the imperial court who surrounded and suppressed him. The hook-inlaid shield with the ring-headed knife in the official army used to be his most annoying combination, but in countless battles, Du Yuan summed up a set of methods that could restrain the hook-inlaid shield.

The target of the three-sided hook shield is the ring-headed knife in Du Yuan's hand, if he is hooked, the three county soldiers will see the opportunity that Du Yuan's weapon cannot block, and use the ring-head knife to cut him into meat puree.

But Du Yuan took a few steps back, first dodged the entanglement of the three-sided hook shield, but took off the thick wooden shield behind the back, hid his body behind the round shield, and slammed into the three county soldiers who had just gone to the new force and had not yet been born. There was a loud bang, and the four of them slammed into each other. Although Du Yuan bumped into it with momentum, there were three county soldiers here after all, and after the collision, the three county soldiers only took two steps back, but Du Yuan withdrew three or four steps away. But a strange scene appeared, Du Yuan was obviously hit harder, but he regained his balance faster than the three county soldiers, and rushed over with a shield and a knife again.

It turns out that although the hook shield is both offensive and defensive in hand-to-hand combat, the only weakness is that its weight and shape affect the user's balance. If it was a steady battle, the weakness of the hook and shield was not obvious, but Du Yuan's continuous impact made the three county soldiers confused, and even in the panic, the iron hook of one county soldier with the hook and shield in his left hand scratched the calf of another county soldier.

Taking advantage of the fact that the three county soldiers were in a hurry, Du Yuan roared, first smashed the head of a county soldier who was just about to slow down with a wooden shield, and then cut off the head of the county soldier who was injured by mistake in the leg with a knife, and on the last county soldier who wanted to retreat, Du Yuan threw out the wooden shield in his hand, and kicked it to the ground when the county soldier defended with a hook and shield, and stabbed him in the chest with a knife.

Du Yuan's ferocity made the morale of the surrounding county soldiers plummet, when the Yellow Turban wrestlers who followed Du Yuan rushed to the Dong'e city wall, the defense line of Dong'e City was officially breached, and the commander of the military school, Fan Xiangli, beheaded several Yellow Turban wrestlers but to no avail, and was finally submerged in the follow-up Yellow Turban wrestlers, and was cut off by one of them as a merit to Du Yuan.

Du Yuan took Fan Xiang's head without blinking his eyes, and spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm on Fan Xiang's bloodstained face: "Chen Liujun guards Zhang Miao, Chen stays to guard Fan Xiang, hum!" The two dog officials with vain names didn't all die at the hands of Lao Tzu! Lao Tzu will keep your heads, and after a few days to capture Chen Liu, Lao Tzu will hang the heads of your two dog officials on the city gate to show the public, so that everyone in the world will know that I am Du Yuan, hahahaha......"