Seeing that the soldiers under his command had no fighting spirit, and the defense line of the officers and troops led by Sun Jian was unbreakable, Li Jie had no choice but to retreat to the inner city with the remaining remnants of the defeated generals. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info and just after Li Jie retreated with the Yellow Turban Army, Wu Yicai accompanied Zhu Jun and others who rushed to hear the news and entered Wancheng from the north gate.

"Hahaha, Sun Wentai! actually let you attack Wancheng, your name as a Jiangdong Tiger is really worthy of the name! After Sun Jian led the crowd to attack Wancheng, where he had worked many times and returned to vain, no matter how much Zhu Jun hated Sun Jian's sharpness before, he still had to be comforted and praised at this time, otherwise the sergeants below would talk about their unfair rewards and punishments behind their backs, and it would be difficult to bring the chaotic team to the people who were in trouble.

"Thank you for the general's praise, it's just that there is still an inner city in Wancheng, and the thief Zhang Mancheng has led people to retreat into the inner city to resist in Europe, and whether to continue to attack the inner city in the next step is to ask the general to decide." Sun Jian suffered two wounds on his body in this battle, but the wounds were not too deep because he was wearing armor, so he simply bandaged it and came to see Zhu Jun.

"The thief Zhang Mancheng has fallen into a dead end, and his defeat is a matter of time, so why worry? Wait for the army to rest for a few days, and then storm the inner city with all its might. ”

Sun Jian also knew the news of Zhang Mancheng's retreat to the inner city, but the inner city wall of Wancheng was far inferior to the outer city wall, especially after Zhang Mancheng retreated to the inner city, it was equivalent to taking the initiative to give up the remaining three gates of Wancheng, and now the four city gates of Wancheng Outer City have all fallen into the hands of Zhu Jun, Zhang Mancheng and the Yellow Turban Army sergeants under his command have become turtles in the urn, and their threat level is not as great as before.

Now that the overall situation has been decided, everyone will naturally not object to Zhu Jun's more secure arrangement.

Seeing that although everyone including Sun Jian made such great achievements, they did not look proud of their achievements, Zhu Jun was extremely satisfied in his heart: "Tonight I am going to celebrate your achievements, and the other three generals have already arranged the defenders, and this north gate is captured by you, so you will arrange people to arrange the garrison work, and after the end, you will come to the banquet in the big tent." ”

"Obey the general's orders!"

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Just when Zhu Jun was holding a banquet to celebrate Sun Jian and Wu Yi in the camp outside the city, Zhang Mancheng, who was trapped in the inner city of Wancheng, was discussing with several Yellow Turban generals around him with a sad face on how to break the enemy.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what are the casualties of our army in this battle?"

"Returning to the marshal, in this battle, our army lost more than 20,000 people, more than 4,000 people were seriously injured, and more than 10,000 people were lightly injured, and the most casualties were the north gate that Huang Shao was responsible for guarding."

Hearing that the casualties in this battle were so huge, Zhang Mancheng turned his gaze to Zhao Hong with a pale face: "Before the war, the commander allocated you 37,000 troops, including 1,000 Yellow Turban wrestlers and 20,000 young men, why did you go to Huang Shao to transfer troops without authorization?" Don't you know that Huang Shao's strength is the weakest of the four gates? ”

Zhao Hong wiped the cold sweat left by his sideburns, and argued to himself: "It's really that the Han army is attacking too fiercely today, and many Han troops have already landed in the defense line where they are located. The subordinates were worried about the safety of the defense line, and saw that the north gate where Huang Shao was stationed was not attacked by any Han army, so they sent people to Huang Shao for help. Who knows that all this is a plan prepared by the Han army, on the surface is to storm the east, west, and south gates, but secretly ambush the next ambush army, once the north gate is found to be empty, the army will attack the north gate. The subordinates were really stupid, but they fell for the tricks of the Han army. ”

Zhang Mancheng also knew a little about the grievances between Zhao Hong and Huang Shao, and he was ready to teach Zhao Hong a lesson regardless of the overall situation, but since Zhao Hong put all this responsibility on the officials and soldiers, Zhang Mancheng was not good at blaming him more. After all, as the commander of the Yellow Turban in the south, he also failed to see through the strategy of the official army, and if he dealt with Zhao Hong at this time of employing people, he would inevitably make the rest of the Yellow Turban generals deviate from morality. Therefore, Zhang Mancheng could only snort coldly to show his dissatisfaction with Zhao Hong, but he could no longer punish him.

"In this battle, we lost the outer city, and as long as the officers and soldiers held the four gates, they trapped us as turtles in the urn. To make matters worse, many soldiers were hoarded in the outer city for a while and could not be taken away in the future, and the food in the city was only enough for three months. Han Zhong was worried about the terrible situation.

Zhang Mancheng didn't have a good way, kneeling on the throne and silent.

However, when Zhao Hong heard about the current situation of the Yellow Turban Army, his two small eyes turned around, and he asked tentatively: "At this time, our army still has the strength to fight, why don't you use this as a bargaining chip to negotiate with the official army?" ”

Zhang Mancheng glared at Zhao Hong with round eyes: "Negotiation? What to talk about? ”

"Ahem, for example, you can talk, well, by the way, you can negotiate with the officials and soldiers, if they can open a way and let us go, we will give them Wancheng." Zhao Hong actually wanted to talk about surrender in his heart, but he was glared at by Zhang Mancheng's bull's eyes, and Zhao Hong changed the words that came to his mouth for a moment of timidity.

"It's impossible, now that the official army has taken the outer city of Wancheng, it is precisely to annihilate us and others in one fell swoop, how can they let us and others leave?" Han Zhong shook his head and scoffed at Zhao Hong's proposal.

Zhao Hong asked unwillingly: "Aren't the officials and soldiers afraid of our desperate blow?" You know, even if we lose a game, we still have the advantage in our forces! If we are cornered, we will fight him to the death, and I don't believe that the officers and soldiers can stand it! ”

Han Zhong sneered: "The fish is dead and the net is broken? How strong is the wall of the outer city of Wancheng, how strong this net is, before our army was in its heyday, and occupied the outer city wall and could not stop the attack of the official army, and now the offensive and defensive transposition of our army is a new defeat not long ago, do you think our 'fish' can really tear the outside of the 'net'? ”

"Damn, this doesn't work and that doesn't work, you have a feasible solution!!" Zhao Hong didn't know that the current offensive and defensive momentum had been reversed, but because Zhang Mancheng was very powerful, he really didn't dare to mention surrender in front of him.

Zhang Mancheng raised his hand to block Han Zhong, who was about to speak: "Zhao Hong is right, if we want to survive, we really have to fight to the death with the official army."

Han Zhong was shocked when he heard this: "Marshal, the morale of our army's new defeat is precisely from the lowest point, and the morale of the official army that has just won is high. is not an opponent in the first place, coupled with the offensive and defensive casting, the morale of the other side is eliminated, even if the three armies fight to the death, it will be difficult to break through the defense line of the official army, but will be given a head-on blow by the official army with a leisurely waiting! ”

"Dashuai, what Han Zhong said seems to have some truth, should we discuss it again?" Zhao Hong's previous words were just words, if he really wanted him to lead people to attack the defense line laid by the official army at this time, Zhao Hong was also 10,000 unwilling.

Zhang Mancheng glanced at Zhao Hong, who was embarrassed, but smiled lightly at Han Zhong: "Don't want to be the reckless man who knows how to be brave for a while, if you want to defeat the official army, you must not rely on human life to fight hard." Didn't those scholars say it, soldiers, and sophistry! Tomorrow as long as we do this, we may have a chance to turn defeat into victory. ”