Chapter 70: Zhang Mancheng
Over the years, there have been many disasters in the south, either floods or earthquakes, and what is even more terrible is that after these disasters occur, there will always be a plague spreading in the affected areas, such as typhoid fever, which can only be regarded as a minor illness in later generations, and in this era, the south alone has taken the lives of millions of people. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Nanyang, as once the largest county in the southern state, is now desolate within a radius of 100 miles, only beside the road. You can also see some ruins that have long been uninhabited, as well as abandoned fields overgrown with weeds. This once prosperous and rich anointed place, everything around it was either destroyed due to years of disasters, or was looted by the Yellow Turban Army in Nanyang Wancheng.
The people who originally lived in Nanyang County were either coerced to Wancheng to breathe, or they were running around and wandering between the ravines and wilderness. In this land, except for Zhang Mancheng's Yellow Turban Army in the city and Zhu Jun's counterinsurgency army outside the city, it is difficult to see any traces of people.
On June 24, the first year of Zhongping, the sky was gloomy, the blue-black clouds in the sky condensed into a ball, and the southwest wind blew the dark clouds to cover the sun in the sky. Look, another heavy rain is about to fall.
Zhu Jun summoned the army to line up outside Wancheng at the fourth watch, and sensed that the officers and soldiers who had been immobile for more than a month were coming to attack the city, and Zhang Mancheng, the commander of the Yellow Turban Daqu in the city, also took his subordinates to garrison the city.
Before the battle, Sun Jian wanted Zhu Jun to put forward his own suggestions with the mentality of trying it out, but before Sun Jian finished speaking, Zhu Jun waved his hand very disdainfully, blocking Sun Jian's follow-up words: "Wentai don't say more, this general has been in the army since he was young and has been fighting horses for decades, how to use the army and the general has his own plan in his heart." Since you and Wu Yi are both clamoring to attack the city, the general will mention the whole army to create opportunities for you, but if you can't capture Nanyang before sunset, hum! ā
Sun Jian, who was rejected by Zhu Jun, ran to Wu Yi's side in a gloomy manner, fortunately Wu Yi had agreed to Sun Jian's plan yesterday, so although he could not get Zhu Jun's full help, Sun Jian was still confident that he could break through Nanyang today.
"No matter what, Sun must take Wancheng!" Sun Jian remembered the humiliation when he was reprimanded by Zhu Jun, and made up his mind to prove himself today.
Wu Yi glanced at the more than 10,000 soldiers behind him who were ready for battle: "Yi's sons are ready, I don't know when Sun Sima plans to act?" ā
"Don't worry, let's see how General Zhu arranges his troops." Wu Yi's more than 10,000 soldiers and horses are Sun Jian's last reliance, and if he is not at the most suitable opportunity, Sun Jian will never do it easily.
Zhang Mancheng stood on the tall wall of Wancheng and looked down at Zhu Jun's array outside the city, and sneered at the group of yellow turban commanders behind him: "Zhu Jun's old thief is about to besiege Sanque one again, and he has attacked several times but he has lost his troops and returned without work. ā
"As long as we are given a few more months, the sergeants in the city will be able to complete the training, and when the time comes, tens of thousands of troops will go out of the city, and the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of Zhu Jun's old thief are just mantis arms and ears to block the car!"
Han Zhong, the Yellow Turban Qu Marshal on the side, was once the city guard of Wancheng, and then secretly joined Zhang Jiao's Taiping Road, and the reason why Nanyang City was easily taken by the Yellow Turban Army was inseparable from Han Zhong's internal and external cooperation. When Zhang Mancheng took Nanyang, only Han Zhong had received orthodox military training among the many commanders under him, so Zhang Mancheng appointed Han Zhong as him to train the hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban troops in the city, hoping that one day those rabble would be reborn in Han Zhong's hands.
Qu Shuai Zhao Hong patted Han Zhong's strong arm: "The training process has to be accelerated, and the army of Yuzhou Bo Shuai has been broken by the dog official Huangfu Song." The scout came to report that a few days ago, a reinforcement of 10,000 people from Yuzhou had rushed to the city, maybe the Huangfu Song dog official would soon mobilize more troops to go south, before that, we must first defeat the tens of thousands of officers and troops under the city. ā
Talking about the defeat of Yuzhou Bocai, Qu Shuai Huang Shao, who escaped from the battlefield in Yuzhou, gritted his teeth with red eyes and said: "Huangfu Old Thief Changshe burned tens of thousands of soldiers of our army in the first battle, and beheaded tens of thousands of captured soldiers after the war. If such a blood feud cannot be avenged, what face will I, Huang Shao, have to stand in the world! ā
"Don't worry, as long as we defend Wancheng today and train the soldiers in the city for a period of time, if we can defeat Zhu Jun, the dog official, in one fell swoop, we may have a bargaining chip to exchange for your Bo Shuai. Moreover, once Zhu Jun is broken, there will be no main force of the official army in the south, and we can take advantage of the situation to seize Jingzhou. As long as Jingzhou can be taken, even if Huangfu Song leads the entire army of Yuzhou to the south, we will have the strength to fight with it. ā
Zhang Mancheng nodded approvingly to Huang Shao, and Zhang Mancheng has always welcomed Huang Shao, the Yuzhou Qu Shuai who defected from Bocai. In Zhang Mancheng's opinion, the Yellow Turban in the world is a family, not to mention that Bocai is a personal disciple of Zhang Jiao with himself, he was captured after being defeated by Huangfu Song, and I heard that he has been sent to Luoyang and put on death row to be beheaded. If he can defeat Zhu Jun in Nanyang or even capture him, he may still have the opportunity to exchange Zhu Jun, a dog official, for Bocai's life. After all, there are too few available generals for the Yellow Turban Army.
"Marshal, the official army has been deployed under the eastern, western, and southern walls of Nanyang, leaving only the north gate without a trace of the army." A yellow turban school rushed to the head of the city to report the latest news to Zhang Mancheng.
Zhang Mancheng snorted coldly after hearing the report: "Zhu Jun's old thief is really the same old as the three of them, Han Zhong and Zhao Hong listen to the order!" ā
"The last general!"
"Ben Shuai stays here to guard the east wall of Wancheng, Zhao Hong, you take people to defend the west wall of Wancheng, and Han Zhong you take people to defend the south wall of Wancheng. Today, the official army will definitely storm the city with new reinforcements, and you must defend the city at all costs. As for the north gate city wall, well, just in case, Huang Shao, you bring some people to help Ben Shuai guard the north wall of Wancheng. With a wave of his hand, Zhang Mancheng assigned the task of guarding the four city walls to the three major commanders under his command.
"The last general commands!" Zhao Hong and the three of them arched their hands, and after receiving Zhang Mancheng's general order, they hurriedly went down to the city tower to dispatch the sergeants.
Looking at the several neat military formations formed by the Han army outside Wancheng, and then at the Yellow Turban soldiers in the chaos in the city, Zhang Mancheng sighed and muttered softly: "It's just a group of rabble, if it weren't for this, how could the sergeants who were several times the opponent be surrounded in the city and couldn't move." Han Zhong, Han Zhong, Ben Shuai trusts you so much, if you can't make some results, Ben Shuai will have to consider another person to reorganize the army. Well, maybe we should recruit those Han army generals in the prisons in the city? Hehe, let's think about it after this battle........"