It is said that when Chen Lin ordered the first aid of Pingxing, the battle of Pingxing City had already kicked off, and the commander of the Yellow Turban Army was Peng Tuo, the commander of the Taiping Sect Runan, who personally led the army, and led the He Man and He Yi brothers to lead an army of 70,000 to Pingxing City southeast of Cai. Peng Tuode reported that there were only more than 2,000 county soldiers stationed in Pingxing City, and Peng Tuo, who was full of confidence, did not want to encounter the fierce resistance of a famous Han man. This person was Yuan Shu, the son of the Yuan family of the "Four Worlds and Three Dukes" at that time, and Yuan Shu and Yuan Highway.

Yuan Shu is the son-in-law of the Yuan family, although Yuan Shao is older, but Yuan Shao is a concubine, so Yuan Shu is the candidate to inherit the Yuan family, and Yuan Shu at this time is extremely heroic, which is deeply recognized by the world. This time the Yellow Turban thieves, Yuan Shu was sent back to his hometown Runan County by the Yuan family to recruit private troops, and in just one month, he actually summoned 5,000 young people, and with the support of the Yuan family's strong family background, he was armed in a blink of an eye.

Previously, Yuan Shu heard that Runan City was actually attacked by anti-thieves, and he was so frightened that he was in a cold sweat, afraid that he would be attacked by anti-thieves in Pingxing, and he didn't want to report that the Yellow Turban of Runan City was defeated by Chen Bozhi, and even Runan City was recovered. Yuan Shu began to think that the anti-thieves were so vulnerable, and the ambitious Yuan Highway was just about to lead his troops to Shangcai to help in the battle, but he had not walked more than three miles before he met Peng Tuo's five thousand pioneers. Yuan Shuyi inquired and learned that Peng Tuo had raised an army of 70,000 to attack Pingxing, so he was so frightened that he hurriedly got rid of Peng Tuo's vanguard and hurriedly retreated to Pingxing City, where the defenders of Pingxing City jointly defended Pingxing.

Yuan Shu stood on the city wall and looked at it, only to see that the city was densely packed with yellow turban thieves, and at this time, the yellow turban thieves were divided into two large camps in the north and west of the city, and they camped unscrupulously and buried the pot to make rice. Yuan Shu has always been sought after and boasted about, where would anyone dare to despise him so much, and now seeing Peng Tuo so presumptuous, Yuan Shu was so angry that he grabbed the wall with both hands, and hated Peng Tuo in his heart. Behind Yuan Shu, in addition to the officials of Pingxing City, there were two scribes and two military generals who admired Yuan Shu. They are Yang Hong, Yang Deming, Han Yin, Han Yixian, Ji Ling, Ji Fuyi, Zhang Xun, Zhang Jiangong, Yang Hong is good at strategy, Han Yin is good at words, Ji Ling and Zhang Xun have the courage to be invincible.

Ji Ling and Zhang Xun were obviously angry, and they both stepped forward to ask for battle: "Lord, the last general will ask for battle." Yuan Shu saw that the two subordinates could ask for a battle for themselves, and he was in a slightly better mood, so he was used to looking back at Yang Hong. Yang Hong said: "Lord, now the anti-thieves think that there are many people, and they do not look at us in their eyes, and they do not take any precautions. After hearing this, Yuan Shu ordered Ji Ling and Zhang Xun loudly: "Order you and you to lead 1,000 soldiers and horses each to fight, and they will definitely win, and they must not vent the spirit of our army." Ji Ling and the two had to order Da Da to go down to the city, and after a while, the two of them each led a thousand people to fight, Peng Tuo really didn't expect that the military horses in the city still had the courage to take the initiative to fight, and they were caught off guard by the two. Yuan Shu in the city laughed when he saw it, Yang Hong reminded the enemy that he had relieved his breath, and he should quickly order Ji Ling and the two to withdraw their troops, and Yuan Shu accepted his words. In this battle, hundreds of thieves were killed, and countless materials were burned, which can be regarded as a complete victory.

Although Yuan Shu won a game, he also knew that the thief almost didn't hurt his muscles and bones, so he was worried and asked Yang Hong: "Deming thinks there will be rescuers?" Yang Hong sighed: "My lord, now the Lord Assassin Shi has died in the hands of the thief, and the Lord Taishou is confronting the enemy in Shangcai, the imperial army has just come out of Luoyang, and it has rushed straight to Yingchuan County, and the Bocai Department of Yingchuan County directly threatens the safety of Luoyang, I am afraid that it will be difficult for me to have reinforcements in Runan, and I can only rely on my Runan clan to save myself." "Yuan Shu came out of Luoyang, and knew that when the Yellow Turban broke out, Emperor Ling wanted to let more than 30,000 people in the five battalions of the Northern Army defend Ji and Youzhou, while the Yulin Army and others wanted to defend the Beijing Division, and urgently recruited a lot of young and strong people and more than 40,000 Sili troops to attack Yingchuan. Yuan Shu also heard that Nanyang was also very troublesome, and the imperial army didn't know when it would take for the imperial army to come to Runan.

Just when Yuan Shu was at a loss, Chen Lin had already led the army north, Chen Lin took all the soldiers and horses a total of 16,700 out of Runan City, and only let the local scholars of Runan use the recruited guards to guard the city. Chen Lin thought to himself that he would lead the troops to exterminate the thieves, no matter where he went, the local big families would always have to support one or two, so he didn't have to worry about the lack of food and grass.

On the march, Chen Lin discussed with Huang Yan: "Huang Yan, as Lord Taishou said, there are 70,000 rebels in Pingxing City, but I don't know if Pingxing City can hold it at this time?" Huang Yan also couldn't judge, and said: "The eldest young master, if Pingxing City has fallen, the eldest young master will also go, at least to contain the thieves on the line of Pingxing and Shangcai, if they are allowed to go south again, I am afraid that Runan County will no longer belong to the Han Dynasty." ”

Chen Lin knew that what Huang Yan said was good, but he was still uneasy and said, "Our army is only more than 1,000, and the enemy army is nearly 100,000, how can we resist?" Huang Yan lowered his head and thought: "The eldest young master has few soldiers, but he has an advantage, which is cavalry." The thief army will definitely have no cavalry on a large scale to confront the eldest young master. ”

When Chen Lin heard Huang Yan talk about the cavalry, he suddenly had a plan, his eyebrows were overjoyed, and he grinned: "Huang Yan, this young master has a plan, there are many thieves, I will wait here to go to Pingxing, as long as the people around Pingxing are persuaded to leave, not a grain of grain is left for the thieves to loot, and then send cavalry to harass and cut off their grain routes." His army consumes a lot of food every day, and after a long time, when it runs out of food, the thieves will be in chaos. Huang Yan was also happy when she heard this, and added: "If the thief dares to send an army to fight, as long as the eldest young master can win, he will fight, and if he can't, he will retreat. Chen Lin and the two said the wonderful, happy laughter, Zhou Cang hurriedly came over and asked, Chen Lin and the two laughed again, making Zhou Cang look puzzled.

Since Anyang sent troops, Chen Lin marched cautiously, did not dare to be careless, and finally arrived ten miles south of Pingxing City, Chen Lin recruited Chen Ze Lin'an, and ordered the two to take the headquarters of the guards to investigate, not to disturb the anti-thief. Soon the two returned, saying that when they looked at the banner from a distance, it turned out to be Peng Tuo who came, and what the words of the two flags were, I don't know who it was. Pingxing City has been surrounded, the north gate and the west gate are heavy camps, and the east gate and the south gate also have 10,000 people camped three miles outside the city, of which the south camp thieves are less than seven miles away from Chen Lin and others. The thieves did not understand military affairs, but only sent people to patrol near the camp, and did not scout.

Chen Lin heard that there were no scouts for the rebels, so he hurriedly gathered everyone and said: "The rebels are careless, they don't know that we are coming, why don't they sneak attack their south gate camp tonight, and then take advantage of the chaos to send people to the city to send a letter, so that the city can know that reinforcements are coming and improve morale." Chen Lin discussed with everyone again, arranged tasks, and ordered the whole army to rest before dark and raid at midnight.

At midnight, Chen Lin's camp began to be busy, but the people were silent, and quietly leaned forward. The foot soldiers were in front, the cavalry was behind, Gao Shun and Chen Guo led the headquarters to open the way, Chen Lin followed with more than 300 foot soldiers, Huang Yan was behind Chen Lin at this time, and 500 guards rode on horseback. More than 1,000 people sneaked towards the anti-thief southern camp, and sure enough, they didn't notice it at all, Chen Lin smiled, and ordered Gao Shun to assassinate the patrol on the periphery, remove the fence, and reject the horse.

After a while, Gao Shun moved the camp away, Chen Lin saw that it was enough, stood up and got on the horse, raised his knife and signaled the cavalry behind him to get on the horse, and the foot soldiers gave way. In the dark and silent night, Chen Lin shouted: "Kill" Needless to say, at this time it is about speed, and the enemy is caught off guard. A thousand cavalry troops rumbled, running over the unprepared Yellow Turban camp, and for a time there were all kinds of killings and flames. Pingxing City was also boiling in an instant, thinking that the anti-thieves were attacking at night, and the city guards took a look, but saw that the camp at the south gate of the anti-thieves was on fire. Yang Hong saw it, immediately made a decision, and said to Yuan Shu: "Lord, don't miss the opportunity and don't come again, it won't take long for other anti-thief battalions to know about it, this must be reinforcements, and the lord can send troops to respond." ”

Chen Lin was killing happily at this time, although the Yellow Turban Army had 10,000 people here, but was raided by Chen Lin's cavalry, they were panicked, a few Yellow Turban generals raised their swords and shouted to gather the military horses, Chen Lin saw it, and ordered Zhou Cang to cut and kill, and suddenly the entire camp was uncommanded, and the thieves walked around, at this time Chen Lin did not dare to shout that those who surrendered would not be killed, Chen Lin planned to come and go quickly, otherwise he would be chased by Peng Tuo, it was not fun.

Chen Lin was commanding the men and horses to chase and kill the arson, and suddenly saw a team of people and horses killed in the north of the anti-thief camp, and cut down when he met the anti-thief. I don't know who it is, the leader on the opposite side waved a sharp knife and shouted at Chen Lin: "A certain is Ji Lingji Fuyi under the command of Runan Yuan Highway, I don't know who is on the other side?" "Yuan Highway? Chen Lin was taken aback, he didn't know that Yuan Shu was in Pingxing City, and hurriedly shouted: "A certain Chen Bozhi, led the righteous army to suppress the thieves, and asked General Ji to tell General Yuan back, saying that Bozhi led the cavalry to disturb the anti-thief grain route outside the city, thinking that Pingxing City echoed, and hoped that the general would hold on." Ji Ling responded and slashed with a knife, which was very powerful.

Ji Ling brought out more than 1,000 soldiers and horses, and the two groups of people turned the Yellow Turban camp upside down, and suddenly came to find Chen Lin, who was a scout from outside, saying that he found a column of torches coming from the west, about more than 10,000. Chen Lin thought about it, knowing that it was probably Peng Tuo's rescue, he shouted loudly to retreat, and for a while, Chen Lin's army withdrew from the battlefield one after another, and the thieves were already scared and weak, and Peng Tuo's reinforcements had not arrived, where did they dare to chase.

As soon as they returned to the camp, everyone counted the people and horses, laughed and said that there was little damage, but they had to kill three or four thousand thieves and burn countless material grains and grass. This is Huang Yan said: "Young Master, we will plan to disturb the anti-thief grain road, and the cavalry is fine, but how do these hundreds of foot soldiers plan, if they appear as foot soldiers, I am afraid that they will not be able to escape." ”

Chen Lin thought about it a long time ago, and said: "It's okay, the foot soldiers will retreat ten miles back, set up camp, and guard the grain and grass, my three hundred foot soldiers are also temporarily led by Gao Shun, with Gao Shun as the mainstay, Chen Guo is supplemented, and the camp is set up, presumably there will be a large group of people and horses to attack the thieves for a while, and there are more than 1,000 cavalry troops on the side, so they will be fine." In this way, I will lead the cavalry to attack everywhere with all the people, so that they will be tired of coping, and they will be chaotic in the long run. ”