Chen Guoxiang Xu Ling has been feeling a little bad since he got up in the morning, always feeling that something big is going to happen, as a county minister who once accompanied the former Yuzhou Thorn Shi Kong Ling to participate in the battle against Dong, there are not many state and county heads like Xu Ling who have survived to the present, and he can still keep his surname after so many ups and downs, Xu Ling's natural intuition undoubtedly accounts for part of the credit, and has helped Xu Ling to stand in the right position and avoid danger in this chaotic world many times, so Xu Ling has never dared to despise his God-given intuition.

Xu Ling felt that this danger should not come from the west and south, although the Yellow Turban thief He Yi brothers in the south and the Yellow Turban thief Huang Shao in the west had many soldiers and enough food, but most of the soldiers and horses were rabble, and their combat effectiveness was average, so they could only bully those small and medium-sized cities that were not protected by elite soldiers, and basically did not dare to provoke a strong city like Chen Guojun.

What makes Xu Ling feel dangerous is the north and east, the food shortage situation in Yanzhou in the north Xu Ling is very situation, and he is also very afraid that Cao Ying and Lu Bu will lose the two walls and make up for the outside of the wall, and use the hinterland of Yuzhou to survive the food shortage - in this regard, Xu Ling has also been psychologically prepared, whether Lu Bulai or Cao Yinglai will immediately open the city and surrender, the five or six thousand second-rate troops in Chen Guocheng may be able to barely compete against the Yellow Turban thieves, but the army against Cao Ying and Lu Bu is to hit the stone with an egg. Instead of stubbornly resisting and looking for death, it is better to surrender early and cover the family property and surname.

As for the safest east, Xu Ling didn't pay attention to it before, but just yesterday, the people who fled from Peiguo brought news, saying that there was also a group of yellow turban thieves in Peiguo County, and they had defeated the county seat of Qianxian County in just one morning, Xu Ling immediately felt that the situation was wrong, because although the Yellow Turban thieves in Ruying's area were fierce, they were not good at attacking tough battles - including the regular army of many princes had a headache attacking tough battles, and this Peiguo Yellow Turban could take a city in one morning, and its ferocity could be imagined.

Therefore, our Chen Guoxiang Xu Lingxu can only pray secretly, hoping that this Peiguo Yellow Turban will only satisfy the city of Qiaoxian County, and don't advance westward again, otherwise, Chen Guocheng will be in trouble.

Unfortunately, the prayer was unsuccessful, Xu Ling's ominous premonition was fulfilled again, in the afternoon, the whistle Ma came to report, twenty miles east of Xinping, a large number of yellow turban thieves have been found, and they are killing towards Chen Guojun, Xu Ling was also suddenly startled, and said that although Chen Guocheng is less than two hundred miles away from Qian County, this yellow turban thief will inevitably come too fast, right? I only took Qiao County in the morning of the day before yesterday, and I will soon arrive in Xinping today, so by tomorrow morning at the latest, this group of yellow turban thieves will be in Chen Guocheng!

Shocked to shocked, what should be done still has to be done, Xu Ling can only quickly convene the generals to discuss the strategy of defending the city, while organizing the people of the neighboring four towns to take refuge in the city, while preparing to defend the city. However, to the surprise of the defenders of Chen Guo, it was only in the evening that thousands of Yellow Turban thieves had arrived on the bank of the Qushui River, set up camp on the east bank of the Qushui, and lit bonfires all over the mountains, reflecting the east bank of the Qushui in red.

What makes Chen Guo's defenders even more frightened is still behind, although this group of yellow turban thieves is not as good as He Yi, Huang Shao, Gong Du and Liu Bi and other famous thieves in terms of quantity, they also wear ragged clothes and wrapped in shabby yellow scarves, but the weapons are no less than the equipment of He Huang and other thieves' main soldiers, spears, halberds, bows and crossbows, and the worst is also swords, at the same time, this yellow turban thieves also obviously have combat experience, lighting a large number of bonfires to intimidate the defenders in the city, not to mention, but also rushing to build bridges overnight on the dry canal river in winter, so that the army can cross the river and attack the city faster. The slogan that Cang Tian is dead and Huang Tian should stand can be heard clearly even in Chen Guocheng.

In addition to the shock and fear, Xu Ling, who is still well-informed, is also a little strange - when did such a big group of yellow turban thieves emerge in Peiguo? How come you've never heard of it before?

Xu Ling's question was quickly answered, and the Yellow Turban Thief sent a messenger to the city to surrender and inform him of his origin, and Xu Ling only then knew that this group of Yellow Turban Thieves came from Jizhou - although Xu Ling was very strange how such a large group of Yellow Turban Thieves passed through the four-layer blockade of Cao Lu Tao Liu and killed from Jizhou to the hinterland of Yuzhou? Then Xu Ling knew that the head of this yellow turban thief is called Wu Tiande, the demon king of the mixed world, and he is the confidant of Zhang Bao, the general of the earth, this time he came to Chen to borrow grain and land, and wanted to borrow some food to cross the famine, and borrow the city to rest for a few days, if Xu Ling honestly agreed, then King Wu Tiande ensured that Xu Ling and the people in the city were safe, otherwise, after the city was broken, the whole city would not be left behind.

King Wu Tiande's unreasonable request was naturally rejected by Xu Ling, but after the siege began the next day, Xu Ling and the defenders began to regret it. At dawn the next day, Wu Tiande's Yellow Turban thieves crossed the canal water in the whole line, and set up a formation outside the south gate of Chen Guo, eight strange huge wooden cars lined up three hundred steps away, in the strange loud noise, eight huge stone bullets roared out, smashed together to the south gate of Chen Guo, three of which were in the middle of the city tower, and the Tibetan army tower that had been in disrepair for a long time collapsed on the spot, and buried countless defenders and crossbowmen hidden in the city tower.

One of the other five stone bullets smashed into the moat, causing a splash more than two feet high, and the other two smashed on the city wall, taking the lives of three defenders and leaving two huge craters in the masonry wall, and the last two smashed over the city wall into the city, destroying two houses in the city and sinking several feet into the ground. Seeing such a scene, the defenders and the people of Chencheng were of course scattered, screaming continuously, and Xu Ling, who was expecting to rely on the city wall to defend against the Yellow Turban Thieves, was also completely desperate, and understood why the city of Qian County couldn't hold it for a morning.

The whistling stone bullets continued to smash, the defenders on the city wall of Chen Guo also screamed and screamed continuously, countless soldiers and generals hugged their heads and scurried, and countless people fled into the city, and the supervision team could not stop them, the stone bullets kept falling, leaving huge craters on the city wall, smashing the city defense equipment above and below the city wall to pieces, and even more smashed the soldiers who could not avoid the city guarding blood and flesh flying, broken tendons and fractures, crying and screaming, more and more fugitives, including the supervision team, there are people who have scattered their legs, and the people inside the city wall who helped defend the city have already fled. Xu Ling also regretted it greatly, why didn't he negotiate with this group of yellow turban thieves a little last night, and try to get a sum of money and food to send them away?

King Wu Tiande was still a little unworthy of his name, the trebuchet only threw five rounds before temporarily stopping the bombardment, and another Yellow Turban thief soldier in his forties ran to the city with a small white flag, and shouted loudly above the city wall: "Xu Ling, old horseman, come out and answer!" Listen, this is the last chance for you from King Wu, now that Kaicheng surrenders, our king will not hurt the life of a single person in the city! If you don't surrender again, King Wu will let the Demon King Cannon continue to fire, first completely collapse your city wall, and then kill into the city, leaving no chickens and dogs! ”

"The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand!" In the thunderous shouts and threats, Xu Ling trembled and poked his head out from behind the arrow stack, and shouted at the Yellow Turban thief messenger: "General, I bother you to return to King Wu, the people of Chencheng are willing to give 30,000 pieces of grain, ten heads of cattle, and 50,000 yuan of money, in exchange for King Wu's retreat, please King Wu must be gracious." ”

"No way!" The Yellow Turban Thief Envoy flatly refused, and shouted: "Listen up, the old horseman, King Wu wants Chen Guochengchi, not to ask you for food!" If you surrender in Kaicheng, you will still be Chen Guoxiang! If you dare to bargain again, King Wu will not be polite! ”

"I'm still Chen Guoxiang?" Xu Ling was a little moved, and said in his heart that although this Wu Tiande is a three-character pariah from Qianshou, but listening to the tone, could it be that he still knows a little about the affairs of the government, and knows that he has to appoint an official position to govern the people, collect grain and collect taxes? If that's the case, surrendering is not a life-saving plan.

"Boom!" Xu Ling hesitated here, the suspension bridge over there had fallen to the ground, and then the city gate was opened, and a group of frightened defenders couldn't wait to rush out of the city gate, kneeling on the ground and shouting surrender. Seeing this situation, Xu Ling had no choice but to hurriedly shout: "General, the old man has opened the city gate and surrendered, please return to King Wu, please King Wu must be the talker, don't hurt the old man and the people in the city——! ”

Xu Ling's worries are obviously superfluous, although this yellow turban thief is dressed in tatters like a group of flowers, but he is still quite talkative, after entering the city, in addition to disarming the defenders and quickly taking over the city defense and county treasury, he did not rob the people in the city, and also escorted Xu Ling to a young man with clear eyebrows, Xu Ling didn't have time to shock the young handsome of this demon king Wu Tiande, King Wu Tiande had already saved his collar, and shouted viciously: "Listen, Immediately post an example to the king of this king with the honor of Chen Guoxiang, appease the people in the city, and prevent them from rebelling against the king's soldiers! Then give me a messenger and organize the people to draw one to serve in labor, this king needs a large number of people, understand? ”

"Zhang Bang Anmin? Two Ding draw one to serve hard labor? Xu Jue was full of confusion, and couldn't help but ask King Wu Tiande: "King, are you Zhang Tiangong's general?" Or a general of the government? ”

Relying on the deterrence of the Xiangyang cannon, which is ahead of the millennium, and easily took the frightened Chen Guocheng, our king Wu Tiande acted quickly, while reorganizing the defenders for his own use, he divided his team to take the surrounding Xinping, Changping, Fule and Yangxia and other Chen Guojun counties, to collect the money and grain stored in these counties, and sent all of them to Chen Guocheng for hoarding, and constantly sent them to the base camp of Qian County. At the same time, the news that General Wu Tiande, the demon king of the remnants of the Yellow Turban, had taken the county seat of Chenguo was also quickly spread to the surrounding counties of Runan and Yingchuan through various channels.

Not to mention, being able to take a county town, Sensei said that it is basically a Yellow Turban Army that is already at the end of the road, even for a prince, it is also a great event, so after the news spread, the nearby Eastern Han Prefecture County Government was shaken, and the surrounding He Yi, Huang Shao, Gong Du and Liu Bi and other major Yellow Turban thieves were inevitably taken aback after hearing the news, and they invariably sent scouts to investigate the envoys of the horses and horses to Chen State, or explicitly or secretly probed the news of the Yellow Turban thieves who suddenly appeared. And took the initiative to try to get in touch with the little-known King Wu Tiande.

The first person to get in touch with King Wu was Gong Du, this king was the weakest among the thieves in Ru Ying, and could only operate in the easternmost part of the least populous and poorest in Runan, not only threatened by Yuan Shujun at any time, but also often bullied by other Yellow Turban thieves, and most hoped to expand his strength, so after getting the news that King Wu Tiande from outside had captured Chen State, King Gong immediately sent an envoy to contact King Wu and ask to join forces to dominate Ru Ying! - In this regard, King Wu's reply was to ask Gong Du to lead the people to Chen Guo to discuss the details of the alliance.

He Yi and Huang Shao were more cunning, because they couldn't figure out the details and intentions of King Wu Tiande, and they didn't dare to communicate with King Wu casually, so the envoys they sent not only inquired about the origin of King Wu, but also to inquire about King Wu's intentions, and King Wu arranged for his deputy King Sun to come forward to accompany him, and invited He Huang's envoy to visit the spiritual seat of the Zhang Jiao brothers in Chen Guocheng, and entertained He Yi and Huang Shao's envoys according to the etiquette of the Yellow Turban Army, explaining that the army was originally Zhang Bao's old department, and Zhang Bao was forced to surrender to Yuan Shao after his defeat. He also took the opportunity of Yuan Shao to send troops to reinforce Cao Ying, betrayed Yuan's army, and fled all the way to the hinterland of Yuzhou to hide, and took Chen State just to borrow land to accommodate him, and did not mean to be enemies with He Huang's kings, and also put forward the hope that he could live in peace with He Huang and others, establish an alliance, and resist the attack of officers and soldiers.

Hearing King Wu's explanation, and seeing the spiritual seat of the Zhang Jiao brothers in Chen Guocheng, and seeing the strong bandit style in King Wu's team, He Yi and Huang Shao's envoy were naturally overjoyed, not only immediately believed in the identity of King Wu Tiande, Huang Shao's envoy also invited King Wu to send a messenger to Huang Shao to contact, King Wu agreed, and sent Li Lang to Yingchuan with gifts to meet Huang Shao.

He Yi's envoy was more cunning, and he didn't dare to lure the wolf into the room to ask King Wu to send an envoy back with him, but just offered to say goodbye, saying that he would go back first to play King He and then give King Wu a reply, and King Wu didn't mind, and rewarded the envoy and sent someone to send He Yi's envoy out of Chen State - and then sent a few defender scouts who surrendered in Chen State to secretly follow him, looking for the location of He Yi's lair, and at the same time preventing the secret agent from being captured and exposed.

Li Lang returned to Chen Guo after going for five or six days, and said to King Wu Tiande with a smile on his face: "Congratulations to Gongzi, congratulations to Gongzi, the villain not only figured out where King Huang Shao's lair is, but also brought good news to King Huang Shao. ”

"Oh, tell me, where is Huang Shao's lair? What's the good news? King Wu Tiande asked happily.

"It's not far, it's in Dingling County." Li Lang first pointed out the location of the Dingling Tomb on the map, and King Wu took a closer look and found that the Dingling Tomb was about two hundred and sixty miles away from Chen Guocheng, about one hundred and fifty miles away from Yang Zhai City (now Yuzhou, Xu Shu's hometown) in Yingchuan Zhizhi, and less than forty miles away from Xiping County in Runan County.

"Li Lang, are you sure that this Dingling City is Huang Shao's grain land?" Lu Su asked beside him.

"Absolutely." Li Lang nodded proudly, patted his chest and said: "Son, please rest assured, the villain Li Lang may not be able to do anything else, but when it comes to understanding the Yellow Turban Thief, the villain still has some ability, and he can smell the Yellow Turban Thief's grain and gold hidden there with his nose - the people in that Dingling City have already been killed by the Yellow Turban Thief, except for some Yellow Turban Thief's family, the rest of the houses are all used to contain grain and gold, and you can smell the sweet smell of grain rot when you walk on the street, absolutely can't be wrong." ”

King Wu was secretly overjoyed, and continued to ask quietly: "How many people are there in Huang Shao?" Also, what's the good news you're talking about? ”

"King Huang's team is about twenty or thirty thousand people, but most of them are idle Qianshou, with some farm tools, bamboo guns and wooden sticks as weapons, stationed outside Dingling City, and only three or four thousand people are the main soldiers, stationed in Dingling City." Li Lang explained in detail, and said with a smile: "As for the good news that the villain brought back to Gongzi, it is that King Huang Shao wants to ask Gongzi to bring reinforcements to resist the advance of the official army of Chenliu County. ”

"The officials and troops of Chen Liujun are preparing to encircle and suppress Huang Shao?" King Wu Tiande was surprised and delighted - this was a great opportunity to lead his troops westward, and it was justified and not easy to arouse Huang Shao's vigilance.

"yes." Li Lang nodded with a smile and replied: "When the villain saw King Huang, it happened that King Huang sent a fine work to Yingyin to send a message, saying that Chen Liujun had sent an army of officers to the south, preparing to exterminate King Huang, and also asked the Yingyin government to provide a guide, King Huang asked the villain to bring a message to Gongzi for the sake of prudence, and asked Gongzi to ......, oh no, please King Wu You send troops to rescue and help him resist the officers and soldiers. After the deed is done, there will be a good reward! ”

"And such a coincidence?" King Wu was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked, "How many officers and soldiers have come from Chenliu County?" Got there now? When will you arrive at Dingling? ”

"This ......, the villain doesn't know." Li Lang shook his head with a wry smile, and added: "The only thing the villain only knows is that King Huang not only asked for help from you, Gongzi, but also sent envoys to Liu Bi and He Yi. ”

"Childe, this is a good opportunity." On the side, Sun Guan couldn't wait to shout: "Bringing troops over to help, we can not only justifiably send troops westward, but also take the opportunity to gain the trust of other Yellow Turban thieves, and when the officers and soldiers and the Yellow Turban Thieves are defeated, won't we have a chance?" ”

"Childe, you should seize this opportunity." Lu Su agreed: "Although Chenliu County is the birthplace of Cao Ying, the main force of Cao's army is in Yanzhou, and there are not many elite soldiers in Chenliu County, so it should not be difficult to deal with. ”

King Wu grinned, and then shouted in a big way: "The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the age is in Jiazi, and the world is peaceful!" Corrupt officials poisoned the living beings and brutalized my Yellow Turban soldiers, Wu Tiande, as a Yellow Turban veteran, should see the unevenness of the road and draw a knife to help! The little ones, immediately light up 5,000 minions and send troops to Dingling City! ”

King Wu was in high spirits in Chen Guocheng, but at the same time in Linying City, someone was holding the news of King Wu's capture of Chen Guocheng inexplicably, and he couldn't remember when he broke his head, what did this yellow turban thief named Wu Tiande drill out of that horn, and actually took a county town as a nest as soon as he appeared? This siege speed is simply stronger than that of most of the princes' regular armies.

"Why should the lord bother? A gang of thieves, a rabble who don't know the battle, what is there to fear? Cao Hong said confidently: "Please divide the lord into three thousand soldiers and a certain one, and within five days, he will behead Wu Tiande and dedicate it to the lord." ”

"Don't be underestimated." Boss Cao shook his head and said cautiously: "Although this Wu Tiande is only the head of Qian, this person can break through the county city of Chen Guo within a day, which shows that he has a lot of military strategy, and he rashly marches into the army when the enemy situation is unknown, I am afraid that it will be dangerous." ”

"What the lord said is extremely true, the enemy situation is unknown, and it is not possible to rush into the army." Guo Jia coughed and said: "In my opinion, it is best for our army to concentrate on taking Dingling first, taking Dingling Thief's Cave to seize food and eat, and then try to find out the truth of this Wu Tiande, and then decide how to exterminate it." However, the Yellow Turban thieves have contact with each other, and they must also prevent this Wu Tiande from going west to rescue Huang Shao, and the lord can divide a group of elite soldiers to Zhaoling to intercept Wu Tiande's rescue troops, and prevent Huang Shao from running east to unite with Wu Tiande. ”

"Filial piety is in harmony with my heart." Boss Cao nodded, and at the same time, for the sake of prudence, Boss Cao shouted again: "Cao Chun listens to the order!" ”

"The end will be." The leader of a well-known army stood up and responded with a fist to Cao Ying.

"You take all the 1,000 tigers and leopards with you and go to Zhaoling to station and intercept them." Cao Ying ordered: "If there is no invincible, you can be stationed on standby, if Huang Shao flees east or Wu Tiande advances westward, meet the head-on attack, be sure to destroy it!" ”