Although they are not clear about the current situation of Xiyang County, it is not difficult to guess from the dense crowd of traitors outside the city that Xiyang County has obviously fallen into the hands of thieves, and it is precisely because of this that Zhang plays the rebels can divide their troops and join the Taiping Road rebels outside Pinggang County to besiege the city.

As the county government of Beiping County guessed, Xiyang County, which is located less than a hundred miles southwest of the county capital, was lost as early as the fourth day of the siege because of the traitors who joined forces with the outside. All the big houses in the city were robbed, all the county government was slaughtered, and the county magistrate, county magistrate and county lieutenant who led the county to fight the enemy bravely were even ordered by Zhang Wan to hang the corpses in the city, which has been exposed to the sun until today.

Only a few volunteers took the opportunity to escape from the chaos, but they lost their homes and left their homes, and they had no way out. It was nothing more than wandering aimlessly to neighboring counties and towns, spreading the news of the fall of Xiyang County.

After Zhang Wan captured Xiyang County, in addition to plundering as usual, he also forcibly recruited the people in the county, regardless of men, women and children, as long as they were not bedridden or young, they were all incorporated into the ranks under his command, and then sent to Pinggang County to assist Zonghai, Deng Mao and other Yellow Turban troops in attacking the city.

However, after all, the city of the county capital must be strong and tall, and the Yellow Turban Army has been tossing back and forth for many days, even if they are urging their troops to forcibly attack the city under constant pressure, and barely cause certain results, but there is still a considerable distance from the capture of the city gate. Zong Hai, Deng Mao, Yu Hu and others are not without brains at all, these peasant rebel armies led by them lack weapons and equipment, and it is obviously irrational to take the city head-on in this situation, so they can only take the way of besieging the city to consume and wear out little by little.

In a sense, the purpose of launching siege battles one after another is not to seize the city gates, but only to stimulate the hearts of the people in the city step by step, and to make the atmosphere of despair hang over the city head all the time.

Zhang Yu sent three batches of reinforcements to assist the Yellow Turban Army, the first group carried some bows and arrows on the 10th day of the second month, and the number of troops that came one after another increased each time. He knew very well that Youbeiping County had fallen into a chaotic situation at the moment, Liaoxi County to the east was trembling and did not dare to act rashly, and to Yuyang County to the west, there was Zhang Chun's dark box operation, which completely isolated Youbeiping County.

After capturing Xiyang County, he was very relieved to transfer the large troops under his command to the battlefield of Pinggang County, as for the remaining remote counties in the north of the county, he had already heard that these counties could only send reinforcements of a few hundred people, which was not worth mentioning at all. At present, as long as the county capital can be successfully captured, according to the earlier Jihua, the counties in the north of the county can be passed on.

In the past few days, Zhang Youzheng was thinking about whether to go to Pinggang County to take command, but at the suggestion of his close adviser Fan Yang, he simply handed over the matter of attacking the county government to the Yellow Turban Army.

A Yellow Turban Army and them are not all the way after all, it is nothing more than that they have common interests to a certain extent, Zong Hai and Yu Hu only obey the orders of Zhang Jiao, the giant deer people, only Deng Mao still has some friendship, once Zhang Wan goes to Pinggang County, there will definitely be a loss of proportion in command, Zong Hai and Yu Hu will not buy it, and it will even cause internal contradictions. The second thing is to talk about soft grinding and hard bubbles, such time-consuming and laborious work, there is no need to do it yourself.

As for the capture of the county government, anyway, Zhang Wan has already sent a large team of men and horses to support, at that time, as long as he gives an order to occupy the city first, and then discuss the division of the matter, calmly, why not.

Because of this, Zhang Play stayed in Xiyang County with peace of mind. finally captured a city in a serious way, and naturally had to put on a posture of being a king and a hegemon. Although he started in Changcheng County, even if he doesn't have to use a knife or a gun, Changcheng County is still in his control. Strictly speaking, the situation in Guangcheng County has nothing to do with him, and in the end, it was because the Taiping Dao and others suddenly revolted in Guangchang County and directly overthrew the Guangchang County government.

Xiyang County has just won this time, and there are always many things that can be done, which will inevitably loot the money of large families, such as going door-to-door to collect beautiful women. For Zhang Wan, it is rare in this life to have such a free and easy ruling power as now, of course, it is good to use it.

As a result, seven or eight days have passed since the county town of Sunset was broken. Zhang Wan occupies the mansion of the county government, singing and dancing every day and night, and as for the affairs in the city, he should be handed over to a group of good and bad subordinates to take care of it. When the southwestern tower was attacked, the entire castle tower was burned down due to the arson of the inner response, and to this day, no one has come to repair the castle wall, or even to fill it slightly.

At this time, it was already nightfall, and there were few lights in the city, and the only place where the fire could still be clearly seen was the place where the county government was located. Zhang Wan kidnapped all the beautiful beauties in the city to Xingyuan, singing and dancing at night, but there were countless beauties sobbing in the day. Just like today, the temple was full of lights and delicious food and wine. Outside the Zhu Wall, not only the people in the city who had lost all their lives were miserable, but even the so-called "subordinates" of Zhang Play were shivering in the night wind, looking at the dazzling lights of the county government, and fantasizing about being able to realize their desire to participate in the rebellion.

In the ruins of the ruined city gate in the southwest, there is still a rebel squad on guard.

Braving the strong wind at night, most of the more than a dozen people couldn't sit still, or standing, or walking back and forth, gathering together in twos and threes, chatting about some clueless topics first.

"Alas, from Changcheng to the sunset, there is still not enough to eat at this time, why bother?"

"Isn't it? I can't eat enough in Changcheng, so I can sleep warmer, you see, there is not even a place to sleep here, isn't it a blind toss? ”

"Look at our Master Zhang, being a groom every day, and being able to eat meat every day, this ...... Alas. ”

"Don't dare to talk nonsense, if this word reaches Master Zhang, hehe, maybe you will be hit again."

"Alas......"

Suddenly, there seemed to be some movement in the darkness in the distance to the southwest, and it vaguely sounded like the sound of horses.

Among the people patrolling outside the collapsed city tower, some of them couldn't help but be alert.

A rebel standing on the outermost side immediately turned his head and glanced into the distance on the road into the city, and after being stunned for a while, he seemed to mutter, "Hey, why does it seem to be ......?"

At this time, another person next to him asked, "What's wrong?" ”

The man searched the darkness carefully, but unfortunately the brazier used for lighting was beside him, and he couldn't see what it was further away, only a thick black mass. He said hesitantly, "I don't know, as if, as if I heard something." ”

The man next to him poked his head to look at the darkness in the distance, and suddenly said with a smile: "You heard it wrong." I didn't hear anything. ”

"Probably...... I misheard......"

The two laughed, and were about to turn around and walk in the direction of the ruins of the city gate.

However, the moment he turned around, there was a "whoosh" sound in the darkness in the distance behind him without warning. Before he could quickly identify what the sound was, one of the two was cold and had a pain in his back, and a cold feathered arrow shot directly into his chest from his back.

"Ah......h

The sound of his screams could not come out of his throat at all.

When the other person saw this, he was shocked, and quickly ran away, shouting as he ran: "It's not good, there are thieves ......"

It was only before the shouting came out that several other feathered arrows were driven into his back with great precision. He fell headlong to the ground, unable to utter a single word.

The man fell to his knees and reached out to the place where the tower had collapsed, where some of his companions were looking at him with stunned eyes. He seemed to want to grab something, or ask for help, but it was too late.

There was a loud sound of horses' hooves behind him. When he turned his head in surprise, he only saw a bright sword light rushing towards him......