Chapter 68: Pacifying Wancheng

The army marched all the way and came to the city wall of Wancheng at noon.

After arriving in Wancheng, Ao Lie immediately called Zhao Yun and asked him to take 5,000 cavalry around the south gate of Wancheng ten miles away to lurk. Then let Ma Chao and Xu Huang each lead 10,000 troops to the east and west gates of Wancheng to station, and he led the rest of the 7,000 soldiers to camp outside the north gate. This is Ao Lie's usual tactics of encircling three queyi, vacating the south gate to allow the Yellow Turban army in the city to flee to avoid the situation of trapped beast fighting. He also arranged in advance for Zhao Yun to set up an ambush ten miles away from the south gate to intercept and kill the fleeing Yellow Turban Army, so as to expand the results of the battle.

With the arrival of Ao Lie's army, the already panicked morale of the Yellow Turban Army in Wancheng has plummeted. They could see clearly that the black Xuanbian general flag in the barracks outside the north gate was embroidered with the words General Han Huwei and Zhongyi Marquis - Ao. This is the famous little overlord Ao Lie! The people who fled back to the city yesterday once said that the little overlord Ao Lie only led 6,000 Han troops, and he killed the 150,000 army of the little heavenly master Zhang Shao, and lost the armor, and this little overlord even cut off the head of the little heavenly master from the ten thousand army. Only 6,000 people have been invincible under the leadership of Ao Lie, and now this little overlord has come to conquer with an army of more than 30,000, can he and others defend Wancheng?

Under the city wall, in the camp of the Han army, Ao Lie did not give the order to attack the city, but wrote a letter, and then ordered someone to copy a thousand copies, tied them to the arrows, and then removed the arrows and shot into the city of Wan. After doing this, Ao Lie just ordered to "hurry up and rest", and without even asking the person who arranged the vigil, he went directly back to the Chinese army's tent to rest.

In Wancheng, an ordinary Yellow Turban Army picked up the headless arrow that Ao Lie let people shoot in, saw a letter tied to it, and quickly opened the letter, opened it to watch, and after looking at it for a while, he remembered that he didn't know a single big word, and he couldn't understand a word of the content of the letter, so he hurriedly folded the letter and put it in his arms, and then turned around and ran towards the barracks.

When he ran outside the barracks, he happened to bump into another Yellow Turban soldier who came out of the barracks, and the two of them fell to the ground.

"Ergouzi, what are you running blindly, the old man who hurt me fell down."

"No, that, I have something urgent, I picked up a letter shot into the city by the Han army, but I can't read, so I want to bring it back and let Lao Yan read it."

So saying, he stood up and ran towards the barracks again. The man who was hit was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly got up and followed into the barracks.

In the barracks, Lao Yan took the letter handed over by Ergouzi and read it: "General Han Huwei, loyal and righteous Hou Aolie, according to the edict of the Son of Heaven, crusade against Wancheng Zhang Shao and other Yellow Turban remnants, now Zhang Shao has been ambushed, Ben Hou adheres to the virtue of God to have a good life, pardons the rest of the people and other innocent people, all the past is not to blame, Pan'er and others abandon the city and surrender, if there are those who do not surrender, those who resist stubbornly, after dawn, burn with the city!" ”

After reading the letter, the dozen or so people in the barracks were silent.

After a long time, Ergouzi said in a low voice: "I think we will definitely not be able to defeat that little overlord, even a person with great powers like the little heavenly master was killed by the little overlord, let alone us, if you want me to say, let's descend." ”

Another person retorted: "Even if we surrender, it will be the end of being killed, everyone must not be confused by this little overlord, we have fought with the Han army for so long, when have we ever seen the Han army treat prisoners preferentially?" ”

Someone else said: "How did I hear that this little overlord is a good man with affection and righteousness?" Lao Jin ran back after the defeat in Funiu Mountain yesterday and said that he was released by Xiaobawang, and the rest of the people were also released back to their hometowns, and everyone received three days' rations. ”

"And this?"

"Really, I can't lie to you, Lao Jin is a local, so he went back to Wancheng. By the way, Lao Tian and Xiaohe are also from Wancheng, if you don't believe it, you can ask them! ”

"Don't make any noise," Lao Yan was obviously the small leader of this group of people, and suppressed the noise in the barracks with one sentence: "Ergouzi, you go and find Lao Jin and them, let's ask carefully." ”

Ergouzi scratched his head in embarrassment and said: "Lao Jin left the barracks when he came back yesterday, he said that he promised Xiaobawang that he would live his own life in the future, and he would not return to the army, Lao Tian and Xiaohe were the same." ”

Lao Yan pondered for a while and said: "Can let Lao Jin leave the barracks convincingly, it seems that this little overlord is a person who believes in his word, otherwise Lao Jin and they will not obey him." ”

"What shall we do then?" Ergouzi asked in a low voice.

Lao Yan sighed and said: "Alas, what else can I do, we will definitely not be able to defeat Xiaobawang, it is better to surrender as soon as possible, and I can still save my life to go back to my hometown." Speaking of which, I really miss my baby a little. ”

"I miss my mother, it's been almost three years since I left my hometown, and I don't know if my mother is doing well now."

"Me too, I threw down the old child and ran out, my mother-in-law cried to death, and now she may have remarried."

More than a dozen people in the barracks said with a glance at me, and their tones were full of deep longing for their hometown.

This scene is playing out in all corners of Wancheng. So, under the offensive of Ao Lie's homesickness, a large number of Yellow Turban troops opened the city gate, then tore off the Yellow Turban wrapped around their heads, dropped their weapons, walked out empty-handed, and walked to Ao Lie's camp to surrender.

By the time dawn, the Yellow Turban Army in Wancheng had already disappeared, and there were only about 1,000 Yellow Turban Army trapped in Wancheng.

Ao Lie rode his horse to the city wall of Wancheng and shouted loudly towards the city: "A certain person is waiting for a stick of incense to think about it, and those who refuse to surrender at that time will be killed!" Don't make a mistake! ”

A bandit-turned-Yellow Turban Army shouted angrily: "The lackey of the Han Court, I swear not to surrender!" As he spoke, he took out his bow and arrow and shot an arrow at Ao Lie.

Seeing the arrows coming from the fire, Ao Lie did not panic, and a beautiful harrier turned over on the back of the snow dragon horse in the night, dodged the arrows of the arrows, and then lightly stretched his arms and grabbed the feathers at the end of the arrows.

Sitting back on the horse, Ao Lie shouted, "Look at a certain divine shot!" After that, he took out the Qiankun bow, put on the arrow in his hand, drew the bowstring, and shot it at the big flag on the city wall.

The Qiankun bow was originally a royal treasure, it was carefully selected by the Spirit Emperor Liu Hong in the royal treasury and given to Ao Lie's treasure, its bow power is the first in the world, coupled with Ao Lie's natural divine power, the arrow almost shot on the city wall at an indistinguishable speed, an arrow broke the flagpole of the flag on the city wall, and half of the flagpole fell from the city with the yellow flag of the Yellow Turban Army.

The power of one arrow is so powerful!

After glancing at the half-section of the flagpole that fell at his feet, Ao Lie raised his head and shouted to the city wall: "A certain person is not a man of his word, he said that he would wait for a time for a plant of incense, and he would never regret it, start the timer now!" ”

The defenders on the city wall were shocked and inexplicably looked at Ao Lie who was prancing on a horse under the city, and they were all a little frightened in their hearts. With an arrow, you can shoot a flagpole the thickness of a bowl, is this still something that a man can do? It's inhuman!

After a dead silence, someone finally couldn't bear it anymore and ran down the wall with a howl: "I surrender!" I can't stand it anymore! ”

Seeing that some people surrendered, the Yellow Turban Army on the city wall defected one after another, and when the time for a stick of incense was up, there were only a few hundred people left on the city wall.

Most of the remaining people in Ao Lie's Zhilu Dao are outlaws and cannot be educated. So he raised his spear, pointed at the city, and shouted, "Siege!" ”

With Ao Lie's movements and orders, the Han army under the city gates of the north, east and west gates launched an attack at the same time. Groups of Han soldiers ran towards the city wall with ladders on their backs, and the sword and axe men on both sides raised their shields to shield them from the bows and arrows shot down from the wall. There are also assault fighters who follow the team with short knives in their hands, waiting to climb the ladder to attack the city as soon as it is built on the wall. At the same time, a team of sturdy men carried rams and slammed into the gate of Wancheng.

Just three quarters of an hour later, Wancheng was breached. Hundreds of Yellow Turban troops who resisted stubbornly were slaughtered by the soldiers besieging the city.

Walking into the Wancheng Taishou Mansion, Ao Lie lowered his head and thought as he walked, until he reached the hall of the middle hall of the Taishou Mansion, Ao Lie sorted out his thoughts, sat on the main seat and began to give orders.

"Zhao Yun, I order you to lead five hundred soldiers to post notices in the city, settle the people, so that the people do not panic, and at the same time search the remnants of the Yellow Turban Party that may be hiding in the city, and those who surrender will not be killed, but those who resist will be killed!"

"No!" After Zhao Yun stood up and saluted with fists, he turned around and left.

"Xu Huang, I order you to lead four thousand soldiers to seal the four gates of the east, west, north and south, and temporarily prohibit anyone from going out and entering."

"No!"

"Wu Xi, I order you to lead 5,000 sergeants to rectify nearly 10,000 surrendered troops, and those who are willing to submit will be incorporated into the army, and those who are unwilling will be sent three days of rations to send them back to their hometowns."

"No!"

"Wu Qiong, I order you to immediately write a fold to bring the news of our army's complete victory and pacification of Wancheng to the Son of Heaven. And ask the Holy Lord to send a new Nanyang Taishou as soon as possible. In addition, he repaired a letter and presented it to Liu Biao, the pastor of Jingzhou, telling him the news of our army's great victory, and asking him to recommend the candidate for Nanyang Taishou and submit it to the Holy Lord for decision. ”

"No!"

Because Nanyang is under the rule of Jingzhou, in addition to the appointment of the imperial court, the position of Taishou must also be recommended by Liu Biao, the pastor of Jingzhou, so Ao Lie will ask Wu Qiong to write a letter to Liu Biao, speaking of which, Liu Biao is also a relative of the Han family, and Liu Yu and Liu Bei are of the same generation.

It's just that he is different from Liu Bei, Liu Bei is not recognized by Liu Hong, but Liu Biao is a royal family who has been recognized by Liu Hong. In terms of seniority alone, Ao Lie still wants to call Liu Biao an uncle.

After the assignment of the task, Ao Lie finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the battle of wits and courage with the Yellow Turban Army for several days consumed a lot of Ao Lie's mind, at this moment, it was time to relax.

However, just as Ao Lie was about to empty himself, Ma Chao's voice sounded: "Second brother, junior brother has something I want to tell you." ”

"Huh? Meng Qi has nothing to say, when did he learn to beat around the bush? It's not like you. Ao Lie said teasingly.

Ma Chao turned around and looked at Pang De Ma Dai behind him, and then the three of them knelt down in front of Ao Lie, Ma Chao said: "The three of them want to serve under the lord, and they beg the lord to take them in." ”

Ao Lie listened to Ma Chao's words, and couldn't help but widen his eyes, this, happiness came too fast, right? After this battle, he not only created the myth of 6,000 Han troops breaking 150,000 yellow scarves, but also accepted the return of three fierce generals by the way?

Seeing Ao Lie's eyes widen in a daze, Ma Chao's urgency flared up again, and he shouted, "Second brother! Can't you look down on a certain three?! ”

Ao Lie was yelled at by Ma Chao, suddenly came back to his senses, quickly stood up, walked quickly to Ma Chao, reached out and grabbed Ma Chao's arms, helped Ma Chao up, and then pulled up Pang De and Ma Dai one by one, and said with a smile: "Meng Qi, you and I are brothers, brothers who live and die together, in the future, remember not to call a certain lord, or to call a certain second brother to listen to the ear, otherwise, military law will be engaged!" ”

Ao Lie's words are equivalent to agreeing to Ma Chao and the three of them to surrender to him. Ma Chao said happily: "Thank you second brother for your love!" Pound and Ma Dai fell to the ground again: "Pound and Ma Dai see the lord!" ”

Ao Lie stretched out his hand and rubbed his forehead, to be honest, until now he is not used to the Eastern Han Dynasty, the etiquette of people kneeling and worshipping, looking at Pang De and Ma Dai who fell to the ground, Ao Lie said helplessly: "Okay, get up, you don't have to abide by etiquette so much in private, everyone is a good brother who lives and dies on the battlefield, and it is boring to pay too much attention to etiquette." ”

Pound and Ma Dai looked at each other and smiled, and stood up as he said. Ao Lie's open-mindedness made them feel that they had indeed found the master.

Glancing at Ma Chao and the others, Ao Lie suddenly lowered his voice and said very mysteriously: "Speaking of which, I came to Nanyang before and found a treasure, which is a treasure left by Emperor Guangwu!" ”

Ma Chao and the three looked at Ao Lie in shock and inexplicably, if it weren't for the fact that the three of them knew Ao Lie very well, they would definitely think that Ao Lie was talking nonsense.

That's right! Ao Lie is not wrong, it's just that the last time he came to Nanyang, it was not in this life, but in a previous life! It was the mysterious armor in the secret treasure of Emperor Guangwu, as well as the Formation Breaking Overlord Spear of the Overlord of Western Chu and the Chixiao Divine Sword of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, who worked together to send themselves to the current world realm, and now, it was time for the Guangwu Secret Treasure to see the light of day again!