Chapter 262: The End of Guangzong (Part II)
Although the Yellow Turban Army lost the advantage of the camp and a large number of defensive weapons were destroyed, they broke out with incredible combat effectiveness in a desperate situation. In a small rocky area, the two sides fought from morning to sunset, and the ruins of collapsed buildings, which were originally only rubble and collapsed buildings, were covered with a thick layer of corpses by the time the troops were collected, which shows the fierceness of today's duel.
Although thousands of catapults destroyed the fortifications of the Yellow Turban camp, the rocks left on the ground became an obstacle to the advance of the imperial army.
Zhang Liang took advantage of the fact that the Yellow Turban Army had no way to retreat, as well as the news of Zhang Jiao's death, and successfully aroused the fighting spirit of the Yellow Turban Army, and repelled the attacks organized by Huangfu Song several times in the tragic hand-to-hand combat. Moreover, the Yellow Turban Army still has an advantage here, Zhang Liang has more than 10,000 high-level Yellow Turban wharves available, including three thousand eighth-order high-level Yellow Turban wrestlers, plus the remaining sixth-order Yellow Turban elites, the imperial army did not have enough high-level soldiers to compete with the Yellow Turban wrestlers for a while. The Yulin Army of the Imperial Court Army and the Han Forbidden Army suffered huge casualties in the last battle, and Huangfu Song did not dare to fight the family of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, so he could only silently suffer this dark loss.
Fortunately, Lu Shuang's Flying City Legion pinned down some of the Yellow Turban Warriors, and once pushed the battle line to the edge of the rocky area, seeing that it could spread out a formation on the flat ground and give full play to the advantages of high-level soldiers, as a result, Zhang Liang called a ballista and a catapult to project at the position of the Flying City Legion without distinction between enemy and me. Seeing that the situation was not good, Lu Shuang ordered the Flying City Legion to withdraw from the battlefield.
After the last war, Zhang Liang suddenly matured a lot, and sat in the Chinese army to command the Yellow Turban Army to fight, and no longer personally took the lead as before. Zhang Liang is not stupid, he knows that there are several generals in Feitian City whose strength is not weaker than him, and he has also personally learned the terrifying strength of a military general with a double halberd, if he leads his troops to appear on the front line, the most likely situation is to be besieged by several generals of Feitian City, and he will die on the battlefield at the lightest, or be taken back to the capital by a prisoner to be tortured to death.
To tell the truth, Lu Shuang did have a plan for the beheading operation, but he failed to lure Zhang Liang out, but was resisted like a jade stone, and finally withdrew his troops from the battlefield.
The first day of the assault ended with the retreat of the imperial army, but the Yellow Turban Army also paid a great price, dying from the bombing of catapults and the number of casualties in hand-to-hand combat in the rocky area was almost the same as that of the imperial army.
The imperial court camp was not having a good time here, and so many catapults were prepared, but they failed to capture the Yellow Turban camp in one go, but were defeated by Zhang Liang's Yellow Turban Army in a small ** counterattack, which dealt a big blow to the morale of the imperial court camp.
Lu Shuang's Flying City Legion only sent a part to participate in the battle that day, and the other part was on standby at any time as a reserved backhand force, so in terms of the state of the soldiers, the Flying Sky City Legion could be put into battle for several days in a row. However, as the initiator of the active attack, even Lu Shuang did not recommend continuing the attack this time, if the imperial army spent too many troops on Zhang Liang, the remaining Zhang Bao would be difficult to deal with. Moreover, according to the historical trend, after the first attack was frustrated, Huangfu Song would show the enemy weakness, and wait for Zhang Liang and the Yellow Turban Army led by him to relax and then attack in one fell swoop, kill Zhang Liang and exterminate the remaining Yellow Turban Army.
However, Huang Fu Song's reaction was beyond everyone's expectations, even though the vast majority of the player forces opposed the attack and advocated closing the camp to recuperate, Huang Fu Song also overrode public opinion and ordered to continue the attack on the Yellow Turban Camp the next day.
The player forces that can participate in the meeting are all well-known player guilds, although they also know that there is no affiliation between players and NPCs, at least in the Yellow Turban Rebellion, but they are not like Lu Shuang, who has already made a lot of money, and they still have to look at the face of Huangfu Song, the great general.
The next day's assault was still ineffective, and although the Yellow Turban camp was launched in an orderly manner under the command of Huangfu Song, the morale of the Yellow Turban Army was significantly higher. The Yellow Turban Lux lost more than 3,000 people in this day's battle, and after two days of fighting, there were only less than 5,000 of the 10,000 or so Yellow Turban Lux left, but fortunately, Zhang Liang still led the Yellow Turban Lux to defend it with difficulty. The court camp also suffered heavy casualties, and after three battles, players generally dropped two to three levels, and no matter how thick the player force was, he couldn't afford to suffer such a toss.
Huangfu Song did not embarrass these player forces anymore, and after recording all their losses, he led the NPC army to attack the Yellow Turban Camp again on the third day. At this time, the Yellow Turban camp was almost half scrapped, Zhang Liang ordered his subordinates to repair it day and night, after learning the news that the imperial army was attacking again, Zhang Liang did not close his eyes much in the past three days, and had to face a big black circle, and called the Yellow Turban Army who could fall asleep lying on the ground to set off. This is a contest of life and death, but also a contest of will, as long as every Yellow Turban Army relaxes, they may die under the butcher's knife of the imperial army.
However, it seems to be the reason that the army led by Huangfu Song himself looks energetic and majestic, but if you look closely at the whole army, these are the Yulin Army or the Han Forbidden Army that have not yet fought, as well as some elite soldiers. On the other hand, the ordinary soldiers and player soldiers in several other formations did not have the majestic morale of the previous days, and this subtle change was keenly observed by Zhang Liang, who continued to command the Yellow Turban Army to fight back strongly, showing a fearless momentum.
Seeing that the morale of the Yellow Turban Army was still there, Huangfu Song was no longer iron-headed, and after sending several troops to test the Yellow Turban Army, he ordered the whole army to retreat in an orderly manner and close the camp for a few days. Zhang Liang was afraid that the imperial army would be deceitful, and did not dare to lead the army to chase deeply, and only after the scout came back and said that the imperial army had withdrawn from Baili, Zhang Liang dared to retreat to the Yellow Turban camp.
After several days passed, the imperial army was huddled in the large camp, and at first the Yellow Turban army did not dare to provoke them after they had eaten and slept enough, and only sent some cavalry to test outside the imperial camp. Later, Zhang Liang personally led the army to provoke in front of the imperial court camp, wanting to lead the imperial army to the ambush site and then annihilate it in one fell swoop. Who knew that Huangfu Song seemed to have suddenly changed his personality, attacking a few days ago regardless of casualties, but now he suddenly turned into a turtle with a shrunken head, and he didn't care how Zhang Liang provoked.
However, provocation is provocation, Zhang Liang has grown a lot in this short period of time, and he led the army out to provoke the imperial army, all of which were premeditated actions. However, the imperial army has not moved, and Zhang Liang also wonders if Huangfu Song was frightened by them.
This kind of thinking even began to spread in the army, and after the Yellow Turban Army completed the repair of the Yellow Turban camp and replenished the necessities of life and combat, the Yellow Turban Army at the bottom and some Yellow Turban officers at the middle level gradually became slack. Although Zhang Liang was very unhappy to see this behavior, considering that most of the NPCs who participated in the Yellow Turban Uprising were peasants or evil teenagers in the township, and their education level was not high, and their true nature would be exposed after they lost the pressure of survival, Zhang Liang did not pursue anything.
This situation lasted for several days, and Zhang Liang estimated that the reinforcements from Quzhou City were about to arrive at the Guangzong battlefield, and planned to give a pre-war speech the next day, which would boost morale and at the same time make this group of Yellow Turban troops cheer up and stop slackening.
However, Zhang Liang, who was looking at the sword with a lamp, didn't know that the victory of the three major battles and the retreat of the imperial army made ordinary Yellow Turban soldiers proud. The Yellow Turban Army repaired the camp under the command of Zhang Liang, but the internal defense was negligent, and when a force of only more than 100 people quietly entered the Yellow Turban camp under the guise of the Yellow Turban Army transporting grain and grass, no one questioned it.
In the early morning of the next day, the imperial army launched a night attack on the Yellow Turban camp, but Liao Liao's thousands of people broke through the defense line of the Yellow Turban Army and rushed into the Yellow Turban camp to slaughter everywhere. The panicked Yellow Turban Army could not resist this elite division, and in the end, Zhang Liang personally commanded the Yellow Turban Army to fight, and he was the only one in the army who had the prestige and strength to lead the Yellow Turban Army to fight.
But the most feared opponent often comes not from the front, but from the assassin who hides behind him, waiting for the moment to relax, he will reveal a sharp dagger and stab at the weakest part.
After Zhang Liang appeared and revealed his location, a ghostly assassin had quietly approached, even if there were two thousand Yellow Turban wrestlers guarding him, even if the assassin was stopped and questioned from five hundred meters away, but no one underestimated the decision and strength of the assassins. Half of the assassination team composed of the Danyang Qingbing of the Ninth Order and the Second Rank of the Danyang Qing Soldiers, as well as the king-level generals and army commanders, launched an attack more than 500 meters away from Zhang Liang, and the other half waited for Zhang Liang to retreat in the other direction.
In the past, Zhang Liang was always hiding in the Chinese army, and any assassination would be discovered by the guards and shot back with arrows, but this time it was different, the Danyang green soldiers appeared within a range of about one mile, plus tonight was dark and windy, the noise around was too loud, and most of them were attracted by the invaders. In this operation, Lu Shuang sent all the high-end forces, and when the front army of the Yellow Turban Army suddenly noticed the changes in the Chinese army, Zhang Liang, the general of Rengong, had already been killed by several generals in his camp.
For a time, the Yellow Turban Army, which had lost its backbone, was in chaos, and was attacked by the enemy's front and back, and there were countless people who fled and stampeded in confusion. What is even more desperate is that Huangfu Song also sent his Yulin Army and the Han Forbidden Army, and countless Yellow Turban troops were chased by the imperial army to the Qinghe River east of Guangzong, and the drowning dead were covered with corpses all over the Qinghe River. At this point, the battle of Gwangjong finally came to an end. 2k reading web