Chapter 64: Burning the county seat

After learning that the Suzaku army had fought Linyi Mountain, the Yellow Turban Army's reaction speed was also quite fast, Zhang Niujiao and Zhang Mancheng each led a million troops to Linyi Mountain.

Zhang Baobu of Da'an Mansion and Zhang Liang of Datong Mansion are all ready to move, and a biggest decisive battle is coming.

At first, Zhang Niujiao was also for the sake of prudence, and first sent his subordinate general Lei Gong to explore the road with 100,000 soldiers and horses.

Before they came, Yuan Yang had already arranged for someone to arrange the county town, and when Lei Gong brought people over, all he saw was the ruined city wall, and hundreds of old and weak soldiers on the city wall.

And Yuan Yang did not hesitate to throw out 3,000 soldiers as bait, pretending to carry resources in the county.

This kind of scene arranged by Yuan Yang in advance deliberately made the Yellow Turban Army think that Suzaku's attack this time was just to loot the city, and it was not a real attack.

Lei Gong, who was relieved, directly sent a large army into the city and wiped out the thousands of Suzaku troops in the city, and then Lei Gong reported to Zhang Niujiao how he captured the county town with 300,000 Suzaku troops with 100,000 soldiers and horses.

Lei Gong has always been very happy, and when he repays his merits, he always reports as much as possible, as his old boss, Zhang Niujiao also turns a blind eye to his behavior.

After all, he is a fierce general under his command, who doesn't have a little problem.

With Lei Gong's report, Zhang Niujiao didn't think too much about it, and led the follow-up troops to Linyi Mountain.

When it was dark, Zhang Niujiao was late with a large army, and Lei Gong, who was already waiting impatiently, complained a little, "I said Dashuai, why did you come, but let me wait for Lao Lei." ”

"Haha, Lao Lei did a good job this time, and after chasing and suppressing this Suzaku army, this marshal will personally go to the Heavenly Master to ask for credit for you."

Lei Gong's original small eyes had already turned into a slit of laughter after hearing that Zhang Niujiao was going to ask for merit for him, and he arched his hand at Zhang Niujiao and said, "Thank you Dashuai, thank you Dashuai." ”

"Okay, let's go into the city and talk about it, this hell weather freezes me to death." Zhang Niujiao tightened his coat and said.

"Okay, okay, handsome, please."

Lei Gong held a banquet in the county hall in the city to entertain a group of colleagues from Zhang Niujiao's department, and dozens of people pushed cups and changed lamps at the dinner table, which was very lively.

The Yellow Turban army in the city also relaxed their vigilance a little, this winter, it was still night, who was especially sick and came to steal the city.

In some places in the city that the Yellow Turban Army did not notice, groups of black-clothed men flashed out from all corners, each holding two flints and steely long knives.

The group of black-clothed people purposefully dispersed around the county seat, and some of the originally locked gates and courtyards were opened by the black-clothed people with keys, and the courtyards were all packed with stacks of firewood.

Not only the residential buildings, but also some of the stalls on the street are full of firewood.

Half an hour later, all the men in black had already arrived at the pre-agreed position and were on standby, just waiting for the leader to give the order.

Outside the county seat, the 100,000 Vermilion Bird Death Squad, led by Ma Wei, had arrived at a position less than 800 meters away from the county seat under the cover of night.

All the red-coated cannons in the Suzaku army were pulled over by the horse, and after checking the time, the horse waved his hand, and more than a dozen cannons opened fire at the same time.

The already dilapidated city wall was already crumbling after a burst of artillery fire, and dozens of Yellow Turban soldiers at the city gate were also swallowed by artillery fire, leaving no trace.

The huge sound of artillery attracted the attention of the Yellow Turban Army in the city, at this time in the county hall, dozens of Yellow Turban Army generals had already drunk away from the crooked, drunk and fell on the dinner table, only Zhang Niujiao remained awake, after hearing the sound of cannons, Zhang Niujiao reacted immediately, directly pulled out his sword, kicked over the dining table and shouted, "Enemy attack!" Wake up Lao Tzu! ”

Many drunken Yellow Turban Army generals fell asleep again after snorting in a daze, and were directly ordered by the angry Zhang Niujiao to dig a large bucket of chilled well water from the well water and splash it at some generals who were still asleep.

The generals of the Yellow Turban Army who were splashed up were a little drunk, but they just looked at Zhang Niujiao, thinking in their hearts, how can they have a good banquet, why is the big man so angry?

The sound of the cannon just now was not only to bombard the city walls, but also to send a signal to the black-clothed people in the city.

The black-clothed men who received the signal started to act at the same time, and suddenly a fire broke out from the city.

Countless soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army who were still resting were ruthlessly killed by the fire, and "fire men" with burning bodies can be seen everywhere on the street.

"Not good! Enemy attack! The screams of the soldiers brought back the thoughts of the Yellow Turban Army generals.

After sobering up, the generals hurriedly returned to their own homes and reorganized their troops and horses to extinguish the fire, but the Suzaku army outside the city did not give them time to extinguish the fire, and as early as when the fire in the city was burning, the horses rushed over with the Suzaku troops.

"Kill! Come on! ”

The familiar sound of fighting sounded inside and outside the county, and the Suzaku army basically did not encounter any decent obstruction at the city gate, until the Suzaku army killed outside the barracks, and encountered the interception of a large force of the Yellow Turban Army.

The horse took the lead in dancing with two knives, even chopping and slashing, and the Yellow Turban Army retreated step by step, and every time the Yellow Turban Army retreated, the Vermilion Bird Army pushed one step upward, and gradually half of the military camp was taken down by the Vermilion Bird Army.

At this time, Zhang Niujiao's generals Zhang Ba and Si Li arrived with the army, and the two joined forces to stop the horse, as a first-class peak general, Ma Ji's strength is not comparable to the two second-rate generals.

After two or three rounds, Ma found a gap and slashed down Zhangba, and then returned with a knife to cut Si Lilian's weapon into two sections.

If it is replaced by the peak of the two, it will take dozens of rounds for the horse to win the two, but the two of them have just woken up drunk, and their hands are sore, and it is difficult to even fight a small soldier, let alone fight against the horse, which basically belongs to the type of sending people to the head for thousands of miles.

After cutting down the two generals of the Yellow Turban, the Suzaku Brigade outside the city was killed, millions of people and horses were fighting in the county, and the raging fire blew to the center of the city with the help of the wind, and the burning flames illuminated the entire county.

Under Yuan Yang's order, the soldiers of the Vermilion Bird Army each covered their noses with wet towels to avoid smoke and dust on their brains and causing people to fall into a coma, while the Yellow Turban Army was not so lucky, an army of millions, a fire burned hundreds of thousands of people, and hundreds of thousands of people died in the chaos of the army.

Anyway, this battle was fought from night to day, and it was not over after a whole night, the tenacity of the Yellow Turban Army was beyond the imagination of Yuan Yang and others, even if more than half of the personnel were lost, the Yellow Turban Army still fought against the Suzaku Army with the county hall as the boundary.