Chapter 92: Offense and Defense Change Hands
Tang Yun won the first credit, and it was a great credit for killing Zhang Liang, and it could be regarded as complacent, this credit alone only needed to be operated properly, with the General's Mansion as a backer, and it was enough to fight for the position of the Taishou of Jinan County.
It's not in vain that he fights desperately!
It's just that this time, more than half of the 5,000 soldiers and horses under his command were lost, and only more than 2,000 soldiers and horses remained, which made Tang Yun have to sigh, and he will be a success!
As a traveler who has traveled through many years, he has long been accustomed to the ancient people's disregard for life.
In this late Eastern Han Dynasty, this was the case, people who starved to death abounded, and the world has long been accustomed to it, not to mention that it was on the battlefield known as the life harvesting machine.
Even the generals of the Tang family under Tang Yun, as well as the soldiers who survived the battlefield, did not feel too much, this was their mission, and they had been mentally prepared before going to the battlefield.
All Tang Yun could do was to return to Jinan County and pay more attention to the families of these fallen soldiers.
And the victory of this battle also completely changed the situation in the Jizhou area, between the Han army and the Yellow Turban army.
Zhang Jiao led the remnants of 40,000 or 50,000 troops, shrinking to Guangzong City, and did not dare to go out.
Lu Zhi sent his cavalry troops to clear the territory of Jizhou, especially the remnants of the Yellow Turbans around Guangzong City, in order to achieve a complete encirclement of Guangzong City.
On the other hand, it strictly guards against the attack of the Yellow Turban Army in the Quyang area.
In Quyang City, there is still the Yellow Turban Army of the 'Digong General' Zhang Bao, with a large number of people, who are fighting against the giant deer Taishou Guo Dian.
At the same time, Lu Zhi ordered the requisition of siege equipment, and prepared to capture Guangzong City in one go!
Tang Yun knew that this Guangzong City was not so easy to attack, and there were still forty or fifty thousand soldiers and horses in that horn, and they were all young and middle-aged, and they were all Yellow Turban soldiers with faith.
With the existence of Zhang Jiao, a mobile "faith", leading tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to defend the city, it can still be done.
If it weren't for the fact that Zhang Jiao died of illness around September, the Yellow Turban Rebellion would not have been suppressed in just two months after Zhang Jiao's death.
If Zhang Jiao is not dead, with this Guangzong City as the foundation, and there are the remnants of the Yellow Turban Party in all parts of the world, echoing from afar, it will be difficult to eliminate it in a short period of time.
It is not known even to reach the situation of confrontation between the north and the south and the north and the south with the Han court.
You must know that even after Zhang Jiao's death, although the Yellow Turban Rebellion was suppressed in a short period of time, there were still more remnants of the Yellow Turban Party that were in rebellion in various places.
The Montenegrin Army, which is known as a million, and the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, which is also known as a million, as well as Bai Bo, Huanglong, Zuo Xiao, Qingniujiao, Wulu, Liu Shi, Bai Rao, Si Li, Luo Shi, Yang Feng, Yu Poison, Fuyun, Li Damu, Dahong, etc.
There are tens of thousands of yellow turbans with great influence, and there are six or seven thousand people with small forces, which is simply too many.
Later, there were even Yellow Turban Uprisings again!
It can be seen that the strength of the Yellow Turban Yu Party is great, if Zhang Jiao does not die, although it will not overthrow the Han court, it can still confront the Han court.
It's a pity that Zhang Jiao died too early.
But Zhang Jiao's "credit" is also indelible.
The Yellow Turban Rebellion had a profound impact on the political situation in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
In order to quell the war as soon as possible, the imperial court delegated military power to the localities, so that the wave of the Yellow Turban Rebellion could not quickly spread to the whole country, and alleviated the crisis of the fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
However, it caused the local government to despise the imperial court, so that the ambitious generals or officials, in the process of suppressing the Yellow Turban Uprising, had troops to divide the localities, which opened the prelude to the warlord melee in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and planted a remote cause for the separation of the Three Kingdoms.
Tang Yun is naturally also one of these ambitious generals and officials!
Owning the territory of soldiers and horses and separating one side is exactly what he wants to do at the moment.
As for the next warlord melee, it is naturally a big fist that has the final say, and he has been mentally prepared early.
In the Battle of Jizhou, Lu Zhi defeated the Yellow Turban Army.
On the battlefield on the other side, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun also led the army to break the Yellow Turban.
Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun attacked with fire, and broke the hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban troops of the Yellow Turban Qu Shuai Bocai, which coincided with the arrival of Cao Cao, who came to help, and led the army to arrive, and attacked from both sides, so that Bocai's troops were defeated.
The two news reached the ears of Emperor Han Ling, and immediately made Emperor Ling of Han overjoyed, and ordered to reward the army and inspect the military situation.
Xiaohuangmen Zuofeng took a lot of military supplies and went straight to the Lu Zhi military camp outside Guangzong City.
At this time, Lu Zhi and Tang Yun and other generals were already attacking Guangzong City.
Lu Zhi has ordered to requisition many siege equipment to attack the city on a large scale.
This siege was much more disciplined and powerful than Tang Yun's original attack in Dongpingling County, facing the siege of the Yellow Turban Army.
Outside the south gate of Guangzong Castle, a continuous sound of trumpets sounded, so far away that it resembled a call from hell.
The rows of shield soldiers of the Han army took the lead and rushed towards Guangzong City, followed by more Han troops, as well as siege equipment pushed by the Han army, including ladders, siege towers, nest cars, also known as building cars.
Needless to say, the role of the ladder is to climb the city wall, and the Yellow Turban Army that attacked Dongpingling County at the beginning relied on the ladder to attack the city.
The other two siege equipment, the siege tower and the nest car, were not available to the original Yellow Turban Army.
Among them, the nest car is used to climb high and look far away, observe the enemy situation on the city wall, and has been invented in BC.
In 575 B.C., during the Battle of Yanling, the king of Chu, accompanied by Dazai Bozhou Plough, personally boarded the nest car to inspect the enemy's situation.
Siege towers, on the other hand, are moving towers that allow soldiers to step directly from the platform at the top of the tower to the enemy's walls, or to shoot at archers on the walls.
Tang Yun also came into contact with the siege tower for the first time, but he didn't expect such a siege weapon to appear in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, didn't it mean that it was invented by Europeans?
However, even with the siege tower, which is a siege weapon, and there is a steady stream of Han soldiers, it is still difficult to break through the wall of Guangzong City by climbing the city wall through the ladder.
With the great virtuous teacher Zhang Jiao in charge, the Yellow Turban soldiers on the city wall, even if they experienced a big defeat not long ago, are still extremely firm, which shows Zhang Jiao's personal charm.
Many Yellow Turban soldiers, under the leadership of a famous Yellow Turban general, guarded the walls of the entire city of Guangzong as strong as turtle shells.
The Yellow Turban Army on the city wall and the Han soldiers on the siege tower shot at each other, and there were rolling logs, boulders, etc., and they smashed down as if they didn't want money, and many Han soldiers were hit and fell down screaming.
Occasionally, there were Han soldiers who stepped on the city wall, and soon the Yellow Turban soldiers on the city wall were killed.
As the besieging party, the loss rate of the Han soldiers was extremely high.
Lu Zhi led Tang Yun and other generals to watch from afar, frowning.
There are only 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers and horses left under his command, and if it continues to be consumed like this, I am afraid that before Guangzong City is captured, the soldiers and horses will be consumed!
You can't go on like this!
It was Lu Zhi, facing Guangzong City, which was guarded by Zhang Jiao, but there was no good way.