Huang County, Donglai County

As the county town of Dongnae-gun, the county city wall stands tall and magnificent in the afterglow of the setting sun. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The height of the solid stone city walls such as bluestone has exceeded two zhang and two zhang, and with many defensive measures such as oil pots, rolling stones, and sassal wood, as well as the county soldiers and people who defend the city, the old and weak Yellow Turban Army who have just rushed up again to charge in the form of ants attacking the city are defeated again, in addition to leaving hundreds of corpses and seriously wounded to flee in confusion, the casualties caused to the defenders are negligible.

In the era of cold weapons, playing the siege city is a difficult task with both technology and difficulty!

Especially if there are defenders in the city who have a good will to fight, and the spies planted in the city have no chance to open the city gates, it is definitely not an easy thing to attack the city - this point, now under the city walls of the county city, those thousands of corpses are absolutely conclusive evidence!

The county soldiers and village warriors on the city wall of the county town saw the old and weak Yellow Turban soldiers carrying dirt bags, ladders and other things retreating, but only some people cheered a few times, and then began to continue to guard the city wall.

After all, the experience of defeating the enemy's attack is nothing, let alone those old and weak!

What really made everyone feel like a great enemy was about seven or eight miles away from the county city wall, surrounded by fences, trenches, wooden horses and other defensive facilities, and then it contained a more regular military tent, and many less formal tents, and even a lot of dilapidated dwellings, with a total number of more than tens of thousands of Yellow Turban Army camps!

Now, seeing the failure of the group of old and weak people in the ant-attached siege city, a military general in front of the Yellow Turban Army camp gave a loud order, and a thousand regular Yellow Turban soldiers slowly dispersed, gathered the remaining old and weak and returned to the camp.

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"My lord, the thieves launched another attack today, and they were just repelled by us!"

On a gate tower in the county town, a tooth keeper wearing armor and a cloak respectfully explained to several people in official uniforms around him, especially the old man in official robes.

"It was indeed repulsed!"

"It seems that the thief army also has no way to defend the county town......"

Hearing the words of the tooth keeper, several county officials wearing official uniforms were all whispering and discussing, and their words were full of music.

However, the words of several officials were inconsistent, but they all covered their noses with their sleeves, looking at the ground covered with corpses under the city wall, and the special smell of fermentation for more than ten days, and their brows were furrowed - even if they sprinkled lime on the outside to prevent those corpses from decomposing and causing the plague, the Yellow Turban Army also collected the corpses every few days, but there were still a lot of corpses that had not been processed, and the smell made people feel uncomfortable when they smelled it!

Compared with several county officials, the middle-aged official whose hair had begun to turn gray looked even more bitter, looked at the Yellow Turban Army camp surrounding the county outside, and asked directly to the tooth general, "What about Qin Duwei's people?"

"My lord, the lieutenant's injuries are said to be ...... yet."

Hearing the words of the county keeper, the tooth keeper's face became a little strange, and he lowered his head and said.

In fact, not only the tooth goalkeeper, but also the county guard who asked, all the people in the know had a strange look, and some even had a trace of disdain in their eyes!

As for the reason?

Well, the Qin Duwei, who served as the supreme commander of the county soldiers of Donglai County, performed a loss.

A month ago, just after hearing the news of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, this Qin Duwei, who was born in a family in Donglai County, was still unimpressed, and even swaggered at a mansion banquet, declaring to many guests in the county that if he encountered any Yellow Turban rebels, he would definitely lead troops to arrest all those Yellow Turban thieves, and then add officials to Jue Yunyun's words.

However, when the impact of the Yellow Turban Rebellion was really involved in Donglai County, Qin Duwei led the county soldiers to fight in Xingchong, and was almost destroyed by the fanatical Yellow Turban Warriors and the Yellow Turban Army in the first battle. If it weren't for the rescue of the guards around him, it is estimated that this "famous general" Qin Duwei would directly become the record of the Yellow Turban Army!

Even so, the county soldiers under this Qin Duwei also lost more than forty percent, and the remaining three thousand county soldiers who set off were less than two thousand, and he gathered the remnants of the soldiers and returned to the county town in disgrace, directly because he was "seriously injured and unable to govern", so he didn't care about the county soldiers at all, and now he is a reliable Sima from another department to lead the troops.

In the face of the fact that the losses of the county soldiers were not small and the morale was also very low, the ability of the later Sima of other departments was not enough to conjure up qualified soldiers at once, so he could only reorganize the county soldiers on the one hand, and on the other hand, he asked the county guards and the big households in the city to provide the maximum amount of food and grass, and the young and strong, trying to organize the army as quickly as possible.

As a result, the Yellow Turban Army directly coerced tens of thousands of people to attack the city within a few days, if it weren't for the county guards in the county town who were strong enough, and the vast majority of the big families in the city understood the matter (or the Yellow Turban Army's names that joined the Yellow Turban thieves who burned and plundered all the way, and helped the county guards a lot), they endured the pain and bloodletting to increase the defensive strength of the county, and with the help of the tall city walls of the county and the perfect city defense, the Yellow Turban Army's offensive was restrained, and now the two sides are caught in a war of attrition, It depends on whether the Yellow Turban Army conquered the county town first, or whether the county town received reinforcements to relieve the siege.

Now, when the county guard heard the news that Qin Duwei was still injured and didn't even go to the city wall, he couldn't help but shake his head helplessly.

[Hey, I hope that the multi-way messengers sent out can allow the reinforcements outside to contain the attack of the Yellow Turban Thieves!] 】

The county guard was speechless in his heart, raised his head and looked at the Yellow Turban Army camp that was not weakly guarded, and could only shake his head and smile bitterly.

Although this county guard thinks that he belongs to the posture of a Chinese, he is also a well-informed old man, and now the siege situation faced by the county town, he at least understands that he cannot let the Yellow Turban Army smoothly besiege the city, and the many teams of messengers sent out one after another are all spreading to other counties, and even do not hesitate to make a lot of promises, so that the counties can disrupt the offensive launched by the Yellow Turban Army!

As for how effective this strategy is......

This, the county guard, who has never commanded a large number of troops to fight, really has no confidence in his heart, and can only rely on the county soldier Sima who is from the army, at least to be able to hold the county town, which is the bottom line that the county guard must achieve!

Thinking about the grim situation he was facing, the county guard looked at the situation of the Yellow Turban Army camp outside the county town, and talked a few words with the other Sima who arrived, promising rewards and various supplies, and then walked down the city wall with some fatigue, and went back to rest with several other subordinate officials of the county town.

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Compared with the heavily guarded county town, the Yellow Turban Army camp is very lively.

In the huge camp, there is barely a passable camp, but the military discipline of the Yellow Turban Army obviously can't be expected too much, those old and weak and coerced Yellow Turbans don't mention it first, just the many Yellow Turban thieves who joined are not stoppable guys, and even the Yellow Turban Thieves openly kidnapped women to have fun in the camp, and the lively scene made people speechless.

At least, compared to the noisy Yellow Turban Bandit camp, in the much quieter Yellow Turban Army headquarters camp, many Yellow Turban Army looked at the camp of those Yellow Turban Bandits with unswerving faces, and some even had a faint trace of envy in their eyes!

That's right! It's envy!

After all, people are creatures who do not suffer from widowhood but unevenness, and when they all eat bran vegetables, there are probably no people who have envy and jealousy.

However, now for the Yellow Turban Army who are playing with their heads, they certainly believe in the ideals put forward by the great sage and good teacher Zhang Jiao, and they have caught up with the Eastern Han Dynasty, which is about to rot to the roots, and after the Yellow Turban Army has been preparing for more than ten years to erect a counter-flag, there is a huge idea, but it does not mean that the Yellow Turban Army is all crazy believers!

Looking at the camp, the Yellow Turban thieves who burned and plundered with a yellow scarf were living a very chic life, and the Yellow Turban Army, who were desperate for the belief in Taiping Dao, of course felt a little psychologically unbalanced......

As the general of the Yellow Turban Army besieging the county, Bian Xi certainly would not pay attention to the thoughts of the people below, but he did not have the time to educate the Yellow Turban Army now, and as soon as he got off the horse, he saw several sacrificial wine and subordinates waiting in front of the camp.

"General!"

"The general is back!"

Seeing Bian Xi who led the team back to the camp, several generals and sacrificial wine greeted him respectfully, and embraced Bian Xi into the camp tent.

When he entered the tent of the Chinese military camp of the Han army, Bian Xi, who looked a little short but cunning, sat in the center, while motioning to the guards around him to pour a few bowls of water, and then asked a few generals and sacrificial wine who were sitting down, "Is there anything going on in the camp?" Or is it some other piece of news?"

"General, the partial division led by Yu Xijiu only came once three days ago, conquering several villages and towns!"

A general in charge of external information got up and said respectfully to Bian Xi, who was the commander-in-chief, and then looked at his colleagues around him with a sad face, and then whispered: "Mainly in the camp, those old and weak people who gathered found that they were going to the county town to die from time to time, and from time to time there was some noise. And the thieves who took refuge, brethren......"

"Humph! That's a bunch of guys who don't do enough to do and more to lose!"

Hearing this, Bian Xi also understood the unspoken words and meanings of the generals, with a trace of cruelty on his face, and directly instructed several waiting generals and sacrificial wines:

"Those who are old and weak, directly pick out some moats that are going to fill the county seat tomorrow, just to save a little food!

As for those thieves who took refuge, aren't they living quite comfortably these days? If you dare to say that you are a member of the Yellow Turban Army, then let them contribute to the cause of the great sage and good teacher now, if there is a guy who dares not to obey, directly let the wrestler lead the team to suppress, kill a few leaders and tell them what the military order is!"

Bian Xi's strategy is ruthless and abnormal, and he doesn't take those old and weak people and the bandits and bandits who take refuge seriously!

The famous saying "mercy is not in charge of the army" fully illustrates that one of the qualities that generals must have, is to be cruel enough (whether it is to the enemy or to themselves), Bian Xi has absolutely no good arrangement for the old and weak who are coerced, as well as those bandits and bandits, and the ants are attached to the siege of the city.

However, for those generals and sacrificial wines, except for a few people who had unbearable thoughts, no one objected to them in person, except for the occasional supplementary opinion, but they all acquiesced to Bian Xi's order.