Zhang Ning is well aware of the predicament that the Yellow Turban Army is facing now.

There were a lot of people who followed the Yellow Turban Uprising, and in the southern region of Shu Kingdom, there were more than 100 million believers and millions of soldiers and horses, but because of this, the armor became a great factor affecting the combat strength of the Yellow Turban Army.

The battle armor bow and crossbow have always been strictly controlled by the Shu State, and the Yellow Turban Army does not have its own territory like Nanban and Yizhou, so it can be armed with soldiers and horses in an open and honest manner.

Although the Yellow Turban Army had been preparing for a long time and secretly built armor, in order to keep it secret and not attract the attention of the Shu State government, it only gathered armor that could arm 30,000 people.

Although after the incident, many states and counties were connected and obtained a lot of weapons and equipment from the Shu army, but the armor was still seriously insufficient, especially the sophisticated iron armor and steel soldiers, which were so few that Zhang Jiao had a headache.

Ordinary soldiers are ordinary people who have never practiced martial arts, and if they are not armed with armor, no matter how many they are, in the eyes of those Shu troops who have undergone formal training and have complete armor, they are just lambs to be slaughtered.

The 500,000 Southern Route Army not only has a large number of generals, but also has a complete range of armor, a powerful army, and a variety of powerful war equipment, such as the Divine Arm Bow, the Sky Train, the Dragon's Tail Giant Crossbow, the Fire Dragon Cannon, the Giant Arm Trebuchet and so on.

With the assistance of these terrible war machines, often a tens of thousands of elite cavalry rushed over, and they could easily destroy several times or even ten times the number of rebel soldiers and horses.

On the side of the Yellow Turban Army, there are at most 300,000 elites equipped with armor, and the number of cavalry barely reaches 20,000.

A soldier with armor and an unarmed soldier are two different things entirely.

If you can get the secret method of steelmaking and the cultivation method of the Golden Bell Jar from the side of the Chu River, the Yellow Turban Army will definitely be able to increase its combat power several times or even ten times in a short period of time, not to mention 500,000 Southern Route Army, even one million Southern Route Army will not be in the eyes of the Yellow Turban Army.

After all, there are hundreds of millions of Yellow Turban believers, and they can constantly recruit new soldiers to replenish their losses, use the crowd offensive to fight against the Shu army, and use the most tragic way to improve the combat effectiveness of the army.

Zhang Ning knew that this task was very important, and without any hesitation, he said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, the disciple will definitely live up to the expectations of Tiangong!"

Zhang Jiao nodded, looked in the direction where Chang Dingjun disappeared, and said coldly: "What Meng Shu can give to Chang Dingjun, my father can also afford it, and even more, now it depends on whether this Chu He understands current affairs!"

Yongchang County, belonging to Yongzhou, is located in the south-central part of the Shu Kingdom, and Yizhou, Yuezhou, and Qizhou, and is called the four states of South and Central.

Yongzhou is one of the several large states in Shu, stretching for thousands of miles, with an incomparably vast area and a population of tens of millions, which is by no means comparable to a border state and county like Qinzhou.

Yizhou, Yuezhou, Qizhou, Yongzhou, the four southern and central counties occupy almost two-thirds of the Tongtian River valley in Shu, and connect with the southern Xinjiang, Qinzhou, and Baozhou of the Southern Barbarian Army, and Yongzhou and Wangzhou occupied by the Yellow Turban Army, echoing each other, forming a 20,000-mile-long front.

The armies of the Southern Barbarian Army, the Yizhou Army, the Yellow Turban Army, and the Yongzhou Army and other wealthy families, totaling more than 5 million, plus countless militia soldiers, relied on the danger of the Tongtian River to block the two million counterinsurgency troops of Shu from the battle line.

If the Southern Route Army of the Shu Army wanted to cross the Tongtian River, the best choice was to pass through Yongzhou.

Yongchang County is the county of Yongzhou, with a population of millions, developed economy, outstanding people, especially the terrain is very dangerous, to the south is Qinzhou and the land of southern Xinjiang, north of Tongtian River, west is ten thousand feet high Nanhua Mountain and endless mountains.

Because of the Tongtian River area in Yongchang County, the water potential is slightly slow, and it is an important position for the Southern Route Army of the Shu Army to cross the river to the south.

Yonghong united with Gao Ding and others to oppose Shu, but they could not pull the king of Yongzhou into the water, so they had to eradicate it by force.

Although the anti-Shu army entered Yongzhou and connected three counties, Wang Yan implemented the strategy of fortifying the wall and clearing the wilderness, and moved a large number of people into Yongchang City, where millions of soldiers and civilians gathered, and the anti-Shu army was extremely tenacious.

The anti-Shu army failed to capture Yongchang City after many attacks, making Yongchang County like a nail firmly nailed to the throat of the Nanban and Yizhou armies.

Yonghong was going to mobilize soldiers and horses before the arrival of the Shu army, ruthlessly take Yongchang City, and pull out this nail, but he didn't expect that the Yongchang army led by Wang Yan and Lu Kai was so tenacious that the resistance was far beyond his estimate, and despite the repeated battles, killing and injuring hundreds of thousands of Yongchang soldiers and civilians, he still couldn't step into Yongchang City!

Although the three troops of Yizhou Yonghong, Yuezhou Gaoding, and Zhubao of Qizhou are extremely strong, with three million soldiers under their command, it is by no means easy to take Yongchang City.

In fact, at this time, Yonghong and others were already remorseful, and when they secretly contacted Wang Ling, they fell for Wang Yan's procrastination, and when the real incident happened, Wang Yan put them together in the three states and resolutely stood on the side of Shu.

It takes a good time for the army of Shu to go south, but it will take a long time for Yonghong and others to find out that Wang Yan is against the water and mobilize soldiers and horses to eradicate the disaster.

To march thousands of miles and capture Yongzhou, it is impossible to do it in a year, Wang Yan and others took advantage of the depth of Yongzhou thousands of miles, fought and retreated, and finally retreated to Yongchang City, it had been more than half a year.

At this time, the soldiers and horses of the three states in the south and central had to send back most of the troops that entered Yongzhou, and deployed in the area of the Tongtian River to strictly prevent the Shu army from going south.

Now there are only 300,000 coalition troops gathered outside Yongchang City, about 100,000 horses and horses left in each state, and 500,000 people who have been temporarily recruited.

On the side of the Yizhou Army, the main general is called He Teng, and after thinking about it, he is the great master of the early stage of the Six-Rank Xuandan, with extremely strong combat effectiveness, and he is also the only Six-Rank Great Power in the Three-State Alliance.

Attacking Yongchang City for three months, but there was not much progress, and He Teng didn't know how many gray hairs there were on his head, making this great grandmaster, who was originally only in his early sixties, look like an eighty-year-old man.

Of course, for the six great powers, Shou Yuan is definitely more than two hundred years old, there is no difference between sixty and eighty, if it can't go further, this age is considered the prime of life when the strength is at its peak, and then down, the combat power will not increase much, and even slowly decrease.

At this time, He Tengzheng summoned Zhao Tao, Zhao Shangyu, the commander of the Yuezhou Army, and Miao and Miao Xiangyun, the commanders of the Yuezhou Army, with a solemn face, to discuss the capture of Yongchang City.

"General Zhao, General Miao, He just received a military report from Yongshuai, the battle situation in Yizhou is unfavorable, tens of thousands of naval troops have been lost one after another, and more than 300 warships have been destroyed, and He is required to speed up, and he must capture Yongchang City within one month and lead the army back to Yizhou!"

He Teng's face looked a little gloomy, his eyes looked at Zhao Tao and Miao He, and then said: "Yongchang County's resistance is extremely tenacious, and we have attacked the city many times to no avail, I don't know if the two generals have a clever plan?"

Zhao Tao and Miao He's faces were also very solemn.

They naturally know the importance of Yongchang County, if the nail of Yongchang County is not pulled out, the three major anti-Shu forces will not be able to completely connect into a front, and they will resist the southbound Shu army without any worries.

Today's Southern Barbarian Army, although facing strong pressure from the Middle Route Army and the Eastern Route Army, still has to leave more than 100,000 strong soldiers stationed at the junction of Southern Xinjiang, Baozhou and Yongzhou.

These hundreds of thousands of troops, since they were in order to prevent the Yongzhou Army from achieving victory, then waved their troops south, cut off the logistics supply line of the Southern Barbarian Army, and attacked the Southern Barbarian Army in conjunction with the Central Route Army and the Eastern Route Army.

Don't look at the Yongzhou army now only has more than 100,000 soldiers and horses left, but once it wins the victory, recovers the lost territory, collects and surrenders the army, and then recruits troops on a large scale in Yongzhou, it can gather more than 300,000 soldiers and horses.

Such a strong army with a hundred battles will definitely be able to set off boundless storms in the rear of the three major anti-Shu forces, not to mention cooperating with the Shu army, that is, only attacking the logistics supply team of the Southern Barbarian Army, it can make millions of Southern Barbarian troops fall into an incomparable panic.

As soon as the Southern Barbarian Army was defeated, the Shu Army could take advantage of the situation to cross the Tongtian River, and the four armies echoed each other, which can be imagined to have a great impact on the current war situation.

Zhao Tao groaned for a moment, and finally said in a deep voice: "We really underestimated Wang Yan. I can't imagine that this Wang Yan is so hidden, in addition to the sword soul and martial arts, he actually has an iron bone martial arts, which can not only improve the morale of the army, but also improve the protective power of the generals, which is equivalent to everyone wearing armor!"

"Although there are no more than 100,000 soldiers in Yongchang City today, and the most 200,000 people are strong, but with the blessing of iron and courage, these 100,000 troops can burst out with extremely terrifying combat power, and 200,000 people can also be transformed into soldiers at any time. ”

Miao He also nodded and said: "Wang Yan is the top 30 powerhouses on the Hidden Dragon List, and he already has extremely terrifying combat power, and Lu Kai is also a six-rank grand master, with a rock and martial courage, the two major commanders can be worth ten thousand troops." ”

"The Yongchang soldiers were inspired by the iron courage of the soldiers, and the soldiers did not retreat, and the Yongchang City was extremely dangerous and majestic, and if you wanted to capture the Yongchang City, I was afraid that you could only fill it with the lives of the soldiers. ”

He Teng waved his hand: "No matter how difficult Yongchang City is, we must all gnaw it down!"

"He has decided to dispatch the flying wing department, cooperate with thirty Pingcheng vehicles, fifty fire dragon cannons, and three days later, launch an all-out attack on Yongchang City!"

Zhao Tao and Miao He were taken aback: "General He, do you really want to use the flying wings?"

The Flying Wing Department is the most powerful force under He Teng's command, although the number is only three thousand, but all of them are armored, especially the most elite five hundred flying wing soldiers, both arms have iron wings as blades, extremely sharp, can be used for a short period of time, if you leap out of the Pingcheng car, you can fly directly into the head of Yongchang City, and Yongchang soldiers face to face!

Needless to say, the power of the fire dragon cannon is definitely the most powerful weapon of war in He Teng's hands, with fierce fire oil as fuel, driven by the power of runes, it can spray hundreds of zhang of flames, and the power is endless.

But if you use the flying wing and fire dragon cannon to directly attack Yongchang City, not to mention whether you can capture the city, the casualties are definitely extremely huge, and the five hundred flying wing army and fifty fire dragon cannons, one-tenth of them are the best plan to stay.

Miao He and Zhao Tao looked at each other, then gritted his teeth and said: "Since General He is willing to use the Flying Wing Department to attack the city, then Miao will definitely fully cooperate with General He, and the three thousand heavenly horse horses can cooperate with the Flying Wing Department to attack Yongchang City, and the thunder stone car that has just been built will also be transferred to the first front!"

Zhao Tao smiled bitterly: "It seems that my two thousand divine archers and two generals will definitely not let go." ”

"However, once the divine archers are dispatched, they have to be protected by General He's giant shield soldiers and General Miao's sickle guards, otherwise the Yongchang Army's sword cavalry will be killed, and Zhao Mou's two thousand divine archers are afraid that not many will survive. ”

They all knew that if they wanted to capture Yongchang City, they could only dispatch the most elite soldiers and horses.

It is difficult for ordinary soldiers to climb the city wall that is 20 zhang high and as high and steep as a cliff under the strict defense of the Yongchang army.

These ordinary generals can play a great role in field warfare, but siege warfare is difficult to achieve.

He Teng laughed: "General Zhao rest assured, He will definitely do his best to ensure the safety of the divine archers." As long as General Zhao's two thousand divine archers help, He's flying wing department and General Miao's heavenly horse cavalry will definitely be able to open up the situation in Yongchang City and capture Yongchang City in one fell swoop!"

Zhao Tao smiled bitterly and said: "I hope so! If this battle is lost, we are afraid that it will be difficult to put pressure on Yongchang City, and the best result can only be to trap the Yongchang army in the city!"

The three-state coalition army was here to discuss the matter of attacking Yongchang City, and Wang Yan and Lu Kai in Yongchang City were even more worried than He Teng and others.

As the state pastor of Yongzhou, the tenacious Yongchang County Taishou duty, the top 30 powerhouses on the Hidden Dragon List, and the great grandmaster of the six-rank Xuandan, Wang Yan's combat effectiveness is naturally unquestionable.

If it was one-on-one, Wang Yan could definitely kill the three main generals He Teng, Miao He, and Zhao Tao under his moon-chasing treasure knife.

The problem is that the army fights is not about individual bravery.

The Yongchang army can now be counted to the point of running out of ammunition and food.

Although he had already transported a large amount of grain, grass and military supplies into Yongchang City before the war, the pressure on food rations was also extremely huge when three million people moved into Yongchang City.

In the face of the successive onslaughts of the three-state coalition army, the three million people in Yongchang City, hundreds of thousands of young and strong, now only two million Dingkou remained, and the number of young and strong did not exceed 400,000.

Even if the three-state coalition army was forced to transfer most of its troops under the pressure of the southbound Shu army, leaving only 300,000 soldiers and horses, the Yongchang army can be said to have been completely disabled, and now the soldiers defending the city, many of them are only twelve years old!

Under Wang Yan's strong agents, men from sixty to twelve all need to go to the head of the city to fight fiercely against the rebels, but these people can be rotated every three days, unlike the real Yongchang soldiers, who can only take turns every other day to resist the attack of the three-state coalition army.

There is a shortage of soldiers and horses, countless wounded soldiers, millions of women, children and the elderly, hundreds of thousands of young and strong soldiers and horses, and the daily consumption of rice and grain is an astronomical amount.