Liu Qi looked up at the red sun overhead, and in the cold winter, the sun was the most warm for everyone.

But for some reason, the weather was exceptionally cold after the beginning of winter this year.

Since traveling from Lu County that day, I have seen many people freezing to death on the roadside. In this era, ordinary cotton has not yet been introduced, it is even the head of the Qianshou family, and clothes are even more valuable.

As for the dead on the battlefield, it is even more common for their clothes to be stripped clean.

Food and clothing are the most basic guarantee of life, and they are also the most scarce things.

Witnessing the countless people who have suffered so much, Liu Qi remembered what he said yesterday with the Taishou Wang Capital of Jinan, as well as the countless victims in Jinan County who were in urgent need of treatment due to the war.

The road ahead is difficult, and even if it is difficult, he must continue to walk with determination.

For the sake of the whole Han, those Han people who work hard to live!

We have to keep moving forward......

Of course, there is another urgent problem in front of us, that is, to find a way to solve the Linzi City, which is surrounded by more than 100,000 Yellow Turban troops. He had already sent a letter to Sun Guan overnight the night before, and he was transferred to Linzi to assist in the military affairs.

At this time, it was already past the time of eating, due to the critical situation, after meeting with Zhao Yun, Liu Qi ordered the whole army to leave Changguo and continue to advance in the direction of Linzi, so as to respond with Sun Guan and Xiahou Lan's troops, temporarily relieve the danger of Linzi, and stabilize the rear, so as to block the footsteps of the Taishan Yellow Turban Army to the north. After that, he was able to rescue Donglai County and pacify Beihai Kingdom.

But thinking that he would face 100,000 Yellow Turban troops, although most of them were homeless inside, they were also terrified.

This time, the department gathered under Liu Qi's account is only 30,000 people, and counting the thousands of people that Sun Guan can come to help from Le'an, he will have to face twice as many enemies!

It is true that the situation is even more serious than Liu Qi and Xun You expected.

At noon that day, there were still more than 20 miles away from Linzi, and I just received a letter from Sun Guan. The scouts who explored before came the news that Linzi City was falling into chaos, and the city seemed to be about to be broken.

At the time of Dongpingling, Wang Lian and Liu Qi of Jinan County said that since the Yellow Turban Army went north from Beihai Kingdom and Taishan County, there should be 30,000 or 40,000 people fleeing in Linzi City. Once the city is broken, the people will become lambs to the slaughter.

Liu Qi quickly consulted with Xun You, Zhao Yun and others, and for Xiahou Lan and Sun Guan, they went to the urgent mail, and their headquarters accelerated and went to the direction of Linzi City. At the same time, Zhao Yun led the 500 cavalry department and went first with the Daxu banner.

These twenty miles of road seem so long to the eyes of all people.

Linzi City.

From morning to now, a full three hours have passed, and the battle at the northern gate continues.

The state and county officials inside, or the generals guarding the city, as well as the people, all knew that once this place was occupied by the Yellow Turban Army, the great harm of Linzi City being broken was that in addition to the soldiers, countless men rushed forward with weapons in their hands.

At this time, the entire city gate was blocked by countless corpses. Even Guan He, the general of the Yellow Turban Army outside the city, didn't expect the people of Linzi to be so stubborn.

In terms of the reason, in the turmoil of the Yellow Turban Army in the past year, many people lost the teachings of the Taiping Tao and killed innocents indiscriminately. As a result, in this turmoil, except for the homeless people who have no livelihood to join, most ordinary people are not as enthusiastic as when the Tiangong General opened his horn and waved his big arm.

But in Qingzhou, although there was a previous turmoil, coupled with the escape from the famine, the population was still no less than three million registered by the government, and the people among them, but among ten people, one person joined the Yellow Turban Army, and they could have hundreds of thousands of people, not to mention Yanzhou, which had a larger population, and there was a big chaos.

Looking at the situation ahead, the joy of opening the gate of Linzi in the morning gradually disappeared from Guan He's face.

Based on this, when the north gate continued to drive the displaced people to rush inward to kill, Guan He quickly commanded the rest of the troops to take the opportunity to attack the city gate in other directions.

The intensified offensive of the Yellow Turban Army put Linzi City in difficulty on all sides. The county Cheng Ma Ji even held a long sword, and patrolled the city with the important officials of the county government, constantly killing the rebels who climbed up.

But it can be seen with the naked eye that there are fewer and fewer Han troops defending the city, and there are fewer and fewer people who can still stand. Morale is getting weaker and weaker, and everyone can see that in the absence of foreign aid, Linzi will be difficult to hold in the end, and the city will be broken only in the morning and night.

Seeing that Dongcheng was also in crisis, the rebels kept climbing up, and everyone was desperate, someone suddenly saw a huge black flag appear behind the rebels outside the city.

Outside of the Ukrainian rebels, this flag is very eye-catching.

"It's reinforcements coming!"

Suddenly, someone shouted.

Gradually, the cheers grew louder and louder.

The soldiers, who were difficult to persevere, heard the sound of reinforcements, just like travelers walking in the desert who were short of water, found a water source, and waved their weak arms again.

After hearing the news, the people in the city tried their best to carry stones, wood, and other things to the city. Even the crisis of Fangcai, at this moment, there is also relief.

However, for the Yellow Turban Army, the offensive situation, after seeing the harassment of cavalry behind them, was only a little slow, in order to manage and judge that this was the vanguard of the Han army, before knowing the details of the Han army, in order to take Linzi City, its people ordered the troops to attack, more intense.

If there is a retreater, kill it!

Nearby, Zhao Yun saw the situation here, and had already led five hundred cavalry to charge into the array of ten thousand troops, in order to relieve the pressure on the troops defending the city.

The spear in his hand did not stop waving as soon as the charge began. The hair of the white horse and his cheeks were stained with blood, and he didn't realize it at all.

At this moment, he had only one thought in his heart, to break up the attacking rebels and win the opportunity for the arrival of Liu Qizhi, the ruler of the palace.

"Kill!"

A few miles away, most of the men and horses of the rapid march could already hear the shouts of killing in the distance. And I saw the dark city wall up and down, densely packed with human figures. Some people saw such a scene for the first time, and they shivered faintly.

Liu Qi, who was riding on a horse, looked at the battlefield in front of him, and discussed the situation with Xun You, Wei Zhen and others.

Then, under his orders, the army quickly gathered together, divided into three routes, mainly in the middle, and slaughtered in the direction of the most dangerous northern city that the scouts had explored. Liu Qi himself, also led his generals to the front, thinking that the soldiers would boost their morale. The other two sides are to thwart the invading enemy on both sides.

At this time, at the north gate of the city, the rebels had already moved along the avenue and were fighting in the streets with the people in the city.

When they heard the killing shouts from behind, the rebels in the melee could not retreat, and had only one thought, that is, to kill the person in front of them. The inner part of the city struggled to resist and kept retreating from the enemy.

At the same time, Liu Qi himself led the men and horses in the middle of the rush to kill, and after the formation of the rebels in the Great Rebellion, they cooperated together again and slowly advanced forward.

With the men and horses in his hands, it is impossible to break the enemy in front of him with a battle. All he can do is to win a chance for the city to retake the most dangerous of the north gates.