The victory or defeat of the first battle of Xingyang is related to the world, and somehow, it is Zhang Dan's department that was originally stationed in Fengqiu that has become the key to this battle.

Where is Zhang Danbu at this time?

Its department is in the Yan's small town, which is less than 20 miles away from Xingyang.

This city is not very well-known in history, but it is the place where the water and the chasm meet, and it can be said that as long as this city is lost, the water network that transmits half of the world to Xingyang will be paralyzed.

In history, Qin Shi Huang launched a military operation to deter the Six Kingdoms in the Changyu Rebellion, which was to attack and occupy the Yan clan of Wei. This battle was fought by the eastern princes for several years, buying time for Qin Shi Huang to integrate the interior.

And Zhang Dan will lead an army of 4,000 to be stationed here.

It is said that since July, Zhang Chong led the main force of the Taishan Army to the south with 4,000 soldiers and horses, and Zhang Dan stayed in Fengqiu to recruit rebels and train soldiers and horses. Now, in addition to the original 2,000 troops, 1,000 troops have been collected and surrendered, and 1,000 people are near Nafengqiu.

Fengqiu, as a heavy city of Caoyun at the intersection of Puji, gathers slender men. These poor slender men have enthusiastically joined the army since the Taishan army conquered the Fengqiu, these people are accustomed to collective action, not afraid of hardship, a little organization is the elite soldiers who can fight hard battles. Therefore, after Zhang Dan was stationed in Fengqiu, he specially mixed these thousand slender men with the thousands of soldiers of the Han army to organize and train four battalion heads.

Later, from July to August, he received a military order from Qu Shuai Zhang Chong, during which Zhang Dan took the backbone military officials drawn from each battalion and reorganized the four battalion heads. After more than a month, a certain combat effectiveness has been formed, although it cannot be compared with the main force of the Taishan Army.

Waiting for Zhang Chong's army to order the south, he ordered the troops to attack Xingyang. Zhang Dan took Wei Zhou, Li Fu, Luo Gang, Pan Zhang, Huo Yan, Li Cun, Zhang Neng and other generals to raise an army of 4,000, and used the Cao boat that the Han army had camped in Fengqiu before, and came west along Jishui.

Previously, Zhang Dan, as Zhang Chong's township party and clansman, was regarded by Zhang Chong as the cornerstone of the Yuancong faction in the army, and he has been cultivating him more, and Zhang Dan has been a general several times, and he is also talented, so he has also been trained.

This will stop at Yan's Xiaoyi, Zhang Dan looked at the continuous camp outside the river, and countless banners and military tents filled the mountains. He sighed to Fan Chang, the master bookkeeper beside him:

"Sir, I often hear Qu Shuai talk about ancient times, saying that this Xingyang and Chenggao have been important towns in the world since the Spring and Autumn Period. From Qin to the top, Jin and Chu fought for hegemony here; From Qin down, Chu and Han are divided here. Those who have something to do in the future have not failed to turn a blind eye to this place and decide success or failure. I didn't understand it at the time."

After breathing a sigh of relief, Zhang Dan pointed to the vaguely outlined mountain in the north, and said to Fan Chang:

"But now that I see there, there is the Three Emperors Mountain, and Ao Cang, who has the most grain reserves in the world, stands there. As long as it is defeated, Qu Shuai can summon 100,000 troops with a wave of his hand, and with this military momentum, there is no place in the world to go."

Fan Chang Gaoshi, although the military strategy is not good, but after listening to Zhang Dan's words, he still frowned and said:

"Right Captain, do you want to go directly to fight Ao Cang? That Ao Cang is on the Three Emperors Mountain, and he is not defenseless. There are two military cities on each side of the mountain, the west is the west Guangwu, the east is the east Guangwu, the distance is 200 steps, and the chasm passes between the two army cities, into the big river. In the past, the Chu and Han struggles for hegemony were confrontations across the chasm. Therefore, the West Guangwu is also called the Han King City, and the East Guangwu is also known as the Chu King City. Back then, the overlord of Chu had not been able to cross the chasm, and the captain still listened to Qu Shuai's military orders and waited here for a while, and after Qu Shuai went north, he would take a long-term view." ….

Zhang Dan was quite narrow when he was young, but after fighting on the battlefield with Zhang Chong for a few years, he became much more stable. Now listening to the disapproval of the master book in the army, Zhang Dan did not insist, only nodded, and ordered the sentry cavalry to continue to investigate.

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He Yi was not sure.

Just now, he had planned to do it on the Mazar, but the Maza suddenly collapsed. Although his henchman Yin Zhong said vigilantly:

"Qu Shuai shoulders the thickness of the yellow sky, how can the little Mazha carry it."

relied on this clever word to resolve the embarrassment, but in the eyes of He Yi, who has always been superstitious, it is really not a good sign to stumble before the battle.

He Yi took the belt from Hu Bing's hand, and forgot about Xingyang, where the four doors were closed not far away, and thought in his heart:

"But what surprises will there be in such a city."

It turned out that it was different from the Xingyang Jiancheng that He Yi, Zhang Chong and others thought, and the Xingyang city wall at this time was not for a long time

Repair, collapsed in many places, and it is no longer the strong city in the world that it was back then.

Zhang Chong and the others' understanding of Xingyang City was all obtained from books, and they had never really seen it at all. At this moment, after looking at Xingyang City, I realized how shabby this city was. The main body of Xingyang Castle was built in Korea during the Warring States Period, and it is a plate structure. Its repair was the most prosperous in the pre-Han Dynasty, because Xingyang was the top priority for the imperial court in Guanzhong, so the assessment of Xingyang's city defense was also quite concerned.

But in this Han Dynasty, Xingyang no longer cares too much about the court. And this is in the heart of Gyeonggi, two hundred years without hearing of swords, the successive dynasties of Xingyang Decree is more about the waterway, rather than spending money to build the city wall.

Originally, Xingyang City didn't even have battlements, but Xingyang ordered Yang Yi to learn that the Yellow Turban Moth thieves came out of the Beijing Cableway, so he requisitioned Ding Zhuang to supervise the whole city day and night, so that the battlements could be repaired. As for the rest, before the construction started, He Yi arrived at the city of Xingyang with a mixed army of 8,000.

He Yi, who had fought an old battle, only looked at the city in front of the battle, and said to the little marshals:

"I don't know if this kind of sparse city can stop our army for a day."

When all the little handsomes heard this, they looked at Xingyang City again, and they all laughed out loud.

Previously, Xingyang ordered Yang Yi to arrange three fortifications in the south of the city, and chiseled the water gate in the north of the city. But Xingyang still has a big defense hole, that is, there is a large warehouse in the east of the city.

This warehouse does not belong to the court, but is specially used by the Xingyang Haoqiang to collect and store the goods of the Haoqiang along the Cao.

Do you still remember that four years ago, Zhang Chong and his partners in Tongli transferred Cao Yun with Sun Tingchang? At that time, along the road of Jishui, all the powerful people were smuggled through the boats.

Zhang Chong paid attention to a detail before, that is, why Haoqiang didn't give money when he took the goods on the Cao ship along the road. In fact, this is the key to the entire transportation network.

Most of these heroes have cooperated with each other for more than ten generations, and there are five or six generations for less. Because of the large amount of money involved, a large number of their transactions are through bookkeeping rather than cash settlement. Whenever the Cao boat departs from Shandong to Xingyang, the private goods along the road will be sold along the road. At this time, they didn't have any money in the boat, and no one else could find out if they wanted to. And when they handed over the corn tribute to the chief of Aocang, they would pass through Xingyang on their way back. When the time comes, they will exchange the goods they need from this warehouse and then transport them to Shandong for sale. ….

In this process, everything lurks under this trading network, and even if people outside know that they are tired, they can't help them.

Therefore, the goods parked in the Dongcheng warehouse at this moment are not only the goods of the heroes of Xingyang, but also the goods of the heroes of the entire Jishui.

But one thing to say, this Dongchengcang may now become a capital enemy. As long as the Yellow Turban Army discovers the storage here, it is impossible for the Xingyang Han soldiers to have the strength to defend it. So Yang Yi's initial plan was to burn down the Dongcheng warehouse. But at this time, Xingyang Haoqiang was full of righteous indignation, and the crowd was indignant.

Some of them even shouted:

"It is better to give the family assets to the moth thief, than to make the county king burn a tile."

Zhang Yi's face turned pale with anger when he heard this, but he didn't dare to burn it, because he knew that if it was really burned, this Xingyang City would not be able to hold it, so he could only compromise with the powerful people in the city.

It seems absurd that those powerful people do this, but they have a reason.

In the final analysis, those moth thieves really robbed the Dongcheng warehouse, how much they could use, and how much these moth thieves robbed later, let them return it doubled. But if it's burned by your Xingyang Order, it's really gone.

As a result, a defensive hole as big as the eastern city warehouse outside Xingyang City could only be left because of the interests of the powerful in the city.

He Yibu soon discovered the Dongcheng warehouse, opened a warehouse, and found that it was full of iron and lacquerware, and other warehouses were also all kinds of materials, and all the people in He Yibu made a fortune.

The yellow scarves were about to be divided, but this time they were stopped by He Yi. He said to the soldiers:

"The big war is coming, and money will only make everyone have no heart to fight. We're just one step away now, can you stop us from seeing the destruction of Xingyang City? Now, I've decided to close the library. Wait for us to conquer Xingyang, and we will discuss meritorious deeds and rewards together."

He Yi's victory all the way has greatly increased his prestige in the army, and it is by virtue of Qu Shuai's decision that he

We can make such a fortune. So even if they were unwilling, these Yellow Turban soldiers could only turn their heads and look at Xingyang City.

The battle began.

He Yi, who had already moved the Chinese army north to Dongchengcang, put aside the shadow of the fall of Mazha just now, and put all his attention on the most critical battle of his life.

If you succeed, your martial arts will be prosperous, and if you lose, you will ......, and you won't.

He Yi waved the yellow flag, and then the Chinese military drums beat loudly.

He Yi's 8,000 troops adopted the method of encircling three and missing one, and arranged 2,000 soldiers in the south of the city, 2,000 soldiers in the east of the city, 2,000 troops in the middle of the city, and 2,000 soldiers in the west of the city.

In fact, He Yi's arrangement is for three missing one, you must know that the water gate in the north of the city has long been blocked by Zhang Yi himself. So He Yi this time, as soon as she came up, she was actually a lion fighting a rabbit, and she tried her best.

In the sixth year of light and harmony, August 24, the hour of the sun.

The Runan Yellow Turban soldiers surrounded Xingyang, and under the armed forces of various ordnance from the Dongcheng warehouse, their army carried countless ladders and launched an attack on the dilapidated Xingyang City.

Under the command of their respective military officials, the Han soldiers and brave soldiers defending the city constantly vented the golden juice of rolling wood and falling stones to the city, wailing in all directions, and the siege battle was always the most tragic.

He Yi didn't intend to stay behind from the beginning, and at this moment, the two thousand veterans he had selected before were attacking the front line. These people flew arrows like locusts under the city, and shot at the roots of the Han soldiers on the city

The fiercest fighting is in the east of the city, where the elite of the Yellow Turbans and the elite of the Han soldiers in the city are concentrated.

On the eastern city, Xingyang ordered Zhang Yi to stand on the front line in military uniform. The soldiers around him kept pushing away the stray arrows that were shooting, covering the county monarch.

Seeing that the situation was wrong, Zhang Yi yelled:

"Prop up the veil."

The four walls were ordered by Zhang Yi, and they were busy erecting curtains to block the arrows. With these thick homespun cloth in the block, the arrows that did not have much downward power were bounced away one after another, so that the Han soldiers were slightly stable. Then, holding on to the bamboo poles, they worked hard to knock down the hanging ladder step by step.

The city was full of screams and cries, and the first wave of the siege of the Runan Yellow Turbans was blocked.

He Yi, who was fighting outside the East City, also saw the situation on the front line, and he secretly regretted that his subordinates were not elite enough. As far as he could see, the veterans under his command were all fighting in the city, and the newly attached disciples were only waving their flags and shouting behind them.

But He Yi was not surprised, those rabbles were originally to give him a boost, and he never expected these people to fight with their lives.

However, He Yi also didn't expect that the Han soldiers in the city would be quite resolute in their will to resist.

But in fact, this is He Yi only saw the east, the Han soldiers on the east wall were the elite in the city, and the county monarch was on the front line, so the morale was naturally extraordinary. But in fact, at this moment, in the south and west of the city, the Han soldiers were already in danger on the city walls.

He Yi, who made a mistake in judgment, felt sorry for the casualties of the elite under his command, and ordered Ming Jin.

"Knock, knock, knock......"

The Yellow Turban Army, which was desperately fighting in the east, heard Ming Jin and hurriedly retreated. But the Yellow Turban Marshal who was fighting in the south heard the sound of gold, but kicked over Mazha and went straight to the Chinese army in the east to ask for an understanding.

But it turned out that the soldiers under the command of this little marshal had already climbed to the top of the city, and they were about to break the outer city, but the east side was faint and knocked on what gold.

This little handsome is called a tenant dog, and this name alone knows that he was born in poverty, but his brave fighting is a brave general under He Yi.

When the tenant dog came, He Yi was still unexpectedly what happened.

But when the tenant dog questioned He Yi with a tone of incomprehension and suspicion, although He Yi secretly regretted it, he was angry as soon as he heard the tone of the tenant dog.

Hmph, he won't think I'm worried that he will get the first credit by entering the city first, so let's stumble on him. It's really mud legs, what do you see in your eyes.

So He Yi didn't tell the truth, but just said leisurely:

"What's the hurry, it's a long day today. Have you ever seen a turtle, if you put it directly in the hot soup, it will struggle so badly that it will even crawl out of the pot and bite you if you accidentally crawl out. But if you put him in cold water and put firewood underneath him to heat it slowly, he will be motionless and waiting to die."

The tenant dog is a rough man, and he can't bear what He Yi said, directly

Interrupt:

"What are you going to say?"

"I'm telling you, let's get the Han soldiers to death from the beginning, even if we win, we will break our teeth. But as long as we withdraw at every critical moment, they will feel that our attack is like this, and they will slack off. When the time comes, if we strike with all our might, how can they be undefeated."

In fact, the tenant dog still didn't understand, he frowned, and dropped a sentence:

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

Then another Yellow Turban Xiaoshuai who attacked the West Wall also came, and He Yi said the truth of his *** turtle again, and fooled the little handsome away.

But in fact, when He Yi fooled others, he really fooled himself.

Whether his doctrine is correct or not, one constant fact is:

After all, the Han army in Xingyang City had a chance to breathe.

After all, this Xingyang is still in the hands of the Han army.

These two facts directly caused a huge variable in He Yi's battle.

Where are the variables?.

Please call me Mr. Chen