Light and 6th year, June 25th, night.

At this time, the Han soldiers gathered in the dry Pitang were dejected, and the ups and downs of yesterday's battle of Guancheng made everyone dizzy.

On the 23rd, the city of Yuanling was broken, and on the 24th, the thieves besieged the city.

At that time, there were 2,000 soldiers in the city, including 500 original county soldiers, 500 Haoqiang troops, and 1,000 nearby reinforcements. In addition, Guancheng is an ancient city, since the Western Zhou Dynasty is one of the three uncles of Uncle Guan's fiefdom, the city is intact, the city defense is strong, it stands to reason that no matter how to defend it, it can be held for a period of time.

But the bad thing is that the new wave of reinforcements arrived.

This reinforcement was sent from Xingyang County, and the main body was the county guards and strong soldiers of Xingyang. In the face of the Yellow Turban Thieves, they advocated holding out outside the city, which meant that it was necessary to attack to defend the city. But not long after the more than 1,000 Han soldiers came out of the battle, they were severely attacked by the Yellow Turban Army, and they could only break down and suffer under the city.

Fortunately, three more Han soldiers arrived from nearby at this time. They were the Mao soldiers from Yangwu in the east, and the Ren soldiers and Pan soldiers from Zhongmu in the southeast.

These three are all well-known giants in the neighborhood. Among them, the Yangwu Mao clan was not famous at this time, but in the Middle Ages in the future, the Xingyang Mao clan was a famous martial artist, and between its three generations, there were four founders.

Mao Yan, the head of the Mao family of this generation, is a protégé of the old lady Liu Kuan, and the self-satisfied Yellow Turban Army invaded Henan, and the Mao family started a discussion.

Many clansmen believe that Yangwu, where the Mao clan is located, is in the easternmost part of Henan County, and it will not be disturbed by the Yellow Turban Army in the north, so it is better to stick to the local area.

But at that time, the son of the head of the family, Mao Shaoqi got up from his seat and said to his father:

"The eldest husband lives in the world, is born as a marquis, and dies as a temple food. If not, you can raise your ambition by living in idleness, and "poems" and "books" are enough to entertain yourself. My Mao family's martial arts family must be famous for its meritorious work, and I can be a county official for a long time."

Seeing that his eldest son was so magnificent, Mao Yan laughed, and took 300 people from the clan who were good at fighting and handed them over to Mao Shao, and let him enter the city to help.

As for Zhongmu's Ren and Pan families. The leader is called Ren Jun and the other is Pan Zhi. One of them is a big man in the county, and the other is a family of scholars in the county, and they are all great figures. Especially this person named Ren Jun, in another life, when Cao Cao asked Dong to pass by Zhongmu, he would bring his own troops to join the army, and in the future, he would take over the affairs of Tuntian, open up the soil and cultivate the valley, and enrich the country.

The reason why these two families came to their aid was because Xu Guan, who had previously succeeded the general He Jin as Henan Yin, was imprisoned and died in August of this year for failing to defend Taishan thieves outside Henan.

The newly appointed Henan Yin is the half-brother of the general He Jin, He Miao.

As soon as He Miao arrived, he ordered the major clans in Henan to send volunteers to manage the rescue. Zhongmu was not far from Guancheng, so Ren and Pan's families arrived first, and Yangwu Mao's soldiers arrived last.

But although the Yangwu Mao soldiers arrived last, they were the most good at fighting, especially the young general Mao Shao, who was extremely powerful, and just entered the battlefield, and even beheaded three Yingchuan Yellow Turban generals, directly stabilizing the position of the Han soldiers under the city.

It was precisely these three heroes who joined the battlefield one after another, and the Han army eased the situation on the battlefield.

At that time, the main general who presided over the battle of Guancheng was Yu Ban. In addition to the 1,000 people under its jurisdiction, there are 1,000 Runan Yellow Turbans and 1,000 Yingchuan Yellow Turbans, and the troops are not more than the Han soldiers in the city. ….

Yu Ban, who had always been cautious in the use of troops, did not intend to attack, but stuck to the fortress under the city and waited for follow-up reinforcements to arrive.

But a good Mao Shao, whose newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, just joined the Zheng clan troops under the city, and began to counterattack the development of the forbidden camp, to take advantage of the situation to force away the Yellow Turban Army and break the siege of the city.

Mao Shao as a striker, Ren Jun as a mid-back, and Zheng Hun as a successor, rushed to the forbidden camp. They held torches and burned dozens of sentry posts, but the front camp was the most reassuring general Zhang Da in Yu Ban, under Zhang Da's dispatch of archers to shoot back, Mao Shao, Ren Jun, Zheng Hun suffered a lot of casualties, and they did not dare to continue to go deeper, so they had to return to the army city and continue to wait and see.

But soon the tide was reversed.

Another Yellow Turban Army drove into the battlefield, and just looking at the banner, it was 2,000 men.

This is Ding Sheng. He had 1,000 old soldiers under his command, 1,000 yellow turbans attached to Runan, and 2,000 troops appeared in the south of the battlefield, and together with the Yu Ban Department in the west of the city, they flanked the Han soldiers in the west of the city.

Then a terrible battle broke out under the castle.

Mao, Ren, Pan, Zheng, Zhang five Han soldiers stationed in the west of the city Guan Shuling, this is a high ground in the west of the city, is guarding the west of the city.

When Ding Sheng's former army burst into Guan Shuling, the Han soldiers were digging and building a camp. Seeing the thieves rushing in, Pan and Zheng continued to camp, and Mao, Ren, and Zhang rushed forward to Ding Shengbing.

At the beginning, the number of Ding Sheng's soldiers who broke through to the high ground was too small, and they could only retreat due to the attack of the three Han soldiers. But soon, reinforcements from the rear headquarters and reinforcements from the Yu Ban Department to the south arrived one after another.

The reason why the reinforcements came here so quickly was because both Ding Sheng and Yu Ban had guessed the purpose of the Han army's camping on this high ground.

Obviously, the enemy wanted to camp several points from this high ground all the way to the southern city wall, and build a defensive line of less than two miles. Its purpose was to choke the siege route of the Taishan army from west to east, and use it as a foothold outside the city to provide a fulcrum for the subsequent Han soldiers.

It was precisely after seeing through these that Ding Sheng and Yu Ban both sent troops to support.

The five Han soldiers stationed in Mao, Ren, Pan, Zheng, and Zhang could only barely support themselves in the face of the Yellow Turban Army, which was constantly driving to the high ground. But suddenly, they heard the sound of fighting in Guancheng not far away, and it didn't take long to see several apricot yellow flags planted on the head of Guancheng.

Guancheng, it was lost!

It turned out that when they were resisting the Taishan army, Yu Ban ordered Chang Feng to cross the south of the city and launch an attack directly from the north of the city. There were only about 1,000 troops in the city, and many hedgehogs were gathered in the west because they had to support the five Han soldiers in the west of the city. Therefore, not long after Chang Xuan launched an attack, he invaded the city.

On Guan Shuling, the first to collapse in despair was Zheng Hun's troops. They hugged their own young man and thought about running wildly in the south, and then the Ren soldiers also withdrew, but the Mao, Pan, and Zhang families were still holding on.

The soldiers of the Mao clan persuaded Shaolang Mao Shao left and right to let him break through to the east, but Mao Shao was furious and pointed at himself:

"The eldest husband is currently fighting to the death, and An can flee like a lost dog?"

So he took his cronies and soldiers and entered the war group again.

At this time, Lieutenant Zhang had already died in battle. This person is one of the two county lieutenants of Xingyang, and he led 500 county soldiers to aid the management on the order of the county king, and now he is dead in Guan Shuling, and he is also loyal to state affairs.

Mao Shao led people into the battle group, killed several people, and rescued the besieged Pan Zhi, but soon more and more Taishan troops surrounded him, and Chen Qin, the army master, was under a banner, looking at Mao Shao Yongrui, which made people step forward and said: ....

"Guanjun is a warrior, only when the gallop armor comes to surrender, there will be some wealth."

Mao Shao was furious and scolded the Taishan army letter soldiers:

"Dog slave, how humble are you, dare to say that you give me wealth and wealth?"

When he had said this, he bent his bow and shot at the messenger.

But it's a pity that there are countless good archers in the Taishan army, and seeing Mao Shao so uninteresting, there are immediately four or five good archers who shoot with bows.

Mao Shaoyin underestimated the Taishan soldiers, and was immediately shot with two arrows, but fortunately, he had a stomach, and the arrows were not deep in the flesh, but he also fainted in pain.

Mao Shao's left and right tribes didn't wait for Mao Shao to refuse, and immediately rushed out from the west with Mao Shao on his back, accompanied by a wave of Panzhi clan soldiers.

But Rao was like this, and they were besieged in an abandoned pond in the west, along with the Zheng and Ren soldiers who were the first to break through the siege.

The periphery is heavily watched by the Taishan army, and the inside is the remnants of the defeated and lost dogs, and they can't live all day in fear, and this stay up will be night.

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Mao Shao, who had been asleep for a day, finally woke up, and the first thing he woke up was, Mao Shao wanted to drink water.

An old soldier gave Mao Shao a little turbid water, but Mao Shao spit it out after just taking a sip and reprimanded his old servant:

"Dog slave, what kind of horse urine is it for Naigong to drink? Also drunk by people? Bring me the honey."

The old servant sighed, seeing Lang Jun wasting this little bit of water like this, his heart felt distressed, he pursed his dry lips, and said tremblingly:

"Lang Jun, there is no honey to drink. Now that's all there is to it, and this is still the water that we threw out two feet of land. That's half of what you spit on."

[In view of the general environment, Mao Shao did not take care of the old man

Servant, struggling to get up, but he was weak. Finally, with the support of the two soldiers, he stood up and looked at the current scene.

I saw that in a dry pond, there were more than ten waves of bonfires scattered, and as far as the eye could see, the Han soldiers were like dead dogs, lying motionless by the bonfire.

Mao Shao looked into the distance again, only to see countless fires outside, and knew that it was the thief army surrounding him. Mao Shao, who knew the previous scene, didn't want the honey anymore, he sat on the ground and sighed:

"Cangtou, how many soldiers are left in our family."

The old servant didn't squeak, but looked at a soldier beside him and asked him to speak.

This armor soldier is the warrior of the Mao family, and he is Mao Shao's right and left hand, listening to Lang Jun's question, he only said honestly:

"Lang Jun, there were three hundred brothers when we came, and they are still with us now."

Xu couldn't speak, so the man stretched out two hands to sign.

Mao Shao frowned:

"Two hundred left?"

"No, there are twenty of them."

No matter how prepared he was, Mao Shao couldn't accept this number, and he was shocked:

"How did our Mao clan die this Banduo? I'm sorry for them!"

Saying that, Mao Shao's tears flowed, although he was brave, but he was not very old, and he couldn't accept the death of these clansmen.

In his opinion, his trip must be a long journey, and his subordinates will also climb the dragon and the phoenix. How could he turn out differently than he thought?

At this time, he realized that this is war.

Mao Shao was sobbing here, thinking about how to explain to his family, and the Jiashi over there comforted: ....

"Lang Jun, don't be sad. These people who didn't come may all be broken, then we will break through separately, and most of them will be separated."

But Mao Shao still ignored it, he wiped his tears, endured it, didn't want to sobble anymore, and said to the old servant on the side:

"My Mao family has accumulated three generations of hard work to have these 300 family members. And my carelessness made three generations of hardships of the Mao family come to naught in just one day, and I am really ashamed of my ancestors."

The old servant and the soldier didn't know how to persuade him, so he had to be silent.

After a while, Mao Shao relieved himself, and he asked about the current situation in Pitang:

"We still have twenty soldiers left, but what about the others?"

The armor grabbed his fingers and counted:

"Lang Jun, we really don't know the number of other soldiers, and no one counts them at this time. But I estimated that the Pan clan was about the same as our soldiers. The head of the Pan family has come to see you a few times before, and he is grateful for your previous life-saving grace, so the two of us will get close together and rely on each other. And over there, the Zheng clan and the Ren clan were the first to withdraw, and they had the most soldiers, and there were probably six or seven hundred people in this pond."

The armor said here, and the old servant over there also added:

"Then Zheng Hun is not a person. If we hadn't rescued him before, he would have been beheaded by thieves. Later, in the battle of Guan Shuling, it was this person who fled first, so that we were defeated like this. There was a soldier before, who should be a military official under Captain Zhang, and he surrounded Zheng Hun and scolded him for being the culprit of the defeat in this battle. But Lang Jun, do you know what Zheng Hun said. He said that he had few eunuchs, and he was a humble person, how could he bear such a big responsibility. It is said that there is such a defeat, and they are not as good as others."

Hearing this, Mao Shao was angry and scolded:

"This Zheng Hun is so shameless. I've grown so big, I've never seen anyone so brazen. He is a son of the Gong family, a young man who ascends to the dynasty, his name covers all over the world, and he is in an important position, which is called a few eunuchs? And after that, once something happens, he doesn't think about risking his life for the country, and leads his troops to flee first. Is this called irrelevant to him?"

finally suppressed the idea of going to Zheng Hun's theory, and he also knew that if he really fell out with the surname Zheng, he would definitely be in danger of these twenty people.

Mao Shao thought for a while and asked again:

"How are our ordnance now, and how are our baggage?"

He wants to find out the armament of his people, no matter what happens later, these are the guarantees for his survival.

Or by the Najia Shidao:

"Lang Jun, we're not bad in this regard. Half of our twenty brothers have knives, and there are three first-class soldiers."

"That's not bad?"

Mao Shao couldn't bear it, why was it bad news.

But who knew that the Najia priest should have said:

"Exactly. When you can retreat, it is already a lot of courage to be able to bring the armor with you. Because that's what the thieves kill. Lang Jun, you must know that the more than 30 Pan soldiers who retreated with us only had three knives, and in comparison, our brothers were already very courageous."

Mao Shaoqing's muscles flared up, pinched his temples with his fingers, and said calmly:

"So what do you think we're going to do next?"

Neither the soldier nor the old servant spoke.

"How much food do you have?"

Mao Shao didn't ask about the water, just now, if there is still water, will he still give him muddy water?

But the soldier and the old servant shook their heads, indicating that there was not a single grain of millet either.

Mao Shao was a little dizzy, it seemed that he was going to die here.

Well, what else can it do?

So, Mao Shao laughed miserably:

"In a moment, you two will dig me a pit so that I can be buried. I'm not a minister, but I don't want to see blood die."

But the armor and the old servant still shook their heads, and in the end the armor confessed:

"Lang Jun, we don't have to die."

Mao Shaoqi:

"Why?"

The old servant pointed outside, and then stopped talking.

Mao Shaochu was puzzled, but suddenly understood, he pointed to the two of them and gasped:

"You dare to betray the Lord?"

As he spoke, Mao Shao was about to struggle to pick up his knife.

But the old servant suddenly sobbed and hugged Mao Shao's legs:

"Lang Jun, we are all cheap, if we don't die here today, we will die on other ravines and ridges tomorrow. But you are the bravest of our Mao clan, you can't die here. Our Mao family has been cultivating fields for three generations, but it is still unknown. All of us clansmen think that only you can lead our Mao clan forward. Therefore, the Mao family can wait without me, but not without Langjun."

After a while, Mao Shaocai muttered:

"It turns out that I'm the one who is brazen!"

Please call me Mr. Chen