After Dong Zhuo built the trench barracks, he did not immediately choose to attack.

His actual strength was only 4,000, which was pitiful compared to the tens of thousands of yellow turbans in the city. But he succeeded in making the Yellow Turbans in the city think that the main force of the Han army had arrived.

He secretly sneaked 4,000 soldiers and horses out of the village at night, and then returned at dawn, if it was three days, the Yellow Turban army in the city saw that thousands of soldiers and horses were thrown into the Han army fortress outside the city every day. The dense banner like a forest, who can say that it is not the main force has arrived?

When the mood of the yellow scarves in the city was swaying, a boat came up from the downstream of Zhangshui, which was a messenger from the great sage and good teacher Zhang Jiao, and sent the latest text of the good teacher.

After learning that the Han army had set out from Handan and was coming towards the people on the Zhangshui River, Zhang Jiao wrote this letter to encourage all the Taoists and officials of the Yellow Turban in Qingzhou, and under the protection of the Yellow Sky, you will definitely be able to guard the people and the gateway to heaven on the earth in Hebei. The sky behind the Han army is dead, and the yellow sky is enveloping the world, at this sacred moment of the transformation of the sky, all the soldiers go to prove your loyalty to the yellow sky with their own death battles.

After reading this letter, it was useless for the messenger to eat lunch, and he hurriedly sailed south. I don't know if I'm worried that I won't be able to leave if it's a little later.

In the end, the spiritual encouragement is magical, with the blessing of the great sage and good teacher, the messenger of the yellow sky in the world, the military spirit of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban has increased visibly with the naked eye.

At the same time, Dong Zhuo was suspicious, and let his soldiers run back and forth for three days, which was not in vain. The reason why he pretends to be the main force is to cover the real main operation.

Not long after Dong Zhuo's departure, Lu Zhi took the main force of 20,000 and directly attacked the Yellow Turban Army stronghold in the northeast of Handan, Quliang.

Quliang is a small city on the side of the ancient river of the Great River, which is garrisoned by 5,000 troops led by Huang Long, a small commander of the Yellow Turban of Hebei. The Yellow Turbans are stationed here to be horns with the people to the east.

In other words, if Quliang is not defeated and the Han army directly attacks the Lieren, then the grain supply line will be directly exposed under the eyelids of the Huanglong Division.

Yes, Lu Zhi planned to lure the snake out of the hole. He first asked Dong Zhuo to pretend to be the main force and go directly to the Lieren to lure the Huanglong tribe in the north to the south, and then Lu Zhi swept it all from behind, uprooting Quliang, a small city that threatened his supply line.

But who knew that he was seduced for a long time and pretended to be a blind man. The Huanglong Department didn't care whether the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans lived or died at all, and not a single soldier came out, only making the friendship of the same way a joke.

In the end, Lu Zhi had no choice but to attack Quliang directly.

When the Han army broke through Quliang City, Huang Long and other military officials were very drunk. The Hebei Yellow Turban has only been in the city for three months, and it has been corrupted to this extent, which can't help but make the martyrs who died in the Yellow Sky War sigh.

After the city was broken, Huang Long and others were taken to Lu Zhi, and they surrendered without waiting for torture, and they also told the truth and falsehood of the Yellow Turbans in Hebei and Qingzhou.

It seems that this yellow dragon is not a dragon, so forget it, then it is also a python, a snake, right? Whoever wants to have this integrity is a worm.

Huang Long was the first high-ranking officer of the Yellow Turban Army to be captured by the Han Army in Hebei. Thanks to Huang Long's intelligence, Lu Zhi soon knew that the people stationed in the column at this time were the Yellow Turban Army who had gone north from Qingzhou, and their morale was low.

After knowing this information, Lu Zhi immediately led his army to join Dong Zhuo, and he decided to quickly attack the Yellow Turban Army in the city.

Lu Zhi's arrival made Dong Zhuo, who was outside the city, breathe a sigh of relief. Don't look at the one-handed troop increase plan he played, but it is okay for a short time, and after a long time, the Yellow Turban Army in the city can roughly guess the actual number of the Han army just by looking at the amount of cooking smoke.

And once the Yellow Turban Army knows that there are only four thousand Han troops outside the city, then he Dong Zhuo will be finished. There are 50,000 yellow turbans in the city, and he has 4,000, can he beat ten or something.

As soon as Lu Zhi arrived, he didn't have time to eat, so he took the senior military officials to the dirt slope behind the camp. This dirt slope was also piled up by Dong Zhuo to those township tyrants, which was convenient for the commanders in the army to watch the formation.

Lu Zhi watched for a while and then led the people down, and he decided to immediately attack the people. The deputy of the army also agreed, and his person was the father of Chong Shao, who fought with the Taishan Army in Puyangjin before, and his son died in battle because of Lu Zhi's decision-making, but Chong Fu did not abolish the public because of his private interests, and still supported Lu Zhi with public intentions, which is a pure minister.

Lu Zhi nodded, and then motioned to Gongsun Chan and said, Gongsun Chan also suggested attacking immediately like Lu Zhi, and the white horse captain said loudly:

"Before, we watched the people on the slope and guarded the northern city. The city's defenses were sparse and not tight. I see that they are still reinforcing the fortifications and trying to increase the height of the walls. But now the height of the northern city of the Lieren is only the same as that of ordinary cities, and it is clear that this Lieren military fortress has not been well repaired. So if we attack now, and we will be *** to the west of the northern city, I'm sure we'll be able to take the following before sunset."

Although Lu Zhi, Chong Fu, and Gongsun Zhan all successively adopted a quick attack strategy, Dong Zhuo did not agree.

What he means is that the enemy's morale is not weak now, and he has only just besieged the city, and he must be in a good state. Attacking the city at this moment, the Han army must have suffered heavy casualties. Therefore, Dong Zhuo's attitude was to surround the people first, first consume the will and reserves of the enemy in the thief, and then attack.

Dong Zhuo's attitude was supported by most people in the army. It's good to be able to die less, isn't it just a little more around, they have time.

It's also strange, Dong Zhuo, who has never paid attention to casualties, actually cares about it, and he doesn't know what's behind it.

Even though the siege theory was supported by the majority of the army, Lu Zhi still insisted on his decision, and he was arbitrary, and with the power of moderation granted to him by the Han family, he ordered the whole army to make a fire and cook, and launched an attack on the Lieren an hour later.

An hour later, the first to be sent to the battlefield were the newly attached heroic tribes, who had to trade their names with their blood. They braved the rain of arrows from the city and rushed to the bottom of the city with ladders on their backs. Then all kinds of gold juice, hot oil, and rolling stones continued to fall from under the city, and the heroic soldiers under the city suffered heavy losses.

This is the misery of the first battle, at this time they did not rush to cover the rain of arrows, and the Yellow Turban Army had the most adequate reserves. The only role of these heroes was to deplete the reserves on the city's head, and no one thought they could take it.

The heroic soldiers struggled for a while, and could no longer bear the casualties, and collapsed directly at the head of the city. Then immediately, a group of soldiers rushed out of the formation and directly cut down these deserters, and their heads were hung on bamboo poles to pass on to the whole army.

The Han army didn't regard these heroic forces that were ambiguous with the Yellow Turban Army as their own people at all, and if they die a little more now, they will be saved from killing them later.

After the heroic force was consumed by such a pass, the Han army appeared. They drove the cart to the city in an orderly manner, and then attacked each section according to their own formation. In this way, the Han army soldiers attacked the city under the cover of their comrades.

But unfortunately, the ending of the Han army was no different from that of the previous heroes. If the Qingzhou Yellow Turban opens up a battle to attack the Han army, it is unlikely to win. But if you defend the city like this, relying on personal bravery and morale, then the Han army will not be enough.

These Qiantou leaders from the northern region of Qingzhou had the strength to constantly retreat the falling rocks, smashing the Han army to complain. The armor can stop the arrows, but it can't stop the falling rocks.

In this way, the various units of the Han army attacked in turn, and even if one or two troops rushed to the city, they were still drowned in the sea of people of the Yellow Turban Army.

An hour later, the iron-colored Lu Zhi ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

Looking at the Han army fleeing in embarrassment, the people in the city cheered.

The Han army's tactics adjusted quickly, and after learning that it was no longer possible to quickly attack the city, Lu Zhi decisively ordered a siege battle against Leh.

In the darkness of night, 800 Han troops, carrying hoes, shovels, and baskets, secretly found their way out of the camp under the cover of night, and began to dig trenches less than 500 paces away from the city of Lieren.

The soldiers sprinkled the line with lime, and then the soldiers dug and then pushed all the soil on the side of the Han army. When the time comes, if the yellow turbans in the city want to climb over the trenches, they will not be able to climb at all because they are at the bottom of the trenches and the soil on the opposite side is high.

That night, the moon and stars were sparse, and the place surrounding the northern section of the column was full of the sound of digging trenches.

On the second day, when the Yellow Turban Army at the head of the city was sleepy-eyed, they saw a trench nearly a kilometer long falling from the sky and appearing outside the city.

In the following time, the Han army continued to dig against the loose arrows on the upper floor, and in the next three days, they dug three trenches directly outside the northern city of the Lieren, and tightly surrounded the Lieren.

The Yellow Turbans in the city had organized several attacks in an attempt to fill the ravines. But the Yellow Turban Army just filled in during the day,

The Han army over there dug it out again at night.

In the end, the priest also ordered the Yellow Turban Army to go out of the city to dig trenches and pile all the soil on his side. In this way, there were trenches blocking the road in front of them, and there were arrows attacking and disturbing, and the Han army had no way to take the initiative to attack.

On October 4, when the Han army besieged the city for three days, some military officials from Yuzhou presented a stone cart atlas to help the army attack the city.

On October 12, the Han army dispatched eight stone wagons and began to bombard the city.

Eight stone wagons with the strength of ten thousand jun smashed like thunder on the city of the people. The Han army was full of optimism, and with this sharp weapon, Leh would inevitably turn into powder.

They even started a game before the war, betting on how long the people could resist under this stone machine.

In the army, it is always best to gamble, any reason can become a game, gambling on dogs, chickens, and mice, not to mention betting on what the enemy will be destroyed. So as soon as this handicap opened, the Han army immediately let the Han army smell the scenery. They used their booty and military salaries, and even gambled on the left ear of the Yellow Turban Army, but they were immediately scolded back.

People scolded:

"Hot girl, isn't this thing going to be as much as you want in a few days?"

From this, it can be seen how much the Han army is in control of the following cities.

In fact, it should be so. The city walls handed down from the Spring and Autumn Period are all plate buildings, and they are generally wide at the bottom and narrow at the top. This structure is very fragile in the face of inertial shocks from top to bottom.

But the Han army never expected that although the city collapsed in several places due to the impact of stones, the overall city wall was still intact.

It turned out that the Lieren, as the acropolis guarding Handan back then, used a double-layer plate with wide thickness at the beginning of construction. The stone machine has been used as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, and it has been used very frequently during the Warring States period. At that time, the important military forts took into account the situation of the stone generator, and the city walls were built with double-layer plates.

And the family heirloom stone machine sacrificed by the Han army from Yuzhou was left over from the Warring States Period, so it must not be able to smash the people.

In the end, the Han army could only look disappointed at the city of Lieren still standing outside Zhangshui, full of frustration.

Looking at the Yellow Turban Army in the opposite city, the situation was more difficult than the Han Army thought.

As soon as the morning mist lifted, the Yellow Turban Army on duty at the head of the city found that there were eight strange things on the Han army on the opposite side, and they did not dare to slack off, and immediately went to call their own officials, but the officials came to see and couldn't figure out what it was.

What are these things that they are still discussing? I saw that there were stones that the Han army was carrying, and then I don't know why, these wooden machines sent these stones out.

This directly impacted the belief of the Yellow Turban soldiers, who all thought that the sky of the Han army was angry. Isn't it the wrath of the heavens that the boulder was thrown at the top of the city, first with a scream through the air, and then with a thunderous roar?

So when the stone machine opened the cannon, the people knelt down in the city.

This is religion, what makes you more courageous, but also makes you terrify to the extreme. Although the stones did not collapse the walls of the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou, they had already destroyed their defenses.

Some of the stones fell directly into the city because they were far away, smashing a squad that was supporting the city to pieces. This bloody tragic situation was directly presented in front of the yellow scarves, impacting their fragile nerves.

One and a half of the team survived. Half of it, the entire lower half of his body was smashed into mud, and he was not dead for a while, and he tried to hold on to the ground, screaming for everyone to save him.

And the one who survived intact was covered in flesh, and a pile of flesh splattered on his face by no one who knew who. He looked at the robe that he was talking and laughing with just now into a pile of flesh and blood, and the whole person collapsed.

He wept and howled:

"The heavens are angry, it's thundering, and it's going to kill us Yellow Heaven believers."

While shouting, he also ran, and his mouth kept stopping:

"The thunder is coming, run. All are going to die, and all of you are going to die."

Then an arrow came at him and stuck it in his neck, and at last the man was relieved

look, dead.

The one who shoots the arrow is the one who came to worship the grandson who heard the news.

The sacrificial grandson shot the Taoist disciple who was already frightened mad, and there was only a sadness in his heart. It's not that this person is not strong-willed and talks nonsense, but that this person is so cruel to the military, but no one has stopped it.

The sacrificial grandson looked at the people around him, their eyes were evasive, helpless, and fearful, without the slightest sense of war.

He knew what was going on, and he was a soldier of the Northern Army, and he knew that there was a thing called a stone machine, and he had seen the picture in Lantai before. This thing has been lost for a long time, but I didn't expect to encounter it here.

Looking at the expressions of everyone's lost souls, the sacrificial grandson thought of a way to appease him.

At the same time, the panicked appearance of the Yellow Turban Army at the head of the city was also seen by Lu Zhi on the dirt slope outside the city.

He thought of a way to break the city.