Chapter Ninety-One: The Storm of the Faith
Since he knew that there was still a way to buy officials, Fan Xiwen immediately began to arrange a general attack.
On the 16th day of the first month of the third year of Zhongping, Fan Xiwen began to mobilize a large army to attack the Yellow Turban Army that was cowering in Xindu. And appointed Liu Ke as the commander-in-chief of the operation, Jia Xu as the chief of staff of the march, and the two commanded the three regular brigades of the Le'an Army that had been assembled to surround Xindu, and all kinds of siege equipment were also arriving in Xindu.
And the entire Xindu was also militarily blocked by the Le'an army, and not even a single fly could be put in.
On the 18th of January, Liu Kezheng ordered an attack.
"Put."
"Boom." The first to appear is the biggest weapon of the Le'an Army, the king of long-range strikes----- catapult. In order to ensure the advantage of the battle situation this time, Fan Xiwen specially mobilized 200 catapults.
Two hundred catapults were divided equally between four gates by Liu Ke, with fifty units each. At the moment when Liu Ke ordered the attack, it was thrown at the same time, and the scene was spectacular! The rumbling sound was endless, and the five- or six-meter-high city tower of Xindu was crumbling and painful there.
In fact, today's projectile is not to hit the enemy, today's catapult is just to increase the psychological pressure of the Yellow Turban Army, under the premise of being able to surrender without a fight, Liu Ke will try his best to choose the latter. Therefore, the stones thrown by the catapult only aimed at the city wall, and did not mean to target people, if any unlucky guy touched this stone, it was Zhang Jiao who did not bless, and it was none of Liu Ke's business.
This formation was very strong, and the Yellow Turbans were so frightened that they didn't have much courage to resist at all. Basically, the Yellow Turban Army of the four city gates is a virtue, carefully hiding behind the battlements of the city wall and looking at the Le'an Army in the distance, his eyes are full of fear.
It doesn't matter if Zhang Niujiao's cronies or those generals are scolding there, their lives are almost unsaved, who will care if you are a general or not.
Liu Ke in the city didn't care about the reaction of the Yellow Turban Army, in short, Liu Ke insisted on an attitude, that is, to beat the Yellow Turban Army down. And so it was bombarded with a catapult for a day.
The next day, Liu Ke will give you a ruthless move. This time, I used a catapult, but I threw bundles of notes, which was the most famous advertising campaign.
I saw that the note was written like this: "Yellow Turban Army brothers, yesterday's stone is just the beginning, I believe you have also seen that my Le'an Army does not want to hurt you." Everyone is a fellow villager in Jizhou, why do you need to fight and kill? Wouldn't it be better to sit down and have a drink and connect with the relationship? As long as you lay down your arms and accept the reorganization of our army, our Le'an Army promises to find a good way out for the big guys. Brothers who are willing to accept the reorganization of our army, please open the city gate before noon tomorrow, otherwise our army will bombard the city tower again, and it will not be as simple as bombarding the wall alone. ”
Okay, the tone of this letter is very nonsensical, and of course it is a typical stick and sweet date policy. There is a threat of red fruit in this, but is Jia Xu's intention really to persuade him to surrender?
Based on the strong performance of the Le'an Army yesterday, the Yellow Turban Army will definitely not be a small number of people who want to surrender, and this surrender will definitely not be less than 30,000, which is equivalent to an increase of 30,000 people for Le'an for no reason.
The food, clothing, housing and transportation of these 30,000 people need to be solved, right? You must know that it is only January now, and Le'an had a lot of materials last year, and the food to support the 120,000 people in Le'an for half a year was still scraped together. But now that there is a quarter more population at once, where do you want Le'an to squeeze out a quarter of the rations to feed them, and then these Yellow Turban Army, who have no food, will have to rebel again.
Now Le'an can feed another 10,000 people at most, but there are 30,000 yellow turbans to surrender, what should I do? If you don't surrender, those yellow turbans will fight to the death, and this loss is very large. And Le'an will soon extend his tentacles to the entire Anping country, occupying so many cities also requires troops, and the current yellow turbans are all veterans who survived, and they have a little bit of a single soldier to fight or something, as long as they are training, they can go to the battlefield.
These Yellow Turban soldiers are very tempting to Fan Xiwen and Jia Xu, even if there is still a little risk. Besides, with Jia Xu here, how can such a problem be Jia Xu. So Jia Xu came up with such a plan.
This note looks like a surrender, but in fact, there are many twists and turns in it. The first one, here is only talking about Jizhou villagers, but there are only people from Jizhou in the Yellow Turban Army, so if it is not the people of Jizhou, they will give up hope of surrendering. This is called reviving the hope of some people and cutting off the hope of some people.
Do you say that those who know that they have no hope of survival will watch those who have hope surrender? What he can't get, he won't watch others get it? The hopeless ones became the diehards of Zhang Niujiao, and their next task was to eliminate the Yellow Turban traitors who wanted to defect to the enemy.
This is a conspiracy, and the plot is to make the Yellow Turban Army civil strife. At the same time, Jia Xu believed that the letter would fall into the hands of Le'anjun at noon tomorrow.
The performance of the Yellow Turban Army who received the letter of persuasion did not disappoint Jia Xu, those who were not Jizhou Yellow Turbans were quite panicked, and then they each hugged together and planned to find the Le'an Army desperately, and began to be vigilant against the Yellow Turban Army in Jizhou.
That night, many Yellow Turban troops who wanted to open the city gate and surrender were chopped up by those "outsiders", and the situation became chaotic at this moment.
That night, the letter was filled with shouts of murder and lasted until dawn. The Le'an army was watching the play outside the city, and there was no intention of attacking.
But this will hurt the people of Xindu, and these Yellow Turban Army themselves have nothing to do, which is just to make the people worry. However, some of the Yellow Turbans, who thought that they had no hope of survival, began to indulge, burning, killing and looting, and extending their butcher knives to the people.
The people also resisted vigorously, and when the people saw the Yellow Turban Army in the back, they rushed up and took two bites. Anyway, they are all soldiers with yellow turbans, and the people don't care if you are good or bad. Climbing on the roof is to give you a large piece of grinding disc, and if you can't smash it, you will jump down and crush you to death. And the young men took two poles and put them together and started a fire to beat the sticks. Knock it down, grab the weapon, and then go to another place to fight.
It was tossed like this until the next day, and the streets of Xindu were full of corpses, and the people also gathered a lot of strength. Then, the Yellow Turbans, who wanted to surrender, retreated to the west gate, and the armed forces of the people occupied the middle, while the die-hard elements under Zhang Niujiao and the Yellow Turban army who thought that there was no hope of survival occupied the east gate, ready to run away at any time.
There were no one to clean up the corpses on the streets, and the blood stained the streets and alleys.
It's just that no one dares to do these idle things now, because this is the time of the big war, and if you move around a little bit, you will be harmonized. Anyway, the current letters are very messy.
At noon, the Le'an army entered Xindu and incorporated less than 8,000 Yellow Turban troops, which was still within Le'an's tolerance.
Zhang Niujiao wanted to escape, but all the surroundings of Xindu were blocked by Le'an. In addition, the Yellow Turban Army escaped from Xindu, and the hearts that were originally tense together became active, and they thought about escaping one by one, so they paid all their attention to the escape route. The united force has become a plate of scattered sand.
Less than ten miles away from the letter, hundreds of people ran away. It's just that no one notices that behind their backs, there are a pair of black eyes watching everything about them. Will Fan Xiwen let Zhang Niujiao escape? It's impossible to think on your toes.
What Zhang Niujiao wants to do most after escaping is to recuperate in the old nest of Taihang Mountain, so ah, Jia Xu still has a big drama waiting for him.
The lone Yellow Turban Army on the road was solved by the Jinyi Guard after the large army of Zhang Niujiao in the garden, if these lone Yellow Turbans were put in the village, it would definitely be a disaster, in order to avoid the persecution of the people, Fan Xiwen must wipe out the Yellow Turban Army who ran away. The cavalry company was ready to attack Zhang Niujiao, hanging far behind the Yellow Turban Army.
On the plain, Zhang Niujiao and his followers of less than 5,000 hurriedly retreated all the way towards Taihang Mountain. It's just that all of a sudden, I felt a little vibration on the earth, and when I felt this, Zhang Niujiao's face turned green. Le'an's cavalry company followed.
"Kill." Nothing nonsense, go straight to war. One hundred and eight horsemen rushed straight towards the Yellow Turban Army, only before that, they also released a round of javelins and put down a large number of Yellow Turban Army.
According to the characteristics of the Le'an Army, their favorite rogue style of play has also been brought up. The shouting was magnificent, but he didn't go stupidly with the Yellow Turban Army to fight the big knife.
What are the advantages of cavalry? On the plains, you can move quickly, and the super transfer force can make the cavalry a very sticky piece of kraft candy on the plains, and you can't shake it off if you want to. Uh, it's a long way off. The cavalry company hung next to the Yellow Turban Army, constantly holding a repeater crossbow in its hand, but it did not close the distance between the two armies.
"Order the troops to move into the mountains and forests, I don't believe you can still enter." Zhang Niujiao was ruthless, and ordered all the troops to enter the woods and take the path.
Don't say it, the cavalry immediately left when they saw that Zhang Niujiao had entered the woods, fighting in the woods is not the strong point of the cavalry, if you rush into it, all the more than 100 people have to be explained there.
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