Donglai County Huang County

As the county town of Donglai County, the walls of the county town stand in the afterglow of the sunset, making them look particularly tall and spectacular.

The strong stone walls such as bluestone have exceeded two or two feet high. With many defensive measures such as oil pans, rolling stones, and wood, and the strong county soldiers and the strong civilians of the city, the old and weak Yellow Turban Army, who had just rushed up again to charge with the ants attack, retreated again. In addition to leaving hundreds of corpses and fleeing in a panic, the casualties caused to the defenders were negligible.

In the era of cold weapons, playing attacking the city is a difficult task with both technology and difficulty!

Especially the defenders with good fighting will in the city, and the spies installed did not have the chance to open the city gate. If you want an ant to attack the city, it would definitely not be easy. In this regard, the thousands of corpses under the county city wall are absolutely conclusive evidence!

The county soldiers and village warriors on the county wall saw the old and weak Yellow Turban Army carrying earth bags, ladders and other things retreating, but only some people cheered a few times and then began to continue guarding the city wall.

After all, the experience of defeating the enemy's attack is nothing, let alone the old and weak!

What really makes everyone feel like they are facing a great enemy is that they are almost seven or eight miles away from the county city wall, surrounded by fences, trenches, wooden horse-resisting defense facilities, and then they include more regular military tents, many not-so-formal tents, and even a large number of broken residences, with a total of more than tens of thousands of people!

Now, watching the failure of the gang of old and weak soldiers who were siegeing the city, a general in front of the Yellow Turban Army camp made a loud order, and a thousand fairly regular Yellow Turban Army slowly dispersed, gathering the remaining old and weak soldiers back to the camp.

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"Sir, the thief launched another attack today and was just repelled by us!"

On a gate tower in the county town, a toothed goalkeeper wearing armor and cloak respectfully explained to several people wearing official uniforms around him, especially the old man wearing official robe.

"I was indeed repelled!"

"It seems that the thief army has no choice but to use the county city defense..."

Hearing the words of the goalkeeper Ya, several county officials wearing official uniforms were whispering in a low voice, with optimistic thoughts in their words.

However, the discussions of several officials were inconsistent, but they all covered their noses with their sleeves and looked at the ground covered with corpses under the city wall. There was also the special smell that had fermented for more than ten days. They frowned. Even if lime was spread to the outside to prevent the corpses from rotting and causing plague, the Yellow Turban Army had collected the corpses a few days later, but there were still a large number of corpses not being processed. The smell made people feel uncomfortable when they smelled!

Compared with several county officials, the middle-aged official whose hair had begun to turn gray, looked even more bitter. Looking at the Yellow Turban Army camp surrounding the county town outside, he directly asked the goalkeeper of the tooth: "Where is the Qin Duwei?"

"Sir, the lieutenant's injury is said to have not healed yet..."

Hearing the county magistrate's words, the goalkeeper's face turned a little strange, and he lowered his head and said hesitantly.

In fact, not only the goalkeeper, but also the county magistrate who asked, all the people who were informed were strange, and some even had a hint of disdain in their eyes!

As for the reason?

Well, the Qin Duwei, who served as the highest commander of the Donglai County Army, performed so much that he lost all his people.

A month ago, I just heard the news of the Yellow Turban Rebellion. The Qin Duwei, who was born in the Donglai County family, didn't agree with it. He even swaggered to many guests in the county town at a mansion banquet that if he encountered any Yellow Turban Rebellion, he would definitely lead troops to arrest all the Yellow Turban thieves, and then add officials and so on.

However, when the influence of the Yellow Turban Rebellion was really involved in Donglai County, the Qin Duwei led the county soldiers to fight happily, and in the first battle, they were almost broken by the fanatical Yellow Turban Strongmen and the Yellow Turban Army. Those county soldiers who were considered formal training and had some combat effectiveness were defeated by the "famous general" of Qin Duwei, a "famous general" who was actually defeated by a charge head-on by only half of the Yellow Turban Army. If it weren't for the personal guards around them who were working hard to rescue, it would probably be the "famous general" Qin Duwei would have become the record of the Yellow Turban Army!

Even so, the county soldiers under the Qin Duwei lost more than 40%, and the remaining 3,000 county soldiers set out were less than 2,000. He gathered the remaining soldiers and returned to the county city in shame, which was directly because he was "hardly injured and unable to manage the ministers", and he ignored the matter of the county soldiers at all. Now he is a more reliable Sima from another department leading the troops.

Faced with the situation where the county soldiers suffered a considerable loss and their morale was also depressed. The Sima of the later department was not capable enough to instantly turn into qualified soldiers. He could only reorganize the county soldiers while requiring the county magistrate and the city's large households to provide food and supplies to the greatest extent, and tried to be able to organize the army as quickly as possible.

As a result, the Yellow Turban Army directly brought tens of thousands of people to attack the city within a few days. If the county magistrates in the county were not good enough and most of the large households in the city understood the truth (or the name of the Yellow Turban Army who joined the Yellow Turban bandits in the process of burning, killing and looting all the way, helped the county magistrates with great help), and reluctantly gave blood to pay, food, and people to increase the defense power of the county city. With the help of the county city's tall walls and perfect city defense, it would be considered to be the Yellow Turban Army's offensive. Now the two sides are in a war of attrition. It seems that the Yellow Turban Army has conquered the county city first, or the county city has received reinforcements to rescue the siege.

Now, when the county magistrate heard that the Qin Duke was still insulted and could not even go to the city wall, he couldn't help but shake his head helplessly.

[Hey, I hope the multiple messengers sent out can allow reinforcements outside to restrain the attack of the Yellow Turban thieves!]

The county magistrate was speechless, raised his head and looked at the Yellow Turban Army camp with great vigilance, and could only shake his head and smile bitterly.

Although the county magistrate considered himself a middle-aged man, he was also a well-informed old man. At least he knew that the siege situation facing the county town was not allowed to make the Yellow Turban Army smoothly siege. Many teams of messengers sent out were spread to other counties, and even made many promises to make the counties disrupt the offensive launched by the Yellow Turban Army!

As for how effective this strategy is...

This county magistrate who has never commanded a large number of troops to fight is really no confidence in his heart. He can only rely on Sima, a county military department who is from the army. At least he must be able to defend the county city, which is considered the bottom line that the county magistrate must reach!

The county magistrate thought about the severe situation he was facing now, looked at the situation of the Yellow Turban Army camp outside the county town, and talked to the Sima of the other department who arrived, promising rewards and various supplies, and then walked down the city wall in a little tiredness and went back to rest with several other officials of the county town.

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Compared with the heavily guarded county town, the Yellow Turban Army camp is quite lively.

In the huge camp, a camp that was still acceptable was barely built, but the Yellow Turban Army's military discipline was obviously not expected too much. Not to mention the old and weak and the Yellow Turban crowds who were holding it, the many Yellow Turban bandits who joined were not a silence. Some Yellow Turban bandits openly plundered women to have fun in the camp. The lively scene was speechless.

At least, compared to the noisy Yellow Turban thieves camp, in the much quieter Yellow Turban Army camp, many Yellow Turban Army soldiers looked unchanged when they looked at the Yellow Turban thieves camps, and some even had a hint of envy in their eyes!

That’s right! Just envy!

After all, people are just creatures that are not afraid of being weak but not being uneven. When they eat braised vegetables, probably no one has the intention of envying or jealousy.

However, for the Yellow Turban Army, who were struggling with their heads, they certainly believed in the ideals proposed by Zhang Jiao, and they caught up with the Eastern Han Dynasty, which was almost ruined, and after the Yellow Turban Army, which had been preparing for more than ten years, raised the anti-flagration, a huge idea appeared, which did not mean that the Yellow Turban Army was all crazy | believers and disciples!

Looking at the camp, the Yellow Turban thieves who were burning, killing and looting with yellow turbans were living a very casual life. The Yellow Turban Army, who fought desperately for the belief in Taiping Dao, felt a little psychologically unbalanced...

As the Yellow Turban Army general who besieged the county town, Bian Xi certainly would not ignore the ideas of the people below, but he did not have time to educate the Yellow Turban Army now. As soon as he dismounted, he saw several priests and generals waiting in front of the camp.

"General!"

"The general is back!"

Seeing Bian Xi leading the team back to the camp, several generals and Jijiu greeted him respectfully and hugged Bian Xi into the camp.

When he entered the Han army-style central army camp, Bian Xi, who looked a little short but cunning, sat in the center, signaling the guards around to pour a few bowls of water, and then he asked a few seated generals and priests without any haste and asked: "Is there anything wrong in the camp? Or is it news from other partial teachers?"

"General, the side division led by Yu Jijiu only heard news once three days ago, conquering several villages and towns!"

A general in charge of foreign news stood up and said respectfully to Bian Xi, who was the head coach, then looked at his colleagues around him with a puzzled look on his face, and then whispered: "Mainly in the camp, the old and weak gathered in the old and weak found that they went to the county town to die from time to time, and there were some noise from time to time. There were also the bandits who surrendered, brothers..."

"Hmph! Those are all a group of guys who are not good enough to make things happen!"

Hearing this, Bian Xi also understood the words and meaning of the generals. He had a hint of cruelty on his face and ordered several waiting generals and Jijiu:

"If those old and weak people, just choose some moats to fill the county town tomorrow, which will save some food!

As for those bandits who surrendered, aren’t they quite comfortable these days? If you dare to say that you are a member of the Yellow Turban Army, then let them contribute to the cause of the great wise mentor. If there are guys who dare not obey, just let the Lix team lead the team to suppress them, kill a few leaders and tell them what military orders are!"

Bian Xi’s strategy is extremely cruel, and he does not take the old and weak and the bandits who are bound to surrender or surrender seriously!

The famous saying "Love is not in charge of soldiers" fully demonstrates that one of the qualities that generals must possess is to be cruel enough (whether to the enemy or to themselves). Bian Xi has absolutely no good advice on the elderly and weak people who are brought in, as well as the bandits and bandits. Isn't the ants' attack on the city just prepared for them?
Chapter completed!