Chapter 281 Cang Lei


Chapter 281 Cang Lei

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

His actual strength was only four thousand, which was pitifully small compared to the tens of thousands of Yellow Turbans in the city. However, he succeeded in making the Yellow Turbans in the city think that the main force of the Han army had arrived by spreading suspicion.

He secretly sneaked four thousand soldiers and horses out of the stronghold at night, and then returned at dawn. For three days, the Yellow Turbans in the city saw thousands of soldiers and horses throwing themselves into the Han army's barrier outside the city every day. With that dense forest of flags, who can say that the main force has not arrived?

When the Yellow Turbans in the city were in a swaying mood, a boat came up from the Zhang River. It was a visitor from Zhang Jiao, the great virtuous teacher, and brought the latest message from the good teacher.

After learning that the Han army was dispatched from Handan and heading towards the people on the Zhang River, Zhang Jiao wrote this letter to encourage all the Taoist disciples and officials of Qingzhou Yellow Turban. Under the protection of Huang Tian, ​​you will definitely be able to defend the city. People, guard the gate of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth in Hebei. The sky behind the Han army has died, and Huang Tian is covering the world. At this sacred moment when the sky changes, all soldiers go and prove your loyalty to Huang Tian with your own death battle.

After reading this letter of apology, the visitor didn't even bother with lunch, and hurriedly sailed south again. I don’t know if I’m worried that I won’t be able to leave if it’s a little later.

After all, spiritual encouragement has magic power. With the blessing of the Great Master, Huang Tian's messenger in the world, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban's military spirit is growing visibly.

At the same time, Dong Zhuo's old suspicion formation and his soldiers running back and forth for three days were not in vain. The reason why he pretends to be the main force is to cover the real main force's actions.

Not long after Dong Zhuo set out, Lu Zhi led his main force of 20,000 troops and directly attacked Quliang, the Yellow Turban Army stronghold northeast of Handan.

Quliang is a small city beside the ancient river channel of the river. It is garrisoned by Huang Long, the commander of the Yellow Turban in Hebei Province, who led 5,000 troops. The Yellow Turbans are stationed here to be at odds with the people to the east.

In other words, if the curved beam is not laid and the Han army directly attacks Liren, the food supply line will be directly exposed under the eyes of the Huanglong tribe.

Therefore, 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 people to lure the Huanglong tribe in the north to go south. Then Lu Zhi killed them all from behind and removed Quliang, a small city that threatened his supply line.

But who knew that after seducing him for a long time, he pretended to be a blind man. The Huanglong tribe didn't care about the life or death of the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans. They didn't send out a single soldier, which only made the friendship between comrades a joke.

As a last resort, Lu Zhi could only attack Quliang directly.

When the Han army broke through Quliang City, Huang Long and other military officials were all drunk. It had only been three months since the Yellow Turbans in Hebei entered the city, and it had already been corrupted to such an extent that the martyrs who died fighting for Huang Tian couldn't help but sigh.

After the city was broken, Huang Long and others were taken to Lu Zhi and surrendered before being tortured. He also told the truth about the Yellow Turbans in Hebei and Qingzhou.

It seems that if this yellow dragon is not a dragon, then forget it, it is still a python or a snake, right? Anyone who thinks that he has this integrity is just a worm.

Huang Long was the first senior Yellow Turban Army official captured by the Han army in Hebei. Thanks to Huang Long's intelligence, Lu Zhi soon learned that the Yellow Turban Army stationed in Lieren at this time was the Yellow Turban Army heading north from Qingzhou, and its morale was low.

After learning 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.

Dong Zhuo, who was outside the city, breathed a sigh of relief when Lu Zhi arrived. Regardless of his strategy to increase troops, it was okay for a short period of time. Over time, the Yellow Turban Army in the city could roughly guess the actual number of Han troops just by looking at the amount of smoke.

And once the Yellow Turban Army knew that there were only four thousand Han troops outside the city, Dong Zhuo would be finished. There are 50,000 Yellow Turbans in the city and he has 4,000. Can he fight ten of them one by one or something?

As soon as Lu Zhi arrived, he didn't even have time to eat, so he took the senior military officials up the slope behind the camp. Dong Zhuo ordered the local tycoons to build this slope so that the commander-in-chief could observe the formation.

Lu Zhi watched for a while and then led the people down. He decided to attack the people immediately. Military deputy Zhongfu also agreed. He was the father of Zhongshao who fought against the Taishan Army in Puyangjin. His son died in the battle because of Lu Zhi's decision. However, Zhongfu did not abandon public service for personal reasons and still supported Lu with a public heart. Zhi, this is Chunchen.

Lu Zhi nodded, and then signaled to Gongsun Zan that Gongsun Zan also suggested an immediate attack like Lu Zhi. The White Horse Colonel said loudly:

"Before, we were watching the defenses of Lieren North City on the slope. The defense layout on the city was sparse and not tight. I saw that they were still reinforcing the fortifications and wanted to increase the height of the city wall. But now the height of Lieren North City is only the same as that of an ordinary city. Obviously This military fortress has not been well repaired, so if we attack now and deploy our troops directly to the west of the North City, I am sure that we can capture the soldiers before sunset."

Although Lu Zhi, Zhong Fu, and Gongsun Zan all adopted the strategy of attacking quickly, Dong Zhuo did not agree.

What he means is that the enemy's morale is not weak now, and they have just besieged the city, so they must be in good condition. If they attack the city at this moment, the Han army will definitely suffer heavy casualties. Therefore, Dong Zhuo's attitude was to surround the enemy first, consume the enemy's will and reserves, and then attack.

Dong Zhuo's attitude was supported by most people in the army. It would be good if there were fewer dead people, but it was better to surround them more. They had plenty of time.

It was also strange that Dong Zhuo, who had never paid much attention to casualties, actually cared about it now, and he didn't know what was going on behind the scenes.

Even though the siege theory was supported by most people in the army, Lu Zhi still insisted on his decision. He acted arbitrarily and used the power of the banner given to him by the Han Dynasty to order the entire army to light fires and cook. After an hour, they lined up. People attack.

An hour later, the first batch to be sent to the battlefield were the newly attached powerful tribes, and they had to pay for their names with their blood. They braved the rain of arrows from the city and rushed to the city carrying the ladder. Then all kinds of gold juice, hot oil, and rolling stones were continuously thrown down from the city head, and the powerful soldiers under the city suffered heavy losses.

This was the disastrous thing about leading the charge. At this time, they did not rush to block the rain of arrows, and the Yellow Turban Army also had the most sufficient reserves. The only role of these powerful soldiers was to consume the reserves on the city. No one thought they could attack the city.

The powerful soldiers struggled for a while, and could no longer bear the casualties, so they collapsed directly at the head of the city. Then immediately a group of guards rushed out of the formation and beheaded the deserters. Their heads were hung on bamboo poles and handed over to the entire army.

The Han army did not regard these powerful troops who were ambiguous with the Yellow Turban Army as their own. If they died more now, they would be spared from killing them later.

After the heroic troops were consumed in this way, the Han army appeared. They pushed the carts to the bottom of the city in an orderly manner, and then attacked various areas according to their respective formations. The soldiers of the Han army attacked the city under the cover of their comrades.

But unfortunately, the outcome of the Han army was no different from that of the powerful soldiers before. If the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans set up a formation to attack the Han army, they would be unlikely to win. But if defending the city like this relies on personal bravery and morale, then the Han army will not be enough.

These Guizhou leaders from the northern area of ​​Qingzhou were very powerful and kept pushing back the falling rocks, causing the Han army to complain endlessly. That armor can block arrows, but it can't block falling rocks.

In this way, the various units of the Han army took turns to attack. Even though one or two units rushed to the top of the city, they were still drowned in the sea of ​​​​people from the Yellow Turban Army.

An hour later, the livid Lu Zhi ordered the troops to retreat.

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

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The Han army adjusted its tactics quickly. After learning that it was no longer possible to attack the city quickly, Lu Zhi decisively ordered a siege of the city.

In the dark of night, eight hundred Han troops carrying hoes, shovels, and baskets sneaked out of the camp under the cover of darkness and began digging trenches less than 500 steps away from Liren City. The military officials spread the line with lime, and then each soldier dug, and then pushed all the soil on the Han army's side. At that time, if the Yellow Turbans in the city wanted to climb over the trench, they would be at the bottom of the trench and the soil on the opposite side would be high, making it impossible for them to climb over.

That night, the moon and stars were sparse, and the sound of digging trenches was everywhere around the northern section of the queue.

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

In the following days, the Han army continued to dig despite the sparse arrows upstairs. In the next three days, they dug three trenches directly outside Lieren's north city and tightly surrounded Lieren.

The Yellow Turban Army in the city organized several attacks in an attempt to fill in the ravines. But the Yellow Turban Army had just filled it in during the day, and the Han Army over there dug it out again at night.

Finally, Ji Sun also ordered the Yellow Turban Army to dig trenches out of the city and pile the soil on his side. In this way, with trenches blocking the road ahead and arrows attacking from above, the Han army could not take the initiative to attack.

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

On October 12, the Han army dispatched eight built stone carts and began to bombard Lieren City.

The eight stone-shooting carts, carrying a huge force, hit Liren City like thunder. The Han army is full of optimism. With this sharp weapon, the city of Leh will inevitably be reduced to powder.

They even started a game before the war, betting on how long everyone could withstand this stone machine.

Gambling is always the best thing in the military. Any reason can become a game, including betting on dogs, chickens, and mice, not to mention betting on how the enemy will be destroyed. So as soon as this handicap opened, the Han troops immediately followed the situation. They gambled with their trophies and military pay, and even gambled with the severed left ear of the Yellow Turban Army, but they were immediately scolded back.

People scolded:

"Hot girl, how many days will this thing be available?"

From this we can see how confident the Han troops were in taking over the enemy city.

In fact, this is how it should be. The city walls handed down from the Spring and Autumn Period are all built with blocks, and generally have a structure that is wide at the bottom and narrow at the top. This structure is very fragile in the face of inertial impact from top to bottom.

However, the Han army never expected that although several parts of Lieren City collapsed due to the impact of stones, the entire city wall was still intact.

It turns out that Lieren, as the acropolis that guarded Handan at that time, adopted a wide-thickness double-layer construction from the beginning. Stone machines have been used as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, and were used very frequently during the Warring States Period. At that time, important military fortresses took into account the situation of stone machines, so they would use double-layer buildings to build city walls.

The ancestral stone machine presented by the Han army from Yuzhou was left over from the Warring States period, so it must not be able to hit others.

In the end, the Han army could only look at the Lieren City still standing outside Zhangshui with disappointment and full of frustration.

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

When the early morning mist had just dissipated, the Yellow Turban Army on duty at the top of the city discovered eight strange things appearing on the Han Army's formation opposite. They did not dare to neglect and immediately called their officials, but the officials came to see I can't figure out what this is.

What are these things they are still discussing? I saw the stones being carried by the Han army, and somehow, these wooden machines sent the stones out.

This directly impacted the beliefs of the Yellow Turban officers and soldiers, who all thought that the heaven of the Han army was angry. The boulder was thrown to the top of the city. First it screamed through the air, and then it hit the top of the city with a thunderous roar. Isn't this the wrath of the sky?

So when the stone machine fired, everyone in the city knelt down.

This is religion. What makes you more courageous can also make you fearful to the extreme. Although the stones did not collapse the walls of Qingzhou Huangjin, they had already destroyed their mental defenses.

Because some stones were sent far away, they landed directly in Liren City, smashing a small team that was supporting the city to pieces. This bloody and tragic scene appeared directly in front of the Yellow Turbans, impacting their fragile nerves.

Half of the team survived. Half, the entire lower body was smashed into mud. He was still alive for a while, but he still managed to claw his way to the ground, howling for everyone to save him.

As for the one who survived intact, his entire face was covered with flesh and blood, and a pile of flesh and blood from an unknown person was splattered all over his face. He looked in despair as Pao Ze, who had been chatting and laughing with him just now, turned into a pile of flesh and blood, and his whole body collapsed.

He cried and howled:

"The sky is angry, it is thundering, and it wants to kill us Huangtian believers."

While shouting, he ran and kept saying:

"Cang Lei is coming, run quickly. Everyone is going to die, Jie Jie Jie, you are all going to die."

Then an arrow shot over and stuck in his neck. Finally, the man died with a look of relief.

The one who shot the arrow was the sacrificial grandson who came after hearing the news.

Ji Sun shot the Taoist disciple who had gone crazy with fear, feeling only a burst of sadness in his heart. It's not that I'm sad that this person is weak-willed and talking nonsense, but that this person is so harmful to the military spirit, but no one can stop him.

Ji Sun looked at the people around him. Their eyes were filled with evasion, helplessness, fear, and no fighting spirit at all.

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

Seeing the despairing expressions on everyone's faces, Jisun thought hard about how to appease them.

At the same time, the panic of the Yellow Turban Army on the top of the city was also seen by Lu Zhi on the slope outside the city.

He was thoughtful and thought of a way to break the city.

(End of chapter)

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