At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

If there are 3000 defenders, they can attack while defending, destroy the tunnels from the surface, and destroy the arrow towers, forcing the attacking party to attack farther away, increasing the consumption of the attacking party.

However, the troops on the defensive side of the city were limited and could not withstand consumption, and they could hold on for two to three months.

If the number of defenders exceeds 5000 and there are no internal problems, they can hold on until the food is exhausted. At this time, the food reserves in the city determine the length of the siege.

When the food in the city is exhausted, and the soldiers on the defending side are too hungry to stand up, and when they cannot wield their swords and draw crossbows, the siege side can mount the city wall and occupy the city.

According to the argument in "Mozi", even if there are 4000 soldiers attacking the city, even if there are only 920 defenders, if you place troops at a density of nine people per two meters, you can defeat the enemy in the main attack direction at a maximum of [-] meters. spirit.

However, in most of the ancient times, according to the principle of concentrating troops, there were only five or six hundred county soldiers in the important towns that were not necessarily contested by military strategists. .

Therefore, in ancient times, there was a saying of "ten thousand soldiers galloping", and a general can lead 1 people to gallop freely.

At this moment, there are more than [-] Yellow Turban troops in Guangzong County, and there are also some cities occupied by the Yellow Turbans around Guangzong, who can support Guangzong at any time, so it is still far away at this time. It's not time to relax.

More importantly, Lu Zhi didn't know the amount of grain stored by the Yellow Turbans in Guangzong City, and he didn't know when the grain would be exhausted. If he attacked rashly at this time, it would only increase casualties.

The reality decided that the probability of success in attacking Guangzong County by climbing the wall was infinitely close to zero.

Lu Zhi is not someone who is used to relying on miracles.

He chose to take every step and fight steadily, isolating Guangzong from the fact, forcing the Yellow Turbans in the city to go out for a decisive battle, thereby reducing their strength and reducing the difficulty of attacking the city.

In this way, the significance of sweeping the surrounding area is very important, sweeping away the surrounding Yellow Turban strongholds and putting them in a desperate situation. When the army in a desperate situation sees no hope, the probability of infighting is very high. .

So Lu Zhi intends to make full use of his own advantages.

At this time, Guo Peng, who made great achievements in killing Zhang Liang, was given a new mission by Lu Zhi.

Lu Zhi added 1000 cavalry to Guo Peng to join his Changshui cavalry, and then assigned [-] infantry to his command, asking him to directly command an army of [-] to attack a camp of the Yellow Turban Army.

There are about [-] Yellow Turbans in the camp.

"The Yellow Turbans are all foot soldiers, little cavalry, you have five hundred cavalry, you should make full use of your advantages, there is no more troops for you for the division, everything is up to you, I will give you seven days for the division."

Lu Zhi was so looking forward to it.

It was the first day of May, and Guo Peng nodded and left.

Zhang Jiao set up a lot of camps around Guangzong County, stationed troops and horses, so that they echoed with Guangzong County and could support each other.

Now that the Yellow Turbans in the city have been beaten, it is a good time to sweep these camps.

Guo Peng has proved his bravery and his ability to command 500 cavalry, but it will take time to verify whether he can command more troops. Lu Zhi has to test his teaching results.

Chapter 72 Guo Peng's Tactics

Guo Peng led his task, ordered 1000 soldiers and horses and corresponding ordnance, and took food, and slowly went to the camp he wanted to attack.

It was the first time that he led the army alone. Although there were only 1000 men under him, he still maintained a high degree of tension and vigilance.

The Yellow Turban military camp he was in charge of was on a hill, and the camp was set up along the hill, showing a commanding posture. Standing on the hill, he could overlook Guangzong County, the terrain was very good.

When Guo Peng marched, he happened to meet a Yellow Turban army of about 500 people coming down from the camp on the hill.

So Guo Peng immediately led the cavalry under his command to charge over, and the encounter on the plain made the Yellow Turban Army unable to even show its formation and was defeated by the Changshui cavalry.

Guo Peng beheaded more than a dozen people and wiped out this small army. About a few dozen of them escaped.

Guo Peng also captured more than a dozen people alive. From their mouths, he asked for information about more than [-] Yellow Turbans and some grain in the camp, as well as some information about where to get water and where to cut firewood in daily life.

Guo Peng then ordered them all to be killed.

With this good start, the confidence of the whole army has been significantly improved, and the newly recruited army under Guo Peng's command also has a higher degree of obedience to Guo Peng.

After that, Guo Peng personally led people to observe the surrounding environment.

Then, according to Guo Peng's command, the soldiers marched steadily to the place designated by Guo Peng and began to set up camp.

The place where Guo Peng camped was beside the river where the Yellow Turbans on the hill wanted to fetch water.

That's right, the gang chose a hill with no water source and put their camp on the hill.

There is only one mountain road that can be walked on the mountain. There is a river at the foot of the mountain, and water is drawn from the foot of the mountain, but there are no defensive measures here.

They made the same mistake as Ma Su.

People can live five to seven days without food, depending on the body fat reserves, they can live longer, but without water, they will be over in three days.

Condescending, like a broken bamboo.

To die and then to live.

The Art of War says this, but it's not used that way.

Guo Peng sneered at the Yellow Turban camp on the hill, and did not intend to attack it.

Cao Ren and Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan came to Guo Peng.

"Brother, why didn't you order the attack?"

The streak of consecutive battles seems to have given Cao Ren the idea that as long as he attacks, he can win.

Xiahou Dun seemed to have the same idea.

"Zifeng, did you find anything?"

Xiahou Yuan watched Guo Peng camp along the river and felt that there was something worth noting.

Guo Peng nodded.

"There is only this river in the surrounding area, and this is the only way down the mountain. If they want to get water, they can only get it from here."

Several people looked at each other and immediately understood what Guo Peng was doing.

Cut off water.

People can survive for a few days without food, and it is really terrible without drinking water. Therefore, when marching, fighting, and camping, you must basically choose to be close to the water source, or simply include the water source, otherwise, you will really be unable to survive.

Right now, the way the Yellow Turbans fetch water has been interfered by Guo Peng. If they want to fetch water, they must pass through Guo Peng's camp. This is a problem.

Guo Peng ordered the army to dig ditches, set up camps and set up shelters, and set up defensive facilities at the foot of the mountain, waiting for them to come down from the mountain. Five hundred cavalry were watching, waiting for them to come down from the mountain to fight in the field.

Guo Peng wiped out hundreds of people just now, and they dare not come down now.

Although they may have discovered that Guo Peng was cutting off their water supply by doing so.

But the fear of the cavalry would keep them from coming down.

It is not necessary to fetch water during the day, isn't it safer to fetch water at night?

Guo Peng also thought so.

So he ordered the army to take turns sleeping, with half sleeping during the day and half sleeping at night, keeping alert at all times.

During the day, the Yellow Turbans camp on the hill was in full force, and the camp gate was closed tightly, and no one came down.

That night, in the middle of the night, no one came down.

In the second half of the night, the Yellow Turbans on the mountain moved, and they came down to fetch water.

At this moment, Guo Peng was ambushing them with his troops and horses. They all ran to the river and began to fetch water. Guo Peng decisively ordered rockets to be ignited in the camp, and a sudden burst of shots made them cry and howl.

Then the Han army battalion shouted loudly, trumpeted the trumpet, and looked like they were about to attack. The Yellow Turbans who were fetching water suddenly became chaotic. You pushed me and ran away.

However, Guo Peng did not lead the army out, but only ordered the army to shoot arrows.

Then he led the soldiers back to sleep.

At dawn the next day, some of the Yellow Turbans were shot to death, trampled to death, rolled down from hills and smashed their heads on rocks and fell to their death, and some drowned in river water for some unknown reason. ...

There are 360 ​​corpses.

The Han army had no casualties.

In the afternoon of the second day, probably feeling that there was not enough water, the Yellow Turban officers on the mountain opened the gate of the village and began to use the prepared rolling wood to try to attack the Han army camp at the foot of the mountain.

As a result, the rolling distance was not enough, and the rolling wood stone was simply given to the Han army as a weapon.

The general of the Yellow Turbans was probably dumbfounded. In the end, there was nothing he could do. He could not sit back and watch the whole army die of thirst, so he rushed down with the Yellow Turbans to attack Guo Peng's camp.

Guo Peng was well prepared, and immediately ordered the army to shoot arrows, and then the swordsmen and the gunmen lined up to fight against the Yellow Turbans, and then the cavalry rushed out.

The superior cavalry rushed to kill two back and forth, and the Yellow Turban army, which was more numerous than the Han army, collapsed, and rushed to the cottage, closing the gate of the village and defending it.

They really couldn't beat the superior cavalry, and it was impossible to fight against the cavalry without forming an army formation.

After being defeated and fled, the Han army infantry chased up the mountain, but the Yellow Turban soldiers who stayed behind in the camp on the mountain blocked it with arrows, and the Han army lost some manpower.

Upon seeing this, Guo Peng immediately ordered the Han army infantry who had attacked the mountain to retreat.

In this battle, the Han army killed more than 500 people from the Yellow Turban Army, and the number of the Yellow Turban Army dropped to about [-], but they did not get water.

From then on until the evening, the Yellow Turbans organized several battles down the mountain to forcibly fetch water, but they were unsuccessful. They were repelled by the Han army's crossbows and cavalry, which consumed a lot of physical strength and water.

That night, they did not dare to come down to fetch water, probably because they were too scared to do anything.

On the third day, it was a sunny day and the temperature was quite high. When the sun rose overhead, the Yellow Turbans on the mountain sent people down, saying that they wanted to surrender to the Han army and ask the Han army to save their lives.

Guo Peng refused on the spot, beheaded him in front of the people on the cottage, and told the Yellow Turbans on the mountain to wash his neck and prepare to die.

Cao Ren and others did not understand why Guo Peng refused outright.

"Look at this person's lips, there is no chapped skin, it can be seen that they still have water to drink, so these people are not really surrendering, if they are thirsty and can't help it, they are really surrendering, not now, what they call surrender is just a It's just a conspiracy."

Only then did Cao Ren and others understand Guo Peng's intention.

When people are not exhausted, in most cases they will not give up the last ray of hope.

So the Han army continued to stick to the camp, waiting in full force, and cut off the Yellow Turban Army's way to get water. Two days later, the Yellow Turban Army went down the mountain twice to try to get water, and lost more than 200 corpses, and returned to the mountain.

This time, Guo Peng felt almost the same.

The lips of the Yellow Turban soldiers who came down the mountain were chapped and peeled, an obvious sign of lack of water.

They probably ran out of water to drink.

Chapter 73 The Turning Point of the Yellow Turban Rebellion

On the morning of the sixth day, the sun was shining brightly and the surface temperature was quite high.

So Guo Peng ordered the cavalry to dismount and rushed up the hill with the infantry to attack the Yellow Turban camp.

The Yellow Turbans tried to organize a resistance, but very few were able to fight, most of them could not draw the bow and could not lift the log and the rock, and the camp was quickly overrun by the Han army.

And when Guo Peng led his army into the camp, he found that many of the Yellow Turbans were too thirsty to fight, and not many people could stand up.

Guo Peng led his army to kill more than [-] Yellow Turbans and surrendered more than [-] people.

The main general of this camp was alive and well, but Guo Peng slashed and chopped off his head.

The task of attacking the camp was completed, and Guo Peng obtained some military supplies, more than 500 stones of corn and some livestock.

The troops under Guo Peng's command suffered very little casualties, with 51 infantry and 17 cavalry killed.

Small casualties exchanged for such a big victory. Guo Peng went to Lu Zhi to return to his life. Lu Zhi was very satisfied with Guo Peng's record and asked Guo Peng about the whole process.

After Guo Peng finished speaking, Lu Zhi expressed his satisfaction with Guo Peng's ability to observe the surrounding environment of the battlefield and calmly analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy and us.

Then he ordered Guo Peng to lead a thousand soldiers to attack another Yellow Turban camp.

This time Guo Peng met a Yellow Turban officer who wanted to confront the Han army, and then Guo Peng took his cavalry to teach him how to behave.

A dozen or so cavalry would dare to fight against [-] cavalry with rich combat experience in the Han army?

Guo Peng led the army to defeat the Yellow Turban army of about 500 people head-on, beheaded the Yellow Turban officer in a field battle, cut off his head, and returned to the Han army camp with more than 500 prisoners. Accepted Lu Zhi's praise.

Guo Peng feels that he can already command a thousand soldiers to deal with a considerable part of the military tasks. If there are only more soldiers, he is not afraid.

After this attack, some of Zhang Jiao's military strongholds on the periphery of Guangzong were wiped out by Guo Peng and other generals one by one, and none of them survived.

Lu Zhi then completed the siege of Guangzong County.

During this process, the main force of the Yellow Turbans in Guangzong City did not attack.

Zhang Jiao didn't know why, but he didn't choose to attack, which surprised Guo Peng.