The World of Yellow Sky

The red flag returned to Zhang He's back, and the armored cavalry of the Han army also swept the yellow turban knights who were blocking it. The sun came in from the front, and Zhang He suddenly saw a bright light.

only……

The overwhelming Yellow Turban infantry had already blocked the way of the Han army's armor and cavalry.

Chapter 65 Deviation

The sun was nearing dusk, and the afterglow of the setting sun shone on the outside of a messy gall pottery city.

The corpses of the soldiers of the Han army and the soldiers of the Yellow Turban army are stacked together, and the enemies in front of them are stacked one after another after death, which is simply ridiculous.

The continuous offensive of the Han army in the Yellow Turbans was repelled

At this moment, the high morale of the previous days in the Han army camp is no longer high. Today's Yellow Turban offensive is much more violent than the offensive of the previous two days. Thousands of county soldiers were indeed unable to stop the continuous onslaught of the Yellow Turbans.

Zhang He was sitting by the fire with his hair loose. He didn't know where the iron armor on his head was thrown. The blood on his hair had solidified, and it was formed into pieces. The robe on his body also changed from bright red to red. Dull blood red.

Of the 200 armored cavalry of the Han army under his command, there were only more than [-] people who rushed back to the Han army camp with him, and more than half of the knights were fighting in the daytime, and were broken by the spears and halberds of the yellow turban soldiers who came continuously. Down.

The sound of cha cha leaves came from behind Zhang He, Zhang He turned his head and found that it was Gao Lan who came back with his guards patrolling the camp.

Zhang He immediately stood up when he heard Gao Lan's voice.

Gao Lan came over with a serious look on his face. He leaned forward and said in a low voice, "There is something wrong with the situation. There seems to be some commotion in the Yellow Turban camp."

Before he finished speaking, a faint scream of killing appeared from the south of the Han army camp, and Zhang He and Gaolan changed their expressions.

Zhang He rolled over and jumped onto the warhorse beside the fire, and said to Gao Lan, "Jingzhi, I'm going to see the situation in the south, and the Central Army will be handed over to you."

"Don't worry, Jun Yi, the army has me." Gao Lan gave Zhang He a salute in return.

"Ugh——"

The dull horn sounded, the Han soldiers were well-trained, and they were not too flustered. What happened to the battalion, the Han army was gathering scattered under the command of officers at all levels. Zhang He rode his horse and crossed over. Team after team of Han troops were hastily assembled.

But when Zhang He rushed to the south, he found that there were no Yellow Turban soldiers rushing forward, and there was no fighting on the camp wall, and even the screams of killing disappeared from his ears.

Zhang He grabbed a team leader on the camp wall and asked with a gloomy face, "What's going on?"

The team leader of the Han army was attacked, and his heart was on fire, and he was suddenly pulled by someone. He was about to scold, but when he looked closely, he found that the person who came was Zhang He, so he immediately saluted and replied respectfully: "The cavalry of the Yellow Turbans was preparing to attack the camp, so the horn was blown."

While Zhang He was thinking about it, the sound of a horn suddenly came from the north. Zhang He also roughly understood what was going on. The Yellow Turban Army, relying on the advantage of the number of people, sent horse teams to harass them at night. Their main purpose was not to invade the camp. Instead, it consumes the energy of the Han army.

Although the Han army has superior equipment and strong combat power, it is inconvenient to fight at night, and the Yellow Turbans have an advantage in numbers, which can completely harass them in rotation.

Originally, they were stationed outside the city to intimidate these Yellow Turbans, so they couldn't escape easily, but I didn't expect that there would be some people in the Yellow Turbans who would make some tricks. It was night time when they returned to the city, so I'm afraid it would be a bit late.

"These dogs are killing talents!"

It was too difficult to fight at night. Zhang He had already lost nearly three hundred cavalry.

The harassment of the Yellow Turbans continued until the early hours of the morning, and almost half of the Han army did not get any rest.

Zhang He was fully armed, and the knights under his command also put on armor, but the strange thing was that no one came out to fight in the camp of the Yellow Turban Army.

Time passed little by little, and it was noon, but the main camp of the Yellow Turbans was still closed.

Only at this time did Zhang He and Gao Lan realize that the Yellow Turbans had all retreated last night.

Gao Lan Tieqing looked at the deserted Yellow Turban military camp.

"Send a letter to the messenger, and the Yellow Turban Army in Yingtao City fled north in the direction of Zhending."

……

On the official road to the north, it was crowded with a brigade of Yellow Turban soldiers and horses, who were marching ahead of Zhending in the north.

Due to the Starry Night March, many people with weak physical strength fell at the end of the team.

Zhang Yan took the yellow turban army's horse team and hung at the rear of the team. He personally brought his soldiers to the rear of the main force.

Many Yellow Turban soldiers left behind along the road, sitting or lying along the road, Zhang Yan and the others just passed by them silently and did not stay.

Zhang Yan knew that the county soldiers in Hebei were not the only one outside the city of Yingtao. They were really Zhang Yan's hometown. The Han army found that the Yellow Turbans had withdrawn, and they would definitely not sit back and watch the group of Yellow Turbans safely withdraw to Zhending.

What Zhang Yan has to do now is to race against time. Only by outrunning the Han army that followed closely can he survive, and then talk about the future aesthetic grand dominance.

After Huangfusong received Gao Lan's news, he immediately sent Yan Liangwen Chou and 500 soldiers from each county to stop Zhang Yan in the direction of Zhending.

However, Zhang Yan had long thought of the possible interception of the Han army. He did not go to Zhending, but sent a fast horse to order Zhending's troops to leave early and move closer to the direction of Jingjing.

Yan Liang and Wen Chou made a futile attempt at Zhending, and not long after they received the news that Zhang Yan had diverted to Taihang Mountain from scout Zhang He.

When the two Han armies joined forces on the official road, Zhang Yan had already set foot on the official road to Jingjing with his troops.

……

What Xu An didn't know was that Zhang Liang did not die in Guangzong, but was captured by Zhang He instead.

History began to deviate quietly. Zhang He did not remain anonymous after the Yellow Turban Rebellion as before, but became famous.

Zhang He was dispatched by Huangfu Song as the main general, and even Huangfu Song dispatched elite troops to this general who made military exploits in the uprising against the Yellow Turbans, so this Han army supporting Yingtao City was not like the historical They were defeated the same way, but instead they followed the trail of Zhang Yan's troops on their backs.

In history, after Zhang Yan evacuated from Yingtao City, because the Han army was unable to encircle and suppress it, he wandered for a while in Zhending, and then swaggered into the Taihang Mountains and started the road to unify the Taihang Mountains.

And because Zhang Yan did not defeat the Han army outside the city of Yingtao, Huangfu Song sent Yan Liang and Wen Chou to attack Zhending, wanting to completely destroy the chaotic Yellow Turban army.

The two Han armies joined forces in one place, with more than 1000 Han army armored cavalry and [-] Han army county soldiers.

There are also Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Zhang He, Gao Lan, the four famous generals collectively known as Hebei Sitingzhu in later generations, who followed closely behind Zhang Yan's Yellow Turban Army.

At this time, Xu An, who was at Jingxing Pass, was still at a loss.

Chapter 66 Zhang Yan's Problem

Dense crowds were carrying various military flags and were walking eastward along the official road.

Most of them had sad faces on their faces, with a lifeless and lifeless appearance, as they walked eastward like corpses.

There was a sudden sound of hooves ahead.

A knight with a negative feather on his back and a yellow turban on his head was galloping on his horse, and there was a commotion in the crowd.

"Military emergency report, the blocker is dead!"

The knight raised the blood-red cavalry in his hand, and regardless of the crowd in front of him, he didn't slow down his horse at all, and rushed straight towards the crowd with his whip vigorously.

The sergeants who were marching on the official road hurriedly dodged, the crowd crowded and squeezed, some were pushed to the ground, some hurriedly ran forward, and stepped on the fallen person.

There was a flutter of chickens and dogs in the team, and the originally scattered queue became more chaotic.

It was not until the marching queue was stagnant because of chaos that officers at all levels began to yell at the sergeant.

The chaotic sergeants in the queue also shouted and scolded the distant messengers, and all the foul language from all over the place rushed out.

Zhang Yan had already returned to the central army to control the overall situation at this time, but he also specially left behind his own horse team and elite infantry troops, not the original Zhang Niujiao subordinates.

"Military emergency report, the blocker is dead!"

The shouting of the messenger reached Zhang Yan's ears. Zhang Yan followed the sound and saw that a knight with a messenger was coming upstream from the crowd not far away.

The messenger saw Zhang Yan's banner being refreshed, and he whipped the horse's stock a few more times.

The guards on Zhang Yan's left and right immediately stepped forward and stopped in front of Zhang Yan. A dozen spears had been stretched out, and the knights behind them also raised their swords.

Fortunately, the knight who sent the order wasn't stupid enough to attack Zhang Yan's personal guards, so he rolled over and dismounted directly in front of the personal guards, holding the flag in both hands and raising it above his head.

"Report to the general, Jingxing Pass has changed hands, and the red flags are not seen, but only yellow flags."

"what?!"

Hearing the scout's report, Zhang Yan felt a shock in her head and almost fell off her horse. After shaking a few times, she stabilized her body on the horse.

If a group of thieves in the mountains occupy Jingxing Pass, not too many, as long as two to three thousand people, they can be stuck outside the pass.

At that time, I am afraid that all the more than 3 people under his command will be left under Jingxing Pass by the follow-up Han army, and then there will be several more "Jingguan" cast under Huangfusong's name.

"Yellow flag..."

After a while, Zhang Yan remembered the yellow flag that the messenger said.

Could it be the Yellow Turban army that Zhang Niujiao said before his death that occupied the middle of the Taihang Mountains.

The army that can capture Jingxing and still carry the yellow flag is most likely to be Xu An's subordinates.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yan's brows couldn't help frowning. Although Zhang Niujiao had explained that he had a token, Liu Pi and Gong probably wouldn't embarrass them, but Zhang Niujiao and Xu An had no friendship.

There are more than 3 troops under his command. If Zhang Yan is placed in Xu An's position, he probably won't easily let an army that can match him pass the test.

Sweat dripped from Zhang Yan's forehead, and things started to get tricky.

Now Jingxing is not just the checkpoint guarded by a solitary army of 500 people, at least there are thousands of people in the pass.

Moreover, Jingxing is easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is called a majestic pass. Even if there is no Han army behind him, I am afraid that the soldiers under Jingxing will be killed and injured.

The Han army behind them hangs tightly behind them like a bone-eroding scorpion. Just waiting for Zhang Yan to reveal their flaws, they will pounce like a pack of wolves and tear the army to pieces.

Now the problem is in front of Zhang Yan. He has fallen into a situation of being a wolf before a tiger. Under the current situation, it is almost impossible to capture Jingxing. To enter the Taihang Mountains, he can only submit to Xu An.

The Han army in the rear pursued very urgently. Although the specific force is unknown, I am afraid that it is only a lot more than when outside the city of Yingtao, otherwise they would not dare to pursue such a deep pursuit.

The generals of the Han army were not scumbags either. There were many horses to explore, and they were distributed seven or eight miles away. Han Jun, this is almost impossible to do.

The generals behind Zhang Yan were silent, and they did not expect such a situation.

Zhang Yan got off his horse, pointed at a guard and said, "Take a map of the mountains and rivers."

"promise!"

The guard responded, quickly unwrapped the package on his back, and pulled out a map wrapped in silk. Several guards unloaded a desk from the horse and placed it in front of Zhang Yan.

Zhang Yan pointed at the map, frowned and observed the mountains and rivers near Jingxing Pass, fell into deep thought, and kept moving her hands on the map, as if she was thinking about something.

The sergeants on the official road were still marching, and the noisy voices kept echoing in Zhang Yan's ears.A group of generals held their breath and stayed beside Zhang Yan, waiting for Zhang Yan's order.

After a while, Zhang Yan's fingers finally stopped by the beach outside Jingxing Pass, where there were several low mountains, and from there, the terrain began to rise.

Zhang Yan put away the map with a scroll, and made up his mind.

He looked at the group of generals and commanders surrounding him and ordered: "First set up camp here, the generals and their families are all placed in the innermost camp, the situation is unclear at the moment, first find out which force is in the pass, and then do other things, everyone. Any objection?"

"But at the command of the general."

The attitude of the generals and the school is now very respectful. Zhang Yan has come all the way, and he is resolute, expecting the enemy to come first.

Giving them enough respect, plus changing their surname, has completely won their loyalty.

Zhang Yan looked at the crowd surrounded by Yiyan unobtrusively, and felt a little settled. Although he had more than 3 soldiers under his command in name, there were 6000 to [-] family members in the army.

Moreover, the combat effectiveness of the army is far less than that of the county soldiers chasing after them.

Zhang Yan put away the map, and the generals at all levels returned to the queue, and then the sound of trumpets and drums sounded all over the team, and various military flags were waved wildly.

The men and horses of the brigade suddenly accelerated their marching speed along the official road, merged into the big river like a stream, and then rushed towards Jingxing Pass.

Zhang Yan looked up at the sky, the sun gradually dimmed, and half of the sun was hidden between the mountains.

The sky was rendered like blood by the sunset.

Chapter 67 Eve

Just [-] miles away, the Han army was lined up in a neat formation and marching forward.

In front of the Han army line, there are groups of Han army sentries whizzing past, and there are even many armored horses roaming on the two wings of the line, so there is no need to worry about ambushes anywhere.

Yan Liang and Wen Chou handed over all the infantry under Gao Lan to commander Gao Lan. The two led the vanguard cavalry in front, Zhang He followed closely, and finally Gao Lan commanded the main force of the Han army.

"I heard that Zhang Junyi fought at night in the forest of Quyang, and even killed seven or eight yellow turban generals, and even captured Zhang Liang, the general of Ren Gong. I didn't expect that it was only a small defeat for Ying Tao, and his courage was much weaker."

Yan Liang rode on the battle horse, looking casually at the end of the road ahead with a slightly disdainful tone.

That Zhang He was designated by Huangfu Song as the main general for this battle. Because Ying Tao was defeated for a while, he was a little afraid of the ambush of the Yellow Turbans, so he slowed down his march.

Earlier, Yan Liang proposed to send a light cavalry to bite the tail of the Yellow Turbans' rear troops, but this proposal was rejected by Zhang He.

"Be careful."

Wen Chou and Yan Liang have different views.

"Zhang He and Gao Lan, neither of them are wine sacks and rice sacks."

"Then Chu Feiyan was able to appease the rest of Zhang Niujiao in just two days. I also expected that General Huangfu would send us to intercept their route to Zhending. Naturally, he is extraordinary. I think Zhang Junyi's arrangement is more appropriate."