The World of Yellow Sky

The camp of the Yellow Turban Army boiled against the sky, and the drums sounded

On the tower of Kuicheng, Wang En didn't sleep all night. He stood on the tower wearing Zhu Jun's armor all night.

Zhu Jun's fiery red banner still stood on the city wall. The news that Zhu Jun had left Kuicheng was only known to a few generals in the army.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The sound of rumbling war drums echoed in the wilderness, and the Yellow Turban Army outside the city had already begun to gather.

Wang En looked at the mighty Yellow Turban army below the city tower, and Wang En had a panoramic view of the large area of ​​fire in the east last night. Wang En knew in his heart that Zhu Jun had probably encountered an accident.

Wang En couldn't imagine what the consequences would be if the defenders in Sunflower City knew that Zhu Jun was no longer in Sunflower City.

Now the Han army in the city knew that the night attack last night had failed, and their morale was low, and they didn't see many people returning to the camp, so they became suspicious.

The Yellow Turban army is mighty, and at every hour and hour, the army formation of the Yellow Turban Army has spread out in the south and east of Kuicheng.

As early as when Xu An decided to go south to fight Zhu Jun's decisive battle with the Han army in Hanoi, he sent a letter to Tianjing Pass immediately.

Let the defenders of Tianjing Pass build siege equipment, and now all kinds of siege equipment are readily available, all brought from Tianjing Pass on the day of the expedition.

It is to consider the situation if the Han army defends Kuicheng.

"Ugh——"

The horns of the Yellow Turban Army came from afar, and a yellow turban cavalry with red flags flying out from the formation of the Yellow Turban Army.

The Han troops guarding the city wall looked at the strange Yellow Turban cavalry in surprise, and Wang En followed suit.

It's just that the closer the cavalry was, the more ugly Wang En's face became.

The red flags held by the cavalrymen of the Yellow Turban Army were all flags dropped by the Han army.

The most eye-catching in the cavalry is a fiery red general flag, which is exactly Sun Jian's general flag.

The voices of people on the wall of Kuicheng gradually became noisy, and all the guarding Han soldiers looked at the city in horror.

That's Sun Jian!That is the fierce tiger of Jiangdong!

Sun Jian, who was invincible and bravely crowned the three armies, beheaded countless generals and captured flags during the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

While they were discussing, a knight of the Yellow Turban Army suddenly stepped out of the cavalry formation. Wang En took a closer look and clenched the railing with both hands.

The yellow scarf knight dragged a man with a rope behind his horse, and that man was wearing Zhu Jun's armor!

"The head of Zhu Jun is here! Why don't you come down early to avoid the suffering of swordsmen!"

The Han army on the city wall also recognized Zhu Jun's armor.

"Isn't that the general..."

A chief of the Han army trembled like he was sifting chaff. He looked at the man under the city wall who was being dragged by the knight horse of the Yellow Turban Army, and he could barely speak.

"Isn't the general on the tower? And the big banners are there..."

Another Han soldier had a frightened face, but he also looked puzzled when he looked at the man in Zhu Jun's armor on the tower.

"Blind your dog's eyes, the general is above the city tower, and the armor under the city wall is just a trick of the 'moth thief' sorcerer. Don't be fooled by their sorcery!"

A soldier of the Han army walked quickly across his sword, and shouted loudly, stopping the hustle and bustle here, but the noise of people in other places became louder and louder.

Wang En didn't dare to go down to inspect the army at this time, no better than patrolling the camp at night, and his face could be seen clearly during the day.

Most of the sergeants in Kuicheng knew Zhu Jun's face. As long as Wang En stepped off the tower, everyone would show his face when they saw his face, and then they would know that Zhu Jun was dead.

I'm afraid that the Han army in Kuicheng will collapse in just a moment before the Yellow Turban army comes to attack.

"Order the bed crossbow to fight back! Pass the order, this is the sorcery of the Yellow Turban Army, and the soldiers of all ministries must not be fooled by it."

Wang En immediately made a decision and gave orders loudly.

The messengers with the command flags on their backs passed down Wang En's general orders, and the only bed crossbows on the city wall were pulled away by the strongmen of the Han army.

Outside Kuicheng City, Xu An also saw Zhu Jun's big banner, as well as the figure wearing Zhu Jun's armor on the tower.

"Didn't Zhu Jun be beheaded by the lord yesterday, then this tower?"

Xu Huang looked at Zhu Jun on the tower with a puzzled expression, and asked involuntarily.

Yan Zhong followed Xu An, looked at the city wall of Sunflower City and explained to Gong Du: "That must be someone in the city wearing Zhu Jun's armor, pretending that Zhu Jun is still in the army."

"If it wasn't for the lord's insight to see through Zhu Jun's retreat plan, I'm afraid we would really think that the person above this tower is Zhu Jun himself."

"Shadow Warrior, it's interesting..." Xu An led the claret horse before the army formation, and now he really doubted whether it was Zhu Jun he killed at night.

The man in Zhu Jun's armor on the tower reminded Xu An of a later movie - "Shadow Warrior".

The background of the movie is the Warring States period in Japan. Takeda Shingen defeated the coalition forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu, but died in the army.

At a critical moment, several retainers secretly found a thief who looked exactly like Shingen and pretended to be Shingen to stabilize the morale of the army, and the story lasted for three years

Xu An scanned the walls of Kuicheng with eagle eyes, carefully observing the defense situation of the Han army.

Sending cavalry to demonstrate under the city with captured military flags did a great blow to the morale of the Han army in the city.

But the defenders in the city reacted quickly. Although the bed crossbow on the wall of Kuicheng city did not hit the knights of the Yellow Turban Army who went to demonstrate.

The knights of the Yellow Turban Army didn't dare to stay too long, and they retreated and left the city of Kuicheng before the second round of crossbow arrows arrived.

Due to the distance, no one could see the face of Zhu Jun's leader clearly, so after a brief commotion.

The Han army in Kuicheng still regained their calm. They all believed that Zhu Jun would not just die like this.

"Although the Han army in the city is in disarray, they think that the main general is still there, and they still have the strength to fight."

After Yan Zhong frowned and thought for a moment, he said to Xu An.

"I thought this was the right time to withdraw troops."

Without waiting for Xu An's words, the impatient Gong Du objected.

"We have won a series of victories, and it is time to wipe out the Han army in Kuicheng in one fell swoop. Why should we retreat at this time?!"

When Xu Huang heard Yan Zhong's words, he also looked at Yan Zhong with some doubts.

"The Zhu Jun on the tower must be a fake. This time, our army has fought fiercely with the Han army in Hanoi for several times, and it is already hurting. Now that our army has killed Zhu Jun and defeated the Han army in Hanoi, why bother to fight for it?" This fake Zhu Jun lost more sergeants?"

"The most urgent task at the moment is to gather the army and enter Shangdang County."

"Then what if this Zhu Jun is real?"

Xu An's eyebrows twitched, he really doubted if this was Zhu Jun's scheme.

It was Zhu Jun's act of abandoning the car to save the commander, which made him think that he had killed Zhu Jun, and then achieved his goal. He was unwilling to damage the sergeant, gave up the siege, and returned to Taihang Mountain after looting.

But Xu An also knew that this was probably impossible, unless Zhu Jun knew that Xu An went south to the Taihang Mountains, and the purpose of the decisive battle with him was purely for fame.

Instead of the previous Yellow Turban Rebellion, Bocai attacked Changshe, intending to invade Sili, attack Luoyang, shake the rule of the Han Empire, or plunder Hanoi County.

But Xu An's heart was still a little shaken, what if Zhu Jun really saw through his thoughts, what if the Zhu Jun on the tower was the real one?

After experiencing all kinds of things here, Xu An no longer dared to underestimate anyone in this era, let alone the three famous generals at the end of Han Dynasty in history.

Xu An looked at "Zhu Jun" on the tower for a while, really hesitant.

Chapter 149 Siege

The fierce battle outside Kui City had indeed seriously reduced the number of sergeants under Xu An's command.

The Yellow Turban Army under Xu An first fought with the Han army led by Zhu Jun in the wilderness of Kuicheng, and then after a brief rest, they launched an offensive to clear the Han army camp outside Kuicheng.

According to Yan Zhong's statistics, the most casualties in the Yellow Turban Army are the pawns and sharp soldiers of the Xincheng Army.

To this day, only 100 soldiers from the Yellow Turban Army's Military Soldiers Battalion can fight, and 900 soldiers from the Ruishi Battalion.

Of the more than [-] sharp soldiers sent by the Chinese army to support the right army of the Yellow Turban Army, there were only more than [-] soldiers left. The company Sima Huang San died in battle.

The right army of the Yellow Turban Army led by Yu Du was broken through by the sharp soldiers of the Han Army led by Huang Gai in the field battle.

Today, there are only [-] soldiers who can fight.

Under the command of Zhang Yan, the left army of the Yellow Turban Army was no match for the right army of the Han army. In addition, Zhang Yan's dispatch was orderly, and the casualties were not large.

But when the Han army attacked Xizhai outside Kuicheng later, the left army led by Zhang Yan assumed the main attack responsibility, so there were nearly 2000 casualties.

That is to say, the Yellow Turban Army under Xu An used to have more than 31000 people, but now there are still more than 24000 people who can still fight.

In the past two days, the Yellow Turban Army has suffered a total of more than 7000 casualties. In this era, trauma such as swords has a very high mortality rate.

Even some high-ranking generals may die due to injuries, let alone these ordinary sergeants.

Although there is no shortage of herbs in the Taihang Mountains, there is an extreme shortage of doctors. Xu An also found some people to serve as military doctors.

But most of these doctors are only familiar with pharmacology, and it is simply impossible for them to deal with complicated trauma.

Therefore, most of the wounded sergeants of the Yellow Turban Army may die.

When Xu An was in the wounded camp of the Yellow Turban Army in Guangzong City, many people in the wounded camp were carried out of the camp every day.

They either died from infection, or from bursting wounds, and maybe even died from pain.

The Fu Zhu of the Yellow Turban Army under Zhang Jiao's command who took care of the wounded soldiers was much more skilled than the military doctors recruited by Xu An who were proficient in pharmacology, but they still couldn't save everyone.

Even in later generations, the level of medical care rose sharply, but the mortality rate of wounded soldiers remained high. It was not until the discovery of penicillin that the mortality rate of wounded soldiers decreased.

The loss of troops was too great, which is why Yan Zhong suggested that Xu An return to the Shangdang after capturing Zhu Jun's head and achieving his goal, and gave up continuing to destroy the Han army in the city.

Although the Han army in Kuicheng should have only 7000 people left, although the city defense is weak and morale is low.

However, the Yellow Turban Army's attack this time will at least lose 3000 to [-] people.

Moreover, even if the Han army in Kuicheng was completely wiped out, Hanoi County would not be able to defend it and become Xu An's foundation. Hanoi's geographical location determined that Xu An could not defend at all.

If Xu An has the power to occupy Hanoi County, then he can now take down Luoyang, the capital of the Han Empire.

It is a pity that neither Taihang Yellow Turban logistics nor military strength can support Xu An to occupy Hanoi County.

Although Xu An still has more than [-] people, if he dares to invade Luoyang, not to mention that Luoyang still has guards, high walls and moats.

Just relying on Qin Wang's army coming to aid from all walks of life is enough to swallow all Xu An's troops.

Taihang Yellow Turban's family background is really too thin. Self-sufficiency in Taihang Mountain is very good, and it cannot support the army at all.

Today's residents of Taihang Mountain even sometimes need the help of the Yellow Turban Army to survive.

This is also one of the reasons why Yan Zhong never forgets about Shangdang.

Shangdang County is almost surrounded by mountains, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. The center is the Changzhi Basin and Jincheng Basin which are suitable for farming.

Its land is a battleground for military strategists, and it is known as "If you win the party, you can hope to win the Central Plains".

Xu An lightly pulled the reins, stopped the bay red horse's uneasy tread, looked back at the crowd and said in a deep voice: "Whether Zhu Jun in the city is real or not, I will take down Sunflower City!"

"I don't know if you still remember what I said at Tianjing Pass before."

Xu An looked around at the crowd and raised his left hand high.

"I said, I want to build a Han army's capital in Kuicheng! It's just like what Huangfu Song did in Guangzong and Xiaquyang!"

Xu An made a fist with his left hand and swung it down suddenly.

Under the big khaki-colored banner, the clear and crisp wooden whistle sounded suddenly, and the four ordered the flag to wave.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The high-spirited battle drums were beaten by the yellow scarf warriors with upper bodies.

The next moment, the formation of the Yellow Turban Army outside Kuicheng slowly moved forward, and the sound of chants sounded like mountains and seas in front of the formation.

The sergeant of the Yellow Turban Army pushed the huge crash car, and the ladder suddenly started to accelerate.

The tall Jinglan marched at the forefront of the Yellow Turban Army's formation, although the craftsmanship of the Yellow Turban Army was not as good as that of the craftsmen of the Han Army.

However, the city wall of Kuicheng is only more than four meters high, and the Yellow Turban Army can still make the well fence five or six meters high.

After all, there are indeed many craftsmen in Taihang Mountain, and when Xu An withdrew from Jinyang City before, he also kidnapped a group of craftsmen in Jinyang City.

On the tall well rails, there are more than forty crossbowmen of the Yellow Turban Army standing on the top of each well rail.

The pressure brought by these wells to the Han army in Kuicheng is undoubtedly huge. When the wells enter, the enemy can shoot them condescendingly.

However, the Han army did not have any effective bunkers to cover them in the city. The enemy's Jinglan was undoubtedly effective in terms of killing and psychological suppression.

Although the rocket posed a huge threat to Jing Lan, Wang En never expected that the Yellow Turban Army would have such a siege tool as Jing Lan.

These wells should have been smuggled into the camp yesterday night by the Yellow Turban Army.