The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 702 Nightfall
"Since the Yizhou army has all entered the urn, there is no need for us to give them a chance to breathe."

Xu An put down the binoculars in his hand, and under the lens, the Yizhou army on the city wall was moving back and forth nervously. Some people were already helping them to attack the city before destroying it.

They began to destroy the mounds, and the ladder carts firmly embedded in the city walls.

But all they did was in vain. Not long after they climbed the city wall, when the Yellow Turban Army appeared on the left and right sides, and Ren Xian ordered the Yizhou Army to enter the city quickly, there were still many east and west soldiers on the city wall. State soldiers are resisting.

Relying on the city tower, relying on the urn city, and relying on the parapet wall, those Dongzhou soldiers stubbornly competed with them for every inch of land above the city wall, refusing to give up an inch.

The deaths of Deng Xian and Leng Bao made the Dongzhou soldiers fear Gan Ning, but Gan Ning had only one person, and he could not separate many clones to support the soldiers in other places. Therefore, the entire southern city wall of Chengdu until the Yellow Turban Army had already When the soldiers approached the city, less than two miles away from the city, the Yizhou army completely controlled the entire southern city wall of Chengdu.

And this situation also led to the fact that the Yizhou army didn't know where the defense equipment was placed. They managed to find some defense equipment, but they couldn't do a lot of damage to the ladder vehicles outside the city wall.

The bed crossbows and trebuchets used to defend the city had been damaged a lot during their attack, and many of them were destroyed by the soldiers rushing up the city wall with swords. After all, if they were driven off the city wall again, these bed crossbows and Catapults will do a lot of damage to them.

The soldiers of the Yizhou Army would never have dreamed that the Yellow Turban Army would descend from the sky like magic soldiers, appearing so abruptly behind them, cutting off their retreat.

Facing the yellow turban army advancing like a mountain outside the city, all the soldiers of the Yizhou Army on the south wall of Chengdu also fell into a short-term panic. Gan Ning was not good at commanding large-scale troops. He is good at fighting in battle formations and beheading generals before battles, but he has little experience in commanding large armies. He was previously appointed as a vanguard by Ren Xian, but in fact he is the lieutenant general that Ren Xian arranged for him to command the large army.

The panic soon subsided, and Ren Xian entered the city to take over the power of command. As one order after another was issued from the tower, the Yizhou Army regained its sanity and morale, and was assembled again.

This is not because of the excellent quality of the Yizhou army, but mainly because they stand on the city wall. Although there are siege equipment from the county outside, they still have something to cover them and make them feel safe.

Field battles and city defense battles are completely two concepts.

In field battles, very few troops can persevere after suffering a large number of casualties. Throughout the ages, bloody battles have never retreated, and very few troops have fought to the death.

However, in the battle of defending the city, all the defenders often died in battle, and there were cases where the whole army died in the city. Apart from the belief in defending the country, it was more because of the city wall.

However, even if Ren Xian took over Gan Ning's command, the Yizhou army tried their best to destroy the siege equipment and mounds outside the city, but with little success.

The yellow turban army outside the city was getting closer and closer to them, and countless khaki-colored flags fluttering in the strong wind outside the city of Chengdu gathered together, just like the endless forest seas of the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

"Tiger!"

In the Yellow Turban Army's "Infantry Exercise Code", they call "tiger" three times before the battle.

The first sound of tiger, the whole army is ready to fight; the second sound of tiger, the whole army starts to march; the third sound of tiger, the whole army is fighting hard.

The Yellow Turban Army shouted "Tiger" once at the first whistle, three whistles, and "Tiger" three times.

When the sound of the tiger falls, there is no retreat, there is death but no life, and those who retreat without permission will be cut immediately.

This is already the second "tiger".

Outside the city of Chengdu, a large number of Yellow Turbans are lined up in a tight formation. Under the leadership of generals and schools at all levels, they are moving forward quickly. The soldiers of the Yellow Turbans in the front have even boarded the well outside the city that was abandoned by the Yizhou Army. above the appendix.

The soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army are all good archers in the army, and the soldiers brought by Xu An this time are all selected from a hundred without exception.

The archers of the Yellow Turban Army who had just boarded the Jinglan just calmed down for a while, then drew their bows and fired arrows, condescendingly shooting towards the panicked Yizhou Army that had begun to appear on the city wall.

They were not shooting aimlessly. On each well fence, there was a yellow scarf army with a flag on his back and feathers on his helmet leading the surrounding archers to shoot where.

The positions they chose were very ruthless, either the Yizhou Army who was carrying the siege equipment, or the soldiers of the Yizhou Army who were lined up in the ladder carts, or in front of the mound.

The dense rain of arrows like locusts suddenly poured down towards the pass, and the Yizhou army on the city wall suffered heavy casualties for a while, and they were shot by arrows and fell into a pool of blood.

Occasionally, during the flight, the whistling dysprosium pierced the air and made a sharp piercing sound, which made all the soldiers of the Yizhou army panic. come empty.

On the city wall, the crossbowmen of the Yizhou Army also launched a counterattack against the archers of the Yellow Turban Army on the Jinglan outside the city. Simply take it easy.

These Yizhou siege weapons arranged by the Yizhou Army outside the city have thus become their enemies' big killers against them.

Those who were sent to Jinglan were not only ordinary archers among the Yellow Turban Army, but also a group of sharpshooters with superb archery skills and armor-piercing arrows.

Some of these sharpshooters are superb archers from the Bingzhou Army of the Yellow Turban Army, while the other part is from the nomadic tribes such as the Wuhuan tribe in Shanggu, the former Southern Xiongnu tribe, Xianbei in the west, and Qiangdi in Liangzhou. The sharpshooter and eagle shooter recruited in the middle.

The army of the Yellow Turban Army is filled with a large number of barbarians.

Some of them were organized into an army alone, and some were mixed together, but without exception, these recruited soldiers were all warriors and outstanding people among the tribes.

This conscription system can not only enhance the combat power of the Yellow Turban Army, but also further weaken the strength of these subordinate tribes. When the elite of a nomadic tribe are recruited, and only ordinary herdsmen are left, they will Without much ability to resist, they could only gather under the banner of the Yellow Turban Army.

Moreover, Xu An didn't treat the recruited Hu Bing as cannon fodder, and he never stingy with rewarding official positions.

Although it is impossible to obtain wealth through looting, Xu An has always been fair in dealing with rewards and punishments.

In addition, Xu An led the Yellow Turban Army and almost defeated the Southern Huns, Western Xianbei, Han Sui and Ma Teng with a sweeping force. This also made Xu An's prestige among the nomadic tribes in the territory almost climb to the top.

On the grassland, the strong can get everything, and the warrior is the most revered.

With the widespread spread of Taiping Dao, the tribes in the grassland also began to believe in Taiping Dao, and after Taiping Dao entered the grassland, those tribesmen who believed in it consciously incorporated their original primitive beliefs into it.

The Shanyu of the Huns was previously called the Shanyu of the Supporting Ligutu.

"Support plow" means "heaven" in the Xiongnu language, "Gutu" means "son" and "Shanyu" means "broad".

The rulers of the Xiongnu in the past dynasties all have this title, and this title represents the supremacy among the Xiongnu.

Now all the tribes on the grassland that belong to the Taiping Road call Xu An not a great virtuous teacher, but "supporting the plow and Shanyu", directly omitting "Gutu", which is similar to what happened in the later Tang Dynasty. wonderful.

Not long after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin made great efforts to govern and sent troops outside the Great Wall to conquer the Turks. All ethnic groups on the grassland expressed their submission and added heaven in front of the Khan, making Li Shimin the "Heavenly Khan", expressing unprecedented awe and obedience.

Under the well fence, a large number of soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army who maintained a loose formation, pointing to their swords and shields, walked forward quickly. They did not fall in the position of the queen mother, and the archers on the well fence were facing Yizhou above the city wall. When the army launched an offensive, they soon arrived at the foot of Chengdu City.

With the cover of their own archers above the well, they barely received much obstruction, and they successfully reached the city of Chengdu.

"call out------"

A sharp cry rose into the sky.

Next to the big flag, the flag is held high and the flag is flying.

"Tiger!!!"

Outside the city, countless infantry of the Yellow Turban Army roared in unison.

"kill!"

When the sound of the tiger falls, there is no retreat, there is death but no life!
"kill!!"

After the third sound of the tiger fell, outside the city of Chengdu, hundreds of soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army boarded the ladder carts with grab hooks firmly embedded in the city wall. Wearing the war robes of the scriptures, holding the ring sword in their hands, they charged at the forefront of the team. Their bravery also aroused the morale of the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army behind them.

Outside the city of Chengdu, thousands of soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army launched an attack on the city wall along the siege equipment that the Yizhou Army had worked so hard to build.

Xu An didn't make any more tentative attacks, but launched everything as soon as he came up.

Pang De and Ma Chao each led more than [-] yellow angels to attack the city wall of Chengdu from the two mounds built in Yizhou.

Although the soldiers of the Yizhou Army tried their best to destroy the mound, they only made the height of the mound a little bit, and it became flush with the city wall.

However, such measures could not delay the Yellow Turban Army for too long. The Yizhou Army entered Chengdu City under the command of Ren Xian, but they still left behind a large amount of supplies outside the city.

Among them, those baskets filled with sand and bamboo baskets are one of the leftover materials.

When the Yellow Turban Army appeared on both sides of the Yizhou Army, apart from the soldiers in the siege sequence, there were nearly [-] people under Ren Xian's command, and he left more than [-] people to guard the camp.

With so many soldiers, including many auxiliary soldiers and surrendered soldiers, although the gates of Chengdu City were wide open, it took a lot of effort.

Therefore, Ren Xian actually discarded a large amount of supplies and bought time, so that he was able to lead nearly [-] troops into Chengdu before the arrival of the Yellow Turban Army.

But these discarded supplies became a great boost to the Yellow Turban Army.

"what!"

"Be careful of the archers on the well, raise your shield!"

With the large-scale attack of the Yellow Turban Army, a group of Yizhou Army generals on the city wall also received a military order from Ren Xian. They led their personal guards to the front line and commanded the Yizhou Army on the city wall to launch a counterattack. The Yellow Turban Army who ascended the city rushed down the city wall.

And at this moment, on the well fence outside the city, a group of sharpshooters equipped with strong bows and armor-piercing arrows suddenly attacked at this moment.

The military order Xu An gave them was to shoot and kill the generals of the enemy army, and leave the other ordinary soldiers alone.

Those armor-piercing arrows shot by the strong bow were caught in the rain of arrows and shot towards the city wall.

A Yizhou Army Marquis wearing iron armor and feathers on his head stood on the city wall and loudly commanded his soldiers, with several guards standing beside him holding tower shields , looking around vigilantly.

When the sound of piercing the sky sounded, the Junhou of the Yizhou Army's heart suddenly tightened, and the sound of piercing the sky rang in his ears!

The Marquis of the Yizhou Army was eager to bow his head, but he didn't have time to lower his head at all, and a fine iron feather arrow shining with cold light had already shot through his fragile neck.

"Well----"

The Marquis of the Yizhou Army covered his neck, he didn't know what happened, he only felt that there seemed to be a lot of liquid flowing on his neck.

He raised his hand, wanting to grab the shoulder of the bodyguard in front of him, wanting to keep standing as much as possible, but unfortunately, all of this is just wishful thinking...

"Good luck to the world!"

In just two quarters of an hour, the Yellow Turban Army had climbed several sections of the city wall, and the Yizhou Army was retreating steadily, unable to resist at all.

One after another, the khaki-colored banners with the words "The world is auspicious" were erected on the city wall. They were the banners of the soldiers camp of the Yellow Turban Army!

Xu An stood on the pole-watching cart abandoned by Ren Xian. At this time, the pole-watching cart had been pushed to a more forward position by the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army, less than one mile away from Chengdu City.

Observing the battle on the city wall of Chengdu through the telescope, and constantly dispatching generals, the Yellow Turban Army on the south wall has now established a firm foothold.

"Send the order to the four directions and attack the city with all our strength. We must break through the four walls of Chengdu within today!"

Xu An put down the binoculars, and when Ma Chao and Pang De led the yellow angels to the south city of Chengdu, his heart was completely relieved.

Blue clouds and red trees alternate with each other at night, and the setting sun is chaotic with crows and the sky is about to faint.

The sky is getting darker, and after dusk is night, only the last corner of the sunset in the west is left.

Soon, darkness will erode the entire earth, swallowing all the light in all regions.

Xu An stared at the "Ren" flag that was constantly swaying in the wind on the Chengdu city tower not far away, with a slightly solemn expression.

He, Jia Xu, and Xu You all thought that Liu Yan was a fierce tiger, while Ren Xian was a bad wolf, but they didn't expect that this unknown person, who didn't even leave a name in history, was in Yizhou It set off a huge wave, and even completely changed the situation in Yizhou.

But that's all there is to it.

"Order all the ministries to light the torches after entering the city, hold the position firmly, and don't rush forward."

Now they can actually take advantage of the situation and enter the city to defeat the Yizhou army in one fell swoop.

This is not a difficult task, but the situation in the city is still relatively chaotic.

Those Dongzhou soldiers in Beicheng can also be used as a help. If they cover up and kill them at this time, causing chaos in the city, the plan to surrender Dongzhou soldiers may be greatly hindered.

Most people in this era have night blindness, but the elite units of the Yellow Turban Army basically do not have this symptom of night blindness. Their nutrition is comprehensive. The Yellow Turban Army overwhelmed the surrounding tribes and allowed them to eat a lot of meat.

In fact, what the Yellow Turban Army is best at is not mountain warfare, but night warfare!

Fighting against the Yellow Turban Army at night has more advantages, and Xu An also has a plan in his heart, so that he can exchange the minimum casualties for the maximum benefit.

A stern look flashed across Xu An's eyes.

"Chengdu under the darkness is our real battlefield..."

(End of this chapter)