I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 142, Zhang Yan's Anguish
The next day!

With the roar of war drums, Liu Bei assembled an army of 2 soldiers, armed with a large number of siege equipment, and surrounded the entire Yuanshi City on three sides!Among them, there are [-] troops in the north and [-] in the south to pull the Yellow Turban Army, and his main force is at the east gate.

Zhang Yan and the others who were stationed on Yuanshi City were all shocked. They thought that Liu Bei's army would retreat after the snow fell, but they didn't expect Liu Bei to do the opposite. They really wanted to defeat them completely in one battle!
Yang Feng on the side sneered and said: "This is not better. We are not Liu Bei's opponents in field battles, but in this weather, we still have the protection of the city. I don't believe that Liu Bei can still break through the city wall! We can take advantage of the city wall, Mass killing of Liu Bei's subordinates might give him a chance to counterattack! Liu Bei is too arrogant, and he will pay the price for his arrogance."

Zhang Yan thought of the defeat a few days ago, and sighed: "Why can't we defeat the soldiers and horses of the imperial court in the field? How many times have we done this? We resisted and failed again and again. Should we help everyone resist the imperial court, or take them to die!"

Starting from Zhang Jiao, their Yellow Turban Army has risen three times in Jizhou, but each time they started to attack like fire, but when the elite of the imperial court came to crusade, they were defeated immediately, without exception, not once, He saw with his own eyes millions of people died under the iron cavalry of the big man, and even a resolute person like Zhang Yan felt a tinge of despair.

Yang Feng looked at the hopeless Zhang Yan and comforted him: "No one is born to fight. We are not getting better every time. If it weren't for the betrayal of the Jizhou Army this time, we might not be Liu Bei's opponents."

"And some of us know how to fight. Didn't Lei Gong defeat the [-] cavalry of the Xianbei people? Some time ago, he also broke through the Yanmen Pass. As long as our envoy persuades Lei Gong to send troops to Bingzhou or even Jizhou, we will turn defeat into victory." Here's the chance!"

When Zhang Yan captured most of Jizhou, news of Lei Gong's defeat of 10 cavalry from Xianbei also spread to Jizhou. At this time, Zhang Yan thought of Lei Gong as an ally!
He enthusiastically sent envoys to contact Leigong, intending to make an alliance with Leigong, let Leigong attack Bingzhou, and their Yellow Turban Army will occupy Jizhou, so that their forces will be connected together, it will be easier for them to contact, and the threat to the big man will be even greater. You can also conquer Youzhou, Qingzhou and other places, and the power of the Yellow Turban Army will not lose to his teacher Zhang Jiao's period.

It's just that Zhang Yan didn't expect that he would be defeated so badly. In less than a month, his envoy might have been defeated by the Han army just after he arrived in Mayi. Now he can only rely on the three counties to defend against Liu Bei's attack.

"Lei Gong!" Zhang Yan showed a complicated expression. Although the outside world also regarded Lei Gong as a member of the Yellow Turban Army, only Zhang Yan and the other generals of the Yellow Turban Army knew that Lei Gong was not actually a member.These generals of the Yellow Turban Army are all students or disciples of Zhang Jiao, and they are all members of the Taiping Sect. Only Lei Gong appeared suddenly, and they are not in the same system as the Yellow Turban Army.

Although Lei Gong helped them get a lot of ordnance at the beginning, in fact, Lei Gong's rattan armor army was not far from the Yellow Turban Army. Zhang Yan saw that Lei Gong wanted to form a system of his own, and Xu Wei gathered a large number of Yellow Turban troops to oppose Zhang Yan's Yellow Turban Army. As a veteran of the army, Zhang Yan was wary of Xu Wei.

However, this defeat woke Zhang Yan up. Without strength, everything is useless. His biggest enemy now is the Han army.

He said solemnly to Yang Feng: "Regardless of whether we can repel Liu Bei this time, we must send generals to Lei Gong to learn how to train and fight. Lei Gong's subordinates have one year less combat experience than us, but they can defeat the Xianbei people. Iron cavalry can also defeat the Han army, obviously Lei Gong’s military training skills are much better than ours, if we can repel 10 Han troops, we won’t be unable to occupy even a Jizhou by now!”

Yang Feng worried: "I'm afraid Lei Gong won't teach us!"

Zhang Yan said: "As long as we pay enough, Lei Gong will teach us!
It has to be said here that although the Yellow Turban Army has been defeated many times, with the crowbar, their ability to obtain supplies has skyrocketed. Now almost all the Wubao in Jizhou have been breached by them. In Wubao, because it is not safe, they are now concentrated in big cities, which is safer!
After breaking so many Wubao, Zhang Yan and the others will naturally reap more money and food. It can be said that most of the money and food collected by Jizhou's clansman for more than a year has been in Zhang Yan's hands. These money and food are transported in their own lair in Taihang Mountain, so they can be so proud.

At this time, Liu Bei's siege subordinates were getting closer and closer, and even shot their bows and arrows onto the city wall.

Zhang Yan looked at Liu Beijun and said, "Leave this to me, and you go to the south to command!"

But the entire Yuanshi City entered the range of the bow and arrow command, and Liu Bei commanded a large number of archers to shoot, trying to suppress the Yellow Turban Army on the city wall.

"Xuuuuuuuuuuuu!" The dense long arrows were like a torrential rain.With a terrifying scream, they suddenly fell on the city wall. A large number of Yellow Turban soldiers were shot, and many even fell off the city wall.

Zhang Yan shouted: "Raise the shield to defend, the archers to fight back, don't let the enemy get close to the city wall!"

"Xuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!" The Yellow Turban Army also shot a large number of long arrows, and any soldier who dared to approach the city wall was shot into a hedgehog by the longsword!
"Attack!" Zhao Yun roared, and took the lead, leading the siege soldiers and pushing a modified siege vehicle forward quickly.

"Kill the enemy!" In order to cover up Zhao Yun's actions, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei charged even more bravely. They led soldiers and quickly hit the city wall with ladders on their shoulders!Then the two charged forward with a knife in one hand and a shield in the other!
"Knock down the enemy's ladders, throw stones and wooden stakes, and don't let them go up the city wall!" Zhang Yan stood in the front line and threw stones at the Han army's ladders.

The soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army were in high spirits, and imitating Zhang Yan's actions, throwing stones under the city wall, and the arrows and stones of the entire Yuanshi City poured down like rain. Many soldiers on the ladder were killed, and the ladder was also smashed. broken.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei saw a large number of their subordinates die, but they were still unafraid and climbed to the top of the city wall. Not afraid, he used his shield to resist the stone, but he couldn't control his figure and fell to the ground by himself.

"Third brother!" Guan Yu shouted.Then climbed up even more angrily!

At this time, several spears stabbed at the same time.Guan Yu slashed down, and the spear was cut off in an instant.Then he even used his legs to climb up the city wall.

"There is an army rushing up the city wall, stop him!" a soldier of the Yellow Turban Army said.

"Kill!" The soldiers who defeated the Yellow Turban Army rushed to Guan Yu, but Guan Yu was not afraid, and swung his saber up and down, clearing out all the Yellow Turban Army soldiers around him in an instant.

Zhang Yan immediately rushed to the place where Guan Yu charged up. At this time, Guan Yu had killed more than a dozen people, and the ground was bleeding like a river, and then quickly froze.

Zhang Yan commanded: "Put this Han army to death with a spear!"

More than a dozen Yellow Turban soldiers stabbed out their spears at the same time.

"Kill~!"

Guan Yu swung his saber in a circle in an instant and cut off more than a dozen spears. He was not seriously injured, but his range of activities was suppressed by the Yellow Turbans. Unable to gain a foothold on the city wall, even if the soldiers behind followed Guan Yu to the city wall, they did not have Guan Yu's martial arts skills and were quickly killed. Guan Yu could only fight alone. After killing more than a dozen people in a row, he exhausted most of his energy. If this continues, I am afraid that my life will be in danger, so I jumped off the ladder!
And when Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were fighting hard.Zhao Yun also brought his men closer to the city wall, and then they all took out crowbars and stabbed them hard into the city wall.One of the city wall bricks was pried off!

"Everyone use your strength!" Zhao Yun exerted all his strength, and half of the crowbar was pierced in, and then he pressed hard with both hands.

"Boom!" The inner lining of the city wall, which was almost the size of a rock, was pried into a large piece!Although the other soldiers were not as strong as Zhao Yun, they also pried off bricks, and the entire wall of Yuanshi City became full of potholes!

Zhang Yan, who was on the city wall, observed the situation on the battlefield, and when he noticed Zhao Yun's actions, he shouted: "No, the Han army is prying the city wall!"

This was the Yellow Turban Army's siege stunt, but Zhang Yan never thought that Liu Bei would deal with him in such a way!

"Everyone smashed these siege engines!"

"Boom, boom, boom!" Dozens of heavy stones were smashed down one after another. A siege vehicle was smashed to pieces, and many soldiers were directly crushed to death. Zhao Yun even looked at the sky with one hand and pried the wall with one hand. Like a monkey, it hides from left to right and blocks from right, but has never been hit by a stone.

Zhang Yan asked his subordinates to pour water down the city wall, and Zhao Yun and others who stayed below the city wall were drenched in water!But they still didn't give up poking into the city wall with crowbars to pry open more city wall mud.

Liu Bei on the side saw that Yuanshi City was watered by Zhang Yan, and the walls became crystal clear. And the body began to freeze.

So he asked Ming Jin to withdraw his troops!
"Ding, ding, ding!" The sound of Ming Jin's retreat spread throughout the battlefield, and the soldiers retreated one after another.

Zhang Yan on the city wall breathed a sigh of relief, but he was very worried when he saw that there were many gaps in the people of the Yuan family.

"Don't stop, keep watering, let the entire city wall freeze, let's see how Liu Bei attacks the city!" Zhang Yan directed inside.

He now only hopes that this ice can cover these gaps!
Zhao Yun led the soldiers back, and Liu Bei immediately helped Zhao Yun take off his armor, and arranged for several people to rub Zhao Yun's body together. Of course, the men who followed Zhao Yun back also received the same treatment.

Zhao Yun shivered from the cold and said: "Mr. Xuande, my subordinates are about to dig through the Yuanshi City. Why do you want to call for gold and withdraw troops? This is not to waste all previous efforts!"

If the weather doesn't continue to attack, the holes he dug will definitely freeze over!At that time, the ice layer will be stronger than the city wall, and it is estimated that even a crowbar will not be able to pry it.

Zhang Fei on the side said: "If you don't call Jin to withdraw the troops, Zilong, you will be frozen to death. Next time you attack the city, you should bring some coir raincoats or some tarpaulins!"

Guan Yu also said helplessly: "The morale of the Yellow Turban Army is high, even if I attack the city wall, it will be difficult for me to gain a foothold. If I have more time and consume the morale of the Yellow Turban Army, I can attack Yuanshi City even without digging the city wall!"

But Liu Bei said with a smile: "Second brother, third brother, you are all fierce generals who can be defeated by thousands of people. I naturally believe this. How can a mere Yellow Turban Army be your opponent!"

Then he said to Zhao Yun: "Don't worry, we can dig the city wall, and naturally we can find a way to melt the ice. At worst, we can get some ointment to ignite and melt the ice layer, and the ointment is not afraid of water!"

"Ointment! It's too extravagant!" Zhao Yun said in surprise.

In this era, fatty oil is a precious luxury, and Sangao food is the healthiest green food. Even the top nobles in the world like to eat it. It is unimaginable to use oil to melt ice!
But Liu Bei laughed and said: "Compared to the health of you warriors like Zilong, spending some ointment is nothing, and Jizhou also supports us with a piece of ordnance, which contains a lot of stone paint, and its igniting effect is better than ointment. Long, you don't have to worry about the city wall, let's take our time, and sooner or later we can dig through the city wall of Yuanshi City!"

In this era, oil has been discovered and started to be used.

Ban Gu, a historian of the Eastern Han Dynasty, recorded in his "Hanshu Geographical Records" that "there is flammable water in Gaonu County".Hangaonu County is located in the northeast of Yan'an in today's Shaanxi Province. It is said here that there is oil spilled floating on the water.

Fan Ye of the Southern Dynasties "Book of the Later Han·Junguozhi" recorded the situation of ancient people's oil collection and utilization: "There are mountains in the south of (Yanshou) County, and the stones come out of springs, which are as big as burning bright and inedible. The county people call it stone paint. "The so-called "shiqi" in the article refers to oil at that time.

So in this era, there is oil, and Jizhou is one of the most prosperous places in the Han Dynasty, and there are also merchants who come to Jizhou to sell oil. When Liu Bei supported the Jizhou army, Jizhou officials even gave the entire Jizhou arsenal to them. Liu Bei opened up, and hundreds of barrels of oil were brought over by him.

So, when he attacked the city the next day, Liu Bei used the same routine to surround Yuanshi City on three sides.

Then Liu Bei ignited more than a dozen barrels of oil, and black smoke rose everywhere for a while, and the Yellow Turban soldiers on the city wall couldn't open their eyes.

Zhang Yan instantly knew what Liu Bei and the others wanted to do, and immediately shouted: "Pour water to put out these flames!"

"Boom boom boom!" But it didn't work at all, the water made the flames bigger.

At this time, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, two generals with tens of thousands of enemies, kept attacking the city wall, and Zhang Yan led the soldiers to continuously surround the two brothers Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

And Zhao Yun led his subordinates to dig the city wall again when the flame was about to go out.

Half a day later, there was a loud noise from the city wall, and Liu Beijun outside the city gate cheered in unison, and the city wall of Yuanshi City was finally dug through.

"Brothers, kill, kill..." Zhang Fei shouted wildly while raising his sword, and rushed into the city with his soldiers, slashing all the way, without an enemy in his hand. They came to the gate of the city and quickly opened the door. the city gate.The east gate fell, and the defense of Yuanshi City collapsed.Yang Feng found Zhang Yan and said, "Let's run away, as long as we escape to Taihang Mountain, we still have the capital to make a comeback."

Zhang Yan saw that the morale of his troops was completely low, so he ran around and agreed with Yang Feng's opinion, and the two fled from the west gate with their subordinates who obeyed the order!

The Yellow Turban Army who had lost their leader was even more chaotic, fleeing like headless chickens.

Liu Bei sent soldiers to shout: "Those who surrender will not be killed!"

"Ding Ding Ding" The Yellow Turban Army who were still in the city immediately dropped the long knives in their hands, and more than [-] surrendered.

(End of this chapter)