The great man will live forever

Chapter 330: Respect her like a god

Liucheng, outside the city, in the Yellow Turban Army camp.

Zhang Ning frowned. In her opinion, four days should be enough. "It's been four days. It seems that Gongsun Fan's resistance is very strong."

She was thinking based on modern people, mainly because the previous occupation of Liaodong County, Xuantu County, Lelang County, and the Liaodong vassal state was too fast.

If she hadn't deliberately slowed things down for the sake of sustainable development, she could have unified these places within a year.

It seemed easy to capture a city within a few days.

The main reason is that these places are considered barbaric places. The big Han people don't like them very much, not even Gongsun Zan. If she hadn't actively sent ships to Qingzhou to gather the population, the total population of these three counties would not be 200 million.

Gongsun Du felt that she was a little anxious. How could such a city be attacked in units of months?
He hesitated for a moment, then said: "Holy girl, this Liucheng is the center of Liaoxi County, and Liaoxi is Gongsun Zan's rear area. He sent his cousin Gongsun Fan here to be the prefect, so he naturally attaches great importance to it.

The city walls of Liucheng are tall and tall, with a population of nearly 100,000 and tens of thousands of soldiers. Although they are not elite soldiers who fight every year, they are not all new soldiers, so it is naturally difficult to attack them at once. "

Peng Tuo, General Fenwu and deputy commander of the Taiping Army, shouted, "You are a dog-food saint. I will lead the attack myself. I will definitely take it down for you in three days. Our Yellow Turban Army has never been defeated since we crossed the sea!"

"Tiger Bell Sutra: City Moat 57" says: "The method of digging a trench is two feet wide at the front, one foot deep, and one foot wide at the bottom."

To attack the next city, you will face a lot of difficulties. First, you have to be able to get close to it, right?
It is only basic to make the city wall higher and thicker. The defenders usually also set up obstacles on the outside of the city to add obstacles to the enemy.

Good guys, these two people are competing against each other, one has three days, the other has two days.

He said with a firm look on his face. This man had a bold personality and was fat and strong. He was a die-hard loyalist of Zhang Ning, so he was the deputy commander of the Taiping Army among the four armies of Taiping, Shaowu, Huang Tian and Shenji.

The Mongolian aristocratic group immediately began a long-term internal war and never regained its previous expansion power.

The soldiers and civilians of Diaoyu City failed to comply with the king's orders for three years, but they still risked their lives to defend eastern Sichuan. Even the Southern Song Dynasty had perished, but the Song military flag at the head of Diaoyu City was still flying high!

Peng Tuo shouted, "What are you afraid of? If you die and go to the Huangtian World, we, the Yellow Turban Army, are not afraid of death."

Another example is the Battle of Xiangyang, which was an important battle for the rulers of the Mongol Empire to eliminate the Southern Song Dynasty. It was a key battle in the change of the Song and Yuan feudal dynasties in Chinese history.

Don't think that everything will be fine when you reach the enemy's city gate. When you arrive at the gate of the enemy's city, you will usually face a wide moat.

The soldiers and civilians of Suiyang defended the isolated city for 10 months with no reinforcements outside and no food inside.

Thousands of people guarded the city for ten months, and there were more than 200,000 troops outside the city, which was simply terrifying.

Twenty years, it’s hard to imagine that a siege war lasted for twenty years.

This kind of loyalty and dedication to the nation and the country really makes the world look at him with admiration.

Moreover, siege warfare can easily cause heavy casualties to the attackers, and may even cause a chain reaction if a fortified city cannot be attacked for a long time, causing the entire battle to reverse.

The Taiping Army's status among the four armies is equivalent to the Forbidden Army. It has a very high status. They are all elites. They were the soldiers who fought in hundreds of battles in the Yellow Turbans.

This was the case for Zhang Ning and others. Gongsun Fan was directly fooled. He never expected that the Yellow Turbans were so fast and they reached Liucheng in just half a month.

In the end, because the city was isolated and helpless, Lu Wenhuan tried his best to demote Yuan Dynasty in the ninth year of Xianchun (1273), which lasted for nearly 6 years and ended with the fall of Xiangyang in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Han Zhong was a man of great martial arts, and his sword was very powerful. The army he was in charge of was called Shao Wujun, and he was regarded as the force responsible for the Yellow Turban Army.

Zhou Cang, the mighty general and commander of the Taiping Army, hesitated for a moment and said: "Holy girl, what the Tunqi Colonel (Gongsun Du) said is true. Liucheng is a big city. Fortunately, there is no moat, otherwise it would be more difficult to attack.

General Guangwei and the commander of Shaowu Army, Han Zhong, were not willing to lag behind. He immediately asked for orders, "Holy Girl, I will go and capture this city in two days."

If we attack by force, I'm afraid our troops will suffer too many casualties and the losses will outweigh the gains. "

In addition, there was the Battle of Diaoyucheng in the Southern Song Dynasty when Mongolia attacked, and the Battle of Ningyuan in the Later Jin Dynasty when they attacked the Ming Dynasty. Both of them were unable to capture the city for a long time because of its strong city and tight defense. The commander of the attacker even lost his life because of this, causing the situation on the entire battlefield to quickly reverse.

A great chivalrous person serves the country and the people, and a powerful martial artist like Guo Daxia could not save the decaying Southern Song Dynasty court.

Just clearing these obstacles would take a long time.

The Battle of Diaoyu City forever changed world history. Europeans called Diaoyu City in Hechuan "the place where God broke his whip", while Arabs regarded Diaoyu City as the holy city that saved the Islamic world and called it the "Mecca of the East." .

For example, during the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang attacked Chencang City. Facing Chencang City with only a thousand Wei troops, tens of thousands of Shu Han troops continued to attack for more than 20 days. Zhuge Liang's second Northern Expedition failed.

In addition to obstacles such as thorns, antler trees, horse pits, and horse guns that can sting your feet, they can make it difficult for your opponent to move forward.

In fact, in ancient times, it was very difficult to capture a city. Small ones were okay, but for larger ones, many were measured in months, and for large cities, it was even measured in years.

There were only a few thousand defenders, while the rebels at their peak numbered more than 200,000, including 130,000 Anlu Mountain's most elite Hu soldiers from Gui, Tan, Tongluo, Xi and others outside the Great Wall.

When Song Taizu attacked Taiyuan, the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty, the Song generals fought bravely and the morale of the soldiers was high.
However, the Song army still failed to break the city, and Song Taizu had to announce his withdrawal when many senior generals such as Shi Hanqing, the commander of the imperial palace, Wang Tingyi, the leader of the internal and external cavalry and infantry forces, and Li Huaizhong, the commander of the east and west squadrons, were killed.

"Sun Tzu's Art of War" says: "The first is to attack the enemy with the enemy, then the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the enemy, and then the second is to attack the city."

We might as well encircle it first and capture the remaining Bintu, Jiaoli, Yangle, Husu and Tuhe counties in Liaoxi County, turning Liucheng into an isolated city.

Yu Jie, Zhang Yu, and Wang Jian led 2 soldiers to defend the Diaoyu City for more than 20 years. They killed the Mongol Khan Mongke and allowed the Mongol army to retreat from the European expedition. Hulagu, who originally planned to lead the main force to attack the last great power in the West, also led the main force. He retreated to Mongolia to help Kublai Khan fight for the throne.

Zhang Ning interrupted him with a wave of his hand, "Okay, I'm impatient."

This campaign started from the Battle of Anyangtan where the Mongolian general Ashu attacked Xiangyang in the third year of Xianchun in the Southern Song Dynasty (1267), and continued through Song Dynasty Lu Wenhuan's counter-siege battle, Zhang Gui and Zhang Shun's battle to aid Xiang, the Battle of Longweizhou and the Battle of Fancheng …

Six years, there are several six years in life. The hero Guo guarding Xiangyang in the novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes is the prototype from here.

For example, Zhang Xun's defense of Suiyang was the most outstanding and brutal city defense battle in history.

Of course, the premise is that the enemy knows that you are coming, so prepare in advance. If you surprise him and attack him unprepared, he will not have time to prepare, so he will not have to face it.

Also, the very famous Battle of Diaoyu City.

Therefore, the difficulty of siege can be seen.

One foot is about 3 meters. Different dynasties are different, and there are slight differences, but it should not be big. Two feet is six meters.

It is impossible for people to jump across, so there are usually suspension bridges on the river.

By the time you reach the bottom of the city, the suspension bridge over the river has already been taken away by the defenders.

Therefore, the siege troops usually directly fill in the river and pave a road on the moat. This method is simple and crude.

But if you work under the eyes of the city defenders, others will not let you fill the river easily. They will shoot arrows and throw stones at the city wall...

Trying every possible means to stop you and hurt you.

After finally filling up the river channel, making a way out, and reaching the bottom of the city wall, this was the most difficult test, a brutal and arduous siege battle.

The collision of blood and blood, in the era of cold weapons, wars are often more cruel.

It is worth mentioning that many cities in Youzhou do not have moats because they are too close to the north. When winter comes, the moats under the cities immediately freeze.

Once it freezes, it will be flat for others to come over. So what is the use of this moat?

After Zhang Ning thought for a while, he said calmly: "Tonight, I will communicate with Huangtian God, give the Thunder God Talisman, and blast open the city wall. When the time comes, you will attack with all your strength and be sure to break the city!"

"promise!"

Zhou Cang, Peng Tuo, Han Zhong, Sun Xia, Bu Si, Guan Hai and others looked overjoyed and very happy. They had no doubts at all, because in these years, Zhang Ning had accurately predicted the major events in the world and what would happen in the future. .

He said that Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty would die in April of the sixth year of Zhongping (189), and indeed he died at that time.

At that time, they were all shocked. Zhang Ning could actually know the life span of a person. Wasn't this Huang Tian's guidance?
Zhang Ning also predicted the death of He Jin, the rebellion of the Shi Changshi, Dong Zhuo's entry into the capital, Dong Zhuo deposing the emperor, thirteen princes attacking Dong Zhuo, Lu Bu killing Dong Zhuo...

From 184 to 192 now, in just 8 years, many major events have happened, but every one of them is almost as expected by Zhang Ning. Isn’t this convincing?
They naturally believe it, but people like Gongsun Du, Donghong Boyu, and Weiwei Liyan on the side are slightly skeptical, especially the chiefs of the Wuhuan tribe, the Baiyan Tuoren tribe, the Liaoyuan Suppressing tribe, and the Changgong Kōyuan tribe, they are very suspicious.

"If the Yellow Turbans were really so powerful, would they have been wiped out by the Han?" "They are indeed bandits. It seems that their demise is not far away."

"Hahaha!"

The three of them didn't speak, they had a thousand words in their hearts, but they had a tacit understanding for many years, and they knew what the other one wanted to say with just one look. They were all mocking in their hearts, and the expressions on their faces remained unchanged. They are all good actors!

In the quiet night, a light layer of mist filled the city walls of Liucheng, and the moonlight shone through the treetops and fell on the city walls, casting mottled light and shadow.

Outside the city, Zhang Ning set up an altar. She didn't make any extra moves and just sat up quietly. The generals in the Yellow Turban also sat there and looked at her as if they were gods.

In the distance, Baiyan Zizhen, the chief of the Wuhuan Baiyan Tuoren tribe, looked at Liaoyuan Suqingxing and whispered in his ear: "What is she doing?"

"It's probably a prayer ceremony, like we beg the Kunlun God."

"Has God Kunlun responded to us?"

"no!"

"Yes, otherwise we would have dominated the world long ago."

"The heaven and the earth are unkind and regard all things as stupid dogs; the saints are unkind and regard the common people as stupid dogs. These are the words of Lao Tzu, a great practitioner among the Han people. The gods are impartial and selfless, how can they be biased towards a certain person?"

"Let's see how she ends up."

They spoke the Xiongnu language and spoke very quietly and from a distance so that most people could not hear them.

They believed in gods and the god Kunlun, and worshiped the strong, but they did not see any miracles.

In other words, they believe in gods, but they do not believe that gods love them, because gods love everyone.

Zhang Ning saw that the time was up and shouted: "Put up the flag!"

Immediately, a very high flag was erected, with the word "Huang Tian" written on it. It could be seen from far away, and it was particularly conspicuous under the moonlight.

Outside the west city of Liucheng, three yellow scarf warriors saw the big flag, nodded to each other, and then started to light it.

"呲呲呲!"

Something seems to be burning...

"Nine thunders reach the sky, destroying the filth and calamity, slaying the devil with the ax, the yellow spirit lowers its power, pointing the gang to punish the way, pointing to the oath hammer, if you don't respect my order, turn into the mysterious thunder of the gang, cast by all walks of life, leading to the secluded world, urgent Just like the law."

"Thunder comes!"

Along with Zhang Ning's roar, suddenly, there was a deafening loud noise in the distance, the firelight filled the sky reddened the entire night sky, stone bricks on the city wall were flying everywhere, and smoke and dust billowed up.

"Boom!"

At this moment, the world seemed to be shaking.

"Kill!"

"Huang Tian Bless!"

"The Saint is invincible!"

The Yellow Turban Army, which had been prepared for a long time, began to attack from the broken city wall.

"What happened?"

In the city, in the prefect's mansion, Gongsun Fan looked confused.

"Could it be that the earth dragon turned over?"

"It's not good, it's not good, Governor, the Yellow Turban Army has entered the city."

"what?"

"It's not the earth dragon turning around, it's the Yellow Turban Army's magic!"

……

The Yellow Turban army rushed into the gap created by the explosion like wolves and tigers, and watched as the walls of Liucheng were blown up, revealing the figures of the attackers.

"Kill!"

"Help!"

"Those who surrender will not be killed!"

In the chaos, the defenders in the city were shocked and fled in all directions.

The prefect Gongsun Fan hurriedly fled on horseback, but was pursued by Zhang Ning's soldiers and was eventually captured alive in a wilderness.

The city of Liucheng was in chaos, with the sound of war drums, the sound of killings, and screams intertwined. The residents in the city were frightened and unable to resist the fierce attack of the attackers.

When the Yellow Turban Army entered the city, they would not kill anyone who laid down their weapons and surrendered.

What's even more amazing is that they don't rob people's finances or easily break into people's homes. Although they can't do anything to the people, their military discipline is so good that it almost doesn't belong to this era.

These are all due to Zhang Ning's publicity in recent years, as well as his attitude of killing without mercy those who rob finances and rape women.

Outside the city, the clan leaders of the Baiyan Takuren Tribe, the Liaoyuan Purging Tribe, and the Tsunegong Komamoto Tribe looked at Zhang Ning and saw that her face was calm, but their hearts were trembling. They had not yet recovered from the loud noise.

"Do you have anything to say to me?"

Zhang Ning stared at them with burning eyes.

"Saint for ten thousand years!"

"The yellow sky lasts forever!"

The other Yellow Turban generals, Zhou Cang, Peng Tuo, Han Zhong, Sun Xia, Bu Si, Guan Hai, and He Yi all knelt down and worshiped. Fortunately, they had seen Zhang Ning's magic. Although they were shocked in their hearts, they were somewhat used to it.

Gongsun Du, Donghong Boyu, and Weiwei Liyan were the ones who joined the Yellow Turban later. They just heard about Zhang Ning's magic, which was not common. At this moment, they also knelt down and worshiped, and their hearts were filled with turmoil.

"Bai Yanzizhen, Liaoyuan Qingxing, Changgong Zhuting, do you have anything to say?"

Zhang Ning continued to stare at the three people from the Wuhuan tribe.

"Please forgive me, Saint, we are guilty."

The three of them looked trembling and kept kowtowing.

"Oh, tell me."

"We didn't sincerely submit. We even sent people to contact Liu Yu. We wanted to take advantage of the fact that both the saint and Gongsun Zan were harmed, and then we could join forces with Liu Yu to eliminate... eliminate..."

They didn't dare to say the rest.

Zhang Ning smiled half-heartedly, "Destroy me?"

"I am awaiting death, please forgive me for my life."

They kept kowtowing until their heads were bruised and bloody. From the moment there was a loud bang, they respected Zhang Ning like a god!

Kunlun God?
They have never seen anything like this before, but now they see a living God’s envoy, alive!

(End of this chapter)