Three Kingdoms King of the North

Xun Yu was trembling with anger at Hua Hu's words. He raised his eyebrows and looked angry, pointed at the other party and cursed: "You are an enemy, and the stock of the granary in the county is only [-] hu. How dare you take it?" Give half of the money to the Yellow Turban Thieves, it's simply "

Seeing Xun Yu stomping his feet in anger, Han Zhan quickly came out to smooth things over: "Xun County Prime Minister, the most urgent task is how to get rid of the enemy, not who is to be held accountable." After saying this, he turned his face and asked Hua Hu, "Hua Hu? Master, can our city walls stop the Yellow Turbans?"

"The city walls on the south, east and west sides have all been completed." Huahu replied with a mournful face: "The city wall on the north is still under repair, and there are only rammed earth and no brick walls in the area about a hundred paces wide. Rush into the city along the slope."

"How can this be good!" Hearing what Hua Hu said, Xun Yu couldn't help but feel a little confused: "Although the city walls on the south, east and west sides have been repaired, there are no rolling logs and lime bottles. The transfer was also a bit late."

"Xun County Prime Minister, don't worry." Seeing Xun Yu's desperation, Han Zhan quickly comforted him and said, "Even if there are no rolling logs and rocks on the three walls, the yellow scarf thieves will not dare to come from here until they figure out our reality." Attack from three sides. On the contrary, it is the north side, where there is no city wall in the area a hundred paces wide, and the Yellow Turbans will definitely use it as a breakthrough."

"Master," facing the coming Yellow Turban Army, even Xun Yu, who has always been prudent, panicked, let alone an ordinary official like Hua Hu.He asked nervously, "What should we do?"

"Master Hua," although Han Zhan panicked when he heard that thousands of Yellow Turbans were attacking, he still tried his best to keep calm in front of his subordinates, and ordered Hua Hu to say, "You should immediately organize your people, Only wooden fences were erected on the rammed earth, making it difficult for bandit soldiers to climb up the city wall."

"Master, where should we focus our defense?" Xun Yu also regained his composure at this time. He was afraid that Han Zhan was too young and would panic when encountering such a thing, so he took the initiative to remind him: "There are countless yellow turban thieves." Thousands of people, but we only have more than a thousand county soldiers, divided into four divisions, and with the assistance of the people, the force is too thin."

"Don't worry, the county magistrate," Han Zhan said with a normal expression, "I plan to draw [-] county soldiers and [-] civilian strongmen from Zhong Junhou's Naqu to defend the south, east and west sides respectively, and the remaining [-] county soldiers are on standby. As for the defense in the north, the song to which Dian Wei belongs is in charge."

After listening to a series of orders issued by Han Zhan, Xun Yu asked a little worriedly: "Master, is it too risky to send only five hundred county soldiers to the north?"

"Although there is a gap a hundred paces wide on the north wall, it is not so easy for the Yellow Turbans to rush into the city from here." Han Zhan said with a sneer, "I will make this place their burial place."

Han Zhan asked Xun Yu, Hua Hu, and Zhong Junhou to be responsible for the defense of the three walls in the south, east, and west respectively, while he and Dian Wei were in charge of the north.

Dian Wei was very excited when he heard that the Yellow Turban Army was coming. He even suggested to Han Zhan: "Master, don't look at the bandit soldiers numbering in the thousands. I just need to take Brother Yiqu out and kill them all." It's time to fall into the water."

"No, absolutely not." Han Zhan resolutely rejected Dian Wei's request to fight: "We only know that there are thousands of rebel soldiers, but we don't know who commanded them, their combat effectiveness, and their equipment. If you act recklessly If you go out of the city, it's easy to win; if something goes wrong, the city will be hard to protect."

Chapter 0057 Reinforcements Arrive

Han Zhan and Dian Wei rushed to the north gate with five hundred soldiers, and saw that a neat wooden fence had been erected at the gap.Outside the city gate tower, a group of civilians who participated in the repair work of the city wall gathered. They were going to the designated location to defend under the arrangement of the small officials.Except for a few people who have weapons, most of the peasants hold hoes or poles in their hands.

When Han Zhan went up the city wall, he suddenly heard someone calling himself: "Master, Mr. Mr."

He turned his head and saw that it was the lame carpenter who helped him make the unicycle, so he smiled and nodded at him.Seeing that Han Zhan was so approachable, the carpenter boldly asked, "Master, I heard that there are thousands of yellow scarf thieves coming to attack. Can we stop them?"

Hearing the lame carpenter asking Han Zhan, the peasants standing beside the battlements also surrounded him.Dian Wei and Luo Bu quickly stood in front of Han Zhan, trying to isolate him from the civilian husbands.

Han Zhan pushed aside Dian Wei and Luo Bu who were standing in front of him, and asked the peasants standing in front of him: "Everyone, I don't know if you have anything to say, do you want to say it to my envoy?"

"Master Shijun," as soon as he finished speaking, someone immediately repeated loudly what the lame carpenter said: "There are thousands of yellow turban thieves, and we only have a few people. Can we stop them?" There was a sound of response.

Seeing that the civilian husbands were full of fear for the coming Yellow Turban Army, Han Zhan quickly raised his hands and waved forward in the air, motioning for everyone to be quiet first.After the wall became quiet again, he said loudly, "Don't be alarmed, people. Although there are thousands of Yellow Turban bandits, they have come from a long distance and they have no siege equipment. They will never be able to break into the city."

In order to reassure the peasants, he added: "This envoy will defend the enemy on the city wall with all the people, and will never take a step back. He will fight bloody battles with the yellow scarf thieves to the end. If the bandits want to enter the city, unless they step on this Let your corpse pass by!"

After he finished speaking, there was silence on the city wall.After a while, I heard the lame carpenter say loudly: "My fellow countrymen, if you can come to the city and defend the enemy side by side with everyone, what are you afraid of? in the end!"

Hearing the lame carpenter's words, the peasants around shouted in unison: "We swear to advance and retreat with the envoy, and fight to the end with the yellow turban bandits!" Surprised, they had just spent a lot of effort to force the peasants to accept the task of defending the city unwillingly.But with a few words from Shijun, everyone's enthusiasm was mobilized.

After the civilian husbands around had dispersed, Han Zhan asked the lame carpenter with concern: "Your legs and feet are not good, so don't participate in the defense of the city, you'd better go back and rest."

The lame carpenter smiled and replied: "Please rest assured, my lord. Although Caomin's legs and feet are inconvenient, his hands are very flexible." , I’ll chop him down with one axe. One for one, two for one.”

The scene described by the lame carpenter reminded Han Zhan of the whack-a-mole game he had played in the playground before, and couldn't help laughing.He raised his hand and patted the carpenter's shoulder, then led Dian Wei and hundreds of soldiers towards the gap in the city wall not far away.

When he reached Mucha, Dian Wei began to dispatch troops and generals.The two hundred soldiers who followed Han Zhan from Jizhou were all armed with swords and shields; while the recruits recruited after arriving in Sheguo County were all spearmen.Close to the wooden fence is a row of sword and shield soldiers, and behind them are two rows of pike soldiers.The remaining row of swordsmen and spearmen stayed behind and stood by.

Rob, with one hand on his hip and the other on the hilt of his sword, followed closely behind Han Zhan, never leaving him.The reason why he did this was because before leaving the county office, Xun Yu had privately told him to protect Han Zhan's safety, and if the situation was not good, he would immediately take Han Zhan and flee for his life.

In order to complete the task assigned by Xun Yu, he not only sticks to Han Zhan like a dog's skin plaster, but the ten cavalrymen under him are staying in an alley near the city wall at the moment. If they find that something is wrong, they will rush out immediately Collision.

After Dian Wei set up his defensive formation, he listened to the faint sound of gongs coming from the city, and knew that this was a government servant under the order of Han Zhan, who was telling the residents not to walk around and move around in the street, and to stay at home so as not to cause disturbance. Necessary confusion.He walked up to Han Zhan, pointed to the tower more than 20 zhang away, and said to Han Zhan, "Master, anyway, the tower is not far from here, you should go inside the tower."

Han Zhan waved his hands after hearing this, and said firmly, "No need, I want to stay with you and see with my own eyes how you repelled the Yellow Turbans' attack."

Through this period of contact, Dian Wei has a little understanding of Han Zhan's character, knowing that he must have decided on something and will never change his mind, so he did not continue to persuade, but stood behind Han Zhan. Rob cast a meaningful look, indicating that he must protect Han Zhan's safety.

After a long wait, a black line appeared on the distant horizon, and soon this black line became thicker and thicker, becoming like a black belt.Han Zhan understood in his heart that the Yellow Turban Army was here.

Since coming to this era, Han Zhan has seen countless lives and deaths, and even beheaded one person with his own hands, but at this moment, facing the thousands of yellow turban soldiers coming towards the city, his heart beats faster than expected.

Soon, the Yellow Turban Army entered only two hundred steps away from the city wall.Han Zhan, who was looking down from a high position, saw that these yellow scarf soldiers in coarse clothes, although there were a large number of them, did not carry any siege equipment, and most of them even held some sharpened wooden sticks in their hands.

After seeing such equipment of the Yellow Turban Army, Han Zhan put his heart in his throat back into his stomach.He said loudly to the soldiers who were waiting in line: "Brothers, you have all seen it. Although the Yellow Turban Army is large in number, they did not carry any siege equipment, but they did not have any decent weapons in their hands. What do you say , can you stop them?"

"Yes! We can!" The five hundred soldiers replied in unison.

"Since the brothers are so confident," Han Zhan said while the iron was hot, "then we'll kill them all."

"Kill them all!"

After the vanguard of the Yellow Turban Army approached the city wall, the leader of the team saw a huge gap here, thinking that he could rush into the city as long as he rushed up the slope.He was eager to claim merit, so he rushed forward with hundreds of Yellow Turban soldiers without sending anyone to report to Shuai Qu behind him.

Facing the rushing Yellow Turban soldiers, Dian Wei acted extremely calmly. He raised an iron halberd high and stared at the Yellow Turban soldiers. When they were only five or six steps away from the wooden fence, he He swung the iron halberd down violently, and shouted in a thunderous voice: "Stab!"

Following his command, a row of spears stabbed out from the gap in the shield behind the fence like a poisonous snake, and quickly retracted.After a series of screams, a group of Yellow Turban soldiers fell in front of the wooden fence. Some wounded who were not stabbed in the vitals and could not move were lying on the ground covering their wounds and howling.

Because everything happened so quickly, the Yellow Turban army behind continued to rush towards the wooden fence under the action of huge inertia, but was immediately knocked to the ground by the spear bayonet.Some fell directly in front of the wooden fence, while others fell on their backs and rolled down the slope.Seeing the officers and soldiers at the gap, they easily killed the first group of Yellow Turban soldiers who rushed up, and the civilians on the nearby wall immediately cheered.

Qu Shuai, the Yellow Turban Army, was shocked when he learned that the front team had lost, and immediately drove to the front team. He wanted to find out the reality of the defenders, and then launched an attack to see if he could break through the defense of the defenders.Unexpectedly, when he came to the front team and was observing not far from the city wall, he suddenly heard that the rear team was in chaos as if it had exploded. something happened.

A leader crawled up to him and shouted loudly: "Shuai Qu, something is wrong, there are officers and soldiers coming up from behind us!"

"Nonsense!" Qu Shuai glared at the leader and said viciously, "There are only a few hundred county soldiers in the city. How could they sneak attack from behind us? If you lie about the military situation, believe it or not, I will kill you immediately."

"It's not the county soldiers in the city," the leader said with tears in his voice: "The crossbowmen from other places are still far away, and they shoot arrows. The brothers in the rear team have no strength to fight back. They have already lost at this moment." heavy."

He handsomely set up a pergola and looked into the distance, only to see hundreds of officers and soldiers in Jizhou costumes shooting crossbow arrows towards his rear.The arrows flew towards his subordinates like migratory locusts.Amidst the screams, his subordinates fell down in pieces, and the rest panicked, scurrying around like headless flies.

Seeing this emotion, Qu Shuai was frightened out of his wits, quickly turned his horse's head, and fled towards the northwest, shouting: "The officers and soldiers are here, run!"

Seeing that Qu Shuai had already taken the lead and ran away, the leaders immediately followed, and the surrounding Yellow Turban soldiers all ran away when they saw the officials. They chased down the escape route.

Standing at the top of the city, Han Zhan stared blankly at the support army that suddenly appeared in the distance, feeling very surprised, wondering where did this army come from?Because he couldn't figure out the origin of the opponent, and because there were few defenders in the city, he didn't give an order to pursue, but ordered his men to open the city gate to welcome reinforcements into the city.

Chapter 0058

The number of officers and soldiers who came to help was small. After repelling the Yellow Turban Army with a strong crossbow, they did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but formed a team in the distance.And because Han Zhan couldn't figure out the origin of the other party, he didn't dare to send troops to attack casually.The officers and soldiers inside and outside the city watched helplessly as the Yellow Turban Army fled towards the northwest in a mess.

After the officers and soldiers in the distance waited on the battlefield outside the city, and there was no longer a standing Yellow Turban Army, they formed a four-way column and came towards the city in a neat formation.At the front of the team was a military marquis riding a horse, followed by a flag bearer holding a flag high.Han Zhan looked at it for a long time before he saw clearly that the word "Zhao" was written on the flag.

Seeing the surname on the flag clearly, Han Zhan couldn't help but muttered in his heart, saying that he didn't know any general surnamed Zhao, how could the other party send troops to rescue him when he was besieged by the Yellow Turban?Could it be that the officers and soldiers just passed by and came to help when they saw the Yellow Turban Army besieging the city?

In order to find out the origin of this army, Han Zhan decided to inquire about it himself, so he ordered people to open the gate of the city, took Dianwei, Luo Bu and a hundred soldiers with him, and prepared to go out of the city to meet him.

Unexpectedly, just as he walked down the stairs from the tower, he suddenly heard noisy voices coming from the direction of the city.At that moment, the first thought in Han Zhan's mind was, is it possible that someone wants to collude with the Yellow Turban Army and come to cooperate with each other?He stopped, pulled out the sword from his waist, and nervously looked in the direction of the city.

With little effort, Han Zhan saw hundreds of people with weapons walking along the street towards the city gate.Judging from their attire, they were servants of some big families and so on. There were a few gorgeously dressed people in the crowd, and it seemed that they were the masters of these servants.