The World of Yellow Sky

In Banyun Mountain, Xu An's sergeants have been consolidating for nearly three months.

A huge topographic map of mountains and rivers was hung in Xu An's house. Xu An was standing in front of the topographic map, watching carefully. Liu Pi, Gong Du, and Huang Long were standing on both sides of the map.

Hearing Xu An's plan, Huang Long's face became embarrassed and he cried out, "Attack Jingxing?!"

Liu Pi and Gong both followed the voice and looked at Huang Long. Huang Long also knew that he had lost his temper, but he still took a step forward and said to Xu An, "General, I think this matter needs to be considered in the long run. Jingxing Pass is easy to defend and difficult to defend. Attack, the city is strong and the pool is strong, I am afraid it is..."

"Last year, I besieged Jingxing with a large army of 1 people. Not only did I fail to capture Jingxing Pass, but was killed by the defenders. If it wasn't for my subordinate Erlang who gave his life to save me, I'm afraid I would have become a handful of loess under Jingxing Pass .”

Liu Pi and others also knew the situation in Jingxing Pass. When Jingxing Pass was captured, Liu Pi and Gong both surveyed the pass wall early. At that time, a lot of equipment and materials for defending the city were also found in the warehouse.

"This time is different from the past." The military stick in Xu An's hand moved from Jingxing Pass to the east and landed on the sign of Yingtao City.

"There was a big epidemic in the first month, and rebels swarmed all over the place. The county soldiers in Jizhou are now running around to suppress the rebellion. The Lei Gongbu who entered the mountain from Fukou has confirmed that now Zhang Niujiao in Boling and the real Chu Feiyan are fighting together. Gall Pottery City."

"Now the main force of the county soldiers in Jizhou should gather in Yingtao City again. The east of Jingxing Pass is Zhending, but this area has already been occupied by Chu Feiyan, and the forces of officers and soldiers are suppressed in a few cities and dare not act rashly."

Xu An paused for a while, and pointed the military stick in his hand back to Jingxing Pass.

"The number of soldiers stationed at Jingxing Pass all year round is usually only one song. Even if the number of defenders increased to [-] after the last attack, our army has more than [-] people. At least [-]% of Jingxing Pass will be captured, and no matter how bad it is, it will be possible. Get out of your body."

"Huang Long, the reason why you didn't capture Jingxing Pass before was largely because of the steady stream of officers and soldiers supported by Jizhou, but now that Jizhou is full of beacon fires, you don't need to worry about the reinforcements of the Han army. There are only less than five hundred defenders."

Since Liu Pi and Gong Du captured Lutai Mountain, they have no objection to Xu An's judgment.

Although Huang Long was quite resistant to attacking Jingxing Pass, he couldn't find anything to refute, and besides him, he had no other objection, so he could only bow and go back.

Xu An glanced at Liu Pi and Gong Du again, and when they saw that they had no objection, he gave an order.

"Raise your troops at [-] tomorrow, Liu Pi, you lead the troops to stay at Banyun Mountain, Gong Du and Huang Long will follow me."

"promise."

After the three of Liu Pi sang a promise, they retired one after another and returned to their respective residences.

In fact, Xu An did not give all the reasons. Another most important reason for attacking Jingxing Pass was Chu Feiyan. Chu Feiyan was the later Zhang Yan, the biggest bandit leader in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and the leader of the Million Black Mountain Army in Taihang Mountains.

Zhang Yan started his family from Zhending. When Huangfusong crusaded against the Yellow Turban of Jizhou, he took his childhood playmate to occupy the mountain and became king. When he returned to the real world again, the army under his command actually expanded to more than 1 people.

In February of this year, they joined forces with the Yellow Turban Zhang Niujiao of Boling. The two gathered nearly [-] troops to besiege the city of Yingtao, an important town in Jizhou.

Anyone who knows history knows that the result of the battle of Yingtao was that Zhang Niu's horn was shot by a stray arrow. When he was dying, he ordered his subordinates to honor Chu Yan as the leader. Later, Chu Yan led his troops back to Zhending, and fled from Zhending into in the Taihang Mountains.

Then, step by step, all the bandits in the mountains were integrated, and in just one year, they developed into the Montenegrin Army, known as the millions of people in later generations.

The heroes of the world are looking at him, and the emperor personally seals the unfortunate general.

Even the emperor was forced to let him manage the administrative and public security affairs in the mountainous area north of the Yellow River.

The closest route from Zhending to Taihang Mountain is to enter from Jingxing Pass. After Yingtao was defeated, the army soldiers definitely pursued Zhang Yan.

If Xu An occupied Jingxing Pass in advance, relying on the more than 1 remnant soldiers defeated by Yingtao, Zhang Yan would never be able to attack Jingxing Pass, which was heavily guarded by soldiers. If Zhang Yan wanted to survive then, he could only surrender to Xu An .

Although Xu An didn't know the details of Zhang Yan's recovery of the various bandits in the Taihang Mountains in history, but if these 1 remnants were recovered, the army under Xu An's command would immediately become the most powerful force in the entire Taihang Mountains.

Moreover, Zhang Yan was able to monopolize a place in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the heroes were rising together, and stood firm. When the eighteen princes turned against Dong Zhuo, Zhang Yan also brought troops to form an alliance with the princes who were begging for Dong.

He even intervened in Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao's expedition against the two northern hegemons. Even after Yuan Shao eliminated Gongsun Zan, he was unable to annihilate the Montenegrin Army. After the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao named him General of Pingbei and Marquis of Anguoting.

Perhaps Zhang Yan's martial arts is not the first-class existence in the Three Kingdoms, but he can definitely be regarded as a first-class famous general.

After conquering Jingxing Pass and regaining Zhang Yan, Xu An can then copy Zhang Yan's experience of making a fortune step by step, completely replacing Zhang Yan in history.

Looking at the dark night sky outside the house, Xu An's heart cooled a little bit. When playing many Three Kingdoms games, he only felt that these Black Mountain Army and Yellow Turban Army were just experience in leveling and promotion.

After the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and history were briefly mentioned. After experiencing it personally, I realized that the reality is so cruel and ruthless.

The Yellow Turban was portrayed as a monster, but if it wasn't for the fact that they couldn't survive, those common people who were digging food in the fields would take the risk of extermination and rise up.

The flames that ignited in the brazier outside the house were all reflected in Xu An's eyes, terrifyingly hot.

In the middle of the Central Plains, wind and clouds are surging, and Luoyang is still a drunken fan...

Chapter 59 Night Attack on Jingxing Pass

Under the night of Taihang Mountain, under the tall wall of Jingxing Pass, the flames in the brazier flickered under the blow of the strong wind, and a few old crows chirped in the forest outside the pass, which added to this quiet Taihang Mountain. Kind of scary atmosphere.

At four quarters of the year, [-] Yellow Turban sergeants assembled in the camp six miles away from Jingxing Pass.

The three Yellow Turbans, a total of more than [-] Yellow Turbans, arrived outside Jingxing Pass yesterday evening after four days of marching.

More than [-] sergeants of the Yellow Turban Army stood upright on the spot, biting a wooden stick in their mouths in order to keep quiet. At this time, they were quietly waiting for Xu An's order.

The moon is dark and the stars are rare, and this is the time when people are the most distressed.

The commander of the Guards, Xu Da, led more than seventy yellow angels in heavy armor to follow Xu An closely. Zhang Ji held a khaki flag and stood at the right of Xu Da.

The army under his command is expanding too fast, and Xu An is busy with things every day. Now it is a little strange to see Zhang Ji again. This kid looks like a qualified sergeant now.

If young people can keep up with their nutrition, they will grow very fast, and Zhang Ji is no longer the thin bamboo stick he was. .

Perhaps the only constant is that he is still Xu An's flag bearer.

Xu An tightened the collar of his shirt, put his hand on the hilt of the ring-head knife, felt the cold touch on the hilt, and felt a little calm in his heart.

The eyes of all the Yellow Turban sergeants standing were focused on Xu An.

Except for the [-] light soldiers of Huang Longbu in the front line, the rest are sergeants from Xu'an's headquarters. They are equipped with the best weapons in the whole army. They are equipped with [-] pairs of black iron heavy armor alone. Hundreds of archers were also included.

"call out--"

The sharp whistle sounded softly in the darkness, and more than [-] Yellow Turban sergeants stepped onto the official road. In front of them were more than [-] light soldiers armed with halberds and simple leather armors, escorting the ladder.

Two hundred Yellow Turban archers armed with Han bows were mixed in the light army formation. Xu An led more than four hundred fully armed soldiers, followed by armored soldiers holding shields and swords, followed by more than six hundred light soldiers.

More than [-] Yellow Turbans hid in the darkness, like a lynx twitching their hands and feet, slowly heading towards Jingxing Pass, which is entrenched in the mountains.

……

Before Jingxing Pass, although it was breached once, the troops left behind by the Han army here were still the soldiers of Yiqu.

Originally it was an additional Han army, but the rebels all over Jizhou rose up, and Zhending and other places to the east of Jingxing were even more active areas for the rebels.

The Han army was temporarily stretched, and in order to prevent the main cities from falling into the hands of the rebels, the additional Han army had to be recalled again.

Therefore, there are still only more than 500 Han troops in Jingxing Pass left behind, but there are lessons learned from the past.

This time, the guards at Jingxing Pass were much more alert. There were as many as [-] sergeants on duty every night.

A vertical brazier stood every few steps above the wall. The raging flames illuminated the wall as bright as day. At the place, vigilantly observed the situation outside the wall.

The Han army with a badge on the chest even held the ring-headed knife around his waist, and led a dozen sergeants with halberds to patrol back and forth on the wall.

The war drums of the Han army stood on the pass wall, and the warriors with Piyi sat on the side. As soon as the wind was blowing, the war drums could resound through the entire Jingxing Pass in an instant.

The strong wind blew continuously, blowing the brazier under the wall to the point of being extinguished, and it was almost plunged into darkness under the wall.

A team of Han troops was stationed at the pass wall in the west section. The thieves in the east were too active, so the colonel took personal guards to station at the pass wall in the east section.

There seemed to be a slight abnormal sound in the strong wind blowing, and this abnormal sound instantly aroused the alertness of the Han army leader.

"Team rate, what's wrong?"

Seeing that the Han army leader's face was wrong, Shi Chang, who was beside him, stepped forward and asked.

The team leader of the Han army made a gesture of silence, approached the wall, and looked vigilantly outside the dark pass through the crenel, but found nothing. The previous abnormal sound seemed to be just a hallucination, and the only thing that could be heard was whistling. The wind and the crackling in the brazier.

The leader of the Han army frowned slightly, thinking that it might be the sound of beasts in the mountains occasionally walking in the dark, and casually replied: "Maybe I heard wrong..."

At this moment, the strong wind eased a little, and the flames in the brazier under the pass wall ignited again. The flat ground outside the pass, which should have been empty, suddenly appeared in a large group, like a ghost soldier who suddenly emerged from the underworld. .

"Whoosh-"

The sound of breaking the air appeared next to the ears of the Han army leader. Standing on the wall, the pupils in the eyes of the Han army leader suddenly enlarged. At the critical moment, he only had time to bow his head, and the feather arrow rubbed the pheasant on his helmet. The tail shot into the darkness.

And Shi Chang next to him didn't have his luck and reaction, was shot in the face by a feather arrow, and fell beside him on the spot.

"Enemy attack!!!"

On the wall, the troops of the Han army retreated to a safe place, and immediately shouted loudly to summon their own troops.

The wrestler beside the war drum had already grabbed the drumstick beside his feet and beat the drum head of the war drum vigorously.

"Boom--" "Boom--" "Boom--"

The thick sound of war drums spread throughout the Jingxing Pass in an instant.

At the same time as the sound of the war drums, a strange, sharp screeching sound that the Han army had never heard before also sounded outside the pass. in mind.

After the Jingxing Pass, a little bit of fire suddenly burst out, and then the fire became brighter and brighter, and hundreds of torches were lifted up and gathered into a sea of ​​fire.

"Wan Sheng!!!"

The next moment, the sound of Wansheng, like a tsunami, came from outside the pass and slapped on the thick wall of Jingxing Pass.

The bright fire on the wall reflected on the blade of the Yellow Turban Army at Guanxia, ​​and the blade of the blade was reflected to the eyes of the Han army sergeants guarding the wall.

These yellow turban troops with their heads wrapped in yellow turbans and armed with swordsmen suddenly appeared like ghosts. The two hundred archers mixed in the light soldiers took the opportunity to shoot the feather arrows in their hands towards the wall.

By the light of the fire, the light soldiers of the Yellow Turbans tried their best to identify the direction of the flag and rushed forward.

In the dark, the archers of the Yellow Turban Army outside the pass were like poisonous snakes, and suddenly shot a feather arrow from the darkness, shooting the Han army walking on the wall to the ground.

The archers of the Han army fought back by relying on the wall stacks. The narrow stacks gave them more protection and gave them the advantage of shooting, but the ladders of the light soldiers of the Yellow Turbans were less than thirty paces away from the wall. ...

Chapter 60 Bloody Battle

The sound of the war drums echoed in Jingxing Pass, and the guard of Jingxing Pass, Lu Jun, immediately got up from the camp when he heard the sound of the drums.

The Han army barracks in Jingjingguan Pass was full of people, and teams of Han army soldiers were dispatched from the barracks in the pass.

Just when the Han army brigade came to support, the ladder of the Yellow Turbans had reached the wall, and the sharp whistle sounded one after another.

The military law formulated by Xu An was very strict. Those who retreated during the battle would be beheaded by the military judge even if they returned to the camp, and if they had a small family, they would even be expelled from the camp.

In the Taihang Mountains, they are isolated and living alone, and they are old and weak, women and children.

In order to survive, these light soldiers of the Yellow Turbans in the front line could only muster their courage and climb up, and before the war there was a word that those who ascended first were promoted to three levels, rewarded with hundreds of stones, and a set of black iron armor.

The sound of breaking the air came from the crenel of the wall from time to time. The Han army archers hiding at the crenel focused on the light soldiers of the Yellow Turbans who were climbing upwards. Feather arrows shot out from the crenel, and the arrows of the Han army again. In a hurry and fast, it was even more difficult to tell the direction in the dark. The light soldiers of the Yellow Turbans on the ladder could only lower their bodies as much as possible, praying in their hearts to avoid the arrows.

Where did the screams come from the ladder, the arrow rolled down from the ladder with the injured Yellow Turban sergeant, and smashed into the wall with the sergeant under him.

The arrows under the wall shot away, temporarily suppressing the Han army archers on the wall near Zhou Ji.

The team under the city shouted and encouraged the sergeants around.

"Wan Sheng!!!"

The sound of ten thousand victories broke out again under the wall. Under the cover of two hundred Yellow Turban archers under the wall, a yellow turban army chief with a flag on his back took the lead to board the city wall. The soldier had fallen by his sword.

Another soldier of the Han army, seeing that the situation was in critical condition, held the ring-headed knife in both hands, and stabbed the knife straight at the commander of the Yellow Turbans who was on the wall.

Only a loud "clang" sound was heard, and the two blades collided, and even spattered sparks.

The Han army was strong in armor and soldiers, and the leader of the Yellow Turban Army, who had climbed the gate tower, staggered back a few steps to stabilize his body, but a Han army archer on the wall took this opportunity to raise his hand and shoot an arrow. .

The heavy arrow of the wolf's teeth shot into the heart through the thin leather armor, and the captain of the Yellow Turban Army fell weakly on the wall with unwilling eyes.

Another Yellow Turban sergeant jumped off the ladder, but the gap that had just been opened had already been occupied by the Han army soldiers who had heard the news.

"Sakuragi!"

On the wall, a Han army chief shouted loudly, and two Han soldiers behind him hugged a log and threw it down the wall with all his might.

The wood fell down the wall, and a Yellow Turban sergeant with a short knife in his mouth bore the brunt. There was no way to avoid it on the ladder, and the falling logs hit him directly on the head. This Yellow Turban sergeant company Without screaming, they rolled down the wall along with Sakuragi, and none of the sergeants who were struggling to climb up under the ladder fell off the ladder and smashed into the crowd.

"stretch--"

The crossbow of the Han army standing on the wall was stimulated by the guards, and huge spears shot out, from above the wall with the howling wind and fell into the raging crowd below the wall.

The two sergeants of the Yellow Turban Army were nailed to the spot on the spot. The spear went through the chest and abdomen of the two and also penetrated the thigh of a sergeant. ringing in the crowd.

"Stretch--" "Stretch--"

A few more noises came, and the bed crossbows on the wall were activated one after another. The presence of the bed crossbows on the front line of light soldiers was undoubtedly a huge blow. In the formation of the soldiers, there were bursts of mourning and rain of blood.

The Han army on the city has already recovered. The archers of the Han army are throwing their arrows down by relying on the oblique angle of the wall stack. where the Yellow Turban archers under the wall also lost their target.

The rocks were thrown from the city wall, and the thin leather armor and the swords in their hands could not allow the soldiers under the city to effectively protect themselves under the rolling stones.

No matter how severe the training was, ordinary people could not resist the impact of rolling stones and sapwood with their flesh and blood. The lives of the Yellow Turban sergeants under the wall were as cheap as grass on the ground.

"kill!!!"