The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 707
The southern section of the east city wall of Chengdu.

This was once occupied by the Yizhou Army, but now it has been occupied by the Yellow Turban Army.

Ren Xian had concealed the truth from the Yizhou army in the city at first, but he was able to conceal it for a while, but he couldn't hide it for the rest of his life.

The movement caused by the Yizhou Army cavalry leaving the city was too great, and the Yizhou Army in the city had already discovered the clues.

They heard the sound of horseshoes, and they found that there was no order from the rear again, and the only few senior generals were only at the rank of Sima.

The Yizhou army on the east wall could see far more than the Paoze fighting trapped beasts in the city. They saw the cavalry of the Yizhou army who escaped from the city and held torches. Then he realized that they were abandoned!

At dusk, relying on the defensive facilities on the city wall, towers and other buildings, they insisted on resisting until the Yellow Turban Army retreated and defended the east city wall of Chengdu.

But now they are retreating steadily under the assault of the Yellow Turban soldiers.

It is true that Xu An only ordered a tentative attack at that time, but it was more because the Yizhou Army did tenaciously resisted the attack of the Yellow Turban Army at that time.

But now, the escape of their master general has made them completely lose their fighting spirit.

Ren Xian escaped, which proved that they would never win this battle. For a while, all the soldiers of the Yizhou Army had only one word on their minds - "escape".

They all want to escape from Yizhou City, they don't want to sit and wait in Yizhou City.

But it was too late. The Yellow Turban Army could have defeated them long ago, but Xu An gave up taking advantage of the situation to cover up the soldiers in order to surrender the city's Zhongzhou soldiers.

Moreover, Xu An also has a plan in his heart. So far, all of Ren Xian's thoughts and actions are in his calculations, and he is acting according to Xu An's plan.

The Yellow Turban Army has more advantages in fighting at night. The Yellow Turban Army can use the smallest casualties in exchange for the greatest benefit.

It was because of this reason that the Yellow Turban Army temporarily slowed down their offensive at dusk yesterday and did not take advantage of the situation, not because of the strength of the Yizhou Army.

Xu An stood on the top of the tower on the city wall, looking at the wilderness of the east city of Chengdu.

At this time, sparks were shining brightly on the fields outside the east city of Chengdu, and the sea of ​​flames gathered together was like a vast sea of ​​stars.

Now Wen Chou has tens of thousands of infantry blocking the road, and nearly [-] cavalry for his drive.

None of the cavalry remained beside Xu An, and all the Tengxiang Guards were transferred to Wen Chou's command by him, so that Wen Chou could stop the cavalry of the Yizhou Army who wanted to escape from Chengdu.

It is not a secret that the Yizhou Army has a cavalry army. The information collected and the sight of the cavalry army in the rear allowed Xu An to determine the approximate number, so he also made a plan for this interception.

The two armies outside the city confront each other, and a fierce battle is inevitable.

In the city, the morale of the Yizhou Army soldiers who lost their command and learned that their general had abandoned them soon fell to the bottom.

They were at a loss, and they didn't even know what happened. Their leader abandoned the army, and he also explained to everyone that they were destined to lose.

Because of this, their chief general Ren Xian didn't want to be buried in Chengdu with them, so he escaped from Dongcheng with his cavalry.

After the Yizhou army closest to the east city gate reacted, the first thing they thought of was to escape.

They didn't think about how they didn't bring food, how they didn't have how the horses escaped, they just followed the first thought in their hearts - escape!
Escape from Chengdu, escape from Dongcheng, and escape from the siege of the Yellow Turban Army.

It seems that as long as you escape from this urban area, you can save your life and continue to live on.

In the east city of Chengdu, the corridors of the city gates were crowded with soldiers of the Yizhou Army who wanted to escape from Chengdu.

Fear was written on their faces, they crowded, cursing, yelling, rushing towards the outside of the city crazily.

The originally wide city gates and corridors now look terribly narrow.

Finally, there was a miserable howl.

The smell of fresh blood spread throughout the corridor in an instant.

I don't know who was the first to swing the butcher knife at his robe.

No one cared, and no one looked for it, because there was no way to find it.

More and more people raised their butcher knives towards Paoze beside them. They wanted to escape, but the corridor of the city gate was too crowded, blocking their way forward.

And just as they were brandishing butcher knives at their robes in order to get out of the city, Lu Bu had already led the generals under his command to control the towers of the east city, and the control of the east city gate had fallen into his hands.

Originally, Ren Xie's personal guards were in charge of guarding the East City Tower, but Ren Xie had already disappeared at this time, presumably he escaped from Chengdu with Ren Xian.

After Lu Bu encountered only a few obstacles, the Yizhou Army collapsed because of Ren Xian's escape, and then it was a smooth journey.

The Yizhou army only cared about the passage of the city gate and wanted to escape from the city. No one cared about the Yellow Turban Army on the city wall, and they just wanted to take care of it, so how could they be Lu Bu's opponent?

Lu Bu looked down at the generals of the Yizhou army who were killing each other at the city gate, with a look of disdain on his face.

These people are simply stupid.

For a place to escape from the city, he pointed the butcher knife at his own people.

Without horses, without food and grass, what can I do if I escape?But there is a dead end.

"close the door!"

Looking at the ugly Yizhou army at the city gate, Lu Bu gave the order to close the gate lightly.

Cheng Lian and Wei Yue followed Lu Bu's military order and led the soldiers to block the horse path that climbed the city wall. One after another, the crossbows were lifted up by the soldiers in heavy armor, shining with a gloomy light. The arrows pointed at the generals of the Yizhou Army under the city.

In the city tower, seven or eight soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army turned the winch according to the order.

The gate of Chengdu City, while the winch was turning, made an unpleasant sound and slowly closed.

In the corridor of the city gate, a group of generals of the Yizhou army who were rushing out also found that the city gate was closing.

"The gates are closing!"

"Come on!"

In the corridor of the city gate, a group of generals of the Yizhou Army were completely panicked, and they rushed out of the city together without caring about killing each other.

The crowd was raging, and everyone wanted to squeeze out and escape from Chengdu.

But the corridor of the city gate is not big, so there is no room for so many people to go out at the same time.

The city gate was about to be closed, and a large number of soldiers of the Yizhou Army poured out of Chengdu City, but more people were left behind in the city gate.

But the gate of the city couldn't be closed because of the crowd. The Yellow Turban soldiers on the city tower who pushed the capstans blushed, but the capstans were all turning upside down.

Without the slightest hesitation, Lu Bu decisively gave the order to shoot the arrows.

On the city wall, hundreds of crossbow machines were fired almost at the same time, and a large number of arrows shot downward like locusts. In an instant, countless screams came from under the city wall, and dozens of people had already fallen on the wall. Down.

The crossbow on the city wall did not stop after firing. After the soldiers in the first row finished shooting, they quickly turned around and walked back, and retreated to the rear of the team. A good ballista aimed at the enemy down the city, and then activated the ballista.

The soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army have been trained for a long time. At this time, the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army shooting on the city wall are arranged in six rows, which are constantly alternating. Every time they shoot an arrow, they will leave their position and walk towards the rear. Ensure that the arrows pour down almost uninterruptedly, suppressing the enemy army under the city.

In a short while, the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army poured out tens of thousands of feathered arrows, and the tens of thousands of feathered arrows almost turned the area around the east city gate into a restricted area for life.

The area at the city gate was littered with corpses of soldiers of the Yizhou Army, and many corpses had dozens of arrows stuck in them.

No one dared to take a step closer to the gate of the east city, nor dared to attack the north gate
Many of the soldiers of the Yizhou Army who were crowded in the corridors of the city gate had already run out of the city. Lu Bu did not take care of these soldiers. Their fate was already doomed.

Lu Bu filled in several people to push and control the winch of the city gate, and the gate of the east city was finally closed at this time.

The four cities have all been closed, and the tens of thousands of Yizhou troops remaining in Yizhou City have truly become shackles in the urn, and there is no room for turning around.

On the field outside the city, several fire dragons were entangled together, and some fire dragons were flying in other directions, but soon, some fire dragons waiting for an opportunity to observe followed, blocking the way of those fleeing fire dragons.

The cavalry of the Yellow Turban Army has already clashed with the cavalry of the Yizhou Army.

At this time, Xu An had also received the news from Lu Bu, and he learned that the East City Gate had been closed.

The Yizhou Army can't make any waves now.

The big picture is set.

"Order all the armies in the city to stabilize the existing defense line, defend the city and the streets, and trap all the Yizhou troops in Dongcheng District. There is no need to advance."

Xu An did not order to continue the campaign.

At this time, the Yizhou Army had lost its command and organizational system, and their morale had fallen to the bottom. It would be easy to wipe them out.

But the best choice is not to eliminate.

Today, the remaining Yizhou Army in Yizhou City should be around [-] to [-] people. Most of these soldiers are from the three counties of Bajun, Jianwei, and Yuexi.

The land, mines, and forests in Yizhou are basically occupied and controlled by the local powerful families. The powerful families have a considerable scale of private armed forces. Therefore, the people of Yizhou have to rely on these powerful families in order to survive.

The composition of the Yizhou Army, the soldiers at the bottom are basically those people who are attached to the powerful families.

The private soldiers of each family are basically arranged as low-level officers, or formed into an army separately, and the important clansmen among the powerful families are basically middle and high-level generals.

In fact, the ordinary soldiers of the Yizhou Army are also among the ranks that can be won, and their interests are actually on the opposite side of the powerful family.

It is just a big problem to resolve the hatred between Yizhou people and Dongzhou people.

But no matter how difficult the problem is, it can be solved, and it must be solved.

There are millions of Yizhou people in Yizhou, but only tens of thousands of Dongzhou people.

In order to govern Yizhou in the future and maintain the stability of Yizhou, the [-] to [-] Yizhou soldiers in Chengdu cannot kill easily.

This is also the main reason why Xu An didn't take advantage of the situation to defeat the Yizhou Army in one go, but gave Ren Xian a breathing space.

It is naturally best for Ren Xian to escape, so he can slowly recruit these Yizhou troops.

When Xu An captured Guanzhong and entered Chang'an, Huang Fusong and others evacuated in a hurry, and many documents were preserved, including records about the population of Yizhou.

Counting from the second year of Guanghe (179) to the fifth year of Zhongping (188), during these nine years, Shu County, Guanghan County, Qianwei County, Ba County and other counties suffered two large-scale destructive forces. Widespread war.

During the time of Emperor Huan, there were many rebellions by the barbarians. In the second year of Guanghe during the reign of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, a rebellion broke out in Ba County, and the rebels fought all the way to Shu County, Guanghan County, Qianwei County and Hanzhong County.

In October of the second year of Guanghe, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty used the imperial censor Zhongcheng Xiao Yuan to supervise Yizhou's troops. As a result, the rebellion could not be quelled year after year, so that the prefectures and counties suffered year after year.

In the seventh year of Guanghe, the Yellow Turban Uprising in the Central Plains, in autumn and July, Zhang Xiufan in Bajun, and Koujun County opened the first scene of the Yizhou Uprising.

In the fifth year of Zhongping, Ma Xiang and Zhao Zhi revolted, and spread to Bajun, Qianwei, Shujun, Guanghan and other counties, beheading Xijian, the governor of Yizhou.

Qianwei County, Ba County, and Yuexi (xī) County, these three counties originally had a large number of people. When statistics were collected during the Yonghe period, there were more than two million people in total.

Although the statistical population in Han Dynasty is more complicated, the data is also biased.

According to the "Pakjun Tujing", there were 154 people in the second year of Yongxing ([-]), that is, more than [-] people.

However, in the Yonghe period (136-141), the record was "[-] people", only [-] people, and there was no war for several years, but the population difference was nearly eight. One hundred thousand.

But now Xu An has no way to immediately check the population. According to the documents left by Chang An, there are only more than one million people left in the three counties.

Most of the ordinary people trapped in the Yizhou Army in the city were from these three counties.

If these [-] to [-] people were all beheaded, then it might be a bit exaggerated to say that every household in the three counties wears hemp and mourning, but white pans must be hung in cities, towns and villages.

It is best for these Yizhou soldiers to be used as a help, rather than to slaughter them all.

"When sending orders to Lei Tong and Wu Ban, the tone should be tougher. If there is any disobedience, they will be executed immediately."

Xu An didn't look back, and dropped a word to Ma Chao lightly.

The conflict between the Dongzhou Army and the Yizhou Army has been going on for a long time, but the huge contradiction must also be suppressed.

To govern Yizhou well, for the Yellow Turban Army, Dongzhou people and Yizhou people are indispensable, and the balance needs to be carefully grasped by Xu An.

In fact, there is no need to worry about the disputes outside the city. The winner was doomed from the very beginning. When the Yellow Turban Army arrived in Chengdu and the Dongzhou Army and the Yizhou Army Sea did not decide the winner, the Yellow Turban Army was already sure to win.

The news in Yizhou was blocked, and the cavalry of the Yizhou Army still stayed in the old era, and they were not equipped with new harnesses at all.

The cavalry weapons and equipment of the Yellow Turban Army are already an era ahead of the Yizhou Army, not to mention that these cavalry troops who can follow Xu An all the way south are all elites among the five cavalry battalions.

The battle of Chengdu was doomed from the beginning.

The cool wind blows past, and the sound of hunting banners comes from below the city.

The flying dragon leaves the sky and enters the abyss with the clouds.

The potential dragon is in the abyss, and it goes to the sky with the clouds.

Dalinlong came out of Tianhe, and the four library soils ranked ninety-five.

This land of Yizhou, known as the "Land of Abundance" by later generations, is already in the pocket of Taiping Dao!
(End of this chapter)