Just as Chen Mu guessed, the defense in Yiyang City was almost useless.
The only person in the Yellow Turban Army who has some strategic awareness is probably Zhang Jiao.
In this era, the difference between those who have read books and those who have not read books is very big. Ordinary farmers only care about the food they grow in their own fields all their lives. Suddenly they go to the battlefield and become soldiers, allowing them to become people with outstanding insights overnight. It is really
It is too difficult for them.
Therefore, when Zhang Jiao was in the military camp, he was still able to control the troops and arrange for them to patrol and watch overnight. When Zhang Jiao was gone, everyone became free and undisciplined, completely lacking the discipline that an army should have.
Lu Zhi's army of 30,000 defeated Zhangjiao's more than 200,000 men and was defeated. Huangfu Song's army only had 10,000 or 20,000, and only 40,000 until Cao Cao came to support. They were still able to defeat the hundreds of thousands of Yingchuan and Yuzhou's main Yellow Turban troops.
Got to be clean.
Even the Book of the Later Han Dynasty and the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms mentioned that the failure of the Yellow Turban Army was attributed to disorganized organization and poor discipline. You can know how low the combat effectiveness and subjective initiative of this army were.
Chen Mu looked around. If the Yellow Turbans really set up an ambush, then the woods and dense basil grassland on the left and right sides of Yiyang City would be the best choice.
But when Meng Zhen asked Liu Bei to take his men and horses to the woods before, he found that the men and horses entered the jungle, and the noise they made startled many birds. There were many wild beasts and birds in this era, and they were not hunted in large numbers like in later generations.
, if there is a large group of people hidden in the woods, it is easy to disturb the birds that inhabit the jungle at night.
In addition, there is no one on duty at the city gate, and there are no hidden sentries in the weeds below the city. Various signs indicate that the Yiyang Yellow Turban Army, or the guards here, have almost no sense of defense. Of course, it is also possible that they received the mission and then passed on.
Evacuating within two days may be a sign of lax preparedness.
The city gate was easily tricked into opening, and Liu Bei held the door opener with his male and female swords. The man was indeed a fisherman from Daluze. He was over fifty years old. He had lived a relatively long time in this era. He joined the Yellow Turban Army because he was exploited by the government.
They belong to the category of soldiers who are old, weak, sick and disabled, so they were sent to watch the night. As people become more mature, in order to survive, the fisherman did not hesitate to shut his mouth, did not shout loudly, and knelt on the ground honestly, not daring to move.
"this......"
Meng Zhen was stunned, so he pretended to open the city gate? It was too easy.
In fact, it is not that Meng Zhen is stupid, nor is he forced to be smart, but that he has no combat experience with such a loose peasant army and does not know the enemy's style. If he fights such battles a few more times, he can make his own judgment.
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"Meng Sima, the city gate has been opened, why not call the forward army to attack the city." Seeing Meng Zhen stunned, Chen Mu reminded him in a low voice: "If the army can enter Yiyang tonight, it will be a great achievement for Sima."
"Oh...yes, hurry up, go call someone." Meng Zhen hurriedly ordered the soldiers to go to the woods outside the city to call someone.
Half a mile away they arrived in an instant, and the army rumbled into the city.
Except for the three brothers Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, and Zhang Liang, most of the generals of the Yellow Turban Army in Jizhou were later generals of the Black Mountain Army. After the Yellow Turbans were annihilated, these people each took over the mountains and established themselves as kings again. Now Zhang Jiao has not yet joined the army.
Even though they were defeated, they were all under Zhang Jiao's command.
General Yiyang was Yu Changgen and Guo Taixian, both of whom were later members of the Black Mountain Army. Yu Changgen was not a person's name, but his nickname.
The difference between untouchables and commoners in the pre-Qin era was that one had a name but no surname, and the other had a name and a surname.
For example, Su Qinqiong is a bit poor, but he has a surname and a given name, and can still read, which at least shows that he is nobler than the untouchables. Some untouchables do not have a surname, only a given name. For example, if the surname "Su" is removed from the two characters Su Qin, it is
Named "Qin", such people are the working people at the bottom and are exploited.
In the Han Dynasty, names were grouped together, and whether they had characters or not became a distinction between high and low. For example, Liu Bei, whose courtesy name was Xuande, had characters, which meant that although he had little money, he was at least literate and had a wealthy family.
The support of the family is essentially different from the peasants who are illiterate.
Yu Fangen was the worst off. Not only did he have no characters, he didn't even have a name. Because his surname was Yu, and he had a beard on his lower jaw that was knotted together, so people nicknamed him Yu Fangen, and he became
name.
However, it is undeniable that as a working people at the bottom, Yu Changgen has always been armed and fought very bravely. When he heard the shouts of killing coming from the city gate, he immediately pushed away the two young ladies who had grabbed him, put on his armor and picked up weapons. From the original
Yiyangcheng County Magistrate ran out of his mansion and shouted: "Come here, meet the enemy!"
At this time, Meng Zhen's vanguard army had already entered the city and seized the city gate. The dozens of old soldiers who had been keeping watch were all captured and controlled. Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and three others rushed into the city first and ordered the soldiers to set fire everywhere, causing chaos.
Now the entire city of Yiyang has almost been slaughtered. The Yellow Turban Army burned, killed and looted. There are almost no people in the city. Soldiers from Yu Changgen and Guo Taixian's tribe have occupied the house for the night and are sleeping soundly. Suddenly, there are shouts of killing and
The fire suddenly made them panic, and they ran out of the house one after another. As a result, they were met by the spears and spears of the Han army. The battlefield situation was one-sided, and the Yellow Turban Army could hardly form effective resistance.
Chen Mu has always cherished his life. It is one thing to watch the excitement, but it is another thing to go to the battlefield in person. Therefore, he has long stood on the tower, looking down from above. It was his order to let Liu Bei set fire to the city. In addition to giving
Besides the chaos caused by the Yellow Turban Army, the biggest advantage was that it made the city brighter, making it easier for him to watch the show.
However, there are also disadvantages to this. After Yu Changgen and Guo Taixian ran out, if the city was dark, they would have to think about how to escape. Because the people were mixed, they could not even tell who was the enemy and who was one of their own.
It is easy to cause accidental injury.
Now there were fires everywhere in the city, and the vision was very bright. Yu Changgen did not hesitate to have the yellow flag raised, and shouted loudly for the soldiers to gather. Soon more than 3,000 people gathered to fight with the forward army.
Since the city of Yiyang was small and the streets were not wide, the horses could not run wildly. As a result, the vanguard army and the enemy directly started a street fight. The two sides were in a stalemate, and the war was actually stalemate.
"Kill!"
"There are only a few thousand officers and soldiers, but we have 20,000 troops. Each one of us can drown them by spitting!"
"The officers and soldiers who are sons of thieves will die!"
Although the Yellow Turban Army suffered a few defeats, it was still a new army and had killed many powerful men. It had certain combat experience and maintained good morale. They rushed out of the house to kill the enemy.
The two torrents collided together, and all kinds of swords, guns, axes, axes, swords and halberds rang out in unison. The metal of weapons collided with each other, and there were fierce sparks and sparks.
Liu Bei rushed in front, wielding a male and female sword. His left sword opened an enemy's long statue, and his right sword stabbed diagonally into the enemy's lower ribs. Before he could draw his sword, he heard the sound of wind coming from his ear. Guan Yu shouted: "
Brother, be careful."
As soon as he lowered his head, the sharp air passed by his ears, and when he saw a big knife slashing into the air, he couldn't help but break into a cold sweat. If he had taken one step slower, his neck would have been broken in two.
Zhang Fei saw that Liu Bei almost encountered an accident and became furious. He held an eight-foot-long steel spear in one hand and swept away the enemy beside him. He jumped up and jumped more than ten feet away. His momentum was like a rainbow, and his burly and strong body
Like a cannonball, it hit the soldier who was attacking Liu Bei, knocking him to the ground. He reached down with his left hand, grabbed the man's throat, lifted him up with one hand, and strangled him to death.
Before he could remove the body from his hand, several bright sharp knives were coming from the front. Liu, Guan, and Zhang were very close. Guan Yu's Qinglong Yanyue Sword had already slashed several people in succession. Seeing that Zhang Fei was in danger, he immediately drew his sword.
He tilted upwards and held the sharp knives. Zhang Fei's weapon was suitable for stabbing but not for chopping. Liu Bei stabbed three people to death with his sword and rescued Guan Yu.
The three of them cooperated so closely that dozens of yellow scarf thieves could not get close to them in a short period of time. But the disadvantage of street fighting was that it was too chaotic. Not only were enemies in the surrounding alleys coming out to attack at any time and at any time, but also in the houses and windows next to them.
It is possible that a weapon was discovered, causing the three of them to deal with it in a panic, with the number of guards around them getting smaller and smaller.
There are only more than 3,000 people in the forward army, which is still a big problem. Even if the Yellow Turban Army in Yiyang City is not well-defended, there are too many people. They have shouted that there are few officers and soldiers to increase their morale. Even if there are only more than 20,000 people, they have come.
Half of it was enough to block the advance army at the city gate and make it difficult to enter.
In fact, the commanders of this battle were Yu Changgen and Guo Taixian. After gathering the soldiers, they immediately rushed to the gate of the city to block the forward army, and then continued to greet the troops. The soldiers came in a steady stream, forming a formation on the forward army.
The power of encirclement.
The long and dense formation made it difficult for Liu Guan and Zhang to move. Zhang Fei was panting. He couldn't remember how many people he stabbed to death. He estimated that the number of enemies who fell under his hands was not forty but thirty. There were corpses on the ground.
But he never expected that the enemy would be so fierce and unafraid of death. In the past, when he encountered the Yellow Turban Army, he would always be defeated in a single battle. Why is this Yellow Turban Army so powerful?
Zhang Fei didn't know that this Yellow Turban Army was actually Zhang Jue's warrior army. According to the ancient superstition, Zhang Jiao used a talisman spell to deceive a group of strong soldiers, saying that they were Yellow Turban Warriors, descended from the gods and capable of invulnerability.
Even after death, they can return to heaven and become gods, so they are not afraid of death and are very brave in battle.
Yu Changgen was the best among the Yellow Turban warriors. He had a thousand such troops under his command, and he sent them all out. More than a hundred people died when they besieged Liu Guanzhang, but he did not feel distressed at all. Seeing that he could resist the officials
The soldiers couldn't help but feel proud. They got on their horses and asked the guards to raise the flag and prepare for a counterattack.
It is difficult to use horses in the city, but Chang Gen wanted to ride on the horse and become the master in the future to improve his morale. As a result, Liu Bei's eyes lit up and he saw the big yellow flag more than 20 feet away and said: "Second brother and third brother
, cover me on the roof."
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei understood this and were guarded by spears and swords. They rushed into the enemy formation to fight like two gods, attracting firepower from the surrounding enemies.
Liu Bei inserted the two-pronged sword into the scabbard, and like an ape, he speeded up and stepped on the window sill of a house. Then he jumped up and climbed to the eaves. Using both hands, he climbed to the three-meter-high roof. From behind,
He took out a two-stone longbow, took an arrow from the quiver, aimed at the root of the root, and shot the arrow like a flying star.
During the Battle of Quyang, Liu Bei once set up a bow and arrow on a galloping horse. In the chaos, an arrow shot Zhang Bao's left arm, which shows that he is skilled in bow and horse. When fighting outside, he not only hangs two swords at his waist, but also has two swords on his back.
Carrying two stone bows and quivers, now is the time to put them to use.
I saw the arrow streaking across the night sky like lightning. Yu Changgen had just mounted his horse and was about to lead his troops to launch a counterattack. Suddenly he felt the roar of wind in front of him. When he looked again, an arrow came and hit him right in the face.
"The leader of the thieves is dead. Surrender without killing him!" When Liu Bei saw Yu Changgen falling off his horse, he couldn't help but be overjoyed and immediately started shouting.
For a time, the morale of the officers and soldiers was greatly boosted, their offensive was rapid, and they quickly rushed into the city.