Ten miles outside Quyang City, a group of people dressed in rags that looked like refugees were supporting each other and heading towards Quyang. However, what was different from the refugees was that everyone was holding a weapon, with their heads wrapped in yellow scarves, and looked tired.
"Brother, are we like this?" In the crowd, a black-faced man with a yellow scarf on his head turned to the white-faced man on the side and asked. Looking at the appearance of the black-faced man, he obviously looked confused and dissatisfied.
"What do you know!" The white-faced man glanced at the black-faced man, and then said seriously: "What Peng Ju said is true. If you want to deceive the enemy, you must first deceive yourself. If you can't deceive yourself, what will happen?
Go and let the yellow turban bandits in Quyang City be fooled. If the yellow turban bandits are not fooled, how can Pengju's plan succeed?"
"What the elder brother said is true, I am too reckless!" The dark-faced man scratched the back of his head and said naively.
"It's good to know! Keep marching!" The white-faced man looked at the black-faced man expressionlessly and said softly.
There was a tense and murderous atmosphere in Quyang City. The Han army attacked countless times, but the city was still in the hands of the Yellow Turban Army. This was mainly due to the large number of Yellow Turban soldiers in Quyang City, who were heavily guarded, and Zhang Bao was very careful and held firm.
The city gate was closed, leaving the Han army outside the city no chance.
However, having too many people is sometimes not a benefit. Let alone other things, Quyang City was overwhelmed by the food consumed by many soldiers in the city every day. At first, the Yellow Turban Army fought consecutively and successfully, but they also plundered a lot of food.
They were stationed in several more important cities and were used only to hold on. However, since the imperial army pressed the border, although the Yellow Turban Army occasionally won, it was obviously not as good as before.
And since Zhang Jiao died of illness, the Yellow Turban Army has been completely defeated. Now it can only huddle in the city and cannot stand. However, although the Han army was unable to break through Quyang for a while, the Yellow Turban Army in the city was also defeated by the Han Army.
If you are surrounded, you won't be able to get out of the city. The only result will be nothing.
Looking at the gradually dwindling granary, Zhang Bao was so worried that he almost pulled out his black hair.
At this time, in Quyang County Yamen, Zhang Bao was kneeling in the hall with a sad face, and there were a group of Yellow Turban generals below. At this time, the entire county government office was filled with a solemn atmosphere, and every Yellow Turban general in the hall
The military generals all had sad expressions on their faces, with no trace of joy at all. The main reason why this happened was that the food in Quyang City was about to be exhausted.
Although Zhang Bao tried his best to hide it, he still couldn't hide it from everyone. As the food in the army was getting worse day by day, even a fool knew what was going on. Food did not fall from the sky, and it was impossible for him to appear innocently in the granary.
, and being trapped in Quyang this month, they have been sitting on nothing, and the Yellow Turban Army is so large and bloated that the food that could have been consumed for a year was eaten up in a few months.
"The war is now tense and there is not enough food and grass in the city. I wonder if you have any good ideas?" After a long silence, Zhang Bao finally couldn't help but look at him and said.
"This..." The generals in the hall looked at each other, and the county government office, which was originally silent, became extremely lively. However, after being busy for a long time, the generals did not have to say anything.
"That's enough!" Looking at the messy hall, Zhang Bao roared. As Zhang Bao roared, the whole hall fell into silence again.
"Humph!" There was a cold snort. Although the cold snort was gentle, it did not escape Zhang Bao's ears. Zhang Bao heard the sound and looked around, and found that it was indeed Zhang Niujiao.
Zhang Niujiao, a native of Boling, is a Liang commander from the Thirty-six Square Side. He is forthright and righteous, and is one of Zhang Jiao's direct disciples. He is highly regarded by Zhang Jiao, and he has high prestige in the sect and has many soldiers under his command.
It turned out that he was the guard general of Quyang, who was ordered by Zhang Jiao to guard Quyang. The first thing he did when he arrived was to seize Zhang Niujiao's power, which made Zhang Niujiao very dissatisfied with him.
Similarly, Zhang Bao was also very dissatisfied with him. Zhang Niujiao was a generous man and was highly praised by the disciples in the sect, and he also had several close friends. Moreover, this man was die-hardly loyal to Zhang Jiao and had no regard for him, Zhang Jiao's younger brother.
The general ignored him at all, which made Zhang Bao very angry. However, although Zhang Bao was angry, he had nothing to do.
Zhang Niujiao has been operating in Quyang City for several months, and most of the soldiers in the city obey his orders. Although he has many soldiers under his command, after all, he is an outsider and cannot compare with Zhang Niujiao. Moreover, he is quite prestigious in the army, so he openly fights with him.
Yes, it was obviously unwise. Therefore, Zhang Bao just glanced at Zhang Bao without saying a word.
But Zhang Bao didn't speak, but that doesn't prove that Zhang Bao's men didn't speak. This was because a man lying down said loudly: "Zhang Niujiao, what do you mean!" The person who spoke was Zhang Bao's deputy general Gao Sheng.
"Grandpa Zhang is happy, do you care?" Zhang Niujiao looked at Gao Sheng with a joking look on his face, not taking Gao Sheng seriously at all.
"You!" Gao Sheng pointed at Zhang Niujiao, a little angry.
"What's wrong with me?" Zhang Niujiao stood up and walked slowly towards Gao Sheng. Zhang Niujiao is also a ruthless man. He has extraordinary martial arts skills and is brave in fighting. He always rushes to the front in every battle. And his bravery has impressed many Yellow Turbans.
It was his bravery that made the Yellow Turban Army soldiers see the bloodthirsty side of Zhang Niujiao.
Seeing Zhang Niujiao walking towards him, Gao Sheng suddenly felt the pressure around him suddenly increase, as if he had fallen into an ice cave. Even though there was a brazier in the hall, Gao Sheng could not feel the slightest temperature.
Zhang Niujiao took another step towards him, and the smile on his face became more and more ferocious. Gao Sheng felt that the person in front of him was a beast instead of a person. Yes, Gao Sheng did not feel safe at all.
"Ah!" Finally, Gao Sheng could no longer bear the pressure brought by Zhang Niujiao, so he pulled out the steel knife from his waist, shouted and slashed towards Zhang Niujiao.
"Hmph!" Zhang Niujiao made a scornful look, not caring about Gao Sheng at all, and raised his hand to hold Gao Sheng's knife hand. Gao Sheng's chopping action was immediately stopped. Gao Sheng's face was filled with laughter.
His hands turned red, and his hands felt like they were being held back. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't move them open at all.
"Enough is enough!" At this moment, Zhang Bao from above the hall spoke.
Upon hearing this, Zhang Niujiao glanced at Zhang Bao in the hall, but he had no intention of obeying.
"You!" Just when Zhang Bao was about to speak angrily, Zhang Niujiao gently waved his hand and pushed Gao Sheng aside. Then he turned around and walked back to his seat.
Seeing Zhang Niujiao's arrogant expression, Zhang Bao was determined to kill him with his sword. However, Zhang Bao found helplessly that he really couldn't defeat Zhang Niujiao. Not to mention, Zhang Niujiao also had a powerful Zhang Niujiao.
Yan.
"Report!" Just when Zhang Bao was thinking a lot, a yellow scarf soldier hurried in.
"What's the matter?" Zhang Bao asked in fear. At this time, he was extremely afraid of the Han army attacking the city.
"The soldiers from the city just came and said that they found a large number of Yellow Turban troops defeated at the south gate and running towards the south gate." The soldier said hurriedly.
"What!" Hearing this, Zhang Bao stood up immediately. "South Gate? How could it be the South Gate!" Zhang Bao said with his eyes broken. Then he said like a madman: "No... no... no
possible!"
Seeing Zhang Bao's devastated look, Zhang Niujiao couldn't help snorting, and then he stood up in shock. He quickly came to the soldier, grabbed the soldier and asked, "You mean the south of the city?"
"No...that's right!" the soldier said tremblingly.
Zhang Niujiao threw the soldiers away and quickly walked out of the county government office. However, Zhang Niujiao's direct generals saw that his Liang Shuai was gone, so they also quickly chased after their own Liang Shuai.
On the city wall of the south gate of Quyang, Zhang Niujiao looked into the distance, and he discovered that the defeated army in the distance, numbering no less than a thousand, was running towards Quyang desperately. There was dust flying not far away, and it was obvious that a large group was chasing him.
At this moment, a yellow turban defeated army ran to the foot of Quyang City and shouted loudly: "Brothers on the wall, I am the personal soldier of General Renggong. Guangzong was defeated, and my general finally succeeded."
When I got here, I hoped to open the city gate and introduce my general into the city."
Zhang Niujiao, who was on the city wall, was shocked when he heard that the man was really the defeated soldier of Guangzong. He must know that his teacher's coffin is still in Guangzong. If the city of Guangzong is destroyed, then the teacher's coffin will be lost. The more he thought about it, the more he thought about it, the more he thought about it.
The anger grew stronger. At this moment, Zhang Bao also led people to the city wall quickly.
Seeing Zhang Bao coming, Zhang Niujiao said hurriedly: "I am willing to lead people to recapture Guangzong. I wonder what the general wants?"
"Absolutely impossible!" Hearing that Zhang Niujiao actually wanted to take people out of the city, Zhang Bao refused without even thinking.
Hearing that his perseverance was rebuffed by Zhang Bao, Zhang Niujiao became furious and shouted: "I have to respect you before I call you general. You think you are really a great teacher and you actually want to order me!"
"You can go if you want, but don't even think about bringing any food with you. You must know that I am in charge of Quyang now! And you are just a commander-in-chief, and I am the general of the land, one person is inferior to ten thousand people!" Zhang Bao
He wasn't angry, he said with a proud look on his face.
"You!" Zhang Niujiao pointed at Zhang Bao, but said nothing for a while. "Huh! Let's go!" Zhang Niujiao snorted coldly, and then led the people down the city gate.
Then, Zhang Bao came to the city wall, looked down through the female wall, and found a ragged Yellow Turban soldier. Then he said, "Are you my brother's personal soldier?"
Hearing that the man on the wall actually called Zhang Liangwen his younger brother, the yellow scarf soldier at the bottom of the city was immediately overjoyed and hurriedly said: "To the general of the land, I am the personal guard of the general of the land. My general was killed by the bandit Huangfu Song."
The surprise attack failed, so I came here to join the general."
"Hmph! My useless brother is so embarrassed. I've only been away for a few days and he lost Guangzong City!" Zhang Bao said contemptuously, with a hint of gloating in his tone.
"Since the general left, my general also regretted it very much. He often told us: "We are all brothers, why should we make such a fuss? I was really wrong."
"He really said that?" Hearing what the soldiers below the city said, Zhang Bao obviously couldn't bear it. What he said was not wrong at all. He never thought about the relationship between his three brothers before the incident. But after he gained power, this