This great victory directly changed the balance of power and the situation between the Han army and the Yellow Turban Army in Hebei.

The Han army began to gain the upper hand, while the Yellow Turban army fell into a situation of decline and defeat.

After the defeat, the Yellow Turban Army's Zhang Jiao's troops fled all the way, and were attacked by the spontaneously organized rebels of the counties along the way.

When Zhang Jiao finally led his army to escape from the pursuit and harassment of the Han army and retreated to the base camp of Guangzong, less than 10,000 of the original 50,000 troops were still alive and followed him, and the remaining 40,000 people were all gone.

The Yellow Turbans suffered a major setback, the kind of setback that was completely irreparable.

The death of Zhang Liang and the defeat of Zhang Jiao greatly shook the confidence of the Taiping Daoists, and after this defeat, deserters even appeared in the base camp of Guangzong.

The god-like image that Zhang Jiao had spent countless hours and energy building collapsed in an instant.

So from this point of view, Zhang Jiao can't afford to lose, once he loses, his image will collapse, the faith of believers will collapse, and the Yellow Turban Army will completely degenerate from a religious army with faith into a rabble.

Originally, when I had faith, I dared to fight for my faith, but the god I believed in was not a god, and I actually failed, so wouldn't we all be nothing?

What Zhang Jiao was most afraid of happened, and the Taiping Daoists suddenly realized that they were actually just a little deflated three, and they would die a miserable death, and they were not believers in some gods......

There was violent unrest and collapse of faith within the Yellow Turban Army, while at the same time, Lu Zhi's offensive did not stop.

Zhang Jiao fled all the way, Lu Zhi chased all the way, and after the victory on April 17, Lu Zhi only rested for one day, and then led the army to pursue Zhang Jiao.

It took Zhang Jiao eight days to flee back to Guangzong, and on April 27, two days after Zhang Jiao fled back to Guangzong, Lu Zhi led his army to the vicinity of Guangzong.

After that, Lu Zhi set up camp more than ten miles away from the county seat of Guangzong, and was not in a hurry to attack the county seat of Guangzong, but sent troops to sweep the strongholds of the Yellow Turban Army around the county seat of Guangzong.

"Isolate Guangzong, so that the heart of the Yellow Turban thieves in the city is shaken, and it also buys time for our army to make and mobilize siege equipment, at the moment we are short of siege equipment, and it is really unwise to storm the county seat."

Everyone agrees with Lu Zhi's opinion.

There are at least 100,000 Taiping Daoists in Guangzong County, among which there are more than 30,000 Yellow Turban Army soldiers, which is actually quite troublesome.

In ancient times, the siege and defense of the city wall was very advantageous for the defenders, but it was more demanding for the besieging side.

After breaking Zhang Jiao's main force in the first battle, Lu Zhi's command already had more than 40,000 troops, which could completely surround the entire Guangzong County and attack from all sides.

The ancient city was not as big as imagined, and there were not so many people standing on the four walls, so there was very little room for the besieging side to exert themselves, and although there were many troops, they could not be converted into advantages.

In this case, if the defending troops are less than 1,000 people, and the city walls are less than four sides, and they cannot withstand the siege from all sides, the city will be lost in a few hours, and the price that the besieging side needs to pay is very low.

In general, the strength of the defending side determines the duration of the siege.

If the defenders of the city have 2,000 men, they can have enough troops on all four walls and under the walls behind, but they can't withstand attrition, and more importantly, they can't attack.

The besieging side of the city raised the earth mountain and built an arrow tower to suppress it, and then dug a tunnel to set up a sharp cone, and the city could be broken in about ten days and half a month.

If the defenders have 3,000 men, they can attack while defending, destroying tunnels from the surface, and destroying arrow towers to force the besiegers to attack farther away, increasing the besieging team's consumption.

However, the defenders of the city had limited forces to attack and could not withstand attrition, and could hold out for about two to three months.

If the number of defenders exceeds 5,000 and there are no internal problems, they can hold out until the food is exhausted, and the length of the siege is determined by the food reserves in the city.

When the food in the city is eaten up, and the soldiers defending the city are hungry and unable to stand up, and they can't wield their swords and crossbows, the besiegers can climb the city walls and occupy the city.

According to the argument in "Mozi", even if there are 100,000 troops attacking the city, then even if the defenders are only 4,000 people, according to the density of nine men every two meters, the enemy can be defeated in the direction of the main attack at a maximum of 920 meters.

However, in most of ancient times, according to the principle of concentrating troops, there were only five or six hundred county soldiers in the important towns that were not to be fought for by soldiers, which belonged to the type that could be quickly attacked as long as there was an enemy, otherwise the forces of the dynasty would not be enough to distribute.

Therefore, in ancient times, there was a saying that "ten thousand soldiers galloped", and a general led 10,000 people to gallop across the country.

At this moment, there are more than 30,000 Yellow Turban soldiers and horses in Guangzong County, and there are also some cities occupied by the Yellow Turban Army around Guangzong, which can support Guangzong at any time, so it is far from the time to relax.

What's more important is that Lu Zhi doesn't know the number of grains stored by the Yellow Turban Army in Guangzong City, and he doesn't know when these grains will be consumed.

Reality decided that the possibility of success in climbing the wall and storming the county seat of Guangzong was infinitely close to zero.

Lu Zhi is not a man who is used to relying on miracles.

He chose to take the battalion step by step, steadily and steadily, isolated Guangzong from the facts, and forced the Yellow Turban army in the city to go out of the city for a decisive battle, so as to reduce their forces and reduce the difficulty of attacking the city.

In this way, the significance of sweeping the surrounding area is very important, sweeping away the strongholds of the surrounding Yellow Turban Army, making it into a desperate situation, and the desperate army has a very high probability of internal strife when there is no hope.

So Lu Zhi intends to make full use of his advantages.

At this time, Guo Peng, who had made a great contribution to killing Zhang Liang, was given a new mission by Lu Zhi.

Lu Zhi gave Guo Peng thirty cavalry to enter his Changshui cavalry team, and then transferred another 500 infantry to him for command, so that he could directly command an army of 1,000 people to attack a Yellow Turban army camp.

There were about 2,000 Yellow Turban troops in the camp.

"The yellow turbans are all foot soldiers, young cavalry, you have 500 cavalry, you should make full use of your advantages, there are no more troops for the division to give you, everything depends on yourself, give you seven days for the division."

Lu Zhi was looking forward to it.

It was the first day of the fifth month, Guo Peng nodded and took the order.

Zhang Jiao set up a lot of camps around Guangzong County, stationed soldiers and horses, so that they echoed each other with Guangzong County and could support each other.

Now that the Yellow Turban Army in the city has been beaten to the ground, it is a good time to sweep these camps.

Guo Peng proved his bravery and his ability to command a cavalry team of 500 people, but whether he can command more troops will take time to verify, and Lu Zhi will have to test his teaching results.