There was a rain of wood and stone in the sky, centered on the burst point, and it was the fragments of wood and stone that were thrown into the sky after the city gate tower was blasted.

The entire city gate tower was lifted into the air, and the power of the explosion can be imagined.

It can be said that the defenders at the head of the city were awakened by this rain of broken wood and stones. Subsequently, this rain of broken wood and stones caused great confusion among the defenders near the city gate tower.

After the city gate tower was shattered, the rain of debris and stones formed caused a lot of damage to the nearby defenders. Those smaller pieces of wood and stone are fine, and they will generally only hurt the defending soldiers when they fall, but some coarse broken wood and stones will directly kill the defending soldiers.

The defenders near the burst point are basically dead; Closer, there were also many people who fell in violent tremors, and even fell off the city wall; Those farther away were stunned.

The army under the city was also a little unable to react to this sudden abnormality, one moment ago, they were still pressing forward with the whole army under the order of the lord, and then they saw the lord shouting "kill", and the next moment the explosion happened.

Guan Yu and the others were even more dumbfounded. They were not far from Li Pengfei's side, and they naturally heard Li Pengfei's shout of "kill" clearly. They were wondering, there was a city wall five hundred paces ahead, so what was the use of killing them? Hit the city wall?

However, a miracle happened in the next moment. After a loud explosion, the entire gate tower was blown away.

Not only that, but even the city wall near the gate tower collapsed for a long time. On the originally tall and strong city wall, a gap of forty steps wide appeared.

The obstacle that stood in front of them, gone!

It's a miracle for the besieging army, but it's a nightmare for the Yellow Turban army in the city!

Gao Sheng, the main general of the Yellow Turban Army, who was on the city gate tower at that time, and a cadre of generals and school staff under his command, went to the sky together with the city gate tower. It's just that by the time they landed again, most of them had already died, including Gao Sheng.

Gao Sheng, with his big dreams, died in the state of Gao Sheng's flying sky. Before he died, he didn't even have time to have any unwilling thoughts.

The explosion caused great chaos to the Yellow Turban Army at the head of the city, but even greater chaos was yet to come, that is, due to the large number of deaths of these Yellow Turban Army generals and colonels, the Yellow Turban Army lost its effective command.

In the chaos of the Yellow Turban Army, the siege army rushed into Jixian County along the gap!

At the same time, under Li Pengfei's order, Gongsun Zhan led his 3,000 white horses to outflank from the left side of Jixian County, while Zhao Yun led 5,000 cavalry to outflank from the right side of Jixian County.

Li Pengfei had already made up his mind to capture the 80,000 Yellow Turban troops in Jixian County without missing a single one.

The 8,000 iron horsemen and 15,000 foot soldiers rushed forward with a loud rumbling sound, like thunder! The sound of war drums and battle trumpets shook the entire Jixian County.

Under the siege of the monstrous enemy, coupled with the loss of the command of the general, the Yellow Turban Army in the city did not have any will to resist at all, and after Li Yijun shouted the slogan of surrender and not killing, the Yellow Turban Army laid down their arms one by one.

Li Pengfei did not follow the army into the city, he stayed at the explosion of the city gate tower.

Touching the broken walls of the eaves, which were still filled with smoke and dust and emitted the heat brought by the explosion, Li Pengfei was also a little shocked in his heart. He didn't expect that the things he prepared were so powerful.

"It's said that the power of ** is not strong, it doesn't seem to be true. When the quantity accumulates to a certain extent, it will also cause qualitative changes. Li Pengfei muttered to himself.

As a special soldier, it is naturally very clear about **. In his previous life, when he went on a mission, it was impossible to carry explosives with him in some cases, which required him to make his own explosives when needed.

Of course, in later generations, there was very little need to make **, the most primitive gunpowder, and it was impossible to manufacture it in large quantities. Therefore, Li Pengfei does not have any intuitive impression of the power of **.

This time, in order to break through Jixian County, Li Pengfei made full preparations. This so-called sufficiency mainly refers to quantitative sufficiency. He brought the saltpeter and sulfur he had collected over the years to Jixian County, and finally made a full 5,000 catties (Han catties, that is, about 1,250 kilograms) according to the blasting type**.

Because he didn't know the power of **, for the sake of safety, he used all these ** at once. As a result, the previous scene appeared: the city gate tower, which was more than seven meters high and weighed hundreds of tons, was uprooted and flew into the air, causing the nearby city wall to be broken through a gap as wide as 60 meters.

The battle ended quickly, and when the sun set, Jixian County had returned to calm.

Because of the blockage of Luoshui, the encirclement of 8,000 iron cavalry, and the fact that the commanders, including the main general, died at the first time, the Yellow Turban Army fell into chaos at the beginning of the war, and then collapsed. Therefore, although the number of Yellow Turban troops in Jixian County was as high as 80,000, they did not cause many casualties to Li Yi's army. Less than 100 people were killed in the battle, and more than 500 were seriously wounded. These casualties were mainly caused during the search for the Yellow Turban Army in the city, and some diehards resisted stubbornly, causing a small amount of damage to Li Pengfei's army.

The results of the battle were extremely brilliant, under the encirclement and interception of 8,000 cavalry and 15,000 foot soldiers, none of the more than 80,000 Yellow Turban troops could escape the battlefield. In the end, more than 5,000 Yellow Turban troops were killed in battle, or trampled on each other in the process of collapsing and fleeing, and the remaining 75,000 or so Yellow Turban troops all became prisoners of Li Pengfei's army.

When the calm of Jixian County was restored, Li Pengfei also entered the city and settled in the Thorn History Mansion in the city.

Although Jixian County has been captured by the Yellow Turban Army for a while, as the best house in the city, the Assassin's Mansion has not been destroyed. It was first occupied by Zhang Bao as his living quarters. After Zhang Bao's defeat, this place was occupied by Gao Sheng.

Now, as the assassin of Youzhou, he Li Pengfei naturally wants to return to this place. Although this place looks a little ominous, Li Pengfei does not care so much.

As soon as Li Pengfei settled down and was about to ask the guards to summon the generals to discuss his next move, he saw Han Dang walking in with a middle-aged man with a roe head and a rat in his arms.

"Lord, just now I caught this guy who claims to be filial piety, and he is clamoring to see you."

"Filial piety? Want to see me? Li Pengfei was stunned, in today's Jixian County, there are still such characters?

Filial piety is a subject set up by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to appoint officials, and filial piety is the meaning of "filial piety to the elders, honesty and integrity".

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty established the basic policy of exclusive respect for Confucianism, and paid special attention to human morality in the selection of ruling talents. According to Confucianism, it emphasizes filial piety as the foundation of one's life and honesty as the party for officials and politicians, so filial piety and honesty are identified as the most important subjects for selecting talents, and it has become the most representative typical subject of the Han Dynasty inspection system.

In the first year of Emperor Yuanguang of the Han Dynasty (134 B.C.), the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered the county to raise filial piety and honesty one person, that is, one person to raise filial piety and one person to investigate Lian. However, in the end of the Han Dynasty, filial piety and honesty were often conflated and confused in one family. Most of the people who were promoted were state and county officials or Confucian scholars who were familiar with the Confucian scriptures, and after being promoted, those who did not have an official position were given official positions, and those who were originally minor officials were promoted to big officials.

Being promoted as filial piety is the same as winning the imperial examination in later generations.

Starting from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and continuing to the Eastern Han Dynasty, from local officials to famous princes and juqing in the imperial court, many of them were born in filial piety and had a great influence on the politics of the Han Dynasty. By promoting filial piety and honesty, it has created public opinion and fashion in the society of being a filial son at home and being an honest official, and has played a role in social education to transform the yuan and change customs.

In the Western Han Dynasty, the assessment of filial piety was stricter, and the rule of officials was also clearer. After the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the assessment was lax, the inspection was untrue, and there were many people who were indiscriminate, and they actually made a big joke about the separation of filial piety and honesty, which was the cause and effect of each other, resulting in a vicious circle.

Despite this, the number of filial piety is still very limited, and everyone who is inspected as filial piety is basically an official appointed by the imperial court. And now the prisoners of the Yellow Turban Army caught in Jixian County actually claim to be filial piety, which naturally surprised Li Pengfei.