Zhang Qun looked at the Quanzhou City Tower, which shook the sky, and frowned.

Since the siege of the city, the army has been attacking the city fiercely for four consecutive days, and the casualties have reached more than 10,000 people.

"How's Simon's attack?" Zhang Qun asked a yellow turban general beside him.

"Back to the general, violent, very violent. Lord Gao Xiang transferred all the troops today, as if he couldn't defeat Quanzhou City today, and vowed not to give up. ”

"According to the plan, his troops should have arrived in Quanzhou four days ago, and rendezvous with us to attack the north and west gates of Quanzhou City at the same time. But he was slow to act, two days late, so that he delayed the planes and cost us many horses in vain. Go back and take Quanzhou City, see that I don't trouble him. Zhang Qun said angrily.

"General, it is Cheng Pu who guards the west gate. This person is very powerful, I heard that he is a member of the Tuyin Cheng family, who served as Sima of Beiping County, and once led the army to fight against the Wuhuan and Xianbei people, and they won and lost each other. Gao Xiang must have been in a fierce battle when he met him, and there was no need for the general to trouble him, Cheng Pu would be enough for him to trouble. The cronies and generals said with a sad heart.

"If the Han army can't defeat us on the plains, we will retreat in the city and defend it, without any chance, and a group of wrecks will be in ruins. I knew that it would be so difficult to fight in Quanzhou City, so I wouldn't have come. The begging white-faced begging Zhang Bao begged for such a good messenger, which is really unlucky. ”

Zhang Qun remembered that he was low-voiced, brazenly begging Zhang Bao, and thinking of Zhang Bao's domineering face, he was not angry.

What is the arrogant and domineering spirit, when he is down, he is not beaten like a dog and runs around? If you didn't know that this attack on Quanzhou City was full of oil and water, who would beg you? When I take down Quanzhou City, the wealth and women have made enough, look at me and you fart.

Zhang Qun has a very good opinion of the three Zhang Bao brothers. Several of them are the same great-grandfather, and they have not yet come out of five suits. During the original Taiping Dao preaching, the relationship between them was also very harmonious, and Zhang Qun also made great efforts to the development of Taiping Dao. Although Zhang Qun's family was not a wealthy family, they were also wealthy and provided a lot of financial support for the Zhang Jiao brothers to preach in Jizhou. It can be said that without the strong financial support of Zhang Qun's family, Zhang Jiao would not have been able to achieve today's achievements.

But since the success of the Yellow Turban Uprising and the great country, not only did the Tiangong general Zhang Jiao not reward them, but even the two brothers Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang ignored him. Although Zhang Qun has a ghost in his heart, it is not easy to ask for a reward clearly, but he hates the three Zhang Jiao brothers in his heart.

This time, Zhang Bao led a large army to attack Youzhou, and the big and small commanders under Zhang Bao actively asked to participate. This is a beautiful difference, every time you attack a county and county, you can return with a full load and make a windfall. These cities in the two states are rich, and they burn and loot at will, and the wealth they get is tens of thousands of dollars.

This is still the case in other cities, let alone this Quanzhou City. The Li family was originally a wealthy man in the north, but now they have destroyed Cheng Yuanzhi and concentrated all their gains in Quanzhou. Cheng Yuanzhi is one of the best generals under Zhang Bao, and he has destroyed countless cities and ponds in Jizhou and Youzhou, Zhang Qun estimates that his belongings may exceed 100,000 yuan, but now they all belong to the Li family. In addition, Quanzhou City is a large county in Yuyang County, so the wealth in Quanzhou City may be hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Zhang Qun couldn't stand the attraction of huge wealth to him, so he cheekily visited Zhang Bao in Jixian County.

Zhang Bao finally gave him the face of the same clan, promised to compensate him for the losses he lost after the Jizhou uprising, and let him organize a large army to take the lead in capturing Quanzhou City, and all the property, women and children in the city were their spoils.

The only thing that made Zhang Qun a little unhappy was that Zhang Bao also sent his trusted general Gao Xiang to lead an army of 15,000 to follow him to Quanzhou.

But thinking of the huge wealth in Quanzhou City, Zhang Qun didn't care too much. Gao Xiang is just a wine bag and a rice bag, and the number of the army is less than his own, how can he rob him?

Zhang Qunle returned to his army, gathered 40,000 military horses from his headquarters, and regardless of the marching speed of Gao Xiang's department, he ran all the way to Quanzhou City.

Unexpectedly, things were far beyond their expectations, this Quanzhou City was completely different from the other counties and counties they conquered, although they also made preparations and prepared a large number of siege equipment, but all of them were born in the Yellow Turban Army is indeed not very good at siege, and as a result, it could not be attacked for a long time, and the morale of the soldiers was greatly damaged, and it became a stalemate.

Faced with such a situation, coupled with the fact that Cheng Yuanzhi's 100,000 army was wiped out in Li Yi's hands, Zhang Qun felt a little uneasy.

Since the Yellow Turban Army, it has attacked the city all the way and swept through the 28 counties of seven states in the world. In this process, the Yellow Turban Army has not suffered defeats, but they are just some innocuous small defeats, and the loss of manpower is only a few hundred, but thousands of defeats have never been.

However, this time it was Deng Mao who was defeated in Quanzhou first, and then Cheng Yuanzhi was defeated in Yuyang and Youbeiping, after three battles, 100,000 troops were exhausted, and even Cheng Yuanzhi and Deng Mao, two famous generals in the Yellow Turban Army, were all killed.

What made Zhang Qun most unacceptable was that it was said that Li Yi had only 5,000 troops under him at that time, although they were all cavalry, Cheng Yuanzhi and Deng Mao had 100,000 troops in their hands, 20 times that of their opponents. Although most of Cheng's 100,000 troops are newly recruited homeless people, which are not as good as the elite under his command, the difference in numbers is really there.

With such a huge disparity in strength, it ended in a fiasco, and it didn't even cause much damage to Li Yi's army, which is really unbelievable.

Could it be that Huang Tian no longer favors the brave Yellow Turban Army?

The Battle of Right Beiping, the 80,000 Yellow Turban Army was annihilated, which not only dealt a heavy blow to the self-confidence of the generals of the Yellow Turban Army, but also created a hero who was born out of thin air, this person is called Li Yi.

It was this person who slashed the Yellow Turban Army in full swing, making the Yellow Turban Army taste the pain of annihilation for the first time.

Although he has not met Li Yi, Zhang Qun is very familiar with him. This young man, who caused the first defeat of the Yellow Turban Army, was originally famous in the Northland. He was born in the famous Yingchuan Li family, and experienced ups and downs when he was a teenager because of the disaster of the party, and suddenly rose three years ago and made a rich fortune.

Just a few years ago, Zhang Jiao, the general of Tiangong, had personally come to Quanzhou to persuade the Li family to join the Taiping Dao, but unfortunately he did not succeed in the end. Unexpectedly, this person has now become a nightmare for the Yellow Turban Army.

Could it be that he took away Huang Tian's favor for the Yellow Turban Army?

"General......

Suddenly, a hurried voice interrupted Zhang Qun's thoughts, and he woke up, looked back, and found that it was the leader of the scouts.

"My lord, I have found the traces of Li Yijun, he appeared near the confluence of the Gu River and the Lushui this afternoon, twenty miles away from Quanzhou City, and is now collecting boats to prepare to cross the river."

Zhang Qun's face changed greatly.

……

Gao Xiang was taken aback when he received the news.

"What did the military advisor say?"

"The military advisor thinks that the enemy's reinforcements have three or four thousand people, and Li Yi personally leads the army, which is extremely threatening, so he is ready to send General Zhang Jian to block it and delay their crossing of the river."

"The military division is still attacking the city?" Gao Xiang asked.

"Yes. Today, the west side of the northern wall has been captured by us many times, and the destruction of the city is already a matter of an overnight matter. The military advisor hoped that General Gao's attack at the West City Gate would be more fierce and that the Han army guarding the West City Gate would be firmly pinned down, so as to cover the main force to open a gap in the North City Gate and successfully break through Quanzhou City. ”

Gao Xiang was silent.

"Tell the military advisor that in the case of the imminent breach of the city, it is not appropriate to disperse the forces on the main battlefield, but to concentrate all forces and launch a fierce attack on it, and strive to achieve it overnight. I'll send someone to the Gu River to stop it. The Gu River itself is a good defensive position, as long as it is held on the opposite bank, it does not need too many men and horses to achieve the purpose of delaying the enemy's crossing of the river. Gao Xiang thought about it for a long time, stopped and said slowly to the messenger.

The messenger was overjoyed, bowed his hand to Gao Xiang, and turned to leave.

……

At noon, Gao Xiang sent his cronies to send Mao Peng with a thousand soldiers to the lower reaches of the Gu River.

Gao Xiang asked them to bring enough arrows, and once Li Yi's reinforcements crossed the river, they would seal the river with long arrows, so as not to engage in a head-on conflict with the enemy as much as possible to avoid unnecessary losses.

Gao Xiang repeatedly warned Mao Peng to be careful of Li Yi and not to despise him. He is no longer the small trader he used to be, but the nightmare of the Yellow Turbans who can destroy the army of 100,000 Yellow Turbans.