Zhang Jiao saw that Bao Chang was broken, and the seven orifices of anger were smoking.

Zhang Jiao originally wanted to hit the morale of the officers and soldiers in Yecheng through a challenge, and he knew very well that the morale of the remnants of the officers and soldiers who had been defeated by him once must be very low, and he would definitely not be able to withstand another defeat. And he is also very confident in Bao Chang's force, because among his many subordinates, Bao Chang's force can definitely rank in the top ten. In the last battle of Guangzong, Bao Chang even defeated Dong Zhuo's general Li Dao head-on, which greatly damaged the morale of the Xiliang army. Otherwise, it would have taken a lot of effort for him to win the battle of Gwangjong.

It was Bao Chang who defeated Li Dao head-on, which gave Zhang Jiao the confidence to hit the morale of Li Yi's army through the challenge. In Zhang Jiao's mind, that Li Dao is a famous general in Xiliang, what kind of place is Xiliang, the Qiangyi barbarians are the most unruly, and they are often armed against each other, and they have not been calm in the past hundred years. Li Dao was able to make a great name in such an environment, and his own skills are needless to say. But Bao Chang defeated him in the challenge, doesn't that show Bao Chang's bravery?

And Li Yi's subordinates are just some teenagers who have just debuted, that is, to bully his second brother who has a low master, and his subordinates who have no real skills and only know how to slap horses.

However, Zhang Jiao never expected that when the challenge really began, the result would be like this. The general, who was regarded as a brachial, was killed in the hands of the enemy general before he could go through three rounds.

What made Zhang Jiao even more angry was that after Bao Chang was killed, none of the hundreds of generals under his command dared to go out to meet the enemy generals, and in the end he could only watch the enemy generals so arrogantly carry the corpse of his favorite general with a spear, and Shi Shiran returned to the city. And the 100,000 troops under his command were stunned one by one, silent, and their morale was extremely low.

Seeing that he couldn't do anything, Zhang Jiao could only swallow the anger in his heart, retreat ten miles, and set up a camp outside Yecheng.

The next morning, Zhang Jiao asked the army to cook food on the third watch, and left the camp on the fifth watch, carrying siege equipment such as ladders, rushing cars, and wells, and rolling towards Yecheng.

This time, Zhang Jiaoxue was obedient, he didn't say anything at all, and directly let the army launch a fierce attack on Yecheng.

The second Yecheng offensive and defensive battle began.

Yecheng is the Xiongcheng of Hebei, in Jizhou, and even in the entire Han Dynasty, Yecheng is one of the few. The city was founded in the Spring and Autumn Period of Qi Huan Gong, and has a history of the previous year. The development of the previous year and continuous expansion made the city a huge city seven miles long from east to west and five miles wide from north to south. In later terms, it was three kilometers long and two kilometers wide, covering an area of up to 6 square kilometers. And the height of the city wall has reached a terrifying five zhang, that is, nearly twelve meters high.

Such a city is difficult to attack without powerful siege equipment. At least with the manufacturing level of the Yellow Turban Army, it will definitely be no fun.

However, it's just that ironic. The siege equipment used by the Yellow Turban Army in the first siege of the city was collected from the Haoqiangshi Dock Fort in Jizhou that was broken by the Yellow Turban Army. Last time, the Yellow Turban Army was defeated by Lu Zhi, and these siege equipment were burned by Lu Zhi.

Then, Lu Zhi led the army to surround the Yellow Turban Army in Guangzong City, and was immediately slandered and dismissed by the eunuchs, and as soon as Dong Zhuo took over the army, he was defeated, the whole army lost its armor, and all the powerful siege equipment made by the fine craftsmen raised by the imperial court was left to the Yellow Turban Army. And now the one who suffers is Li Pengfei, who is defending the city.

At dusk, the bleak sunset hung alone on the treetops, and a pair of frightened eyes looked at the bloody battlefield of Yecheng in surprise. The huge black Chinese character on the castle tower danced wildly in the gusts of fishy wind, making a loud noise.

The soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army were slowly withdrawing from the battlefield, and the monotonous and dull sound of drums and gongs sounded in the military formation from time to time, looking tired and desolate.

A large number of destroyed siege equipment were thrown under the city, blood-stained stones and huge logs could be seen everywhere, and the corpses of the Yellow Turban soldiers were densely covered in the death zone within fifty paces below the city walls, and there were corpses farther away, but they were much more sparse. The battlefield is littered with discarded and broken weapons, battle flags.

Hundreds of people dressed in short cloth shirts were scattered in all corners of the battlefield, busily carrying corpses, picking up weapons, and cleaning the battlefield.

Tian Feng sat on the city wall panting, struggling to close his eyes.

Since the morning, the Yellow Turban Army has launched a fierce attack on Zhuocheng, without any pause in between, continuous and frantic attack, until the moment when the golden gong sounded just now, the Yellow Turban Army's attack gradually stopped.

Tian Feng has been sticking to the city tower, commanding the soldiers to resist stubbornly, all the weapons that can be used to defend the city, all the methods to defend the city, I just hate that I haven't grown four hands.

But there are so many enemies, they are like ants, so many and dense that they can't be killed. Since February of this year, many local officials of the Yellow Turban riots have written to the imperial court to refer to the Yellow Turban Army as ant thieves, referring to this scene.

Three months ago, 30,000 people of the Yellow Turban Army attacked Ren County, and in a few days, they killed the county order and fled in disarray. At that time, Tian Feng thought that he had seen a big scene. But today's battle was particularly fierce, and he almost collapsed on several occasions.

At that time, the city tower was full of soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army, let him shout hoarsely, cut off the long sword, and finally even the halberd pierced the corpse of the enemy soldier and could not be dragged down, but still did not kill the enemy.

Fortunately, every time he was desperate, Li Yi was able to lead reinforcements to kill him in time.

For a whole day, not a single soldier of the Yellow Turban Army walked back, they did not retreat at all, they just attacked, attacked desperately, until they died in battle. Whether they died on the city wall or under the city wall, whether they died under the long arrows of the officials and soldiers, or died under the swords and guns of the officials and soldiers, they had no fear at all, as if life was not their own.

The ladders devoured the lives of countless Yellow Turban soldiers, but countless soldiers still went forward one after another, bravely climbed the ladders, and used their blood and lives to lay the cornerstone of the attack for their comrades.

The Yellow Turban Army's purely attritional attack not only killed and injured a large number of officers and soldiers defending the city, but also dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the officers and soldiers defending the city. In the face of such a fierce enemy, there is no one who does not feel terrified.

Tian Feng only ate a little dry food in a day, and he didn't eat a drop of water. It's not that I don't want to eat, it's that I don't have time to eat. He led his soldiers to stubbornly repel enemy attacks again and again. In the end, he, like the soldiers, not only could not lift a stone, but also walked staggeringly.

At this time, the Yellow Turban Army under the city suspended the first day's attack and withdrew.