Cheng Li was surprised by the movements of the Yellow Turban Army.

Beside him was his friend, Xue Fang, the head of the Xue family, a wealthy family in the city. He also felt strange when Cheng Li said this.

"Zhongde, what's wrong with the Yellow Turban Thieves? It's still early, so we're going to stop the troops?"

Cheng Li frowned and thought for a moment, but couldn't think of any reason.

"We are in danger when the bandits have the advantage. They suddenly withdrew their troops. If they had not had a treacherous plan, they would have had no choice. Could it be that reinforcements came?"

Xue Fang said happily: "Results are coming? The reinforcements of the imperial court have arrived?"

Cheng Li refused to comment.

"I also hope that reinforcements have arrived, otherwise we may not be able to last long."

A few months ago, the Yellow Turbans Rebellion was initiated. Wang Du, the county magistrate of Dong'a, secretly joined the Yellow Turban Army and cooperated with the Yellow Turban Army to try to capture Dong'a, and once occupied Dong'a.

However, under Cheng Li's plan, Dong'a County was recaptured, Wang Du fled, and Dong'a was able to be preserved.

But not long after, Wang Du was unwilling to fail and actually attracted a large army of Yellow Turbans, with a large number of people and extraordinary momentum. The leader was Bu Yi, who was very fierce.

The magistrate of Dong'a County was so scared that he fell ill in bed and was unconscious. At the critical moment, Cheng Li stood up.

He was elected as the magistrate of Dong'a County and served as the magistrate of Dong'a County. He recruited the elders of Dong'a County to form more than 1,000 defenders, and more than 3,000 strong men were responsible for serving them and defending Dong'a County together.

Fortunately, the Yellow Turban bandits lacked siege equipment, their siege methods were very simple, and their combat skills were also very poor. Cheng Li led his troops out of the city repeatedly and successfully attacked at night, and the Yellow Turban bandits were unable to do anything to Dong'a County.

However, Dong'a County lacked troops and could not cause great trauma to the Yellow Turban Army and could not repel them. Cheng Li sent people out of the city to find support, but no one came back with support.

Either he died or he ran away himself, so Cheng Li guessed.

Cheng Li gradually became desperate and felt that he could only rely on his own efforts to exhaust the food and grass of the Yellow Turban Army to preserve Dong'a County. So he racked his brains to use various strategies, but he refused to let Bu Yi succeed.

Just when he felt it was getting more and more difficult to support, this situation turned around.

He really hopes that reinforcements will come, give him some hope and let him support him.

He prayed to heaven so much that the reinforcements arrived, and the reinforcements really arrived.

The soldiers on the watchtower in the city saw a group of people approaching from the west of Dong'a County to Dong'a County. The flag was clear and the army was rigorous. They were definitely not the Yellow Turban Army, nor the reinforcements sent by the court or the local volunteer soldiers. In short, they were here to rescue Dong'a.

The volunteer soldiers on the city wall were greatly surprised, and Cheng Li couldn't help but feel excited.

On the other hand, Bu Yi learned that there were only two or three thousand Han troops coming to support Dong'a County. After calculating the number of people on his side, he felt that the number of people on his side was far greater than that of the Han army, and he suddenly felt confident.

So he ordered the men in Taipingdao, including the elderly and boys over ten years old, to take up their weapons and join the battle group, gathering 10,000 troops, and out of the camp to form a formation to fight the Han army.

Guo Peng sent someone to observe the appearance of the Yellow Turban Army and learned that the Yellow Turban Army was huge, about 10,000, and they were divided into several square formations. However, the square formation lacked shields, the soldiers were dressed in simple clothes, the weapons were messy, and they even saw wooden sticks and bamboo guns.

There were few cavalry, many infantrymen, and even old men with white beards and boys less than five feet tall, who were completely different from elite troops.

That's right. Where did the elite troops come from the Yellow Turban Army? All the elite troops were wiped out by him, and the rest were all mobs.

Guo Peng felt confident.

A mob of ten thousand people, a mixed fish with wooden sticks and bamboo guns, as well as an old man and a child, was it all just to scare the Han army?

Unfortunately, it is possible to face other Han troops. It is really useless to face the Han army that had just defeated Zhang Jiao and Zhang Bao, who had won the battles in a row, or the Han army under the command of Guo Peng, who had established his reputation.

So Guo Peng led his troops to approach the Yellow Turban Army. The two sides fought in an open area. It was about two o'clock in the afternoon. The temperature was high, the wind was weak, and there was almost no wind.

Guo Peng looked from a distance and saw that the number of people was indeed a bit scary. More than 10,000 people were lined up on the opposite side, and they could not see at first sight. So Guo Peng ordered the drums to beat the war, and the army called out the war to boost momentum.

The Han army's war drums were ringing, and the soldiers shouted in unison. The sound was so powerful that the Yellow Turban Army seemed a little slow to react. It took a while to beat the war drums, and then there was a burst of yelling sounds that were not neat at all, without any momentum.

Guo Peng had more confidence and ordered the Han army to start advancing and launch an attack first.

He ordered Xiahou Yuan to lead 500 cavalry to the left of the central army, Xiahou Dun leads 500 cavalry to the right of the central army, Cao Ren leads 500 shield hands and 500 spearmen to the front of the central army, and he personally leads a thousand crossbowmen in the formation, and the entire army slowly advances.

With the slow sound of the war drums, the Han army advanced in a strict manner, with steady steps and constant speed, even the cavalry was like this.

Compared with the steady advance of the Han army, although the Yellow Turban Army also beat the war drum, there were some problems with the advancement. Some square formations advanced, while others were slower. I don’t know if they should advance. Some square formations were advanced and some did not advance, and the lineup was a bit messy.

When Guo Peng saw that the lineup of the Yellow Turban Army was a little messy, he realized that the Yellow Turban Army could not implement the most basic order to advance and stop fighting. He was more confident and ordered the war drum to beat quickly, and the army's advance speed increased, and then suddenly stopped.

At this moment, the Yellow Turban Army was still advancing in chaos, and the Han army had stopped to stabilize the formation. The sword and shield hand was pressed in front. The spearman held the spear and the sword and shield hand fought side by side. Guo Peng ordered the crossbowman to bend the bow and arrow and raise it up to an angle of forty-five degrees.

Two hundred people in a row, with five rows of crossbowmen, shooting alternately.

"put!!"

With a command, two hundred bows and arrows soared into the sky, and rushed towards the Yellow Turban Army with an unmoved momentum, and then quickly landed, nailing a large area of ​​Yellow Turban Army to the ground.

The Yellow Turban Army lacked armor and shields, and the square formation was chaotic, so it could not resist the Han army's crossbow shooting.

After one round of fire from the Han army, the crossbows were shot one after another. The arrows were like rain. The Yellow Turban, who was walking in the front, could not bear to maintain order, and directly disintegrated and began to run back.

Bu Yi had just ordered the crossbowman on his side to move forward quickly to facilitate the fight back, and the front square formation collapsed.

The front square formation collapsed, and the two square formations immediately following the left and right sides were also shot by the Han army's crossbows, causing another chaos.

When Guo Peng saw that the Yellow Turban Army was so vulnerable, he immediately ordered the horn to blow and the cavalry to dispatch.

The Changshui cavalry, who were good at cavalry and shooting, were divided into two halves and handed them over to Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Dun. After Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Dun received the order, they immediately led the cavalry team to charge from both wings to the two wings of the Yellow Turban Army, and did not rush to fight in close combat. The first thing was to cavalry and shooting.

The Changshui cavalry quickly approached the Yellow Turban Army with fast maneuver power, and shot in one round of cavalry. The arrows fell into the Yellow Turban Army. A few were blocked, and most of them hit the Yellow Turban Army soldiers.

Suddenly, the Yellow Turban soldiers fell to the ground and screamed. Then the cavalry shot around the square formation, without fighting in hand and just shooting with bows and crossbows. The Yellow Turban Army formation was originally unstable, and it is even more so now.

The most ironic thing is that the boy who was pulled to make up for the numbers cried loudly when he saw someone die in front of him or was injured. After the military formation collapsed, they pushed each other and rushed to the ground and trampled to death. The old man and the boy would be pushed to the ground and trampled to death, and those who were not dead were seriously injured and could not move.

The three frontal military formations soon collapsed, and this was just the beginning of the collapse tide.

Because of their collapse and escape, the crossbowmen were unable to move forward, while the blows of the crossbowmen of the Han army followed, and even the crossbowmen of the Yellow Turban Army collapsed before they could fight back.

You can see the gray-bearded old man and the short boy running around, seeking a way out.

The Han army would not have any mercy on this. If it goes to the battlefield, it is the enemy. If it is the enemy, it will be killed. Guo Peng ordered the drum of advancement and the entire army would continue to advance.

Cao Ren slowly advanced towards the army that had not yet collapsed with his sword and shield hands. On the way, he would also make up for the undead Yellow Turban soldiers who met a dead yellow turban soldiers and ended them with a shot, and then took a big step forward.
Chapter completed!