I am Li Shimin of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 44 Surprise Attack on Julu
This battle ended with Li Shimin winning a complete victory. He didn't stop there, and prepared to attack the giant deer in one go, taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the Yellow Turban army, and quickly occupied the enemy's lair.

The general Guan Yu was left behind to guard the 10 Yellow Turban army. In this battle, Guan Yu shocked North China and was unparalleled in bravery. The Yellow Turban army had already been killed by him, and he no longer had the courage to fight him.

It would be perfect to leave him to take care of the 10 Yellow Turban captives, and wait until he takes down Julu to deal with it.

At the foot of Julu City in Jizhou, a few yellow-turban guards were dozing off boredly. They looked in through the city gate. All industries in the city were withered and the doors of every house were closed.

Occasionally, a few patrolling soldiers hurried past on the spacious street, and beheaded corpses can be seen everywhere on the corner of the street. The bloody smell permeates this ancient city, which is very bleak and chilling.

In the woods in the distance, a black army lay in ambush quietly, motionless as a mountain, like a tiger, staring closely at the giant deer as its prey.

At this time, many rout soldiers fled towards the giant deer in a panic. It looked like there were hundreds of people. Everyone was wearing shabby clothes and red turbans. The leader was a big bearded man.

The appearance of this broken army quickly attracted the attention of the Yellow Turbans defending the city, but they did not take any defensive actions.Zhang Bao's 15 troops had already gone to find the bad luck of the officers and soldiers, and Lu Zhi and Dong Zhuo were also defeated by the great virtuous and good teachers, so naturally there would be no danger in this area.

When this group of people approached the gate of the city, the captain who guarded the city realized that this was his own team, and the big man in the lead seemed to be familiar to him, and he was a fellow of Julu.It's just that what makes him very strange is that this person is not a lieutenant general under the command of General Zhang Niujiao, so how could he appear here.

"Open the city gate, I'm Zhang Ye, you're blind, you don't know me anymore?" The yellow scarf man shouted at the top of his voice when he arrived at the city gate.

"Zhang Ye? How did you get here? Didn't you follow General Zhang Niujiao?" Chengmen Xiaowei asked suspiciously, but he heard that Zhang Niujiao had been defeated and killed.

"Who did I think it was? It turned out to be Zhang Ergou. It was bad luck. General Zhang Niujiao was defeated by the army, and we were also dispersed. We hid on the mountain for a while, escaped the encirclement and suppression of the army, and went through all kinds of hardships." After all kinds of difficulties and dangers, I finally ran to Julu." Zhang Ye said angrily.

The gatekeeper captain sounded reasonable at first glance, and besides, he was very familiar with this person, so he didn't ask any further questions, and soon asked his subordinates to open the city gate and let them in.

Just when Zhang Ye led his men into the door, a sudden change occurred.

Seemingly dejected and routed with no fighting spirit, he even drew out the broadsword in his hand and slashed at the defenders.The soldiers defending the city were unable to react in time and were quickly beheaded to death.

It turned out that Li Shimin asked the elite soldiers under his command to dress up the yellow scarves. Zhang Ye was captured by him in the battle of Zhending. Under his inspiration, he joined the army. It happened that he was from Julu, so Li Shimin sent him As the leader who deceived the city gate.

The team lying in ambush in the dense forest outside the city was the Longwu Army led by Zhang Liao, and [-] troops led by Li Shimin were stationed ten miles east of the city.When the time comes, rush in.

Seeing that Zhang Ye had succeeded, Zhang Liao immediately led his cavalry towards the city gate, followed by a large group of troops.

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Besides, the Julu garrison, the main defender of the city is Yu Du, who was shocked when he learned that someone tricked him into opening the city gate, and immediately led more than 1000 elites to kill towards the city gate.

At this time, the captain who defended the city gate was caught off guard by the officers and soldiers. With no leader in the group, Zhang Ye had already firmly controlled the city gate.Yu Du was not slow to react, and soon led his troops to the city gate, and started a bloody battle with Zhang Ye.

These more than 100 elite officers and soldiers formed a defensive battle formation, steadfastly holding on, never retreating a step, and Yu Du fought back desperately. He obviously knew the importance of the giant deer. If he lost himself, he would definitely lose his life, so he also sent out Crazy rush and hit.

Both sides fought to the death, and the archers of the Yellow Turban Army also joined the battle group. Arrows rained down and shot towards the door-grabbing team one after another.In order to deceive the city gate, the officers and soldiers only brought their own weapons, armor and shields, so many people were shot by arrows and died tragically inside the city gate.

Seeing that the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable to the officers and soldiers, Yu Du also seemed to see that the city gate had been taken back by him. At this critical moment, the cavalry led by Zhang Liao charged over.

Zhang Liao was dressed in bright armor and held a majestic crescent halberd in his hand. With one halberd, several people flew away.The iron halberd flew horizontally, sweeping thousands of troops, and soon broke through the defense of the bandits, like a dragon crossing a river, unstoppable.

Seeing that this man was so brave, Yu Du immediately wanted to retreat, but before he could run a few steps, he was shot in the back by the arrow feather flying from behind, screamed and fell off the horse.It turned out that Zhang Liao had also spotted the enemy's chief general. Seeing that he was about to flee, he immediately shot an arrow with his bow.

With the large force of the Longwu Army entering Julu and the death of the defenders, the defenders in the city were also fighting on their own, unable to effectively organize their forces to resist the attack of the official army.

The Longwu Army waved their weapons and ruthlessly harvested the Yellow Turban rebels. Although there were still remnants of the Yellow Turbans fighting back everywhere, the overall situation was settled and there was no big wave.

In the end, Julu was captured by Li Shimin, and the defenders in the city died or surrendered. A total of more than 5000 people were captured in this battle. The large amount of grain, grass, gold and silver hoarded were all confiscated by Li Shimin. A preliminary estimate was [-] shi for grain and more than [-] gold. Ten thousand taels.

When Li Shimin saw the grain and gold piled up in the warehouse, he immediately became overjoyed, and he no longer needed to worry about grain in the short term.

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The news of Li Shimin's capture of Julu spread like wildfire. When Zhang Jiao learned that his younger brother had died tragically, he was so excited that he fainted.

Zhang Liang in the Yellow Turban Army immediately ordered people to block the news, so as to prevent the news of Tianshi's fainting from spreading and affecting the morale of the army.

Zhang Liang also felt that the Yellow Turban Army was in danger, but he was not willing to give up. When Zhang Jiao passed out, he arranged for his general Pei Yuanshao to build a defense line north of Guangzong, dig trenches, and build a military camp, trying to curb Li Shimin's momentum going south.

However, on the eve of Li Shimin's capture of Julu, the famous imperial general Huang Fusong defeated the Yellow Turban Army in Dongjun County, captured Bu Ji alive, and finally slaughtered more than 7000 Yellow Turban Army, and Bu Ji also became his ghost.The main forces of the Yellow Turbans in Dongjun, Runan and Yingchuan were all wiped out.

With the addition of most of Zhang Bao's troops wiped out by Li Shimin, only the more than 20 troops led by Zhang Jiao and Zhang Liang were left in the Yellow Turban Army in Jizhou.

At this time, Huangfusong also received news that Huben Zhonglang had eliminated Zhang Bao's main force by Li Shimin and successfully captured Julu.Huangfu Song is the son of Huangfu Jie, and he is also a rare wise and brave man in the Han army.

I am discussing countermeasures with my confidant...

(End of this chapter)