Chapter 18: Yellow Turbans Attack the City
“The blue sky is dead, the yellow sky should be established. The year is Jiazi, and the world is auspicious! If you surrender the city obediently, you can still survive! Otherwise, once the city is broken, no one will be left alive!”

The Yellow Turban general shouted loudly, scaring many players into trembling with fear.

This was also the first time that players experienced a war of such a large scale. The overwhelming momentum of the Yellow Turban Army made the Xinye defenders breathless.

There were 300,000 to 400,000 Yellow Turban troops besieging Xinye City. No wonder they were able to sweep across half of the Han Dynasty in a short period of time and shake the world.

“Ding, your army is threatened by the leader of the Yellow Turban Army and is feeling fear. Morale -15.”

A player lord was horrified to find that the soldiers he brought with him had panic expressions on their faces and their morale dropped by 15 points.

This was the result of having the city walls to rely on. If he encountered a Yellow Turban Army of 300,000 or 400,000 on the plains, his troops’ morale would probably have collapsed and they would have fled without a fight.

The faces of the 10,000 Han troops in Xinye also looked slightly pale.

The impact on the morale of the Han army was not as exaggerated as that on the players, but it also dropped by 10 points, which had a certain impact on the subsequent defense of the city.

“Ding, your army is threatened by the leader of the Yellow Turban Army, morale -1.”

Li Qian’s army was also affected, with morale dropping by -1, from 98 to 97.

superficial.

At this time, Li Qian realized the power of Emperor Taizong of Tang’s halo.

The halo of “General of Heavenly Strategy” of Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, kept the morale of Li Qian’s troops high, and they remained unmoved even when faced with thousands of troops on the opposite side.

“Morale detection!”

Li Qian used the strategist skill to try to probe the morale of the Yellow Turban Army.

Li Qian’s mental energy was exhausted and he felt dizzy.

“Ding, you have successfully detected the morale of the Yellow Turban Army. The current morale value of the Yellow Turban Army is 90.”

The Yellow Turban Army had just started to capture cities and their morale was high.

It looks like there will be a fierce battle next.

“It’s him?”

Fu Rong saw the appearance of the Yellow Turban generals under the city, gritted his teeth, and his eyes were burning with fighting spirit.

Li Qian asked curiously, “What’s wrong?”

“This thief is the thief who besieged me that day. It turns out that he is the leader Sun Xia.”

Fu Rong was furious. Sun Xia led tens of thousands of Yellow Turban troops to besiege Fu Rong, resulting in only more than a hundred of Fu Rong’s one thousand Han troops surviving.

This hatred is inseparable.

“How good is this thief’s martial arts?”

Since Fu Rong had fought against the Yellow Turban leader Sun Xia before, he should be aware of the other party’s military strength.

Fu Zhu replied: “He is as good as me, but if I fight to the death, I can kill him alone.”

Through Fu Rong’s answer, Li Qian roughly understood Sun Xia’s martial arts strength.

Most of the Yellow Turban Army’s generals are in their prime and have relatively high martial arts skills, while many famous generals of the Three Kingdoms are just starting out or are even unknown.

Sun Xia’s martial arts power is about 80 points. If Fu Rong is injured, due to the influence of the “Blood Guard” characteristic, his martial arts power can reach a maximum of 92 points, so Sun Xia is no match for Fu Rong.

But Sun Xia was the leader of the Yellow Turbans, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers under his command, and three hundred Yellow Turban strongmen as his personal guards. He would never fight Fu Rong alone.

“Where is General Xinye? Why doesn’t he answer? Is he deaf? Hahahaha!!!”

Sun Xia laughed loudly, and the Yellow Turban Army also laughed along.

“You ant thieves, you have committed all kinds of evil, burning, killing, looting, and committing all kinds of evil. Heaven and man are angry. Although I am humble, I am willing to lead all the soldiers in the city to defend the city to the death and protect the people!”

Deng Zhi’s voice sounded, responding to Sun Xia.

Deng Zhi’s tone seemed to have a special magic. After hearing Deng Zhi’s words, both the players and soldiers were greatly encouraged and their morale was restored. Li Qian’s troops’ morale rose to 99 points.

“He must have used the strategist’s skill in secret.”

Li Qian felt the change in morale. The influence of counselors on the battlefield was no less than that of military generals.

“Humph, if you don’t accept my toast, then you’ll have to drink a forfeit. Go attack the city! If you take it down, all the money, food and beauties will be yours!”

Sun Xia was furious and officially ordered an attack on the city!

Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
The dull sound of drums echoed on the battlefield. Every beat of the drum was like a drumstick hitting the heart of every defender, heavy and suffocating.

Hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban troops launched attacks from all directions. There were no feints, only main attacks!
The Yellow Turban Army had no large siege equipment such as catapults, crossbows, and siege vehicles. They just rushed forward with simple ladders, and were determined to use their lives to destroy Xinye City!

Looking down from the city wall of Xinye City, the densely packed Yellow Turban Army was rapidly approaching the city.

The Han army and the player’s archers waited nervously for the Yellow Turban Army to come into range.

“Fire arrows!”

The Yellow Turban Army was so large in number that the defenders didn’t even need to aim, they could just throw the bullets into the sky!

The defenders unleashed the first round of arrows, and the sky was filled with arrows like iron rain, covering the sky and the sun, and falling into the Yellow Turban Army!
Hundreds of Yellow Turban soldiers were shot by arrows and fell to the ground, but compared with the scale of three or four hundred thousand people, this loss was almost negligible!

Not long after the first round of arrow rain fell, the second and third rounds of arrow rain followed with cold light!

“Nine arrows in a row!”

Li Qian shot arrows continuously and hit the target every time. A Yellow Turban leader and eight Yellow Turban soldiers were shot dead one after another.

“Ding, you shot and killed a Yellow Turban soldier (lv10), gaining 20 experience points and 1 combat merit point.”

“Ding, you shot and killed a Yellow Turban leader (lv25), and gained 80 experience points and 3 combat merit points.”

……

System prompts kept coming one after another, and Li Qian killed people like crazy, so he simply turned off the system prompts and only turned on important message reminders.

Cheng Yaojin and Fu Zhu also bent their bows and drew their arrows, killing as many Yellow Turbans as possible before they approached, thus slowing down their attack on the city. Their military exploits were also attributed to Li Qian.

The Yellow Turban Army rushed to the bottom of the city wall under a hail of arrows, set up ladders, and climbed up the city like ants. The city wall was covered with a black crowd of people.

Wood and rocks fell from the top of the city walls, and the Yellow Turban soldiers fell down like dumplings, and many were killed or injured.

The arrows from the Han army’s arrow tower poured down like a waterfall, and the Yellow Turban Army was shot into hedgehogs. Corpses were piled up like a mountain, the base of the wall was stained red with blood, and broken arms and limbs could be seen everywhere.

The morale of the Yellow Turban Army remained high. They were fearless and brave, stepping on the corpses of their comrades and climbing the ladders.

The Yellow Turban Army archers also arrived at the city, firing thousands of arrows at once. The rain of arrows poured down, and the Han army and players were shot to death!

Li Qian was also hit by an arrow, but with the protection of armor, the arrow did not cause any harm.

Li Qian’s eyes gradually turned red. The battle in Xinye City became more and more brutal. A Yellow Turban general had already led his soldiers to climb the city wall and engage in close combat with the defenders, with blood flowing like a river.

“Chop off the head!”

Cheng Yaojin threw away his bow and arrows, picked up a big axe, and killed the Yellow Turban leader who was climbing up the city wall with one axe.

“Fight in all directions at night!”

Fu Rong changed to the Sutie knife, and swung the knife wildly, killing four Yellow Turban soldiers.

Two fierce generals led two hundred sword and shield soldiers to clear the Yellow Turban Army that were climbing the city wall. Li Qian led two hundred archers and crossbowmen to hold the position and slow down the speed of the subsequent Yellow Turban Army climbing the city wall to prevent the Yellow Turban Army from climbing the city wall too quickly and drowning Cheng Yaojin and Fu Rong.

The fierce battle continued, and hundreds of Yellow Turban soldiers fell to Li Qian’s troops. Li Qian’s military exploits continued to increase, 100, 200, 500, 1000…

“Ding, you have killed 100 Yellow Turban soldiers in total in battle, completing the D-level achievement mission ‘One versus a Hundred’.”

Before he knew it, Li Qian had killed hundreds of people by noon!

(End of this chapter)