Chapter 19 China’s Top Ten
The Yellow Turban Army launched a fierce attack on Xinye, fighting from early morning to noon, and the offensive continued.

The Yellow Turban Army was large in number and they took turns attacking the city. Although they were beaten to pieces and bloodied each time, they still rushed into the city like moths to a flame, and seemed determined not to give up until they conquered Xinye.

Corpses piled up like mountains and blood flowed like rivers outside Xinye City.

Li Qian mechanically nocked the arrow, pulled the bow, and shot the arrow, almost numbly.

The Yellow Turban Army was like an endless tide, and Li Qian’s shooting of them was just a drop in the bucket.

The two fierce generals Cheng Yaojin and Fu Rong killed hundreds of Yellow Turban soldiers and even killed a second-rate Yellow Turban general. They were sweating profusely and panting like cows. Their armor was stained red with the blood of the Yellow Turban soldiers, almost forming a layer of blood cocoon that was stickyly attached to the armor.

Just like Xiang Yu, the King of Western Chu at Gaixia, even the most powerful general could not stop the endless army.

Fortunately, at this time, Deng Zhi arranged for the second batch of players to rotate, allowing Li Qian and other players who were in the first batch of defending the city to go down and rest.

The Han army and the players’ fresh forces joined the battle, quickly pushing back the Yellow Turban Army and stabilizing the defense line.

After Li Qian captured the city, he counted the losses and found that 32 sword and shield soldiers, 27 spearmen, 18 archers, and 17 crossbowmen were killed. Nearly one-fifth of the troops were gone.

This was just the loss from half a day of fighting.

If he had to hold on for a few more days, Li Qian would probably be left alone.

Li Qian’s troops were quite powerful, but some lord players were even more unlucky, as their troops were wiped out in just half a day.

Even though they suffered heavy losses, Li Qian’s troops still maintained a morale of 95 points due to the influence of the “General of Tiance” halo.

The doctors brought by Li Qian quickly treated the injured soldiers, removed the arrowheads, and applied herbal medicine.

There are still gains.

[Achievement] panel, the D-level achievement task “One is worth a hundred” has turned gold and is in the state of waiting for the reward.

Li Qian receives the reward.

“Ding, you have completed the D-level achievement mission ‘One versus a Hundred’, force +3, force limit +1, and obtained the skill ‘Rocket Attack’ [Wu] (consumes a certain amount of physical strength to turn the shot arrow into a rocket, which hits the target and splashes flames).”

Li Qian’s military strength increased by 3 points to 73, and the upper limit of military strength became 91.

“Kill a Yellow Turban soldier and you will get 1 point of military merit.”

“Kill a Yellow Turban leader and you will get 3 points of military merit.”

“Kill a Yellow Turban leader and you will get 10 points of military merit.”

“Kill a Yellow Turban Captain and you will get 100 points of War Merit.”

“Kill a low-ranking Yellow Turban general and you will get 1000 points of military merit.”

“My current combat merit is 2677, ranking eighth in the Huaxia region.”

Li Qian went through a fierce battle, checked the system messages, and summarized the rules for gaining military merit.

You can get 1000 military merits by killing a second-rate Yellow Turban general. I wonder how many military merits you can get by killing the leader of the Yellow Turbans?
Li Qian opened the rankings and found that the game name “Shengzuoyishusheng” appeared in the top ten.

Li Qian did not deliberately try to impact the overall rankings, but unknowingly, he managed to make the list by killing thousands of Yellow Turban soldiers.

Among his more than 2000 military exploits, 1000 came from Cheng Yaojin killing a Yellow Turban general with an axe.

Cheng Yaojin is indeed a lucky general.

Li Qian glanced at the other players in the top ten of China.

The first one is a lord named “Qingdi”.

“Qingzhou, this is not surprising.”

Li Qian knew that the main forces of the Yellow Turban Army were wreaking havoc in Jizhou, Qingzhou, Yingchuan and Nanyang, and the battles were particularly brutal, so the lords of these places were more likely to be on the list.

The number of the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou is not small. The leaders of the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou include Guan Hai, Zhang Rao, Xu He, Sima Ju and others. In history, Kong Rong, the Prime Minister of Beihai, was beaten and fled, Liu Dai, the governor of Yanzhou, was defeated and killed, and Bao Xin, the Prime Minister of Jibei, died in battle. The Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou in “Global Warring States” will only be more brutal.

The second was a male lord named “Xuanyuan” from Jizhou, where the battle was equally brutal.

The main force of the Yellow Turban Army led by Zhang Jue, Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang were attacking cities and strongholds in Jizhou. The entire Jizhou had become a purgatory, so it was not surprising that the second-ranked lord was born.

Zhang Jue’s direct Yellow Turban Army was more powerful than other Yellow Turban Army. Dong Zhuo was even defeated and doubted his life. Lu Zhi and Huangfu Song mobilized the most elite legions of the Han Dynasty, the “Five Schools of the Northern Army”, and fought hard for several months before they were able to pacify the main force of the Yellow Turban Army led by Zhang Jue and his three brothers.

The third place is a female lord named Xiao Lingxue, from Liangzhou.

“Strange, there are Yellow Turban Army in Liangzhou?”

Li Qian was puzzled. There were many Qiang people and rebels in Liangzhou, but he had not heard much about the Yellow Turban Army.

Li Qian checked the forum and found out the reason.

There were no states or counties where the Yellow Turban Army appeared in history. In order to allow players in these places to participate in the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the system also spawned the Yellow Turban Army.

Of course, the Yellow Turban leaders in these places were not as brutal as the three Zhang Jiao brothers, Guan Hai, Zhang Mancheng and others.

Li Qian didn’t look closely at the players behind him.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out only a few days ago, and the rankings are changing every day. Especially the players at the bottom of the rankings, one after another, there is no need to pay too much attention to them.

In the middle and late stages of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, only the lords who can remain stably in the top 50 of the rankings have the potential to establish their own regime.

Li Qian took the time to recover his strength.

If you want to maintain your position in the top ten of the rankings, you need to continue to gain merit.

During the rest period, Li Qian and his archers replenished their arrows.

Li Qian is currently level 26, Cheng Yaojin is level 54, and Fu Zhun is level 55.

It was not until nightfall, when the Yellow Turban Army left behind tens of thousands of corpses, that they stopped fighting and returned to their camp to rest.

The Xinye player took this opportunity to have a good sleep, and his physical strength was restored to 90% the next day.

The next morning, Li Qian went up to the city to defend it again.

“Morale perception!”

Li Qian once again used Li Shimin’s strategist skills to check the morale of the Yellow Turban Army.

“Ding, you have successfully detected the morale of the Yellow Turban Army. The current morale value of the Yellow Turban Army is 83.”

The morale of the Yellow Turban Army dropped significantly compared to the previous day.

It seems that the morale of the Yellow Turban Army was inevitably affected by the failure of yesterday’s siege and the death of tens of thousands of people.

At this rate of morale decline, the Yellow Turban Army won’t be able to hold out for long.

Probably realizing that they had to capture Xinye City as soon as possible, the Yellow Turban Army attacked Xinye City more frantically the next day, regardless of the cost, attacking Xinye City one round after another. Xinye City became a meat grinder, the city walls were stained with blood, and soldiers were killed every moment.

“The Yellow Turban warriors have ascended the city walls!”

The players defending the south city wall panicked and retreated step by step.

The Yellow Turban leader Sun Xia sent out the most elite Yellow Turban strongmen. Two hundred of them went first, and thousands of Yellow Turban soldiers took the opportunity to occupy the southern city wall!
The Han army in Xinye City was no match for the Yellow Turban strongmen and was defeated by them.

Li Qian was leading his troops in a bloody battle in the north city. The Xinye County Lieutenant personally found Li Qian who was fighting bloody battles and said: “Bo Miao asked me and you, the warrior, to lead 30,000 reserve troops to recapture the south city.”

Li Qian was a little surprised. He had killed two to three thousand Yellow Turban soldiers with only 400 soldiers in the north city. Deng Zhi had already noticed him. In times of crisis, he asked Li Qian to assist the Xinye County Lieutenant in retaking the lost city wall.

(End of this chapter)