This great victory directly changed the power comparison and situation between the Han army in Hebei and the Yellow Turban army.

The Han army began to gain an advantage, while the Yellow Turban Army fell into a situation of decline and retreat.

After the defeat, Zhang Jiao, the Yellow Turban Army, fled all the way, and was attacked by the rebels spontaneously organized by counties along the way. In the end, they would panic if they were a little disturbed, almost like a frightened bird.

When Zhang Jiao finally led his army to escape from the pursuit and harassment of the Han army and retreated back to Guangzong base camp, the initial 50,000 troops were left with less than 10,000 people and they were still alive to follow him, and the remaining 40,000 people were all gone.

The Yellow Turban Army encountered major setbacks, but the kind of setbacks that were completely irreparable.

The death of Zhang Liang and the defeat of Zhang Jiao greatly shook the confidence of the Taiping Taoist people. After this failure, even deserters appeared in Guangzong base camp.

Zhang Jiao spent countless time and energy to establish his divine image collapsed instantly.

So from this point of view, Zhang Jiao can't afford to lose. Once he loses, his image will collapse, the faith of believers will collapse, and the Yellow Turban Army will completely degenerate from a religious army with faith into a mob.

When I had faith, I dared to fight for my life, but I fought for my faith. As a result, the god I believed in was not God and failed. Then wouldn’t we all be nothing?

The thing Zhang Jiao was most afraid of happened. The Taiping Taoists suddenly realized that they were actually just a little slut, and would die miserably, not a believer of God...

There were violent unrest and faith collapses within the Yellow Turban Army, and at the same time, Lu Zhi's offensive did not stop.

Zhang Jiao fled all the way, and Lu Zhi chased all the way. After the big victory on April 17, Lu Zhi only rested for one day and led his army to pursue Zhang Jiao.

Zhang Jiao took eight days to escape back to Guangzong, and just two days after Zhang Jiao escaped back to Guangzong, on April 27, Lu Zhi led his army to the vicinity of Guangzong.

Afterwards, Lu Zhi set up camp more than ten miles away from Guangzong County, and did not rush to attack Guangzong County, but instead sent troops to sweep the Yellow Turban Army strongholds around Guangzong County.

"Isolating Guangzong made the Yellow Turban bandits in the city shake the spirit of the spirit of the army, and also bought time for our army to produce and mobilize siege equipment. At present, we have insufficient siege equipment, so it is unwise to attack the county town."

Everyone agrees with Lu Zhi’s opinion.

There are at least tens of thousands of Taiping Dao people in Guangzong County, including more than 30,000 Yellow Turban Army soldiers. This number is actually quite troublesome.

In ancient times, the city wall offensive and defensive battles were very advantageous for the city defenders, but the requirements were relatively high for the city siege.

After defeating Zhang Jiao's main force in one battle, Lu Zhi's command had more than 40,000 troops, and could completely surround the entire Guangzong County and attack from all directions.

The ancient city was not as big as imagined, and there were not so many people standing on all four walls. There was little room for the siege to use. Although there were many troops, it could not be converted into an advantage.

In this case, if the city defending troops are less than a thousand people, stand up to the city walls on all sides, and cannot withstand the siege of the attacking city, the city will be lost in a few hours, and the price that the siege party needs to pay is also very low.

Generally speaking, the strength of the defending city determines the duration of the siege.

If there are two thousand troops defending the city, you can have enough troops under the four walls and the city wall behind it, but it cannot withstand consumption, and more importantly, it cannot attack.

The siege is equipped with an arrow tower to suppress the city, and then dig tunnels and set up a sharp cone. You can break through the city in about ten days and half a month.

If the defenders have 3,000 troops, they can attack while defending, destroy tunnels from the surface, and destroy arrow towers, forcing the siege to launch an attack from a further distance, increasing the siege's consumption.

However, the troops defending the city attack were limited and could not withstand consumption, so they could hold on for about two to three months.

If the number of defenders exceeds 5,000 and there is no internal problem, you can stick to it until the food is exhausted. At this time, the amount of grain reserves in the city will be determined by the length of the siege.

When the city is eaten up and the soldiers guarding the city are hungry and cannot stand up, and cannot swing their swords and pull crossbows, the siege can only climb the city wall to occupy the city.

According to the argument in "Mozi", even if there are 100,000 soldiers siege the city, even if the defenders only have 4,000 troops, they can set up troops according to the density of nine people every two meters, and they can destroy the enemy's spirit in the main attack direction of no more than 920 meters.

However, in most ancient times, according to the principle of concentrating troops, there were only five or six hundred county soldiers, which was a type that could be quickly captured as long as the enemy came. Otherwise, the dynasty's military strength would not be distributed enough.

Therefore, in ancient times, there was a saying that "Ten Thousands of War" that generals could gallop across the board if they led 10,000 people.

At this moment, there were more than 30,000 Yellow Turban Army soldiers in Guangzong County. There were also some cities occupied by the Yellow Turban Army around Guangzong, which could provide support to Guangzong at any time, so it was far from time to relax.

More importantly, Lu Zhi did not know the amount of grain stored by the Yellow Turban Army in Guangzong City, and did not know when this grain would be consumed. If he attacked rashly at this time, it would only increase casualties.

The reality determines that the possibility of success in climbing the wall to attack Guangzong County is infinitely close to zero.

Lu Zhi is not a person who is used to relying on miracles.

He chose to take every step of the way and fight steadily, and isolated Guangzong from facts, forcing the Yellow Turban Army in the city to leave the city to fight to a decisive battle, thereby reducing their strength and reducing the difficulty of siege.

In this way, the significance of sweeping the surrounding areas is very important. It swept away the strongholds of the Yellow Turban Army around it, causing them to fall into a desperate situation. The army that is trapped in a desperate situation has a very high chance of internal strife when there is no hope.

So Lu Zhi plans to make full use of his advantages.

At this time, Guo Peng, who had made great contributions to kill Zhang Liang, was given a new mission by Lu Zhi.

Lu Zhi added thirty cavalry to Guo Peng into his Changshui cavalry team, and then allocated 500 infantry to command him, asking him to directly command an army of 1,000 to attack a Yellow Turban Army camp.

There are about two thousand Yellow Turban Army in the camp.

"The Yellow Turbans are all infantrymen, with few cavalrymen. If you have five hundred cavalry, you should make full use of your advantages. You don't have more troops to give you. Everything depends on yourself. You will give you seven days for the division."

Lu Zhi is so looking forward to it.

It was the first day of May that day, Guo Peng nodded and took the order and left.

Zhang Jiao set up many camps around Guangzong County, stationed troops and horses so that they could echo each other with Guangzong County and support each other.

Now that the Yellow Turban Army in the city has lost its courage, it is a good time to sweep these camps.
Chapter completed!