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The moment the system notification appeared, the players once again started to get excited about participating in the [Battle of Nan Yang] region storyline.
This was especially so for the players in the Han Ting camp. One of the options for them to participate in the quest was [Join Sun Jian's main attack force]. After choosing this option, they would be directly teleported into Sun Jian's army!
Thus, Sun Jian's army that was marching towards Nan Yang continued to expand. From around a hundred thousand people at the end of the recruitment in the Huai River and Sishui River region, it grew to over five hundred thousand people by the end of the game day! This showed how attractive Sun Jian was in the hearts of the players!
This was also the first time that the players had truly moved on such a large scale! When Cao Cao first appeared, there was no quest option for the players to directly follow him. Thus, there was no such majestic scene! Of course, if Sun Jian had appeared at the start of the [Battle of Nan Yang] region storyline and did not appear out of nowhere, the number of players that responded would have been even greater!
Thus, when Sun Jian's army appeared at the east side of Wan City three days later, the strength of Wan City and the outside of Wan City was instantly reversed. Just Sun Jian's army alone was comparable to half of the Wan City Yellow Turban army!
At the same time, the Yellow Turban Canal Commander Zhao Hong had already repaired the drawbridge that was destroyed at the north gate. He also repaired the north gate and the various damaged sections of the city wall. At the same time, many defensive resources were placed at various sections of the city wall. He even demolished many houses to obtain stones and wood to be used as rolling stones. These were also placed at various sections of the city wall. They were only waiting for the Han Ting camp to attack!
During this period of time, although Yang Rui's killing efficiency did not increase, he still managed to find two other valuable targets – the residential area where the Yellow Turban Fourth Grade Recon Cavalry gathered and the residential area where the Yellow Turban Third Grade Archers gathered!
Perhaps it was because these two types of soldiers were highly valued. The Yellow Turban Recon Cavalry and Yellow Turban Archers were placed near the inner courtyard of the three manors of Wan City, on the east and west sides of the inner courtyard! Yang Rui had only found these two locations after following the two types of soldiers who had returned from the outside!
Since the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Uprising, Yang Rui had obtained a lot of Skill Books for Soldiers. Among them, there were only a few Skill Books for Cavalry and Archers. Therefore, these two targets were very important to Yang Rui.
Dealing with Fourth Grade scouts and Third Grade archers was no problem for Yang Rui when it came to ambushes at night. The only problem was that they were close to the inner courtyard. There were quite a number of soldiers patrolling and keeping watch near the residences where the two types of soldiers were resting. There was a certain degree of difficulty in entering the residences of the two types of soldiers. Once they avoided the sight of these night patrol soldiers and entered the residential area, it would be much easier to make a move!
Over the next three days, Yang Rui killed over two thousand Fourth Grade scouts and Third Grade archers every night. He obtained no less than six or seven hundred sets of related skill books and equipment! Later on, when the Yellow Turban Cavalry sensed something and strengthened the defenses nearby, Yang Rui had accumulated a total of six hundred and twenty-three Skill Books for Recon Cavalry. Third Grade Archer Skill Books for Archers totaled one hundred and fifty-nine. The number of equipment and skill books was still surplus!
On the afternoon of the second day after Sun Jian's army arrived at the east side of Wan City, the other three forces of Han Ting had probably received the news as well. They all approached Wan City and set up camp. Right Commander Zhu Yan's forces were outside the north gate, while Governor Qin Jie's forces were outside the west gate. Governor Xu Yan's forces were outside the south gate, while Sun Jian's forces were outside the east gate. They had completely surrounded Wan City's Yellow Turban Cavalry! Inside the city, the Yellow Turban Army also stood on the city wall. Both sides were ready to fight. A great battle was imminent and on the verge of breaking out!
One had to admit. As the overall leader of Wan City, Yellow Turban Cavalry Commander Zhao Hong was indeed a courageous and insightful general. Just as the four armies of Han Ting surrounded Wan City, before they could do anything, Commander Zhao Hongqu brought another hundred thousand elite soldiers and charged out of the South City Gate, engaging in a slaughter with the troops of Jingzhou Provincial Governor Xu Ke. They killed more than ten thousand soldiers of the Han Ting camp, and although they also suffered some casualties, it was still a great victory. This greatly boosted the morale of the Yellow Turbans defending the city!
When the other three forces of Han Ting's forces outside the city wanted to provide reinforcements, Zhao Hong had already led his troops back into Wan City and shut the gates tightly! This battle caused another sleepless night for the Han Ting soldiers outside the city. As a result, they did not make any moves to attack the city the next day!
Another day passed like this. The sky had just begun to brighten when the Han Ting army outside the four gates of Wan City finally started to move. They started to attack the city from all directions!
* Kacha! *
"Kacha …"
Due to the obstruction of the moat of Wan City, the drawbridges of the four gates had already been retracted by the Yellow Turbans in the city. The Han Ting camp still used the same old method. They used the special 'pontoon bridge' that they had used to attack the north gate of Wan City to fill up the original position of the drawbridge! This allowed the soldiers to pass through the moat and approach the city gate!
"Kill …"
"Ha!"
In an instant, the wooden battering teams and cloud ladders of the Han Ting army all moved forward. Under the cover of the large number of sword-shield soldiers, they charged towards the four city gates of Wan City! Immediately, shouts of killing shook the heavens, and their momentum was like a rainbow!
"Whoosh whoosh … whoosh …"
"Uh …"
"Ah!"
However, it was different from when Qin Jie's troops attacked the north gate of Wan City at night. In a head-on clash, the Han Ting army's attacks were not effective! Just as the Han Ting camp soldiers passed the pontoon bridge and did not pose any real threat to the city gates, the Yellow Turbans on the city gates had already rained down large batches of arrows. Almost all of the Han Ting attacking soldiers were enveloped within. Although they had the protection of the sword-shield soldiers, there were still many Han Ting soldiers who were hit by the arrows, and there were casualties!
When the attacking soldiers finally got close to the city gates, another wave of stones and wood were thrown down from the city gates! These large pieces of wood and stone would often fall down in a large area, and it was very difficult to dodge them. The casualties were even more severe than the arrow rain from before!
The Han Ting army had suffered many casualties, and the Yellow Turbans on the city gates had also suffered casualties! One had to say that the Han Ting camp's equipment was still very good. The ladders that they used to attack the city were all equipped with wooden shields, winches, grappling hooks, and other tools. They even used simple pulleys to lift the ladders! Once this kind of scaling ladder reached the top of the city gate tower, there would be a large number of high ranking close combat soldiers leaping up the tower. A hand-to-hand fight was unavoidable!
As such, the attacking and defending sides of Wan City entered a stalemate from the start! Although the Han Ting camp soldiers were elites, their area of attack was too narrow. When they crossed the moat, they were limited to the width of the drawbridge. Thus, they were unable to fully spread out their formation and threaten the rest of the city walls. Although the Yellow Turbans were at a disadvantage, and their long range archers were limited, they had the advantage of the sturdy city walls, and their defense was not a problem for the time being!
After an intense battle in the morning, the Han Ting camp did not achieve much in the siege. Instead, they lost many soldiers, and their losses were much greater than the Yellow Turbans! After noon, the various Han Ting troops that surrounded the city stopped their attacks, and both sides stopped fighting. All the way until night fell, there were no more battles!
Yang Rui, who was in the city, naturally knew about the matter of the Han Ting army sieging the city. However, he was very puzzled as to why the Han Ting camp had stopped after only half a day! According to Yang Rui's thinking, just the Governor of Nanyang, Qin Jie, had someone who could severely injure Divine Messenger Zhang Mancheng. Moreover, he had also gathered the rest of the troops, and taking down Wan City again should be a simple matter!
However, the truth seemed to be the opposite. Not only did the Han Ting army not achieve any results that day, but they also did not make any progress for the next few days! Both sides fought back and forth, and although the battle was intense, it seemed like neither side was using their full strength! Yang Rui could not understand this.
However, the stalemate between the two sides gave Yang Rui time. After five to six days, Yang Rui had killed more than 10000 Fourth Grade Yellow Turbans. This number was almost seventy to eighty percent of the total number of Yellow Turbans in Wan City! There was almost no sign of the Yellow Turbans in Wan City!
In total, Yang Rui had obtained around 3000 Fourth Grade Cavalry skill books and weapons, and over ten thousand riding skill books! Yang Rui was very pleased with this result. As long as he gathered enough horses, Yang Rui would soon have a sizeable cavalry force! This could be said to be Yang Rui's second major reward from this storyline mission!
As for the Third Grade Yellow Turbans Archers, almost all of them had been moved to the walls ever since the Han Ting army started attacking the city. They had not left! Their daily needs were taken care of by the residents near the city walls! As a result, Yang Rui was unable to farm it again! However, he had already obtained over 1500 Third Grade Archer skill books and related equipment. It was already a decent harvest!
In all the sieges that Yang Rui had experienced, the role of archers had been very prominent. They played an important role in the defense of the city. Therefore, Yang Rui had always paid great attention to the development of archers as a long-range force. After Yang Rui took over Ma Zhuang's camp, Yang Rui no longer had a fixed source of Archer skill books. Therefore, the 1500 Third Grade Archer skill books he had obtained this time were very important.
Moreover, these Third Grade skill books were basically equivalent to Fourth Grade skill books in Yang Rui's hands! After the archers used these skill books to advance to Third Grade, they could advance again through the rebel camp that Yang Rui had taken over. After that, they could use the mission points to revive and clear their names. They would then become official Fourth Grade archers!
Six days after the Han Ting army had surrounded the city, Yang Rui was killing the Fourth Grade Yellow Turbans when a commotion broke out outside Wan City.
This time, the Han Ting army was not just attacking Wan City through the drawbridge. They were attacking from all sides!
If one were to look from the position of the city walls, with the help of the torches, one would realize that the densely packed Han Ting soldiers were moving towards the various moats. They formed groups of seven to eight, each carrying a wooden boat to the moat. Then, specialized soldiers would connect these wooden boats and push them forward. Very quickly, more than half of the water surface was covered by the wooden boats! Translated by XephiZ Edited by: Lifer, Fingerfox Translated by XephiZ Edited by XephiZ
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