Zhang Jiao and the Yellow Turbans behind him were bound to conquer Yecheng and defeat Lu Zhi's army, but Lu Zhi was also determined to use the fortified city to continuously destroy the effective strength of the Yellow Turbans.
Lu Zhi, who commanded 98, had a wonderful competition with Chi You, who commanded 103, inside and outside Yecheng.
Chi You's extremely flexible siege methods once gave Lu Zhi a huge headache, and he was tired of dealing with it and found it difficult to keep up with his opponents. During that time, Yecheng's city defense had many loopholes, and Chi You almost seized the opportunity.
But at this time, Xue Rengui finally couldn't stand it any longer, and under Li Xiang's instruction, he immediately spoke to Lu Zhi. Since one's own commander's ability is not as good as that of the enemy, then forcefully trying to keep up with the opponent's rhythm will only lead to being led by the opponent's nose, and ultimately there is no way to recover.
In this case, simply ignore the other party and defend the city on your own. Wherever there are loopholes, just make up for them.
When Lu Zhi heard this, he suddenly understood and immediately changed the way he defended the city, no longer forcing himself to make changes according to the opponent's arrangements.
Afterwards, Xue Rengui made several suggestions to Lu Zhi in succession, pointing out the loopholes in Lu Zhi's city defense system and greatly strengthening Yecheng's defense.
After that, Xue Rengui took the initiative to provide Lu Zhi with temporary dispatching methods for the soldiers defending the city several times in critical moments, effectively repelling Chi You's attacks one after another. However, Xue Rengui, whose commander reached 101, came to help Lu Zhi, and Chi You's offensive collapsed instantly.
In the past, everyone in the Han Dynasty envied Liu Bei's good luck. The two sworn brothers he had accepted were both brave and brave, and they were undoubtedly the top batch among the current Han army.
But now everyone is even more envious of Li Xiang's good luck. In the eyes of everyone, Xue Rengui's value is much greater than that of Guan and Zhang combined.
It's no wonder that everyone thinks this way, Xue Rengui's performance this time is really too amazing.
During the battle between the generals in the city, Xue Rengui killed two Yellow Turban generals in formation, and then joined forces with the three brothers Liu, Guan, and Zhang to fight against Chi You. When the generals were retreating, two arrows forced the Yellow Turban generals to retreat, and then a third arrow wounded Chi You. In this battle, the force displayed by Xue Rengui was superior to that of Guan and Zhang, and was unmatched even among the entire Yecheng army.
Compared with Xue Rengui's superior military force among generals, what everyone in the Han Dynasty was amazed by was Xue Rengui's commanding ability. After all, no matter how powerful he is, he is just a reckless man. Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, was ambushed by Han Xin and committed suicide in Wujiang River.
Faced with the attack of hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turbans, and the commander of the opponent was obviously not a mediocre person, even Lu Zhi was beaten to the point where he was left with many flaws and was tired of dealing with it. But with Xue Rengui's help, Lu Zhi was evenly matched with the Yellow Turban in a short period of time.
There was even a time when Xue Rengui was ordered to temporarily command the army to defend the city on behalf of Lu Zhi. Without Chi You's knowledge and carelessness, even Chi You suffered a big loss. Chi You's Jinglan troops were defeated by Xue Rengui's surprise attack and lost nearly half of their troops. The defensive pressure on the Han side in Yecheng was immediately reduced a lot.
Since Xue Rengui was on the side to help, the casualties of the Han officers and soldiers led by Lu Zhi suddenly dropped sharply.
Looking at Xue Rengui, who was standing next to his mentor Lu Zhi and commanding the army with high spirits, Liu Bei's eyes almost turned red.
Others on the Han side, such as Liu Yu, Yuan Shao and others, were just envious that Li Xiang had a peerless general like Xue Rengui. Maybe they had some thoughts in their hearts, but they did not show it.
But Liu Bei was different. This man really took action.
These days, Liu Bei would go to Li Xiang's camp whenever he had time. Of course, Liu Bei did not come to visit Li Xiang, but went to exchange military tactics with Xue Rengui under the euphemistic name. Although he was surprised by Liu Bei's shamelessness, Li Xiang was not easy to chase people away, and Li Xiang was very relieved of Xue Rengui, so he let Liu Bei go.
It's a pity that King Xiang has a dream and the goddess is ruthless. After Liu Bei showed a hint of disturbing intention, Xue Rengui immediately stayed away from him. He even tried to avoid seeing Liu Bei on the pretext that he was tired from the battle and needed a rest. And Liu Bei was also unyielding. Even if he couldn't see Xue Rengui, he still stayed and ran around Li Xiang every day.
In fact, Li Xiang also marveled at how big-hearted Liu Bei was. Now Xue Rengui's military position was far above that of Liu Bei. Xue Rengui was a serious captain of the Bingzhou Army, while Liu Bei was just the leader of a small rebel army. If it weren't for Liu Bei's name as a clan member of the Han clan and a disciple of Lu Zhi, how could he be qualified to interact with everyone? I don’t know how Liu Bei had the confidence to conquer Xue Rengui and poach Li Xiang.
Of course, Li Xiang would not let Liu Bei be so unscrupulous these days. Although he knew that the effect was almost zero, Li Xiang still ran to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei every day like Liu Bei. Not for anything else, just to disgust Liu Bei.
As soon as Li Xiang made this move, Liu Bei naturally understood Li Xiang's threatening move. Although Liu Bei is also extremely confident in the relationship between his three brothers, Liu Bei does not have the courage to gamble. After all, if he loses his two sworn brothers, he will really have nothing.
Back to the topic, since the end of the battle, the battle between the big Han and the Yellow Turban has been going on at the upper foot of Yecheng for more than 20 days. It seems that the fourth task issued by the system to Li Xiang will be completed in just a few days.
In these twenty days, both the Dahan and the Yellow Turbans suffered heavy losses.
It's just the east gate of Ye City, where Lu Zhi and Chi You confronted each other. In the first three days, the Yellow Turbans suffered nearly 13,000 casualties, while the Han suffered 5,000 casualties, a ratio of less than one to three. Such a small casualty ratio should never be used in a city defense battle, let alone a strong city like Yecheng.
The reason why the Han side suffered so many casualties was naturally because of the suppression of the Yellow Turban Army's Jinglan and Catapult troops. Although Lu Zhi also thought about letting the cavalry attack and destroy the Yellow Turban Army's siege equipment, Chi You did not give Lu Zhi the slightest chance.
In the next four days, the Han suffered casualties of nearly 5,000, while the Yellow Turban casualties dropped to 11,000. The casualty ratio between the two sides once again narrowed. This is because the few catapults on the Han side were all lost. However, taking advantage of their superiority, the Han side also replaced more than half of the Yellow Turbans' catapults.
In the next ten days or so, with Xue Rengui's help, Lu Zhi finally stabilized the situation and gradually achieved a casualty ratio of more than 1:3 and close to 1:4. After Xue Rengui attacked the Yellow Turban Army's catapult, he even had a casualty ratio of more than one to four.
In the more than twenty days since the war began, the Han side alone at the east gate suffered losses of more than 20,000, while the Yellow Turbans, as the attacking side, suffered losses of nearly 65,000.
It can be said that Zhang Jiao has lost as much as one-third in the battle with the 200,000 elites carefully trained in Jizhou.
Even if the east gate is like this, the other gates will naturally suffer a lot of casualties. Since all the Yellow Turbans in the other three gates were ordinary soldiers, and there were no famous generals like Chi You to lead them, they naturally suffered heavy losses. The Han army suffered a casualty ratio of almost more than 1:5 in these three gates.
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