"Ding! The first historical warfare of the Eastern Han, 'Riot of the Yellow Turbans,' has officially begun and will last a month! The fighting spirits of the commanders of the Han Army and the Yellow Turban Army will gradually escalate!"
"Ding! Since less feudal lords have chosen the Yellow Turban Camp, the total attributes of all the feudal lords of the Yellow Turban Camp and their armies +15%!"
The feudal lords of the camp of Han Court, including Chu Tian, had risen very early. When they heard the notification from the system, they began gearing up their troops instantly.
The decisive battle between the Han Court and the Yellow Turban Army had officially begun!
Within a month's time, the system would continually strengthen the attack desire of the commanders of the Han Army and the Yellow Turban Army, until one of them was defeated by the other.
The Han Army Camp had started imposing curfews. There were altogether 120 feudal lords in the camp where Chu Tian was, and they were prohibited from sending their troops at will.
This was war, not an adventure. Any unauthorized moves of any feudal lord were likely to trigger fights between the Han Army and the Yellow Turban Army.
Anxiety was written all over the faces of all the feudal lords, as well as the free players. As far as most of them were concerned, this was their first time participating in warfares that involved nearly ten thousand people. One reckless move and they would be gone for good.
"Go!" A Han cavalryman barged into the camp from outside, as if he was on fire. "The Yellow Turban Army has come out of their camps!"
The faces of all the feudal lords and free players in the camp turned pale.
The first historical warfare had just begun, and the Yellow Turban Army had launched their attack right away.
The main war in history that resolved the Yellow Turban Riot had taken place from March until December. In Feudal Lords, however, the progress was more rapid. If every historical warfare took months and years, the feudal lords would be left with no time to develop their territories.
The commander who guarded this camp, Ma Zhang Tie, summoned ten generals serving under him, and had each of them administer 500 Han soldiers.
The Han soldiers on the battlefield of Guangzong District were immensely different from the soldiers brought by ordinary feudal lords. Chu Tian did not doubt for a second that with the precondition that the commanders were of the same level, the 5,000 Han soldiers in this camp could beat the living daylights out of the 18,000 voluntary soldiers of the 120 feudal lords.
The 5,000 Han soldiers made up the core power in this camp.
"The wooden stockades' area of defense is large, but our forces can hardly make ends meet. Therefore, we need all you voluntary soldiers to help with defense."
The commander, Ma Zhangtie, quickly assigned missions to all the feudal lords.
The perimeter of the wooden stockades was surrounded by wooden walls 4 meters tall, with arrow towers situated in the surroundings. Feudal lords and free players would assist in defending the camp.
As Chu Tian had brought more military forces with him, Commander Ma appointed Xia Town to keep guard of the three wooden arrow towers as well as the city walls between them.
The rest of the feudal lords also received their respective missions.
This was Chu Tian's first time guarding a city.
In the South of Kaiyang District, Langya Nation, Chu Tian's ideology of war was to attack, attack, and attack; he rarely had to defend. There weren't many people around him that were daring enough to provoke Xia Town either. The only influence that had provoked Xia Town, Lingyan Town, had been seized by Chu Tian and made a client town of his.
However, on the battlefield of Guangzong District, the 800 soldiers of Xia Town could not put on a one-man show. The main forces at war were the Han Army and the Yellow Turban Army.
All that Chu Tian had to do was complete the missions assigned by the Han Army to the best of his ability, kill Yellow Turban soldiers, and strive for first place in the ranking.
Chu Tian took an unintentional glance at the ranking of the camp of Han Court, and noticed that some feudal lords had had their names listed on the ranking. They must have happened to run into the Yellow Turban soldiers right when the war began.
"Liu Sandao, arrange for four archers on every wooden arrow tower."
Chu Tian checked the attributes of the wooden arrow towers at the Han Army Camp. The three wooden arrow towers that he was asked to keep guard of were medium-sized ones, which were of higher grades than the small-sized wooden arrow towers in Xia Town.
[Name]: Medium-sized wooden arrow tower (Level 3 city defense work)
[Maximum durability]: 150
[Capacity (Number of guards that can be accommodated)]: 4
[Effects]: Enhances the vision of guards, attack power +1, defense power +3.
Liu Sandao was the archers' commander of Xia Town. Immediately after receiving Chu Tian's order, he allocated Xu archers to stand guard on the medium-sized wooden arrow towers.
The city defense adopted a shift rotation system. Chu Tian divided the 800 soldiers into four batches to carry out patrols, with 200 members in each batch, while the rest of the soldiers would be training or recuperating in the camp.
The Han Army Camp provided effects that were equivalent to what a Level 3 drill ground would give.
Zhou Yafu had a sword on his waist as he patrolled the wooden city walls with his infantry. This was a strict, rigid fellow. It was impeccable to have him take charge of the city defense. Better still, he had the Level S characteristic "directing troops" and Level A characteristic "tenacious defense".
There was a thick layer of soil on the perimeter of the wooden walls, which served to prevent fire attacks by the Yellow Turban Army.
The cavalry reconnoiters of the Han Army had sent tidings about the Yellow Turban soldiers exiting their camps early in the morning. However, it took the Yellow Turban Army, which was only seven miles away, a whole morning to arrive at the doorstep of the Han Army Camp, coming in the afternoon.
"The Yellow Turban Army is here!"
The Han soldiers and voluntary soldiers of the entire camp were alarmed. Chu Tian took the commanders, Hua Mulan, Gongsun Wu, Zhang Ding, and Chen Feng to the wooden walls, gazing in the direction of the North.
The Han Army was at the South of the battlefield, whereas the Yellow Turban Army occupied the North.
The yellow flags that symbolized the Yellow Turban Army fluttered and growled in the air, and large numbers of boisterous Yellow Turban soldiers came into view. From a thin strip of black, the scene turned into a black ocean. This group of soldiers was wearing yellow turbans, either around their heads or on their shoulders.
"The heavens have died; the yellow sky shall now rise! The new era has begun, the world shall be blessed with peace!"
"The heavens have died; the yellow sky shall now rise! The new era has begun, the world shall be blessed with peace!"
The Yellow Turban soldiers screamed the riot slogan at the top of their lungs. Their voices shook the heavens and the earth, reverberating in the air above the battlefield.
Almost all of the Eastern Han players were familiar with the slogan.
The Yellow Turban Riot had officially unveiled the chaotic era of the late Eastern Han!
Chu Tian couldn't help but feel hot blood surging in his veins as he stood on the city wall and listened to the earth-shattering slogan. The slogan of the Yellow Turban Army seemed to possess a strange power that awakened madness within people.
It was a pity that Chu Tian's identity was that of a government official at the moment. Otherwise, he might not hold back the urge to raise a rebellion himself.
Zhou Yafu and Hua Mulan were unruffled by the slogan of the Yellow Turban Army. They were royal heroes, whose tenacity was matchless in comparison to ordinary men.
Similarly, the Han commander Ma Zhangtie and the low-grade officers of the Han Army also remained unaffected.
They had suppressed many civilian rebels in the past; how could they be so easily affected by the Yellow Turban Army?
"The numbers of the Yellow Turban Army are too great!"
Some less powerful feudal lords found their legs shivering. They had joined the battle with merely several dozen soldiers. When they saw the oncoming army, tens of thousands of Yellow Turban soldiers who blotted out the hills and the dales, they couldn't help but tremble in fear.
Feudal Lords could no longer be considered a simple game. They dared not simply lose their lives.
"General Hua Mulan, you have the greatest strength among us. When we guard the city later, please be sure to keep our master in your firm protection," Zhou Yafu requested.
In the defense of a city, the power of cavalries would be greatly reduced. Despite being the cavalry commander, Hua Mulan would perform a better function with her individual strength at the moment.
Hua Mulan nodded in silence.
Hua Mulan had already attained Grade 45 by now, and her strength had increased up to 89 points, which put her on par with the peak state of a first-class commander during the era of the three kingdoms.
An infantry and a troop of archers were allocated on the city walls. The three wooden arrow towers that Chu Tian had to safeguard were several tens of meters apart from each other.
"It turns out the Yellow Turban Army has initiated the attack. Is there possibly a historical Yellow Turban giving commands on the other side?"
Chu Tian felt his hair standing on end when he saw several tens of thousands of Yellow Turban soldiers appearing at the perimeter of the Han Army Camp.
Those were tens of thousands of Yellow Turban soldiers. Even if they were tens of thousands of pigs, it would still take more than three days and nights to catch them all!
In the middle troop of the Yellow Turban Army, a group of fit and strong Yellow Turban soldiers escorted the Rengong General, Zhang Liang, and took the field.
"Grade 3 army type, the Yellow Turban leader!"
Chu Tian recognized the Yellow Turban leader instantly.
While killing the Yellow Turban commander Zhang Kai, he had killed several Yellow Turban leaders before and received a construction drawing of the elite Yellow Turban camp that could be used to recruit Yellow Turban leaders. However, Chu Tian did not build the elite Yellow Turban camp.
There might be two or three thousand Yellow Turban leaders out there!
Chu Tian couldn't help but doubt if there really was a historical commander in the Yellow Turban Camp on the other side.