There were wheelbarrows on the construction site, and the degree of repairing the city wall was greatly improved. However, before the repair of the city wall was completed, Han Zhan received news of the attack of the Yellow Turban Army in the brigade.

He walked out from behind the table, grabbed Hua Hu's arm who came to report the news, and asked nervously: "Chief Hua, have you figured it out? Are you really the Yellow Turban thief?"

"If you go back to the envoy, that's right. The Yellow Turban thieves are coming from the north towards the county town, and there are only less than thirty miles." Hua Hu replied with a panic look on his face: "At most two hours, the troops will be at the city. Please make arrangements early."

Although Hua Hu was convinced, Han Zhan asked cautiously: "Where is the person who reported the news?"

Hua Hu quickly turned his head and shouted outside the door: "Bring the reporter in." As he shouted, two yamen runners walked away from the main hall with a pair of stretchers.

Although he was mentally prepared, Han Zhan was still shocked when he saw the person lying on the stretcher. A person covered in blood lying on the stretcher could see his chest and abdomen covered with wounds in his chest and abdomen through the cracked clothes. Han Zhan saw that the other party was lying on the stretcher motionless, and hurriedly squatted beside him, stretched out his hand to breathe, but he found that the other party was already dead. He turned his head to look at Hua Hu who was standing aside, frowned and asked, "Hua Zhuzhu, what's the wound on his body?"

Regarding Han Zhan's inquiry, Hua Hu quickly explained: "When I go back to the envoy, this person is a foreman on the maintenance site. Yesterday, he asked me for leave and said he wanted to send the money home. Who knew that early this morning, he hurried back to the city on a horse covered in blood and told his subordinates that thousands of Yellow Turban thieves occupied the village where he was located and were burning, killing and looting. After killing several Yellow Turban thieves, he robbed a horse and escaped to warn us. As soon as he finished speaking, he was breathing."

"This is a righteous man. You can carry him down, find a good coffin to restrain him. After defeating the Yellow Turban thieves, we will bury him with great strength." Han Zhan asked the yamen runners to carry the stretcher away, and ordered Luo Bu who was standing aside: "Go and invite the Chief Xun to come here."

Before Rob could walk away, Xun Yu, who had received the news, hurried into the main hall. He asked Han Zhan with an expressionless face: "Empress, is there any Yellow Turban Thief attacking?"

"That's right, Xun County Magistrate." Because he was in the lobby at this moment, Han Zhan used his official title to call Xun Yu: "According to the chief clerk of Hua, the Yellow Turban thieves are only less than thirty miles away from us, and at most two hours, they will be at the city."

After hearing this, Xun Yu nodded and asked Hua Hu: "Chief Hua, I have something I have always wanted to ask you. I wonder if you are willing to give me a clear answer."

Hua Hu didn't know what Xun Yu meant, so he could only nod and replied in confusion: "Please say that as long as the subordinates know, they will know everything."

"As the county magistrate, the county magistrate led his troops out of the city and died in battle with the Yellow Turban thieves." Xun Yu stared at Hua Hu's eyes and asked, "I want to know why the Yellow Turban thieves did not continue to attack the city after killing the county magistrate and the county magistrate, but chose to withdraw their troops on their own initiative?"

As soon as Xun Yu finished speaking, Hua Hu knelt in front of Han Zhan with a thud, kowtowed repeatedly and said, "I will spare my life, I will spare my life!"

Hua Hu's actions confused Han Zhan. He quickly bent down to support Hua Hu who was kneeling on the ground, and said, "Chief Hua, what are you doing? Let's stand up and say something."

Hua Hu stood up, stood aside like a primary school student who had made a mistake, and said tremblingly: "County magistrate, the county magistrate died in battle. The Yellow Turban thief originally wanted to take the opportunity to attack the city, but his subordinates sent people out of the city to negotiate with the Yellow Turban thief Qu Shun. As long as they were willing to withdraw their troops, their subordinates would immediately send them 10,000 hu of food."

Xun Yu was so angry that his whole body was trembling when Hua Hu said that. His eyebrows were raised, his face was full of anger. He pointed at the other party and cursed: "You are the enemy. The county's granary stock is only 22,000 hu. You actually took out half of it and gave it to the Yellow Turban Thief. It's simply..."

Seeing Xun Yu being so angry that he stomped his feet, Han Zhan hurriedly came out to smooth things over: "Mr. Xun, the most urgent task is how to retreat the enemy, not who is responsible." After saying this, he asked Hua Hu with a side face, "Chief Hua, can our city walls block the Yellow Turban thieves?"

"The city walls on the east, south and west sides have all been completed." Hua Hu replied with a sad face: "The city walls on the north are still under renovation, with about a hundred steps wide area, with only rammed earth and no brick walls. Even if the Yellow Turban Thief does not use a cloud ladder, they can rush into the city along the slope."

"What should I do?" Xun Yu couldn't help but feel a little confused when he heard Hua Hu say this: "Although the city walls on the southeast and west sides have been repaired, there are no wooden lime bottles. It's a bit late to organize the civilians to carry them on the city wall."

"Mr. Xun County Master, don't worry." Seeing Xun Yu's silence, Han Zhan hurriedly comforted him and said, "Even if there are no wooden and stones on the city walls on three sides, the Yellow Turban Thief will not dare to attack from these three sides before finding out our reality. On the contrary, there is a 100-step-wide area in the north, and the Yellow Turban Thief will definitely use it as a breakthrough."

"Encourt," Faced with the upcoming Yellow Turban Army, even Xun Yu, who had always been steady, was panicked, let alone an ordinary official like Hua Hu. He asked nervously: "What should we do?"

"Chief Hua," Although Han Zhan was also panicked when he heard that thousands of Yellow Turban troops were attacking, he tried his best to remain calm in front of his subordinates and ordered Hua Hu: "You should organize your men immediately and raise wooden fences in a rammed earth area so that the bandits will not be able to climb up the city wall so that the bandits will not be as easy as possible."

"Empress, where should we focus on defense?" Xun Yu also regained his calmness at this time. He was very afraid that Han Zhan would be too young and would panic when encountering such a thing, so he took the initiative to remind him: "There are thousands of Yellow Turban thieves, and we only have more than a thousand county soldiers. If we spread them to four gates, we will have the assistance of civilians and bravery, and the troops will be too thin."

"Don't worry, county magistrate," Han Zhan said as usual: "I plan to draw 100 county soldiers and 500 civilians from Zhong Junhou's Naqu to defend against the three sides of the southeast and west respectively, and the remaining 200 county soldiers are on standby. As for the defense in the north, the tune that Dian Wei belongs to is responsible..."

After hearing a series of orders made by Han Zhan, Xun Yu asked with some concern: "Empress, is it too risky to send only five hundred county soldiers to defend the situation in the north?"

"Although there is a gap of hundreds of steps wide in the city wall on the north side, it is not that easy for the Yellow Turban thieves to rush into the city from here." Han Zhan sneered and said, "I will make this place their burial place."

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Han Zhan asked Xun Yu, Hua Hu and Zhong Junhou to be responsible for the defense of the three walls on the southeast and west sides, and he and Dian Wei were responsible for the north side.

Dian Wei seemed particularly excited when he heard that the Yellow Turban Army was attacking. He even suggested to Han Zhan: "Empress, don't be aware of the thousands of bandits, I just need to take Brother Qu out with me and I can kill them to the point of falling water."
Chapter completed!