Chapter 153 Repeating the Mistakes of the Past
Huangbai City was originally Qin Quliang Palace, a city in the northeast of Chiyang County.

During the great famine in Sanfu, Li Jue was the Marquis of Chiyang and stationed the emperor in Huangbai City.

After Li Jue's demise, Duan Wei moved to Niyang, Beidi County, north of Huangbai City; Chiyang had the advantage of irrigation, and many of Dong Zhuo's former subordinates were stationed there.

In recent years, the two states have annexed each other. Ma Wan attacked and killed Wang Cheng and stationed in Chiyang to control the area around the county town; Liang Xing was entrenched near Huangbaicheng in the east of Chiyang.

Huangbai City is two hundred miles away from Linjin, which is neither far nor near.

If it is a field march, it will take three days; if it is a hinterland march with armor rolled up and light equipment, it will take two days.

But for a black bear, it's only a two-hour journey.

The Yin Gan horse with unlimited endurance is of great significance to the rule of Guanzhong.

The black bear has an effect similar to that of a clone. Such strong mobility means that he can run back and forth between Chencang and Tongguan in one day!
This means that after Lu Bu finishes the Battle of Tongguan in the morning, he can join the battle in Chencang in the evening.

Such sufficient mobility means that if the counties in Guanzhong rebelled, each county could be attacked and surrounded by Lu Bu at any time.

But now there is a huge information gap. Black Bear can calculate the general changes in the situation, but Zhong Yao and the officials and people in Guanzhong do not know.

Only by continuously demonstrating this kind of mobility and dominance can the various distracting thoughts of Zhong Yao, officials and scholars be eliminated voluntarily.

Not only should officials and scholars know about this, but the vast majority of the people should also know about it.

Therefore, the black bear did not hide its super mobility, and Liang Xing's head was the best proof.

With this purpose in mind, when it was completely dark, Black Bear led Lu Bu to the vicinity of Huangbai City.

At this time, the wind was blowing, dark clouds covered the night sky, lightning flashed across the sky from time to time over the northern mountainous areas, and lightning flashed between the clouds.

All the gates of Huangbai City were closed, and whenever lightning flashed across the north, one could vaguely see the figures of patrolling sentries on the city walls.

Like other cities in Guanzhong, Huangbaicheng has no moat.

To the north is Zhengguo Canal and to the south is Chengguo Canal.

From a topographical point of view, it is very convenient for Huangbai City to dig trenches and connect the north and south canals, but neither Li Jue, who is in charge of this place, nor Liang Xing now, have been able to carry out this work.

The black bear circled the city to observe, then quietly waited for the follow-up troops. It began to rain.

The raindrops were sparse, but the raindrops were quite large.

But it stops and starts from time to time, and now all I can do is wait quietly.

In the second half of the night, the follow-up troops arrived at the east of the city, exhausted and panting.

People gathered and Black Bear began to distribute magic berries. Each person swallowed one pill and their strength recovered quickly.

Peach reserves were always tight, but godberries were plentiful.

A little white mana, a properly refined spiritual plant, will provide five magical berries every day.

The only disadvantage of the Godberry is that it cannot leave a certain range of it, unlike the Peach which can be assigned to a distant army.

Modern armies can fight after a forced march because no matter how tired they are when they arrive on the battlefield, they still have the strength to pull the trigger.

But this is not possible now. Only an army wearing armor can have combat effectiveness. Armored soldiers who are physically weak will instinctively resist this kind of disadvantageous battle. Naturally, their morale will be low and they will lack fighting enthusiasm.

Only sufficient physical strength can ensure that the armored soldiers have sufficient combat efficiency.

After the magic berries were distributed, the soldiers began to eat their dry food, waiting for the opportunity to attack and capture the city.

The black bear was not idle either. He checked the war horses and draft horses that were eating horse feed, and was generous with his magic berries to replenish the horses' strength.

During this forced march, three chariots were destroyed on the road and there was no time to repair them.

The soldiers on the carriage rode on the extra horses and arrived at Huangbai City.

This also resulted in dozens of horses being unable to take turns to rest. Seven of the horses were close to exhaustion. After arriving, they could only drink water and refused to eat horse feed.

If nothing unexpected happens and they can't recover, these horses will die.

For these seven horses, Black Bear also increased the dosage of feeding them the magic berry, and the horses' condition improved rapidly.

To him, the magic berry was more like an infusion to stimulate potential.

It does not increase the energy in the body out of thin air, but accelerates the efficiency of the body's functions and taps the potential of the organism itself.

Blood Peach and Longevity Blood Peach have similar effects. There is no such thing as spell effect. It is the potential of the organism itself.

Only after the follow-up troops resumed combat status and their morale was boosted did the black bear begin to eat.

There are dark clouds overhead, and I can’t feel the sky getting brighter.

When eating dry food, I could clearly feel the raindrops as big as beans hitting my face, which meant that if it rained, it would at least be moderate rain.

The rain gradually became heavier, and more than a dozen military officers gathered near the black bear, each of them eager to give it a try.

The Eagle Strike Knights from Guanzhong were the same. They wanted to rush into the city immediately, following the example of Duan Wei, and directly break into Liang Xing's mansion, kill Liang Xing, and recruit his followers.

Huangbaicheng was quite special before Li Jue moved in.

Because this was not a city where the people lived, but a storage city built around the Qin palace.

The grain produced by the nearby Chengguo Canal and Zhengguo Canal was stored in Huangbaicheng, and then transported and distributed to various places in Guanzhong via the Jingshui and Luoshui rivers connected to the Chengguo Canal and Zhengguo Canal.

Therefore, the largest mansion in Huangbai City was converted from the Qin Palace. It is very conspicuous, like a city within a city, and is very easy to identify.

As for a palace, a single gate is enough.

As long as we break into the city and block the gate, no matter whether you are Dong Zhuo, Li Jue or Liang Xing, you will not escape death.

"More than a hundred people are enough to break into the city."

"I will lead the heavy armored troops to charge, and the light soldiers will drive the chariots to cooperate with the knights to wander around the east and west gates. Most of the knights will hold flags to confuse the enemy."

"Wait until I capture and kill Liang Xing and force his people to surrender, then you can enter the city."

Black Bear made a simple tactical arrangement and led the heavy infantry towards the east gate.

The intermittent rain moistened the surface of the ground, the air was cool, and the armor on my body felt warm and heavy, and my senses were very comfortable.

As we approached the city wall, we found that the patrol officers on the wall had retreated back to the towers and corner towers, and the sentries had also evacuated to avoid the rain.

Black Bear reached the foot of the city, raised his hand and threw a card at the wall, summoning a low-level Taoist servant. This guy had a plate of refined hemp rope as thick as a thumb hanging on his shoulder.

After confirming that it was correct, the other party threw the hemp rope down.

At this moment, the rain suddenly became heavier, and waves of rain hit the slightly inclined city wall, and the trapezoidal slope of the wall was covered with a layer of yellow mud.

As the rain soaked it, the yellow mud gave off a unique smell. Other Taoist soldiers also appeared on the city wall. After Black Bear confirmed that the hemp rope was secure, he tied it around his waist. The Taoist soldiers on the city pulled the hemp rope, and he quickly rose up and easily crossed the parapet.

The rain was pouring down, and the entire field of vision was filled with rain. He released more hemp ropes and pulled the heavy armored infantry under the city to the top of the city.

The hemp rope fell to the inside again, and the armored soldiers lowered themselves down one after another. After the black bear descended, more than a hundred people sneaked towards Liang Xing's mansion along the street wall.

The rain became heavier and heavier, and the black bear successfully found Liang Xing's address.

The autumn rain was dense and cold, and the sentries outside the mansion were sparse; using the same trick again, the black bear climbed over the wall and led the Taoist soldiers towards the gate.

At this moment, the ground in the mansion was slippery, and the black bear leather shoes stepped on the mud and water and gradually approached the inside of the gate.

This is a gatehouse. A dozen of your guards are sitting together to avoid the rain, warming their hands in the brazier. Some of the guards are curled up with their collars pulled tightly together, closing their eyes and sleeping.

None of these people started chatting, but there were intermittent sounds of chatting in the gatehouse, which made the guards who were blowing the wind below feel even more tired.

Sensing the footsteps of Black Bear and others, the guards under the gate became alert and immediately woke up the guards who were sleeping and resting. More than a dozen people stood in two rows with spears and halberds.

Black Bear's armor rustled and felt heavy. He walked into the pavilion and raised his hand to grab a towel to wipe the rain off his face. At this time, the military officer who was resting in the pavilion walked out of the door quickly and asked in a panic, "Superintendent Zhang?"

The military officer soon discovered that the color of the uniforms outside the armor of Black Bear and his gang was wrong. Black Bear did not say anything, and the ten-man team led by Lu Bu and Gao Shun rushed in with swords in hand.

Lu Bu rushed in from the right side of the black bear, stabbed the soldier to death with one sword, and then rushed towards the doorway. After drawing the sword, he lowered his head and drilled into the doorway, then killed his way into the pavilion along the stairs, and the archers in the pavilion were attacked and killed.

The fifteen guards under the gate were suddenly attacked and stabbed to death.

Black Bear studied the Taoist soldiers under Gao Shun's command at close range. They were equipped with ring-handled swords, which were sharp weapons for chopping and cutting.

But under Gao Shun's instinctive command, they used close-range stabbing to quickly kill these armored guards.

The air was filled with blood. Two crossbars as thick as arms were removed from the door and the door was slowly opened.

Black Bear walked out and turned to look to the left, where Yuan Shu's team of six men were approaching him. The heavily armored team of a hundred men no longer cared about hiding and trotted quickly, with their armor plates rubbing against each other and making a rattling sound.

But the noise of the rain blocked out all the noise, and they climbed the steps smoothly to the gatehouse and entered one after another.

The main gate was closed again and the two cross gates were hung.

Then the dead bodies were brought in and stacked to block the inside of the door.

Black Bear climbed up to the gate tower to look around, and saw a three-story pavilion with faint light shining through the rain.

He immediately went downstairs and said to the commander of the hundred, "I'll give you fifty men to guard this place."

"Here!"

Then Black Bear took out twenty peaches and handed them to the other party. The other party immediately called the temporary squad leader to distribute them so that they could rescue the wounded or replenish their strength during the battle.

After distributing peaches to other squad leaders, Black Bear immediately ordered Lu Bu to lead the front row and march towards the three-story pavilion.

At each intersection, a team of ten people would be left behind to guard it.

When there is only a courtyard wall away from the three-story pavilion, there is the middle gate, and there are also more than a dozen guards guarding outside the gate.

Seeing a figure through the rain, he immediately shouted, "Who is it?"

When no one responded, he blew the horn immediately.

A long horn sounded, and the guards in the mansion were alerted. When the military officers urged them to put on their armor quickly, Lu Bu and Gao Shun's ten-man team had already killed the guards in front of the gate.

The heavy Fang Tian Ji in Lu Bu's hand was like a giant axe. He chopped the door open with a dozen powerful blows.

At this moment, in the three-story building, Liang Xing suppressed his panic, drew his sword and shouted: "Why are you panicking! Put on my armor quickly!"

The two concubines were trembling with fear and didn't know what to do, but the maids serving outside were calm. Seven or eight of them came in and helped Liang Xing put on armor.

A concubine turned around and was about to run, but saw an unfamiliar Taoist soldier in golden armor in front of the outer hall door. She screamed, her eyes rolled back, and she collapsed to the ground, unconscious.

Lu Bu, who was about to stab with his spear, tilted his head to glance at the harmless person on the ground, then strode forward, around the screen and into the inner hall.

Seeing the side door, it walked in without hesitation and went up the stairs to the second floor. The maids on the second floor shouted and screamed and dodged.

The black bear followed Lu Bu's path and when he reached the second floor, he saw a man being stabbed to death in the chest by a halberd. There was also a maid next to him holding a sword in her hand. She was also regarded as a threat by Lu Bu and was stabbed to death from behind. She was falling to the ground.

The other maids huddled together. Black Bear controlled Lu Bu to cut off the man's head and asked the maids, "Is this Liang Xing?"

"It's Liang Xing."

Liang Xing's concubine was wearing a gauze lining, with her hair loose. She knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, pointing to a place with her arms outstretched: "There is a seal in the study as proof!"

"Stay here and don't move!"

As Black Bear spoke, he tilted his head to look. Gao Shun's team of ten people spread out to search, including upstairs. They came back quickly and did not encounter any living people.

Upon seeing this, Black Bear went to the study and saw the lacquered wooden seal box with gold patterns on the table. He walked forward, opened it, took out the silver seal and stamped it on a page of silk book on the table. He vaguely recognized it as the seal of a certain General of the Central Army.

Looking at the silk book again, it was written in standard Zhangcao script, and one could vaguely tell that it was a letter asking for help from Li Kan.

Black Bear breathed a sigh of relief, put the silver seal into the leather box on his waist, turned around and walked quickly downstairs. Lu Bu followed him out, grabbing Liang Xing's warm head.

Outside the building, under the rain, the sound of drums could be heard from far and near. As the sound of drums spread, the military camp in the city also began to beat drums.

Lu Bu picked up Liang Xing's head with his Fang Tian Ji and followed Black Bear to the door. At this time, some guards had approached, but they did not take the initiative to fight.

When the leading officer saw that the middle gate separating the inside and outside had been breached, not only he but even his subordinates lost the will to fight.

After all, this was a reconstruction of the Qin Palace. No matter whether it was Li Jue or Liang Xing, they kept too many women inside the central gate and had no guards.

The middle gate was broken, and Liang Xing was the only man left inside. How could he have survived?

The military officer vaguely saw a head hanging on the Fang Tian Ji. He couldn't see the face clearly, but he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and all the burden on his body and mind was gone.

He sheathed the sword in his hand calmly and asked loudly, "Are you all members of the Black Tiger Fang?"

He vaguely recognized the shape of the Fang Tian Ji and now just wanted to confirm it once.

Black Bear said, "Taishi Wengong is here! Following the order of General Zhenbei, I will attack the rebel general Liang Xing. I won't ask about the rest!"

He didn't dare reveal his identity. There were more than 4,000 soldiers stationed in the city. If he revealed his identity, it would be just looking for trouble.

"I am willing to serve General Zhenbei!"

The military officer stepped forward quickly, his robes soaked by the rain, and knelt on one knee: "I surrender!"

"Take Liang Xing's head and gather the guards in the palace!"

"Anyone who resists with weapons will be killed immediately!"

(End of this chapter)