The Yellow Turbans led by Yang Tao set up a camp 50 miles away from Yicheng, but were not too close to Yicheng.

With the drawings of the primary military camp, Yang Tao began to arrange his camp. The many wooden fences made along the way finally became useful. These fences, 5 meters high, were made of wood with an adult waist thickness, and were relatively sturdy. 50 miles away from Yicheng, surrounded by a large circle of 3 kilometers, covering more than 800,000 yellow scarves brought by Yang Tao. Then, many resisting horses were set up at the front and rear camp gates to prevent enemy cavalry from raids. In the camp were tents, large or small, occupying all the space in the camp.

The number of people in the camp is more than 800,000, and there are only more than 300,000 soldiers who can reach level 1 soldiers and have the power to fight.

Yang Tao did not intend to attack Yicheng now. Although Yicheng was just a large primary city, with only more than 20,000 county soldiers in the city. If he attacked at this time, he would indeed be caught off guard by Yicheng, and the possibility of capturing the city would be much greater. However, the Yellow Turban soldiers brought by Yang Tao would inevitably suffer heavy losses, which was not what he was willing to see.

Originally, Yang Tao wanted to lead the county soldiers in Yicheng out of the city, but Yang Tao provoked several times, and the officials in Yicheng were not in a state of movement, which forced him to make up his mind to attack Yicheng. However, before this, he had to prepare for various attacks.

The first is the siege equipment. Yang Tao needs to prepare a lot of primary siege ladders and other siege equipment to be able to face the many city guarding equipment on the wall of Yicheng. Fortunately, on the way to Yicheng, Yang Tao also gained a lot of siege equipment drawings, which is barely enough for primary cities like Yicheng.

Although Yicheng is a primary city, it is also a large city. Perhaps because of the prosperity of business, the city is relatively large, with a length of more than 10 kilometers wide. Although the city wall is primary, there are many arrow towers and bed crossbows on the wall. Most of these city-guarding equipment are primary and have great power. If Yang Tao wants to attack Yicheng, he must fight quickly. If he delays, he will not be able to bear it. After all, there is a lot of food in this Yicheng, and the one he is not afraid of is "drag".

If you want to fight quickly, the siege equipment must be sufficient, which is different from the previous siege battle in Pingyang City. At that time, Ju Yi led most of the battalions to leave Pingyang City, leaving only a few thousand remaining soldiers in the city. Even if Yang Tao did not have siege equipment at that time, his men did not need to spend too much money to capture the city.

It takes a lot of resources to manufacture a large number of siege equipment. Yang Tao’s previous plunder was not enough, so he could only send troops everywhere to attack the surrounding Eastern Han camp territory to raise the resources needed. In the meantime, he was just waiting for the arrival of Gao Shun and other generals.

As early as Guangzong City, Yang Tao knew that there would be a big battle. With two military generals, Yang Tao and Pang Zheng, they had to command hundreds of thousands of troops, which was a bit reluctant. At that time, he had already sent someone to send a letter to Jianghe Town. Calculate the time, it was almost time for generals such as Gao Shun to arrive. Yang Tao would attack Yicheng after they arrived.

In addition to these, medicines are also indispensable. Once Yang Tao starts a war with Yicheng, it will be a war of hundreds of thousands of people. The number of casualties will be extremely large. You must reserve enough medicines to treat the injured soldiers.

The rest is equipment. The equipment of more than 300,000 soldiers is really a headache. The main reason is that there are too few black iron-level and above equipment. Yang Tao attacked not many cities throughout the way, but most of them were village-level territories. Odds will capture some towns. The equipment is mainly ordinary equipment, and only one-tenth of the black iron-level rank is all made of separate pieces. There are very few complete sets of equipment. Yang Tao pieced together so he could barely get 50,000 sets of black iron-level equipment, and only weapons, armor and shoes. As for helmets, it is a serious shortage. Only one-third of the 50,000 sets of black iron-level preparations are available.

As for the more advanced bronze level, there are even fewer, less than 5,000 sets, and there are more parts missing, most of which are only weapons and armor. Yang Tao can only forcefully replace it with black iron-level equipment.

With limited advanced equipment, Yang Tao could only select nearly 5,000 middle- and high-level Yellow Turban soldiers with higher strength from more than 300,000 people, equipped with bronze-level equipment, and selected nearly 50,000 intermediate-level soldiers and a small number of third-level soldiers, gathering 50,000 people to equip black iron-level equipment. As for the other 260,000 soldiers, they could only wear ordinary-level equipment.

The equipment problem was solved, and Gao Shun and others had already arrived in Yi County at this time.

Looking at his 26 generals and Ren Yu, a senior strategist, Yang Tao thought for a while and decided to arrange the troops to make the subsequent siege more smooth.

He divided more than 300,000 soldiers into ten battalions, with the few being 20,000 to 30,000, and the most were 40,000 to 50,000. Among them, the 7th battalion with a small number of people, Yang Tao sent two generals to lead the battalion. Among the remaining three battalions, the first battalion was led by Chen Daniu, with two generals under his command, with Chen Daniu as the main general, and led the two battalions as one unit, with a total of 90,000 people to attack the east city; the second battalion was led by Gao Shun and two generals, with Gao Shun as the main general, with a total of 90,000 people to attack the west of the city and attack the west city; finally, Yang Tao led the first battalion and three generals and Ren Yu to take the remaining three battalions as one unit, with a total of 130,000 people to attack the south city.

The smaller number of people in the 7th battalion were soldiers wearing ordinary equipment, while Chen Daniu and Gao Shun each had 10,000 soldiers wearing black iron-level equipment and 1,000 bronze-level equipment. The rest were in Yang Tao's camp in the south of the city.

Although the soldiers and horses were commanded separately, all the soldiers and horses were still under Yang Tao's command.

After distributing the troops, Yang Tao ordered people to create flags such as generals and order flags.

Yang Tao has the identity of the Hanoi Qushang and the junior military camp can already create various flags, so she thought that it would be much more convenient when commanding troops in the future.

Flags such as general flags are essential items in the army, especially troops with more than 10,000 people, which are even more necessary. Its function is mainly to mark the soldiers and control the positions of their generals, and to convey commands.

Yang Tao's Yellow Turbans are all ordinary soldiers, so the function of conveying orders by the flag is not very big. What he values ​​is the function of the flag.

In a melee of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, the most useful thing is to be the flag. After all, in a war where so many people participated, it is impossible for the soldiers to see the generals leading themselves at all times. If they do not have the flag, the soldiers will easily get lost in the melee, and the generals will become the commander of the barely-armed commander. Even if they take any measures, they will be unable to achieve their expected goals because they lose the support of the soldiers.

The role of flags is very important, especially in the era of cold weapons. Unfortunately, players can only obtain or create flags if they own military camps, city guard camps and other buildings or corresponding official positions. Otherwise, even a team composed of players, once they fall into a melee, players with communication tools will find it difficult to gather the many people in the melee, and they cannot form a numerical advantage, and they will be able to be defeated by each one in the end.

Putting the flag on a very high flagpole is one of the most conspicuous things on the battlefield. The purpose is to facilitate the soldiers to see the position of commanding their military generals and follow the action.

Yang Tao made a general flag for himself and all the generals. The primary general had a light yellow base with white borders, which made the flag pole 5 meters high, while the intermediate general had a red border, which was also 5 meters high; while the main general's general flag was a bright yellow white border, which not only made the flag pole thicker, but also had a height of 8 meters.

As the head coach of this Yellow Turban, Yang Tao's flag was a bright yellow red border flag, with large Yang characters fluttering in the wind in the air ten meters high.

The role of the general flag is particularly important in the war. If it is cut off by the enemy general flag, it will inevitably lead to chaos among the soldiers under the general. In order to avoid this situation, Yang Tao specially selected dozens of guards to carry the general flag to protect the general flag from being easily broken by the enemy.
Chapter completed!