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Li Yan gathered private soldiers from all over the family, and there were quite a few of them, and he actually made up 1,100 people, and then recruited some young people to help carry the stones and rolling wood. Li Yan personally led 2,000 defenders to guard the west gate of the rebels' main attack, sent Huang Quan to lead 1,300 defenders to guard the south gate, Yan Yan to lead 1,300 defenders to guard the north gate, and Liu Mao's eldest brother Wu Yi and his brother Wu Ban to lead 800 defenders and 500 private soldiers to garrison the east gate where the enemy was the weakest. The remaining 100 axemen followed Liu Zhang at all times to prevent anyone from infiltrating the city and attacking Liu Zhang, and there were 600 private soldiers and 600 defenders as reserves.

The reserve gradually became a mobile force, for example, when defending the city, there were four gates, and the reserve was to go to support when one of the gates was about to be unfortified, that is, to appear where support was needed.

Li Yan stood on the gate of the West Gate, looking down at the dense army below, and there was a trace of nervousness in his heart.

Although he is Liu Zhang's confidant, the military power in Yizhou is basically in the hands of Zhao Wei, and he has only experienced small counterinsurgency battles. It was the first time that such a big battle had taken place, and Li Yan felt as if his heart was about to jump out.

However, there is still a trace of excitement in his heart, the man will carry a three-foot sword, and he will make immortal achievements! He gambled everything on Liu Zhang, and he also believed that he would win!

"General Zhengfang! I've already counted, the arsenal is quite full of equipment, and the rolling wood and stone are enough! A middle-aged scribe hurriedly ran up to the city tower and reported to Li Yan. This middle-aged scribe is Zhang Song's brother Guanghan Taishou Zhang Su, because of Zhang Song, so Zhang Su is also a person under Liu Zhang.

Li Yan nodded, "Jun Jiao (Zhang Subiao), brother, hard work." You are tired of deploying manpower to transfer rolling logs and gravel to the city gates, especially reminding Wu Yi at the east gate not to let down their vigilance because they are the weak point of the enemy's army. By the way, have the arrows in the arsenal been inventoried? How many arrows are there? ”

"About 120,000 arrows."

"Distribute the gates."

"No!"

Zhang Su soon left the castle tower.

First, he is a cadre, and he likes to do things more than to talk; Second, he is a pure literati, and he doesn't know any martial arts, and the castle tower where a big war will take place at this moment is not only in the way, but also dangerous to his life.

Overall, the city defense of Yucheng is not bad, as the capital of Yizhou, Liu Yan also put some thought into this aspect when he survived, and spent a lot of manpower and material resources to consolidate the city defense. The height of the city is six zhang, that is, nearly thirteen meters. Don't underestimate this height, in the Han Dynasty, the height of the city wall was about 10 meters, and only some big cities or important towns in the border fortress would reach 13 meters and above (according to the information obtained by Mr. Zhang Jihai's "Urban Society of the Han Dynasty", if there is any error, please correct the reader). Moreover, the arrow tower of Yucheng is solid and heavy. According to Zhang Su, the Taishou of Guanghan, every winter, he would send people to strengthen the city wall, which also made the city extremely strong, which was extremely conducive to defense.

Li Yan was thinking about the city defense of the city while following the arrow tower gallop.

Before I knew it, I came to the arrow tower of the west gate. Li Yan stood on the arrow tower, holding the battlement with his hand, and raised his eyes to look into the distance.

At this moment, a hand slapped on Li Yan's shoulder, Li Yan's body trembled, and when he looked back, it was Liu Zhang who looked at him with a smile.

"Zhengfang, don't be nervous, I believe in the ability of all of you, as long as you play normally, it's not worth it."

Li Yan was a little moved in his heart, Liu Zhang's trust in several of them really made them unable to repay it.

Immediately, Li Yan also reacted, and hurriedly said, "Lord, why did you come up!" Please return to the Governor's Mansion! In the war, the minister may not have time to protect the lord, what if the lord has a mistake! There are ministers here to garrison, and the enemy will never be allowed to cross the thunder pool! Go back, my lord! ”

Liu Zhang shook his head and slowly walked to the center of the city wall.

"Lonely is Yizhou Mu, right general Liu Zhang! Today, Lone guards this city with you! The city is in the people! The city is ruined! Do you dare to live and die with Lonely, and fight side by side! ”

Liu Zhang's words caused a shock in the entire West Gate defenders!

"Is it the state pastor?"

"The lord lives and dies with us?"

Li Yan looked at Liu Zhang, his mouth open, as if he wanted to say something。。。。。。

Liu Zhang smiled faintly, "Zhengfang, you and I are fighting side by side today, can we?" ”

Li Yan was stunned for a moment, and then smiled and said, "I don't dare to ask for it." If anyone wants to hurt the lord, then they must first step on the corpse of Yan! ”

"May I live and die with the Lord!" Li Yan raised the ring knife in his hand and shouted loudly.

(The short weapons on the castle tower are more convenient for combat)

Under Li Yan's leadership, the lieutenant generals also shouted loudly.

"May I live and die with the Lord!"

"May I live and die with the Lord!"

When the rebels under the city heard this hoarse roar, their hearts trembled, and many people were a little shaken.

"It's the lord on the castle! Do we really want to rebel with Zhao Zhonglang? ”

"I don't know, the lord is very good to us, Zhao Zhonglang will treat us well, and I don't know what to do."

"Why don't we fall behind."

"Good idea."

As soon as Liu Zhang ascended the throne, he implemented benevolent government in Yizhou, reducing many punishments, especially in terms of the death penalty, and also won a lot of popular support in Yizhou, and many rebel soldiers felt a little guilty when they saw Liu Zhang.

Seeing this, Pang Le hurriedly ordered the siege of the city, and the more he delayed, the lower his morale became. And now in the summer, it gets dark late, and if it is night, it is not conducive to the siege.

"The Overseers step forward! Those who dare to retreat will be killed! ”

"No!"

Thousands of armor soldiers holding ring-headed knives stood behind the front army of the Dongzhou Army, the ring-headed knives in their hands flashing in the moonlight, and their eyes were full of murder.

In fact, the Dongzhou Army, as a force composed of displaced people, originally did not have a supervising team, because the purpose of their existence was to charge desperately, but in order to prevent this situation like now, Pang Le and Li Yi sent thousands of people from their henchmen and personal guards to supervise the battle.

When the soldiers of the Dongzhou Army saw that they were all overseers, they also had to move forward.

Because it was a sudden decision to raise troops, it was too late to build and transfer any large-scale engineering equipment, only the hundreds of ladders they stayed up late to build, but it was enough.

"Spearmen lie under the battlements! Crossbowmen prepare! Li Yan commanded everything, with Liu Zhang's personal encouragement, the morale of the soldiers was also extremely high, and Li Yan was confident that he would defend the west gate before Zhang Ren arrived.

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