After Feng Ji waited for Yuan Shao to finish his anger, he hurriedly came out and said: "Lord, Ji went to the pavilion in the sky before yesterday, but he didn't succeed, and he was ashamed. Now I am willing to give up my life and go again, and persuade Gao Ran to surrender to the lord. ”

Hearing Feng Ji say this, Yuan Shao suddenly turned his anger into joy: "Gao Lan is a fierce general, if he can be served, why not be afraid of the Han family." Yuan Tu, you quickly go to the pavilion Tao, and say it with benefits, and be sure to persuade Gao Ran to submit to me. ”

Due to the siege of the Yuan army, Gao Ran did not close his eyes for two days. As soon as he lay down in the city tower for a while, a subordinate came down to report: "Captain Qiyu, Yuan Shao's Changshi Fengji is asking to see him in the city." ”

Hearing that Feng Ji was coming again, Gao Ran hurriedly got up and followed his subordinates to the city wall, holding the battlement and looking down, only to see Feng Ji stopping alone on the opposite side of the moat, so he asked loudly: "Mr. Yuantu, I don't know what happened when I am here today?" ”

Feng Ji heard Gao Lan's voice coming from the city wall, and hurriedly raised his head and said loudly: "Captain Gao, listen to my advice: you are guarding a lonely city, and you have only a few thousand soldiers under your command, how can you resist the 100,000 people of the Marquis of Yixiang?" If you don't come down today, you will regret it in the future. May the high school lieutenant think about it. ”

Feng Ji's words under the city still moved many defenders in the city, don't look at the killing and wounding of more than 7,000 Yuan troops in the past two days, but the defenders in the city suffered nearly 2,000 casualties. Everyone focused on Gao Ran's body, wanting to see what kind of decision he would make?

Gao Ran saw Feng Ji's words, so that his subordinates were shaken, and couldn't help but be furious, he opened his bow and aimed at Feng Ji under the city, and said loudly: "Gao has made up his mind, you don't need to say anything." Quickly retreat, otherwise Hugh blames the bow and arrow in Gao's hand for being ruthless. ”

Don't look at Feng Ji's loud voice when he spoke just now, in fact, he was just a fierce inward, seeing that Gao Ran at the head of the city aimed an arrow at him, he was afraid that the other party would really release the arrow, so he hurriedly turned his horse's head and fled in the direction of the camp.

Seeing Feng Ji leave, Gao Ran put down the bow and arrow in his hand, sighed secretly in his heart, and said, "Lord, if your reinforcements don't come again, this Pavilion Tao City may not be able to hold it." ”

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Feng Ji returned to the camp and reported Gao Ran's refusal to surrender to Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao was furious when he heard this, "The husband is too rude, do you think Yuan can't take this city?" Then he asked the interrogator, "Zhengnan, according to your judgment, how many defenders are there in Guantao City?" ”

"Back to the lord," replied after pondering for a moment, "although our army suffered more than 7,000 casualties, the casualties of the defenders in Guantao City were not small. It is estimated that there are up to 3,000 subordinates. ”

After hearing this, Yuan Shao sneered: "With only 3,000 soldiers and horses, An can resist my 100,000 army." Yan Liang, immediately rectify the soldiers and horses, and attack them quickly while his rescue has not yet arrived! ”

Yan Liang agreed, ordered his troops and horses, and went to attack the city again. However, the direction of his attack this time was no longer the east of the city, but the south of the city where Yuan Shao personally led the army to attack in the past two days.

Seeing the broken siege equipment and the corpses of men and horses under Guantao City, Yan Liang learned the lesson of the failure of the attack in the previous two days, and adopted the tactics of step-by-step to let the army approach the city wall step by step. Hundreds of sword and shield men stopped thirty paces from the walls and raised their shields more than half a man high, while the archers hid behind their shields and shot arrows at the walls.

Seeing the defenders at the head of the city, they were so suppressed by the dense arrows that they didn't dare to take the lead, Yan Liang ordered the infantry to attack again. Following his command, countless soldiers carrying ladders rushed out of the passage where the sword and shield soldiers had made way. Yishi Yuan soldiers rushed to the city wall with a cloud ladder and erected themselves on the city wall. A few strong soldiers held on to the ladder below, and the remaining agile soldiers, led by the commander, climbed up the ladder.

A team leader on the city wall saw a cloud ladder leaning against the city wall, and several Yuan soldiers were climbing up the cloud ladder, just standing up straight, and before they could call their subordinates to throw the rolling wooden stones, they were shot in the throat by an arrow from the battlement, and they fell on their backs while covering their necks. A soldier next to him saw him fall and hurriedly crawled to the rescue, only to find that he had already died of anger.

"Sword and shield hand, use the shield to block Yuan Bing's bow and arrow!" Gao Lan, who was standing on the tower of the city gate, saw that the arrows under the city were like flying locusts, and let his subordinates hide behind the battlements and did not dare to show their faces, so he hurriedly shouted: "Pikemen, prepare for close combat!" ”

After the archers under the city shot more than a dozen arrows in a row, their arms ached, and the speed of firing the arrows gradually slowed down, and the threat to the defenders of the city was greatly reduced. However, more and more ladders have been erected on the city wall, and hundreds of Yuan soldiers are climbing up the ladders.

Seeing that the bows and arrows under the city were not so dense, and that there were sword and shield men using their shields to block the scattered flying arrows, the defenders at the head of the city stood up one after another, threw rolling wooden stones at the climbing Yuan soldiers, and smashed them down the ladder. For those Yuan soldiers who climbed up the battlement, they were stabbed down with spears.

Yuan Shao led a group of men to Yan Liang's location and asked coldly, "How is the situation?" ”

"Return to my lordship." Yan Liang, who was commanding the siege of the city, saw Yuan Shao coming, and hurriedly reported to him: "The defenders fought very tenaciously, and our army suffered many casualties. ”

Looking at the piles of corpses under the city wall, as well as the wounded who were screaming, Yuan Shao couldn't help frowning, he didn't expect Gao Ran's resistance to be so stubborn, so that he would lose so many soldiers and horses here in Guantao.

The judge approached his side and said in a low voice, "My lord, my subordinates have carefully observed, Gao Ran may have deployed most of the horses in the south of the city. At this moment, the other three sides of the city are empty, why don't we divide our forces and attack there? ”

Regarding the suggestion of the trial, Yuan Shao agreed without hesitation. He called Wen Chou and instructed: "Wen Chou, you lead 10,000 soldiers and horses to attack the west of the city, even if you can't capture it, you must contain the defenders, so that they can't spare manpower to reinforce Gao Lan." ”

"The last general commands!" Wen Chou agreed, turned his horse and went back to the camp to gather soldiers and horses.

"Zhengnan," as soon as Wen Chou left, Yuan Shao said to the judge: "You also lead 10,000 soldiers and horses to attack the east of the city, and you must not take care of each other." ”

"Subordinates receive orders." The judge agreed, and also went back to the battalion to transfer troops.

After two days of hard fighting, there were less than 3,000 defenders left in Guantao City, of which 1,000 were deployed in the south of the city, and the other 2,000 were led by three military commanders, and were deployed in the east, west and north of the city. Although Gao Ran organized thousands of people to help in the war, compared with Yuan Shao, the number of troops was still outnumbered.

The people who had not been patrolled saw the arrows flying like locusts under the city, and they scattered and fled, and the officers and soldiers who guarded them killed a dozen people in succession, so that they stopped this rout and fled and put them back on the city. However, they could not be counted on to fight in close combat with the Yuan soldiers who rushed to the city, so they could only be responsible for carrying the rolling wood and stones and treating the wounded.

In the face of Yan Liang's ferocious offensive, Gao Ran was a little difficult to arrive, and was about to order people to transfer men and horses from the east and west of the city to help in the battle. But I saw a subordinate running over in a hurry, kneeling down on one knee in front of him, and said with a panicked expression: "Captain Qiyu, Wen Chou, the general of the Yuan army, is leading 10,000 horses and is attacking the west of the city. ”

"Report~!" Gao Lan had just received an urgent report on the military situation in the west of the city, and another junior colonel rushed over to report: "Captain Qiyu, the Yuan Army's trial and matching department is attacking the east of the city, and the army Sima has insufficient troops in his hands, so he specially ordered me to move the rescue troops." ”

Gao Ran snorted heavily and said, "The two of you go back and tell your military Sima that the situation here is also very dangerous, and no one can pull it out." Let them hold on no matter what, and if the city is breached, they will come to see them! ”

After listening to Gao Lan's stern order, the two colonels agreed, and then trotted all the way towards the east and west of the city, preparing to convey Gao Lan's order to their military commanders.

In the south of the city, due to Gao Ran's personal sitting, although Yan Liang's offensive was fierce, it could still be blocked. Commanding the siege in the eastern direction of the city, just to contain Gao Ran's troops, and did not really want to break the city, so they thundered and rained, fought for more than an hour, and still wandered around the edge of the moat.

And Wen Chou, who was facing the west of the city, saw that his subordinates had suffered heavy casualties during the siege of the city, and he immediately became angry. Regardless of his own safety, he risked the arrows and climbed the city wall along the ladder. Seeing Wen Chou rushing to the city wall, Sima Xian, who was defending the city, hurriedly rushed over with five or six subordinates waving weapons in an attempt to drive Wen Chou off the city wall.

After less than three rounds of fighting, the spear in Wen Chou's hand pierced Jun Sima's chest, and then slammed into the air, throwing his body off the city wall. Seeing Wen Chou so fierce, the soldiers besieging him were stunned. Fortunately, there was a tun commander who was in danger and commanded these seven or eight archers to shoot arrows at Wen Chou, and let ten pikemen work as a unit to attack Wen Chou.

Although Wen Chou is strong in martial arts, he seems to be a little overwhelmed in the far and near attacks of pikemen and archers. Two soldiers of the Yuan army jumped in from the battlement, and before they could get close to Wen Chou's side, they were killed by random arrows, and their bodies leaned back, directly planting the head of the city, and smashing several Yuan soldiers standing below to the bone.

Seeing that he couldn't take any advantage, Wen Chou could only stand on the battlement, waved his gun and picked up a few cold arrows that came from him, and swung away two stabbing spears, turned around and jumped off the city wall. Fortunately, there were many corpses facing below, and he was not injured when he landed.

Just when Guantao City was in danger, the 3,000 cavalry led by Huang Zhong was only more than 30 miles away from the city. The scout horse sent rushed to report: "Captain Huang, Yuan Jun is attacking Guantao in front. ”

Hearing that the city had not yet been lost, Huang Zhongchang breathed a sigh of relief, and after he ordered Tanma to report to Han Zhan, he turned around and shouted at his subordinates: "Brothers, come with me!" "Leading three thousand cavalry, go straight to Guantao.

Huang Zhong led the cavalry straight to the east of the city, and the reason why he chose this direction was nothing more than because the terrain was flat, which was convenient for the cavalry to gallop. He didn't expect that under the mistake, his choice actually saved Guantao City.

The reason why he led his troops to make noise under the city was nothing more than to attract the attention of the defenders, so that they could not allocate their forces to support the south or west of the city, which was in a critical situation. If the other two directions break the city, he will also change the feint attack into a strong attack and go to the city to get a piece of the pie.

When the fleeing horses from the north of the city reported to him that a large army of cavalry was rushing towards the east of the city, he was frightened. The judge hurriedly ordered people to gather the troops and prepare the horse team that was already rushing towards him.

Huang Zhong saw that there was actually a large number of Yuan soldiers and horses in the east of Guantao City, although he couldn't help but be a little surprised, but seeing clearly that the other party had fallen into a panic, he was overjoyed, he raised the big knife in his hand high, and waved it forward: "Kill with me~!" ”

"Kill~!" The three thousand cavalry behind him responded with a bang, and swept towards the Yuan army in the distance with an unstoppable momentum.

Before the subordinates could complete the formation, Huang Zhong's cavalry had already rushed into their ranks. The huge impact of the horse knocked countless people into the air, and after flying in the air for a certain distance, it fell heavily and knocked down a group of soldiers. The cavalry was in the column of the Yuan army, brandishing swords and guns, slashing and stabbing, killing the Yuan army and running in all directions.

Seeing the ferocity of the other party's cavalry, the judge knew in his heart that even if he had many people, he would not be able to stop them, so he hurriedly turned his horse and left. Seeing that the judges had all run away, the soldiers around him also ran; The soldiers in the distance saw that the banner was running towards the back, and wherever they still had the heart to fight, they also ran towards the rear.

Seeing that the enemy's formation was disorganized, Huang Zhong led his cavalry in a strict formation and continued to rush forward, forcing them to flee in the direction of the south of the city.

Jun Sima, who was standing on the city wall, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw the appearance of Yuan's wolf rushing forward, he knew that without the formed troops, he could not block the impact of the cavalry at all. He left two hundred men to continue to guard here, and then with the rest of the men, he ran along the walls toward the south of the city.

Gao Ran was also almost at the point of running out of oil at this time, and the soldiers of the Yuan army had rushed to the city wall several times, and then they were finally beaten down by their own people, but the defenders on the city were also fighting less and less. He thought pessimistically that in two more incense sticks at most, the city would be lost, and he would have to die here in battle.

Just when he was pessimistic and desperate, suddenly a soldier shouted: "Reinforcements are coming, our reinforcements are coming!" He shouted back as he pointed to the east.

Gao Ran looked along the defensive line of his fingers, and saw a large force of Yuan army's foot soldiers, driven by an elite cavalry, rushing towards the location of Yuan Shao and Yan Liang like a tide. And Yan Liang's troops were attacking the city with all their might, when suddenly a rout rushed out from the side, and immediately disrupted their formation.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Feng Ji hurriedly grabbed Yuan Shao's reins and said loudly: "Lord, this place is not complete, hurry up and come down with your subordinates." After speaking, he and a few personal soldiers wrapped Yuan Shao and ran in the direction of the camp.