After Cai Zhong finished talking about this tortuous process, Liu Biao eased his expression and looked at Cai Zhong with a slightly suspicious look.

"But what you just said, is it true?"

"Back to my lord, what the villain just said, absolutely true, there is no adulteration, if the adult doesn't believe it, you can just find a subordinate of Cai's mansion to ask, and you can know by asking."

Cai Zhong immediately assured that what he said was true.

"This little doll is really Liu Zheng's son, if it's true, then we do have the capital to blackmail Liu Zheng."

"Yes, as long as we threaten my sister and his son, Liu Zheng will definitely give in, let alone attack the city, I'm afraid that it is possible to surrender directly!"

Cai Zhong flattered Liu Biao and was courteous, magnifying Cai Yao's role infinitely.

However, Liu Biao was not convinced by Cai Zhong's words, and he still maintained a skeptical attitude towards Cai Yao's role in his heart.

However, as long as the relationship between Cai Yao and Liu Zheng is true, then even if Liu Zheng can't be directly let the wind fall, he can still be made to cast a rat trap.

As long as he can hold on for a few days, when the reinforcements from Changsha arrive, at that time, Liu Biao will not be afraid.

After having this trump card in Cai Zhong's hand, Liu Biao's mood improved a lot, but he still didn't relax, first appeased Cai Zhong a few words, and asked Cai Zhong to take a good look at Cai Yao, be sure to take care of it closely, and wait for his order to take Cai Yao to the city tower.

Cai Zhong naturally agreed, and immediately asked for power like Liu Biao, Liu Biao was also happy, and immediately promoted Cai Zhong to the head of the county.

The so-called lord Bo is actually not an official of the imperial court, but an official canonized by the local assassin or the state pastor himself, who is generally not a cronie, and the official position of the lord Bo has no fixed responsibilities, everything is in charge, related to the private secretary.

Cai Zhong can take care of Cai Yao, this matter, it is normal to promote him to a master, anyway, it is only the main book under Jingzhou Mu, such an official position, Liu Biao can be canonized many times.

However, after Cai Zhong heard it, he was very happy, and immediately got the order, and Mei Zizi took care of Cai Yao at home.

Liu Biao left Cai's house, and the next thing was smooth, all the way to visit door to door, the Kuai family, the Zhang family, the Huang family and other families, all of which were patronized by Liu Biao one by one.

The people of these families are not the same as the Cai family, they will have some private soldiers in their hands more or less, and after Liu Biao's visit, they didn't dare not give face, and the few handed over dozens of people, and more, such as the Kuai family, fully supported Liu Biao, and directly pulled out five hundred people, so that Liu Biao, in the homes of these big families, soon pulled out a team of 3,000 soldiers and horses.

Coupled with some of the township warriors who were temporarily recruited urgently, 5,000 people, were quickly gathered by Liu Biao, and without any training, these people were pulled up to the city tower by Liu Biao and handed over to Li Yan.

Li Yan originally had 5,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Xiangyang, and now he got the 5,000 new troops sent by Liu Biao, so he naturally immediately thanked Liu Biao and expressed his confidence to Liu Biao, claiming that with him, this Xiangyang City is absolutely foolproof.

With Li Yan's assurance, and the garrison of 10,000 soldiers and horses on the city tower, Liu Biao calmed down a lot, and the back hand he left, once he found that the situation was wrong, he pulled Cai Yao out, and when the time came, he was not afraid that Liu Zheng would not comply, and he could still hold on for a few days.

Liu Biao returned to his mansion with peace of mind.

On the second day of Liu Zheng's siege, there was no fighting between the two sides, and Liu Zheng was urgently making siege equipment, and he had no effort to attack Xiangyang.

And on the Xiangyang side, Liu Zheng did not attack the city, but they were even more happy, after all, if they delayed like this, they would have hope when their reinforcements from Changsha came.

However, on the third day, Liu Zheng was not so comfortable, and one after another there were some small groups of soldiers and horses from the surrounding counties, rushing over from the small counties around Xiangyang, these people were the first wave of soldiers and horses sent out by Liu Biao to ask for help, and they asked the nearby counties to send troops to support Xiangyang along the way to Changsha.

Although these small counties can mobilize not many soldiers and horses, at best, hundreds or a thousand people, but their arrival, after arriving near Xiangyang, will still cause some unnecessary trouble to Liu Zheng and others, at least Liu Zheng will allocate a part of his manpower to clean up these reinforcements.

On the fourth day, Liu Zheng's siege equipment was finally manufactured, and at the same time, Liu Zheng estimated that the reinforcements sent by Liu Biao had also arrived in Changsha, and Changsha had already begun to send troops to Xiangyang City.

Liu Zheng can't wait here any longer, he needs to break Xiangyang City as soon as possible.

On the evening of the fourth day, the sun has not yet set, the blood-colored sunset dyes half of the sky, Xiangyang in June is already in the summer, the temperature is not high, but it is enough to make people feel hot.

At noon, the sun is too big, not suitable for attacking the city, only in the evening, people wake up from the most sleepy time, and they have just eaten, it is the best time to be energetic, a full meal goes down, Liu Zheng let Tai Shici lead the soldiers and horses, ready to attack the city.

More than a dozen trebuchets for siege were made in the past three days, but because there were no boulders, this time Liu Zheng did not plan to use stones to smash the gate of Xiangyang City, but used a giant arrow made of tree poles to attack the enemy troops on the city tower, so that the people under the city could use a huge hammer to break the gate of Xiangyang.

As long as the city gate is broken, enters the city, and engages in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy troops in the city, then Liu Zheng will have a great confidence that he can defeat thousands of enemy troops in the city.

Otherwise, to fight a war of attrition outside the city, Liu Zheng will not have much time to consume with them.

Woooooo

The horn sounded, the battle flag was agitated, and the soldiers and horses of the ten phalanxes began to appear outside Xiangyang City.

A phalanx of 1,000 people, the front three phalanxes, with archers, are ready to use the overwhelming arrows to shoot intensively at the city gate, the middle is the main force of the siege, and some of the back are the people who control the siege equipment.

Everyone has their own job, everyone has their own responsibilities, the war drums played, guiding the blood of these soldiers, and a great battle began to break out in Xiangyang City.

Zu Lang and Tai Shici were one on the left and one on the right, one personally commanded the siege, and the other dispatched some soldiers and horses, paying close attention to the dynamics of the other three city gates.

"Shoot the arrows!"

"The people of the first phalanx stand back, and the people of the second phalanx step forward!"

"Trebuchet ready."

"The second round of arrows follows!"

"The man in the middle, go up to me and watch the gates!"

"Trebuchet, trebuchet, don't stop, keep shooting!"