"General, the soldiers and civilians of Zhending have built an earthen wall on the riverside, and even smashed the ice, and on the surface of the river, there is only a bridge left to cross the river, but on the other side of the bridge, it is the enemy building they have built." The scout rushed back and brought the news from outside Zhending City to Tai Shi Ci.

The distance of more than ten miles is not long for the army, and before noon, less than an hour after a brief confrontation with Zhao Yun, Tai Shici's army has already driven outside Zhending, and it is only about three miles away from the riverbank, but looking at the heavily walled earthen wall in the distance, Tai Shici stopped the army.

Even if the river is frozen, the soldiers cross the river on the ice, fighting on the ice is by no means a good place to fight, as for crossing the river from the bridge, his border troops are all elite, and he has no intention of adding an earthen wall with his life.

"The river may cross people?" Tai Shi Ci asked as he rode forward.

"No, the ice on the river has been smashed by the enemy." The scout shook his head and said, this weather, not to mention that there are not many people in the army who know how to water, even if there are many, if this weather goes down, there is no return.

"I don't believe they can smash the ice, Hande!" Tai Shi Ci nodded, looked behind him and shouted.

"The last general!" In the army, a young general flew out of the plane and saluted Tai Shici.

This person is a native of Xiliang, who joined the army when Chen Mo was training in Guanzhong, and later followed Tai Shi Ci to Yanmen, and he went for four years, and Tai Shi Ci was quite optimistic about this person.

"You lead a cavalry down the river to the east to find a place to cross the river, and after you find it, don't come back, cross the river directly, and lead the cavalry to attack behind the enemy!" Tai Shi Ci said in a deep voice.

Tai Shi Ci's usual combat object, that is a Xianbei person, there are a lot of cavalry under his command, if it weren't for Zhao Yun seeing that the situation was not good, he withdrew in time, it was not so simple for him to come back.

"Whoa!" Han De agreed, and led a cavalry along the river to the east.

Tai Shi Ci led the soldiers and horses to the river bank, the river here is quite wide, Tai Shi Ci visually surveyed, there are at least forty paces away, in terms of ordinary small river, wide enough, but here, it is within the range.

"Da~"

A cluster of arrows shot from the opposite shore and landed at Tai Shici's feet.

"Protect the General!" The surrounding soldiers were shocked, and hurriedly rushed to Tai Shici to protect Tai Shici.

"Don't panic, they can't shoot!" Tai Shi Ci waved his hand and motioned for the guards to retreat, a military general of his level, if there was really danger, he would be alarmed, there was an arrow shot before, he was naturally aware of it, but looking at the strength of the arrow, he didn't even bother to hide.

Looking at the archers scattered from behind the earthen wall on the opposite bank, Tai Shici shook his head and sneered: "Rabble, pass on my military order, three thousand archers come forward, tell them to see how this arrow should be shot!" ”

"Whoa!"

One after another, orders were passed down, and when even 3,000 archers were brought out to the other side of the riverbank, lined up in a neat line.

"Ready! Put! ”

Under the command of a famous general, three thousand archers quickly stretched out their bows and arrows, one by one cold arrows, pointing obliquely at the sky, and with the word 'put' fell, the Zhending soldiers and civilians standing behind the earthen wall on the opposite bank only felt that their eyes were darkened for a moment.

"Hide!" Zhao Yun had already noticed that something was wrong when Tai Shici pulled out the archers, and hurriedly took three hundred Zhao Zhuang soldiers and horses to hide behind the earthen wall, but when he looked back, he saw that many county lieutenants and private soldiers of the Hao clan were still standing in place in a daze, and they couldn't help but be anxious, and urged sharply.

"Brave people!" County Lieutenant Liu glanced at Zhao Yun with disdain in his heart.

"Puff~"

The next moment, three arrows fell on him one after another, one into his thigh, and the other two into his chest and lower abdomen respectively......

Puff tom ~

The corpse fell straight down, and with him, there were hundreds of county guards and private soldiers who did not make dodging moves, and those who survived by luck woke up like a dream, screaming that they were hiding behind the female wall.

"Heh~"

Looking at the performance of these Zhending defenders on the other side, Tai Shi Ci even felt tired and not worth it with a shameful smile, seeing that those people were hiding behind the earthen wall and did not come out, Tai Shi Ci said to the deputy general beside him: "Go and bring the crossbow of the broken army." ”

The city-breaking crossbow is the crossbow designed by the horse to break Yuan Shao's soil platform when Chen Mo and Yuan Shao Muye confronted each other, which is heavier than the ordinary crossbow, but it is lighter than the bed crossbow, extremely powerful, and can penetrate the plate armor one hundred and twenty steps away, and then this broken army crossbow began to be promoted in the army, Tai Shi Ci was in the clouds, and used this crossbow to lay down the crossbow array, luring 50,000 Xianbei coalition troops to the canyon, and raped and killed nearly 30,000 Xianbei people in the first war, and it was also that battle that established Tai Shici's fierce reputation in the north.

However, this crossbow is a bit laborious to set up, and Tai Shici is ready to find a way to attract the enemy's attention first.

At that moment, Taishi Cice immediately stepped forward, came to the shore, looked at the other side and shouted: "Where is Zhao Zilong?" ”

The Zhending County Commander poked his head out from behind the enemy building, looked at Tai Shi Ci and said: "I am Zhang Lin, the Zhen Ding County Commander, why did General Tai Shi raise this unrighteous soldier?" ”

Tai Shi Ci glanced at him coldly and said, "I am General Zhenbei, who are you?" If you are qualified to talk to me, go back and ask Zhao Zilong to talk to me! ”

After speaking, without waiting for Zhang Lin's reaction, he suddenly picked up the bow and arrow, and shot an arrow at Zhang Lin's bright head.

A hand poked out from the side, and grabbed the cluster of arrows shot at Zhang Lin, Zhao Yun sensed the danger when Zhang Lin was talking to Tai Shi Ci, he had seen Tai Shi Ci's archery, this distance, it was too dangerous, so he had been by Zhang Lin's side, but he didn't show up, that Tai Shi Ci was really cunning, if he let him shoot Zhang Lin, this Zhending County would be over.

"The general is also a famous general in the world? Is it necessary to use such means in a mere county seat? Zhao Yun stood up and stared at Tai Shici to prevent him from making another move, facing a sharpshooter at this distance, Zhao Yun didn't dare to guarantee that he would be able to protect Zhang Lin every time.

"Zhao Zilong, I see that you are also a person who knows soldiers, do you really think that these people can stop my army?" Tai Shi Ci put away his bow and arrows, did not shoot again, looked at Zhao Yun and smiled.

"We and the army and the people are united, so why are we afraid of traitors." Zhao Yunlang said.

"Look backwards." Tai Shi Ci hung the bow on the back of his horse, and although he couldn't see behind the earthen wall, he could probably guess the shock that the rain of arrows had brought to this rabble just now.

Don't look at it, many people in the back have already run to the city, including many private soldiers.

"Zilong may have some misunderstanding of the military and civilian intentions, wherever I go to the Guanzhong soldiers, I never kill indiscriminately, this is the iron law of my Guanzhong military regulations, my lord has been set when he was in Hedong, no one dares to disobey, but it is the Jizhou army, as far as I know, these years of fighting with the Black Mountain thieves, but there is no less use of the people's heads to fill the military merits." Tai Shi Ci looked at Zhao Yun and said, "With your talent, since you are not a minion of the Yuan family, why do you want to serve the Yuan family here?" ”

Tai Shi Ci is the commander of the Yanmen area, these years of commanding the army, in addition to the art of war, but also need to figure out the hearts of the people, at the beginning, he deliberately used his identity to oppress people, is to create a gap between Zhao Yun and the real order, and now point out a character like Zhao Yun, without the slightest official body, why fight to the death with him?

In fact, for such a county, if it weren't for the discovery of such a talent as Zhao Yun, Tai Shici wouldn't want to waste so much effort to separate the other party.

"With Zilong's talent, if he is willing to serve our army, Ci will do his best to recommend it." Tai Shi Ci laughed loudly.

"Although the Marquis of Changling is a hero in the world, he is not a benevolent and righteous king!" Zhao Yun said solemnly, although Chen Mo is strong, he is not his favorite master, in troubled times, the king is the minister, and the minister also chooses the king.

"Benevolence?" Tai Shi Ci straightened his waist and said loudly: "My lord has raised troops since the early peace period, Dinghedong, Pingzhou and Zhou, entered the Guanzhong, cut Xiliang, and fought for ten years, but I dare to say that the soldiers under my lord's command have never slaughtered the people, is this considered benevolence and righteousness?" In the great drought in Guanzhong, my lord personally led people to dig canals, diverted the water of the Yellow River for irrigation, opened warehouses and released grain, and the people of Guanzhong lived hundreds of thousands because of our lord, is this benevolence and righteousness? Revive Heluo, rebuild Luoyang, and now Heluo is prosperous, I dare not say how rich the people of Guanzhong are, but since my lord entered Guanzhong, Zilong has ever heard that Guanzhong, Bingzhou, and Xiliang still starve to death and freeze to death every year? Is this righteousness? ”

"I don't know what you mean by righteousness. If it is full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, Kuang Fu Han family, then indeed, I mainly make a living for the two million people in Guanzhong, and I really don't have the spare strength to promote benevolence, righteousness and morality, Kuang Fu Han family These. Tai Shi Ci said loudly: "If what Zilong said about benevolence and righteousness is like this, then my lord really doesn't count, and I don't disdain!" Righteousness is not spoken, but done. ”

Zhao Yun was speechless, the gentry of Jizhou said that Chen Mo was not kind, and they mostly criticized Chen Mo for not treating the gentry well, but when it comes to treating the people, I really haven't heard of Chen Mo's notoriety.

"Then what was the Yecheng massacre?" Zhang Lin on the side poked out his head and shouted, seeing Tai Shici touching the bow, he hurriedly retracted his head again.

"I didn't participate in the battle of Yecheng, so I can't comment on it, but I believe that the lord will never kill in vain." Tai Shi Ci said indifferently: "Besides, war casualties are inevitable, if you don't use swords, why can my lord attack Yecheng?" Do you talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality? ”

"It's useless to talk too much, if the general is really determined, he still needs to fight and talk about it." Zhao Yun sighed, he didn't have anything to say, but if he wanted to give up his defense, it would be impossible.

"Good!" Tai Shi Ci looked back and saw that the broken crossbows had been carried up, and he stopped talking nonsense at the moment, turned the horse's head and retreated: "Release the arrow!" ”

Looking at the broken army crossbows placed in front of the battle, Zhao Yun swallowed his saliva, he was fooled, that Tai Shi Ci was not here to persuade him to surrender at all, but to delay time.

"Buzz~"

In the violent tremor of the bowstring, giant arrows the thickness of thumbs slammed into the earthen wall, which was extremely powerful, and a soldier who was hiding in the earthen wall was so easily killed by the cluster of arrows piercing from behind the earthen wall, and even the earthen wall collapsed in pieces under the huge force of this giant arrow......