"It's really a strong city!"

About a mile outside the south gate of Ji County, Ma Liang couldn't help but admire when he looked at the city wall and the gatehouse...... The best thing is that Ji County not only has a complete moat, but also a sheep and horse wall between the moat and the city wall.

The sheep and horse wall is a kind of low wall, as the name suggests, similar to the scale of the wall of the stable and sheepfold, and it is a simple fortification made of slabs.

This kind of simple fortification, used alone, can really stop the sheep and horses.

It can be used with a city, which is great.

As the attacker, you must not only suppress the archers at the head of the city, but also deal with the defenders behind the sheep and horse walls as you lay the groundwork and fill the moat.

These defenders have barricades, so normal crossbows have a very low effect on the defenders of the sheep and horse walls at range...... It can barely be suppressed. Arrows are so precious, the so-called suppression is also time-limited, the attacker can suppress the defenders, and the defenders can also suppress the attackers, and what they fight is the logistics reserves.

Therefore, the defenders of the sheep and horse wall can fight a surprise attack, so that the attacker cannot carry out the attack plan smoothly.

If you don't pull out the sheep and horse wall, the defenders will have to be distracted from the attack of the sheep and horse wall defenders at all times, but if you want to attack, you will have to face the vertical attack of the crossbowmen at the head of the city, and there is still a moat to cross.

A simple low wall, there are too many wonderful uses.

At this time, there were only more than 100 people around Ma Liang, surrounded by Wu Gao and Sun Mi, all wearing Wei military uniforms, and slowly walked towards the open city gate.

It was already early afternoon, and there were no people entering or leaving the city gate.

In the early morning, the surrounding people would also go into the city to sell some rural specialties or buy household utensils.

Wu Gao's face was always tense, and Sun Mi around him didn't want to persuade Wu Gao to betray in vain, and persuade a loyal minister who was loyal to the festival to be disloyal and disloyal, which was somewhat disobedient to a young scholar.

I don't want to stimulate and make Wu Wei uncomfortable, they used to be friends with each other, and they are not enemies, so there is no need to lick their faces and pretend to be big.

If the dust settles, the Han army will deal with Wu Yuan...... For persuasion, the Han army also has deep experience.

The most important thing is to have surrendered the experience of the military officials, put themselves in the shoes of Wu Gao to think about the future, think about the family, and take themselves as an example as an example, one person can't persuade Wu Yuan, those ten people can always have some effect.

If it doesn't work, find some of Wu Yuan's original relatives, friends, bosses, and world friends to persuade him...... As long as Wu Yuan is valuable, there will be no shortage of means to persuade him to surrender.

Wu Yuan has a guard father, so there is value in persuading him to surrender...... Perhaps it is very possible to carry out such a task as oneself and return to the Wei State.

Therefore, if you want to persuade Wu Yuan to surrender, it should also be arranged by the Han army, which may be Wu Yuan's chance.

Sun Mi thought about it, Wu Mi always had a gloomy face, and he was very unwilling.

When he gradually arrived at the city gate, on the wooden bridge of the moat, Sun Mi looked up, and several Ma Liang, who were in the ranks of knights behind him, also looked up, carefully observing the city that was about to be controlled by himself.

If the development is good, Ji County will sound the clarion call for a new round of Northern Expedition.

The three military officials of the city tower probed to identify Wu Yuan, Wu Yuan raised his thumb with his right hand and touched his nose, his hand trembled, and continued to move slowly forward with the old horse under the seat, and the horse's hooves were densely trampling on the wooden bridge, gurgling.

Ma Liang only felt that the sound of trampling on the wooden bridge was very noisy, which disturbed his mind.

The county magistrate in the city tower retreated and turned his head, looked down at his right hand again, nodded slightly to the two military officials who looked at him, and tears flowed out uncontrollably.

The two military officials glanced at each other, obviously still hesitating and hesitating, and the county man reprimanded in a low voice: "When the enemy soldiers enter the city, don't you see the affairs of Yanyu and Erzhou?" Can you wait for your wife to be saved? ”

Hearing this, the two military officials were enthusiastic, and they also slowly drew their swords, and the crossbowmen crouching at the head of the city bowed forward.

“！ ！ ”

Suddenly there was a rapid sound of bangs at the head of the city, and Wu Yuan, who had just arrived in front of the city gate, kicked his horse violently, and his body was tightly attached to the horse's back, and in an instant he heard the bows and crossbows and arrows falling like rain, and the surrounding people and horses were neighing and confused.

Wu Yuan's personal warriors were about to resist, and the Han knights who had been on guard for a long time handed over the daggers hidden in their hands or raised the crossbows hanging from their harnesses.

In an instant, the bow and crossbow at the head of the city attacked by surprise, and there were heavy casualties in front of the city gate, but it also solved Wu Yuan's personal warriors in the first time.

Even Wu Yuan, who was the only one who knew that he was the first to hit the horse and run away to the city, felt an arrow in his buttocks, and before he felt the pain for a moment, he lost control of his legs and feet and couldn't hold the horse, and fell from the horse.

"Shoot again!"

The county man looked up and came out, and saw that Wu Yu seemed to have fled into the city, and he couldn't help shouting at the crossbowmen on the left and right.

Defending Ji County is a great feat; Than Tian Xin's exploits in defending Gangneung are just as bad as they are.

Before he could think about anything else, a crossbow bolt fired from the counterattack from the city pierced the bridge of his nose, and the wound gushed out with a large ball of bright red blood in the artery, obviously not alive.

In front of the city gate, Sun Mi was frightened, and when he saw Wu Yu running away from the horse, he subconsciously wanted to kick the horse, but the horse was frightened and almost shook him off the horse.

As soon as he was tightly pulling the reins to control the horses, seven of Wu's relatives and county officials in front of the city gate were stabbed in the side of the waist with daggers by the Han knights, and they were mortally wounded, and they all fell off their horses.

The knights of the Han army were not chaotic when attacked, but bravely rushed into the city first, so they wrapped Sun Mi in the front row and charged...... The main reason is that Sun Mi's mount is not resistant to squeezing, so he can only rush forward with the force.

But the inside of the city gate poured out spear halberd heavy infantry, these spearmen used extra-long lances, and the end of the blades was tied with a large group of bright red cloth, forming a spear array to form a fiery red, and the horses that rushed forward subconsciously stopped, and the horse speed could not be lifted.

Immediately, the halberd soldiers of the Wei army, who specialized in fighting, stepped forward to cut the horse's legs, and they were not distressed, and the neighing of horses in the corridor of the city gate drowned out the shouts of both sides.

The halberd soldiers overturned more than ten horses, set up the fallen Wu Yuan and retreated, the spear array began to advance, the spear blade was like a bush, and the Han knights in the corridor could not resist, or were stabbed to death by the spear, or left and right to block two trembling and retreated outside the rear city gate.

The crossbowmen at the head of the city shot indiscriminately, and when they saw the enemy soldiers braving the rain of arrows to rob the wounded and the corpses retreating, they shot even more vigorously.

At the outer end of the wooden bridge of the moat, Ma Liang was hit by an arrow in the chest, which was blocked by the armor and could not go deep, and I didn't think that this injury was nothing.

He stared at the city gate and gatehouse in a daze, and only felt that the world was spinning...... Is all this a trap?

The left and right soldiers held small shields to guard, and when they saw that the wounded and dead in their sight had been snatched back, they gathered around Ma Liang and slowly retreated, and the rear brigade also began to advance when they saw this, and came to respond.

Wu Yu ran away, Sun Mi was gone, and Ma Liang felt more and more that the battle situation was dangerous.

The original plan could no longer be implemented, and if there was no Ji County, it would be impossible to stop Qin Lang and Man's favored pursuers. If he can't stop the pursuing soldiers, then Tian Yu will not be able to expand the battlefield and attract more people to join the war.

Now it is necessary to break through the siege and win the award to the south, and the road of crossing south to the south of the Yellow River back to the Central Plains will definitely not work...... The favored sailor has arrived at Qingshuikou, and the Mengjin sailor of the Wei army in Luoyang will definitely act, and this sailor will go down the river and block the Yellow River is a very simple matter.

Therefore, at present, it is necessary to give up unnecessary burdens and break through to the west, as long as it is on the land and with the quality of this group of southern middle soldiers under his command...... As long as Qin Lang dares to chase, he will dare to turn back!

You can't go into the water, you can only rush west along the north bank of the Yellow River, as long as you run to the south of Shouyang Mountain and Zhongtiao Mountain, which borders Hongnong County, you can cross the river and return to the south bank under the Beifu soldiers.