Bo County, Jiang Qi almost mobilized all the young people in Bo County out of the city, dug three trenches outside the city, the last one was to calculate the range of the catapult, specially used to card the catapult, and ordered people to make traps and traps, how to set up obstacles in Ao Cang Yu Sheng, Jiang Qi changed his thinking, and now he has taken it out, although because of the relationship of time, it cannot be as thorough as Yu Sheng, but if you want to break through Bo County according to the normal siege method, it is not possible to come down in three days.

It is not easy to level the trench just against the rain of arrows at the head of the city, Cui Geng took Yang Xiu to check the surroundings of Bo County, there is no big flaw at all, in the face of the generals' inquiries, Cui Geng can only smile bitterly: "If you want to break through Bo County, I am afraid that it will take more than a month, it seems that it is difficult to meet with General Gao according to the plan." ”

According to the original plan, Cui Geng led the army out of Keiguan, and Gao Shun led the army to cross the river through Mengjin, directly take Wen County, and fight with Yan Liang's main force, so that Yuan Shao's army could not support Jiang Qi, and finally Cui Geng defeated Jiang Qi with superior forces, and directly took Huai County and attacked Yan Liang.

But judging from the current situation, it will be difficult to defeat Jiang Qi in a short period of time.

"Not necessarily." Yang Xiu dragged his chin and frowned in thought.

"Does Dezu have a clever plan to help me break the city?" Cui Geng looked at Yang Xiu and said with some expectation.

"I don't know yet, I'll need to take a look at it later." Yang Xiu shook his head, he just had an idea, but he hadn't probed it carefully, and he couldn't be sure: "The general will allow me for two more days, and after the calculation, I will report to the general." ”

Two days?

Cui Geng nodded, anyway, he doesn't have a way to break the city now, so he should be prepared, let the soldiers prepare dirt bags at the moment, prepare to level the trenches and traps, and then say, if Yang Xiu can't think of a strategy, he can only attack.

Yang Xiu took a few guards to wander around Bo County every day, looking down on the high ground everywhere, and two days later, Yang Xiu found Cui Geng and said, "I have a plan, maybe I can try it." ”

"Please sir teach me!" Cui Geng was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly got up and said.

Yang Xiu was speechless, and called the table word on weekdays, at this time he knew that he was called Mr.? As one of Chen Mo's staff, there are really not many times when he is called Mr.

Yang Xiu pointed to the map and said: "Bo County is close to Yanshui, but there are still dams ......."

"Dezu." Cui Geng shook his head with some disappointment when he heard this, and said: "The water level of the water and the height of the city in Bo County can't flood the city at all. ”

It's not that having water in front of you makes it suitable for water attack.

"I know, but this plan is not to flood Bo County." Regarding Cui Geng's reality, Yang Xiu is no longer able to complain.

"If that Jiang Qi can see through it at a glance like a general, this strategy of digging water can wash away those traps, and even shake the city wall several times, if that Jiang Qi does not see through it like a general, seeing that our army is damming and storing water, he will inevitably lead the army to fight, and there is no need to do anything at that time, as long as the general can defeat Jiang Qi outside the city, this battle will be considered a victory."

Boxian is also a rammed earth city wall, if the city wall is soaked in water for a few days, not to mention the immediate collapse, but it will definitely soften and loosen a lot, and when the city is attacked again, it will naturally be easier.

Cui Geng thought about it, although he couldn't break the city directly, but according to Yang Xiu, he could give it a try, and immediately ordered Yang Xiu to personally lead the men and horses to build a dam and store water, and Cui Geng took people to guard Jiang Qi out of the city to fight.

On the other side, Jiang Qi naturally also found that the enemy army was building a dam to store water, but this wave of counties is obviously not suitable for water attack, so Cui Geng won't even be able to see this, right?

For the sake of prudence, Jiang Qi still invited everyone to discuss.

"I think that the Guanzhong army is just trying to lure the general out of the city, if they really want to store water and attack the city, how can they teach me so easily to wait and see?" Several generals were babbling, and the intention of this water siege seemed to be too obvious to lure the enemy.

Jiang Qi nodded, he also thought so, and at the moment he ignored the enemy's damming and storing water, and just continued to strengthen the city defense.

After another three days, Yang Xiu made a simple embankment, and seeing that the other party did not plan to attack the city, he immediately dug the embankment and led the water to Bo County.

At the head of Boxian City, watching the spread of that layer of water, many soldiers defending the city laughed, such water, let alone flooding the city, not many people can squeeze in through the cracks in the door.

Jiang Qi frowned and looked at the traps and flooded trenches that were constantly exposed in the water outside the city, but he didn't laugh out loud, that day, the water had not receded, and the Guanzhong army had already begun to bury the traps outside the city with a bag of soil, and even filled the trenches, Jiang Qi hurriedly ordered the soldiers to shoot the enemy, but the distance was too far and had little effect.

Yang Xiu stood on the high platform, watching the water gathered near the city gradually seep into the soil, let Cui Geng collect the troops, and put the water again, Bo County is also an ordinary county seat, there is no city moat, the water that comes is mostly absorbed by the city wall or the soil under the city, and so on again and again, every time the water retreats, the soldiers will carry the soil bags and continue to go forward to fill the hole, and fill the pit that Yin Wei has re-sunk when the soil is too loose.

After three releases, all the traps in the west city of Boxian County were buried, and most of the first trench was leveled.

"Tomorrow the city will be attacked, and the general can continue to bombard the city wall with catapults, as he did in Yixian, and at the same time use archers to cover and let the soldiers continue to fill in the trenches." Yang Xiu looked at Cui Geng and smiled.

Cui Geng nodded, conventional siege warfare, he naturally knew what to do, immediately ordered people to dig overnight, the next morning, let people push out the catapult, a large number of soldiers rushed up with dirt bags on their backs, under the cover of the shield soldiers, after the first trench was leveled, the catapults and archers began to advance slowly, the archers began to suppress the defenders on the city wall, and the shield men protected the army and began to fill the second trench.

On the city wall, several generals were a little anxious: "How could this trench be leveled so easily?" ”

"The previous water washed a lot of mud into it, and our trap was directly washed away from the shelter, and it failed to hinder the enemy army." Jiang Qi sighed, he understood the purpose of the water before, and the shelter buried in the trap was directly washed away, naturally it was impossible for them to tremble and dare not move forward like Yu Sheng's trap when they were in Aocang.

Now the other party only needs to add a trench to directly attack the city, although it still has a certain impact, but it is difficult to have too much impact on the enemy army as it did in the beginning.

"General, the gates of the city are sealed with mud and sand." A general suddenly hurried up and bowed.

Jiang Qi nodded, and did not let people clean up the sediment immediately, in this way, at least it is not easy for the enemy to break through the city gate, although the city gate here is sealed by mud and sand, but the other city gates cannot be sealed.

On the second day, the catapult of the Guanzhong army crossed the trench and began to launch a fierce bombardment of the city wall, and at the same time Cui Geng sent people to carry ordinary long ladders and began to jump over the trench and launch a tentative attack on the city wall.

But because of the lack of the suppression of the bow and arrow at the head of the city, on the third day, the other two trenches were also bulldozed, and on the fourth day, the ladder and the hammer of the Guanzhong army began to be moved to the battlefield, and launched a general attack on the city wall, the catapult bombardment continued, and the ladder began to be erected on the city wall under the cover of the catapult and the bow and arrow, Jiang Qi immediately ordered people to water it with fire oil, and a large number of cloud ladders were burned, but Cui Geng started five wells and began to attack the city.

Jiang Qi wanted to take advantage of the enemy's retreat, out of the city and burned the well, but the west gate was blocked by mud and sand, and could not be opened for a while, and the troops on both sides were stopped by Cui Geng's command.

On the fifth day, the catapult cooperated with the well, the well can be much higher than the city wall, under the cover of the catapult, the soldiers on the well began to shoot arrows towards the city wall, and several times they wanted to burn the well with rockets, but failed to do so, but after the well approached, the Guanzhong army killed the city head along the pontoon bridge built by the well, the city wall almost failed to hold, Jiang Qi personally carried his sword back and forth to kill, and threw it on the well with a canister of oil, burned a well, and then repelled the enemy.

"General, there are less than five hundred soldiers in the city who can fight! But the enemy army is surrounded on three sides, and this city cannot be defended! On the sixth day, Cui Geng changed his previous siege method of gathering troops to storm one side, but separated his troops and horses and attacked from three sides.

Jiang Qi did not have many soldiers and horses in his hands, and he lost a lot in Yi County, after the start of the war in Bo County, he fought bloody battles every day, Jiang Qi was the main general, and he suffered a lot of injuries, which shows that the battle is fierce, and the soldiers are naturally more killed and injured.

Jiang Qi looked at the soldiers around him whose eyes were bloodshot and their morale was sluggish, knowing that the enemy army would not be spared from attacking the city tomorrow, and his body had reached its limit, not to mention ordinary soldiers.

After hesitating for a moment, Jiang Qi finally decided to take advantage of the fact that the enemy army had not yet reacted and withdrew overnight, but this Yi County and Bo County were breached, and after that, the entire Hanoi would be exposed to the enemy's troops, how to defend it?

"General Jiang is here?" Just as Jiang Qi was hesitating, he saw a horse galloping over, came to the city, and shouted loudly at the city.

But Cui Geng did not attack the city immediately, but sent someone to negotiate first.

"I am!" Jiang Qi took a deep breath, peeked out from behind the female wall, looked at the other party and said, "What's the matter with you?" ”

"General Jiang, the small towns of Yixian and Bo County, it is rare for the general to be able to defend to this point, and my general thinks that if it is not for the fact that the army far exceeds the general, he may not dare to say victory." The cavalry saluted to the head of the city and said: "My lord is thirsty for talent, the general has been loyal to Yuan Shao until now, and the city is hard to survive at this time, why don't the general open the city and surrender, my general is willing to recommend the general!" ”

"Heh~" Jiang Qi sneered: "Don't be ashamed, if you have the ability, after breaking the city, I will come to persuade you to surrender!" ”

The cavalry nodded, he was only responsible for passing the word, and now that the word had arrived, as for whether to surrender or not, it was Jiang Qi's business, and he saluted the city at the moment, turned the horse's head and left.

"Withdraw!" Jiang Qi took a deep breath and shouted at the generals, you can't be rash at this time, the city can't be defended, let's save your life first.

"Whoa!"