The next day, Dong Zhuo called the lieutenant of the generals, Sima and other generals to the camp tent.

As soon as the soldiers came, they were furious, just because Jia Xu was sitting on the main seat, and Dong Zhuo was sitting on his left side, Jia Xu was the third duke, but this was a war, Dong Zhuo commanded the army as a hussar general, how could Jia Xu sit on the main seat so peacefully? The soldiers stood in front of the tent, all of them had not taken their seats, Dong Zhuo raised his head, and shouted with some annoyance: "Don't sit down yet!" ”

The soldiers sat down, their faces still unkind.

"Listen, the next siege of the city, the captain will personally command, if you dare to disobey the military order, I will not show mercy, and I will do it with military law!!" Dong Zhuo shouted, many generals looked at each other, but they didn't speak, Lu Yi stood up, and said with some annoyance: "Dong Gong, this Western Expedition has always been the commander of the Duke himself, the war was a big victory, and the siege of the city was six days, why do you want to listen to him now?" ”

"Shut up!"

Dong Zhuo reprimanded and continued: "What's wrong with the Taiwei being in charge of the world's soldiers and horses? What's more, in recent days, I have been working day and night, and my body is tired, so I asked the captain to command the troops for me for a few days. ”

Hearing Dong Zhuo say this, Lu Yi was helpless and sat down, but he thought in his heart, it would be good if Huaxiong's guy was still here, Jia Xu looked at the soldiers and said with a smile: "You don't have to be like this, I didn't come here to fight for power and profit, Dong Gong is unwell, Cao Jun is not here, I can only be in charge of the army, from today, I will start to attack the city..."

"Huang Zhonghou, you take a battalion of men and horses, stay, and the rest of the people follow Dong Gong and retreat ten miles."

As soon as Jia Xu finished speaking, the soldiers began to make noise again, what is the situation, it is said that it is going to attack the city, why do you want us to retreat? In the tent, only Huang Zhong did not change his face, and said, "Respectfully! Jia Xu looked at Dong Zhuo again and said: "From tomorrow, I will bother Dong Gong, and during the day, I will ask Dong Gong to stay closer to the city... At night, I hope that Dong Gong can take turns to send a group of people to come..."

Dong Zhuo nodded, and the soldiers had no choice but to obey the order.

Jia Xu and Huang Zhong walked out of the camp together, Jia Xu said: "Please instruct the auxiliaries to let them light a fire in front of the city to cook, in addition, let the soldiers guard around, and when they are done, let the soldiers eat, and after that, try to make a big movement, singing and dancing, it is okay, but you must let the Guishan soldiers on the city see it!" ”

Huang Zhong nodded, and Jia Xu said again: "In addition, bring all the war drums and gold from other battalions, it will be of great use at night!" ”

After that, the Guishan soldiers in the Maracandan saw a very strange scene, only to see the auxiliary soldiers of the Han army go to the front of the city, make a fire and cook, extremely busy, the food of the northern and southern armies, from the beginning of the Jianning period, is the highest standard in the Han army, there is a lot of meat, when the northern and southern armies go out, they will bring a large amount of air-dried meat.

This is not much food in the city, can only be careful every day, barely fill the stomach of the Kushan soldiers, it is simply a kind of torture, seeing the Han soldiers like this, the Kushan people hurriedly told the commander, their commander, is an elderly Sogdian nobleman, he was the local tax officer, after the general Hay put down the Sogdian rebellion, he became the city lord of Marakanda because of his merits.

And his merit is naturally to provide Hai with a large amount of food for his army to fight.

At this moment, he looked at the soldiers outside the city who were making fires and cooking, and his eyes were a little surprised, he didn't know what the other party was going to do, he turned his head, looked at the general on the side, and asked, "Look, we are raiding them now, how about it?" ”

The general was frightened, and quickly shook his head, and said: "If we don't see the enemy's whereabouts, how can we open the city gate, not to mention, the city gate was blocked by us before... They look like this, they want to hit the morale of our army, our soldiers only eat one meal a day, and there is no meat, I think, they know, we don't have much food! ”

"Hey...," the tax collector laughed, and said, "Go to my mansion and have my servants bring four cartloads of cooked mutton to be eaten by these soldiers...", the general was stunned for a moment, and said, "Your Excellency, except for those soldiers on the city wall, the rest of our troops are also starving, if you can..."

"I don't have much food left in my family!" The tax officer patted his bulging abdomen and said with some annoyance.

The general nodded, and sent the soldiers to the tax collector's house, looking at the fat tax collector standing at the head of the city, the general's heart was full of anger, but he did not dare to speak, this tax collector, is the second caste, and he himself is only the third, as the chief of the guard of Hai, he can serve here as the general of the city guard.

Fortunately, the cooked mutton brought by the tax collector's servant did make the soldiers on the city wall feel better.

Subsequently, the Han army swaggered outside the city to eat, after eating, it was singing, and it was a whirling dance, extremely happy, the Guishan people looked at a loss, almost about to dance with the Han army, and in the face of such a strange situation of the Han army, the general who defended the city did not dare to rest at all, so that the defenders everywhere were more careful.

And at night, when it was just dark, there was a huge sound from the Han army, the war drums were bursting, the gongs were ringing, and the soldiers were shouting and killing, and the whole Malacanda suddenly fell into a panic, and the soldiers woke up one after another, and everyone went to the city, and the general personally led the team, and even the fat tax officer ran here in a panic.

From a distance, you can see the Han soldiers with siege equipment, attacking towards the city wall, the general hurriedly ordered the attack, but as soon as he gave the order, the Han soldiers stopped the attack, and retreated one after another, and the tax officer shouted: "We have repelled the enemy!! The crowd shouted one after another, and their morale was greatly boosted, and the people in the city were also very happy when they heard this.

Only the general defending the city, as if remembering something, frowned tightly.

In one night, the Han army charged five times, or rather, it was a feint five times, and in the early morning of the next day, Huang Zhong led the soldiers to return, and Lu Yi came with a part of his own men and horses, so the Han army was living and cooking, and putting out equipment, and continued to attack the city, without giving the soldiers who defended the city a moment of peace and leisure.

The generals defending the city understood the intention of the Han army, and divided the soldiers into more than a dozen rounds, taking turns to change the defense, and the rest of the people rested, wanting to let the soldiers rest through such means, but every time the Han army attacked the city, it seemed to be a real attack, and a few times, while the Kushan people were lax, the ladder was almost set up on the city wall, and in this case, it was impossible for the soldiers to rest.

And even more at night, the Han army tried to make a big move, in all directions, are playing gold drums, in the sound of war drums, you can vaguely see the figure of the Han army, occasionally they feint, occasionally it is really a siege, without saying a word, directly set up a ladder, the siege vehicle directly hit the city gate, a few times in the night, almost let the Han soldiers climb to the city wall.

They are not attacking the city with all their might, if there is a slight mistake, they will retreat immediately, but this is such a false siege method, which makes the Guishan soldiers miserable, and the most vicious thing is that from the third day, these soldiers found some people from nowhere, let them cry under the city gate all day long, let the Guishan soldiers surrender, and some were driven directly to the city gate, kneeling and begging the soldiers to open the city gate.

They all died, either under the arrows of the Kushan people or under the crossbows of the Han army.

Many captains of the Han army couldn't stand it anymore, but Jia Xu didn't care about it.

So on the seventh day, the soldiers of Maracandane were almost driven crazy, and occasionally there was a howling camp, most of them were tired and inhuman, Jia Xu nodded, and ordered Dong Zhuo to bring the army, relying on a large number of siege equipment built in these days, and began to attack the city, and when he saw the large army gathered, General Guishan learned that something was wrong, and the enemy was going to attack the city in an all-round way!

Although he himself was exhausted, he still stood at the head of the city and constantly encouraged the soldiers.

"This is their last attack! They can't hold on! Fight them off! Victory!! The general shouted, and the tax collector brought a large amount of food to feed the soldiers, and suddenly, the battle abrupt, and the Han soldiers began to attack, and the Guishan soldiers shouted, raised their strong bows, and were about to shoot, just when the Han army had just rushed to the shooting range, they suddenly stopped.

Retreat to the rear in an orderly manner, this time, it was still a feint.

The general of the city was dumbfounded, and the soldiers of the city shouted angrily, and some of them wept bitterly, and sat on the head of the city, crying loudly, and when they finally gathered the last courage to fight the enemy to the death, they left so lightly that all faith seemed to collapse in this moment, and the courage left them.

The general gritted his teeth, trembling with anger.

"What a villain, a sinister and vicious villain, a cowardly villain... I swear to kill you... I'm going to kill you!!! ”

Jia Xu is still not in a hurry to attack, he doesn't have to be in a hurry, the enemy is besieged in the city, there is no way to escape, and they can't get through, their food can hold out for more than half a month, not to mention, the new baggage is rushing here from the Western Regions, he is not in a hurry, just like this, he continues to crush the enemy's military heart, it will not take a few days, they will break through.

At this time, many generals were convinced by Jia Xu, and even said that they were a little afraid, they watched the Guishan soldiers roar wildly, jumped down from the city wall, and committed suicide, this kind of virtual and real siege, Jia Xu only lasted for nine days, and the Guishan people couldn't stand it, they knew how terrible it was, these soldiers, some of them didn't close their eyes for three or four days, and some kept being awakened in their sleep.

No one can stand such torture, not to mention, the Han army eats and drinks under the city every day, as well as some of their closeness, the people in the surrounding villages, their arrival to persuade surrender and so on...

On the tenth day, Jia Xu gave the order to attack the city with all his might.

Under the offensive of the Han army, the Kushan people did not even resist for half a day, and the city was broken, the general defending the city was a little dazed, in a trance, the city was broken, his eyes were red, and his ears were still buzzing, he was so tired, the soldiers in the whole city were like this, tired, and had no intention of fighting, when they really faced the general attack of the Han army, they were just at a loss.

The fifteenth year of Xiping, May

Dong Zhuo's army successfully captured the whole of Sogdia.