Yuan Shu was harassed by Cao Cao so that he couldn't figure it out, and as soon as he heard that he could fight back, he refused to even wait for breakfast, and immediately beat the drum and gathered the generals.

The generals rushed to the camp of the Chinese army, Yuan Shu prepared breakfast, and arranged military affairs while eating with the generals. Although they didn't sleep all night, as soon as they heard that the siege was coming, the generals were still very excited.

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu exchanged a knowing look. They are the main force that is unyielding, but there are people rushing to attack the city, and they are not against it. Wancheng is so big, Cao Cao still has seven or eight thousand people, even if the combat effectiveness of the Nanyang County soldiers is average, Cao Cao's four or five thousand people are not a joke, and the casualties will definitely not be small. These generals are not fools, it is impossible not to know this, the reason why they dare to take the initiative to ask for the siege of the city is naturally because they now have strong troops and can withstand attrition, so they want to show their faces and grab a success.

It seems that the trick of fighting the local tyrants and dividing the land has worked, and the troops who have just surrendered have changed their attitudes, and the selfishness of the generals has also been curbed, and they have turned to the idea of fighting for the spoils of war.

Seeing that the morale was high, Yuan Shu was very happy, and after soliciting the opinions of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, he arranged for Chen Yu, Liu Shen, and Li Feng to attack the north gate of Wancheng. The east and west sides of Wancheng are surrounded by water, and the west gate is close to the small city, so the north gate has become the best choice. As soon as breakfast was over, they led their men to move the camp and went to the north gate to line up.

Sun Ce also began to act and rushed to the west gate to line up.

The siege is not an autumn tour, just go. The two armies are facing each other, those outside the city want to break through the city, and the city will not sit still, and the elite soldiers will lie outside the city gate, as long as there is a flaw outside the city, these people may rush out of the city at any time and kill you on your back. Before the siege, it became the rule of siege to set up a defensive position first.

The situation is special, the families of the generals are all in the city, considering that Cao Cao may use these people to threaten, Sun Ce has an optional action in addition to the prescribed routine. He sent people to bring out all the captive family members, knelt by the moat with their hands tied behind them, and the executioner stood behind them with long knives in his hand, and his cold gaze swept back and forth over their necks, no matter who it was, the hairs on his neck would stand up when he heard the sound of footsteps behind him.

Sun Ce stepped onto the platform, looked at the rows of kneeling figures, and remembered the scene of killing the Kuai family by the water, and his heart tightened.

It's going to kill again. Even though he had already experienced a bloody battle, he still couldn't bear it. But he also knows that being born in troubled times is either killing or being killed. If he is ruthless and kills, Cao Cao will threaten him with the families of the generals in the city, and then the battle will not be able to be fought.

"The people of the He family are useless, kill them first." Sun Ce sat down on the podium and passed the first order. Pang Tong held Qianjun Po and stood behind him.

"Whoa." Pang Tong responded, walked to the side of the general's platform, and shouted: "The general has an order, the people of the He family are useless, kill them first." ”

The heralds waiting in the audience repeated loudly, holding a small flag, and walked quickly to the front of the formation.

For the safety of the generals, the Chinese army was at least 400 steps away from the moat, and even if there was the strongest crossbow at the head of the city, it would not be able to snipe. In the Han Dynasty, there were strict regulations on the size of the city, and the same was true for the crossbow for defending the city, and Wancheng, as a county governor, could only be equipped with a maximum of six stone crossbows, with a range of 240 steps. If it is a capital, it can be equipped with a ten-stone crossbow with a range of more than 400 steps, and of course the position of the general will be farther away.

The herald walked quickly, but there was still some time before he walked to the front of the formation, and Sun Ce sat on the platform and waited for the results of the order. From such a distance, he didn't need to see the He family's head in a different place with his own eyes, what came to his mind was the scene when the Kuai family's blood was stained with water, and he sighed softly in his heart: Kuai Yidu, are you okay on Huangquan Road?

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Cao Cao put on his helmet and hurried to the head of the city, squinting his eyes and looking around, a trace of doubt arose in his heart.

The main direction of attack is the west gate and the north gate. Sun Ce was at the west gate, just set up a cover formation, the crossbowmen stood up an arrow away, and behind him was a huge stone throwing machine position, more than 30 stone throwers were divided into three rows and were being debugged. Sun Ce's Chinese army was five hundred steps away from the city wall behind the stone throwing position, and it was no longer clear to see, but from the perspective of the entire formation, it was decent, and there was nothing special.

Cao Cao felt a little puzzled that Yuan Shu's camp was in the south of Wancheng, separated by a water, and was not an ideal attack position, but there were nine high platforms in the south of the city, lined up in the east and west directions, which was higher than the city wall of Wancheng.

What do these people do? A strong crossbowman or an observer, could it be that Yuan Highway has created a ten-stone crossbow that can shoot people in the city directly from the other side of the river? Although this difficulty is not ordinary, but thinking about the archer under Sun Ce, Cao Cao still did not dare to slack off, and ordered all the generals to be careful of cold arrows.

"Bring the hostages in."

Cao Cao gave an order, and there was a cry under the city.

When Yuan Shu left Luoyang, many people accompanied him with his family. After Yuan Shu occupied Nanyang, these people were all placed in Wancheng. Yuan Shu sent troops to meet Sun Jian, and Cao Cao succeeded in a sneak attack on Wancheng, and these people became his prisoners. Now that the two armies are at war, and their head of the family is commanding the battle outside the city, Cao Cao naturally wants to use them to blackmail the other party, and whoever attacks the city will kill his family. Although it may not be able to stop Yuan Shu from attacking the city, at least it can make him fearful.

Changshi Yang Hong was taken to the city tower. He glared at Cao Cao and sneered silently. After more than a month of imprisonment, only one coarse meal a day, and no chance to take a shower and change clothes, he was originally unkempt at the moment, covered with dirt, skinny and skinny, but his eyes became more and more fierce, and there was a trace of undisguised contempt.

"Civilization, don't look at me like that, I'm also forced to do it." Cao Cao smiled bitterly and spread his hands. He and Yang Hong have known each other for many years, but they don't have much contact, it's not that he doesn't want to have more contact with Yang Hong, but Yang Hong looks down on him. Yang Hong is from the Hongnong Yang branch, and Yuan Shu trusts him very much, and discusses anything with him. Yuan Shu went on an expedition, and he stayed in Wancheng, but he didn't expect to become Cao Cao's prisoner.

"Cao Cao, you will be punished by God if you do this." Yang Hong sneered: "If you want to kill you, kill me first, so as not to let me see your evil deeds." ”

Cao Cao shook his head. "I won't kill you, and you don't have any relatives outside the city to lead the siege. I'm going to let you go, you give a message to Yuan Shu and his subordinate generals, whoever attacks the city, I will kill someone's family. ”

"Phew!" Yang Hong spit out a mouthful of bloody thick phlegm, right in the middle of Cao Cao's face. Cao Cao's eyebrows shrugged slightly, he didn't laugh angrily, took out a handkerchief from the leather bag around his waist, wiped off the thick phlegm, pinched it into a ball, and threw it outside the city. "Yang Wenming, do you know that your momentary mood may make countless people's heads fall to the ground?"

"If you want to kill, you will kill, why bother." Yang Hong turned his head, not wanting to look at Cao Cao again.

A touch of evil flashed in Cao Cao's eyes. "In that case, then I'll test you first. Someone, bring his family up. ”

A soldier loudly promised to go down to arrest Yang Hong's family, and suddenly there were cries and shouts, not only Yang Hong's family was crying, but the others were also frightened. At this time, He Xian suddenly exclaimed: "That's my family." ”

Cao Cao turned around and saw that the situation under the city was similar, and more than a dozen adult men who had their hands tied behind their backs and tied in a string with ropes were dragged out, escorted to the moat, and forced to kneel on the ground. Several soldiers raised their long knives, their hands raised and fell, and one by one their heads rolled down, blood gurgling.

Cao Cao gasped, the He family was finished.