Yuan Shu made up his mind to capture Xiangyang City within ten days, and the generals under his command naturally carried out this order solidly. On the day Yuan Shu ordered the attack, it was a continuous onslaught on Xiangyang City, and a few days ago, Yuan Shu's army used prisoners as cannon fodder to consume the city's defense equipment in Xiangyang City, such as arrows, rolling logs, thunder stones, and the like. But from the fifth day, after the cannon fodder was almost consumed, Yuan Shujun began to use his headquarters to participate in the siege.

When Yuan Shujun used his pawns to start attacking the city, the Jingzhou defenders of Xiangyang City also noticed the difference. In the previous days, Yuan Shujun used those prisoners and surrendered troops, and let these people be used as cannon fodder to attack the city, although it also consumed a lot of defensive equipment in Xiangyang City, but the intensity of the siege was not high, and the defenders of Xiangyang City were still acceptable. However, when Yuan Shujun's defense equipment in Xiangyang City was almost consumed, the drastic change in the intensity of the siege was unbearable for the defenders of Xiangyang City.

Yuan Yao rode a spirit horse and stood beside Yuan Shu, looking at the fierce or tragic siege battle that took place in front of him, his eyes were now a little calm.

Over the years, Yuan Yao has also seen a lot of big battles, and even personally went on expeditions, but it is undeniable that this offensive and defensive battle of Xiangyang City is the most tragic battle that Yuan Yao has experienced since he appeared in this world.

At the beginning, the alliance of the eighteenth road princes fought against Dong, whether it was the battle of Bishui Pass or the battle of Tiger Prison Pass, the alliance of the eighteenth road princes did not fight hard with Dong Zhuo's Xiliang main force, so it was naturally not tragic. And in this offensive and defensive battle of Xiangyang City, both Yuan Shu and Liu Biao have reasons why they must fight or defend, so both sides are fighting desperately.

For Yuan Shu, Sun Jian's attack on Jiangxia hung behind him like a sharp blade, and now Yuan Shu either took Xiangyang before Sun Jian sent troops from Jiangxia, or retreated to Nanyang in disgrace. For Yuan Shu, letting him return to Nanyang like this is more uncomfortable than killing him, so Yuan Shu has only one choice, that is, to take Xiangyang, and to take Xiangyang as quickly as possible, otherwise if Yuan Shu has not captured Xiangyang City, Sun Jian will lead his troops to kill him, which will be very bad.

Although Yuan Shu had a good relationship with Sun Jian because of Yuan Yao when the princes of the Eighteenth Road were discussing Dong, it was only good, and in such a situation, if it was Yuan Shu who was in Sun Jian's position, then Yuan Shu would not care about this old relationship back then. Therefore, Sun Jian's existence was like a sharp blade that had been forcing Yuan Shu forward behind him, making Yuan Shu desperate to take Xiangyang City.

If Sun Jian doesn't appear, then Yuan Shuda can slowly figure it out, and with his back to Nanyang, he can continuously mobilize grain and grass materials from Nanyang, supplemented by a psychological offensive, and it is only a matter of time before he takes Xiangyang. However, Sun Jian's dispatch of troops to Jiangxia made Yuan Shu give up this plan and instead quickly take Xiangyang regardless of the cost. Although this kind of loss will be very heavy, Yuan Shu can't take care of these at this time. It is better to suffer heavy casualties than to be picked by Sun Jian at the end.

For Liu Biao, Xiangyang City is where the capital of Jingzhou Prefecture is located, and his defeat in Nanyang this time is a great reduction in the impression of the Jingzhou family, if Xiangyang City is captured by Yuan Shu, then even if Liu Biao escapes, but at that time, the Jingzhou family's support for Liu Biao must be much worse than before. Liu Biao knew that a large part of the reason why he was able to sit firmly in the position of the lord of Jingzhou was because of the support of the Jingzhou family, if he lost the support of the Jingzhou family, then Liu Biao didn't know if he could stabilize Jingzhou.

For the sake of Jingzhou, or for his own Jingzhou, Liu Biao did not allow Xiangyang City to be broken. Moreover, after Liu Pan and Huang Ancestor led to help, Cai Mao and Zhang Yuntong led the sailors to roam outside, and Huang Zhong, a fierce general in the late stage of the Ning Gang Realm, made up for the last shortcomings of Liu Biao's forces, Liu Cheng was very confident in holding Xiangyang City, at least not as close to despair as at the beginning.

And Huang Zhong since that day out of Xiangyang City, one person and one horse straight into Yuan Shu's army, killing all sides, and finally fighting with Lu Bu, if it weren't for the fact that Huang Zhong's mount was too weak in the end, and the horse lost its hooves at a critical moment, otherwise it is still unknown who Huang Zhong and Lu Bu will be born and who will be lost.

And it was precisely because Huang Zhong was defeated by Lu Bu because of his mount that Liu Biao and the Jingzhou soldiers dissipated a lot of the psychological shadow caused by Lu Bu's halberd breaking the Xiangyang City Protectorate Array.

Although there are many fierce generals in Yuan Shu's army, to be honest, the most feared by the Jingzhou army is Lu Bu, with Lu Bu, the world's first general, if he is allowed to wreak havoc on the battlefield, it is unimaginable to improve the morale of Yuan Shu's army, and the suppression of the morale of the Jingzhou army is also terrifying. But because of Huang Zhong's existence, the Jingzhou army will not completely fall to the bottom of morale and lose all the fighting spirit when Lu Bu appears.

When dusk came, Yuan Shujun Mingjin withdrew his troops, and the Jingzhou army also began to rest against each other, Liu Biao walked up to the city wall and saw Huang Zhong standing with a knife at the head of the city.

In the past few days of attacking the city, the fierce generals of the Yuan Shujun can go into battle again and again, taking the lead in the charge, Lu Bu, Xu Chu, Ji Ling, Pan Feng and others have all been in battle, which has caused a lot of pressure on the Jingzhou army to defend Xiangyang, and fortunately, the Jingzhou army has Huang Zhong, a fierce general at the peak of the condensation realm, who can defend Xiangyang City under the lead of Yuan Shujun's fierce generals. However, after days of fighting, Huang Zhong's state was not much better, the armor on his body was full of cracks, and Huang Zhong's eyes were full of exhaustion.

Although the only people in Yuan Shu's army who could make Huang Zhong concentrate were Lu Bu and Xu Chu, the rest of Pan Feng and Ji Ling were also fierce generals in the Ning Gang Realm after all, and they needed all their strength to defeat Huang Zhong in order to knock them down the city wall. After such a few days of high-intensity fighting, even with Huang Zhong's physical fitness, he was a little tired.

"Hansheng, are you alright?" Liu Biao walked up to Huang Zhong and asked earnestly.

The current Huang Zhong is like the Dinghai Divine Needle of the Jingzhou defenders in Xiangyang City, it is precisely because of his existence that the Jingzhou soldiers desperately defend Xiangyang City under the tide of Yuan Shujun's attack, if there is no Huang Zhong, Liu Biao does not know what kind of situation this Xiangyang City will become.

Therefore, the current Liu Biao attaches great importance to Huang Zhong.