Chapter 70: Enough Food

Gongsun Zhan himself blushed, in fact, after Zhang Jie retired last time, he knew that Zhang Jie would come to fight Youzhou sooner or later, so he asked the guard Zou Dan to repair the city wall, because when he attacked Liu Yu, the city wall made trebuchets smash holes everywhere, and then asked Zou Dan to clean the moat.

I didn't expect Zou Dan to be so serious, and took 20,000 defenders to dig the moat in turn, digging the moat like a canal.

Wu Tanhua Liu roared and said: Gongsun Zhan, you have also been crisscrossing the North for many years, and you have fought with you Liu Ye for three hundred rounds?

Gongsun Zhan's face turned green, and he said loudly: Zhang Jiemin, if you have a kind of you, you will attack the city, and learn from the shrews to scold the streets, and I will not accompany you. Then he went straight down the city wall and left.

Zhang Jie didn't say anything when he saw him leave, so he ordered to set up camp, and in the big tent of the Chinese army, Zhang Jie said: Do you have any ideas to talk about.

Wei Yandao: The lord might as well let people fill the moat on the side. While sending troops to take Yuyang and other places, he cut off Gongsun Zhan's connection with all parts of Youzhou, making him a lone army.

Frustrated: What Wen Chang said is that there are more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Yuyang and other places, there is no need for us to stay here, Gongsun Chan seems to be planning to defend to the death, even the cavalry is in the inner city, and the lord can send 20,000 soldiers and horses to take other cities in Guangyang County. There are more than 10,000 people in Gongsun Zan of Yuyang County, and I don't know if they are still there. Now Guangyang, Changping, Jundu, and other places in Guangyang County have almost no soldiers and horses to guard, let's take it down first, if Yuyang's 10,000 soldiers and horses are still in Yuyang, we can destroy Gongsun Zhan's soldiers and horses defending the city first.

Zhang Jie nodded and said: Zhang He Zhaoyun, you take people to take these cities separately, and if the enemy army in Yuyang is still there, you can trap him first, and you don't have to attack the city, no!

Zhang Jie said again: Immediately order someone to go back to Yecheng to inform Zhengnan of Zhenzhengnan, and ask him to transfer a hundred officials over, and finally transfer some experienced officials, and our new science and technology scholars will also be transferred over, and the officials of the city we occupy will also be replaced by people who are loyal to us.

Gongsun Zhan's killing of Liu Yu is unpopular, all over Youzhou, Gongsun Zhan's reputation is not better than ours, we want four points of politics and six points of military. As long as other towns in Youzhou become ours, Gongsun Zhan occupies a Jixian County and thinks that he is dreaming if he holds Youzhou. If it weren't for the concern about the lives of the people in Jixian County, Lao Tzu would have directly fired rockets to burn the city.

Gong and you will arrange manpower, go to the surrounding towns to find people to borrow hoes, baskets, carts, and other things, let's fill the moat first. Remember to give money, it is regarded as a lease, if the people are unwilling to use it. Promise!

Zhang Jie said: Xia Zhong, you take a team of people to cut down trees to make trebuchets, ladders, you have to cut down more trees, if some trees on the mountain have owners, you must give money. It is encamped in the people. Be prepared to guard against Gongsun Zhan's sneak attack, Wen Chang, you go and arrange it. Promise!

Ju Yi, how many bed crossbows do you bring? Ju Yidao: There are fifty bed crossbows, Zhang Jie said: Remove some of the arrows of the bed crossbow arrows, and then find someone to write a letter and tie them to the arrows, just say that we came to Youzhou this time to avenge Liu Yu, and it has nothing to do with others, nearly half of Gongsun Zhan's soldiers and horses are the original Liu Yu's subordinates, if only they could be able to do internal response, even if they can't do internal response, let them be separated from Gongsun Zhan, and then they will not contribute to defending the city. And Gongsun Chan has to guard against them from time to time. Tell the soldiers and civilians in the city that whoever kills Gongsun Chan will be rewarded with ten thousand dollars, and he will be rewarded. Those who open the gates of the city will be rewarded with ten thousand gold, and they will be sealed. Those who capture Gongsun Chan alive will be rewarded with 10,000 gold and sealed the history of Youzhou's assassination.

You shoot the arrows with the arrows into the city with a bed crossbow according to this meaning, remember to shoot more, and don't let Gongsun Chan accept the invitation.

Promise!

Zhang Jie said again: Liu Meng, wait for the moat to be filled every half an hour. Beat the siege drum to exhaust the defenders. Let the enemy army defending the city not know whether we are really attacking the city or pretending, but you must first tell the brothers that Mingjin is gathering troops and horses. Don't make a mistake, don't let Gongsun Chan sneak attack at that time, we don't even have a way to gather troops to meet the enemy. Remember to gather troops when you hear gold, and you can ignore it when you hear drums. Promise!

Zhang Jiedao: Does Wenhe have anything else to add? Jia Xu said: The lord is far-sighted. There is nothing more to add!

Okay, then let's do this first, you remember to use your shield hand to block the bows and arrows on the wall when filling the moat, and don't let the brothers make unnecessary sacrifices when filling the river. Although the moat in Jixian County is wide, there are many of us, and one stone per person is 60,000 pieces, and it will not take much time to fill it. Promise!

Although Zhang Jie said it easily to his generals, he knew that Jixian County was really difficult to break, there were nearly 30,000 defenders in Jixian County, and there were nearly 100,000 people, although after the war, many people fled, but at least there were tens of thousands.

Gongsun Chan is ruthless and ruthless, and if he doesn't do well, he will drive the people to the city to defend against the enemy. But there is no good way, so I can only stay up like this first.

Zhang Jie remembered how many famous cities in history were breached? Thinking about it, most of them surrendered internally, such as the capture of Kaifeng by the Jin soldiers of the Northern Song Dynasty, which also surrendered in Kaicheng. Another example is Li Zicheng's attack on Beijing, which was also the opening of the city gate within the Ming Dynasty.

Although Jixian County is not as big as Beijing in the Ming Dynasty, it is also difficult to break through, think about the Mongol attack on Xiangyang that has been fought for several years, and finally Kaicheng surrendered, it is too difficult to open the city gate without gunpowder. It's impossible to produce gunpowder, right? Don't say that Zhang Jie can't, even if he can, he won't invent this thing.

It is also unlikely that the city wall will be washed away by the water of the Yongding River, and the north is flat land, and it is difficult to concentrate the water.

It seems that this Jixian County can't take it without 18,000 people! Days passed like this, and trebuchets made dozens of them. The siege ladder has also done a lot, and in the big tent, except for Zhang He, Zhao Yun went to take Yuyang and other cities, and the generals of all armies were there. Zhang Jie said: Now all the siege equipment has been prepared, as long as the moat is filled, we can attack the city, but the siege is a last resort. What do you think about siege warfare? Everyone was silent. Don't blame them, siege warfare is too difficult to find, what can be done?

Zhang Jie saw that Jia Xu's eyes suddenly lit up, and then narrowed again, Zhang Jie said: What plan did Wen He think of?

Jia Xu looked at Zhang Jie and said: I wonder if the spies have found out how much grain there is in Jixian County? Tian Chou is the Taishou of Zhuo County, and Ji County is very close, so he knows the most about the situation.

Dao: Gongsun Chan originally only had 20,000 soldiers and horses, and then retreated more than 3,000 soldiers in Shanggu and other places and also entered Jixian County, plus the 5,000 men and horses brought by Gongsun Chan himself, the original city was about a little more than a year of food, and now with nearly 8,000 people and horses, it is enough to eat for more than half a year. The people in the city will have less food, and it will not take three months for some people to run out of food, and it is a bit difficult to say about the large households, but there will definitely not be so much food to feed the people in the city.

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