Pei Qing led the army all the way forward, it was simply overwhelming, and the soldiers were bloodless, which was of course Pei Qing's army very heroic, Pei Qing led all the righteous divisions, and it was also because Yuan Shu concentrated the focus of defense on Shu County.

It was only 200 miles from Hefei to Shu County, and Pei Qing's army came to Shu County after only three days.

Suddenly, I saw the banner under the city covering the sky and the sun, the morale of the soldiers was like a rainbow, and tens of thousands of troops surrounded a Shuxian city.

Yuan Shu didn't have time to escape this time, he heard that Pei Qing led the army to chase after him, he was furious in his heart, came to the top of the city, and shouted at Pei Qing: "Pei Qing, I have fled to Lujiang and given you the entire Jiujiang, why don't you let me go?" Do you have to kill me completely? ”

I saw Pei Qing say coldly: "Yuan Highway, as a Hanchen, you dare to do something rebellious and arrogant, what virtue do you have to do this?" If you look at the people under your rule, all of them have a good face, no clothes, and no food, and even then you keep squeezing them, and making them build you luxurious palaces, and provide you with taxes to satisfy your luxurious life, how can you get their support? When our army launched an attack, the soldiers under your command either fled or surrendered, why are they unwilling to die for you, do you still need to tell me? If you disregard morality and disregard the hearts of the people, this is enough, if a thief like you lives for one more day, the people will suffer one more day, even if you rule a county, it is also a disaster for the people of this county, I am only doing justice for the way of heaven and for all the people who are oppressed by you, so I advise you, if you have a little conscience, immediately put down your weapons, bind yourself to me and surrender, so as to avoid the soldiers and civilians who follow you from a scourge of the sword, and I promise to let you die a dignified death. ”

"Haha, Pei Qingxiao'er, you are less proud in front of me, it is not certain who wins and who loses between us, I have tens of thousands of elite divisions in the city, these are the real elites who started from me, I believe that under their perseverance, it is impossible for you to break through my Shu County, I have accumulated enough grain and grass in the city for a year, I don't believe that you can't delay until you retreat, in the end, maybe our army will turn defeat into victory."

Yuan Shu did not give in at all, he was not blindly confident, but had a certain battle momentum, first of all, what he just said was true, the 30,000 troops in the city were the most elite troops under his command, these soldiers had rich combat experience and strict discipline, and they were really killed from the sea of corpses and blood, if they defended to the death, Pei Qing would definitely pay a very heavy price even if he won in the end, and this price was even what Pei Qing did not want to pay.

And on the other hand, although Qiao Rui has now surrendered to Pei Qing and occupied Anhui County, it does not mean that he has no reinforcements, he has issued an order to Liu Xun, who is attacking Danyang, to return to Lujiang at full speed, and at that time, he can be an army of 80,000, and the army of 80,000 will attack before and after, and jointly deal with Pei Qing, Pei Qing will still be at risk of defeat at that time, and this risk is still quite large, so in his opinion, as long as he holds on to the work of seven days at most, Liu Xun's army will come, and at that time, Pei Qing is naturally a loser.

It is precisely because of these dependences that Yuan Shu will stay in Shuxian so safely, Yuan Shu fled to Shu County this time, the purpose is not even to stop Pei Qing's offensive, and even thinking about defeating Pei Qing and then taking the opportunity to expand.

Pei Qing knew that for a stubborn person like Yuan Shu, he could only fight to make him afraid, but Pei Qing also knew that after all, the city was full of Yuan Shu's elite soldiers, and if he wanted to capture this city, there would inevitably be great casualties, which Pei Qing did not want to see.

However, Pei Qing couldn't fail to respond to Yuan Shu's words, otherwise his morale would definitely drop.

Then Pei Qing said lightly: "Since you toast and don't eat and drink, then don't blame me for being polite, this time I greeted you, and next time I will directly attack the city." ”

After speaking, Pei Qing ordered Mingjin to collect his troops and go down to the village five miles away from the city, and then called Liu Ye in and ordered him to make 200 thunderbolt carts, that is, stone-throwing carts, within three days.

"Thunderbolt?" Liu Ye was very shocked after receiving the order just now, because being able to make a thunderbolt was a secret that he didn't tell anyone, and this was also something he had just recently researched and had not yet put into practice, I didn't know that Wei and Pei Qing already knew it.

However, what is surprising is that the graphics of the thunderbolt car that Pei Qing gave him are more complex than he imagined, and the effect is also better, Liu Ye sincerely admired, after some thought, he finally understood the manufacturing method of this thunderbolt car, and then sent soldiers to cut down trees, and then found a technical backbone to personally teach the manufacturing skills of the thunderbolt car, and supervised and guided the whole process.

Because Pei Qing paid attention to the manufacture of equipment before, he specially set up an engineering battalion with 5,000 people, these 5,000 people are all craftsmen, whether they are carpenters, blacksmiths or builders, they are very good at it, they quickly mastered the manufacturing process of thunderbolt cars under the guidance of Liu Ye, and they also worked day and night, and as a result, nearly 300 thunderbolt cars were manufactured in the middle of the night, exceeding the task.

Pei Qing was very happy to receive the news, and ordered the soldiers of the engineering battalion to be rewarded, and at the same time ordered the army to prepare to attack the county town of Shu at dawn.

At dawn, Yuan Shu was sleeping comfortably with his "beloved concubine" in his "palace", when he suddenly heard the earth-shattering sound of drums and earth-shattering shouts of killing.

Then I heard a report from the general outside the palace, saying that Pei Qing led the army to launch an attack on the city.

Yuan Shu muttered in the bed: "This Pei Qing, early in the morning, is not quiet." ”

He then ordered the entire army to be on guard and go to the city to fight.

The soldiers in the city were worthy of Yuan Shu's elite troops, and their reaction speed was very fast, and they all landed on the top of the city in just one stick of incense.

However, to their surprise, there was only an earth-shattering shout of slaughter under the city, but no one attacked, but strange machines were parked under the city, and piles of stones were piled up behind the machines.

"It's ......"

Some of the soldiers were a little confused when they saw this scene, they had never seen this thing before.

But there are also many veterans who know this thing, and know that this is called a catapult, which can throw stones for siege, but they visually inspected the distance and found that this kind of catapult is too far away, about a hundred paces away, which is a place that can only be shot by a strong bow and crossbow, and the range of ordinary catapults is only fifty steps, so this means that these catapults are not a threat to them at all.