"Boom Boom Boom~~"

On the seventh day of the fourth month, ten miles north of the city of gall.

A low thunderclap sounded on the ground, and 20,000 knights and more than 40,000 war horses appeared on the horizon. After two days and one night of high-intensity galloping, Jiang Weijun arrived at the county seat of Ghoutao.

"Report ~ General Qiqi, our army scouts have sent intelligence. The four gates of the city were closed, but there were not many defenders on the walls. There are no large horseshoe imprints in the south of the city. ”

"Good! It seems that we are one step ahead of Chen Xiuyuan. Order, send an additional scout team, continue to go south, I will always know whether the Jin army in the south is coming, and where it has arrived. ”

"Whoa!"

"Order again, the whole army will change horses and take soil."

"Whoa!"

After arranging these, Jiang Weiwu, who was seventy-one years old this year, picked up the reins of his horse and rushed towards the county town of Gatao alone.

"General? General! ”

As soon as he ran like this, Zhao Tong, Ma Jie and other generals around him and their guards had to follow closely. Fortunately, Ji Han's low-level officers are always the best in the Three Kingdoms army, and the generals will go to watch the city, and the remaining middle- and low-level officers still carry out the order that Jiang Wei just issued in an orderly manner.

Ten miles of land is not too long for a galloping war horse. Soon, Jiang Wei and the others saw the low and dilapidated city walls of the gall pottery city.

Yes, it is low and dilapidated: Jiexiu in Bingzhou is a small inland city, but there are many aliens on the ground in Bingzhou. So even if the foundation of the city wall is not strong, it is still complete. As for the place of Gauntlet, since the Yellow Turban Rebellion was pacified, this place has never suffered from military disasters (when Cao Yuan fought, the Jizhou battlefield was limited to the vicinity of Yecheng). In addition, it is a traditional Han absolutely dominant settlement area. Therefore, the city wall here is only about one zhang two (less than three meters), not to mention, and the city walls in many places have different degrees of erosion and collapse without rest. And not only is the city wall difficult to see, but the moat under the city wall has long been stagnant into a stinky ditch.

"Jiang Wei, the general of the Han Dynasty, is here, who is in charge of the city? Come out and answer! ”

Shaoqing, a figure wearing a low-level official uniform of the Jin Kingdom stood up on the city wall: "In Xia Gao Jian of Tao County, I have seen the general of the Han Kingdom. ”

"Can Gao Xianling hear this approaching thunder? The 100,000 army is approaching, why not surrender early to protect the people of a county? If not, your county will be turned into powder in an instant. ”

Gao Jian, who was standing on the city tower, was already sweating on his forehead at this time, his lips were dry, he trembled for a long time, and finally spit out a complete sentence: "General Rongyu, in the ancestral hometown of Chenliuyu County, so he did not dare to surrender directly to the city." Please follow Takayanagi's example, if reinforcements do not arrive after 100 days, Kaicheng will definitely surrender. ”

The Gao family of Yuxian County in Chenliu County was also a great family in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Its representative figure is Yuan Shao's son-in-law, and the state assassin Shi Gaogan. But in the end, he chose the wrong allegiance, so he slowly fell into disappointment.

But they are still regarded as a local second-rate family, and their family has a big business. Therefore, Gao Jian did not dare to surrender easily.

"I see." In the short conversation between the two, the cavalry of the Han army in the rear had already arrived one after another. Jiang Wei smiled lightly: "I'm going to attack the city, Gao Xianzun, please just sit and watch." ”

With Jiang Wei's order, 20,000 Han cavalry urged their horses to gallop towards the city wall.

With a military marquis running at the front, he shouted, "Get up!" The more than 500 cavalrymen in the cavalry front formation closest to the city wall threw their unsheathed sabers from the diagonal down to the diagonal upwards in unison! A bag of dirt hanging from the hilt of the saber suddenly took advantage of the situation, drew a parabola in midair, and landed heavily at the foot of the low city wall of the city of Gauntlet.

"It's actually a siege method that accumulates a mountain of soil?!" In the end, he is a child of a family, and Gao Jian still has some knowledge.

But what's the use of seeing through it? In a small inland city like Gho, there is no standing army stationed in peacetime. Now there were fifty county soldiers in the county—and that was just a form of the local people's rotation of conscription. These guys usually don't have much of a problem maintaining law and order, but when it comes to the ability to fight? That's infinitely close to zero.

In less than half an hour, after tens of thousands of cavalry of the Han army went back and forth more than a dozen times, a section of the city wall on this side was already about to be filled with a rapidly increasing mound. Gao Jian turned his heart sideways: "The general stops!" Please surrender! ”

"Good! Open the city gate immediately, and our army will definitely not commit any crimes! ”

Soon, the gates opened. At the moment before entering the city, Zhao Tong finally couldn't hold back: "General, we are all cavalry, and we are not good at defending the city at all." And even if the infantry came, such a city would not be able to hold it in the face of the 100,000 Chinese troops of the Jin army. Not to mention the fact that we came too quickly, and there was not enough food and grass for the army. ”

"Hehehe, Bozhi, where do you think? Why did Ben defend the city? ”

"Huh? What does the Great General mean? ”

Jiang Wei smiled at Zhao Tong, and gently shook the reins into the gall pottery city.

"You are the high county order?"

"Don't dare, the official will give advice. The general called the lower officer's table words. ”

"Well, give advice, how many mouths are there in this gall Tao County?"

"General Rongyu, there are 13,000 households and more than 47,000 people in the county's civil register. The county has a permanent population of more than 5,000 people. In addition, the county is a traffic artery, and there are many merchants coming and going, so there are about 8,000 people in the county at this time. ”

"Good." Jiang Wei turned to Xi Long, who had followed him for many years, and said, "You have heard it, quickly go and organize all the people here, and at least tear down the walls of this city for me!" ”

"Whoa!"

"Huh? General, it turns out that you didn't expect to defend the city at all? ”

"Yes, yes. As Bozhi said, our army was less than half of the opponent's strength, and there were too many cavalry, and in addition, they came too quickly, and the soldiers were not enough to eat. Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to stick to such a small city with broken walls. But the Jin army is different, they have a full 100,000 people, if the whole division enters this city, no matter how low the city wall is, it is enough to hold on. At that time, our army was passive everywhere. So what the general could do was to tear off the city wall here and let Chen Xiuyuan go to camp in the wilderness. In this way, our army can give full play to the superiority of cavalry and constantly harass the opponent in search of fighters. ”

"I see, the last general has been taught."

The Han army began to attack the city, entered the city before the time came, and then quickly began the work of destroying the city walls.

Just after noon, the city wall on the south side of the city was the first to be knocked down. In the early days, the eastern wall was also torn down.

"Report~~ General, news has come from the southern scouts that the Jin army brigade is less than twenty miles away from here."

"Hehehe, it's late. Order, the whole army withdrew from the city, and then lined up in the east of the city! ”