This time, Liu Yi's army set out to be different from the past, starting from the sea in the east and reaching Lincheng in the west, with a front of more than 200 miles, and 320,000 troops marched together, and the momentum was indomitable. Due to Yuan Shao's adoption of Tian Feng's strong wall and clear the wilderness, according to the strategy of fortifying the city, the army was almost not met with any resistance a few days ago, and the progress of each battalion was extremely smooth, but after penetrating into the territory of Jizhou, the Xu Huanglongxiang battalion on the western front and Yan Gang's Baima battalion had begun to deliberately control the speed of the march to prevent changes.

The soldiers of the Southern Expedition pointed out, first of all, Anxian County, the gateway of Jizhou, Zhang Hewei made the first contribution, and the soldiers of the Tiger Guard Battalion marched eighty miles in one day, and arrived at the city of Anxian in two days. Among all the battalions, Fan Chou's Bingzhou battalion was the first to break into the territory of Jizhou, and his task was to cut off the connection between the defenders of Lu Weihuang in Anxian County and the rest of the cities, but the result was quite unexpected, all the military information before the war showed that the Yuan army was not equipped with horses in front of the defense line, but Fan Chou was still extremely careful when he broke through, and no one could calculate everything in advance, and he must always be on guard against possible enemy attacks, but until he successfully reached Qingbian Town, choking the passage of Lu Weihuang's southward retreat, But he didn't see the slightest movement of the defenders of Anxian County, if so, how could he be fortunate to be besieged by Zhang He's Tiger Guard Battalion? Although he doesn't know much about this Lu Weihuang, the current situation is extremely clear, if things are abnormal, he is a demon, which also makes Fan Chou more careful.

As a general of the unified army, Zhang He's thoughts are the same as Fan Chou's, could it be that Yuan Shaozhen, as expected by the main public army, would use Anxian as an abandoned son to test the strength of the reorganized Liu Yijun? However, this is also a good thing for him, since Lu Weihuang is defending the city, he doesn't care about letting the Jizhou army look at the combat strength of the Tiger Guard Battalion, and there are no more than 8,000 defenders horizontally, and he should take the city within two days.

For the tiger guard battalion under his command, Zhang He has full confidence, but this definitely does not mean that he will despise the Yuan army guard in the city Lu Weihuang, for the arrival of the army, Anxian County's performance is too calm, the soldiers at the head of the city do not have too much fear of the black pressure Liu Yi military camp under the city, they are still patrolling the city in a team, and even pointing at the city. No wonder Yuan Shao asked him to come to Anxian County.

Zhang He did not immediately start the siege, but set up a camp and sent scouts to investigate the movement of the four gates of Anxian County at the same time, on the way he had received Fan Chou's summons, and the state camp entered the Qingbian Town, the road to the south of the Yuan army has been completely sealed, so he does not have to besiege the city, if Lu Weihuang abandons the city at this time and waits for them is the cavalry to kill, no matter how elite the foot soldiers, they are extremely disadvantaged when they encounter the cavalry on the flat ground, when Zhang He was in Bingzhou in order to delay the speed of Lu Bu, he led the Tiger Guard Battalion more than 10,000 soldiers to intercept desperately, and he still broke through and went, That battle was also the biggest loss since the formation of the Tiger Guard Battalion, and it was a coincidence that the opponent that day included Fan Chou.

After a long march, the soldiers are in a relatively tired state, at this time the siege will only increase the casualties, Zhang He will naturally not make such a low-level mistake, but will find out the situation of the city tower clearly, not at all because he has captured the city has been negligent, as the general of the army, the cost of any of his negligence may be hundreds of soldiers lives.

Calm in battle, not reckless is a necessary condition to become a general, especially for the siege of the city, and let the soldiers rest for a good time can also bring great pressure to the enemy army defending the city, people will always have a trace of fear of what is in front of them but has not yet happened, and over time will form a kind of pressure in their hearts, they will involuntarily hope that this matter will happen soon, and the process of waiting is a kind of torture. This belongs to the category of psychology in later generations, and Zhang He certainly doesn't know what psychology is now, but his years of experience in fighting can tell him that such waiting is an effective means.

After a morning of careful observation, Zhang He also summoned all the people in the camp to start arranging siege tasks, whenever before the big battle, Liu Yi would always gather the generals to brainstorm, no matter how comprehensive a person's ideas are, there will always be biases. As a result, the generals of the Youzhou Army have also developed such a style, and they have indeed received good results when used in the campaign.

After some collective efforts, Zhang He selected the three armies in the battalion as the main force of the first siege, according to the establishment at this time, an army is 3,000 people, these 9,000 soldiers are also veterans, and many of them have participated in the last battle to conquer Anxian, have enough understanding of the city in front of them, and plan to move, out of the full force has always been the style of the Tiger Guard Battalion.

The first attack point is the north gate of Anxian County, which is also the place where the Tiger Guard Battalion landed in the city, the siege command of the three armies is the deputy commander Zhang Xiu, this person is Zhao Yun's fellow brother, the marksmanship is superb and can use soldiers, that day Li Dao Guo Yan had their uncle and nephew to guard the Tiger Prison Han Valley, it can be seen that Zhang Xiu this person is very familiar with the way to defend the city. Generally speaking, most of the generals who are good at defending are good at attacking, because they can understand the strength and weakness of the city defense better than others, and through this period of time, Zhang He has a deeper understanding of Zhang Xiu's ability, and he can also trust his ability to attack the city, and the whereabouts of the main general can make Lu Weihuang in the city more suspicious, and the battle array is doing everything.

The main attack of the soldiers will naturally not be missing Li Tieniu's Suzaku battalion, the last time Zhang He was able to capture Anxian, the total annihilation of Han Meng's defenders Tie Niu's bombardment cannon also played a great role, I believe that at this time in Anxian County, the enemy's main general Lu Weihuang has not seen the power of this kind of siege equipment.

After everything was ready, Zhang Xiu led the soldiers of the three armies out of the camp to set up a siege posture, while at the same time, another team of men and horses under the leadership of Zhang He went around the west gate of Anxian County, so that the defenders in the city could not focus on the north gate, which was more beneficial to Zhang Xiu's siege.

Seeing the enemy army under the city put up an attack queue, the defenders of the city were quite relieved at this time, Zhang He's previous waiting was not without effect, Liu Yijun's immobility brought great pressure to every defender of the city, and now the army is about to attack the city, their mood has a slight relaxation, and this relaxation itself will also have some impact on their combat strength, thousands of people underestimate these slight details, sometimes the success or failure of the war depends on the subtleties.

In last year's Anxian War, the defender Han Meng led the whole city of 10,000 soldiers to die, and Liu Yijun also paid the price of not being weaker, so the soldiers defending the city were still relatively unfamiliar with the thirty sky-bombarding cannons lined up under the city, this kind of siege weapon they had only heard of in rumors, but today they can experience its power.

With Li Tieniu's order, the soldiers of the Suzaku Battalion immediately began their usual hard training countless times of firing, the hundred-pound boulder was thrown into the air by the huge sky-bombing cannon, with a fierce wind towards the city, Jizhou army is not without such catapults, but both the accuracy of the projection and the weight of the fired stones are far from being compared with the sky-bombarding cannon in front of them, although they have heard the commander mention it countless times before the war, but there is still a gap between what they hear and what they see.

"Looking at the first thirty boulders that did not deviate from the target and all fell on the city tower, the huge impact sound was heard up and down, which was mixed with some Yuan Jun's screams from time to time, the research work of the equipment battalion has never stopped, and the performance of the bombardment cannon is also constantly adjusted, coupled with the accumulation of experience of the soldiers, now it has improved a lot of accuracy compared to a year ago, and the load capacity has also been strengthened, but for long-term considerations, the stone is still suitable for 100 catties.

The attack of the Sky Bombardment Cannon lasted a total of a stick of incense, and many battlements at the head of Anxian County had collapsed under the pressure of hundreds of boulders, although the casualties of the defenders were much smaller after being prepared, but the biggest role of the Sky Bombardment Cannon was to destroy the city defense and the momentum of the enemy army, but the damage was not valued.

"Siege the city and seize the land, the tiger guard is invincible, rush." After the attack of the Vermilion Bird Battalion stopped, Zhang Xiu's face sank like water at this time, and with a violent wave of his right hand in the loud shout, the three sergeants of the Tiger Guard Battalion lined up in a skirmish line in an extremely orderly manner, shouting to kill the heavens and rush towards Anxian.

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