Outside the city of Leling.

"Hehe, there are only more than 10,000 defenders in the city? It seems that Liu Xuande has been completely contained......" Yuan Shao looked at Leling City not far in front of him and chuckled.

"Don't take the enemy lightly, although Tai Shici has a bad reputation, but since Liu Bei dares to send him to guard this city, he must have something extraordinary. And that king is also said to be a famous young talent in Beihai......" Xun Chen saw Yuan Shao's contemptuous expression, and hurriedly opened his mouth to persuade.

"Haha, if you are too careful, even if they are really talented, they are only young people in their twenties." Yuan Shao laughed when he heard this, but the contempt between his words was obvious.

Seeing this, Xun Chen didn't say anything more, after all, at this time, no matter how much he said, it might not be of much use, and it would also cause Yuan Shao's displeasure. He knew very well how much self-confidence Yuan Shao, who had just defeated Gongsun Zhan, was. What's more, there are indeed only more than 10,000 troops in Leling City.

Can such a little person be able to block Yuan Jun's attack? At least in Xun Chen's opinion, it is impossible.

Then again, how many troops does it take to attack a city? Generally speaking, different sizes of cities require different troops, and it also depends on the scale of the offensive that the besieging side intends to launch.

For example, Leling, the length of a city wall is about 6 miles, that is, almost 1,800 steps, if a ladder car is erected every more than ten steps, more than 160 or even more are needed.

But the corresponding losses of this level of siege are also very large. As mentioned earlier, with the location of the city wall, even if you rush to the edge of the city wall in the rain of arrows, you will face several enemies defending the city edge. And even if you defeat these enemies, you'll have to kill the surrounding and swarming enemies.

In order to maintain the offensive against the city wall, the soldiers of the besieging side had to charge the city wall like a tidal wave. As a result, those who are shot by arrows, hit by rolling stones or logs, or rushed to the edge of the city wall and are killed by the enemy, in most cases, it is very difficult for the soldiers who step on the ladder cart to survive.

Because for the city wall, which is generally more than ten steps high, falling from the city wall is either dead or disabled. This is also why Yan Liang's impulsive and short-tempered temper does not dare to attack easily, because the price is too great!

However, for Yuan Shao, whose strength was far superior to that of the Leling defenders, this did not seem to be a big problem. Moreover, compared to these losses, he was more concerned about the benefits that could be brought by the attack on Leling!

"Ladies and gentlemen! As long as this city is breached, our army can go all the way south across the entire Qingzhou! In this way, the enemy will definitely retreat to the defense, and our troops in Qinghe and the allied forces in Yanzhou can also enter Qingzhou together! In this way, it won't take a few months to pacify Qingzhou! Yuan Shao looked around at everyone and said loudly. And as long as Qingzhou is pacified! Our army can return to Shiwei County and drive Li Yi's troops out of Jizhou! ”

In the end, Yuan Shao's tone was full of anger and resentment, if Li Yi hadn't jumped out, where would there be so many things in Jizhou today? Even on the Qingzhou side, he didn't have to go out in person, just relying on Gao Gan, Chun Yuqiong and the coalition army on the Yanzhou side were enough to pacify.

"Oh!" When the generals heard this, they immediately echoed loudly with high momentum.

Immediately, Yuan Shao waved his big hand and immediately launched a general attack on Leling City, more than a dozen huge war drums sounded at the same time, and dozens of trebuchets continued to throw boulders at the city wall. On the ground, the soldiers quickly set up the pontoon bridge, and the ladder trucks were soon forcibly hung on the city wall, and the wooden carts hit the city gate under the control of the soldiers, and stopped at the foot of the city wall, and several soldiers quickly dug the ground.

Although he arrived at Leling directly from the north battlefield to the south, although he didn't pay attention to the defenders of Leling City, Tai Shici and Wang, Yuan Shao's preparations were very sufficient, and he didn't see any contempt at all.

Perhaps, this is the real reason why Yuan Shao despises the enemy so much, right? After making all the preparations for the siege, the troops occupy an absolute advantage, and they are attacking with victory, in this case, they may not be able to achieve victory?

Even Xun Chen, who persuaded Yuan Shao just now, didn't think that Party B would fail. To paraphrase a sentence that has been rotten in later generations, that is, in the face of absolute strength, personal martial arts and any conspiracy and trickery are useless.

Well...... This is true for all those who have absolute superiority, and in fact the vast majority of wars are won by those who have absolute superiority.

But......

"Hold on! Resist me! It is impossible for the enemy to maintain such an offensive all the time, as long as we resist the offensive that we have started, we will definitely win! Tai Shi Ci kept walking back and forth on the city wall, shouting to boost morale, and seemed not to be afraid of the flying boulders and arrows, and he was not even allowed to protect him with shields.

He wanted to give the soldiers a sense that although he Tai Shi Ci was a city defender, he was also exposed to the enemy's arrows and stones like them, risking his life to stand at the front line!

This is a very risky thing, after all, the arrow stone has no eyes, and there are not too many generals who have died from the stray arrow flying stone since ancient times. But because of this, the morale of the soldiers defending the city became very high after seeing Tai Shici like this.

Speaking of which, it is also very interesting that when a person of much higher status risks his life to do something with a person of very low status, the fear of death of a person of very low status is greatly reduced.

It's not that the fear will completely disappear, but it will be greatly reduced, and the soldiers who are distributed on the city wall to supervise the battle have made Liu Jun's morale extremely high for a while. As a result, for a long time, not a single soldier of the Yuan army was able to storm the city wall.

Under the city, the king was also constantly boosting the morale of the troops, and at the same time commanding the troops to defend the city gates, and at the same time directing the people to help transport arrows and other items. Most of these people volunteered to help, and the reason is very simple, during Liu Bei's time in Qingzhou, he not only completely defeated the Yellow Turban Army that endangered them, but also implemented a lot of good governance.

By the way, Wang still didn't understand why Tai Shici was so confident in defending the city, but now he didn't bother to think about it. In his heart, since Tai Shici planned to defend it, he would accompany him to defend it. Even if he dies in battle, he can be regarded as living up to Liu Bei's kindness.