The war in Qingzhou has just ended, and the war in Xuzhou has started again.

This time it was Yuan Shu's pick. Yuan Shu sent the general Qiao Rui Qiáo-Ruí with 20,000 troops to attack Guangling County.

The reason why Qiao Rui was sent instead of the general Ji Ling was because of the advice of Yan Xiang and Yuan Shuti.

Yan Xiang said: "Xuzhou's Gongsun Kang and Xu Rong are not idle people, their weakness is that the battle line is too long and there are too many places to defend. So we can try to attack, but we can't put in too many troops at once. It's like ants gnawing on elephants, we can't let them deal with us with all their might. ”

Yuan Shu thought that what Yan Xiang said was very reasonable, so he ordered Qiao Rui to test it. Let's see if Gongsun Kang will fight back with all his might.

Sure enough, when Gongsun Kang received the report of the detailed work, he did not let Tai Shici's army dispatch. It's just that Chen Deng sticks to it, and Xu Rong gallops to help.

If Cao Cao came to attack Guangling County, maybe Chen Deng would have surrendered. But Yuan Shu, few people can afford to look down on this extravagant and presumptuous gentleman.

He summoned Chang Feng to discuss the issue of defending the city.

Chang Xuan's little eyes began to roll again, pondering tricks in his heart. Every time he rebelled, he set himself up as the king, and asked him to surrender to Yuan Shu, but he didn't do it.

Therefore, these two people with ghosts in their hearts have the same interests as Gongsun Kang this time, and they both want to hold Guangling County.

Chang Feng said: "In the past year, we have made all preparations for defense in accordance with the instructions of the champion Hou, and now we only need to carry out the work according to the shift. There is no need to risk any stratagem. ”

Chen Deng nodded, so he stubbornly waited for reinforcements and never went out of the city to fight.

The bridge was armed with trebuchets, siege ladders, and wooden carts. His cloud ladder is more formal, not a temporary long ladder like Yuan Tan.

The ladder is equipped with wheels under it, which can be propelled and driven, so it is also called "ladder car", equipped with shields, winches, grappling hooks and other equipment. During a siege, the topmost grappling hook can firmly grasp the city walls. Unless it is cut off, it cannot be pushed down.

Outside the city, Qiao Rui first ordered the soldiers to fill in the moat. The soldier carried bags of sand on his back, ran to the moat, threw it down and ran back.

And Chang Xuan ordered the Xuzhou soldiers to release arrows and shoot those Yangzhou Yuan Shu soldiers.

The dense arrows caused great trouble to the Yangzhou soldiers, with hundreds of casualties, but the progress of filling the river was not large.

Qiao Rui gave an order to the soldiers, asking them to go to Sixiang to arrest migrant workers to fill the river. Groups of ragged civilians were arrested, and they carried the sand and soil on their backs to fill the river with sad faces.

This made Chen Deng, who claimed to love the people like a son, like a knife, and ordered that no more arrows should be released.

Chang Feng sneered in his heart, but respectfully obeyed his order.

As a result, the moat was quickly filled in a long stretch. Yangzhou soldiers and horses can attack Pingchuan in one go.

Qiao Rui ordered the catapults to line up three hundred paces away, outside the range of the bow and arrow, to drop stones. A stone the size of a man's head struck the city wall, and the city wall shook. Thanks to this year, it has been reinforced with cement and red bricks. If it is still the former earthen city wall. After a few rounds, it will be smashed open by a catapult.

Catapults are not very lethal, but they are deterrent and give people a lot of psychological pressure. Some stones were thrown onto the city wall, and the soldiers who did not dodge in time were smashed, and they turned into a puddle of meat and mud at that time, which made the surrounding Xuzhou soldiers frightened.

Chang Xuan ordered the bed crossbow to shoot.

I saw the white cloth uncovered, revealing the huge crossbow underneath. Eight strong men turn the axle, use the winch to pull a bowstring, and then hit the trigger with a hammer, and the range can reach 1,500 meters!

The bed crossbows were aimed at the trebuchets, each aimed at a target.

Chang Feng ordered: "Release!" ”

In an uproar, five catapults were shot, and they overturned and scattered into a pile of logs.

Qiao Rui saw that it was not good, and hurriedly ordered the catapult to be removed.

The Yangzhou soldiers began to attack the city, and the Xuzhou soldiers on Guangling City began to release arrows. Braving the rain of arrows and paying the price of sacrifice, ladder carts were set up on the city wall. The Yangzhou soldiers, holding a shield in one hand and a big ring knife in the other, began to climb the ladder.

Chen Deng hurriedly ordered the rolling wood to be thrown. smashed the Yangzhou soldiers and horses crying and shouting for their mothers, falling one after another, with broken bones and tendons.

But the ladder was not destroyed, and the Yangzhou soldiers continued to climb one after another.

"Golden juice!" Chang Xuan shouted, "Pour the golden juice!" ”

Boiled manure water, pot by pot poured down. The Yangzhou soldiers were drenched in skin and flesh, and repelled a wave of their attacks.

Qiao Rui shouted: 'Beat the drums! If you don't capture Guangling City today, you won't collect troops! ’

The fierce war drums sounded, and the Yangzhou soldiers climbed the city wall like ants on the ladder.

Chang Xuan shouted viciously: "Throw fire oil!" ”

A can of fire oil that had been placed at the head of the city for a long time was smashed towards the Yangzhou soldiers. The top soldier was smashed to the point that his head was bleeding, and then the clay pot was broken, and a jar full of black liquid poured on the Yangzhou soldiers, flowed to the ladder below, and flowed to the soldiers below.

The pungent smell wafted, and some soldiers fell down as soon as their hands slipped and could not grasp the ladder firmly.

However, the oil does more than just make their hands slippery.

Chen Deng also shouted viciously: "Throw the torch!" ”

The lit torches were thrown towards the ladder one by one. With a bang, the fire ignited.

One after another, the ladders began to catch fire. The soldiers lying on the ladder became fire men. They howled and fell to the ground with a crackling and rolled on the ground, but they could not quench the fire until they were burned to death and burned to black coals.

The Yangzhou soldiers behind were stunned and trembling. No matter how loud the war drum sounded, he didn't dare to take a step forward.

Qiao Rui looked at the ladder in the fire and sighed. Helplessly, he said, 'Mingjin, collect the troops.' ’

Chen Deng and Chang looked forward to Xu Rong's rescue, but Xu Rong did not come. Because he received news from Xizuo, Cao Cao had unified Yanzhou and drove away Liu Bei and Chen Gong. At present, Cao Cao is very interested in taking advantage of the fire to rob and send troops to Xuzhou.

So Xu Rong sent Wu Dun, who was guarding Pengcheng County, with his 15,000 men and horses, and sat in Xiapicheng himself, waiting for Cao Cao to take the bait.

Peng Chengguo was repeatedly plagued by Cao Cao, sparsely populated, and the value of guarding was not great, so he simply gave up. When the city wall of Xuzhou was overhauled last year, the city wall of Pengcheng was not repaired.

Wu Dun is an honest man, and when he comes to Guangling County, he will not snatch military power with Chang Xuan, who is very satisfied, and holds a feast to entertain his old brother. During the banquet, Wu Dun inquired about the battle situation in Guangling County.

Chang Xuan said complacently: "The city wall of Guangling County is strong and the defense is sufficient. In each battle, the casualties of the bridge are several times that of us! Now that you have brought fifteen thousand men, we can rest easy. ”

Wu Dun also nodded: "Don't seek merit but no fault, as long as we stick to the city!" ”